Welcome to Allegiant SuperCard Player 2.5

Allegiant SuperCard software is the ultimate tool for authoring custom applications and interactive multimedia projects. With SuperCard Player, you can view, navigate, print, or otherwise experience projects created with SuperCard.

This Read Me file contains instructions for using SuperCard Player and additional product information about SuperCard.

Using The Allegiant SuperCard Player

You may play projects created with SuperCard in one of two ways:
 Drag a SuperCard project onto SuperCard Player in the Finder.
 Double-click on SuperCard Player to open the player. Once opened, locate your project in the open file dialog and click Open.

Since SuperCard provides developers the capability to deliver projects and applications with completely custom interfaces and functionality, please refer to instructions provided with the project that you are running for information on how to run it.

IMPORTANT NOTE: Because SuperCard Player does not have access to the Runtime Editor or the SharedFile, projects developed to run with the Player need to be able to run independently of those files, just as standalone applications do. Not all publically available projects will run with the Player without errors, primarily because they use commands to open the Runtime Editor, or make use of scripts normally found in the SharedFile.

System Requirements

SuperCard Player has the following minimum system requirements:

 Macintosh with a 68020 or greater processor, including PowerPC.
 System 7.0 or greater.
 4 MB of RAM or greater.
 Hard disk.

Running projects with SuperCard Player may require additional memory, depending upon the projects usage of 24-bit graphics, QuickTime movies, and sounds. Please refer to the information accompanying the project you are running for project system requirements.

Technical Support

Since SuperCard provides an authoring environment for developers to create completely custom interfaces and functionality, please contact the project author for Technical Support information on any project that you are running. Refer to information that accompanies the project for contact information.

About Allegiant SuperCard 2.5

SuperCard 2.5 is the fastest, most powerful tool for assembling and delivering world-class interactive multimedia content and custom applications. SuperCard has always been the leader for developing multimedia applications on the Macintosh, and it was the first to support native Power Mac applications.

And, with the forthcoming SuperCard Runtime for Windows, you can distribute your SuperCard projects to millions of Windows users worldwide with a simple conversion process.

Whether it is the hottest new CD-ROM title or a whole new category of application, SuperCard will get you where your imagination wants to go.

Features & Benefits

 Integrated Color Support  including 24-bit color graphics.

 Scriptable Draw and Paint graphic objects  unparalleled ease in creating animations, simulations, and sophisticated interactivity.

 Complete integrated QuickTime support  including QuickTime VR compatibility.

 Sound support  record and play AIFF sound files and sound resources.

 Six different animation formats  including QuickTime, PICS, Filmstrips, and moving graphics  even Director animations can be played within SuperCard.

 Dazzling transition effects combine transition effects to create entirely new transition effects.

 Scripted hypertext support  easily create non-linear navigation.

 Interface support  including windows, paint and draw graphics, buttons, text and list-type fields, and menus.

 Scripted menus  including custom menus, menu items, and easily switchable menu sets.

 SuperTalk  fully control all aspects of your project using SuperCards powerful English-like language.

 SuperEdit  quickly create and edit project using this separate editing application.

 Runtime Editor  make changes and test them while your project is running.

 ScriptTracer  view and debug scripts as they run.

 Standalone Applications  turn your projects into double-clickable applications that may be distributed royalty-free.

 HyperCard Compatibility  convert existing HyperCard stacks into SuperCard projects.

 Import/Export  import PICT (including JPEG compressed) and TIFF graphics, AIFF sounds, QuickTime movies, and more.

 SuperCard Runtime for Windows  available in late 1995, allows you to quickly convert, make changes, and distribute projects on Windows.

Distributing Projects

SuperCard makes it easy to make your work available for others by providing two options for distributing projects  using SuperCard Player and creating standalone applications.

SuperCard Player allows you to create projects that may be distributed online or on disk  when file size is important. SuperCard Player is freely distributable (under the terms of the SuperCard Player Electronic End User License Agreement below) and is available to your users in many places, including the Internet, America Online, and more.

SuperCard allows you to create double-clickable standalone applications. These applications can include custom icons and documents and may be distributed royalty-free. These applications may be distributed commercially and have the look-and-feel of real, Macintosh applications.

SuperCard Player Electronic End User License Agreement

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