MacWorld 8804 April 1988

TUS OR re ae ee ahaa hoe aa a ee MACWORLD April 1988 $3.95 The Macintosh® Masa BONS Canada $4.95 Making the Point Powerful software and clever techniques for presentation graphics BS West & Associates How Visual Aids Improve Presentations ] BB With Visual Aids Without Visual Aids ~— 43% more often Meeting Retention Proposal Length of Material Approval Presented Research shows that presenters who use visual aids: + conduct effective meetings in 28% less time + increase audience retention of presentation by 500% * win approval of their proposals 43% more often PF de Making great presentations Thanks to Micr " osofts Micbeott P _Can be very rewarding, Pre- PowerPoint} great presenta- is the complete wero Paring great presentations _ tions are now as easy to. Presentation program that oo fe difhiot-apd time prepare as‘ Ahey are to ap gives you a medium for a gS. plaud. _ | every message: From over- eads, an bakes notes fo. audience han uts, even Bhp charts. a borzntal bar hats ar sed 1 show PowerPoint give you con- 3 J m the moment : eed accom © show items as a fraction + show toms rola ofthe whole. to each other. + emphasize key tems by + emphasize hey toms “expicding” a pe sic. win enacaing, formatted overhead ae Effective Presentations 4 November 20,1987 another ; : Microsoft PowerP ints. ilt-in word processor ; : and:drawing tools give you ce verything youneed to 1 Featu : aE eee arrange yo ~'slide by slide with a click of - _the mouse. And once you ” have your presentation in the correct order, Power a Point’s Slide Show feature Dept. D88. : turns your Macintosh into you can buy Microso: a projector, so youcan ——-- PowerPoint. rehearse your presentation’ a slide at a time. i Last minute changes? — No sweat. With Microsoft . Tr PowerPoint you can make. . changes to your presenta- i tion right up to the last m: ‘PowerPoint unique slide sorter es youpreies ute. Or quickly Rees Jour complete preentation and easly earangeit. eae’ five-year plan int ‘prepare great looking ¢ over- this year’s eye heads or 35mm. slides. And plan. you can make them: look When you ‘re ven. better by. integrating © ready to print, - ‘sophisticated graphics, ° PowerPoint will pro- charts or illustrations Be ‘duce all the visual ‘Sup: i a : other Macintosh», : ee : ate ea anc grams like Microso! Bical. i If your presentation is ready but not in the right MACWORLD April 1988 So 8 MACWORLD | 19 i 31 L 47 : 59 On the Cover 79 Get your point across dramatically with pre- sentation graphics (page 136), and make 199 astrong impression your audience won't Sorget. (Illustration by 203 Max Seabaugh.) 211 225 233 239 241 270 Departments Mac Bulletin Late-breaking news. David Bunnell Letters Commentary/erry Borrell Steven Levy Verbatim Microsoft's Bill Gates talks from an industry leader’s vantage point. New Products 7 A quick look at new Mac software, hardware, and accessories. How To/Quick Tips HyperCard sounds, compressed PageMaker files, graphics Word, and more. How To/Getting Started with Navigating Sharpen your Mac maneuvering skills with mouse and keyboard. How To/nsights on MultiFinder Get the most out of Apple’s multitasking system software. How To/Mac Publishing Tools Book design made simple with ReadySetGo 4, Updates The latest software upgrades. Where to Buy Information on products in this issue: Best-Sellers April 1988 The Macintosh® Magazine & Racing with the Mac, page 119. Macworld News = Airwave AppleTalk How Stanford is establishing a network using microwave. " Quieting the SE A fan for sensitive ea " Big Spreadsheet for Small Wallets A $40 shareware program that's also a desk accessory, * Wiring Your Mac for Sound An easy way to record and edit sounds on the Mac, Plus transparent Macs, graphics-based outlining, a HyperCard look at history, and more. 136 144 154 162 172 Page makeup demystified, p. 162. Features Get to the Point Armed with presentation graphics tools, you too can win friends and influence enemies. Fit to Print A primer for publishers: typesetting tips and the fine points of font management. The Dawn of Laser Storage Optical drives from Apple and others let you access more data at lower costs. Page-Makeup Roundup What to expect—and what not to expect—from WYSIWYG desktop publishing packages. Color Graphics in Bloom A fresh crop of video and 24-bit color cards gives new dimensions to graphic images. Js it live or is it video? Turn to page 172 to find the latest develop- ment, in Mac color graphics hardware. 180 182 184 185 186 188. 189 190 191 192 193 194 195 195 197 197 Reviews HyperCard—What's Practical? Strong points and flaws. A Patchwork of Windows MultiFinder multitasking software, Focus Your Time Focal Point data organizer. _ ATrio of Equation Editors _ MacEqn, Expressionist, MathType. ‘RAM Cram Memory upgrades for the Plus. Analyze Doesn't Excel Analyze spreadsheet program, Text Effects Laser FX and LP Text. Stats You Can Graph StatView II stats and graphs. Find It with Eureka Eureka: The Solver equation solving. Working within the Rules Instant-Expert expert systems. A Colorful Quest Grystal Quest arcade game. Gravity at Play Orbital Mech abstract space flight. Frustrating Fun Falcon fighter-pilot simulator. The Mac Goes BackPac-ing Behind-the-screens 40MB drive. The Mac II Opens Up Rodime high-capacity drives. A Second Look Fastback retested, Macworld 3 Learn the tricks of the DTP trade: how to build a font library, manage your type col- lection, and turn out slick-looking type (see page 145). MACWORLD David Bunnell Editor-in-Chief Jacqueline Poitier Director/Art and Design Jerry Borrell Editor Christopher Burg Art Director Editorial Managing Editor: Charles Barrett Senior Editor: David Ushijima (Features) Senior Associate Editor: Adrian Mello (Features) Editorial Manager: Jane Lagas Associate Editors: Gil Davis (News), Nancy E. Dunn (Departments), Valerie L. Kuletz, Joe Matazzoni, Brita Meng (East Coast Editor), Cheryl Spencer (Reviews) Assistant Editors: Cathy E. Abes, Eileen Drapiza (New Products), Mark Hurlow Senior Copy Editor: Julie Ericksen Hage! Copy Editors: William Freais, Felicity O'Meara, Katherine L. Ulrich Editorial Administrative Assistant: Cathi Henriquez Administrative Assistant: Sharon Roe Contributing Editors: Robert C. 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Using the latest ASIC technology integrated in a half-size card, the Copy II PC Deluxe Option Board transforms a PC’s internal 3.5” drive into a dual-purpose Mac/IBM compatible drive. For hundreds of dollars less. Is All you do is pop a Mac data disk into the PC’s internal 3.5” drive and go. Easy to use. PC users already know how to use Mac disks in a PC. The commands are vir- tually identical to DOS— they simply add an “M” for Mac before each one. “COPY” becomes “MCOPY,” “DIR” becomes “MDIR;’ etc. It’s really that simple. Works with all the great Macintosh and PC programs. Now share Mac data files with a PC running IBM versions of popular Mac programs like Pagemaker, Excel, dBASE Mac, and Microsoft Word. Lotus 1-2-3 will even read Mac Excel spreadsheets directly. What's more, switching back to the Mac is easy. for our Mac data in aPC. The PC's files are simply copied back to the Mac disk. Ideal for offices with both Macs and PCs. With the Copy II PC Deluxe Option Board, Mac and PC users can share data quickly and easily— | for a lot less money than you would pay for a network or add- on Mac drives. There’s simply no easier, less expensive way to transfer data from Macs to PCs. Or vice versa. Bridge the gap. Teach a PC to read Mac files. For the dealer nearest you, or to order direct, call (503) 244-6036, M-F, 8 a.m.-5 p.m. (West Coast time). Please specify computer make and model when ordering. Compaq Portable, HP Vectra and Tandy 1000 require extra $15 cable. Current Option Board owners will receive a special upgrade offer. Questions? Call us at (503) 244-5782. Central Pont Software INCORPORATED 9700 SW. Capitol Hwy. Portland, OR 97219, (503) 244-6036 Circle 7 on reader service card MAC 7 PC HLECT RONIC MAIL OUR WAY. Next to InBox," the best way to send mes: between MACsand IBM PCsis to walk. Or run. Because other electronic mail software is complicated, es and files even fly. Evenif you're not at your desk or if your computer's off, messages, mail, and transferred files are waiting for you. . delivery is virtually guaranteed. InBox can be the beginning of confusing, and in some cases, too stupid to tell the difference hyper-effective communications. And the end of paper mes- between aPC anda carrier pigeon. InBoxis different. Injust minutes you'll be composing, sending, and rout- ing messages and files to everyone in your group and other groups. Over an inexpensive AppleTalk network which can include MACs, PCs, and compatibles. Froma simple phone message to detailed memos with attached files (like spreadsheets, MORE™ documents, letters, graphics, etc.), InBox lets groups or an entire company share information fast. So communication “As an actual user of the product, Lam particularly excited about InBox. John Sculley, Chairman and CEO, Apple Computer “Once you have InBox, you can't live without it.” Joseph Garappolo, Sr. Manager, Peat, Marwick, Main & Co. more information. time goes down. And office productivity goes up. THING sini sane electronic mail software that really flies. Call 800-64-THINK today for sages and memos. Perhaps that’s why InBoxis the best seller and MacUser Magazine's “Editor's Choice.” If you want instant communication between MACs and PCs, forget pigeons. Get InBox. It’s the first ‘THINK Technologies Division, 135South Road, Hodford, MA 01730, 617-275-4800, Three usee starter kit suggested etal price $350. MORE and InBox are trademarks o Symantec, In. © 1987 Symantec Corporation Circle 96 onreader service card Mac Bulletin A Display PostScript Standard? > In early January, Apple's top executives visited Adobe to look at Display PostScript, a PostScript-based program that ‘writes to a monitor instead of a printer. Adobe is pitching Display PostScript as the new imaging standard, so that fu- ture graphics programs will have the exact same look on both screen and page. Although Adobe hit home runs with DEC and NeXT, both of which have adopted the program, they apparently struck out with Apple. A few days after the meeting, Jean- Louis Gassée, Apple vice pres- ident for product develop- ment, was asked what the chances were that Display PostScript would become a Macintosh standard. His reply was curt: “None.” Gassée explained that Ap- ple must maintain control over its operating system—it can’t relinguish an important function to another company. To meet the challenge of Dis- play PostScript, Apple is ex- tending the functionality of QuickDraw, the imaging pro- gram now used on the Mac. But the door still remains open to Display PostScript. A day after Gassée’s remark, Ap- ple chief operating officer Del Yocam said Apple would im- prove QuickDraw but would also support Display Post- Script if it became a standard. Now it’s up to Adobe. New SE Fan and Mouse > Apple's newest Macin- tosh SEs are shipping with a much quieter fan and lighter- weight mouse. The mouse has the same basic shape as the first-issue Apple Desktop Bus mouse, but the new one is lighter and its profile is a little lower, which gives it slightly faster action. It also has a re- designed tracking system that’s more resistant to dirt. The new fan is based ona rotary design (like a room fan) and replaces the relatively noisy ‘squirrel-cage” fan used in the original SE. Apple deal- ers are offering an SE fan con- version that costs $91 and re- quires replacing the video/ power-supply board and the small printed circuit that plugs into the display tube. The new fan bolts to the upgraded video board. Giant Hard Disks > Huge hard disks that store up to 3 gigabytes of in- formation—the equivalent of 3759 double-sided 800K disks—are now available for the Macintosh. They're espe- cially useful in graphic-design settings, where a single color image can occupy 3 mega- bytes, and on networks where the hard disk is a file server fora number of Macintoshes. The following companies offer such jumbo disks (they're listed with their ca- Pacities): CMS, 1.2 gigabytes; Control Data, 850MB; Jasmine, 1.4 gigabytes, FWB, 3 gig- abytes; and Northern Tele- com, 761MB. Both ADIC and 8 April 1988 NuData offer 800MB optical drives. Offering new hard disks in the midrange are: Priam, 328MB; First Class Peripher- als, 300MB; Rodime, 140MB; FWB, 550MB; Micah, 300MB; Mass Micro, 100MB; Northern ‘Telecom, 460MB; Novastar, 150MB; ADIC, 488MB; and PCPC, 144MB. To back up this much mem- ory, both Jasmine and PCPC haye announced new tape backup systems that use 8mm videotape. Videotrax is using a regular VCR for hard disk backup. Faster Desktop for Large Hard Disks B® Agiantsize hard disk was supposed to answer all our storage problems, but rebuild- ing the huge Desktop file that results has become so time- consuming that we could be shuffling floppies and still come out ahead. Apple’s David Ramsey pro- poses a solution, However, he advises that you begin the fol- lowing experiment with a complete backup of the hard disk and frequent backups thereafter. Your data could become unrecoyerable— proceed at your own risk. Ramsey says to speed up a hard disk update, obtain a copy of Desktop Manager from an AppleShare server and puta copy in the System Folder, Using a disk editing program like Fedit, erase and trash the Desktop file while some application other than the Finder is open. Holdin, down the Option and % keys when you next start up the Mac prompts the Finder to use Desktop Manager to re- build the Desktop file with a much more efficient B-tree structure, Finder updates will be much faster. But remember, you achieve increased speed at your own risk. A 68030 for the Mac Il The Mac Il may soon be as fast as. a high-price work- Station, thanks to a new series of accelerator cards based on Motorola's next-generation 68030 processor. MacProducts USA claims its 030 card will give the Mac Il a 500 percent increase in speed—a 100 per- cent improvement over the speed of a 80386-based com- puter. The card, which will ship in May, doesn't require high-speed RAM chips, and you won't have to buy Apple's memory management unit (MMU) to run UNIX, The 030 card's software includes driv- ers that allow hard disks to operate at higher-than-normal Speeds. MacProducts’ cards will be available in 20 MHz, 25 MHz, and 30 MHz by the third quarter of this year. Computer System Asso- ciates’ 68030 card is now ship- ping primarily to hardware and software developers who will receive custom software to assist in program testing. An accelerator card planned for June will allow standard memory chips to perform at faster-than-normal speeds. ‘The card will take advantage (continues) EUREKA: The Solver: Solves your mathematical equations instantly []Vhe state-of-the-art answer | to any of your scientific, tL engineering, financial, algebraic, trigonometric, or calculus equations = Eureka”: The Solver. Eureka can solve most equa- tions that you're likely to meet. So you can take a mathematical sabbatical. For anyone who works routinely with equations: in calculus, trigonometry, statis- tics—any of the most complex mathematics. Solutions syn- thesized with power and speed. No other software even attempts what it can do. Eureka represents the thrill of discovery—on command. For scientists, engineers, and mathematicians. For analysts, forecasters, and planners. For professors, researchers, and students. Most problems that can be expressed as linear or non- linear equations can be solved with Eureka. Eureka also han- dles maximization and minimi- zation, plots functions, gener- ates reports, and saves you an enormous amount of time. Eureka instantly solves equa- tions that would've made the ancient Greek mathematicians tear their hair out by the square roots—and it's all yours for only $195.00. It’s easy to use Eureka: The Solver 1. Enter your equation into the full-screen editor 2. Select the “Solve” command 3. Look at the answer 4. You're done You can then tell Eureka to = Evaluate your solution = Plot a graph = Generate a report, then send the output to your printer, or a text or MacWrite file = Or all of the above Ir You can key in: | = A formula or formulas = Aseries of equations— and solve for all variables = Constraints (like X has to be <or = 2) A function to plot User-defined functions Built-in statistical & financial functions = Unit conversions = Maximization and min- imization problems Interest Rate/Present Value calculations Eureka: The Solver includes = A full-screen editor = Online help = Calculator desk accessory = 68881 math coprocessor chip support. = Powerful financial functions = Built-in and user- defined math and finan- cial functions = Ability to generate reports complete with | plots and lists = Polynomial finder = Inequality solutions = Supports Macintosh II color monitor Minimum system requirements: Macinosh with 512K RAM, 128K ROM minimum One 800K disk drive ‘Exela. The Soveris a tademat of Soran erator, re. Ob (and and produc rares ar radon rregsteredtaterars et ther resectve tiers (Copygtt ©1987 Barz iterator Bi 11388 For the dealer nearest you or to order by phone Call (800) 543-7543 z 5 x 2 Circle 381 on reader service card Mac Bulletin of the 030’s internal MMU and two caches. MacPeak's 68030 board will run at 20 MHz, have 256K of Static RAM, and support the 68882 math coprocessor. Overall performance is pro- jected to be three to four times faster than the Mac II. University Resources > Wheels for the Mind isan Apple University publication prepared for Apple Computer at Boston College and edited by Peter Olivieri. It has a cir- culation of 10,000. Each quar- terly edition contains over 100 pages of articles and an- nouncements about how Mac- intoshes are used in a wide va- riety of university settings. Also included are product re- views and explanations of software programs developed at universities throughout the world. You can subscribe to Wheels for the Mind for $12 per year or $21 for two years; single copies cost $4. Send a check or money order, made payable to Apple Computer, Inc., to Wheels for the Mind, Apple Computer, Inc., RO. Box 1834, Escondido, CA 92025. Visa or MasterCard payments are accepted when accom- panied by an account number and expiration date. User Group Events B® Two big user groups have annual get-togethers and product fairs in April. The Boston Computer Society's Mac group throws its annual, MegaMeeting on April 9; call 617/625-7080 for details. The New York Macintosh User Group's third annual Mac Fair takes place on April 16 at the Roosevelt Hotel in New York City; call 213/969-0533. A Mac-VAX Strategic Alliance? Look for much easier and more powerful connectivity between Macintoshes and VAX computers, following the January announcement of a development agreement be- tween Apple and DEC. Both companies will foster development of communica- tions protocols and products that will integrate Macin- toshes and AppleTalk net- works into DEC’s VAX-based network, which uses the OSI international standard for communications. This unified approach to networking will allow Macs and VAXs to share files, print- ers, and electronic mail; to ex- change data; and to provide real-time conferencing, Macs will connect to wide-area net- works now available to VAX USErs. The agreement between Apple and DEC could result in new products by fall. It could also signal a new strategic alli- ance between Apple and DEC, as both seek to compete against the combinations of IBM and Microsoft, and AT&T and Sun Microsystems. Your Best Stacks Senda disk of your best HyperCard stacks to: News Editor, Macworld, 501 Second St, San Francisco, CA 94107, We'll pay $25 for every entry selected for a new monthly item, “Your Best Stacks.” Please tell us how you devel- oped your stack, describe its features and who would use it, and let us know how read- €rs can obtain more informa- tion. We'll also need to know if it’s free, shareware, or a commercial product. Word-Processor Features Galore > Nisus, a powerful new word processor from Paragon Concepts, is expected to ship in June. Previously code- named InAWord, Nisus lets you draw on a text-based page and then wrap text around or through the art- work. If you make a mistake, ANisus lets you undo the last command or all previous commands. Nisus also lets you com- plete a whole series of func- tions by pushing just two keys. More than 50 macros come with the program, and you can create your own by recording your actions; you'll even be able to edit macros until they respond just the Way you want. Nisus’s many other features read like a wish list of the best capabilities from word pro- cessing and page-layout pro- grams already on the market. Nisus is based on QUED, also distributed by Paragon Con- cepts of Del Mar, California (619/481-1477). CD ROM Clip Art Over 1000 PostScript based images and 48 fonts are contained on a CD ROM disk offered by the Canadian com- pany Image Club Graphics of Calgary, Alberta. The disk, called ArtRoom, comes com- plete with a LoDown CD ROM drive that plugs into the Mac's SCSI port; the package lists for $1999. Sold alone, the Art- Room disk costs $999. Art- Room also contains some 100 color clip art images in encap- sulated PostScript (EPS) for- mat, which allows you to en- large or reduce them without affecting image resolution or quality. ‘To select an image, you en- ter one or more keywords in 10 April 1988 ArtRoom’s Curator DA, which retrieves the appropriate im- ages and presents them in full size or lets you flip through miniaturized images. Curator will also paste an EPS image into almost any Macintosh program, even ifthe program normally accepts only bit- mapped graphics, A multiuser version of ArtRoom is also available, compatible with TOPS, the popular network- ing product. User Groups Growing > The fastest-growing user groups appear to be those de- signed for Mac users only. The Jargest such organization in the country is The Boston. Computer Society's Macintosh Users Group, which leapt” from 5160 to 7836 members in the past year. Following BCS-Mac is BMUG, a Berkeley, California, group with a mem- bership estimated at between. four and five thousand—up about a thousand from last year. Groups that aim to serve both Apple Il and Macintosh: users have not matched this explosive growth. Washington Apple Pi, in the District of Co- lumbia, has grown only about 5 percent in the past year, with much of the interest at- tributed to an upsurge in Ap- ple IIGS ownership; Apple Corps of Dallas has actually. seen a slight drop in member- ship. Users want to focus their interests on a single machine— or even on specific topics. Many Mac groups point to business use and HyperCard as the two factors that are now attracting new members. It’s not surprising that group growth is tied closely (continues) Reflex Plus can show you more about relationships than Dr. Ruth pieces of data within your data- base are all important ones. Because Reflex Plus is truly relational, it can “‘relate’’ and cross-reference your data. Many “database managers” are not much more than “‘list managers’’— simple lists that can’t connect and cross connect one item with another. So while they can “‘list,”” they can’t really ‘*manage.”” if The relationships between different What your data tells you depends on how you look at it It’s easy to customize your output with Reflex Plus. Whatever you're working on—letters, invoices, quota- tions or data entry screens—Reflex Plus lets you add graphics, position them wherever you want, change sizes, change fonts and produce truly profes- sional results. Reflex Plus lets you make the most of your Macintosh. Some of the power pluses of Reflex Plus Visual database design—a “natural” for your Macintosh * WYSIWYG (“‘What-you-see-is- what-you-get"") * Truly relational database manager * Auto-Save—which means you'll never lose data again & File Edit Format Describe Database Overview Overview Window Doctor Patient DoctorName ‘Patient™ BillingRate PatientName Timesheets Street Timesheet Ey Thedoctor State ‘Thecase ald Date Cases Case Units: Case* Title Patients Timesheets You simply draw connecting lines to relate one item to another. * Paste Choice command that saves you enormous amounts of time Context-sensitive online Help Automatic creation of formulas to let you instantly search, sort, calculate, qualify and more Multiple entry forms for the same database Entry for more than one database ina single entry form Shows one record at a time or all records at once Calculated fields in entry forms Display-only fields Default, but editable fields GROUPBY function Record sizes can be 1000, 2000, or 4000 characters Compatible with all Macintoshes with at least 512K RAM including Macintosh SE and II New rewritten documentation “arson en cry ti EO xs ol pu ee! seam 8 ‘Sromect wo a care con esos Opst Hawn wage re fod pcs nena epee racerats tnd en, Oe att ote eras ops ates oD ees yay e108 tote reno . on one 4&6 Borland’s new relational database, Reflex Plus, is the best Macintosh database . . . It is simple to use and operate, very flexible in design, low cost (only $279 com- pared to $500 for dBase Mac), and small in size (250K versus 730K for Fourth Dimension). . . We converted an Omnis 3 database that took two weeks to design into Reflex Plus in two days. . . We think Borland is right on target with their approach. David Smith, MacTutor 99 How to succeed in business for only $279 Reflex Plus is the super-power of truly relational databases, and it’s only $279 plus shipping and handling. pom.ann TERNATIONAL 60-Day Money-back Guarantee* For the dealer nearest you or to order, Call (800) 543-7543 Circle 199 on reader service card Mac Bulletin to Apple's success. Buy a Mac and you'll find information about BCS and BMUG in the manual’s introduction, along with Apple's toll-free number (800/538-9696), which you can call to locate the nearest Macintosh user group. 4th Dimension, Double Helix Upgraded p> A May upgrade of 4th Di- mension, version 1.1, is ex- pected to speed data trans- fers, indexing, and sorting, by up to six times. The new ver- sion improves multiuser ac- cess on AppleShare networks, and the upgrade allows non- programmers to utilize about 90 percent of the multiuser database's capabilities with- ut resorting to scripting. Another upgrade, expected in the fall, will allow 47h Di- mension to access and update other database records—such as SQL, Oracle, and dBase III Plus—as if those files were na- tive to 4th Dimension. Odesta’s Double Helix II, another multiuser database, is an upgrade of Double Helix that provides a threefold speed improvement. The new version simplifies data entry by enabling you to posta sin- gle figure to separate areas of the program. Macworld Expo Networked p Incase you hadn't no- ticed, the recent Macworld Expo in San Francisco was a showcase for AppleTalk net- works of almost every shape and variety. According to Far- allon’s Kee Nethery, there were 13 networks, 114 visible nodes, 6000 feet of PhoneNet, 400 feet of Ethernet, 100 feet of Lanstar, 100 feet of Local- Talk, 12 bridges, 4 StarCon- trollers, 22 Macintosh Is, 33 Macintosh SEs, 5 Macintosh. Pluses, 7 PCs, 3 DEC VAXs, 1 Sun Workstation, 19 Laser- Writers, 4 RS-232C servers, 8 Apple File Protocol file serv- ers, 26 other file servers, and 2 mail servers. The demonstration project was planned a week before the expo and it took five people a day and a half to con- struct. This was the fourth Macworld AppleTalk network. The first Macworld AppleTalk network, at the 1986 Boston. expo, had only 26 nodes. Participants on the network included: Abaton, Access ‘Technology, Ann Arbor, Apple, BMUG, Farallon Computing, Infosphere, Kinetics, the Mac- world press room, Microsoft, Northern Telecom, Pacer, Su- perMac, Symmetry, Tangent Technologies, and TOPS. Apple Moves Up Apple attainedanew financial high when its Octo- ber through December 1987 sales reached $1.04 billion, up a whopping 52 percent over the previous year, If this pace continues, the company that began 11 years ago in a garage could reach over $4 billion in sales by the end of its current fiscal year, September 30. However, one Macintosh Statistic is not so rosy. Info- Corp estimates that the Mac- intosh share in the personal computer market increased by only 2 percent (going from 12 to 14 percent) between No- vember 1986 and November 1987. Asked if Apple would intro- duce a lower-price Macintosh to increase its market share, chief operating officer Del Yocam said Apple's direction has always been to add value 12 April 1988 to its products. “Instead of going down, I think you'll see us moving up, Our market fig- ures show users want to be- come more technologically sophisticated; and they're willing to pay for that. But as we move up, we'll still have entry-level computers.” SpreadsheetWars, a Continuing Saga > The spreadsheet battle began a few months ago when Lotus announced it would bring 7-2-3 to the Mac- intosh, That took place a day before the press event at which Microsoft said Excel would compete with 7-2-3 in the MS-DOS world. Now another big gun is en- tering the Mac spreadsheet market: Ashton-Tate revealed it will soon introduce Graph- sheet Mac for around $395. This product will feature more graphics capabilities than Excel. Wingz, a new offering from Smart Software, also offers more graphics than Excel. It’s expected to ship in May. Wingz combines three- dimensional color charts with database and text functions— all in addition to regular spreadsheet functions. Its cost is said to be competitive with the $395 Excel, which In- fonetics estimates holds about 85 percent of the market. HyperCard as a DA You can open and browse through your stacks without opening HyperCard if you have HyperDA, anew desk accessory from Symme- try. HyperDA is always avail- able in the Apple menu within your applications and re- quires only 512K of memory, as Opposed to IMB for HyperCard. When implemented, Hy- perDA displays its own menu from which you can open or close a stack; print a card; set up a page; find a card that contains a certain word; or go to the first, previous, next, or last cards ina stack. Another feature is a window mode, which displays a stack in an expandable, scrollable win- dow that can be moved any- where on screen. Text and graphics can be copied to the Clipboard. HyperDA costs $69 and comes with a manual in the form ofa stack. For further information, call Symmetry in Mesa, Arizona, at 602/844-2199. FullWrite Pro and WordPerfectFinals Ann Arbor gave away over 10,000 demonstration samples of FillWrite Profes- sional, its long-awaited word processing/page-layout pro- gram, at Macworld Expo in January. Each recipient was handed two disks that con- tained a fully functioning pro- gram, a help file, and a glos- sary. However, sample users will find “FullWrite Profes- sional Demo” printed in large gray letters across each page of output. Ann Arbor Soft- works announced it expects to ship a final version by the end of March. At the same time, another long-overdue word processor, WordPerfect, began selling in a beta version for $99, which includes complete docu- mentation and limited, toll- free, technical support. Feed- back from beta testers will help the WordPerfect com- pany create a more bug-free final version. 0 The Promise of HyperCard: Focal Point Delivers. There's been a lot of talk about the promise of Hype hype, But not a lot of clear answers to the question “What ca Introducing Focal Point, the Ultimate Organizer. It's for managing your time and tasks. Whether you work company, Focal Point helps you keep your projects on time and on budget. It tracks what you have scheduled tomorrow and What you got done today. It records everything from expenses to exciting ideas. Itmakes you more efficient, more effective, more creative. And Focal Point is completely customizable, so it works the way you do. Hot Links. HyperCard links the Focal Point tools to each other. So you enter information just once, But you can organize it and use it in thousands of different ways. Your daily and monthly calendars are linked to your to-do lists, which are connected to your phone direc- tory and call-logging system. Proposal, project, and deadline functions share data with customer and vendor records. The list of links goes on and on. Focal Point even has a document launcher that connects you directly to your reports, letters, spreadsheets, whatever. $0 you can switch back and forth between Focal Point and other applications, instantly. By the Guy Who Wrote the Book on HyperCard. Focal Point was created by the man who wrote the book on HyperCard—Danny Goodman, author of the best-selling Complete HyperCard Handbook. Because Danny worked with Bill Atkinson on the development of HyperCard, he knows it inside out. So Focal Point really shows—and uses—the power of HyperCard. Put the Power of HyperCard to Work for You. Ask your retailer for Focal Point, the Ultimate Organizer. Or order direct: call 800-345-2888, Operator 300. $99.95 suggested retail price. Free Demo Disk. (Well, almost free—there is a $5.00 postage and handling fee.) Call the 800 # above to order. Self-running demo requires 512K but does not require HyperCard. Sriteu\u capartnsnnn terest nonce bey ‘nied pe pa son he PBS en MO HyPERWARE* woe ASACTIVISIO Select from 18 ready-to-use Focal Print functions (or create your own with HyperCard) and take advantage of all the links shown here. Focal THIEUITISATH ORGANIZER, rr heaps Diy, een ay agatha, i The time has come to replace all your old drawing tools. Because now there's a new, more powerful way to draw with your computer. It’s called Aldus FreeHand”” And it’s the only drawing tool anyone with a Macintosh” really needs. It combines the flexibility of freehand drawing with the precision and special effects of the best com- puter drawing programs. So no matter what your level of artistic skill, it can help your work look more pro- fessional. 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And it works the other way, too. DATA. "Good enough. Butif! want to connect with a Wang PC, or even an IBM PC...” No problem. MacLinkPlus/Wang VS connects with either one, and includes a “library” of more than 25 different data translators, such as Wang WP, WordPerfect, Microsoft Word, MacWrite, DCA, dBase, Lotus, and more. Works with the Apple File Exchange utility, too. Ask your Macintosh dealer about MacLinkPlus/ Wang VS, or call us direct at (203) 866-4944. MacLink is a registered trademark of DataViz Inc. + All other brand and product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders. Circle 281 on reader service card Denmark rethinks the computer table ‘The original MacTable was the perfect place for a Macintosh. Then the Macintosh changed shape. So we thought about it again and built a new one, Introducing the all-new MacTable, Perfect form and function for the entire Macintosh family. Cabinet becomes platform for LaserWriter. Holds disks, manuals, and a fall carton of paper: Circle 400 on reader service card One table fits all ‘The new MacTable fits every Mac made, be it 128, 512, Plus, SE, or the Macintosh IL. It has a place for everything. Hard disk, second drive, modem, keyboard, mouse, ImageWriter, and Laser\Writer. Plus a carton of paper. Yet even with a full complement of gear, theres room to spread out for serious work. Every surface interchangeable Each of MacTables four surfaces can be independently tilted — and interchanged! You can even make it right or left handed. So it accommodates any peripheral you'll ever have at comfortable working and viewing angles. Stands the test of time Maclable is meticulously built in ain. + Surfaces tilt independently for ergonomic comfort. + Strong hase and durable matertals support heauy equipment, + Dimensions: 60'W x 30°D Interchangeable surfaces offer configurations for every size Mac, Denmark, by crafismen using pure beechwood and durable laminates. Its new, sturdy design and quality materials support even the heaviest equipment. And MacTable is now a new color: Platinum Gray, same as the new Macintosh line. Matching roll-away cabinet The new free-standing cabinet (optional) is big enough to use as a stand for your LaserWriter or CPU, It features easy-glide casters, space for full-size binders, and a special place in the locking drawer that holds over 100 disks upright and secure, New lower price The new MacTable also has a new price. Just $289. Add the sturdy, matching cabinet for $139 more (all prices plus shipping and handling). And if you're not satistied with MacTable for any reason, return it for a prompt refund (less shipping). Before you buy an ordinary table for your Macintosh, think again. Then choose the Danish solution, The new MacTable. To order your MacTable or for more information call: ‘TOLL FREE 1-800-722-6263 in WA state (206) 481-5434 ScanCoFurn. P.O. Box 3217, Redmond, WA 98073-3217 _Mactuble design patent pending MacTable isa registered trademark of Scamtinastan Computer Burmiture, In Apple tsa irademark of nd Macintosh is «trademark licensed to, Apple Computer Inc. Price and design subject to change without notice, Telecommunications software for the Macintosh, a new version. Soar to New Highs, Effortlessly When Software Ventures set out to create MicroPhone, it had a simple mission: to develop the most intuitive communications software ever written. Indeed, when MicroPhone was born, it was universally hailed as a break- through in communications software. A product so friendly, it turned novices into experts. So sophisticated, it became, in the words of MacUser, a power user’s delight. MicroPhone is a legend. One of those precious software creations that single out the Macintosh as a superior computing machine. With MicroPhone II, Software Ventures has set out to surpass itself: redefine power in telecommunications for years to come. MicroPhone II is so revolutionary that PC Magazine was moved to say: “MicroPhone II is arguably the best comm software ever written.” We won't have it any other way. Micro- Phone II. The freedom to be yourself. At the top. Critics’ Choice Stewart Alsop, P.C. Letter: “MicroPhone . . . sets the standards that general-purpose communications software will have to follow.” The New York Times: “MicroPhone is a breakthrough in communications software...” 2907 Claremont Avenue Suite 220 Berkeley CA 94705 415-644-3232 Let's Get Technical MuttiFinder compatible. Supports background file transfer and script execution. Offers a full-featured script language: variables, counters, and expression-analyzer for string and arithmetic operations. Scripts allow: control of all communications settings; screen addressing and text editing; filtering of incoming text. Supports import and export of scripts as text files. Allows control of PBX's, Hayes and non-Hayes modems through flexible modem drivers. Runs at 50 to 57,600 baud. Emulates DEC VT52, VT100, and TTY type terminals. Mac II and LaserWriter compatible. Works with all Mac large screen monitors. Supports the extended key- board. Built-in text editor. Includes Glue, licensed from Solutions, Inc. MieroPhone is a trademark of Software Ventures Corporation. Copyright © 1988 Software Ventures Corporation. Circle 48 on reader service card David Bunnell Eyes on the Prize Lill Who's afraid of the low-cost Mac? Apple really has nothing to fear— except fear ttself Have you ever wondered what it would be like to win the World Series, the Super Bowl, a few Oscars, and a Nobel prize—all in one year? That's how Apple Computer must feel these days. Big Red recently posted its first bil- lion-dollar sales quarter. It signed a historic codevelopment and comarketing agree- ment with Digital Equipment Corporation, establishing a strategic link with the VAX- to-micro world. It’s making solid inroads into the much-coveted corporate market- place. And it has definitely become the darling of the personal computer industry. Judging from the record attendance at the recent Macworld Expo in San Fran- cisco—more than 40,000 people in three days—the good times are just beginning. Ina mere four years’ time, the Macin- tosh has come to have color, speed, and desktop publishing capability, with its vari- ous spinoffs like desktop presentation and desktop video. It's got mass storage capa- bility, connectivity, and innovative software like HyperCard. It’s even got media per- sonality John Sculley, Apple’s CEO, appear- ing on newsstands everywhere. But there's one thing Apple doesn't have: a low-cost Macintosh. Now I'm not proposing that Apple in- troduce—horrors!—a “Macintosh jr” And I don’t relish the thought of whatever the clone-makers might drag in from Taiwan. Nor am I starry-eyed enough to ex- pect Apple to bring out a 68020-based Mac with 2 megabytes of RAM for under a thou- sand dollars. No, just give me a basic system for starters, thank you. I see the low-cost Mac as an equivalent to the Mac Plus—nothing fancy, but it’s got to be more affordable. Given that option, I think hundreds of thousands of small-business users, low- budget organizations, and students would vote with their wallets for a Macintosh in- stead of an Apple II or an IBM PC clone. Why is Apple so unwilling—or perhaps unable—to face what might be its greatest marketing challenge ever? After all, the original Macintosh mandate was to make a computer accessible to the masses. That’s still a much greater challenge for Apple than penetrating the high-end corporate market. During a keynote session at Macworld Expo, I had the opportunity to raise this is- sue with Jean-Louis Gassée, Apple's senior vice president of research and development. “Would Apple please license its ROM chip to Sony and let them make a cheap. Mac?” I teased Gassée. “There's a crying need for one. What's the holdup?” “It would be easy,” Gassée admitted. “But we won't do it” First of all, he insisted, making an af fordable Mac is unrelated to actual manu- facturing or labor costs. “And besides, given the state of Ameri- can currency right now,” he said, “it would cost less for Apple to manufacture a Mac with cheap labor in California,” than to have Sony do it. He went on to say that Apple's reluc- tance to lower its profit margin or to li- cense its system technology to second and third parties has more to do with maintain- ing the purity of its R&D vision than with anything as earthy as the bottom line. “What we want is the ability to keep improving the standard without having a noose around our neck—a decrease of our margins that would prevent us from doing what Digital did. It spent 40 years doing DECnet,” Gassée said, citing his favorite ex- ample of a technology company that hasn't sold its R&D birthright to outsiders. “DEC was ridiculed when it started DECnet,” he noted, “but the company kept investing and came out with something that is very successful right now” “Another problem we don’t want to take on is the business of licensing,” he continued. “When you're in the licensing business, you drag all the licensees with you, and all their subtle incompatibilities and their conflicting requirements.’ (continues) Macworld 19 Introducing The Big Picture CX Exceptional Color Large Screen Display Until now large screen color has meant compromising brightness, sharpness and your budget. The Big Picture CX shows big, sharp 1024X808 images in incredibly bright color. Yet it still displays crisp and contrasty text that won't strain your eyes. And at a price much lower than other color monitors that show you less. 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Box 54240, San Jose, CA 95154 (408) 559-8635 You are welcome to call collect! Circle 42 on reader service card 22 April 1988 David Bunnell Gassée also dismissed the widespread industry allegation that, by sitting on its own proprietary technology, Apple is ob- structing the creative evolution of the Mac- intosh in the broader marketplace. “The marketing, thinking, and techno- logical processes that apply to fixed media do not apply to the more flexible meta- media that we do,” he explained, “The original television technology lasted for thirty or forty years. Long-playing vinyl rec- ords were only displaced by CDs after thirty years. Personal computing is a very young technology. It needs a lot of care and feeding before it reaches maturity. And I don’t believe that will happen any time soon.” To be fair to Apple, I’m not entirely un- sympathetic to Gassée’s position. His argu- ment was both persuasive and poignant, although in the final analysis I feel com- pelled to take the opposite view. Apple’s survival as a company de- pends entirely on innovation, on its ability to create leading-edge products and to stay ahead of the MS-DOS market. There is a prevailing belief among in- dustry watchers that the IBM PC's Windows environment will catch up to the Mac in two years, maximum. Soon you will be able to enjoy the same functions, features, and ease of use on MS-DOS machines that you now have on the Mac. Furthermore, two years from now those 386 clones may very well be selling for about $1000-not the nearly $3000 you pay for a business-oriented Mac system to- day. If that happens, the Macintosh will be in a very precarious position unless Apple comes out with a really low-cost Mac to compete head-on with the clones. Recently I visited T/Maker Company, a major Mac developer and the publisher of WriteNow. Vice president Royal Farros voiced the same concern I have, one that Apple would do well to heed. “I'm seeing Mac fanatics—those same hard-core supporters and zealots who car- ried the Mac through its darkest days—sit- ting down and playing with Windows 2.0 and Windows 386,” Farros told me. “When they start looking at Windows and say, ‘I like this almost as much as I like the Mac- intosh,’ that should signal something to Apple” “At that point, Apple should realize it’s not offering anything that totally differenti- ates it from anyone else. There are compet- itive graphics solutions out there.” (continues) Tait setage qe gees ee We t if * eee im Ema) eal I 1oaiow ear (ed ef TeTeTo Te oof afoTe elo sfoleTsefeeTelTeD) Now teachers dont have to go strictly by the book. 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Inc., 1801 Avenue of the Stars Suite 507, Los Angeles, CA 90067 Call us toll free at (800) 322-4744 David Bunnell Remember, the MS-DOS world is con- siderably bigger than the Macintosh world, even though Apple gets a lot more media attention these days because it’s the com- pany that’s most fun to watch. Between IBM, Tandy, Compaq, and the clone-makers, an estimated 2.3 million PCs will be sold in 1988, compared to about 922,000 Macintoshes (according to Interna- tional Data Corporation). That's a signifi- cant difference, especially to software developers. In the higher education market, where a discount pricing structure is main- tained through Apple's university consor- tium program, Macintoshes easily outsell PCs, But in the general business market, PCs outsell Macs 10 to 1. “If Apple doesn’t recognize that the real volume purchasers are small-business people who can't afford $3000 systems, then they're going to lose all of that mar- ket,” Farros warned. “If all the small-business people are buying Windows or the PS/2 or similar sys- tems, those are lost sales. Apple can fall down just as fast as it rose up.” Those are the two sides of the cheap- er-Mac debate: Apple’s pitch for maintain- ing high-end R&D purity, and an appeal to pay attention to the mid-to-low end of the market. I think the problem will sort itself out in due course. For one thing, many of the forecasts you hear about Apple’s imminent doom are based on the notion that it’s standing still. But Apple is very much a moving target, nota sitting duck. Even if the Widows environment for the PC is re- ally ready in two years, Apple is still two years ahead. Apple’s R&D investments must be used to continue developing leading-edge products—including a new family of com- puters that will someday replace the Macintosh. Not only must Apple stay technologi- cally ahead of the pack, but the company must also continue to be extremely clever, as it was with HyperCard. That's an inge- nious yet simple product that gives many users, people who would never learn Tier- bo Pascal or BASIC or assembly language, the tools to program to their hearts’ con- tent. They're now able to use the computer in a way they never could before. This flex- ibility and ease of use still does not exist on the PC side. As far as a low-cost Mac is concerned, 1 believe that there are several possible sce- narios. For one thing, Apple could decide to license its ROM. If it continues to lose market share, and if its developers start jumping ship to the more lucrative MS DOS world, Apple may change its mind. The low-cost Mac is clearly a future challenge for Apple. I bet Jean-Louis Gas- sée would love a low-cost Mac, as long as it had high profit margins. I'd love that, too. But even if Apple has to settle for a moderate-to-low profit margin, I’m con- vinced that the company’s overall net in- come would jump dramatically because of increased volume sales. Marketing 101 teaches us that mass ap- peal equals “the sky’s the limit.” And, for Apple, that would be the greatest prize ofall. a Macinwore SE Ext. ™ "The first carrying case released by 1/0 Design for the new Macintosh SE is ‘a sure winner. Available in platinum with a jet-black trim or in deep navy blue, this elegontly styled bag is crafted with excellent workmanship from high quaility materials. 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Circle 24 on reader service card “7 1-800-634-9992 5680 Stewart Avenue Fremont, California 94538 415-683-0932 Letters A forum jor Macworld readers Mac-Driven Robot I want to hook up my Mac Plus to some external devices to control a toy robot— something I've already done with an Apple Il, But where there are hosts of books and articles on controlling simple relays from such computers as an Apple II or a Com- modore 64, I can find nothing comparable about the Mac, even though I'm sure it’s possible. I'm also wondering if | can do this through HyperCard. Byron Marshall Pineville, Louisiana Amplicon Electronics Ltd. in England. (Richmond Rd., Brighton, Sussex BN2 3RL) makes a GPIB interface card for the Mac I! and the Plus that may bring your robot to life.—Ed. Corrections Fifth Generation’s Fastback (“Data Savers,” February 1988) costs $99.95, not $179. In the comparison table, “Re- construct lost directory” should read “Reconstruct lost disks.” An updated Fastback is reviewed in this issue (see “A Second Look,” Reviews). NuData’s Data Cell 220, listed in the table “Hard Disks Compared” (“The Disk Shop- per's Guide to Storage,” December 1987), has been discontinued and replaced by the Data Cell 290, which retails for $6995. In addition, all NuData drives include diagnostics, partitioning, and format software. The phone number for TechWare, maker of PsychroMouse (New Products, January 1988), ts 913/782-1249. Mail-Order Credo In response to “What's Wrong with Mail Order?” (December 1987), I suggest mail- order firms go further than “no credit-card billing until shipment” and adopt our pol- icy of “no billing until 30 days after ship- ment.” Our company ships 80 percent of all orders the day they're received. We also of- fer a free 45-day trial, warranties, anda replacement-before-return policy for de- fective products. When an industry grows to $2 billion, abuses are inevitable. They can be - mized, though, when trust flows from the business to the customer—not the other way around. Kenneth A. Eldred Inmac Santa Clara, California ALesson Well Learned The credibility of Macworld, already high in these parts, just went through the roof with the appearance of Jeff Chester's highly professional article on mail order in the December issue. For a publication to point out sharp dealing by some of its adver- tisers is journalistic integrity of the high- est order. 1 too received a mail-order baptism of broken promises and crafty dodges, which after a year has yet to be resolved. The lesson I drew from the experience: never authorize a charge or send a check to a mail-order outfit unless you have merchan- dise in hand. Sam Thornton Fairfield, Nebraska Guilty Verdict As the president of a mail-order business, I was shocked when I opened my Decem- ber issue of Macworld and saw the article on mail order. I had hoped that you would at least mention the positive side of mail (continues) Macworld 31 The POINT of Perfection! _ Twice the Speed. Twice the Resolution. Let's get right to the POINT. ProPoint sets the standard in perfection for precision cursor control. Advanced optical technology Abaioa ieee Tr and digital electronics make ProPoint the most reliable and ProPoint ‘Turbo Mouse ADB Mouse accurate device available on the market. ‘Technology Optical Opti-Mechanical ‘Mechanical e Abaton’s custom firmware delivers high resolution precision and Prensa 200 CPL 70 CPI P the control needed with today’s sophisticated desktop publishing and |, enters) Ye Yes other design applications. At 200 counts per inch with built-in accel- eration, the speed and accuracy of cursor placement is unrivaled. EET Me oe bg ProPoint’s ergonomic design complements the new Macintosh Shift Lock Key Yes No No system profile. Productivity is dramatically increased (up to 60% MIBE* 21.7 years 0.9 years 75 years because it is always at your fingertips and your eyes never leave Gaaraniee? Lif 90 day 90 day the screen. Warranty Guarantee ‘Warranty Warranty The POINT of no return—LIFETIME GUARANTEE. Abaton’s patented technology and solid state design is so advanced and so reliable that we are backing ProPoint with a lifetime guarantee. “MTBF (Mean Time Becween allure) Abaton— commitment to perfection. ProPoint $159.95 Pick up a ProPoint for your Macintosh SE, Abaton Macintosh Il, or Apple IIGS at your local authorized 7901 Stoneridge Drive, Suite $00 Apple dealer or call 1-800-444-5321 Pleasanton, California 94566 for the ProPoint dealer nearest you. Telephone (415) 463-8822 Apple and AIMS Apple Mouse are registered trademarks and Macintosh is a trademark of Apple Computer, Ie Circle 107 on reader service card Kensington Turbo Mouse a trademark of Kensington Microware Lid. awit The hottest sport onacourt— the hottest game a Macintosh” can handle. Even if you've never been on a racquetball court, you'll spark to the excitement of this challenging simulation. MacRacquetball turns your Macintosh screen into a full perspec- tive 3-D display of court, players and ball. With the mouse, you have com- plete control of player position, ball placement, ball speed and shots. Two people can play the same game over AppléeTalk® or modem. Superb graphics give Mac- Racquetball completely convincing realism. There are more than 1000 frames of ultra high speed digitized animation. It’s one racquetball court that’s always open when you're ready to play. @ PCAI ExCrsriO} Enthusiastic players everywhere have made MacGolf the best selling Macintosh game ever. MacGolf puts you in the picture, a full perspective 3-D simulation of realistic golf action. You match your skills against fairways, roughs, bun- kers, water hazards, sand traps and trees. MacGolf gives you a player's eye view of the course, in any direc- tion, and an aerial overview of each hole. You have complete control of your position, ball placement, ball speed and direction, and selection of all 14 clubs. Digitized graphics and sounds add to the excitement. MacGolfis so close to the real thing it will improve your golf game. And by the time you’ve reached the eighteenth hole you'll know you've been ina real contest. ©1987, PCAI/Practical Computer Applications, Incorporated 612/427-4789 Macintosh and Appisialk are trademarks of Apple Computer, Inc. Circle 211 on reader service card When you have the best selling Macintosh game in the world, what do you do for an encore? Here's new turf for adventurous MacGolfers. These are courses to conquer for mouse wielding pros who have taken the measure of the original MacGolf courses. If you liked MacGolf, you'll love what MacCourses brings to the screen. Four new 18 hole, par 72 courses: Cedar Creek, Golden Sands, Thunder Ridge and PCAI International. The fairways, traps, hazards, and putting greens of MacCourses are in a whole new league. If you thought MacGolf was good training for the outdoor game, MacCourses should turn you into a pro. Get MacCourses now, use it when you're ready — you never know when you'll need the challenge. Letters Imagine what you can do with Modern Artist Color Painting software for MAC II 5.5 million colors Transparent color overlays = = Wet canvas Bs I color mixing i 3-D color “wy $199.00 MORE FEATURES THAN SOFTWARE TWICE ITS PRICE Modern Artist is a professional color paint program, with a wealth of spe- cial elfects and unmatched ease of use. Ideal for art, business and edu- cation graphics. Output on paper or directly on trans- arencies with the fabulous Pan- hroma_ 200 dpi color printer ($4,500.00). Output to video (NTSC or PAL) withour Procucer geveral purpose genlock card ($598) 10) rder Toll Free or from your mer800-547-3303 C=mputer Friends: 14250 NW Science Park Dr. Portland OR 97229 tel. (503)626-2291 fax (503)643-5379 Send $5.00 for Modern Artist demo disk and’ sample PanChroma prints Circle 69 on reader service card 34 April 1988 Corrections Negative Response Gray-scale scanned image D as it should have looked in “Shades of Gray” (Mac- world, January 1988, p. 117)-printed asa positive. The 150-line halftone was pro- duced on a Linotronic 300 from an 8-bit Datacopy scan. order. While problems do exist throughout the industry, your article paints a picture of doom and gloom and offers little advice to consumers. It’s true that you have a strong obliga- tion to your readers, but you also have a commitment to your advertisers. When mail-order firms go out of business, even the successful ones are adversely affected. To offset the negative publicity, Mac- world should do a follow-up article on how to buy safely through mail order. Marc Daniels CDA Computer Sales We've repeatedly stressed our belief that the majority of mail-order firms are hon- est, reliable, and professionally run. In February (Commentary) and March 1987 (‘Navigating the Mail-Order Channel”), we mentioned a number of reputable companies and offered specific advice on how to purchase wisely through mail or- der. Our intent in the December feature was to look into the growing number of mail-order complaints we'd received from buyers since then.—Ed. What's Wrong with APDA? Your mail-order article fails to mention one well-known firm that is hopelessly inept at everything it does: the Apple Program- mer’s and Developer's Association. Apple has created a monopoly for APDA by mak- ing it the sole source of vital Macintosh development software while requiring members to pay an annual $20 fee. What we get are repeated lost orders, back or- ders, address screwups, perpetually busy phone lines, and general incompetence. Every catalog we get says “we've had a few problems, but we're up to snuff now.” Sure. If APDA had to compete in an open market, it would have been long gone by now. Mark S. Jennings Digital Kinetics La Honda, California In spite of our repeated attempts to ob- tain a response from Apple, none was forthcoming at press time.—Ed. Hunting License Required In “Games for Any Budget” (Macworld News, September 1987), Macworld con- tributing editor Robert C. Eckhardt report- ed that Duck Hunt, by Edgar Circenis, is a free public domain program. In fact, Duck Hunt is a copyrighted game by Nordic Soft- ware that is given as a premium for joining the MacKey Mouse Club and is not in the public domain. All clubs, bulletin boards, and individuals who have included it in their public domain libraries should re- move it from their lists and stop distribut- ing it. We request that anyone who has obtained an illegal copy either destroy it or send $14 for a year's membership to the MacKey Mouse Club, P.O. Box 4561, Lin- coln, NE 68504. Jim Wrenbolt Nordic Software Lincoln, Nebraska Our copy gave no indication that Duck Hunt was commercial software. We regret the error.—Ed. (continues) Rodime drives for the Mac. The fastest average seek times of any hard disk drives for Macintosh™ ...28ms! And the largest capacities. A combination any Mac user would love. The 450 RX™—45 mega- bytes of internal storage for the Macintosh SE and Macintosh II. The 1000 RX™ and 1400 RX” —J100 and 140 megabytes of inter- nal storage for the Macintosh II. Hodime, Inc. Peripher LC, Nasmyth And the PLUS External Series for the Mac Plus and SE. 20 and 45 megabyte capacities that have compact housings that fit right under the Mac. The 20 and 45 megabyte internal PLUS drives have fans that cool the drives andthe Mac RODIME tems Division, 29525 Chagrin Blvd |, Southtield Industrial E: . Speed : like you've never seen. * Plus. Designed by Rodime for easy installation. Best of all, the RX and PLUS Series drives have the unmatched reliability and sup- port of Rodime—the largest supplier of hard disk technology for the Macintosh. Rodime drives. The largest capacities and the fastest speeds. Drive one today... .experi- ence the speed. Turbo Mouse: . - Twice the speed, in half the space. Finally, a Mouse that’s really quick. One that doesn’t require a lot of room on your desk. One that's easy to use, even on a desk full of papers. Turbo Mouse from Kensington. Turbo Mouse turns mouse technology upside down. It puts the mouse ball on top, rather than on the bottom like a standard mouse. You move only the mouse ball, not the whole mouse. That’s why Turbo Mouse is quicker, quieter, and easier to use. Turbo Mouse doesn’t get its speed only from this ease of use. It has an auto- matic acceleration feature that senses the speed at which you are working and moves the cursor further when you move the mouse ball faster. Turbo Mouse has two mouse buttons —one for right-handed users and another for lefties. And, since it’s only 4” x 6”, Turbo Mouse will fit neatly at the end of your keyboard. For Macintosh™, Mac Plus, Apple® Ile, or IIc, ask for model 62350. For Macintosh SE, Mac II, or Apple Ilcs, ask for Turbo Mouse ADB, model 62352. For more information, or a dealer near you, call (800) 535-4242. In NY (212) 475-5200. KENSINGTON. <} CANVAS” Introducing Canvas™ The only graphics program that integrates MacDraw™ type objects, high resolution 300 to 540 dpi images, PostScript™ and MacPaint™ type graphics single document. No more switching from one window to another. No more cutting and pasting between different programs. Everything you want in one program, in one document. Use Canvas™ for corporate slide presentations, forms, complex graphics, diagrams, newsletters. Any where you want stunning results. Import graphics from other programs like 4th Dimen- sion! Excel™ and More™ to customize charts and graphs. e even included a desk accessory version so you can Canvas™ from within your word processor, spreadsheet, ¢ or desktop publishing program. Canvas™ allows you to view and edit in any magnification or reduction from 3.125% to 3,200% for incredibly precise control of your image. Canvas™ is packed with features and powerful special effects. Bezier curves, “What you see is what you get” (WYSI- WYG) text editing. 9 feet by 9 feet of continuous drawing area. MacrObjects™ (graphic macros). TIFF support. And much more. So if you’re looking for the best of everything, look into Canvas” ina your local dealer for a complete demonstration of Canvas™ and other Deneba software including: Coach” the best selling interactive spelling checker desk accessory, Comment!" the original Macintosh equivalent of 3M’s Post-It™ notes and the Coach™ Merriam Webster Thesaurus. Or call us at 1-800-6CANVAS. In Florida call (305) 594-6965. Canvas™ $195.00. MacDraw, Ma 4th Dimension irks of Apple Compute cel is trademark of Micro k of Living Videotext, Ine. e, Inc, GraphicWorks is a trademark of Mindsc trademark of Ann Arbor Softworks, | 2 on reader service card The Ultimate MacintoslY Learning Experience Introducing Mac Academy '88" 2 Full Days, 14 Hrs. of Training. 6 Mac Experts, 9 Valuable Workshops The following are the classes being offered at Mac Academy’ 88 Plan now to attend the location of your choice for only $199. Excel HyperCard FileMaker Plus Multi- Finder & Add-on's What is Mac Academy? Most Mac owners never read the manuals. They never really harness the amazing power of their machines or software. So where does some- one learn the in’s and out’s of the Mac and their soft- ware? Not from dealers, and not really from the magazines. The answer isa live, in-depth workshop taught by people who use the Mac and the leading business software daily in their own businesses. Mac Academy is uniquely designed to fit your needs, It is presented for a full 2 days, with 14 Word 3.01 Mac Marketing Techniques hours of instruction, and a’ personalized class schedule. Mac Academy will be presented in most metro ar- eas this year. You may at- tend both full days for only $199. Take time to make your investment in your Mac worth a million. Classes are limited in size so call now. For Mac Academy Dates and Locations Call: 904-677-1918 Personalized Company Training Sessions Also Available Presented Exclusively By: Florida Marketing International, Inc. 142 Cone Rd. Ormond Beach, Fla. 32074 Macintosh Finder, Sytem and PICT, Mult-Finder, and Hypercard ar registred tademaris of ‘Apple Computer, Inc. Microsoft Word and Microsoft Microsoft Corp. Cash Genera cel are registered tor is a regis eadsaark of Boetive Wer ne leraker Pls iserepinered wademark of Nashoba Sys ne. Mac Academy isa repisered tademark of 38 Marketing International, Inc. ©1988 Circle 76 on reader service card April 1988 Letters Compatibility, Take II Your November 1987 article on Mac II com- patibility (“Just How Compatible Is Com- patible?”) was at least as buggy as the software it attempted to cov ple, MacDraft 1.2a crashes easily when I'm working with text. Another example is Guide, used as the PageMaker 2.0a Help accessory, which requires two tries to be selected. Aldus is aware of the problem; is OWL? At the very least, your research should have been double-checked by other users. Could such information be supplied by helpful contributors? We who use a pro- gram extensivly have more collective in- depth experience than one user glancing briefly at 50 products. Jobn Weygandt Claremont, California As we stated in the article, the size and changeability of the Macintosh software market prevents us from covering every product. And for the ones we can cover, we can't hope to accurately document all bugs, since it often takes quite a while for many of them to surface. We agree that contributions from readers are a great idea, and in fact we did solicit informa- tion on compatibility problems from users.—Ed. Beetles and Bugs When I saw a full-page photo of beetles on page 109 in the November 1987 issue of Macworld (“Just How Compatible Is Com- patible?”), I eagerly awaited a review of en- tomological software for the Mac. However, after I'd carefully read the article and found not one reference to a beetle, it fi- nally hit me-the author was writing about bugs. Whoever supplied the specimens for the photo neglected to point out that true bugs belong to the order Hemiptera, which does not include beetles. Gwen A. Pearson Raleigh, North Carolina Affordable Portable Lagree with David Bunnell’s observations in the December 19: 1e (“In Search of Apple’s Achilles’ Heel”) about the need for a low-cost Mac. When Apple drops the Mac Plus, the SE will become the entry-level Mac, scaring off many potential users with its high price tag. Apple needs a low-end machine that’s as easy to buy as Macs are easy to learn. (continues) LEGAL BILLING BULK MAILER Legal Billing is a time billing package designed s NEW VERSION! Bulk Mailer is a powerful program cal for aorneys and accountants Legal Billing fll specially designed for managing lists. 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Jack Hobson-Dupont Nantucket, Massachusetts Veto Power “Not Recommended” was a very useful ad- dition to “The Final Spelling Test” (Octo- ber 1987). I'd like to see this feature made a part of all your comparative reviews. Dan Wiur Dix Hills, New York Printer Lacks Potential I purchased Printworks for the Mac after reading your claims in “Printing Potential” (Reviews, September 1987) that it substan- tially enhances ImageWriter printing capa- bilities and boosts spooler speed. I later discovered not only that Printworks can- not enhance the print quality of an Image- Writer I, but that the spooler works only with the Printworks printer driver, which— as an insert to the manual points out—has problems working with Microsoft Word 3.0. Instead of “wondering how I managed so long without its performance benefits,” I wonder what the review was based on. Robert M. Kintner Wenatchee, Washington True, our review did not make clear the relative advantages of the ImageWriter II over its predecessor, for which we apolo- gize. However, we still feel that the spool- ing and page preview features of Print- works are useful. The problems with Word 3.0 were not due to Printworks but to Word itself, which was brand new and therefore relatively untested when this re- view was being written. Overall, we still stand by our evaluation of Printworks as ent enhancement to the Image- r—Ed. Network Trials Although David Ushijim: working (“Network Tales,” January 1988) was excellent, I'd like to clarify a few mis- conceptions about NuData's Giga Cell. First, the Giga Cell 290 is now shipping with one 290-megabyte hard disk, rather than two 150MB di Second, the ROM problem exists only when Control Data’s 290MB hard di: ised on the Mac Plus. Third, all NuD: ystems, including ticle on net- the Giga Cell, are now shipped without internal terminating resistors. Eric Herzog NuData Santa Clara, California MiniCad Fan As a MiniCad user, | disagree with the con- clusions reached in “Benchmark: Mechani- cal CAD” (November 1987). Among other things, the review fails to point out that lay- ering is the single most important feature ina CAD program for quickly developing a system of related documents that can be changed and checked at all levels. This should have put /GMStation completely out of the running. My MiniCad package is a good, inexpensive CAD system that turns out sketches, presentations, details, mea- sured plans, specifications, and bid pack- ages in half the time with twice the quality Arthur Anderson Philadelphia, Pennsylvania It’s impossible to devise one CAD bench- mark test that covers every feature of every CAD package. And with over 300 possible CAD features to choose from, it’s not easy to decide which ones to include. MiniCad’s inability to support pen plot- ting, for example, rules it out completely for many users. While layering may be important to you, many CAD applica- tions simply don’t require it, and many CAD users who have layering available to them don’t even use it.—Ed. Fan Mail Ihave a subscription to Macworld (as it’s usually pretty good), which I paid for my- self. But I can't seem to get it shifted to Cal- ifornia—it keeps going to New York. Sol finally broke down and bought another one to have out here. Steven Bobker MacUser Publications Palo Alto, California Letters should be mailed to Letters, Mac- world, 501 Second St., San Francisco, CA 94107, or sent electronically to Com- puServe (70370,702), The Source (BCW440), or MCI Mail (addressed to Macworld). Include a return address. Due to the high volume of mail received, we regret we're unable to respond per- sonally to each letter. We reserve the right to edit all letters, All published letters be- come the property of Macworld. 0 TORS roreegio rah ya TORS i comp or many people, using their Local Area Network is like a journey across 500 miles of bad desert, with strange, unforeseen forces of destruction lurking behind every turn. Until now that is. Because now there’s TOPS, a revolutionary departure in LAN design. TOPS fully arms each node with local user control of information, and frees you from the grips of costly central file servers—and even more costly network administration personnel. TOPS’ unique design gives users completely transparent access to files anywhere from any operating system on any computer—anywhere in the network. And TOPS’ modular design supports new operating systems as they become available. Users become believers, because TOPS is so easy to operate. All its commands are totally intuitive. TOPS is also easy to install and support, and there’s no downtime necessary when adding new users. 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