HyperCard and GS/OS...

[dalloff@freenet.columbus.oh.us (Dave Althoff)]

Okay, Apple gurus...

I recently installed a "new" 250Mb SCSI drive on my machine, partitioned
into five partitions:  /Gemini, /Tornado, /Thunderbolt, and /Cyclone are
32Mb ProDOS partitions; :Magnum is a 107Mb HFS partition; Gemini is the
GS/OS 6.0.1 boot partition; the machine is a "stock" ROM 01 GS (my
TransWarp IIGS is not stable just yet, so I pulled it out).  I've got a
total of 5.25Mb RAM, none of it allocated to /RAM.

I installed GraphicWriter and HyperCard on the :Magnum partition, since
those programs are GS/OS native, and shouldn't mind living on an HFS
volume.  GraphicWriter works just great.  But I have been having nothing
but trouble with HyperCard GS.  Here's the question:

I've had trouble with HCGS before.  I've tried different downloads, I keep
reinstalling it, and it simply isn't stable on my machine.  Now that I
have it on the new hard drive (a fresh install, btw.), I can't hardly get
it to run at all.

Is HyperCard simply unhappy living on an HFS volume?  Or is this just a
continuation of the problems I have always had with this
good-for-almost-nothing program?  It will come up, but it likes to hang,
crash, or otherwise fail.  I can leave my machine up and running for
months on end if I don't try to run HyperCard.  But running HyperCard is a
recipe for a system crash.  As for inits/DA's...I don't believe I am
running any INITs other than those supplied with GS/OS; though I do have a
couple of DA's including File-A-Trix.

Any advice welcome...

--Dave Althoff, ][.
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