Starcraft Guide

Starcraft/BW Guide is a Hypercard stack. It requires Hypercard 2.4.1 but may tolerate 2.4. Hypercard Player is free from Apple. If it isn't on your harddrive, it is probably on your installation disk(s). Look in a folder named "Apple Extras." You can also download it from Apple's Web site. The Starcraft Guides are made partly out of interest in Starcraft, and partly out of interest in testing Infodex. Infodex is a stack format that allows for easy collection and searching of data. You can make a database like Starcraft Guide, by choosing "New Infodex..." from the menu. Use it for notes, journal writing, etc. New to Infodex, and hence to Starcraft Guide, is linking to pictures, movies, and URLs. I've include some examples to demo these features. Movies and URLs require HC 2.4, and Quicktime. Another new feature with Infodex 3.0 is exporting to HTML (Web pages). You may have to show Hypercard the path to a file once, before it can open the file automatically. All pictures for Starcraft Guide, including "Specs" and "Huh?" are in the the images folder. You should have at least 2000K of memory allocated to Hypercard. The following functions add to the amount of memory Hypercard requires: displaying pictures or movies, speech synthesis, and increasing window size. If you try to do several of these at once, and nothing happens, try increasing Hypercard's RAM allocation (in the Finder's "Get Info..." box). Hypercard doesn't always give you a helpful message when it runs out of RAM. There is a bug with Hypercard 2.4.1 and System 9, which slows card transtions on some Macintoshes. The free upgrade to MacOS 9.04 may fix the problem. I've added information about Brood War, the Starcraft expansion.