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80 NEW PRODUCTS FOR THE MAC! SEE PAGE 153 MACWORLD August 1988 $3.95 Canada $4.95 The Macintosh® Magazine 1988 Winners! Computer Graphics on the Mac iil, & Nowtheperson the presentation can the presentation. The old adage “If you want something done tight, do it yourself” couldn't be more true than when you're making a presentation. Or, right now, more possible. Infact, all you'll really need is Microsoft’ Power- Point” software and an Apple’ Macintosh’ torunit. It’s the easiest, most cost-efficient way to assemble ibiiiaaciniates a professional- FeO a = looking presentation even when you have last-minute changes. Frey conception to completion, right from your own desktop. PowerPoint gives you the power to create your own picture-perfect overhead transparen- cies, flipcharts, 35mm color slides, speaker notes, and audience handouts. In such record- breaking time that there'll be nothing for you to do the night before the big day but sleep. 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Then, whenever you're ready, you can print out all your presentation materials— from attention- getting overheads to handy speaker notes —with- out ever leaving your desk. Tf35mm slides are in order, simply send your presentation to thenearest Genigraphics’ center, the leading presentation graphics service bureau, and your slides will be on their way in 48 hours. Lastly, last-minute changes need no longer cause traditional last-minute panic. Because a PowerPoint presentation is as easy to change as itis to create. Tfyow'd likea live PowerPoint demonstration, call (800) 541-1261, Dept. 110, for the location of your nearest Microsoft dealer. And remember, the best part of doing a pre- sentation all by yourself comes afterward. When you get all the credit. Microsoft: icrosoft logo are registered trademarks and Poncer Point is a trademark of Microsoft Corporation. Apple, Macintosh, and Mac are registered ef bettrh ey Geniephis Crpotin. 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With PowerPoint it’ easy to printout your speaker notes, or handouts with up to two, three, or ‘six slides of our presentation on a page. ‘Your audience will flip over charts like this, created entirely with PowerPoint, MACWORLD August 1988 The Macintosh® Magazine Departments 55 Macworld News = 9 MacBulletin "= High-End CAD AutoCAD for work- MACWORLD Late-breaking news. stations comes to the Mac II. | Pol 1988 Winners! | 15 David Bunnell = Desktop Video How the Mac pro- v | duces video animation. wn 19 Letters | : = PowerPoint in Color Color slides 29 Commentary/Jerry Borrell brighten Mac-based presentations. | | 37 Steven Levy : Plus, putting 3-D models on screen, TT Roa HyperCard as a report-producing Ol he Cour 153 New Products oe database, experimenting with From the electronic A quick look at new Macintosh — headline tontscandiriore drawing board: the software, hardware, and accessories. ss Macintosh Masterpieces, : award-winning works 173 How To/Quick Tips ofart in Macworld's first Changing text styles in Word, running annual contest appear multiple macros in Excel, editing on page 74. (Cover art horizontal images, and more. by Jobn Hersey.) 185 How To/Getting Started with CAD An introduction to the electronic drafting system known as computer- aided design. 203 How To/Insights on MacDraw II Two dozen tips and shortcuts for drawing with the original classic and the new version II. 227 Updates The latest software upgrade news. 235 Where to Buy Contact information for products in this issue, ra Ns 240 Best-Sellers / ~ > Mac drafting wi. programs put pay - a @. rye designers in the ? ‘a "le ¢ driver's seat, (See “™ mae +. ¢ “Getting Started with ty f ae CAD,” page 185.) 2 August 1988 Dozens of dinos roam the wilds of a new HyperGard stack. (See page 57). os power for the office. PostScript Pair ~LaserWriter INT and IINTX. A Few Strokes Short Anew version of MacPaint. =A Isit aPrinter or Is It a File? __ AnyText/AnyGraph translators. 119 Everything but the Kitchen McSink text-editing DA. 121 Upgrading to SCSI 123 Math without Tears Features 3 Calculus tutorial program. 74 Macintosh Masterpieces (Is It 125 Carats to Cubits : MacArt Yet?) : Chameleon changes measurement Leaf through a gallery of stunning OLS Macintosh art created by our contest 427 More than an Upgrade winners. MacProject I for nonprofessionals. 82 Reality Transformed 431 From special effects to filtering out artifacts—techniques for touching up scanned photos. 135 Focus on Presentations PC Viewer, MacMainFrame, and Flat- Top LCD projectors. y Miles and Miles of Art Two CD ROM clip-art libraries. 88 Color Monitors Revisited Choosing a color display forthe Mac Il; ie how 12 color monitors stack up. 137 ‘Two Pages in One 96 Staying Alive Radius two-page display for the SE. Hardware add-ons to extend the life of 39 Low-Cost MIDI Interface Quartet your Mac Plus. Four MIDI products for the Mac. 102 Where Are the Clones? 141 Real Color Now Find out why we're still waiting for a RasterOps 24-bit color card. PostScript-compatible printer. 143 Macintosh Rising MacAstrologer charting program. 145 Getting ItRight MacProof and Sensible Grammar. _ Machine Slaves QuickShare and Lap-Link Mac. Macworld HD-20 WSI upgrade for Hard Disk 20. For a close-up view of how to improve scanned photos 16 ways, see “Reality Transformed,” page 82. MACWORLD Jerry Borrell Editor-in-Chief Christopher Burg Art Director Editorial Managing Editor; Charles Barrett Senior Editors: Adrian Mello, David Ushijima Editorial Manager: Jane Lagas Associate Editors: Gil Davis, Nancy E. Dunn, Valerie L. Kuletz, Joe Matazzoni, Cheryl Spencer East Coast Editor: Brita Meng Assistant Editors: Cathy E. Abes, Mark Hurlow Acting Senior Copy Editor: Felicity O'Meara Copy Editors: William Freais, Richard Johnson, Katherine L.. Ulrich, O’Brien Young Editorial Assistant: Liza Weiman Editorial Administrative Assistant: Cynthia J. Meade Administrative Assistant: Sharon Roe Contributing Editors: Robert C. Eckhardt, Erfert Fenton, Danny Goodman, Rob Hahn, Jim Heid, Steven Levy, David L. Peltz, Lon Poole, Charles Seiter, Franklin Tessler, Bruce F. Webster Artand Design Designer: Susan Howard Associate Art Director: Joanne Hoffman |, Michael Sumner ciate: Hae Yuon Kim Art Administrative Manager: Polly Smith James E. Martin President Macworld Communica Production Senior Production Manager: Anne Foley Editorial Production Manager: Ellyn L. Hament Production Editor: Susan M. 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General forums in- clude special-interest groups, stock market information, news, the Comp-u-store on- line shopping mall, and American Airlines EAAsy Sabre service. Suggested retail price for the package is $35, plus an annual subscription fee of $35 after the first year. Connect charges are $15 per hour for prime-time use (7 a.m, to 6 p.m. weekdays), and $6 per hour for non—prime-time use. ‘To make accessing Personal Edition more affordable, Apple will lower the price of its Personal Modem by $120, to $279. Saving Your Hard Disk > Many crashed hard disks still contain all their files and programs, but it has been im- possible to access this infor- mation from their corrupted directories. Coming to the rescue is Symantec Utilities for the Mac (SUM). This util- ities package contains a pro- gram called Guardian, which can often restore a crashed hard disk in less than a minute by building a desktop-style di- rectory on the hard disk, and ideally ona floppy disk as well. But remember, this pro- gram must be used pre- emptively; it’s intended to augment, not replace, backups. Another major feature of Guardian is a virus-protection utility. While it cannot prevent a System from becoming in- fected, this utility informs you when a virus has invaded. The program prevents most crashes by blocking illegal System calls. Other SUM fea- tures are disk optimization, hard-disk partitioning with encryption, and rescuing of deleted files. SUM's list price is $99.95. With the first 5000 copies sold, purchasers can obtain an additional program free— either HFS Navigator or Laser- Speed, a print spooler. For further information, call Sym- antec at 408/253-9600. Illustrator 88 Ships B Adobe's long-awaited Illustrator 88 drawing pro- gram includes a number of features not Originally intend- ed for the color graphics Mac Bulletin drawing, automatic tracing of bitmapped images, masking, blending, and easier creation of resolution-independent fill patterns. List price of the major up- grade is $495. It’s available free to those who purchased Illustrator after January 1, 1988, and for $100 to all other owners, Spot Inking for Brighter Images Fourcolor ribbons can be costly, especially when one band wears out long before: the others do. Now there's a solution: Multicolor Mac Inker from Computer Friends. With this inker you can re- apply ink to any of the four bands either singly or in com- bination. According to Com- puter Friends, reinking costs only five or six cents per ap- plication, compared with buy- ing a new multicolor cartridge that costs $9 to $25 depend- ing on the printer and manu- facturer. Another plus: freshly applied inks often yield brighter images. Impressive Printing > One way to substantially improve the appearance of la- ser printer output is with spe- cially designed paper such as Laseredge from CG Graphic Arts in New York (212/925- 5332), It increases clarity by providing a flat, smooth sur- face for deposited toner—no longer does toner drop down into the valleys of duplicator paper, which has a much rougher surface. Laseredge is available in a wide range of weights and in films. There's also a new product for the ImageWriter II that, while not improving print quality, will certainly make tractor-fed paper handling. more convenient. This $49.95 paper stand from Stay/Up (602/966-6886) automatically refolds tractor-fed paper as it comes out of the ImageWriter. Horsepower for A/UX ® Golden Triangle Comput- ers has announced a 25-MHz, 68020-based coprocessor board, called FirePower, for Mac Us running under the A/UX operating system. Fire- Power is not an accelerator that replaces the II’s CPU; rather, FirePower runs in con- junction with the CPU as an application coprocessor for computation-intensive A/UX tasks. For example, users can off-load certain processor- intensive tasks to FirePower and thereby prevent tying up. the Mac II system. If Fire- Power's Mac II host is on an Ethernet network, any other network node can access that FirePower board, providing that the node supports TCPAP protocols. One Mac II can host up to five FirePower boards. The board includes 1 mega- byte of ROM, two Appletalk- compatible serial ports, and one high-speed SCSI interface that’s said to be four to ten times faster than the Mac (continues) product, such as freehand Macworld 9 Mac Bulletin I's built-in SCSI interface. A 25-MHz, 68881 math copro- cessor chip and up to 4MB of memory are optional, Prices for FirePower start at $3000. For more information, contact Golden Triangle Computers at 619/279-2100, World Markets Await Travel to a foreign coun- try and you might be amazed to see your favorite program working in any one of 17 lan- guages, including Japanese and Arabic. That's because it's relatively easy to “interna- tionalize” Mac software: all of the language components —the menus and dialog boxes—are kept in separate modules that are quickly modifiable. Apple is urging software developers to take advantage of its new Global Software Information evangelism pro- gram, which offers a new technical design manual, mar- keting information, and ac- cess to 27 versions of the Mac Operating system (also avail- able through the Apple Pro- grammer’s and Developer's Association). An example of the growing internationalization of Macin- tosh markets is Rav-Ktav, a Hebrew/English word proces- sor, and MacKtay, a Hebrew/ English desktop publishing program, with list prices of $350 and $595, respectively, from Davka Corporation (800/621-8227). Changes for SE and Plus By fall, you can expect to see the elimination of differ- ences between the European and U.S. versions of the SE and Plus chassis. From a user per- spective, the most visible change will be the elimina- tion ofa mounting bracket for plug-in cards on the SE. Previ- ously, Apple spot-welded this bracket to the SE chassis. In the future, developers must provide this bracket—which costs about 20 cents—with each plug-in card. There should be few substantive dif- ferences for the Plus, which will continue with no fan and no slot for internal cards. 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Write to Macre- ations, 329 Horizon Way, Pacifica, CA 94044, Full-Fledged AI > In March, Apple and Texas Instruments announced the microExplorer Al (artifi- cial intelligence) workstation, based on a Mac II with a LISP coprocessor chip, that offered near-workstation-like perfor- mance ata greatly reduced price. All that was missing was the appropriate software. Inference is filling this need by offering expert- system software called ART (Automated Reasoning Tool), which can be used to develop and implement Al applica- tions that can combine with Macintosh programs. For in- Stance, a Mac application that controls a manufacturing pro- cess can feed data to an ART program that sends decisions back to the Mac application for implementation. For fur- ther information, call Infer- ence at 213/417-7997. New CD ROM Both Toshiba and NEC are bringing CD ROM drives to the Mac, thus competing with Apple's own $1199 Apple CD-SC, which has an average access time of 600 millisec- onds, Toshiba's XM-2100A-Mac claims a significantly faster ac- cess time of 400 ms and sells for only $999. NEC's Intersect CDR-77 drive costs $1198 (in- cluding a $199 Mac-SCSI inter- face) and offers an average ac- cess time of 500 ms. All three units will support the High Sierra CD ROM and Mac HES file formats. One important extra, avail- able only with NEC's drive, is a $399 CD ROM that includes 2500 3-D objects and fonts: ready for importation to vari- ous graphics and publishing programs. Since the images are object-oriented, they can be edited, resized, and re- Shaped for many purposes. A Science Cornucopia B Apple Engmncering/ Scientific Solutions Guide (Summer 1988), a 278-page publication that describes nearly 500 software and hard- ware products, is now avail- able at Apple dealers for $6.95. This Apple-produced document also includes infor- mation about price, support, and how to contact manufac- turers. Products are listed in the following categories: ar- chitecture, manufacturing planning/control, mapping/ earth resources, scientific’ laboratory, soft opment, and technical productivity, Apple’s First Network Manager B Apple now has its first network-management pro- gram for AppleTalk networ InterPoll. With it, network ad- mMinistrators will be able to view the network number, node number, socket num! name, and device types of ev- eryone on the network. The network can also be viewed on a zone-by-zone basis. InterPoll can turn off the LaserWriter reinitialization di- alog box, It can also deter- mine if everyone on the net work is operating with the Same version of the System, Finder, and LaserWriter driver. 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What I’m wondering is why the Mac II, with its 68020 chip, is sitting in Business Week ads flanked by word processors and spreadsheets. During Jean-Louis Gassée’s first year at Apple, one of his favorite say- ings was, “Apple should be marketing to its friends.” He often mentioned how many high-tech and engineering firms were pur- chasing Macintoshes. So why aren’t we see- ing Apple's ads in Scientific American and other magazines favored by engineers and scientists? There are about three million engi- neers in this country. They use computers for word processing and databases, and they need better graphics in all of their ap- plications than do other PC users. They also tend to be more informed about the technology in general, and they really care about what kind of chips their PCs have. These engineers and scientists are the natural friends of the Macintosh. Certainly their companies spend more on worksta- tions than do most companies with white- collar workers, where the allure of ma- chines that cost under $1000 is irresistible. I think that Apple is overlooking a po- tentially larger market in this group than the one it is seeking in business. Mean- while, Sun Microsystems is preparing to launch its first line of retail workstations. Apple has squandered its head start with the Mac II, and now it's losing its slight lead by focusing the wrong machine on the wrong market. Sun has not so quietly be- come a one-billion-dollar company, and soon it could dominate the market for sci- entific and technical desktop computers. It’s not that developers have let Apple down. I know they’re trying to push CAD and engineering applications for the Mac IL. But Apple isn’t helping them. This is very different from the way the company’s mar- keting executives created and advertised desktop publishing alliances two years ago. There are no equivalents to the campaigns featuring Living Videotext, Filevision, and PageMaker that we saw then. If Apple were interested in creating a greater demand for the Mac I in the tech- nical user market, it would have already signed deals with national developers to port existing software to its machines. De- velopers like Daisey, The Mentor, and Valid for integrated circuit design; SDRC, PDA, and Swanson in engineering; McAuto and Control Data in CAD, How can a company savvy enough to build a Mac II overlook its loyal developers and the major software vendors ini one of the most lucrative mar- kets of all? During a recent Apple developers’ conference, there were several questions from developers asking when Apple was going to add a plotter driver to system soft- ware print drivers. The glib answer from an Apple staffer was, “We can develop our own as quickly as we can buy one from an- other company” It’s clear to me—as it was to the audience—that Apple intends to sit on the issue until it is forced to act. When- ever developers ask questions at Apple’s public forums, I sure don’t see many Apple executives in the room. If they were there, maybe they would be better prepared to deal with the competition from Sun’s new desktop machines. It's as if Apple has forgotten that it can create its own role in the business market. It has a tremendous entrée into technical corporations like Lockheed and General Electric. These are places where the II could sell like hot cakes, but Apple seems determined to slavishly emulate IBM and only go corporate. That's about as smart as treating the Apple II line as a poor relation, instead of realizing that it’s a moneymaker with a very healthy installed base. 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THIS BLACK & WHITE IMAGE FOR MAC ONLY FROM KODAK ~~ Circle 194 on reader service card Letters A forum for Macworld readers Rising from the Ashes Itis with mixed emotions, mostly disbelief, that I realize Ashes to Ashes may be one of our most successful programs. It was born out of momentary boredom while Stanley Crane and I were learning to program the Mac. Ata trade show, Stan found a couple of copies in his pocket and gave them away. Since then, they've been turning up every- where. | keep magnets on my refrigerator so they won't take to breeding in the lettuce bin. Your response to Jim Flores's com- plaints about the bug that causes the score to decline at the 200,000 mark (Lerters, March 1988) expresses our mercenary sen- timents exactly—why put extra time and effort into a program that’s provided us no income? I might also add that no one had broken 200,000 before the game made its public debut. We'd fix it, but we're not en- tirely certain we still have the development lem. Maybe there's a copy in the butter Daniel Matejka via CompuServe Landscapes in Color Are there any programs that will colorize black-and-white MacPaint images on the Mac II? Also, are there any fractal programs that can produce color mountains and other landscapes? Robert A. Wyatt Berryville, Virginia Correction The 24-bit programmable color video card shown on page 113 (Macworld News, May 1988) is the Spectrum/24 by Super- Mac Technology, not RasterOps. It offers 1024-by-768-pixel resolution and sells for $2995. JOHN HERSEY Colorizer (Palomar Software, 619/721- 7000), PixelPaint (SuperMac, 415/964- 9694), and Modern Artist (Computer Friends, 503/626-2291) all convert black-and-white images into color. One fractal program, Fractal Islands 5.0 by Scott Berfield, does color landscapes, but you're limited to green mountains and blue water. There are a number of Man- delbrot color fractal programs, including MandelColor 5.1 by Robert Woodhead, Mandelbrot Microscope by Martin Sand- berg and William Hembree, and Man- del881 by Stephen Eubank. All are public domain except MandelColor, which is shareware ($10). You can get them through EduComp, CompuServe, or various user groups.—Ed. Buyers Be Aware We were appalled to read Steven Levy's column about ComVest's glitzy, get-rich sales operation (“When You Wish upon a VAR,” March 1988). Although millions of people fall prey to these marketing tech- niques each year, you shouldn't judge all VARs by this one example. Like us, most Apple VARs are committed to improving the business environment of their clients. We work very hard to maintain our valued partnership with Apple. In response to your warning, “Let the buyer beware,” we say, “Let the buyer be aware that most VARs offer worthy products at reasonable prices.” Mark Hopkins Micron Computer Company Camarillo, California (continues) Macworld 19 The original AnthroCart. Mobile. Incredibly strong. So many ways to solve your space and equipment problems. Choose different sizes. Move shelves around. Add space saving options. 2) AnthroCart. Welldesigned ». Technology Furniture. Look for our name. AnthroCart’ Call us for a free catalog: 800-325-3841 DO m-< Letters Not Just for Typesetters In “Page-Makeup Roundup” (April 1988), Steve Cummings refers to program JustText, TeX, and Textures as packages that re not for g hic designers.” Most pro- ssionals agree it is the fanatical pursuit ¢ the finer points of typog: y that separate the pro from the less y craftsperson WYSIWYG programs in this respect. Asa teacher of typographic d encourage my students to use PageMaker and ReadySetGo as well While the last program is less intuitive, its typical results outshine those of the other two. Once Display PostScript becomes available, JustText will become very attractive to those now groping their way through the plethora of menus that are part and parcel of the supposedly easier program: Joost van de Woestijne Utrecht, The Netherlands A Prize Market In his April column, “Eyes on the Pri David Bunnell said just what I've been say- ing about Apple for a long time. There would certainly be many more Mac own today if only Apple had offered them an af- fordable Macintosh. Tuse a Mac Plus at work, and I like ita lot. But I voted with my wallet, as Bunnell put it, and bought an Amiga 500 with a megabyte of memory and two disk dr: for less than half the price of a similarly eq ipped Mac Plus. Multiply me by over n people tired of waiting for an af- lable Mac who decide to buy something , and you can see Apple is obviously g a large market. Dawsonville, Protecting Its Image No business likes to mess with a successful product—in Apple's case, the Apple II line (David Bunnell, April 1988). Until Apple is relatively sure that a cheap Mac won't hurt sales of the Apple II, you won't see a signifi- cant drop in the price of the Mac. If the Mac fashionable image and new- s, the price may sta: ize or even increa: Apple may be afraid that a low-cost Mac will tarnish its image in the minds of business people, but it may also find the market is no sure bet either. Victor Rosengren Fort Collins, Colorado (continues) Registered users receive CANVAS 2.0. If you’re one of the 20,000 plus registered users of CANVAS 1.0, we've got a present for you. 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Clarke 20/20 Data Systems Austin, Texas Fixing TOPS We enjoyed your informative article on TOPS network software (“Insights on TOPS,” March 1988). We use a TOPS LAN, but after upgrading to version 2.0, we dis- covered that while we could use an SE as a “many writer” server, we were unable to do the same with a Mac Plus. We've been in- formed that TOPS is working on a fix, but we're still waiting to get it. Dave Davis Broderbund Software San Rafael, California Mike Rogers, TOPS technical manager, says the fix will go into the next upgrade, which should be out by now. In the mean- time, a patch is being sent to customers who report the problem.—Ed. Fish or Cut Bait How nice of Apple to turn over MacWrite, MacPaint, and MacDraw to Claris for fur- ther development. But why wasn’t MacTer- minal given the same treatment? Apple should either get on with MacTerminal’s development or admit that it has no plans to do so. Vanya Matzek Cupertino, California When Apple spun off its software division, it decided to keep networking, communi- cations, and system software, and hand over all other applications to Claris. Ac- cording to an Apple representative, Apple plans to make MacTerminal a more integral part of future Mac operating systems. —Ed. APDA Has Its Say I noted with interest that Apple gave no re- sponse to Mark Jennings's complaint about Apple Programmer's and Developer's Asso- ciation (Letters, April 1988). Since APDA is (continues) g 66 GoD oe a / VERSION 2.0 WITH TIME rox oe ( ort Get rid of computer clutter with Comment 2.0, Deneba’s text and graphic notation system with timed alarms and complete note management. SPREADSHEETS... attach notes containing formulas and explanations to any cell within your spreadsheet. Then use these notes to create hypertext-like documents. 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Circle 175 on reader service card 24 August 1988 Letters an independent organization with a contrac- tual arrangement with Apple, we would be glad to respond to any future complaints. Since our recent period of unex- pected growth, we have improved our turnaround time for orders and customer service, And since we're a nonprofit organi- zation that prices products as low as pos- sible for widest distribution, the $20 mem- bership fee Mr. Jennings complains about is necessary to cover overhead and is re- quired by our contract with Apple. Frank Catalano APDA Renton, Washington Leading the Blind After reading about The Blind Watch- maker book and program (Macworld News, March 1988), I decided I wanted to buy it, but you didn’t give an address for the company. Steven W. Pollard Montgomery, Alabama The address for book publisher W.W. Nor- ton & Co. is 500 Fifth Ave., New York, NY 10110 (phone number is 212/354-5500). You can obtain addresses of book pub- lishers by calling your public library or local bookstore.—Ed. A Sour Note In “The Numbers Racket” (February 1988) you erroneously claimed that Jazz can read and write WKS and SYLK files, including formulas. Lotus technical support informed us that Jazz only imports WKS or SYLK files; it cannot export them. Only Lotus 1-2-3 version 2 can read Jazz files and save them in another format. Rita Gelhausen St. Meinrad, Indiana You're right. Lotus’s planned export utility for Jazz 1A failed to materialize; this fea- ture is now supposed to appear in Mod- ern jJazz.—Ed. 0 Letters should be mailed to Letters, Macworld, 507 Second St., San Francisco, CA 94107, or sent electronically to CompuServe (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. 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I worked hard at it for ten more years, and when things were very very good, my being bled into the music itself, and maybe I im- pressed a few females. So imagine my chagrin when I booted a $50 program named Jam Session on my Macintosh. Broderbund Software's prom- ises on the packaging implied that all my hard work and practice on the guitar had been squandered. Make great-sounding music instantly... exercise your creativ- ity without ever making a mistake... nothing to do except sit back and amaze yourself... If you don't know anything about music—who cares? Steven Levy is a Macworld columnist and the au- thor of Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolu- tion (Dell, 1985). MAX SEABAUGH Could it be true? Could randomly hit- ting keys on my Mac Plus actually provide better guitar accompaniment than a Martin D-28 and my years of labor? Yes, damn it. 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Find out more, RES OR US BONDS: U.S. SAVINGS BONDS THE GREAT AMERICAN INVESTMENT A public service of this publication, Bonds held less than five years earn a lower rate. 40 August 1988 Steven Levy At that point, the delight of my new computer toy overwhelmed the feeling that the hours spent honing my technique had been in vain. I tried the different songs, some of them giving me the power of a jazz pianist, a country banjo-picker, or a techno-hip synth player. With each song I got more excited—I just could not believe the music I was making. It was only later that I dared asked my- self a daunting question: Was I really mak- ing music? Or was this some sort of stunt, a cheap trick? If this was really music, then 1 think we have to make some major adjust- ments in our view of what musicianship consists of. To probe this conundrum I took a look not only at the origins of Jam Session, but also at those of a couple of other pro- grams that provide high-level music output for people with low musical skills, and found that the issues behind these pro- grams were almost as fascinating as the sounds they produce. Bogus Music Ed Bogas has had a checkered career in the music business, ranging from the composition of the soundtrack for televi- sion animation featuring the beloved but not very funny Garfield character, to an ap- pearance as a clucking chicken in commer- cials for the California Egg Board. Now he’s focusing on computer software, particu- larly for the Mac. It was Bogas who headed the team that created the popular Studio Session program, which uses the metaphor of a multitrack tape recorder to allow users to create songs in layers, adding one instru- ment track to another. (By doing this, Bo- gas was offering a low-end version of pro- fessional sequencer programs, which use the Musical Instrument Digital Interface, or MIDI, standard to manage studio-quality recordings.) But to get the most out of Stu- dio Session, one had to know something about musical notation and composition. Bogas wanted to bring things down to the level of musical moronhood. “A team of us were working on a toy project,” he recalls, “where you could push a button and have elaborate sound come out. Then one day I was sitting at the piano keyboard and thinking about the way a jazz musician operates. He has a bank of (continues) Simply eject the DATA®PAK™ cartridge and take a 45 megabyte Winchester hard drive home to- night! Trustworthy and reliable, with an average access time of only 25ms it's even faster than most fixed hard drives. Imagine sending or carrying 45Mb of CAD/ CAE drawings, color graphics or presentations with the ease and safety of a diskette. 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