Attempting to move a couple of stacks from a desktop to a laptop --- I have simply put the stacks on a thumb drive but when loaded into the laptop they appear...
I've been told that some thumb drives simply suck. Do you have another means for transferring the files? Judy ... From: dglas_123 <dgla@...> Subject:...
This happened to me when I was contracted to extract information from several old HC stacks. I coluld not get the stacks at all, either via e-mail or via thumb...
To reformat the thumb drive (assuming OS9) simply select it and then choose the Finder's Erase Disk... menu item in the Special menu. Or, Put the stacks in a...
Assuming you have internet access on both computers why not zip the stacks and e-mail them to yourself as attachments? The other way you can do things is if...
Most thumb drives are FAT32 formatted, which means that they don't understand resource forks or any Finder metadata. A lot of the time this info is also...
... Have you successfully played HyperCard stacks on that laptop previously? I'm wondering if it might be a newer laptop that has an Intel chip. If so, your...
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As others have pointed out, it's the format of the thumb drive that's the problem. It's FAT32 or FAT16 and is losing the resource fork of the stacks. The FAT...
Thanks all for the good advise. The problem was with the thumb drive. I don't know why I just didn't put everything on a DVD or even a CD. Anyway that solved...
Richmond: I was unable to do that. not sure why, because other stacks were e-mailable without issue. But soetimes you just cannot. As I wrote, the actual hard ...
The HyperTalk reference at: http://www.cs.sfu.ca/CC/SW/HyperCard/TeachHC/reference/hcref.html has been deleted. I have downloaded a version of this from here: ...
The site from which the Simon Fraser resource was mirrored: http://www.chepd.mq.edu.au/boomerang/teachhc/ also seems to have been flushed away by our...
... While you're working on your petition: http://web.archive.org/web/20060217162313/http://www.cs.sfu.ca/CC/SW/HyperCard/TeachHC/reference/hcref.html ...
Dr Mark Gregory seems un-contactable. http://folkstream.com/muse/teachhc/review/hcrev.html contains some of the deleted content; different pages are missing;...
... ... and can be reformatted to Apple centric file systems using Disk Utility. Or, if you're running a recent version of OS X, the commandline program,...
Every three years or so, I get interested in Squeek: http://www.squeak.org/ I've heard good things about ruby on Rails. What's wrong with Runtime Revolution? I...
I am as die-hard a HC enthusiast as you could want. Resisted moving on forever. Or until a few months ago, anyway. Still use and program HC daily. Revolution...
Hi, I have a kind of lame-assed technology demo online for those who are still wondering about the possibility of a Serf 2. http://thirdhandapp.com Well,...
Well; on your website I found something called "SimpleAlertDebug.app" that featured a sort of red teapot thing on a kitschy background that slowed my G4 dual...
Thank you. I was trapped in Hypercard for some years... What is most good about Revolution? Especially considering the level of some advanced web-only apps...
On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 5:58 AM, Richmond Mathewson ... I hate to be the guy that only self-promotes, but you should take another look at TileStack.com We're...
... Have you considered packaging up a VMware virtual appliance for them? http://www.vmware.com/appliances/ You could make a Ubuntu VM [*] with that old RR on...
I should like to forward your message to the Runtime Revolution Use-List as there are a lot of people there who are better qualified to answer you than I am....
... Well, there's the new iRev web page scripting: <http://www.runrev.com/newsletter/may/issue71/newsletter2.php> To be followed next by a Rev browser plugin...