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@ File Edith View HiMom! C-¥a PURYiSiaiaes A better machine. A better magazine. |» 1997 Predictions > Making Noise: From beeps to burps to soundtracks > Apple’s Turnaround | eNew Newtons | eBack in the Black | eMore Performas Z6/Nve How to do what you shouldn’t! | PLUS! +29 All-New Products Reviewed -How to Make Button Bars -Why Mac Games Are Rebounding | AG @\www.macaddict.com $7.99 U.S./$8.99 CANADA | 01> Ml Join everyone's favorite monkey This new interactive animated as be takes your kids on alvely storybook from Living Books brings exploration of alphabet sounds, shapes and pronunciations, as ivell Dr Seuss’s most memorable charac- ters to life, enabling your child to ats playing letter games at the zoo. Jearn to love reading in an entirely Gurious George’ ABC Adventure is new way. Green Eggs and Ham great fora bead start on learning will belp build your child's memory From Houghton Mifflin Interactive. cand observation skills and more Westwood Studios’ CD-ROM version of the MONOPOLY game will enter- Encarta 97 Encyclopedia is every” thing youd expect from a multime- a dia encyclopedia. Rich with articles, tain you like never before, Rich photos, animation sequences, video Uncle Pernybags is your animated clips anda dictionary containing ‘over 65.000 words, this 2-CD-ROM = (a 2T ENCARTA Master of Ceremonies as Depression- © era Atlantic Gity comes to life ‘program from Microsoft will teach with state-of the-art 3-D graphics your kids sometbing new every day. antimation and digital sound. With 4 practice tests and 300 of toe rx brings you Hollywood High, ‘most commonly ested words, side a the latest CD-ROM program in the SAT and ACT ‘97 Edition will the Hollywood series, An animated Dave your kids mastering these tests ‘multimedia program that lets you cand raising their scoves faster than you can decide what to do with cand your kids write and produce your own movies about your family their rooms when they move out friends and favorite places And peo- From The Princeton Reviéw. This learning program by GT Wishbone”and the Amazing Odys Interactive is a great way for your from Palladium Interactive features kids to explore and discover. Wisbbone™in bis first CD-ROM Follow along as Critter and bis zapped into the animated world of Homer's Odyssey and is trapped adventure. Wishbone has been ‘mom's journey to the Big Apple ~) comes alive right before their eyes. Just Me and My Mom will bave in the world of ancient Greece. He needs your belp to get home. them playing again and again. Let Mavis Beacon show you the Adventure lurks everywhere in heys to success! With over 4 Amazon Trail” Il, This interactive ‘program fiom MECC will bave your Aids learning about the ecology and. ‘million copies in use, Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing isthe world’s best-selling typing program. It's bistory of the Amazon. bueracting the proven, effective way to learn cand improve keyboard skis From Mindscape, Ine. with explorers, scientists and indigenous people, And fending of bungry animals and reptiles. the thousands of great education and enter re to use. You can pick them up at stores like i hile yout the Ma as easy to choose 4 Micro Center Comy yur Macintosh* personal com- fainment titles available for out doing your holiday season, wouldn't it be nice to hear the words “cool” and €29u9}U9S owes 3y} Ul pasn ,juoJed,, Or call 800-500-4862. 00... because performance cannot be based on ¢ on clock speed alone. 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Others ony offer 3 slots in two separate banks a mos. at iad ES SUPERMaCc* Computers that Work the Way You Do. ‘or visit our web site @ http/ /wwrw.supermac.com, © 1996 Ail ights reserved, SuperMac i a Registered Trademack of Radius Licensed exclusively to UMAX Computer Corporation.» Headquarters and Sales & Markets 47470 Seabridge Dt. Hemont CA 94586. Tel (900) 230-629, Fane (S1) 628.7250 > Engineering Hgts: 4800 Creat Ames Parkway, Ste #00 Snta Clara, CA 95054 Tal: (408) 8978700. Hand up the hammer, Joe. This one needs Some serious work! January 1997 highlights 38 Hack Your Mac Despite all those bad movies about hackers, there are actually useful (and fun) things you can do to customize your Mac. You'll learn to tell a resource fork from a data fork, and which one to use with salads. BY STEFAN ANTHONY 44 QuickTime Home Studio So what you really want to do is direct? Our QuickTime mogul shows you all you need to know to shoot, edit, and produce your own Silicon Babylon on your desktop. BY STEVEN ANZOVIN 52 Things That Go Bump in the Mac What? What? Could you speak up? Here's how to add sound to a QuickTime movie, make new system beeps and startup sounds, record audio into your Mac, and more. BY STEVEN ANZOVIN AND RAF ANZOVIN é iad Bob Saget doesn't want ‘em. ~* 3 Pea ee 60 Predictions ’97 in your ee u The MacAddict Not-So-Psychic Friends Network has gazed at the entrails of a PowerBook and discovered what's in store for 1997. Do the stars control Apple’s stock price? We reveal all! 90 Create a Comic Book Bam! Pow! Zap! You, too, can make your own four-color fantasy. 94 Make a Button Bar Button, button, you've got the button. We show you how to make and place a professional-looking set of clickable buttons on your Web page. Quack! Quack! Quack! Quack! ‘Quack! Quack! and other interesting points. Get ready to nuke the popcorn! ‘We've hit the Big Time! You'd smile, too, if you could see the future. The ResEdit Jack-in-the-Mac was reinterpreted by Tom ‘White, who keeps @ pair of ‘Macs near him at all times. every month= 3 24 34 102 128 Editor’s Note An interview with John Floisand, Apple’s senior VP of worldwide sales. Letters You know someone’s going to say something they'll regret. Get Info Two new Newtons, Apple makes a profit, Performas get faster, Navigator 3.0 can run in SMB of RAM, and yet another faaaabulous contest. Cravings Will this flow of amazing products never end? Well, we hope not. Reviews Honking-fast towers from Umax and Power Computing, the programs that love them (Canvas, Detailer, and others), and a nifty printer/scanner combo. Ask Us We answer your queries regarding locked folders, upgrading daughtercards and batteries, and AOL's insidious appropriation of command-0. PowerPlay Developers are dreaming of a Mac-gaming Christmas but are still wary. Find out what’s going on inside their heads. Shut Down No, sometimes we don’t have anything better to do. Media mayhem! We’ve assembled over 40 programs for editing audio and QuickTime movies, Add to that a hacker's toolbox and the regular assort- ment of new demos and shareware, and you've gat a killer disc! Oh yeah, don’t forget to find the infamous hot spot to win Opcode’s Musicshop 2.0. http://www.macaddict.com 22 By the time you read this, it'll be a done deal, but at press time we're scrib- bling away on the totally revamped Web site. Join us on a magical mystery tour of the new, improved site, and sneak backstage to take a peek at the incomprehensible doodles we produced as part of our design process. You'll Jaugh, you'll cry, you'll rev up your Web browser and careen down the information superhighway to check out <http://www.macaddict.com>! 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All rights reserved, Reproduction in whole or in partis prohibited Imagine Publishing, Inc. is not afftiated with the companies or products covered in MacAdalct. Standard Mail enclosed in TSS UNDKRDOIES versions: A2, C, and 01 SS POSTAGE PAD PRODUCED IN THE UNITED ‘Waseca, MN STATES OF AMERICA. Permit No. 48, Reuben, all that Halloween candy ‘will make your teeth rot. Dan, the bike tires bettor be gone. I've got the cutest dog. Judy, stop worrying! he Mac 05 Oban to OTH (His Wall. ntl ae [ie RAM Charger breaks down inefficient memory S ncrony, < Gee AN ace partitions to dynamically allocate memory where All C targer Download a free demo from it’s really needed. It's compatible with RAM WWW. SYRCPONYS: COM, doubling software, and pumps every System Check it Outi. 7 Mac to run multiple RAM-hungry then get IC eit are applications with more reliability. adel @iroo1j0s Or get it direct for just ‘1996 Syneronys Softcorp. All rights reserved. Syncronys, the eres, are trademarks of Syncronys Softcorp. All other trademarks are the property of their respective holders. at 1.888.777.5600. How an Apple senior VP plans to make buying a Mac as easy as using one. BA bout the time that I'm writing this, a Jot of you are starting to buy your hol- Widay gifts. And maybe while you've been out shopping, you stopped at a store to look at new Macs. And, of course, in doing so, you ran into the bozo salesperson who told you that you were crazy for wanting a Mac,jor worse, who couldn't answer a sin- fiestion about the models on display. Experiences like these are enough to drive any of us — Mac loyalists right over the edge (or in the case of today’s overcrowded malls, screaming into the parking lot). So is it going to get better? Is there any hope that Macs are going to get a fair shake in retail stores? What the heck is Gil Amelio’s professional man- agement team doing up there in those glass towers in Cupertino? To find out what Apple has up its sleeve, I recently interviewed John Floisand, senior vice president of Apple’s worldwide sales, over a vegetarian lunch in Cupertino. Floisand moyed into his current position shortly after Amelio took the helm of Apple Computer. A company veteran of 11 years, Floisand was formerly president of Apple Pacific, where he handled sales, marketing, and support for the booming Asian markets. He also created the Apple Centers, popular stores in Europe that sell only Apple- branded equipment and that are set up to create an atmosphere that simulates the one in which its target customers will be using their Macs—an office, for example. <j “We want to change MIS managers from saying, ‘Don’t bring in Macs—they breed’ support Macs. 6 MacADDICT to ‘OK, we can So what is Floisand going to do to shore up Apple’s sales? Here’s what he had to say. kz What is your charter for the worldwide sales and marketing force? JF: My organization has two roles. The first is to provide the necessary support to people who support our products. In large organizations, for example, there are evangelists who are not on our payroll but should be. My job is to provide the ammo they need to support the Mac. The second part is to convert MIS managers from being negative, as they are today, to being neutral. We want to change them from saying, “Don't bring in Macs—they breed” to “OK, we can support Macs.” T What are you doing to make this happen? JF: {’ve started a group that puts together policies and programs, and provides seed units for large accounts, especially large global accounts. This group helps these accounts use the Mac by providing the necessary support and access to distributors and dealers. We provide one central account manager who the corporate representative can go to with problems. Also, we now have one global sales force, Before, we had good pro- grams that we couldn’t implement because the sales teams were divided up into three geographies—the Americas, Europe, and the Pacific. Ideas had to go up through one hier- archy and down through another. Now a good idea in Australia is a good idea in Canada. And in each country, people report to a global business manager to ensure that a program can be localized. We've also Our Answers to Your Frequently Asked Questions Can I get a copy of the cover image? Why don't you sell MacAddict T-shirts and buttons and stuff? Why don’t you put a number on the MacAddict discs so we can tell them apart and can catalog their contents? Can you tell me where the secret spot on The Disc is? I can’t find it, and I've looked everywhere. Do you take bribes? Can I get a copy of the premiere issue? “The industry is changing. Customers are driven by solutions, not by hardware.” got a global training group that pro- duces the training materials and sales tools used by the Apple sales force in the field and by the dealer and distributor force, Because the group is global, all of these people now get the same message. MA: What are you doing to promote the Mac to individuals? JF: We are turning up the heat on advertising quite dramatically. We're going to shout loudly about the Mac’s advantages and our solutions. IMA: What is the message? JF: Seventy-five percent of the world doesn’t use computers and is terrified of them, so ease of use is still part of the message. But we're also promoting the ease of doing. For example, someone might want to know, how can my child get access to an encyclopedia on the Internet? We're creating a series of infomercials to show how easy it is to do this. IVIA: What is Apple doing to help educate the sales- people in retail stores? JF: We're reworking the train- ing materials and sales tools that are available. We're putting the materials in a format whereby the recipient can choose the media for their training—CD, paper, video, or seminars. And we're posting mat- erials on the Internet so that they are available immediately down at the store level. IVIA: How are you revamp- ing the materials? JE: Previously, we had a number of different training materials. A lot of them were generic, things like specification sheets. There were also software materials and materials on third-party products. Then, if the store was really unlucky, [it also received] information from Apple's Imaging Division on monitors and printers. Imagine getting this much information from Apple and Compaq and... Now we're deciding on a solution to sell. For example, we might say, “This is a family Mac. It’s called a Performa.” We'll list its advantages all in one document. The industry is changing. Customers are driven by solutions, not by hardware. MA: What is Apple doing to make shopping for a Mac a more pleasant experience? JF: We're currently running ail experiment in Denmark, where we've created stores that were designed very differently from tra- ditional computer stores. They're light, airy, and open. They provide an atmosphere like that in your home, sort of the way the Ralph Lauren stores do. We've opened these stores both as stores in a suburban mall and as a store within a larger store. Families can go in on weekends to shop. No one pressures them by asking, “How many megabytes of RAM do you need?” Some of the stores have a café. All of them have books and magazines. There are clearly marked specialty areas such as Home Education. We're also looking at providing a same-day installation service when you a buy Mac locally. And we may offer training programs, either in-store or at home. IMA: What makes you opti- mistic that these changes and plans will work? JF: We had great ideas before [Gil Amelio came onboard] but huge implementation problems. The net result was zero forward movement. Now, under the new organization, we all hear the same message and we are all going in the same direction. There’s a lot more traction and a lot more forward movement. —Cheryl England want To Make Your Multi- media CREATE YOUR SOUNDTRACKS WITH SmartSound™ FOR MULTIMEDIA See for yourself why MacUser says: “SmartSound is billed as ‘the absolute easiest way to create customized professional soundtracks." Believe it.” ae Bob LeVitus MacUser $484 CHECK QUT OUR DEMO ON THE MACADDICT CD “For beginners and pros alike, its a quick, easy and fascinating way to produce custom music for multimedia.” ~~ David Rubin MacAddict (800) 454-1900 From Sonic Desktop Software The Soundtrack Company www.sonicdesktop.com (818) 718-9999 letters This Month Reading the mail is among our favorite things to do. We love your stories, your comments, your jokes. We only wish we had more space to run all of the wonderful responses. Write to us at: MacDudes, MacAddict, 150 North Hill Drive, Brisbane, CA 94005, or letters@macaddict.com. For CD-ROM replacements or subscription queries, please call our customer service department at 415-468-4869, DarNepD Earwics When you promised not to always use GET ON, GET ACTIVE. Talk T0@ches in your November Letters sec- fous and talk tion, I thought you were kidding about toother Mac ‘the earwigs... until one crawled out of addicts on one of the pages of the issue as I read the Web site, it. Granted, the magazine had been resting on the floor next to the chair SIGHTED Mac Sign, Take 2 OK, we goofed. Yes, it does happen. We ran a great story from Rick Ling in the last issue, but, uh oops, we forgot to place the real image at press time, So here’s the real image plus an abbreviated version of the story: It was the spring of 1984. | had just bought one of the first Macs in Montreal. Every day as | entered the local dealer's store, there would be a sign on a shelf, That sign was the ‘symbol of a new way of thinking about computers. { was star- tied one day to find it gone. The assistant manager said it was going to be thrown away. | made an 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 GOT A MAC SIGHTING? SEND IT TO US! 8 MacADDICT during a cal tending interruption, but I never expected to take the earwig threat literally! —Donna Blocuwitz You put.your copy of MacAddict on the floor? By the way, I really hate earwigs, so I say stay with the roaches. —NarHan THOMPSON I see little resemblance to any bugs with which I am familiar and any of your staff. —Ray Riva, FROM THE Mippiz West Not even Nikki? YEAH, THAT’S It! On page 52 of the October issue, where it says “more friendly,” did you perchance Spam and earwigs and sporks and other odd things from you all. intend to use the correct grammar form “friend- lier”? <grin> (Maybe that was written at 3 am. in a Jolt and snack food frenzy). —Jim Rone T have my November issue next to my Mac at all times, ready to swat any PC user that comes within a foot of my precious Mac. —Jon Srerrens, BincHamTon, NY On, PLease Don’t! This is my fourth letter to you guys. I know this one doesn’t have a chance to get printed, but could you keep me in mind for a future issue? I'll just keep writing and writing and writing until you print one (I hope it doesn’t take until my deathbed). —Nirenawk D.T. Jarrett 0 Awww What I love about the Mac, and computers in general, is their ability to blur the genera- tion gap. You have no age when you sit in front of your computer. No one knows and no one cares how old or young you are—you are a Mac lover, and that’s all that counts. Recently I was giving a friend’s 13-year- old son some tips. I know that under any other circumstances, he would just be a (gasp!) teenage boy and I would be a (gasp!) middle-aged woman (that is, if I live to be over 100)—but in front of that monitor we were just Mac addicts going ‘wow’ and ‘cool,’ looking at all the terrific things the Mac can do. The Mac has not taken over my life. I still enjoy reading, the opera, dinner with friends, and watching Seattle sunsets with my husband. What it has done is expand my life with knowledge, new friends, and challenges 1 didn’t know existed. Thank you Apple, and thank you, MacAddict. —Mariin GLAMKowski > OUT OF-4 GAME CHARACTERS SuRvEvED would rather humiliate and destroy you while playing on a MAC with an ATI 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 MAC2TV feature lets you plug your Mac 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 as face-blasting speed, butter-smooth 3D detail and full-screen QuickTime video. Oh ya, just in case LT your left brain demands some sensible reason to run right out and get one, XCLAIM™ VR does mean business apps, too. And in-your-boss'-face big screen presentations. And video capture from camcorders and MA Cary 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 www.atitech.ca, Now You SEE If. . ie peel oc 0 1TH ALAM od ON ‘YOU SEE IT are trademar james are trademarks a 2MB version ar time OOPS! In November's review of You Dip Wuat?!? Help! I bought the second issue of MacAddict in the Philadelphia airport. I immediately tore. off the plastic cover and discarded one of those ubiquitous AOL disks! Imagine my horror when I discovered that I had thrown away a wonderful CD! Of course, by then I was halfway to Denver! Can. you send me the first issue with the CD and bill me for it? Can you send me the CD that went with the second issue and bill Steve Case for it? —Joun D. RIVENBARK Bummer. Sorry, we're all out of the first issue. No more, nada, ub-ub, ain’t hap- pening. But you can get the second issue. Check out page 104 in this issue for information on order- ing back issues. You need to work on the ink that covers the cover of your magazine. One day I fell victim to random New York City weather and my November 96 MacAddict was slightly soaked, When it dried, its cover started peeling and flaking all over the place! Geez, what kind of ink are you using? ——JERRY You took your MacAddict out in the rain? T.S. Eviot HE AIN’T Nothing’s crappy nothing’s bad they're Mac addicts they're so rad PC punks are goin’ down the Mac addicts are in town IBM makes my dog frown Bill you are a sickly clown. —Tsiac BELLEvEAU Wuoa! OK, I bought the first issue and said “whoa,” I bought the second issue and said “whoa,” then I showed it to my friends and KeyQuericer, we incorrectly listed the they said “whoa” developar as MVP Solutions. Binary as well. Then, Software (800-824-6279) is the true seeing as we are developer, all completely and avidly mind- less Mac addicts, my friends and I each got subscriptions. So, I figured it was about time to write to you and say “whoa.” —Go. 10 MacADDICT Orgasmic position No. 102: Sitting in front of my Mac with an open copy of MacAddict! Oooohhhhh Yyeeeaahhhhhh!!!! Can you feel it, can you feel it, can you feel it!!!!! Uugghh, ugh, ugh!!! Thanks for the stimulation! And as for those writers of letters whining about your slamming of Windows, hangin’s too good for ‘em, burnin’s too good for ’em, they should be cut into little tiny pieces and buried aliiive!!!) Jerr GELONECK, JACKSONVILLE, FL Bap, Bap, Bap Oh, you evil things, you! On page 22 of the November issue, you say that “you still can’t use other e-mail... clients” with AOL. Not so: Claris em@iler can be used to send and receive mail for scads of online services, as well as the Internet, Plus, it has a really “Phat” interface! —Davip Murpuy, Cuevy Cuass, MD First THinc WE Do, Is KILL THE LawvYers Hey, hey, hey! Just me, Reuben, again, writing from the pits of hell (my job). Check this: Last time I wrote, I told vou that I have to work around PCs (aaargh!) and the attorneys won't let me touch their precious little computers because “stuff” always seems to happen when 1 do (not permanent, because that would be vandalism and there are more of them here). Anyway, we got a new sucker... er, I mean attorney... yesterday, and today he asked me to configure his autoexec.bat file. Imagine my surprise after reading that litle gem from MonkeybranD (December, page 12—a tip for creating a message on startup saying “How much easier computing would be with a MACINTOSH”). Anyway, about 30 minutes after configuring (shudder) his crap, I'm walking by his office and I hear, “What the f"?” He comes running out of his office, and to make a long story short, I won't be touch- ing anybody's computer again for a loooong time! —REvBEN REYNORO Tsk, tsk, Reuben, You really shouldn't torment those poor PC users sol Just Kippina I just read the review of IndyCar Racing I in the November issue when I noticed you have its street price as $499! What street did you find it on... Rodeo Drive???!!! Please tell me this is a typo!!! —Anton Don’t you know that the sieets in California are paved with gold? Yes, it's a typo. It should read $49.99. Top 10 Reasons ‘Why Erik Klavon Deserves a Free Subscription to MacAddict: ‘Tried standing on street corners but could not make the $30 needed for a subscription. ‘Tried selling pirated copies of Microsoft software, Lost $500. Loss of the holy Mac Mag is causing embarrassing twitching problems. People are starting to look at me like f'm an axe murderer or a Microsoft ‘employee. The people at Bames and Noble are beginning to catch on. Friends are starting to get annoyed when | ask them to fax articles. Starting to feel the cost of those long-distance phone calls to find out what Gil is up to, Considered signing Bill's Black Book. Starting to read “PC World” to fill in free time. Serious trauma due to lack of new articles from the Wise Guy. Good reasons. But, uh, not good enough! (We can, however, send you some tem- porary tattoos...) Liars! ALL oF You! My wife, upon finding my subscription con- firmation to yours truly, stated, “They must have sent this to the wrong place.” To which Iresponded, “I don’t know what this is.” Like all addicts, I am in denial. —Micuart G. Maron, Aucusta, GA So where do you hide the magazines, Michael? tHanKs 10 tHe nOV'96 iSsUe oF mAc aDdlct, i hAvN't sLepT iN 36hRs. —Jaer Sourrer, MONTREAL, QUEBEC AMBER Journeys Beyond . . Bp E ‘se. + : Deathils Nol Iflave lEvavet An adventure game of supernatural beauty & haunting elegance for MacOS™. ge pe , a unknown, unravelling mysteries hidden within compelling stories ol mind-numbing obsession, and child-like innocence. * EA e hitp:/ /www.changeling.com lng Mac, PowerMacintosh, and the MacOS logo are trademarks of Apple Computer, ne, usgg under sense, vais Al logos and trademarks are property of their respective owners. Journey into heart-rending tragedy, gg Thave been hopelessly seduced by Photoshop for over a year now. My lawn is nearly three feet high, I haven't washed dishes since before the opening arguments in the OJ crim- inal trial, and I’ve slept in my bed for a total of 16 hours so far this year because my mouse cord doesn’t reach upstairs. But with 70MB of RAM, a few gigs of graphics soft- ‘ware, my camera, a scanner, and plenty of beer and Ben & Jerry's Cherry Garcia, I am indeed a Mac addict. —Scorr D. ALLEN READER Eacs To easily hide a program, press the Option key and click the lower left-hand side of the applications window (right at the edge). —AnprEw WoRTHAM There's a super-fly dope Easter egg on the Marathon 2 CD!!! I've looked around, but nobody seems to know about it. Yep, that’s tight, I love you guys so much, I’m telling you the only secret I know. Pop the CD into your Mac, and run the Audio CD player. There'll be a couple of tracks, the title track, and another secret one. Don’t worry if there’s no sound for a couple seconds. The surprise cuts in at about 25 seconds. Have a ball. —ARanp MILLER Did you know that on a Centris 650 if you hit the restart button, then hurry and hit the pro- grammers key, it will make a weird noise. WOW! Neat, huh, or did y'all already know that? By the way, what is that noise??? —Marnns Shoot. We don’t have any Centris 650s around. We'll try to find out from Apple what the noise is. Anyone else know? You Know You're a Mac Addict... When emptying the kitchen garbage, you say, “The trash contains 47 items. It uses 13 gallons of space. Are you sure you want to permanently remove it?” —Rosent Rein Jones PY I'ma graphic artist. | work on my Mac all day, and when | get home, | can’t wait to fire ‘up my 7200 and play around, doing digital art or MIDI stuff. Then when I'm finished with my personal projects and need to relax, | get on my Mac and tweak my system, play chess, or go online. After all this, when I'm away from the computer, | offen have fantasies about what I'll do the next time | boot up. Am | a Mac addict? —Tom WILLIAMSON, PHILADELPHIA, PA How else do you know when you're a Mac addict? Tell us at letters@macaddict.com. 12 MacADDICT FoLtow THis In the October Letters column, Stephen Fleming wrote: “I don’t think ‘Phat’ is a word.” Oh, my! Would he mind telling that to my 18-pound cat Phredd? No, I’m not kid- ding. He is 18 pounds and his name is Phredd. So, I guess you could say he’s a... (look out, here it comes)... phat cat... As for my mother-in-law, she’s a die-hard Windows95 user and cringes every time the word “Mac” falls from my lips, especially if I'm not referring to her Scotty dog Mrs. Mac. She, too, has a big cat, but his name (no kidding) is Fatty, not Phatty. Sigh. —Guary D. Townsend TESTING... The Disc came with music! I mean, the Mac reads it as an audio CD, The music is OK, but I would rather have the Mac stuff. —Gustavo J. TLAVANERAS That means that The Disc duplicator goofed. To get a working disc with Mac stuff, contact our customer service department (see page 104 of this issue for details). I got MacAddict today! I ripped open the plastic and threw in the CD and waited for what seemed like forever for my virus software to scan The Disc. I looked all over to see if you verified that it was virus free but could not find anything. Do you/can you certify that the CDs are free of viruses? —Tom GiMorE We can’t 100 percent guarantee that our discs are virus free (our lawyers won't let us), but we can assure you that we run the latest, greatest version of Symantec's SAM on The Disc before it goes out for duplicating. We also check all the share- ware files and demos for viruses as we receive them. Goop OLp Dap About two years ago I was in the market for my first home computer. At that time, my dad was working for IBM in its Business Computer Division. Since he was designing the operating system for some of IBM’s mainframes, I considered him the first and foremost source of advice on buying a PC. I called him up, and after a few moments of the normal scuttlebutt, I said, “Dad, I’m going to buy.a PC. Which one do you rec- ommend?” He responded by saying, “Son, throughout your life I may have neglected to give you good sound advice, but this is not one of those times. Go out and buy a Mac, because you'll never be sorry. Somewhat bewildered at his response, I said “Dad, that sounds like treason since you work for IBM.” He said, “Son, after spending all day long slaving over a stupid prompting-based system, the last thing I want to do when I get home at night is sit down at my PC and deal with the same silly mess.” I took my dad’s advice, and you know what? He was right. —Tuomas Warrson, DALEVILLE, AL SPORK ’n’ SPAM DAGNABBIT"!! I've got the answer to November's con- test on The Disc, SO WHY ISN’T THERE A BLANK FOR IT?!?! Now look what you've done! You've gotten me all in a fluster over this! If you don’t get a blank in there, I'll be forced to raise my evil legion of sporks to storm your offices and pummel you with their Spam pellets. I suggest you comply, lest you deal with their unholy wrath! —Dan Norp HELPFUL HINTS I work in tech support for the distributor of sPower Computing in Norway. One problem that has kept coming back is that Aaron might cause problems for the Curves function in Photoshop. Most people I have talked to have stopped having the problem after they removed Aaron. —HeNrIK MonsEN Sicn OFF BRAVO AND GOOD HAIR DAYS TO YOU! —Any Manis <(.) 1( Ie 0) (N=) ( — ) <@)_/ <@)_/ <@)_/ e/g (ES) ie Ce) ann (Ss) “MAY THE PEACE OF GEESE BE WITH YOU” —Teres BLOMMERS Peace, Joy, and Macintosh to you all. —Mrrcx S. Ben. serves we on 8 we a 08 serture \_ 1-800-4-MACPLAY! *GET YOUR FREE STAR TREK 25TH™ ANNIVERSARY AND MAcPLay UNIVERSE OF GAMES WITH ANY PURCHASE OF 29.95 (US CURRENCY). 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Not responsible for lat, misdirected, Incomplote or ikogble requests. Vid whers pro- 3d, tated oF ciharwise restricted. MacPlay isa trademark of Interplay Productions. ADrights reserved. Al other tadomarks and copyrights are property ofthat respective holders for good In U.S. and Canada only “Plus $2.98 shipping and handling. roup or organization. This offer Code OMPF DEM si the Studio, IndyC: my THIS ISSUE re the Simpsons Cartoon progr tioned in the Whenever Racing, a tour fou'l to get the 1. Pop The Disc into your | REQUIREMENTS CD-ROM drive. | Any Mac can access the shareware, demos, and 2. Double-click the Start Here | System software from the Finder. Accessing the full icon for your System. CD-ROM interface requires 12MB of real RAM with System 7.1 or earlier; 16MB of real RAM with System 7.5 or later. 3. Have fun! i i i i 1 i Hl 10 find immediate information from our sponsors, go to the Index (Option-click on any help screen). Or you can wait until you see @ message from them in the lowersighthand comer of the main screen. Clicking on the mes- sage causes a TV screen to slide down from the top of the page, showcasing more information. You can also access information rom the sponsors via the main window in the Finder—that’s where you'll find SmartSound and ZPC. Sonle Desktop Solutions — ey For Multimedia 800-464-1900 hitpv/iwnwsonicdesktop.com Now you can quickly create music or sound effects customized to your exact specications. This revolutionary new software makes the job easy while always giving ‘you professional results. Try the emo on the enclosed CD and you'll see why SmartSound Is the ‘Absolute Easiest Way To Create Customized Professional Quality Soundtracks. a 1a http:/www.gtinteractive.com ZPC places the player as Arman, a fourth-generation Psionic War Messiah recently released from cryogenic imprisonment. With no memory of his illustrious hertage, Arman has few clues to his true mission: save his people, vanquish the evil occult group known as the Black Brethren, and utterly destroy the Dark Being they worship. Only then can he reclaim his Peionic crown and unite his followers. aL rT ee ae 900-827-6364 hitp:/wy.aol.com ‘America Online offers access to the word of online news and information, interactive magazines, finance, entertainment, e-mail, fee software, shopping, ‘and more, With a point and a click, you can ‘explore the vast resources of the Intemet. Sign on and receive 15 free hours. 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It includes Netscape Navigator, an award- ‘winning Intemet access software, and everything needed to register for complete Internet access in fess than five minutes. After the {$25 setup fee, unlimited access is provided for $19.95 per month. "Round-the-clock tech support is provided via an 800 number. Europa Suttwaro—Web Quick http:/fwwrw.europasoftware.com Frustrated “by Bookmarks? ‘Web Quick tracks every page you Visit and automatically organizes ther bysite.Itlets you create cus- ‘tom Topics and keeps them all at your fingertips with handy pop-up ‘menus. Web Quick even converts existing Bookmarks. No wonder "MacWEEK" called it“the frst Web utility that is essentia" MacPiay—MacPtay Catalog MAGPUAY .800-4MACPLAY http://wwww.macplay.com Check out MacPlay's latest and greatest titles. There's some- thing for : action, adven- ture, simulation, classics, musical adventures, and kids programs. ‘There are also some great deals, heck the catalog for details. Macdott—Prime Target 800-229-2714 ‘A powerful senator is brutally murdered while working late in her Weshington, D.C., office. Now you must solve the mystery of her death in this action-packed 3D shootem-up. Prime Target thrusts ‘you into the most dynamic Mac ‘gaming werld ever. Blood spatters ‘on the wall. Glass shatters in your face. This interactive mystery challenges your intellect as you hunt the senator's killers in Wash- ington's corridors of power. {eleter Productions—Rewnion Fee LESTER ea fax Production 717-697-1378 hitp:/iwwreueisterpro.com Reunion is @ genealogy soft- ware program that helps you to document, store, and display genealogy’ information—names, dates, facts, notes, sources of information, and. digitized pictures. Reunion automatically creates common genealogy reports, charts, and forms, as well as birthday calendars, mailing ists, questionnaires, and indexes. tt even calculates ‘relationships, ages, and life expectancies. Reunion also displays and prints large, high-resolution, graphic wall charts. Brand-new Musicshop 2.0 with Mac MIDI translator! usicshop 2.0 lets you record MIDI music on your Mac. You can then edit the music and print it out in the standard notation format. The program now offers real-time editing—you can play back and edit music at the same time! To win this fabulous software, all you need to do is par- take of MacAddict mad- You'll be automagically transported to a hidden area of The Disc. You'll need to click some buttons in the correct order. Use the clue from the magazine to help you. When you solve the puzzie, the CD-ROM will give you a code to enter on the Web site. Good luck!!! ness in its three formats: OSIP eu magazine, CD-ROM, and |=) =. Web site, We'll give you a. clue right here in The Disc pages. When you pop in the CD-ROM, look Meme 20-2 - 0 [aides at «| J Pee i an ra a =. =, ins a = ts = 1 = ig J | | — for a secret hot spot. hat! You need help? Well, your superphat disc is mangled, warped, broken, or oth- erwise disturbed, 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 disk errors, do the same. Ifyou have a different problem with The Disc, please stop by <http://www.mac addict.com/cdrom> before you send us e-mail. If you don't find a solution there, please let us know about it at letters@macaddict.com. If you're having a problem with System software, we recom- “LAUNCH WEB SITE mend calling the good folks at 800-SOS-APPL. They'll be more than happy to help you. If you're having trouble with one of the programs on The Disc, please be sure to read the accompanying Read Me file for contact info. To make it easier for you to find help for the programs on our disc, we've conveniently added e-mail and Web contacts in the Shareware and This Issue sections. Whenever you click Install, you'll find the following helpful dialog box: shareware Warning If you encounter any problems with the Shareware you are about to install, please contact the fallowing company: JINSTALUSHAREWARE MacADDICT 15 mos are versions of | commercial products that | are not fully functional. The i majority of demos on The Disc are either products we've reviewed, or products hot off the Net that have not been released yet or were released too late for review in this issue. You can play some of these demos from The Disc itself, but others need to be installed on your hard drive. 1. The Simpsons Cartoon Studio ° g i) © < a Use ail the characters from “The Simpsons” TV show to create your own animated shorts. The entire Simpsons family is available, in a wide variety of poses. Add a back- ground, sounds, and special effects to make it your own. The retail version offers a player so you can distribute your anima- tion to your friends. Bart and Lisa will be proud. 2. IndyCar Racing I Vroom! Vroom! For sheer vir- | tual racing pleasure, nothing | 16 MacADDICT could be more fun than driving around in circles in your very own custom-painted racing car. Now that Thrustmaster has a steering wheel, there’s no excuse not to get behind the wheel. The full version offers 15 different tracks to test your mettle. If you're a driving sim novice, you can start out easy, for example, using auto- matic transmission and opt- ing to have the car right itself when you crash. As your skills improve, you can wean yourself from the these help- ful options. 3. ZPC It seems as though every- one from Lotus Development to Bill Clinton is licensing Bungie’s Marathon engine to make a 3D game. ZPC will prove to be one of the more bizarre implemen- tations—the artwork is 2D mov- ing around in a 3D world. You play a messianic character who must save the world (of course) from the evil Third Reich-esque villains. The art, sound, and “chi | punches” add up to a just plain disturbing game. 4, Apache The AH-64D “Longbow” is an awesome helicopter. It not ' only packs tons of firepower, | but it's also very maneuver- ' able (it can do loops and 360- | degree rolls) and provides a | sophisticated array of target- | ing and fight instruments. If { you want to kill, strap this | baby on! Apache offers both ‘an arcade (point-and-kill) | mode and a more realistic | (crash-and-burn) flight model. } You will need to run the Apache installer and install it ‘on your hard drive. Also on The Disc Besides these four fine demos, you'll find a bunch more in the Finder. Just | open up the Demos folder to | find sample versions of | Abuse, Retrieve It, NASCAR ' Racing, Live Picture, ! Mariner Write, Active Art, and another CD that’s sure to please; OceanLife. This coffee-table book/ field guide/natural-history lesson combo features video and narration about some 200 species of fish found in the Caribbean as well as informa- tion about fish | cott Freedman of Boston, Massachu- setts, won the Fractal Design Expression con- test from our October issue. Scott was one of 750 entrants who figured out where the pterodactyl was and what the code is. Expect to see Scott on our Web site showcasing his prize. Why didn’t we tell you last month that Scott had won? Well, we decided to give everybody an extra week or so to enter our contests, so as we write this in late October, the contest from our Novem- ber issue is still open. Tune in next month to find out who is the lucky winner of Claris Home Page, the prize for the third mag-CD-Web game. If you haven’t tried entering one of our con- tests for free stuff, you should be ashamed of yourself! What other magazine is going to give you all these goodies? And you're just \etting them walk out our door without even trying? Flip back a page to find out how you can enter this month’s contest. behavior, tidal patterns, and dive locations. Glance at some of the videos and rotate a vir- tual fish to find out more about its anatomy in this demo. Games & More Under $350 THUNDERING POWER. EXPLOSIVE ACTION. Terminal Velocity is absolutely the most exhilarating flight game available for the Macintosh. It offers fast 3D texture- mapped graphics, full 360-degree flight movement and 7 weapons of extraordinary destruction. Fight your way through 9 unique planets with an awesome array of spectacular air-to-air and air-to-ground combat action. pos) aioe Power Macintosh. CD-ROM only) Gisino Game More red hot arade action with ive ofthe bes Weasked dozens of solitaire fanatics to help us (Quality collection of six popuiar casino Breakout in tree dimensions Inside Mc Gumes classics ever! Modem-day versions of Pac Man’, Gauntlet design the perfect solitaire package Absolute games: Blackjack, Video Poker Roulete, Slots, calls t'Fun and addictive best breakoursyie Asteroids’ Galaxianand StarCaste” Includes a sequel 10 Solitaire is what they crated. Incies 24 new Keno and Draw Foker game weve played” The ball doesnt bounce up MacWorld 1995 Hal of Fame and arunner.up for Inside games and a brand new interface for serious (CDROM oni) and down, it comes right at you! Mac Games 1995 Best Arcade Game. solitaire gameplay (CDROMonly) MacPublisher | ata ard ein We Game Parlor acPublisher ih fi Oustanding collection of ve popubr ‘The most advanced Maciniosh roleplaying ame ever! __ A flbfeatured desktop publsher that gives you bie epciyba se vane ats ine ity strategy games: Chess, Checkers, eanure into te mystical lands of Odyssey Dscover the same power page yout tools used bythe colored graphics, voice instruction and adjustable cial Backgammon, Solitaire, Gosswords. nin islands of extraordinary adventure, ight epic best graphic ass. Use ito quickly and easy [eels Includes kids’ versions of Tetris Breakout’ Pac Man battles and dwell amongst the fascinating inhabitants. create professional uaty brochure invitations Galaxian” and Pinball? (CDROM only) ¢ newsletters fers or any other document. (CDROM only) : $249 (CDROM only) Lots more. Call for a free catalog. Available now from your favorite reseller, > ; of by calling 800-229- ant 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 UY? 612/559-5140 Ce) ne of the most common. comments sent to us about The Disc is that you had to install the software to find out what you were installing. It sure would be nice if we gave you file descrip- tions before you installed, wouldn't it? Well, that's why we have the same opening screen as last month. We are. spent all of our time revamping file access to make it easier. So, here’s how it works. ° = 3 @ © — To get to one of the main categories, just click it. A list of files for that category will appear in the right-hand win- dow. Clicking one of the files in that list brings up the descrip- tion of that file and causes a weird install widget to appear. To install the file (after reading the description), click the wid- get. To go back to the list of Famann pames ShalterBat 18 MacADDICT | files, click on the description. ' Every file on The Disc is | Now in its own installer—you no | longer have to root through var- | jous installers for the file you {| want. If you don't want to use | the installers, you can access ' the file directly from the Finder. ' We will continue to use I I I ' I i ' installers in the front end, how- ever, because it’s just too time- consuming every month to write the code in Director that would link each file to the front end. That said—on to the files. FUN AND GAMES ShatterBat Author: Antennahead Systems Shareware: $12 ShatterBat is a fun 3D game in which you get to— you guessed it—run around shattering bats. The bats are of the mammalian variety, not from baseball. Believe it or not, the bats are actually rather brittle and shatter easily ! into teeny pieces. Grab ! bonuses from trash cans and avoid the clown head. CREATIVE TOOLS Screen Ruler | Author: Micro Fox Software Shareware: $10 Although it won't help you COLERR Screen Ruler 2.0.5 ib Inches: | top of the document and so measure windows for drapes, ! Screen Ruler will display an on- | screen ruler. Units are in pixels, | picas, inches, or centimeters, and the ruler can be displayed either horizontally or vertically. The ruler is completely resizable and can be moved anywhere on the screen. STEFAN'S SHAREWARE SELECTIONS Each month, utility maven | Stefan Anthony brings you nifty ' utilities with which to further destabilize your System! Bookmark ! Auther: Coral Research Shareware: $15 Imagine you're browsing along in Netscape Navigator when you come across a doc- ument that is several pages long. Scrolling down as you } read, you remember seeing | something interesting at the | you scroll back up... but wait! You just lost your place. With Bookmark installed, you'll never lose your place again. To save your place, | simply Option-click the scroll | thumb and then select the Set | Bookmark command in the | pop-up menu. To return to your | H ' H ae a 2 4 ret ere ar errr der ed = bookmark, Option-click the scroil thumb again and select | the Goto Bookmark command. | Bookmark also keeps track of where you drag the scroll thumb. After dragging the thumb to a new location, select- ing the Jump Back command... jumps back! NewStuff Author: Denald Brown Freeware NewStuff is a freeware extension that brings to System 7 users a feature promised in Mac OS 8: The Finder's New Folder command is replaced with a submenu that contains anything from biank text docu- ments to empty font suitcases. Customize the NewStuff menu by moving items in and out of the New Documents folder that NewStuff creates in your System Folder. NewSiuff will ‘save the time it would take to launch an application, create a new document, and save that document to disk. SquelchSysBeep Author: Jesse Taylor Freeware Do you find system alert sounds annoying? Squelch- SysBeep is a free extension that stops the system software from beeping—and flashing the menu bar—whenever you accidentally click somewhere or start typing somewhere you should not, which can result in an annoying beep-a-thon. —Stefan Anthony « A powerful senator is brutally murdered while ee a inher action-packed 3D eee Lup. Prime ie ne you into if most dynamic Mac gaming world ever, Blood splatters on the wall. Glass shatters in your face. You can almost smell the camage around you! SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS: Any PowerMacintosh with color monitor and CD-ROM drive. MSRP: $49-99 Oma 1d an E of Mari “INS if een Take command of the world’s top special forces unit ia this aac 3D firstperson shooting extravaganza, Command four highly-rained marines as you eradicate dleadly 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 PowerMacintost with color monitor and CD-ROM dive. MSRP: $4999 Mac WizardWorks Group, Inc.» 3850 Annapolis, 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. his month we've been hard T: work redesigning access to the files on The Disc. As with the Shareware section, you can now get at every file on The Disc without needing to go the disc the new interface works. First, dial up the ‘section of the maga- zine you're interested in. This roughly cor- responds to the table of contents in the magazine. To turn the dial clockwise, click on the right side of the dial. To turn it back, click on the left side of the dial. As you turn the dial, categories moving from Highlights to How To to Every Month. This issue’s articles from each of these sections will appear in the mid- die window, with the files from the first article listed in the right-hand window. Selecting a file from this list will change the right- hand window to a description of that file and make an install widget appear. Click on the widget to install that soft- ware, or click on the right-hand window to return to the file list. Along with the pretty, new Interface, music maestro Tom Hale has added scrump- tious sound effects. If the noises get to you, tum them off by clicking ‘on the spea- ker grill. a 20 MacADDICT you should notice the | into a megainstaller. Here's how | ¢ SEONG aa, HIGHLIGHTS in the Highlights section, we bring you files from “Hack your Mac” and our sound and QuickTime feature articles. To help you tinker, we've included a copy of ResEdit and a demo of Resorcerer. You'll also find More ResEdit Preferences and System 7 ResEditors, which add functions to ResEdit so it can read more resource types. Sound Check out all the loud programs to make music on your Mac. Among them is Beat Monster, a utility that calculates sampies based on tempos, ‘Time Signature: ‘Tempo (Beats per Minute): Number ef Bars: Sample Rate: [rages] irra) fem) [ecrrms] +o x Yourfila shld contain Cae] spl Or your fle sould be [=] econts ong. Peak gives you the digital audio tools you need to record and edit audio. The program Ambiance was designed to play random and looped sound effects while you work with other pro- grams. Yes, you can now imagine that you are in the middle of a forest full of birds chirping when in real life you've got buses honking and people screaming in an urban wasteland. ) e q vt | \ i & “y yd 1 1 1 ' 1 i 1 i 1 1 1 | t in t 1 1 H 1 1 H i 1 1 1 t 1 1 t QuickTime To help record, edit, and play QuickTime movies, The | Disc gives you more than a ' dozen utilities, including | Theater Maker 1.2, which lets { you make — stand-alone | QuickTime movies that auto- | matically play when you dou- | ble-click them. The movies will | also play as part of a larger | picture, with the movie framed | by a background. Here we see | Dennis the Dog framed by a ' i Mac desktop. MooVer 1.3 creates a QuickTime movie from a sequence of Macintosh PICT data files dropped on it and will also add a soundtrack if a System 7 sound file is dropped on it. EVERY MONTH Ask Us This month’s Ask Us column mentions a program called FileList. This file didn’t quite make it into our Director inter- face, so you'll need to grab it from the Finder instead. It's in | the Every Month folder inside | the This Issue folder. 1 Ge | | ee | Y \ a 7 a 64 q J j How To You'll also need to look in the Every Month foider inside the This Issue folder to find the files for the article “How to Create a Button Bar” (page 94) because—sigh—those files didn't quite make it into the Director interface, either. The Director interlace does, how- ever, include the companion programs for the tutorial “How to Create a Comic Book” (page 90). And, of course, you can also grab these programs from the Finder interface. REVIEWS Also in the Every Month section (and in the Director interface), you'll find demos of programs we review. Capitalism Business not going so well? Upset that there won't be any cuts in the capital gains tax? Simulate the cutthroat business world in Capitalism. Let’s Pretend! Many Lands, Many Playgrounds Flash the Firefly takes kids on @ worldwide journey where jhey learn new words in foreign languages. ~<eCOmMMAND CONQUER “LAN The strategy game that redefines Macintosh gaming OVER A MILLION UNITS SOLD WORLD-WIDE. Westwood www.westwood.com ‘Command & Conquer is a trademark of Westwood Studi, Inc. Macinta$h is a registered trademark and Power Macintosh isa trademark of Apple Computers, Inc. © 1995, 1996 Westwood Studi, Inc. Al rights reserved. \ E y the time you read this, it'll be too late. The bold new MacAddict Web site will be in place, and the slightest tap of a mouse will send your Web browser zooming through the ether to show you what we have wrought. In short, it's now a fait accompli; how rich the irony that, as we write this, the new MacAddict Web site exists only as scratchings on paper. In lieu of a tangible Web site for us to describe herein, we'll show you the conceptual doodles and explain a little bit about the twisted thought processes that lurk behind the redesign. It’s Periodical! The first thing you'll notice about our revamped site is a radically altered splash page. Instead of a bewildering list of departments and a column of blathering text, we've tidied up a bit. Each month the site will focus on a topic from the cor- responding issue, pro- viding supplemental material and links to ‘expand on your read- ing experience. Thus, rather than hack its own lonely machete- wielding path through the undergrowth of the Macintosh jun- gle, the site joins with the magazine and disc to form a coordi- eS rr HEE n> air fe! i une? Tare wets! 22 MacADDICT www. nated expeditionary party. it’s Aesthetically Of course, the MacAddict ina! Web site would be much the Pleasing! of gabby news nuggets. These will continue unabated, though they won't occupy as much of the limited real estate. 1 i poorer without its daily stream | 1 1 H i 1 It’s Topical! Having pioneered tech- niques in abuse of Netscape Navigator frames and cram- ming ad banners into unlikely places, the Web site is adopting yet another oddball approach. 1 1 t t 1 t t ' t i i 1 i 1 ‘e know that some of Weer coder wnat in our coffeepot. You asked us. Well, we're not showing you the coffeepot (trade secret), but we have set up a special Web camera so you can see us at work. Or, more specifically, you can see our online editor, Mark Simmons, hard at work. Just hop on over to the Live Wire section and you'll be connected to a QuickCam pointed at our beloved Webmaster. You don't even need to be connected to the Web! ;-) Say goodbye to the familiar arrangement of This Issue, Web Exclusives, Discussions, Hot Links, and their little friends. Say hello to the new regime, in which the Web site’s innards are organized by topic. Games, graphics, the Internet, the fate of Apple, and other worthy preoccupations of the Mac addict will all get their own sections. These top- ics are like little Web sites in microcosm, each with its own stock of news blurbs, links, software updates, listings of reviews and features from the magazine, and _ interactive reader forums. Whatever your area of interest, the new design should make it easy for you to look up useful MacAddict arti- cles from back issues, find cool resources online, and get the latest scoop on new prod- ucts and updates. If you find yourself missing the old departments and their familiar icons, you can always tu to page 24 of our November issue and take a walk down memory lane. Frames will be, for the most part, totally eliminated; modem users should notice a signifi- cant speed increase. Ads will likely be displayed in an inde- pendent frame. What of the familiar title and navigation bars, crammed with kooky controls and fascina- tingly obtuse icons? Away they go, replaced by a consistent NavigationBlock™ design. Hor- izontal doodads being some- what passé, we felt it was time to try alittle vertical integration. It’s New! Remember, folks, the MacAddict Web site is a living, breathing, dynamic organ- ism. If you enter its URL, does it not load? If you explore it, does it not daz- zie? And if you write to us at webmaster@macad dict.com, does it not adapt to meet your needs and wishes, pending the capa- bilities of your loyal online editor, patent pending, all | fights reserved, offer not | valid in Delaware and parts | of Nebraska? —MS While you're there, the Live Wire buttons will con- nect you to the special news, update, and sneak- peek pages on our Web site. As we did last month, we are linking you directly into a Web browser. The method we devised tells our Director shell to open a page in this browser, Unfortunately, Director thinks it doesn't have to send the page if the browser is already open. We're trying to fix this, but in the mean- time, you'll need to quit out of the browser before open- ing a new link. t ' ‘ ' 1 t ' 1 t { 1 t t ' t HE LOOKS LIKE HE’S HARD AT WORK, but Mark is secretly updating <http://gundam.anime.net>. MACADODICT. CoM 7.9 billion miles of open highway and you've got TotalAccess: ff $19.95 flat rate: Unlimited Internet mileage. The coolest, easiest Internet access on Earth. Every account includes email and a free 2 meg Web site. Call now for your EarthLink Network TotalAccess”™ software with Netscape Navigator™ 2.0. 1-800-395-8425 Internet access in over 290 cities in the U.S. and Canada. Software for MACINTOSH, WINDOWS, si WINDOWS 95, featuring Netscape Navigator 2.0. EarthLink Network is one of the largest [7 Web space providers in the U.S. and also provides ISDN, Frame Relay, Tl and other Internet services. *There is a one-time set-up fee of $25.00. Prices for Canada are different. EarthLink Network, Inc. 3100 New York Drive, Pasadena, CA 91107 Fax: 818-296-2470 Info via email: info@earthlink.net Live human via email: sales@earthlink.net Visit our Web site ac http://www.earthlink.net get info News, trends, and other very valuable information that you will want to know. Nouveau Newtons APPLE KEEPS ITS PROMISE with the eMate 300. Rugged industrial design coupled with a more mature mobile operating system makes for a tough shell to crack. uick—what do you get when you cross Apple technology with a microwave? The Information Appliances Division. One of four new divisions created under Gil Amelio’s | adult supervision, Information Appliances | has Newtons and Pippins in its realm. | Although the Pippin managed to be the first shipping “network computer” without any- body noticing, the Newton side has borne some tasty fruit with its two new products. In the Mobile Business Appliance side of the ring, we have the MessagePad 2000. Whether the name merely serves as a 24 MacADDICT reminder that Apple’s technology does not suffer from the year 2000 bug or it’s just result of general millennium mayhem doesn’t really matter—this is one spiffy little device. And it’s the first MessagePad that comes close to appliancehood rather than simply being an executive novelty item. First, the MessagePad 2000 sports a 160MHz StrongARM processor, which runs 10 times faster than the processor in the Mes- sagePad 130. Not only are response times noticeably faster on the MessagePad 2000, but the increased processor speed allows the MessagePad 2000 to do multiple things at once. What things, you ask? Well, the Mes- sagePad 2000 has a built-in microphone for recording sound, which you can do while, say, | taking notes, You can record up to an hour of audio on a 4MB flash ROM card and play it back through the MessagePad 2000. Unfortu- nately, there’s currently no way to get the sound out of the MessagePad and into a Mac. Second, no more wimping out after only three to six hours of operation, like the aver- age PowerBook and previous MessagePads. The mighty MessagePad 2000 chugs along for 24 hours of continuous use, or, accord- ing to Apple, a whopping three to six weeks of average use. All that working time is avail- | able by popping in just 4 AA batteries! The MessagePad 2000 also includes better communications abilities. With two PC card slots, you can keep a modem in one and extra memory in the other, The backlit screen now offers 16 levels of gray and is a bit larger—480 x 320 pixels— giving the MessagePad new functionality. For example, AllPen’s NetHopper Web browser—which is included—can now display images as well as text. Oh yeah, along with the kitchen sink, the Message- Pad 2000 bundles NewtonWorks for word processing and drawing, QuickFigure Pro for spreadsheet work, an e-mail client, and Newton Connection Utilities for connecting | | less than a thousand dollars and will be available early in 1997 through retail out- lets and catalogs. Technology Is Your Pet Although the next century probably won't see robots servicing our every need, as in 1950s utopian dreams, there will be a Newton in every child’s backpack if the Apple Education Division has its way. The Apple eMate 300 is as cool a tool as this Mac addict has ever seen, even on “Star Trek.” Sporting a key- board and Newton technology integrated into a Clamshell case with a built-in handle, the eMate delivers one of the more aggressive industrial designs Apple has promised. To keep costs in line with the education market's needs, the eMate does not use the The new eMate 300 is as cool a tool as this Mac addict has ever seen. MessagePad 2000's StrongARM processor but instead settles for the weaker ARM 710. Like the MessagePad 2000, however, the eMate includes a microphone and speaker for recording and playing back audio. The eMate is larger, heavier, and much more ruggedly constructed than the MessagePad, Its screen is about the width of a piece of paper and has a resolution of 480 x 320 with 16 levels of gray, giving a slightly larger type size than on the MessagePad 2000. The nick- el metal-hydride battery pack lasts for about 28 hours of continuous use. Altogether, the eMate weighs about four pounds. Along with the Names, Dates, and Notepad already on the Newton, the eMate includes NewtonWorks and a special setup program for teachers to customize function- ality. The English version will be available early in ’97 for K-12 education channels only, to a Mac. The MessagePad 2000 will cost | with prices starting at less than $800. —KT' 56Keps Modems RUN FAST ON A ONE-WAY TRA hhat’s the matter, you simpering Net Wrens Isn’t_33.6Kbps. fast enough for you? Rockwell, famed aerospace and defense contractor, announced it will push the modem- standards enve- lope with a new chipset that allows speeds of up to 56Kbps over conven- tional phone lines. There is a catch, however. The Rockwell chipset allows 56Kbps speeds in only one direction—from the server to the client. Great for Web surfers, not so great for anyone who requires a two-way speed bump, such as video con- ferencers and speakerphone conversers. Hayes, Zoom, and Diamond Multimedia RAM-Suckine Navigator f you're addicted to Web Jen you were excited when Netscape released Nay- igator 3.0 and Navigator Gold 3.0. But your excitement waned when you saw the memory requirements: 7 to 9MB for Nay- igator 3.0, and 10 to 12MB for Navigator Gold 3.0! How did this happen, and what are everyday people with everyday Macs sup- posed to do? Navigator 3.0 and Navigator Gold 3.0 need a lot of memory for two primary reasons: Java and plug-ins. Running a Java Web browser, and that computer needs its own memory. Further- more, a plug-in showing a QuickTime or Shockwave movie can consume a few megabytes. If you imagine a Web page with an applet, a movie, and an Adobe Acrobat PDF file, you'll | know why people buy RAM just | to use Navigator. Here’s a quick-and-dirty guide to using Navigator 3.0 in only SMB of RAM: + The main difference between Navigator Gold 3.0 and Navigator 3.0 is the HTML tools applet means you’re simulating a separate computer within your | BareBones’ BBEdit Lite and for- get about Navigator Gold. © Navigator’s e-mail and Usenet news features are improving, but they're hardly state of the art. Use dedicated programs such as Qualcomm’s Eudora and the shareware NewsWatcher instead. © Using the Mac’s Virtual Memory or Connectix’s RAM Here’s a quick- and-dirty guide to using Navigator 3.0 with just a teensy 5MB of RAM. in Gold. Write your HYML in | Lroyo DanGie reportedly plan to release speedier modems within the next year. US Robotics is working on its own chipset and will not use Rock- well’s. No one is ready to talk prices and compatibility, but Diamond has announced plans for a Mac-compatible version, —DR WARCRAFT NOR Perce ENTER NOW AND WIN WARCRAFT BATTLECHEST! Macophiles are accused of anthro- pomorphizing their beloved machines, but it's not our fault. Apple encourages this behavior by enabling us to name our Macs, just as we would a pet. And just as dogs and their owners begin to look alike over time, you can tell who named their Mac what. To win a copy of Blizzard Entertainment's WarCraft Battlechest, match the MacAddict Staffer with his or her Mac, If no one gets all the answers right, well choose from among the entries with the most correct answers. Submit your answer by January 7 to our Web site or snailmail it to us at MacAddict Names, 150 North Hill Drive, Brisbane, CA 94005, —KT 1. Cheryl England a. Hal 2. Judy Lewenthal —_b. OZ 3. Nikki Echler ¢, dim/Nota (partitioned) 4, David Reynolds d. MacAddam 5. Kathy Tafel e. Me, myself, and mine 6. Dan Turner f, Joodle Doodle Doubler will let 7. Mark Simmons g. Brody Navigator use its 8. Tom Hale h. Mephisto. memory more 9. Ken Bousquet i. The Mac intelligently, especially when running under System 7.5 and later, © Set Navigator 3.0’s min- imum and preferred memory size to 5,120K in the program’s ogtie that piggy, boys! just go ahead and click OK. Get Info window. The Finder will complain that this setting is too low; 10. Adam Vanderhoof j. Mr Peabody | be able to access Java applets on Web sites, but very few | Web sites require you to see | these applets. After all this, you might © Open Navigator's plug-ins folder and remove everything except the file Default Plug-in. You won’t be able to access some things such as QuickTime movies from Web sites, but very few Web sites require these plug-ins, © Launch Navigator, and then turn off both Java and JavaScript under the Languages tab in Navigator's Network Preferences. Again, you won't wonder why you're using Navigator 3.0 at all. Don’t for- get: Navigator 3.0 is Open Transport-native (so you get better performance, even over a modem), it supports frames and all the latest HTML tags, | and it fixes bugs in Navigator 2.0. If SMB is still too rich for your blood, Navigator 2.0.2 runs happily in 3MB, and it’s still available from Netscape’s sites. —Geoff Duncan MacADDICT 25 Rocket Science, the Ro james, Ine. Windows is « trademark o uu o it) = DON OM SAR R Acay, RULES YOUR OBS TDIAN. f Corporation. Macintosh is a irademark of Apple Computer, Inc. Prd E @ S Contest — Winners NEW intuit: Bo0-448-8848; hitb ww.ain.com; $24.95 (street); $49.95 ‘(Stteet) for the Deluxe version: achiedtited ta ship November 1996) New features in the Headstart version of this popular tax preparation prod- fter gathering all the correct ct include a final review of your onal answers to the October issue’s return that lets you compare it with Macintosh Mystery (wherein fa returns of other filers in the same tax a Arthur, an ocelomarmot researcher who 2 bracket, plus more personalized tax- lives in a cabin in the redwoods, began a saving advice than previous releases. roe having problems getting his Mac to read his g ‘The Deluxe version includes the text floppy disks), we've picked a winner from our 3 of two tax books as well as the IRS electronic hat. Bill Schram correctly said that tax rules. Purchasers of the Head- Arthur, upon opening a disk, found... mildew | start version will automatically (we also accepted mold asa correct answer). | A few readers blamed an animal of an receive the final version. The range of answers to the October | other species for the disk failure. “As Arthur Macintosh Mystery were amazing and often | opens the disk, he is not altogether surprised amusing. Some readers who entered said that | to see a GIF of a smiling Bill Gates. Heck, that Umax Computer: 510-226-6885; they had experienced the problem themselves | would damage any disk” (Chuck Humbert). ‘ilps waw-supermao, com $2,295 (ra) and and lived to tell about it. Fan Li Tai even came | “He found a note: ‘Caution: Windoze 95 ‘$4,695 (erp), respectively scheduled to up with an innovative solution: “The disk had | Formatted” (Jacky Gagnon). “Little beads of <ship'November 1996) left fungi on the drive head, and I had to open | sweat from the brow of Bill Gates as he it up and clean it,” says Tai. “After that, I got | realizes he misread this whole Internet thing” fed up and poured lots of drive cleaner onto | (Glenn Scott). “... it was William Shatner the disk—stuck it in and let the drive head | singing ‘Mister Tambourine Man...” (Sean D. clean the disk for me. After about 17 applica- | Schoettler). Whoops. That’s another Bill. tions of solveny/reboots, the game [on the | disk] finally ran.” CE The folks who didn’t get the right answer | UT y sent some creative replies. Many thought that | insects of some sort—spiders, caterpillars, | Some answers were in categories all their lightning bugs, roaches, or moth larvae— j own. “Crud?” (Aaron Lawrence). “He found caused Arthur’s disk dilemma. Some were | that the mechanism was frozen and full of guite confident that their answers were | bear's fur. So he cooked the floppy drive and The €600/240 minitower contains a 240MHz 603e processor, The system Includes 24MB of RAM, a 256K Level 2 cache, an 8X CD-ROM drive, a 28.8Kbps modem, a 2GB hard drive, and three PCI slots. For the super power user, the S900DP/180 houses two 180MHz 604e processors in a tower case and includes all the high- end gizmos you'd expect in a multi- processing system: 32MB of RAM, eight DIMM slots, 4MB of VRAM, an. correct. “This is a fiendishly clever ate a hot fur soup while his drive worked just 6X CD-ROM drive, a 2GB hard drive, problem? Isn’t it obvious?” said Mike (no | fine” (Gerson Campos de Anda). “An six PCI slots, and five drive bays. last name), who proceeded to give us an | anagram for ocelomarmot, which is More incorrect answer involving creating glue with | Mac Loot” (Ellen Ostromecki). And our a combination of cotton, dust, and condensa- | favorite, “Moisture. Either that, or one of the (ATI Technologies: 905-882-2600: tion. “When will you inform me that I won?” | Saturnians who are plotting world domina- ‘hifp: Awewaatitech.ca; $269 (s1p} for 2MB Sorry, Mike, close, but no Symantec suite. ion. They came from Saturn 17 years ago and ‘version; $249 (arp) for AMB version; sched= Many readers blamed the ocelomarmots | have been slowly penetrating our defenses ‘bled to ship Navember: 1886) themselves for the disk failure, speculating | before we even know of them! They live in on everything from “an ocelomarmot ate | everything now: TVs, cars, computers (the ‘This PCI card offers video capture, the magnetic strip in his disk” (Austin | only exception is microwaves, but that would QuickTime playback acceleration, Shoemaker) to “part of [ocelomarmots’} | be disgusting and we won’t get into that), and QuickDraw 3D acceleration (perfect licking habits were licking the inside of | if my theoryis correct, they destroyed good ol’ for games), regular QuickDraw 2D acceleration, and TV out functions. computer disks. Consequently, when Arthur looked inside his disk, he found they were Arthur's disks” (Dan Nord). So congratulations, Bill, for your correct ‘The upgradable 2M8 version of the warped and some of his newest entries still | answer and being the right random num- board offers 16.7 million colors at had saliva on them” (Laurel Sommer). W. | ber. Thanks go to Mark Rose for the-most 832 x 624 resolution. The 4MB ver- Blair Kenney was suspicious of the furry | intricate and interesting envelope, and a sion offers 16.7 million colors at mammals, stating the problems stemmed | special “Hello” goes to the Boyntons in 4,152 x 870. You can add an optional from “the ocelomarmots, if they indeed are | Bogalusa, Louisiana. Thanks for writing— TV tuner for $99 (srp). who they claim to be.” several times. —DR 29 MacADDICT $12 10 get info Playing the Numbers John Sculley r- dollars in billions ($475 milion ‘net income After an exceptionally rough year, with losses, rumors of buyouts, mainstream | media hit pieces, and general gloom and | doom, Apple's financial results for the fourth | quarter of 1996 finally gave us diehard Mac | boosters something we could wave in naysay- | ers’ faces. The $25 million profit was all the | sweeter because mere days before it was | announced, the financial pros were predict- | ing a loss in the tens of millions. Apple's sales took a dramatic nosedive | | this year. Quarterly unit shipments—the | number of individual Macs sold in each three-month interval—hit the 1 million J: always fun to see analysts confounded. cum Sales =m Cosis — Amelio created a leaner, meaner Apple, streamlining the production process, spiking unprofitable sidelines, and reducing inventory. Exciting as it was for long-suffering Mac loyalists, Apple’s fourth-quarter profit was a close call, partly due to millions in unspent funds that had been set aside for restructur- ing costs. Amelio’s cost-cutting brought the company to the break-even point, but Apple won't reach “sustainable” profitability until the second quarter of 1997. The first quarter is likely to be much like this one. The trends are looking good. Unit ship- ments were up by 11 percent from the last quarter, with record-breaking K-12 educa- tion sales and improved _____ Michael Spindler ___Gil Amelio usinéss sales. We were ~~ surprised to learn that 15 net) percent of Apple’s fourth- quarter shipments were PowerBooks. * $25 milion ‘net income _/ Matt Petty L L L L L 1 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 THE APPLE OF MY EYE: Thanks to some serious ‘bean counting, Apple is once again making a profit. mark at the end of 1994 and climbed steadi- ly to a peak of about 1.3 million in early 1996, Unit shipments then plunged, hov- ering at about 900,000 Macs per quarter through the rest of the year. The result? Apple’s income dropped to its lowest level in two years. \ When your income takes that kind of | plunge, the only way to get back in the black | is to cut costs. Under the leadership of Gil | | Amelio, Apple did just that, tightening its | belt until it could live within its reduced means. Research-and-development spending hasn’t been substantially reduced. Instead, 30 MacADDICT 1996 While Apple bashers were slamming this year’s note- book line, the darned things were selling nonetheless. Apple’s profit margins are also up. After staying in the 24 to 29 per- cent range for a couple of years, mar- gins began dropping late in 1995 and bottomed out at a dismal 9 percent in the second quarter of 1996, when the company racked up its record-breaking $740 million loss. They've now rebounded, hitting the 22 percent mark this quarter, and Apple reckons it can stay at 20 percent or better for the forseeable future. —us Performas Ww Apple promised to ‘streamline the product line, it didn’t mean that it was going to stop changing products but simply that it wasn't going to introduce a bazillion new models each based on a new design. Case in point: Apple recently introduced the Performa 6360, which is the same as the Perfor- ma 6320, only faster. Whereas the Performa 6320 uses a 120MHz 603e processor, the Performa 6360 uses a 160MHz 603e processor. Both systems include 16MB of RAM, a 1.2GB hard drive, an 8X CD-ROM drive, and two PCI slots. The Performa 6320 with a 15-inch monitor costs $1,899; the Performa 6360 sans monitor costs $1,499. Apple has raised the speed of a popular Performa without raising its price. In other news, Apple reduced prices on the recently introduced Performa 6400s. The 200MHz Performa 6400 dropped in price from $2,799 to $2,199, a savings of $600. The 180MHz Performa 6400 went from $2,399 to $1,899, a savings of $500. Likewise, Apple increased speeds and dropped prices for some Macs sold into the educa- tion channel. The Power Mac 6400/200 now costs $1,899, some $300 less than the Performa version sold in retail outlets. Unlike its Performa 6400 twin, however, the Power Mac 6400 does not include bundled soft- ware, although you can purchase some software bundles for a drastically reduced cost. For example, a Writing and Publish- ing bundle that includes word processing, publishing, and refer- ence tools costs $100-—not a bad deal, Finally, Apple upped the ‘speed of the Power Mac 5400 to 180MHz and of the Power Mac 5260 to 120MHz. —CE Sure, there are-cheaper and PC game con- But if youre ready to get seious, you need the high i i-th periheras fom Cl Prous, jr joysticks, throttles, flight yokes, rudder pedals, 3 __ and game pads are born in the USA, and made fo take the baal j Of any battle, race or. game you throw their way. So our game face, get down to your computer nd grab the game controllers 2 — serious players. a ~ Vitual Plt ro Jetstch aa _ i CH PRODUCTS 970 Park Center Drive - Vista, CA 92083 - Phone 619 598 2518 - Fax 619 598 2524 http/www.chproducts.com + America OnLine: CHProducts@aol.com + CompuServe: Go GAMEDPUB REFERENCE GUIDE TO MENTAL DISORDERS. BUY 2 GAMES AND “ene” GET A THIRD ONE FREE’ For details on how to get your free game see your local participating retailer or call 1-800-432-3493 ext. M612 GT Interactive Software wwu-gtinteractive-com “Buy any 2 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, Joe 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 31st, 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 1-800-771-3772. RightsReserved. Hever” (61096 Raven Sotware Corporation. Al 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- Pl 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 lows 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 1995. 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, 208 A.D.) An evil plot to destroy the empire is underway and the player must stop it. These people are beyond help. \l Re “Cravings Six products that release feelings of sheer, unfettered lust. And they're handy, too. CometPage/CometSite Digital Comet D Ca Brovser information roul've just posted your carefully crafted Web site detailing the different ee adipic F kinds of contact paper manufactured in 1977 when you discover you oe ily inadvertently included a tartan pattern not found until 1978, and it's mentioned at the bottom of each of erie/Date Toe Gpraors the 312 pages as a new find. To avoid the ridicule of fellow contact paper collectors and the possible ae 7 suspension of your Contact Paper Collectors Brotherhood membership, you must make a change, and > Cceuntdewn fast, But how? With the CometPage/CometSite duo. {||P Bren QUICK CHANGES WITHOUT WEB DRUDGERY. Priced at an alfordable $69 for CometPage and > DD domin/Paderess $149 for CometSite, this pair of programs allows . Pld cle) you to use style sheets and macros to ease Web site creation and maintenance, and embed dynamic tags to do such things as iffthen/else analysis and customize your pages in ways not before possible. CometSite will be released as an ISAPI module, an Apache module, a WebStar CGI, or as Netscape ‘Server plug-ins for Unix and Windows NT so you should be able to incorporate your new pages with minimum hassle. Call 415-331-5551 or go to <http:/Mwww.digitalcomet.com> for more information. StyleWriter PhotoGrade Print Kit Apple Computer ihe last time you tried to pass off a photo of Elvis shaking hands with Boris Yeltsin to ihe “Weekly Star-Enquirer News,” they laughed you out of their offices, noting that the output obviously came from a StyleWriter, Well, the last laugh can be yours, bucko, with the Color PhotoGrade Print Kit for the Color StyleWriter 2500. This combination of ink cartridge, special paper, and PRINT PHOTOS SO REALISTIC IT’S SPOOKY. print driver software allows you to print amazingly clear color images from your StyleWriter for only $60. And if you act now, you'll receive a storage case for your ink cartridge. Show those journalist punks that two can play the fake- a-photo game. Call Apple at 408-996-1010 or go to <http://info.apple.com>. TelePort Speakerphone Edition Global Village Iho knew that George Jetson was on the design team at Global Village Communication? You can see his sure, three-fingered hands at work in the new TelePort Speakerphone Edition modem. Notice the parallel horizontal speaker grid lines, the slightly curved, tetrahedron-like form, the pastel gray rounded base. Pure Jetson. The TelePort not only looks like P THIS CRAVING HAS NO AFFILIATION WITH HANNA-BARBERA. — something out of “The Jetsons,” it performs like it as well. Data blazes through at 33.6Kbps, faxes fly across copper and fiber-optic lines, and the modem acts as a standalone speakerphone even when your Mac isn’t on. Your family and friends will finally have to believe you when Elroy calls, because they'll be able hear his voice, too. Or at least see his incessant faxes. To take a leap into the Hanna-Barbera realm, call Global Village at 800-732-4821, or surf to <hitp://www.globalvillage.com>, and have your $269 ready. 34 MacADDICT Fractal Design ractal Design's newest version of Poser has tasted from the Tree of Knowledge. The figures, formerly nude, now wear clothing (although it’s difficult to know what they're so modest about, given they aren't quite anatomically correct) The crunchy bites of apple have done well by the rest of Poser. Figures can now be animated, props can be added, and for a particularly surreal journey, 3D models can be THE GENESIS OF GREAT FIGURES. substituted for body parts (here's your chance to do Edward Scissorhands one better, some- thing like Bill Lamphead or Sue Keyboardfoot). Poser 2 also includes a group of Viewpoint Datalabs’ figure models to get you started. For $249, you too can be banned from the Garden of Eden and clothe figures to your heart’s content. 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Now, they can reward your children for life. sees tor I C k Your Mac BY STEFAN ANTHONY hacker: priginally, FOMEONE who ‘creates furniture with an axe. Low, One wha enjoys the challenge of] ircumuenting he Mac is touted as the easiest computer to use, but we bet you didn’t know that its ease of use extended to munging its innards, too. Although using the following techniques won't make you a good enough programmer to get the Mac 0S 8 out on time, you will be able to customize programs, search game files for clues, and impress your friends with your cleverness. For each file on your hard drive, the Mac operating system stores information in two places: the data fork and the resource fork. The data fork is where. word proces- sors save raw text, for example, whereas the resource fork is where the system keeps the computer code and infor- ‘ation about the interface: menus, windows, icons. To the Mac hacker, the most important difference between the data fork and resource fork is that the resource fork can be edited to customize a program’s interface and functionality, but the data fork can usually be edited only by cer- tain programs. For instance, we'll let GraphicConverter read and edit image files rather than write those files our- selves one bit at a time. What this really means is that its relatively easy for leave well enough alone. NY) il Ec change the resource part of a file. llustration by Bruce Heavin You can change the resource part of a file either by using a general resource editor such as ResEdit or Resorcerer, or by using a program whose sole reason for existing is to edit another program’s resources. If you're already feeling a little faint, skip to “Other Resources” p43, to add a Windows menu to the Finder or custom directories to Netscape Navigator. Probably the best part of using ResEdit or Resorcerer is that you don’t need to be a programmer to use it—just drag a file onto its icon in the Finder, double-click a resource in the document window, and start hack- ing away. However, editing the wrong part of the wrong resource can cause some serious problems. You may have heard horror stories about what those “serious problems” are—unbootable disks, lost work, and dam- aged System files—but following two rules can help you avoid all that. Rule 1: Before editing a file in ResEdit, always make a backup of the file and keep it close by in case you irreparably damage the file while working on it. It’s a good idea to keep the backup in another folder just in case you accidentally start editing the wrong copy (believe it or not, it can happen not only to the ResEdit novice but also to a resource editing veteran). Rule 2: Read Rule 1 until you see command-D behind your eyelids. A corollary to Rule 1 is that when working with the Finder or System, you need to work on a copy because those files are always open. After you make your changes to the copies, drag the originals out of the System Folder to the desktop, replace them with the changed versions, and then restart. ow that you have a copy of ResEdit (Gf you don’t have it, you can find it on The Disc), First, open up your ‘System Folder, select the System file and duplicate it (command-D), what do you do with it? Let’s start out simply by changing the appear- ance of the System, As you may recall, back in the October 1996 issue (“How to Customize Icons,” p76) we showed you how to edit folder icons. We made systemwide changes by pasting the icons into the Finder Preferences file. This works for Finder items, but what about the Apple Menu, which is visible when any application is open? To make this kind of change, you'll have to edit your System file. This is the little guy that looks like a suitcase floating around in your System Folder. You probably shouldn't proceed unless you have the install disks for your System in case some- thing goes wrong. But nothing will, if you follow these steps exactly, maw. @B ao a” as 4018 IcN® ICON jos® jos4 nT Sst SSE fo) © | ¢ 16569 -16541 -16509 -16506 a @ 608 716494 -16490 -16482 -16415 a f—] D «a -16396 7163 ~4000 -3999 A «aa Drag the System file copy ‘onto your ResEdit icon to open it. Then, open one of the ics files (ics8, ics4, ics#). Scroll down until you see -16386—that's the Apple Menu icon. Double-click it. = E Mg = EY Bs iw Lorrie | Now you can add sunglasses, like we did here, or substitute your own creation. To give the ‘sunglasses a 3D look, we shaded each lens with a highlight and a shadow. Because all light on the Mac comes from the upper left-hand corner, that’s where we put our highlight. If you change the outline of the apple, be sure to edit the mask, or the pixels won't show up. If you want to use these sunglasses, open the 5) sunglasses.rsrc file on The Disc, and paste those resources into your System file copy. Save your work, and while you've got that System file copy open, we'll venture into a new resource type: menus. @ FIND THE SHAREWARE