Re: HyperCard and GS/OS...

[John Le Febvre <John@klatch.demon.co.uk>]

dalloff@freenet.columbus.oh.us (Dave Althoff) writes:
> 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:
[snip]
> Is HyperCard simply unhappy living on an HFS volume?

This is what I have found.  There are a couple of programs that just don't
like HFS, even though they are GS/OS based.  The only other one that comes
to mind right away is Taito's breakout-style game (geez, whats it called?)
On a HFS vol it hangs at the TAITO splash screen; copy the directory to
ProDOS and it works fine.
Once I copied HCGS to a ProDOS vol, it also worked without problems.

My 330mb drive was originally partitioned as 2 ProDOS and 1 HFS; once
problems like this started to crop up, I backed it all up and re-part'd
it as 6 ProDOS and a much smaller HFS.  I tend to use the ProDOS vols
for working on (faster anyway) and the HFS for backups where I can use
the longer filenames to good effect.

Just my observations...
-- 
John.
john@klatch.demon.co.uk