MetaCard vs other Authoring Tools

[Pierre Sahores]

miscdas at boxfrog.com wrote:
> 
> Authorware is time-line based; MetaCard is Stack based.
> AW is $2700; MC is $1000 (but for many applications, the FreeStarterKit is
> all you need!)
> AW is not extensible; MC can be extended/modified to suit your preferences.
> 
> As for other MM apps, there aren't too many cross-platform options. But if
> you are looking at Windoze OS, don't waste your time with Magenta or
> Illuminatus Opus.  Ovation Studio has merit ($400, extensible, small engine,
> decent scripting language.)
> 
> In any case, I suggest you download the trials of at lest 2 packages and
> give AT LEAST 2 weeks of dedicated efffort to testing each one before
> comitting.
> 
> miscdas
> 
> Karl N Jorgensen wrote:
> 
> > Can someone tell me the advantages of MetaCard vs other authoring
> tools like
> > Authorware etc.??
> >
> 
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In betwin others very good reasons :

1.- The public realases of Metacard are always bugs free : i'm always
sure that if i find somes, the bugs are leeing in my own work and i just
know what to do then !

2.- You don't have to use the last realases with the last published
systems realase (aka : olds issues of metacard are perfectly running
under MacOS X 10.2, Suse-Linux 8, Suse-LinuxPPC 7.3, etc...

3.- Metacard is realy and directly multi-platform : i'm, at the moment,
just working on a LinuxPPC platform on a mc stack that i will, in a few
minutes, upload and run on a Linux x86 remote server.

-- 
Cordialement, Pierre Sahores

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