MacWorld 8507 July 1985

July 1985 $3.95 Canada $4.95 Mac \ Freedom # How the Macintosh Increases Your Power to Publish Programs for Writers Using MacDraw for Page Makeup and Design Top 10 Business Software “First of the second generation hard disk drives for Macintosh. You need a Macbottom™ hard disk drive to enhance the power and speed of your Macintosh. Macbottom with ten plus megabytes of storage is the fastest disk you can attach to your Macintosh. And more data storage no longer means sacrificing desk space. Macbottom is the only high capacity hard disk drive system that’s two inches high and fits perfectly under your Macintosh. Since it weighs less than five pounds you can take it everywhere you take Mac. 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Getting Started 46 The Writer's Tool Chest Jeremy Joan Hewes Help your writing from initial concept to final draft with a system of outlining, communications, database, and spelling-checker programs— because there's more to writing than just word processing. 57 Get Info Lon Poole Macworla’s tutor answers questions about printing, the keyboard, and other Mac matters. 70 84 94 101 The Macintosh"Magazine Review Publishing Turns an Electronic Leaf Danny Goodman Measuring picas and points will never be the same with three page-makeup programs that range from the merely adequate to the more than capable: ReadySetGo, MacPublisher, and PageMaker. The Mac Goes Pro Forma Bill Grout By enabling you to design, complete, and print forms, Megahaus’s MegaForm can smooth out your paperwork, although you might find a few wrinkles. Mr. CW in ChipWit Caves Sharon Zardetto Aker Programming a robot? Educational software from Brainpower makes a game of it. Macware News Edited by Erfert Nielson Announcements of the latest developments in Macintosh software, hardware, and accessories. 120 130 141 158 169 Hands On Late-Night Layout Gordon McComb Mac private eye Nick Lazlo uses MacDraw for electronic page makeup and lives to tell the tale. Mining the Mac’s Hidden Resources Gordon McComb The desktop, icons, menus—even alert messages and dialog boxes—can be made to order or whim with ResEd or REdit, two free utility programs from Apple. Open Window Edited by Jim Heid The key to Model 100 compatibility, the word on Word, and more Macintosh discoveries. Community A Tale of Two Countries Jeffrey S. Young Between the best of times and the worst of times, the Macintosh has become the avant-garde of French computing but seems bogged down in Britain. A report from both sides of the English Channel tells why. Macworld Gallery Edited by Erfert Nielson An exhibition of Macintosh graphics. 13 25 37 180 181 183 Columns Breaking the 512K Barrier David Bunnell Letters Macworld View Edited by Herschel Schmedick The Mac's Top 10 business programs, in search of the Finder, and other news and notes for the Macintosh community. Indexes Products Advertisers HONE Macworld Directory Like any craft, writing demands certain tools for certain tasks. Start- ing on page 46, read Photo/illustration credits about programs that Jobn Hersey, 38-40; Ed Kashi, 39, 158-164; Jeffery Newbury, ee eae reports, novels, or 120-121; George Steinmetz, 13, he ae 37; Fred Stimson, cover, 70-71; pois. chi bee Rudy VanderLans, 38, 41; Mick rere zine Article. Wiggins, 46-47. MACWORLD Editorial Editor: Kearney Rietmann Associate Editor: Daniel Farber Technical Editor: David Ushijima Assistant Editors: Adrian Mello, Erfert Nielson Editorial Manager: Janet McCandless Senior Copy Editor: Kathleen Christensen Copy Editor: J.B. Arcellana Editorial Secretary: Heidi Mitchell Contributing Editors: Danny Goodman, Jim Heid, Jeremy Joan Hewes, Nicholas Lavroff, Gordon McComb, Lon Poole, Jeffrey S. Young Art Associate Publisher: Jacqueline Poitier Designer: Marjorie Spiegelman Art Director: Brace Charonnat Associate Designer: Dennis McLeod Associate Art Director: Christopher Burg Design Associates: Leslie Barton, Holly Hudson Production Director: Herbert Linden Senior Production Managers: Frances Mann, Lee R. Trevino: Editorial Production Manager: Ellyn L. Hament Prodtiction Editor; James Felici Ad Traffic: Jayne Boyer Telecommunicators: Mark L. Duran, Susan M, Ford Display Advertising Supervisor: Cathy Miller Assistant; Ouo Waldorl Research Director; Cheryl Woodard Manager: Gary Rocchio Publishing Publisher: David Bunnell Special Projects: Jeffrey 8. Glines International: Karen Dowell Assistant: Randi Glaser 4 July 1985 Marketing and Advertising Sales Associate Publisher/Director: James E. Martin Regional Advertis Penny Rigt Northwest/Midwest: Northeast: Lisa Kunin Southeast: Judy Suuer Southern California/Southwest: Michela O'Connor Directoryi¥s-Page Ads: Niki Stranz Advertising Services Manager: Ray Petsche Communications: Noreen A. Browning Assistant: Olivia Tsang ing Manager: ricia Navone Circulation Director: Penny Ertelt Director Single-Copy s George Clark Single-Copy Sales: Bill Cox Dealer Sates: Mary Ruth Kristoff Promotions: Laurie King Fulfillment: Phil Semler ales: Administration Director: Janet McGinnis Accounting: Pat Murphy Facilities: Joseph Wollenweber Personnet: Sarah Cox Assistant to the President: Christina W, Spence — Corporate PC World Communications, Inc. David Bunnell Chairman Bartlett R. Rhoades President & CEO Herbert Linden Vice President Jacqueline Poitier Vice President Cheryl Woodard. 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These selfreproducing components will be about the size of the pe- riod at the end of this sentence. Each one will hold at least 1 megabyte of data. As memory storage devices continue to grow in capacity and shrink in size, someday in- dividuals will have their own complete database containing information gathered from birth. You'll never have to worry about losing a phone number— even if you entered it years ago, it will be only a click a y. And comprehensive medical and educational records will always be at your fingertips. At death our life history databases will be filed in the equivalent of the Library of Congress—on one small chip. What happens to this informa- tion will probably become a major issue among the masses. NENENENININEN, It is thoughts like these that make me impatient with my Mac and its puny 512K of memory. 0 JUST ARRIVED! The first complete desk management program for the Mac. It's here! 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Analyze 5) @ 300 accounts on one 400K d Retail price: $145 Inventory Control The perfect system for’ your retail or wh¢ business. : @ Handles all ey receipts, transfers, ¢ returns, ; ; @ Provides complete audit trails. xtract Ba for spreadsheet : @Tracks stock by units and dollars: How many dollars you have on order, The dollar value of your inventory, sale prices, and profit margins, @ Conirols siock 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 status by typeand locationisgiven. @ Keeps salespeople up-to-date, Price list shows quantity on hand, selling price, sales as and current ayerage cost, @ 1,000 products and 400 purchase orders c on one 400K disk. a Retail Price: $145 / x ae The new Financial Series from Palantir sce mo: than just help you run your business. It helps you manage it, for growth nd profitability, Available from, your relief Software, 12777 Jones Road, ‘Suite 100, — Te fag © PALANTIR _ SOFTWARE SUDDENLY THERE’S NEON” IT PUTS PROGRAMMING IN A WHOLE NEW LIGHT. Hidden within your Mac is the pro- gramming power, flexibility, and speed to match your imagination. Neon is your key to this object-oriented world. Based on the same design philosophy as the Mac itself, Neon lets you create and command objects—program mod- ules that you build, perfect, and add to your personal collection of tools. In this Smalltalk-like environment, you wield the power to quickly assemble and test ideas, tuning as you go for maximum speed and efficiency. Neon is lean and works well in 128K. Dynamic overlays multiply this capacity for the fattest Mac you can use. Neon is easy to work with from the beginning, and quickly puts you at the leading edge of professional software development, With Neon, you're already in the soft- ware business because there are no licensing fees. Ever. If you are about to pro- gram for the first time, you'll appreciate the comprehen- sive manual by Danny Goodman Circle 246 on reader service card that guides you through the commands and concepts. For the professional, Neon is the only choice. Created by Kriya Systems, Inc. for the development of our Typing Tutor III” key- board instruction program, Neon is your answer to software artistry with the Mac. Call 1-800-621-0660 now with Visa or MasterCard, or send your check to Kriya Systems, Inc. 505 N. Lake Shore Drive, Suite 5510, Chicago, IL 60611, (312) 822-0624, to order your copy of Neon, The price is $299. As a special introductory offer, you may purchase Neon and full docu- mentation through June 30, 1985 for $155, including shipping and handling. 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FileMaker™ lets you not only store and organize cot your business information, Aa but manipulate it in limitless eet ways, to create literally any 36 kind of form or report you want. 2 is 5 ge) First of all, FileMaker lets 2.09 you change direction, any time, without redoing everything. It f even lets you start out without a direction. And in addition to doing all the meat-and-potatoes things a database is supposed to do—calcu- lations, summary reports, sorting of all kinds— FileMaker does every- thing you bought your Macintosh™ for. Text editing. Graphics. Pull- down menus. Keyboard commands. Windows. Different fonts, styles and graphic design tools. Your information not only makes more sense, it makes an impression. Any kind you want. With FileMaker, you can even design your own data entry forms, so 50 © 1985 Forethoughe, Inc. FileMaker and MACWARE ore trademarks of Forethought, Inc. MacWrite, MacPaint, Macintosh, Macintosh XL, Macintosh Office Apple Computer, Inc, Microsoft Plan is a trademark of Microsoft Corporation. Jazz i a trademark of Lotus Development Corporation. you can put information in any way you want, without arbitrary limita- tions. And of course, it does all the tricky little things automatically... like indexing every word, number and date for speed searches. Because you design your out- put right on the screen, you can see exactly what you (and your custom- ers) are going to get. And you can create any number of forms for your information to take. So what might have been a dreary order acknowledgement can now be a clear, friendly letter. Or it can be a meaningful comparison of inventory by vendor. Or parts lists, receiving verifications, purchase orders, labels, name badges, rosters and hit lists. With FileMaker, you can pick up from other programs, like Mac- Write’ MacPaint™ MicroSoft Plan™ Jazz*" and share the appli- : h i A Sees cations you’ve created with other eo — ‘And FileMaker takes full wa members of your team. You get all the tools you need to easily consolidate group efforts into one database. advantage of the Macintosh family, including the Macintosh XL™ Macintosh Office™ and LaserWriter™ So for $195 (suggested retail), things could look considerably better for your entire division, department, have to professional practice, retail oper- ation, club, organization, or principality. Contact your Macintosh software dealer for a demonstration, or call 1 800 MACWARE to find out where you can get FileMaker in your area. From Forethought, Inc. MACWARE id Laser Writer are trademarks of ) NTERMISSION FOR THE SERIOUS VIEWER Mousestick Escape with Mousestick Break the routine. Give So get MouseStick for your your serious side time off. Macintosh. And give your Allwithout leaving your desk. serious side a break. With MouseStick’"from Mousestick. From, Video 2" Video 7, Mastery from the masters Call for the dealer Mousestick is the original nearest you: (800) 238-0101, joystick for the Macintosh” in California, (408) 943-0101. Andit’s fromVideo7, masters _MouseStick includes ajo of video enhancements for Apple” computers. Friend, not foe MouseStick works with any software on any size Macintosh. It’s armed with a dual plug, so mouse and MouseStick take you from office to castle and back, Circle 300 on reader service card without even flipping a switch. PR, ‘rtp IL, LCH}2¢ lhe iS Slate Of C} SUASion PageMaker aker™ De iktop Publishing atch some Tead, d Invented Pagel 9¢Maker CAN give ; PrONOSAIS, presenta) “sletters and: eC | 4 0a ard atentgn 90 ite Arch News SIOUE OF nro, ting Y%p Architectural Design 5Slonal} Nally designe and el py ali : ‘ations, Withour the \Valuo is what the 1985 SOA National ‘Seminar in Atlanta is about — and i's ‘what you'l ind in greater quanty and ‘greater quality than ever belore at the Conven tion's 1985 SOA Exhibit of New Technology and Product. ‘The biggest convention exhibit in SOA history will present you with a demanding challenge: Find away to | The Anol Dormers: decide which products, services and | A rettospecive lok More MOP about hoy, technologies you want to leam more | at 19th Century tn your ty, PageMaker about ormers atthe MACINOSH ing er can Seattle Architectural in-house pu NO 8 low-cost Computer Technology Gallery through > Ublishing cente “Ost, ‘Software, Hardware January 12. YD TOF you ap renter that speak. Contract Fumiture Your Mapp ur Company, « Interiors, Exteriors Macint ANY. See Practice Systems (Oday Or ¢ deal You'l find it all, plus a convention Master Architect Schedule that ots you eee al atthe Pagena ‘ 4885 SOA Display of New Products The man featured in this month's issue ans Design. may well be one of Vancouver's best kept secrets. You may not know his face, but if you live in Vancouver you know his work - that is, if you've ever visited Simon Frasy v Conterences, seminars, worksho} May 21-28: 25th Annual Meeting. Cop The Soclety of Architects, 1400 New York Avenue, Wash, DC 20006 June 10: Deadina, call for 500-word abstracts, “Designing and Managing ‘Commercial Buildings: An Intensive Workshop.” ‘June 25: American Intemational Solar Conference and Exhibition Thomas Convention Center, pest Call (208) 555-1919 foe dotale ans register ea foe the 1965 SOA National Seminar Maren 92,0 ‘tara Architect, and he has ca Vancouver home for most 6 While the layperson may’ recognize his face or name, durin remarkable and prolific career. spanning more than 30 years, Arthur Erickson has received dozens of of honorary degrees and virtually every major professional and personal award. To list them all would take pages, but they include the Man of the ‘Year award, 1972; the Tau Sigma Gold Medal for excellence in Design, Ths poe was crewed wih Aldus PageMaker andthe Apple LaserW ler printer, Introducing QUICKWORD PI Ma Word on its ear while saving you lots of time! Now typing 24,6-Dimethylbenzoxide, For the party of the first,.,’or“Sincerely yours,’ can be as easy as typing an A,BorG. Quickword lets you create multiple abbreviations tables for phrases of up to 50 characters. Whether speed typed or thoughtfully entered, Quickword will translate y abbreviations “on the Fly” into their full meaning within your documents. So if you're interested in cutting your typing time in half, see your authorized Apple Computer dealer today, You'll wonder how you ever got along without it. Requires a 128K, 512K or XL Macintosh Price: $59.95 For the name of your nearest Quickword "or Quick, Introducing QUICKPAINT: rather than hours, Simply use Quickpaint’s™ “miniview” feature to locate any of the drawings that come with Quickpaint or to find drawings from any other popular clip art product. Then blow it up for full screen viewing and editing. You can cut, paste, edit and erase selected parts or copy the entire picture into other drawings or documents. And Quickpaint™ does this all from whatever application you're working in! To see how Quickpaint™ can help enhance the state of your art, stop by your authorized Apple Computer dealer today, You'll wonder how you ever got along without it. Requires a 128K, 512K or XL Macintosh Price: $49.95, ‘dealer call (800) 556-2283. For more information call (415) 543-7644 (Emtiwws Smt Inc. 410 Townsend Street San Francisco, CA 94107 Circle 218 on reader service card Letters Haunting Memory I recently had my Mac up- graded to 512K by M: 2ch and am very pleased with both the quality of the workmanship and the service. | do, however, have some misgivings. In the weeks since I had the upgrade done, | have twice read about an upcoming ROM upgrade from Apple. Having saved a few hundred bucks by not getting the Apple upgrade, 1 now fear that when the ROM upgrade comes, I'll have a digi- tal board that will not be ac- cepted as a trade-in. Obviously, only Apple Com- puter will be able to offer the ROM upgrade. | cannot believe that Apple will accept boards: that have been modified by an- other company in exchange for factory-built boards with the new ROM. On the other hand, if dealers will be able to replace the ROM in their own shops, I probably don’t have anything to worry about. Warren Michelsen Page, Ar The Price of Piracy The computer industry is going to have to do a better job of dealing with software piracy. Most of us have enjoyed the use ofan unauthorized copy ofa program and won't think twice about doing so until the bene- fits and costs of piracy change. The friendliness of Macintosh software makes it rewarding to pirate because paper docu- mentation is almost unneces- sary. The practice of making unauthorized copies is so wide- spread that developers of the best software have no as- surance of recapturing their in- vestment. Developers who ad- dress the problem with copy protection only irritate user: and don’t really prevent piracy. The only other solution is to put some teeth in the software copyright laws. A law with penalties of ten times damages and bounty of five times damages, with privacy pro- tected, may be draconian, but it would be acceptable if it al- lowed us to get what we really want at a price we can afford. If piracy is almost eliminated, the software industry needs to adjust its marketing strategy with a two-tiered pricing and li- censing policy for business and personal users. The software industry makes money in the busine: ctor, and most pi- rated software is for personal use. Most nonbusiness users can’t justify paying the high prices that are profitable for de- velopers. Together, a two-tiered policy and tough legislation would improve the income of developers and the productiv- ity of users by protecting copyrights, opening up the legal market, and making obstructive copy-protection schemes unnecessary. Russell P. Davis Virginia Beach, Virginia Disks of No Return Can you believe Microsoft's contest [ Macworld, March ? It only costs each time you ente could afford to return the disks and should, with copies of the winning programs. The contest appears to be a Microsoft scam to get free dis! nkly, im embarrassed that a company like Microsoft would offer such paltry contest prizes. The total value of the non-Microsoft prizes is less than $7000, retail. Hence, after a mere 1750 en- wies, the company is making money, Perhaps your disk will be put to good purpose after Microsoft erases the program on which you so patiently labored. Gary Torgrimson Seattle, Washington Room to Review I received the March issue of «+ Macworld and was once again disappointed by the small number of product reviews. I am upset particularly by the lack of coverage given to ap- plication programs because a magazine such as yours is the only way I can get an objective evaluation Considering all the blank space in your magazine, I would think it would be easy to fit more reviews into the same number of pages. If something has to go, | for one could do without reviews of games, the philosophically oriented col- umns, and the articles about how people are using Macintoshes. Robert L. St. Paul, Minnesota Your point about the need for more product reviews is well taken. Infact, a new Mac- world department dedicated to reviews begins next month.—Ed. Most Likely to Succeed Today I read “Macs Are for Kids Too" [Note Pad, Macworld, March 1985]. | ama 9th-grade student taking art and technical drafting as elective courses, and I would like to inform you that we have one Macintosh in each of those classe: In drafting | am doing a proj- ect on the Mac that | did earlier on the drawing board. The Mac drawing will be used by my teacher in comparison with the pencil drawing for a computer progress report that he must submit at the end of the year, Although I am very familiar Macworld = 25 Maccessories. Gv ways toi mprove the performance of your Macintosh. 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. [2] 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. [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® ata 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] Tilt/Swivel Gives you the flexibility to tilt and swivel your Macintosh to the view- ing angle most convenient for you. The solution to a glaring problem. Made exclusively for Kensington by Polaroid? it protects your eyes by reducing reflected screen glare by up to 99%. Also improves screen con- trast. Easy to install. Disk Case & Disk Pocket Provides safe storage for 36 Macin- tosh disks. Comes with a packet of spare disk labels. Also includes a handy Disk Pocket for safe transpor- tation of up to 5 disks. Dust Covers Protect your system from the ele- ments, Anti-static dust covers for Macintosh, Macintosh XL, Image - Writer and External Disk Drive. A safe, clean place to keep your Mouse when not in use, Attaches to the side of your Macintosh. Fits under the Maccessories Dust Cover. [10] Mouse Cleaning Kit Minas) wn A full year's supply of the cleaning materials you'll need to keep your mouse rolling at top speed. Also in- cludes the Mouse Pocket. [11] Disk Drive Cleaning Kit A full year’s supply of the cleaning materials you'll need to keep your drives running smoothly. [12] Graphic Accents A collection 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. Circle 11 on reader service card {13} Professional Type Fonts Styled after the most popular type faces in the publishing industry. Type Fonts for Text contains 16 fonts in sizes 12 to 24 point. Type Fonts For Headlines (for the 512K Mac) contains the same fonts in sizes 24 to 72 point. Including ver- sions of Times Roman, Helvetica, Optima, Futura, and a dozen others. Also available: Swivel {15] Portable Modem Travelling Disk Case For more information, contact Kensington Microware, 251 Park Avenue South, New York, NY 10010. (212) 475-5200. Tx: 467383 KML NY. Ke KENSINGTON* BY. MICROWARE ‘Trademarks: Maccessories/ Kensington Microware Ltd., Apple Macintosh, Imagewriter, AppleTalk, LaserWriter, MacPaint/ Apple Computes, Inc; Polatoid/Polaroid Corp; Fonts by XIPHIAS, ©: 1985 Kensington Microware Ltd. Letters with the Mac, my limited draft- ing skills prevent me from doing more sophisticated proj- ects such as designing an en- ergy-efficient house, which two 13th-grade architecture stu- dents did. Inart I have drawn many spectacular pictures using MacPaint., (use it to help plan designs for other projects, which would take much longer manually. Indeed, the Mac en- hances creativity; people who would not think about staying after school to work on art now race to be able to draw pictures on the Mac. In my school we have four Macs: one for art, one for draft- ing, one used by the secretaries to design newsletter cove: and one used by the principal for administrative purposes. We also have Apple IIs, but they are not used as eagerly or as cre- atively as the Mac is. Moni Islam Ottawa, Ontario Canada Accelerated Enthusiasm My first serious introduction to the Macintosh was through the premier issue of Macworld. As a graphic designer lam very critical of printed material. Vi- sually, Macworld is fabulous. When it arrives at my office, everyone stands around wait- ing for me to unveil it. The coy- ers are beautifully executed, and the reader is immediately drawn to the key topics. And its oversized format is a definite plus, making it easily recogniz- able on any magazine rack. Typography is an important element to Macworld, ex- emplified by the consistent bal- ance of size, weight, and style in all aspects of text, headlines, and graphics. The flush-left, rag-right copy adds to the friendly quality inherent in the Macintosh, Justified type would seem rigid and formal. The matte paper on which Mac- world is printed is a refreshing change from conventional glossy stock. As for the interior of the magazine, a commenda- ble integration of editorial and visual content is apparent throughout, Lisa Marks-Ellis Evanston, Illinois Apples and Oranges We've all heard the praise heaped upon the Macintosh since its introduction. Now it’s time to hear about a lesser- known machine, one that I call the MacLemon. I'm quite qualified to write about the MacLemon. I have one, During the past nine months I have had a bad speaker, a bad logic board on the Imagewriter, the CRT re- placed, a dead mouse, and three power supply modules; now I'm attempting to figure out how I can get around melt- ing and then bending the arm on each new ribbon cassette I buy so I can feed cut-sheet pa- per. Currently the cassettes press against the platen, block- ing the paper path. Of course, this situation is unique to the MacLemon. { know | will continue to hear how fantastic the Macin- tosh is. But remember: every time you turn on your mar- velous machine, there are a few poor souls who have the Mac- Lemon, who know what cour- age it takes just to flip on that little power switch. Daniel Nign IT Sierra Madre, California Think, Don’t Drive Apple doesn't know how to sell Macintoshes. Unfortunate, but true. Other computer com- panies don't know how to sell computers either. Computer companies are selling comput- ers the same way you sell a car. The emphasis is on engineer- ing and appearance. Because of the way comput- ers are promoted, most people are making purchase decisions ExperTelligence™ has the “tools” to transform your Macintosh™ into a powerful Artificial Intel- ligence workstation. ExperLisp™ is the first com- plete implementation of LISP on a microcomputer. Developed on a Symbolics 3600™, the compiler gener- ates efficient MC68000 code providing speed and function ideal for the development and delivery of sophisticated Al applications. ExperOPS5,™ by Sci- ence Applications International Corporation, is a com- plete implementation of the well-known OPS5 expert systems building tool. It provides a fast and efficient method for constructing complex Expert Systems. Circle 56 on reader service card 28 July 1985 ExperLogo™ features 3-D and spherical graphics, English-like commands and shares the speed and function of ExperLisp. In the classroom or in the lab, ExperLogo provides an environment for discovery and exploration for children and developers alike. Call today for more information about these and other innovative Al products. 4s: Macintosh is a trademark licensed to Apple Computer, Inc. Symbolics 3600 is a registered trademark of Symbolies, Inc. ExperTelligence, Inc. 559 San Ysidro Road Santa Barbara, CA 93108 Tel: 805/969-7871. 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 ‘The Macintosh keyboaed slides right into MacCharlie’s keyboard. About as easy as slipping a letter in an envelope. 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, IBM letter-quality printers can be easily used with Macintosh Furthermore, MacCharlie Macintosh sets smugly Once you plug in MacCharlie’s 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. beside MacCharlie, on power and keyboard cords, ‘ custom-fit pedestal you're ready to enjoy a very happy marriage How does it happen? As easily as square inches to Macintosh’s computer store. Suggested retail price slipping on penny loafers. | physique. for the 256K single disk drive model In mere moments, MacCharlie In short, one of life's most is only $1195, and just $1895 for the combines the best features of the perplexing decisions—whether to 640K dual disk drive version. world’s premier personal computers. buy a Macintosh or an IBM PC— For more information, call And despite the fact that it can now be made with the greatest Operator 15 toll-free, | turns one computer into two, of ease. 1-800-531-0600. (In Utah, | MacCharlie adds but a handful of Ask for MacCharlie at your local call 801-531-0600.) MacCharie offers 256K RAM, with optional upgrade 10 Ga0K RAM: 360K disk drive. and optional second disk deve TM ie ‘THE BEST OF BOTH WORLDS, MacCharlie isa product of Dayna Communications, 50.5. Main, Salt Lake City, Utah 84144 Apple a trademark of Apple Computer, ln. Macintosh & a trademark lcased to Apple Computer, foc IBM 18. fester trademark of International Business Machines Corporation. Circle 232 on reader service card Letters backward. First they look for the machine that is most powerful and comes with a good maintenance contract. Then they buy the most recom- mended or popular software. Finally, they take it all home and try to learn how to use the computer. That's where the problems begin. The choice of which com- puter to buy should be the last decision, not the first. People should first examine how they think, write, and analyze and work with data, Next they should pick the software that best fits their personal cog- nitive style. Only then are they ready to pick the hardware to run the software. Your brain has an individual bias in the way it perceives, stores, pro- cesses, and transmits informa- tion. Your computer had better be brain-compatible or you are fighting yourself, Software designers and com- puter companies hayen't done a very good job of matching their products to people's cognitive except Apple, which has inds of computers that could cover the spectrum. But Apple doesn't know how to market its computers. People in the industry talk about “user-friendly” charac- teristics, but primarily in the context of person-machine in- terface. I'm talking more about a brain-program interface. People should no longer have to change the way they think in order to use a computer and its programs. A computer doesn’t have to be an electronic brain, but it should present informa- tion in ways that can easily be appreciated by the brain. The potential of the Macintosh technology ¢ nitive compatibility has never been described in an Apple ad, T hope that Apple will quit emu- lating the advertising used by other computer companies. People should be given the kind of information that they a/ or Cog: need to make the right decision for themselves. Loren D. Crane Kalamazoo, Michigan Xtra Lamentable My office was an early pur- chaser of the Lisa (back when it was 310,000), and we have many important applications on the basic Lisa tools. About six months ago we bought a 2/10 upgrade in order to take advantage of the purported greater speed and so that we could use MacWorks, gaining access to the software being created for the Mac. The up- grade has been a disaster, and Apple deserves to be publicly lambasted for it. As it turns out, very few Mac- atall intosh programs can wor on the with MacWorks ditionally, something about ei- ther the upgrade hardware or the 7/7 software causes the r chine to deteriorate over the course of a few weeks into a useless blob. The problem 1 starts with absurdly slow print- ing in both the Mac and Lisa modes and degenerates to crashing the Profile (the Lisa hard disk) and crashing under every Mac program. Continued attempts by the dealer to repair and replace hardware elements, along with a new version of the 7/7, have helped for only a few weeks before the degeneration resumes. Tam thoroughly disgusted. One of the major reasons I pur- chased a Mac so quickly we I could use it with our Lisa Considering my experience, | now remain committed to Ap- ple only for financial reasons. Robert W. Gilstein Lakeville, Massachusetts Letters should be sent to Let ters, Macworld, 555 De Haro St., San Francisco, CA 94107, or sent electroni CompuServe 71 The Source E , 702 or AN ERGONOMI WORKSTATION FOR Sa ipol ran, Ine, Mac sa trademark of Ergotron, Ine ark licensed to Apple Computer, Inc. Circle 83 on reader service card 32 July 1985 QUICKSET AND STAY ORGANIZED FOREVER. Quickset. The complete multifunctional desk manager and organizer designed specifically for the Macintosh. It works the same way that you and your Mac do. With icons, words, numbers and symbols. New Power For Your Mac Quickset works concurrently with most other Macintosh programs. You won't have to interrupt your work-in-progress to schedule a meeting, jot down a fresh idea, or pause to figure out how much you still owe on your yacht. There's Flexibility Quickset works where and when you want it to. It's modular design allows you to customize the Quickset applications according to the demands of your work. Icons and Words Quickset’s Notefiler, Cardex and Calendar all come complete with their own individual set of icons to reference and index all of your personal information, reminders and notes. Scheduling events, categorizing notes and indexing rolodex entries is now as easy as clicking an icon. Numbers and Symbols ‘Two professional calculators with several built in financial and statistical functions that let you set the precision, select the mode and perform calculations such as Internal Rate of Return, Net Present Value, Amortization, Standard Deviation, Linear Estimation, etc. All at breath-taking speed. There's Security Keep any file from any Macintosh program “leak” proof with Quickset’s Encryptor. More than just a simple password device, the Encryptor is a sophisticated no-nonsense approach towards information security. Start getting organized forever ‘Try out Quickset at your authorized Apple Computer dealer today. You'll wonder how you ever got along without it. Requires a 128K, 512K or XL Macintosh — Price: $99.95 For the name of your nearest Quickset dealer call (800) 556-2283. For more information call 415) 543-7644 ENTERSET, INC. 410 TOWNSEND STREET SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94107 Circle 251 on reader service card How to design and produce the perfect page in 15 minutes Get ReadySetGo™ Because ReadySetGo auto- mates page design and production, turning your Mac into a professional publishing system. It’s ideal for any project requiring page layout, like a pre- sentation, newsletter, report, form, Build pages dynamically from blocks contain- ing text or graphics. Move the blocks around the page and resize with the mouse. There’s a ruler for visual posi- tioning but a uni- que specification sheet gives each block’s exact design and allows very accurate positioning not pos- sible with the mouse alone. Keyboard text from scratch or bring it in from other Mac programs. Hither way, you get full text edit- ing features with the abili- ty to change font, style and size at any point. ReadySetGo supports all Mac fonts including real typefaces like Times™ and Helvetica™ and all sizes 1 thru 99. When you edit text or resize a block, the display instantly updates and text automatically refits the block. Use graphics blocks to make frames, solids or pictures, And bring in graphics from other Mac programs. Move and resize graphics blocks just like text blocks. eadySeitGo Create a page of any standard size and use show page for a scaled view of the entire page. Show page updates continuously as your work progresses. Store pages on disk as full documents or as layouts which can be used for fu- ture projects. Print finished pages on the ImageWriter™ or on the Laser- Writer™ for superb publication quality output. At just $125 ReadySetGo is truly the first of its kind. Visit your local dealer or call us at 212-989-6442 for the store nearest you. The Ultimate Page Processor’ ReadySetGo requires a 512K Mac. ReadySetGo and “The Ultimate Page Processor” are trademarks of Manhattan Graphics Corporation. ImageWriter and LaserWriter are trademarks of Apple Computer, Inc. Times and Helvetica are trademarks of Allied Corporation. ©1985 Manhattan Graphics Corporation, 163 Varick Street, New York, NY, 10013. 212-924.2778. ...and a page you can use to share your ideas “The only software product I would have paid more for’ Nancy Taub, Manager Technical Documentation, Chemical Bank, New York, NY “T use ReadySetGo regularly for my newsletters. . . it’s remarkably easy to use and it’s simple to construct precise layouts.” David Kosiur, Research Geochemist, Chevron Oil, La Habra, CA “As a graphic designer, I find the ‘save layout only’ option is a dream come true” i Jane D. Kunzman, me Kunzman Studio, Somerville, NJ eC al V “The program encourages good design by making it almost effortless to create and modify page layouts.” Brian Arel, Graphic Design Consultant, Fitchburg, MA “What I appreciate most about ReadySetGo is the ease and speed of creating formats and the ability to insert photographs and immediately see them in place.’ John Lutz, Director of College Printing, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH “For me ReadySetGo marks , the beginning :; of the ‘personal publishing’ revolution.” Tony Gluck, President, ; . Libra Press, et( O London, England The Ultimate Page Processor Attention ReadySetGo users! We're considering publishing a ReadySetGo users newsletter on this page, featuring you, your ReadySetGo projects and tips on page processing. Please send your ideas and suggestions to Manhattan Graphics, 163 Varick Street, New York, NY 10013. Circle 2 on reader service card zanss § ‘eaHMOn S06L ABYnuad “Good grades: The report cards are in. And OverVUE has earned high marks among data- REPORT CARD bases forits mind boggling OVERVUE speed, its incredible range of features and its amazing fopopo] Ba power. Now we could = SS elaborate on these things Documentation oo ourselves. But we figure youd rather hearit straight from the experts who make out the grades — Reported INFOWORLD, April 1, 1988: "OverVUE is rich in features that rank it with the more sophisticated databases available for the Macintosh...the more we worked with it, the more we came to respect Over VUES power and capabilities, not to mention its speed" According to MACWORLD January, 1985: “OverVUEis a fascinating program. A cross between a data base manager and an elec- tronic spreadsheet....Its ability to share data with Multiplan makes it a must for serious financial work" At, February, 1985 said: “OverVUEis Macintosh software the way it was meant to be. ...Speed Demon. ...geared especially for lightning fast performance. .Extremely easy to master” PERSONAL COMPUTING, February, 1985 wrote: “OverVUE can execute almost all of its commands in the blink of an eye, or two blinks at the most. ...Its speed and math capabilities go well beyond what most personal computer data base programs have achieved. ...it definitely can make the Mac you already have a much more useful tool’ Apple placed OverVUE on its demanding “MUST BUY” List, November, 1984: “Does more with less effort than anything we've ever seen. ...A Gem’ Stated CLUB MAC, September, 1984: ‘Iknow ofno other data base that can touch it. ...Lots of power here. No doubt about it, this is a sweet system. ...It sets a behavioral standard for programs in its class” Praised MACAZINE, December, 1984: ‘It may be the best money you've ever spent....The amount of pure data analysis one can do with their files is mind boggling. ...This is the Macintosh at its best Well, there you have it. We could have filled up pages with quotes like these, but we think you get the picture. Obviously, we're not the only ones who think OverVUEis termific. An enormous number of aunasse knowledgeable experts feel pretty ‘ much the same way. So, dont you think it's high time you tested OverVUE yourself? Call or write for more information: OverVUE" OverVUE Overll IP) | ProVUE™ Development Corporation 222 22nd Street « Huntington Beach, CA 92648 « (714) 969-2431 Circle 77 on reader service card Macworld View The Finder’s latest incarnation, COBOL comes to Cupertino, public-domain masterpieces, and more Edited by Herschel Schmedick The Macintosh community is expanding rapidly, and I've come across some interesting items to share with you. With over 300,000 Macs delivered and more on the way, I sus- pect that many of you have had some strange or en- lightening encounters with the Mac. Or perhaps you've heard of someone else’s unique ex- perience with the Macintosh. Your contributions are wel- come; Macworld pays up to $50 for each item published. Send your contributions to Maeworld View, 555 De Haro St., San Francisco, CA 94107. I look forward to hearing from you. Macworld 37 Lives of the Finder Tran into Macintosh program- mer Steve Capps about noon at Apple's Cupertino headquar- ters, dressed in his usual jeans and white shirt and wearing his trademark raster shoes—canvas loafers with black and white squares resembling a raster screen. He had just arrived from an all-night session work- ing on a new version of the Finder. Before Capps releases a ver- sion of the Finder to his bat- talion of testers, he christens im with a new name, swizzle, Spandex, afu, and Sysiphus. s he had an unex- plained preference for S’s while working on a new Finder. The prerelease version Capps dem- onstrated, named Stalemate, has several new features, Here are the highlights: © The Finder I saw is much faster than the original version. Opening or closing an applica- tion from the desktop takes about 15 seconds compared to about 30 seconds with the old Finder, In addition there is a “quick” Finder called the Mini- Finder. You can place up to 12 applications or documents ina special MiniFinder window. When you double-click on an application or a document (or select the file and click the Open button), the program ap- pears on the screen in about 5 seconds. © The File menu contains a New Folder command that, true to its name, creates a new folder. Since the Empty Folder icon no longer ts, you don't have to make a copy of the Empty Folder to get a new folder. © With the original Finder you had to display files as icons to move documents or applica- tions around the desktop, put them in the trash, move them to other di or rename them. The new Finder lets you make those modifications from any of the View menu options. @ A Shut Down command in the Special menu ejects the disks in one or both drives and reboots the Mac in record time. @ The new Finder includes some shortcut commands Holding down the Option key while you click the Clean Up command rearranges the icons, starting from the top-left cor- ner, in neat rows, Stay tuned for further lives of the Finder. Mac to VCR Update Unless you want to spend a lot of money, connecting a Macin- tosh to a VCR probably isn’t something you should attempt at this time. While several prod- ucts are available that bring the Mac’s video sig. al to an exter- nal monitor, the video signal is incompatible with a VCR and fact, can’t be used with most ition monito! video signal ‘compatible with a VCR because the Mac’s horizontal scan rate is 22.25 kHz. In other words, the Mac beams a horizontal line of dots on the screen 22,250 times a second. Most standard monitors have a horizontal scan Macintosh BASIC Book \ Blues As I was sitting in my office one bright morning, itching to get outside, I received a call in- 1 forming me that MacBASIC from Apple Computer would be delayed another few months. Glancing at my bookshelf, 1 spied two handsome books on (| MacBASIC: The Macintosh BASIC Handbook, by Thomas Backadar and Jonathan Kamin (Sybex), and /troduction to Macintosh BASIC, by Scot Ka- rate closer to 15kHz. If you con- nect the Mac's video output to a low-resolution (12- to 15kHz) monitor, you end up with only a blur on the screen, since many of the dots that make up the image don't get displayed. The easiest and cheapest method of displaying Mac screens on a VCR is to record them with a video camera. But be forewarned that you're going to lose a lot of resolution, and the resultant image will lack detail. The Mac's screen can be dis- played on a low-resolution ex- ternal monitor by using a scan converter. Primarily because of the cost of $20,000 to $60,000, you don't find these devices ex- cept in the hands of video pro- fessionals. Video scanners take a video input—say a screen im- age from the Mac—and store the image in internal memory or in a buffer. The image can then be sent Out at a new scan rate, say toa VCR or another low-resolu- tion monitor, Nice, but expensive. But videophiles take heart. If you're willing to wait, you can probably expect to see an af- fordable scan converter by the end of 1985 that will allow you to connect the Mac to a stan- dard television monitor or VCR.—David Ushijima 1 mins (Hayden). My sources tell me several other MacBASIC books, including ones by Emil Flock and Jim Heid, are stock- piled in the warehouses of un- | happy publishers, waiting until 38 July 1985 the product reaches computer store shelves. Publishers waiting in the wings with their wares should take note. According to Mike McGrath, senior editor of Hay- den Publishing, “Sales for Ka- min's book, which was pub- lished in November, were super. In fact, the book outdis- tanced our sales projections, I have to believe that there is a lot of pent-up demand for the language.” Hopefully, the people buying those books and coincidentally waiting for the program to be released won't lose their appetites. The Mac Goes to Camp HHKKKKKHKHKKKKHKKRHA KKK RRKRKKKKAK KKK KKH HK HRXKKKRKARKHKKHKHHK Swimming in Lake Michigan or visiting a castle in Switzerland may be your idea of the ideal summer camp activity, but for many kids the attraction this summer will be computers. Six years ago Lowell Car- mony started a computer camp with Apple IIs at Lake Forest College in Lake Forest, Illinois, ‘on the shores of Lake Michigan. This year he is adding the Mac- intosh to the curriculum, The camp offers one-week sessions for 50 to 60 boys and girls aged 10 ta 16. Since most of the students who attend the camp are inter- ested in programming, Car- mony plans to teach Microsoft BASIC and MacPascal. Although athletics are a part of the day's activities, Carmony claims ath- letics have to be required to get the kids outside. A standing joke among the teachers is that the students’ idea of the op- timal computer camp “would be a room full of computers with some sleeping bags, and pizzas served every 6 hours.” Susan Riskind, director of Compute Camp International, is running the first residential Macworld computer camp in Europe. Macintoshes, instructors, and approximately 50 boys ages 14 to 17 will set up camp at the In- stitut Montana in Zug, a town 18 miles south of Zurich. The course, which will be taught in English, introduces the stu- dents over a three-week period to programming, graphics, databases, spreadsheets, and word processing. When asked why she chose the Mac, Riskind replied that she thought “the kids could learn on it quickly and pick up the kinds of computer skills they would need for academic work.” Next year maybe she'll allow girls to attend the camp as well as boys. She plans to set up a corpo- rate office in Neuchatel, Switzerland—a high-tech area— and offer computer camps and instruction to adults. If you're interested, contact Lake Forest College, Sheridan and College Roads, Lake Forest, IL 60045, or Institut Montana, 6316 Zuger- berg, Zug, Switzerland.—Janet McCandless 39 Banking on the Mac Bankamerica Corporation's subsidiary Seattle First National Bank (Seafirst) recently pur- chased 1000 Macintoshes for its 167 offices. When asked why Seafirst chose the Mac when the bank was already using IBM Personal Computers, Timothy Turnpaugh, senior vice pres dent and manager of opera- tional technology, responded, “Economics and economics.” Turnpaugh’s aim is to arm every professional at Seafirst with a computer that's easy to learn, and he says the Mac is the linchpin of that strategy. Switch- ing from PCs to Macs lowers the cost of training employees to use computers, and Turn- paugh does not have to be con- cerned with turning bankers into computer technicians. “Most people want to use a tool to get the job done and then move on to the next problem they have to solve,” Turnpaugh says, A San Francisco branch of Seafirst's parent company, Bankamerica, is evaluating the Mac as a tool for its middle managers and may similarly purchase the Mac in large quantities. No doubt Apple is counting on these corporate purchases in its effort to estab- lish the Macintosh Office. —Janet McCandless ee i 4 H fr ‘ ee ee oe | In the Public Domain Having put a lot of time and effort into their masterpieces, many generous Multiplan, MusicWorks, or WhatHaveYou experts like to see their crea- tions used and admired by oth- ers. Thus, many of the “pro- grams” in the public domain are not programs at all, but templates for commercial software. If you are well organized (or want to be), Club Mac’s bulletin board contains a home budget template on Microsoft's Mzdti- plan that can help you stay—or get-that way. The file name is BUDGETMMP. Data Library 3 of MAUG on CompuServe con- tains a Multiplan payroll tem- plate for small businesses. To find the file, type the keyword payroll at the /KEY: prompt. Looking for new ways to use Filevision or for sophisticated examples you can use to im- prove your Filevision database? Some of the most interesting and unusual Filevision tem- plates are being circulated by the program's manufacturer, Telos Software, and are avail- able from many user groups, bulletin boards, and computer “You were warned never to open your Macintosh!” 40 July 1985 From A Much, Microsoft Press, Dedini, 1985. All Rights Reserved. stores. The templates include many types of “maps” (from the locations of toxic waste sites in Michigan to the layout of the piano keyboard), organi- zational charts, and visually ori- ented versions of traditional fil- ing problems. Files for MusicWorks prac- tically overwhelm MAUG's Data Library 4. They range from the sublime (a segment of Mozart's Clarinet Concerto in A Major, transcribed by Mark H. Kogan) to the ridiculous (Tiny Tim's “Tiptoe through the Tulips,” transcribed by Rick Connolly). The most visually satisfying templates, however, are Mac- Paint documents found in MAUG’s Data Library 4. One is a file of four cassette tape labels, all carefully measured and drawn by David Eilers; use the keyword cassette to find it. Bart Thomas and Paul Dobbs created a similar template for Mac disk labels. Their Mac- Paint files located with the key- words label and labels, provide disk labels decorated with ap- propriate graphics and with ti- tles written on the front, back, and spine.— Robert C. Eckhardt Quotations A phrase often quoted by pro- grammers: “If you come across a bug you can’t fix, call ita feature” For the marketing wizards at Apple, who are looking to out- wit IBM’s formidable legions of salespeople and get Apple's wares into corporate America, it must have seemed like a match made in heaven when Micro Focus announced that it had wedded COBOL (Common Business Oriented Language) to the Macintosh. People who rate computer languages usually place COBOL somewhere between Franken- stein and Godzilla. They note that this monster was created in the late fifties by something even worse than a mad scien- tist—a committee of business Months Last This Product on chart month month ay _ Microsoft Multiplan, Microsoft ae al Macworld 41 executives, bureaucrats, and generals plus a few computer scientists. Instigating and lead- ing the fateful endeavor was software pioneer and naval of- ficer Grace Hopper, who, rec- ognizing the need for standar- dization in government computing, led the committee through the herculean labor of creating a new computer language. Three decades later, Com- modore Hopper’s brainchild seems to have survived—nay, thrived, COBOL truly lords it Macworld View feature to its pa over the world of corporate computing; by one estimate, 90 percent of all business applica- tions are written in COBOL. Astrange match indeed: COBOL, the epitome of hulk- ing, horn-rimmed, fifties-style computing. meets the eighties’ debutante from Cupertino. But people at Apple don’t seem concerned about a mésalliance. Consider the official response of Apple manager Dan Cochran as a study in understatement: “We expect Mac COBOL to give Apple the additional leverage we need in the business/gov- ernment marketplace and to re- inforce the other elements of Apple's Macintosh Office con- cept."—Jed Nace 0 addinga regular , Macworld’s Top 10 Best-Selling Business Software chart. Research for the chart is con- ducted by InfoCorp of Cupertino, California. To collect the data, Info- Corp researchers survey computer retail store owners each month about the best-selling Macintosh bus software. The data gathered reflects the number of units sold of each pro- gram. 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Standard 11” or legal 15” Navy, Black, Grey, Wine or Tan Available for most major brand printers, MacSak Carries the keyboard, mouse, computer, disks, and manuals. Same materials and construction as the MacPak and MacBag. Navy and Wine. MacFreighter & PrintFreighter MacAccessory Paks MacCovers Check it as baggage or throw it in the Hard and Softcases Available 3 to choose from: 1) viny! leather, trunk. Finest quality construction 2) clear, 3) polyurethane backed nylon anywhere. Cases for any computer, with anti-static polymers built in. 12 printer or accessories. colors to choose from. 3pc. and Spc. sets with covers for all computers, printers and accessories. _MacPacks Carriers, Packs and Covers for the Macintosh® 643 Industry Drive / Seattle, Washington 98188 Circle 28 on reader service card Enjoy the graphics and sound capabilities of your Macintosh ™ ACTION They're coming! Hordes of them! Enemy helicopters, transports, paratroopers and tanks. Your anti- aircraft gun chatters, shooting mouse-guided shells, Let too many of those paratroopers get on the ground and their banzal attack will overrun your position. Quick, to the mortar, take out those ground troops! Look out, the transport plane just gir-dropped a tank. Back to the anti- aircraft gun. A tank that makes It down to the ground shoots with deadly accuracy. And then... the jets come screaming In like banshees. Their air-to-ground missiles don’t miss! HOW LONG CAN YOU HOLD THEM OFF? REAL SOUND This game has the most realistic sound generation available on a Macintosh. Helicopter rotor wash, the drone of transport planes, the shriek of an attack jet, tank fire, explosions ... actual recorded sounds were used in the making of this game. You won't believe your ears, Is this a Macintosh or is it a cassette tape player?!? A COLLECTOR'S ITEM Besides all the fun you'll have playing it, you'll want to own this game so you can show off the graphics and sound capabilities of your Mac to all your friends. Every Macintosh owner will want to have Airborne in their collection. with Airborne! The action packed game. See your local dealer or you can send $34,95 to Silicon Beach Software, Inc. 411212 Dalby PI., Suite 201 San Diego, CA 92126 or Call us at: (619) 695-6956 Visa or Mastercard accepted Dealer Inquiries invited Copyright © 1984 Silicon Beach Software, Inc., 11212 Dalby PI. Suite 201, San Diego, CA 92126 Airborne! is a trademark of Silicon Beach Software, Inc. Macintosh is a trademark of Apple Computer, Inc. Circle 268 on reader service card Jeremy Joan Hewes Incertain ways writing is like building a house. The writer's ideas and words are like the carpenter's blueprints and materials, and each artisan learns precise skills in mastering his or her craft. The tools awriter uses—like those of a carpenter—can be fun- damental or highly specialized, but the more sophis- ticated the tools, the easier it is to produce fine work. For a distressingly long time, writing tools available for the Macintosh were strictly fundamental. The original tool, MacWrite, provides the basic text-handling oper- ations, but using it for a complex writing task is like building a six-room house with only a hammer, nails, and a handsaw. In recent months, however, Macintosh software has increased dramatically in scope and se- lection. The writer's tool chest can now rival that of the well-equipped carpenter. A Writing System Of course a word processing program is the pri- mary resource in the writer's tool chest, because you use it to write and edit text. But the writing process rarely begins or ends with you sitting at the keyboard, generating new prose or revising old work. For most authors, writing also involves dreaming up topics for new projects, gathering information from a variety of sources, trying to impose some logical organization on a diverse collection of facts and ideas, and— eventually—proofreading the final draft. Fortunately, a number of application programs for the Macintosh automate the different stages of the writ- ing process. The programs give you the ability to use the computer more productively and integrate it more 46 July 1985 ™ Getting Started: Writing The Writer’s Tool Chest completely into the task of writing than if you used a word processing program alone. Some programs, such as spelling checkers and thesauruses, work with files you've created with a word processor. Others, such as communications software and data management pro- grams, create files that are initially separate from those in your word processing program. By assembling a group of such programs, you can create a complete writing system flexible enough to perform chores that a word processing program is not designed to handle. The specific programs you choose depend on the type of writing projects you do. If you are writing a historical novel, for example, a data man- agement program is an efficient tool for keeping events and characters in chronological order. Or if you must do extensive research, you can save significant time and trouble by searching vast sources of informa- tion in computerized databases with the Macintosh via amodem, My own tool chest consists of four categories of programs, not including a word processing program, which is not discussed here. I don't use all the pro- grams for every writing project, but some aspect of my work as a professional writer has benefited from each of these tools. Obviously, my choices do not include all the software that could serve as writing tools, but the four categories cover the major steps in the writing process, Brainstorming Usually, the first step in a writing project is gener- ating ideas. Even though I frequently scribble an idea on a scrap of paper while I’m at my desk or in line at the post office, the time comes when | must put my ideas in logical order, preferably in a tidy and useful format. An outline’s traditional structure, with major ideas taking the leftmost position and successively less important ideas indented below, forces you to both capsulize your thoughts and organize them in levels of coordination or subordination. Once completed, a I Getting Started Figurel Outlining ideas with a program like ThinkTank helps writ- ers develop an orderly framework. The pro- gram indents infor mation in levels of headings and sub- headings that you can Jou examine the rela- tionships among items or ideas. Figure 2 The data manage- ment program Fact- finder allows you to record notes and other information in a rela- tively unstructured way while giving you the ability to recall notes on specific top- ics. The figure shows the results of a key- word search, Figure 3 When you click the Hayden:Speller icon and choose a docu- ment, the program performs a search and shows a tally window of the words in the document. Suspect words are those that aren't in any of the program's dictionaries, " é File Edit_Entra_Fontsize Fron Hippie to Yuppie: The Transforeaton of « Generation + Introduct fon The Beat les = Haight Ashbury = fire You Experienced? = Working Within the Systen The Yuppie Metarorphesis = BIT Blass, Brie, & Bille = Quality Tine and the Entrepreneurial feasokening = The Fitness Fad Beyond Yuppies--Hore Cone the Duapice " & File Edit Stock Factsheet Keys utility Help The wark goes well, except for the nerve-jargling noise from construction work outside my ‘window. Two more PGSE trucks arrived this morning to edd to the om 5 Gin of jacknammers, picks end July 6, 1985) shovels, and shouting supervisors 'm Just watting for a rooting company to arrive and start smelling ap the neighborhood os well ‘The New York agency is making progress on our project, and the Boston office seems to have ironed out tts conflicts alco, Now if | Sat, Jul 16, 1904 231 Prt GDB Strats Sa, Document Kind: MacWrite document Total words: 621 Different words: 307 Valid words: 290 Suspect words: 17 Corrected words: 0 48° July 1985 good outline is likely to make your writing proceed more quickly than if you simply started writing, and it can keep you focused on your chosen topic. ThinkTank is a.useful program for both brain- storming and producing an orderly outline of your ideas. The program com "hinkTank 512 has some attractive features not included in its 128K counterpart. Both versions share the two features I find most useful: the outline format and automatic in- dentation (see Figure 1). Once you create an outline, ThinkTank lets you examine and reorganize your ideas by allowing you to expand, collapse, or move groupings of heads and subheads. By making it easy to carefully plan a written work, the program can help you avoid the rewrites and the false starts that result from poor organization and half-baked ideas when you're actually writing. Although brainstorming with an outlining pr gram may take some getting used to (as it did for me), I find that the opportunity—or necessity—to create a structure for an article or other project makes the writ- ing go more smoothly. Gathering Information Most writing projects, large or small, fiction or nonfiction, require some research. Usually a writer goes toa library and manually searches through peri- odical guides, card catalogs, or microfilm to compile research materials. To save the time involved in this work, | frequently use one or more of the commercial database services for research tasks such as locating all the reviews of a certain computer program. These database services store information on large comput- ers that you can tap into using a modem with the Mac- intosh. The services are excellent sources of spe- cialized information in thousands of subject areas, and lly useful if you cannot conveniently get to a major library or if you need quick answers. (See “Combing the Electronic Archives,” Macworld, May 1985, for more about database services.) Tapping a database service requires a modem and communications software, The program | prefer is MacTep, public-domain software available from many user groups, including MicroNet Apple User's Group (MAUG) on CompuServe or Delphi. Although its features are limited, MacTep is easy to use and lets you save files on disk for later editing, which is crucial to research and writing, Other suitable communications programs include Mac7erminal and Smaricom IH. Getting Organized Just as a word processing program stores text, moves it around, formats it, and prints it, a data man- agement program provides structure and easy access to a wide variety of words and numbers, collectively known as a database. Although this type of software is often described as complex and difficult to use, a sim- ple data management program can be highly effective for taking notes, storing random thoughts and ideas, and later combining or reviewing the items on a par- ticular topic. ThinkTank Living Videotext 2432 Charleston Rd. Mountain View, CA 94043 Smartcom II Hayes Microcomputer Products 5923 Peachtree Industrial Blvd. Norcross, GA 30092 ES ee ee Tools of the Trade Microsoft File Microsoft Corp. 10700 Northup Way Bellevue, WA 98004 800/822-3700, 800/443-4310 or 415/964-6300 in California List price: 128K version $145, groups, including MAUG on CompuServe or Delphi. List price: $99 If you were writing a term paper on endangered animal species worldwide, for example, you might use a data management program to record research on species, habitats, and other pertinent information. Once stored in the data management program, infor- mation can be sorted according to subtopics that refer to specific sections of your paper. Unlike a word pro- cessing program, a data management program can work as an automated set of index cards, easily as- sembled and reassembled as required. One practical program for this purpose is Fact- Jinder (see “Just the Facts,” Macworld, February 1985). Unlike most data management programs, which force you to fit information into a predefined format, Factfinder lets you take notes in free-form fashion on factsheets of up to four pages. When you want to col- lect the notes you've taken on a specific topic, Fact- finder recalls related factsheets by searching for key- words that you designate (see Figure 2). A few other programs deserve consideration if you create and manage images as part of the writing process. Filevision is a database program designed for graphic information, although it also stores a limited amount of text describing each image (see “Filevision: A Data Base in Pictures,” Macworld, January 1985). ThinkTank 512 allows you to store both text and 404/449-8791 List price: $149 List price: $150 800/426-9400, 206/828-8088 in Washington, Alaska, and Hawaii 512K version $245 Factfinder List price: $195 Forethought MacTep 1973 Landings Dr. Hayden:Speller In the public domain, Mac- Mountain View, CA 94043 Hayden Software Tep is available from user 415/961-4720 600 Suffolk St. Lowell, MA 01854 800/343-1218 Filevision List price: $79.95 MacTerminal Telos Software Products Apple Computer 3420 Ocean Park Blvd. Mac Spell Right, The 20525 Mariani Ave. Santa Monica, CA 90405 Right Word Cupertino, CA 95014 213/450-2424 Assimilation 800/538-9696 List price: $195 485 Alberto Way Los Gatos, CA 95030 800/622-5464, 800/421-0243 in California List price: each program $89 graphics, and it offers an animation feature that lets you display a series of text or graphic screens at inter- vals as brief as %o second. Finally, Microsoft File is a general data management program that stores pictures in addition to text and numbers. Getting the Words Right Another excellent use of the computer's power as a writing tool is to check the spelling in a written work, Although word processing programs help you create and format text documents, they can’t detect spelling errors. Instead of meticulously proofreading your work, you can use a spelling-checker