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February 1997 highlights 36 48 52 60 62 92 96 Facing Up to Fonts Our all-inclusive guide to fonts—how to install them, manage them, and use them; which ‘ones are hot and which ones are not; where to find them, and more. BY TED ALSPACH Just Your Type Not satisfied with any of the fonts that are already out there? Feel like striking out on your own? Here’s a step-by-step guide to creating your own font. BY NIKKI ECHLER WITH KEN BOUSQUET On the Road Again Join us as we tool up the California coast, armed with four of the latest sub-$1,000 digital cameras and a big pot of coffee. Our mission? To find out just how well these cameras fare when taking vacation photos. BY RAY LARSON Quest for System 8 Bored with the wait for System 8? Head out on your own quest with our board game. All you need to play is two people, some M&Ms, and a lot of time. BY THE MACADDICT TEAM This Old Mac Believe it or not, there’s a lot of life in that old Mac Plus yet. Check out the first in our series on putting older Macs to good use. BY T. KELLEY BOYLAN Fix Bad Scans If you're scanning photos, then you've probably run across at least one of these five common problems. Here's what to do next time you hit a snag. Add Sound to a Web Page So, your Web page looks great, it’s easy to navigate, and it's got tons of super-useful information. Now we'll show you how to add sounds. Gee, this one and every other Rescue a Mac from letter in the your town dump! Give alphabet, too. your “mature” Mac a modern makeover. a atl) BU [ aun unt LLL rok we! i every month sa 14 28 32 100 104 720 Editor’s Note An interview with Apple’s Marco Landi and topical illuminations. Letters Ramblings, stories, and questions from our readers. Get Info More on upcoming System software, a 500MHz processor, Clones of clones, and a dog of a contest. Cravings Six products we desire, crave, lust after, and really, really want. Reviews Photoshop 4, FreeHand 7, PowerBook 1400c, Avid Cinema, Abuse, and other long-awaited tools. Ask Us Solving audio CD problems, installing an internal hard drive, and how to use large monitors efficiently. PowerPlay Find out what it takes to make a successful port of a PC game. Random and bizarre clippings from the world of Macs. It's a font spectacular this month. We've packed in sample fonts and tools for creating and managing fonts. And, of course, we've also included some of the best shareware around, a handful of games, and batch of working demos of current programs. And, don’t forget to check out our super secret contest. http://www.macaddict.com 26 You're a Mac addict and you want your fill of Mac news— right here, right now. We can help. (If you're a normal, healthy individual with outside interests and a firm grasp on reality, we can deal with that as well). Mosey on down to the MacAddict Web site and we'll show you how and where to find the best Mac news on the Web—or double your bandwidth back! EDITORIAL EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Cheryl England MANAGING EDITOR Judy Lewenthal ASSOCIATE EDITORS. Nikki Echler, David Reynolds, Kathy Tafel, Daniel Drew Turner (reviews) CD-ROM: Thomas Hale (director, development), Stephen Gifford (disc content consultant) ONLINE EDITOR Mark Simmons CONTRIBUTING EDITORS Raf Anzovin, Steven Anzovin, Joseph 0. Holmes, Ross Scott Rubin FREELANCE EDITOR Laura Fredrickson ART ART DIRECTOR Ken Bousquet ASSISTANT ART DIRECTOR Adam Vanderhoot FREELANCE DESIGNER Gloria Orbegozo PRODUCTION PRODUCTION DIRECTOR Richard Lesovoy PRODUCTION COORDINATOR Ken Brandow ADVERTISING PUBLISHER Patricia Neuray REGIONAL AD MANAGER André Lengyel REGIONAL AD MANAGER John Singer REGIONAL AD MANAGER Christina Sorrentino MARKETPLACE ACCOUNT MANAGER Mary Lachapelle ADVERTISING COORDINATOR Jana Massey CIRCULATION NEWSSTAND DIRECTOR Bruce Eldridge NEWSSTAND MANAGER Thea Selby NEWSSTAND ANALYST Terry Lawson CIRCULATION MANAGER Donna Badgett FULFILLMENT MANAGER Dana Runkle CIRCULATION CONSULTANT Gail Egbert Imagine Publishing, Inc. PRESIDENT Chris Anderson VICE PRESIDENT/CFO Tom Valentino VICE PRESIDENT/CIRCULATION Holly Klingel NEW MEDIA BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT MANAGER Mary Hoppin INTERNATIONAL LICENSING: Robert J, Abramson & Associates, Inc., 720 Post Road, Scarsdale, NY 10583 me 2, Issue 2 MacADDICT (‘SSN 1088-5484) is published monthiy by Imagine Publishing, Inc, 150 North Hil Dive, Brisbane, CA 94005, USA. ‘Application to mail at Periocical class postage pending at Brisbane, CAA and at addtional maiing offices, Newsstand distribution is handled by Cutis Circulation Company. Basic suibscristion rates: cone year (12 issues + 12 CD-ROMs) US. $39.90, Canada $43.95, US. pre-paid funds only, Canadian price includes postage and GST (GST 128220688), (IPM 0962302) Outside the US. and Canada, pre is $58.95, US. pre-paid funds only, For customer service inquifies andlor subscriptions: please fax (41) 656-2486; phone (418) 468-4689, 9-5 (PST), M-F. or wte MacAdkict, Customer Service, 160 North Hill Dv, Bisbane, CA 94005. POSTMASTER: ‘Send adress changes to MacAddict, 150 North Hil Dive, Brisbane, CA 94006, Imagine Publishing also publishes boot, Uta Game Payers, Next Generation, PC Gamer and The Net Entre contents copyright 1997, imagine Publishing, Inc. Al ighis reserved. production in whole or in pet is prohibited, imagine Pubishing, Inc. isnot affiated with the compa- nies of products covered in hctasercaenlenccoein | SENOBRDGUSS versions: A2, C, C1, C2, and C3 Waseca, MN PRODUCED IN THE UNITED Permit No, 348 STATES OF AMERICA NE: Enough with the clipart. DR: We're going to tell Sue. ‘Jeff's your tur to goto the store. Beotman: YRMW. (CE: Wool Sammy/s the cutest. Happy Mac Valentines! Digital Images In. Panasonic Introduces TruPhoto™, the digital photo printer. The new Panasonic TruPhoto printer creates real photographs from your PC or Macintosh® computer. Input an image into your computer from photo CDs, floppy discs, digital cameras, the Internet or scanners. Use your graphics program to manipulate the image, then TruPhoto will print out a bright, brilliant 3"x 5" glossy photograph. TruPhoto uses no toner or ink; it produces real photos on Thermo-Autochrome paper. MGI PhotoSuite™ for TruPhoto is included, so you can use your computer to retouch, crop and fix your photographs. And even create special effects, baseball cards, birthday cards, calendars and more. There are lots of ways to get digital images into your computer, but to get real photographs out, you need TruPhoto from Panasonic. Panasonic’ Interactive Media www.truphoto.com (© 1996 Panasonic Interactive Media Company. All rights reserved. TruPhoto is a trademark of Matsushita Electric Corporation of America. ‘MGI PhotoSuite is a registered trademark of MGI Software Corporation, Macintosh is a registered trademark of Apple Computer, Inc. The creative process has always been a mystery to some. To others, it’s a way of life. For them, we offer the $900. A computer designed specifically to meet the needs of the creative professional. The $900’s advanced architecture combines high performance and expandability with the familiarity of the MacOS . With worry-free service (standard 3 day on-site warranty) and at a price that can’t be beat, the $900 is setting new standards for an old pursuit: Art. SUPERMaC @e8e08e Computers that Work the Way You Do. $900 KEY FEATURES © Standard Interleaved Memory Every $900 comes standard wih interleaved memory for workstation-quolity 128-bit access memory and best system performance, Others only provide 64-bit access memory. © _ Advanced Scalable Processor Design {AS.P.D) This modular configuration allows easy upgradeabilty to add or change CPUs a desired. Costs less and is more flexible, allowing your system fo grow os you do, @——_UMAX PCI-to-PCI Bridge ‘The $900 allows bust communication between al PC slots, no mater where devices are inserted, for greater ‘expandability and easy setup. © Ultimate Expandability Py ° Totally Upgradeable ° Advanced Design Suportiac C600 ‘Supertlac 3700, ‘ SuperMac $900 i @ E85 YORE ETON or vist our web ste @ hp/ Awww supermaccom_| {© 1996 All rights reserved. SuperMac i licensed exclusively to UMAX Computer Corporation» 47470 Seabridge Dr, Fremont CA 94588, Tel: (800) 282-0629, Fax: (10) 628-7850 If a file stolen, 8 MacADDICT Self-policing isn’t pretty, but unfortunate ome people “steal” things because they don’t understand the rules of the game. Other people do it maliciously— they know that what they are doing is wrong and they do it anyway. If the theft happens in your neighborhood, you call the police. If it happens at your office, you call security. If the theft involves the copyright to a valuable invention, you call a lawyer. But if the theft happens on the Internet, with a small file of no clear _ monetary value, whom do q you call? ‘That's a tough question. Self-policing is not pretty. No one likes to be the commu- nity crank. Yet, if someone steals something and doesn’t admit it, apologize, and rec- tify the situation, then maybe it’s time to put self-policing into action. Is this just a general ramble about the Internet and freedom of speech and copy- right? No, it’s more specific than that. You see, as much as we hate to admit it, two of the top three entries in the sound category of our custom-painted Power Mac contest (Dec/96, p50) were submitted by individu- als who did not create them. Worse, one of the individuals was awarded the top prize. One of the runners-up, Mike Miller, submitted a sound that is part of Dave Ulrich’s Wacked Sounds shareware collec- tion. We'd love to tell you whether Mike realized that he was violating copyright law or not, but he’s no longer at the phone number or address that he supplied. Fortunately, we had not sent his runners-up prize when we found out the truth about his submission. We could have done many things with the prize, for example, rejudg- ing the contest, but we're giving it to Dave, a person who shared with the Mac commu- nity, only to have his work stolen. The far bigger issue is with the winner of the Mac for the sound category. After the December issue appeared, we received let- of no clear value is whom do you call? — ters from several folks stating that the winning sound entry, Funky Mac, was originally created by Eric Hausmann and had been posted on AOL and several BBS communities for at least a couple of years under the name of MacFunkee. (One of those writing in was Jeff Click of Clixsounds—one of his sounds, Heavenly Welcome, had been pub- lished on our CD under the name of John Bassing.) Uh oh. So, we downloaded Eric’s ver- sion of MacFunkee and compared it with the winning Funky Mac entry. Identical. I asked Eric to send more proof that the file was created by him. Got it. Asked the winner to do the same. Never got it. We then explained copyright issues to the winner—under copy- right law, items posted online are considered copyrighted even if the owner has never filed for an official copyright, He seemed to understand, but then refused to return the Mac, so that we could award it to Eric. In his reasoning, MacAddict erred in awarding him the Mac, even though contest rules stated that entries had to be previously unpublished. While I could go on about MacAddict’s legal rights, I won't because that is, in many ways, beside the point. ‘The real issue is the somehow skewed reasoning that if material is on the Internet, it’s fair game to be used and claimed as one’s own. There are no consequences unless you get caught and someone initiates legal action. Otherwise, hey, what are you going to do to me? ‘That's where self-policing comes in. We thank those who alerted us to the origins of the files. It seems that in these days we need to look out for each other. As I write this in early December, the sound contest winner has finally promised to return the Mac. We hope to see it back in our offices soon. —Cheryl England Five Questions: Marco Landi, Apple’s Chief Operating Officer ly it's sometimes necessary. What's new about Apple this year? What is Apple’s financial situation? What is your strategy for 1997? What is your OS strategy? What will consumers see in early 97? Casio QV30 Digital Camera EPSON PhotoPC 500 Digital Camera THE New Epson® PHOTOPC™ 500 DicITAL CAMERA WITH SUPERIOR IMAGE QUALITY. Roses are red, violets are blue, but only if you take their picture with the EPSON PhotoPC 500. The digital camera with 640x480 pixel resolution that gives you the most lifelike pictures around. It’s got all the reduction flash to its optional lenses and filters. Bu no other camera has Epson's unique ColorTrue™ in-camera processing and ClearOptics” system, for accurate, vivid era 2 Se : images that add impact to documents or e-mail messages. i The PhotoPC 500 is flexible, too. With an optional LCD to pee IR or erase images. Memory that expands to hold 200 JPEG images. PC/Mac compatibility. And our free Internet Sampler Pak (valued up to $300) that lets you access and create Web pages. So, when it f sei comes to digital photography, a camera by any other name just isn’t as good. For more information, visit y = 7 www.epson.com to download some sample images, or call 1-800-GO-EPSON and ask for operator 3015. 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Say it ain't so. —JuLIAN BENNETT, Fresno, CA THOSE Mean Moms So my 12-year-old son brings home this magazine and says to me, “Hey Mom, look at this cool new magazine.” I spot the juvenile graphics on the front and I'm think- ing, “Oh great, another game magazine. Now he'll be telling me the tips to conquering some inane game that he intends to install on my Ethernet system. Oh, and look here, they've even included a CD.” Macintosh Guru | you nave achieved Macintosh Guru status. ‘Thanks for playingt Click OK to quit. Now I have two copies, two CDs, a paid sub- Windows User scription, and my son doesn’t get them at all anymore. He says, “Mean Mom.” I say, “It’s my job.” —CynpiE L. KLOPrENSTEIN I just got 220,000 in Apeiron, a game I installed from one of your CDs, and I'm pretty darn proud of myself. Not just because of my score, but because I reclaimed my computer as my own... See, Mom’s recently become addicted to Apeiron, and for a while there she was whipping my butt. But youth has prevailed! —Marriew Prunus T had to beg my mom for a week to let me subscribe. She was afraid it would make me use the computer too much. Tell me, what's too much on a Mac? —S. Seto, ‘SAN Marzo, CA. Dupe! What's up everybody! Well, as you can see, I got back on the Net! In case you don’t remember me, I’ve faxed you guys twice from work, that place known as my own personal hell. Anyway, since I last faxed (Jan/97, p10), I have been fired from the den of lawyers due to my unprofessionalism and my blatant attacks on their PCs, Maybe the war paint and battle cries were a bit too much, or maybe they didn’t appreciate the fact that 1 was scalping my victims. Then again, it might be all the stickers I posted, or the fact that I would run down the hall screaming, “I hate this place! Long live Apple! Long live the Mac!” Anyway, I've been sent back to the Streets to once again run wild with my fellow bike messengers. To live a life of freedom, to fly like the wind, and to run over as many scum-sucking yuppies as possible! I'm off to Venice Beach right now, but as always, you guys rule, and also... Please give me a job! Later! —Rrvsen E. REyNoso Um, Reuben, this may come as a surprise, but we all kind of expected something like this might happen... OK, We Hepcep A friend is interested in buying a Performa 6400/200 and running Finale, a music com- position application. I'd like to find out what kinds of specialized software won't run on 603 systems, and if this application is one of them. —Jay Harris When we said that some specialized soft- ware might work only on 604 systems, we were hedging our bets. The PowerPC 604 processor includes some instructions that 4 603 does not, so there is some tiny chance that some odd application might require a 604 instead of a 603. Rest assured, however, that mainstream applications such as Finale will run on any flavor of PowerPC chip. GOSH DARN IT! The review of Fractal Design Expression (Dec/96, p64) was actually a preview of the product and was written using an early beta version. The preview should have been marked as such and the program should not have been rated. The preview should have also noted that some problems such as slowness could be attributed to the fact that Expression was still in beta. Terribly sorry for the confusion—look for a review of the shipping version in an upcoming issue and on our Web site. Qn, PLEASE Ca.m Down Hi. My name is Eric. Um... I'm a... Mac addict. I didn’t think it was true... gasp... but itis... 1am addicted (sob). | really thought 1 could handle it, until I went to the bookstore after having seen the November issue online... and what should my ears hear but the fateful “death chime” of the clerk saying, “Sorry, we no longer have that issue.” WHAT!? I have to have it! The guy in the cubicle next to me at work has one, but he won't share his CD—something about catching a virus. I had the shakes last night. I'm hurting real bad. My wife asked if there was something wrong. I said, “Nothing, it'll be OK.” But it’s not. Oh, the thrill of exploring the CD, the panache of the articles and relevance to my needs. I was thinking of buying a 3D app and saw the issue—“Perfect there cares. —Eric Brown Go Quicxty! In the November issue (p102), someone wanted to know where to find Oscar The Grouch, an “outlawed file.” The response said it was “pulled from distribution.” This is untrue! The file was only pulled from Info-Mac sites. It can be found at other Mac sites such as <ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/mac/ sysext/grouch.sit>. —Topp S. MEYER, Sciota, PA As of October 12, 1996, Oscar The Grouch was still at <http://www.eskimo.com/ ~pristine/softindex.html>. —Bos LONGSTREATH You'll have to go to these sites quickly, before Oscar disappears from them, too! Hux? I’m quite disturbed that when I see a piece of software that says “Requires 386 and Windows 3.1 or better” it won't run on my Quadra 610. Any ideas? —IRA Lieman, Hopoken, NJ Hey, guess what? Of the many uses for the Mighty Macintosh, my personal favorite is “Geek-Off.” Just thought you'd like to know. —Joun Moore IV, Vircinta Beacu, VA I just wanted you to know that I think I like rats. —PAUL TRUE INSPIRATION Look, I drew a picture in Microsoft nerd. I mean Word. —Jory Cooper, 12, Mipp.etown, IN Yeah, we've always been impressed with Word's drawing features, too... timing as usual!” I said to myself. “I will take my hard-earned cash and retrieve this cool yet viable periodical.” But noooo! I think the clerk had a judg- mental glint in his eye as 1 staggered out of the store. Today, I finally found a telephone cord that is long enough to reach out the window so I could send NS \ you this before I jump. Hmmm... Someone is shouting something. ‘They have set up an inflatable cushion... prob- ably to catch the PowerBook! I just cannot go on without my November issue (sob). Please... please... whatever it takes! I have to have my wrapped-in-plastic mag and CD! Please respond, let me know someone out The art that Word inspired. Watch out—Word’s Auto Correct tool will straighten all those curves. MacAddict has inspired me to change the “Welcome to Macintosh” greeting during startup to “Macs Rule, PCs Drool” via ResEdit. —Wuuy River DEMONIC AN UNABASHED SWIPE AT WINDOWS 95, SUNG TO THE MELODY OF ALANIS MORISSETTE’S “IRONIC” It’s a Microsoft product that claims to be great But like its predecessor it’s just second rate Like OS/2 it has a similar fate It's a graphic in-ter-face about 12 years too late Yes, Windows is demonic ... don't you think? Chorus: They want you to believe that it works like a Mac Although it was designed by someone high on crack If Windows 95 could simply fade into black The world would be sooooooo much better. . . He bought an IBM clone ’cause he liked the low price It came with Win 95 to add a little bit 0’ spice He hit the Return key (That was a roll of the dice!) As his system crashed down, he said, “Well, this isn’t nice!” Yes, Windows is demonic ... don’t you think? [Repeat Chorus] It’s a simple subterfuge this Win 95 Its hype is so thick you can cut it with a knife If you’d bought a Mac the first time, you wouldn't have this strife (Spoken) If you want the machine of your dreams, you'd better get a clue, not a life Yes, Windows is demonic ... don’t you think? A little_too_demonic and I really do think [Repeat Chorus] [Shut Down] [Power Off] Lyrics © 1996 Robert Hanson. All rights reserved. However: Dealer participation may affect final consumer cost. Your mileage may vary. Certain conditions & restrictions may apply; ask your sales consultant for details. See your dentist twice a year. And don't forget to put the seat down when you're done! 15 MacADDICT DEMOS Take a tour Timelaps rough helpful available on all ‘Major screens. 1. Pop The Disc into your CD-ROM drive. 2. Double-click the Start Here icon for your System. 3. Have fun! THIS ISSUE Turn to this screen to ns and files in the find progra nention Whenever you come hel S where you'll enough didn’t knov INDEX Use this hand iping y other REQUIREMENTS Any Mac can access the shareware, demos, and System software from the Finder, Accessing the full CD-ROM interface requires 12MB of real RAM with System 7.1 or earlier; 16MB of real RAM with System 7.5 or later. 10. get immediate information from our sponsors, go to the Index (Option-click ‘any help screen). Or you can wait until you ‘see a message from a sponsor in the lowersight-hand 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. Sponsors can also be accessed from the main window in the Finder. OL 800-827-6364 hitp:/fvwnaol.com ‘America Online offers access to the world of online news and information, interactive magazines, finance, entertainment, e-mal free software, shopping, and more. With ‘point and a click, you can explore the vast resources of the Intemet Sign on and receive 15 free hours Bungie—Marathon infinity 800-295-0060 http:/iwwwcbungie.com Marathon Infinity contains "Blood Tides of Lh'owon," a brand: new 30-level scenario, “Forge, Bungie's own powerful Map Editor, and “Anvil” a single tool for easy modffcation of shapes, sounds, and physics models, Changeling—Amber S@ Chanceling 800-769-2768, bntp:y/Awwa.changting.com Journey into the unknown, exploring supematural realms of extraordinary beauty and haunting ‘elegance. Unravel mysteries hidden within compeling stories of hear- numbing tragedy, mind-numbing obsession, and childlike innocence. With amazingly life-like images, subtle environmental sounds, a ‘compeling soundtrack, and thor- ‘oughly developed characters and stories, Amber: Journeys Beyond will completely immerse you in the experience of several lifetimes. Europa Sottware—Web Quick SUCOPRA http:/jwwnw.europasottware.com Frustrated by Bookmarks? Web Quick tracks every page you visit, and automatically organizes the page list by Site. It lets you create custom Topics— and keeps them all at your fir gertips with handy pop-up menus. Web Quick even con- verts existing Bookmarks. No wonder MacWEEK calls it “the first Web utility that is essential"! GT Interactive—ZPC ‘s TE SH IE sii ce SCA http:/www.atinteractive.com ZPC places the player as Arman, a fourth-generation Psionic War Messiah recently released from cryogenic imprison- ment. With no memory of his llustrious heritage, 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 Psionic crown and unite his followers. MacPlay—MacPlay Catalog 800-4MACPLAY http:/hwweumacplay.com Star’ ‘Trek Starfleet With Captain Kirk, Chekov, and Sulu as your Starfleet Academy instructors, yyouand your crew will battle over 30 menacing 3D-rendered alien ships in the first-ever STAR TREK flight simulator. Are you bold enough? ProPinball—Finally, a Mac pinball ‘game that goes beyond the arcade experience. It has everything you want: realistic flippers, ramps, loops, drop targets, grab magnets, sink holes, jet bumpers, and, of course, realistic balls. Descent II—Blast your way past enemy robots with powerful new tools, leaving their flaming hulks in your exhaust. I's all-new levels of ‘outrageous destruction, with new weapons and enemies! Power Mac required. ‘MacSolt—Prime Target Mac: 900-200-2714 ’A powerful senator is brutally murdered while working late In her Washington, D.C. office. Now you must solve’ the mystery of her death in this action-packed 30 shoot-em-up. Prime Target thrusts you into the most dynamic. Mac {aming word ever. Blood spatters fn the wall Glass shaters in your face. And the interative mystery challenges your intloct 2s. you hunt. the senator's killers in Washington's canidors of power. PowerProduction—Webfurst Fg § powerproduction] webburst 800-487-0383 htip:/www.powerproduction.com WebBurst gives the Internet a facelit! It puts a new wave into surfing the Net. Interactive sound ‘and motion can now be experi- enced with any Java-enabled browser. And it's drag-and-drop- easy to create. No coding, no compiling necessary! Just add it to your existing Web page. ‘Sonic Desktop Solutions — ‘SmartSound For Multimedia 800-454-1900 hitip:/www-sonicdesktop.com Now you can quickly create music or sound effects customized to your exact specifications, This revolutionary new software makes the job easy while always aiving you professional results. Try the demo fon the enclosed CD and you'l see why SmartSound is the Absolute Easiest Way To Create Customized Professional Quality Soundtracks. ‘Westwood Studlos—Westwood Chat 800-874-4607 http:/Amww.westwood.com Need a place to find other Mac gamers!? Try out the new Macintosh version of Westwood Chat—the program that lets you talk with other gamers around the ‘world in real-time! And with the new Interet-ready games by Westwood Studios, you'l be able to challenge people all over the planet to great games like Monopoly and Command & Conquer! Amazing digital audio software: BIAS Peak! astardly Tom Hale scrambled Max into 16 pieces! (The nerve of some people.) Help Max Screw on his head right. Pop in the CD-ROM and look for a secret hotspot. You'll be automagically transported to a hidden area of The Disc. When you solve the puzzle, the CD-ROM will give you a code. Enter this code on the hat! You need help? 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 where you can order one <http://www.macaddict.com/ info/service.html>, or you can call them directly at (415) 468-4869. If you can't install anything, or get disk errors, do the same. If you have another problem with The Disc, please stop by <http://www.macaddict. com/cdrom> before you send us e-mail. If there isn’t a solution there, then please let us know about it at letters@ macaddict.com. If you're having prob- lems with System software, we recommend calling the good folks at (800) SOS- You Have a Problem? : If you encounter any problems Shareware you are abaut to install, please TAUNGH Wed SiTE MacAddict Web site for chance to win a copy of BIAS Peak, an easy-to-use audio wave- form editor. Good Luck! your BIAS PEAK p< APPL. They'll be more than happy to help you. ‘And if you are having trouble with one of the programs on our disc, please be sure to read the accompanying read me for contact info. To make it easier for you to find help for the programs on The Disc, we've conveniently added e-mail and Web contacts in the Shareware and This Issue sec- tions. Whenever you click on install, you'll find the following helpful dialog: Shareware Warming ith the contact the following company: JINSTALL SHAREWARE MacADDICT 17 te Ae rR Yo TH | N G Ne OU) NO Ee Eee: Mow Lee A Ss H Ton Ao MAD IM: Puck (hath Ono S Poa oh PS T 40 x 48 Resolution, 24-Bit Color 1,8' Color LCD Screen - oe : i Es i # z H 8 i ne ales eared Repo 6 Son Corpora: Mae raderrk of Apple Compaen ne Seen Dp” are versions of | commercial products that | are not fully functional. Play ! them directly from The Disc, or ! copy them to your hard disk. the disc This month we bring you a plethora of children’s software | demos. If you want to escape | out of a demo, usually typing | cmd-. (period) will return you to | our application. 1. Pajama Sam In “No Need To Hide When It's Dark Outside,” it's your job | to help Pajama Sam find his flashlight and lunchbox so he can capture darkness and put him in the lunchbox. The demo | has four different sites to explore. Each site has a puzzle | to solve and has plenty of | wacky objects for kids (and ! grown-ups) to click on. The first time you play the demo it will test your CD drive for speed. Tum to our review (p89) to see what the kids thought. 2. Timelapse Timelapse will transport you to exotic places. You'll need to solve puzzles in the pyramids, make mincemeat of the | 20 MacADDICT Mayans, and outwit the Anasazi. Your quest begins on Easter Island where you find an alien device which eventually leads you to Atlantis. With amazingly rendered scenery and responsive navigation, this new pointand-click-adventure is sure to please. 3. Mega Math Blasters Mega Math Blasters is an outofthis-world way to leam math while pretending to be a space hero. This non-interactive demo will give you a taste of the many brain teasers available in this title. Each game helps your children build their math skills. Stop Gelator before he takes over the galaxy! 4. PhotoTools 7] mma = sil | ESI Ziromn Bi ae] MIE [Belmar a is What's a plug-in folder without plug-ins? What's a Mac app without palettes? Add Extensis Photoshop plug-ins and see what a difference a few smart tools can make. PhotoText alone is enough to make any Photoshop-head’s jaw drop in awe: you can place text over an image, and change its attributes. Before placing the text, you can add more text, deselect it, and reselect the first bit. Amazing! Also on The Disc In addition to these four demos, you'll find nine more demos on The Disc. They are not accessible from our inter- face, though. You'll need to open up the Demos folder in the finder. Along with productivity tools, the mega-cool Disc also contains demos of two more children’s programs. The demo of Just Me and My Mom offers the first page of this popular children’s book. Little Critter narrates his trip to the city with Mom. See Little Critter buy train tickets to the city. Watch out for the froggie! In this demo of Elroy’s Costume Closet you can clothe Elroy in just about any costume. his ] features music created f} by MacAddict Gregory Brettell and Laura Lopez created tracks one | (Obsession) and two (I | Know You Really Wanna) on a Ilsi. Seventeen-year- old Chuck Latshaw made tracks three (Lunatic) and f] four (Groove Train) on a | Performa 550. Would you | month's Disc readers. like to see your name in lights? Send your record- ings and a photo (in any digital format—no tape 1] cassettes, please) to: Music Mavens, MacAddict, 150 North Hill Drive, Brisbane, CA, 94005. If we like it, we'll use it on a future Disc. Please do not send us the theme to the Simpsons! All recordings must be your {} own original material which J you made from scratch and f] haven't yet published. You | do retain all rights to your f] work and just give us permission to use it on The | Disc. Your music, of course, should be made on a Mac! 1d. ason Denonville from | Florida decoded No- | vember’s CD-ROM contest. He'll be creating Web sites Choices range galore with his from a busy a] new copy of bee to a | Claris Home freaked out | Page. Tum frog to a noble | back to page Knight. Elroy 17 to read all offers snappy about — your commentary as chance win you dress him. BIAS Peak. I | | | | Have You Played It Yet? Election Eve, 2004 A.D. A powerful senator is brutally murdered while working late in her Washington 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 world ever. Blood splatters on the wall. Glass shatters in your face. And the interactive mystery challenges hunt the senator's killers in Washington's corridors of power. MSRP: $49.99 json Ropes Ay Powe or comple witha CDROM die and color moni. ® MAC AGT Interactive Company 2300 Berkshire Lane, Plymouth, MN 55441 Available now from your favorite reseller, oes yj ng Henle? Call for f Please dd §295 per order for shipping and anding if ordcinghy pose ice ra Wwww.wizworks.com ° = 3 o = Cd Bubble Trouble Author: Ambrosia Software Shareware: $15 Ah yes, another Ambrosia arcade game that's sure to please both kids and adults alike. In Bubble Trouble you are a fish, a fish with enemies, a fish ina bowl of bubbles and bonuses. Push the happy bubbles into the evil fishies and worms. Push gems together to get more moolah. Designer Draw Author: Paul Hyman Freeware Need a quick tool to flesh out an idea? Designer Draw is that a drawing program Flow Chart Example 22 MacADDICT performs basic functions. With just a few tools you can create nifty diagrams. Assemble boxes, arrows, and text in different combinations, and you've got anything from a flow chart to a rough schematic diagram to an org chart. Pixel Spy Author: Bryan Horling Shareware: $5 baer x est vs 407 Cal eT) Carer Cao (0). aie 7 | Pixel Spy is an invaluable tool to anyone creating screen art for CD-ROMs or the Web. | To get the color value of something on screen (that’s | not image-editing program), you could do one of two things: scream at your in your Mac and pull your hair out, or take a screenshot of your desktop, open it in your image-editing program, then use the eyedropper tool to find the right pixel, and finally open up the color picker to get the value. Oh, you wanted that for the Web? You'll need a conversion tool, too. Pixel Spy saves you from either of these horrendous options. With the program open, your cursor becomes a telescope spying on the pixels that comprise the screen image. Capturing a color displays the pixel’s RGB (red, green, blue), HSV (hue, satu- ration, vector), CMY (cyan, 1 color. magenta, yellow) values. The program converts the RGB value into hex code, simplify ing your Web-editing life. Also for the inner Webmaster in all of us is a color matcher, which picks the color in Navigator's palette closest to the chosen image from dithering when displayed in a Web browser. This close to the date of a new system release—Mac OS 7.6—it's a little dangerous to recommend system utilities have one, it is sorely missed. | Fortunately, there are utilities which add a universal Window applications, even to the Finder. WindowMenu is a share- menu to all | ware control panel/extension This prevents your There's a good chance that ! something will break— system utilities expect the Mac OS to behave in a certain way, and if the system changes, all hell could break loose. That's not to say that utilities will definitely break, but to ward against this possi- bility, we've included several similar utilities that perform pretty much the same func- tion. If one of the utilities breaks under Mac OS 7.6 and the author doesn’t release an update, these other utilities can take its place. Many programs have a “Window” menu, from which the available open windows can be selected. Having a menu devoted to switching between windows is very useful, especially when the window that you want is buried under several others | and you have a smaller moni- tor. This feature is so useful | that when a program doesn't combo that cycles through your open windows. Vigeidaas, Menus” fe Window Popup Menu i Ctrl+ Option i cel nable Hotkey to cycle backward Cmd-+Tab Choose Hotkey. If pop-up menus and key- board commands aren't your thing, Gaspod and WinMenu are two utilities that add a new menu icon next to the Guide menu. KantaraWinMenu does the same with all OpenDoc parts. —Stefan Anthony Thu 13:01 PM About gaspod, Netscape Navigator 2.0.2 Audiodeck 2.0.6 Adobe Acrobat Reader 3.0 Desktop Enough Work. Let’s b= a md Your Sut dof. aa in 3D Take meet of an elite special forces unit in this extraordinary 3D first-person shooting extravaganza. Lead four highly-trained marines on six deadly covert missions. Fight for your own 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 Power Macintosh ! with color monitorand CDROM drive. MSRP: $49.99 ye = Incredible Terminal Velocity is absolutely the most exhilarating flight game available for the Macintosh. It = offers fast 3D texturemapped graphics, full 360-degree flight movement and 7 weapons of extraordinary destruction. Fight your way vicar 9 nique planets with an awesome array of spectacular airto-air and airtoground combat action. MSRP: $49.99 SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS: Any Power Macintosh ‘with color monitorand CDROM driv. -Computer Gaming World Lots more. Call for a free catalog or visit our website at www.wizworks.com Available now from your favorite reseller, MAC = or by calling Please 2 6295 per order for shipping and handing = BUNGIE if ordering by phone. BUNGIE AGT Interactive Company + 2300 Berkshire Lane, Plymouth, MN 55441 the disc HIGHLIGHTS You've got a ticket to type and you don't kern. We dipped into our wisdom of fonts to bring you two fabulous features. Once you've learned how to cast type (“Facing Up to Fonts,” p36), pop in The Disc. Along with the following fonts, there are several utilities which will help you manage these fonts. You'll also find a demo of Fontographer so you can follow along with Nikki Echler’s ‘Just your Type" tutorial (p48). AARCOVE R (Alien Language) AmourTendre Cat WOMEN Coe Unpyr hes O00CO09 Distress Dog Wind tone Coffer Smoothplate 24 MacADDICT Chinese Menu Goed Dog cool CITY oF 1.0 Gravicon Vintage Typewriter OPTICS NE Warlock Ric's eB Sultana WATTAGE (Rail Signals) STEELWOLF SALOON -.» AND MORE! ‘ How To In “How to Add Sound to a Web Page” (p96), contributing editor Joe Holmes walks you through making a sound for your Web site. To play it back in your browser, though, you need to set up a helper app. We've included the utilities Sound App and Sound Machine mentioned in this article. Just installing them on your machine is not enough— you'll need to tell your browser where they are. Here's how to do this using Navigator 2.x. Erode Font FRankEn TOHO GiLugan'S ISLaNd Gogo Big (Gravicon) bee lel at Leet Y Casual LinPvint- Brush Oz Handicraft OB Fi (Road Signs) (S) cao) First you must install the files browser's folder, unless we on your machine. We like to use them for something else, keep our helper apps in our too, Launch Navigator. ese 1. open up the aS General Prefer- oe se oe ences, then click on the helpers tab. There are helper apps for many dit er ferent file types. [Hf sua: Osu @tomn Scroll down until you see audio in the left column. The grayed out file types indicate that Navigator loaded an Excel Spreadsheet? can't locate the program for that Select Sound Machine or file type. You could fix all the Sound App, then click on the grayed out file types, but when browse... button in the middle of was the last time you down- the dialog window. 2. This brings up ff|_G Folder Fite brive options your standard open |] [aNetscape Navigator™ 2... v] coMephisto dialog. Navigate to [|] [Casiobarchat folder 5 ER Netscape Navigator™ 2.01 where you installed fl] [yptug-ins the helper app on |]} |&soundapp Fat your machine. Then click open. 3} + The selected file type is no longer grayed out. It's hard to tell this with Sound Machine's icon, because it is gray anyway, but you see plenty of color in the Sound App icon. One of the many Mac quirks View fixes this by stretching the that make you gohmmm...is the window and displaying folders appearance of the Open and names in bold. Save dialog boxes. Apple has the power to stretch them just a bit wider so you can see entire file names but in its inscrutable wisdom chooses not to. Dialog —— Games & More Under $30 W: asked dozens of solitaire fanatics to help us design the perfect Miers package. Absolute Solitaire is what they created. | SV TTAIRE The interface is fast and responsive. Everything works the way you think it should. Want to know all your available moves? Just hold 6 = down the option key: Want to know where the visible aces are? It's easy! 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Call for a free catalog or visit our website at www.wizworks.com Available now from your favorite reseller, or by calling wy MAc Please add $2.95. per order for shipping and handling if ordering by phone. AGT Interactive Company* 2300 Berkshire Lane, Plymouth, MN 55441 i the web site ° i 3 0 = i 26 MacADDICT Vi ello again, gentle readers. ‘As we put pen to paper, we're wrapping up the very last stages of the MacAddict site redesign, hoping with all our might that it'll be live and kick- ing by the time you read last month's issue. We hope you'll be pleased with the results. Apple Software: New & Improved Our December roundup of Apple software locations focused on Apple's multitudi- nous FTP (file) servers. But soon after the print, Apple's tireless software gnomes repaired and upgraded the once-rickety Web interface to its software libraries. Through an ingenious array of CGls and scripts, this Web-based inter- face diwies up traffic among Apple's various FTP servers. As a starting point, consult the list of software update mirror sites. At the top of the screen are buttons which show you the most recently posted files and let you browse Apple's software library. Recently added are a search fea- issue saw ture and an alpha- betical listing, avail- able in both U.S, and international flavors. Even cooler is the Apple Featured Items page, which brings together download links and Tech Info Library documentation for Apple's latest, greatest software updates. From the System 7.5.5 Update to Open Transport/PPP 1.0, from Cyberdog 1.1 to the Daily Information Alley, it's all here on this one handy page. More News Than You Can Use Like most Mac addicts with Internet access and an uncon- trollable itch to surf, the advent of the World Wide Web has turned us into ravening-mad news junkies. At the MacAddict Web site, we strive to highlight the most important or interesting news, cramming in links and pointers to the very latest software updates or other scandalous revelations. Let's say you want more. More news, more super- obscure software updates, more obscure little bugs and all the rumor-mongering your eyes can take in, all of it piped into your browser as soon as it comes off the virtual presses. Where do the really hardcore Mac news addicts park their browsers? For in-depth news analysis, | it's hard to beat “MacWEEK.” | The venerable weekly maga- | zine now publishes stories daily | on its Web site. Editorial frills such as copyediting and fact- checking sometimes keep | “MacWEEK”'s coverage a few | up-to-the- hours behind other sites, but | when it finally weighs in it's worth the wait. We do wish they'd shut up about Be for a little while, though, Another top-notch produc- tion is MDJ, “The Daily Journal for Serious Macintosh Users.” This subscription-based news- letter is delivered to your mail- | box in either text or Adobe ! Acrobat format. It'll cost you $14.95 a month, but you can try a two-week free trial before you commit your cash. For more | info, see the MDJ Web site. If it's troubleshooting and bug reports you're after, make a daily visit to MacFixtt and MaclnTouch every day. MacFixlt started as an online update to Ted Landau’s book “Sad Macs, Bombs and Other Disasters,” but like Frankenstein's monster it's taken on a life of its own and has become the premier place to find out about potential problems and their solutions. Ric Ford’s MacinTouch Home Page is a bit more general in focus—as well as cover- ing the trou- bleshooting beat, the well- connected columnist and consultant is privy to tons of gossip and minute info. iy Web oprpppmicrsie If after all this, your lust for news remains unsated, perhaps you're ready for the raw, unfiltered — news-mania of MacSurfer’s Headline News. Here you'll find pointers to everything—every scrap of Mac-related news published anywhere on the Web. It's a senses-shattering barrage of sheer data, an effort that inspires both awe at the staff members’ thoroughness and sincere concern for their sanity. MS ince we removed our ff Ss; browser and replaced it with one that could actually follow links, we decided it was | time to give the LiveWire here for the Apple News, Updated Software, and a Sneak Preview of next | month's issue. section a facelift. Come | | | Bisse mma 2) he ee Software! BS The Scanning 08” Award-Winning RECORE OCR e) File It! 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Turn your scanner into a stand-alone fax machine. Scan your pages straight to your fax modem! Presto! PageManager LE lets you have one-button scanning, printing, faxing, copying, editing, & OCR with any Photoshop Plug- in or Twain compliant scanner. Has this happened to you: You spend $500 for great new software, but it doesn’t work with your scanner? So you spend $400 for a new scanner, and now it doesn’t work with your software? Presto! PageManager adds value to your scanner or digital camera! Call today for your virtually free software, for only... We know your concerns. That’s why Presto! PageManager LE, the “Scanning OS”, adds scanning abilities to any Mac application. Presto! PageManagerlE =. * There is a non-refundable $5 (US) or $10 (Int'l) shipping/handling charge. Outside US call 510-252-0267. Please have your Visa, Mastercard, or American Express card ready when you call, CD-ROM format. Limited edition only. Information and prices subject to change without notice. © 1996 NewSof, Inc. NewSoft, Prestol, & Magic Within are trademarks of NewSoft, In. All other product names are trademarks of their respective companies. All rights reserved News, trends, and other very valuable information that you will want to know. OS 7 7.6 AND COUNTING 1) castor octamer By core eros Cpade™ Te 13a 208 er Str vs = QueaDraw™ 3091.06 castor 20 (B) csceoe so ave curr 20 Meer Sen 753 Bi vonvenermic sop arnt fe GB stem severe 7.605 a 1B) toro (Gestor) Craver) spin 753 Spun 753 Sem stare 7.685 (Gupiate set) 5 roe, eng rsa en tin ten rin yer Sto Ta oti oumteragda eGo e sea vei: ty ae 088 LI APPLE'S NEW EXTENSIONS MANAGER groups System resources into packages. The packages allow you to see which components were installed together. Just launch the installer, follow four steps, and go have some coffee and a bagel. 28 MacADDICT et’s dispense with all the tired music metaphors and get right to the point: Harmony has a name, and it is Mac OS 7.6. And it’s going to be here soon. So is it a big deal? Should you care? It depends on what you want out of an operating system. If you want OpenDoc, improved reliability, easier installation, and better extensions management, Mac OS 7.6 is for you. If, however, your Mac is not 32- bit clean or has a processor slower than a 68030, you're out of luck—Mac OS 7.6 won't work on those machines. (The unsupported Macs include the original LC, Mac II, Mac IIx, IIcx, SE/30, and Power- Book 100). Mac OS 7.6 also won't work on PowerPC platform (aka CHRP) computers. Mac OS 7.6 is the first step on the road to OS 8. As such, it doesn’t do much. None of the buzzwords—not appearance man- ager, preemptive multitasking, or memory protection—made it into this release. What did make it in, however, is pretty spiffy. Mac OS 7.6 automatically installs Open- Doc 1.1 as part of the installation process, which is a big plus for Live Object | developers. Now they're assured that the technology they need is installed on each new Mac. Fear not, conservative adopters of new technology! Because OpenDoc is dynamically loaded (unlike Extensions), it doesn’t take one whit of System resources (other than a little hard disk space) until it's needed. If you don’t work with Open- Doc, you won't waste RAM or open yourself to new problems just by having OpenDoc installed, And it will be there for you if you need it. (Like a good neighbor...) Mac OS 7.6 is supposed to be stable, taking all of rock-solid System 7.5.5’s bug fixes and adding some new ones to keep your Mac perking along. It also includes System 7.5.5’s improved Virtual Memory, | improved file manager cache, and Power- PC resource manager to give your Mac a little performance boost. Mac OS 7.6 also includes a one-stop shopping approach to installation. It orga- nizes all vital information into one Read Me file, allows you to update hard disk drivers, runs Disk First Aid, and then allows you to install Mac OS 7.6 and any other extras (such as Cyberdog or QuickDraw GX) all in the same program. Just launch the installer, follow the four steps, and go have some coffee and a bagel. Your new software will be installed when you get back. An improved Extensions Manager (version 4.0) will give Casady & Greene's Conflict Catcher some competition. It can organize extensions by “package” (that is, it groups extensions by the program that installed them) and allows you to turn on and off all extensions belonging to a par- ticular program. This little ability is useful 4 eee INSTALLING MAC OS 7.6 is as easy as 1, 2, 3, | 4 with Apple’s new installer. if you want to see what owns that Text Encoding Converter extension. Mac OS 7.6 also lists the following among its bonuses: improved desktop printers and printing dialog boxes, PowerPC-native LaserWriter 8.4 software, new DataViz MacLinkPlus translators, enhanced PC Exchange for Windows 95, PlainTalk 1.5, OT/PPP 1.0, and multi- processor support. Mac OS 7.6 is a System software release (as opposed to an update, as was System 7.5.5), which means it’s going to cost money. How much, Apple hasn’t said. —DR SMOKIN’ emember, oh, three, four years R=: when a 25MHz processor in a Mac seemed fast? Try multiplying that by 20 and stand back, mister. That's what Exponential did with its new X704 PowerPC- compatible chip. This screamer comes in three speeds—466MHz, 500MHz, and 533MHz—and it's coming to a Mac near you sometime in the next six months. Exponential says that the X704 is completely PowerPC instruction- and bus- compatible, which means this chip can be put in Macs (with just a few tweaks to- the power supply’s voltage level and a big fan) and will run the Mac OS and Mac applica- tions just like a regular PowerPC chip—only faster. No special system needed. Exponen- tial licensed the PowerPC architecture from IBM in early 1996, and the company has been working closely with Apple. ‘To help bust bus bottlenecks, the X704 has two different kinds of cache on the chip that make sure the processor always has something to chew on. The first is a pair of 2K caches, one for instructions and one for data; the second is a 32K unified cache. The chip can take advantage of Level 2 cache like today’s PowerPC chips. Although Exponential has made Macin- tosh its number-one priority, other technolo- gies will be able to blaze alongside the Mac OS. Windows NT should be able to run on the X704 as it does on other PowerPC chips, and Exponential says that PPCP computers | should work fine with the chip as well. The company has also been in talks with Be, Inc., so don’t be surprised to see the Be OS humming happily along at 500MHz. All this speed won't come cheap. The chips are expected to sell for about $1,000 each, compared with $520 for a 200MHz | Motorola 604e. Mac systems running the X704 are expected to ship by July. Imagine | showing off a multiprocessor Mac running | four 533MHz X704 processors to your Pen- | tium Pro friends who top out at 200MHz. Won't they be impressed? —DR CLONES OF CLONES CLEAN UP THE KENNEL TO WIN ALADDIN’S SPRING CLEANING Yowza! These poor dogs have escaped the kennel and can’t find their way home. Can you name the Macin- tosh mascots so we can return them to their owners? Of course, with all those dogs cooped up in one place, you'll need a copy of Aladdin Systems’ Spring Cleaning to clean up the mess. For your chance to win, enter on our Web site, or snail mail your entry to Mixed-up Mascot, MacAddict, 150 North Hill Drive, Brisbane, CA 94005. We will pick a winner at random from correct entries received by February 15, 1997. 1. Freelance (MVP Solutions' Retrieve It!) 2. Webster, your Web Buddy (DataViz) 3. Cyberdog (Apple) 4, Clarus (Apple Developer Tech Support) 5, Ling Ling (Bungie) 6. Sammy (Cheryl England) positively batty trying to keep up with the new Mac OS-compatible computer makers. PowerTools, a Texas-based com- pany that has been manufacturing PowerPC accelerator boards for more than a year, reached an agreement with Motorola to sublicense the Mac OS and pur- chase Tanzania motherboards (co-developed by Motorola and Apple) to build its own Mac compatibles. The new crop of |: enough to drive a person These replicants last longer than six years. | Macs—titled the Infiniti series —will be available in two vari- eties: a build-your-own box and a fully configured box. The three build-your-own- box Infiniti clones will include a tower case, the motherboard, and a floppy disk drive. Similar to the build-your-own scheme vide boxes without a hard drive or any RAM installed, so they're ideal for anyone who already has these components or who can get them cheaply. The four unconfigured clones are pretty reasonable: a 160MHz 603e- based Infiniti at $899, a 200MHz 603e-based Infiniti at $1,099, a | 160MHz 604e-based Infiniti at $1,499, and a 200MHz 604e- based Infiniti at $1,499. from APS, PowerTools will pro- | PowerTools will also sell three Infiniti bundles, more familiar to traditional Mac buyers. The Smart Bundle, for $1,399, features a 160MHz 603e, 16MB of RAM, a 1.3GB hard drive, and 2MB of VRAM. ‘The $2,449 Pro Bundle features a 200MHz 604e, 24MB of RAM, a 2.5GB hard drive, 512K of L2 cache, and 2MB of VRAM. The Elite Bundle features a 200MHz 604e, 32MB RAM, 2.5 GB hard drive, 512K of Level 2 cache, Yamaha external speakers, and a 33.6Kbps internal modem. All of PowerTools’ bundles include an 8X CD-ROM, a key- board, and a mouse, and all come in a minitower base. They also feature four 32-inch and three 54-inch drive bays, three DIMM slots, five PCI slots, VRAM upgradable to 4MB, an SVGA monitor port (sorry, Macintosh IT HAD TO HAPPEN monitor owners; you'll have to buy an adapter), an ADB port, a PS/2 port, and the ability to upgrade to multiple processors. ‘The Infiniti line also includes a one-year warranty, an optional extended warranty, and a free upgrade to Mac OS 7.6. PowerTools expected to start shipping units in mid- to late | December 1996, with bulk pro- duction starting in early 1997. Call PowerTools at 800-891- | 4307 or go to <http:/Awww.pwr tools.com>. —DR MacADDICT 29 htipyAnmwvadobe.com; $295 (erp), $79. (— ‘upgrade from Acrobat, $59 from Actobat: | Pro; scheduled to ship mic-November 1996) a One of the original digital document programs has added a slew of new (mostly Internet-related) features, including forms (complete with pop- up lists and radio buttons), the ability to embed PDF files in an HTML page, and dynamic controls that can link to movies. Acrobat also includes progressive rendering and, page-at-a-time downloading to help _< ‘speed up Internet-related PDF files. scsi sabe {Stainvays Sofiviare: (n@ phone aumber, (Shareware): scheduled (6 ship mid November 1296), Anarchie, a Macintosh FTP client, has had its first revision. Additions include the ability to upload and download folders, a new search mechanism (for those hard-to-find files over the Internet), interface improvements, an updated Anarchie Guide, and a Tips feature to help you get the most out of your FIP time. has more than 6,000 characters and you want to write a letter? Design a really big keyboard and buy futures in key switches? Well, you could, but if the language you want to enter into your Mac is Chinese, S: what do you do when your language More than just a chunk of metal... you can drop $165 on Apple’s Advanced | Chinese Input Suite and be set. 2 This new pack- Apple continues to age consists of four - S component the improve its speech- recognition offerings. Chinese Dictation Kit 15, the Chinese Handwriting Kit 1.0, 30 MacADDICT ry | a ‘ | | ‘ee @ e thought the “Identify the Hoojit” We= in our November 1996 issue (p27) was sure to be a stumper. We | were pleasantly surprised by the number of Mac addicts who knew the gadget’s raison détre. Of course, there were also a number of | you who had no clue | despite the horrendous | pun in the contest rules). | In keeping with the MacAddict tradition of rewarding | ignorance if offset by creativity, we give space | to the following amusing and bizarre answers: Stuart Ward called the hoojit a chunk of metal with paint. Well, so is an automobile. Jeff Vincent was one of several people who decided the hoojit was a monitor squeegee— | don’t try that at home, kids. Readers who resorted to Nikki’s clue on | The Disc generally did not get far. The key was | the tool she used to open her soda can—a Torx screwdriver. On older, all-in-one Macs such as the Plus or SE, Apple used special six- sided screws to hold the Mac together. TI design was intended to prevent the more curious among us from too eas- ily getting our heads blown off by the built-in | monitor's capacitor. The Torx screwdriver Nikki used to open her soda fits into those u Hoo-jit Think It Was? special screws. After removing the screws, you use the hoojit to spread apart the case. With a Torx screwdriver and the hoojit, you can crack the case of any classic Mac. Several readers gave us low-tech solutions if you don’t have the hoojit. Tom Vermilion ses a karate chop method, in which the vic- tim Mac is set face down on a bench after the case screws are removed and is given a mighty chop on both sides of the case. John Christie prefers a couple of well-placed sharp raps, which make him feel like the Fonz. Greg Thomy uses the mysterious Lucille, who has the ‘most natural, long, strong fingernails.” Kee Nethery—who identified the hoojit— also guessed that it was included with the Micah internal hard drive for the Mac Plus. Micah might have included one, but sorry, Kee, this particular hoojit was included in a 32-piece Curtis computer toolkit. Along with a soldering iron, the toolkit also included a spring claw useful for removing the locator implanted in your brain by aliens. Peter Wright was the lucky winner drawn from the pool of correct entries, Peter will be adding an 8MB DIMM to his Power Mac 8500, courtesy of Newer Technology (a company with a sense of humor, we might add). Find the list of runners-up on our Web site. —K7 the Chinese Text-To-Speech 1.0.2, and the | Apple Dictation Microphone. After a few weeks of practice with the Chinese Dictation Kit, Mandarin speakers can enter up to 80 racters per minute—just by speaking. ‘The | Chinese Handwriting Kit 1.0 allows users to | enter either simplified or traditional Chinese | ng a Mac-compatible graphics tablet, or even a mouse. ‘The input suite also uses Text-to-Speech so users can have their | ead selected Chinese text back to them. | Meanwhile, Apple continues to improve | its speech-recognition offering for Western | Mac users with the PlainTalk 1.5 package. English speech recognition now works on every PowerPC-based Mac—including previously unsupported PowerBooks and Performas—with a 16-bit microphone and System 7.5 or later. Take advantage of the new Talking Alerts option, and the voice of your choice will enunciate the contents of alert messages. Imagine, if you will, the sweet sound of Zarvox intoning “Printer needs attention.” An upgraded Speakable Items util- ity and a passel of speech-recognition bug fixes and reliability improvements round out the package. It’s available free from <httpy/ \wwwspeech.apple.com/ptk>. —DR and MS Easy Web Publishing! Frame It! Point & click to select & size frames. Drag & drop to put content into frames. Picture It! Drag & drop images from Presto! PageManager or Netscape Navigator™. Copy/Paste It! — Copy & paste text from < Macintosh application. Video It! into your web document watch them play online. Browse It! Edit & browse HTML pages on your hard disk or network. Drag & Drop Links! Make a link by dragging & dropping a file icon. Has this happened to you? You have a great idea for your own web page, but you don’t know where to begin? Or you've started writing HTML for your page, but your tags are just not doing what they're supposed to? Presto! Personal & Dror 2 p to Create Your Own Home Pa “Foolproof Web Design” MACWORL Deutsch Espafiol Francais <Japanese> We for ‘This summer we too nowhere that makes great Click here to see our hom bookmarks directly from Netscape Navigator™. itional features include ‘Multi-level Undo, font selec- tion, foreign tags & more. Page x.si Limited Time Offer! _ Parlez-vous Francais? Localize your copy of Presto! "Personal Page in English, rench, German & Spanish. isspell a word - on different ; pages? Presto! Personal Page _ lets you find & replace words throughout your entire site. WYSIWYG! What you see is exactly what your web page looks like with Presto! Personal Page. Give Presto! a try... Just drag & drop - Presto! Personal Page writes the HTML for you. If you've never created a web page before, Presto! Personal Page makes it easy. Download it today! 2 for Macintosh There is a non-refundable $5 (US) or $10 (Canada) shipping/handling charge. Outside US call 510-252-0267 or fax 510-252-0536. Please have your Visa, Mastercard, or American Express card ready when you call. Add applicable 8.25% CA sales tax. 3.5” floppy disk format. Product information and prices subject to change without notice. © 1996 NewSoft, Inc. NewSoft, Presto! and Personal Page are trademarks of NewSoft, Inc. Navigator™ is a trademark of Netscape Corporation. All rights reserved Wild Planet Toys Wild Planet hat Mac would be complete without its own complement of very coo! toys? Although not specifically meant for the Mac, these diversions are so much in the spirit of using a Mac that we had to include them. Being a Mac fanatic is often an adventur- ous pursuit in these days of Windows and Intel, but you can prepare for survival by equipping yourself with Wild IN THE TRUE MAC SPIRIT. _ Planet Toys. Wild Planet has seen fit to create the Megascope microscope and telescope, the Signal Glove secret code communicator, the Supersonic Ear long-distance microphone, the Trek Pack utility belt, and the Beast Blaster foam creature glider. For engineers on a program bug search-and-destroy mission, Wild Planet offers Bugscapes mini bug houses and the Bug Catcher, which lets you catch bugs without touching them (especially nasty in C-++). To get into the spirit of adventure, call 800-247-6570 You Don’t Know Jack, Vol. 2 Berkeley Systems CATEGORI David Ss: you think you know something, huh? Think you're smart. Yeah, reeeal smart. Bet you shout out answers while watching ‘Jeopardy.” When was the last time someone was willing to play Trivial Pursuit with you? The folks at Berkeley Systems know your I Think, Therefore I kind, and they'll play with you. They're betting that you love to field clever questions, Shoot rcople make collect calls to celebrities such as Tim Allen, Nell Carter, and Erik Estrada (don't forget to ask about his PUT ALEX TREBEC TO SHAME. House of Freaks partner), and take mild verbal abuse. If this is you, fork over $40 for You Don’t Know Jack Volume 2, which features the full force of Jellyvision’s wit. If you played the original, you know the humor; if not, you'll ind out that maybe you don't My Evil Twin know everything about everything, For a litle intellectual humbling, call 510-540-5535, or surf over to <http:/Awww.berksys.com>—if you can figure out a Web browser, ya simp. Spring Cleaning ~eaeain, SPRING CLEANING Aladdin Systems (Et) ae hat a mess. There's that letter from city hall on the coffee { [2 Hears } [ Pa et } ] table among old newspapers, laundry, and outdated SS Se | phone books, and you stare at it, knowing that inside is a a Seana Sean OOEE =) ( pueataaarediied ae J request that you to haul off all those cars in your yard. If you =e | ignore it, maybe it'll go away. Aladdin Systems can't help you fener unused pfarence hs with that (although it may be CLEAN THE DUST OUT OF THAT DRIVE. able to give you the number of a good lawyer), but it can help you clear the digital equivalent off of your hard drive. Spring Cleaning (formerly LaundroMac) is an uninstaller that also removes dupli- cate files, unused fonts, and orphaned help files, and puts a real shine on the ol’ Preferences folder by getting rid of those files that you don’t need. Spring Cleaning also finds and reattaches orphaned aliases and trims fat applications of their redundant code. Isn't it worth the measly $49.95 introductory price to have a bright, shiny hard drive? If you agree, contact Alladin at 408-761-6200, or point your browser to <http://www.aladdinsys.com>. Please. Even the mayor will be happy. (Ss Folder Remover ] { remove empty folders 32 MacADDICT Contour Mouse/Stingray 4.0 Contour Design/CoStar ontour Design cares. That's why it created the Contour Mouse, the Hirst mouse that comes in many sizes—large, medium, and small for both left- and right-handed mousers. The mice are ergonomically molded to fit the hand and come with a thumb rest. Three programmable buttons help you get the most out of your mouse with the least strain. For only $59.95 and a phone call to 603-893-4556, or a browse over to <http:// www.contourdes.com>, COMFORTABLE CURVES AND A SEAGREATURE. YOU can have your very own. For those who like trackballs and have a fondness for the muscle car by the same name, CoStar (http://www.costar.com; 800-426-7827) presents the Stingray 4.0 trackball. The Stingray 4.0 features two programmable buttons, a virtual third button, application- and user- specific settings, and the ability to use the Stingray sideways or upside-down (not you, silly, the trackball). For only $59.95, it's available in Apple platinum or Stealth Black for those super-secret computing missions. Nisus Writer 5.0 : isus Writer 5. Se these who collect and Isten to ithoursonend. 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[oepansowp Yor eetenr wo rod = veoestog gram any ced Stegner tm ee | MacADDICT 33 ‘MechWarrior 2 puts you in control 2 helicopter, the Werewolf. or the U: of the BatleMech, the awesome 3ist- 2ist-century Comanche, Either century war machine, Customize ‘way, you're a fying fool, with more ‘one of 15 Mechs to fight in over realisin packed into two CDs than 30 challenging missions against a tower bi at Baghdad Airport. ‘enemy Mechs. Ascend the ranks of Motion sickness bag not included. your clan to become the ultimate From Novalogic. MechWarrior, From Activision. MACINTOSH’ Heroes brings out the warlord in Gabriel Knight, the bero of the ‘youd fantasy/strategy game that 4 Are rs spine-tingling “Sins of the Father? puts you in command, recruiting scares the living pants off us once heroes and their forces to batle ‘again as be solves this multiple up to three human or computer ‘mutilation murder tale, The Beast ‘adversaries. What's at stake? Only Within. 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You're sitting in a movie theater, riveted to the big screen as the film’s opening credits flash through a spine-tingling sequence of exploding bombs, screaming tourists, and seductive villains. Suddenly, you sit straight forward, as if to get a better look, muttering, “I can’t believe it!” Your date turns to you, as enraptured with the on-screen action as you appear to be, and asks, “What? What is it?” Disappointed and disgusted, you shake your head in disbelief. “They're reversing Bodoni. The serifs are practically nonexistent!” Everyone down the line from professional graphic designers to page layout initiates can trace this strange font fixation back to the birth of the Macintosh, the first computer to ship with multiple fonts installed. Chicago, Geneva, Monaco, and New York: In 1984, these four typefaces instantly became as famous as the cities that inspired them. As the Mac quickly became the computing standard for graphic designers, this paltry collection of characters bloomed into a thriving industry that has since spawned thousands of typefaces, multiple font managers, design dilemmas, and a jargon all its own. As confusing as it sounds, you don’t need to be a graphics pro to keep the peace in all of your extended font families. Even if you don’t know your x-height from a dingbat, we'll bring you up to speed on font terms, design issues, and management techniques in our three- part guide that will make storing and using your fonts a breeze. 36 MacADDICT sans serif cap height x-height counter ascender cap height ascender apart counter descender Serif A descent descender | descent serif baseline baseline character Illustration by Olivier Wolfson MacADDICT 37 iCs E bAS LEARNING THE LINGO Before you attempt to wrestle your fonts into sub- mission, you should know exactly what sort of beast you're up against. You need to get to know your fonts. Spend time with them. Play with them. But first, find out what they like to be called with our illustrious illustrated naming device. Typeface All of the letters, numbers, aramond Book Condensed Decorative fonts Decorative symbols, and punctuation marks of a COPPERPLATE ‘Too flashy for everyday use, particular design. A typeface can be i decorative fonts such as made up of a variety of styles, or fonts. Palatino Amelia are used sparingly In these modern days, many people to create a mood or evol often use the terms “typeface” and “font” interchangeably. Although this usage is technically incorrect, it has become so common that everyone except diehard typography snobs deem it acceptable. Rotis Semi-Serif Each font is unique. they look great in logos! Text fonts Text fonts, ke When looks are all that matter. a predicted response. And Caslon is a decent enough body font to have survived hun- such as Caslon and dreds of years. You can’t really go Garamond make long pas- 0% with Caslon, but just the , we really adore Garamond. Font All of the letters, numbers, Officina Serif book isdes On text easy (oneaniems °°? We really adore Garamon symbols, and punctuation marks of one size of one style of one typeface. Specifically, Officina Serif book is a font, Officina Serif book italic is another font, and Officina Serif bold is yet another font. You get the idea. Officina Serif book italic Officina Serif bold Officina Serif bold italic Four faces: so different! Point A point, which is 72 of an inch, is used to measure type size. Twelve- point type is fine for reading, 14-point and larger looks good in display type, and 6-point type makes up all that fine Simple text makes reading easy. 10 point 14 point 18 point print at the bottom of advertisements. that no one wants you to see. Display fonts EXTRA! EXTRA! These statuesque fonts, such as Swiss Black Extended, are sized at 14 points or bigger and used mostly for headlines, DISPLAY Catch your eye? This is display type. not to be confused with Or, anyone who doesn't In a Fix Over FILE Formats? If you've never worked with fonts before, choosing a file format can be downright confusing. Several rotating liaisons between Adobe and Apple, Apple and Microsoft, and Microsoft and Adobe have borne a slew of different yet functional file formats. How are they different? Which one works the best? We'll tell you how each font technology works and then give you tips on choosing the appropriate Bitmapped 38 MacADDICT Dingbats Tiny, decorative pictures such as diamonds, hearts, and stars that are Get the point size right. Vv HIF Dinghat silliness. the deliciously flavored marshmallows in Lucky Charms. read MacAddict. Bitmapped fonts These are the classic, originally-shipped-with-the-first-Mac fonts, such as Geneva and Chicago. Bitmapped characters are created in your Mac and displayed on your screen in pixels. The same pixels you see on the screen are the ones in the font itself, leading them to often be referred to as “screen fonts.” These fonts were printed with the Apple ImageWriter, which offered the same resolution as the Mac screen: 72 dots per inch. Back then, you needed to have a screen font for each point size that you wanted to print, otherwise your Mac would just pull, push, and maneuver the size it had, creating some odd-looking characters. PostScript Type 1: In 1985, John Warnock and Chuck Geshke of Adobe Systems created a computer language just for printers, the PostScript page description language, which would revolutionize the font industry. So-called PostScript fonts, which use bitmap data to dis- play your font on-screen, also include extra information describ- tion of your chosen screen font into the dots needed for a smooth on-screen display. ATM also lets you print PostScript fonts to non-PostScript printers such as the old dot matrix ImageWriters and most modern inkjets. TrueType: In 1990, Apple finally realized that paying license fees to ing the characters’ outlines that is sent wall directly to a ITC Kabet PostScript printer. PostScript print- ers are equipped HtoKabBol —_IteKabBoo ZA NekabDem Adobe for _ the PostScript fonts that they were giving away with their own system software was silly. Apple teamed up with 1 ItoKabMed —IteKabUTt with built-in proces- sors that interpret this outline information and convert it mathematically (called “rasterizing”) into dots, which the printer needs to reproduce the font. This process results in fonts that you can scale to any point size and print with mini- mal distortion. You'll find a PostScript font’s bitmap and out- line information divided into separate files called the screen font and the printer font. The screen font, which is stored in a suitcase icon in your Fonts folder in the System Folder, needs to be installed before your font will appear in the Fonts menu or on-screen. The printer font, however, is a different icon, which is usually stored in the same folder as your screen font. Keeping track of printer fonts can be difficult, because each icon looks different depending on which vendor cre- ated it. It’s smart to keep tabs on both the screen font and the printer font because you must have both installed for a PostScript font to print. Although PostScript fonts looked terrific in print, their on-screen counterparts still looked rough around the edges until Adobe ‘Type Manager (ATM) appeared on the scene in 1989. ATM works like a PostScript printer by using math formulas to rasterize the outline informa- Microsoft to create fonts that didn’t need PostScript but would work just as well and look just as good. These fonts entered the Macintosh world as TrueType and still ship with Apple System software. Outline- based and contained all in one file, Truelype works in much the same manner as ATM to cre- ate clean fonts on-screen and off. TrueType fonts work on both Macintosh < and Windows systems. Chicaga Multiple Masters: ‘These are PostScript Type 1 fonts from Adobe with a twist: Each font comes with at least two extremes of one type attribute. For instance, Jenson comes with a very light ver- sion and a very heavy version. Penumbra comes with several versions: sans serif, serif, roman, and italic. Using special utilities, you create the exact variation of the font you want by basing it on these multiple masters. OpenType: Coming soon to a computer near you. Developed jointly by—switch!—Adobe and Microsoft, this format (slated to appear in 1997) will contain the best features of PostScript and TrueType, and even some of Adobe's Multiple Master tech- nology. In addition, built-in compression technology will make the fonts more Web- ready (gee, what a surprise). They'll also be cross-platform compatible. AdenMMit AJenMM QuickDraw GX: Apple, ever discontent with existing technology, invested lots of time and cash on QuickDraw GX, an “update” to the QuickDraw software that sends images to your monitor (and non-PostScript printers). To further enhance GX, Apple created a font technology with all sorts of built-in design capabilities that allowed for larger character sets and better-looking on-screen dis- play. GX fonts are capable of 65,000 characters per font, context-sensitive glyphs (different ver- sions of characters that are used based on their position within a word or paragraph to make the type look best), optical alignment (so that letters look like they line up better), and varying styles (so you can swap among multiple character widths, slants, serif sizes, and even weights). To date, GX has not been accepted because it slows your Mac to a crawl, no major applications support it, and it isn’t cross-platform. But be warned: You will see it again in a later system, in anew and improved form. TrueType Truism All TrueType icons come branded with the letter “A,” but you'll notice that some TrueType fonts are marked with three “A's and others with only one. The file with the icon sporting the triple “A” is the only one you need to display and print your TrueType font at all sizes. The TrueType icons marked with a single “A’ and labeled with a point size are bitmapped, one-size-only screen fonts—usually the sizes you'll use most often. You can choose to install them for a DECISIONS, DECISIONS How do you decide which kind of font to use? If you're shooting for a certain look and are willing to fuss around with y