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\CWORLD i eo | November 1986 $3.95 The Macintosh"Magazine Canada-s4.95 oad ew! Turbo Pascal for the Mac: Ne" incredibly fast and fully integrated! Borland’s new Turbo Pascal for the & ~ compiling delays that afflict some of the software programs that we're not mention- Ing here, (They can take 10 minutes to do what Turbo Pascal for the Mac can do in 10 seconds!) You don’t spend a lot of up-front time Jearning to use Turbo Pascal for the Mac, It's 8 esay 88 It. 1s fast—which is not to gay that, it's oversimplified or written for people who have recently learned to walk erect. Instead, it's electronic proof that sophistication and complication don't need to go hand-in-hand. : In all software, there’s the Hard Way, Mac” is so incredibly fast that it can gem cht ‘te Heme Nay pita ai Rovey, compile 1,420 lines of source codein WY Borland Weyl the 7.1 seconds it took you to read How to walk and chew gum! this sentence. ‘Turbo Pascal for the Mac lets you do up to And reading the rest of this page Hea dared takes about 5 minutes, which is plenty Bente ack ta miwie mee tie of time for Turbo Pascal for the Mac —or duck and weave between all 8 ab the same time! And you can do these 8 Rasy to compile at least 60,000 lines of Peas wile you chs comple MubiN6 source code! editing windows allow you to edit, compile, and execute each window individually. With Turbo Pascal for the Mac does both ‘Turbo Pascal for the Mac is so pene pele ce ener eee Windows and “Units” compatible with Lisa that they syitch from one opan window to another ‘The separate compilation of routines should be living together faster than @ cat burglar—and never get, offered by Turbo Pascal for the Mac creates Not Just Lisa”, but also Macintosh caught. It’s take the source code and run!” modules called “Untts”—which can be ‘Programmers’ Workshop Pascal.” Routines linked to any Turbo Pascal® program. This from elther one can be complled and run The 27-Second Guide to Turbo Pascal “modular pathway” gives you “pieces” which —_with only the aublest, changes Turbo Pascal for the Mac can then be integrated into larger programs. for the Mac is also compatible with the 1 Compilation speed of more than 12,000 lines (You build the “pieces” ones, and you know ‘Hierarchical File System” of the Macintosh” GA rien a alk canara they work, 60 you can use them again with- (You can define default, volume and folder ‘modular form out having to reco! .) The immediate names for the names used in compiler @ Muliple editing windows—up to B at a es | | efits ofmemoryandareducionn andy elnghtathomewin Tato |g MIN SND eer ponte iesint ct el pre perce compile of run a program (What you need to run Turbo every agpect of the Macintosh environment, 1 Streamlined development and debugging Pao for for the Mac is 266K mintmum—or ‘The pull-down menus are there, along with Le cel ested Macintosh half Fat Mao, | drive, ay abllity to prec o Lee in making 1m Compatability with Hierarchical File System of handle astonishing speed. picking’ M ws iyo etn deta votre at oer Turbo Pascal for the Mac cranks out names used in compiler directives more than 12,000 lines a minute 1 Search and sia tauren the editor speed up and sinplily aeration of routines Pers ae ne balan of a Aye ai seattle Mastin wey ‘Pascal for the Mac, There 1s definitely “No "Units" included 0 call all the routines Waiting” And none of the “top/atart” provided by Macintosh Toolbox SideKick® brings true desktop man- Now you can automatically dial phone numbers, log on to bulletin boards, schedule appointments, jot down notes, agement and communications to your Mac. Clear your desk, SideKick’s here! calculate business expenses—and more— while running all your other Mac software. Once you get SideKick you'll wonder how you ever did without it! See order form on right-hand page > Introducing yew! Borland’s remarkable new relational database — Because itis a truly relational Designed to make the that all connect to each database, Reflex for the Mac” lets mostof your Mac's visual —_ other. you get your various acts together. talents, Reflex forthe Mac Your “Joke” file connects Lets you connect “A” to “B” to “0,” _ lets you place fields and to your “Audience” file, or “Dog” to “Cat” to “Fight.” Or pictures wherever you want which is split into cate- whatever links andconnections _— tem on the page—and gories like “Friendly,” print them that way with “Hostile.” “Dumb,” you need to make and need to see, Beran Ganciaicl “ghident” or whateve Tts.a simple spreadsheetstyle © YUN Por venenion ones ae seriesofelectronicandvisualcross- 4 funny way to use ata ond relat ., lonal. references, There's a clear connec- Hetlex for the Mac Reflex for the Mac lets you tion (which you first make by Lets say youhaveto nd the f right joke for the drawing it on-screen) between. make é lot of speeches right audience, right now. “Client” —“Matter"—“Attorney”— sa Yyou like to tell jokes, (The serious sides of “Time Sheet” —“Bxpenses” and ia can't anes aaneabes business include applice- “Bill.” Or between “Slow Driver rel Che erght ons like cient biling, in Left-Hand Lane”—“Mile-long audience at the right time. gio} portfolio manage- * :; So you use Reflex for the Janning, and Traffic Jam” and “Shot from Mac to set up multiple files Tent, (ae ; Behind.” It’s all relational. your cheno) Reflex for the Mac, You can have multiple windows open simutan- usiytoviewallmembersofalinkedset— whichare interactive andtvuly relational ‘ter opening the "Overview" window. you draw link lines between databases direclly ‘onto your Macintosh screen, Thelinklines youdraw establish bath visual and electronic relationships belween your databases You need Reflex for Mac News for Kangaroos! the Mac Heart of America, one ol the U.S. 12-meter Get some Reflex action contestants in the America’s Cup races in out of your Mac, Call now. Australia, ig relying an Rellex for the Mac to help Bring The Cup Up. (They'te also using Borland’s SideKick and Turbo Pascal.) Reflex analyzes 20 different variables like wind speed, ‘heel angle, backslay load, trim tab angle, rudder angle and 15 other criteria to show and tell Hearl of America where to be when—and what to do now to win! ‘ | INTERNATIONAL (ve bo epperonce evar pects inte Treo Pr.g: Tabo Pez Tuba Pascal the Mac; Turbo Tor, bo Edie Yoox, Turbo OnaaseTeobox: Tusbo Graphix "colon to GaneWarks bo Long. iting Word Wea. Aeic The Aras Ree or Ihe Mac Retex Woks, Sfe¥c, ices, The Macinasn ce Monge, Tavekag Sek ck x Suieney alo wot ae aan oc sete iaerans ol Gourd hers ra nc ot Boland’ Ana, be Travelon Sie ces nt ay wy assoceled wh Traveling Setware. c.f Set, Wasting NMaomosh a Wada ol Mctnosh(aboraloes, nea is used wii enpesscemision saa reg seed acer eno Lia Pasa Macs Progarnres Watch Pas. ant Hitch Fle Systar are Vadrarhs a Apple Congr. 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David Bunnell Letters CommentaryJerry Borrell Contributors Notes Steven Levy How To/Quick Tips Mac typesetting, word processing in Hebrew, Macintosh Technical Notes, and more. How To/Getting Started with the Mac System Take a guided tour of the Mac System Folder and learn the hows and wherefores of system and start-up disks. How To/Insights on the ImageWriter ‘Twenty-five tips to help you get the most out of your ImageWriter printer. How To/Mac Business Tools A dozen time-tested tips from a MacProject pro. Updates Where to Buy Best-Sellers November 1986 The Macintosh”"Magazine Macworld News = Apple Supercomputer Designing the next generation, "The Flat Mac A laptop version from Dynamac. = Cloak and Dagger Apple infiltrates the intelligence community. = The Version-Number Game Apple's software-numbering scheme deciphered. "Multiuser Games Maze Wars+, Strategic Conquest, and others. = Looking for LaserWriter Spoolers Hardware and software solutions. Plus, previews of three new desktop publishing tools, the word on HabaWord, scuffles in the SCSI market, Target's Vio/a/ outliner, Lightspeed Pascal, and more. 100 106 109 112 119 124 Who makes the fastest, quietest, smallest, stttr- diest external double- sided drive? See “Both Sides Now,” page 106, for ree fseven contenders. Features The Graphic Mac The future of personal computer graphics and the products making that future a reality on the Mac today. Both Sides Now Are all 800K drives the same? Performance tests of Apple’s external drive and six competitors tell the story. The Statistics Standard If you need a professional-level statistics package, S’a780’s got your number, The CAD Comparison MacDraft faces off against two néwer and more powerful rivals-£Z-Draft and MGMStation. Object Orientation An introduction to programming Macintosh style with object-oriented languages. Taming Your Hard Disk Pointers for hard disk management and eight utilities that put your files in their places. Reviews Word Processing in a New Style Laser Quill word processing. It’s a Brush! It’s a Pen! It’s SuperPaint! SuperPaint graphics. The Buffer Zone Max Printer Server/Buffer and MacBuffer. The Fountain of Fonts LaserWorks font editor. Big-Time Graphics PosterMaker and MacBillboard. The GEnie in the CRT GEnie on-line information service, From a New Perspective MacPerspective 3-D drawing, The Mac Hits the Switch X-10 Powerbouse home control system. Xmodem Accelerator TurboDownload communications. Role Your Own World Builder game construction. BASIC Gets off the Street True BASIC compiler. Teaching Tools MicroGrade and MicroTest I. Mapmaker, Mapmaker, Make Me a Map MacMap map templates. Macworld = 3 Pttik Planning a monu- mental undertaking? Uf you use MacProject, the pointers in this month's installment of our new department, Mac Business Tools, can help you cut big jobs down to size. MACWORLD David Bunnell Editor-in-Chief Jacqueline Poitier Director/Art and Design J. Kelley Younger xecutive Jerry Borrell Editor Christopher Burg Acting Art Director Editorial Managing Editor: Charles Barrett Associate Editors: Daniel Farber, Adrian Mello. Technical Editor: David Assistant Editors: Nan Janet McCandless, Joe Matazzoni Senior Copy Editor. Kathleen Christensen Copy Editors: Cathy E. Abes, Katherine Ulrich Editorial Assistants; Eileen Drapiza, Valerie L. Kuletz Assistant to the Executive Editor: Gina Vanlue Editorial Administrative Assistant: Otto Waldorf Contributing Editors: Danny Goodman, Jim Heid, Steven Levy, Gordon McComb, Erfert Nielson, Lon Poole, Jeffrey S. 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They can look inside their program and get immediate feedback. Incorporating the Mac interface in this programming environment, THINK creates a new future for the Macintosh in education. Writing in The New York Times, Erik AIGHYSPEED PASCAL” THING THE FUTURE REPEATS ITSELF. Sandberg-Diment says ‘‘MacPascal alone might be reason enough for the college-bound science or engineering major to purchase” a Mac. The product becomes a standard in university com- puter science courses. Users are enthu- siastic. But in time they demand even more from THINK. AUGUST 1986. (Boston, Massa- chusetts.)—THINK introduces Light- speed Pascal at MacWorld Expo. It is a breakthrough. It utilizes new compiling and linking technology previously avail- able only with THINK’s Lightspeed C. But it goes even further. Like Macintosh Pascal, it provides the same ability to look inside a program, but without the need for an interpreter. It offers blinding speed and the ability to build large pro- grams. The response is overwhelming. In the first two weeks THINK sells thousands. Lightspeed Pascal marks a turning point in programming the Mac. It has all the features that made Macintosh Pascal a standard. And much more. Now users can create real standalone “‘double- clickable” applications and desk acces- sories. THINK creates a new future for Macintosh programmers. Lightspeed Pascal is priced at $125. It is not copy-protected. The package includes a 600-page manual with ex- tensive index. It provides complete Toolbox/OS support. It is compatible with Macintosh Pascal and Lisa Pascal. The future is here. Order Lightspeed Pascal now. Please send me Lightspeed Pascal today. Enclosed is $ for copies. ($125/copy) NAME TILE COMPANY ADDRESS: CITY lan ‘STATE zip PHONE ACCT# CMC OVISA CIAMEX () CHECK ENCLOSED EXP. DATE ~~ SIGNATURE Mail to: THIINX Technologies, 420 Bedford Street, Lexington, MA 02173. Or call 617-863-5595 Lightspeed Pascal is a trademark of THINK Technologies, nc. Macintosh is a traclemark of Macintosh Laboratory, Inc. and is used by Apple Computer, Inc. wih ils express permission. Circle 96 on reader service card The issue of Fortune magazine on the left side of this ad was painstakingly created by a large staff of editors and proof- readers andart directors and typesetters and bs camera operators and keyliners. The Fortune on the right side of this ad was painlessly recre- ated by one person using PageMaker’soft- ware. Because Page- Maker gives anyone the ability to publish just about anything. PAGEMAKER TURNS YOUR MACINTOSH INTO A PUBLISHING HOUSE. With PageMaker you can set your own type, juggle pictures, control line spacing, enlarge or shrink graph- ics, create line rules, crop photos and move all the elements of a = page around until you get you want them. Then you can print the whole thing out on It doesn’t take a great deal a laser printer with 300 dot resolution. 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The overall program and each tool within runs Mac- intosh” style. Which, as you probably know, is a natural, common sense, point-at-what-you-want system. And Microsoft Works is seam- lessly melded together. You can have all four tools on screen at once.Jump instantly from one to another. And later combine work done in each part of the program on a single printed page. This easy exchange of data makes jobs go faster and easier. One practical example being mass mailings of form letters where you need to combine names from the database with text written in the word processor. All in all, Microsoft Works is a superb solution for day to day, get-it- done problems. An inspiring display of convenience, efficiency, and utility. And, of course, its a product of Microsoft, the preeminent developer of programs for the Macintosh. Which is not a claim, it’s a fact. If youre in a business that wont let you stick to one thing, check out Microsoft Works. 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Also in July, sales of Apple’s own software products—for both the Mae and the Apple I[= pushed the com- pany to the top of the heap of software publishers, a position usually held by Lotus Develop- ment Corporation. Desktop Publishing's First Import > Compe Also at Seybold, Micro ition Systems (MCL), of > _ and Developer's As: | (APDA) got off to a big start ‘Tel Aviv, introduced MacPage, a page-layout program that fea- tures hyphenation, vertical jus- tification, leading control, and precise positioning of design elements. You can create tem- plates, storing the layouts of document designs you use reg- ularly, MacPage accepts graph- ics from MacPaiat and Meac- Draw through the Clipboard, Tt works with Linotronic typeset- ters, and the Jerzesalem Post and other national publications in Israel now use the program. Once an American distributor is found, MacPage will be avail- able here in Hebrew, English, and Arabic editions. : The Apple Programmer’s and Developer’s Association The Apple Programmer's ociation during its introduction at the Maeworld Expo in Boston last August. More than 1000 attend- ees signed up, according to. Dick Hubert, president of | APPLE, Co-op, a 20,000- | member Apple user organiza- | tion that operates the APDA. Membership is $20, and until the end of the year, it includes a copy of Scott Knaster’s popular book on Mac programming. Members are entitled to order Apple development tools that Apple will no longer distribute directly, The premier APDA cat- alog includes over 150 books, technical documents, and soft- ware development tools from Apple and other sources. For an application call 206/251-6548 or write APDA, 290 S.W. 43rd St., Renton, WA 98055. Turbo Pascal Comes to the Mac f& This month Borland Inter- national plans to ship it i tosh version of Turbo Pascal, which has already sold more than 400,000 copies in the IBM edition. The Mae version pro- vides a more powerful com- piler and stronger linking capa- bilities, and it’s available for $99.95. ' run the program, ComicWorks for the White-Collar Crowd ® Mindscape, publisher of MacroMind’s ComicWorks, has teleased a business-oriented yersion of the program, called Yorks. It works the as the comic-book- style original, with full text editing and the ability to freely mix graphics and text on a page, but the library of tem- plates has a different spin: tem- plates for ads, newsletter pages, purchase requisition forms, res- taurant menus, annual reports, and the like, instead of Mike Saenz's socko comic art. It takes a 512K or bigger Mac to hich comes sterMaker. Graphic- vailable only by mail postpaid; the new templates alone are $22.95 postpaid), ComicWorks is distributed through retail outlets. Speaking of | Upgrades i> Anecdotal evidence sug- gests that many of the Mac power-supply burnouts we've been hearing about may be caused by the additional load of powering upgrade add-ons, Closer to home, at Macworld we've been burning out the power supply/video control boards at quite a clip; our tech- nical staff says the power sup- ply was not designed to accom- modate any extra load, so some overheating is unavoidable. The cautious upgrader might want to invest ina fan to keep the Mac cool inside. Mac Bulletin | poration’s Renaissance-era | PageMaker design contest that | runs through December 1986. | ing three winning desigr | finalists goes to Venice for a Francs for the Memory Recent trade agreements are keeping the cost of memory upgrades high. The price of the -megabyte RAM chip has not fallen as expected, keeping the price of upgrades at an astro- nomical level (for example, Leveo’s 4MB Prodigy 4 costs $6000), It looks as if most of us will stick with the cheaper 256K RAM upgrades for now, PageMaker Prizes p Aldus wants to see great designs on its desktop publish- ing software and is offering a trip to Venice as inspiration. The trip to the home of the cor- namesake is the prize in a Each month starting last Au- gust, judges have been select- ; the best designer of the 15 semi- week with a friend. For details contact Aldus Corporation, 411 First Ave. S #200, Seattle, WA 98104. Apple’s New Bus Sneaks out of the Bag? pb Computer Design re- ported in its August 1 issue that Apple has approached In- struments about a bus for its | new open-architecture Mac— TVs Nubus. The 32-bit syn- (continues) Macworld = 13 Mac Bulletin chronous bus, which would supply the signal for the open Mac’s plug-in boards, was de- yeloped hy Texas Instruments for use in its artificial intel- ligence workstations. The bus is also used by Lisp Machine of Cambridge, Massachusetts. PageMaker’s Progress B® Now that Aldus is launch- ing an IBM PG version of its best-selling page makeup pro- gram, it's getting set to bring outa new edition on the Mac, Not coincidentally, the new 2.0 version will permit you to move Mac and IBM PageMaker files back and forth with ease. It also expands the headroom for doc- uments, allowing up to 128, pages instead of the meager 16 that many users found limiting, be included to facilitate forms design. Some other new fea- tures; tabloid paper size, inter- active facing pages, up to 20 columns per page with page- by-page control of column placement, automatic hyphena- tion, and kerning, The Mac of Araby ® This fall Apple plans to launch an Arabic version of the Mac, which reads right to left and allows users to calibrate the internal clock to the lunar calendar that varies regionally. The Arabic Mac comes with a custom keyboard, and a Laser- Writer font is being developed to match. The localized ma- chine will be sold only in the Middle East. Playing no favor- ites, Apple is also developing a Hebrew version of the computer. Bug, Bug, Who’s Got the Bug? pb Apple's new and Finder 5.3 ha many frayed nerv intosh community, but we con- tinue to hear complaints about system hangs and bombs. The bug reports aren't numerous enough to establish a pattern, and because of the increasing complexity of Mac setups, it's hard to find a smoking gun. One summer computer Camp ran into problems daily with its five to ten networked Macs and attendant printers, but the director couldn't pinpoint the cause of the bombs and. crashes. Since unplugging from the network, the camp has had no further trouble. | More Word More precise drawing tools will | Processors on the Way ® While a flock of new word processors is already winging its way to dealers’ shelves, we've learned of a few more in- triguing writers’ tools still in the nest. Both SSI, maker of the popular IBM program Word- Perfect, and Microsoft are working on high-end products. that ought to bring Mac word processing in line with the most sophisticated products available on the IBM PC. Lotus is also rumored to be devel- oping a Mac word processor, | Writer Pits, a French word pro- cessing program from Analyses Conseils Information, is sched- uled for release in English in 1987. The program includes drawing tools for doing forms, multicolumn capability, index ing, and footnotes—along with a simple database manager and four-function auto-calculation of numbers. And Gabriel Miro, author of Achbar, the Hebre' English bilingual sword proces- sor, is in search of a publisher for his MouseScript. Miro’s new baby includes color on the menu, some handy keyboard shortcuts for formatting, and two table formats—with vertical rules—that you can select from the ruler. Public Domain Developer Awards The Boston Computer So- | ciety made awards to five more developers who have contrib- uted significantly to the active public domain and freeware ‘software exchange that goes on through user groups and on- line information services. The | plaques and cash awards, given to honor authors’ support of noncommercial distribution: channels rather than to puta particular product on a ped- estal, went to David Dunham (author of Disk fifo and Mini Writer), David Betz (XLisp), | Ken Winograd (DA File, DA- Font, PRam), Mike Morton (DissBits, Vanlandingham), and Loftus Becker (developer: of countless function-key pro- grams such as DAKey, DateKey, and Ofher). At Last, an Optical Character Reader for the Mac > InSeptember Microtek announced its optical character reader for the IBM PC; expect a Mac version to appear within months. Microtek is known for its graphics scanners that con- vert illustrations and pho- tographs to computer files. The OCR software works with the scanner to convert typewritten or printed text to Mae docu- ments; the forthcoming Mac version is said to recognize sey- eral popular typewriter fonts. Move Over PostScript p The word is that Apple might implement an additional typesetting language to supple- ment Adobe's PostScript page- | description language for some tasks. Other developers of desktop publishing software would welcome an alternative to Adobe's existing PostScript, which is laboriously slow at producing graphics, Meanwhile, Adobe is work- ing ona speedier PostScript controller based on the 68020 microprocessor, which is a step up from the chip used in to- day’s Macs. A New Entry in the Desktop Publishing Derby & One of the most signifi- cant programs to hit desktop publishing was unveiled infor- mally at the Seybold desktop publishing seminar in Sep- tember. Take the core of Mac- Paint, MacDraw, PageMaker, and MacWrite, and you have the foundation of this new pro- gram, code-named SPUD. It al- lows you to create and manipu- late both text and graphics; it can also import and edit bit- mapped and object-oriented graphics. The text editor in- cludes familiar Mac word pro- cessor features plus discretion- ary hyphenation, an on-line spelling checker and thesaurus, and a search-and-replace fea- ture that works within multiple documents. Text can be set to | fill any shape, and you can | wrap text around pictures with a click of the mouse, And it’s fast, since it’s written in as- sembler code (by Lance Lewis). SPUD is due out next year from Mac America in Yorba Linda, California, 714/779-2922. 0. 4 November 1986 See what you've been missing, Full page views of your documents, for example, Unobstructed displays of several windows simul- taneously. And dozens of other applications for which the Macintosh™ has been able to give you only part of the story, Until now, that is. Introducing the Radius Full Page Display. ‘The Radius FPD™ works side by side with your Macintosh to make creating, editing, and laying out documents easier than ever —by letting you see a full 82" by 11” page. ‘That means less scrolling. Less enlarging and reducing. And, because your Macintosh doesn't sit idle, a much more useful way to work. The FPD extends your investment in the Macintosh, Lay out a page on the FPD, for example, while the Macintosh holds tools, palettes, desk accessories, and other windows. Or treat the two screens as a single, contiguous display, viewing large, horizontal documents. Even drag text or graphics between the two. ‘The FPD is in every way an extension of your Macintosh, from the electronics to the aesthetics. But then, theres a good reason for that. The team that developed the Radius FPD is the same group of experts that designed and built the original Macintosh. Which means you're assured of the highest- quality product, from top to bottom. ‘Want to find out more? Contact your nearest author- ized Radius dealer to get the full story. 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Oppression in Georgia threatens the free, open spirit of our personal computer community. Usually in this column I focus on issues largely relevant only to the personal com- puter community, Now, in a departure from my regular subject matter, I'd like to ad- dress an issue with much broader social significance. It’s one, I believe, that’s important enough to merit your attention and your involvement. Recently, I received a letter from Gov- ernor Joe Frank Harris of Georgia inviting me to take part in a technology tour of the Atlanta area. He's looking for good press about that region's great technological op- portunities, Of course, Georgia has some wonderful success stories. After all, it's the home of some major personal computer companies and industry leaders. Unfortunately, Georgia, like a handful of other states, happens to be the home of an oppre: law whose spirit stifl very progressiveness Governor Harri hopes to promote in his quest for high-tech immigrants to his state. I'm referring to the Georgia state law, recently upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court, that outlaws sodomy (defined as oral and/ or anal sex)—even when practiced by con- senting adults in the privacy of their own homes. This statute threatens the personal sexual freedom of everyone—hetero- sexuals and gays alike, By threatening to imprison or punish offenders, this archaic law may violate con- stitutional rights, including the Eighth Amendment's ban against “cruel and un- usual punishment” and the Fourth Amend- ment’s guarantee of “the right of the people to be secure in their persons [and] hous You may well ask, what does a law against sodomy have to do with personal computers and high technology? The an- swer is that the law conflicts with the very vision that compelled the growth of per- sonal computers. The original vision of the personal computer world was based on the principle of a progressive, laissez-faire capitalist soci- . One that allowed for more personal ex- ion and gave people greater decision- A society where people were judged by their contributions and not their lifestyles. Therefore, | feel that the personal computer world should think twice about supporting high-tech development in states that lack a decent social climate for high tech to operate in, In fact, it would behoove the state of Georgia and other states with similar laws to consider the sensibilities of those very individuals they are seeking to attract to their high-tech corridors, The personal computer was created by renegade hobbyists who were commit- ted to individualism. The PC prom which thrives and is upheld by many of this industry's founders—is to preserve and en- hance the power of the individual. What that means is more freedom. Not freedom. Today, that same open spirit prevails in many personal computer companies where employees wear blue jeans and ‘ shirts to work. Where they have the free- dom to come and go as they like, as long as they're really good at what they do, Their less Macworld 19 You do more than spreadsheet calculations. Jazz*does more than that, too. Five times more than that. More than any other single piece of software made for your Apple® Macintosh™ personal computer. Five powerful functions—not just a smattering of this and that—but five functions deep enough to stand alone: spreadsheet, database, word processing, graphics and communications. All five so thoroughly integrated that they work beautifully together through a unique Jazz feature called HotView. With Jazz you can direct your attention to many projects—or many parts of the same project— without changing programs. With Jazz you can revise or update information in one document or several documents instantly, With Jazz you can work the way you work best. All of which simply means this: you can be more productive, more effective—you can do more with Jazz, than you can with any other piece of software. Go ahead. Get a demonstration at a Lotus authorized dealer. Your Macintosh is capable of doing a lot more than spreadsheets. For that matter, so are you. graphics, word processing, database and communications, ntosh isa puter. Inc int, Corporation © 1986 Lotus Development Corporation. Lotus and J ark of Ay trademark of Melntosh Laboratory, Inc. and is used with exp David Bunnell value as employees directly relates to the value of their work. The industry guardians of the original PC vision are careful to foster this creativit In doing so, they allow for a more richly di- verse world and society, In fact, personal computer technology is moving away from what had been predominantly white, up- per-middle-class management, to the great benefit of our society as well as other so- cieties around the world. This broad-mind- edness is helping to create new jobs, new opportunities, and new markets every day. Now, its extremely important Co rec: ognize that gay people are among the fore- most contributors to the creation, succe: and fulfillment of the personal computer vision. Many programmers, designers, and engineers who happen to be gay have been the brains behind some of the most significant products that helped revolution- ize our information-driven society How can people who are gay feel se- cure living in Georgia when an inhumane law hangs over their heads like the sword of Damocles? In the meantime, I think we can take certain decisive steps to combat sexual apartheid in Georgia. Changing the law there would make it easier to reverse sim- ilar laws in other states. 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So when some people told us this was why they'd never use a RAM disk, we looked for a solution. Enter MaxSave™. "MaxSave is the first and only internal recoverable RAM disk system for the Macintosh™ Plus.We combined hardware and software so our users could enjoy the speed without worrying about the crash. If and when the Macintosh bombs, they press reset and recover their data inact, Not bad for S119, And of course they get a full iwo- year warranty. "So we wanted to pass that information along. After all, it's solutions like MaxSave that have made MaeMemory. the worl John Foley ‘Exccutive Vice President & Co-Founder MaxSave by MacMemory 473 Macara, Sunnyvale, CA 94086 (800)862-2636 4 (408)773-9922 in CA Apple's a trademark of and Macintosh isa trademark licensed 10 Apple Computer Ine 36 November 1986 Letters Prometheus Bound Your review of the ProModem 1200 [Mac- ware Reviews, April 1986] contributed toa costly mistake I made when I purchased the modem’s optional communications buffer. Jim Heid’s review stated that the communications buffer could also free the Mac for other jobs while handling printing. After trying to get my 256K buffer to work, I finally learned from Prometheus techni- cians that this buffer doesn’t allow me to go on with other work because the Mac sends only one page at a time to the printer. Cynthia D. Waddell Clarksburg, Pennsylvania Jim Heid clarifies the point: fulness of the communications buffer during printing depends on the kind of printing you do. The Mac formats and sends MacWrite and Microsoft Word docu- ments to the ImageWriter one page at a time, so there’s not much to be gained from print spooling, But if you're print- ing MacPaint graphics and other docu- ments that go direcily to the ImageWriter, or if you're using a daisy wheel printer —which also accepts documents in a ‘tream—the time you save with the buffer could be significant.” Printing effi- ciency is only one use for the ProModem 1200 communications buffer; it was de- signed for use as an electronic mail buffer that answers calls to your modem and receives and prints out messages sent to you even if your Mac is turned off —Ed. Trouble in Paradise I recently bought a Paradise Mac 20 hard disk, which I would highly recommend to anyone. The print spooling, however, is awfully slow. When printing a 20-page Word document, for example, the Image- Writer prints very slowly while the hard disk is spooling, and the screen is tied up until the 12th page has been printed, when I can finally do something else. The final 8 pages go swiftly. Printing with the spooler disabled seems to be more efficient for long document Ivon Pire Charlott ille, Virginia As with the ProModem 1200, the effi- ciency of print spooling with a bard disk drive depends on what you're printing. In this case the problem is compounded by the fact that the hard disk cannot send a document directly to the printer. Print- ing goes slowly because the Mac divides its attention between feeding the docu- ment to the hard disk and transmitting it back from the hard disk to the printer. No wonder it’s faster without spooling. —Ed. Game for a Plus? You never tell me when a program won't work with my Mac Plus, Only after I brought the programs home did I find out that Fokker Triplane, Gato, and Psion’s Chess don't reliably work on my machine. | would find your software reviews much more helpful if you would mark the pro- grams that aren’t Plus compatible. Bob Manich Palo Alto, California In “A Change for the Plus” in April and in “Order out of Chaos” in May, we warned readers to beware of software incom- patibilities when upgrading. New devel- opments emerge weekly after the release of major new hardware like the Plus. This situation—combined with the complex interaction between application pro- grams, desk accessories, and the buggy and patched-up Mac system software— made it literally impossible to produce a credible, comprehensive software com- patibility checklist that would bave been accurate by the time it reached print. For instance, less than a week after we re- ceived your letter, Spectrum HoloByte be- gan shipping a new version of Gato for the Plus. (Read more about it in this sue’s Updates.) Many compatibility prob- lems will be solved by Apple’s latest 8) tem, version 3.2, Some problems can be solved with a call to the vendor or dealer; @ PBI Software representative said Fok- ker Triplane Flight Simulator does work with the Mac Plus, but not with the new Hierarchical File System—just be sure to leave the game's System Folder intact. And be aware of one idiosyncrasy with Gato: to find the Help screen, you must se- lect the Scrapbook from the Apple menu. Starting with this issue, the product information in reviews and in our new Where to Buy section includes hardware requirements.—Ed. (continues) PF "The Macintosh legacy has only just begun." "You know, in the last two years, we've come up with a really impres a closed machine.” ve family of products for what was supposedly “Right, And now Apple's coming out with an open architecture machine. The possibilities seem endless. I wish we could show people what we're developing right now.” p “Remember how hard we worked on TheMax? It our first memory product, and we wanted to make it right.” "Right. We even spent a lot of time deciding what color the resistors should be. But the engineering really stood out. Clean. Elegant.” "Don't forget reliable.” “We could have cut comers, I guess, but we were determined to produce the best possible product.” "We haven't changed that philosophy, either. The MaxPlus™ stands out in today's marketplace as a standard of fine engineering; fully compatible with Apple's standards.” “Sometimes the recommenda- tions of our engineers are hard to take, They mean spending a little more time, a lite more money, But in the long run, it's worth it~ PF "Now, not all our products are good looking. MaxChill™," Sure it's funny looking. But it's the best thing on the market for keeping the Macintosh™ cool. A cool Mac is a reliable Mac.” “And the best thing is that you don't even remember it's there. It's internal and it's quiet hear it." You don't see it. You don't PF “Then there's MaxPrint™ — a print spooler that works! No one could believe there was such a thing, let alone that we were « ing it away with all our Max memory expansions.” “And you know, we're still doing that, But it has become so popular, we've made it available on its own. MaxPrint is selling bundled with MaxRAM™ — both programs for under $50, “Maybe that's why it's the best-selling print spooler." Pr “Desktop publishing is a perfect example of the new generation of Macintosh applications that require more memory to really perform. With our memory products, it takes less time 10 complete a project.” “Actually, it's less waiting time — more working time.” "You can get a lot more accomplished." Carlos, Suarez Prosident & Co-Fouiser Pr “Customer support is easy when you have good products. It's easy, for instance, to offer a full two- year warranty on all our products. We've developed a philosophy of going out of our way to keep our customers happy." "What it boils down to is that when you have a problem you want a solution.” P "When we developed the MaxPlus, we knew we had the best 2Mb Macintosh Plus expansion possible.” “But we also knew that hardware was only part of the solution. So we made it into a whole hardware/software system. 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