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Stupendous! Awe-inspiring! _ Holiday Games Spectacular 7 r= :20 coon ona slam The Disc into your drive! ‘INVADING ARMIES" De & YOUR MIND tomate Your Mac NUKE tne enemy fee ea b Y/, ( f y ; = “KILLER: TANKS & ; $7.99 U.S. $8.99 CAN. | | i ) '74470°01096 || Virtual Pool from MacPlay bas all the angles and shots of the reat game —and then some, Features 4 great pool games, full:-motion- video library, realistic physics and soe geometry, easy multiplayer modes, ic 3-D perspective and ARE You Don’t Know Jack, Volume 2, és the bilarious sequel to the orig- inal award-winning game, This Jack comes complete with 800 all-new questions, new question types, celebrity guest appearances, new features and more, From Berkeley Systems. EXHILARATING FLIGHT COMBAT MacSoft's Terminal Velocity offers fast 3-D texture-mapped graphics, full 360-degree flight movement and 7 weapons of extraordinary destruction as you fight your way through 9 unique planets with an awesome array of air-to-air and air-to-ground combat action, Westwood Studios’ Command and Conquer takes you into a gritty, high-tech world where the art of electronic intelligence and covert surveillance reigns supreme. Where _guerrila strategies and savage com- bat are the norm. Muster forces and lacerate your enemies tothe bone, ‘models, 3-D photo-realistic land- scapes and the use of real-teorld lysies light Unlimited re-creates the most accurate sensation of aerobatic fying ever experienced on the Macintosh. For best results, lay before lunch. Five bundred years ago, Europe's conquering heroes pursued dreams ofa new world, MacPlay’s Conquest of the New World isa strategy game twhere you command explorers, settlers and mercenary soldiers as they discover a new world and build the ultimate nation, In Zork Nemesis, you're beckoned tothe Forbidden Lands, a cursed world occupied only by the tortured spirits trapped there. Travel through 5 mind-bending worlds to discover the ancient secret of alcbemy that will fre the trapped souls from evils grip. From Activision. The best CD-ROM game of 932 A.D— Monty Python and the Quest for the Holy Grail from 7tb Level, nc. It will take you on a romp through King Arthur's England, uncovering clues, solving puzzles and playing whole- some games like “Burn the Witch” cand “Spank the Virgin? Tank Commander by Bidos Interactive slams you into the cock- pit of an MI Abrams tank as you lest your split-second-decision skills against enemy tanks in over 25 fully textured missions. Destroy 1-72, Leopard and Challenger tanks with over 7 weapons. swing Commanpea isin Systems’ Wing Commander Siar yates Wisone of the latest space-combat ‘games for the Mac. Take on the role of Colonel Blair, played by Mark Hamill in breathtaking space bat- tles and beart-pounding drama, as ‘you fight your way through the most spectacular Wing Commander yet Get ready for the biggest adrenal for the Mac: the-thi from, 3 MacOS you're prob get you te s on these games. Just visit compUS nics. Or, flip th ail-orde r n the Net. But no matte eyou go to find them, remembi 00k for the smiling logo. (All grea rk *) Ify ly r lands on the ultimate ride, vi re.apple.com, And 000-500-4862 Until now, the on-ramps to the Intemet have been under construction. Vari = Intemnet_, Connection. & Introducing the Apple Internet Connection Ki Getting hooked up to the Internet can be a messy process, That is unless you've got exactly the right tools. Presenting the Apple® Internet Connection Kit. It’s everything you need to get on and get around the Internet quickly, easily and with a minimum of frustration. Here’s what you receive: Netscape Navigator™, Claris Emailer™ Lite, Progressive Networks RealAudio, NewsWatcher, Fetch, the Apple Internet Dialer, Quicktime® VR Player and more. Plus, if you come across anything you don’t understand, Apple Guide on-line help is there to assist you right away. (©1995 Apple Computer, ine. Al rights reserved. Apple, the Apple logo and Quicktime are registered trademark Commun w= Just think, 30 minutes after opening the box, you could be participating in discussion groups, E-mailing Aunt Helga in Denmark, visiting the Louvre, the Library of Congress or maybe even the local chicken joint. (Seems like everybody's got a Web site nowadays.) Visit your Apple reseller, or order direct by calling 1-800-950-5382 ext. 784. And when you do get on the Net, check out our Web site Em@iler at http:/Awwwapple.com. Met peri Apple. The power to be your best. puter Inc Claris Elailer isa trademarof Claris Corporation Nescape Navigator isa trademark of Nescape ‘Corporation. Al oer trademarks are the property oftheir respective owners The monster in the box may be your very own computer! (Ours is named Spalding.) December 34 The Hard Stuff 38 The Soft Stuff same ol’ same ol? BY OWEN W. LINZMAYER 50 Winners! a eed 54 They’re Live Objects 29 of the super-best games for the Mac. BY KATHY TAFEL 46 Under an ‘Epic’ Cover Are Apple’s new PowerBooks the long-awaited Holy Grail? Or are they just more of the Get the hardware to play your cards right. Play alone. Play with friends. Just play! Of course, you can work on the ultimate gaming Mac, too! BY KATHY TAFEL In our premiere issue, we promised five custom-painted Power Macs to our contest winners. Find out who won, why, and what the Macs look like. BY CHERYL ENGLAND Okay, they used to be just plain parts, but now these OpenDoc “thingies” have been renamed Live Objects. Here's a rundown on what’s available. BY DAVID REYNOLDS 98 Create a Macro 102 Get Your Site Online At last! It’s time to take your Web site live. Custom cool! It's like hav- ing your very own desktop Harley. No helmet required. You can call ‘em. hot! You can call “em “Live”! But whatever you do, go get ‘em! If this were the '70s, you'd be learning macramé. That was then. This is now. And “now” is changing your bit depth and rotating sigs. You’ve come a long way... Invite these exciting, wonderful creatures home.Then kill them. Marathon Infinity— what a blast! Amazingly enough, we actually got a little work done, 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), Stephen Gifford (disc content consultant) ONLINE EDITOR Mark Simmons. CONTRIBUTING EDITORS Raf Anzovin, Steven Anzovin, Raines Cohen, Joseph O. Holmes, Ross Scott Rubin ART ART DIRECTOR Ken Bousquet ASSISTANT ART DIRECTOR Adam Vanderhoot ink we i ? Hal You think we read this barrage? Ha! FREELANCE DESIGNER Gloria Orbegozo we | PRODUCTION Clones are coming out of the woodwork, there's new System software, PRODUCTION DIRECTOR Richard Lesovoy and the Number One Mac Evangelist with answers, answers, answers! PRODUCTION COORDINATOR Ken Brandow Plus our monthly contest. Whoa! ASS) ‘ . PUBLISHER Patricia Neuray pi ci REGIONAL AD MANAGER André Lengyel I It -waterit REGIONAL AD MANAGER John Singer Slurp! It's the six most mouth-watering products of the month. Fe oN a NAGEL Catia caren - y 5 MARKETPLACE ACCOUNT MANAGER Mary Lachapelle owe ADVERTISING COORDINATOR Jana Massey CorelDraw, PhotoTools, Fractal Expression, a Umax clone, Marathon Infinity, WarCraft Il, and a bunch of other have-to-have, great software. CIRCULATION : CIRCULATION MANAGER Donna Badgett Ac | NEWSSTAND MANAGER Bruce Eldridge i" : ash FULFILLMENT MANAGER Dana Runkle Those darned undeletable files, the one and only cool thing Windows 95 CIRCULATION CONSULTANT Gail Egbert does (and how you can make your Mac do it, too!), an Easter egg with ‘ . vi re. Imagine Publishing, Inc. antlers, computers possesed by the devil, and more. na al tinct VICE PRESIDENT/CFO Tom Valentino J , ae VICE PRESIDENT/CIRCULATION Holly Klingel Find out what Reality Bytes, the creator of Havoc, is doing to advance CHIEF INFORMATION OFFICER John Montgomery state-of-the-art gameplay in its next release, Dark Vengeance. | NEW MEDIA BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT MANAGER Mary Hoppin & ant INTERNATIONAL LICENSING: Robert J. Abramson & ~ . wx Associates, Inc., 720 Post Road, Scarsdale, NY 10583 The last word. The last laugh. Volume 1, Number 4 MacADDICT (\SSN 1088-548X) is published monthly by Imagine Publishing, Inc., 150 North Hill Drive, Brisbane, CA. ‘94005, USA, Application to mail at Periodical class postage pending at Brisbane, CA and at additional mailing offices. Newsstand distribution is handled by Curtis Circulation Company. Basic subscription rates: one year (12 issues + 12 CD-ROMs) U.S. $39.90, Canada $43.95, U.S. pre-paid funds only. Canadian price includes postage and GST (GST S z "0 128220688). (IPM 0962392) Outside the U.S. and Canada, Our games spectacular will keep you busy, busy, busy during the holidays. price is $53,95, US. pre-paid funds only, For customer u it service, write MacAddict, Customer Service, 150 North Hill We've packed The Disc with 32 games of the demo and shareware Drive, Brisbane, CA 94005; 415-468-4860, Send address persuasion. Plus, there's new System software to install and a handful of changes to MacAddict, 150 North Hill Drive, Brisbane, CA new shareware. And don’t forget to look for that infamous hot spot! 94005, Imagine Publishing also publishes boot, Ultra Game Players, Next Generation, PC Gamer, and The Net. Entire Contents copyright 1996, Imagine Publishing, Ino. All rights reserved, Reproduction in whole or in partis prohibited Imagine Publishing, inc. is not affliated with the companies of products covered in MacAddict. Standard Mail enclosed in ERRORS versions: A2, C, and C1. US. POSTAGE PADD http://www.macaddict.com PRODUCED IN THE UNITED Aa STATES OF AMERICA. Permit No. 648 22 Come on in, put your feet up, pour yourself a drink and make yourself at 5 home on our Web site. Like a faithful puppy, our online extension will bring | for saving the show: Um does any you today’s news, fetch the things you want and need, keep you company, | ite Meus Rus & Ronee Cee and drool on the carpet. It’s the Mac’s best friend! Z Games & More Under $350 =) THUNDERING POWER. Soe ox 4 Tid ae Se— EXPLOSIVE ACTION. Computer Gaming World f (Requires Power Macintosh. © CD-ROM only) Strategy Plus Mc ARCADE PAK | Nt Absolute Solitaire Diamonds 3D More red hot arcade action with five of the best arcade Weasked dozens of solitaire fanatics to help us (Quality collection of six popular casino Breakout in thre dimensions! Inside Nac Games classes ever! Modemn-day versions of Pac-Man’, Gaunt design the perfect solitaire package, Absolute games: Blackjack, Video Poker, Roulette, Slots, callsit"Fun and aditve-The best breakoutsyle daxian “and StarCastle” Includes a sequel to Soliris what they created, Includes 24 new Keno and Draw Poker. game we've played” The hal doesnt bounce up MacWorld 1995 Hall of Fame and a runnerup for Inside games and a brand new interface for serious (CoROM only) $242 and down, it comes right at you! Nac Games 1995 Best Arcade Game. solace gameplay (CDROM onh) (CDROM only) Baek tt Game Parlor Kids Arcade Pak is bursting with five classic arcade games uistanding collection of five popular «d Macintosh roleplaying game ev Akesigned especially for kid. Each game features large, brightly strategy games: Chess, Checkers, ‘Venture into the mystical lands of Odyssey. Discover colored graphics, voice instruction and adjustable dificulty Backgammon, Solitaire, Crosswords nine islands of extraordinary adventure fight epic ly levels Inches kids’ vers battles and dwell amongst the fascinating inhabitants. create professional quality brochures invitations, Galaxian"and Pinball? F (CDROM only) newsletters, flyers or any other document, (CDROM only) (CDROM only) Lots more. Call for a free catalog. Available now from your favorite reseller, : ot by calling 800-229-2714 : Mac Please add $2.95 per order for shipping and handling if ordering by phone. ‘WizardWorks Group, Inc.« 3850 Annapolis Lane, Suite 100 + Plymouth, MN 55447 612/559.5140 editor A year-long love affair ends in a drive-by drive comparison. car for a year to see how well it holds up? Well, I've been using an Iomega Zip drive, with its 100MB cartridge for over a year now, and I’m still in love with this little machine. It’s fast. It’s reliable. It's portable. The cartridges are small and rugged. And it’s affordable. (You can get the drive and one cartridge for under $200 and extra cartridges for about $20 each.) But like any love affair that’s gone on too Jong, it’s starting to get, well, a little dull. I want more: bigger, faster, cheaper. 1 want an Iomega Jaz drive... I think, | Jaz drives use 1GB car- tridges that are only slightly larger than those for the Zip. Prices are equally com- pelling: a drive and cartridge cost about $500; cartridges are about $100 each. And — like the Zip drives, Jaz drives work flawlessly. Toss in a cartridge, wait a cou- ple of seconds for it to mount on the Desktop and you’re off, Problem is, Jaz drives aren’t yet ubiquitous. Many people who recently splurged on a Zip or Syquest drive aren't will- ing to move to yet another storage medium. Ah, Syquest—once the removable storage standard. Both Iomega and Syquest have pro- duced removable media drives for years now. Tomega’s Bernoulli drives were, in their time, widely acknowledged as technically superior to the Syquest 44MB drives. So, how did Syquest become the de facto standard? Tomega couldn't market its way out of a paper bag. ‘The Bernoulli drives were big and bulky; and, worse, they cost significantly more than the Syquest drives. Syquest quickly made inroads into service bureaus. At the time, it was mainly graphics professionals who were cranking out files huge enough to require a Y: know how car magazines will test a lomega seemed doomed. But a funny thing happened on the way to the storage forum. 6 MacADDICT means of transfer other than a network. Once service bureaus had Syquest drives, graphic artists bought them, too. In droves. Tomega seemed doomed. But a funny thing happened on the way to the storage forum. While Syquest owners battled reliability problems, awkward, multi- step cartridge mounting and unmounting procedures, and incompatibilities among 44MB, 88MB, and 105MB drives, Iomega was quietly readying the successor to the Bernoulli drive—the Zip. The Zip was an instant hit, reversing Tomega’s fortunes. Syquest, of course, countered with its EZ135 drive which offers 35MB more storage space per cartridge than the Zip and costs less. That's all well and good, but whereas Tomega has two clear-cut options with the Zip and Jaz drives, Syquest has made its product line even more confusing than before. Today you can get a 200MB Syquest drive that uses the same style 5.25 inch cartridges as the older 44MB and 88MB drives. You can also get an EZ135 drive that uses smaller 3.5 inch cartridges. And an EZ Flyer 230 drive that uses cartridges that look identical to those for the £2135. There are also 270MB and 105MB 3.5 inch cartridges for older drives, Confused? It gets worse. You just can’t go willy-nilly sticking — identical-looking cartridges into the drives that support that form face, 1 mean, you can, but it only causes problems. For exam- ple, if you accidentally pop a 270MB cartridge into an E2135 drive, it gets locked in. Not even the emergency man- button and a lever. Come on, this is 1996. Storage devices shouldn’t be this hard to use. Magneto-optical drives are today's dark horse candidate for removable storage. In the past, these drives have been more expensive than other removables. But now drive prices hover around $300, while 230MB cartridges cost about $10 and 640MB cartridges are about $40. The only real drawback to the magneto-opticals, is their slow speed. I'm spoiled by the Zip drive’s responsiveness. And, for the future, there’s digital versatile discs (DVD). The first generation of these dri- ves will be read-only, like today's CDs. They are the same physical size as a CD, but they will hold 4.7GB of data; later they'll hold twice that much, and even later you'll be able to read and write to them. Apple has a chance at leading the DVD wagon. But that’s the future. Today, I think I'll keep my trusty Zip drive and settle for looking longingly at the Jaz. By the time I can afford to upgrade, I’m sure I'll have even more variety from which to choose. —Cheryl England Yup, we called the Performa 6400 “sexy.” We said it had “great legs” and a “curvy top.” And we got letters Some of you simply didn’t agree. Others thought we needed to get out of the office more. (Yup, we do.) A few others found the comments offensive to women. (We never said, however, that it was a female Mac.) So what are we going to do about this? Well, heck, we're going to say it again. We still think the Performa 6400 is sexy. We could have called it “cute,” but that doesn't have the same panache. We're also going to give you a list of other things we find sexy. And, we're going to try to get out of the office more often. See yal Top Sexy Products ual eject hole works. In fact, the only way to get the car- tridge out is to pull it using tweezers or needle-nose pli- ers—which breaks the drive. And you must still use a utility to mount cartridges. Unmounting involves a series of steps that allow the drive to spin down before you manu- ally eject the cartridge via a Sex Sells or at least gets us letters 1. Thrustmaster Formula T2 Steering Wheel 2. Gyro Point “mouse” (Gyration) 3. Leather-covered PowerBook 4. Bryce 2 (Meta Tools) 5. Casio QV-10 6. Poser (Fractal) 7. Logomation (Strata) 8. Marathon (Bungie) 9. ATI Xclaim VR 10. Performa 6400 (Apple) 41. OpenDoc (Apple) 12. QuickTime (Apple) ork, Let's Pla The Most Advanced Mac 3D Shoot-em- up Ever! el < A powerful senator is brutally 4 murdered while working late in her wey solve the mnystery of het death in this aa: action-packed 3D shoot-em-up. Prime Target thrusts you into er most dynamic Mac gaming world ever. Blood splatters on the wall. Glass shatters in your face. You can almost smell the carnage around you! SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS:Any PowerMacintosh with cofor monitor and CD-ROM clive MSRP: $49.99 Command an Elite Squad of Marines in 3D ts Take command of the world’s top Be forces unit in this aa 3D first-person shooting extravaganza. Command four highly-trained marines as you eradicate deadly enemies. Fight for your life while strategically issuing orders to your : squad. All in 3D.So real you'll be a bloody wreck before it’s over. SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS:Any Powercintosh with colormontorand CDROM drive. MSRP: $49.99 MAC WizardWorks Group, Inc.* 3850 Annapolis V7” Lane, Suite 100 + Plymouth, MN 55447 + 612/559-5140 Lots more. Call for a free catalog. Available now from your favorite reseller, or by calling 800-229-2714 Please add $2.95 per order for shipping and handling if ordering by phone. Your personal memories. ‘No other computer inthe world mates i this easy to create your own home movies, Avid Ginema software guides you step by step through the entire moviemaking proces, _from planning shots to editing video fo pub- ‘ishing your finished movies. ve Your personal education. Ut comes with some of the most popular edu- cational software already installed and runs Iundreds of other educational programs that ‘make learning more fun—to help kinder= ‘gartners learn to read and write, bigh school ‘kids prepare for college or grown-ups master a second language. Your personal finances. The Performa 6400 computer brings the point-and-click simplicity of a ‘Macintosh to a wide range of Tike Quicken that help you do taxes, rack your investments software for managing your our «and balance your checkbook family finances — programs Your personal interests. Weve even made the Internet more personal by including your own Personalized Internet Launcher-—a service from Apple that auto: ‘matically searches the Internet and brings to _your screen tbe newest and best web sites that Inlersiyou mast” 7 How much more ) rt erie fad ede na nul 30.209 te rao a are a finn price and rtrd arty: 1996 spl Compe nA grr. te elon, firma and Sete are istered ademas of he campers are dese printer od pare me ‘roar wd ner sy es ri Mn Coto Mac Be acesie a ah dy ar ce (US oye 00 007908 er 80075-0600 Your personal growth. Theres more than enough power for today’s applications and plenty of ‘expansion options that make it easy to ‘add functionality no mailer what you want to do —now, and down the road. When your family grows, your Performa grous wit you. Your personal computer. looking piece of hardware isn't a ottoman. Bul youll be amazed at how it feels in your home, Us the new tower —built around the PowerPC™ 605 RISC chip running at 180 or 200 MHz with up abytes of hard drive space, and shown with Apple Mulple Scam 15AV monitor and te Apple Color Siyleriter' 2500." roducing the Macintosh Perfor Don't be too surprised by how famil- iar the Macintosh? Performa’ 6400 feels when you bring it home. After all, it és a Macintosh —still the only computer in the world designed from the very first chip to work the way people work. And it és a Performa— designed with families in mind to be easy to set up, easy to learn and easy to use. But now we've not only given it powerful new capabilities no other home computer has ever had before. Weve also made the most personal com- puter of all more personal than ever. ‘Thousands of learning and business programs are available for Macintosh. And twenty-five popular titles come preinstalled with the Performa 6400. Like Grolier’s Multimedia Encyclopedia, ClarisWorks 4.0 and Quicken SE. Right out of the box, your kids can instantly find answers to their ques- tions, complete with video, animation and sound. And you can start working with a spreadsheet, word processor, financial tools and more. Every Performa model comes with Macintosh PC Exchange’ allowing you to read from and write to DOS disks. Add a program like SoftWindows” or a PC compatibility card, and you can even bring work home from the office and run your Windows applications at the touch of a key. Of course, all work and no play mates Jack the world’s dullest parent. That’s why the Performa 6400 comes with today’s most advanced mul- timedia features. Including an 8x-speed CD-ROM drive for the smoothest game animation and 16-bit stereo sound for the clearest listening experience. And with the addition of Avid’ Cinema soft- ware, creating your own home movies becomes unbelievably easy. It also brings the Internet homewith 28.8 Kbps modem and all the software you need not only to get up and surfing on the Net; but to easily create your own web page as well. And although the life span of some computers may appear to extend just beyond that of the average goldfish, we've loaded the Performa 6400 with ample power and plenty of expansion options so you and your family will enjoy it for years to come. It’s everything a family computer should be. For the name of the Apple reseller near you, and for information on special holiday promotions, call 800-446-3000, extension 100. Or visit us on the Internet at www.apple.com/ And bring home the most per- <»4 sonal computer of all. Macintosh. = an a personal computer get? impr Maint scare a adomar of ple Comput: Pacer PCa adem tational snes fom, Ari ea rademark of id coe, Woda regen rademar of Mg Corton and finds letters This Month Reading the mail is now among our PINE ss favorite things to do. We love your sto- ries, your comments, your jokes. We only wish we had more space to run all of your responses. We also love the marriage proposals and will gladly accept indulgent praise and sensi- GET ON, GET ACTIVE. Tak ¢#¥e criticism. Write to us at: tous andtalkk ““acDudes, MacAddict, 150 North toother Mac él Drive, Brisbane, GA 94005, or addicts on send e-mail to letters@macaddict. the Web site, 0%. For CD-ROM or subscription queries, please call our customer service department at 415-468-4869 SIGHTED UL Y. RECENTL Once upon a time... it was the spring of 1984. Apple Computer had launched the 128K Macintosh. | had just bought one of the first Macs in Montreal. A group of Mac addicts soon began to haunt the local dealer to exchange ideas and gossip about upcoming software. Every day as | entered, there would be a sign on a Shelf. It was a simple piece of clear half-inch, beveled plate glass with the logo of the new Mac etched into it, painted with colored, translucent tints. A small fluorescent tube in the base illuminated the whole logo. That sign was the symbol of a new way of thinking about computers. | was startled one day to find it gone. | asked the assistant manager where it was, and he said that they were changing the layout of the store and the ‘sign was going to be thrown away. | made a rather spon- taneous offer of $20 for it. He considered for about five seconds and the deal was done. The sign now sits on my shelf and sheds light on my ideas and me. —Rick Ling 10 MacADDICT Mac Addict Uf 4 Un, Sure Would you guys like to send me a Mac? All 1 need is one. —JonaTHAN DREYER You should consider a monthly section where you mention some Web site, organization, team, business, TV show, whatever, that uses or features Macs. For example... hmm, I don’t know... how about the award-winning Web site “Weird Al Yankovic For President” at <http: // www.epix.net/~lexf/al.html>? That would be a good one to start, I guess. I just checked it out, and—how’s this for coincidence—I MADE IT! Whoa! —Lex FriepMan I now have 16MB of RAM and should be able to do anything, even go to the moon! —CHarLorTE ELunwood I would accept a free lifetime subscription if you offered it! —Scorr Wituiams Ewww! Had a little accident while working at my Mac; I bled; I applied pressure; I decided to rebuild my desktop; when it finished, I released the pressure; the bleeding stopped. Ergo, clotting time = desktop rebuild time! — CHARLES CUSUMANO. So I'm sitting outside at my favorite little sidewalk coffeehouse on Main Street in Redwood City (California) this morning after pulling an all-nighter on a 3D project, sipping on my house blend, and reading the October issue of “MacAddict.” Fun read, I thought. A little over the edge on sophomoric humor, but lots of good information if you over- look some of the spam- mish, “generation X” euphemisms. And then I got to the back page, and in a mid-sip of coffee I spotted the Reagan- Rickles-Amelio bit. Do you have any idea how uncomfortable it feels to have hot coffee shooting out of your nose at 9:30 in the morning, with no sleep, and laughing uncontrollably in front of a bunch of starched suits and suit-ettes in broad day- light as a Redwood City Police car drives by? My $30 is in the mail. Any computer maga- zine with the sheer, unmitigated gall to publish something like that deserves my unqualified support. —Anpy McKerrat Get aA LIFE I just received the October issue and was reading through the letters to the editor. A Mr. Hays stated that “MacAddict is imma- ture and ineffective” because it uses words like “cool” and “neat.” No offense intended, but loosen up, Mr. Hays. Get out more often. Take a valium. Somethin’. If all you want is information given “according to the custom- ary forms of exposition,” then grab a Lotus 1-2-3 manual and knock yourself out. —RW Harris As a former mechanic I can tell you some- one has torqued this guy’s head bolts down to 150 ft. Ibs. CURE: Undo all bolts, replace head gasket, and retorque to 28 ft. Ibs. Talk about uptight—I bet you couldn't pull a greased No. 10 thread out of this guy's a** with a Caterpillar tractor. —Row Samson We don’t even want to go there. ENGLISH, PLEASE! But hey, what do you expect from an addicted to addiction person who can’t be addicted to his addiction because of an underaddiction, where the addiction is Apple, and the person is me, and the underaddiction is homework. Confused? Well at least you don’t have to work with the devil’s tool at school—Windows 95. — Curis Dooriey Chris, you're scaring us. We're actually starting to understand your letters. Nothing like a little regular correspon- dence to keep us on our toes... Aack! Atiens! Forgive me for being raised on the planet Vulcan, but it seems to me that a “September” issue should arrive, at the earliest, during the last week of August. I really don’t get it. There are 12 issues a year. There are 12 months in a year. Why not have them match? —Dr. Rick BRINKMAN It involves the time gap between ship- ping to the newsstand and mailing to subscribers, how long the issue stays on the stand, and a bunch of other arcane stuff, We'd explain in more detail, but not until you lose the rubber ears. Oxay, You WIN I wanted to take a shot at getting the esteemed “Most Observant Reader” award. In the second to last line of the second paragraph of PowerPlay (Oct/96, p90), the word “become” is spelled “beome.” Of course you probably already noticed this, but it was worth a shot. — ANDY SWINDLER But CLose BEHIND... Your review of Stuffit Deluxe stated that you wished that the program had a Segment command. It does. Did you all check under the Translate menu? Yep, there it is. It allows you to segment a program to disks of your choice, or you may join segments. Is this an oopsie and do I get a prize? —Ron Wilson 1am slightly skeptical of your 12-Step Diet Plan (OcV/96, p36) if the results are as shown in your Before and After screenshots on page 36. If you examine the header care- fully in the After screenshot (System Folder, 28 Items, 202.3MB in disk, 53.5 available), SO WE GOOFED. Before (left) and after (right). They say thatconfession is good for the soul. it would appear that the clutter has not been purged just yet. The Total Weight Lost of 68.6MB reported on page 39 must be after emptying the Trash. —Ron Davies Ulp. You caught us. We kinda sorta, well, uh, forgot to take real Before and After screen shots until, well, um, the last minute. So we, uh, faked it. Ouch. Mea culpa. We’re sorry. We won't do that again, we promise. WRECKS ON THE HicHway oF Love While experiencing the vicarious thrill of going for a ride with Kathy Tafel in her new Del Sol, I received the unwelcome revelation that she is already married. Damn! —Davip PayNE Nikki, marry me... — Kevin M. Kenvepy No. While in America on my honeymoon, | saw a. copy of your premiere issue and without hes- itation bought it. From the second I started reading it, I couldn't wait to get back home to my computer (which really depressed my new husband), —ABIGAIL PERETS Thanks for reassuring us that there are computer widowers as well as widows! "Fess Up, Boy PS. I have a confession to make. I wrote this using Microsoft (bleuk!) Word. Yes, it’s true. No, it’s not quite as bad as you think—it’s version 5.1. Please forgive me. This would explain the bad formatting. —Warter S. GRAFF But wait, there’s more. G “Early Learning Kit" Includes 8 interactive learning programs that will help your kids learn basic reading, writing and counting skis lng betore they phil even start schoo! “its Elementary!” Includes 8 interactive learning and entertain- pees ing programs that =4Rglalipedsuin will have your 7- to pea 10-year-old learning language arts, math, science and social studies. 4. “College in Mind?” fh Includes 8 top programs that will help your kids get organized and ready for college by sharp- 4 ening their test- ..» taking, writing and inh! interven skis “Extreme Fun Pak’ ‘Any of you hard-core gamers up for a challenge? These 6 blockbuster games will take you into the realm of intense action. Just remember to give your kids a chance. Fj Get up to 8 Macintosh’ programs at one great low price when you purchase any of these educational and entertainment software bun- dles from Apple? From early learning develop- ment to sizzling game-playing excitement, you'll find that Macintosh is the easiest way to bring learning — and fun—home. o- What more could you possibly ask for? g COMPA And other fine Apple g authori ted COVPUTENVARE GER'WES) resellers (©1996 spp Comput, nl rights ered. pl te peg and Naish ‘aro reid ramars fp Comput bc, reitered nb US, and aber fount. lomentary, Clee in Maud? acd Eire Pn Pk ar rade ‘marks of ple Computer Ine. Alber company andlor product names are Irademars or regitered radomaris other resto compas. Get Orr Our PROPERTY, Ma’am What is in your office coffeepot? — CATHERINE Perrirt Why, coffee, what else? Bitch Cakes... You watch too much TV. —JokL Burkowskt Can this wait until the commercial? JOIN THE CLUB We really need a secret handshake or code phrase (live long and prosper?) to identify each other in a sea of Wintel users. Any good ideas out there? — PETER GELB. What? You don’t know it? You mean no one showed you? First... I moved to Virginia, ‘Then... I find I have to pay more in taxes than I did in New York. Then... they tell this big- time Wintel user that his new computer is a Power Mac! ‘Then... I liked it. Then... you came along. Now I'm an addict! Things are looking up! —Evan Kon’ Oon, THAT SMELL Well, we've solved the mystery about why our magazine has what some consider a great smell. It's Downy! No kidding. Our printers, Brown Printing, gently bathe each issue in a few gallons of that famous fabric soft- You KNOW YOU’RE A Mac appict WHEN INSTEAD OF USING negra static-free, baby-soft PROPER TERMINOLOGY MacAddict experi- FOR THINGS THAT ARE ence. Guess which BROKEN, YOU ASK scent they use? “WHAT! RRO! ue - Gi Quote of the day from MESSAGE SAY?’ my garage mechanic: —Marc FIsHER “I can't get the modem on my PC to 12 MacADDICT work and it is slow, but I wouldn’t want one of those Macintoshes—they’re too hard to use!” —Brian D. Card RicHt-O T think your magazine should have been in print 15 years ago. —JonarHan MurpuY Um, you mean like before there even was a Mac? Hey, SturF Tis! I am a freshman at Indiana Institute of Technology. My friends and I would like to win a war at our school against PC users who have been putting up signs that say Apple computers blow!!! Can you give me information on any pictures that are anti-PC in nature, that we could possibly download and use? —MATTHEW SHUTER Fancy that, we just received a letter from reader Scott Pelok raving about Peter Steinfeld’s cartoons at the MacWorks site: <http:// www.macworks. com/stuff this/ stuff this.btml>. Look Out JENNY Craic Just wanted to let you know that I put my Performa 6115CD on your diet plan (Oct/96) and seduced fat from 103MB down to an amazing 7IMB!! I couldn't believe how much excess blubber my poor machine was carrying around! —AntHony J. CORREA I didn’t realize there were so many files I didn’t really need. —Joant: GRIFFIN I have already put my Mac on a diet (didn’t need to trim much), and next time my system goes kafluey, I won’t be sitting here going, “Now what...” —Grace LAMBIE The article about putting your System Folder on a diet was the best I've seen on the subject. —Cotteen Dick Helpful Hints In the article “The Top 21 Things That Can Go Wrong With Your Mac” (Oct/96, p40), Symptom 2 is “The Mac ejects a floppy disk or removable...” The only solution to the problem that Mr. Cohen lists is using the Put Away command (Command-Y). While this solves the problem in the long term, it does not address the question of what fo do if you are in a pinch and cannot find the disk. If the Mac asks for a floppy disk and you do not have it, press Command-Period. You may have to hit it a number of times, but it will eventually say that the disk could not be found and remove the image from the Desktop and never ask for it again. This is the quickest way of dealing with the dreaded “please insert xxx” message. —Pete S. Futro Any user “force quitting” an application with Command-Option-Escape should _immediately_ save all work in other applications and restart the Mac. Forcing an application to quit leaves your Mac ina very unstable state. —Ros Dewuirst, FaraLton ComMUNICATIONS We have an alternative backup system to offer. Instead of paying for a Zip drive, we simply save up all the America Online intro disks we get in the mail each month and use them to back up our system. Ina matter of three months, we had enough to back up our 1.5GB hard drive. —Bryan and Diana WINTER I'd like to take issue with a couple of the things you say a MacAddict would never say. “A MacAddict would never say: Let me help you configure your autoexec.bat and config.sys files.” *Scuse me? Yes he would. At the the end of the autoexec.bat file, before it opens Windows, add a couple of echoes and then: echo How much easier echo computing would echo be with a echo MACINTOSH followed by several more echoes and a pause, so it is prominently displayed on the screen. —Enic “MONKEYBRAND” VAN BEEST 00. because performance cannot be based on clock speed alone. Why settle for clock speed alone... when SuperMac computers offer you so much more? Not only do you get the fastest CPUs available, you also get a revolutionary new internal design that optimizes performance in lots of other ways. True workstation design... with features like 128-bit access memory and Advanced Scaleable Processor Design - which allows you to upgrade easily to faster processors — or even add a second processor and still keep the one you SuperMac Family of Products already have. So, If you need the fastest CPU in a package that gives you the best system performance, you need a SuperMac. > Don't settle for anything less. Does your computer have these features? @ Standard Interleaved Memory Every $900 comes © @ Advanced Scalable Processor Design (AS.P.D.) @ UMAX PCI-to-PCI Bridge The $900 isthe first to allow. sfondord with interleaved memory onthe motherboard for This modular configuration provides easy upgradeabilty to burst communication between al sx (6) PC sos, no matter workstaton-qulity128-bit acess memary and best system add or change processors as desired, Costs you less and is__where dvices are inserted, for greater expandability and eosy performance Others ony provide 64-bit access memory. far more flexible cloning your system to grow as youdo. setup. Others ony offer 3 sls in two separate banks at mos. Lo @ iad EBS SUPERMac’ Computers that Work the Way You Do. or visit our web site @ http//waw.supermac.com (© 1996 All rights reserved. SuperMac isa Registered Trademark of Radius. Licensed exclusively to UMAX Computer Corporation.» Headquarters and Sales & Marketing: 47470 Seabridge Dr. Fremont CA 94538, Tel: (800) 252-8629. Fax: (510) 625.7850 » Engineering Hates: 4800 Great America Parkway, Ste #200 Santa Clara, CA 95054 Tel: (408) 327-8700. f AR AR NING: This Month’s Disc Contains Over 100 Megabytes of Killer Mac Games eading the mainstream press is enough to make contains the all-time greatest Mac games from the cover : you believe that there aren't any Mac games, feature on page 40. So wipe off that drool and pop in much less absolutely fabulous ones. This month’s Disc The Disc to install pure Mac mayhem. —Kathy Tafel MICROTEK Sea in Beller Images Through 14 MacADDICT DEMOS Visit the Islands of Marathon, Now Utilities, Havoc, and Stylist. You'll get a tour of the program and the Web site. No glass-bottom boats, though. THIS ISSUE Here is where you'll find programs and files mentioned in the magazine. Whenever you see a disc icon in print, you'll know to come here on the CD-ROM. RESOURCES Here you'll find share- ware and freeware to solve almost any prob- lem, create any file, or simply pass time with Fun and Games. LIVE WIRE In this section, you can connect to the MacAddict Web site to get the latest news, get links to updated programs on this Disc, and catch a , Sneak Preview of the January issue. INDEX This screen provides a handy jump- ing point to every screen ‘on The Disc. HELP ME! This screen (available on the five main screens) explains ina nutshell The Disc’s interface. Getting Started . When you first pop in The Disc, you’ll see this window. ia If you are running System 7.5.5, you don’t need anything in the “Stuff you might need” folder to run The Disc. If you aren’t running System 7.5.5, then you may need some of the files in this folder. . If you have an older 680x0-based Mac, click on “Start Here (68K).” If you have a newer PowerPC-based Mac click, “Start Here (PPC).” Machddict start Here (684) Sponsors Start Here (PPC Shareware fechnoloay Software Updates el . If you don’t have enough System memory to launch The Disc, you can still access and install all of the included software and demos. Just go to the Desktop, open the folders, and browse through them. « Clicking on the MacAddict logo won't cause anything to open, but you can move pieces of the logo around, in essence creating your own jigsaw puzzle. Just close the window and the logo returns to normal. Requirements » To access all of The Disc’s features, you’ll need 12MB of real RAM if you’re running System 7.1 or earlier; 16MB of real RAM if you’re running System 7.5 or later. 2. If you don’t have enough RAM, you can still access all of the software, demos, and tutorials on The Disc from the main folder. You need a 13” monitor that has a resolution of 640 x 480 and 256 colors. 4. To access the LiveWire section, you need an Internet connection. 5. You need a 13” monitor that has a resolution of 640 x 480 and 256 colors. 6 find immediate Information from our sponsors, {go to the Index (Option-click on any help screen), Or wait until you see a message from them Inthe lower-right-hand corner of the main screen. Clicking on the message causes a TV screen to slide down from the top of the page, showcasing more information. Sponsors can also be accessed from the main window in the Finder. ¥ | os es ee on 00-29-0060 hitp:www.bungle.com Marathon Infinity Marathon Infinity contains “Blood Tides of Lh'owon," a brand ew 30-level scenario, “Forge,” Bungie's own powerful Map Editor, and “Anvil,” a single tool for easy modification of shapes, sounds and physies models, ‘Abuse What Is Abuse? Abuse Is 360 degrees of side-scrolling I, and fly In any direction through, Industria! corridors, caverns, action. Run, jump, stray enemies Inaany direction with grenade launchers, rocket launchers, napalm, and nova spheres! Avoid traps with jet packs and turboboost, hat! You need help? Well, if your super-phat disc is mangled, warped, broken, or otherwise dis- turbed, you can get a replacement from IMAGINE’s customer service. We've set up a special page on our Web site <http://www.macaddict.com/info/ service.html>where you can order one, or you can call them directly at 415-468- 4869. If you can’t install anything, or get dise errors, do the same. If you have another problem with The Disc, please stop by <http: /iwww.macaddict.com/cdrom> before you send us e-mail. If there isn't a solu- tion there, then please let us know about it at letters@macaddict.com. If you're having problems with System software, we recommend call- ing the good folks at 800-SOS-APPL. They'll be more than happy to help you. And if you are having trouble with one of the programs on our Dise, please be sure to read the accompanying Read. Me for contact info. Falsely accused and imprisoned in a high-security facilty, ‘you watch in horror as a mysterious blogenetic turns everybody around you, g ravening, inhuman mon: iment ‘ds and prisoners alike, into rs. Your only hop powered armor and any weapons you can get your hands on, al a sult of ‘and make your way to the deepest level of the prison before the plague spreads to the outside world. ER spe eee hitp:/wawibralnstormfun.com Drawing has never been so exciting. Drawing Discoveries [sa vivid, interactive, art class that teachos aspiring artists all about animals, geography, and different cultures. Guided by Akua the Gazollo, children of all ages can draw up to 18 colorful mastorplor Using simple lines and shapes, and then create a personal coloring book utilizing thelr own designs. Drawing with elther the mouse of pen ‘and paper, this fun step-by-step approach can turn anyone Into an artist, estabilshing the importance of creativity. In fact, you might just find yourself waiting impatiently for your turn. 800-595-8425 hitp:/ewwrearthlink.net ‘TotalAccess Is Earthlink’s complete software and Internet con- nection package. It includes Netscape Navigator, an award- Winning Internet access software, and everything needed to register for complete Internet access in less than five minute After the $25 setup feo, unlimited access Is provided for {$19.95 por month, “Round-the-clock tech support is provided ‘via an 800 number VIACPLAY ‘800-4MACPLAY bttpswwrw.macplay.com This demo version of Conquest of the New World shows off many ofthe major features of the game and includes a detailed {tutorial plus online help. Option-click anything on the screen to find out about it, including characters, the ship, buttons, or win- dows. Some features have been disabled in the demo. In particu lar, trado and diplomacy between players are not allowed, and there are only two European players, You can't play as the native high civilization in this version. Also, the computer players have, bbeen adjusted to play very passively, Thelr colonies will stay ‘smal, and they wil tend not to attack you. http:/iwonw.europasottware.com Frustrated by Bookmarks? WebQulck(ART-tm) tracks every page You visit and automatically organizes pages by site tlets you {reate custom Toples—and keeps ther all at your fingertips with handy pop-up menus. WabQuick even converts existing ‘Bookmarks. No wonder “MacWEEK" calls It“the first Web utlty that ls essentia!? 300-229-2714 ‘Terminal Velocity is absolutely the most exhilarating flight game avaliable for the Macintosh. It offs fast 3D texture-mapped ‘graphics, full 360-degree flight movement, and seven weapons of ‘extraordinary destruction. Fight your way through nine unique planets with an awesome array of spectacular air-to-air and alr- to-ground combat action. MacADDICT 15 Win! Win! Win! fantabulously res- ponsive Datadesk TrackBoard. This miracle of modern engineering features a trackball on the Music to our. keyboard itself and has a detachable keypad. We ,._ especially liked the aural feedback—our Apple 2358 Design Keyboards are way too quiet. If SSS / you don’t like the Necco-colored keys, / Datadesk provides standard-colored keys “and a special widget for replacing them. Here in the MacAddict offices, we played “I squish you” with it for hours. We were, how- ever, disappointed by the lack of modifier keys (Command, Option, Control) on the right side of Ww] | the keyboard. | To win this contest, you won't have to enter any / KILLER or BONUS codes on the CD-ROM. You will need to find the secret hotspot to PLAY OUR GAME, though. @Demos _s_isw Dp" give you a taste of the products you've read about or a glimpse of a killer new program. Each month we pick the four hottest demos and give them top billing. You'll find the others in the Demos folder in the Finder. The four hottest demos can be run from either The Disc’s front end or from the Finder directly. The other demos must be run from the Finder. Some demos are self- running videos, while others allow you to actually use the product. Those that let you use the product are generally “crippled” in some way. For example, you generally can't save your work, and the program will probably add a “watermark” logo if you print a document. 1. BBEdit 4.0 This new version of the world’s best text editor (we've pounded the Unix weenies crying, “Vi! Vil” into the ground) adds many new features for the Web enabled. First of all, you can now save and read files directly from your FTP server. And as you can see, the HTML tags are colored. (For the pro- grammers among you, BBEdit does this with other languages like C++, too.) Other features, such as AppleScript and a window palette, add up to a winning combination. @Files | e’ve created installers for all of the programs in the Files We. If you decide you don’t want something you've installed, run an uninstaller to get rid of it. One caveat—we can track the things we put in your System Folder. For system util- ities such as Aaron, we delete the extension, but not items that exist outside the System Folder. 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. 16 MacADDICT You'll need to jour name the e’re lo click on the icons in the correct order. You know you're clicking on the right one if idg the icon stays st be origina a displayed against the yellow back- ground. If you see a solid yellow block, you’ve made the wrong selection and will have to start over. We will draw our winner on December 5, 1996. Check out the contest page at <http://www.mac addict.com/issues/contest.html> to see who won. _———~<—Z 2. Tools Plus mene ce ith programmer, [SJucticeh QNice OK Stick @ Hot Cr i it te ell iat Co Ravin® Q Coal skip right on down to the next section. Tools Plus offers programmers a bunch of widgets (resources, libraries, and the like) to add cus- tom interface elements—not just your standard check boxes and radio buttons—to Mac programs. Compiler not included. 3. Eric's Solitaire Sampler This solitaire standby offers two games—Klondike and Eight Off. The full version offers 17 different games, and each game comes with its own deck of cards. The statistics tell you how long you've been playing, how many times you've lost, and your average play- ing time. Hint: Eight Off is much easier to win than Klondike, espe- cially since you can’t cheat at computer solitaire. & Fun and Games Avara Author: Ambrosia Software Shareware: $20 Avara is the latest arcade game from Ambrosia soft- ware. This isn’t your ordi- nary top-down — shooter, For our Internet customers with questions, AT&T uces the most advanced technology ever known in the history of the world. A live human being. Sign up for AT&T WorldNet” Service and get personal customer care 24- hours a day, plus a whole lot more @ Fast economical access (thanks to over 200 local access numbers, each running up to 28.8 Kbps) @ For AT&T long distance customers, unlimited Internet access for just $19.95/mo. or one year trial where the first five hours/mo. are free’ @ Plus, unsurpassed AT&T Network reliability. Atel www.atfcom/worldnet/wis © 1 800 WORLDNET xi16 ¢ ALGO AVAILABLE FOR MAC For details on how to get your free game see your local participating retailer or call 1-800-432-3493 ext’ M612 “Buy any @ titles on these pages plus the following (not shown): Doom II, Final Doom, Just Me and My Mom™, Just Me and My Dad”, Vikings: The Strategy of Ultimate Conquest, Locus, Ice and Fire and get any title FREE (plus $6.95 shipping and handling) from the following list: ZPC, Bedlam, “9”, SPQR, Just Me and My Dad’, Ice and Fire, Locus. Offer expires January Bist, 1997. Availability dates subject to change. Void where prohibited. Offer open to residents of Continental U.S. Not all games available on all platforms or operating systems. For game ratings, please contact the ESRB at 1-800-771-3972. 7?" ©1906 Zombie LLC. Al igh Resaved. Produced and devdoped by Zombie LLC. —Becam is censd om Nliago Techndones stiri) Lid. ©1996 Mirage Technalogis(Mutimeda) Li. AI Fights Reseved, Hexen” ©1995 Raven Software Corporation. Al Created by Ojartes, ne. Macintosh is a rpgistered vedemak isa rademark of Apple Coren, he, All games distin by GT Inerace Soar Cap. Al racemes eet ‘of tha espectve compares. IMPULSE-CONTROL DISORDER: ANTISOCIAL PERSONALITY DISORDER: DISSOCIATIVE FUGUE: (FORMERLY PSYCHOGENIC FUGUE) Episodes of failure to resist aggressive impulses that result in serious assaultive acts or destruction of property. A.k.a- P'll do what I want, when I want. Here we see not just violence but ultra violence. This intense action thriller places the player in an evil futuristic dictatorship. Recommended treatment: straight jacket and a padded cell. Pray you never see a case this bad. We’re talking 3D, blastfest arcade action. Here the player/patient blows up virtually every- thing in sight in order to save the Earth. A frontal lobotomy may be in order. A pattern of disregard for and Perhaps the most disturb- ing issue here is that this is one of the best-selling games of 1996. In order to destroy the treacherous Serpent Rider the player must jump, fly, throw light- ning bolts, or even cast evil spells. Physical restraint may be necessary. The player is off to the barren artistic retreat of a late eccentric designer, where they must restore the resort to its original grandeur, solving brain- numbing puzzles along the way. The players could be gone for months at a time. violation of the rights of others. ‘You don’t get any more antisocial than this. Non- stop, shoot em-up action with beefed-up graphics and sound that help you blow away demons like never before. Treat with extensive psychotherapy. Sudden, unexpected travel away from home or one’s customary place of work, with inability to recall one’s past. This is an extreme case. The player not only travels to another place but also to another time. (Ancient Rome, 205 A.D.) An evil plot to destroy the empire is underway and the player must stop it. These people are beyond help. though—Avara is a full-blown 3D game that feels a lot like MechWarrior Il. A lot. With immersive sound and more surreal rendering, it would practically be a clone. For all its cartoonlike colors, Avara is very fun to play and has a great physics model. System Utilities This month we turn this section over to utilities maven Stefan Anthony, who has a control panel or extension to cure whatever ails you. AutoOpen Author: Steven D. Splinter, Shareware: $5 AutoOpen is a share- = —— ware extension that provides an intuitive way to automat- ically open applications and perform system tasks when you pop ina CD. AutoOpen works not only with CD-ROMs but also with other types of storage media—such as floppies and net- worked volumes. Once installed, AutoOpen creates a new folder named “AutoOpen Folder” in your System Folder. AutoOpen quietly sits in your Extensions folder and watches your Desktop. If a volume is mounted on the Desktop, AutoOpen will check the AutoOpen Folder to see if it contains an alias with the same-name as the volume that just appeared on the Desktop. If one is found, the alias (which is pointing to whatever file, folder, or application you specify) is opened. Confused? Try this: Place an alias of your favorite audio @This Issue | Ho’ the deal. Each time you see the disc icon in the rest of the magazine, you'll know to look in this section of The Disc to find shareware, freeware, and demos. Here’s how it works. The This Issue screen on The Disc is divided just like the magazine’s Table of Contents. So if you’re looking for one of the games in the cover story, look for it in the Highlights section. If you're looking for one of the utilities that Owen Linzmayer mentions in the Ask Us column, use the Ask Us installer. To catch a demo of a product reviewed in the magazine, use the Reviews installer. Highlights Who won the Macs? Brian Cooper's desktop a/most made it. Turn to page 50 to see who won the custom-painted Macs, then pop in The Disc to see many of the CD player (Audiodeck in this case) into the AutoOpen Folder, and name it “Audio CD 1”. Whenever you insert an audio CD into your CD-ROM drive, AutoOpen will open the “Audio CD 1” alias, which in turn opens Audiodeck. Slick! (Add aliases for Audio CD 2, Audio CD 3, etc. if you listen to many CDs in one sitting.) NamedFolder7 Author: David Sumner Freeware Imagine working in the Finder and you want to cre- ate a new folder. If viewing a folder’s contents by Name and looking at the top of the window, creating a new fold- er will make the Finder auto- matically name it “untitled folder” and place it at the Whenever.you select “New Folder” “in the Finder's File menu... Roberto Mufioz's Acid Column ‘was one of our faves. 20 MacADDICT winning entries and contenders from the five categories: Desktop bottom of the list. You have to scroll down, rename it, and then scroll up again. Bypass this Finder nui- ance with NamedFolder7. This freeware utility adds the ability to name new Finder folders. —Stefan Anthony .. NamedFolder7 presents a friendly dialog box allowing you to name the folder before it is made. Design, Web Page, System Sound, QuickTime Movie, and Graphic. Pictured here are contenders from the Desktop and Graphic categories. OpenDoc What’s up with OpenDoc? David Reynolds talks about the up and coming parts, excuse us, Live Objects, on page 54. Pop in The Disc for the latest versions of OpenDoc, Cyberdog, and third-party objects. Here we're using OpenDoc 1.1 to embed a Cyberdog navigator and C-Graph object into the WAV word processor (Say what? You'll have to check out The Disc to find out). We used art from the Scrapbook to make the graph. vector-based ani- mation program, Future- Splash, doesn’t just make animations. You can export the files for the Web, too. The Navigator plug-in is available for anyone to download so that they can see your animations. The demo of FutureSplash on The Disc features a complete tutorial, so you can really test whether you want it or not. NEW ATI XCLAIM V It’s more Graphics upgrade than you've ever seen on A s NGLE CARD. Bring your PCI Mac roaring into the multimedia age with new ATT XCLAIM™ VR, the only graphics upgrade combining five must-have functions in one product. MAC2TV Video Out: Plug your MAC into your big screen TV for in-your-face, arcade-style game playing and riveting full-screen presentations. Video In: Capture frames and QuickTime movies from your VCR A> or camcorder, and use them in other documents. QuickTime Acceleration: At last, you can get YD truly usable, full-screen, full-motion QuickTime video playback. QuickDraw 3D Acceleration; See richly textured 3D, rendered at blinding speed, for amazing gaming action and incredible VRML Web browsing. MAC2 ry brilliant colors. Turn your PCI Mac into an amazing graphics and multimedia powerhouse with new ATI XCLAIM VR. It’s just $269% See your dealer today. Or check out all the details at www.atitech.ca, Now You Seen” Ug] 1996. ATI, NCLAIM and NOW YOU SEE IT are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of other company and /or product names are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of theie 2D Graphic Acceleration: Get screen resolutions up to 1152x870. See up to 16.7 million (axa VRE \s © ATI Technologies I ATH Technologies respective manufaccarers, *Based on US suggested retail price of 2MB version at time of printing. Dealer may sell foe less. @Live Wire | his month, instead of a fake browser, we've put in a real browser. Now, before you accuse us of signing a deal with the devil or anything, we’d just like to ‘say that Microsoft's Internet Explorer was the easiest browser to get permission to use in this way. The standard LiveWire Apple News, Update, and Sneak Peak buttons will open those pages in the browser. Because this is a new way of doing things, we still have a few kinks to work out. BE The Web Site his month, we fearlessly delve into a tricky subje finding the latest Apple System software updates. As you might guess from poking around the company’s many Web pages, Apple Computer isn’t a firm believer in centralization, and this is particularly true of its approach to delivering soft- ware updates such as the recent QuickTime 2.5, System 7.5.5 Update and so forth. In Search Of... Before you can round up the latest Apple goodies, you first need to dis- cover that they exist. We track the latest Apple software updates in the Hot Links section of the MacAddict Web site, <http://www.macaddict.com links>, with brief descriptions and pointers to a relatively robust download site; you'll find the release-ready soft- ware under New and Improved, while public betas and unsupported hacks are relegated to the BetaWatch page. Apple does maintain its own list of recent software updates, at <http://www.support.apple.com/pub/NEWFILES. html>, but this page has the unfortunate flaw of being hosted on one of the download servers. Thus, when the download server is overloaded the page becomes inaccessible. The quest begins here, but knowing isn’t even half the battle. Search and Destroy— Oops, Install Okay, so you've found out about a bug fix or cool freebie, and now you want to get it. This is where the fun really starts. Apple has several FTP servers to distribute software updates, many of which are organized differently or updated later than others. The first servef to be updated is usually ftp.info.apple.com, where U.S. soft- ware updates are archived under <ftp://ftp.info.apple.com/Apple.Sup port.Area/Apple_SW_Updates/US>. a Updates You may be thinking post it to five FTP sites or six?” Ask yourself: “Do | feel lucky?” Well, do ya, punk? 22 MacADDICT SER ncn raoua ronan "¢ WEEKEND ‘@. WARRIOR LEU t Pepeoeean ee You will need to quit Explorer before opening a new link. So a particular section. There is one caveat: if you don’t have enough RAM to run both the “Start here” application and Internet Explorer at the same time, you'll get a -108 error. The benefit of using this new technology is that in addition to the regular LiveWire fare, you'll be able to get to Web sites from other areas on The Disc, such as the demos, sponsors, and contest screens. And, your computer will no aN longer crash if you aren't connected—we still need to clean up that sign. So you don’t need to freak out about that. Even on a good day, this server is slow and overloaded; when a hot new software update ships, its 200 available connections are always maxed out. Usually, within a day or two the contents of ftp.info.apple.com are replicated on ftptoo. support.apple.com (150 connections), ftp2.info.apple.com (200 connections), and ftp3.info.apple.com (80 connections). While ftp2 and ftp3 suffer from similar prob- . lems during peak times, for the most part they're pretty easy to reach—probably because they're not widely known. Oh well, guess we just blew it. If you’re prepared to wait, everything should eventually end up on Apple’s dedicated “mirror” site, mirror.apple.com (see under <ftp://mirror.apple.com/mirrors/Apple_SW_ Updates/US>). This server, hosted on a Unix-based, Apple Network Server, can support 300 connections, serving up hordes of files from popular software archives such Info- Mac and UMich without even breaking a sweat. Chery Take a moment to. bang your head against ‘the wall, then try, retry again. Emergency Measures So, that’s all well and good when you’re in no hurry and you’re not competing with thousands of rival software junkies. What about those times when you have to get your mitts on the System 7.5.5 update, and so does every other Mac addict in the world? In times of crisis, Apple will usually solicit help from third parties. Look to the MacAddict site for late-breaking information on these emergency third-party mirrors. Typically, there’s also a phone number you can call to order the major update du jour, though Apple sometimes hits you up for a shipping-and-handling fee. Then there’s the commercial online service option. No matter what you think of America Online, you'll be glad the service exists when you avail yourself of its easy-to-use, easy-to-access library of Apple software updates. Last but not least, you could be patient. Wait a few weeks and we’ll deliver the latest system software updates to you on one of our shiny, pleasant-smelling CD-ROMs, just like we are this month. —Mark Simmons 3 OUT OF 4 GAME CHARACTERS SurvevED would rather humiliate and destroy you while playing on a MAC with an ATE XCLAIM VR, graphics upgrade. And that's just because that one last QuickDraw 3D game goon hasn't seen what this sucker can do. How its MAC2TY feature lets you plug your Mae right into your TV for the ultimate big screen spine-chiller that blows away arcade games once and for all. How its new ATI 3D technology breathes life into everything on screen. With ae face-blasting speed, butter-smooth 3D detail and full-screen QuickTime video. Oh ya, just in case LM fe left brain demands some sensible reason to run right out and get one, XCLAIM™ VR does mean business apps, too. And in-your-boss's-face big screen presentations. And video capture from camcorders and MA C, VCRs. And VR on the Web. And because it’s really five upgrades in one, you get more performance and features than a Power Mac 8500. On the other hand, XCLAIM VR costs just $269# so chill out! See your dealer, or see more about it at wwwaatitech.ca, Now You sexir” ABS ‘© ATI Technologies Ine., 1996, ATI, XCLAIM and NOW YOU SEE IT are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of ATI Technologies Ine. All other company and /or product names are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of-their respective manufacturers. “Based on US suggested retail price of 2MB version at time of printing. Dealer may sell for les. — —, Xclaim. or get info News, trends, and other very valuable information that you will want to know, otor ola Macs: License bears fruit KING KONG CLONES! StarMax counts on Motorola clout. 24 MacADDICT esides becom- ing the 800- pound gorilla of the Mac clone world overnight, Motorola had Mac OS other goals — when announcing two new Macintosh-compatible computer lines in mid- September. The StarMax 3000 line (roughly equiv- alent to Power Compu- ting’s PowerBase line) and the StarMax 4000 line (roughly equivalent to the PowerTower Pro line) will—if the pager, phone, and PowerPC company gets its way—create Mac inroads into the corporate world and push Mac clones into China’s expanding market. Motorola, gambling on its reputation, its new PowerStack II servers, and its five-year warranty, will try to push StarMax Macs onto corporate des! tops as part of a “total solution” combining PowerStack II servers (running Windows NT 4.0) and StarMax clients. By presenting corporate buy- ers with packages, Motorola hopes that the Mac will become more attractive to them. Motorola has lined up numerous distribution deals, so getting your new StarMax shouldn’t be a problem. Look for StarMax computers to start appearing in catalogs, retail outlets, and in China. That's right. Motorola will also court the rapidly expanding Chinese market via a distribu- tion deal with Panda Electronics, a well-known Chinese electronics company. In addition to making its own line of computers, Motorola also has the right to sublicense the Mac OS and the motherboard designs to other companies (see “Mail-Order Macs?”). ‘This may also expand the clone market. Vendors will be able to sell Mac com- patibles without having to deal directly with Apple. One of Motorola’s mantras in the quest for a larger Mac market is “low cost, high volume.” For the most part, the StarMax line is pretty standard for Macs, including either a 603e or 604e proces- sor running at 160 or 200MHz, 16 or 32MB of RAM, three or five PCI slots, a 1.2 or 2.5GB hard drive, a 256K 12 cache, and an 8X CD-ROM drive. StarMax differs from the Mac standard with its phi- losophy of cutting costs while still creating high- volume products. ‘The StarMax line is based on the Morocco/Tanzania motherboard, codesigned by Apple and Motorola for use by Motorola and its sublicensees. This design has only three DIMM slots, putting maximum RAM at 160MB. The processor is soldered to the motherboard (anoth- er cost-saving feature), so it can’t be upgraded later. Video output for the Motorola Macs is via an SVGA-only port. If you want to use your Apple mon- itor with your StarMax, too bad. You'll have to buy a $15 adapter to do so. In a bow to lower-cost alternatives, the StarMax design includes ports for PS/2 keyboards and serial mice (in addition to standard ADB ports), and in a bow to lower indus- trial design costs, StarMax cases are inexpensive, reminiscent of PC designs. Not that Motorola believes that the StarMax lines are cheap. On the contrary, the company offers a five-year warranty as a standard StarMax feature: for the first year, Motorola offers on-site support; for the second and third years, the com- pany provides a return-to-depot policy; and for the fourth and fifth years, the company provides a return-to-Motorola repair policy. Also included is 90 days of telephone technical support. This is, hands down, the best warranty in the business. StarMax prices range from $1,595 (street) for a low-end 160MHz 603e-based Mac to $3,595 for a high-end 200MHz 604e-based Mac. These prices compare well with similar Power Computing Macs. Can Motorola increase Mac market share? Maybe. The company believes that the combination of NT servers and Mac-compatibles on the desktop will help gain corporate ground, but that’s never been a big market for the Mac, and it will probably never be much larger than it is now. Best of luck, Motorola, but we remain skeptical. As for home users, the StarMax prices are good, the warranty is great, the performance is strong, so why not buy Motorola? The company has kept its end of the bargain by providing low-cost Macs; it’s just waiting for high volume. —DR BUST A MOVE! System 7.5.5 is Here! uggin’ out at System 7.5.3? Pop B: ‘The Disc and install the latest version of System software: version 7.5.5 (code named “Son of Buster”). What happened to System 7.5.4 that we wrote about last month? Fortunately, Apple discovered a last minute bug, er... feature, that shouldn't have been there. In keeping with their saner naming scheme, it bumped up the version number to 7.5.5. ‘This update improves the reliability and performance of all Macs running system soft- ware version 7.5.3. If that’s the version you've got, update it. If you're running any other System 7.5 flavor, you have to run the System 7.5 Update 2.0 (also on The Disc) first. Using System 7.5.5, we found that virtual memory worked almost as well when turned on as when turned off. If you use OpenDoc, we recommend using virtual memory. If you're a regular virtual memory user, you'll note that it’s much faster to launch memory- hungry programs and switch between large applications or programs. ‘This update also eliminates the cause of one ‘Type 11 error. (We found that after installing the update, Netscape Navigator 3.0 crashed with Type 10 errors in the same places it used to crash with Type 11 errors. We suspect some fancy subtraction routines are involved.) You will find that programs use slightly more memory—23K. So if a program tells you that you don’t have enough memory, give it more RAM by selecting the applica- tion, pressing Command-I to open the Get Info box, and up the amount of RAM by exactly 23K in the Preferred size box. —K7" Lioyp Dangie OceanLife THE ICONS AND WIN SUMERIA LOOT Not long ago, the only things that appeared in the Mac’s menu bar were the names of the menus in text, bracketed between the icons for the Apple and Applications menus. Now. the space between the right- most menu and the Applications menu icon is crowded with icons, each hid- ing its own little menu. Match the following icons with the extensions and control panels. that place them in the menu bar to win Sumeria’s Oceanlife series. Submit your entry by December 10, 1996 to our Web site or “Menu Quiz,” MacAddict, 150 North Hill Drive, Brisbane, CA 94005. FIND a f (pay 1-Apple cs) 2. Application b. Q. 3. Balloon Help a % 4. Conflict Catcher e 4\\} h 5. Magic Menu i 6. MS Office Manager FS 7. Now Contact ) — 8. OSA Menu Wisi i fire} 9. Quickeys MAIL-ORDER MACS? Jen saw the Michael Keaton film “Multiplicity” over the summer, you'll be ready for the newest kid on the Mac clone block—APS Technologies. The company is sublicensing the Tanzania board from Motorola and will ship clones—labeled M-Power—that are almost iden- tical to Motorola's new StarMax line. Clones of clones, so to speak. The M-Power Macs will use the same motherboard, components, and case as the StarMax line. The only differ- ences between the two clone lines are front panels and prices. This is where things get good. The M-Power line will have four offerings, all based on the 603e chip (except for the high-end tower, which uses a 604e chip). The first is a build- your-own-Mac system for $995, which has no CD-ROM drive, no hard drive, and no RAM. Although this sounds funny at first, it's a boon for those who already have some (or all) of the components and want to upgrade, or those who may not need certain features (such as a floppy drive or CD-ROM drive). This allows you to cus- tom-configure your system by buying only what you need. The three other configura- tions are pretty standard, all shipping with 8X CD-ROM drives, keyboard, mouse, and floppy drive. Here's exactly what they offer: + For $1,399, you get a desktop 160MHz 603e with 16MB of RAM, 1.2GB hard drive, and 1MB of VRAM. + For $1,599, you get a desktop (or tower, for a little more 10. WebQuick order source for peripherals, APS has long had a hankering for making Macs but has been unable to come to a Mac OS APS clones Motorola's Mac clones money) 200MHz 603e with 16MB of RAM, 1.2GB hard drive, 256K L2 cache, and 1MB of VRAM. + For $2,599, you get a tower 200MHz 604e with 24MB of RAM, 2.5GB hard drive, MB L2 cache, and 2MB of VRAM. Any M-Power Mac can have any product sold by APS added on when purchased, and all ship with a one-year warranty covering parts and service. Long known as a mail- licensing deal with Apple. Through Motorola's licensing agreement with Apple, APS will achieve its dream and become the first sublicensee to produce Mac clones. Because over half of APS’ revenue comes from corporate customers, the M- Power Macs might make busi- ness desktops. At presstime, APS was set to ship the new M-Power line on November 15, with M-Power Macs available in quantity by January. DR MacADDICT 25 SYSTEM, 7.5.5 in the software updates section of The Disc. The agile Dancer lets you com- bine elements from popular programs, such as Photoshop, Director or LightningDraw, into an animated presentation complete with sound, Animations can be saved as GIF89, QuickTime movies, and Java applets. Dancer takes advantage of TrueType GX, so animators have access to high-end effects. PHOTOPC 500 (Epson ci0-r2-0770; Mipuunny.epsoh.com: $499 (street): ships November). ‘The PhotoPC 500 is smaller and ‘stores more images (30 high resolu- tion; 60 standard resolution) than its predecessor, the PhotoPC. An optional PC card allows you to take 100 high resolution images and 200 standard resolution images. Other goodies include: an optional LCD display for viewing images, improved sharpness, and red-eye reduction. (Olympus: 800-847-4027; nit: Aaiay.- lolymiplis. com; $599 end9899 (street); ‘ships Ociober and November). These two small, lightweight cameras offer 24-bit color, an LCD display that can be turned off to extend battery life, auto-flash, auto white balance, and red-eye reduction. The D-200L. stores 20 high-quality images and 80 standard ones; the D-300L stores 30 and 120 images respectively. The D-300L also includes auto-focus. Use Live Picture XT to position, crop, zoom, and rotate high-resolution images in QuarkXPress without sacri- ficing image quality. You can also use Live Picture XT to create color sepa- rations in QuarkXPress and to sharp- en images after you determine the final image size. 26 MacADDICT The Number One Mac Evangelist Q. I'm tired of gray, beige, and ivory being the only colors Macs come in. Why can't Apple offer its computers in other hues? —Bored with Beige in Lawrence, Kansas ‘A. What do you mean? Power- Books are black. And a few of them were even flame-colored. Q. | just went over to a friend's house. He has Win 95 on a new IBM clone. It seemed so much better than my dear PowerPC. Tell me that itis all superficial and that Mac is still the best. —jup A. “Itis all superficial and Mac is still the best.” Next time you go over, take a hybrid CD-ROM and try to use it on his machine. Then write me back. Q. I'm in the process of convinc- ing our systems guys where | work to let the DTP group switch to the Mac OS. We've got everything in place, aside from the proof that the Mac has the larger percentage of the marketshare in the DTP industry. I've searched all over the Web, but cannot find a site with actual percentages. Not even Apple could help. Do you guys know of any such sites? If so, please e-mail the URL to me as soon as you can. —Kirk Hiner AA. Unless you're a business publication trying to prove that Apple is going out of business, it's very difficult to provide exact numbers. It depends on how you define DTP If it's high- end publishing, we probably have 60 percent market share. If you want to try an interesting poll, go ask any commercial printer what percentage of their color pre-press files are Macintosh. You'll find it's about 85 percent. Some printers, in fact, charge more for handling Windows files. Anytime you want more information about Macintosh and publishing, come to <http://www.evange- list.macaddict.com/market_ publishing. htmi>. @. So you think you're Mac Addicts, huh? Well, pop-quiz hotshots, what does Mac stand for? Yeah, | know it's an abbreviation for Macintosh, but I just thought the following was neat; MAC=Most Awesome Computers. —Chris Doorley A. Take your pick: Mavens Always Choose or Morons Always Criticize. Open Transport hat do you do when you've developed one of the most network-friendly computers in history? If you're Apple, you start over to make it better. Open Transport is a ground-up rewrite of the Mac’s networking soft- ware. And with so much attention focused on the Internet, it couldn't have arrived at a better time. ‘The Mac’s original TCP/IP software, MacTCP, was integral in getting Macs onto the Internet early. But it placed strict limitations on the number of simultaneous connections a Mac could accept. Furthermore, MacTCP’s interface is relatively clumsy, and requires you to restart before new settings can take effect. Open Transport is fully PowerPC-native, and allows Apple to add new protocols easily. For example, Open Transport has already been demonstrated running IPv6, the next generation Demystified of TCP/IP. Changes can be made on the fly and configurations for different Internet Service Providers can be saved and even exported for use on another Macintosh. Apple is using Open Transport to develop its first homegrown PPP client software for the Mac. Eventually, Open Transport will also provide multihoming, the ability for a Mac to be on two separate networks. at once. Say you're not wired yet? That's OK. Open ‘Transport can even help those using good old AppleTalk, the Mac’s native network protocol. ‘Technoweenies can easily see all the numeric address information that AppleTalk normally hides, and a simple pop-up menu lets you switch AppleTalk support from your printer to modem port. The latest version of Open Transport is 1.1.1—Ross Scott Rubin Westwood www. westwood.cam ‘Command & Conquer is a trademark of Westwood Studios, Inc. Macintosh is a registered trademark and Power Macintosh is a trademark of Apple Computers, Inc. © 1995, 1996 Westwood Studios, Inc. Alt rights reserved, es, e! Rd skills to last a life More than fun and gam Introducing Brainstorm, a new line of software titles that are not only fun and entertaining but also stimulate children to think and to discover! With Brainstorm, your kids will experience exciting ways to enhance their logic and problem solving abilities, build their self-esteem and stimulate their creativity. But they'll be having so much fun, they won't even know they're developing skills they'll use forever. The fun starts with Mario in Mario Teaches Typing 2 -- the sequel to the bestseller that teaches essential typing skills in a fun and innovative way. Then, in Chess Mates --exclusively endorsed by the U.S. Chess Federation -- animated characters will have kids mastering the intricacies and strategies of chess like the fork, skewer and pin in over 60 fun puzzles. With Drawing Discoveries, those who thought it impossible will learn to draw in minutes with step-by-step lessons that can turn anyone into an artist. With Mario's FUNdamentals, your kids get five classic strategy games that teach fundamental learning skills. And in Flipper, the world's smartest dolphin will lead kids on adventures sure to inspire a sense of wonder about the world around them. At Brainstorm, we know that games can be much more than just fun. Now, they can reward your children for life So much fun, they won't know they're learning! REE 5 eens RY” MacOS Brainstorm *16815 Von Karman Ave. «Irvine, CA 92606 swww.brainstormfun.com Six sweet indulgences to tempt your digital fantasies. FreeHand Graphics Studio Macromedia BEES FESS eS) MES SSS SHEme) EGS & Ee) Te el sisi) lel) G 0 to seven. Go directly to seven. Pass six. Hopefully collect lots of dollars. Macromedia must have pulled this card off the top of the Community Chest pile when thinking about the new version of FreeHand. Being the upstanding board-game players they are, Macromedia's team dutifully followed directions and produced FreeHand 7.0 as | part of the FreeHand Graphics Studio. (Don't bother looking for Freehand 6; it Sa never made it to Go.) The new FreeHand hopes to ride the Web wave by including = Shockwave support. FreeHand can also embed URLs and can export to GIF, SZ a JPEG, PNG, and Acrobat PDF se SOFTWARE SO GOOD IT SKIPS A VERSION NUMBER file formats. FreeHand 7 also offers better autotracing, a power- == ful graphics and text search engine, and a bevy of other new features. If your thim- Leebe las] ble lands on the Macromedia square and you pay the $449 rent (street price) for FOOTWEAR Graphics Studio, youtl also get xRes 3.0, Extreme 3D 2.0, and Fontographer 4.1 —— To learn more, call 800-457-1774 or go to <http:/Awww.macromedia.com>. Mousepads Computer Rascals hose wacky Computer Rascals have developed a Mac accessory that makes a statement about the human condition. Theyre cheesy. They're ballsy. They repre- sent the perfect balance between heaven and earth. And best of all, they're only $14.95. The round Computer Rascals mousepads come in seven different varieties. There's a pizza pad, five different ball pads CHEESE FOR YOUR MOUSE. (including a gotfball, a soccer ball and a basketball) and a yin-yang symbol. Computer Rascals’ mouse- pads are similar in construction and feel to existing mousepads; it's their appear- ance that makes them nifty. Since they're round, Computer Rascals Mouspads also make an ideal indoor, Frisbee-like flying disc when your Mac isn't powered up. They're furniture- and window-safe, and easy on those delicate breakables (provided you don't chuck them too hard). To buy your very own under-mouse statement, call 800-545-6721. MD-4000 ‘ou've run out of addresses. Your power strip can't take one more cord. If you send out the wrong mental vibrations, your system will go down in a cloud of burning smoke. But before you enter that 12-step SCSI junkie program, consider extending your peripheral habit with the Alps MD-4000 scanner/printer. It only takes one SCSI address and one socket on your power strip. Besides those all-important features, the MD-4000 also offers 600 dpi TWAIN-compatible 24-bit scanning and 600x600 dpi color printing (or 1200x600 dpi black-and white printing). With its new Micro Dry ink system, the MD-4000 delivers rich, near-photographic quality prints that wont fade, THE LITTLE PERIPHERAL THAT COULD smudge, or run if you get them wet, and it delivers all this on regular 20-pound bond paper-no special ink-jet paper to purchase. The MD-4000 is also capable of printing overheads or doing metallic color printing. At $6.60 for regular ink cartridges and $8.99 for metallic color cartridges, buying ink won't break you. And the MD-4000 won't break you either with its $699 list price. For more information, call Alps Electric at 800-825-2577, ot go to <http:/Awww.alpsusa.com>. Alps i 30 MacADDICT Flight Sim Cockpit Thrustmaster lued to the tube during the Gulf War dogfight sequences? Bummed because you missed out on the glory of air combat? Can't find your Mac's joystick through the teetering stacks of "Soldier of Fortune" maga- zine? Tired of people calling you a war monger? Thrustmaster's Flight Sim Cockpit (modeled after an F-16C cockpit) can help with the first three problems; youll have to take the fourth up with your recruiter. Made of medium-density fiberboard tough enough to withstand a direct hit from an AIM-120 (or an angry two-year-old), the Flight Sim Cockpit has room for a computer, monitor, and flight simulation controls (such as joysticks and foot petals) galore. The prices add an extra touch of realism. The basic cockpit is $695, but you can add so much more. There's a fiber- NO NEED TO ENLIST... YET glass external shell with "appropriate decals", such as Danger: Ejection Seat and Rescue ($975), seat pads ($199), a shoulder harness ($99), and a ladder ($149). Total price: $2,117. You still need to add your own joystick. Fortunately, Thrustmaster also sells flight controls, such as the FCS Mark 1 joystick ($149.95), the RCS rudder pedals ($149.95), and the WCS Mark 1 throttle ($99.95). Total price: $2,516.85. A bargain by Pentagon standards. To take to the skies, contact Thrustmaster at <http://www.thrustmaster.com>, or call 503-615-3200. Starter Kit PhotoDisc VES got an idea for a graphic, but you're no photographer. You don't even play one on TV. Cover up your feelings of inadequacy and find that perfect image with the PhotoDisc Starter Kit. This is your gateway to a cornucopia, nay, a veritable plethora of images. The Starter Kit includes the 236-page PhotoDisc Resource Book 2 and the 286-page PhotoDisc Resource Book 3, each with more than 4,000 thumbnails of PhotoDisc images. The kit also includes corresponding CD-ROMs — THE DISCS WORTH 8,000,000 WORDS with all of the same images in a low-resolution format (150K image size), a built-in search engine, and a bonus of 10 free, high-resolution (10MB) images on each CD. If you see an image that you want but dont have the high-resolution version, no problem. You can go to the PhotoDisc Web page, purchase the image, and download it right then. Besides, the books make great coffee-table publications if you want to class up your place a bit for only $39, which gives you a $39 credit toward your first purchase of one of PhotoDisc's CD-ROM collections. For more infor- mation, call PhotoDisc at 800-528-3472, or go to <http:/(www.photodisc.com>. Solar Systems Mercury Il Keep It Simple Ss; here's Sir Edmund Hillary on the slopes of Mt. Everest, about to summit for the first time in history. But first things first. Hillary pulls out his PowerBook 5300 (which dou- bles as a space heater) to play a game of Tetris, brazenly ignoring the operating specifi- cations that say a Mac shouldn't be operated above 10,000 feet. He pushes the power button, waits for the familiar chime, and... nothing. His final battery has run out. Discouraged, Hillary turns back, never to climb again. History is altered, eventually lead- ing to New Zealand's conquest of the Western Hemisphere in an odd twist involving wool production and national pride. Had Hillary forked out an extra $395 and taken the Mercury II solar power system to the mountain, the rest of us would have been spared the pain of learning a new national anthem (except for those in New Zealand, of course). The Mercury II provides enough power (in decent ACCESSORIES FOR THE POWER-HUNGRY lighting conditions) for any PowerBook, and charges batteries at half an AC outlet's capacity. The Mercury Il has an expected life span of at least 20 years, and it can also power over 100 other portable computers (as well as acting as a station for charging cellular phones, camcorders, and radio equipment). Keep It Simple Systems can be contacted at 800-327-6882, or at <http://wildwestweb.com>. MacADDICT 31 SEGASOFT™ Develop: s nce Games, Ine. All rights reserved. S oft logo are trademarks of SegaSoft Ine DO UNO TT 2 APRN iE bee RUE ES na = ° > OBSIDIAN. hardware by Kathy Tafel Everyone knows that killing an alien with your bare hands is virtually impossible. Even when you're armed with a Mac, taking down ET can be XS pretty tough. But when your Mac is primed % : for ultimate gaming destructionsiiot only will your gun fire more bullets faster, your victim’s blood spurt \4 darker and higher; and your world seem dangerously larger, but the overall experience can be literally... killer. 34 MacADDICT amers who want to get the most out of shoot- *em-ups such as Marathon, MechWarrior II, and Havoc can beef up their Mac arsenal enough to make the Windows geek down the street choke on his Perrier. Sure, Gates’ goons get to sweat over hot PC-only titles, such as Duke Nukem and Quake, but Apple is fighting back by finally giving developers the free code libraries, aka Sprockets, they need to keep up in the cut-throat gaming arena. As more and more fast-paced click-and-shoots, epic adventures, and simulators become available for avid (or is it rabid?) Mac gamers, you'll want to be super- equipped to experience the mayhem to the fullest. You need the ultimate gaming machine. Here’s how to get it. PUMP UP THE BASS Yes, you can play solitaire on any Mac going back to the 128K. To play today’s 3D, real-time games, though, you'll need a heftier machine. First of all, you absolutely must have a PowerPC-based Mac. A game environment that is built on the fly, such as Marathon, requires the number-crunching brawn of the PowerPC. And any game that promotes itself as “real- time,” as opposed to turn-based (such as Warcraft), needs it, too, to be very responsive. In fact, the only things that tax your Mac more than these games are real-time video and audio-editing programs—the ones that professionals use. This is not a load of bull tinky devised to get you to spend lots of money. You really do need this much horsepower to get the most out of the latest games. It used to be that only high-end workstations could dis- play 3D graphics. To get the 3D, realistic look in a game, the scenes all had to be prerendered, stored on CD, and then displayed in a somewhat static fashion a 1a Myst. The way things are today, that genre of game has prerendered scenes, plus full-motion video up the wazoo, and comes on six CDs. While generally gor- geous with good story lines, these games aren’t exactly immersive or responsive, because so much has to be loaded off the CD-ROM. (We won't even talk about the quality of acting in most full-motion video games.) The other way to build a gaming world, the way now in fashion, is “on the fly.” Rather than prebuilding a world and storing it on CD, the developer stores the description of a world inside the game application, and your Mac builds the world every time you play the game. This stresses your machine to the limits—it must render a world (which consists of making polygons and shading them), and at the same time remember where you are in the game (to send computer opponents to waste you), show the action on the monitor, and have great “splat” sound effects. Developers can do one of two things when creating these games: First, they can make these games faster on lower-end machines (for example, 68K Macs) by literally cutting corners. Games look less realistic because the computer can’t calculate the shapes and textures of as many polygons as a PowerPC-based Mac can. Alternately, developers can make the games so that they require a PowerPC chip to even run. Why is the PowerPC such a kick- ass game chip? For one thing, it was specifically designed to do floating-point math really fast, and floating-point math is the basis of making 3D shapes. Floating point refers to decimal numbers such as 396.21352. Integer math uses whole numbers such as 2+2=4. Before the PowerPC, it was a lot harder for developers to use floating-point math and still create programs that ran respectably. They just couldn’t do 3D rendering, much less run a 3D game, on a 68K machine that didn’t have a floating-point coprocessor. With the PowerPC they can. Although you can upgrade an older Mac with a PowerPC card, we strongly recommend buying a new machine, as it offers advances in the audio and visual circuitry that you just don’t get with the card alone. And while you're at it, be sure to get the Level 2 cache for the extra speed boost. With that said, what would our dream gaming machine be? Well, we'd start with a Performa 400/200: This gets us a superfast 200MHz 603e processor, a 256K Level 2 cache, and an expansive 2.4GB hard drive. To that, we'd add an AppleVision 1710AV display and an ATI XClaim VR card. Turn the page to see our ultimate gamer’s Mac. MacADDICT 35 | oaempaey Happy. Happy () The Performa 6400 includes 16MB of RAM, which is great J oy, J oy because many games require at least 8IMB of free RAM. Even then, some leading-edge games will not A joystick not only i lt drive bu also hee run as smoothly as you'd like. While RAM prices You from having to memorize key commands are so cheap, buy as much as you can. With @ For years a gamers have avoided using 32MB you'll rarely bump your head. é, (<9 peripheral controllers. Sorry, folks, for a truly 3 immersive experience, get a joystick. Ss - . ThrustMaster If you really want to go 503-645-3200: game crazy, get an extra hie /aaew teeter teeeh 1GB hard drive or be pre- Thrustmaster takes the cake for sheer arog tovelocare some.ot the 2.4GB drive that comes with the Performa 6400 to games. Either way, create a 650MB luxurious feel in its line of sleek, black controllers. The flight simulator and racing Car controllers make it feel real. And if you have an extra couple hundred dollars to ay 4 ink Spend, check out the flight sim cockpit in papers ies ny. Cravings (page 30) this month. oe Suerte Drive eset Toolkit. Copy your cur- (Unfortunately, the switch kit is PC only.) rent favorite CD-ROM- based game to that par- tition—the game will CH Products run faster. Remember 619-598-2524; http://www.chproducts.com to rename the partition Slightly more affordable, CH Products’ ‘. the same as the CD.* FlightStick Pro is a perfectly acceptable controller, if not as tlashy as the ThrustMaster. You'll need big hands, though, to get around the FlightStick. All new machines include an 8X CD- ROM drive. You really | need only a 4X drive. Gravis 206-881-5705; http://www.gravis.com Gravis’ products are not the most luxurious. ‘However, they all work as promised and are far less expensive than their upscale Cousins. Gravis has recently updated its {ine to include the Firebird, a 13-button controller that works with both action games To play online and flight sims. An optional adapter lets you multi-player add PC rudder pedals. games, you'll need network support, which means a 28.8Kbps modem and an Internet connection. MacAlly 800-644-1192; http://www.macally.com ‘We really like the feel of the Batwing, ‘compared to the GamePad. This controller looks a lot like the Pippin’s but can attach to a real game machine. The joystick also adds a few handy touches, such as suction ‘cups on the bottom. to keep it from moving as @ you save the universe. 5 Make sure that your keyboard, like the one that comes with the Performa 6400, has a key- pad and arrows in aT ChoiceStick shape rather than in a 302-456-3026; http://www.kernel.com straight line—this arrangement If you just can’t wait for a controller for makes it easier to play games. another platform to come to the Macintosh (if ever), get the ChoiceStick adapter for ciftior PC hardware orconsole controllers. *NOTE: This is not a call for piracy. Don't copy a game to your hard drive and then give it to a friend. We want the nice game developers to make money so they make more games, right? 36 MacADDICT ATI's Xclaim VR card adds 3D acceleration to any PCI Mac. What does this get you? Games will run faster, not just because the card computes the routines more quickly but also because the processor is freed up to calculate the rest of the game. The Xclaim VR also adds enough VRAM to give millions of colors on a 17-inch monitor, making up for the 6400's lack of VRAM. The video-out lets you use your TV as a monitor; the video-in lets you digitize video. A 17-inch monitor is ~ great for games that can use the extra space and for displaying other games really big. You need at least a pair of speakers to hear games in stereo. To be truly creeped out, get surround sound and a subwoofer (built into the Performa 6400). If you don’t have the AppleVision 1710AY, get external speakers. Speakers should be shielded so they don’t interfere with your monitor. You can also hook up modern Macs to your home stereo system using the same cable you'd use to plug ina portable CD player to the stereo. If you do this, you absolutely must keep the speakers away from your monitor, as most stereo speakers aren’t shielded. = ESassociate Editor Kathy Tafel hasn't desired a new Mac so badly since she saw the Quadra 840AV. A Quick 3D Primer Ordinary 3D accelerators won't make your game look better. They will help you if you're using a 3D application, ‘such as Fractal Raydream Studio, because they specialize 3D world, objects are layered on top of each supports alpha bl -and smoother. endering. Games, ie ‘have specific aaempaey WITHOUT ACCELERATION the fog is rough and the the texture maps are flat. some of the game-specific effects a , Such as ATI's Xclaim VR speeds or enables. Alpha blending Each pixet in a computer image can have a red, green, FOR A blue, and alpha value, which together PLETE specify the transparency for the pixel. Ina 3 PRIMER, other—think of looking through a window to Vi the Mae: see the landscape outside. Alpha blending Addict Website composites the alpha channels of each object and, depending on how transparent each alpha channel should ee ‘transparent to not at all), figures out through the window but not 1 ecelerator card that 'Noj it's not adding spooky effects. Fog figures out an pie ina 3D world should be rendered. The Textur Filtering Texture fitering removes aliasing artifacts such as sparkles and blockiness. The QuickDraw3D RAVE API be game vendors three things up close | look ‘smooth but HS in the distance are pixelate hessuse aialy is less important. Without a MacADDICT 37 software | ecu 6 Come on. It’s ames. Major players such as MacPlay, | GI Interactive are producing n ' before. ' 4, @ o while there are more games out there this year than last, they aren't all must-have toys. To help you while away those long winter hours, we've sacrificed much of our time to testing, testing, and more testing of all the Mac games still in existence. Once we finished wearing our fingers to the bone, we divided the Mac games you just must have into four categories: Action, Adventure, Puzzle, and Simulation. Some of the games on this list are a trip down memory lane, but they still provide great gameplay. Others are the latest and greatest titles at the top of their form. For each title, we'll tell you what distinguishes it as a Mac game, moments we'll always remem- ber, and whether you'll have to use more brain or more brawn to come out a winner. Action Games In an action game, you must overcome ob