Jacob Palme wrote:
> At 11.47 -0500 09-07-06, J. Landman Gay wrote:
>> Jacob Palme wrote:
>>
>>> The other stack is more complex, there are invisible errors
>>> in it which cause some card to crash. So I guess I will
>>> never be able to migrate it to a living platform.
>> One common reason for this is that the HC stack was not compacted before
>> opening it in Rev. You need to compact twice in a row and then
>> immediately close the stack in HC. Then try opening it in Rev.
>>
>> If that doesn't work, the reason is almost always an image or sound
>> resource that Rev can't import from the resource fork. In those
>> instances, I use various OS 9 utilities to move the sounds and/or images
>> out of the HC stack into independent files, and then I delete the
>> resources entirely from the HC stack. Compact twice and close the stack.
>> With the resources removed, I have always had success in opening the
>> stack in Revolution.
>
> Such things could be included in a migration manual from
> Hypercard. Neither Supercard nor Revolution seems to have
> any such manual.

Well, there's this:
<http://www.runrev.com/developers/moving-to-revolution/hypercard/>

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