MacWorld 8707 July 1987

9 Modems Comapainee 5 meseards Work Borland software: technically superior Reflex: ' hy are so many critics praising Reflex? Because Reflex is the high-perfor- mance relational database manager that every Mac user has been waiting for. Its simple spreadsheet approach makes calculations a snap. And creating database designs, forms, and reports is as easy as drawing them on your screen. Reflex lets you organize, analyze and report information faster than ever before. Reflex is the full-featured database manager that everyone who manages mailing lists, customer files, budgets and ideKick: The Desktop Organizer, Release 2.0 Thousands of users already know that SideKick is the most complete and comprehensive collection of desk accessories available. Well, with Release 2.0, the best just got better. We've just added two powerful high-performance tools to SideKick. We've added Outlook: The Outliner and MacPlan: The Spread- sheet. They work in perfect harmony with each other and while you run other programs! Outlook: The Outliner almost any other set of business numbers @ It’s the desk accessory with more needs today. . . power than a stand-alone outliner Whatever business you're in, whatever A great desktop publishing tool, you manage, you need Reflex: The Outlook lets you incorporate both text Database Manager. and graphics into your outlines § Works hand-in-hand with MacPlan '@ Allows you to work on several outlines at the same time MacPlan does both spreadsheets and business graphs. Paste them into your Outlook files and generate MacPlan: The Spreadsheet fessional reports. professional repor lg Integrates spreadsheets and graphs @ Does both formulas and straight SideKick: The Desktop Organizer, numbers fetent 20 nave iethetes @ Graph types include bar charts, Outlook: The | PhoneLog 7 Outliner @ Analog clock nae pela charts, pie charts and 4 © MacPlan:The 4 Alarm system Spreadsheet 4 Calculator 4 Mini word & Report ia) 4 @ Includes 12 ready-to-use templates free! processor generator lm Pastes graphics and data right into Calendar Gutiook creating profession riley Reflex: The Database Telecommunications (new version now te oe ae Win neecers Manager— supports XModem file transfer protocol) g ip MacUser Editor's Choice Award Upgrade Now! if you are one of the thousands of SideKick users, just ZS: : 2 ‘System requirements: soi He youn preg tastes dee, 4 | Macino S12K 1 Macinch Pi th one dk ire 95, ‘ond external drive recom we'll rush you a brand new SideKick, Release 2.0, complete with manual. flies, Sidekick nd Turbo atc! ae regitered radars of orion e System requirements eet pent Prag B 5 ‘gtr rademai of nterstona usin Machines Corp. “introductory offer expires July 1, 1987 Mase rn S15 or Mac ots a ere ee Copmghe 1987 Band Inteaton! a+10964 Innovative, and easy to use 9.95" only $9 urbo Pascal: The fastest, most efficient and easy-to- use Pascal compiler! Compiled source code races from Turbo Pascal at the astonishing rate of more than 12,000 lines per minute. Anything less than Turbo Pascal is an exercise in slow motion. You can expect what only Borland delivers: Quality, Speed, Power and Price. Turbo Pascal at a glance & Compilation speed of greater than 12,000 lines per minute & “Unit” structure lets you create i == 7 programs in modular form The Critics’ Choice ia The Critics’ Choice &% Multiple editing windows—up to 8 at "| 66 Turto Pascal is the true winner in the stand- || £4 With 49 arithmetic, text and epee are Tuite Pascal role oor ise enteral fat | | statistical functions . . . can handle @ Options include compiling to disk or compilations, excellent documentation, great |} business and engteerOg calcula- memory, or compile and run support and a company that is well known in the _ | tions that would stump most data Z industry, To end it off, you get all of this for the | managers. MacWorld & No need to switch between programs paltry price of $991 Now isn’t that a reason to get i ith Turbo? can be used quick and easily #9 compile or cin’ 2,prooremn Hee a eso eee | even by someone who has never & Streamlined development and | ¥ ses | heard of a relational database. It is a debugging Turbo Pascal is already an industry standard in the good buy for its quality, not just its : a rae ae: 1GM-compatibie world and were: very excited to | price. @& Compatible with Hierarchical File ‘see Borland Intermational’s new commitment to . MacUser Span || provide this and other modestly-priced, high-quality a... powerful relational database . . . bie , ’ . || software for the Macintosh computer. | uses a visual approach to informa- —& Compatible with Macintosh John Sculley, Apple Computer, Inc. IF | tion management that makes this Programmer's Workshop Pascal (with power easy to manage. minor changes) ihe, infowertd & Ability to define default volume and . .. .@ combination of power and folder names used in compiler directives System requirements: flexibility that distinguishes it from é ‘Macintosh 512K or Macintosh Plus with one disk dive. (The any other product we've seen. 4 Search and Change features in the sone ute Sigeploenina including compiler and editor, Esther Dyson, Release 1.0 93 editor speed up and simplify alteration aed ott of routines “introductory offer expires July 1, 1987 © Unlimited use of available Macintosh” memory What more can we say? @& “Units” included to call all the routines if you use a Mac, get provided by Macintosh Toolbox Reflex: The Database Manager. Turbo Pascal: Truly compatible, easy-to-use Turbo Pascal is compatible with your Mac's Hierarchical File System, Macintosh Programmer's Workshop Pascal, and Inside Macintosh. You're in familiar “Introductory offer expires July 1, 1987 territory, but going a lot faster. Mpa Circle 381 on reader service card MACWORLD July 1. The Macintosh”™ Magazine Departments 93 Macworld News » Apple Comes to Washington Anew D.C. sales force zeros in on bureaucratic billions. 13 19 David Bunnell stein Meets Macinte ls Animated phys Stanford. 31 Letters 43 Commentary/erry Borrell « The Missing Mac Is there a 50 Contributors Notes screenless SE in Apple's future? On the Cover 57 Steven Levy = Desk Accessory Parade The latest Apple's graphic artists DAs from user groups and BBSs. helped us with this e 73 Verbatim pluribus unum effect Living Videotext's Dayid Winer Plus, reports on new CD ROM using four 19-inch outlines his software philosophy, i StuperMac monitors (Geen Fred 167 New Products Simson). Aquick look at new Mac software, at hardware, and accessories. 177 How To/Quick Tips Clipboard basics, shortcuts to CompuServe’s data libraries, decimal points in Excel, and more. How To/Getting Started with Basic Maintenance Clean up your act and prevent repair bills, How To/Insights on Microsoft Works os tips—from mailing labels to page 108 atures 108 Ch: Rainbows lac TI buyers: what to look for ina 116 122 Into the 4th Dimen: A promising new relati manager that comes w! development envi: Raising the Roof on Storage Disk drives that put the mega in 126 megabyte-let your Mac think big, with, a high-capacity hard disk. The Architect's Apprentice A Mac in the practice: professional design and drafting tips, The Modem Marketplace Whether you're on the fast track or in the slow lane, one of these nine modems will be just your speed. 132 138 icago The King of Chicago game. The Good and the Ugly Communikit communications software and the Maxwell modem, Save That Disk! 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MacWri ‘Computer, Inc. rademark of Apple Circle 713 on reader service card _ toute sng - = : = or : = : Board Meeting Presentation ¢ Presentation in one hour! Relax, take a deep breath e No time for production department Don't Panic ¢ Need to get my ideas in order What can | do? absolute] Ys folie MORE ig is the Product ofthe year, ~MacUser Magazine MORE is a radon Out more, o Livin, 1-800-822. ving Videotant Then Hooda California cay 7 Easy Street et, Mountain oes 3 CAS 1049, 415/964-6309, Apple Sends outa Software Shoot B® Ayear after Guy Kawasaki proposed its formation, and on the heels of his departure to: start his own software com- pany, Apple Computer an- nounced plans to create a separate software company to publish programs for the Mac- intosh and the Apple I. The new venture, initially a subsid- iary of Apple, will market exist- ing Apple programs as well as develop new software and pub- lish third-party efforts—but none will have the Apple name on the label, Plans call for the software subsidiary to break off as an independent company, perhaps within its first year. In his announcement, Apple chairman and CEO John Scul- ley said the move was intended in part to enable other software developers for Apple machines “to participate in the market on a more equal footing. In initial reactions, however, developers were not confident that the new structure would resolve the tension caused by Apple's publishing programs that compete with third-party. products. One developer said, “It's better to compete against products that don't say Apple on the label, but we're still going to have to look at Apple as a competitor, Apple is not going to start this up and then let it fail; it'll make use of Apple knowledge, money, experience, and most important, its dis- tribution network.” It’s not such bad news from the users’ standpoint. It proba- bly means that improvements to Apple’s staple software will finally be forthcoming, after a long period without upgrades, Juggler ® Last month we reported on Twitcher, the context-switch- ing Finder based on Andy Hertzfeld’s Servant. The word now is that its code name has changed to Juggler. Though it reportedly contains none of Hertzteld’s code, it is said to re- main faithful to the concept— you can haye several applica- tions open at once on your desktop. The new Finder will allow some tasks, such as print- ing, to go on in the background while you work in an applica- tion program, Full multitask- ing—the kind that lets you sort your mammoth database while you write the report to go with it-won't be available with the next Finder, That breakthrough may be announced by the end of the year, Software Compatibility If you've tried to run Mac- Write on a Mac II, you may have experienced some problems. Reportedly, Apple is readying MaeWrite 4.6 to remedy incom- patibility problems and to fixa few ancient bugs. Expect upgrades to appear for other applications as com- patibility problems come to light with the existing 2000- plus applications, To avoid some of the heartburn that ac- companied its last major hard- ware release in January 1986, Apple has initiated a rigorous program to test applications with the new Mac SE and Mac II hardware and the accompany- ing system software, Apple has: alerted developers that they'll have to go back to the drawing board if their products fail, but the incompatibility list has not been made public. Reportedly, fewer than 25 percent of tested applications have problems; most are the type that a pro- grammer could easily fix ina day or two. Until upgrades ap- pear, however, prepare for un- pleasant surprises with pro- grams that haven't been tuned to the new microprocessor. Another IBM Convert Due to customer demand, Corporate Software, which dis- tributes programs directly to Fortune 1000 companies, has: broken with its 34-year tradi- tion andadded 51 Macintosh programs to its list of more than 400 IBM PC software titles. The distributor, based in Can- ton, Massachusetts, had been special-ordering Mac programs for its corporate customers; now they will order in bulk and offer discounts. “We finally reached the point where the demand reached critical mass,” said Mary Harrison, national manager of software sales, ‘The titles include the full line of Microsoft products (well, almost full; Flight Simu- lator is conspicuously absent), plus Apple’s programs and a range of graphics, database management, communications, and word processing software, along with Living Videotext’s More, Borland’s Sidekick, and utilities such as John Mitchell’s Fedit Plus and FWB Software's trio of hard disk utilities. Mac Bulletin Kamerman Labs Still Going > Joel Kamerman of Kamer- man Labs reports that the Mac- intosh side of his company’s business is healthy even though the firm filed for protection from creditors under Chapter 11 of the bankruptey code at the beginning of the year. The cause of the business problems, according to Kamerman, was isolated with its IBM PC periph- erals. “Ever since we started shipping our Mac Cirrus drives, the company has been profit- able,” he said, To reassure cus- tomers who might be jittery about support for Kamerman’s compact Cirrus hard disks or tape drives, Kamerman ex- plained that the Cirrus drives are 80 percent owned by a sep- arate company, “Even if the creditors don’t accept our re- organization plan, the Mac products will still be marketed and supported.” Dial-a-User-Group A few months ago we ran a Bulletin item about the meet | ing of user group leaders held in Dayton last April. The people in Dayton received so many calls—at all hours—from readers who wanted to know how to find a local user group, we figured we'd better publish the referral number again: 800/538-9696 ext. 500. (If you use a non-AT&T long-distance carrier, punch in your carrier code before dialing the phone number.) (continues) Macworld = 13 Mac Bulletin Game Maker Branches Out > ICOM Simulations, the Wheeling, Illinois-based devel- oper of TMON debugger and the Macventure game series (Déja Vit, Uninvited, Shadow- gate) published by Mindscape is striking out on its own as a publisher. ICOM will produce one more game for Mindscape to fulfill its contract but then will turn its full attention to marketing its own line of enter- tainment software, including role-playing games with high- resolution graphics and more games in the Macventure se- ries. The first title to look for is Helios, a science fiction adven- ture due out this fall. Gossip, developed by that notorious: practitioner John Dvorak, is scheduled for release early next year. Both will be $49.95. 3-D in Color Inthe May issue, Mac- world ran a long article about recent developments in 3-D programs for the Mac. Now it appears that yet another gener- ation of 3-D graphics programs is already on the way, and the common denominator is color. Challenger Software of Homewood, Illinois, is adding color to its Mac3D program this summer, with color shad- ing from a palette of 256 colors selected from the 4096 avail- able on the Mac II. Chicago-based Enabling ‘Technologies is working on a version of Pro3D that will take advantage of color on the Mac {l—and the 68881 math copro- cessor, The new version im- proves on its predecessor in other ways, for example, dou- bling the number and refining control of the light sources and allowing users to save images in PostScript format so that they can be exported into programs like Cricket Draw. I's ex- pected out early next year. Also in 1988, Macromind, the Chicago-based developer of VideoWorks, plans to launch a 3-D wire-frame animation pro- gram that will accept input in IGES format from existing products, such as Mac3D and Pro3D. The greater Chicago area is not the only source of 3-D inno- vation, however, San Diego's Silicon Beach Software, devel- oper of SuperPaint, is prepar- ing a new three-dimensional graphics program due out at the end of the summer that in- cludes color, animation, flexible lighting effects, support of the 68020 microprocessor and the 68881 coprocessor, and the ability to accept text files cre- ated by other 3-D applications from micro to mainframe, Microsoft to Fix Word 3.0 ® Bythe time you read this, Microsoft will probably already be mailing version 3.01 of Microsoft Word to fix problems users reported in the early days after 3.0's release. The new Mac Il-compatible version— mailed free to registered users—in- cludes name stamping and al- lows unlimited fonts, Apple Stock Splits ® For the first time, Apple Computer announced a stock dividend—12 cents per share— for the first quarter of 1987, In addition, the stock was split two-for-one on May 15. Apple head John Sculley explained, “A stock split will lower the price of our stock, which has recently recorded new highs. These ac- tions should allow a broader group of investors to participate in our future.” 14 July1987 The Waiting Game > Still holding out for an up- coming program? Here's a status report on some long- awaited applications. program XPress shipped at the end of March, ahead of the new version of Aldi PageMaker, which started shipping at the end of April. Another desktop ng offering, Target Soft- Meanwhile, looking no worse for wear after being rejected by Letraset, Boston Publishing Sys- tems’ MacPublisher II (for- LetraPage) began ship- ping in April, The new version of the page-makeup program includes support for color on the Mac Il and gray-scale text, ‘The world is still waiting for Ashton-Tate’s high-end data- base manager, dBase Mac, which now may haye to fight for its life if the Acius 4th Di- mension challenger beats it to dealers’ shelves. Remember hearing about Grey Paint long ago? The gray- scale graphics editing software for bit mapped images, devel- oped by Fractal Software, was picked up by Letraset, revised significantly, and heduled for release late th The Realist. Doug Clapp’s Word Tools grammiar- and punctuation-re- pair program has shipped, ac- cording to Aegis Development of Santa Monica, California. On the other hand, Ann Arbor Software's FullWrite Profes- sional is still under construc- tion, and Word Perfect hadn't made it to the beta-test version at press time. Publishers will probably make an effort to present finished programs for sale at the Macworld Expo in Boston next month, but at this late date it looks as if some may be shown in demonstration-only editions. And Now, in Four Colors Adobe Systems’ //- lustrator is a great tool, say professional graphic artists, but it won't be a total solution until there's some way to automate the drudgery of color separa- tions. In response, the Palo Alto company is preparing a desk accessory that breaks down an Illustrator image into the cyan, magenta, yellow, and black parts comprising a four-color printed image. Code-named Separator, the program can produce printer-ready negative film on the Linotronic 100 or 300 or positive images on any printer, Adobe has come up with settings that produce good results in print, but de- signers can also pick their own screen angles and percentages, scale and position artwork, and add registration and crop marks. SE Inside Drives According to sources, 85 percent of Macintosh SEs are sold with internal disk drives. But not all of them come from Apple. Rodime, which won't confirm the word on the street that it’s Apple’s hard disk sup- plier, has begun to market a 50MB internal drive for the SE ($1595). The Pepper Pike, Ohio, company bases its 34-inch drive on voice-coil technology, which makes it speedier (ayer- age access time: 28 millisec- onds) than electromechanical drives that hunt for data track by track. It’s also more reli- able-the drive heads park au- tomatically when it stops. CMS Enhancements of Tustin, California, also makes a voice-coil internal drive for the SE, the 38.5MB Pro-40 ($1395), with an average access time of 29 milliseconds. 4 Hold on to your desk, The Radius Accelerator™ is here. With the Accelerator on board your Macintosh, you can run graphics, word processing and other applications three to four times faster. Which makes it indispen- sible for serious desktop publishing. And, with an optional math co-processor, it blazes through float- ing point computations 50 to 100 times faster. On-screen performance accelerated. Not only does the Accelerator dramatically increase your Macintosh’s overall speed, it makes all on-screen activities virtually fly by. You'll see sig- nificant speed increases when scrolling, designing and manipulating graphics, moving between documents, creating forms and working with a variety of fonts and styles. The Accelerator performs these remarkable feats with the aid of a 32 bit MC68020 microprocessor and a high speed hardware cache. Thanks to the cache, a technique borrowed from mainframe computer technology, there's no need for additional memory. Which substantially reduces costs, board space and power requirements of the system. The Accelerator is available for the Macintosh 512 Enhanced, Plus and SE computers. Go much farther, much faster. Now that the Accelerator has arrived, you can go much farther in desktop publishing, much faster. But if you really want to go all the way, put the Accelerator together with the Radius Full Page Display” This powerful combination gives you greater speed, a full-page display, and a much more productive desktop publishing system. Ah, the thrill of it all. radius 1050 East Duane Avenue, Suite F Sunnyvale, CA 94086 Circle 577 on reader service card For more information, call us at 408-732-1010 for the name of the Radius dealer nearest you. 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By raising the Mac 4 inches, providing 30° tilt, and 360° rotation, MacTilt provides the increased height and the Circle 676 on reader service card David Bunnell Duel of the Desktops i Apple may still be abead in desktop publishing technology, while IBM’s a Jobnny- come-laser. But it could be a close race. The Apple desktop publishing system still has the lead, the edge, the technological chutzpah, and, oh yes, it still outperforms IBM's desktop publishing system by about 200 Mac-years of product development. Maybe it's because it’s IBM's first time around, But whatever the reason, the turn- key PS/2 Model 30 desktop publishing sy tem, which was announced on the same day Big Blue unveiled its next-generation Personal System/2 line of computers, is clearly a case of last year’s technology at to- morrow’s prices. In fact, if you squint at it hard enough, you'll see that IBM's desktop offering is vir- tually equivalent to that of a Mac-based sys- tem from nearly two years ago. I'm talking about a Mac Plus with a hard disk, Aldus's PageMaker, and a Laser- Writer, compared with [BM’s Model 30 sys- tem (based on an 8086 microprocessor) with a hard disk, the PC version of Page- Maker, Microsoft Windows, and a Post- Script printer, Isn't it curious that IBM has an- nounced a genuine “me-too” product after years of dismissing Apple’s approach to computer design as being some kind of technological affectation? The good news for Apple about IBM’s entry into the desktop publishing world is that the Ma ed system stands out as a no-contest winner in terms of raw performance. Here are a few of the most obvious ad- vantages of the Mac system over that of IBM: Installation of the Mac desktop system is infinitely easier. It takes a full 15 minutes to install the PC PageMaker, copying five disks onto 1.5 megabytes of your hard disk. Ittakes less than a minute to transfer Mac PageMaker files to a hard disk or backup floppi Windows on the IBM system limits file names to eight characters. And you still need to end files with the proper three- letter extension to open them ea: the MS-DOS Executive. Then you have to grapple with labyrinthine subdirectories. The Mac, on the other hand, folders that you simply open and close Screen quality, font selection, and print quality are all superior on the Mac system. Notably, Aldus's PostScript driver for the PC PageMaker lacks the Mac Page- Maker’s smoothing algorithm that smooths the jagged edges in bit-mapped graphics. What else? I could go on and on, Per- haps the most glaring weakness of the IBM desktop system is that the controller for the PostScript printer goes into the com- puter, rather than being contained in the printer. What does that mean? It means that, if you want to hook up your IBM PS/2 30 to your laser printer, you will need to install the printer controller, which contains a Posts t processor and printer memory, so you can print out the various PostScript fonts that create beautiful text, and so you can use PageMaker. ‘This is fine until you begin adding more computers to your system: the first computer will then have to become dedi- cated as a print server. In marked contrast, the intelligence of the Apple printer and all 1.5 megabytes of its memory are contained inside the Laser- Writer itself. It doesn’t matter how many Macs you hook up to one LaserWriter—they can all be configured equally into little work-- group networks. So when you're dealing with a work-group situation-like an edi- torial or design office or a production of- fice—it becomes a much cheaper proposi- tion to have a dozen Macs linked together to one printer. 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If PowerPoint doesn’t completely fulfill your expectations, call us and we'll solve your problem or arrange a refund* From Forethought® Inc. = rl oint © 1987 Forethought, Inc, Forethought and PowerPoint are trademarks of Forethought, Inc. Macintosh 1s trademark of Apple Computer, Inc. *Refurd must be requested within 30 days of purchase. Circle 289 on reader service card INTERNAL UPGRADE MACINTOSH SE 40 MB SCSI HARD DRIVE 29 ms Average Access (Replaces Upper Floppy or Hard Drive) TRADE UP TO HIGH SPEED 40 MB INTERNAL HARD DRIVE 29 ms Average Access Time Quietest System on the Market Requires Only 8 Watts + 100g Non-operating Shock AppleShare Compatible + Includes Bracket and Cables + Easy Installation, No Soldering + Replaces Upper Floppy or Hard Drive + Powerful SCSI Utilities Included David Bunnell Remember the early speculation that IBM would take the desktop market away from Apple? It now appears that IBM is in- directly benefiting Apple, by forcing the desktop publishing market to grow, and by making the desktop concept more widely accepted throughout the corporate world. I don’t think there's much doubt that IBM brought out its own desktop package to protect its existing customer base— those Fortune 1000-type companies that have nothing but IBM computers, from mainframes to minis to terminals and PCs. Big Blue should do very well in selling to this segment of the market. But since Apple has the definite tech- nological advantage over IBM in the desk- top field, I believe that some of the more adventuresome of even the IBM “lifers” might switch over to the Macintosh. So long as Apple continues to main- tain its edge in “usable-real-world-what- you-can-do-with-it-right-now” technology, it'll be able to penetrate the IBM market. And as it penetrates enough of that market, it will be perceived as the number one al- ternative to Big Blue. For that matter, it’s not inconceivable that Apple will remain number one in desktop publishing. Apple could easily end up having about 60 percent of the desktop One Year Limited Warranty publishing market in contrast to IBM's 20 percent, with the rest going to the clones, Be assured that Apple will not be con- tent to rest on its desktop laurels. It's no se- cret that in the near future there will be a new multitasking operating system for the entire Macintosh line that will give Apple an even greater lead over IBM’s expanding, desktop universe. And that's all for the best. This com- petition between the two companies is wonderful. It’s going to stinyulate the devel- opment of better, cheaper, and more powerful products. It will keep pushing desktop publishing technology forward un- til it truly becomes publishing technology. 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All of these computers can be connected on the same LAN, sharing databases, text files, connect- ing up parts of your office that until now were barely on speaking terms. Installation is quick and straight- forward—less than four minutes for a Macintosh, fifteen minutes for a PC. It’s all done so easily and success- e talk?” fully that within the first month TOPS was available, it was already installed in over 100 Fortune 500 companies. This talk is also remarkably cheap. TOPS is $149 per Macintosh, $389 per PC. As if that weren’t enough good news, we are pleased to also announce TOPS is a registered trademark and TOPS PRINT is a trademark of Centra Systems West, Inc Allother product names are trademarks of their manufacturers, one of this year’s major advances in desktop publishing. Now, using TOPS PRINT™ you can have all your PCs share Apple’s LaserWriter’ TOPS and TOPS PRINT are available at Businessland and other fine computer dealers. 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Guide is also a writing tool for the creation of electronic mail messages, product specifi reports, contracts, technical documents, training materials, online manuals and much more. Circle 547 on reader service card What the press is saying about Guide “Beyond word processing” —Byte “Guide offers such interesting opportunities that there is almost too much that can be done” —Ma “Guide points the way to the future’—Macworld We invite you to experience Guide and discover how hypertext will eventually replace paper in the office, at home and in school. See Guid ur local computer store or call OWL International at (206) 747-3203 and prepare to enter hyperte: Guide for the Macintosh ‘nuns on a Macintosh 512K or greater. —$134.95 de desk accessory Macintosh isa registered trademark of Apple Computer, Inc Letters A forum for Macworld readers Shareware Defined Let me try to clear up some confusion about shareware. Something that is in the public domain may be used, copied, and so on, by anyone, anytime, without restriction. Some of the software posted on electronic bulletin boards (including some of my stuff) is truly public domain. Most of it isn’t; most of it is copyrighted. Shareware (some- times called bonorware) is what most of us call copyrighted programs that an au- thor puts up on bulletin boards for others. to download (usually with the stipulation that commercial distribution is forbidden), king for payment from people who keep using the program. In the case of Otber and DAKey, for example, I charge a $10 reg- istration fee, Someone who obtains the ini- tial trial copy on a $5 disk from a user group—or from me by sending a self addressed mailer and a $5 handling fee— still needs to pay the $10 to become a reg- istered owner. Loftus Becker via CompuServe Oasis Revisited You recently mentioned my Finder replace- ment, Oasis, calling it public domain soft- ware, though it’s not. Currently there are two versions of Oasis available-version 1.3, which is shareware ($15) available from most user groups and on-line information services, and version 1.4, which is available from me to registered owners only (send the shareware fee along with a disk anda self-addressed, stamped mailer). Version 1.3 allows you to configure up to 100 but- tons on the screen to allow launching that many applications or documents with a single click of the mouse. Version 1.4 sup- ports multiple volumes and adds a built-in disk and folder copier, along with other enhancements. Jan Eugenides POBox 151 Maynard, MA 01754 More CAD Comparison Asa professional CAD user of more than a dozen CAD packages on both the IBM and Macintosh computers, | question the con- clusions of “The CAD Comparison” in the November 1986 issue of Macworld. Key comparison issues were not mentioned in the article. Specifically, MacDraft is avery powerful object-oriented graphics pro- gram, but it doesn’t support the object snap feature typical of most CAD applica- tions, and this severely limits its ability to create accurate layouts. MacDraft’s zoom function does not satisfy the needs of power CAD users because it is not truly variable. And while £Z-Drajft does have the best implementation of layers, the cur- rent version works slowly and suffers from an interface that is not Mac-like. Errors in the review slight MGMSta- tion. It does have scroll and pan functions, an IGES translator, and it is very easy to learn and use. Professional design is my career. I use both IBM PCs and Macs and want the best tools at competitive prices. We shopped around and found MGMStation to be the most complete CAD package available at any price for the Mac. I calculate that I can (continues) Mick WIGGINS. Corrections After “Insights on Red Ryder” (April 1987) went to press, program author Scott Watson decided not to release the version he had discussed with us. Many Of the article's tips are therefore moot, ex- cept to the few who downloaded the same version during the brief period Watson had it available on line. In fact, as the July issue went to press, version 10.0 still had not been released. The information phone number for Red Ryder is 314/523-2190. In “Macintosh I: Opening to the Future” in the April issue, the colors were swapped in the legend of the Mac I pro- cessing diagram (page 137): the red sec- tion shows NuBus, the blue section repre- sents 32-bit address and data, In the same issue, the Mac SE memory configu- ration diagram (page 142) contained some errors. A corrected version of the diagram appears in this month’s Letters. Macworld = 31 Not all reviews are created equal. S... reviews are press releases. Some : oriented. Precisely the ones you want. synopses. 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Schuempe's review of McCAD PCB in the February issue claims the pro- gram doesn't offer the same level of sophi: tication as Wintek’'s package. If by sophis tication he means McCAD PCB doesn't have an autorouter, then I agree. But if he means the ability to choose from a wide se- lection of options such as pad id/od, trace thickness, grids, and so on, then McCAD PCB is by far the more sophisticated and flexible product at less than half the price. I have been using both programs in my work since they were introduced, so I speak with a fair amount of hands-on experience. Robert Troeller New York, New York Dvorak Connections The October 1986 article “Keys to the Fu- ture” mentions the Dvorak: International Foundation. How do we reach this organization? Ralph F. Thompson Cincinnati, Obio Contact the foundation at P.O. Box 128, Brandon, VT 05733. We also left out ref- erence to a useful quarterly periodical, Dvorak Developments, ($72/year) and Randy Cassingham’s 96-page book, The Dvorak Keyboard. The book, usually $12.95 postpaid, will be $10 postpaid through October. Both are available from Freelance Communications, P.O. Box 1895, Upland, CA 91785.—Ed. Lighting in the Round Here’s a tip to add to the collection from “Hands-On Digitizing” in the March 1987 Macworld. \ have found in photographic copy and close-up work that setting up two lights at a 45-degree angle may make it hard to balance quantities of light, some- times resulting in unwanted shadows. I avoid shadows by using a circular fluores- (continues) HOW TO DRIVE THE NEW MACS AT FULL THROTTLE. Its becoming rather obvious that Mirror Technologies is the large drive expert Why else would Apple choose ow 172 meg drive to demonstrate the incredi- ble power of AppleShare™ when they introduced it to the market? 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Rengstorff, Mountain View, CA94043, (415) 964-8884 Macintosh is a trademark Hcensed to Apple Computer, inc. by Melntosh Laboratory, Inc, Lasestiter,Lmageriter and Appletalk are trademarks of Apple’ Computer, Inc. ©1985 SuperMa Software. 36 July 1987 Letters cent tube and modifying the mounting bracket slightly to allow the camera lens to fit through the center of the tube. Jim Zabielski Lakewood, Colorado ‘Turning Back the Clock In the April 1987 issue, your response to Don Lund’s letter states that dBase Mac is limited to the Apple date scheme, which cannot handle dates earlier than January 1, 1904, In fact, our program is not con- strained to Apple's poor choice of internal date representations. Rather, we use a long integer (32 bits) to represent the number of days since a much earlier date: January 1, 4713 B.C. The program can even show the day of the week for that date range, while taking into account the calendar changes that have taken place over the centuries. Michael D. Rossetti Ashton-Tate Glendale, California At press time Asbton-Tate had still not shipped its long-awaited database man- ager, but when it does, the software's date handling ought to come in handy. Odesta’s Helix also handles dates earlier than 1904.—Ed. Turning the Tables The comparison table that accompanied the December 1986 article “Writing Your Own Ticket” sold Microsoft Word version 1.05 a bit short. It does have soft hyphens: (3-hyphen), on-line help (select About MS Word on the Apple menu), and global change of fonts and type styles. The January chart comparing desktop publishing programs ought to say that ReadySetGo version 3.0 has a maximum font size of 250 points and that the program has soft hyphens. Robert Art Morgan Julian, California You're right about the soft hyphens in Word and RSG 3.0 and Word's on-line help. When we say global font and style change, however, we don’t mean that you can select an entire document and change it all to the same new font or style, Rather, we mean the capability found in some new programs to go through a document and pick out, say, all text formatted in New York bold italic and change it to another font or style all at once.—Ed. (continues) IMAGINE WHAT ITLL outrun, outsmart and outdo the compe- tition? Well, here's your answer. INTRODUCING THE 300 SE AND 450 SE. Before you buy your Mac SE, have your dealer replace one of its stan- dard 800K drives with our 30 meg drive (300 SE), That gives you 50% more storage, 50% more, that’s nothing to sneer - at. And all it will cost you is $100 over the regular 20 meg SE price* Or ifyou want more storage, have our 45 meg drive (450 SE) installed. Our drives come with shock absorbing mounts to manage the hustle and bustle of everyday use. 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No matter how wall LULL much you add, each LLL ‘OMBL OMB. 2 Megabytes J bank must contain equal amounts of memory. ewall HOOO0000) -selfoooooooo 1 Megabyte song 10000008 a 50800000) ona aaa a) J} 0.5 Megabyte Mugging Books don't leap off bookstore Steven Levy's column about user groups in the March 1987 issue reported that some people thought that once the Mac’s bugs were worked out, the machine’s ease of use would obviate the need for user groups. That's unlikely because the Mac's growing sophistication and versatility will continue to make demands on both novice and veteran users. Some 300 people at- tended the February meeting of the New York MacUsers Group, and half of them raised their hands to show they were there for the first time. Don Swaim NYMUG Board New York, New York Traditional Values The January issue’s news about desktop publishing advances was exciting. How- ever, as a bookstore owner, an occasional book reviewer, and a freelance editor, I’m concerned lest all this capability convince otherwise astute writer/publishers that they are also book designers and editors. All the talents necessary to produce attrac- tive, professional-looking, salable books rarely come in one human package. shelves. Poorly packaged material, no mat- ter how important, is not likely to win ex- pensive shelf space. The competition from well-done books is too intense. And book reviewers are usually too busy to waste their time on poorly produced material. My advice for self-publishers: get help; un- less you're a triple talent, you'll need it. Jim Estes Deadwood, Oregon For Want of a Nail My kingdom for a powerful customizable database management program that works. Ted F. Yengling Newburgh, indiana Aside from Blyth’s Omnis 3 and Odesta’s Double Helix, at least one new entry is on the way: 4th Dimension, from Acius. Read more about the program in “Into the 4th Dimension” in this issue.—Ed. Letters should be mailed to Letters, Mac- world, 501 Second St., San Francisco, CA 94107, or sent electronically to Compu- Serve 70370,702 or The Source BCW440. Include a return address. We reserve the right to edit letters, All published letters become the property of Macworld. O Built For Speed Introducing TurboMax™ from MacMemory. The company that’s been mak- ing affordable high-performance Macintosh™ products almost as long as Apple® has been making Macintoshes. TurboMax is a high-performance “clip-on” accelerator board that comes with all the power features a power user needs. But with a price much lower than competitive products. We started with sheer speed. In fact, the CPU in the TurboMax is nearly three times faster than the one in the Macintosh Plus. So database, graphics, and desktop-publishing programs all run faster than before. And TurboMax is 100% compatible with all Macintosh software. 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GraphicWorks™ 1.1 is the first fully-equipped, full-featured, second-generation graphic and text package for the Macintosh™ II, SE, Plus, and 512K, Add The Desktop Studio™ to your desktop publishing software fibrary, It will make you, what you do, and your bottom line look better Apple’s role as a software developer is a hot topic in Cupertino these days. The very fact of the controvers remarkable—most computer manufacturers consider internal software development a dead issue. Few of IBM's customers expect Big Blue to pro- duce software for IBM PCs, programs that would rival those developed for the PC by third parties. Even IBM, with a scientific and technical research s doesn’t have the knowledge and experi- ence to keep up with all the smaller com- panies that specialize in the markets sup- ported by IBM computers. This analogy may be odious, because few of us want our computer company to emulate the lumber- ing, impersonal monolith that IBM has be- come. But in this case, it’s worth consider- ing why Apple should cross the industry's traditional hardware/software line. Originally, when Apple launched first the Lisa and then the Mac, the company also rolled out exemplary software to counter the obvious objection to a new computer with anew operating s ystem: jut there’s no software for it.” With the Macintosh, Apple released MacWrite and MacPaint. MacDraw and MacProject fol- lowed. These programs were, and continue to be, among the best-selling programs for the Macintosh, Some people believe that Write and Paint became important only because they were included “in the box” and that if they were unbundled-sold sep