Re: what about pong?

[rubywand@swbell.net]

Mitchell Spector wrote:
> 
> In article rubywand@swbell.net writes...
> 
> >ben johnson wrote:
> >>
> >> I'm trying to determine what interests there is 
> >> out there for PongLife, as a HyperStudio 
> >> magazine. ....
> >
> >     It's hard to say. What is a "Ponglife"?
> 
>     It was an (amateurish) electronic Apple II > 
> publication that was in the form of a Hyperstudio 
> stack. Auri Rahimzadeh conceived it and was
> mostly in charge of putting it together ....
>

     Thanks for the info.

     At first thought, stacks seem like a natural 
format for easy-to-construct disk-zines. Then, you 
come across a few issues of a publication like 
Hyperbole. (This was a somewhat wistful, artsy-craftsy 
disk-zine featuring pics, music, poems, and short 
stories.)  Obviously, a lot of effort went into each 
issue. 

     The crunch is, always, creativity. It takes a 
_lot_ to keep the HyperStudio/HyperCard stack engine 
well-stoked. The richer the medium, the harder it is 
to meet expectations.