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25 July 1989 Vol. 3 No. 27 The animated Mac, see this month’s GA, Page 43 By Doniel Farber Cupertino, Calif. — Apple’s big guns will be surprisingly quiet dur- ing next month’s Macworld Expo, ut the company has its sights set on a double-barreled CPU an- | mouncement in September. The company has reserved the Universal Amphitheater in Uni- Versal City, Calif., Sept. 20-21 for the unveiling of its long- Awaited portable and an acceler- ated Ilcx, sources said. Apple used the same venue in 1987 when it announced the Mac II “and SE WP According to sources close to Apple, delays in manufacturing oar in the development of System 6.04 prevented a Macworld Expo luction of the new models. The 14-to-17-pound portable appropriately dubbed the Seana Portable, will be Priced at about $6,500 with 2 Mbytes of memory and a 40- Mbyte hard disk, sources said For Mac Portable, IIci: See you in Bigpioulne table is expected to be walbh le only in limited quantity through the end of the year, sources said. The faster three-slot Mac, to be called the Ici, will include a 25- MHZ processor and built-in eight- bit video (see story at right). Prices of other Mac models are not expected to change when the new CPUs are introduced. With the September date looming, Apple will be relatively quiet during Macworld Expo. Some sources said Apple will announce at the show that new Mac SEs will come fitted with the 1.44-Mbyte SuperDrive instead of the current 00-Kbyte floppy drive. The modification will not affect the current price, sources | said. In lieu of other announce- ments, Apple is expected to high- | light third-party products at | Macworld, with an emphasis on | multimedia. 1 Speak OR New 25-MHz Mac By John Cupertino, Calif. — The much- anticipated 25-MHz version of the Mac Ilcx, due in September under the name Mac Ilci, is in the pre-production stage, and a prototype examined by Mac- WEEK reveals a platform that sub- stantially citer its 16-MHz predecessor. rose chip and built-in video on IIci motherboard 1. Built-in 8-bit color video 2. 25-MHz 68030 processor 3. 120-pin processor direct slot 4. Oscillators for 3 Apple monitors Under-$1,000 card from RasterOps By John Battelle and Connie Guglielmo Santa Clara, Calif — With h of making true color an entry-level standard, RasterOps Corp. last week gpnounced the Color- Board 264, a 24-bit color card that True color at lower cost, higher speed drives an Apple or cot inch color monitor an than $1,000. RasterOps also said it will unveil the SFX, a daughterboard that gives its high-end 32-bit display cards special-effects capabilites at next month's Macworld Expo. Moving to broaden its base beyond the Apple platform, the company also dis- See RasterOps, Page 10 pee 13- costs less The $795 NuBus board is target- ed particularly at graphics profes- sionals tired of the Mac's less than blazing performance with large images and 32-bit color. According to Radius, the product accelerates 32-bit QuickDraw graphics func- sone by as much as 600 percent Bypasing the Mae processor, QuickColor runs graphics calls through a custom on-board RISC (reduced instruction set comput- ing) chip capable of processing 6 million instructions per second See Radius, Page 10 Radius accelerates 32-bit graphics le Calif. — Radius Inc. last week introduced QuickColor, a hardware accelerator that promises to speed scrolling, screen refresh and other QuickDraw operations. According to sources close to Apple, the Ici will be priced about 15 percent higher than the Ilex. A Ilci with 4 Mbytes of RAM and an 80-Mbyte hard disk reportedly will cost about $8,100, compared with $7,069 for a similarly equipped IIcx. The extra $1,000 will buy an on- board video controller, a faster pro- cessor and a direct 120-pin slot. As reported earlier (see Mac- WEEK, May 23 and June 6), a sin- gle VLSI (very large-scale integra- tion) chip on the new machine’s motherboard provides one-, two-, four- and eight-bit video, leaving all three NuBus slots free. On-board color video has been incorporated into IBM’s latest machines and is a checklist item found increasingly often on corporate buy sheets. MacWEEK benchmark tests showed the prototype IIci perform- ing at aeeae well above those of the Ilcx. Even in eight-bit mode, the performance of the on-board video exceeded that of Apple’s eight-bit video card running in a Mac Ilex. With the Apple video card installed in one of the machine's slots, performance was even better (see are Page 8), The Ici’s video chip uses main memory instead of dedicated video RAM for screen display. Unlike previous Mac II make which get no benefit from RAM chips faster than 120 nanoseconds, the IIci can take advantage of 100-nanosecond or faster RAM chips. The on-board video also includes timing crystals to drive Apple’s IIGS monitor, its portrait-mode gray-scale monitor and its 13-inch color monitor. Larger displays will See Mac Ici, Page 8 By Jim Forbes Northbrook, 1]. — Hoping to polish its image as an innovator in putting the visual interface and commu- nications capabilities of the Mac to work in the database field, Odesta Corp, next month will release the latest version of its 5- year-old Helix series Double Helix 3.0, which is due to ship at Macworld Expo, offers a number of enhancements designed to make the program easier to use and up to 120 times faster in some See Odesta, Page 8 Odesta adds new twists to Helix Double Helix 3.0 will allow users to dynami- cally link custom epplications to data stored on meinframes and minicompyters. Is SAC Tate Nic peanyeras Judge narrows focus in copyright case San Francisco — Essentially accepting a Microsoft proposal, Judge William Schwarzer last week presented a draft ruling that would elimi- nate all but 11 visual elements of Windows 2.03 from contention in the Apple-Microsoft copyright dispute (see story, Page 97). The items still at issue involve overlapping windows and the display of icons. © Kinko, Apple end courseware agreement Santa Barbara, Calif. — Kinko's Academic Courseware Exchange (ACE) and Apple are dissolving their agreement to jointly publish and Gistlbte asec coutienare Tt change certainly concerns us,” said Jan Biros, director of eppats services at Drexel University, “I am hopeful that Apple will find a third party to take on distribution. Kinko's provided a very important service.” 0 CLASS SECOND NEWSPAPER _— The Silver View™ family of high resolution 217 display systems offers the largest viewing area available any- where. SilverView’s full size two page display is achieved with a new 21” flat screen moni- tor, which provides nearly 16" x 12° of ac- tive display area. The Silver View two page display allows you to display two full pages simultane- ously, in actual size at 1152 x 870 pixels, 7? DPI because we are not only big butwe are |—/- 1) 2! } also 72 dpi All Silver View systems have a paper white display, a high 76 Hz refresh rate, anda flat screen to eliminate glare and provide you with a high contrast, rock solid image. Finally, with your choice of three models offering 2, 16 or 256 grey levels, SilverView represents the premium dis- Play system for publishing, graphic design and imaging applications. SilverView, the performance leader and the most comfort- able monitor ever made. MocWEEK 25 July 1989 By Connie Guglielmo Las Angeles — Apple CEO John Sculley gave a two-dimensional speech at the Macintosh In Enter- tainment ... Just Imagine! show at FilmLand Center here this month Unable to attend Apple's two- day event, which was designed to show off Mac-based solutions for the entertainment industry, Sculley sent a videotaped speech in which he talked about Apple's new desk- top media campaign and the Macs multimedia capabilities “We like to think that the Mac has brought to multimedia what Te color brought to motion pictures,” said Sculley, addressing people at the show from a 20-foot screen. The show, sponsored by Apple's Culver City, Calif., office, drew more than 2,000 Hollywood types interested in music animation scriptwriting and video-editing solu- tions from 25 Mac vendors. Apple also organized panel with Mac-using directors, anima- tors, screenwriters and composers. discussions Dale Herigstad, who has design- ed 3-D animated logos for ABC and NBC, told how he uses DynaWare’s DynaPerspective 3-D rendering software to create proto- types of his slick graphics and ani mations. “I can | design animations | on the Mac that look almost like the final, which is cre ated at a profes sional production house,” he said Screenwriter Mike Backes dem. onstrated a 30-sec ond animation called “First Con: tact” that he partner Ron Cobb designed for Apple. It will be shown at the Boston Siggraph show next month along with Swim,” another | Apple-sponsored animation th | created by Lynda yyne or toinment Redmond, Wash. — Microsoft is expected to announce its first major upgrade of Microsoft Mail, along with an IBM PC version of the electronic-mail product, at next month's Macworld Expo in Boston New features in Mail 2.0 for the Mac include group and subgroup address lists, improved message fil- ing, the ability to share binary data between Macs and PCs, and support for third-party gateways to E-mail Apple CEO John Selly coulda’t moke Apple's Mecntosh in Eater- Jost Imagine! show, s0 he sent a videotaped messoge, Just Imagine!: The Mac comes fo Tinsel Town Weinman and Ann Monn. Among new product demonstra- tions at the show > Advanced Remote Technolo- gies Inc. of Campbell, Calif,, pre- miered its Video Publisher for the Mae, a HyperCard front end to its Executive VP network of video- editing equipment > Electric Image of El Monte, Calif., will ship its $7,495 Spotlight 3D Computer Animation System next month. The color rendering and animation system will be offered at an introductory price of $4,995. > Computer Friends of Portland. Ore., showed ColorSnap-32, a 24- Dit color cantare bosrd that Bailes images from still-video cameras as well as video cameras and VCRs. It is expected to ship this fall for less than $1,500. > River Software of Herndon, Va., put the American Film Insti- tute’s Writer's Workshop on-line in a $395 program that teaches screenplay writing. A $195 pre- release version will ship this month. > Visitron of Stockton, Calif., showed CustomCard, a $4,500 database software and video cap- ture board combination for creat- ing color identification cards. 5 MS Mail 2.0, PC version due services and enterprise networks d at corporate customers with large local- or wide-area networks, it will have a programmable interface that developers and MIS depart- ments can use to customize the product Microsoft is now expected to include Mail 2.0, along with other Mae applications, on its Microsoft Office CD, an $849 CD-ROM due to ship soon. 0 iis ES] 2 4 25 26 28 30 32 34 34 102 36 40 2B 43 45 News Apple-Adobe affair continues despite stock sale CE Software's In/Out keeps track of who's where Avalon adds color stripping capabilities to PhotoMac MSC/pal 2 for the Mac catches up: The newest version of the MSC/pal FEA program catches up with the MS-DOS version. MacinTouch Although more stable than Microsoft Word 3.0, Word 4.0 is not bugfiee, despite Bill Gates’ promises to the contrary. MegaGraphics offers bargains on two-page displays Powder Blue's BlueMAQ ‘clone’ redesigned Enhanced version of Mathematica on its way Ashton-Tate to use Clear Access in Full Impact GCC revamps hard drive line Symantec discontinues LaserSpeed spooler line StackWEEK ‘Some stocks ore better condidates than others for conversion from HyperCord to SuperCord. Opinion Editorial With the addition of “desktop media,” the desktop metaphor is ‘getting crowded and confusing. Letters Mac the Knife Organizational Mac Advice on buying Mac display systems Mac Manager Don Crabb Apple’s latest “mage system” for technical support provides Mac _menagers with few real resources. MacWEEK Graphic Arts ‘Mac animation on the move for business, education The Mac is on the threshold of great 3-D rendering Cutting Edge Lasio Vespremi Preventing pixelation in halftones takes a litle math and some knowledge of the mechanics of print resolution, 50 45 45 47 54 66 66 75 97 9 98 100 82 83 84 88 95 Three-dimensional software for all: From fairly simple to more complex, Mac 3-D packages are available for many graphic arts needs. Siggraph computer art show to open in Boston Apple makes pitch to designers in Aspen, Colo. Boldface Ezra Shapiro ‘New volumes for the desktop publsher’s bookshelf indude useful information, but offen suprisingly poor presentation GA interviews Pixar co-founder Alvy Ray Smith Reviews Silicon Beach’s SuperCard pushes past HyperCard Excel 2.2 regains its spreadsheet crown TableTools tackles creation of complex tables Business Watch Apple sales fall short: Apple's sales continue to rise, but a shortage of IIcxes and declining demand for older models kept third-quarter results below even Apple's lowered expectations. Apple-Microsoft suit hinges on overlapping windows Adobe buys back some of its stock from Apple MarketWEEK Survey shows tht o large numberof Macintoshes re being connected fo minis and mainframes. 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The two companies | also hayé-entered into an agreement to work | | | jointly on future products But the possibility of an Apple PostScript clone adds new murkiness to the fog already surrounding the issues of fonts and imaging models on the Mac. The intensifying pace of change in the Mac's imag- ing models and type tech © nology seems certain to result in an explosion of possible configura tions, with the variety of type technologies type libraries, imaging models and output devices raising compatibility questions and confusing users. The answers to those questions may not be forthcoming until the two companies deliver products during the next year. And those answers may not help the Mac in the busi- ness market “The bottom line is it’s more complicated,” said Craig Cline, associate editor of the Sey bold Report on Desktop Publishing in Mal- ibu, Calif, “The main reason MIS managers suffered the Mac at all is that people could bring them in and plug and play, but the more complicated the Mac gets, the less will- ing the market will be to go Mac.” In the hardball contest for control of the Mac's screen and output imaging models recent rounds have included the following developments: > On May 1, Adobe announced the Adobe ‘Type Manager, an outline screen-font pack- age that will give Mac users Adobe outline fonts on screen. This retail product, to be delivered this fall, promises better fidelity between screen display and final output Adobe also said users would be able to print Adobe Type Manager fonts on QuickDraw output devices. > A week later Apple announced its new outline font technology at the Apple Devel oper’s Conference. The announcement was backed up with expressions of support from major type vendors as well as with Adobe's statement that it would provide a translator to allow fonts in Apple's new font format to be printed on devices equipped with Adobe PostScript interpreters > This month Apple announced that it will sell its stock in Adobe and offer its own PostScript clone interpreter as an alternative to Adobe's, At the same time the two compa- nies announced that because there will still be demand for Adobe interpreters, they have “entered into a new PostScript product development agreement.” The permutations of possible combina- tions begin to make the Mac world look like the IBM PC world “I saw the struggle of IBM developers in the early days of desktop publishing, not knowing what device or standard to support,” said Jim Cavuoto, editor of MicroPublishing Report of Torrance, Calif. “It’s not clean.” Promises from Apple and Adobe to pro- vide integration between their products aren't likely to satisfy the concerns of Macin: tosh users. “Promises are one thing, delivering is another,” Cavuoto said. In addition, Adobe does not seem likely to allow Apple to use Adobe’s encrypted and hinted fonts with the Apple clone inter- preter. Apple's moves therefore will require users to buy two sets of fonts, Cline said. We don’t want users to be confused. We want them to be able to use fonts easily,” said Pat Marriott, director of marketing of the systems division at Adobe. “That's why ‘we announced the translator. But there are MacWEEK 25 July 1989 legal issues about licensing type designs from the type vendors, encryption and so forth to deal with.” Although they acknowledge the potential confusion in these developments, industry observers said that the Macintosh and Adobe PostScript combination is already quite useable “Right now we are not in that bad a situa= tion with the platforms and software that are out there,” Cavuoto said. “People tend to for= get that they don’t have to upgrade. They can stay with System 6.0. 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Think C delivers object orientation, class libraries By Deniel Farber Cupertino, Calif. — A new version of Symantec Corp.'s Think C, due out next month, will add object-oriented extensions and class libraries to the widely used devel- opment environment Version 4.0 of Think C (formerly called Think’s Lightspeed C) marks the first C com- piler and debugger for the Mac to offer object-oriented facilities, said Julie Bingham, director of languages and tools at Symantec. Apple, which provides a different C compil- ex for the Macintosh Programmer's Workshop, lans to support C++, an object-oriented rivative of G developed by AT&T. “Think C is a subset of C++,” Bingham said, adding that the product's object-orient- ed extensions are similar to the Object Pascal extensions defined by Apple for Pascal rogramming. Included with the new version is the Think Class Library, a comprehensive set of object- oriented classes, such as windows and menus, for implementing the Mac interface. “The object libraries make it painless to create an advanced interface in a reasonable period of time, said Michael Bell, senior engineer at Du Pont in Newark, Del. “The Keempllation) speed hasn't been compro- mised by adding the object extensions.” Symantec said it expects other companies to doesn Think C els libraries for seeag applications, such as graphics and sound. Invention Software of Ann Arbor, Mich., has already announced the availability Object Grafpak, a $189.95 set of Think C 4.0 classes for scientific plotting applications. Another key enhancement in 4.0 is com- plete compliance with the American Nation- al Stans Institute’s C standard. “By supporting the ANSI standard, devel- ‘pers can write code on the Mac and port it to other machines without learning the Mac toolbox,” said Diana Bury, Think C product marketing manager. Among other new features; > The in-line assembler is fully optimized for the 68020 and 68030 as well as the 68881 and 68882 math coprocessors. > Multisegmented code resources allow HyperCard external commands, desk acces- sories and Control Panel devices (cdevs) larger than 32 Kbytes. >The documentation is completely revised and the disk includes commented source code examples. Version 4.0 retails for $249; the upgrade for current users is $69. Symantec is at 10201 Torre Ave., Cuperti- no, Calif. 95014; (408) 253-9600. Invention Software can be reached at P.O. Box 3168, Ann Arbor, Mich. 48106; (313) 996-8108. 5 News PhotoMac 1.1 does color stripping ‘Desktop stripping’ reduces time, costs By Connie Guglielmo Cambridge, Mass. — Marking another milestone in the Mac's march into professional publishing, Avalon Development Group has added electronic color stripping capabilities to PhotoMac, its color retouching program. Available now, PhotoMac 1.1 makes it possible to place photos into a page-layout program, then create a single set of PostScript separation files with type and pho- tos automatically stripped into pee according to Robert Swerd- low, vice president of software engineering for Avalon. The separation files, containing complete page layouts, includin, 24-bit color photos, graphics au text, can be then be output to film ‘on a PostScript imagesetter. This eliminates the time-consuming and costly step of manual stripping or placing color separations, consist- ing of four negatives for each photo, into a layout negative. PhotoMac’s stripping feature works with all leading Mac page- ‘Avalon's PhotoMac 1.1 goes beyond color retouching to add automatic color stripping. It will work with all leading page-layout programs to output PostScript separation files, layout programs, Swerdlow said. Version 1.1 also features faster re-sizing and separations; improved picture-sharpening algorithms; user control over frequency of screen refresh; support for spooling; and auto-tone adjustment, a default set- ting that automatically adjusts the tone and color of scanned images. Using a proprietary virtual memory scheme, PhotoMac can open eight- and 24-bit color files up to 74 Mbytes in size, the company said PhotoMac 1.0 users can upgrade for $90. Version 1.1 will cost $795. Avalon is located at 1000 Mass- achusetts Ave., Cambridge, Mass. 02138; (617) 661-1405. 0 Photolink beams data down to Mac Infrared light links Macs without cables By Rochelle Garner Campbell, Calif. — Network managers who are tired of wiring headaches can soon turn to Photo- | link, a system that beams data | among computers by bouncing pulses of invisible infrared Funded in part by Apple end priced at $995 per tonics’ Photolink system links computers within a single room by bouncing infrared light off the ceiling. Sr light off the ceiling. Backed by funding from Apple, among others, the developer, Pho- tonics Corp., plans to release in September one version of its hard- ware for AppleTalk LANs and another for RS-232 terminal-to-host connections. Token-ring and 3270 implementations are due next year, with an Ethernet link expected in 1991. Photolink runs at the full speed of whatever type of network to which it is connected. Mounted on an office partition, each $995 Pho- tolink unit can be hooked up to as many as four computers. The units are then linked by aiming the infrared light each gener- ates at a common spot on the ceiling. The system works only within a single open or partitioned office, but can be mixed with cabling connecting to other rooms or larger networks, “On average, compa- nies move once every three years; companies that use lots of computers move every two years. Every time they move, they hae another sing. decision to make,” said Dick Allen, president of Photonics. “As I go sround, 10 one arks why you would want to elimi- nate cabling — everyone knows what a mess it is.” nit, Pho- Allen said that he sees Photonics’ customers as large organizations in industry and government because “two-thirds of U.S. office workers are employed in open office envi- ronments, and the percentage is higher for larger organizations.” Photonics Corp. is located at 200 E. Hacienda Ave., Campbell, Calif. 95008; (408) 370-3033. 0 A 4th contender in DTP: Publish It! By Connie Guglielmo Deerfield, Ill. — Timeworks wants to make the big three in Mac desktop publishing a foursome. The company this month released Publish It}, a $395 program it hopes will attract dndidcualaion small corporate departments over- Noticed by high-powered offerings from Aldus, Letraset and Quark Modeled after Timeworks’ pro- grams of the same name for the IBM PC, Apple II and Atari ST, Publish Itl for the Mae is designed with ease of use as a priority, the company said. The program runs on all Mac models from the Mae 512K uy Under development for the past 14 months, Publish It! for the Mac was created by a team of program- mers led by Lance Lewis, author of the short-lived Scoop desktop pub- lishing program, Lewis emphasized that Publish It! is not a repackaged version of Scoop, but a new pro- gram based on the company’s PC and Apple II versions. Publish It! offers standard page-layout tools along with a ee extras. The built-in word-pro- cessor includes a spell checker and thesaurus. Tools for painting, draw- ing and editing scanned images are built in, and users can rotate, flip, tilt, invert, scale and add fill- attern textures to graphics, text blocks or single letters, Publish It! offers kerning, lead- ing, stretching and condensing of text and automatic text flow — both inside and around objects Text can be aligned in traditional ways as well as along slanted, “V” and pyramid-shaped margins, Timeworks is located at 444 Lake Cook Road, Deerfield, Ill. 60015; (312) 948-9200, o Aperture readies ‘visual info manager’ for engineering design management Stamford, Conn. — Aperture Technologies Inc. will take the wraps off Aperture, a “visual information manager” for engi- neering design, documentation and presentation, at next month's Macworld Expo. The $795 pro- gram, due to ship soon after the show, combines a high- precision drawing environment with a database manager and report writer, The drawing system supports up to 256 layers, 30 million- times zooming and a style sheet function. Instead of click-and- drag drawing, it uses *mouse-up” draw- ing, allowing users to scroll or zoom through large drawings between clicks. Aperture Technologies Ine. is at 84 West Park Place, Stamford, Conn. 06901; (203) 975-7587. a ‘Aperture, a $795 “visual information manoger,” allows space planners, architects, engineers ond managers to link detailed drawings and imoges with database information. 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While the speed boost to 25 MHz is significant, it is not by itself a breakthrough, analysts said, and Apple's pricing will deter- mine the new model's fate in the marketplace. “It won't change Apple's position eave pessoal computer] mar- ket,” said Stewart Alsop, publisher of PC*Letter in Redwood City, Calif. “But if it is only $1,000 more [than the ITcx], it will replace the Ilex and become Apple's mainstay machine.” Managers agreed that price rather than new features was the major consideration in most pur- chase plans. “If there is a signifi- cant difference in price between the Ilcx and the new machine, it won't affect our IIcx buying plans [for office uses],” said Price Collins, program manger in corporate information technology at General Electric Corp. in Bridgeport, Conn. » As reported earlier, a 120-pin slot is included on the mother- board, but Apple intends it to be used only for static RAM cache cards. Some sources said Apple is discouraging developers from cre- ating marae au for the new slot because it is still unable to uarantee full compatibility with fe rest of the system. Apple docu- ments associated with the machine Mac Ilci prototype benchmarks the Mac Plos performance is rated at 1 on the scale. ‘MacSpeedo tests processor performance of the Macintosh CPUs relative to one another; oe ee Ge KA said that the new cache slot will not support Processor Direct Slot cards for the SE or SE/30. A cache card reportedly under development by Apple could dra- matically increase performance, especially with 32-bit color applications. A close look at the IIci’s hard- ware reveals significant features that bear the stamp of Apple’s forthcoming System 7.0: > According to many sources, the ROMs of the IIci are “32- bit clean,” Apple’s term for software that res to specifica~ tions for compatibility with future systems. > Physical memory is no longer contiguous. The memory manage- ment unit in the 25-MHz ‘030, rr as employed by the new system software (Version 6.0.4), connects discontiguous blocks of memory. Analysts claim this feature is a must for the large memory promised in System 7.0. The current system, 6.0.3, is limited to 8 Mbytes of memory. > Almost the entire motherboard uses surface-mount technology, and there is more use of custom VLSI chips. Both technologies lower production costs while increasing reliability. Because the 68030 chip in the new machine is surface-mounted and cannot be pulled off the motherboard, third- party accelerator makers who now offer boards that plug into the pro- cessor socket will have to come up with new designs. o Odesta From Page 1 applications, according to the company. Adding support for Apple’s CL/I database connectivity lan- , the new version allows users to build custom applications that can access information across local- or wide-area networks. With the program's iconic database design system, users can build their own applications without ever having Briere procedural language or write a single line of code, said Daniel Cheifetz, Odesta’s president. New in Double Helix 3.0 are: > An Access icon designed to be used by developers to dynamically link applications via CL/1 to infor- mation on host systems. > Provisions that allow the user to speed performance by specifying which windows are automatically updated across the network when data changes. > Multithreaded search capabili- ties to improve the performance of the multi-user version of the prod- uct through an optimized time- sharing approach to processing query requests, > Interface options allowing developers to build HyperCard-like applications complete with scanned images and buttons to initiate macro command sequences. > Tools that give developers Finder-like options for viewing an application's structure by name and kind as well as by icon. > Better capabilities for annotat- ing and documenting applications in both electronic and printed form. “Overall, it's significantly faster than previous versions,” said Sam Levin, owner of Micro Busi- ness Solutions in Hacienda Heights, Calif. “Things like looking at a list, double-clicking on an item in that list, immediately getting to an entry form and the ability to build sequences that execute like macros reduce the learning curve and make this a significant upgrade.” “There are fundamental shifts in the [Macintosh database] market going on right now,” Cheifetz said. “The Macintosh is now in place in organizations where there are tremendous amounts of corporate data that is inaccessible. Helix 3.0 lets users seamlessly access and use that data on the Macintosh.” A $125 runtime version that developers can distribute with cus- tom applications built with Double Helix 3.0 is not scheduled to ship until late fall. Also slated for announcement at the expo is Version 3.0 of Data Desk, Odesta’s statistical analysis and Plotting rogram. Pricing and delivery dates have yet to be determined. Odesta Corp. is located at 4084 Commercial Ave., Northbrook, Ill. 60062; (312) 498-5615, 0. PacerShare implements AFP on DEC machines La Jolla, Calif, — Pacer Software this month demonstrated a version of its PacerShare software that allows Digital Equipment Corp.'s new RISC-based workstations to act as AppleShare file servers on an AppleTalk network. The new version of PacerShare implements the AppleTalk Filing Protocol (AFP) on DECstation or DECsystem computers running the Ultrix operating system, DEC's version of Unix. Earlier this month Pacer began shipping a version of PacerShare for Ultrix on DEC VAXes. Both Ultrix versions offer the same functionality as Pacer- Share for VAX/VMS, according to the company. Pacer said the new product will be available in September, with prices starting at $2,400 for each RISC-based CPU. It requires Pacer’s PacerLink communica- tions module and an Ethernet connection. Pacer Software is located at 7911 Herschel Aye., Suite 402, La Jolla, Calif. 92037; (619) 454-0565. 0 DayStar accelerates Ils to 50 MHz with ’030 By Daniel Farber Flowery Branch, Ga. — Once again pushing the Mac perfor- mance envelope, DayStar Digital will use next month’s Macworld Expo to show off the first Mac IT accelerators with a 68030 processor running at 50 MHz. The 50/030, priced at $5,995 for both the Accelerator II and Accel- erator IIx models, begin to approach RISC (reduced instruc- tion set computing)-level perfor- mance, tripling the speed of the Mac II and IIx for some applica- tions, according to Steve Gondnanl director of marketing for DayStar (see chart, below). MacWEEK benchmark tests on the 50/030 board showed overall performance better than twice the speed of a stock Mac IIx. In math- intensive applications where DayStar's latest SANE (standard Apple numeric environment)- trapping software takes effect, MacWEEK tests showed real- world performance of more than three times standard IIx math performance. “The 50-MHz accelerators great- ly reduce waiting time for users with calculation- intensive applications such as color publish- ing and complex sim- ulations,” Goodman said. DayStar also offers a 40-MHz 68882 math coprocessor, riced at $1,000, for the II and IIx accelerators. Volume shipments of the boards will not begin until October, however, due to the limited availability of the 50-MHz version of the '030 from Motorola. Like DayStar’s cur- rently available 33- MHz accelerators, the new versions replace the microprocessor on the II and Ix motherboard, which runs at 16 MHz. Thanks to a built- in cache with 32 Kbytes of 25- nanosecond static RAM, the 50/030 Tuns at zero waits states with stan- dard SIMM (single in-line memory module) chips, the company said DayStar also announced the availability of 25-MHz and 40- MHz versions of its Mae II and IIx accelerators, The company plans to offer a similar family of accelera- tors for the Mac Iex later this year. Customers buying the $4,995 40/030 Accelerator before Aug. 31 will receive a free upgrade to the 50 MHz in October. The DayStar accelerators ship with the XCI (extended CPU inter- face), a back-plane adapter that can Fn MocHEEK 25 iy otentially increase the data trans- er rate among the compatible boards from 10 MHz to as much as 50 MHz by bypassing NuBus. NuBus cards must be designed to take advantage of the XCI interface. So far NuBus card ven- dors have not jumped on the XCI bandwagon. At the expo, DayStar plans to introduce its first XCI-based NuBus product, a RAM card that holds up to 16 Mbytes of RAM and can be populated 4 Mbytes at a time. The card can make use of 70- nanosecond RAM, which should be available at lower prices later in the year, DayStar said. The Mac operating system rec- ‘ognizes only 8 Mbytes of memory, so only A/UX users can take advan- tage of the RAM card until Apple's System 7.0 becomes available. Other XCI NuBus cards in the works include a 32-bit video card and a SCSI card that sends /O across XCI, eliminating wait states. DayStar is located at 5556 Atlanta Highway, Flowery Branch, Ga. 30542; (404) 967-2077. a Ric Ford contributed to this story. DayStar Digital Mac Il and IIx accelerators ere snors | In the June 27 Reviews ‘on scanners, the reference by-6-inch dither matrix have read six-by-six-dot, maximum number of grays. have read 6 not 62. . MacWEEK’s July 1 incorrect prices for the Hk Packard DeskJet and D inkjet printers. The corre are $795 and $995, The correct phone Master Manufs of the Meso IBM, this is Mac. Give me DB “IBM, DEC, SUN, DG, HP, WANG, UNISYS, AT&T, NCR... this is Macintosh calling. Give me your data.” The most popular database and connectiy- ity solution in the world is now available on the Macintosh. For only $299, developers can have the first and only SQL database available for the Mac. Now, you can build powerful HyperCard-based, DB2-compatible applications. 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Call for additional information, Copyright © 1989 by Oracle Comporation, ORACLE sa reiscted trademark of Oracte The other companies mentioned own numerous trademarks, TRBA ColorSpace fx special-effects board Sunnyvale, Calif: — ColorSpace fx is ready to do its stuff. Mass Microsystems last week began shipping its long-awaited special- effects Ride board for the Mac IL. The $3,500 board requires the company’s Color- Space II, a $2,300 video digitizer. With ColorSpace fx, video is captured at a rate of 30 frames per second in 24-bit color. Special effects are created by re-sizing, mirroring and zooming in and out of the live video. The board ships with HyperCard external commands that let users control it from Hyper- Card or Silicon Beach Software's SuperC: is also bundled with software that allows users to define their own real-time effects. Mass Microsystems is at 550 Del Rey Ave., Sunnyvale, Calif. 94086; (408) 522-1200. 5. RasterOps From Page | closed plans for display products for Sun and IBM machines. > Extensive use of surface-mount and cus- tom VLSI (very large scale integration) chip technology has allowed RasterOps to price the ColorBoard 264 at $995, only $347 more than Apple’s $648 eight-bit color card, accord-ing to Patrick Sweeney, RasterOps product manager. The ColorBoard 264, with 1.5 Mbytes of 100-nanosecond video RAM on board, can APPLE AND DIGITALWON'T START A CONVERSATION WITHOUT US. Because we're the software networking company that got them talking together in the first place. And were still the one company that provides Mac to VAX total networking solutions. We're Alisa Systems. The people that brought you AlisaTalk™ AlisaTalk is a software package that puts AppleTalk of each and every Apple and Digital standard. Alisafalk is just one of our total networking solutions for Mac to VAX connectivity. One of many. For more information, contact us at Alisa. 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RasterOps plans models for both $E/30 and the Mac II family, Sweeney “We want to break true color out high end and make it an accessible sta he said. Most current 24-bit tors and cost bet $3,000 and $5,000, said Sweeney. ‘The ColorBoard 264 supports 640-by-t ixel resolution at 72 dpi. RasterOps plat ave the board ready for sale at Macw Expo in Boston early next month. > The SFX, a $1,495 video overlay board! that attaches to RasterOps’ ColorBoard 23: or 224 graphics board, allows users to mix Mac-generated graphics and animations wil live video. It supports 32-bit color Chromi Keying, a process for combining two vit signals into one image using color as the ing guide. If titles, for instance, are creat on the Mac, the user would select a ba ground color for everything but the titles then tell the SFX board to replace that co with video. Combined images can be displayed o1 television monitor or output directly t videotape. The SFX board works with green, blue (RGB), National Television tem Committee (NTSC), PAL (European) 0 S-Video formats. . > The company’s first Sun offerings, a line | of products for the Sun 386i that is due to | ship in September, will include the TC/386 true-color video board, the PIP video cap board and a modified version of the SEX. Marking the company’s first entry | the IBM market, RasterOps will ship a bit video card aimed at the Targa 16, ae system from Truevision Inc. of Indiana that has become a de facto high-end dard for PC ATs and compatibles. The product will be announced at Siggrap| Boston next week. RasterOps is located at 2500 Walsh Santa Clara, Calif. 95051; (408) 562-4 Radius (mips). The processor utilizes NuB transfer to read and write data fro RAM at up to seven times the speed of ular Mae II : QuickColor works only with Radius boards, which are compatible with block transfer, according to the con The board will be shipped with: that patches 32-bit QuickDraw recognizes the RISC processor, as we) Radius operating system, which co graphics functions on the RISC. an application uses 32-bit faster it will run, according to QuickColor also accelerates it processes. “[Cdlor ‘on the Mac] is too slow: said Andy Hertzfeld, a | the original Mae design tant for the QuickColor project. “Or cornerstones of the Mae i ni “It feels like you are when you are actually doing Draw],” said Greg Stern, an a at Seybold Reports in Malibi has used a beta version of “Clearly, if someone is sper for a 32-bit system, they acceleration,” he said. 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Like the DOS-based program, MSC/pal 2 can handle a model with 2,000 nodes, each with six degrees of freedom. It permits analysis of solid and axisymmetric elements as well as temperature loading and stress. An interface to the compa- ny’s MSC/NASTRAN lets users upload computationally intensive models to larger host systems The new version also offers dynamic memory allocation, using all available RAM for improved processing speed. Frank Madden, staff mechanical engineer for Scientific Atlanta, an Atlanta electronics developer, said FreeHand gets fixes and power features By Connie Guglielmo Seattle — A new version of Aldus Corp.'s FreeHand fixes bugs and adds enhancements that address the needs of power users, according to the company Improvements in Version 2.02 of the $495 PostScript drawing pro- gram include > The ability to create one-bit TIFF (tag image file format) graphic objects, the white areas of which are transparent so they can be pasted into other programs without obscuring the original background > An option for having the screen redraw images object by object “People who do complex images svitb lots of layering. tach eafan making, like to see different layes being drawn and watch the progress ‘on screen,” said Mary Hausladen, FreeHand product manager. > Improved compatibility with extensions, the better color-handling ca PageMaker, and with Claris Corps MacDraw II > Improved compatibility with 32-bit color hardware and software. A free upgrade will be sent to registered FreeHand owners who contact Aldus customer relations at (206) 625-2320. Aldus Corp. is located at 411 First Ave. S., Seattle, Wash. 98104; (206) 628-5500. 5 Engineering standard gets upgrade = Fue _Uotions Showing stresses and deflections, MSC/pol 2 Version 3.5 for the Macintosh anclyzed this festener modeled with sold elements using 900 nodes and 5,400 degrees of freedom. he viewed MSC/pal 2's larger grid size, ability to handle solid ele- ments and more effective use of RAM as “extremely important.” Ed Ong, structural engineer for Tulloch Construction of Oakland, Calif, said, “With six degrees of freedom, you can analyze just about any type of structure you want.” MSC/pal 2, priced at $2,495, runs on the Macintosh SE/30 and all modular Macs. It requires at least 2 Mies of memory without MultiFinder or 3 Mbytes with MultiFinder, An entry-level version that runs on 1-Mbyte Mac Pluses and SEs is available for $995 but is limited to a 500-node model. The MacNeal-Schwendler Corp. is located at 815 Colorado Blvd., Los Angeles, Calif. 90041, (213) 258-9111.0 MS-DOS backup giant Archive ships first Macintosh product Costa Mesa, Calif, — Archive Corp., one of the giants of the MS- DOS and workstation backup mar- ket, last month began shipping its first Mac products. The MaxStream tape drive is available in 60- and 150-Mbyte capacities at prices of $1,395 and $2,095, respectively. With a trans- fer rate Age to 6 Mbytes per minute to DC600 cartridges, the SCSI subsystems feature unattend- ed backup, scripting, tape verifica- tion and error correction, append- ing of additional data to tapes, password protection, the ability to restore AppleShare access-infor- mation and a one-year warranty Archive's Universal Tape Format allows data cartridges to be inter- changed between MaxStre: and ArchiveVP subs IBM PCs and compatibles. Archive is located at 1650 Sun- flower Ave., Costa Mesa, Calif 92626; (714) 641-0279. 0 Just weeks after Archive Cap, began shipping its new Mac up products, Maynard Electronics, lees fae a er fi its new in acohiog out from te Ms: DOS market. Maynard added two Mac models to its Maynstream line of tape-l systems, The MaynStream 60, a 60- Mbyte drive, is available now for $1,595, while the 150-Mbyte ver- sion, priced at $1,895, is due in a few weeks. While the drives offered by Archive use DC600 cartridges, the independently developed MaynStream 60 and 150 use BURNS Ups oe Ee For the high end of the mar- Maynard backs up Archive ket, Maynard is offering the MaynStrean 2200HS for $7,495. Using an Exabyte drive mecha- nism and 8mm videocassettes, the drive can copy up to 2.2 Gbytes of data per tape at an effective rate of 5 Mpvies per minute, the company All three MaynStream Mac drives include backup software that offers a “Finder-like environ- ment” for selecting files or disks to be backed up or restored. The 7-year-old company also offers a line of 15 backup units for IBM PCs, PS/2s and compatibles. Maynard Electronics is at 460 E, Semoran Blvd., Casselberry, Fla. 32707; (407) 263-3500. MocWEEK 25 Joly 1989 News BieReal ees ies: Caere, Dove bundle OmniPage with accelerator and RAM. Los Gatos, Calif. — The developer of OmniPage has teamed up with a supplier of Mac acceleration add-ons to offer 0 bundle that will let Mac SE toke full advantage of the popular but hordware-hungry poge-ecognifion program. Through Aug. 31, Coere Corp.’s OmniPage 2.0, Dove Computer's MoraThon 020 accelerator ond MacSnap 45 4-Mbyte memory expansion kit oe available at deoer for 0 total of $1,995, more than $650 below the combined price of the three produc’. Coere Corp. can be reached at (408) 395-7000; Dove Computer can be reached ot (919) 763-7918. Telephone button, symbol font added to PIXymbol line Chandler, Ariz. — Page Studio Graphics last month added a telephone button nd symbol font to its growing library of specialty PostScript pictorial fonts. At $125, PiXymbols 8015, can pro- duce 740 characters, including 0 variety of fele phone symbols, numbers with ond without the asso ciated letters, ond 21 buF ton styles that can be oufo- moticolly oligned with the next number typed. The font was developed ot the request of d regional phone company, said Roger Vershen, president of Page Studio Grophics. Page Studio Grophics is located at 3175 N. Price Road, Suite 1050, Chandler, Ariz. 85224; (602) 839-2763. Mirror cuts prices on drives, increases warranty coverage Roseville, Minn. — Mirror Technologies has lowered prices on most of its intemal and external hord drives for the Macintosh while increasing its warranty coverage on all models from one yeor to two years. External hard drives affected ond their new reduced prices are the M20 ($497), M30 ($587), M60 ($747), M80 ($797), M100 (51,187) ond M160 (51,587). Internal drives ovoilable at reduced prices ore the M20i ($397), M30i ($387), M60i ($747) ond M100i ($1,087). Prices on the Plus series, which features Quon- tum mechanisms and access times of 19 milliseconds, have also been reduced, The MP100 external drive will sell for $1,247, ond the MP1 00i will sell for $1, 147. Mirror Technologies is locoted at 2644 Patton Rood, Roseville, Minn. 55113; (612) 633-4450; (800) 654-5294. GreenSpring NuBus card gives Mac four additional serial ports ‘Menlo Park, Calif, — GreenSpring Computers Inc. this month introduced a NuBus cord that gives any Mac IHfamily machine four more serial ports. The $295 board, called the Model 1280, is available now. While most current ‘Mac opplications permit simultaneous use of only two serial ports, additional ports an be used with some custom programs and with A/UX. The Communications Took box, a Mac system software module due later this year, is expected to encourage more application developers to build in support for multiple ports. Meanwhile, Green- Spring soid, its board ships with a Control Ponel device (cdev) that lets users remap one of the Mac’s builtin ports to a port on the board, and an XCMD (external com- mond) gives users access to six ports from within HyperCord. 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Microsoft Word 4 has been avail- able long enough to prove that it is far more stable than Word 3.0 was when first released. but the new version still has its share of bugs and problems, Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates’ pre-release claims notwithstanding, David Sachs at the Fermi National Accel erator Laboratory in Batavia, IIL, has been maintaining a comprehensive list of Word 4 bugs and poorly thought-out features. The file is available from on-line services and users groups. (On CompuServe, it is MW4BUGS SIT in Data Library 6 of the MacPro section.) Some of the bugs are funny; others are not The spelling checker, for instance, flags childcare and suggests “kidnaper” [sic] as an alternative. Using Word 4's arithmetic capabilities to calculate 1.1 minus 2.1 results in an erroneous answer of -0.9 instead of -1.0. Fortunately, there do not seem to be any major problems that are likely to corrupt your files. Sachs’ document says that Word 4 is sensitive to errors in its preferences files. however, and it might be a good idea to erase the “Word Settings (4)” file in the System folder and redefine your preferences if the application is bombing, Word 3 and Word 4 can coexist on the same hard disk, each with its individual pref erences file in the System folder, but we rec ommend against keeping the old version Documents have the same creator and type IDs in Word 4 and Word 3, so keepir very confusi on-line g track of document versions can get Its easy to 1 nitions from Word 3 to Word 4. Simply go into Word 4 and select Define Styles. Then use the Open menu item to open a Word 3 makes all its styles available. Any Wve your personal style defi file, which styles you want to keep in Word 4 can be with the Set Default button “Word 4 retains the ability to deal with any ASCII c i cs in sib Je or otherwise, by specifying their numeric equivalents. 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An incompatl bility between Microsoft Excel 2,2 and Ist Aid Software's VirusGuard causes a system el is launched with crash every time E: VirusGuard’s protection turned on. Ist Aid Software is aware of the problem, but for now the only remedy is to turn off VirusGuard’s Monitor before starting | Excel. Make sure that you turn it back MacinTouch RICK LEPAGE AND RIC FORD Spreading the word about Microsoft Word on after you are done to ensure continued Virus protection. Illustrator color woes. Users of Apple’s 32-bit QuickDraw have encountered some problems with Version 1.8.3 of Adobe Illus- trator 88. It seems that Illustrator crashes every time you quit the application, but one user who reported the bug to the company said that a fix for the problem is not expected until the end of the year VirusDetective bug. A bug in the share- ware VirusDetective 3.0 desk accessory causes a few virus scans to fail under a partic- ular set of conditions. 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All other brand names or trademarks or registered trademarks are the property oftheir respective holders. News MicroTovch’s UnMouse, formerly Touché, lets wsers control the cursor by meving finger or stylus on 0 glass surface. MicroTouch unleashes the UnMouse touch pad New York — The UnMouse, a touch- sensitive substitute for the Mac rodent, will show up on Mac owners’ desktops this month. MicroTouch's UnMouse, priced at $235, is a small glass tablet that attaches to the Mac's ADB (Apple Desktop Bus) port. The user positions the cursor or traces images by mov- ing a finger or stylus around its 3-by-4.5-inch active area, which has a resolution of 1,024 by 1,024 touch points with absolute positioning. By pressing a button on the tablet, users can also issue macros. MicroTouch will ship templates, called Power KeyPads, for Microsoft Word, Excel and several paint pro- ms, along with software that allows users to define new KeyPads or modify existing ones. MicroTouch Systems Inc. has moved to 55 Jospin Road, Wilmington, Mass. 01887; (508) 694-9900 MocWEEK 25 July 1989 MegaGraphics offers low-cost — MacFAX combines two-page monochrome displays Camarillo, Calif, — Throwing down the gauntlet to its competitors in the large- screen display field, MegaGraphics Inc, this month announced an aggressively priced line of monochrome systems for the entire Mac- intosh family. MegaScreen Rival systems, each including a 19-inch monitor and a video interface card, are priced at $1,698 for the Mac SE and II families and $1,748 for the Mac Plus. The NuBus and SE versions are shipping now, while the SE/30 and Plus models will be ayail- able next month, according to the company. Comparable monochrome two-page dis- play systems from competing vendors cost rom $500 to $1,000 more than the Mega- Screen Rival, according to MegaGraphics “There is a lot of attention being paid to the high end of the display market, but it has been a long time since something was intro- duced for the average user,” said Diane Wessling Scott, vice president of marketing for MegaGraphics The Rival displays offer 75 dpi, a screen refresh rate of 75 Hz, a tilt-and-swivel base and a one-year warranty, MegaGraphics Inc. is located at 439 Calle San Pablo, Camarillo, Calif. 93010; (805) 484-3799. 0 MegaGraphics said its Rival ine makes 19-inch mono- chrome displays affordable for the average Mac user. FaxSTF software upgraded Higginsville, Mo. — STF Technologies Inc. has released a new version of the soft- ware for the FaxSTF, its compact 4,800-bit per-second fax modem When used with AppleShare, FaxSTF 2.0 software lets networked users share the $695 device simply by saving files to be faxed in a drop folder on the server. A program running on the node where the fax modem is con- nected monitors the folder and transmits the files at specified times Other new features include the ability to save incoming faxes to the same server fold- er; export of received fax messages to TIFF (tag image file format), PICT or MacPaint format for use with graphics, layout or opti- cal character recognition programs; automat- ic generation of cover pages; and landscape- mode transmission. The upgrade is being sent free to regis- tered owners of the FaxSTF. STF Technologies is located at 1817 Main St., P.O. 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As a data modem it can communicate with other MacFAX units and with AppleFax Modems at an effective rate of up to 4,000 bps, according to Charles Glorioso, director @ Mac product development at Orchid. In addition, he said, it works with any standard modem at 2,400, 1,200 or 300 bps. While Apple's $699 fax modem also has file-transfer capabilities, until now it has been usable only with other AppleFax Modems and not with standard modems. Several third-party vendors offer combina- tion fax and data modems, but Orehid’ is the first for the Mac to surpass 2,400 bps for data transmissions. The MacFAX is nominally rated at 9,600 bps for data as well as fax. Its real-life throughput is less, Glorioso said, because it does not use a full-duplex protocol such as V.32, which would provide higher performance but is costlier to implement. Instead, the MacFAX uses the V.29 half- duplex modulation scheme, but “ping-pongs™ the line — transmits data first in one diree- tion, then the other — to emulate a full- duplex connection Solutions’ BackFAX software, “slightly cus- tomized” for the Orchid unit, offers back- ground operations with or without Multi- Finder, Because it includes a Chooser selectable driver, users can transmit docu- ments directly from their applications. Other transmission features include custom cover Pages, Pasneord protection of documents received, and the ability to send a fax or file at a specified time and date to multiple addresses. The retail version of BackFAX. designed originally for the AppleFax Modem, lists for $245 “Our Federal Express bill has gone way down,” said William Murphy Jr, & Baltimore attorney and MacFAX beta tester. “Fax is much cheaper, and the Orehid product makes it so easy that we are using it more than ever for documents we have to transmit.” Murphy said the 11 users on his office's AppleShare network use electronic mail to send their documents to one node where the fax modem is installed; the employee work- ing there is responsible for transmitting the fax files, vom an electrical engineering installation, test, and network monitoring a snap. Exher+ supports AppleShare, TOPS, Novell, Telnet, and graduate as well as a former judge, sald bes other networking packages at Ethernet speeds. ipouiae to the release of Faxgate, an elec~ tronic mail-to-fax gateway that Solutions announced earlier this year, to further sim- plify the system. 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Well, if speeding it up isn’t enough, make it look good That's the principle that Powder Blue Computers is applying to its BlueMAQ line of Mac compatibles, which combine a Mac Plus motherboard and ROMs with a second logic board from Powder Blue in a re- designed case. “Before, it was uglier than a mud fence,” said Terry Stokes, company president. “Now it looks like it was beamed down from the starship Enterprise.” Stokes said he has been selling BlueMAQs for about two years but redesigned the case because of negative response to the aesthet- ics of the original design. “[IBM] PC buyers couldn't care Jess what their box looks like,” he said, “but if you're a Mac buyer, you're paying significantly more, and you care.” The company offers four models, ranging from the $4,799 BlueMAQ II with a 16-MHz 68020 processor, 1 Mbyte of RAM and a 65- Mbyte hard disk to the $7,999 BlueMAQ IIx Heat Seeker with a 20-MHz 68030 proces- sor, 4 Mbytes of RAM, a 68852 coprocessor and an 85-Mbyte internal drive. Because a special logic board overcomes bottlenecks inherent in the Mac, Stokes said, BlueMAQs can achieve up to five times the performance of an off-the-shelf Mac Lx All BlueMAQ models come with built-in monochrome video and a monitor. The machines have no NuBus slots but do offer one 32-bit proprietary expansion slot that can accept some third-party two-page video cards, provided they are first sent to the company and modified. As to the legal issue of selling Macintosh compatible computers, Stokes said he hopes Aa will see his company not as a David trying to slay Goliath, but more like the little fish that swim in and out of a shark’ teeth. “Those fish feed extremely well,” Stokes said. “And the shark doesn't bother them,” Powder Blue Computers is located at 3760 Highland Drive, Suite 234, Salt Lake City, Utah 84106; (801) 273-3993, Architrion price cut Washington — Gimeor Inc. has lowered the price of its Mac Architrion monochrome CAD package from $1,495 to $995, The move followed the May introduction of Architrion II, an advanced, color version priced at $2,495 (see MacWEEK, May 16). Gimeor Ine, is located at 420 10th St. S.E Washington, D.C. 20003; (202) 546-8" Mainstay’s MacFlow 3.0. Chroma-32 color colors flowchart world Agoura Hills, Calif. — Mainstay this month began shipping MacFlow 3.0, a color version of its flowchart program. The program helps users design and docu- ment relationships by dragging standard or custom symbols onto a page, connecting them and adding text to lines and symbols Tt is a quantum leap from the last ver- sion,” said Wolfgang Naegeli, a University of Tennessee research ciate and resource policy analyst for Oak Ridge National Labs, who uses the program to explain environ- mental relationships with concept maps. Text within symbols and on lines can now vary in font, style and size, and a hidden- window option for longer text comments has been added. The Symbol Librarian, which lets users adapt any symbol for use in a chart, has been integrated directly into the program Other applications or their documents can now be sublaunched directly from MacFow. MacFlow 3.0 costs $245, up from $195 for the previous version. Upgrades are $30, Mainstay is located at 5311-B Derry Ave., Agoura Hills, Calif. 91301, (818) 991-6540. 5 Wingz for 0S/2 New York — Informix Software, known in the Macintosh world as the publisher of Wingz, is quietly beginning to Ate an OS/2 version of the presentation spreadsheet. In a room off the show floor at PC Expo here last month, the company previewed the program for a select audience. The OS/2 ver- sion is identical in function and appearance to its Mac counterpart, Wingz for OS/2 supports custom number Macflow 3.0 from Mcinstay creates color flowcharts and indudes an option for adding hidden text comments. is in the wings formats and banded contour graphs — two functions not currently in the Mac version. However, company officials said a Mac version. with these functions will ship at the same time as the OS/2 product. File formats under OS/2 and the Mac will be identical, officials said, enabling users to exchange files freely. Informix, based in Lenexa, Kan., labeled Wingz for OS/2 a “work in progress,” and would not discuss its shipping date or price. 0 scanning solution to debut at expo By Henry Norr Annapolis, Md. — Discovery Software plans an August Macworld Expo release for its Chroma-32 software, a color scanninj solution that the company’s president sai “costs less than the sales tax on many of our competitors’ products.” The $595 program works with standard gray-scale scanners and specially engineered filters. It requires three separate scanning passes — one each for red, green and blue — then combines the data to produce a full- color screen image, The program supports Apple's new 32-bit Color QuickDraw stan- dard, generating images with up to 16.7 million colors at 300 dpi from a 256-shade scanner, according to Discovery. The program reads and writes several file formats, including PICT, PICT2, tag image file format (TIFF) and TIFF-RGB, Discovery said. It will be the first commercial applica- tion to support the new FLEX file compres- sion format, which the company said will re- duce storage and telecommunications costs by compressing images at a 4-to-1 or 5-to-1 ratio. Discovery said the software has been tested with Apple, Hewlett-Packard, Microtek and Datacopy flatbed scanners and should work with other scanners that can produce gray-scale TIFF files. A Mac II-family machine or an SE/30 with Color QuickDraw is needed, along with 2 Mbytes of memory for larger images. The product was originally announced last year by Studiotronics Inc. of Winter Haven, Fla., under the name ColorSet Discovery is located at 163 Conduit St, Annapolis, Md. 21401; (301) 268-9877. a BEFORE: Telesis clients had to visualize completed graphics. MoclWEEK 25 July 1989 Upgrade also promises concurrent operations By Elinor Craig Champaign, Ill, — A new incarnation of Wolfram Research Inc.'s Mathematica will ship next week Version 1.2 of the program not only adds features but saves stack space and improves speed for certain operations, according to Theodore Gray, manager and chief developer of advanced user interfaces at Wolfram Researe The new release includes the following highlights > Mathematica graphics can now be con- verted to Adobe Illustrator 1.1 file format. > Kernel computations can run concur rently with front-end operations, although computation speed will be lowered slightly. > The 3D ViewPoint Selector allows a cube to be rotated in real time with estab- By Cliff Lehman Wilmington, Mass. — Agfa Compugraphic last month introduced a series of type pack- ages it called the only comprehensive set of outline type for the entire spectrum of the desktop publishing market The AgfaType Collection is made up of three type libraries > The Desktop Series consists of 35 out- line fonts that can be used with PostScript printers and a utility that allows users to cre- ate bit maps of the fonts for QuickDraw devices. The series is priced at $99 per vol- ume of four fonts. | > The Professional Series, with 85 volumes Mathematica 1.2 adds new graphics options lished coordinates. [EFite Taco raph _Find_Retion_Siyie Window > Colors can now be selected via the standard Macintosh color wheel > Symbolic integration has been greatly en- hanced, allowing process- ing of a much larger class of integrals. > Axes and labels can now be drawn on 3-D plots, and circle and disk primitives have been added for two- (ak0 Deoutt xt) OCartevion #n @ sonericet mS 59.1 Jem cn mete C9) eon [poorer EEO anes dimensional forms. Tategrateia/(e + E31). #1 > Communication with the Mathematica Kernel via TCP/IP runs — I over both Ethernet and LocalTalk. Mathematica 1.2 will be available for $795. The upgrade fee for registered owners will be $45 until July 31 and will then rise to $100. containing 410 typefaces, is actually the Adobe Type Library, repackaged and re- priced. Like Adobe's version, Professional Series fonts are in Type 1 format, so the must be used with printers equipped with Adobe PostScript interpreters. Prices for Professional Series volumes, which are available now and contain four to six fonts each, average