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Page 116 Page 69 4 August 1993 MACWORLD REVIEWS 124 Macintosh Quadra 800 Macintosh computer 125 LaserWriter Select 300; LasérWriter Select 310 Laser printers 128 ClarisWorks 2.0 Integrated software Page 100 129 Project Scheduler 5 Project-management software 156 130 Aldus Fetch 1.0; Cumulus 4.1; ImageAccess 1.0; 160 Kudo Image Browser 1.0 Image-cataloging software Now Utilities 4.0.1 System utility collection 140 Stuffit Deluxe 3.0 with SpaceSaver Disk-compression utilities 142 -Phaser 200i Color Printer Thermal-wax color printer 144 Generic CADD 2.0 2-Dicomputersassisted drafting program 160 131 16 161 164 164 16! & 144 ClienTrac4.7.1 Contact-management software 145 MasterWord 5.1 Microsoft Word add-ons 146 Folio 1 Media Kit Wraptures One; Wraptures Two Texture collections on CD-ROM 148 Contact Ease 2.0.1 Sales-automation software 148 PosterWorks 3.0 Large-format graphics- production tool 149 ClickChange 2.0 Desktop customizer 153 addDepth 1.0.2 Graphics utility 153 Apple Color Printer Color QuickDraw printer 154 ArtZ ADB Tablet Input device 154 Square One 1.5.2 Icon-based file launcher 156 Epson ES-800C 24-bit flatbed scanner 165 In Control 2.0 To-do list organizer On The Air 1.0.1 Network intercom system @Risk 1.1 Simulation add-on for Excel Expert Draw 1.0 Drawing application Memorizer 2.0 Dictation software Amazing Universe 2.1 Space-image exploration CircuitMaker 3.0 Digital circuit simulator Roll Call 2.0 Church-management software Achieving Your Career 1.02 Job-search organizing software Page 92 20 25 27 29 51 57 65 169 Page 148 189 19: a = 280 ie RCSIORL Tea OE toil an DEPARTMENTS How to Contact Macworld MacBulletin State of the Mac BY ADRIAN MELLO Apple’s Macintosh-naming crisis Letters Art Beat BY CATHY ABES The Iconoclast bY STEVEN Levy General Magic tries to make history Conspicuous Consumer BY DEBORAH BRANSCUM Apple revs up service and support Lab Notes BY MARK HURLOW AND MATTHEW LEEDS News BY DAN LITTMAN AND TOM MORAN The Desktop Critic BY DAVID POGUE Musical fun for nonmusicians New Products How To/Quick Tips How To/Getting Started BY JIM HEID Macros and scripting PowerBook Notes By CARY LU ‘The network connection Star Ratings Wise Guy BY GUY KAWASAKI How you can help save IBM by Macworld Communion Ie: Ed offes 501 Second St, San Franco, CAB4107, = ‘August 1993, Volume 10, Number 8 Macworld (SSN 0741: z 8647s pubes bones £415/243-0505,Subwopion orders and ingles should be drected to 303/447-9330. 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Full rate digital video and multiuser environments greatly benefit from the substantially higher transaction rate supplied by the blazing performance of Barracuda disc drives. Wi ypical 2.68 drive Barraude-2 and NetWare fileservers. Built on the proven technology of Seagate’s Elite series, its unique tall spindle, low-current design results in a drive that runs cool and has an incredible MTBF rating of 500,000 power-on-hours. For ferocious performance from a hard drive system, backed by the most professional service and support in the industry, call MicroNet for the name of your nearest Reseller. 1-714-581-1540. Quality You Can Count On MicroNet Technology, Inc. 20 MASON « IRVINE, CA 92718 © TEL: (714) 581-1540 ¢ FAX: (714) 837-1164 AppleLink: MICRONET.SLS ¢ Compuserve: 76004,1611 MicroNet Faven:040 is a trademark of MicroNet Technology, Inc. All other trademarks are property of thei respective owners Circle 113 on reader service card Apple to Make SIMMs? As users con- tinue to have problems with many third-party com- posite SIMMs for the Quadra 800, the Centris 610 and 650, and the LC III (see MacBulletin, June 1993), Apple is considering putting high-capacity SIMMs on the list of products it offers for sale, according to a company representative. Forever Amber: Apple recently dis- closed it is developing Amber, a new document- centered software architecture. Under Amber, us- ers will never have to leave the document they are working on to add or manipulate graphics, edit text, repaginate, and so on; instead they will access the functions of related applications without switching into those applications. PowerPC Powering Up: Apple wowed the crowds at its Worldwide Developers Confer- ence by demonstrating a prototype PowerPC RISC system running Macintosh applications. Almost as important for Mac owners, though, Apple also announced that it intends to offer PowerPC up- grade paths for the Mac Ilvx and Ilvi, Centris 610 and 650, Performa 600, and Quadra 800 systems. Both IBM and Motorola have announced prelimi- nary shipments of PowerPC 601 microprocessors, and several major software companies (including Adobe, Claris, and Microsoft) announced at WWODC that they are writing PowerPC applications. Apple said it plans to have PowerPC machines ready in the first half of 1994. New Print Driver Is Mixed Blessing: According to Apple's own documentation, the LaserWriter 8.0 driver (codeveloped with Adobe, Mac Bulelin which is selling it as PSPrinter 8.0) can cause print- ing and PostScript problems with many older, and some newer, applications. Also, despite both com- panies’ statements that their versions are function- ally identical, Adobe's documentation details addi- tional problems with applications from over 20 vendors (including Microsoft, Claris, and Aldus), which Apple doesn't mention. Apple says that it is looking into the documentation differences. Apple Slices Printer Prices: The re- tail price for the Apple Color Printer dropped from $2349 to $1659, and the Apple Personal LaserWriter NTR went from $1649 to $1179. Airlines Shut Down PowerBooks: |f you use your PowerBook on an airplane, chances are you'll be asked to put it away at least twice during your flight. American, Northwest, Continen- tal, TWA, JAL, and USAir all have policies in place restricting the use of personal electronic devices during takeoff and landing, and other airlines are openly considering changing their rules, based on well-publicized anecdotal evidence from pilots and an old FAA study indicating that electronic devices can interfere with cockpit systems. Self-Teaching Agent: Open Sesame, from Charles River Analytics (617/491-3474), isa software program that will take over routine com- puting tasks. Unlike No Hands’ Magnet (see “Au- tomating the Finder,” News, July 1992), Open Sesame can analyze what you do on your Mac and pops up with an offer to do it for you. Open Sesame will list for $99 or less and should begin shipping in late summer. m MACWORLD August 1993 25 DOS MACINTOSH | IT MAKES WORKING WIT YOUR HOST A COLLABORATION. NOT A COMPROMISE. When it comes to friendliness and ease of use, a mainframe is the antithesis of a Macintosh? 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At the rate the elves at Apple are pop- ping out new Macs, there will be several hundred models by the year 2000. How is Apple helping us keep track? Well, it has come up with a brilliant nam- ing scheme that combines the way Mercedes-Benz and BMW name cars with the way Sylvester Stallone names movies. I would be pretending if I said I knew where Apple got its inspiration for naming Macs. However, I have a theory: these names come from an elite group of subgeniuses who make a bushelful of money for sitting around dreaming up product names. You can imagine these marketing poets seated in a tinted-glass conference room with white acoustic tile (come to think of it, maybe this is the in- spiration for those little air holes in the front of the new Macs), in a pastoral in- dustrial campus in Cupertino. ‘The truth is that without really under- standing the meaning behind model names, we're forced to speculate. This fol- lows in the tradition of other great am- biguous systems such as alchemy, numer- ology, palm reading, and Beatles albums (on that last subject, some hackers tell me that if you play one of the Macintosh sys- tem sounds backward it will say “Steve is dead”). I suspect there is some hidden meaning behind the Mac monikers. I for one am determined to get to the bottom of it. Perhaps we'll discover a new defini- tion for the term fuzzy logic. The Golden Delicious 205 IF APPLE HAD STUCK TO APPLE-RE- lated names, perhaps there’d be no prob- lem. A Macintosh, after all, is named af- ter a variety of apple. I think there was a lot of potential in this idea, and Apple could have cultivated a virtual orchard of product names. What about the Golden Delicious 205, the Granny Smith II, or the Fuji 900zx? There are approximately 5000 varieties of apples, so Apple would face no danger of running out of names. With this in mind, it’s promising to see Apple working on the Newton. Apple’s first logo was Sir Isaac under an apple tree, presumably about to get bopped. Following the Newton example, Apple could branch out into product lines named for historical figures known for their relationship with apples. Someday you might prepare a letter or a presenta- tion on a Johnny Appleseed 180c, a Will- iam Tell III, or an Eve Plus. Instead Apple is using names that sound like a cross be- tween fancy cars and Roman tyrants. The Numbers Game FOR SEVERAL YEARS YOU COULD count on Apple to christen new models with Roman numerals and the occasional letter. This all started with the Apple TI, the Apple IIc, the Ie, and the IGS. The company carried this scheme over to the Mac II, the Classic II, and the LC II. Someone once said that after the ill-fated Apple III (a chip would sometimes spon- taneously leap out of the main system board!), the company would never again use the Roman numeral III. Well, the LC III proves that theory wrong. I’ve already heard some people in the industry specu- lating that the impending, next-genera- tion PowerPC-based Mac will be referred to as the Mae III. ‘As majestic as Roman numer- als are, you run into problems with big numbers. We've all seen those long impenetrable copyright dates trailing the end of movies—you know, MCMLXXXIV. Can you imagine the Centris CXIV or brainstorming session, the marketing po- ets noticed the same thing. This might explain the lettering on the Mac II line in- cluding the IIx, Ilex, Ici, Hfx, Isi, Ivx, and, overseas, the Ilvi. For a long time, Mac owners tried to figure out what these letters stood for. I’ve never solved it, but a source told me that this naming arrange- ment was the sinister work of Mister Mxyzptlk, an enemy of Superman who could be defeated only by being tricked into saying his name backwards. Now I don’t know a lot about this guy, but you can pretty much figure out two things from his name: (1) he didn’t like vowels; and (2) he didn’t win too many spelling bees as a child. Even this naming arrangement ran out of steam a couple of years ago when Apple really kicked into product over- drive. The marketing poets must have known that they were going to run into problems with the big Roman numerals and run out of two-letter combinations. I imagine one of them driving in to work one day, trying to figure out which brand- new German luxury car to buy this year. Tt was a tough call, but it came down to one of the BMW models, such as the 850i, 750il, or the 535i, or a Mercedes-Benz 500SL or 300CE. That’s when it hit home—Macs could have meaningless combinations of three-digit numbers for names just like the big toys. That’s how we got the Performa 200, 400, 405, 430, 450, and 600; the Centris 610 and 650; the Quadra 700, 800, 900, and 950; the PowerBook 100, 140, 145, 160, 170, and 180; and so on. My outmoded carbon-based brain tells me a bigger number is supposed to be better within each of the product lines, but beyond that I'm stumped. ‘The scariest development yet is that combinations of numbers and letters are com- ing back: the 145B, 165c, the Quadra CLIX? The 180c. Now I ask you, why is Apple still uses Roman nu- the B capitalized, while the cis merals, but the company Macintosh not? Whatever the reason, my wanted more freedom. Have guess is that as models prolif- you ever noticed that if you Naming erate we can expect to see look at Roman numerals too more alphanumeric combina- long they begin tolookanaw- Contest IIcxgl _ tions. If only Apple would use fal lot like letters? 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Each demo includes You can retrieve and update signals for our complete manual and the price applies to your stocks, commodities, indices or funds _ the program. from Dow Jones, Dial/Data in less than 5 minutes per day. What's more, you can play “What If” games and have results in less (Index, Futures or Stock) are priced at $999 Our Right Time-Day Trading Programs each. Circle 25 on reader service card 28 August 1993 MACWORLD STATE OF THE MAC even if just in vanity-plate speak. You know, TOTE MAC for one of the Duos, or 040 POWR for the Centris 650, or maybe even LUV MY MC for one of the Performas. Perhaps the naming scheme should be more grand and mythological— in the tradition of ancient Greek epithets such as Storm-Gatherer or Fire-Giver. The epithet scheme led to the one good name in the Mac line, the PowerBook. It actually tells you something about the sys- tem in question. Hmm. Scratch one mar- keting poet, who’s now unemployed. Latin Tech Talk THE LATEST DEVELOPMENT IN MAC- intosh product names is the use of Latin- sounding words—Duo, Quadra, Cen- tris—that seem both mysterious and tech- nical at the same time. Quadra basically means four. Intel, which is doing pretty well these days, seems to have logged on to the same vibes as Apple’s marketing poets; the semiconductor company re- cently named its latest microprocessor Pentium, which roughly translates to “the fifth.” My guess is that Centris is not re- ally another name for “one hundred”— that’s just a bonus. Centris is meant to imply the center—or midrange—of the Macintosh product line. Pretty clever, huh? This word is also part of the recent wave of company and product names that are mysterious-sounding words that end in is or ws, like Aldus, Claris, Nexus, and Lexus. If Apple continues in this direction we might end up with the Septius 700, the Quo Vadis IV, or the Extremis lx. Code Names SOME OF APPL HAVE been much more interesting than the fi- nal names. Once upon a time there were Macs called Paris, Cabernet, Chablis, and Bobcat, before they were cast out onto dealers’ shelves. System software and ap- plications continue to have even more in- teresting code names—Pink, Amber, Casper, Bedrock, WildCard. Some of the best names even make it out into the light of day, like QuickDraw and QuickTime. If you can figure out any meaningful system behind all of the Mac names and numbers, I’ll send you a small cash prize. And I’m sincere when I say small. Also, you can help curtail the Apple product- naming crisis by entering your own scheme in our Macintosh Naming Con- test Icxgl. If you think of any better sug- gestions for Mac product names, please send them to me, and perhaps I'll publish the best ones. I sure could use any help you might offer, since I’m applying for a job as a marketing poet at Apple, and I’ve already got my eye on a German luxury car sporting a three-digit number. m DigitalFilm Follies T HANKS TO DEBORAH BRANSCUM for exposing SuperMae’s lack of R & D on their DigitalFilm product (Conspicu- ous Consumer, May 1993), What amazes me is that SuperMac’s president, Mike McConnell, blames the inexperience of the user for the complaints that they have received. As an aircraft engineering friend of mine put it, “We don’t get the luxury of blaming the passengers when one of our engines malfunctions. Why should they get away with blaming the end user for their engineering problems?” Brian Michael Ross via America Online Sex Sells AVID HERSCHMAN REALIZES, quite correctly, what many people still don’t believe: sexually oriented enter- tainment has become mainstream (The Iconoclast, June 1993). Heck, the number- one movie in the country is all about a woman who commits adultery for a quick million. ‘The fear of sexually transmitted dis- eases is making virtual sex a popular alter- native to the real thing. People working in multimedia and virtual reality are poised to take advantage of this trend, and will certainly make a pile of money from it. Will Cate via CompuServe HANK YOU, STEVEN LEVY, FOR AT- tempting to deal with the problem of computer pornography. Your column, however, was too easy on this hard- core software. Explicit sexual multimedia is offen- sive. It turns women into sexual playthings and makes men out to be lust-filled ani- mals controlled by their hormones. Those who produce this perversion do so for profit—smut dealers never think about the negative effects on the public. People Lellers like David Herschman should not be free to contribute to the moral decline of our nation with their prurient products. Gary Karwoski Warroad, Minnesota TEVEN LEVY'S PRUDISH DIATRIBE is replete with irrational prejudice. For example, images of naked human be- ings created by Italian Renaissance paint- ers are acceptable, but similar images pro- duced by people with cameras are not. By this twisted logic, if Botticelli had a video camera instead of a paintbrush, he would have been a pornographer. Virgil Haxton San Diego, California i WAS SEVERELY DISAPPOINTED THAT booth space at the San Francisco Mac- world Expo was sold to pornographic soft- ware vendors. ‘The law defines sexual harassment in part as conduct of a sexual nature which creates an offensive or hostile work envi- ronment. Many women attended the Expo in a professional capacity, the major- ity of whom I’m sure were uncomfortable with the items on open display at several of these booths. What about the women who worked in adjacent booths? How do you think they felt about listening to the comments of male porno patrons for four days? James Moratto Santa Rosa, California D MR. LEVY'S COLUMN WITH | some irritation and some amusement. ‘The fact that you don’t like these people’s products doesn’t give you the right to call them “sleaze merchants.” I myself have no use for violent arcade games, so I don’t play them. I don’t write personal attacks on their creators, com- plete with comments about what their mothers might think. Deirdré Straughan Milan, Italy continues MACWORLD August 1993 29 Make Up Your Mind. Again, Again, And Again. Introducin Fractal Design Pa Arrange multiple floating items with PainterX2"" ‘our expert extension to WD Fractal Design Painter®2.0 for Macintosh®and Windows” Building on the endless supply of tools and textures in Painter, our award-winning nacural-media”paint appli eae ee tion, PainterX2 allows any Ss $79 fens number of floating bitmap objects to be “live” at the same time. 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Call today for a free catalog of our complete line. In the May 1993 MacBulletin, we incor- MacTabl rectly stated that eDisk requires e ® that you reformat your hard drive on installation. "EY 800-722 ‘6263 In the May 1993 feature “Here's Looking at Monochrome Monitors,” the correct price for the 8-bit Radius Pivot Display video board is $550, not $299, In the May 1993 feature “Dye-Sublima- tion,” the 3M Rainbow should have been given a “not tested” rat- ing for technical support, and an “NA/NA” rating for RAM con- figuration. In the same feature, the following two sentences should have appeared in the sidebar “How Fast Are the Dye-Sublima- tion Printe We used a Mac Ici with an Apple Cache Card PO, Box 3217, Redmond, WA 98073-3217 SE Se ee penis ier le The 3M machine should perform ine Ao ager of oe Compute faster when running from a higher-end Mac, and also if letter- ize paper is used. In the June 1993 review of MathCAD 3.1, the University of Waterloo was in- correctly identified as being in 2e€e ata og. Iowa. The correct location is GS CLPATNAGES. «> omen Rice GL MO ANE ON WriteMove IP's serial cable is 32 inches long, not 6 inches. In the chart “System Upgrades” (“Upgrad- ing Your Mac,” June 1993), we : - art photography for the June issue was done by Luis Delgado, C LL TODAY |-A00-6 6L-S4l0 < Cuy Kawasaki Fan Club, Macraol s a ot indicated that the Centris 610's processor runs at Hz, and the Centris 650’s at 33MHz. The speeds should have been 20MHz VivViviy | that chart, the Hox has three Nu- Bus slots, not two. Finally, all info- Call or write for your free Image Club Software Catalog today! Bt Alia | 1 DB EAR MACWORLD MAGAZINE, ‘iis —— | [A warm welcome to/ | Adress Nex | Pleased to see/My mind was changed De iae 5 ; when I saw/I applaud/My sanity was saved See See SSS ew we es by/How very welcome to see/Thank you, ah Grape ne. 729th vee Sth Calgary Alberta Cada T2015 thank you, thank you for adding] Guy ‘Phone (403) 262 8008 / Fax (403)261 7013 / Orders (800) 661 9410 / Applelink CDA0573 / Compuserve 72560,2323 / AOL image Club Kawasaki. ‘wa can hy the fonts cipart used n tha Ask for Haley Vertical © 829 & Charme @ 89. Scisors rom Volume {7 Symbols 8399 i. . . . proof erreeninirannilisnranyctrainrveiatrerey Guy isa [lively/witty/philo- sophical/well-respected/witty/with-it/hu- Circle 50 on reader service card continues 30 August 1993 MACWORLD The Pinnacle Tahoe” Portable 3.5" Optical Drive Introducing the world’s smallest portable-3.5“ optical drive with a rechargeable battery pack option that provides hours of portable computing. 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In the Now Software tradition, we've humanized the interface to make it far simpler to use than other = «| compression products, Note the Inspector window on the left. It lets you see the "= = A status of any file, folder or disk, and perform any compression operation with a click of your mouse. Now Compress. It’s the fastest, safest, most useful compression package you can get. For the full, non-compressed, story call us at 1-800-237-3611. Or talk to a dealer, BMMMEUS Now Software, tac. 319 SW Washington, 11th Floor. Partland. OR 97208. Phone: 503-274-2000. Fax: 503-274-U670. AutoDaubler anul DiskDoubler are trademarks of Satient Suptware, Circle 49 on reader service card LETTERS morous/witty/trusted/insightful/refresh- ing/entertaining/world-class/witty/ thought-provoking/witty] columnist. [Look forward to Macworld even more/I used to read Macworld from beginning to end—now it'll be the other way around/A very large chunk of the Mac magic is on Macworld’s final page/ Macworld is the computer magazine with real soul food/Hooray for Macworld/I’m renewing my subscription]. Fans 0” Guy via America Online, CompuServe, Internet, fax, and USPS UY KAWASAKI DEMONSTRAT the take-it-or-leave-it attitude that just about destroyed Apple under Jobs and company. When Guy was employed at Apple, there were only three models of Macs and the entry price was $2000. This must have been his idea of the computer for the rest of us. James Earl Marshall, Michigan F THE BEST USE THE KAWASAKI- meister has for a PowerBook is travel, let him read and learn (Wise Guy, June 1993). You buy a PowerBook so that when your customers call you at home, you can grab the machine off your bed, bring up their file, and solve their problem while making small talk. When a “Star Trek: The Next Gen- eration” rerun comes on, you check your HyperCard stack and find out that you've got that episode on tape already. In the kitchen, you work from your electronic copy of the recipe for Cajun gumbo, which includes notes from previous prepa- rations. After dinner, you check your Re- member file to find out what’s coming up for tomorrow. Finally, as you’re dropping off to sleep, a great letter to Macworld pops into your head. You grab the PowerBook in the dark, wake it up (nobody ever turns a PowerBook off), and jot a few notes. You could finish it up, plug in the phone cord, and send it right away, but you decide to wait and see if the subject looks different in the daylight. That’s the way to use a PowerBook. Martin B. Tittle Ann Arbor, Michigan WAS NOT AMUSED BY MR. KAWA- fcaks June column. Specifically, . their round eyes glaze over and their Protestant brains ...”; why in the world did Macworld print such racist and preju- dicial nonsense? I suppose that next you will print “squint-eyed Buddha brains” to describe the Asian computer executive establishment. Jeff Frank Hawthorne, California LK ABOUT YOUR MIDDLE-AMERI- T can, starch-white, my-way-or-the- highway attitudes—what’s all the hostil- ity for, Guy? Did someone steal your wallet in Shinjuku? Here’s some advice for the man who can’t imagine ever ask- ing for any: keep your racial slurs to yourself, bub, David Rowe via America Online Play It Again, Sam WAS IMPRESSED WITH THE MOVIE theme for “Here’s Looking at Mono- chrome Monitors” (May 1993). I have considered attempting similar themes, but I was leery of copyright legalities. I could find no credits or studio/ producer/actor acknowledgments any- where in the magazine. Can you tell me continues Name The World’ Fastest Animal? ©1993 Radius Ine. MACWORLD August 1993 33 New SoftPC 30. | Extended Memory. VGA. MS-DOS 900. Better Performance. Lower Price. 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LETTERS how to legally use such images in my own graphic works? Paula Morris Zanesville, Ohio You haven't been opening your Macworld force- fully enough. We ran a copyright notice twice—once on page 5 and once on page 113, But it's on the far left side and hard to see unless you crack the spine Most studios allow magazines to use still images from movies—pricing is usually determined by the popu- larity of the movie (or actor) and the size of the proposed project. —Ed. Network Inaccuracies HE RE SOME INACCURACIES IN. “Building an Expandable Network” (May 1993), by Douglas Welch, that could lead to trouble, not expandability. Level | cable is intended for voice and peed data up to 20 Kbps, not 200 Level 3 cable is intended for LAN applications up to 10 Mbps, not 20 Mbps; Level 4 cable is specified to 20MHz and will support 16 Mbps; Level 5 cable is specified to 100MHz and will support data rates up to 100 Mbps, not 200 Mbps. Also, while you can run LocalTalk 4500 feet on 22-gauge wire and 3000 feet Name The Worlds Fastest Car? on 24-gauge wire, you can only run 10BaseT on 328 feet of wire. Therefore, if you ever plan on upgrading your net- work (and even if you don’t plan on it), ou should think of distances of 328 feet and no more. Since Local'Talk is not a fa- ture network, don’t design around it! Michael Paré Woods Hole, Massachusetts Marking Time iB CHARLES SEITER’S REVIEW OF High Performance Systems’ ithink 1 (May 1993), I found it amusing that the cons summary read “Requires real training commitment for effective use.’ Imagine, you have to know what you're doing in order to use the software effec- tively! If taking the time to work through unfamiliar concepts is a shortcoming, then we've made less progress than ithink. Barry Sedlik Walnut, California Lapis Responds APPR AT YOUR GENER- lly positive review of L-TV in your May 1993 issue. However, it’s clear that the reviewer didn’t fully understand the product, and the few incompatibilities were not accurately addressed. L-TV is a low-cost, entry-level mul- timedia tool, and the reviewed model was designed primarily to meet the needs of the K-12 teacher who is using the Mac LC in the classroom. It’s obviously no substitute for studio-quality equipment that costs much more. ‘The reviewer pointed out (as we do in the L-TV Read Me file), that there are ible conflicts with Macromedia’s Di- rector. Director does not obey the Quick- Draw rules, and L~T'V is designed to op- erate with QuickDraw-based programs. We provide a special mode for Director and other non-QuickDraw-based pro- grams that solves the problem. Finally, the reviewer criticized the quality of text on the television screen. he display quality of a television set is inherently inferior to that of a computer monitor, but this is not the fault of L-TV. Picture quality on graphics and large text is excellent, and that is what the product was designed to display. L-TV cards are an affordable, high- quality method of projecting a Macintosh continues Imagine the reaction to our new PostScript Level 2 printer ne pete visor P $ aa ke HP Laserjet IlIP DEClaser 1152 Apple LaserWriter NTR $1759 $999 $1649 em al Pe sothitn No matter what the Laser e LaserWriter iw Standard Features DEClaser 1152 mIP Laser Writer’ NTR Select 310 competition says about our DEClaser™ 1152, you'll swear PostScript Level 2 YES Yes Yes No by it. Call |-800-DECINFO, Applet YES Yes Yes No £84940 Bh Resident PostScript Fonts 7 35 35 B ext. 0 place your Simultaneously Active Ports YES No Yes No order or get the name of ListPrice $999 $1759 $1649 $1079 your local dfiloliltlali distributor. © Digital Equipment Corporation 1993. The DIGITAL logo and DECiaser are trademarks of Digital Equipment Corporation. PostScript isa trademark of Adobe Systems, Incorporated which may be registered in certain jurisdictions. HP and Laserjet are registered trademarks of Hewlett-Packard Company. Apple LaserWriter is a registered trademark of Apple Computer, Inc. Circle 120 on reader service card LETTERS screen image onto a television or record- ing the image to videotape. Our users clearly understand the features and useful- ness of the product—apparently the re- viewer did not. James Harris President and CEO Lapis Technologies Alameda, California The Read Me file outlines the possible conflicts with Director and then states, “If there is a conflict with Director presentations (or some other similar situa- tion), use the keyboard to switch into DIRECT mode for the L-TV software.” The file doesn't clearly state that this remedy solves the problem, and nowhere describes this as “a special mode for Director and other non-QuickDraw-based applications.” The notes even warn that “DIRECT mode may result in a somewhat slower screen update than the nor- mal FAST mode,” so we hesitate to consider this a real solution, We criticized the text display because not do- ing so would have been misleading. L-TV is not a low-cost alternative to a large-screen display or a second monitor, nor does Lapis Technologies claim that itis. If we did not understand the features and usefulness of the product, we would not have awarded it three stars, indicating that it is a good product—one that works quite well when used as intended. —Ed. We Don’t Need No Stinkin’ Slots DRIAN MELLO, IN HIS REVIEW OF the new Macintosh lineup (State of the Mac, May 1993), agrees with Apple’s mistaken assumption that all Macintosh users want power and expandability in equal proportions, This might be true of users who focus on graphics, but many of us in the mainstream business commun- ity don’t need expansion slots, but crave increased speed. Our ideal Mac would have a 33MHz 68040 in an LC case, or a Centris 610 case for those who want CD-ROM. We would even forgo an FPU if Motorola insists on its Intel-esque pric- ing scheme. Craig Jacobson New York, New York ARA Again N THE MAY 1993 MACWORLD, YOU printed a letter that stated that V.42bis and MNP 5 hardware-based compression will work on top of AppleTalk Remote Access’s software-based correction. In fact, ARA’s modem scripts explicitly turn off hardware-based data compression and verification, leaving the work to be done by the software. Fim Robertson Ames, lowa Jim's got it right, and now, after several conversa- tions with Apple, so do we. —Ed. RSI Cry FOUND THE UNMOUSE REVIEW (MAY 1993) interesting. Has Ann Garrison or anybody found a way around the repeti- tive-strain injury problem with the mouse-using arm and side of neck? Paul C. Colombo via CompuServe Letters should be sent to Letters, Macworld, 501 Second St., San Francisco, CA 94107; via fax, 415/442-0766; or electronically to CompuServe (70370,702), MCI Mail (294-8078), America On- lime (Macworld), or AppleLink (Macworld1), or via Internet (70370.702@compuserve.com). Include re- turn address and daytime phone number. Due to the high volume of mail received, we can't respond personally to each letter. We reserve the right to edit all letters. All published letters become the prop- erty of Macworld. m ©1993 Radius Ine. irr Introducing Radius’ PrecisionColor” Pro. Now it joins the cheetah, the Thrust II car and the SR-71 spyplane on the list of world-class speedsters. Because PrecisionColor Pro is the fastest 24-bit color graphics card available for the Macintosh? Period. Its up to 67% faster overall than 9 Thunder/24° Up to 26% faster overall than e Or S Thunder” IL. And as much as 3000% faster than your unaccelerated Mac? e So now you can really scream through color imaging, photo retouching, CS illustrations, 3-D renderings, and other graphics-intensive work. And to really accelerate Photoshop; there’s our new PhotoBooster™ with twin DSPs, to help you run your pro- een am duction functions up to 15 times faster than a Quadra” 950. In addition to unmatched speed, PrecisionColor Pro gives you unrivaled flexibility. You get “on-the-fly” resolution switching. A single keystroke moves you between one-page and PRECISIONCOLOR PRO ae radus ie ahs CR Lae Aectejated 2 (6) Rane ne HTS QuickDraw’ Acceleration (higher % is faster This new card is the only high- performance graphics card that fits in all Macintosh NuBus" systems. And it’ fully compatible with a wide range of monitors, including our new IntelliColor’/20 display. The price? Just $2,499. Fully backed by our Worry-Free Warranty, with overnight replacement. For complete details and the name of your nearest Radius reseller, call 1-800-227-2795 Ext.10€. Or call us now “Perfomance percentages rom at 1-800-966-7360 to receive faxed Set tema Get PrecisionColor Pro. And start setting some world records of your own, fast. ©1993 Radius Inc. Radius, the Radius logo and all Radius product names are trademarks of Radius Inc. Other brand and product names are trademarks oftheir respective holders. *Based on QuickDraw acceleration tests using Hydra Benchmark 2.1. Circle 14 on reader service card BY CATHY ABES Artist: San Francisco-based Jim Ludtke is a skilled 3-D illustrator and animator whose work has been shown at New York’s Museum of Modern Art. He has produced 3-D illustrations for such var- ied clien Sony, Newsweek, Nintendo, and AT&T, and animations for Nick- elodeon, the Residents, Time Warner New Media, and The Voyager Compa- ny, among others. Hardware: Quadra 900 with 52MB of RAM and 650MB internal hard drive; SyQuest 44MB re- movable-cartridge drive; Hammer 650 rewritable optical drive; Wacom 12- inch graphics tab- let; E-Machines 16- inch and AppleColor High-Res RGB 13- inch color monitors. Software: Macro- Model 1.5; Elec- triclmage Anima- tion System 1.5; Adobe | Photoshop 2.5; Adobe Illustra~ tor 3.01. How It Was Done: ‘To create the open- ing illustration for this month’s com- parative review of 3-D modeling pro- grams, Ludtke pro- duced an elaborate three-dimensional scene that he created in six separate sections and ultimately composited together in Photoshop. To create the bumpy ground, Ludtke used a Photoshop plug-in module called CyberSave, which converts two-dimen- sional gray-scale images into 3-D mod- els in one of three shapes—a sphere, a cylinder, or a flat plane. Lighter areas of the image become raised, while darker areas are recessed. After scanning a photo of some peb- bles, Ludtke enhanced the image in Photoshop by giving the pebbles more- Behind Macworld's Graphics The final composited page that illustrates our feature on 3-D modelers. irregular shapes and by adding more ele- ments such as bones and roots. He saved the image as a color texture map for later use in ElectricImage. Then, after con- verting the color texture map to gray- scale in Photoshop, he painted those added elements a brighter shade of gray, and saved the image in CyberSave for- mat. This resulted in a 3-D mesh with various elements upraised above the ground’s surface. Once he had imported the relief model of the ground into Electriclmage, Ludtke used the col- or texture map (the previously saved file of the surface tex- tures) to add color to all the objects. Since both the three- dimensional model and the texture map were created from the same file, Ludtke was able to align them exactly—mak- ing the bones one color, the pebbles another color, the roots a third color, and so forth. He modeled the hammer and chisel in MacroModel, and then imported them into Electriclmage, where he added texture maps he had pre- viously created. ‘To create the curving, bumpy surface of the cave wall, Ludtke built a wire- frame model in MacroModel. After draw- ing several wavy cross sections of the wall, he used MacroModel’s skin tool to cre- ate a mesh between them. Then he saved the model and imported it into Elec- triclmage, where he added a texture map he’d previously created in Photoshop. ‘The texture map was actually a collage combining scanned images of technical continues MACWORLD August 1993 39 Afier Dark THE ULTIMATE SCREEN SAVER 32 incredible displays to prevent phosphor burn-in. Flying Toasters and fantastic Fish. Screen-locking password protection. Company : jose and message display. ystemlQ activity monitor. unatic Fringe space game from “the creator of Solarian Il. Beautiful new fish. Available from resellers everywhere including MacZone 8s00-2438-0800 ext. 32121 Circle 8 on reader service card Mac rt 44444 Backup Your Files Easily & Reliably with FileDuo FileDuo is an easy-to-use backup program that performs unattended backups to any mountable volume. 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In Photo- shop’s alpha channel, he had added more elements that would function as bump maps when the model was rendered in ElectricImage. To create the rocks in MacroModel, Ludtke used the polyline tool to draw ons of various shapes. He then used the skin tool to cre: mesh between them. After saving and import- ing the shapes into Elec- triclmage, he went back to Photoshop. There he drew a marbly texture in the RGB channel and a bump map in the alpha channel (just as he had for the cave wall) and used them together as a single tex- ture map ii To y look of the rocks and the s of the bump map, ioned a white light above the rocks and a red light below the rocl Phen he saved and rendered the rocks. Next, Ludtke went back to berSave to create the curved surface of the back of the dome. In Pho- toshop, after creating a gray- scale gradient from dark gray at the top to white at the bot- tom, he blocked out an area in the center of the gradient about half the gradient’s size and made this area complete- ly black. Then he exported the gradient to CyberSave as a jinder. Where the gradient was dark, the cylinder got smaller, and where the gradi- ent was light, the cylinder expanded—resulting in dome shape. Ludtke created the cave wall in MacroModel by first drawing a wire-frame model with numerous wavy cross sections (above). Then he used MacroMod- el's skin too! to create a mesh between each cross section, overlaying the wire-frame model with a skin- like craggy surface texture (right). 40 August 1993 MACWORLD ‘ Since torally eo? black areas do not generate 3-D geome- try in CyberSave, the black area in the center of the gradient—now part of the dome—gave the illusion of a cutaway in the front of the dome. After importing the file into Electriclmage, he texture- mapped it with a file that was tiled around the inside of the model to give the appear- ance of a Renaissance dome. To create the front of the dome, Ludtke duplicated the gray-scale art he’d To create the ground, Ludtke exported the gray- scale image of the pebbles, bones, and roots to the Photoshop plug-in CyberSave (top). This converted itinto a 3-D mesh (middle) in which the lighter areas were raised above the surface and the darker ones were recessed. The image was then rendered in Elec- triclmage (bottom) After the model of the cave wall was imported into Electricimage, Ludtke superimposed a color texture map he had previously created in Photoshop (left). In Photoshop's alpha channel, he created a gray-scale version of the texture map with some additional elements to use as a bump map (middle) for the final ren- dering of the wall (right) In Photoshop, Ludtke created a gray-scale gradient with a black center (top) to generate the back curve of the dome, which he exported to CyberSave as a cylinder. Because the gradient was dark at the top and light at the bottom, the cylinder narrowed at the top and widened at the bottom, resulting in a dome-shape wire frame (bottom). used to create the back of the dome, but switched the positions of the dark and light areas so that the sides were black and the center was the gradient. Then, using 100 percent black, he cut out various areas of the gradient to create the illusion of perforations. Then he exported the file into CyberSave to create a new model that was the reverse of the back, so the front curve would exactly fit onto the back curve of the dome. The perforations made the dome appear to be under con- struction. After importing the dome into Electriclmage, he mapped onto the dome a scan of an old stone wall—to give the suggestion that this was what the dome was constructed from. For the front curve of the dome, Ludtke used the same image he'd used for the back—but this time he made the center area the gradient and the sides black (top). He used black to cut out various chunks in the center of the gradient before exporting it into CyberSave to create the wire frame of the dome’s front (bottom). To create the sky, Ludtke scanned in a photo of a sunset, then painted and color-enhanced it in Photoshop. He used the Twirl filter to swirl the clouds; then he darkened the top half of the sky us a gradient alpha channel. After drawing the curves and splines in Adobe Illustra- tor, he imported that file into Photoshop in antialiased PICT format, over which he superimposed the sky. The stars were simply painted in. 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