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4 a The Hitchhiker’ Guide to * the Macintosh . a Investigating. interactive Sicti nm AAAAAAAAAA 7 os Electronic Ar +S Mag rs The Inquisitor’s Aa ¢ Handbook ’ AAAAAAAABA * « Turning Stacks of _ nate tes bis, a Numbers into Business Gr aphs . . Douglas Adams AAAAAAAAAA New Business and Scientific Applications yt wil t wich, marae. ne tae |. ip Fe Move Into MacStation! It’s two walls and a roof where every Adjustable shelves let you rearrange ‘You don’t have to mortgage your Macintosh should live, the rooms the way you like, house to buy one, either. Because you can With plenty of storage space for a The roof doubles as a handy printer get MacStation for only $95*. printer, disk drive, modem and manuals. stand. With attic space to store Give your Macintosh a good home! Anda place your pet mouse can hide! continuous form paper. For the dealer nearest you or to It’s MacStation. An integrated Plus MacStation is ventilated. To keep order direct call: workstation that’s at home in offices, Macintosh cool. And with the large front 1-800-547-4000, Dept. 424 dorm rooms or dens, And a terrific way to door, you can easily take Mac out fora {In Oregon or outside USA: save valuable desk-top real estate. walk. Call 1-503-684-3000, Dept. 424) Ane ri 6 ow “Suggested retail price. MicroRain’s dealers nationwide set the actual selling price. Apple is registered trademark and Macintosh a trademark licensed to Apple Computer, Inc The 312” microdisk that gives Macintosh more to chew on and helps the HP Touchscreen PC tap your peed a Whether you're in search of primeval wisdom, or polishing up financial projections, Maxell makes the Gold Standard microdisk for your computer. In fact, there’s a Gold Standard for virtually every computer made. Maxell floppys are industry leaders in error-free performance. Each comes with a lifetime warranty. And each microdisk is perfectly compatible with your 312" drive. maxell IT’S WORTH IT. Maxell Corporation of America, 60 Oxford Drive, Moonachie, N.J. 07074 Circle 267 on reader service card MACWORLD May 1985 AAAAAAAAAA Scientists, engineers, students, and anyone else who works with complex equations will figure out the ad- vantages of a program that works both sides of the equal sign. Read about TK'Solver begin- ning on page 84. 40 57 74 2 Getting Started From Charts to Art Gordon McComb Add a coat of MacPaint for more effective graphs from Microsoft Chart, Get Info Lon Poole Macworld’s vator answers questions from readers about the Mac. Review > Wake Up to Adventure Sharon Zardetto Aker A computer adventurer’s companion to three interactive fiction games for the Macintosh: Infocom’s The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Pryority’s Forbidden Quest, and Penguin Software's Transylvania. The Larger Equation David W. Smith TKiSolver solves formulas in either direction and has two methods of reaching solutions. May 1985 96 105 The Macintosh"Magazine File, Macintosh Style Jim Heid Microsoft's entry in the database management market takes full advantage of the Mac’s attributes. Macware News Edited by t Nielson Announcements of the latest developments in Macintosh software, hardware, and accessories. 122 135 148 163 Hands On Combing the Electronic Archives Jeremy Joan Hewes Like vast libraries, on-line databases can be intimidating. our inquisitor shows you how to get the most done in the least time. Open Window Edited by Jim Heid An exchange of Macintosh discoveries. Community A Hitchhiker's Guide to Douglas Adams Jeffrey S. Young ALondon holiday with the multimedia author whose The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is now an interactive fiction game from Infocom. Macworld Gallery Edited by Erfert Nielson An exhibition of Macintosh graphics. 17 31 179 180 Columns A Mac Awakening David Bunnell Letters Macworld View Edited by Janet McCandles. An update on the University Consortium Program, plus other news: and notes for the Macintosh community. Indexes Products Advertisers Photo/illustration credits Apple Computer, 34; Jobn Hers 3, 34, 123: Bd Kashi, cover (hackground), 148-149 (background), 151-153; Barbara Ries, 32. George Steinmetz, 33; Fred Stimson, 85; Mick Wiggins, F475. TE increa ingly popular programs allow you to compose, revise, and play music on the Mac. Read about a pastoral suite for clarinet and Macintosh that gives new meaning toa computer's perfor- mance on page 107. MACWORLD Editorial Editor: Kearney Rietmann Associate Editor: Daniel Farber Assistant Editor Erfert Nielson rian Mello, ditorial Manager: Janet McCandless, Senior Copy Kathleen Christensen Copy Editor: ). E. Arcellana Editorial Secretary: Heidi Mitchell Contributing Editors. Danny Goodman, Jim Heid, Gordon McComb, Lon Poole, Jefirey 8. Young Editor: Art Associate Publisher: Jacqueline Poitier Designer: Marjorie Spiegelman Art Director: Bruce Charonnat sociate Designer: Dennis Mcleod sociate Art Director: Christopher Burg Design Associates: \ Holly Dougl: Assistant: Nan Cassady slie Barton, Production Director: Herbert Linden Senior Production Managers. Frances Mann, Lee R, ‘Trevino ditorial Production Manager: Ellyn L., Hament Production Editor, James Belici Ad Traffic: Jayne Boyer Telecommunicators: Mark | Susan M. Ford, Len W. Shirts. Assistant: Otto Waldorf Duran, Publishing Publisher: David Bunnell Special Projects: jetfrey 8. Glines International: Karen Dowell Assistant: Randi Glaser 4 May 1985 Marketing and Advertising Sales Associate PublisheriDirector: James E. Martin Regional Advertising Manager: Penny Rigby Northwest/Midivest: Patricia Navone Te Northeast: Lisa Kunin Southeast: Judy Sauer Southern California‘Southwest: Michela O'Connor Directory!¥o-Page Ads: Niki Steanz. Advertising Services: Ray Petsche Communications: Noreen A. Browning rant: Olivia Tsang Circulation Director: Penny Ertelt Director Single Copy Sales: George Clark Single Copy Sates Bill Cox Dealer y Ruth Kristoff Promotions: Laurie King Administration Director: Janet McGinnis, Accounting: Pat Murphy Joseph Wollenweber Personnel: Sarah Cox Assistant to the President: Christina W. Spence pe Corporate PC World Communications, Inc. David Bunnell bairman Bartlett R. 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Names and or update at any time. asy-to-use tools that add powerful formula calculator i IESK ORGANIZER offers that chime gent ly to remind you of meetings. lephone dialer that SLtoatically searches files, ae proper number and connects you, hat's more, THE DESK ORGANIZER increases the ing capacity of the Mac—by storing hundreds of Mac notes andletters ona ingle diskette. Born to run on the Mac, THE DESK ORGANIZER can co-reside with other Mac. programs —to keep you completely organized no matter what you're working on. To get this infallible electronic secretary for only $99, see your Mac software dealer. OR CALL WARNER SOFTWARE (212) 484-3070. Warner Software, Inc., 666 Fifth Ave., New York, NY 10103 A Warner Communications Company Introducing The All you Dave tc You can also add otber printers besides Laser\Writer to The Macitash Office: including ot stand-alone fag preter ose er a el a ter quality daisy whee irintrs you don ee ere TheLasertrter printer bas its own built-in ‘ype shes and sizes, and it can be shared dy everyone in The Macintosh Office © Right now IBM PCs can use our new © & LaserWriler printer: Later this year, we'tt be introducing the Applelith card that into at IBM PC, allowing it to trade ‘information with Macintosh and access fle servers. As well as serve asa gateway between ibe IBM PC netuork and our Appleliath network, ‘The Appleline protocol converter lets jou talk directly to your mainframe 11a 3270 emudation Our entry-level workstation in The Macintosh Office s, naturally enough, the Macintosh 128K. + Manufactarer's suggested retail price, © 1985 Anple Computer: Inc. Apple, the Apple logo, Applele and fmrageWter are trademarks of Apple Conipeter fx, Macatosh és a trademuars icensed to Apple Computer Inc. Microsoft is a registered trademark of Microsoft Corporation. ThinkTank és a trademark of Liviatg Videotext Inc, Jazz and Lotus are trademarks of Lotus Development Corporation. IBA! is a gated trademark of hulernational Business Machines Corporation. For an authorized Apple dealer nearest yea call (800) 538-9696. In Canada, call (800) 268-7796 or (800) 268-7637. Macintosh Office add is people. Macintosh XL, up toa fl megabyte of RAM and a brult-in 10MB bard disk “SS The 4ppletall Personal Network lets yore connect up to 32 members of The Macintosh Office for an extremely low cast. The cornerstone of The Macintos Office is our S12K Macinash piped ere witha exer di drive and numeric key pad. No, not computer systems people to help you design it. Or computer experts to show you how to use it. But the kind of people who already make up most of your office. Managers and professionals. People who spend most of their time selling prod- ucts, services or, most importantly, ideas. Because, unlike traditional office computer solutions, we didnt design The Macintosh Office around a mainframe. We designed it around an idea. ‘The idea that people, not main- frames, are the most important informa- tion centers in an office, And that most things in business are really accomplished by teams of 5 to 25 people who need to share information with each other, What we call the workgroup. ‘Thats why we put Macintosh at the heart of The Macintosh Office. Its powerful, 32-bit technology reduces the time it takes to become productive with a computer from well over a work week, to just under a lunch hour, For the first time, the people who could really use a computer— managers and professionals — had a computer they could really use. In their choice of sizes: Macintosh 128K, Macintosh 512K and Macintosh XL. ‘Then we designed a network solution for workgroups of 5 to 25, Instead of build- ings of 500 to 2,500. We call it the Appléfalk” Personal Network. Its as easy to hook together as an extension cord. And almost as cheap. Less than $50*a desk, versus up to $1,200 for a typical network system Since the number one product of business is still paper, we found a way to make every sheet count. A breakthrough in printed communications called the Laser Writer printer. It produces publication- quality text and graphics. Making your presentations, reports and overheads more persuasive. We've even founda way for The Macintosh Office to share offices with IBM" An AppleRalk card that slips into an IBM PC, allowing it to trade information with Macintosh and access file servers. ‘Third party developers are also work- ing onThe Macintosh Office. Next month, Arch News Seree Treen Our Laser Wher produces publication quaity tect and graphics they'll be offering shared storage devices that let your workgroup share information. And theyre writing a whole new genera- tion of business software to go along with the 350 programs Macintosh already runs, Including Microsoft” Word, ThinkRink™ 512 and the new Jazz™ from Lotus” Now, theres only one more thing wed like to add to this ad: call 800-446-3000. Well tell you how to get everything you need to turn your office into a Macintosh Office. People not included. =. fast test drive? aaa Get ready. Better buckle yourself to your authorized Apple® dealer up for an eye-opening demonstration and tell him you want to take OverVUE drive of the fastest, most innovative out for a test drive. For just $495, he'll program yet introduced for the Mac. provide you with a demo disc and Test It's OverVUE"” the revolutionary Drive Manual, so you can experience, information manager that simply first hand, the high performance your outruns the competition in handling Macintosh” can deliver. ease, flexibility and speed. But youll have to take care of the Just how fast is it? OverVUE can seat belt and driving gloves yourself. sort, select or categorize 1000 records in—hold on—just two seconds flat. DEALERS: If you have not received In fact, Over VUE can do so much, 4 your'lest Drive Kit, so fast, so easily, theres no way please give us a call we can cover it all here. i »_ and welll ship it to you Sogetondown immediately. David Bunnell A Mac Awakening After the Macworld Expo, there’s no turning back A contagious excitement crackled through the aisles as thousands of Macintosh enthu- siasts bustled from exhibit to exhibit at the first Macworld Expo, held at Brooks Hall in San Francisco, February 21-23. Apple's newest fans congre gated to scope out the latest software, hard disks, commu- nications services, and M tosh enhancements. The Expo. also had extras not seen at vour average trade show: hands-on Mac clinics staffed by Macin- tosh user group members, for- ums on improving computing skills, programming tutorials, and conferences on the Mac's impact on various areas of computing. The show was truly electric. Tt reminded many attendees of the first days of the Apple II, when it was unveiled to hordes of hobbyists at the 1979 West Coast Computer Faire at the San Francisco Civic Auditorium, The Maeworld Expo brought back the fervor of early com- puter hobby days, which just isn’t present at shows such as COMDEX anymore. Itis interesting to watch com- puter and business journalists change their initial impression of the Macintosh, For months: they insisted that not enough software was available and the disk drives were too slow. The Mac was termed a toy, and the press doubted that it would ever be seriously considered for the office. And yet many of the loudest critics were at the Mac Expo, singing praises to Apple and to the Macintosh: Without Apple and the Mac, those journalists’ jobs would be boring, A personal computer industry stuck under one big, blue umbrella would be dull and dry indeed The Maeworld Expo exhib- ited clearly for the first time that the Macintosh revolution is going to happen, Exciting new software that makes full use of the Macintosh graphies inter- face, much of it incomparable to the programs that surfaced for earlier personal computers, is starting to appear on the market, These new applications. are opening eyes to the pos- sibilities for personal comput- ing and are allowing people to use computers with more creativity and productivity. Just try making a newsletter on the IBM PC. Atax preparation program that I played with is one of those pieces of software that has what seems like 50 versions: for the IBM PC and the Apple IL Yet the Mac program stands out of the crowd by displaying a re- alistic, graphic rendition of the IRS Form 1040. You fill out the form, but the Mac handles the calculations and table searches. Asimple double-click of the mouse provides an explanation ofa specific item on the form in atext window. Can H&R Block top that? The new version of Ore: VUE, written in machine lan- guage, is an incredibly quick combination database and spreadsheet that has several nice presentation features and sorts hundreds of records in the blink of an eve. And judging from the heavy traffic at the Mi- crosoft Word and Lotus Jazz demonstrations, these pro- grams offer features that people want to use. A game called Airborne, pro- duced by a startup company that could barely afford to be at the show, created a sensation with digitized sound. The whir of helicopters landing woops and the roar of jet planes firing missiles at your gunnery pos tion were digitized from the ac- tual sounds. The simple addition of digi- uzed sound turns an average shoot-em-up video game into an extraordinary product When I returned to the office Macworld 9 The first library We've written more Macintosh programs _ than any other software company: Microsoft® Multiplan? Microsoft File, Microsoft Word, Microsoft BASIC and Microsoft Chart. But we can’t write everything, So when we find something really excellent out there, we on it. Every program has to - oo ate an pageants 8 Because weve begun to build up an impressive body of Macintosh work, we futtial Microsoft MacLibrary” programs to house them. Programs for business, for learning, for fun. And these disks can’t just roll in off the street. Each program has been exhaustively reviewed, previewed, and scrutinized. We look for highly original, highly useful programs that are easy to learn and use. Our first releases. The renowned programming language, Logo, has now come to Macintosh. A mainstay of university curriculums, Logo teaches programming concepts, tech- niques, and problem solving strategies. And it makes it all fun to boot. Intriguing enough to challenge even an advanced programmer conte 8 18 tne, —OF Motivate a child—this is Logos latest dedicated to Macintosh: generation. And it takes full anes of all of Mac's easy to use features. gam ——) nea Learning Microsoft Multiplan* and Microsoft Chart by Micro Courseware Corp. Learning Microsoft Multiplan and * Microsoft Chart is a superb interactive instruc- 1 tional program by Micro Courseware Corp. 1) It walks you through the basics and >, into the intricacies of these sophisticated business tools. Teach yourself quickly and simply MICRSSOFT. how to produce presentation quality graphics. As well as what-if projections, portfolio managers, and financial models. Finally, theres Entrepreneur™ by Harvard Associates. You're in the software business, competing against one to eight other capitalists of either the human or computer persuasion. With 36 months to boom or bust, prosper or squeak through. Check out a few programs. For a list of your nearest dealer stocking MacLibrary software, just call (800) 426-9400. Or in Washington State, Alaska, Hawaii and Canada, call (206) 378-8088 We think youl be impressed. Because joss it into MacLibrary speaks volumes. The Prodigy Comes Of Age! ExperLogo for the Macintosh’ is a powerful extension of the Logo computer language. ExperLogo excels as the patient tutor for those being introduced to computers for the first time, while at the same time it serves as a powerful development tool for the skilled programmer. ExperLogo’s innovative features include: 2-D, 3-D and Spherical Graphics Compiled Speed Powerful Data File Input/Output Capability Ability to Process Data Using Arrays Expanded Set of List Processing Primitives Friendly Mac-like User Interface Easy Access to the Macintosh Toolbox TV" ¥ Speed, combined with other advanced features that eliminate memory constraints and provide for sophisticated data file manipulation, are some of the reasons ExperLogo is now ready to assume the additional role as a serious program development language. ExperLogo embodies power and versatility while retaining Logo’s original virtues of being easy and fun to use. ExperLogo is available at your local computer dealer. Ask for a demonstration and see for yourself the amazing speed and capabilities. Have an ExperLogo experience! = ExperTelligence” 559 San Ysidro Rd. Santa Barbara, CA 93108 (805) 969-7874 Macintosh is a trademark licensed to Apple Computer, Inc. Circle 56 on reader service card 12. May 1985 David Bunnell the next Monday, the Mac- world editorial department was hard at work playing Af borne, We'll never get anything else done, I thought-and booted it up on my Mac. Air- borne’s only problem is that it requires 512K, and my Mac at home, which the kids play on, much more fun to acintosh, whether for games or business applicatior Based on enthusiasm alone, the Macintosh is the computer to own. The next Maeworld Expo, to be held in Boston on August 21-23, should be even bigger and more exciting than the Francisco show. The few com- panies that didn’t exhibit in San Francisco want to be first in the aisles at the Boston show, and the spreading Mac evangelism should effectively build up the momentum, So if you weren't one of the 0,000 who participated in Mac history at the Expo in 0, you've got an- how many people at xpo were from faraway places like ‘Tennessee and England. Consideri Australian Mac launched in January, and our French sister publication, Golden, hyas published a Mac- intosh software buyer's guide called Golden Mac, the Mac- world Expo will probably move off the continent soon. For more information on the Macworld Expo, Boston, con- tact: Mitch Hall Associates at 617/329-7466. 0 Amazing what goes Into Macintosh these days. IBM PC software for instance. Macintosh and IBM PC software. Compatible at last, thanks to MacCharlie, a rather innovative coprocessing system. And imagine the consequences. Nearly 10,000 IBM PC software programs designed for general business and specific applications in real estate, insurance, law, medicine, banking, etcetera, can now join forces with Macintosh’s own popular programs. And, the myriad of IBM PC- compatible software adopts Macintosh’s many beloved features, including desktop utilities such as the clipboard and the calculator, In addition, MacCharlie allows IBM PC and Macintosh data files to be exchanged. Talk about flexibility. But the good news gets better. You see, MacCharlie delivers hardware compatibility, as well. For example, [BM letter-quality printers can be easily used with Macintosh. Furthermore, MacCharlie now allows Macintosh to perform virtually any networking an IBM PC can perform. Even to the extent of tying in with IBM mainframes. In other words, your networking capability goes beyond the Apple family. The Macintosh keyboard slides right into MacCharlie’s keyboard. About as easy as slipping a letter in an envelope. Macintosh sets snugly beside MacCharlie, on power and ‘custom-fit pedestal Once you plug in MacCharlie's keyboard cords, You're ready to enjoy a very happy marriage How does it happen? As easily as slipping on penny loafers. In mere moments, MacCharlie combines the best features of the world’s premier personal computers. And despite the fact that it turns one computer into two, MacCharlie adds but a handful of square inches to Macintosh’s physique. In short, one of life’s most perplexing decisions —whether to buy a Macintosh or an IBM PC—can now MacCharie offers 256K RAM, with optional upgrade tm GiOK RAM: 360KB disk drive, and optional second disk dre, be made with the greatest of ease. | Ask for MacCharlie at your local computer store. Or, for more information, call Operator 15 toll- free, 1-800-531-0600. (In Utah, call 801-531-0600). THE BEST OF »F BOTH WORLDS. MacCharlie is a product of Dayna Gommunictions, 50S, Main, Salt Lake City, Utah 81144 Apple fs # trademark of Apple Computer, 1c: Macintosh is rademark fieesed {0 Apple Computer, ne 18M 18 a registered trademark of International Business Machines Corporation. Circle 232 on reader service card Get your Mac to open up. =F 5 Mac’s a terrific machine, Versatile, industrious, under- \& standing, easygoing, fun. Trouble is, Mac lives in a world of his own. He doesn’t communicate well with his co- workers. Doesn't work well with them. Now there's help. The Microsoft” MacEnhancer™ expansion system can get him out of his shell. It'll open {ee his communications channels. Expand his horizons. MacEnhancer simply plugs into Mac's communication port. It lets you keep that original port while adding an IBM"-type parallel connector for your printer and two IBM-type serial connectors. So now Mac can hobnob with even the finest letter quality printers. Cope with hyperactive dot-matrix printers. And it comes with MacEnhancer terminal software. A communications program that Microsoft is a registered trademark and The High Performance Software and MacEnhancer are trademarks of Microsoft Corporation. IBM is a registered trademark of International Business Machines Corporation. Macintosh is a trademark licensed to Apple Computer, Inc lets Mac use a modem to talk with other computers—from personal to mainframes. All without losing the loveable Mac per- sonality. Just “point and click’ Getting Lee to expand his horizons somebody had MICRESSOFT. to do it. And The High Performance Software” who better than Microsoft? We've written more Macintosh” programs than any other software company. Including Microsoft Word, Microsoft File. And Microsoft BASIC, Mac's first language. For more information, or to free associate with your nearest Microsoft representative, al (800) 426-9400. In Washington State, Alaska, Hawaii and Canada, call (206) 828-8088. Letters Index Thanks I cruised through the 1984 in- dex in your January issue, In- dexes generally cross-index topic, issue, and title and make it nearly impossible to find something you remember only vaguely, Your index, on the other hand, reminded me of lit- ue things I had halfway forgot- ten but wanted to review, I spent about an hour with the index, going directly to the is- sue and page that had the infor- mation I wanted. What a pleasure! H.G. Henry Atlanta, Georgia Bad Wrap While picking up my just- fattened Mac the other day, 1 decided to indulge my high spirits by buying a copy of As- similation’s Mac Spell Right. 1 do a great deal of writing with my Mac, and the prospect of having both a spelling checker and a thesaurus on line was ex- tremely attractive. Thus, it was with considerable anticipation that I slit open the shrink-wrap- ping on the box and repeated the operation on the separately wrapped manual inside. Then, and only then, did a little card emerge from the manual in- forming me that “the ... pro- grams require version 3.3 or later of MacWrite. Ihave MacWrite 2.2. None of my Mac-owning friends has anything but MacWrite 2.2. When I phoned Assimilation, 1 was breezily informed that being a beta test site for Mac- Write 3.3, Assimilation had no trouble developing and market- ing products to go with it. My dealer, I was informed, would get it soon. Outrageous! There is abso- lutely no hint of Mac Spell Right’s requirements on the package and none in any of the vendor's advertisements. Itis becoming more and more difficult to take the Mac- intosh world seriously. | think it is silly to have to open two la of shrink-wrapping in the store in order to examine a potential purchase, but that is what I propose to do in the fu- ture. I invite other owners to join me in interrogating ven- dors of aftermarket software until it becomes standard prac- tice for those folks to be candid about issues of compatibility. Scott L. Norman Framingham, Massachusetts Upgrade Got You Down? This is an open letter to all those 128K Macintosh owners who are complaining about the cost of the 512K memory up- grade. First let’s get several facts straight. Apple Computer is a business. To upgrade a Mac- intosh to 512K, Apple must not only buy the 256K RAM chips and figure out something to do with the 64K chips but upgrade the motherboard as well. If Ap- ple offered this service at sub- stantially less than $1000, they would probably lose money. With that out of the way, let me progress to the real prob- lem. The diatribe that I have heard most often against Ap- ple’s upgrade policy is based on some misguided notion of loyalty. I would like to present a fictitious letter and see if any- one recognizes the argument: Dear Seaside Motor Company, Last year I purchased your 1983 Seaside Whizcar. While driving it by one of your deal- ers, I noticed that the 1984 Whizcars have a more power- ful -ylinder engine, quartz halogen headlights, and a better-looking dashboard and cost $245 less than my car. | asked the dealer bow I could get my car upgraded to the new model. I was furious when he told me that a new engine would cost me $1600, the headlights $735, and the dashboard over $400, How could you have the gall to produce cars in 1983 if you knew that better cars would be made in 1984? Why don't you give new engines away to people who already own your cars? I'm buying my next car from Gigantic Blue Motors—at least they'll treat me right! Apple extended the time, effort, talent, research, and money to develop an e: use computer. It used the most advanced circuit design ina package that can be dropped into a knapsack. Apple built ina friendly interface and encour- aged software developers to take advantage of the com- puter's power so that every- thing written for it could be as powerful, productive, and friendly as its creators envi- sioned. Did any other company do this? Did anyone even try? So, you want a technological miracle, creative software, in- novation, and the shirt off Ap- ple’s back? James Bucanek Coolidge, Arizona The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly Copy-protection schemes on the Macintosh can be divided into three types. The first i friendly (for example, Mac- FORTH). A serial number is en- coded into the program. The owner is free to make copies, but if any “unfair use” comes to the attention of the manufac- Macworld = 17 -Maccessories: L2ways toim the performance of Maccessories from Kensington Microware—an entire family of products to enhance your Mac- intosh. Maccessories make your computer more convenient. They increase your system's flexibility. And they protect your investment. Ina dozen different ways. Control Center Organizes all your power needs. Styled to fit underneath your sec- ond disk drive, it provides fingertip control over your whole system. There's a master switch to power the whole system on and off, and individual switches for a printer, modem and one auxiliary device. And Control Center protects your entire Macintosh system from dam- aging power surges, line noise and static shocks. your Macintosh. [2] Surge Suppressor Portable protection for a travelling Macintosh. Surge Suppressor re- places your power cord, providing UL listed surge suppression and line noise filtering. It’s light and fits easily into your carrying case. [3] Universal Printer Stand Raises your Apple® Imagewriter® at a slight angle so you can monitor its performance more easily. It solves the problem of where to store paper—several hundred sheets are accommodated neatly underneath. (Also fits most other dot matrix printers.) If you want to take advantage of the AppleTalk™ network, a Laser- Writer™ printer or a hard disk in addition to your Imagewriter and modem, you'll have three pe- ripherals competing for the two se- rial ports on your Macintosh. The A-B Box gives you the extra serial port you need. Just plug two of your peripherals into the A-B Box and plug the Box into one of your Mac- intosh serial ports. Then simply di- vert your data output to the peripheral of your choice—press A to send to one, B to the other. Fits perfectly underneath your external disk drive. [5] Swivel A slim swivel base that attaches underneath the Macintosh, making it easier to reposition the com- puter. Fits inside the carrying case. The perfect travelling modem. It’s small, sturdy, battery powered, weighs less than a pound and even has its own carrying case. Oper- ates at 300 baud with any com- munications software. Disk Case Provides safe storage for 36 Macin- tosh disks. Comes with a packet of spare disk labels. Also includes a handy Disk Pocket for safe transportation of up to 5 disks. Travelling Disk Case Astylish solution to disk transport- ation. Constructed of sturdy but lightweight plastic, it has room for 12 Macintosh disks. It’s small enough to fit in a briefcase. And it comes with 12 spare disk labels. [9] Dust Covers Protect your system from the ele- ments. Anti-static dust covers for your Macintosh, Imagewriter and Macintosh XL. Cleaning Kits Take care of your system. A Disk Drive Cleaning Kit helps you avoid disk read errors. And a Mouse Cleaning Kit keeps your mouse rolling at top speed. fi] Professional Type Fonts Styled after the most popular type faces in the advertising and pub- lishing industries. In two volumes. Professional Type Fonts For Text contains 16 fonts in sizes 12 to 24 point. Professional Type Fonts For Headlines (for the 512K Mac) con- tains the same fonts in sizes 24 to 72 point. Beta Italic Phi Display Epsilon Rho Semi Eta Medium Sigma Kappa Bold Sigma Bold Lambda ' Nu Black — Upsilon Omega zeta 301 Omicron = 4vkear¥ Circle 11 on reader service card Graphic Accents Acollection of over 250 profession- al illustrations, covering every- thing from business to holidays. Use them for reports, newsletters or greeting cards. Graphic Accents are stored in standard MacPaint™ files, for ease of use. |, @ oop ABA Maccessories are available at Apple dealers everywhere. For more information, please contact Kensington Microware Ltd., 251 Park Avenue South, New York, NY 10010. (212) 475-5200. Telex: 467383 KML NY. NY KENSINGTON" YA MICROWARE ‘Trademarks: Maccessories/Kensington Micromare Ltd; Apple, Macintoss, Imaporiter, Apple’ LaserWiter, MacPaint/Apple Computer, Inc.; Fonts by XIPIUIAS. © 1985 Kensington Micronare Introducing the most ingenious communications system known to man. Or mouse. Hayes Smartcom II” and Smartmodem 1200!" Point and click communications at its best. 300 or new 2400 bps modems), and a special Mac version of Smartcom II software. For sophisticated, computer to computer communications— a la Macintosh. Utilizing your mouse, icons and pull-down windows, Smartcom II makes communications as easy as pointing. And clicking. Now Macintosh* can communicate with the best: Hayes. When it comes to personal computer communications, Hayes set the standards. For the IBM* PC and compatibles. And now for Macintosh, too, All you need is the industry leader, Smartmodem 1200 (or our Atlanta, 3:05 P.M, Brilliant! Illincorporate these changes for tomorrow's meeting.’ mY Boston, 3:04 P.M, “Looks good, But can you move the lounge over here, and Atlanta, 3 P.M. “Here's the plan for the new space. What do you think?’’ Smnartcomn it isa registered trademark and Smartmodem (200 and Please Mac to Mac graphics, Picture perfect! Now your Mac can send and receive pictures and drawings long distance with other Macintoshes. And if you have a powerful 512K » Mac, you can also take », advantage of the unique interactive graphics capabilities of Smartcom Il. So that pictures or text sent to other 512K Macs can be simultaneously reviewed, per- fected and updated from both locations! For the fun of it, you can ever try interactive games on the graphic gameboards Mac to personal computers and data bases everywhere. Want to communicate with an IBM PC? Or dozens of other personal computers? Your Smartmodem 1200 and Smartcom II communications system makes it easy to send and re- ceive text over ordinary phone lines, Quickly, Accurately, Economically. And a wealth of business, personal and financial information awaits you from on-line data bases. Smartcom Ileven cames with auto- maticlog-on for many of these services (and introductory bonus subscription and access time dis- counts valued at over $300)). demarks-of Hayes Microcomputer Products, Inc “Trademarks al their respective companiés ©1945 Hayes Microcomputer Products, Ing munications. Please, t easy-to-use yet powel management softwar be available for Maci soon. To manage mail lists, print forms o1 dozens of other te Letters turer, the source can be traced. I call this friendly rather than neutral because the serial num- bers could presumably be used to identify copies stolen from the purchaser, The second type is obnox- ious (for example, Multiplan). You can make copies, but when you run them, you must first in- sert the original disk, While this copy-protection scheme is areal nuisance on the Mac, which doesn't let you leave a program temporarily to run an- other, it is tolerable when you expect to run a program for some time without interrup- tion. The copy protection can be intolerable, such as when it won't take Cancel for an answer or when you have to go back and forth into the program. The third type of scheme is downright hostile. The exam- ple, unfortunately, is MacPascal, marketed by Apple itself. No copies can be made. Apple seems to be saying, “We don’t care if you want a working copy of the thing. We don't care if you laid out a couple of grand for a hard disk to get decent re- sponse. Use the original slow floppy or don’t use the pro- gram at all” This copy protection is par- ticularly intolerable on a sup- posedly “friendly” computer like the Macintosh. The Mac is potentially a great computer, but it’s not there yet. If Apple sets this trend, I'm afraid it won't arrive. Let's boycott Mac- Pascal until Apple relents, I urge every Macintosh owner who is considering MacPascal to write Apple saying that you will buy it only when the hos- tile copy protection is ended. Barry Hill-Tout Kingston, Ontario Canada Where No Mac Has Gone Before Ican't resist the lure of your pi- oneering certificate, although I am a late bloomer in personal computing. I do indeed qualify as a Macintosh pioneer. To the best of my knowledge, I have one of the first Macs ever in Kansas City. The Macintosh is the first computer I have owned or operated, and it was love at first sight. I do resent having paid a thousand dollars more in February 1984 than people are paying now, but 1 still like the machine. Ihave all the issues of your magazine, and if I'm qualified as a pioneer, I'd love to receive the certificate. If not, I still have the machine and the magazine. Please keep up the good work. Your magazine is great for Mac owners, as you really cover the subject. John W: Fisher Kansas City, Missouri Pricey Pioneering I have just finished reading “The Price of Pioneering” (Macworld, January 1985). 1am one of the 50,000 who put their money down so that I could be among the first to own a Mac. Now I find that for $995 more I can get a 512K upgrade, for a total of $3490 on merchandise that can be bought today for under $3000 by anyone who ‘was smart enough to wait nine months-clearly a case of reach- ing into the barrel first and coming up with a wormy apple. Macworld 21 Meet The New Teachers... MathFlash, WordPlay, and MacType MathFlash: The math teacher that works Always, flash cards‘are the method of choice to learn arithmetic. Now MathFlash makes it easy and-fun. For parents and teachers, MathFlash takes away the tedium of administrating rote drills. And for youngsters, MathFlash takes away the pressure and fear of failure. MathFlash duplicates the flash card experience with a 3- dimensional picture of a stack of cards that flip up, one ata time. The child keys in the answer or points to.a number on the screen. Right answers send the card to a “correct” pile that the child can watch accumulate, And as the child progresses, MathFlash displays other graphic rewards that recognize accomplishment. Unlike game-type computer drills where making, mistakes and playing with the program are more fun than learning, MathFlash only rewards accomplishment. And it does so with infinite patience, but without being boring, MathFlash keeps detailed records to measure a student's progress and adapt drills to individual needs. One copy of MathFlash is good for the whole family—or the whole classroom. (Retail price: $49.95) WordPlay: The word teacher that plays Limber up your brain and beef up your vocabulary with WordPlay, the power tool for word puzzles; Use WordPlay to solve morethan 50 puzzles that come with'the program—or use it to help with the brain twisters in your daily newspaper. WordPlay features crossword, diagramless, and other puzzles ina range of difficulties. WordPlay keeps all the fun intact, but eliminates the aggravation. No messy erasures, no getting stuck over one letier in the name of that pesky East Indian mulberry. Take a guess—if it doesn’t work, try something else. WordPlay lets you get help without actually cheating. Wheiher it’s a single work, a section of the puzzle, or the whole thing, WordPlay can tell you (A) ifit’s right or not; (B) where the mistakeis; or (C) the correct answer, You pick the amount of help you want. Compete with your friends—WordPlay keeps track of all your scores, Save a puzzlein progress and pick it up later, Or print it out to work on when your Macintosh isn’t handy. With WordPlay, you've got someone who plays your language. Retail price: $44.95) MacType: The typing teacher that works Touch-typing “games” look like a great idea. But when the novelty wears off, you're left with a frustrating (or boring) way to learn to type. MacType is for people who want to type well, quickly. Based on the experience of a former touch-typing instructor, MacType gets you comfortable with the keyboard in just a few 15-minute sessions, Then you build your skill with MacType’s training cycle: review, drill, test. And you use realistic practice text of words and sentence fragments that mix upper case, lower case, and punctuation. MacTypehas no “Beat-the-Clock” drills to undermine your confidence, You cannot fail, You gain skills you can begin to use from the first day. ne MacType offers advanced placement for shy typists. It doesn’t intimidate you with performance statistics, but you can see them when you want to, And if you start typing erratically, MacType turns ona metronome to even out your strokes, MacType tracks your progress—it can handle more than 100 students, And when you reach your chosen goal, MacType prints out a personalized Certificate of Achievement. (Retail price: $49.95) : The new educational programs HO Palantir make learning fun, And fun, a learning experience. Bring these friends into your home or classroom, Available from your dealer or Palantir Software, 12777 Jones Road, Suite 100, Houston, Texas 77070. Call (713) 955-8880, or you may contact our WATTS lines, (800) 831-3119'(Texas), (800) 368-3797 (National), or (800) 235-0025 (Canada) is Vo} PALANTIR: | SOPTWARE Meet The New Financiers... General Ledger, Accounts Receivable, and Inventory Control The Palantir Financial Series -- the first true accounting syst¢m to run on a 128K single-disk Macintosh. If you have a small to moderate-sized business, you'll find what you’re looking for right here. : eneral Ledger ; Here's a true accounting system -- so much more than just a cash book or expense filer. Look at what it offers: @ Flexible chart of accounts. Up to 9) 999 different accounts, Cash, expense, income, etc... in any combination. @ Full double entry system. You cannot go out of balance. ® Six financial statement formats to choose from. You'll find one suited just for your business. @ Up to 12 accounting periods. And even after you rollover to a new period, you can still go backand post to the previous one. @ Comparisons with budget and prior year per- ‘formance. By period and year-to-date. @ Multiplan™ transfer. Extract data forspreadsheet programs and other forecasting systems. ® 400 accounts on one 400K disc. Retail price: $145 Accounts Receivable _ Keep'track of who owes you what from how long ago, Print reports or display them on the screen. Hither way you've got solid one! of your business with features like these: ® Up to 9,999 customers. @ Full three-period aging. You define the periods, @ Open-item or balance-forward accounts or both. Your choice. @ Sales analysis by customer, salesperson, branch, type of sale, product, or just about anything else’ you can think up. 999 ways to analyze your sales for the period and year-to-date. Pinpoint your problems and your opportunities, @ Compatible output to the Financial Series General Ledger, Analyze profits as well as sales. @ 300 accounts on one 400K disk. Retail price: $145 Inventory Control The perfect system for your retail or wholesale business. @ Handles all these transactions: purchase orders, receipts, transfers, adjustments, issues and returns. @ Provides complete audit trails. @Tracks stock by units and dollars; How many dollars you have on order. The dollar value of your inventory, sale prices, and profit margins. ®@ Controls stock levels, Reorder Report shows quantities below your specified minimums. @ Analyzes your inventory as well as providing cost and sales histories and gross profit margins. Also, product siatus by type and location is given, @ Keeps salespeople up-to-date. Price list shows quantity on hand, selling price, sales tax, and current average cost, @ 1,000 products and 400 purchase orders on one 400K disk. Retail price: $145 The new Financial Series from Palantir does more than just help you run your business. It helps you manage it, for growth and profitability. Available from your dealer. Palantir Software, 12777 Jones Road, Suite 100, Houston, Texas 77070. Call (713) V4 955-8880, or (800) 831-3119 (Texas), (800) 368-3797 (National), or (800) JALAN TR 235-0025 (Canada). Circle 74 on reader service card RETAIL MICRO PRODUCT PRICE FLASH Greative Solutions MacFORTH.......$ 149 $ 98 Dow Jones Straight Talk... 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For produet information, price quotes, technical support, please call 415/680-1157 ‘To order trom outside California, call 800/458-2433 Tolex #369199 MFLASH UD COMPUTER SYSTEMS, INC. 1110 BURNETT AVE., SUITES J& K CONCORD, CA 94520 Member: Better Business Bureau Chamber of Commerce’ ‘Bun & Bradstrovt Listed: Circle 3 on reader service card 24 May 1985 Letters Apparently David Bunnell feels a sucker-of-the-year award is now in order for those 50,000 who were dumb enough to fall victim to Apple’s unique form of merchandising. Early Mac rewarded with approximately $900 in savings. As a consola- tion prize you are offering me a certificate to hang on my wall. Well, you can keep it. Ido not need a daily reminder that I was naive enough to rush out and spend my hard-earned money foolishly. Early buyers deserve more than a certificate. By what logic do you see fit to make further fools of us by is- suing us certificates? However, ept your con- gratulations for being a charter subscriber. Macworld is by far the finest computer publica tion. As fa you are not selling the m: noncharter subscribers for less than I'm pay’ C. A. Jendrisak Akron, Ohio Spousal Support 1am a Macintosh pioneer, and I'm proud of it. | bought my Mac in April 1984. My wife thinks it's funny how I sit and wail for the next Macworld is- sue to arrive. Last year it was two-month wait. I've settled down some since Macworld became a monthly magazine. would like to compliment the staff for doing a fine job. [hope you never change the format. One thing you fail to men: tion in “The Price of Pioneer- ing” [Macwortd, January 1985] is how we pioneers have to beg our wives or husbands for the 512K upgrade. My wife thinks the Mac is a $3000 toy, and she’s upset at me for even thinking of spending another $1000 for an upgrade. Oh, well. I'm put- ting away $5 a week until [can afford it, which will be in four years. 1 feel 1 deserve this certifi- cate, and I hope you find it in your heart to send me one Mike Schneider Kaukauna, Wisconsin Sonar Sub Correction Several readers have written about problems with the Sonar Sub program listed in the De- cember issue of Macworld. Be- fore you call or write, we urge you to check your listing for typos; the program published in Macworld does run, al though it contains a few cos- metic flaws. For example, the submarine is missing the bot- tom part of its hull. You can eas- ily correct this problem by changing the first two CIRCLE statements on page 133 to read as follows: CIRCLE(25,80),43,1.21,1.93 1d CIRCLE(25,0),43,,4.35,5.1. To fix slight defect in the appearance of the enemy mine, change the third CIRCLE statement on page 133 to read as follows: CIRCLE(20,16),13,,88,2.25. Letters should be mailed to Haro St., San Francisco, CA 94107, or sent electronically to CompuServe 74055,412 or The Source STE908. 0 ClickOn Worksheet goes where no spreadsheet has gone before... File Edit Swaveh foumnt Font stile Worksheet Mocwrit Sait Untitled sch, Scrapbook Alarm Clock Note Pad Calculator Key Caps Control Panel Puzzle * $149,200 00] $02 4030 Ssulsr sy Integrate spreadsheets and graphics into MacWrite™ (or any other application) Let’s say you're in MacWrite. Without leaving it, you click on a spreadsheet for some quick calculations. Then click on a bar, pie or line chart, made directly from your spreadsheet. Now paste them both into your MacWrite document. Done. All without leaving MacWrite, and without changing programs or disks. And even on your 128k Mac. New Power for your Desktop ClickOn Worksheet is a desk accessory that adds a spreadsheet and grapher to any application. The 50 rows x 20 columns spreadsheet includes features such as variable column widths, absolute/relative addressing, built-in financial calculations (like net present value, compounding, future value) and logical operators. In addition, you can “fold” the spreadsheet to see different parts of it at the same time. {ClickOn is a trademark of PMaker Company. Macintosh isa ulenark licensed to Apple Computer, Ine facWrite 2 -adensark of Apple Computer, In. Circle 113 on reader service card Presentation-quality Charts in an Instant By simply selecting the data you want charted, the Worksheet creates pie charts, bar graphs (stacked or adjacent) or line charts, complete with automatic axes and legends. And changes in the spreadsheet are immediately reflected in the graph. Ready-made Solutions ‘To make your job even easier, we've included a dozen popular applications templates, including income statement/balance sheet with financial ratios, lease/purchase analysis, loan repayment schedule, stock portfolio, and depreciation schedules. Requirements: 128k or 512k Macintosh” Price: $79.95 ClickOn ‘VMaker Graphics 2115 Landings Drive - Mountain View, CA 94043 415/962-0195 NOW! NEW, SUPER SOFTWARE ‘OR THE MACINTOSH! at bird! It's a plane! No it’s four Bach one compliments the other to nake your Macintosh into a super machine y forming a powerful, Integrated system! MegaMerge is THE mail merge program or MacWrite! With MegaMerge, you can se MacWrite to create form letters, print nailing labels and more! You can even overcome MacWrite's limited document ize by “chaining” several documents ogether and printing them as one, long, Jocument! fegakiler Ifyou do any filing at all in your home or fice, you NEED Megatiler! It's the file management system for the Macintosh that lets you file and retrieve Information with EASI You can store name: Information using Meg: made files for: Mailing Lists Zustomer Orders and Invoices ses or other ‘Kiler's library of WITH MEGAHAUS, YOU CAN TURN YOUR MACINTOSH INTO © Home Management © Business Inventory Customer Files ‘And MUCH more! You can also design your own files :5, mailing labels and MegaMerge mailing lists, You can even incorporate them into MacWrite and other Macintosh appli Here's what olve Mey Sort information on any fleld, Find forms based on any criteria you fornia whose names begin with "S" and own a Macintosh and print them in zip code order, You can manage several files atone tin You can cut information from one file and “paste” it into another, ler is truly the file management system you've been waiting for, Discover how super it ccally is! Megakorm is an easy: reports generator, You can use Me} to create actual-size forms and reports such ass Purchase Orders Expense Reports And MUGH moret With MegaForm you can draw forms and reports exactly the way you want them to appear, [twill also help you fill out the form you ted, using MegaFiler, With MegaForm you can also draw, and even sequentially number your forms! MegaDesk MegaDesk is something almost all of us can use, With MegaDesk, you get three sktop accessories, Jn other words, apro- gram that you can run at the same time as other progeams, With MegaDesk you'll get: © A Desktop “Appointment Book” which isa calendar that shows you month, day and date, Every day has it’s own page on which you can jot down information, © A "Quicklook” acces: sory which gives you a brief look into any Filer file on your desk, ® A Reference lows you to lip upa y information you choose, We supply a complete library of reference cards and you ean also add your own! ‘The Megahaus nily of software pro nike your computer work nannered Macintosh into “Super faster than st speeding bullet, The Megahaus family of Software will turn your Macintosh into a Megahaus Corp, 5703 Oberlin Dr. San Diego, CA 92121 Call (619) 450-123 Circle 88 on reader service card ClickArt Effects begin eget ROTATED SLANTED Special Effects Special ERess Boston 48 pt. font from ClickArt Letters: ClickArt Effects and ClickArt portfolios are $49.9 Each ClickArt portfolio comes with complete documentation and tips manual outlining how to get the most from ClickArt and your Macintosh, Company. Macintosh isa 0 Apple Camputer, Ene. MacPaint, MacKrite taclbraw are trademarks of Apple Computer, Inc. a. PERSPECTIVE SNeGal Eifects DISTORTED S where left off... Now you can produce special effects that pick up where MacPaint left off. Rotate your words or pictures a few degrees at a time. Or slant them. Or give them perspective through a vanishing point. Or even use a distortion box to create the perception of a twi ‘These special effects work on any MacPaint!™ MacWrite™ or MacDraw™ image—but of course the examples here use images and fonts from our other ClickArt products, Personal Graphics, Letters and Publications. Take a look at what you can do! ClickArt Effects is the latest bright addition to our line of graphic products for the Macintosh which includes: Alettering system of 24 high quality typefaces in large point sizes (24, 36, 48 and 72 point) which are installable as fonts or contained as MacPaint files. A collection of images specially designed for creating newsletters and flyers. Includes two- and three-column, layout guides, illustrated phrases, maps, cartoons, symbols and backdrops. ClickArt Personal Graphics A disk-full of contemporary images from small dingbats to full-screen portraits (Einstein, Michelangelo's David, Porsche, etc.) Great for adding a personal touch to invitations, stationery, announcements and flyers. See the entire ClickArt Collection at your dealer. Or write to us and we'll send you a catalog that shows what each package contains. ‘VMaker Graphics 2115 Landings Drive - Mountain View, CA 415/962-0195 94043 Circle 29 on reader service card When it comes to your investment Flipping a coin is a harmless way to help you make simple deci- sions: “Heads we go to the movies, tails we play Scrabble®” But being flip with your in- vestments could have harmful— even drastic—results. Like having no coins left to flip. 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Using News/Retrieval to update your portfolio throughout the year, the program tracks by tax lot your security transactions. Now, it’s easy to calculate whether your profits from a sell will be taxed as income or capital gains. And what that will mean to your entire invest- ment portfolio. It's clear. If you wait two weeks to sell, you'll save 20% on taxes. Dow Jones Investment Software: | | eu out this coupon and mail to: | : Callahan, Dow Jones and Co Helping You Make RO. Box 300, Princeton, NJ. O8S40 | Informed Decisions. | O Please send me a free brochure on | The Investor's Workshop and | Bae ee Software : | the Market Manager PLUSarefrom =| itn wcinermation Dow Jones, publisher of Barron’s laeee | and The Wall Street Journal, the | Name | standard in reliable and timely aa | business and financial information. ‘aaress So instead of playing your 1c | hunches or flipping coins, invest iia | in Dow Jones Software. It could j= | be the best investment you make | uae a a | fo obtain a free brochure an ™ information on where you can le conveniently purchase Dow Jones Investment Software, filloutthe | Software | coupon or call: 1-800-345-8500 Extension 240 (Alaska, Hawaii and foreign call 1-215-789-7008 ext. 240) “Heads I buy. Tails I sell” Dow Jones Software, Investor's Workshop, Market Manager PLUS, Market Analyzer, andl Market Microscope are trademarks of Dow Jones & Company, Inc. Dow Jones News/ Retrieval is a registered trademark of Dow Jones & Company, Inc. Scrabbl -gistered trademark of Selchow & Righter Company. Copyright 01985 Dow Jones & Company; Ine. All Reserved. Circle 69 on reader service card Feed your Mac. Introducing ThunderScan.” erate full-page images or selected ‘ parts of them. Enlarge and reduce Now you can turn any printed them. Manipulate them, Control image into a detailed, bigh- the contrast and brightnes: resolution Macintosh graphic. Create your own personal image disk. “Cut” and “paste” images together, creating new docu- ments. And print them out on your Imagewriter. Or send them by modem to another Mac, The possibilities are nearly endless. Just roll your ‘ThunderScan "Presto! A ons = «conmeigice Abamtuion No lights, no camera, Imagewriter. the image. MacPaint document. just action. What you see here is the complete ThunderScan No doubt about it, Macintosh is one great graphics a C Thun machine. But until now, Mac graphics have been system. You don’t have to buy an expensive video cam- limited to what you can draw with a mouse and what era. Just pop out your Imagewriter’s ribbon cartridge, someone else has put on a disk. Consequently, taking snap in ThunderScan and you're set. full advantage of Mac’s graphics capabilities has been It can even work in the dark tough, But now there's ThunderScan. The new optical —_ (maybe you can think of an scanning device that lets you feed your Mac a steady application for that). diet of graphics that are useful to you. Ifyou bought a ‘ThunderScan turns Mac’ Imagewriter printer into Mac at least partly for an image reader. So you can digitize any printed image _its graphics, only to and turn it into a detailed, high-resolution MacPaint find you couldn't take document, Anything, including forms, half-tones, full advantage of them, photos, mechanical drawings, maps, floorplans, logos, NOW you can. With ‘ThunderScan. signatures and more. From black and white and color Atan introductory price of originals. ThunderScan reproduces them at over j asmall price to ” 200 dots per inch and in 32 shades of gray. pay for a whole new graphics capabili . ThunderScans application software, writen => For more information or a ThunderScan by Mac-team-member, Andy Hertzfeld, makes it an Z] of your own, see your dealer or call us today. extremely versatile and useful tool. You can gen- (415) 254-6581 ThunderSean Thunderware Inc., 19 G Orinda Way, Orinda, CA 94563 of Thunderware Ine / Macintosh is a trademark liceased to Apple Computer, Inc. /Ice cream courtesy of Farrell's Restaurant & Ice Cream Parlour, Ine, Circle 167 on reader service card © 1984, Thunderware Ine, / ThunderSean isa ‘Mac and MacPaint are trademarks of Apple Computer, li Macworld View News and notes for the Macintosh community Edited by Janet McCandless Maeworld View reports on new products and develop- ments in Macintosh tech- nology. We cover items of in- terest to Mac users and comment on industry trends. We welcome contributions from readers and pay up to $50 for each item we use. Please include your name, adelress, and phone number with your contributions; send them to Macworld View, 555 De Haro St, San Francisco, CA 94107. The Mac Enters the Fortune 500 Many people have wondered when the Macintosh would be- gin to appear in the corporate suites of the Fortune 500. Gen- eral Electric Information Ser- vices (GEISCO) in Rockville, Maryland, bas signed a value- added reseller agreement with Apple and is selling the Macin tosh to its corporate clients. Matt Slavik, VAR/OEM (value- added reseHer/original equip- ment manufacturer) sales pro- gram manager at Apple, states that the value added to the Macintosh by GEISCO is in the form of business applications and high-level networking communications hardware and software. GEISCO provides telecommunications services and business systems to over 6000 corporate clients. GEISCO’s influence in the corporate world extends be- yond its arrangement to sell and lease the Mac to its clients. With Apple the company has developed a business applica- tion called DealerTalk. Apple is using the software to give its dealers access to a database that contains technical informa- tion and answers to their most frequently asked questions Steve Korn, GEISCO product marketing manager, anticipates that DealerTalk will be used to supplement toll-free service lines by handling routine ques- tions. Operators will then be free to answer more complex questions, GEISCO’s clients who use the Mac will have access to electronic conferencing soft- ware developed by Network Technologies International (NETD. The conferencing man- ages conversations, enabling several people in different of- fice locations to participate si- multaneously in a meeting. Par- ticipants can share and revise text, graphies, and other visual information. GEISCO plans to release communications soft- ware that will give corporate clients the capability to switch among four ongoing conversa- tions. According to Korn, “We view the Mac as a legitimate business machine that is more than an individual productivity Macworld 31 Macworld View Mac Graphics Make News Richard Curtis, managing edi- tor for graphics and photog- raphy at USA Joday, used to think of the Macintosh as a painless way to introduce his graphic artists to computers. “The Mac was used as an elec- troni wch pad,” says Curtis. But finished charts were impos- sible to produce on the Image- writer because its resolution was too crude for USA Today's _production standards. Conse- quently, the artists literally had to take their computer-drawn sketches back to the drawing board and produce graphics the usual way, with rub-on Jet- ters, air-brushed photographs and ink drawings. The stumbling block was cleared with the introduction of Apple's laser printer. The Richard Curtis of USA Today relies ou the Mac to produce the 2010 30 charts needed daily at the newspaper: LaserWriter provides the neces- sary resolution that artists couldn't get with the Image- writer. Curtis expects that ina month or so his staff will be turning out charts daily for the nationwide newspaper, which has a circulation of 1.25 million. He predicts the Mac will cut production time in half and al- low the staff more freedom to create the 20 to 30 pieces of art- work demanded of them daih Curtis also foresees the news paper using the Mac to main- tain a visual reference library of pictures, charts, and sketches. Similar plans are in store for an Apple system across the Po- tomac River from the USA To- day offices at the world head- quarters of United Press International (UPI). At UPI a new graphics department has been set up to produce charts and diagrams for the thousands of the wire service's subscrib- ers worldwide. The driving force will be a new Li linked to a Compugraphic type- setter—Craig Webb Consortium Update As the Macintc demic year comes to a close, the universities and colleges in Apple's University Consortium Program report that the Mac is being used in history, music, photography, nutrition, mathe- matics, and business manage- ment courses, to name a few. The software applications: nge from an organic chem- istry nomenclature tutorial to a pictorial atlas program to a nu- tritional analy i At Dartmouth College the music department uses a music- building program for the Mac in introductory courses. Stu- 32 May 1985 Music students at Dartmouth Col- lege compose on screen and play back the results, 1 Stanford University a bistoricat sinudation places students under the reign of Louis XIV. dents compose musical pieces by selecting items from a pal- ette of notes, chords, glissandi, and so forth. Timbre, volume, and duration can be changed in each measure. Students can save a work, play it back, and edit it. The college math de- partment uses a Macintosh pro- gram to teach algorithms in in- troductory computer science courses, The program allows students to construct binar trees on the Mac with various traversing and construction algorithms. At Stanford a historical simu- lation similar to a narrative game is being developed on the Mae that places the student in the role of a young French man of modest means who reaches the age of majority in the first year of the reign of Louis X1V, The goal in the simu- lation is to accumulate wealth and prestige through wily in- vestment, marriage, and politi- cal maneuvering and to pa: that accumulation on, first to a son and then to a grandson. Aneurobiology course at Cornell University features a program that produces a high/ filter to teach students about waveforms and filters. In the input window a student can select sine, step, and impulse waveforms or select free-form waves. The filtered wayeform appears in the output window. The cutoff frequency of the fil- ter is chosen in the output win- dow, and the high/low selection is done by menu. The sociology department at Drexel University has an in- structional program underway that will enable stuclents to test their grasp of dynamics in the labor force, explore their own career destinations, and build models of alternative work worlds in the year 2000. A five- year study begun at Drexel in 1983, conducted by sociology professor Joan McCord, evalu- ates the impact the Mac is making on the academic com- munity. Students fill out ques- tionnaires that ask how the Macintosh is changing their lei- sure time, enjoyment of course work, study habits, topics of conversation, and attitudes to- ward computer crime. Faculty members respond to similar questions that include how the M s used for class prepara- tion, whether using it has changed their attitude toward teaching, and how the Mac has affected productivity. The value of the Drexel study may be broadened by other re- search proposed at Boston Col- lege that would determine the changes in learning and study habits of students and in teach- ing and testing styles of If several universities partici- pate in these surveys, the con- clusions may give a clearer pic- ture of the impact of the personal computer in academic settings.—Peter Oliviert, Apple University Consortium Newsletter Mac Toots Its Own Horn The potential of the Mag asa musical instrument was recog- nized by Macworld Publisher David Bunnell when he com, missioned organist David Kel- sey to write Macintosh music for the Macworld Exposition in San Francisco in February Known for his innovative and sometimes outrageous work on keyboard instruments, Kelsey chose to compose his piece using AlusicWorks from Hay- den Software, He hadn't used a Mac before. MusicWorks au- thor Mare Canter heard about the project and flew to San Francisco from Chicago to lend some technical assistance. ter also previewed Advanced MusicWorks, which allows lengthier compositions than the original version and fea- tures other enhancements as well. In another musical develop- ment Ted Lane, faculty member of the Department of Music at California State University, Sac- ramento (CSUS ), commis- sioned a work for Macintosh and clarinet. The piece, entitled Suite for Ted/Mac, was per- formed at a CSUS concert in February. An assistant cued the Macintosh while Lane played the clarinet. One of the high- lights of the suite is a cader for the Macintosh. The piece was composed by Jackson Berkey, composer for the musi- cal ensemble Fresh Aire, using MusicWorks, Lane suggests that personal computers will widen the pub- lic’s understanding and appre- ciation of music. A Mac owner can use a program like Music- Works and listen selectively to the various elements of a piece, starting with a single voic then adding more voices, layer upon layer, Because Lane eagerly em- braces the advent of personal computers in music, he thinks he is in a minority among his colleagues. Lane believes that personal computers can help professional musicians express their ideas. For example, per- forming musicians do not usu- ally receive extensive training in composition. Writing down musical ideas tends to be a dif- ficult and time-consuming task for those musicians. A program such as MusicWorks not only allows them to experiment and compose more easily than with pen and paper but also lets: them hear the results immediately. Lane predicts that the per- sonal computer's ability to tele- communicate music will lead to exciting collaborative efforts and a freer exchange of musical ideas among people at all lev- els—from the professional to the novice.—Jeffrey Glines Organist David Kelsey tses the Mac to store and print musical scores and to manage the brstiess aspects of bis career, Macworld 33 Macworld View Portable Journalism Atthe University of / banks, Department of ‘Jour- nalism and Broadcasting, the image of a reporter pounding outa late night story on a type- wr ndl calling it in toa busy new s changed. George Winford’s 85 jour- nalism students carry Radio Shack Model 100s into the field and telecommunicate their sto- ries to a Macintosh. When Win- ford decided to introduce his students to computers, he didn’t want computerphobia to ct the students from writ- ing. Winford emphasizes that the department's job is to teach writing, not computer science. Winford selected the Mac for the classroom because of its ease of use and graphics capa- bilities. The Model 100, on the other hand, is easily carried to press conferences and other lo- cations. Both computers have better local dealer support than other personal comput- ers—important not only if you're way up north but also if you are a journalist in the field May 1985 Students write their articles on the Model 100s and telecom- municate them via modem to their instructors’ Macintoshes. Back in the classroom the stu- dents rewrite the stories on the Mac and add graphics. They use MacPaint and clip art such as Mac the Knife. The use of il- lustrations is emphasized in the department’s course on typog- raphy and publication design. To enable students to com- plete the transformation of field notes into a published story, the department plans to have a cus- tomized user interface for its Lisa that will enable students to typeset on the Compugraphic 8400. The plan fits in with Win- ford’s objective of keeping stu- dents focused on writing and the publishing process rather than on the coding involved in most typesetting, —Heidi Mitchell Voila! A New Product The Lisa 2/10 has been re- named the Macintosh XL, Ap- parently Mac shoppers have been asking dealers for a Mac with a built-in hard dis! larger screen, and the ca- pability to handle multiple s. The Lisa 2/10 offers these ign features, but the com- puter is not well known to Mac dealers or owners. The Macin- tosh XL comes with a 12-inch screen and 512K of memory, ex- pandable to 1 megabyte. A built-in hard disk offers up to 10 megabytes of storage space, which means that XL owners. can build larger databases and Knowledge worker with Macintosh XI. spreadsheets and run other ap- plications such as UD ed programs. Although the other two Lisa models, the Lisa 2 and the Lisa 2/5, will be phased out, Apple has designed software that will allow Lisa owners to transfer files created with 7/7 business softy tosh applications. 1 re ta Macin- WRITE THAT TOP 40 HIT YOU'VE ALWAYS DREAMED OF. With MusicWorks you can compose music directly on your Macintosh™ and hear the results instantly. Even if you can't read a note, you can easily use MusicWorks to produce professional musical scores, You compose on a seven- and-a- half octave grid that corresponds to the keys of a piano. Use your mouse to place “notes” on the grid. As you place them, you hear them. When you've got your song the way you want it, MusicWorks can transform your grid into a musical staff, insert the proper musical notation, and print it out in a professional format which any musician can follow. If you already know musical notation, you can compose directly on a staff. Use the mouse to place your notes, to select the meter and key signatures, and to listen to your music instantly. Either way, grid or staff, if you make a mistake or want to change something, simply erase and edit. You can play back your whole MUSICWORKS™ BRINGS OUT THE MUSIC IN YOU. File Edit Options Instruments Variations by playing classical and popular Grid a Staff Panel selections. ff1 Master Score MusicWorks is part of the Meter Hayden HeadStart Program which TRIITSITE dated allows schools to accumulate points toward free computers, moe [slyie). en ts, : NEICACACHEREALY BEE Co peripherals, and software. Buy J MusicWorks, and your school will receive 50 HeadStart Points. MusicWorks, Only $79.95. 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Business software more powerful than a file manager —_A Relational Database Management System For example, MacLion’s screen generator lets you write an order Only MacLion has it’s very own, easy-to-use development entry system in a single day, with multiple relation access for both language structured to create multiple relational applications. inputting and retrieving data. ‘That's why MacLion alone has the power to generate business Or build an entire invoicing system in a mornine’s time using programs to your specifications, on your Macintosh. MacLion’s report generator, You can even change 5-digit ZIP codes Yet Macl.ion is modestly priced at $379. If it fails to live up to 9-digit monsters in ALL files with one simple instruction. to our claims, simply return it within 30 days to the place of MacLion fully exploits the mouse, pull-down menus, icons, purchase for a full refund. help, dialogue boxes, etc., in helping you to create databases. Compare MacLion with the competition and you'll forgive us for calling it the King of the database jungle. ee eve illo CGLSD coMpureR SOFTWARE DESIGNS INC acinar deaf Ail ead Sen iid 1904 Wright Circle, Anaheim, California 92806 Circle 660n reader service card eeeeeooeeee By combining the no- frills accuracy of Mi- crosoft Chart with the visual flair of Mac- Paint, you can make graphs represent more than numbers on a page. Figures doct- menting the deploy- ment of nuclear weap- ons hit home when you show how large they loom. | Getting Started Sculpting New Columns You don’t always have to settle for the heavy black stakes Chart provides in its column and bar graphs (column graphs have vertical bars; bar graphs have horizontal bars). If the subject is right for it, turn the columns or bars into symbols—symbols that represent the idea you're charting. For example, if you are graph- ing the yield of a series of oil fields, you can turn the columns into stacks of oil barrels. The taller the col- umn, the higher the stack of barrels, This kind of chart, called a pictograph, is ideal when you need to convey your point as quickly as possible or don’t plan to use legends or captions. Charting the deployment of a particular type of nuclear missile is another example of a subject beg- ging for a pictograph. As shown in the figures that fol- low, the columns are replaced by missiles, The size of each missile is different, depending on the height of the original column. : Nuclear Deployment Order: [1 (] Plot Series Year Tonnage (million 10 18) 16: 12.5 2q Kel] 7 Tonnage (millions) 10 1950 1955 Nuclear Deployment 1965 Year 1960 1970 1975 1980 42 May 1985 Figure 1-1 After starting Microsoft Chart, choose a com- mand from the Data menu to create a new series (the Date com- mand was used here). In the box that ap- pears, name the data series and provide X and axis labels. En- ter the data in the se- ries window, Figure 1-2 Chart automatically chooses the simple col- umn graph when it Starts up; you can change the graph type by selecting another type from the Gallery menu. For this exam- ple the column graph is exactly what you want. Copy Chart to Clipboard @ As Shown on Screen © As Shown when Printed (0K) «~( Cancel J Tonnage (rnillions) 1950 Nuclear Deployment 1955 1960 1965 1970 1975 1980 Year h Figure 1:3 To capture an image of the graph to modify with MacPaint, choose the Copy Chart com- mand from the Edit menu. A dialog box asks how you went to save a copy of the graph; choose As Shown on Screen and Figure 1-4 Save the graph, quit Chart, and start Mac- Paint. Don't turn the Mac off or you'll erase the copy of the graph that's stored in the Clipboard. Once you're in MacPaint, choose Paste from the Figure 1-5 Use the grabber (band) tool or the Show Page command to move the drawing window toa blank part of the page, then create the pic tograph symbol shown bere. Whenever pos- sible, the symbol should be slightly wider than the bars Macworld = 43 click the OK button. The As Shown when Printed option can't be used with MacPaint because the graph is usually t00 big to fit in MacPaint’s drawing window: Edit menu. Afier a few seconds, the graph ap- pears in the MacPaint window: Since you'll be experimenting, place a copy of the graph in the Serap- book for safekeeping. columns in the graph. Here the fin-to-fin width is a fow hairs wider than the col- ums, Make the sym- bol as short as pr sible; you'll be stretching or stacking it to the correct tengih dater, WB Getting Started 20 15 Tonnage 19 (enittions) H 5 k 1950 1955 Nuclear Deployment 1960 1965 1970 Year 1975 1980, Nuclear Deployment Tonnage (millions) 1950 1955 1960 1965 1970 1975 1980 7 Year Nuclear Deployment Tonnage (minions) 1950-1955 1960 1965 1970 Year 1975 1980 44 May 1985, Figure 1-6 Once you finish draw- ing the symbol, sur- round tt with the marquee and choose Cut from the Edit menu, Move the win- dow back to the graph, paste a symbol at the base of the leftmost column, and click anywhere outside the marquee. Figure 1-7 Surround the top por- tion of the symbol with the marquee; you'll be stretching just the mid- section, not the whole symbol. Take care not to include a piece of the column or any other part of the graph Figure 1-8 Place the pointer along the top line of the marquee. The pointer should still be arrow-shaped. Hold down the Shift, Option, and & keys simul- taneously and drag the pointer upward. The symbol will stretch. Release the mouse bution and the keys when the tip of the symbol reaches the top of the column. Nuclear Deployment Tonnage (millions) 1950 «1955 1960 «1965 1970 «1975 1980 Year Nuclear Deployment 20 1S Tonnage (millions) Ss o 1950 1955 1960 1965 1970 1975 1980 Year Figure 1-9 Repeat the stretching procedure for each column in the graph. if Jou make a mistake while modifying a cot- umn, use the Undo command and start over. The upper-left key on the keyboard is a handy Undo shortcut. Figure 1-10 Compare the chart in Figure 1-2 with the finished chart bere. As you can see, taking an extra 10 or 15 minutes with MacPaint can add considerable impact to a chart, You can use many of the same tech- niques to embellish charts with buildings, pipes, girders, lumber, or other images. But don't overdecorate a chart; a busy graph loses its effectiveness. Macworld rs a | Getting Started Combining Charts and Pictures A favorite graphics trick that many slick newspapers and magazines use is to lay a chart over a picture. Mi- crosoft Chart doesn't let you combine pictures and charts, but with the help of facPaint, the operation is relatively painless. You can enhance a chart with just about any pic- ture, including houses, airplanes, boats, or dollar bills. You can draw the picture yourself with MacPaint, or you can use one of the Mac clip art collections. You can even use the images created with digitizers, like those from Koala, Thunderware, and Micron Technology (see “Pictures to Pixels,” Macworld, April 1985). Don't be afraid to experiment. Try several MacPaint pictures with each chart, and play around with textures, sizes, and placement. 40 30 Cire, (x 1000) 20 © This Year ) Last Year CA WA NY Newspaper Circulation oR NM UT co sD ea 20 fey 13 1! Sy Vy eH City 10 this Year ™ Last Year CA WA NV OR NM UT Newspaper Circulation 46 May 1985 ooeg wooe Gordon McComb is a@ Contributing Editor of Ma ‘oft Chart Microsoft Corp. 10700 Northup Way Bellevue, WA 98004 206% List price; $125 Figure 2-1 Create a graph. Almost any type of graph will do, but bar and col- umn charts work best. Copy the graph, save the document, and exit Chart Figure 2-2 Start MacPaint and paste in the graph, Add refinements to the graph now, such as changing the wpe siyle of the title or making a vertical Y-axis label using the Rotate com: mand. Finish by las- soing the entire chart, choosing the Cut com mand, and pasting the chart into the Scrapbook. my sd A lh Ih ilk l a i i | } | i il mt Liat Newspaper Circulation Cire. (x 1000) WH this Year HB Last Year CA WA NY OR NM UT TX CO SD Figure 2-3 Greate or copy the background art for the chart. This newspaper is from Magnum Soft ware’s McPie! clip art library (each McPic! picture is stored as a separate Scrapbook entry). For this excnr- Figure 2-4 Many drawings are too dark and solid to use as background art for a business chart You can “dim” a draw- ing with the Fill com mand in the Edit meni. Select a light pattern from the pat- tern palette, surround a section of the picture with the lasso, and choose the Fill com mand. Repeat this pro: Figure 2-5 Open the Scrapbook, cut out the graph, and paste tt over the dimmed art. Drag the graph with the arrow: shaped pointer to posi- tion it over the art. When ihe graph is in place, click anywhere outside the shimmer ing image. Conipare the graph in Figure 2-1 with this enbanced Macworld. S ple, the newspaper was copied from the Scrap book with the Cop) command and placed into the MacPaint doc- ument with the Paste command. cedure until the entire image is dimmed. You normally shouldn't lasso the entire picture atonce because youll lose too much detail and end up with a fea- tureless blob. If you bave a steady band, you can also fill black lines or aveas with a lighter pattern using the paint bucket version. In many cases titles and legends aren't necessary, par- ticularly if the chart is for an audience al- ready familiar with the subject matter You can further enbance the graph by adding borders, grids, and the like, but remember to keep it simple. EEE Introducing MACWORLD The Macintosh Magazine The Exciting New Magazine for the World’s Most Creative Personal Computer—the Macintosh At Special Charter Subscriber Rates Save Up to 63% Off the Newsstand Price (when you subscribe for 2 years) Personal computing took a giant leap into the future when Apple introduced the Macintosh. We've created Macworld as your passport into this incredible new realm of computing. 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