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53 Steven Levy
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easy-to-use EzTape Icono-
graphic software and error-
correction technology. It sup-
ports backup functions across
all popular local area net-
works, including AppleShare
and TOPS. Any file made avail-
able on the network can be
backed up remotely by any,
networked station.
EzTape Iconographic soft-
ware is compatible with Multi-
Finder, and a version for Ap-
ple’s A/UX on the Mac II will
soon be available.
The list price of $1695 in-
cludes EzTape software, SCSI
interface, 256K RAM, and self-
contained power supply.
CL/1 Language
Specs Published
® Network Innovations
Corporation, an independent
subsidiary of Apple, has pub-
lished the CL/1 Connectivity
Language Description, a set of
specifications that provides
uniform access to shared data
from within desktop applica-
tions, masking the differences
among host operating sys-
tems, DBMS brands, and net-
work protocols. CL/1 is the
first step toward making
transparent access to shared
data a standard feature of
packaged software. The first
CL/1 connection will provide
access from within Macintosh
applications to host data on
Digital VAX systems.
The CL/I is a key part of Ap-
ple’s strategy for connecting
Macs to corporate informa-
tion beyond the desktop. Pub-
lication of the CL/1 Connec-
tivity Language Description
kicks off CL/1 development ef
forts in earnest, For further
information, call Network
Innovations, 408/257-6800.
A New Toolbox for
Communicators
Apple has announced the
Communications Toolbox, an
extension of the current Mac-
intosh Toolbox routines that
will allow applications to eas-
ily manage communicatio!
functions. The Communica-
tions Toolbox supports multi-
ple communications channels
and provides tools to manage
serial ports and the Apple
Data Stream protocol. Third-
party products are expected
to provide tools for SNA, TCP/
IP, and DECnet communica-
tions. The Communications
Toolbox also provides stan-
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Mac Bulletin
dard interfaces for terminal
emulators, and a standard set
of file-transfer tools including
routines for data encryption
and file-format conversion.
Cost-Cutting
FaxScan
PB MDideas is now offering
FaxScan for the Mac, a prod-
uct designed for desktop pub-
lishers and people with small
businesses who are unable to
afford a scanner, FaxScan can
transform a stand-alone fac-
simile machine into a 150-
to-300-dpi scanner to import
pictures and documents from
hard copy. It can also turn a
computer into a facsimile re-
ceiver, providing half a fax for
one-third the cost.
FaxScan connects to a stan-
dard stand-alone facsimile
machine and to a personal
computer via an RS-232C se-
rial interface. By simulating an-
other fax, FaxScan establishes
communication with a facsimi-
le machine directly through its
phone line. After establishing
communication, FaxScan re-
ceives data from the facsimile
machine and transfers it to the
computer in a TIFF or PICT
format.
FaxScan is compatible with
all stand-alone facsimile ma-
chines using Group 2. It works
with any Mac, is compatible
with MultiFinder, and has an ex-
ternal power supply for use in
other countries, It lists for
$299.95 and is available
through dealers or direct from
MDIdeas. For further informa-
tion, call MDIdeas, 1163 Triton
Dr, Foster City, CA 94494,
415/573-0580.
ResEditWrap-Up
B® Apple recently released
interim version 1.2b2 of its re-
source editor, ResEdit, and
plans to ship finished version
1.2 in November or Decem-
ber. The interim version re-
flects eight months of bug-
fixing by a five-person team at
Apple with an ongoing man-
date to improve ResEdit. It
also includes some new re-
source templates for interna-
tional localization, and a 45-
page manual. The finished
version will have more bug-
fixes, new international re-
source editors, and a 100-page
manual.
The interim version is avail-
able from online information
services and from many user
groups that maintain software
libraries. Members of APDA
(Apple Programmer’s and De-
veloper’s Association) can or-
der it from APDA for $10. For
APDA membership informa-
tion, write to 290 S.W. 43rd St.,
Renton, WA 98055, or phone
206/251-6548.—Lon Poole
Cloning the Mac
> Cloning the Macintosh.
Many companies think about
it. Some have even tried—for
example, the Brazilian com-
pany Unitron. But Apple's
threats of legal action have al-
ways put a damper on the
idea.
Now, Taiwan-based Happy
Joiner Company has shown
two Mac-compatible gate-
array chip sets at the Compu-
tex trade show in Taiwan. The
gate arrays include a real-time
clock chip and a floppy disk
controller that’s capable of
managing two 800K Mac flop-
py drives. The company, an
uninterruptible-power-supply
(UPS) vendor, hasn't cloned
the Mac ROM yet. But accord-
ing to Astatrends, a newslet-
ter on Asian sources of com-
puter products that is pub-
lished by Trade Media in
Hong Kong, Happy Joiner also
exhibited a prototype Mac-
compatible at the show.
Since Happy Joiner main-
tains that the chip sets don’t
violate any existing Apple
copyrights, the company ap-
parently isn’t worried about
Apple lawsuits. Happy Joiner
doesn't plan on selling Mac-
compatible computers itself,
but it will sell its chip sets to
anyone who wants to design
legal Mac ROM and legal soft-
ware to run it.
Group Editing
Online
> Mainstay is now offering
MarkUp, a multiuser applica-
tion for online group editing
of any type of Mac document.
You can edit any document,
without the application that
created it, by placing transpar-
ent overlays on original docu-
ments, Each group member
can edit and mark up a sepa-
rate layer and view layers
edited and marked up by oth-
ers, The master reviewer can
then use all layers to produce
the final document.
MarkUp’s editing tools in-
clude a text tool for free-
standing text; a note tool for
Pop-up notes; tools for lines,
arrows, and rectangles; and a
lasso. They can be used to
edit documents containing
text, drawings, art, scanned
photos, spreadsheets, and
other types of information.
MarkUp supports networks
like AppleShare, and work-
groups composed of dis-
persed members sending files
via disk or telecommunica-
tions. For further information,
contact Mainstay, 5311-B
Derry Ave., Agoura Hills, CA
91301, 818/991-6540.
Fast Color Printing
p> Sharp Electronics now
offers the JX-730, a B-size,
plain-paper, high-resolution,
color ink-jet printer. The
JX-730 has twice the speed of
Sharp's JX-720, and 225 per-
cent more resolution. It also
features a larger printing area,
a larger print buffer, the capa-
bility to act as a monochrome
text printer, and separate ink
reservoirs (which reduce
printing-cost-per-page be-
cause ink-packs do not have
to be discarded before they
are fully exhausted),
The JX-730's print speed is
one minute per page. It offers
wide-carriage printing and,
depending on the software,
can produce unlimited colors.
There are three paper-feed
options: roll paper, tractor,
and cut sheets.
For further information,
contact the Systems Division
at Sharp Electronics Corp.,
Sharp Plaza, Mahwah, NJ
07430, 201/529-9500.
Improving
Mainframe
Communications
® Digital Communications
Associates (DCA) has an-
nounced an applications pro-
gramming interface (API) for
its MacIRMA boards that al-
lows applications developers
to easily create Macintosh in-
terfaces to mainframe-based
applications. Applications
written in languages like C or
HyperTalk, or in a procedural
language from a database like
4th Dimension, can access any
of the 32 API calls, DCA’s API
provides a consistent, high-
level interface between an ap-
plication and the MacIRMA
hardware and is compatible
with DCA’s IRMA API for MS-
DOS personal computers. 0
14 November 1988
PRESENTING THE WRITEMOVE
PORTABLE PRINTER.
Most printers are sentenced by
theirown sheer bulk to lifelong con-
finement on a desktop.
Butnow GCCTechnologies“has
created a printer for the Macintosh”
with considerably more freedom
than that. Its called WriteMove™: the
“biggest printer ever to come in an
incredibly small package.
WriteMove weighs a scant
three pounds. It measures just2’«6%”
x1034’ (Any smaller and you couldnt
get the paper in)
{©1988 GCC Technologes Inc GCC Tach
Butits the only ink jet printer of
any size that gives you almost unlim-
ited freedom to reduce and enlarge
typeanddocuments.Because its the
only one with outline fonts—imag-
ing software that provides function-
ality otherwise available only with
laser printers.
Asa result, you can use Write-
Move to compose documents with
word processing software like Micro-
higher print quality than the Image-
Writer*ll, for not much more money.
Which could bring a whole
new meaning tothe phrase’ freedom
of the press.”
‘To exercise that freedom, see
your authorized GCC Technologies
dealer for a WriteMove demon-
stration. For the one nearest you, call
(617) 890-0880*
soft® Word, ordesktop publishing = _\ | ree,
programs like henge then ==
silently print them out at192-DPI reso-
lution. In other words, you get much == TECHNOLOGIES
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HE MOST INGENIOUS
PORTABLE PRINTER
SINCE THE PENCIL.
WriteMove
Honan Printer
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Now MACINTOSH AND WANG
CAN COMMUNICATE
ANp NotHING Gets Lost
IN THE TRANSLATION
Transferring files from
one system to another
is somewhat pointless
if you spend most
of your time re-
formatting the data.
Which is why we introduced
MacLinkPlus for Wang. Whether you're run-
ning a Wang VS system, an OIS or a Wang PC,
MacLinkPlus provides a complete solution for
document transfer and file conversion. to ASCII or print files is necessary.
MacLinkPlus includes the entire collection of more MacLinkPlus doesn’t stop there, however. It offers full Wang
than 40 translators — the key to accurate conversion of VS Workstation capabilities, allowing easy access to Wang word
file formats such as rulers, indents, bold and plain text processing, data processing and electronic mail. All 32 Wang
styles, margins, tabs, underlines, superscripts, subscripts, Workstation functions can be executed through familiar Macin-
paragraphs, and tabular tables. If it looks a certain way on tosh menus or command keys, and you'll even be able to use the
a Wang, it will look the same way ona Mac. And, of course, mouse on Wang displays.
vice-versa. No time-wastingand difficult pre-conversion Software for the Macintosh, software for the Wang (8” or
5.25”), software for the PC anda direct connect cable
(you can use a Hayes or compatible modem if you
prefer), is included in the MacLinkPlus
package; everything you need to be
up and running in minutes.
So call (203) 268-0030 for
your nearest DataViz dealer,
because no matter which Wang
system you're using, there's a
MacLinkPlus solution to co1
nect it to the Mac.
Wang 2100 Terminal Macintosh 2110 ‘Terminal Emulation the {Whose vouca thane
DATA/:2 MACLINKPlus/Wang
35 Corporate Drive
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APPLETALK?
Up to three times faster. With the new TOPS FlashBox.’
Most people wouldnt change a thing about their AppleTalk” network. Except to make it faster.
Now you can do that— easily and inexpensively. With FlashBox.
Simply plug FlashBox into the back of any networked Macintosh? And in a flash, information
will speed along your existing twisted-pair cabling (such as Apple's LocalTalk™ or regular tele-
phone wire) at the FlashTalk™ speed of 770Kbps— up to three times the AppleTalk data rate.
Whats more, FlashBox is only $189 per node, and can be installed on only those Macs you
want. And because FlashBox can communicate at both FlashTalk and AppleTalk rates, it will
automatically select the right speed to talk to any other Mac, PC, LaserWriter or peripheral on
your network.
In fact, you don't even need to be running TOPS —FlashBox can also quicken the pace of
AppleShare? InBox™ and multi-user applications. And networked PCs equipped with a FlashTalk
compatible card (such as the TOPS FlashCard™) can talk with Macs at FlashTalk speed.
Only FlashBox can make AppleTalk faster without putting you through major changes.
So call your nearest TOPS dealer. Just dial 800-445- é
TOPS (or 415-769-8700 from outside the U.S. and Canada), TOPS
Or drop a card to TOPS, 950 Marina Village Parkway,
Alameda, CA 94501. A Sun Microsystems Company
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 . .
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Let’s Get Technical
MultiFinder 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
VT62, VT100, and TTY type terminals.
Mac Il 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.
MicroPhone is a trademark of Software Ventures Corporation. Copyright © 1988 Software Ventures Corporation.
Circle 48 on reader service card
David Bunnell
The Expanding Mac Universe
The Mac is clearly
light-years ahead of
the PC pack. It should
continue exploring
“the final frontier” like
there’s no tomorrow.
The Macintosh software and application
universe is expanding, and no cluster of
OS/2s or Presentation Managers (the yet-
to-be-released Mac look-alike graphics en-
vironment) in the IBM galaxy will be able
to deflect Apple's path. I think it's cosmi-
cally ironic that companies like Microsoft,
IBM, and Hewlett-Packard are attempting
to recreate the Macintosh’s graphic inter-
face as if the Mac were standing still. By the
time they catch up to the light from that
galaxy, the Mac will be 10 trillion light-
years away.
They simply have too much to catch
up with. Right now on the Mac side, there
is a revolution going on in desktop presen-
tations and desktop publishing. Even desk-
top video is coming on strong. Clearly, the
Mac is the big winner in all three areas. It’s
already far ahead in graphics, and it’s doing
well in business applications.
There are a few space-cases in the
computer industry who believe that when
Presentation Manager is here, Apple will be
yesterday's weather satellite. That's a joke.
Presentation Manager will be a platform
without any software to speak of, while the
Mac already has thousands of applications
and all kinds of creative energy propelling
it. Remember when the shoe was on the
other foot? In 1984 there was very little
software for the Mac, and a lot of questions
about its viability. Now, the situation has
changed so dramatically that if IBM is real-
ly serious about getting into this space
race, it should consider licensing the Mac
from Apple. That's probably the best way it
can compete.
Meanwhile, wouldn't it be great if Ap-
ple were confident enough about its future
to quit the madness of this lawsuit against
Microsoft and Hewlett-Packard for alleg-
edly copying the Macintosh screen display?
As it happens, though, Apple either is not
confident enough, or is simply being defen-
sive, and the suit is still lumbering along.
Here's a recap of some of the case's
more memorable twists and turns. Apple’s
lawyers had been working for Hewlett-
Packard on another case when Apple filed
its copyright-infringement suit, so the fed-
eral judge disqualified the lawyers. Then it
was revealed that the same judge who
threw out Apple's lawyers not only has
son who works for Hewlett-Packard, but in
earlier cases has made judgments in HP's
favor, as well. So the heat is on to disqualify
him, too. Meanwhile, the judge has delayed
the trial until August 1989.
That delay would seem to help Apple’s
case, since Microsoft and Hewlett-Packard
may be hamstrung in their efforts to devel-
op much of anything until the matter is set-
ed. In addition, the U.S. Copyright Office
recently ruled that a software copyright
protects the display on computer screens,
which would seem to reinforce Apple’s
case. As Richard Glasgow, the Copyright
Office's assistant legal counsel, has stated,
“We think the screen will be protected, no
matter what the code” used to create it
Announcement of this ruling caused
Apple and Lotus stock-market shares to go
up. (Let's not forget that Lotu: ill mired
in its “look and feel” lawsuit against various
competitors.)
Despite all of these legal contortions,
Apple doesn’t have much to worry about
in the long run. It's going to continue to
be enormously successful. There's no need
to get hooked on the industry's paranoid
fear that OS/2 and Presentation Manager
are meteorites on a collision course with
Apple. There’s nothing nebulous about it
the Mac is not just an idea whose time has
come. machine whose universe is
expanding. 0
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Letters
A forum for Macworld readers
Playing in Color
I've been unable to find even one really
good, visually appealing color game for
the Mac IL. I will admit that Crystal Quest is
a great game, but it gets boring after a
while. Are there any decent Mac II games
coming up soon?
David Klein
Houston, Texas
PCAI has a new color version of MacGolf
(see October Reviews), Electronic Arts has
just come out with Chuck Yeager’s Flight
Simulator designed for the Mac I], and
Spectrum HoloByte has introduced Sol-
itaire Royale, to name a few.—Ed.
Corrections
The address for Ashton-Tate, maker of
Full Impact (Where to Buy, Jit/y 1988), is
20101 Hamilton Ave., Torrance, CA
90502-1319, 213/329-8000.
QuickShare does not limit a linked Mac
and PC to being only 10 feet apart (“Ma-
chine Slaves,” Reviews, August 1988). Ad-
ditional cable can extend the maximum
distance to 40 feet.
The chart in “Apple's PostScript Pair” (Re-
views, August 1988) should have shown
printer performance in seconds.
The phone number for Modern Graphics,
maker of ChemStack (New Products, Au-
gust 1988) is 317/253-4316.
Smart Alarms 2.9 (Bulletin, September
1988) works with MacroMaker. Upgrades
can be ordered for $10; they're free foi
weeks after purchase of earlier versions.
The correct phone number for MUG Shop,
a Southampton, PA, user group (A Guide
to Macintosh User Groups,” September
1988) is 215/750-0792.
Engineering the Marketplace
1 found David Bunnell’s column on Apple's
neglect of the engineering market (“Engin-
eering a New Mac Market,” August 1988)
quite timely, for I had just seen an ad tout-
ing the business uses of the Mac II in sey-
eral engineering magazines. How do you
convince people that the Mac is a “real”
computer when Apple places ads that posi-
tion it as a “window to the world” of other
computers? All an engineer wants i
that is intuitive and blisteringly fast, that
controls lab instruments, and that collects
and analyzes data. The Mac is well suited to
this kind of work, but the problem is con-
vincing engineers to disregard Apple's
misinformation.
Thomas D. McConnell
Burlington, Vermont
Searching for a Better Sushi
In response to Jerry Borrell’s Commen-
tary (“Selling Sushi to Yokohama”) in your
July issue, as a Japanese Mac user, I would
like to register some complaints. Apple
Computer Japan has not done a good job
of popularizing the Mac in Japan, mainly
because of its price (my Fat Mac cost me
$3984; the price of the SE is $5824). The
cost of software is also prohibitive; for ex-
ample, Quark XPress sells for $1104. But
above all, the Mac cannot handle Japanese
well. Compared to Jay
class program. It requires more than 1
megabyte of memory and has a cumber-
some and inaccurate conversion proces:
We Japanese consumers will buy American
products if they're good, well-maintained,
and reasonably priced. Please give us a bet-
ter and a cheaper sushi.
Kiyoichiro Yamanaka
Rochester, Minnesota
Fan Fare
Some time ago I recall reading in Mac-
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Also mentioned Apple's policy of re-
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Letters
Correction
Dickens
What the Dickens Happened?
Here is the correct font sample for
Howard Upchurch's Dickens, marketed by
Century Software (“Fit to Print,” April
1988). Also sold by Century is Thin Times
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free replacement policy. We did cover the
SE's screen jitters in Letters (July 1988),
but again, no mention of free replace-
ment. At any rate, $140 sounds too high;
you should be able to get the job done for
$90 to $100.—Ed.
Everything’s under Control
Although I appreciated your article on MS-
DOS/Mac file translation (“Business Clinic,”
July 1988), Danny Goodman neglected to
mention three very valuable public domain
programs that strip control characters from
text files: Bruce Tomlin’s DeskZap desk ac-
s Add/Strip. All three are a
from major bulletin boards.
Bill Mounce
Glendora, California
Ifyou don't have a modem, you might in-
stead try contacting a user group that
specializes in mail-order public domain
software and shareware. For more infor-
mation on such groups, see “Users
Friendly” (May 1988).—Ed.
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Letters
Occupational Safety and Health
inistration (OSHA) publishes a book-
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district, or area OSHA office, or call the
national office at 202/523-9656. Krames
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at the Terminal ($7.10) and Working with
VDTs ($1.10). —Ed.
Leaving Low Quality Behind
I'm struggling with an ImageWriter II that
has never turned out quality printing, and I
can't afford the extra $3000 to $5000 for a
LaserWriter. Although I like my Mac, I'm
now preparing to shift over to a PC-com-
patible—complete with hard drive, moni-
tor, and printer—for less than I would pay
for the least-expensive laser printer.
Tom Difloe
Camano Island, Washington
Before buying a whole new system, why
not try hooking up a non-Apple printer
to your Mac? Numerous PC-compatible
printers—from low-cost dot matrix to
high-end lasers—can be made to work
with a Mac. See the next letter for more
information.—Ed.
Brand X Printers
I'm planning to purchase a third-party, 24-
pin printer for my SE. I would like to see an
article exploring ways of doing this (in-
cluding using Orange Micro's Grappler)
and determining which solution offers the
most compatibility.
Greg Allen
San Jose, California
Lately we've noticed an increasing inter-
est among readers in hooking up non-
Apple printers to the Mac. For a look at
the problems and some solutions, see
“Printer Tools’ in this issue.—Ed.
Bette on the SE
The latest indication that Macintoshes are
successfully infiltrating the corporate
world? In the hit movie Big Business, you
can see office staffers hard at work on net-
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Rose (Bette Midler and Lily Tomlin).
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Letters
Just a Member of the Band
Steven Levy was on target with his July
1988 column, “The Unbearable Heaviness
of Being in the Computer Industry.” As a
musician and freelance journalist, lam
keenly aware of the industry's tendency to
bill technology as a means of advancing
musical creativity. Although computers
help a great deal, it will always be human
minds and fingers that make music cre-
ative. To extend Levy’s apt analogy, com-
puters make us productive, but not just
Macintoshes. Apple didn’t invent MIDI,
sequencers, or synthesi. s, and it
should be noted that those applications
work as well (and more economically) in
the MS-DOS, Amiga, and Atari
environments.
Wheat Williams III
Nashville, Tennessee
The Mouse That Crashed
About a month after purchasing a Mac II, I
began to experience shutdown and start-
up problems. My dealer ran diagnostic
tests on the entire system and everything
checked out fine, but when I brought the
Mac home, the problems remained. It sud-
denly occurred to me that everything had
been tested except the mouse. So I con-
nected the mouse from my Apple IIGS to
my Mac II, and, to my surprise, everything
functioned normally. As for the offending
critter, it contains a black ball instead of the
usual gray one, its retaining ring is of a to-
tally different design, and the hole diame-
ter is smaller.
Gary D. Van Aken
Littleton, Colorado
Apple has redesigned the ADB mouse for
the SE and the Mac II several times, so
you'll note differences in appearance, but
we've heard of no evidence of defects in
any of the designs.—Ed. 0
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Atkinson (MacPaint), Mark Cutter (Mac-
Draw), Mike Potel (now in charge of sys-
tem software), and Jim Batson (heads up
video and fonts), are doing other things,
but there is a group that is currently setting
the groundwork for incredible enhance-
ments to the Mac, Bruce Leak heads up
the team on 24/32-bit color that was an-
nounced last summer. Dave Fung, who did
color ROM work for the SE/Mac I, has di-
rected the next-generation video card
work (which will add broadcast-quality
output). Mark Vickers is working a genera-
tion out, looking at hardware acceleration
for the Mac. And Galyn Susman, who
worked on the color picker, has become
Apple’s in-house divining rod for advanced
graphics applications.
Their work will lead to a set of 1989
announcements that will put the Mac far
ahead of any other personal computer.
Even the Amiga, secretly admired by many
of us, will no longer be in the same graph-
ics league with the Mac. QuickerDraw, the
high-performance extension to color
QuickDraw initiated by Andy Hertzfeld and
purchased by Apple for the current system
software, i indication of the future. The
problem with bitmapped, window-ori-
ented systems is that they have a hard time
taking care of all the overhead for screen
‘stem management while trying to
update graphics. Apollo Computer and Sun
Microsystems, both with 68020-based
workstations, have discovered this phe-
Commentary/erry Borrell
The Money of Color
Big league color and graphics
are coming—at a price
The ray-cast image (top) was created by Rick
Unland using Sculpt-Animate 4D from Byte by
Byte Corporation. lower image comes from
Apple’s animated film Pencil Test, produced by
Galyn Susman.
ind
nomenon over the past several years,
most of their systems do not have very
spectacular graphic:
Apple’s new offerings will definitely
make color on the Mac more attractive, but
it will be the third-party developers that
make a difference with what Apple pro-
vides. The Expo in August was swamped
with communications, utilities, stackware,
storage and memory, business applications,
and accessories. But it was color that stole
the show. Color everywhere, more color
products than IBM PC users can have
dreams about. Input, output, screens,
video, animation. Gawd, even Microsoft
has put color into spreadsheets—we're
talking some fun. Unfortunately we're also
talking some big bucks.
Cost is the bad news, but the good
news is all the products that are being an-
nounced (and some are even shipping).
Now we have five color paint and graphics
packages to choose from: LaserPaint Color
II (LaserWare), PixelPaint Professional
(SuperMac), Photon Paint (Mediagenic),
GraphistPaint II (Aba Software), and Studio
8 (Electronic Arts). Even the color drawing
packages are increasing. MacDraw II
now has competition from Canvas 2.0
(Deneba), Draw It Again, Sam (Aba Soft-
ware), and Drawing Table (Bréderbund).
While Apple makes the transition to
real color (24 to 32 bits) on its video cards,
third-party developers are wasting no time.
In fact, despite some notable missteps
(RasterOps had previously taken another
approach to 24-bit color, but has already re-
engineered according to Apple specifica-
in full color—TrueVision, RasterOps, Com-
puter Friends, and SuperMac are all talking
about their 32- and 24-bit cards.
This number of bits is important if the
Mac is to be able to display images that ri-
val 35mm slide quality, and it’s getting
there. If and when RAM prices ever de-
cline, we'll hopefully have 24-bit color
cards under $1500, and monitor/card com-
binations under $3500. The biggest prob-
lem with color, of course, is the cost of the
memory for all of the data storage and the
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time I shake my head and say that’s too
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Video input is only part of what we
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Transparency scanners are making some
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bits. Eikonix and Howtek both have 35mm
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ineptness.
Computer-aided design is certainly
blossoming around the Mac II. Autodesk
has dominated the IBM market with its Au-
toCAD product, but will face challenges
from specialized packages in the Mac mar-
ket. IDD's Dreams looks very strong, and
VersaCAD is making quiet, speedy prog-
ress towards advancing its product. Ge-
neric Software, the IBM CAD spoiler now,
has out its $99 design product for the Mac,
CADD Level 1. Infinite Graphics has the
first constructive solid-geometry CAD
package for the Mac. It’s far from ready, and
it's slow as a glacier, but it will improve. On
the high-interest side is Claris's entry into
the CAD market, Claris CAD. The package
was always a good one—and is better now,
having been rewritten to sit on top of Mac-
Draw II and extend that platform into pro-
fessional CAD use.
The downside for Claris is that more
people will nod their heads and say those
guys only know how to buy products,
when in truth the company is on a well-
planned path to improve the existing Apple
products, acquire strategic products, and
release products developed in-house.
Claris is now approaching the third phase.
It's architectural CAD that’s making
the most dramatic strides. Not only is Mod-
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Mac Interiors (CompServeCo), Dyna-
Perspective (Dynaware), ArchiCAD (Ab-
vent), and Mac Architrion (Gimeor) are all
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Mac Architrion has exteriors and floor
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color enhancements. It’s the sort of prod-
uct you would expect to see on a minicom-
puter. Power Software has some similarly
remarkable 3-D imaging software called
MIPS running under its development sys-
tem. And how can we forget Pixar—it may
sell mainly to medical markets, but we'll
always think of the company for its
animations.
While I'm on the subject of animation,
MacroMind’s Marc Canter seems to have
pulled another good product out of the
hat—3D Works. Certainly it is far ahead of
its only competitor (in terms of nearness to
completion and features), Aegis’s Anima-
tion Workshop. Apple's animation work un-
der Galyn Susman has produced Apple's
first animated film, Pertcil Test, shown first
at the Association for Computing Machin-
ery’s SIGGRAPH 88. The film is a captivat-
ing portrayal of an endearing little 2-D
pencil that takes a walk in a 3-D world.
There are several new additions to the
color world of DTP, including Mains
MarkUp, a program that allows files to be
annotated much in the way manuscripts
are corrected or edited at publishing com-
panies. There is color clip art now; Image
Club Graphics has a CD ROM with 100
megabytes of PostScript-format art, and En-
abling Technologies has the first disks of
3-D color clip art. (You remember En-
abling—the company that made Pro3D.)
Professional publishing work with
color has accelerated; Pre-Press Technolo-
gies, Avalon Development Group, and
Crosfield-Lightspeed are pushing for prod-
ucts on the Mac that will fit into magazine
publishing environments. Avalon's Photo-
Mac is offering color touch-up, while
Crosfield and Pre-Press are attempting to
serve professional publishing environ-
ments with systems that manipulate color
for separations.
Color output, sadly, is still in a primi-
tive state. QMS reigns in this arena with its
$25,000 thermal PostScript printer. Howtek
and Sharp have prototypes of low-cost
thermal printers for the Mac. Eikonix has
avery interesting 3-by-4-inch thermal
printer, which produces a high-quality pic-
ture of a Mac screen. Lasergraphics and
Presentation Technologies have film re-
corders that can capture PostScript files
as slides.
Deep in my heart there is a yen for
games. Crystal Quest, MacGolf, and a few
others have color, true. But I want video-
disk-based scene simulation, or at least fast
rendering of enough polygons to make a
flight simulator seem real. Shading, tex-
tures, and shadows—awright, shadows are
too much, but at least fast, flat shading so
that 3-D shapes seem real. What we need is
something like Billiard Parlor, one of the
first color games for the Mac IL. (It
promptly bombed after System 5.0 but it
was good while it lasted.) The pool table
had the look of felt, the balls had little
specular reflections, the cue stick gave a
sense of action. It made us want more.
As the transition to color continues, a
few things are missing—like a cheaper
Mac II. You know—one with, say, three
slots and costing about half as much as the
current one. And fewer system memory
limitations. I wouldn’t be suprised to see
both of these someday. Jean-Louis Gassée,
we he
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