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MacwWeel 17 Octo! 989 Vol. 3 No. 37 W DEC announces All-In-] moving to Mac desktop By John B New York — It wasn't the long- awaited progeny of a two-year Apple-DEC dalliance, but Digital Equipment Corp. last week intro- duced software support that keeps the Macintosh all in the family. DEC used the INFO '89 show here to announce plans for software that will bring the company’s All- In-1 office productivity software directly to the Mac desktop. Previously available only to DEC users, All-In-1 consists of communications, work-group pub- lishing, calendaring and other net- worked business applications run- ning on DEC VAX minicomputers The Maynard, Mass.-based compa- ny claims a base of 3.3 million VAX nt is part of DEC’s new All-In-1 Phase II program rollout. The program, based on a client/server architec- ture in which a client workstation is served by All-In-] running on the VAX, allows data sharing between several industry-standard See All-In-1, Page 8 [[S Fite Ean Options Tent Windows Toots Sa ae eae ens Ree ree CQ alt RADIO nt iow ove Gm vw Mes GEES ‘i Shares Fees Mahe = ise) é Ae at || ; | \! | Pr (olsen ‘A 24-bit color pointing end imoge-processing program code-named Ox represents key color techoology under development ot Aldvs. Aldus heading for 0z? Curtain rises on color future By Connie Seattle — Aldus Corp. has developed a prototype 24-bit color paint and image-processing pro- gram that the company acknowl- edged represents key technology that may be included in future products. A version of the program, code- named Oz, that was reviewed by By Elinor Craig Cupertino, Calif, — The Macin- tosh Portable is shipping, but minus a part. Instead of a low- power mouse, dealers and cus- tomers are finding a coupon for the mouse, headlined “More to come.” The card advises buyers to allow eight to 10 weeks for delivery. The ‘only reason given is a “short-term manufacturing delay. Chris Hummel, manager of the || Computer Connection Apple deal- ership in Victorville, Calif, said an || Apple representative told him that the company does not have enough mouse units to ship with every Mouse trails behind portable: FCC glitch brings 2-month delay portable. Rather than hold up ship- ment of the machine, Apple chose to ship the mouse at a later date, he said Apple officials have not respond- ed to inquiries on the reason for the delay, but several sources with- in the company admitted that the shortage was caused by a last- minute decision to install a ferrite bead in the portable’s mouse cable to meet Federal Communications Commission Class B radio frequen- cy (RF) emission standards. The bead creates a “toroid trap” that squelches RF emissions from a computer or mouse. According to Tony Rodrigues, product manager at Mouse Sys- tems of Fremont, Calif, RF noise can interfere with data transmission. Even more important for a portable computer, RF leaks can affect aircraft See Mouse, Page 8 MacWEEK reveals the framework for a 24-bit color and gray-scale painting and image-processing pro- gram, with facilities for color cor- rection, monitor calibration and four-color separations. The Seattle-based company said it has been demonstrating the tech- nology incorporated in the program for the past year, but declined to comment on whether Oz will evolve into an Aldus product. “We have no current plans to announce a paint or image-process- ing program for the Mac,” Aldus spokeswoman Laurie Bryant said week. “The application you have was shown at a technology demonstration at the fall Seybold Publishing show in 1988. It is lab See Oz, Page 9 4D gets French cousin, new dBASE File Force to ship in Europe soon By Steve Rosenthal Paris — The French developers of 4th Dimension, the high-end relational database marketed in the United States by ACIUS, have introduced a new low- end product geared for modest file management applications. ACI’s File Force, shown at this month's Apple Expo here, will be available later this month in Europe, but plans for a Us. edition are still up in the air, according to Maryléne Delbourg- Delphis, ACI chairwoman and founder, “Our dealers in Europe have been asking for a low-level file access tools manager that is 100 percent com- patible with 4D. We are not sure if dealers in the United States need this product for their customers,” she said File Force shares the user inter- See File Force, Page 9 Externals open door to dBASE By Jim Forbes Troy, N.Y. — New soft- ware add-ons for Ver- sion 2.0 of 4th Dimen- sion will give users of the ACIUS relational database access to information in files created with Ashton-Tate’s industry-standard dBASE and compatible programs. The dB_Interface family of 4D See CTDATA, Page 9 CAD heavyweights KO'd by Ici By Rochelle Garner Cupertino, Calif. — CAD pro- fessionals who bought a Macintosh Ici for its processing horsepower may be feeling frustrated. Two of the Mac’s powerhouse CAD appli- cations won't run on the new machine. For unrelated reasons, neither MicroStation Mac from Intergraph Systems of Huntsville, Ala., nor AutoCAD for the Mac from Sausal- ito, Calif.-based Autodesk can be used on the latest Mac model, according to CAD dealers and offi- cials from the companies and Apple. > MicroStation Mac will work on the Ici only in demonstration mode. Although all functions oper- ate, the program shuts down after 10 minutes. Apple and Intergraph agreed See CAD, Page 8 GAG ATE ‘Free trial run’ Mac promotion begins Cupertino, Calif. — Apple last week kicked off its new holiday promo- tion campaign. Until Dec. 31, the Free Trial Run or Cash Back program lets qualified customers buy Apple IIGS, Mae Plus, SE, SE/30 or Ilex systems, choosing between an option to return the hardware by Jan. 15 or get rebates on Apple peripherals. The promotion also offers discounts on more than 100 software titles (see MacWEEK, Sept. 12). Apple conference marred by accident Maui, Hawaii — Apple USA assembled its sales force to preview new products and a new ad campaign last week at a national sales con- ne at the Waikaloa Hotel here, The event was marred by the death in an automobile accident of Leslie Liedtka, a seven-year Apple employee who was most recently HyperCard marketing manager, O NE Wa SECOND CLASS NEWSPAPER olorMAX 8/74. It goes from 8 to4 bits in ssp O flat. \ typical 8-bit color system costs about $6000. But when you upgrade to 24 bits, it can cost you over $9000. And weeks of time, while you wait for your new video card. Or you can buy a Sigma ColorMAX* 8/24 for $6295. It’s the best 8-bit, 19” Trinitron system available for the Mac ILxx family. And you can upgrade it to 24 bits in no time flat. Just by adding $500 worth of VRAM to the existing sockets. F Either way, you get the best ergonomics, w ith an ultra-high 79 Hz refresh rate. And the only real 72 dpi WYSIWYG. So circles look like circles, not like ovals. For complete information on ColorMAX, and all our display systems, just call 415/770-0100. And we'll show you the best way to upgrade to 24-bit color, Start with the best 8-bit color. EK 17 October 1989 Tie_Eat_Options_dbject_tifects_Tewl Windows a 7 es es ere q UitraPeint:UP Luscious ADDIE io} (=IKs) Sy ia) r-3 ud =] : Denebs Sofwore’s UltraPaint, slated for o December release, is a combination drawing, color painting ond gray-scale illustration program that will offer advanced capabilities at a low price. UltraPaint tries to dip into SuperPaint bucket By Connie Guglielmo Miami — Deneba Software is out to redefine Mac painting software with a low-cost program that offers a mixed palette of painting, image- processing and drawing tools. UltraPaint, due in December at $199, combines black-and-white painting, eight-bit color painting, gray-scale image editing and object-oriented drawing tools “We think there's a category of Mac user called the casual user,” said Joaquin DeSoto, vice presi- dent of Deneba. “He's someone who only needs to use a graphics program once in a while. So he doesn't want to invest a lot of money, but he wants a very flexible and powerful program.” For black-and-white painting, UltraPaint offers a three-pattern airbrush, editable lasso, masking tools and custom brushes. For color painting, the program supports custom color palettes and features a multicolor airbrush, masking and special-eflects tools such as color cycling. Gray-scale editing tools include contrast and brightness controls, selection tools, a charcoal pencil and a blend brush. There are also filters for sharpening, blurring and Varityper tones down Lino ad East Hanover, N.J. — Settling a suit filed against it by its archrival, Linotype Co., Varityper Inc. this month began running corrective advertisements in several computer magazines, including MacWEEK (see Page 54). The ads “clarify” a Varityper ad from earlier this year that Linotype charged was deceptive, The original ad, a customer testimonial, depicted a crumpled order form for an L300 imagesetter with RIP3 controller, In fact, a New York federal judge In this Issue News patra voyH Ke Fit ¥ by H's ES specity Model Y's by V's smearing all or part of an image. In addition to standard drawing tools, UltraPaint offers a free- form drawing tool, Bezier curves and polygons, auto tracing of bit- mapped images into objects, and the ability to scale and rotate objects in 1-degree incre- | ments. UltraPaint also lets users define an “objects only” layer. In a move to take on one of its chief competitors, Deneba is offer- ing a trade-in deal to owners of | SuperPaint, the $199 painting and | drawing program from Silicon Beach Software. SuperPaint own- ers can purchase UltraPaint for $50 by sending their master disk to Deneba, according to Manny Menendez, company president. “We think UltraPaint is all the casual graphics user will need,” Menendez said. “It will grow to whatever capabilities you are using. If you have a black-and-white Mac and then go to color, you don't need to buy another program.” UltraPaint also will be available for $50 to registered owners of Deneba's Canvas drawing program, Menendez added. Deneba Software is located at 3305 N.W. 74th Ave., Miami, Fla. 33122; (305) 594-6965. 0 found, the customer had not placed an order with Linotype and had not tested an L300 with RIP3. Varityper's advertising agency inserted the reference to RIP3, the company said. Varityper appealed the judge's ruling in Linotype’s favor, but the companies decided to settle out of court to avoid further legal expens- es, according to Varityper. “We just wanted to set the record straight,” said Allan Keysor, Linotype general counsel. 5 16 18 22 22 26 a 8 Analyze E Distribution of v's SOLUBILITY: Spin Creative visualization: The SAS Institute, Known for its statistical visualization programs for the IBM PC, brings its expertise to Macs with IMP. DCA offers mainframe-multitasking MacIRMA board Linotype rolls out Ethernet interface for RIP3 Tycho turns data to tables, missing fonts fo ghosts Lobtech adds GPIB support to Mac Notebook = =x) [ANAaNNY SRERENEE soRonoee Mac in charge: GW Instruments offerings put the Mac in control of lab instruments. SIMMs vendors turning to 4-Mbit chips AsyncServer gives Macs lower-cost VAX access Mac turns into a radio with FM Tuner board European graphics applications coming soon? StackWEEK Steve Miche! 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All other brand name and product names are trademarks or regstered trademarks of their respective holders iawn ial News SAS plots entry into Mac markets MS printers JMP geared to stat visualization By Henry Norr Cary, N.C. — The SAS Institute Inc., a leader in the field of statisti- cal analysis software for main- frames, minis, workstations and MS-DOS machines, last week jumped headlong into the graphical world of the Macintosh with a new statistical visualization program called JMP. Instead of porting its flagship product, the integrated SAS Sys- tem, to the Mac, SAS developed a brand-new program that it said promises a “quantum leap in data discovery” by “joining classical statistics with [the Mac's] state-of- the-art graphics capabilities.” Starting from a traditional spreadsheet grid for data entry, JMP generates customizable reports combining plots with sup- porting tables. All windows are “hot-linked” so a change in one is reflected throughout the report. The $695 program supports all usual parametric methods, includ- ing curve fits, 3-D spins, correla- tion matrices and one-way ANOVA, as well as journaling of results. It does not support time- series or non-parametric methods. JMP’s analytical commands, combined into six basic “platforms” listed on a single Analysis menu, Soa | mre ST Shipp, a manager in Northrop’s infor- mation resources department. Researchers at Arizona State Uni- versity in Tempe, —— another beta site for the program, Sas ** BS use JMP on Mac Ilex machines linked via Ethernet to a Digital Equip- ment Corp. VAX cer IMP, « new statistical visualization program from the SAS Insti- tute, pots all ofits enalysis commands in a single mene. Each command produces both graphics and supporting tables. constitute “a fairly complete set of statistical capabilities,” the compa- ny said. At a specified measure- ment level for the response (inter- val, nominal or ordinal), the pro- gram automatically chooses the appropriate statistical technique when the user selects one of the six platforms, the company said. The program can read text files with any delimiter or “transport files” created with any version of the SAS System, “The forte of JMP is that it allows people working with data who need to visualize it to look at the distribution and other statistical attributes, get an introductory feeling of what the data represents before going off to advanced statistical analysis,” said Charles 8650, which in turn is linked to a Cray supercom- puter, according to Doug Berry, academic computing specialist “We use the crunch tools on the Cray, then visualize the data on the Mac,” he said. SAS, a 13-year-old company with worldwide revenues of $170 million last year, claims more than 2 million users at 17,000 sites. JMP is available now, SAS said. The company also offers JMP IN, a $69 student or demonstration ver- sion of the program limited to data tables of 500 cells. Quantity and academic discounts on both pro- grams are available. SAS Institute can be reached at SAS Circle, Box 8000, Cary, N.C. 27512; (919) 467-8000. 0 Rochelle Garner and Becky Waring contributed to this report. turbocharged By Cliff Lehman Mobile, Ala. — QMS Inc. last month beefed up its printer line with two new models featuring new Adobe PostScript firmware and 68020 processors. Priced at $5,995 and $6,995, respectively, the QMS-PS 810 turbo and QMS-PS 820 turbo use the same eight-page-per-minute Canon SX and TX laser print engines used in QMS’ 68000-based 810 and 820 models. But the new Adobe firmware, called Discovery, makes the “turbo” printers three to four times faster than the older models, according to QMS. The original QMS-PS 810 will remain available at $4,995, but the company has dropped the price of the QMS-PS 820 to $5,995. Upgrades converting the older print- ers to “turbo” status sell for $1,995. The new printers come with 1 Mbyte of ROM, including 39 Adobe fonts and 2 Mbytes of RAM upgradable to 8 Mbytes. With AppleTalk, RS-232 and Cen- tronics interfaces, the printers can be used by Macs, IBM PCs and compatibles, and Digital Equipment Corp. systems. The new controllers feature software-selectable emula- tions of the Hewlett-Packard Laser- Jet + and H-P 7475A plotter. QMS Ine. is located at 1 Mag- num Pass, Mobile, Ala. 36618; (205) 633-4300. c Multisession DFT upgrade for MacIRMA due By Carolyn Said San Jose, Calif. — Digital Com- munications Associates Inc. last week announced MacIRMA Work- Station, software that adds main- frame multitasking to its MacIRMA line of Macintosh-to-mainframe connectivity products. The $: MacIRMA Work- Station software gives Distributed Function Terminal (DFT) capabili- ties to the Mac, allowing users to establish multiple communications sessions with an IBM mainframe computer. In addition to running up to five concurrent sessions, MacIRMA WorkStation provides IBM 3287 printer emulation so mainframe documents can be pri ed to AppleTalk printers, DCA said. MacIRMA boards are available for the SE, the SE/30 and the entire Mac IJ family, including the Hci DCA also announced a new ver- sion of MacIRMA API, its applica- tion programming interface (API) guidelines, that adds support for DFT. MacIRMA API 1.2, priced at $195, is free to existing users. Both new products a year-end release, the “We're offering the for lars you need in the 3270 environ- ment: control unit terminal emul tion (the $1,195 MacI RMA), graph- ies capability (MacIRMA Graphics. priced at $195), a programming tool (MacIRMA API), and now multisessions capability with print- er emulation through Mac] RMA WorkStation,” said Guy Powell, DCA senior product manager. DCA's competitors in the Mac- to-mainframe connectivity market are Avatar Technologies Inc. of Hopkinton, Mass., and Tri-Data Systems Inc. of Sunnyvale, Calif. In January Avatar shipped a $495 software upgrade that added DFT compatibility to its $1,295 MacMainFrame. Avatar announced 3287 printer emulation this sum- mer and expects that product to ship by the end of this month. Tri-Data Systems offers the 16- session $3,995 Netway 1000 and MecIRMA WorkStotion ets users establish five simoltaneous sessions with an IBM mainframe, induding IBM printer emlation, shown ot left. The Mac at right shows DCA’s new MaciRMA API. the 64-session $9,995 Netway 2000. Both provide similar func- tionality to DFT, allowing each Mac user to run up to eight main- frame sessions under MultiFinder and emulating 3287 printers Unlike MacIRMA and MacWork- Station, the Netway products reside on the LocalTalk network. DCA is located at 1000 Alder- man Drive, Alpharetta, Ga. 30201; (404) 442-4000. 0 For the record The Apple Customer Relations phone number for inquiries about reimbursement for repairs to Quantum drives was listed incor- ly in the Oct. 10 issue, The cor- umber is (408) 252-2775, he Oct. 10 issue also gave an incorrect phone number for Wacom, developer of the Cordless Digitizer. The correct number is (201) 265-4226. 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The lock is designed to prevent unauthorized use of the software. “Unfortunately, the developer that imple- mented Intergraph's ADB lock did not fully implement ADB,” said Jon Magill, Apple’s engineering/scientific evangelist. “As a result, ADB does not acknowledge the device.” From Page 1 George Dulchinos, system engineer at Bentley Systems, the Intergraph subsidiary that developed MicroStation Mac, said he thought the problem lay elsewhere. “It looks like a bug in the ADB Manager in the IIci’s ROM,” he said. “We've found that an ADB operation is being ignored by the ADB Man- ager. We're hoping to get an answer from Apple on that soon.” > The problem with AutoCAD for the Mac lies in the program's internal code, according to Magill. “It didn’t run at the Ici introduc- tion; it completely bombed,” he said. Autodesk did not elaborate on what those software problems are, but John Forbes, product manager, said: “We have an updated version of the Mac product that is being test- ed in-house that does run on the Mac IlIci This updated version is also compatible with the Mac II and Mac Ilex. We plan to release this updated version when testing is complete.” Neither Autodesk nor Intergraph said it could specify exactly when updated ver- sions of their programs for the Ici would be available. ¢ if Your Hard Drive Is Too Limiting Jasmine 40 MB Consider One That Has No Limits. | With conventional hard disk drives there isa basic problem: When you run out of storage, you run out of storage. Period, To get more you'll have to buy another hard drive Unless you consider the Ehman removable alternative. 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So why be limited by conventional hard drives, when you can have Ehman's unlimited capacity for just Ehman 1-800-257-1666 ‘MocWEEK 17 October 1989 All-tn-1 From Page 1 platforms. Besides the Mac, the program will bring All-In-1 to MS-DOS and OS/2 PCs, DECwindows VMS and DECwindows Unix workstations, DEC video terminals, and IBM 3270 terminals. “The first set of All-In-1 Phase II products are designed to answer users’ needs for choice in desktop [computers],” said Henry Ancona, DEC vice president for business and office information systems. The initial version of the Macintosh client software will be available sometime next year, according to Joanne Correia, strategic marketing manager for All-In-1 desktop products. It will run as an application on the Mac and connect to the VAX via asyn- chronous (RS-232) or TSSnet to DECnet Phase 4. The software, prototypes of which were demonstrated at the show, will follow Mac interface guidelines, she said. Correia said that future versions of the Mac client software will take advantage of gateway products under joint development by DEC and Apple (see MacWEEK, May 16). The gateways, expected early next year, will allow Macintosh clients to hook directly into AppleTalk running on a DEC without going through TSSnet. “Dealing with TSSnet is a pain, it isnt plug: and play,” said one corporate user who request- ed anonymity. “If this is really going to fly, those [alliance products] better be out soon.” A typical LocalTalk LAN configuration hooked to an Ethernet backbone via a hard- ware gateway, such as Excelan’s Kinetics FastPath or Cayman Systems’ GatorBox, could take advantage of All-In-1 services as soon as DEC’s Mac client software and Apple's AppleTalk Phase 2 software become available. “The older version [of All-In-1] was only for dumb terminals,” said Al Cini, president of Computer Methods Corp. of South Marl- ton, N.J. “DEC has resuscitated a product whose life cycle was at its end by giving it a rich windowing client/server environment.” All-In-1 Phase I requires new server soft- ware that will ship in January. Prices for the server module will range from $1,245 to $2,495 for a four-user license, depending on configuration. Pricing for the Mac client soft- ware is not available, but DEC officials said it would be comparable to the $195 DOS client software, Digital Equipment Corp. is located at 146. Main St, Maynard, Mass. 01754-2571; (800)- 344-4825. 0 Mouse instrumentation. But the question of why the ferrite bead is going on the cable remains. “On the SE and the Mac II, the toroid traps are found on the motherboard at the ADB (Apple Desktop Bus) socket,” said Chuck Meyer, technician at CJS Systems of Berkeley, Calif. Meyer examined a close-up photograph of the portable motherboard but saw no toroid trap. A technician familiar with the problem sug- gested that a lack of “real estate” on the portable's motherboard might be the reason for installing a toroid trap in the mouse cable. Whatever the original problem, the FOC granted certification for the portable in September. “Apple presented us with a computer, and the ADB mouse already had a ferrite bead on the cable,” said Chris Harvey, electronics engineer at the FCC Office of Engineering and Technology, Equipment Authorization Branch in Washington. Q From Page 1 ‘MocWEEK 17 October 1989 Dynodex brings Filo fad to the Mac By Henry Norr Brooklyn, N.Y. — Setting out to combine “high tech with the high touch,” Portfolio Systems will next week begin shipping Dynodex, a name-and-address database and printing system designed for use with upscale personal organizers like the Filofax, Lefax, Day-Timer and Day Runner. The package, priced at $99 until Dec. 31, then $149.95, is targeted at users like Peter Lance, a Los Angeles-based executive pro- ducer for Orion TV, who said, “My whole life is contained in my Filofax, but it used to be a real mess because of my chicken-scratch handwriting and all the changes I have to make in it all the time.” Lance, a Dynodex beta tester, said he has now entered data on about 700 contacts into the new program and printed the informa- tion out on the special Dynodex paper that Portfolio offers with the software. The 20- pound laser paper, pre-perforated to fit the fashionable six-ring organizers, is available in several sizes and four colors at $24.95 per package of 100 or 80 sheets. For printing Dynodex offers a choice between one-, two- and three-column for- mats, In three-column mode it can use left- over space on the page to produce a DyNet, a set of credit card-sized pages that can be stapled into a pocket flip book. In all formats the program has preset routines for produc- ing double-sided pages — a first among com- puter address book systems, according to Portfolio co-founder Brian Smiga. At the click of a button in the Dynodex application, users can toggle between listing entries by last name or by business; the program automatically reformats the infor- mation, capitalizing the whole business name or the individual's last name. When a record is on-screen, the program shows the data not only in the entry fields but also in a WYSIWYG display. Users can enter up to four phone numbers in each record and dial direct from the entry screen. There is also a field for comments and for two category entries, by which the records can be searched, subdivided and printed. Lloyd Johnson, data processing manager at International Forest Products Inc. in Port- land, Ore., and another beta tester, said he is using the category feature extensively. He has already consolidated two long Rolodex trays into one printed directory for his desktop and another one for traveling Now, he said, he is using the Dynodex categories to generate specialized subdirectories of company employees and maintenance contractors, which he will distribute to others on his staff. “It's already passed the real litmus test,” Johnson said. “I also organized my boss's Rolodex. He travels a lot, and he’s delighted to be so much better o1 .” Robert Kinnin, office technology coordina- tor at Ernst & Young in New York, has come up with another use for the program. He said he is planning to produce corporate address lists, updated monthly, to send out to the accounting company’s field auditors. Other Dynodex features include optional automatic page breaks between letters, non- printing fields, configurable Frequent Find and Frequent Selection submenus, on-line help, and import and export of files and selected fields in text format. Portfolio Systems is located at 156 Flush- ing Ave., Brooklyn, N.Y. 11205; (718) 935- 9501; (800) 729-3966. 0 File Force face and file structure of its bigger brother, but in terms of functionality it is designed to fall between 4D and simpler, flat-file man- agers such as Microsoft File ot Claris Corp's FileMaker, said Delbourg-Delphis. In basic operations, File Force is much like 4D, with form creation, linking, query and reporting modes. Most operations will work from defaults, but the program also allows extensive customization. Databases created in File Force are upwardly compatible and can be used by 4D, but File Force may not be able to read all 4D. files, according to ACI. In addition, File Force is not designed to create stand-alone applications, so there is no equivalent to 4D's custom development environment. In File Force, forms are created by drawing fields on sereen, then picking attributes from a dialog box. File Force supports eight-bit color and a full range of data types, including text, From Page 1 date, Boolean logic and images. ‘The program supports up to 100 forms per database, with links made by pointing with the mouse. Commands for arithmetic operations, item look-up, posting to other forms and merging lists, and other functions can be incorporated into scripts. The com- mand set for File Force doesn’t offer the full range of commands provided with 4D, however. Output reports can include the usual sum- maries and subtotals as well as several types of business graphs. Multi-user support is automatic, with record locking built-in with- out special action by the user. Files can be password protected. File Force will initially be available in French and German versions. The list price for the French version will be 2,800 francs: {about $450 in the United States). Version 2.0 of 4D, released in August, costs $795 in the United States, ACI can be reached at 5 Rue Beaujon, 75008 Panis, France; (1) 42-27-37-25.0 CIDATA From Page 1 externals, due next month from CTDATA Software, allows 4D developers to build applications that directly read and write data in files conforming to the DBF data file format, without converting the file to 4D's native format. The tools support all field types in dBASE as well as dBASE compatibles such as Fox Software's FoxBASE line, Nantucket Corp.'s Clipper and McMax, and WordTech Inc.'s dBXL and QuickSilver, according to Dave Aiello, president of CTDATA. Data from all dBASE field types as well as from FoxBASE+/Mac’s picture field type is con- verted directly into the closest 4D data type, he said. Third-party products allowing users to access the thousands of files that have been written using dBASE are “extremely impor- tant to 4D users, particularly those who work for large corporations,” said Will Mayall, vice president of engineering at ACIUS. “There are a lot of people who can use this informa- tion, and dB_Interface is the only product that does this, since 4D doesn't recognize DBF and other formats (used in DOS database programs).” “The dB_Interface products can be used by anyone who needs to quickly develop database programs or executive information systems using files from other applications,” Aiello said. The cornerstone of CTDATA'’s dB_Inter- face family is The Real-Time File Pack, which allows developers to exchange data with any DBF-format file. A single-user ver- sion of the product, due by the end of the year, will cost $249.99. A multi-user version will cost $349.99. (All 4D applications are multi-user; CTDATA’s multi-user versions are required only when the application from which data is to be read is multi-user.) An additional set of externals called Real- Time Index Packs provide access to data in alphabetical, numeric or other structured order in indexed files generated by the ABASE-compatible programs. The Index Packs support all file operations available in AD, including Open, Close, Read, Write, Delete and Search by Index. CTDATA will release separate versions compatible with dBASE, Fox Software's products and Nan- tucket’s Clipper. Prices will be $99.99 (single user) or $149.99 (multi-user), but delivery dates for the Index Packs have not been set, Aiello said. A Real-Time Economy Bundle, consisting of the Real-Time File Pack and one Index Pack, will cost $299.99 (single-user) or $399.99 (multi-user). A Real-Time Developer Bundle including the File Pack and all three Index Packs will be $499.99 and $699.99, respectively. End-user licenses will be priced at $59.99 each or five for $249.99 and 10 for $399.99. CTDATA Software is a unit of Chatham Township Data Corp., which is located at 1223 People Ave., Troy, N.Y. 12180-3531, (518) 276-2600. 0 VIRUS Virex 2.1 PREVENT! News 0z From Page 1 technology used by our research and devel- opment group.” She added that Aldus, developer of popu- lar graphics applications for the Mac, includ- ing the Aldus PageMaker desktop publishing program and Aldus FreeHand, a PostScript drawing program, has devoted the past 18 months to developing color technology. “It's clear that color is going to be impor- tant in the 1990s for visual communications. We'd be blowing it if we weren't deeply involved in the development of color tech- nology to take advantage of future market opportunities,” said Mike Templeman, who oversees the company’s color technology development. “Our goals are to understand the complexi- ties of color all the way, and then we can con- centrate on ways to make it effective and fast, ‘Templeman said. “[Oz] is one our tools.” Some of that development effort has already been incorporated into recently released products, including Aldus’ Page- Maker Color Extension, an add-on module that adds professional-level color handling capabilities to PageMaker, Bryant said (see MacWEEK, Aug. 1). The Open Pre-Press Interface, a standard proposed by Aldus for defining and position- ing color TIFF images and outputting them to high-end pre-press systems, also was a direct result of development efforts, Bryant added. The company also has licensed 24-bit image-processing technology from Light Source, a Mac graphics developer in Mill Valley, Califo N & TREATMENT The Best Gets Better! It's not surprising that Virex is the premier anti- Virus solution for the Macintosh. Virex was the first commercial anti-virus software and the first to repair infected files. Now the best gets better. Introducing Virex 2.1 with the Virex INIT Virex 2.1 adds new features to make virus pro- tection even easier for you. The Virex INIT con- tinuously monitors your system so virus infec- tions are PREVENTED. The Virex INIT examines each disk when inserted and each file when opened for the presence of viruses so you can repair infected files BEFORE they spread a virus. And Virex 2.1 also has a powerful diagnostic tool which can be used to detect new or previously unknown viruses. Virex 2.1 Combats nFLU virus! HAC rapidly updated Virex to combat the newly discovered nFLU virus, a derivative of the nVIR family of viruses. Virex remains effective against ail of the known Macintosh viruses. HJC Software, Inc. P.O. Box 51816 Durham, NC 27717 SOFTWARE (919) 490-1277 (© 1969 HC Sotewe Inc Ver a gitar Wadena of HAC Softwa ln. Mactosh a adem of Apple Comput, nc News Lino RIP3 gets Ethernet interface By Cliff Lehman Hauppauge, N.Y. — Linotype Co. last month rolled out an Ether- net interface to the RIP3 controller for high-resolution Linotronic 300 and 500 imagesetters. The Ethernet Option board promises faster throughput, com- pared with AppleTalk or serial con- nections, for users of Macs, IBM PCs or Unix workstations on Ether- net LANs. Ethernet can transfer data at up to 10 Mbits per second. “In real-life situations you can expect 4.5 percent to 5 percent faster throughput overall, resulting from a 30 percent improvement in the communications portion of the process,” said Dan Mills, manager of product management. “That 5 percent gives you two hours per shift per week more time on your imagesetter.” When purchased with a new RIP3, the board is priced at $3,500. An upgrade for an existing RIP3 costs about $3,800. Linotype Co. is located at 425 Oser Ave., Hauppauge, N.Y. 11788; (516) 434-2000. 0 Macreation’s Tycho sets the tables By Carolyn Soid Pacifica, Calif — Hoping to relieve the tedium of creating publi- cation-quality tables from raw data, Macreations Inc. last’ month shipped Tycho, a $149 program that lets users edit and style tabular data. “If you pick up any publication, from a newsletter all the way to Business Week, you see as many tables as graphs,” said Thom Hogan, chief architect of the pro- gram and president of Macreations “But typesetting tables is probably the most odious chore known to man.” The program is aimed at users who want to turn spreadsheet or database information into tables for inclusion in page-layout or presen- tation packages, the company said. Tycho-generated tables can be saved as PICT files or in the pro- gram’s own format (see Mac- WEEK, May 23). ‘Tycho offers full design and for- matting control over data in ASCII, SYLK, tab- and comma-delimited formats, the company said, Fea- tures include auto-sizing of import- ed data, word-wrap within cells, shading, grouping, and a built-in Low-cost PhotoMacEDIT without color sep features Cambridge, Mass. — Avalon Development Group is offering a lower-cost version of its PhotoMac image-editing soft- ware to users who don't need all of the program's advanced features. PhotoMacEDIT, scheduled to ship Noy. 1 for $495, contains all the tools found in the $795 PhotoMac 1.1, Avalon's 24-bit color editing and retouching pro- gram, with the exception of the color-separation utility and elec- tronic color stripping capabilities, “A lot of the people doing desk- top color publishing do not need processed color images,” said Anthony DiRenzo, Avalon director of product marketing. PhotoMac- tminvs color separation ond electronic color-stripping utilities. EDIT lets users of Mac 11 comput- ers and the SE/30 retouch, color- correct and resize 24-bit color images with a variety of brushes and filters, PhotoMacEDIT users can upgrade to PhotoMac for $295. Avalon is at 1000 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, Mass. 02138- 5304; (617) 661-1405, 0 Prometheus modem gets fax capability Tigard, Ore. — Prometheus Prod- ucts Inc. this month will ship an aggressively priced peripheral that packs fax-transmission capability into its standard modem. The ProModem 2400MFAX is a 2,400-bps data modem that can also can fax mes- sages to Group III fax machines at 4,800 bps. Unlike full-fledged fax modems, it cannot receive faxes, ‘The modem is priced at $299, only $20 more than Prometheus’ 2,400- bps data modem, and comes with MacKNOWLEDGE, Prometheus’ $199 communications program, and Solutions Inc.’s BackFAX. Prometheus Products Inc, is at 7225 SW. Bonita Road, Tigard, Ore, 97223; (503) 624-0571; (800) 477-3473. <r now oo = On the left are three tables being edited with Macreations’ Tycho, while on the right is on Aldus PageMaker document with the topmost table pasted into it. PostScript font of check marks and other chart-oriented symbols. “Tycho is a great labor-saving device,” said Jeff Browning, corpo- rate counsel at ATIP, a Dallas developer of an automated publish- ing system. “It provided me with a very convenient way to bring in and format tab-delimited text from (Fox Software's) FoxBASE+/Mac. I saved it as a PICT file and brought it into (Aldus) Persuasion to dress it up some more.” Browning noted several draw- backs to the program, however, including the absence of a page- By Elinor Craig Minneapolis — Authorware Inc. this month introduced Authorware Professional, an icon-based author- ing tool targeted at the growing market for multimedia business learning systems. The new program is a major upgrade of The Best Course of Action, which Authorware intro- duced in January 1988. Authorware Professional offers eight-bit color, frame-based and data-driven ai mation, sound editing, CD-ROM and videodise support, and extensi- bility via external commands and functions in HyperCard XCMD and XFCN format. Performance has been improved 30 percent to 40 percent over the previous ver- sion, according to Bud Colligan, Authorware CEO. In addition to its own toolboxes for text, graphics, sound digitizing and animation creation, Author- ware Professional accepts PICT, PICT2 and Paint files as well as animation from any package sup- porting the PICS format. The company has targeted cor- porate and industrial training mar- kets as well as education, Colligan said, ‘The U.S, Coast Guard's Aviation Technical Training Center in Glen- preview feature and limits on for- matting of headings and notes. Macreations offers a 60-day money-back guarantee on Tycho as well as a $10 demonstration version. The program is named after Tycho Brahe, the 16th-century astronomer who was the first to publish tabular data, Hogan said. Another table-editing program released this year, Mansfield Sys- tems’ $395 TableTools, is designed for use with Microsoft Excel. Macreations Inc. is located at 329 Horizon Way, Pacifica, Calif. 94044; (415) 359-7649. 0 view, Ill, uses Authorware Profes- sional for entry-level training. “We tailored a program for tutorial, practice and testing of individuals in mathematics and electronics for aircraft maintenance,” said Chief Jeffrey Porter of the Chicago Air Station. “We also use it to train for mechanics, hydraulics and mainte- nance in general.” Authorware also released Authorware PC, a program for delivering Mac-generated Author- ware applications on MS-DOS: machines. 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With the GPIB Support Kit, Labtech Note- book users can send and receive data from up to 31 specialized GPIB instruments. The soft- ware works with GPIB boards for the Mac from IOtech, Strawberry Tree, GW Instru- ments and National Instruments, Labtech said. Labtech Notebook for the Mae, includ- ing GPIB support, costs $995. The GPIB Sup- port Kit is available separately for $295. The new software puts three GPIB win- dows on screen: one that lists available com- mands, one for entering commands to be sent to the instruments and a third that displays the results. This approach lets users experi- ment with different commands and get imme- diate feedback without requiring that a com- plete, executable program be developed first. Labtech Notebook supports both analog and digital input and output, calculated channels, historical replay, and thermocouple and RS-232 connections, the company said It is MultiFinder-compatible. 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The $795 MacADIOS 488s and $595 MacADIOS 488n are the company’s first offerings that ally control laboratory instrumenta- tion from the Macintosh. “We are going beyond data acquisition, where the hardware talks only to sensors, and into the world of instrumentation control,” said Stephen McCabe, vice president of GW Instruments. The 458s is an external SCSI device, while the 488n occupies a NuBus slot. Both boards let users control any lab instrument with a GPIB (general-purpose interface bus) connector. Each board can control up to 14 daisychained GPIB instruments and peripherals Collected data is stored in the Mac as a text file and can be opened in ANVENT YY GW Instruments’ SoftPanels applications, available without charge for GW acquisition boards, mimic a variety of instruments. any application for viewing and generating reports Both new boards come with MacDA488, a desk accessory that includes a list of ASCII strings used as commands in most lab instruments. Users simply double- click on a command, such as T GAIN TO 10,” for example. Com- mand strings unique to each instru- ment can be entered in a separate DA window. MacDriver488, an application also included with the niin) BEGCSEGE: boards, lets users program acquisi- tion and control commands at the 1/0 level. In addition, GW Instruments announced that it is providing a free copy of its Soft- Panels application to all existing and future owners of its boards. When launched, SoftPanels displays an instrument- panel mock-up that lets users monitor digital and analog inputs and outputs, Depending on the board being used to collect data, a SoftPanels application may also display oscilloscopes, analog voltage output signals or continu- ‘ous wave forms as well as linear or logarithmic sweeps. Under MultiFinder, up to five SoftPanels applications can monitor five boards, the company said GW Instruments is located at 35 Medford St., Somerville, Mass 02143, (617) 625-4096. 9 By Henry Norr East Haven, Conn. — Microtech International and Clearpoint Research Corp. last week joined Newer Technology in the small cir- cle of vendors offering low-profile 4-Mbyte memory modules incorpo- rating the latest in dynamic RAM technology, the 4-Mbit chip. Newer has been shipping SIMMs (single in-line memory modules) with the high-density chips since July, according to Roger Kasten, director of marketing for the company. Cliff Wildes, presi- dent of Microtech, said his compa- ny will begin shipping its new SIMMs this week, while Clear- point this month began shipping a 4-Mbyte SIMM targeted specifical- ly at the Mac IIci. While many other SIMM ven- dors offer 4-Mbyte SIMMs, most currently deliver over-size “com- posite” SIMMs packed with 32 of the 1-Mbit DRAM chips used in groups of eight on standard 1-Mbyte modules. By using surface- mounted 4-Mbit chips, Newer, Microtech and Clearpoint now offer ‘MacWEEK 17 October 1989 4-Mbyte SIMMs that are no larger than standard 1-Mbyte SIMMs. By installing eight of the new modules, users can boost total motherboard memory to 32 Mbytes. The current Mac operating sys- tem can access no more than 8 Mbytes of system memory. A/UX users, however, can already take advantage of the 32 Mbytes of DRAM the new SIMMs offer, and Apple’s forthcoming System 7.0 will remove the 8-Mbyte cap from the Mac operating system. Newer's SIMMs are bundled with FastDrive, a program that cre- ates a RAM disk capable of surviv- ing restarts and most crashes (see MacWEEK, Sept. 19). The new SIMMs that use high- density chips are more expensive than boards that provide equivalent amounts of RAM with I-Mbit chips. Clearpoint’s module, which the company calls the SNXSM/S4 80, is priced at $1,500. The SIMM, originally designed for Sun Microsystems’ SPARCstation, uses 4-Mbit Toshiba and Hitachi chips rated at 80 nanoseconds, according From Now ‘Til January Get $200 Cash Back On Spectrum/8 (Series II There's never been a better time to cash in on a Spectrum/8 (Series II) color graphics card for your Macintosh II or SE/30. And get 200 bucks back from SuperMac to boot. system. GEST IN Add that to current hardware WORLD J rebates from Apple and you could get up to $500 back on a complete And special dealer incentives sreceass.| mean great deals on the full line of SuperMac graphics subsystems, too. Monitors, mass storage, software, the works. So hustle on over to your nearest SuperMac dealer before it’s too late. And start turning 8-bits into big bucks, today. SUPERMIAC Call SuperMac at 408-245-2202, ext 300, or see your dealer for complete details. SuperMac and Spectrumn/8 (Series I) are trademarks of SuperMac Technology Apple and Macintosh are repistered trademarks of Apple Computer, Inc. © 1989 SuperMac Technology. (Ofer good in North America only. for purchases made between October 1 and December 31,1989. First ar THIS NOTE IS LEGAL TENDER: FOR ALL DEBTS, PUBLIC AND PRI MocWEEK 17 October 1989 to David Ezekiel, product market ing manager at Clearpoint. A ninth chip provides parity checking, a safety feature common on other platforms but first introduced to the Mac II family with the Mac Iei Newer, now using Toshiba-built 80-nanosecond 4-Mbit chips charges $1,325 for its standard SIMM and $1,485 for a version with a ninth chip for parity checking. Microtech’s SIMMs, using 80- nanosecond Hitachi chips, are priced at $1,320 for the standard version and at $1,470 with the parity chip. Newer also offers two composite 4-Mbyte boards for the Mac, one priced at $895 and the other at $925. The former, with 32 DIP- style 1-Mbit chips, is designed strictly for the Mac II or IIx. The $925 version, using surface- mounted chips, fits in any Macin- tosh except the SE/30, Kasten said Despite higher prices, the new SIMMs with 4-Mbit chips may find a market among some users because, unlike the composite modules, they fit in SE/30s and leave room for full-height hard drives and accelerators in Mac II family machines. “It's still pretty expensive,” Wildes said, “but by the end of the first quarter next year it should be down to $800.” Microtech’s main objective at this stage, he said, is not so much to market the SIMMs News While 4-Mbit DRAM chips are just beginning to make their appearance in Mac memory mod- ules, a larger number of vendors are offering 4-Mbyte SIMMS (sin- gle in-line memory modules) that | use extra 1-Mbit chips on extra- | large circuit boards. Clearpoint Research Corp. and Pinnacle Sales International are the latest vendors to announce such “composite” SIMMs as memory upgrades for the Mac IIx, Ilex and I (with PMMU chip and SuperDrive upgrade). Pinnacle’s 4-Mbyte boards, | which it calls MIMMs, or “multi- in-line memory modul cost $745 each. Since only A/UX, and not existing versions of the stan- dard Mac operating system, can Other vendors use composite SIMMs access more than 8 Mbytes of sys- tem memory, Pinnacle offers soft- ware that allows users to set up additional memory as a high- speed RAM disk. Clearpoint’s MC2RAM/4MB, targeted at A/UX users and cus- tomers looking ahead to Apple's System 7.0, lists at $1,200, accord- ing to David Ezekiel, product marketing manager at Clearpoint. Mail-order prices for 1-Mbyte SIMMs have recently dropped to less than $100, but additional logic chips, larger boards and more-complex design and engi- neering push up the per- megabyte cost of the larger SIMMs, Ezekiel said. Clearpoint and Pinnacle also have introduced 1-Mbyte expan- sion SIMMs for the Apple Laser- Writer IINTX. Clearpoint's prod- uct, the APME-NTX/1MB, now sells for $275, while Pinnacle’s NTX SIMMS are priced at $288, Pinnacle also said that it has already cut the price of its memory expansion card for the new Mac Portable, announced just last month, to $1,558. The card, which fits in the portable’s processor-direct slot, is shipped with an additional 2 Mbytes of 0- nanosecond static RAM and can be expanded to a total of 7 Mbytes on the board. Pinnacle Sales International is at 2005 Hamilton Ave., Suite 220, San Jose, Calif. 95125; (408) 559- 8544; (800) 622-1722, — By Ben | Templin and Henry Norr to end users as to get system manu- facturers like Apple, Compaq Com- puter Corp. and Dell Computer Corp. to begin incorporating the expanded memory modules into new computer designs. “Frankly,” Newer’s Kasten said. “an end user has got to be crazy to buy them right now instead of the composite boards, unless they real- ly need to put that kind of memory in an SE/30 or for some reason real- ly want to install an internal full- height drive in a II.” Because the Hitachi chips them- selves are slightly larger than 1-Mbit surface-mounted chips, Wildes said, Microtech put four DRAM chips on either side of the SIMM to avoid any conflict with other internal hardware. The Newer SIMMs with 4-Mbyte Toshiba chips resemble standard 1-Mbyte modules, Kasten said Microtech International is located at 158 Commerce St., East Haven, Conn. 06512; (203) 468-6223; (800) 626-4276. Clearpoint Research Corp. is at 35 Parkwood Drive, Hop- kinton, Mass. 01748; (508) 435-2000. Newer Technology is at 1117 S Rock Road, Suite 4, Wichita, Kan. 67207; (316) 685-4904. 5 Publishing apps put on Bernoulli Salt Lake City — Combining | page-layout power with its remov- able-storage technology, Iomega Corp. last month began shipping its Power Publishing Solutions series of preloaded Bernoulli disks. Designed to be used with the company’s Bernoulli Box II, Ber- noulli Box 1/44 and Bernoulli Portable 44, the disks contain pub- lishing applications from Seattle- based Aldus Corp. and Enabling | Technologies of Chicago. The high- capacity disks are ideal for storing large layout and graphics files as well as software, fonts, templates, menus and utilities, lomega said. | The series includes: Aldus Page- Maker on a 20-Mbyte disk for | $649; Aldus PageMaker with Color Extension for $849; Aldus Persua- sion for $549; Aldus FreeHand for $549; and the Clip-3D Library from Enabling Technologies for $249. On 44-Mbyte disks the prod- ucts cost $40 more. The Bernoulli Collection Divi- sion of Iomega Corp. is located at 605 N. Eddie Rickenbacker Drive, Salt Lake City, Utah 84116; (801) 524-2000.0 Ds4 '8-Bits W r ey | / Ad Eight-Bit Color Graphics Cards From SuperMac. yoose SE rrantae ys wlizeec~ie Se grrzm ce Baizeac-tt =eeee tae sranroce tifa L1A3398 TAG 8748 6 1579 HONG KONG wreeees ; Sa grate Ctl eec-t2 ol es MC74F257H Osse1w SN74LS374N @rws747K fe bo te me om oe ng ®@ iaveise MC74F245n 19615 tened2 we oma eel You 200 Bucks. Server cuts cost of VAX access By John Battelle Marlton, N.J. — Corporate users looking to tap into VAX-based AppleTalk networks from their new Mac Portables can now turn to Computer Methods Corp.’s AsyncServer: The package, officially released last month, allows Macs to dial into VAX/VMS systems and take advan of VAX-based AppleTalk file servers, as well as LaserWrit ers and other shared peripherals on the net work. It also offers a way to connect new users in the office without costly hardware. Computer Methods said, by using existing VAX terminal server connections such as phone lines or direct RS-232 lines from the Mac’s printer or modem ports It replaces a modem or server (dedicated to asynchronous AppleTalk connections) with “Best package for rendering, thanks to power and ease of use.” InfoWorld Oct. 2, 1989 Sophisticated 3-D GraphicsWith _ Macintosh Simplicity. | STRATAVISION 3d comes complete with | tools for modeling, texturing, and detailed rendering. 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S) software that is directly on the VAX,” said Al Cini, president of Computer Methods. “You no longer have to dial into an [intermediate] piece of hardware; you go straight to the VAX.” He said the product is not intended to compete with higher-performance gateway products, but to provide an economical solu- tion for users with moderate AppleTalk needs. “If you have to be a part of your [VAX- based AppleTalk] network while on the road, it's a good product to have,” said Stanley Shaw, manager of end-user computing for Colgate Palmolive in Piscataway, N.J. “It's Call our toll-free number and see just how easy it is to own the simplest approach to sophisticated graphics. tts TR Agi 1-800-869-6855 ext. 300 | by Sraghso MocWEEK 17 October 1989 done everything we've asked of it.” AsyncServer software is installed on the VAX and in desk accessory form on the Mac The user must connect to the VAX with stan- dard terminal-emulation software, then use a three-letter command to start the AsyneServ- er software on the VAX. The software, based on Apple's AppleTalk for VMS, provides a bridge between the Mac and VAX operating systems. Users then acti- vate the Mac desk accessory, based on Dart- mouth University’s Asynchronous AppleTalk. The system provides transparent access to | network peripherals as well as to third-party Mac-VAX products such as AlisaTalk, Pacer- Share and Helix VMX. uture versions will support the as-yet- unreleased Version 3.0 of AppleTalk for VMS, as well as asynchronous AppleTalk software from other vendors. Prices for an AsyncServer license range from $595 for a MicroVax II server to $1,895 for a high-end server such as a 6xxx or 8xxx. Client software is free and is limited only by the number of Macintoshes the serv- er can support Computer Methods Corp. is located at 525 Route 73 S., Suite 300, Marlton, N.J. 08053; (609) 596-4360. a Laying down law on Mac desktop By Carolyn Seid San Francisco — Legal eagles have slim pickings when it comes to specialized Macin- tosh software, but a handful of Mac applica- tions designed specifically for lawyers was on display at the Cavalcade of Law Office Tech- nology show here earlier this month > JurisDOCKET 1.3 from Seamless Soft- ware Systems Corp. updates the company’s docket management system, which is ba on Odesta Corp.'s Double Helix. Designed to help small law firms manage civil litigation cases, JurisDOCKET “relieves clerks and secretaries from having to deal with a paper trail,” said Jay Giusti, company president JurisDOCKET MultiUser costs $1,250 for four users and one administrator and includes Double Helix MultiUser, Multi-user prices vary depending on the number of users. The single-user JurisDOCKET 1.3, priced at $67 with Double Helix, is due by year’s end > Pleiade Litigation Support, also from Seamless Software, uses Double Helix 3 to help law firms manage litigation discovery documents, Pleiade includes the LEX'press LAN-based electronic-mail system. Slated to ship by year’s end, Pleiade will cost $245 for individual users. Pricing for the multi-user version has not yet been determined > PI-Economist from Advocate Software, an upgrade of the company’s PI-Casemaster program, helps attorneys calculate damage: assessments in personal-injury cases. The program will ship by year’s end for $249. > California Family Law from Attorney's Briefcase Inc. offers HyperCard navigation through a legal reference library on Califor- nia family law, including cases, commentary and related statutes. To ship in November, the program will sell for $495, including two quarterly updates. Annual subscriptions for additional quarterly updates are $250. mess Software Systems Corp. is at 1701 Burnham Park Plaza, 40 BE. Ninth St. Chicago, Ill. 60605; (312) 939-6647. Advocate Software is at 350 Hanover Ave., Suite 102, Oakland, Calif 94606; (415) 268-1525. Attor- ney's Briefcase Ine. is at 519 17th St., Suite 430, Oakland, Calif, 94612; (415) 465-3920. 5 ‘lo get the most out of 1is DOX. you need to get this box. Now that you've had the good sense to put a Macintosh’ in, may we suggest something sen- sible to put in your Macintos e Microsoft Office. The essential tool set designed expressly for business professionals. 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Maciniash and AppleSbare are repstered tradmarks of Apple Campuer, Inc Allother product mans arc radcmarhs tr repistered trademarks of their respective manufacturers 22 News FM tuner board drops in, turns on By Steve Rosenthal Paris — Mac users who whistle while they work will soon be able to get full radio accompaniment with a new FM tuner board that fits ina NuBus slot MacFM from SoftX of St. Denis, France, is a full-function FM tuner on a board, cover ing the standard FM band used for broad- casting in the United States and in most other countries. A working model was demonstrated at the recent Apple Expo °89 in Paris, with production slated for later this year, As with the on-screen viewing function of the MicroTV television receiver on a NuBus card from Aapps Corp. of Mountain Vie Calif, (see MacWEEK, Aug. 8), the board is meant more for Mac users who want to keep tuned in while they work rather than as a pri- mary application for the machine. The Pro- fessional version of MicroTV, due early next year, will also have FM capabilities. With MacFM, according to Jean Paul Har- mand, developer of the product, users can lis- ten to music or news with full control right on the Mac. Normal radio operation takes place in the background without any attention from the user or the Mac. A desk accessory provid- ed with the board lets users pick the station by frequency from a list of names previously entered or from a series of radio buttons. The ” or registered trademarks Lal wo ae ‘diem eae your keyboard when you buya Macin=-" ~ tosh® computer. And the choiceis obvious; thé new Professional Series a MacPro™ by Key-Ironie. Now you can have ryateent with a mile-long list ~- of features, plus a thrée-year limited. warranty and unlimited technical support. And at no extra charge, ie _MacPro comes with — the most powerful Macintosh macro, ty Key tronic package, Tempo i by Affinity Micro- systems (a $149. 95 retail value). 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Soft’X is located at 6 Allée des Charpen- tiers, 78320 Le Mesnil, St. Denis, France, 34-61-9929. i Euro designware awaits U.S. entry By Steve Rosenthal Paris — Publishers of three European multimedia and design programs showed upgraded versions at the recent Apple Expo 89 here, but in cach case plans for US. dis- tribution remain uncertain > L.LV.E. Software took two separate booths to show FilmMaker 2.0, a major upgrade of its multimedia animation and | presentation program. The program has been used in projects for several large | European companies and for Apple's intro duction of the Ilex computer. It will now be offered in both standard and professiooey versions. F Several plans for distributing the oneal [ in the United States have fallen through over the past year, but Bruno Devoine, LLV.E_ Software president, said that new negotia- tions are under way. > G+M Technologie showed VideoPaint 3.0, a sophisticated successor to the GraphistPaint painting package lost in the fall of both its U.S. distributor, the now- defunct Aba Software, and Adone Systeme SA, the program's French publisher The program includes normal painting fea- tures plus ray tracing, perspective, and a flex- ible three-layer stencil and mask system for creating overlays. An optional Developer ToolKit allows code to be added so peripher- als such as scanners can capture images directly into VideoPaint files. Editing can be done at any magnification from 25 percent to 1,000 percent, with the results carried over undistorted to the normal size image. 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