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19 New Macs! We Sort ‘Em All Out. A better machine. A better magazine. > 200MHz Tower Performa > Kai’s Power Goo > Descent Il > Project X: Apple’s Secret Weapon? | 96/190 | Beat \) Sivotineed tos Know to Keep your tae TROUBLE-FRE & Get Mac-Smart in 7 Steps * H What a Mess: Clean Qut Your System Folder & 21 Things That Can Go Wrong —And How To*Fix Them More! sel More! 4470"010960"8 04 David Carson Graphic Artist dcarson@ets.com SUDDENLY THERE'S AN EXPLOSION IN YOUR HEAD. ou see colors, hear sounds. Something has inexplicably touched you. Congratulations. You have just been inspired. So now what do you do? Bring it to life. On paper, on screen, on a scale never before imagined. With words, with movement, with a heart-stopping new power like never before. You don't know where it came from. Or where its going. Butyou know how it will get there. MACINTOSH. Master the Media. Inspiration happens. In David Carson case, inspiration happens a lot, Fortunately for David, what he sees on his screen is never very far from what he sees in his mind. P .cintosh’ computers help him explore just about anything he can imagine. His groundbreaking design work for Surférand Ray Gun magazines—as well as for clients like AT&T, Nike and Pepsi—confirms it, But the Power Mac”is also flexible enough to change when David’ ideas do. So he can take his concepts and easily reexpress them in new mediums—from film to the Internet. Its the kind of freedom that allows him to push not only the limits of his computer, but the limits of his creativity. Authoring web sites. Manipulating graphics. Altein : video. It never been easier for David to create the work hes known for: the kind that never existed before, To find out more about our cross-media authoring solutions, visit us at www.masters.media.apple.com oP call 800-805-0374 for information via fax. THE #4 SELLING PC GAME’ EXPLODES ONTO THE MAC! +4 Battle with up to 8 players on Mac or PC * Command massive armies over land, sea, and air! Stunning graphics IIZARD ENTERTAINMENT www.blizzard.com HEAD TO YOUR RETAILER OR CALL 800-953-SNOW *PC Data Jan.-April 1996 Warpraft Il & Blizzard Entertainment are trademarks of Davidson & Associates. All rights reserved. “*Requires Power Mac and 12 MB Ram if you don’t need it, you better delete it. ray Mean & evil: what to do when a good font goes bad. We'll give you the real ( Scoop on which system you should buy. Megahertz, schmegaheriz. October 28 From Newbie to Guru The Seven-Fold Path to Macintosh Enlightenment You won't have to depend on someone else to solve your Mac problems if you know these seven truths of Mac troubleshooting. BY DAVID REYNOLDS 36 The 12-Step System Diet Plan If your System Folder is tipping the scales at 60MB or more, then maybe it’s about time you did some housecleaning. Not only will your System Folder be slimmer, but it’ll run better, too. BY STEVEN ANZOVIN 40 The Top 21 Things That Can Go Wrong With Your Mac Here are some problems that you're likely to run into at some time or other. We list the symptoms as well as the solutions. BY RAINES COHEN 44 Too Many *#!@$ Systems Aargh! Apple, Daystar, Power Computing, and Umax have all released new Macs in the last month. There are now 22 models on store shelves—what’s a shopper to do? Let us sort out this fall's fashion lineup for you. BY DAVID REYNOLDS Great. More big, 76 Customize Icons uly bugs. Okay, you know how to replace your Mac’s standard icons with those created by someone else. Isn't time you created some of your own? Even animated ones! 82 Work with HTML To create a truly individual Web page, you'll need to know a bit about HTML. Here are our top hints on how to work with it efficiently. Don’t let your system run amonk. Dash over to page 28. Oh no! Don’t make me learn HTML! Before you jump, check out our tips and hints for making HTML coding a painless procedure, Gover image produced by Tom White of Tom White.mages, who runs a Radius 81/110, with ‘148M of RAM, and a Quadra B40AV, with 48MB of RAM, both with Radius Thunder 1V GX Video and Photoshop acceleration. Cranking! Shoot, kill. Shoot, Kill. Ah, the thrill of BattleMechs at war. Note Wherein our editor lumina the world's deepest mysteries. Say what? Are you talking to us? 1et Info News, trends, trivia, and answers to those nagging questions. Cravir 1gS We pick the products that we're lusting after. A 200MHz tower Performa, HP DeskWriter, Kai’s Power Goo, hot new games, and WebBurst (it lets you create Java applets without ola Well, actually, ” Owen. We answer your deepest, most troubling questions—accurately, too. May ae Has someone finally ay a game that’s smarter than your pet gerbil? An in-depth look at how Anark’s Galapagos uses artificial intelligence. A The bulletin board of the random and the bizarre x Crammed with 650MB of killer content, The Disc is also a stupendous display of leading-edge multimedia and interactivity. Check out demos, shareware, and software that relate to articles in the magazine. About EvangeList Resources and Help Stop on by to talk and link up with the best Mac resources. While you're there, get a load of Guy Kawasaki's EvangeList page— MacAddict is the official host for the ultimate Mac Booster’s Club. b>) Mavietby Marit EDITORIAL EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Cheryl England MANAGING EDITOR Judy Lewenthal ASSOCIATE EDITORS Nikki Echler, David Reynolds, Kathy Tafel, Daniel Drew Turner (reviews) CD-ROM: Thomas Hale (director, development), Tommy V. King (editor), Jason Michaels (intern) ONLINE EDITOR Mark Simmons CONTRIBUTING EDITORS. Steven | Anzovin, Raines Cohen, Joseph 0. Holmes, Ross Scott Rubin ART ART DIRECTOR Ken Bousquet. 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SMINTED7SEMA Enough electronic mail to make our hair stand on end insightful column about some new technology for our second issue, but I was distracted earlier today by your letters. I've read all of then—one week into the official on sale date of MacAddict, we've received about 900 letters. (1 do, however, wonder if we would have had that many letters if e-mail didn’t exist.) So why have your letters, something many §=: I had planned to write a really *THE BEST VOICEMAIL. The award goes to the caller who phoned. Tom Hale, our CD-ROM genius, got his voicemail, and simply said “Owwww. Owwww." and hung up. *THE MOST ABSURD PR PITCH. The woman who called because she'd heard that there was a new magazine called MacAddict and she wanted to know. if we'd be interested in reviewing her ‘company's Windows product. Yes, this really happened. (PR, by the way, is short for public relations) *THE BEST “GIVE ME, GIVE ME” PLEA Can you send me ‘some sample issues? Four dozen should do. pouseddey buiyy, Auung y *MOST OBSERVANT READER Mama Lani, keeper of the Rec.Arts.Bodyart Tattoo FAQ noticed that the body art bookmark. in a screen shot on page 45 was obsolete. She didn’t provide the correct one, though. *THE BEST FAMILY FIGHT Liza Hillard uses a Mac. Her daugh- ter uses a Mac. Her son uses a Mac. Her husband, however, uses “that other system.” When she showed him the photos of the Windows user and the Mac user, he handed the magazine back with only one comment, “ASSholes.” Liza still wants us to keep sending MacAddict. magazines foist off to junior editors, taken so much of my attention? One: They make me laugh. They cheer me up. Two: They make me feel as though we are creating this magazine for our best friends to read. Three: They make me think. Let me give you some examples of what I mean. We've received a lot of letters that made us chuckle or gave us a good guffaw (you'll see several of them in our Letters section this month). But few have been as funny, while still telling us the story of someone's long involvement with the Mac, as this poetic treatise from Robin Kester (Type 11? I keep typing 11 and nothing happens): “Tm a Mac addict. I admit it, openly, and without reservation. Even if I needed a reservation, it would be worth waiting for. Mac gives me pleasure each and every day. Not just because the mouse feels smooth and warm in my hand, or because the display lights my way through life. Not even because each time I boot it up it sings to me, no matter what I did to it to have to reboot. 0/ you beta you beta you bet 0/. I love it because it’s a Mac, and it feels good. No nightmares about Windows. No nightmares about win.ini (I never win.inithing ini.ways), config.sys (heck I don’t even have a syster). Plug and play. Plug and play. Why can’t all computers be this way? I started on a Mac Plus and used it for years... until the day I killed it. Nay, I put it to sleep. (1 wonder if they use AfterDark in the Mac afterlife?) That little Mac Plus served me well—it even converted some of my PC-using friends to Macs. Imagine that—a Mac Plus. Of course, I grew into a PowerPC— went big time ya know... pluggin’ and playin’ with the big boys. Woo0o00000! Yeah, I’m on top of the hill, me and my Mac. And I’m not afraid to say it: Lam a Mac addict.” We get other letters, too, perhaps not as funny, but just as touching. The writers reveal their stories of how they got involved with a Mac, how they use their Mac, and what they love about it. Another letter that I especially enjoyed came from Joe Kriz. Joe wrote in that he’d been trying to find the iguana Easter egg on his Power Mac 7100 for the last two hours. He told us about all the things he’d tried to make it work, ending with, “All of this just to look at an iguana flag. I must be WACKO!!!!” No, Joe, you're not wacko. You're | just like the rest of us Mac enthusiasts. There's this cool thing and you've just got to find it or try it and you won't get any rest until you do. Then there are the letters that make me think. Those with suggestions for things to run in the magazine or to do on The Disc or the Web site. There are letters complimenting or complaining about our design. The letters that ask for either more PC bashing or less. These are the letters that make me rethink some of the things that we are doing. For example, many of you have written in to request that we provide better descriptions of the shareware that we put on The Disc so that you know what, exactly, you're getting before you download. This month’s CD includes those descriptions—you'll see this improving even more over time. Others of you have requested that we give you some way to turn off the sound completely. That's a sticky technology problem, but we're making it a high-priority goal to find a solution. Over time you'll see the magazine, The Disc and the Web site evolve. And we'll make those changes with your comments in mind. So folks, keep those cards and letters coming. We are listening. —Cheryl England So why have your letters, something many magazines foist off to junior editors, taken so much of my attention? 40}1po MacADDICT 7 GET ON, GET This Month Reading the day’s mail is now among our favorite things to do. We love your stories, your comments, your jokes. We only wish we had more space to run all of the wonderful responses. Write to us at: MacAddict, 150 North Hill Drive, Brisbane, CA 94005, Attn: Mac Dudes or send e-mail to letters@macaddict.com. Awww, SHUCKS I bought MacAddict yesterday and I stayed up playing with the CD-ROM until my body couldn't sit up any more. Next I got in bed ACTIVE. Talk id end ek with the magazine and kept reading the to other Mac ticles until my eyes couldn’t focus any matter how much you promised yourself not addicts on the Web site. more. I think I need a support group. My name is Angela and I am a MacAddict Addict. —AncELA De JosePHt Great, Great, Great, Great, Great. Damn, I just wanted to say GREAT. —Craic M. Janisci There's always something that comes along that you just have to spend money on, no to, and as I finally put down MacAddict, I thought, “Oh no!” —Marr Burns You are absolutely crazy to be starting a Mac Magazine in these dark times for Apple... but I love you for it! —Bos Gouriey I think purple and green look hideous together. And I don’t think “Phat” is a word. But I’m thrilled that someone has the guts and the vision to launch a new Mac magazine right now. My subscription card is in the mail. Good luck! —SrrPHEN FLEMING Just picked up your first issue on a drunken whim (nothing personal) and I gotta tell you, [love it!!! —Timmy Mac (McIntire) Mac Apvocacy I am sending “Stand By Your Mac” to my brother and his wife because they're plan- ning to buy a (shudder) Wintel PC. I pray to the god of Mac that they will see the light and it’s the Macintosh! —Roserr S. UNDERHILL RECENTLY A couple that surfs together... Mare and Kimberly Bjorkman met in an AOL chat room— Kimberly on a Ilsi and Marc on a Quadra 660AV. They quickly moved the romance to IRC to cut down on their skyrocketing AOL fees and eventually connected in real life. When they got married, they modeled their wedding cake after the machine that brought them together. (Check out their full story at http://www,voicenet.com/~bjorkman/.) Got a Mac sighting? Send it to us! When I visit a computer store, and see all of those neglected sad Macs, I go over and hit the restart switch and rebuild the Desktop and zap the PRAM. Then I make sure everything is working properly and that the desktop is nice and neat. It’s a pity how Macs are neglected by so many stores, especially 8 MacADDICT when all the PCs are running just fine! We need to clean up the Mac image. —B, Morris Mac Love I am trying to get my Mac- only software development firm off the ground and everybody I talk to. says, “Why would you develop software for the Mac now ?” I usually mutter something serious about “reduced competition” or “market niche,” but inside I am thinking “Because I don’t want to develop for anything else.” —ANDREW SPANGLER If I had to use a WinTel at home I'd quit computing. —Don McCLELLAND Nope, Not A CHANCE The Post Office BROKE MY CD!!! Is it possible for MacAddict to send this addicted Mac user a replacement CD? I'd really like to play with OpenDoc! —Barry House Ifyou get a broken, busted, warped, or otherwise destroyed CD, or if you suspect your disc has not been mastered correctly, contact our Customer Service department. You'll find contact info on page 89. DeETaILs, DETAILS Shame on you! There's still 45 megs on the CD that needs to be filled! : ) —Mark ‘DESCHAMPS Yep, it drives Tom Hale nuts. He says that his hard drive shows a different amount than does a burn of the GD. You wait—we'll have a happy 650MB disc yet. In “Stand By Your Mac,” when listing the contents of the Mac Addict’s backpack, you left out one key tool—a paper clip. Famous the world over. —Rick BURNELL Just Testinc You In the article “Test Yourself,” you rate question #3's answer “(c) Open each folder one at a time until you find your file” with 10 7.9 billion miles of open highway and you’ve got TotalAccess: The coolest, easiest Internet access on Earth. Every account includes email and a free 2 meg Web site. Call now for your EarthLink Network TotalAccess™ software with Netscape Navigator™ 2.0. 1-800-395-8425 Internet access in over 290 cities in the U.S. and Canada. Software for MACINTOSH, WINDOWS, WINDOWS 95, featuring Netscape Navigator 2.0. 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I have been pushed over the edge and what better computer to get for digital video than the one that is always on the edge of great things than a Mac. —Ken W. Granam Ox, We Won’t Pay no attention to my colleague from work (an avid IBM fan), Paul, who upon seeing the first issue of your magazine (which I had brought in) exclaimed “Mac Attic! So THAT's where all those computers you like end up...” —Jomn B. Jones You Bec To DIFFER I recently bought Full Tilt! Pinball. I disagree with Mr. Linzmayer that it’s the most realistic pinball game available. If the angle of the playfield were the only measuring stick, then I'd agree. But I get much more realistic sounds and gameplay from Eight Ball Deluxe than Full Tilt! I only now play Full Tilt! for variation, not preference. —B,J. Major In the review of Warcraft: Orcs & Humans, J. Daniel Jones writes, “Later, you'll train raiders and necrolytes for any wioT KNOWS that OTS mounted attacks and the necrolytes can only False ability to heal the wounded, the dead in Warcraft. respectively.” Any Warcraft addict knows that it is the human Clerics who heal their human comrades, while the Orc necrolytes only have the ability to raise the dead. —Curis (I really REALLY hope I win the Epson PhotoPC digital camera because I need one SO bad for the school where 1 teach!) Beckwith 10 MacADDICT I must defend the use of WriteNow as a word processor. It’s still faster than Microsoft Word on my Power Mac 7100, and takes up a lot less space! —Prrer Gout SOMETHING DIFFERENT Hopefully 1 will be able to stay a reader unless the mother ship comes and picks me up. —LerrOVR X .. and last but not least, Ms. England is as cute as a bug!!! ;-) —Bi1 PELLEGRINI Yeah, but which bug? Now, for something kind of weird. I have long wondered why some magazines have a distinct smell (that I hap- pen to like). I have some- what concluded that it has to do with the type of ink used in the printing process. Your magazine smells great!!!! What is it that contributes to the great smell? —Sreve Scipiont Our Production Director, Richie, rolled his eyes and said he didn’t know. We'll try to get you a better answer from our printer. Stay tuned. I purchased the premiere issue of MacAddict today. If I subscribe will I get the next 12 issues and not just 11? Probably a stupid question but I have to beg my wife for the money and she wants to know exactly what I will be getting and we have been married 26 years! Thanks, —Gary Prevost Yes, you will get the next 12 issues and discs, not just 11. Say WHAT? The writing in MacAddict is immature and ineffective. The words “cool” and “neat” instance the former, the inability to present information according to customary forms of exposition instance the latter. —MicHac1 Hays T use a PC with WIN95 at home and use a Power Mac at school. I was disappointed to read all kinds of stories about how the Mac is better, and people bitchin’ and complaining about the success of Microsoft. I was really hoping to find a Mac magazine that didn’t fill its pages with trash on how the Mac is so much better. Don’t get me wrong, I like the Mac, but I like my PC better. Unfortunately the first issue of MacAddict will be my one and only issue as long as it keeps filling its pages with trash that I don't really care about. —Kerrn R. NELSON Suppep Discs When trying to run the demo of Overture, I get a message saying that 1 need the font “Aloisen.” Any idea where I might find it? — ‘Tim Berard We've included the Overture demo again this month, and we've included the Aloisen font in the “Install these” folder that’s accessible from the Finder. Put the font in your System Folder and then run the demo. I can’t get the Bryce 2 demo installer to work! Help me, please! —Mark Ouver ‘TULEWEIT Occasionally, you'll find a demo that doesn’t work properly or is missing a piece. We'll post updates, fixes, and links to working demos on our Web site as soon as we can. I couldn't find the System Update 2.0 on the CD. I “found it” with Find, but the files seemed to be missing. Is this just my copy or an error in the master? —James Connouty Sigh. Apple can be a bit sticky about their licensing agreements, so the only way to access Update 2.0 was through the Director interface (look for the icon at the bottom of the Resources screen). This month you can get the update via the interface or directly from the Finder (it’s in the Software Updates folder). Like some testosterone-loaded PeeCee game that thinks it’s the only thing you'll ever run, the CD resets the Mac’s sound volume to its maximum level! —Nate Morris Director has a glitch that’s hard to work around, We're trying to fix it. Meanwhile, we hope you can still enjoy the CD. SIGN OFF “Best proof that God doesn’t exist... Microsoft!” —MIcHAEL JARDEEN “Welcome to Hell. Here’s your copy of Windows 95.” —BraDLEy YI Steve McInrosu (I was here first!) Retrieve It! 2.5 ise. It's two retrievers in one! as as sca Find what youre looking for fast... on your hard drive... 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Lets you jump to web pages by clicking on their URLs in found files. And lets you start email messages (using your web browser or email applications like Claris Emailer and Eudora Pro 3.0) by clicking on email addresses. + And more! 4 (CYBERIANTTINNE Es ‘Computer Town’ 800.856.9800 800.613.0622 800.222.2808 www.cybout.com This is a study about you—a very special person—a new subscriber to MacAddict. Please complete this questionnaire by placing an “X” in the appropriate box 5 or by writing your answer in the space where applicable. “Your household” refers to all persons living with you regardless of whether or not they are relatives. About You and Your Household 1. Are you: O male O female 2. What is your age? Under 18 036-45 118-24 146-54 125-35 155 - 64 1765 or over 3. What is your current marital status? O Married Widowed 7 Single (Never married) 1 Separated or divorced 4, What is the highest level of school you have completed or the highest degree you have received? 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When iE = 3 : Open a folder and you see something ~ i = you'll get a list of files. of interest, click on i Click on one and you'll it to catch a demo. eee ‘ see ils description, You Click on the = GU Secs Teste “= can then install the file CD-ROM in the ‘Get or return to the list. center for even _ More great demos. ‘We’ upa ‘special area on our Web site that is acces- sible only from The Disc. You'll get news, software updates, and more. Over time, we'll add even more interaction. _INDEX The index has buttons " which transport you anywhere on The Disc. : eee ‘Here's where you'll Se Somte fs find all the software, 4s sche | help button demos, and tutorials t J < to find out related to articles in , - id ; | what to do. the magazine. When : : you see The Disc icon in the magazine, you'll know it’s pointing here. 14 MacADDICT Os === Machadict = a f@ 29 items 636.7 MB in disk zero K available —— rex 4 —_ ai Install these in your System folder only if you need them, Demos This Issue Shareware (22. Pay ts) tis) Start Here (68k) Essentials Start Here (PPC) Sponsors Emerging Technologies Software Updates ia e'll be the first to admit that we're not perfect, In fact, we've set up a special place on our Web site devoted to our imperfections. If you find a problem with The Disc, stop by http://www.macaddict.com/cdrom before you send us e-mail. If the problem is not addressed on the site, then please let us know about it at letters@macaddict.com. However, we can’t take responsi- oleda o find immediate information from our sponsors, go the Index (Option-click on any help screen). Or you can wait until you see a message from them in the lower-right hand corner of the main screen. Clicking on the mes- sage causes a TV screen to slide down from the top of the page, showcasing more information. D) 800-827-6364 http://www.aol.com America Online offers access to the world of online news and information, interactive magazines, finance, entertainment, e-mail, free software, shopping, and more. With a point and a click, you can explore the vast resources of the Internet. Sign on and receive 15 free hours. a Prereae) | RAO. ATTACK! http://www.parsoft.com Guerilla forces have taken control of the beautiful island of Cuba and once again the A-10 Warthogs must suppress the enemies of freedom. A-10 CUBA! adds more action-packed missions and new features to the award-winning A-10 Attack! 800-4MACPLAY = http://www.macplay.com Blast your way past enemy robots with powerful new tools, leaving their flam- ing hulks in your exhaust. Your ultimate goal: to exterminate the alien robot stronghold from the enemy Base and claim total control. It’s all-new levels of outrageous destruction! ine | 214-386-7575 iff http://www.graphsim.com Take the challenge as F/A-18 Hornet ‘straps you in for the ride of your life. Each of the many scenarios takes you deep into a new conflict in the Middle East. Fly against the newest technolo- gy and the best trained pilots the enemies of freedom can produce. 800-695-GAME http://www.domark.com Absolute Zero gives you the best in flight sim technology while immersing you in a sci-fi environment. Engage in 30 missions in three arenas of combat: air, land, and subterranean. Get ready to fight when aliens erupt from the dormant core of your once peaceful mining colony! bility for others’ mistakes. If a program ‘on The Disc other than our main inter- face crashes, please contact the man- ufacturer. They'll be able to give you much better technical support. (You ove can usually find contact information in ose the accompanying Read Me file.) Finally, for those of you who couldn't access System 7.5 Update 2.0 because you didn’t have enough memory to use The Disc’s front end, we've included the program in a Software Updates folder that you can access from the Finder. = QuickCards| 800-950-5880 = Sirmiun http://www.connectix.com QuickCards lets everyone create person- alized electronic greeting cards that can be sent on diskette or via e-mail to friends, associates, and family. Unlike tra- ditional paper greeting cards, QuickCards are multimedia productions that play on a Mac- or Windows-based computer. 800-GTE TODAY pd TITANIC http://www.cyberflix.com As a British secret agent aboard the R.M.S. Titanic, your mission could alter this century. Match wits with an intrigu- ing cast of more than 25 interactive char- acters while exploring the doomed ves- sel—faithfully reconstructed in stunning 3D detail. Can you rewrite history before time runs out? 817-424-5638 0 | = http://www.icigames.com WarBirds is the first Internet-based flight simulator. Bombs, rockets, and moving carrier groups... Oh my! Think you're a good shot? Target your foe’s wing root, and off comes his wing! Join over 100 pilots from every corner of the earth. Things You Need To Know ‘1..To exit out of any of the videos on the front page, click on the (unmarked) button on the far left. 2.When the cursor turns into a lower e case “i” there’s something to click on. 3.1f you get a “-108 error” message ln ed when attempting to run a demo, you don’t have enough RAM installed to run the demo and the interface at the same time. Go to the Desktop and access Use the thumb on the left to toggle the strip on and off. Back takes you to the previous screen. Menu takes you to the Main (first) screen. the demo from there. {Win! Wii This copy of Fractal Design Expression: a fantastic new illustration tool oO: first contest was. so successful, we decided to give you more BONUS stuff. (At press time, the contest for the Epson PhotoPC was still open—we'll announce the winner next month.) We're telling you about the contest in print, but you'll have to use both the CD-ROM and the Web site to win. First, you'll need to find a BONUS. hotspot on the main screen of The Disc. Click around; even- tually this charming pterodactyl will squawk at you. Don't you just want to click on him to see what he does? -- emos give you a taste of the products you've read about. Run them from either The Disc’s front-end or from the Finder directly. Some demos are self-running videos while oth- ers allow you to actually use the product. Those that let you use the product are generally “crippled” in some way. For example, you won't be able to access all of the program's functions or they will expire after a certain amount of time (usually about a month). 1. Warcraft Il: Tides of Darkness : || This awesome sequel to Blizzard’s | Ores & Humans will have you | screaming for more. (It should be ‘out in September or October.) Play || either the orcs or the humans in a | few campaigns. While the demo || betrays its PC roots—“Exit pro- gram’—the game uses Apple’s Game Sprockets technology to bring 3D sound and speech recognition (for entering cheat codes) to Power Macs. Be sure to click on each of the different buildings and charac- ters to hear what they have to say. The peasants are especially dim-witted! (You'll find this demo in the demo folder on the CD.) 2. Muppet Treasure Island In Activision's latest game for kids and kid-like adults, you'll need to 46 MacADDICT “” takes you to the index. “Q” quits the CD. The speaker slider controls. | volume. This month the volume stays the same as you've set it, no matter where you go on The Disc. Follow the ptero- dactyl to a screen that looks sort of like a telephone keypad. After you enter the BONUS (hint) code on the CD-ROM, your Mac coughs up another code to enter on the MacAddict Web site. By filling out a form on the Web site, you'll be entered into our drawing to win a copy of this BONUS software. splat the buccaneers pies to earn money to buy clothes. Don’t hit the customers or you'll lose money. 3. Overture Last month we goofed! To use the Opcode Overture demo, you needed a font we didn’t give you. This month ( we put that font in the “Install these in your System Folder only if you need them” folder. Open up the Aloisen font folder and drag the contents onto your System Folder before you try out this great music program. 4. Project X Here’s the latest from Apple Research Labs. Using Project X, you can fly through 3D : space to navigate Web sites. To find out if Project X can do more than just give great demo, read our story in this month’s Get Info. Note: Project X will not work direct- ly from the CD. You will need to copy it to your hard drive. 5. SmartSound SmartSound, from Sonic Desktop Software, helps you for everything from home movies to self-indulgent amuse- compose masterpieces—without the childhood trauma of ment. Using the demo, we created a MacAddict original ) parentally imposed piano, violin, and accordian lessons— alti Sein |atinmering Betts a [eaeryarats 1. After choosing Maestro (as opposed to Editor) we decided how long the piece should be. {elon org or Suarek ts Sema vr presen some, 2. The demo version only let us pick one theme, but at least we knew exactly what we were getting. background piece in about two minutes. 3. When you click finish, you can listen to the piece over and over, or tweak it in the editor. More Demos ° Afterlife ° Myrmidon » Bonkheads © Shockwave Assault ° Bricks » WebQuick » Zork Nemesis » Kai’s Power Goo © Descent Il &Files Wis created installers for all of the programs in the Files area. If you decide you don’t want something you've installed, run an uninstaller to get rid of it. One caveat—we can only track the things we put in your System Folder. So for system utilities like Aaron, we can delete the extension, but not the items that exist outside the System Folder. That said, to run the uninstaller, open an installer from the front end or from the Finder and hold down the Option key—you’ll see the uninstall options. Fun and Games MatSokoban MacSokoban is a great little strategy game. It’s all brain and no brawn as you manipulate the boxes into their proper places. Just don’t get suck with two boxes along a wall! 2 Kathy et evel 1 Es Property Property is a tame game where you gather deeds to properties along a four- sided board. Sound famil- iar? It is, except this game was created by a Brit, so the street names are all screwy. mu’ Hagwi’ Curious what Worf mutters under his breath when Sisko won't fight? Look it up in mu’ Haqwl's Klingon dictionary. System Utilities ShrinkWrap Curious what to do with disk “images?” Use ShrinkWrap to mount image files on the Desktop. The System will be fooled into thinking they’re the original floppy disks. To mount image files, simply drag and drop the image file icons onto the ShrinkWrap icon. General Heritage Heritage will help you track your roots. It even imports and exports GEDCOM files. You can also imbed digitized photographs in your family tree. Connectivity NetPresenz Got a 24-hour Internet con- nection? Set up a Web and FTPp server in no NetPresenz Setup e with Peter Lewis’ NetPresenz. The program uses your File Sharing preferences to allow the FTP connections, so it’s a piece of cake to learn. MacADDICT 17 The Web Site @This Issue 18 MacADDICT is issue we give you every possible shareware and freeware tool you will ever need to help keep your Mac in tiptop shape. Highlights Disinfectant John Norstad’s generous con- tribution to the Macintosh com- munity protects your Mac from vi diagnosing infections, Disinfectant installs an extension that notifies you when you insert infected floppies. l infections. In addition to ExAminer ExAminer helps you keep track of your System Folder contents. It can also move files to the disabled folders, enabling you to hunt down conflicts. Live Wire _ e Wire is your private connection to our Web site. Hook up and you'll get informa- tion on updates to software on The Disc, sneak previews of our next issue, and hot news about the Mac. There are a few things you should know before connecting, however. If you don’t have a modem or a direct con- nection, you're SOL. If you have a modem, but not an ISP account, you can take advantage of a special deal we've set up with Earthlink, a national ISP. Go to the Live Wire area and click on the “No, I’m not connected” button. You'll get an intro to the Internet, contact informa- tion for other ISPs and information on Earthlink’s special offer. Ask Us Cache-22 This month Owen Linzmayer gives you the skinny on hard- ware caches. Use this utility to find out what you’ve got. How To PageSpinner Part 2 of Joseph Holmes’ Web School introduces you to HTML. Make your HTML writing easier with this color-coded text editor. ResEdit Even newbies can learn to wreak havoc with ResEdit after reading Kathy Tafel’s how-to. Customize individual folder icons, change icons system-wide, and do even more innocent damage with Apple’s resource editor. Once you've set up an Internet account, you'll need to start your Internet connection manually. If you’re using MacPPP, open the ConfigPPP contro! panel and- click the “Connect Now” button. Choose the “Yes, | am connected” button. You can then connect to an area on our Web site set up especially for users of The Disc. Live Wire is not a real Web browser. For now, all we’re able to put into the interface is text. When the technol- ogy allows us to put links and pictures and QuickTime movies and Java applets and frames and... well, you get the picture. We're on top of it and will strive to bring you the best. BUNGIE [Sse Dee ad please strike thane one he Bee arine! with the biggest hi hining bolt you can muster, Cina, a @ y The lightning bolt Carol asked for never came. So she diffused her ‘anger by playing ABUSE and filling Leon’s instrument with lard. Napalm Bombs, Lightning Prods, and the Death Sabre. Just a few of the toys at your disposal when you play ABUSE. Created by Crack det Com, and brought to the Mac by Bungie Software, ABUSE is 360° of side-scrolling action through industrial corridors, caverns, and picturesque sewers. Lay waste fo mutant hordes as you run, jump, and fall in every direction. And 8-person ABUSE network play is the healthy, prison-free way to release your pent-up aggressions foward small, yippy dogs and egomaniacal clarinet players. To get your ABUSE, call 1-800-295-0060, or visit www.bungie.com. Crack dot Com are trademarks of Crack dot Com. Bungie is rademerk of Bungie Softwa et info @ FIND A DEMO of Project X on The Disc. in a sort of 3D space. Last month, we put a Power |a¥ Computing PowerWave 604/150 into the hands of long-time PC user, James Fallows (formerly of The Atlantic Monthly and recently pro- moted to Editor of U.S. News & World Report). Our goal: to make him give up PGs forever. So how's it going? We're a bit behind schedule since Jim’s pro- motion has kept him a tad busy (200 staffers all needing help NOW!). Here's what he has to say ‘so far: “| was so accustomed to IRQ conflicts, memory-manage- ment headaches, differing SCSI addresses, and other Windows delights that | dreaded setting up the Mac. You'll snicker to know that my reaction was ‘Hey, no problem.’ The biggest surprise about the programs and the OS is how hard the Windows world has tried to copy their basics, without yet emulating the ‘fit and finish’ that makes the Mac easy.” Is it all a bed of roses? No. Jim has yet to do The True Test: seeing if the Mac can handle the fancy data-sorting and idea-gen- erating tricks he has come to rely upon with Windows software. 20 MacADDICT by a demo of Apple’s wizzy new Project X: it let us zoom through a 3D rep- resentation of cyberspace. But Project X is no longer just a humble technology pro- ject: It's now a key part of Apple’s Internet strategy, according to Larry Tesler, VP of Internet Platforms. So it’s time to take a hard look at what lies behind the demo. ‘The prototype application includes a portion of the Yahoo Web directory in the Meta-Content Format (MCF) used by Project X. Launch the application, and you'll find yourself in a sort-of-three-dimen- sional space, zooming about the Yahoo hierarchy with just a click of the mouse. The hierarchy can also be browsed via a less-exotic, Finder-style out- line. Either way, when you find the page you're look- ing for, a double-click will open it in your Web browser. An upcoming Netscape plug- in promises to make Project X navigation more integral with your Web-browsing experience. Project X’s universe is not, of course, limited to the Yahoo directory. You can drag and drop new MCF files into the applica- tion to expand its horizons, or drag folders from your desktop to add their contents to the Project X world. One of the selling points of Project X is that you can meld documents from your desktop and from the Internet into a personalized information space, which can be manipulated at your whim and then exported as an MCF file for use by other Project X buffs. Okay, so that sounds like fun. However, Project X faces a couple of major obstacles. The first problem lies in its dependence on MCF files. Rather than analyzing the structure of Web sites on the fly, Project X requires the site’s creator to supply an MCF file that represents the News, trends, and other very valuable information that you will want to know. Project X Apple’s Secret Weapon? 3 ven some of the more jaded types Navigate the Web E here at MacAddict were wowed IN PROJECT X, your files rub shoulders with Yahoo. site's structure. To date, only a handful of sites have such files and these are neither comprehensive nor regularly updated. Given the number of files that compose a typical Web site, the rate at which they change, and the paucity of MCF authoring tools, it’s unlikely that most Webmasters will create the indexes—and those that do will probably supply only a basic outline. So, how do you create an MCF directory of a Web site? Editing MCF files by hand is tedious work: it makes HTML authoring seem fun. If you have a Mac-based Web server, you can drag your folder structure into Project X, export this hierar- chy as an MCF file and use it as a starting point. More promisingly, Geoff King of the Aus-tralian Legal Information Institute is working on a CGI that automatically generates a current MCF directory that with some refinement will enable sites to sup- port Project X with no extra effort. The second problem lies in navigation. Browsing a Web site with Project X is often quick- er and more elegant than clicking through page after page in a Web browser, but when you reach a page like Yahoo's “Countries” directory and two hundred floating boxes pop up... well, good luck finding Sri Lanka. Of course, overcrowded areas could be reworked for easier Project X navigation, but this would entail extra work for the creator of the MCF file. And there’s the rub. Just as a Web site requires regular maintenance and _navigation-friendly design, so too do the MCF files. To become a useful tool, Project X needs to do more of the work. —us Cyberdog Faster, Slimmer, Better s part of its Internet strategy, Apple has committed to aggres- sively supporting Cyberdog, the company’s means of integrating QE what made you choose Flash the FireFly as the host of “Let's Pretend! Space is our Playground!"? AA? That's 2 good question. We wanted to do something different and we looked around and saw that ‘gee, nobody is doing fireflies.’ The same thing with the ants. It's something differ- ent. And the firefly has a lot of the Internet into documents. In addition to public beta tests (when was the last time you downloaded a beta version of the next system software?) , Apple is updating Cyberdog on amore frequent schedule than its previous software. If Apple can follow through on the rest of its Internet strategy as well as it has with Cyberdog, it might actually beat Microsoft to the land of true OS/Internet integration. Version 1.1 includes changes to the OpenDoc-ness of Cyberdog. ‘There’s an application icon which launches Cyberdog into its own process—no more “the Cyberdog mail system is in use by another document” messages. And gone is the disorienting “Document” menu; it's replaced by a more standard File menu with a Quit item. A host of other new features improves Cyberdog’s usability. While version 1.0 was a great technology demonstration, this version makes us actually want to use the product. Cyberdog has been opti- mized for faster performance. A new Windows menu item tracks open windows and provides easy access to commonly used docu- ments like the log and notebook. And you can finally drag to select items in a list. dimensions... It's multicultural and gen- der-neutral. It’s a great way to bring children into the creative world without any hang-ups. —James Cooper, Vice President of THE NEWEST CYBERDOG Ringling Multimedia A FIREFLY? But why? your transition, Cyberdog will import your Netscape bookmark files and your Eudora mailboxes and nicknames files. And something truly mind-bending-Appletalk servers are now Cyberltems. This means you can embed an Appletalk network browser inside a Web browser since Cyberdog now supports the embed tag. You can click on a link and Cyberdog will open the server in the Finder. Cyberdog is not the lumbering Saint Bernard it was in version 1.0, but neither is it yet a grey- hound. We'd like to see the browser support text alignment and LAST MONTH'S CYBERDOG Besides these necessary improvements, the new dog has some downright cool features. It supports the Get URL Apple Event, so you can set up Cyberdog as your helper app for everything (before it would just open up the first notebook and do nothing). To aid in frames, and have a horizontal scrollbar. Aside from these niggling details, version 1.1 is a well-made, substantive upgrade. As reflected in the new spaniel mascot, Cyberdog is shaping up to be an energetic best friend. —KT 8X CD-ROM DRIVES Faster, But More Expensive ike it or not, CD-ROM drive rotation speed (how fast it spins the disc) has been cranked yet again, this time to 8X. And, yet again, the higher speed CD-ROM drives deliver marginally better speed than their predecessors, 4X drives, in some activities and little or no boost in others. Whether or not they're fast (or necessary), they are standard equipment in the latest Macs and as external SCSI drives. Since fear of obsolescence drives much of the computer market, you may be wondering “Will I be left in the metaphoric Dark Ages if I don’t buy an 8X drive?” No, you won't. Although 8X drives are the new de facto Mac standard, they aren’t necessary. Currently, there is no software that requires 8X speed, and that isn’t likely to happen overnight. By the time it does (if it ever does), DVD should be on the scene and the whole disc scene will change anyway. If you buy a new Mac with an 8X drive, congratulations. You're on the leading edge of the CD-ROM curve, and it won't hurt you a bit to have that bit of extra speed. However, if you're in the market for a CD-ROM drive and you don’t want to buy a whole new Mac to go around it, purchase a 4X drive. While an 8X drive will cost about twice as much as a 4X drive (around $300 compared to around $150), you won't get a com- mensurate speed increase for your money, and you won't be able to do anything you couldn’t with a 4X drive. (If youre really in the market for a bargain, check out 2X and 3X drives for under $100.) Use the $150 you save to buy a few CD-ROMs to play in that brand new 4X box. You'll be glad you did. —DR WERE FIGHTING BACK FOR MAC! Now that’s the Spiri We've already made desktop patterns, g i QuickMail forms and color printouts of Power Computing’s promotion for its faster-than-a- Pentium, 225MHz PowerTower Pro. Find it at their Web site: http://www.powercc.com. (Oh, and by the way, that’s not Sluggo. Nope, Sluggo is heavily copyrighted. It’s Jobi.) MacADDICT 21 NEW RAM DOUBLER 2.0 (Connectix Corporation: 800-950- 5880; http:/hwww.connectix.com; $99 9 (srp); ships August 7) The Mac's best virtual up-grade is now even better. RAM Doubler 2 tricks your Mac into thinking it has up to three times as much RAM as it does. You'll need a 68030 or better processor and 8MB of RAM. ACROBAT 3.0 (Adobe: 800-521-1976; http://wwrw.adobe. com; $295 (srp); ships August) Acrobat performs some snappy new. tricks: Web surfers can view PDF files directly in browsers, look at documents a page at a time, per- form OCR, do full-text searches of PDF documents, create and use forms with text fields and checkbox- es, and use buttons and hotspots to control embedded movies or sound. All this, and support for Kanji, too. STUDIOPRO 2.0 (Strata: 800-787-2823; http://www.strata3d. com; $1495 (srp); ships late September) StudioPro has been rewritten: you can create images without so much sweat. All modeling now happens in the main modeling window; model- ing controls have been improved and include new camera controls, a grid, nudge keys, Bezier curve and polygonal-based modeling features. StudioPro offers new animation techniques, a faster rendering engine, plug-in support, and PAL video output capabilities. It also supports VRML and QuickTime 2.5. DETAILER (Fractal Design: 408-688-5300; http://www-ractal.com; $449 (srp); ships September) With Detailer, you use Painter's nat- ural media tools (including the Image Hose) to paint directly onto 3D objects. You can create texture maps and bump maps and apply them to models. You can even make: images glow and reflect light, Create models within Detailer using simple primitives or import 3DMF, Ray Dream Studio and Ray Dream Designer models. —DR and CE 22 MacADDICT JHL uod he PowerPC Platform (formerly known as | CHRP, or Common Hardware Reference Platform) is touted as the no-fault divorce for the computer world. Supposedly, you'll see computers based on the PPCP specifications from a variety of vendors next year, all running the Mac OS. Like marriage and divorce, though, PPCP is fraught with enticing fantasies that hide more mun- dane realities. Here are a few: Fantasy: PPcP computers will be cheaper because manufacturers will be able to use less- expensive components. Fact: PPCP computers may be a bit cheaper for this reason, but don’t count on plummeting prices. Savings will most likely be less than $100. Fantasy: PPCP computers will let you switch between operating systems on a whim. Fact: While this is true, there’s a deeper level to this. Who wants to learn more than one operating system? Although many know the Mac OS and Windows NT, Sun’s Solaris is a pretty specialized operating system, that relatively few people use. Most PPCP users will still start up with one— maybe two—operating systems, not six. MACINTOSH MYSTERY... Win this great software! SUPER STANDARDS Fantasy: PPCP computers are a hardware innovation. Fact: PPCP computers are standards and mar- keting innovations. PPCP hardware isn’t difficult to assemble. And PPCP specs are based on cur- rent components. For example, PPCP-based com- puters should be able to use peripherals designed for the PC world, and while that should make many, especially serious gamers, happy, it’s hardly an innovation. Computer manufacturers—Power Computing among them—say they will easily have hardware ready by the time the PPCP-compatible version of System 7.5.3 ships sometime early in 1997. On the other hand, PPCP manufacturers do say that, because the standards allow for different internal components, hardware built on the PPCP standard may be faster than non-PPCP computers. As far as marketing goes, “cross-platform” and “multiple operating systems” sound great on a press release, and PPCP has those words aplenty. Fantasy: PPcP computers are nothing but vapor. Fact: Prototype PPCP computers have already been shown booting System 7.5.3 and Windows NT, and observers say they're fast. —DR Wi: created a fiendishly clever Mac-related prob- lem; it’s up to you to supply the solution. Send your answer to: www.macaddict.com/contest or snailmail it to us and we'll pick one lucky entrant among those who have the right solution (or something vaguely close if no one can guess) to win a copy of Symantec’s Norton Utilities, Symantec's SAM and Casady & Greene's Conflict Catcher. Here's the dilemma: Arthur, a naturalist who tracks the fur-licking habits of the rare, gray-spotted ocelomar- mot, lives among the redwoods in a cabin with an unreliable wood stove. Because of the cool, moist climate and because the area doesn’t get much sunlight, Arthur spends a lot of his time indoors. In his cabin, he has a Centris 650 and several hundred floppy disks on which he has collected his fur-licking data, After a particularly damp winter, Arthur goes to look at his data from the last three years. ‘The deadline for a national grant for ocelomarmots is looming, and he needs to complete his report. When he inserts the first floppy into his Centris, fear sets in: the disk is unreadable. He ejects the disk, then tries another. It, too, is damaged. He fires up Norton Utilities, but it can’t read either disk. So he tries a few more. All of his old data disks seem to be damaged! Take home SAM, Conflict Catcher, and Norton Utilities Thinking that it might be the age of the disks, he inserts a disk that he used last week. Now it, too, seems to be damaged. “Ah ha,” Arthur thinks. “It must be my floppy drive.” It isn’t—a brand-new disk worked. In a fit of despair at the end to his ocelomarmot watching days, Arthur breaks open an old, damaged disk. 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Read your user’s manual and you'll find that you should only have virtual memory on when you're short on RAM and then you should quickly turn it off, or suffer slower overall performance. Call Apple public relations and they'll tell you to keep virtual memory running at all times, except when doing high-end graphics. Call Apple tech support and a guy named Greg will tell you to keep virtual memory on at all times, Power Mac native programs will boast a 30 percent speed increase, he claims. Of course, he then admits that he needs to “brush up on the subject.” So what’s the deal? ‘The best advice is to take advantage of the current rock-bottom RAM prices and beef up your memory. After all, there is no substitute for the real thing. But if you can’t afford real memory (or don’t want to use Connectix’s RAM Doubler), virtual memory can help you out of a RAM pinch. Your user’s manual is on the mark when it advises against using virtual memory full time. Having virtual memory on will drag you down since your Mac will waste time swapping data to and from your hard disk. If you truly need extra RAM, then limit virtual memory to a maximum setting of twice the size of your installed RAM. Any more than that and your Mac will begin excessively moving memory around which, again, will decrease speed. For best performance, set virtual The best advice? Take advantage of low RAM prices. Reach Out and Touch Over the Internet. re you sick of Whoopi, Candice A: Ed O'Neill telling you who fers the best phone service? Frustrated by telemarketers who believe the world arises at 9 a.m. on Saturdays in eager anticipation of special long-distance offers? How'd you like to talk as long as you'd like to anyone in the world and not pay a single red dime a minute to any long distance company? With a microphone-equipped Mac, you can exact revenge on the long-distance leaders, at least for now. Internet phones, such as VocalTec’s Internet Phone, and Third Planet Publishing's Phone (formerly NetPhone and soon to be DigiPhone for Macintosh), digitize your voice so it becomes just another data type, happily bounding down the information highway until itis decoded at the other end and played. Many of the programs are half-duplex: participants must take turns talking. Some, though, allow both people to talk at the same time, aka full duplex. Apple has even become part of the Net telephony game via its QuickTime Conferencing software, which allows audio as well as video conversations to occur over the Net. There are a few caveats. First, because of the compression, conver- sations sound like they're coming in through the speaker of an AM radio, although improvements in bandwidth Talk as long as you'd like to any- one in the world and don’t pay a single red dime a minute to any phone company. mail” message. The biggest problem, however, is finding who has what system. and when they're connected. While there are several Net telephony products, none of them talk to each other, and few work between Macs and PCs (VocalTec’s Internet Phone is a note- worthy exception; more are on the way). Some Internet directory companies like Four11 or WhoWhere may step into this role, or it may be addressed in the future by new protocols. So, if that’s the state of the art today, what does tomorrow hold? In July, Internet service provider IDT announced that it would be possible for Net users to place calls to regular telephone users through its Net2Phone service. There are two catches, though. First, you have to also use IDT as your long-dis- tance service provider. Second, while the rates for such calls are lower than what you might pay for an average long-dis- tance call, they’re higher than those for a computer-to-computer call placed over the Internet. What about placing an “Internet phone call” from a standard telephone? At least one Net telephony vendor is working on it, and on using the Internet for telephone- to-telephone calls. Phone company reactions are mixed. Some are trying to introduce legislation to outlaw or regulate Internet telephony. Others, like NYNEX, are heavily investing in Internet telephony memory to the minimum setting—IMB above your physical RAM. Apple doen't give away Here’s what it boils down Macs,but it does offer free fo: turn on virtual memory propaganda, Here’s what you when you're short on RAM, can get (call 800-825-2145): but don’t leave it on all the g ie wee time. Using virtual memory on =""Why Do People Prefer a case-pet-case basis won't Macintosh?” (L01749A) slow your daily work and will =“50 Mac Advantages” forestall potential conflicts ree tara with high-end graphics pro- *“Why Macintosh?” - brochure (LO1667A) eran Remember, noting is bad in moderation, not even virtual memory. —NE and compression quality will soon likely create digital conversations that tival telephone quality. Second, you must be connected to the Internet in order for the phone software to be in a “receive mode.” If you're not connect- ed, there's no way to activate the phone call. You can keep an address book of people you want to call. If they're not there, some software will give you the option to record a “voice companies like VDO, an Israeli company that delivers video over the Internet. Should you download, install, set up, and use Internet phone software? The audio is quite decipherable but below telephone quality and speaking into your Mac’s mike may seem awkward. Connec- tions are easily lost, so it’s not as reliable as a regular phone calll. Using the Internet as a phone is still not viable for everyday use, but it is feasible if you make advance: preparations. —Ross Scott Rubin 24 MacADDICT 4 the hero? GET THE MOST “ORIGINAL” GAME OF THE YEAR! -PC Games AVAILABLE FOR MACINTOSH NOW! DEVELOPED BY DISTRIBUTED BY «laim MACINTOSH For more information, call 310.264.5579 ceren Pulse enreRTAINwent, 1920 Main Street, Santa Monica, CA 90405, Copyright© 1996 Pulse Entertainment, Inc. Pulse Entertainment, the Pulse Entertainment logo and Bad Mojo are ether registered trademarks or trademarks of Pulse Entertainment, nc. in the United States andlor other countries. Acclaim is registered trademark of Acclaim Entertainment, Inc. All other trademarks are those of their respective owners. cravings Six sweet indulgences to tempt your digital fantasies. PointCast Network PointCast cravings = rejoice! It's a screensaver! It's a custom information delivery service! (But it won't wash your car.) It's PointCast Network, and it may be the future of news on the Internet. The PointCast Network, using PointCast client software (soon to be available in beta for Mac users), lets you choose the information you want (selecting from Reuters news, a Standard and Poor's Comstock ticker, AccuWeather forecasts, the SportsTicker, and online versions of Time, People and Money magazines), and when to have it delivered to your ALITTLE SOMETHING FOR THE INFOJUNKIE IN ALL OF US. Mac. PointCast Network uses IP addresses, and will work with America Online, CompuServe and ee Prodigy. The second best thing about PointCast is that, through SmartScreen, PointCast Network can be used as a screensaver, using your computer's down time to keep you up-to-date. The best part is, since PointCast Network is supported by advertisers, it's free. A beta Macintosh version of the PointCast Network viewer should be available for download at http://www.pointcast.com. To find out more about PointCast, call 800-586-4733. Planet ISDN GeoPort Adapter If you've about HAD IT with people incessantly teasing you about lyour 14.4 GeoPort modem speed and are contemplating the purchase of a rifle (not that we would advocate fury... Sit back, take a deep breath and count to 100), take the ISDN plunge instead, with the SAGEM Planet ISDN GeoPort Adapter. With this hummin’ gadget hooked up to WOW, CATCHY NAME, PRETTY BOX, AND A FAST, EASY ISDN. your Mac's j GeoPort (at a f list price of $495), you'll be able to get up to 128Kbps connections— more than twice as fast as other external ISDN devices hooked up to the Mac’s serial port. Prepare yourself for some fast surfing, video conferencing, and (gasp!) being able to talk on your phone while using the modem at the same time on the same ISDN line. Cool, huh? For more information, call 408-446-8690 or use your non-GeoPort- ISDN connection to surf to http://www.satusa.com. SAGEM ColorWeb Pantone Ithough you may question the use of purple and Thoose a highlight color: tra New orange on an olive-green background in a Web page, at least you'll sleep easy knowing it looks the same on both a Mac and a PC, thanks to ColorWeb by Pantone. ColorWeb PANTONE® uses the 216 colors that display on both platforms without dither- Intemet ing—they pay Color STEADY COLOR ACROSS THE WEB, ONLY FROM PANTONE. people to find these things out—and makes a color picker out of those colors. Thus, for only $29.95, you can paint in nearly 8-bit color and have the peace of © Pantone, Ine, 1996 mind that comes with knowing that your results will be consistent Eee Nee across the Web. To gain your piece of peace, go to (Fewer choices) (Cancer) (ox ) http://www. pantone.com or call 201-935-5500. 26 MacADDICT Cordless MouseMan / GyroPoint LogiTech / Gyration brie factory can’t attract a pair of mice this nice. For those interested in a freestyle approach to mousing, LogiTech (510-795-8500 or http://www.logitech.com) has introduced the Cordless MouseMan with a suggested retail price of $79.95 This three-button marvel comes in two parts: a receiver that plugs into the ADB port, and a mouse (no wires) that works up to six feet from the receiver (we've had great results with longer distances, but then the screen gets pretty hard to read). For those who want to free themselves from the shackles of the mousepad and don’t mind the cord, Gyration (800-316- 5432 or http://www.gyropoint.com) presents the GyroPoint mouse. When on the desktop, this nifty two- TAILLESS OR PADLESS: THIS PAIR PROMOTES CHOICE. button mouse works like any other, but when you lift it off the surface, a tiny gyro- scope takes over, turning small wrist motions into mouse movements. For $149 (srp), you, too, can take off from the desktop without special software—the GyroPoint mouse uses the Mac OS mouse driver. Myrmidon + Som. Eamnks ‘ioe 5 Terry Morse Software legance and sim- § Quark Example § icity have long been words associated with the Macintosh way of doing things. Unfortunately, those words rarely apply to authoring Web pages, what with HTML, graphics file formats, and the like. Myrmidon (and, no, we can't pronounce it either— although we think we spelled it right), by Terry Morse Software, adds the |nissmnameetow . fs ence my arene \Sesnouere= ER Res wa Soerteoe ea : (oem? You ever mally mow, becuse i's up w he over. ——— : touch of Mac class to COMMAND-P TURNS A QUARKXPRESS ona ee ee Web page creation DOCUMENT INTO AN HTML PAGE. REALLY. pein ay ———-fean wasn gmat oa pe (for only $39.95), yrmidon Tiaeio emit Teni2 ‘especially for those who have existing documents that they on The Disc. tse want to publish on the Web. Myrmidon acts like a printer. 2 Mowiosatt, Simply print your document, and Myrmidon goes to work, converting it into an HTML document, complete with tables. Myrmidon has ‘some other nifty abilities, including the ability to send e-mail from within any application through Apple Events. To find out more, call 415-858-1017, or download a demo of Myrmidon from http:/Awww.terrymorse.com. Perception Systems 0 a little dance, make a little love, control your game tonight. It's possible ‘with the Z6n game controller. This cute little polyhedron (4” x 4”) watches you from its resting place, seeing movement in a cone- shaped area. All you have to do is move PYRAMID POWER KEEPS AN EYE ON YOUR EVERY GAMING MOVE. in that cone, and the Z6n interprets your movement, letting you play fighting games with actual punches and kicks, or control an A-10 with a finger movement. For $99, you can have a machine that watches your every move and does something about it. To enter the Z6n, call 818-907-0575 or e-mail inlo@percepsys.com. MacADDICT 27 Sortware THat HELPS inding true Macintosh enlight- ‘ment isn’t a journey to take alone. You'll need to carry these utilities with you. (To help, we've included them on The Disc.) Each set of utili- ties corresponds to a path that is outlined in the article. Section 1: Backup: + BU Reminder * SoftBackup It + SimpleBackup + SmartSaver + SwitchBack + Synk Maintenance: + TechTool + Mac OS Purge + MemMapper Section 4: + Conflict, Catcher Demo + Extensions List + Symbionts Section 5: + MacsBug + Terminator Strip Section 6: PRAM: + PRAM Auto- Restore AntiVirus: + Disinfectant + SAMScan Section 7: SCSI: + LoadADrive * ScannerProbe + SCSIProbe General Uttlities ‘These are worth trying out, but didn’t fit into the story: + ADBProbe * Alias Dragon * Apple System Profiler + Chiron * Finder quitter + Font Box + InkJet Tools * MacErrors * SoftwareFPU * The DiskTools: Collection PowerBook Utilities Some special items only for PowerBooks: + EMMpathy + PowerBook Insomnia + ResetPwrMgr 0 Find all of these programs ‘on The Disc. » here upon the = mountaintop, after braving | ( ~y treacherous footing, sheer cliffs, high winds, and a dubious answering machine, you have reached the Macintosh guru. As a supplicant you kneel, make the proper offering of food (a Snickers candy bar often works) and present the Enlightened One with your Mac Conundrum. There is silence, broken only by the sound of wind and the faint, high cry of an osprey, while the guru considers your problem. Then, the guru speaks. Have you tried zapping the PRAM? It doesn’t have to be this way. Liberate yourself from dependence upon others and follow the Seven-fold Path to Macintosh Enlightenment. Along this path, you’ll probe the mysteries of the Macintosh, giving yourself the tools to face a corrupted hard drive without another hike up the mountain. M NEWBIE GURU" THE SEVEN-FOLD PATH TO MACINTOSH ENLIGHTENMENT (on Assouurety, Posmvety, 100% Everytuine You Couto Even Nee To Know To Keer Your Mac Running TROUBLE-FREE) BY Davin REYNOLDS MacADDICT 29 KARMA Fottows No TIMETABLE Trouble can—and, according to Murphy, will—strike when you least expect it. Follow the old Boy Scout motto: Be prepared. Here are three simple things you can do to make the inevitable problem less of a problem. ° Make frequent backups. There's no substitute for having a copy of your precious data in case there's an unfortunate loss in the family. Since it’s no longer feasible to back up ahard drive to floppy disks in these days of multigigabyte drives (unless you have several hundred floppies and a few Tips For Backing Up + Decide which files to back up. Back up all of your documents. And back up some preferences files, because these contain information (like registration numbers and settings) important to the applications that use them. You might also want to back up software that you've downloaded to avoid downloading it again. You don’t need to back up applications for which you have installation disks. Set a backup schedule. Your backup schedule is dependent upon how much you use your Mac. If you save a lot of new data on your hard drive everyday, you should consider a backup every few days: if you don't, then do a backup every couple of weeks. + Remember that the first backup is the worst. After the first backup is done, you only need to copy those files that have changed since your last session, which means that the backups should be considerably shorter. free days), making a backup will probably require equipment that doesn’t come with your Macintosh, namely: a tape backup, a Zip drive, or a Syquest drive. We recom- mend using a Zip drive, because it is almost as fast as a hard drive, and at less than $20 for each 100MB cartridge (the drive itself sells for just over $200), the cost can't be beat. Don’t be talked into a tape drive. Tape backups are slower than death. Syquest drives are a better alterna- tive to tape, but they can be expensive and their cartridges tend to be unreliable. Once you get a Zip drive, consider some sort of backup utility software. Backup utilities help you track what's been backed up and when it was done. There are commercial products (such as Dantz Retrospect or Leader Technologies’ Power- Merge) and shareware products that can do the job (several are on The Disc). ° Have emergency software available. When you do encounter a problem, there is some comfort in having the right tools at hand; not stuck on an inaccessible hard drive, In order to fix an errant Mac, you need to be able to start it up and have soft- ware that can deal with the problem. © Have a Disk Tools floppy available. All Macs come with System software disks, and included in the set is either a Disk Tools floppy disk or a disk image of a Disk Tools disk. If you don’t have a CD- ROM drive, you'll need to make a Disk Tools disk. If you do have a CD-ROM drive, make one anyway, because you never know when you might not be able to access your CD-ROM drive. In fact, make two or three copies to guard against the occasional bad floppy. How To REBUILD THE DESKTOP FILE 1. Restart your Mac with Extensions off. (Some extensions can cause corruption it the Desktop is rebuilt while they are active.) 2. Hold down the Command and Option keys until a dialog box comes up asking if you want to rebuild the desktop. 3. Click “Ol 4. Wait for the Finder to rebuild the Desktop fil. (This could take several minutes, so you can treat it like a commercial break— go visit the refrigerator.) Alternately, use TechTool, a free utility that rebuilds the Desktop file for you without reboot- ing your Mac. TechTool deletes the Desktop database files (rather than just modifying them, as the Finder does) and forces the Finder to restart. orm | rexowar] When the Finder gets going, it sees that it has to rebuild the Desktop, so it builds an entirely new database. The authors of TechTool claim that this is better because a regular Desktop rebuild may only modify a damaged Desktop, whereas TechTool gives you a fresh one every time. reo | save TechTool is indispensable for troubleshooting. The Disk Tools floppy disk contains a minimal system that allows your Mac to start from that floppy disk, as well as Disk First Aid and Drive Setup. These two pro- grams can go a long way toward rehabili- tating an ailing Mac. Make a utilities disk. Put any other util- ities on another floppy disk and keep it by your Mac for those times when Disk First Aid and Drive Setup aren’t enough. Suggested utilities for your utilities disk are included on The Disc. With the Disk Tools floppy and utilities floppy available, you can start up your Mac, repair a corrupted directory or driver, and perform any other tests or repairs that your utilities will allow. ° Perform periodic maintenance. Although problems can strike at any time, there are a couple of things you can do to keep your Mac in good health. * Periodically rebuild the Desktop file. The Desktop file is an invisible database file with information about which documents and applications are on your hard drive, how they should be viewed, and which application to launch when a document is double-clicked. Since it stores information about all the files on your hard drive (even after you throw them away), the Desktop file can get huge, and because the Finder reads from and writes to the Desktop file frequently, there are many opportunities for disk errors to cause problems. The solution? Rebuild the Desktop file every month or so, or more often if you start seeing generic icons in place of custom ones, or if you get appli- cation-couldn’t-be-found type messages when you know the application exists. ° Periodically defragment your hard drive, Fragmentation, a normal part of using a hard drive, doesn’t usually cause problems, but it can eventually slow down your drive. While defragmenting a hard drive isn’t a high priority, it should be done every few months just to keep things at top speed. Commercial software is available to do defragmentation, usually as part of a utilities package. Wuat To Put On A Uritities Disk Your utilities disk should include a collection of software that will be useful in the event of a crash. Here's our list of things (other than a commercial utilities package) that we like to have around. You'll find all of these on The Disc: * Disinfectant * MacErrors *RAMcheck + SCSIProbe * TechTool THE HIDDEN STRUCTURES Your Macintosh peripherals like structure. A lot of structure. After all, they have to keep track of millions of bits of data, and they have to be able to communicate with each other and the mother ship itself, while making sure all the data remains intact. It isn’t defragmentation and file recovery pro- grams), so you get an added bonus. ° Be aware of device drivers. Peripherals use little bits of software (called drivers) that tell the device how to interact with your Mac. If these dri- vers become corrupted, strangeness can easy, and mistakes happen. (Yes, even computers make Fypkymeno cofotecsio mistakes—don’t you feel eee Ghar better now?) There are things eo that can be done to repair a beste ato nn drt crumbling structure. (ireware—) [pg it cant crs reais esa * Know and love Disk First Ald, | ser) frmereetsmnstenenten stent ete Disk First Aid, a utilities program that ships with every | oontog Disk est i ohn org a he ory rea when sited hwy en Si sa copy of the Mac OS, will check and repair the structures on a hard drive (catalogs, direct- ories, and the like) that are used to organize the files that live there. ° Buy and learn to use a utilities pack- age such as Norton Utilities. Although Disk First Aid is good at what it does, it doesn’t perform as many tests and repairs as commercial utilities do. We highly rec- ommend you buy a commercial utilities package. In addition to a disk repair pro- gram, most utilities packages come with several other applications (such as Disk First Aip 4. Start up your Mac with the Disk Tools floppy you put aside while reading Part One. (You did put one aside, didn’t you?) 2. Launch Disk First Aid and click on the Repair button. Disk First Aid notifies you of any problems that it finds and attempts to repair them. 3. If you run Disk First Aid on your Startup drive, you can only check for problems with that drive by click- ing the Verify button. Disk First Aid, a program that comes free with your Mag, is much more powerful than you might think. result, Hard disk drivers can be especial- ly problematic, because they live on the hard drive itself (instead of in a ROM chip or easily replaceable extension), and are subject to corruption, possibly RETRIEVING A FILE You’ve THROWN Away If you've trashed a file that you really do need (and you own a file recovery program), here's what to do: 1. Try not to use the hard drive at all. Any activity on the hard drive creates the risk of writing over the file you want to recover. 2. Run your file recovery program. 3, Recover files to a disk other than your hard drive (this is another place where a Zip drive comes in handy). Although there are no guarantees, there is the possibility that you can get your hard work back from the abyss. resulting in the infamous flashing ques- tion mark upon startup. But driver problems aren't only for hard- drives and the Highway Patrol. Corrupted device drivers can also cause problems for CD-ROMs, scanners, or any other peripheral. If you’re having problems with a specific peripheral, try reinstalling its driver software. + Bringing the dead to fife. Files that have been erased from your hard drive are not necessarily gone for good. When a file is thrown in the trash and the trash is emptied, the Mac doesn’t go through and destroy the file on the hard drive. Instead, it marks the space that the file occupies as “OK to write over” so that when it needs to write something else to the hard drive, it knows it can use that space. A file recovery utility such as Symantec's UnErase (part of Norton Utilities) may be able to get a file back that has been thrown away. How to Uppate Your Haro Disk Driver* 4. Start up with your Disk Tools disk. 2, Launch Drive setup and select your hard drive in the window that appears. 3. Select Update from the Fuctions menu. Caution: Drive setup is also used to initialize a hard drive, so take care when mousing near the Initialize button, or you could end up with an empty drive. *This only works for Apple hard drives. If you own a third-party drive, read the owner's manual that came with it. RECALLING THE Past Memory is akin to work- benches in a shop: The more benches you have, the more projects you work on at one time. The inverse rule also applies: The more benches you have, the more clutter you can pile on them. Then there’s the problem of too much bench and not enough project (or more commonly, too much project and not enough bench). These all apply to Macintosh memory management. ¢ Know how to set memory parti- tions. In the Get Info box for every application (just select the application in the Finder and type Command-I or select Get Info from the File menu to see it), there’s a place where you can set the amount of memory an application uses. Listed in that box is the suggested size (which can’t be changed), a minimum size (the absolute least amount of mem- ory with which an application can run), and a preferred size (the application will take up to this amount of memory if it’s available). If your application runs slowly, try increasing its memory allocation; howev- er, if you’re running in a tight memory situation, and you need all the RAM you can scrape together, try decreas- ing the preferred size. You can decrease the mini- mum size, but if you go below a cer- tain point, the appli- cation may crash because of insufficient memory. If you've entered. the minimum size danger zone the MacADDICT 31 [EEE Memory Mapper BREET ‘Total Free Memory. If you've had a few the point where you notice the differ- te 40 ptt | applications open at the same time and _ ence. If you don’t notice an increase no || you close one or two, and then start matter how high you set the cache, put it another, you may be fragmenting your at 32K so that you get as much RAM as memory, which is similar to fragmenting you can out of your system. [Bb Lorem les 100 a hard drive. 3 2 When multiple programs are running, === Microsoft Word Info MEMORY MAPPER reveals how your Mac divides its RAM among all the things that demand it. Ss About This Macintosh % a ‘System Software7.5.3 Updated to Revision 2 © Apple Computer, ino. 1963-1995 THE ABOUT THIS MACINTOSH box also displays how RAM is divided. The Largest Unused Block item doesn’t Necessarily show how much RAM is available, however. Finder will notify you when you try to they each take up a block of RAM. When you close one, it gives up its block, but the programs that were opened after it still hold on to the blocks that they have. ‘That means that if you start up your Mac, launch three programs and then quit the first, you can have your free memory split between two places. To remedy this, sim- ply quit all open programs. This returns your free memory to one single block. Power Macintosh If you notice that the Largest Unused | Comments: Total Memory: 40 960¢ Larger nueed mos: zzoue | Block reading plus the amount of Ty Moon Toot 1.0.1 20k 0 kj memory used by applications doesn’t BB tte nv. 92 match the amount of memory you have saerg Ressiencnte wove 5K TT s e 25 Ze 4 Heme eee a on your Mac, your System heap has been Suggested size: 6918 Kk Zz Ly fragmented. a remedy this eurean cones K {restart your Mac, or use FixHeap 5 ; Locked | Preferredsize: [10000 | k f (included on The Disc), a utility that will Oo L {1000 | defragment the System heap. ° Set your Disk Cache. The Disk Cache (settings are in the Memory Control Panel) is a block of RAM set aside to hold often-referred-to instructions. The idea is Microsoft Word Microsoft Word 6.0.1 = application program 4.2 MB on disk (4,382,536 butes used) | : Abulafia: Applications: Word Processors: Microsoft Word 6: Mon, Apr 8, 1996, 12:28 PM. | Wed, Jun 12, 1996, 4:30 PM 26.0.1, Copyright © 1983-1995 Microsoft Corporation Note: Memory requirements will decrease by 3,918K if virtual memory is turned on in the Memory control panel. THE GET INFO COMMAND reveals a wealth of information and memory control. close the Get Info window. ¢ Unterstand the System heap and fragmented memory. Selecting About This Macintosh from the Apple menu while DID YOU KNOW in the Finder will call that it would take over 700 up a profile of how high-density floppy disks to ™C¢mory Is being used hold as much information as 0 your Mac. Here a 1GB hard drive? At 1/8” you'll see how much that if your Mac can find jjujgeeeeeeeeeee a SSS what it needs in RAM rather é than on the hard drive, it | (Ep gecene 2a will perform faster. But because the Disk Cache increases the size of the System heap (and slows down some programs) it’s not a good idea to crank it Cache Size Modern Memory Manager fe @on 3° ofr ‘Seleot Hard Disk: (eet Routaria Virtual Memory width per floppy, a stack of built-in memory your as high as it will go. () Om hands avaiable asi on 700 would stand nearly90 = Mac has, how much Arguments about how big @or eres alt) be! bow or, Ligaen total memory it has the cache should be have ere: wrey vou etretc! (this can be different raged on for years. We offer ees) Nearly half amie. Martha from the built-in these bits of wisdom peices fe = Stewart could surface a small memory if you're (unless you're using eh Uda atio with those. off , using RAM Doubler or Photoshop, in which case ReMi Ske () Virtual Memory), and the Largest Block you'll want to set it at 32K): Remaining. Notice that this doesn’t say ISS. ‘Try playing around with dif- ferent Cache settings. If you notice a speed increase, leave the Disk Cache set at THE MUCH-DEBATED disk cache settings can be changed in the Memory control panel, along with other memory- related settings. You have set the Minimum and Preferred sizes below 5,928K, which may cause “Microsoft Word” to crash. Are you sure you want to continue? DANGER WILL ROBINSON! Setting your application's memory size below its minimum is a recipe for trouble. 8 “yore ee MANAGING CONFLICT All is not harmonious inside your Mac. Extensions, Control Panels, the System, and appli- cations all struggle for the same resources, and sometimes this strug- gle turns into a fight. A little extension skir- mish might cause some oddities (such as menu bar conflicts or data corruption) in your Mac, but a major battle may result in asystem freeze. If you think you’ve become collateral damage in an extensions battle, here’s what you should know: ° Know how to start up with extensions off. Turning off all exten- sions when starting up your Macintosh can be a life saver. Hold down the Shift key while starting up, and your Mac will give you the mes- sage “Extensions Off’ below the Welcome To Macintosh message while loading the System software. You may be surprised at how fast your Mac is ready to go; all those Extensions and Control Panels take time to load and use memory. If your Mac freezes while start- ing up, this should get you—tem- Gas Use this contro panel to turn off problema {ou wil be able to boot your Macintosh correoty Warring: Incorrect use of this control panel may cause problems with your Macintosh porarily—up and running, at least long enough to find the offending extension. ¢ Know how to use the Extensions Manager. Apple has thoughtfully provided the Extensions Manager to help with Extensions conflict. Through this Control Panel/Extension duo, you can control what loads at startup, making it easier to track down any unruly Extensions. Conflict Catcher from Casady & Greene does everything the Extensions manager APPLE’S EXTENSIONS MANAGER makes it easier to track down unruly extensions. 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