WinPlus

WinPlus, originally Plus, was a cross-platform clone of the HyperCard program, which allowed users to HyperCard stack to run on the Apple Macintosh, Microsoft Windows and OS / 2 Presentation Manager.

Originally from format Software GmbH (Cologne, Germany ) was developed to overcome the shortcomings of HyperCard, plus was published in 1989 for the Macintosh and sold by Olduvai, with the target group of advanced HyperCard users. Among the many much desired functions, the Plus offered to document were like, adjustable in size and scrollable window, 8- bit color support and the ability to work with externally stored graphics files and display them. However, Plus offered no support for menus in the menu bar, or saving a stack as a standalone program as it offered the competition program Supercard. Plus could also HyperCard stack open and run directly, and it was even slightly faster than HyperCard itself

Porting to Presentation Manager (OS / 2 ), and Microsoft Windows began when Spinnaker Software bought Plus. It was the only HyperCard clone of his time, which allowed to use a stack on all supported platforms. In early 1994, the program of the newly formed company Object Plus was purchased and the Mac and OS/2-Versionen abandoned in favor of the significantly revised WinPlus 3.0. In 1995 version 3.1. At this time the product was designated as a multimedia system according to the niche market to which targeted the most HyperCard -like systems.

Against 1991 licensed Oracle WinPlus as the basis for Oracle Card ' and it presented as part of "Oracle for Windows", a collection of client / server software along with a selection of Oracle's existing text- based database client programs. In 1992 a version 1.1. at Oracle Developers and Integrators Conference, and soon afterwards a Mac version. Later OMO was used as a front end for a database -supported media system for interactive television, and the name in Oracle Media Objects changed. As the success failed to materialize, Oracle Media Objects disappeared in the late 1990s.