LISTING OF SUPERCARD-RELATED VENDORS, PRODUCTS, INFO, ETC.

tPreText -> SUPERCARD'S PUBLISHER The best way to get information about SuperCard is directly from the publisher: IncWell DMG Ltd. P. O. Box 6761 Chandler, AZ 85246-6761 Sales: 888-647-8388 Other: 530-647-8541 Website: http://www.incwell.com Email: info@incwell.com -> THIRD-PARTY VENDORS: SuperCard has attracted a good number of third-party vendors who distribute add-on products. Below is a partial list of such vendors, and is by no means complete. If you know of a company which sells products of interest to SuperCard developers, please e-mail the author of this FAQ at the address listed above. - Fourth World publishes the world's largest collection of products written specifically for SuperCard, including XCMDs, XFCNs, and even TRAN resources. Fourth World 620 Moulton Avenue, Studio 101 Los Angeles, CA 90031-3237 US Tel: 800-288-5825 Intl: 213-225-3717 Fax: 213-225-0716 Internet: Ambassador@FourthWorld.com WWW: http://www.FourthWorld.com - DAS Works publishes a number of great products for SuperCard, including Jovis, a database engine XCMD suite. DAS Works 250 West 104th Street Suite 84 New York, NY 10025 USA Sales: (212) 865-3596 Fax: (212) 663-4503 Info@dasworks.com Sales@dasworks.com Support@dasworks.com - Royal Software (formerly Heizer) distributes a variety of product for both SuperCard and HyperCard, including the HyperGraph, Print Report and HyperExternals Pro XCMD packages, and the popular CompileIt! for compiling XCMDs and XFCNs directly in SuperCard. Royal Software, Inc. PO Box 9367 Dayton, OHIO 45409-9367 800.888.7667 USA 937.293.8746 voice 937.293.8745 fax http://www.royalsoftware.com - YAV Interactive Media Many freeware and shareware XCMDs for SuperCard, with many unique externals for creating music. YAV Interactive Media Brederodestraat 47 2042 BB Zandvoort The Netherlands Voice: +31-23-571-6282 Fax: +31-23-571-6245 http://www.yav.com -> BOOKS AND OTHER REFERENCE MATERIALS As of this writing, several SuperCard-specific books have been announced, but none have yet been published. All worthwhile books written for earlier version have since gone out of print, although there are rumors that at least one of these may get a second printing. Other companies have announced other training materials, such as interactive CD-ROM. For the new user wishing to master SuperTalk, until a SuperCard specific reference is available, the most authoritative reference to the HyperTalk language is: HyperTalk 2.2: The Book Written by Dan Winkler, Scot Kamins and Jean DeVoto Published by Addison Welsey ISBN 0-679-79171-X Although written for HyperTalk, about 90% of the book is relevant to SuperTalk and the writing is superb, providing useful examples and cross-references. -> ONLINE SERVICES The online world is the place to be in the 90's. Regardless of the individual product, technical support online, both from vendors and other users, is as good as it gets. SuperCard is no exception. The variety of activity revolving around SuperCard online is broad based and growing. Here's a list of online resources: INTERNET -------- NEWSGROUPS A good number of threads relating to SuperCard appear regularly. Though there are relatively few SuperCard threads in this group, the topics covered should be of interest to most SuperCard developers. FTP, GOPHER and WORLD WIDE WEB SITES SuperCard Home Page The official SuperCard product page from the publisher Maintained by IncWell DMG Teach Yourself SuperCard A good introduction to working with SuperCard Maintained by Mark Gregory, Macquarie University, Syndey Rare Software Home of Tangerine, a popular alternative editor for SuperCard Maintained by Bernard LaVie, Rare Software Fourth World SuperCard Embassy News, tips, and tools for the SuperCard community Maintained by Richard Gaskin, Fourth World DevHQ Many resources for Mac OS developers, with a strong emphasis on SuperCard Maintained by Chilton Webb University of Sheffield FTP/gopher SuperCard Site Very substantial collection of SuperCard files Maintained by: Mark Winter See also the list Dr. Winter maintains of SC FTP sites: Vortex Great examples of SuperCard, Roadster and Flamethrower projects, with downloads, tips, and more. Maintained by Keith Martin, MacUser UK YAV Interactive Media Many freeware and shareware XCMDs for SuperCard, with many unique externals for creating music. Maintained by Christopher Yavelow <(Christopher@yav.com> SuperCard User Group Japan (SCUJ) Home Page Very popular SuperCard site, offered in both Japanese and English Maintained my Hisao Oshima COMMERCIAL SERVICES ------------------- America Online: Keyword "SuperCard" Probably the most active SuperCard forum in the world, with a very complete library and thousands of messages available from six years of postings. The sysop, Mark Lucas (CATkeeper), has done an excellent job of maintaining the forum, with a large number of his own XCMD contributions to the SuperCard SIG Library. CIS: HyperText Forum (GO MACSCRIPT), SuperCard Section This Forum is not nearly as strong as AOL's, with a sizable Library, but a smaller message base due to CIS's policy of periodically purging older messages from the system. OTHER NETWORKS -------------- OneNet: This is a cooperative network of BBSs running FirstClass server software from SoftArc. With more than a million readers worldwide, this network has a strong Mac bias which makes for lively discussion. SuperCard threads can be found in the HyperCard, Multimedia and Interactive Media conferences in this system. Nifty-Serve: Japanese Sister service modeled after CompuServe. This is a very active SuperCard community among its 50,000 members. Includes a "SuperCard Special Laboratory", managed by Hisao Oshima, associated with the SuperCard Users Japan (SCUJ), managed by Tohru Ochiai. SuperCard Special Laboratory and SuperCard Users Japan are both non-profit groups. Hisao Oshima Manager of SuperCard Special Laboratory of NiftyServe Macintosh HyperMedia Forum Secretary of SuperCard Users Japan (SCUJ) Faculty of Education / a930831@icpcs41.icpc.fukui-u.ac.jp University of Fukui / JAE01671@niftyserve.or.jp Kaihotsu Shukusha 4-11 1-1206 NishiKaihotsu Fukui 910 Japan tel: 0776-23-0500 ext. 2355 fax: 0776-27-8521 SCUJ Home Page: