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MACWORLD September 1986 $3.95 The Macintosh"Magazine Canada $4.95 More Drive for Your Dollar SCSI drives reviewed PageMaker Tips Professional Design and Drafting on the Mac MORE than an Outliner All about Mac Accounting— 25 Packages Compared '74820"08530) | Borland’s SideKick and PhoneLink the world, and double your SideKick, The Macintosh Office Manager, now supports MacPlus (128K) and Finder 6.1 for the same low price—$99.95, An upgrade is available from Borland for $19.95. The upgrade is FREE if you purchased SideKick after 12/15/85. 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S m™ Jean-Louis Gassée, VP, ideKick,” The Macintosh” Office Product Development, ™ Apple Computer Manager,” gets rid of antiques like SideKick i desktop phone directories, calculators, SUE is the calendars, notepads, clocks, adding ee sTpERIOR first product for machines, and similar clutter. Sweeps ar aq the Mac that all that off your desk and into your os begins to make Mac. You can now bring true desktop real the promise organization, information manage- ofanel i ment, and telecommunications to your Mac and do all that while desktop. , wwrence J. you're running other programs. Chicago Sun ae J What PhoneLink” does foryou bulletin board while using © Gives you a credit card file In true multi-tasking style, other applications. (You need that tracks entries, balances, | PhonelLink automatically dials & modem for this feature.) and limits, f for you even while your Gi Lets you tap into a full- @ Arms you with a report, a modem Js in use on some featured financial and generator that prints out your —MJ__Rushime Sidekick and PhoneL ink at other task, like sending or scientific calculator that will mailing lists, calendar, or | 9 95 receiving a file. This one let you print out a paper tape phone directory. H e cubic-inch piece of hardware —_ of your work. @ Tells you the time with a il To order by phone, plugs into your Mac's sound Offers youa print spooler sweep-hand analog clock. 1 or for a dealer nearest you, port and will dial all your that prints any text file while O Gives you instant on-line a Call (800) 255-8008 phone numbers for you. You you run other programs. “Help” with one mouse click. jn CA call (800) 742-1133 ar neal your oer G Shows you an instant Get both SideKick, The HE — Sidekick Phonevnk at $99,958 , try ihe fact het | calendar—by day, week, of Macintosh Office Manager and MW uside UsA aaa $10 per copy Eas ee fact that It —_ month—which you can also Phonel.ink for only $99.95 eee anything clos = because it came free with your eee ice capone SideKick for the Mac is an 4 Payment: VISA MC Bank Draft Check new SideKick. is electronic leap that projects eat Ca Ep ae / dates/times/appointments you and your Mac into the Baw r . i What SideKick does for you with a “things-+to-do” file. real world. But you're getting O Gives you a full-screen bs! rete Laie oie much more than that. You're aE STINTS editor and mint-word convenient getting SideKick, you're Tl 60-bay moneY-BACK GUARANTEE** processor that lets you jot system. ; getting PhoneLink, and you're down notes, create andedit © Tells you what you're getting our legendary 60-day og files, and/or be used in spending in telephone money-back guarantee,** | Shipping Address: conjunction with programs charges by calculating the — gideKick is not copy- f; like MacWrite or MacPaint. cost of every call to whatever protected. It will clear your f as : G Provides you with a Seiad or time ne desk and do miracles for your is in telecommunications program zps yOu pila a productivity—anddoalltha, W@ and purchase orders WILL NOT be accepted that sends and recetves data business and travel xpens®8. fon only $99.95, oy uiouse h te ayr yce from any on-line network or ee cin carte bik does not perform in accordance with our claims, call our customer service department and we will BORLAND 22-2 SCOTS VALLEY CA 95066 MACWORLD September 1986 112 On the Cover See “Enter the SCSI Drives,” page 98, for reviews of nine new 20MB hard disks. Photograph by Fred Stimson. Steve Mann ‘The most comprehensive compendium of Macacc software ever compiled=a: point comparison of 25 pi covering over 150 criteria,” Review Enter the SCSI Drives Lon Poole Evaluations of nine of the SCS ol bas st Mac Modeling Reese Jones With its elegant desi interface, STELLA brings protes modeling and simulation toa nontechnical audience. Beyond ThinkTank Reed McManus ThinkTank 5 12's successor features multiple windows, graphic functions that automatically generate bullet and tree charts, a raft of utilities, and other improvements. But. .. is More better? “Pick up the pace of your PageMaker pasteup—timesaving tips, plus 14 yboard shortcuts. 2. September 1986 The Macintosh"Magazine 120 Four Secrets of Excel “Danny Goodman Become an Excel expert with this series of solutions, tutorials, and sample worksheets that guide you through some of the program's arcane but effective features. Community Desktop Engineering Paul Freiberger and Dan McNeill A look at the Mac in its new role as part of a. CAD workstation: the hardware, the programs, the problems, the future. 124 Bots, dBase for the Mac, Steve Jobs's'new word processor, and other néws for the Macintosh community, 71 Get Info Lon Poole = ComicWorks™ cartoonists and ou words and pictures, th 8 represents a serious advance. = Record Holder No dramatic breakthrough, but at less than half the price of its major competitor, this sturdy data manager is worth a try. =FullPaint 1s this the Mac graphics k Get organized with this ~but nicely priced— ‘ive entertaining | ‘mystery-in-the- id graphics game from. nn Keyboard meént-including your choice board layouts—made “A tibbon-recycling ‘i sive ImageWriter " "Orbiter Attention space cadets: the first space shuttle simulator may not be a blast, but it is clever and realistic, = Maccessories Portable Modem A mini modem for beginners or mobile “communicators. =One on One The Doctor faces off against Larry Bird in a blazing b-ball battle. " MegaTrack XL Need an intermediate-level sequencer? This new addition to Deluxe Music Construction Set may be playing your 191 Open Window 183, Jim Heid An exchange of Macintosh discoveries, including a tip for producing better boldface with Microsoft Word, a method of double-sided LaserWriter printing, a way to include engineering equations in Write or Word docu- ments, and a program that lets you see lengthy file names in Open dialog boxes, Macworld Directory Indexes Advertisers Products Macworld Martin Marietta’s Gerry Simonson with a model of the space station the Mac is helping to design. See “Desktop Engineering” on page 124. MACWORLD David Bunnell Editor-in-Chief J. Kelley Younger Executive Editor Jerry Borrell Editor Jacqueline Poitier Associate Publisher, Artand Design Editorial Managing Editor: Charles Barrett Associate Editors: Daniel Farber, Adrian Mello ‘Technical Editor: David Ushijima Assistant Editors E. Dunn, Joe Matazzoni Senior C Kathleen C! Copy E Katherine Ulrich z stants: Bileen Drapiza, stant to the Gina Vanlue Contributing Editors Danny Goodman, Jim Heid, Steven Levy, Gordon McComb, Erfert Nielson, Lon Poole, Jeffrey S, Young xecutive Editor: Artand Design Acting Art Director: Christopher Burg Designer: Susan Howard Design Associates: Leslie Barton, Victoria Floyd Design Consultant: Spiegelman Design Associates, Inc. Production Director: Herbert Linden Senior Production Managers: Frances Mann, Lee R. Trevino: Editorial Production Manager: Ellyn L. Hament Ad Traffic: Jayne Boyer Telecommunicators: Mark L. Duran, Susan M. Ford, Virginia Weir Display Advertising Supervisor: Georgia George Assistant: Otto Waldorf 4 September 1986 Research Associate Publisher/Director: Cheryl Woodard Manager: Gary L. Rocchio Research Analyst: Ralph Ames Assistant: Steven York Corporate Development Manager: Karen Wickre ecial Projects: Jeffrey S. Glines Administrative Assistant: Gloria C. 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Now available from Human Touch Computer Products, The Three to One Touch™ board brings your Macintosh® alive with stepped-up processing speed, increased power, expandability, and upgradability. How would you like to increase the speed of your Mac? with the Three to One Touch™ board, you can. It replaces your Mac's 8 MHz 68000 processor with a 12 MHz 68000 processor. This effectively doubles the system's speed because improvements are channeled to processing father than graphics. How about the increased speed that comes from storing frequently used programs in ROM? The Three to One Touch™ board provides that too. It can house 512KB of preprogrammed ROM—enough to store large programs per ntly ih your system Ne y. What would an additional 1.5 megabytes of con- tiguous memory in your Mac mean to you? It would give you the ability to load the operating system, Jazz or Excel anda RAM disk, and there's still space left in memory for processing a spreadsheet twice the size of what you can now do on your current Mact Bring your Mac alive with the Three to TOUCH" BOARD eae pandability. How would you like to open the Mav's architecture so that you could attach an array of peri- pherals? The Three to One Touch™ board's unique inter- face brings the signals from the 68000 processor to a connector outside the case. HTCP is currently developing a SCSI port and a card cage that will permit the attach- ment of additional devices. Upgradability. What about further memory expan- sion? The Three to One Touch™ board can be upgraded to 3.5 megabytes of RAM as soon as the 1 megabyte chips are available or additional memory can be accessed via the card cage. Compatibility, The Three to One Touch™ board can be installed in your Macintosh with Apple's old or new ROM. What's more, due to its ability to revert to its original untouched operation, it can run all Mac software, Installation. Here's the catch, right? Wrong! The Three to One Touch™ board installs in minutes and doesn't require soldering or cutting traces. So, you can’t do anything during installation that you couldn't readily undo. Human Touch Computer F 401 Rt. 70 East, Suite 200, Cherty Hill, NJ 08034 For more information call (609) 429-6300 Macintosh isa trademark licensed to Apple Computer, Inc. Jazz is a trademark of Lotus Development Corporation. Excel is a trademark of Microsoft Corporation. Circle 434 on reader service card See Us at Booth #1367 at Macworld Expo HyperDrive is far from the least expensive hard disk for the Macintosh. So you'd expect It to appeal to a relative handful of perfectionists who can afford to have high standards Not so: More people have bought Hyper- Drives than any other hard disk for the Mac. This apparent violation of the laws of economics has a simple explanation: Any hard disk is an investment. And when it comes to choosing investments, cheaper isnt better. Better is better. A line of reasoning that leads straight to HyperDrive. A FASTER DRIVE. AND A SMARTER DRIVE. Ours is the fastest hard disk available for the Mac. Period. It will let you launch Microsofts Excel, for example, two and a half times faster than one competitor And quit MacWrite over 40% faster than another. But besides being a faster drive, HyperDrive is also a smarter drive. Because It also comes with software that lets you make back-up copies of your data onto diskettes. A print spooler that lets you go on to other jobs while your printer is still turning out the one you just finished. And a security program that protects your files from unauthorized entry. THE WORLD'S FASTEST MACINTOSH. fi Computer Comp Apaloacand Maciite LF You can even buy additional software 3 (HyperNet) that lets you share HyperDrive's 10 or 20 Nie megabytes of disk storage with other Macs on an 7 No Applelalk network. HyperDrive is also designed with the realiza- tion that desk space is parcelled out to each of us in very finite quantities. It's the first hard disk thats installed inside the Macintosh, taking up no more ! space than a Mac itself and preserving its portability. THE WORLD'S Fi HARD DISK FORTHE MACINTOSH, COMMITMENTS & HAPPY MARRIAGES. Finally, since any hard disk represents a long-term commitment on the part of the buyer, we match it with a corresponding commitment of our own. HyperDrive is backed by over a thousand dealers nationwide. Besides our ninety-day limited warranty, additional warranty coverage (HyperCare) is available for up to three years or longer. (See an authorized General Computer dealer for complete details) And were committed to upgrading already installed HyperDrives as refine- ments are made in the future. All of which explains why /nfoWorld judged HyperDrive “unbeatable in the cur rent world of the Macintosh.’ And why Macworld proclaimed it “the happiest Marriage of the > | e Macintosh and a hard disk” —GENERAL If thats the sort of relationship youve been = looking for, call General Computer at (800) =. COMPUTER 634-9737 In Illinois, (800) 854-9737* The leading edge starts here. Circle 143 on reader service card =a Thdustry experts already agree — Omnis 3 is the most powerful database available for micros: “Omnis 3 is by far the best data base program I’ve ever seen for either the MAC, other PC's or mainframes.” (MACazine) “As an applications generator, Omnis 3 knocks dBase™ and R:base™ out in the first round.” (Business Computer Systems) OMNIS 3 PLUS. SAM NOW WE'VE MADE IT EVEN BETTE! © Larger datafiles (up to 160 megabytes ) © Text fields with wordwrap © 60+ new macro capabilities including: calling any other Mac program enhanced user-defined pulldown menus scroll boxes © Greater speed: access a random record out of 100,000 in .17 seconds ¢ Multi-user version available for virtually all hard disks EFFICIENCY AND CONTROL FOR YOUR BUSINESS Whether you need a simple mail merge list manager or a complete business information system, Omnis 3 Plus can manage the informatio LEGANCE. MORE POWER. to maximize your efficiency and help you gain control of your business decisions. With hundreds of business applications and many unique features, Omnis 3 Plus will grow with your business. Create your own pulldown menus, or on-screen buttons as well as your own screen and report layouts. Omnis 3 Plus has multi- user capability and unsurpassed speed. It is relational and hierarchical, with full password security and record-locking. Included with every Omnis 3 Plus system are sample applications like: Accounts Receivable, Inventory Control, Personnel Management, and Time/Cost Recording, A novice in database design can pick up the main Omnis concepts and go on to design highly customized applications for order entry and control systems, real estate management, sales management, and more. Beginning through advanced training offered. An Omnis 3 Business Directory of current applica- tions and consultants is available. Join the Omnis 3 Developer Program and gain additional support. Contact Blyth for further details. OMNIS 3 PLUS. ABSOLUTELY THE ONLY DATABASE YOU'LL EVER NEED. Blyth Software 2929 Campus Drive, Suite 425 San Mateo, CA 94403 (415) 571-0222 Omnis isa registered trademark of Blyth Holdings Ld. dBase is a registered trademark of Ashton-Tate. R-base is 4 registered trademark of Microrim. Circle 38 on reader service card Leave behind the world of papers and paychecks for a realm of fantasy and adventure. Introducing ... Orb Quest, the search for seven wards A graphic role playing game written specifically for the Macintosh™ computer. e A unique eight directional movement, combat and spell system. e@ Acomplete world of over 20,000 locations. Please send me copies @ $49.95 each @ Original graphics, including (Texas residents add 5%% sales tax) more than 60 newly designed monsters... (Enclosed is a check or money order, payable to: Qware, Inc. or (1 Charge my Visa/MasterCard/Amex Account. 6 Order Call Card No, AA-800-843-0381, in Texas 1-800-443- 2495 Signature exp. date (eg d attached fe t CO ————————— 4 — 0) ware, i ! / See us at MACWORLD i § =XPO Boston, Booth 219 hy aa Genus inc. —— Circle 533 on reader service card Richardson, TX 75085-0415 (please allow 4-6 weeks for delivery) Dealer Inquiries Welcome | David Bunnell The Software Storm Ahead Before the Software Curtain falls, we must do something about the proposed bill that would outlaw software rentals Illegal or unauthorized copies of software often lead to legitimate sales. Batten down the software hatches—we're heading for a gale, A move is afoot to intro- duce a bill in the next session of Congress that would prohibit the rental of personal computer software. Representative Pat Schroeder, D-Colo., with input from the Software Publishers Association, is sponsoring H.R. 4949, otherwise known as the Computer Soft- ware Rental Act of 1986. The issue is com- plex, problematic, and almost Catch-22 in its ramifications. Although well inten- tioned, the bill is fraught with danger for the software consumer and the personal computer industry alike. ‘Why? Because when customers have few meaningful opportunities to test soft- ware before buying it, they begin to shrink away from investing in expensive but un- proven programs. Surely we must be able to steer a cre- ative course around the software storm the bill would create. Otherwise a lot of ships are going to go down, with all hands on board. Schroeder sees software publishers as the sole victims: “Commercial business in- terests should not be allowed to reap prof- its from loopholes in the copyright laws or to conduct trade in copyrighted works at the expense of copyright owners.” The “loophole” she refers to is the “first sale doctrine” of the U.S. copyright law, which allows buyers of copyrighted works to dispose of them in any way they choose. The bill's target is software rental out- lets, but the real victim is you—the soft- ware user, In my April 1986 column in PC World magazine, I described what I considered the real causes of the decline in personal computer use. I observed that most soft- ware is confusing, difficult, and time-con- suming to learn and that good software support is scarce. Consequently, customers become frustrated and give up computing instead of advancing further. Rather than encouraging power users, we end up with powerless users—a sad state of affairs. Now there is an interesting but contro- versial way to alleviate some of that soft- ware frustration—software rental. By rent- ing a program, potential buyers can test its capabilities to see if it really fulfills their needs, and they can try out new applica- tions as well. Paul Terrell has helped pioneer the software rental concept with his San Fran- cisco Bay Area chain of five Software Em- porium stores. But Paul is not new to pi- oneering: he started the world’s second computer store, which later became the world’s first computer-store chain, known. as the Byte Shops. When you walk into a Software Em- porium, you can easily mistake it for a video store. Terrell has the titles displayed full-face on all four walls. He has a superb selection of software, including packages for the Macintosh, the IBM PC, the Apple II, and the Commodore 64—a much greater variety of software than you would find in most computer stores. Daily rental fees range from $1 to $20, with a minimum two- day rental. If you later decide to buy, you get an attractive bonus: you can apply the full rental cost to the purchase price of the software. (continues) Macworld = 13 @ File Edit Window view Reorganize Templates Formats ‘status center + Doug Castle, VP Marketing + ~ call ll names in rolodex, re new product ~ name new National Sales Manager ~ buy gift for visiting Prime Minister A jujaros Meo| 1MORE can manage up to six 100% Mac-standard outline windows at once, so you can juggle more details, projects, more facts and ideas. Headline levels are represented visually, under your control, using boldface, italics and underlining (check the “status center” window). The “rolodex” window holds phone numbers which can be dialed using MORES autodialer. Presentation to the Board of Directors | + Douglas B. 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They want the documentation, the customer support, and the program updates. Neither Schroeder nor the Software Publishers Association—which is chiefly re- sponsible for drafting the contents of the Computer Software Rental Act—has investi- gated the correlation between software rental and piracy. If software companies would allow software to be rented, perhaps rental soft- ware could be copy protected, while pur- chased software would remain unpro- tected. You could try out any program you found interesting, and if it passed inspec- tion, you would be motivated to buy it. This would solve the serious training dilemma associated with soft For this reason, I think Paul Terrell and his Soft- ware Emporium are really onto something, Unfortunately, some software rental companies operate on the premise that all software renters are thieves. These stores frequently sell code-breaking programs like Copy IT PC or Copy II Mac, thus en- couraging their customers to pirate programs. This unconscionable behavior is un- doubtedly the impetus behind Schroeder's anti-software-rental bill. The problem with Schroeder's bill is its potential to destroy the software rental business altogether. Paul Terrell’s approach to software education would then isappear. We should encourage Terrell’s alter- native because it’s a positive solution to the number one cause of declining personal computer use: the almost perverse com- plexity of software. In announcing her proposal, Schroe- der noted the passage of similar legislation banning the rental of audio recordings. No real parallel exists, however, be- tween the two products. You need not test a record album to determine its value. You hear the music on the radio; then, if you like the song, you buy the album. Software is different. No store is com- pletely reliable. You can read reviews in (continues) Presenting Iwo Drives... Introducing the MagNet 40/40 and the MagNet 30X. Speed, Storage, Security, All in One. 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Schroeder expresses concern about software rentals impeding the growth of the software industry because people steal rented software. Anyone who's involved with personal computers can easily see that software companies impede their own growth when they market programs that don't work and have poor documentation—not to mention undocumented features and substandard support. I doubt if software rental curtails soft- ware sales by more than 1 percent, cer- tainly a marginal amount. On the other hand, software rental enables us to find out whether a program works before we put our money down. Why should we have to pay $700 for a database program, only to discover that it doesn’t meet our needs, that it's bug- ridden, or that we can’t figure out how to it? Why can’t we test-drive it first? Schroeder's bill assumes that the con- sumer is wrong and that the software com- pany is right. Ironically, the bill's passage may prove most damaging to those it's intended to protect—the software companies. Eventually, many software customers will begin to shrink from investing their money in expensive but iffy programs. And that would be a great loss for everyone—customers and software pub- lishers alike. Surely, software vendors and legiti- mate software rental businesses can find a creative solution before Schroeder's Soft- ware Curtain falls. I urge readers to write to Schroeder expressing their concern about her pro- posed Computer Software Rental Act of 1986: Patricia Schroeder, Congresswoman, First District, Colorado, 2410 Rayburn House Office Building, Washington, DC 20515. 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ExXpositioN, VISIT US =—— MACWORLD EXPOSITION BAYSIDE EXPO CENTER, BOSTON AUGUST 14-16, 1986 Jerry Borrell EEE EEE Born-Again Enthusiast New prospects for the Mac revive the spirits of a jaded computer watcher Next year will begin a halcyon period for computing.’ After nearly a decade of work in the com- puter industry, I sometimes forget my origi- nal wonder with computers. Over the years my concern for the business of computers and electronics displaced my fascination with technology and its impact on society. Exuberance gave way to ennui, arising in part from the constant changes that occur in semiconductors, computers, commu- nications, and manufacturing—enough to numb the most avid enthusiast. In part my feelings are shaped by experiences as a computer owner—feelings such as frustra- tion with the amount of money I've in- vested, the recurring sense that my com- puter should be able to do more, and impatience with mechanical foibles. Joining Macworld last November has recharged me with the same intensity I felt when microprocessors were new and per- sonal computers were becoming a reality. For my first review of an Apple II (16K) in 1982, I had to tinker with the integrated cir- cuits on the motherboard to attach a color monitor; fortunately the frustration level has decreased since then. My enthusiasm has returned, not so much because of the Macintosh but be- cause of Apple’s commitment to the Macin- tosh product line’s expandability and per- formance. Next year will begin a halcyon period for computing: the year 32-bit mi- croprocessors combine with photographic- quality computer graphics, communica- tions, and a wealth of new functionality to make the desktop computer exciting again, Not the excitement of slick ad campaigns, but the thrill that keeps us up nights learn- ing how to do things with our computers. The Macintosh product family will be a focal point in this era in which personal computers support advanced operating systems—such as UNIX—without causing us to resort to programming or arcane syn- tax. An era in which many manufacturers Editor Borrell joins Apple executive vice presi- dent Del Yocam for a look at the new Cray supercomputer, will offer computers that use the desktop, window, and icon metaphors, The Macin- tosh family is likely to stand in the middle ground between the mass-marketed offer- ings from Atari and a new generation of products from Sun Microsystems, IBM, and Apollo, The open Mac has the potential, if prices are kept low enough, to instigate an- other bull market like the two-year per- sonal computer boom that began in 1982. Thope this is the era of computing machines that allow us to grow as tech- nology becomes more sophisticated—to graphic displays that rival nature in richness and detail, to programs that com- pete with the sophistication of human thought, and to communications as simple as the telephone system. We can see the rudiments of each of these: AT&T and Sun cooperating on UNIX development, imple- mentation of advanced graphics tech- niques at Pixar, and the openly discussed Macintosh of this winter, We are on the edge of a technological dream, waiting to see what appears when we open our eyes. 0 Macworld = 23 E EXPERTS “ wae : File Edit Goodies Windows Font FontSize Style ‘Asa painting program, Full- 4 fe “NE ys Paint ranks at the top of the if list...”” —Frank M. 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They told me that computer tech- nology had dramatically transformed the recording studio, in the process opening the field to a new class of musician- composer-performer. Someone with good musical ideas but little skill in perform- ing—even a person who can’t read music— now has the power to create a “demo” tape that fleshes out ideas into a listenable form. So when a representative from an electronics company boasted that “anyone can make a hit record in half an hour,” | im- mediately volunteered. And though I did not make a hit record, I did produce a de- cently funky rock-fusion ditty using state- of-the-art recording equipment. Synthful But how many people have state-of- the-art recording equipment? Not me, to be sure, But recently I acquired an amazing toy—a Casio CZ-101. Retailing at under $500 and available at some discount outlets for half that price, the 101 is quickly becoming the Volks-synthesizer. Though you might not find it in Herbie Hancock's keyboard armada, it is a real synthesizer, allowing users to construct sounds by manipulating the elements of sound itself. It can make fairly convincing imitations of almost every instrument imaginable. And by using something called a MIDI interface, the CZ-101 can hook up to my Macintosh and make real magic. As well as some music. Instead of launching into an expla- nation of MIDI and its significance in changing modern music, let me get to the bottom line. Can the combination of Mac- intosh and Casio make me a rock 'n’ roll star? To the mental accompaniment of Ray Davies singing “Low Budget Man,” I de- cided to try an experiment: how much mu- sic power can a synthesizer-ignorant Mac- intosh owner obtain by spending only a few hundred dollars on equipment and software? MICK WIGGINS The first requirement is the device that allows the synthesizer to communicate with the Mac, Several are available, and 1 settled on the Assimilation MIDI Conduc- tor, which lists for $89. I had no problems with it, but not long into my new career as a digital musician, I purchased a Mac Plus and discovered that none of the MIDI inter- faces then available worked on the Plus, due to Apple’s inexplicable fiddling with the serial port. (Just recently, Opcode Sys- tems released a Mac Plus MIDI interface that lists for $175.) So I had to forego the ample memory of the Plus and keep using my old Mac. (continues) Macworld = 27 You do more than spreadsheet calculations. Jazz*does more than that, too. Five times more than that. More than any other single piece of software made for your Apple® Macintosh™ personal computer. Five powerful functions—not just a smattering of this and that—but five functions deep enough to stand alone: spreadsheet, database, word processing, graphics and communications. All five so thoroughly integrated that they work beautifully together through a unique Jazz feature called HotView. With Jazz you can direct your attention to many projects—or many parts of the same project— without changing programs. With Jazz you can revise or update information in one document or several documents instantly. With Jazz you can work the way you work best. All of which simply means this: you can be more productive, more effective—you can do more, with Jazz, than you can with any other piece of software. Go ahead. Get a demonstration at a Lotus authorized dealer. Your Macintosh is capable of doing a lot more than spreadsheets. For that matter, so are you. Business software for the Apple Macintosh integrating spreadsheet, graphics, word processing, database and communications. © 1986 Lotus Development Corporation. Lotus and Jazz are registered trademarks of Lotus Development Corporation. Macintosh isa trademark of Mcintosh Laboratory, Inc. and is used with expressed permission of its owner. Apple isa registered trademark of Apple Computer, Inc. Circle 250 on reader service card Steven Levy The interface plugs into the modem port and comes with the proper cables to hook into the Casio. The ease of the con- nection only heightened the uneasy feeling Thad about hooking up a musical instru- ment to my computer. Even though I knew that the musical instrument in question was a computer (a digital synthesizer has more chips than a bag of Fritos), it seemed impious. Not the kind of thing that Beetho- ven might try. But then I recalled that the initial response to the electric guitar was horror and ridicule. Like B. B. King and Bob Dylan, I embraced the marriage of music and technology. Sounds Right The first piece of software | tried was Patch Librarian, by Opcode Systems. Patch is synthes sound, be it one that emulates acat being stepped on. The Casio has 16 preset patches in ROM-standard stuff like organ, trumpet, and bass—and room for 16 “inter- nal” patches in RAM. The preset sounds are there for eternity; the internal ones can be programmed by a hideously tedious pro: cess of fixing parameters, wave envelopes, surrounded by the sights and sounds of the fairway — with MacGolf, the premier simulation golf game for Macintosh™ users. MacGolf challenges beginners and experts with 3-dimensional animated 30 September 1986 S down, boot up and find yourself and other Theory of Acoustics esoterica. Once you create the patches, you store them on a RAM cartridge that holds 16 patches and costs $35. Or at about a hun- dred dollars a shot, you can buy additional preprogrammed patches. The synthesizer may be cheap, but the sounds aren't. The solution is Patch Librarian. For a mere $50, this program gives you over a hundred sounds and allows you to store hundreds more on a Mac disk. I spent a few hours merely testing the sounds, every- thing from a soothing acoustic guitar to something that sounded like Jimi Hendrix orchestrating the closing scene of Apoc- alypse Now. | can’t imagine anyone with a Casio and a Mac not taking advantage of this software. (Opcode is also about to re- lease a patch editor, which will greatly sim- plify the process of programming your own patches; at $125, The MIDIMAC Patch Editor will include Librarian.) Armed with proper sounds, I was ready to do the hard work of recording. I gave myself a modest challenge—to pro: duce a version of Rockin’ Sidney's great zydeco hit, “(Don’t Mess with) My Toot Toot,” with several instruments going at once. 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I realized that using the computer as a sequencer forces you to rethink your concept of music. Musicians generate infor- mation. So when I press three keys on the Casio, the cable labeled MIDI Out tells the Macintosh not only which keys are being pressed but also the characteristics of the (continues) today. Or call Practical Computer Applications at (612) 427-4789. MacGolt” Macintosh isa trademark licensed to Apple mputers, Inc. MacGoll isa trademark of Practical Computer Applications, Inc Perfection of both form and function, Scandinavian designers tolerate no less. Thus, MacTable, Perfect form and function for your Macintosh. Largest Macintosh peripheral. Use MacTable just once and you'll think of it asa peripheral, not furniture, Because it’s designed exclusively to match the unique dimensions and features of your Mac. It has a place for everything. Disk drive, modem, keyboard, mouse, plus an Imagewriter, and a full carton of paper. 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If for any reason you're not satisfied with MACWORLD, just let us know, and we'll promptly refund the cost of your subscription for every unmailed issue. MACWORLD The Macintosh”Magazine Steven Levy sound, the volume, and the length of time I'm pressing the keys, and all this is stored in the Mac's RAM (or, if I save it, on a disk). During playback, the computer sends the information back through the MIDI Out ca- ble, and the synthesizer translates it into sound. Just like the information that’s stored in the form of a spreadsheet or word processing document, the musical data held by the sequencer is malleable. Once you record something, you can edit it, change the vibrato, make it louder, even transpose it to another key. Instant Replay Though I spent a lot of time playing with these functions, when I got down to playing “My Toot-Toot,” I ran into some problems, especially in figuring out how to get two instrument sounds going at the same time. Eventually I concluded that while MegaTrack and MIDI Mac offer a va- riety of features that professionals need, Casio CZ-101 beginners might be frustrated by the resulting complexity. After talking to executives from both companies, I realized that the limitations of the Casio are part of the problem. The CZ-101, unlike its expen- sive counterparts, supports only a few patches at once. In fact, if you want to re- cord a song with four tracks playing at the same time, you must use the synthesizer's solo mode, which means you can sound only one note at a time. So much for fancy chording. Then I booted another sequencer pro- gram, the $139 ConcertWare+MIDI, b’ Great Wave Software. The program ha three components: Music Writer, Music Player, and Instrument Maker. | first tried Music Player; I loaded one of the pre- recorded selections, Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, put my earphones on, and waited. I see a lot of Macintosh software, much of it very good. But only a few pro- grams a year pass the Jaw Drop Test. When something so wonderful occurs that my mouth involuntarily gapes, the test is passed. When ConcertWare+MIDI played Beethoven's Fifth in four parts, it was im- pressive, and it was cute that the screen had a little picture of a conductor sur- rounded by icons of four instruments. But when the instruments began changing— viola to piccolo, tuba to flute—and the icons switched along with them... . well that was so Mac-like, in the best sense, that my chin almost hit my neck. I determined to pro- duce a “Toot-Toot” on this software. ConcertWare+MIDI was a felicitous choice because its default settings are geared specifically to the Casio CZ-101. It was easier to do multitracking than with the other sequencers, which really weren't happy unless paired with something like a $2000 Yamaha DX-7. Another benefit of this choice: in the Music Writer mode, in which recording and composing occur, the keyboard input is translated to musical no- tation. This, I figured, would be very help- ful when I was a rock 'n’ roll star writing hit tunes so fast I would need instant tran- scription for my publishers. Since ConcertWare+MID1 is actually an enhanced version of a program that is designed without MIDI (the plain old ConcertWare+ program requires no syn- thesizer, though it does accept input from the low-cost MacNifty keyboard), some parts of the program were superfluous for my task. Also, I found that the manual bor- dered on cryptic when I sought instruc- tions for some things I wanted to attempt. But since the program followed the Macin- tosh interface so well, I was able to expe: ment, and it didn’t take long before I was (continues) This is all it takes to get IB: Apple, Tandy, Macintosh and Compaq talking to each other. And it’s simple and inexpensive. 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Power, speed and logical menus make this a dream database.” When MACazine (Jan. 1986) bestowed OverVUE with its Readers’ Choice Award, they wrote: “We selected OverVUE because of its ease of use, clairvoyance and statistical capabilities, The fact that Over VUE was subsequently selected by our readers as Best Database simply confirms our original assessment; the product is a jewel and the customer support a bonus!” 4 OverVUE' clean sweep of these two prestigious awards only confirms what everyone else has been saying all along: Infoworld (July 8, 1985): “:. .itis Macintosh software done right.” Icon Review (Fall 1985): "OverVUE 2.0 is our favorite database workhorse... .itsimply offers the best balance of power and ease-of-use available on the market today.” Nibble Mac (Oct. 1985): “OverVUE is not only easy to set up, it's the easiest for data entry. Its tools for entering repetitive data minimizes typing time? Online Today (electronic version — Nov. 1985): OverVUE 2.0 is a heavy-duty data management tool... . It does all the things a good relational database manager should.” OverVUE' features and power make it the ultimate database choice. Clearly, users and editors alike think OverVUE is something special. We think you will, too So visit your nearest software dealer and purchase your very own copy of OverVUE, the Best Database of the Year. = Write for information concerning our new Mail Management and Personal Finance Templates. ProVUE Beveigemat cof, ~ 222 22nd Street + * Huntin oer Beach, CA 92648. v 7a '969- 2431 Circle 77 on reader service card 34 September 1986 Steven Levy able to lay down the basic “Toot-Toot” mel- ody, which I had painstakingly picked out. Since the heart of zydeco music is the accordian, I used the preset accordian patch, taking advantage of the editing capa- bilities to correct my numerous mistakes. For track two, I produced a simple percus- sion beat; it was easy, since I could hear the first track playing while I recorded the drum sound, On track three I recorded a simple bass line, using the synthesizer bass setting on the Casio. I wanted to add some guitar fills on track four, but that sound wasn't in my Casio. So I closed the pro- gram, found a good guitar sound in Patch Librarian, \oaded it into the synthesizer, went back to ConcertWare, and, after some trial and error, composed some sim- ple “guitar” lines to embellish the song. Rockin’ Steven On playback, | realized that the bass part wasn't so great. So I turned off track three and repeated the song until I created a more suitable one-finger bass line. When I thought I had it, | rerecorded that track. My finished product will not cause Rockin’ Sidney sleepless nights. But it was a four-track, four-instrument rendition that was recognizably “My ‘Toot-Toot.” Of my subsequent experiments, | had the most success with jazzlike improvisations layered over some basic chord progres- sions. The nice thing about improvisations recorded this way is that you can go over them later and clean them up. At least one of my questions was an- swered: the Macintosh and very little money can give you astonishing power. If my work were omplished enough, I could take the disk files I created on the Mac straight to Electric Ladyland studios and put my instrumental parts on a hit rec- ord—all the recording studios use MIDI these days. If you buy a little MIDI synthe- sizer, the capabilities of a recording studio are yours. The answer to my second question, concerning my future as a pop star, was less clear. After all, it's a long road from “Don't Mess with My Toot-Toot” to “Born to Run.” And I have yet to actually compose any tunes to set the whole world humming. Until I do, don’t look for me in the Who's Hot issue of Rolling Stone. Macworld Contributing Editor Steven Levy wrote Hackers: Heroes of the Com- puter Revolution and is a contributing editor of Rolling Stone. 0 All the Performance, Reliability and Speed of SCSI from Peripheral Land, The SCSI Experts. PL SERIES SCSI HARD DISK These are the fastest SCS| hard disks avail- able for Macintosh Plus or Macintosh 512. The main features include plated media hard disks for long reliable use. The PL hard disk is auto-booted either from the Macintosh Plus or the Macintosh 512/E with our Macport+. Each unit comes equipped with its own fan for optimum operation and ex- tended product life. Also the PL series comes with a complete set of utilities to for- mat and park the disk. Each PL drive can be placed either underneath, next to the Macintosh, or up to 20 feet away, how's that for versatility? The PL can be daisy-chained with 6 other peripherals, and is available in various capacities. 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Now you can direct the power of the Mac with the most innovative principles of hypermedia for your personal information management. Move through information at the speed of thought. Guide provides virtually limitless flexibility in storing, retrieving and assembling electronic information. Unlike outline processors that force you to structure information according to a rigid format, Guide allows you to flow naturally through stored text. Rather than emulating a printed page, Guide is designed to take advantage of the computer screen by allowing any number of windows containing graphics and text to be displayed. When windows are resized, graphics are automatically proportioned and text is reformatted instantly, Any displayed window can be WW Anlernationd, Wn. Bellewe WA 9007 (206) 41-2206 EIB ME Ist Steet desktop communications. Guide brings a new dimen- sion to desktop communications. Use Guide to create any type of elec- tronic document for desktop publishing, electronic mail, creative writing, researching, etc. Guide supports MacWrite, MacPaint and MacDraw. You can print anything that can be configured on your scree! Easy to learn...easy to use...easy to buy. Guide is a program that you can learn while you use i Four cursor patterns and six screen devices are all you nec to know, It is 100% Mac honest. You can start using Guide immediately for your information management. ies i Information management that’s as flexible as you are. A click of the mouse at any user-defined point in a body of text and a more comprehensive level is created on the screen for storage or retrieval of information, cross references and notes. If your Guide document cross references another document, Guide automati- cally opens a new window for it. Guide lets you tailor your information system to suit you...not some programmer, With Guide you can... 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City State Zip ‘To place an order, call 206-451-2286 or enclose a check with this coupon, Please add $2.50 for shipping within the US. Mail to OWL International, Inc., 14218 NE 21st Street, Bellevue, WA 98007 Foreign orders ad $10, Washington State residents please add appropiate sales tx. Circle 547 on reader service card Letters Readers sound off on printing, word processing, financial modeling, and more Cause and Effect Although impressed by the quality of my- DiskLabeler from Williams and Macias, | found the copy protection a real hindrance. In a moment of frustration, I wrote a letter suggesting that the authors improve a very good product by removing the copy protection, I expected the usual reply: “Unfortu- nately at this time our policy... .” Today one of the authors called to say they had received enough similar feedback from users that they are removing all copy pro- tection from future releases. Here's a com- pany that not only listened but responded both with a phone call and with real action, Rudy Rugerbregt Santa Clara, California Monogram, publisher of Dollars and Sense, also dropped copy protection re- cently, Because copy protection gener- ally obstructs the efficient use of a hard disk, the clamor of user complaints has grown to a din. This year in the IBM PC arena, in fact, software publishers seem to be responding to pressure in the mar- ketplace by backing away from copy pro- tection. Microsoft, for example, has re- moved copy protection from all of its PC- DOS products, though Mac products re- main locked up tightly. By the way, the telephone number for Williams and Macias was incorrect in some recent ads; the correct number is 800/752-4400. —Ed. Learning by Doing In his letter “A Learning Experience” in the May Macworld, Frank D. Mathon ex- pressed regret and surprise that not much educational software has been written for the Macintosh. I hope that by now Mr. Mathon has realized that just using the Macintosh is an educational experience. Writing as a former computer science teacher, I feel that students are usually hap- pier and learn more when they use ap- plication programs (such as word proces- sors or spreadsheets) rather than drill- and-practice programs. Sue Knopf La Crosse, Wisconsin Straight from the Printer I enjoyed your article about the Image- Writer II. It was well written and covered the product's features quite thoroughly. However, all ten of the ImageWriter [1 printers where I work print crookedly; the fonts look as if they were being viewed through water, especially in Standard qual- ity. This is most obvious on printed bor- ders, such as those used in Microsoft File, in which the dots do not line up. Vicky Jo Varner Los Angeles, California Users say that version 2.2 of the Image- Writer driver clears up the problem. Ap- ple reports that the earlier printer drivers had the ImageWriter print bidirectionally in Standard quality, which might account Jor the misalignment.—Ed. A Monkey Wrench in the Network Earlier this month our newspaper com- pleted installation of a network system consisting of six Macintosh computers, a LaserWriter, a Corvus hard disk, and Omninet network hardware and software. Although the Macintosh Office has worked well for all aspects of our publish- ing, you can imagine my chagrin when I learned that Aldus's PageMaker program does not complete a print operation over the Omninet system. That's why we set up the system in the first place. Eric Petermann Delavan, Wisconsin Omninet’s print spooling does not work with PageMaker. You can attach your six Macs with Omninet, but to send a Page- (continues) Macworld 37 Introducing System Saver Mac. Ever put your hand on top of your Macintosh™ after it’s been running a while? Pretty hot, isn’t it? And that’s a problem. High temperature conditions can affect your computer’s circuitry. Even shorten its lifespan. That’s why we developed the System Saver Mac. System Saver Mac keeps your Macintosh cool. The System Saver Mac's quiet fan draws a breath of fresh air in through the ventilation slots on the bottom left and right sides of the Mac, across the circuit board, over the power supply (the primary source of heat), and out the top ventilation slot (the one hidden under your Mac’s handle) at the rate of 17 cubic feet per minute. It leaves your Mac cool, calm and running at top speed. System Saver Mac stops the scramble for power. No more reaching around to the back of your Macintosh to turn it on. No more fumbling for spare outlets. System Saver Mac organizes all your power needs. It provides outlets for two peripherals (like your printer and modem), while replacing the Mac's power cord. Cool Solution System Saver Mac has a great switch play. System Saver Mac comes equipped with two switches — important for those of you who want to power one of your peripherals separately. For example, if you use a Hard Disk 20, you have to power up your hard disk first, before you turn on your computer. Just use one of the System Saver Mac’s switches to control your hard disk and the other for the rest of your system. ae _ Of course, we realize that many of you would prefer the convenience of a single switch to control your entire system. That’s why every System Saver Mac also comes with a special single switch cap. Just pop off the two separate switches and pop on the single one provided. “See Us at Macworld Expo Booth #532” System Saver Mac provides pure power. 70-90% of all microcomputer malfunctions can be traced to impurities in the electrical current. Line noise can be interpreted as data, confusing your Macintosh and causing annoying system errors. Power surges and spikes can do costly damage to its delicate circuitry. System Saver Mac clips surges and spikes at a safe level and filters out line noise. It provides pure power to make your Macintosh more accurate, efficient and reliable. ‘System Saver Mac TV (© 1986 Kensington Microware Ld. System Saver Mac Is not a completely new idea. Clever, yes. Versatile, convenient and useful, yes. But not completely new. After all, we’ve been making the original System Saver for years. It’s the best selling accessory ever made for the Apple Il—chosen by over 1/4 million Apple Il owners. We thought you’d agree—Macintosh owners deserve the best, too. System Saver Mac, $99.95, is available from Apple dealers everywhere. For the dealer nearest you, or to speak to a Kensington sales representative, call toll-free 800-535-4242. In NY 212-475-5200. Circle 11 on reader service card KENSINGTON. <j Letters Maker document from one of the net- worked Macs to the LaserWriter, you have to connect the Corvus OmniDrive to the LaserWriter via AppleTalk. Print spooling for the LaserWriter does work with Page- Maker on 3Com’s 3Server. In addition, the current version of PageMaker is not meant as a multiuser product; a multi- user update is scheduled for release this year.—Ed. HES Software Incompatibility 1 was impressed by your two articles on the new Macintosh (“A Change for the Plus” and “Developing a Megabyte Strategy”) in April 1986 but was puzzled by an omission. “A Change for the Plus” was the most thorough treatment I've seen of exactly what you get with a Mac Plus, but although it was accompanied by fair coverage of sup- port for the new computer by hardware manufacturers, it failed to even mention software. Donald FE McLean APO San Francis , California Take a look at the follow-up article, “Order out of Chaos,” in the May 1986 Macworld, Software compatibility is an is- sue any time system software changes. If you're considering upgrading to the Mac Plus, consult software publishers to make sure that the applications you count on run trouble-free on the Mac Plus.—Ed. The Mac’s Two Word Processors Can't Make the Grade In his April column David Bunnell re- marked, “If the Mac has already become the computer of choice in universities. . . ." No doubt about it, but how many thou- sands of my colleagues have reluctantly had to give up their choice because of a fact so simple that it is hard to believe that none of the masterminds of software have become aware of it: neither MacWrite nor Microsoft Word is even remotely adequate for preparing scholarly papers or books. ‘To be sure, a perfect program for bib- liography (Professional Bibliographic Sys- tem) has now been adapted to the Mac. But it's expensive. When can we expect suit- able word processing software for the Mac? Blake Lee Spabr University of California Berkeley, California NTSC Compatible Monitor The Mac Video Scan Converter enables video data from the Mac or Mac Plus to be simultane- ously presented on a variety of low cost or high performance displays including NTSC or IBM monitors, TVs and VCRs. Itis intended for use in audio/visual displays such as classroom demos or to provide a convenient portable demo by storing the presentation on a video tape for use with a VCR. ‘An easy installation kit is available and requires no soldering, Installation will not void Apple ‘Warranty. ‘The unit features: 1 Freeze-frame screen memory 18 Video frame advance m Inverse video = Compatibility with all Mac Software More word processing variety is on the way, as reported in Macworld View, July 1986. Next month we'll go into greater detail on the new writing tools for the Mac.—Ed. Terminal Confusion “Mini and Mainframe Connections” (Mac- world, July 1986) reviewed a version of Tekalike that has been obsolete since De- cember 1985, Most significantly, Macworld printed the wrong phone number. The correct number is 505/672-1998. Tekalike now emulates the VT-100, the VT-640, and the Tektronix 4105 as well as the Tektronix 4010, 4012, 4014, and 4016. Printing is supported to the resolution of the output device, with direct support for the LaserWriter and high resolution for the ImageWriter. Tekalike generates Mac- Draw-compatible PICT files from main- frame graphics, for use in PageMaker, MacDraw, or MacDraft. Plotting has been enhanced with mul- tiple plots on a page and additional plotter (continues) Turn Your Mac Into A Presentation Center é a é | oo TV Monitor VCR (VHS & Beta) ‘Typical number of Display Device Video Output | devices per output” NTSC ‘Composite/ 10 Monitors Compatible NTSC Video Monitor "TV Monitor** ‘Composite/ 10 Monitors - NTSC Video ver** ‘Composite/ TVCR (VHS & Beta) NTSC Video _| IBM Compatible | IBM Compatible 5 Monitors Monitor Video High Speed High Speed 10 Monitors Compatible Composite Video Monitor (22.25 KHZ Horizontal sean rate) Color Monitor RGB Video ‘5 Monitors (RGB) IBM Compatible Monitor *Maximum number of devices per output is a function of device type and impedance. *'May require use of RF Modulator, Note: The two Composite/NTSC outputs are identical. Each output will drive a number of specific display types (please see chart on the left) and will operate simultaneously. Distributor and Dealer inquiries invited. 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