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On Nov 2, 2012, at 12:41 AM, HyperCard-Mailing-List wrote:

> The talk about what machine is good for HyperCard made me think back to what I used for programming my first CD-ROM (A Hard Day's Night), towards the end of 1992. I had the real mean machine in the office, which was a Mac IIsi, with 4 MB of RAM I think. We had a 2 MB Mac LC running System 7, and I made sure that the CD-ROM could work under those conditions.
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> This was a 16 MHz 68020 machine, and the CD-ROM featured grayscale graphics on the card (using Colorize HC) and a 90 minute QuickTime movie. So, any existing G4 ought to be capable of doing at least as well!
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And your post got me thinking about the equipment I used back in the day - I wrote Colorize HC on a IIci with a whopping 8 megs or RAM. I preferred the IIci to a IIx because it was more "portable", so I could lug my machine home on Friday to work over the weekend :-)

eric

I don't know if you were there at the time, but I was showing A Hard Day's Night in the campus store, probably early 1994, and Kevin and Tom and some others dropped by to take a look. Kevin bought the CD-ROM, even though he already owned the laserdisc that Voyager had published. This was at a time that the outside world didn't know that "Bungdabba Productions" was really Claris HC team members, and Tom was grinning a lot when I told him that I had used Colorize HC.

Are you still doing HTML5 stuff with Kevin?

On Nov 2, 2012, at 9:31 AM, Eric Carlson <eric.carlson@[redacted].com wrote:

> >And your post got me thinking about the equipment I used back in the day - I wrote Colorize HC on a IIci with a whopping 8 megs or RAM. I preferred the IIci to a IIx because it was more "portable", so I could lug my machine home on Friday to work over the weekend :-)



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I meant 1993, perhaps around May.

On Nov 2, 2012, at 10:18 AM, Colin Holgate <coiin@[redacted].net wrote:

> I don't know if you were there at the time, but I was showing A Hard Day's Night in the campus store, probably early 1994



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You're still here! Oh wow. If nothing else, this thread has brought all
our old friends back together.

I hope it didn't sound like I was denigrating your work; for the times,
it was a miracle.


On 11/2/12 8:31 AM, Eric Carlson wrote:
>
> On Nov 2, 2012, at 12:41 AM, HyperCard-Mailing-List wrote:
>
>> The talk about what machine is good for HyperCard made me think
>> back to what I used for programming my first CD-ROM (A Hard Day's
>> Night), towards the end of 1992. I had the real mean machine in the
>> office, which was a Mac IIsi, with 4 MB of RAM I think. We had a 2
>> MB Mac LC running System 7, and I made sure that the CD-ROM could
>> work under those conditions.
>>
>> This was a 16 MHz 68020 machine, and the CD-ROM featured grayscale
>> graphics on the card (using Colorize HC) and a 90 minute QuickTime
>> movie. So, any existing G4 ought to be capable of doing at least as
>> well!
>>
> And your post got me thinking about the equipment I used back in the
> day - I wrote Colorize HC on a IIci with a whopping 8 megs or RAM. I
> preferred the IIci to a IIx because it was more "portable", so I
> could lug my machine home on Friday to work over the weekend :-)
>
> eric



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On 02.11.2012, at 14:31, Eric Carlson <eric.carlson@[redacted].com wrote:
> And your post got me thinking about the equipment I used back in the day - I wrote Colorize HC on a IIci with a whopping 8 megs or RAM.

Oddly, I think that's the exact same model and configuration I first ran it on :-) (It was a friend's Mac)

Cheers,
-- Uli Kusterer
http://stacksmith.org

Haha! It seems HyperCard is reading its own mailing list. For anyone wondering what Colorizing HyperCard looked like:

http://twitter.com/HyperCard/status/265919821101817857

So now the only question left is: Who is Crusty? :-D Maybe Eric can offer clues?

Cheers,
-- Uli Kusterer
"The Witnesses of TeachText are everywhere..."
http://www.masters-of-the-void.com