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18 April 1989 Vol. 3 No. 16 Ww Work group CAD See Page 32. MACdex off to slow start By Jon Swartz ond Dan Ruby Chicago — The Triple Grown of April Macintosh trade shows got off to a slow start with last week's first running of The Interface Group’s Macintosh Distribu tion Expo, or MACdex While its thoroughbred par ent Comdex/Spring was attracting its largest-ever attendance, the Mac-specific entrant pulled up lame and finished far out of the money. MACdex attendance fell rather short of the 5,000 to 7,500 people predicted by show organizer The Interface Group of edham, Mass. The show floor featured exhibits by fewer than 30 vendors, mostly little-known com- panies with minor products. An ambitious program of conference sessions featuring major names in the Macintosh community attract- ed virtually no attendees. Comdex attracted its largest-ever attendance, but MACdex drew sparse crowds and few vendors A WOO In his keynote speech, Claris dent Bill Campbell called MACdex “an idea whose time has * but his company was con- spicuously absent, along with just | about every well-known name in the Macintosh market “The show wasn’t up to the par of a small regional show — or a ‘See MACdex, Page 8 By Richard Rewles San Francisco — Sun Micro- systems heated up the work- station wars last week with the long-anticipated unveiling of its first RISC-based computer, sever- al workstations based on t fostbol straight down the middle.” Sun sparks workstation wars with RISC machine TaAE MAA ‘Sun President Scott McNealy: serving “another high, hard Motorola 68030, and a range of other products and peripherals. Serving up what he called other high, hard fastball st down the middle,” Sun President Scott McNealy told an audience at San Francisco's Civic Auditorium, nere should be no doubt from now on that $ not just a technical work- but a station vendor broad-based general-pur- pose computing hardware and software company.” At $8,995, the entry- | level SPARCstation | desktop computer is cheaper than the compara- ble DECstation 3100 and competitively priced with the Mae IIx. The new machine comes with 8 Mbytes of RAM and a SPARC processor, Sun's reduced instruction set computing (RISC) chip, It executes 12.5 million instructions per second (mips) — three to five times the performance of See Sun, Page 8 Akkord set for legal battle after first U.S By John Bottelle and Henry Norr Chicago — Last week's MACdex show here marked a milestone in what increasingly appears to be a serious effort to bring Mac clones to market Akkord Technology Inc. demon: strated a Mac-compatible machine equipped with Apple ROMs but otherwise consisting entirely of independently designed compo: nents, according to the Taipei, Tai wan-based company Lloyd Chen, Akkord's president said the company will begm mar keting the clone in the United 32-bit color to blaze bright at NCGA show By Connie Guglielmo Philadelphia — Apple is expect- ed to paint the town red — and green and blue — when it arrives here this week for the 10th Nation- puter Graphics Association ) show The showcase for the latest in computer graphics gadgetry, will play host to Apple's introduction of Jackson Pollock, its long-awaited imple four-day conference, a of 32 mentatio (see MacW Apple last w it QuickDraw April 11). k said that more See NCGA, Page 10 States for “less than the price of a Plus” as soon as the Federal Com: munications Commission clears its application for certification, proba bly in about two months. The clone will initially ship with § Teromese oT nears Revie S. showing genuine 128-Kbyte (Mae Plus ROM chips that have made their way from Apple dealers and dis- tributors onto the open market Within three months, however, the See Clone, Page 10 RA ATL LUoyd Chen, president of Akkord Technology Inc, displays the company’s Mac done and laptops at MACdex last week. Chen said he expected fo begin marketing the clone within two months. Object lessons for Mac By Daniel Farber Cupertino, Calif. — Apple is giving notice to Macintosh devel- opers that object-oriented pro- gramming (OOP) will become the only way to write Mac software and that eventually the company’s development tools and system software will be merged in‘a uni- fied object-oriented environment The early warning signals have already been posted “If you don't learn object-orient- ed programming now, you will not be able to program the Macintosh later and you will be months or years behind those who can,” See MacObject, Page 9 Le sA Sige table-making tools, incr Nees Woese The Word is made ready Redmond, Wash. — In the beginning was the Word, but this week there's Word 4, The new version of Microsoft Word, which commands an estimated 70 percent of the Mac word processing market, ships this week. Originally scheduled for release last fall, Version 4.0 adds new ed customizability and a varie! ancements, The price remains $395, with upgrades priced at Orange Micro buys AST’s Apple line Anaheim, Calif, — Orange Micro Inc. announced last week that it has acquired the Mae product line of AST Research Ine, of Irvine, C Orange Micro acquires Alivel, the Mac II video board AST Called Nu- View; an NTSC video converter; Mac86 and Mac286 MS-DOS copro- cessors; and ICP (Intelligent Communications Processor) for A/UX. 0 of othe: dalif, CLAS S| SECOND NEWSPAPER No other hard drive stacks up to Jasmine. Year after year, Jasmine has set the standards by which other hard disk drives are compared Now, in 1989, we've raised those stan- dards. With a new series of DirectDrives™ that are more reliable, affordable, and technologically advanced than ever. DirectD Ove 20 came it $549 DirectDrive40 ............ $699 DirectDrive 80. 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Adams Atlanta — Even though the robot pictured below isn’t from outer space, it drew record crowds at the PITTCON trade show for laboratory and research scientists held here last month The robot, which has a 1-Mbyte Mac SE for a brain, was one of four such androids stationed at the booth of McGaw Park, IIl-based Sartorius | Instruments, maker of microbal ances for scientific purposes By Emily Brower New York — A small New York developer has announced that it will publish a commercial version of Stufllt, the shareware data com pression and archiving program widely used among Mac owners to speed electronic file transfers The new version, to be called Stuff Deluxe ew interface « with menu items for every func- tion. According to David Schargel, president of Aladdin, it will also include new features that let users drag files in and out of Stuffit fold- ers, cut and paste archive directo- ries, and view archived files in sey- eral new ways Aladdin has not announced prices or ship dates for Stuffit Deluxe. According to Schargel, the company will continue to release will haye d at novice users, This robot, with « Mc SE for « brein, garnered more sales leads at the recent PITTCON trode show than human beings have in the past. | StuffIt goes commercial; | Aladdin to publish Lau works - | Robots land in Atlanta; sponsor flooded with leads With roving eyes and a digitized voice, each android invited show goers to click the mouse atop the robots’ heads to start an animated VideoWorks Interactive presenta- tion lauding the benefits of Sarto- rius’ precision instruments. The program was designed by Animatrix Inc. of Palo Alto, Calif, and the 4 foot-tall fiberglass robots were designed by Menagerie Produc- a San Francisco-based com pany specializing in visual effects The owner of Menagerie, Tony tions design many of the robots in the popu lar film, “Retum of the Jedi The robots gar- nered a record 5,100 sales leads for Sartorius. “The idea was to get people intrigued so that sales repre- sentatives could talk to them,” said Rich Koch, repre- sentative for Robert LaPointe & Co. of San Fran- cisco, the advertis- ing and_ public relations company that mired the robot campaign The robots will next touch down at shows in the Ori- ent and Europe But before'long, Koch guaranteed, they will once again materialize ro trade shows on American soil upgrades to the shareware version, in addition to offering registered Stuffit users the chance to upgrade to StuffIt Deluxe for about $25. He | said that shareware versions of Stufllt will be able to decompress an archive from any commercial version of the program Stufflt programmer Raymond Lau, who was 16 when he wrote the program’s first release, decided on a publishing deal with Aladdin because he plans to attend college next year and won't have time to support his software ‘Aladdin Software will also pub- lish ShortCut, a file and folder util ity by Lau, The company has pub- lishing rights for all current and future versions of Lau’s software. Aladdin Software is located at 217 E. 86th St., Suite 153, York, N.Y. 10028; (212) 410-3080, 0 Mevey, helped to | 16 18 20 21 22 23 24 24 24 62 28 In this Issue Award-winning daily prizes Mac database: The Anchorage Daily News used a 4D system to track information for a Pulitzer-winning series. Typesetting giants keyed into Macs at Type-X show Dial-back security feature added to Liison 2.0 New Era targets schools with multimedia projects MaclnTouch GateKeeper is a virusdetecting gumshoe that logs system activity Conference gave Mac CD-ROM users more choices Mactivator powers remote Macs by phone StackWEEK Two new Apple took kit discs for HyperCard developers debut ot CDROM Conference — HyperSource, CD Audio Toolkit WavelMetrics’ Igor ups the ante in the charting field Hertzfeld at work on a home entertainment system Solutions to put out improved SuperGlue Opinion Editorial It may be time to leave behind the maverick anti-corporate perception of the Mac, but let's keep the spint that inspired early Mac developers. Letters Mac Soapbox James Kalmbach Outdated readability formulas con create more problems than they solve. A better solution could come from the development of a new generation of style checkers driven by notural languoge parsers. Mac the Knife Organizational Mac The end is in sight for high printer costs: Anew generation of compailty kits gives Mac users access to Hewlett-Packard printers, 30 40 42 57 58 59 60 60 45 46 49 50 55 Net Results Peter Lisker Looking toward the next wave in networking. Window On Work groups need sophisticated CAD features Electronic design requires special CAD programs The Art of the Possible Steve Rosenthal How for can you stretch the Mac OS before it breaks ? Reviews MacWrite reborn; Version II meets users’ demands PixelPaint now does more than look good: Upgrade provides professional color printing. peMACTERM, MacChuck offer remote control of PCs Business Watch Analysts call MACdex a dud: Exhibitors grumbled in aftermath of poor showing at Chicago's MACdex; analysts’ predictions bleak. Developers decry use of software patents Pros and cons debated at patent protection forum PC market open to Microsoft Windows Market WEEK ‘Apple’s shares up 10 percent following strong market demand for ‘Mac lex, the company’s opening round victory in lok ond eel suit ‘ond a buy recommendation from First Boston. Mail Order Ad Showcase Ad Index Classified Career Opportunities MocWEEL spade wig en tobavsa system of: Apple Macoash SEs end Max ls; Loses, Vaidya V600 ond VE6OOH, ond QMS Colac! 100 pines networked on Farcen Fane, « Laat 300, Mion ('3500 Side Scone, Dataopy Scanner, tasierOps, Hiachns ord Svplac monitors end saftwas inching QuatXrss, Aus Poeliohr, Adobe han, Ais FreeHond, Sopeont, Maosoh Word, LosecPon! ond Fuse Type-X show displays Mac’s firm foothold Maturity of PostScript, Mac market is evident By Steve Hannaford Philadelphia — If the sheer number of Macintoshes on exhibit is any indicator, this year's Type-X show, held here April 6-8, showed how deeply entrenched in the type- setting world the Mac has become. The annual -X exhibition was com- bined with two other shows, Art-X, a graphic design show originally spun off from Type-X, and Printing Expo, a major trade ee Together they attracted more than 20,000 design and print professionals. And in both the Type-X and Art-X sec- tions, virtually every booth had a Macintosh, in most cases running serious design soft- ware or driving a typesetting device. A roll call of the giants and the up-and- comers in the typesetting market — Lino- type, Electra, Varityper/Tegra, Agfa/Compu- graphic, Monotype, BirmySetter, ECRM, DTI and Autologic — put real PostScript fmeeine capability Gots feaiacebered from clones, on display. In contrast to previous shows in this field, many of the products being shown were actually released and available. All in all, the maturity of both the Mac and the PostScript market was clearly demonstrated. Notable by their lack of prominence were Apple and Adobe. Apple had a minuscule presence and nothing very on display. Its booth, staffed by local personnel, was “hiding in the shadows,” as show attendee Dave Buell, a PostScript service bureau er, Fem: Adobe didn’t show up at all, much to the in of Frank Romano, show organizer and editor of TypeWorld magazine, who that “Adobe is too brain dead to come. It’s been spending too much time pro- in PostScript.” oreo Comer , NHL, for the first time showed off a Mac user inter- face version of its A/UX-based SP rolesns! Publishing System. The program, which the eos Sd lip byte summer. as all the typesetting anc yout power of - ford standard Unk ¢ HoRE which is avail- able on the Mac, Sun and other 5. “As far as we know, the first A/UX [product with a] Mac-like interface shown,” said company President Walter A. Alderman Jr. Bedford's big problem, the company said, is that the release date of Version 1.1 of A/UX, which the large-scale high-end publishing software requires, has continued to slip. A clear sign of the Mac’s progress was the news that Berthold, a German type company known for its conservatism, has gone Macin- tosh, at least a little. The company is offering DASnet gets file transfer Campbell, Calif. — DA Systems Inc. has added a binary file transfer feature to its internetwork communications service, allow- ing DASnet subscribers to exchange format- ted documents and graphic files. The new feature will allow DASnet subscribers to send Mae files through most major electronic-mail services, including AT&T Mail, Bix, Connect, EasyLink, MCI Mail, The Source, The WELL and UUCP. DA Systems is at 1503 E. Campbell Ave., Campbell, Calif. 95008; (408) 559-7434. 0 a $2,000, 35-floppy library of 400 fonts for the Mac called BertholdLayoutTypes. The comp-quality typefaces can be printed on the LaserWniter but are intended mainly for use in files to be output on the non- PostScript Berthold M Series imagesetters. Among the other companies exhibiting Mac products at the Type-X show were: > Lincoln Software of Concord, Mass., which unveiled PS-Tutor/Mac, a PostScript screen interpreter that runs on Mac SEs and Is. This product, a tool for programmers and PostScript students, generates PostScript out- put pages on the Mac. Users can create, load and modify PostScript programs and see on- screen how the page image will look > Pipeline Associates of West which showed its CSM (color: ule) software on the Mac, Nikon LS-3500 35mm colo software to do four-color CN magenta, yellow, black) separat The modules take RGB Gj data and change it into CMYK ¢ ware also performs under-color: correction and gray-scale balan ware is now available for licensing, @ MocWEEK 18 April 1989 Liaison 2.0 software bridge adds dial- By Richard Rewles Portland, Ore. — After adding new fea tures that let remote users dial in to networks without jeopardizing security, Infosphere this back security month began shipping Version 2.0 of Liaison its software-only AppleTalk bridge. Among several new security features, the upgrade includes a dial-back option designed to ensure that only callers from an autho- rized number can log on to the host network. Liaison, which runs in the background on. either a server or a networked workstation, provides both local bridging and remote dial- in services. Locally, it can be used to break an AppleTalk network into smaller and more ef- ficient zones or to link a LocalTalk or twisted- pair AppleTalk network to an Ethernet back- bone. For remote use the package includes a Liaisonet module that can be distributed to an unlimited number of users who may wish to log on to a Liaison-equipped network Now has all the essentials. MacWrie I tums your writing ino publishing ‘MacWrite II gives you font control you With up to ten colurnns. adjustable line spacing and ‘must see to believe (2 to 500 points). Plus foomotes the ability o crop and scale graphics that muumber themasefves. The only thing than our new HyperCardstyle Claris Help feature is how ‘youl need to use it Anan 100,000-word. checks and corrects your spelling nase Mawr ded thesaurus, Keep more than one document open. 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In Canada, call 800-668-3948. “It’s a very elegant solution,” said Gene Ledbetter, engineering section head at Proc- tor & Gamble’s paper division in Cincinnati Evan Solley, president of Infosphere, said the security features added to this month's free upgrade are what separate the $295 pro- gram from hardware-based remote-access products such as Shiva Corp.'s TeleBridge and Solana Electronics’ R-Server In addition to the user-identification and password-encryption features built into the onginal release, Liaison 2.0 adds > Dial-back authentification, so the host- site computer first validates a user’s password and then calls the remote computer back. > Up to three designated “hidden” zones on a network, effectively blocking access to security-sensitive areas of a company such as R&D or payroll > Automatic call logging, which permits de- tection of repeated intrusion attempts. The program records extensive information about cess attempts in a tab-delimited text file “Hardware deyices are constrained in the amount of nonvolatile memory they can have,” said Solley, and are thus restricted in how much data they can store. In contrast, he said, using “the Mac [as a bridge] offers unlimited amounts of security information.” A new network statistics feature provides extensive real-time information about an internet. “It’s designed to let a network administrator determine where heavy traffic is” to help in establishing zones and locating bridges, according to Enc Gould, marketing agent for Infosphere. Version 2.0 also adds compatibility with FlashTalk, the AppleTalk acceleration system from TOPS of ABacars Calif. John Webster, director of audio-visual ser- vices at the University of New Brunswick in Fredericton, said that about 30 people on and off campus use Liaison and Northern Tel n's DataPath 19.2-Kbyte “digital” modem to form ad hoc work groups. The solution is much more flexible than a hard- wired LAN would be, he said. “With Liaison, we can reach out into the world while still maintaining the Mac user interface.” Although Liaison provides network-to-net- work communications, it can't do so with net modems, said Dan Mallin, head of Macintosh support at 3M in St. Paul, Minn. “They do some things with the modem port that just can't be done across AppleTalk,” he said. Infosphere is located at 4730 S.W. Macadam Ave., Portland, Ore. 97201; (503) 226-3620; (800) 445-7085. 3 SuperMac offers trade-ins for Spectrum/24 cards Sunnyvale, Calif. — SuperMac Technolo- gy Inc, last week set retail pricing for its new Spectrum/24 video card and announced an aggressive trade-in program designed to lure buyers to the true-color graphics controller. The board, which SuperMae said will ship the day Apple releases its 32-bit color Quick- Draw extensions, will be priced at $3,999, But the trade-in program offers owners of color boards from Apple, RasterOps and SuperMac the opportunity to trade Aion in for a $1,500 rebate on the Spectrum/24. The offer is good until Aug, 31 SuperMae said that increased use of appli- cation-specific integrated circuits (ASICs) and surface-mount technology, as well as larger volumes, are bringing down produc- tion costs on the boards. SuperMae Technology Ine. is located at 485 Potrero Ave., Sunnyvale, Calif, 94086, (408) 245-2202. 3 ie News New Era targets | education market By Connie Guglielmo Miami — The sights and sounds of the Witches Market, an age-old open-air marketplace in La Paz. Bolivia, have been brought to life on the Macintosh in an interactive multimedia presentation created by Miami-based New Era Video Inc. The Bolivia Hypermedia Expe- dition, the result of two years of work, is the first in a series of hypermedia learning systems that New Era Video plans to release for the education market, according to Sherman Sall, co-founder of the video production and software development company The expedition takes Mac users on a tour of the Witches Market, including close-up visits with local merchants, and proyides an inte active database of words and pi tures about the life — Nitti language, customs, history, art and religion — of the Aymara and Quechua Indians of Bolivia Most key words are hypertext, which means users can click on a word to see more information, ranging from a definition to biblio- graphic references, Sall said. The $500 package, to ship this month, is a HyperCard-based soft- ware system and a videodisc filled Palo Alto, Calif. — Metropolis Software Inc., a company that has previously focused on real estate applications built with 4th Dimen- sion, has announced a set of exter- nal procedures that give the ACIUS database program MacWrite-like word processing capabilities The $179 add-on will let users compose letters without leaving Witches Market meets multimedia Transporter INTERACTIVE PICTURE GALLERY The Bolivia Hypermedia Expedition tokes Ma Market in La Paz, Bolivia. The videodisc presentation cont with digital audio recordings and more than 10,000 images, including interactive documen- taries, photographs and maps. In addition to shooting all its own video and creating the content, New Era developed custom search tools, context-sensitive on-line help and the Electronic Notebook, a fea- ture that lets users cut clippings of the presentation into a personal scrapbook The system also includes Presen- tation Kit, a set of HyperCard tools for formatting and organizing video and still images on a videodisc According to Nathaniel Schwartz, a WP capabilities reach 4D port multiple fonts, sizes and styles for text and a range of tab types and alignment options. Targeted at corporate and com- mercial developers, consultants and power users, the program is now available, although it is still unnamed. Last-minute legal issues forced Metropolis to drop the name it had planned to use, 4D Write. Makes “Addr “Cirye, States «Zip Coden Deer: 4D, then easily merge the copy Metropolis Software Inc. is at 499 with information from their Hamilton Ave., Suite 202, Palo Alto, latabases. The program will sup- Calif. 94301; (415) 322-2001.0 = fie_tan Formet Font size_sigie Bete Leserwrit ter To first Name * = Lost Name — ¢ c Meme rr pate An Attractive Letter World of Difference Greeting Just wand tole you hrsow shoul our new word processing erecral procedure for 4h Dimension Developers! The progpuso i «fully integrated professional word [procewer thal you ean Link into your own 4D applications ‘Tee add-on provites mow of the features you ar used to Ln + prudesicnal word procemor including stylized tat. rulers, tbs (center, left rght and decimal) all Iypesot justification (et right cantar, fll) edjustable line spacing and mary more. Available now, Metropolis Software's as-yet-unnamed program, priced at $179, lets users write letters in ACIUS’ 4D, then merge the copy with information from the database, jsers on an interactive tour of the Witches video, photographs and maps. programmer for New Video, there are tools for marking the beginning and ending of video clips and for defining how each selection will be used in custom interactive presen- tations put together by the user. The company also plans to sell the Presentation Kit as a stand alone program for $149, Sall said the Bolivia Expedition is a prototype for the company’s learn: ing systems. Since its HyperCard development work has been done, the company will focus on content and on developing courseware for teachers. “This is not about the technology. This is about delivering engaging programming that is affordable to schools,” he said. New Era's next project, called Coral Reef Odyssey: A HyperMe- dia Expedition, is a diving journey of the coral reefs of the tropical Atlantic featuring video clips and photographs shot underwater. The images will be linked to an interac- tive database containing marine life information, Sall said. New Era Video Ine. is located at 5894 S.W. 42nd St., Miami, Fla 33155; (305) 663-9451. 0. e Record The phone number for Autodesk Inc. in the March 28 issue was incorrect. The correct number is (415) 332-2344 In the March 14 issue, Opcode Systems Inc’s Studio 3 MIDI and SMPTE interface was inadvertent- ly referred to as a sequencer. Also, Opcode's five new editor/ librarians were referred to as sam- ple players. In fact, two of the edi- tor/librarians work with sample Players. The other three work with synthesizers. The version number and price of Parameter Manager Plus by Rebus Development p. were incor- rectly listed in the April 4 Window On Data Acquisition Boards. The correct version, 3.0, is $595. Rebus can be reached at (408) 727-0110; (800) 247-4994; (800) 654-5157 in California Film recorder vendors to add PostScript output By Cliff Lehman Philadelphia — Two competitors in the Mae film recorder market this month revealed solutions to the challenge of PostScript output that are as different in price as they are in technology > Presentation Technologies Inc announced an agreement with Custom Applications Inc. to coop- erate in marketing a Mac version of CAT’s software-only PostSeript- clone interpreter, which will work with Presentation’s Montage Model FRI film recorder. > Agfa Matrix Instruments will use a stand-alone hardware device to give its line of film recorders PostScript capability. The RIP, built around an Atlas controller from Adobe Systems Inc. with a 68020 CPU, 6 Mbytes of RAM and an 80-Mbyte hard disk, will be priced at a whopping $17,900. CAI’s interpreter, Freedom of Press, resides in software on a host computer. A version for MS-DOS machines has been available since September 1988, The Macintosh version will require a Mac II with 2 Mbytes of RAM. The program costs $495 for DOS machines and will be in the same price range for the Macin- tosh, according to a CAI represen- tative. The Montage FR1, now priced at $5,995, will cost approxi- mately $6,500 when combined with Freedom of Press. The Freedom of Press inter- preter will provide output on a variety of devices, including dot matrix printers, in both color and black and white, he said. CAT plans to ship the Mae version in August Montage/Freedom of Press users will sacrifice some conve- nience in exchange for the cost savings. The program requires users to print files to disk, quit their program, open Freedom of Press, then go through several additional steps before the files are printed. The Matrix system will include a Chooser-level driver. Users ean simply print to a Matrix film recorder, such as the SlideWriter, as they would any output device. The unit will be compatible with any of Matrix’s family of film recorders, including QCR-Zs, SlideWriters, PCRs and ProColors, although the latter three may have to be upgraded if manufactured before January 1988 Custom Applications Inc. is located at 900 Middlesex Turnpike, Building 5, Billerica, Mass. 01821; (508) 667-8585, Presentation Tech- nologies Inc. is located at 743 N. Pastoria Drive, Sunnyvale, Calif, 94086; (408) 749-1959. Agfa Matrix is located at 1 Ram- land Road, Orangeburg, N.Y 10962; (914) 365-0190. 0 Peblisher Michael Tehowg. EDITORIAL Editor Daniel Ruby Execative Editor Daniel Farber Ohanian (Opinion, Features), ‘Orguntzational Mac, Window On), Waring (Reviews), Anita Mala Eder at Large Dale Coleman Techacel Editor Ric Ford (Boston) Senior Writers Connie Guglielmo, Rick LePage (Boston) Assedate Eaters Eric). 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With the right nourishment, care and atten- tion, MACdex will grow and could one day approach the success of Comdex Adelson attributed the poor vendor response to Apple’s decision not to partici- pate. “Everything would have been different if Apple had come in,” he said Apple's no-show may have been prompted by its displeasure at The Interface Group's decision to segregate Macintosh products from the rest of the industry, “The idea of highlighting Macintosh developers is good, but the implementation by The Interface Group was very confusing,” said an Apple official, who requested anonymity While MACdex produced no blockbuster announcements, several Comdex exhibitors introduced significant Mac products (see ) related story, Page 57 > Fujitsu America of San Jose, Calif made its debut in the Mac market with the RX1OOPS+, a $4,995 4-Mbyte PostScript laser printer due in June BE [ooking into CAD? See how VersaCAD on the Macintosh stacks up... 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Return the coupon for a free demo disk or oe call (714) 960-7720 today. rif Name YES, send me a free demo disk (requires a Macintosh Plus o greater) Title ‘Company Address Ciry/Seate/2ip Phone Pease send to Demo Dish, Vennacad Conporation, 2124 Main Screey Huntington Beach, CA 9264 Mow 4/18/89 Mac WEEK 18 do > Panasonic introduced the EP $9,500 wax-transfer thermal color | with variable dot size, dithering and RGB (red, green, blue) interface. > Timeworks of Deerfield, IL, introd Publish It!, a $395 Macintosh version ¢ MS-DOS desktop publishing program- » Xerox demonstrated a Macintosh it face for its 7650 Pro Imager scanner 256-gray-level scanner will be available next nonth for less than $10,000. The Triple Crown of April Mac shows: tinues this week with the Macintosh Business Conference in New York and the week after with Macworld Expo in Washington. G — Sun Continued from Page I Apple’s high-end Macintosh or IBM's 80386- based machines, according to Andy Beehtol- sheim, designer of the Sun machine and one of the company’s founders. The SPARCstation 1 includes three SBus expansion slots and built-in Ethemet. The motherboard is equipped with eight-bit Inte- grated Services Digital Network (ISDN)- compatible audio input/output. In terms of functionality and quality, [the Sun’s $8,995 SPARCstation 1 executes 12.5 mips. SPARCstation 1 is the first machine that not only merges the PC and the workstation, but beyond that merges the personal computer and the mainframe,” said Bechtolsheim. Despite a pnce/performance balance that tips in Sun’s direction, analysts said that the low-end workstations will not necessarily erode Apple's market share, at least not yet Sun sells cheaper machines to those who want engineering workstations, and Apple is selling more-expensive machines for general productivity,” said Stewart Alsop, publisher and editor of P.C. Letter Although he sees some competition in the desktop publishing market, Dataquest Unix analyst Paul Cubbage said, “It will take a year or two for applications to migrate before i's most inexpensive machine, the 3= mips 3/80, starts at $5,995, putting it in the same range as the Mac Hex, Sun said, Designed by Frogdesign — designer of the Mae and NeXT machines — both low-end Sun machines come in a flat beige box the size of a pizza carton, They include IBM-com- patible disk drives for DOS emulation. Sun also introduced the Sun 300 series of nd SPARC workstations with twice the performance of the SPARCstation 1, as well as the Sun 3/470, a 68030-based machine running at 7 mips Sun also premiered a new eight-bit color | graphics accelerator GX card for its low-end machines and a 24-bit GXP accelerator for its high-end machines. A new full-motion video. board, putting real-time images of the crowd in a SPARCstation 370 window, entertained the audience. The board, which does not on the SPARCstation 1 or Sun 9/80, supports a range of YO formats, including VIS, CAM corder, and cable TV. 0 MocWEEK 18 April 1989 MacObject continued from Page 2 enjoined a recent article in Apple Direct, a monthly newsletter from App Developers polled by Mac WEEK generally accepted the mandate as a necessary step toward Jes developer services improving the quality of software and reducing development time The industry is moving in that direction — it's a good way to pack- age complexity and remain competi. tive,” said Scott Wiener, chief archi tect of word processing products for Ashton-Tate. “The downside is that object-oriented programming has a steep learning curve According to Charlie Oppen heimer, manager of Macintosh sys: tem software product marketing at Apple, the move to OOP is an evo lutionary process that began with MacApp and HyperCard and will continue into the next decade At some point in the next decade, we will have done enough so that all will be part of a unified whole; the Mae system software 1 and object-oriented development tools will be indistinguishable from one another,” Oppenh Si ner said s said the next-generation | Mac operating system will likely | be written in an object-oriented lar In an interview with Mac WEEK Jim Davis, director of system soft ware at Apple, said the company is considering rewriting the Mac ‘operating system kernel in C++, an OOP language developed by AT&T. Sources close to Apple said major parts of the new Finder are being written in C++. The version of MacApp available to third-party developers, however, does not yet support C++ Although Apple officials de clined to comment, sources said that the future development envi ronment and operating system would diverge from the current Mac Toolbox and ROM. As a result, developers who want their applications to take full advantage of the new system's features will have to update their code. Apple reportedly intends to protect users investments in existing applications by providing paths ta migrate and run older applications under the future software architecture. Apple is not the only company to gnize the potential of. OOP to reduce program development time and offer more manageable, exten sible code. 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Like other object-oriented tool kits, MacApp has its roots in Smalltalk and features an object/message framework, inher itance, classes and encapsulation “Object-oriented toolkits like MacApp allow programmers to reduce development time and manage large, complex applica- tions more efficiently compared with procedure-oriented lan- guages like Pascal and C Burbeck, the MacApp prod- uct manager. While the majority of Mac developers are still using proce- dural languages, MacApp is grad ually winning converts, Burbeck said. It has been used to develop more than 30 commercial applica- tions, including Read-It! optical character recognition (OCR) soft- ware from Olduvai, and Geo Query, a geographical database | from Odesta Corp. | Object-oriented languages may be the wave of the future, but they will come at a price. “The learning curve is tricky and can take several months,” said Burbeck. “Programmers need to learn to think in terms of building objects and classes to model their application world rather than try to cram the application world into the few objects the computer already knows about.” Bee tool kit uses a mini- mum of code to implement the standard Mac inter- lacApp is not a panacea,” said Joel West of Palomar Software in Vista, Calif. “The development environment is slow compared with Thinks Lightspeed C or Pascal. The payoff will be when Apple releases object-oriented toolboxes like NeXT's Interface Builder and a C++ implementation. Version 2.0, which is still in beta form, does not support an object- oriented C language. Version 2.1 of MacApp, due later this year, will allow code from C++, an object oriented C from AT&T, to interact directly with MacApp, Burbeck | said. — By Daniel Farber face. Fewer than 50 oars lines of Object Pas- cal source code in MacApp creates a small multiwindow- ing Mac application that would take more than 2,000 lines with a proce- dural language, said Scott Knaster, an engineer at Apple and author of How to Write Macintosh Software. In its current state MacApp is not with: out shortcoming eve herizntat grit MacApp’s ViewEdit utility allows programmers to visually edit view resources such as the dialog box shown here. With Scion's Video Capture Board, you can: SEE IT in real time, not just capture it in real time. | | GRABIT and save it in TIFF format. || ALL IN REAL TIME, with point and click simplicity. Macintosh II. compatibility without memory upgrades. /ntroductory price: from $1195 complete. Call (301) 845-4045, Scion Corporation, 3 North Main Street Walkersville, MD 21793 *U.S. Price &) SCION Video Capture Board News Clone company expects to offer its own reverse- engineered ROMs, Chen said | Meanwhile, Powder Blue Computers Inc | showed its line of BlueMAQs, ‘ahich com- | bine Apple logic boards, additional circuitry and third-party components in IBM PG-style cases. The Salt Lake City company announced a new Heat Seeker model with a 68030 processor running at 20 MHz with 80- nanosecond RAM. The BlueMAQ II, a 68020-based system available in a variety of Continued from Page 1 configurations starting at $4,799, and the $7,499 BlueMAQ Ilx, which offers an '030 processor, an 85-Mbyte drive, 4 Mbytes of RAM, a SuperDrive-like floppy drive and a gray-scale monitor, were also on display. Several Apple officials, including at least one from the company’s market intelligence unit, visited the Akkord booth here, which was crowded with interested dealers and users, “Clone activity of any kind is of con- cem, and Apple takes it seriously,” an Apple source said. A source close to Akkord said the compa- ny’s attorneys in Taiwan and the United States have assured it that it is so far on solid legal ground. Akkord does, however, antici- pate a possible lawsuit based on Eppes “audio-visual copyrights” once the clone ROMs appear. Akkord also demonstrated working proto- types of a $2,500 Laptop Upgrade Kit, which wall let users and melee build a portable Mac around a logic board taken from an Apple-manufactured machine, The Akkord laptop, which the company said can accom- modate the logic board of any Mac, even a Mac II, will weigh in at about, For Mae owners unwilling to a working Mac to complete the | officials noted that “there are a motherboard for about $700, Once Akkord’s clone ROMs b did not rule out the possibility ing the ROMs to third parties, The Akkord clone was ori; in West Germany last month: Jonathan (see MacWEEK, Mi rent plans, however, call for it to | ed simply as the Akkord, since t name turned out to be registered pean vendor of PC clones, so The desktop Akkord shown fi ws a I . a 14-inch en; built-in Aj At Leasametric, external and internal SCST ROR m we stay on top of every Pandard Macs) a ace Macintosh we rent. Desktop Bus) connectors; 2 Mbyt and an internal floppy drive. Akkord’s decision to sell the clone equipped with ROMs purchased or market was apparently motivate well as marketing consideration: said attorneys had advised the 01 if Akkord were to require buyers their own ROMs, it might be charges of enticing dealers to contracts with Apple by reselling: Legal concerns have also fore drop plans for a diskless Apple! tion. The original design called ROM that would download Mae tines from a genuine Mae serve! however, reportedly advised thal approach might not be legally defensil Akkord applied two weeks ago fl wanese patents, copyrights and tr the design of its clone and on seve of the machine's engineering, inch sets it designed to emulate the Mae Talk circuitry and IWM floppy disk: Under Taiwanese law, Apple h from the date of filing to contest tion. 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News By Elinor Craig Anchorage, Alaska — As further evidence that the Macintosh is spreading from newspaper graphics departments to the newsroom itself, The Anchorage Daily News won journalisr most prestigious award last month for an investiga- tive series that, according Rich Mauer, city edi- tor, couldn't have been done with. out the aid of a database running on the Mac The News was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for “A People in Peril,” a 10-day series that ran in January 1988 and detailed the high rate of suicide, alcoholism and despair among a generation of young Eskimos, Indians and Aleuts in Alaska. The series was put together by 22 reporters with the help of a 4th Dimension database from ACIUS of Cuperti- no, Calif., that tracked Nativ American suicides and alcohol- related incidents in every borough and village in Alaska. The Pulitzer-winning serie which also eamed the paper a 1988 BUGS & TIPS Policing viruses. Chris John- son's GateKeeper 1.1 tackles the virus problem from a new angle. In a sense, the GateKeeper INIT is like a greatly extended Vaccine (CE Software's free anti-viral INIT) GateKeeper is very flexible, but its complexity makes it suitable only for technically oriented users, in our opinion. ‘eeper works by having the Mac system manager specify access privileges of different types for dif- ferent programs that need them The Finder, for instance, needs “file” privilege so that it can create, delete and copy files. These protec- tion rules are controlled through a GateKeeper Control Panel device (cdev), (Primary configuration data for GateKeeper can be changed with Apple's ResEdit utility.) One benefit of its unique access- tule approach is that GateKeeper is able to keep a detailed log of sys- tem activity. The log could be very useful in diagnosing the behavior Mac database helps daily win Pulitzer 4D system tracks complex information Investigative Reporters and Editors Award for Outstanding Investiga tive Reporting, was not the first award-winning series produced by The News with the help of a Mac database. The paper won the 1986 Investigative Reporters and Editors Award for a report on illegal c« paign funds that was aided by a database that tracked campaign contributions. The News’ databases reside on an SE/30 with an 80-Mbyte hard disk. “Checking our databases is just a routine step for almost every story,” said David Postman, reporter. The databases are a far cry from the 4-inch-by-5 inch cards and moultiple file cabinets used by The News’ reporters to win the paper's last Pulitzer, awarded for a 1976 report on organized labor and the Alaskan pipeline Howard Weaver, a reporter on the pipeline story who became edi- tor of The News’ in 1980, brought in the Mac in 1985, when it was still considered risky in journalism circles. That risk-taking, he said, characterizes life in Alaska. “I don’t attribute all our successes to the Mac,” he said, “but to an openness MaciInTouch RICK LEPAGE AND RIC of new viruses as well as other problems. GateKeeper is available free for non-commercial distribution from users groups and on-line ser- vices. It has been tested success- fully against Scores, nVIR, Hpat, INIT 29 and ANTI, according to its documentation. Users of desk accessories like Software's DiskTop will encounter problems trying to copy files with GateKeeper installed, and there are many other situations in which GateKeeper will need special attention to avoid system problems. SmartForm bugs. A friend called us about a couple of bugs that turned up in Claris’ Smart- Formn Designer and Assistant pro- grams. The first bug occurs then you use monospaced fonts, such as Courier, in a text block within a form. Although the text might look fine on screen, when you attempt to print a form toa fees rte the right side of the text block gets to try new things. The Mac falls into this realm,” Now, nine Macs sit on desks around the newsroom, where they are dwarfed by monitors hooked up to the huge Coyote system from Systems Integrator Inc. of Sacra- mento, Calif. Copy still flows through the Coyote, but the large system doesn’t have the Mac's database or calculation capabilities. The Macs are used to support the reporting staff, and Weaver has also installed Macs at the paper's three bureaus in other areas of the state. “There are two types of reporters here,” said political writer Hal Spencer, “those that under- stand the Mac and those that don’t Those that do have a lot more power [to do their jobs].” Weaver has been aided in his drive to bring Macs into the news- room by Larry Makainson, the reporter who designed the database for the illegal campaign contributions story, and Mauer, who devised the “People in Peril” database. Since word of The News’ success has spread throughout the journalistic world, Makainson and Mauer have demonstrated their databases at several reporting conferences Mauer’ multilevel “A People in Peril” database includes basic i tion, illustrations, chorts and map mak- ing. A community bul letin board allows subscribers to dial up everything from local news and dassified ads to forums. Weaver also plans to put the newspaper's library and back issues on CD-ROM. information, like sources and) lage elders or officials, as wel increasingly exact data on aj of death and possible alcohol tion. This structure has mat database useful as an On} repository of sources, said man. “If we ever need to doa: ona village, we can look up W talked with already, who ful,” he said b Mauer has also devel HyperCard stack to keep trae details of a Daily News inve tion into a bribery, kickbac racketeering case that will lished after the legal inyes| See Pulitzer, Page Another virus gumshoe hits the streets cut off, taking some of your text with it The other bug occurs when you create a combed field in Smart- Form Designer and set the label of the field to be white text. When. you use that form in the Smart- Form Assistant program, whenever you perform a task that calls up a dialog box, any text entered into the combed field disappears. 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Microtech hard disk cartridges come with a one year warranty, Pricing and specifications are subject to change. MasterCard and Visa accepted at no extra charge. ee ee News Multimedia stars By John Battelle Anaheim, Calif While the spotlight at | Microsoft's Fourth Annual Conference on CD-ROM last month was on IBM's announcement of a future multimedia plat form, Apple and its supporting developers quietly demonstrated that the Mac is already 4 premier multimedia machine at CD-ROM show connected to Mae Hex machines, Apple dis played several third-party multimedia offer ings, including the $49.95 Manhole interac tive entertainment disc from Menlo Park. Calif.-based Mediagenic and the Whole Earth Leaming Disc, a $149.95 multimedia CD- ROM version of The Whole Earth Catalog that is being marketed by San Rafael, Calif The Toshiba XM5S100A CD-ROM ployer can be used with Macintosh and MS-DOS machines. The $870 - Macintosh version comes with SCSI cable and a Macintosh ins tion kit. Like the Apple CD SC it = features full audio output, At a booth filled with AppleCD SC drives based Broderbund Apple brought out two products of its ® at the conference, both HyperGard-Bs tools for adding multimedia capabilities 6 =a stacks and CD-ROMs: the HyperSouree Toolkit, which automates the creationy® graphic databases, and the HyperCard, Audio Toolkit, which allows any CD Audi track to be incorporated into a stack (S StackWEEK, Page 20) Apple also demonstrated its Referem and Presentations Library, a CD-ROM containing information about and images) Apple's entire line of products. The dise created for Apple’ sales and dealer force) saved the company more than $2 milli according to Dave Grabel, project manage in market opportunities at Apple. He adi that Fortune 500 companies could save lions of dollars in printing and distribulle costs by putting their internal inforn 1 similar format Toshiba America Inc. of Irvine, Gi introduced a new low-profile CD-ROM player that can be used with either the Mae or MS-DOS machines. Priced at $870) complete with a SCSI cable and Mae instal lation kit, the new XM5100A drive could pose a challenge to Apple's $1,199 Apple@D SC player. Unlike Toshiba's earlier drive: the new one has its power supply built | in. Like the Apple unit, it features full audio output | Pioneer Communications of America announced a “jukebox” drive that plays six CD-ROMs. The drive, priced at less than $1,200, will be available in the summer for MS-DOS machines with a Mae driver to fol- low, the company said CSM Ine. of Encinitas, Calif, demonstrat ed a line of CD-ROM interface cards that will give users of IBM PCs, PS/2s and cor patible machines access to the AppleGD SG drive. 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By turning your LocalTalk network into a high-speed freeway | moving data at FlashTalk rates of 770 Kbps. Installation won't slow you down either. FlashBox plugs right into the back of your Mac and runs over your existing twisted-pair wire. It's 100% compatible with your current applications. It communicates at FlashTalk rates with PCs using TOPS FlashCard. And, unlike Ethernet, it lets you continue printing to your LaserWriter* without buying a costly gateway. Best of all, FlashBox is available now. So stop by your nearest TOPS dealer and find out how to rev up your network without over- ™ hauling your budget. Or call the TOPS Division of Sun Microsystems at 1-800-445-TOPS, extension 103 (from outside the U.S. and Canada, call 1-415-769-8700, ext. 103). Actual performance of your network may vary depending on the quality twork cable, network size iquation. To achieve Ce, you Should connect a F 10 each Macintosh jaleways, of othes AppleTalk only devices iguration othe addition of repeating devices. cr0syStems, Inc When you need connections. = a | News New ways to turn on your Mac Mactivators allow phone start-ups By Henry Norr Point Richmond, Calif. — Mac users and network administrators who want their computers powered up automatically after a power fail- ure, at a specified time or by tele phone can now choose among three products offered by a small developer here called The Mactiva- tor Co. > The PhoneMactivator, working with the X-10 Powerhouse Tele. phone Responder, can turn on a Mac II or IIx when a signal is received over the phone from an X 10 beeper or a Mactivator stack that emulates it The X-10 Home Control system, manufactured by X-10 (USA) Inc of Northvale, N’J., can tum on the power to any Mac, just as it does to house lights or appliances, with a timer or a signal sent by phone Mac IIs, however, also require a start-up signal over the Apple Desktop Bus (ADB), which is nor- mally sent by pressing the key- board switch. The PhoneMactiva tor plugs into the ADB port and automatically sends the start-up signal when it gets power from the X-10 controller. Alternatively, the PhoneMactiva- tor can be used by itself to restart a Mac II or IIx 60 seconds after power is restored following a power failure. The new Mac Tex can be set to reboot automatically in this situation, but the earlier Mac Ils lack such a switch, The PhoneMactivator is avail- ble now for $99.95. The X-10 Phone Responder is available from The Mactivator Co. at list prices ($55 with one plug-in module) and at discounted prices from many electronics and computer stores > The TimeMactivator is a bat- tery-powered digital clock-timer that plugs into any ADB. The $45 | device, now shipping, turns on a UCTML/ACLR OF On the rood with his auto-transporter semi truck, Kim Wennerberg reaches out ond powers up his Mac with the PhoneMactivator. He got the inspiration for the Mactivator when he was involved in commodity trading and needed 1 Mac II or IIx at a time specified by auser. >The Mactivator Jr, due in June, will automatically start any Mac model when a call comes in on a phone line to which it is attached. Power and the ADB start-up signal are sent on the first ring. Kim Wennerberg, founder of The Mactivator Co., said the $129.95 device is ideal for use on bulletin board host systems or fax modems that don't receive fre- quent alls, or with a remote-access like Farallon Computing’s ote He noted that the device should be used on a dedicated line, lest it start the Mae with every voice call The Mactivator Jr. will ship with software that executes a Quit command and a standard Shut- down when a caller hangs up. In case no proper connection is made after a call is received — in the case of a wrong number, for instance — the software shuts the computer down after 90 seconds, Mike Stone, production manager at KTVK in Phoenix, Ariz., bought the PhoneMactivator to restart the TV station’s Macintosh II ive quotations via satellite at 5:30 a.m. AppleShare server after power fail- ures. The server, he said, is kept in the mainframe room, which is locked on weekends. “Every time we had a power failure on a week- end,” he said, “someone had to come in, unlock the room and press the start-up switch. Now I can just dial in.” Stone said the station had suffered from frequent power failures, although he added some- what ruefully that there had been none since he installed the Mactivator. Besides running The Mactivator Co., Wennerberg drives an auto- transporter semi truck. He said he got the idea for the Mactivator series because he was formerly involved in commodity trading and wanted to begin receiving quota- tions via satellite at 5:30 am. The official name of The Mactivator Co., which he started with his father and an engineer friend, is Ofifoto, for One Foot In Front of the Other. The Mactivator Co. can be reached at P.O. Box 115, Point Richmond, Calif. 94807; (415) 234-5178. 0 HyperCard stack teaches Japanese fis Say it! 6 Write it! fF Erase It! Berkeley, Coli. — A HyperCard stock created by Anonoe Software assists students in reading, writing and comprehend- ing the Joponese language. Two stacks teoch the basic Hirogona and Katakana charac- ter sets ond common vocabulary. Students learn character gen eration by following the line strokes of each character. Sound resources, digitized with the MacRecorder fom Farallon Com- puting, let users hear the pronunication of the choracters. The program's word list includes approximately 1,600 words. The set of stocks costs $45. They require 1 Mbyte of mem- ory ond, for the sound files, o hard disk. A third program that teaches the more complex Kanji charac- ters, which ore based on Chinese roots, is under development. Anonoe Software con be reached ot PO. Box 7629, Berke- ley, Coli. 94707; (415) 527-8006. | upgrade to its two-dimensional CAD package for the Mac at Macworld Expo in Wash ‘MocWEEK 18 Apel 1989 News Bases Er S Money, Reality Technologies announce financial planner software New York — Money Magazine ond Reality Technologies Inc. have announced WealthBuilder by Money Magazine, 0 $249.95 personal financial planner. The program will include “smart worksheets” for retirement, education, home buying ond insurance, as well os tax tips and debt consolidation analysis. It allows for “whatif” scenarios, with graphs that compare the investor's plan to altemative strate gies and historical investment indexes going back os far as 60 years. Quarterly updates will be available by subscription. WeolthBuilder is based on Anvil/FS, 0 proprietary development system Reality Technologies has previously used to generate applications for several leading invest ment companies. The Mac version of WealthBuilder is due in July. An IBM version is available now. The program marks the entry into the retail software business of Time Inc., the porent company of Money. Reality Technologies Inc. is located at 3624 Market St., Philadelphia, Pa. 19104; (215) 387-6055; (800) 346-2024 Engineered Software to upgrade PowerDraw Greensboro, N.C. — Engineered Software is expected to announce a major ington on April 25. Version 3.0 of PowerDraw will support 32-bit color QuickDrow routines. It also adds such features as independent grid control and customizeable rulers; editing of patterns, lines and end marks; and user control of snap-to-grid functions. The new release, scheduled for June, will olso let PowerDraw users scale text ond set dimension toler- ‘ances, including string, stack, base- line, circular and ngulor tolerances, PowerDrow will Keep its $795 price Engineered Soft ware can be reached ot PO. Box 18344, Greensboro, N.C. 27419; (919) 299-4843, PowerDraw 3.0 will support 32-bit color QvickDraw routines. It also adds such features as independent grid control, customizable rulers, and editing of patterns, lines and end marks. lomega cuts prices on Bernoulli storage devices Roy, Utah — Just days after shipping its new Bernouli 1/44 removablemedio storage devices for the Mac, lomega Corp. last week announced a price cut on both the new units ond its older 20-Mbyte cartridge drives, Effective immediately the pice of the single-drive version of the new external Bernoulli 11/44, which has 0 copacity of 44.5 Mbytes, has been reduced 10 percent from $1,999 to $1,799. 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For more information or the dealer nearest you, call: Mainstay 5311-B Dery Avenue ‘Agoura Hills, CA 91301 (818) 991-6540 71 rue des Atrebates B-1040, Brussels, Belgium 322/733.97.91 StackWEEK ‘Hot works in progress at Anaheim CD-ROM conference NEW PRODUCTS As one of the more forward- thinking trade shows, the Microsoft CD-ROM Conference provides interesting attractions for its 2,000 attendees. Although there were no stunning new products released last month, several developers showed very exciting works in progress. ‘There were a few introductions of particular interest. Apple announced two new tool kit disks for Hyper- Card developers, HyperSource and the CD Audio Toolkit. Both are still in development and are due to be released later this year Sounds The CD Audio Toolkit is clearly the more dazzling of the two. The product got an exciting testimonial presentation from Robert Winters, a music pro- fessor at the University of Califor- nia, Los Angeles. Winters is the type of guy who obviously puts on a very entertaining class and who just as obviously knows his stuff. What he showed was a first cut of a stack, produced in collaboration with The Voyager Company, that uses the routines from the CD Audio Tool- Kit. To be released as part of Voy- ager’s CD Companion Series, the stack interactively documents Beethoven's Ninth Symphony by allowing the user to browse through the different elements of the piece. The stack is written to Se ee off-the-shelf copy of a Beethoven CD, so all an owner of a player must do to use the stack is go down to the local record store and buy the CD. This was one of those demonstra- tions that leaves you staring into space, the wheels of your mind tum- ing as you contemplate the exciting possibilities presented by a new technology. Steve Michel is already hard at work on his Dylan stack. Picture this. Although over- shadowed by the Audio Toolkit, HyperSource was an exciting announcement. Essentially, it's a ERIC ALDERMAN AND STEVE MICHEL tool for managing graphic docu- ments. It allows you to import. Paint PICT, Encapsulated PostScript (EPS) forma files and, with a little more XCMD code, TIFF files. HyperSource is slightly different from other tool kits from Apple; it’s not a collection of XCMDs but rather a core structure of a stack upon which developers can build and from which they can pillage. However, there are some valuable XCMDs included, such as ‘one that allows you to view, copy from and print a graphic image. HyperPC? In other show news, Microsoft bigwig Bill Gates claimed that by this summer we will see several software develop- ment platforms running under Windows that will be “much rich- er” than HyperCard. We will patiently wait to see whether this actually comes to pass, of course. The promise of wonderful Win- dows applications became old and tired long ago. Given the limited MocWEEK 18 April 1989 installed base of IBM PCs equipped with the necessary pro- cessing power, mouse support and graphics — let alone sound — capabilities, it certainly seems as though it will be years before we see anything like the momentum that exists today on the Mac with HyperCard (and will soon exist with SuperCard). Later in the day, an IBM repre- sentative stated with a straight face that the PS/2 made an “ideal plat- form” for multimedia applications. Since April Fools’ Day was not until later in the week, his remark was przlin. Perhaps by “multimedia” e meant that text could appear both on screen and paper TIPS Here are some tips for creating a horizontal scroll bar in HyperCard. The scroll bar shown at ight was created by combining several dif- ferent elements. First, a graphic image of the scrolling area was used. At each end, icon buttons produce the scroll arrows, You'll need to create your own icons, i though. As the figure indicates, you need one icon in the selected (filled in) state, and one in the des- elected (hollow) state for each direction. Finally, a rectangular button is used for the thumb. i To produce the smooth draggin; action along the scroll bar, use a dragRect XFCN. Also, remember | to allow a click on the scroll bar itself (the gray area) to scroll in the” appropriate direction. — E.A. Ld @ @ Selected Arrow Icons | <I D> Deselected Arrow Icons: If you have comments or tips, write us ‘StackWEEK, clo MacWEEK, 301 Howard St, 15th Floor, San Francisco, Calif 941 Electronic mail. MCI: STACKWEEK. AppleLink. D1507 (Steve) or D157 (Erie), MacNET: MICHELS or EALDERMAN. NOBODY EVER GOT FIRED FOR RUNNING DOS ON A MAC Afterall, running MS-DOS? on a Macintosh® opens the door to thousands of software programs only available for the PC. And there's only one software package that brings true MS-DOS compatibility to a Mac Il, IIX, or 68020-accelerated SE. 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(408) 733-9541 demarks nd ® rv NoxWEEK 18 Apel 1989 Igor promises fast and flexible graphing WaveMetrics targets scientists, engineers By Becky Wering ke Oswego, Ore. — Igor, a new graph- ng and data analysis package from Wave z just last month, but signifi- ograde to the $195 pac to be this summer Igor offers powerful aphing functions ny areas, according to the company s ul users, exceed those of the cur t leader in the field, Cricket Graph from Cricket Software of Malvern, Pa. Igor also Jes numeric data analysis and transfor- pabilities, on-line help and a macro guage interpreter that works in the back: gr nder MultiFinder Jim Fre 1, a research engineer at snics in Seattle, said he prefers Igor to Cricket Graph for three reasons: its lity, quick screen redraw s features. The kind of com- s Freeman produces, consisting of up to 1,000 data points, can take mimutes to ed fter every minor change in Cricket gor takes seconds, he said. d Rodstein, president r was optimized for at scientists, thematicians and engineers who need the ric analysis side of Igor and who also need to f 1 aphs With | actions, all fonts subscripts and superscripts s of text can be used for axis labels annotation. Axes themselves can be ndently or automatically scaled. Each na graph can have its own Je and marker and can be plot- series or x, y fashion. Printed output uses the highest printer resolution. Multiple graphs can be printed gle page overlaid or separately Graphs and tables in Igor are dynamic ta point i ale will auto: related gruphs to be updated Igor’s numeric analysis functions include tion of mathematical expressions F r transforms, regressions, smoothing, ration, differentiation, simple statistics t search a. that Igor can support s of data arrays per graph ber of points per array, Boeing's aid he has not yet encountered uits, even with three 1,000-point rade planned for the summer ill be ded free to registered users, Rodstein said. Display speed will be increased by 200 percent to 300 percent 4-Mbyte SIMM from Clearpoint Hopkinton, Mass. — Clearpoint Research Corp. has introduced a 4-Mbyte single in line memory module (SIMM) for Macintosh IIx and IIcx machines running under the A/UX operating system The MC2RAM/4MB, which incorporates 32 1-Mbit surface-mounted DRAMs, was redesigned to fit in the IIcx. 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