MacWorld 9002 February 1990

VLEGTES THAT KEEP MPUTER ALIVE PAGE 124 Theres a Word fc TSAaDANORENAATTAELCTTUTT TA r people like you. Opacity in Loe Ang Thai Seviges OF Meneanun Whether youre a marketing maven on your way up, ascientist knee-deep in formulas, or a temp trying to cope with an unfamiliar corporate mindset, when it comes to putting thoughts to paper, Microsoft is the Word for you. And our users arent the only ones who think so. Recently, the editors of Mac User gave Microsoft” Word version 4.0 the highest rating of any Macintosh word processing program. Period. A move we werent al- together surprised by. You see, besides being perversely com- mitted to research and develop- ment, we use a highly sophisti- cated approach to improving our product. We listen. SR All of which has led to innovations like Word 4.05 powerful Table feature, enabling users to create side-by- side paragraphs, lists and even forms, without the hassle of dealing with tabs. And since there ave other word processing pro- grams, Word 4.0 provides connectivity to Microsoft Word version 5.0 for the PC, PC WordPerfect? DCA and other file formats. So now you can share your work with those less fortunate than yourself. What's more, Word 4.0 is uniquely capable of delivering even more performance when its used with other applications. For example, even highly educated executives can import Microsoft Excel tables and charts and automatically update them. Making it easy to en- sure document accuracy. Plus, Microsoft Mail can be | sent from within Word 4.0, significantly boosting work- group productivity. For something a tad more informative than this ad, call (800) 541-1261, Dept. J92, to receive a brochure or ask for the location of your nearest dealer for a demo. Youlll find that no matter what type of word processing youre performing, you could be doing it better. Just take our Word for it. Making tt all make sense MACWORLD MAGWORLD. Has your aging Moc gotten bur- ied under an avalanche of newer and more powerful machines? Don’t get angy; get even—with ‘more memory, speed, and copa~ bites. For tho best upgrade strategies, seo page 124, (Photo by Poul Frant-Moore.) The Mac brings American history to life in the classroom—thanks 40 National Geographic and Lucasfilm (see page 101). DEPARTMENTS How to Contact Macworld. Reprints, subscription: form, editorial contacts. Commentary/Jerry Borrell... Slouching toward ISDN Letters. Art Beat... By Deborah Branscvim [Ths artis niques behind selected illustrations. and tech- The Iconoclast....... By Steven Levy/Maybe a 263 it’s a crackpot idea, Or maybe it’s a keyboard for the masses. Conspicuous Consumer. 81 By Deborah Branscum /Bring your into the 1990s. State of the Mac .. By Thom Hogan/Steering clear of MultiFinder crashes. NEWS ‘Mac Bulletin Late-breaking news, Macworld News..... povrd ing systems. EtherGate. Thought printer uses 1 D array. to your M; Ethernet A no-board solution. 75Hz. MACWORLD © FEBRUARY 1990 SuperMac Speeds Up QuickDraw Up to 20 times faster. la ‘@ Tektronix Color Ink-Jet Does PostScript At 216 dpi tional Geographic and Lucasfilm make geohistory fun. a In Focus Offers Interactive Color Projection 8 colors for live presentation: wimming through your mind with Ide: The Macintosh’ Magazine February 1990 NewProduets.... ee < } | A quick look at new Macintosh hardware, soft- ware, and accessories. HOW TO/Quick Tips... 235 By Lon Poole/Individual 1 LaserWriter “label hidden page numbers in PageMaker, using non-AppleTalk printers on TOPS networks, and more, HOW TO/Getting Started with Utilities... . 2AN By Jim Heid/Make Hers casters programs work for you. HOW TO/Insights on MacPaint 2.0 ....0.0.0...253 +t Fenton/ Do-it-yourself enhancements for the Mae’s oldest paint program. Updates ........ mee 259 The latest software upgrade news. Where to Buy 263 Contact information for rashes fet eae Best-Sellers ..... 304 1m Growing Lettuce on Mars Using Extend to i Geographic History on § Spanning the Ethernet Gap With @ Bait for = GCC PLP Il Personal Page Printer Low-cost her, 1 The Voice-Mail Network MarkUp and Discussion Systems talk 1 Sybase and the Fulure of SQL Hosts The options are multiplying. m Holy ‘Megabytes! Batman Fights the Evil Virus And art wins. 1m Compatible Systems Links SCSI to 1 RasterOps Unveils Flicker-Free Graphics And upgrades to & Discount Color Deneba's new UltaPaint Lino is no longer the only game in town—now there's on array of PostScript Imagesetters 10 choose from (page 140). REVIEWS Adobe Type Manager 1.0... PostScript type enhancer. 180 Think C 4.0 182 C Compiler with object extensio Mac-101 and MacPro... ADB keyboards. TeleBridge Sian BS: Network-| Language Master Personal Computer Dictionary and Thesaurus, and MacProof 3.2.1...... 191 Dictionary, thesaurus, and style-chec Shanghai 2.0 Strategy game 195 Blueprint 1.0 puis ign and drafting package. Computer-aided des FAXstf 2.0.2 met ho 4800-baud fax modem with software. FEATURES Is Your Mac Obsolete?.... By Brita Meng /Don't de: up to speed. 1. 124 use your Mac is showing its age—there are many ways to get it Pushing the Mac Il Performance Envelope........ 135 By Bruce F. Webster/The Mac Ici sets a new standard, Learn how accelerator and cache boards can bring your Mac II up to speed. Going Beyond Lino: The Imagesetter Explosion... 140 By Steve Roth/In the old d: shopping for a PostScript i 1.100 and 1300, Now, new machines mean more options for desktop publishers. esetter meant choosing between an 148 By David Pogue/There’s a wide range of forms processing software, but are all the blanks filled in? Forming Opinions. Mastering the Mac 156 Suzanne Stefanac/New applications don’t have to be intimidating. Take a look at these Hot Wax & Cold Ink. 162 gland Spencer/Testing color printers isn'tall fun and games, but Macworld Labs comes By Chery up with a few winners. For the results of oor color printer tests, see page 162, Timeslips Ill 1.1K... is 198 ‘Time- and expense-billing software, Capture 2.0, Exposure 1,0, SnapJot 2.0... 200 Screen-capture utili Win thousands of dollars’ worth of hardware ond software! Cast AccuText 1.0 and OmniPage 2.0 -- 202 your ballot for your favorite Mac products, poge 173. Optical character recognition softs Math Rabbit 1.0 and KidsMath1.1.............. 209 Math education games for children. Shodaw 1.23} nntcuenhinteetme TT Backup utility desk accessory. ISAAE Wes 1.0 siescensst tious tecteacsaerenreebeicre 2S Arcade-style game, Window Shopping .....0..0000nnieennrene 215 2.0, Credit Card DA s 2.0, and The Church The Algebraic Propos 2.0, Personal Golf Sta Office 1.1 MACWORLD © FEBRUARY 1990 The Ultimate ew _Mac Mover™ Carry your Mac, Mac Plus or SE system, including | all accessories in the Field-Pro Mac Mover, and get the ultimate in protection and convenience. | « Organizer section with pockets for mouse, mouse pad, cables, modem, dust cover, pens, pencils, business cards. A padded closure protects all. «Free Disk Wallet is shiclded against magnetic fields, holds 6-12 disks. «Padded dividers are moveable to separate hardware & external drives. + Padded Keyboard pocket holds extended or regular size. AND MORE... et eta aba ae iz nine ete manna ETA iy im + Padded handles with leather grip + Stee! hard- ware + 2 way system access — open just the top or entire side of case + Offset shoulder strap for easier carrying + Side Stabilizing Handle + Hard board bottom reinforcement with rubber feet » 3 way zipper locking system — all zippers lock at once (lock not provided) + Self healing zipper rated for extra heavy loads 1000 Ib test webbing * INTRODUCTORY PRICE $99.95 Blue, Black or Gray Cordura exterior 1/2" High Density Volara® Padding for Less Weight Lifetime Warranty More Protection ne Silky Si th Field-Pro Nylon Lining AMHERST INTERNATIONAL 540 No. Commercial St. Manchester, NH 03101 1-800-547-5600 BIGGEST RIP-OFF THE HISTORY OF THIS MAGAZINE. ‘Two months ago we at AGFA Compugraphic and ‘Adobe ran an informative, 12- page advertising insert on PostScript® and the future of electronic publishing. Many of you wanted to rip it out, but couldn’t. Many of you also called for extra copies. So here’s your chance to get a permanent Mail to: AGFA Compugraphic, RO. Box N1098 New Bedford, MA 02746-9961 Name Address Phone copy of the insert for free. Just call 1-800-227-2780, AGFA & | | Titl/(Company—_______________| | | | extension 2400 (in Canada, 1-800-387-9533), or send in the attached coupon. PostScript sa trademark of Adobe Systems lnc. Circle 460 on reader service card 4 MACWORLD © FEBRUARY 1990 MACWORLD Editor-in-Chief Jerry Borrell . EDITORIAL Executive Editor David Ushijima Managing Editor Charles Barrett Senior Editor/ Features Adrian Mello Editorial Manager Jane Lagas Senior Associate Editor!Lab Manager Chip Carman Senior Associate Editor! Features Joe Matazzoni Senior Assoctate Editor/East Coast Brita Meng Associate Editor! Departments Deborah Branscum Associate Editor/News Dan Littman Associate Editor/ News Tom Moran Associate Editor! Reviews Carel Person Associate Editor/ Features Cheryl E. Spencer Associate Editor/Features Suzanne Stefanac Senior Production Editor Wis A. Camus Senior Copy’ Editor Ruth Henrich Assistant Editors Cathy E, Abes, Mark Hurlow, Mary Margaret Lewis, Liza Weiman Production Editor Annie Jenkel Copy Editors Marjorie Baer, Emily Bower, Felicity O'Meara, Katherine L, Ulrich Assistant Production Editor Barbara Tannenbaum Editorial Assistants Susan P. Grant, Julian C. R. Okwu Editorial Administrative Assistants Joyce C. Ripp, Lyn Taylor Assistant to the Editor-in-Chief Sandy Butler Contributing Editors Nancy E. Dunn, Robert C,Eckhardt, Erfert Fenton, Rob Hahn, Jim Heid, Dave Kosiur, Steven Levy, David Pogue, Lon Poole, Steve Rath, Charles Seiter, Franklin Tessler, Bruce F. Webster Overseas Editors Osmund Lind Iversen, Editor, Australian ‘Macworld, tel. 02-439-5133; Peter Worlock, Editor, ‘Macworld (UK. edition), tel, 01-831-9252 ART ann DESIGN Design Director Dennis McLeod Art Director Joanne Hoffman Assistant Art Director Nancy Paynter Sentor Design Associates Leslie Barton, Andrew Faulkner, Arne Hurty, Hae Yuon Kim Design Associates Tim Johnson, Martha Katt PRODUCTION Director of Manufacturing Anne Foley Production Manager Claudia Dawn Smukler Advertising Billing Coordinator Se Fong Yip Advertising Traffic Coordinator Annette Garcia President and Publisher Macworld Communications James E. Martin Assistant to the President Susan Willer February 1990, Volume 7, Number 2 Macworld (ksn'07418617) is published mocthly by IDG Communications, Inc, $01 Second Street, San Francisco, CA 94107. Subscription rates ae $30 for 12 hates, $60 for 24 ses, and $90 for 36 ssues. Foreign oxders must be prepaid 1a US. funds with addtional postage. Ad 6 per yea from Canada 30d Merc ad 516 per year for surface mil OF 95 per year for alemall from all other countries, Second-chass pasiage paid at San Francseo, California, ‘xddcnal malting offices: The Right Choice... WriteNow. “Best New Word Processor” | MacUser Magazine, May 1989 | “Readers’ Choice” MACazine, January 1989 “Golden Gavel Award” MacGuide, Winter 1988 AWARDS & RECOGNITION WriteNow is the highest-rated word proc id it best— word processor hands down.” the Macintosh ow wins best new EASY-TO-LEARN, EASY-TO-USE If we were to pick one word that our customers use to describe WriteNow, it's usable. A great word processor is more than just a stockpile of features—it's the bility of those features, how easy they are to learn and use, and how th feel under your fingertips when doing real work. ims ease-of-use, but WriteNow actually delivers it—and our awards and ratings prove it. BUSINESS POWER & PERFORMANCE WriteNow has all the power business users need, including: Mail merge; word spelling dictionary; multiple columns; in-line graphics; format acc sheet equivalents); outline indenting, cha: icter and word counting, fixed and flexible line spacing, and much more. As important, WriteNow is the fastest word processor in the Mac world, whether you've got a small Mac 512KE or a loaded Mac IIcx. 100,000 Copy & paste Search, ee ” Spelfcbeck — inge indents Undo ruler large area aword document & double spacing changes WriteNow 2.0 6.7 sec. 2.9 sec. 7.4 sec, 23.3 sec. 1.6 sec, MacWrite 1 45.9 sec. 40.2 sec. 33.6 sec. 44.7 sec. 24.7 sec. MS Works 2.0 1 min.50.8 sec. 35.7 sec. 5 min.13.4 sec. 2 min.24.1 sec. 1 min.14.5 sec. MS Word 4.0 21.6 sec. 11.0 sec. 3 min.55.1 sec. 39.4 sec, 25.8 sec. A ea efor aig 1 up cred cn Mice Pas 2 2079 It. WricNw, ened Fair Gx: Maren, Ape Corp fc Mie 7Wlakev- For more information: T/Maker Company 1390 Villa Street Mountain View * CA * 94041 Telephone: (415) 962-0195 FAX: (415) 962-0201 Circle 332 on reader service card Usually, the technology available to computer users just plods along—with com- peting products repeating one another's so-called improvements. But once in a blue moon theres a great leap of innova- tion, Something new appears that’s so well thought out, so smart, that the way you work may never be the same again, WIZ" by CalComp, for example. WIZ is an exciting new productivity tool, Combining the easy-to-use features of a mouse with the power of an “intelligent” graphics pad to enhance every pointing, tracing and drawing function you do, WIZ meets the needs of virtually every Macintosh and PC user—from novice to advanced, Because WIZ gives you the convenience and flexibility of six program- mable buttons, a cross-hair pointer and 1000 dpi for pinpoint accuracy, along with a user-definable mouse area. What’ more, WIZ unleashes the full power and speed of your software. Optional templates for most major programs eliminate tedious pull-down or bar menus. Because WIZ tem- plates put the commands you use most at your fingertips for instant access. And for the artist in you, WIZ offers an optional pen for drawing, There’ no rolling ball or moying parts. Nothing to clean. And WIZ hasa five year warranty backed by CalComp, a world leader in computer graphics for over 30 years. COU CHEECH OCH OCH OCH OCH GC CHECHE OCHO CHOCH OCHOCH OCH OCH OCH But the most amazing thing about WIZ is that you get it all for an introductory price under $200. See WIZ at your local dealer or call 800-CALCOMP. WIZ by CalComp. Everything Bog eso SE aa a VAST eae else is just a mouse. Historic. ROLL OVER BEETHOVEN. LightningScan, Thunderware’s hand scanner for the Mac. Now with new and improved software. Our hand scanner is worth a little arm waving. That’s because LightningScan lets you scan images up to four inches wide from books, mounted artwork, or anywhere else. You get switchable resolution up to 400 DPI. And builtin memory for the fastest scanning anywhere. LightningScan has more software power than any other hand scanner, Features like gray scale conversion. Image re-sizing, Scanner calibration. Plus the choice between gray scale, advanced halftone, diffusion dither and line art. No wonder that Publish! magazine calls our hand scanner “the best value on the Mac’ And to end this ad on an upbeat note, LightningScan can be yours for just $495 suggested retail. So get rolling to your dealer and pick one up today. 22 7 ware® 7 re" 21 Orinda Way, Orinda, CA 94563 Jor Mactéioshe 415/254-6581 FAX: 415/254-3047 MACWORLD ADVERTISING SALES Vice PresidentiSales Steven J. Rosenfield Director of Advertising Sales Patricia Navone (415/243-0505) Western Advertising Manager Bill Peck (415/243-0505) Senior Account Manager/No. California (San Francisco) Penny Rigby (415/243-0505) No. California (San Jose) Cherie La France (415/243-0505) Northwest Regina T, Salaices (415/978-3155) Sales Associate Danny Linden So. 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ADMINISTRATION Director of Finance Vicki Peilen Director of Business Development Daniel Orum Corporate Business Manager Christina W. Spence Accounting Manager Pat Murphy Director of Human Resources Shelly Ginenthal Information Systems Manager Walter J. Clegg Founder David Bunnell Founding Editor Andrew Fluegelman 1943-1985 Circle 176 on reader service card. MACWORLD © FEBRUARY 1990 Network Productivi No, If you have EtherTalk™ in your office, you’ll appreciate EtherGate™ - the first truly uni- versal productivity solution for EtherTalk™ You no longer ee one box to serve as a gateway, an- other to share serial devices * and.aa third to connect to remote networks. EtherGate ue # does it all. Now you can ae an EtherTalk LAN and two LocalTalk LANs to create a fully-functional internet. Link an EtherTalk/LocalTalk internet to a serial port, so workstations on either side can access a printer, plotter or just about any other serial device. Or use the serial port and a modem to connect to a remote EtherTalk or LocalTalk internet. You can even dial in to your internet through EtherGate from a remote Mac or PC and a modem. EtherGate gives you complete access control and security features, too. Network pro- ductivity is no longer an Ether/or proposition. If you have EtherTalk, you need EtherGate. For more information call Shiva at 1-800-458-3550. EtherGate “— | abn Siege We're Putting Networks To Work® Shiva Corporation, 155 Second St., Cambridge, MA 02141 All product names are trademarks oftheir respective manufacturers. = [ile Fait Hem Page Uiew Utilities RADIUS. THE First NAME IN MACINTOSH DISPLAYS. When we introduced the Radius Full Page Display? it was the first time anyone had seen a full page view of a Macintosh. But we didn’t stop there. We created the Radius Two Page Display” So you could see a full two-page view Le work. Then we developed the Radius Gray Scale Display” with 256 shades of gray. So you could work with two full pages of Thomephica ality gray scale images. ‘Today, you can choose from our Full Page, Two Page or ie Gray Scale Displays. Or, you can work in color with our ie eight, sixteen or twenty-four bit Color Displays” an And regardless of which Radius Display you select, feet] itt ta Ste |-2008 you're always assured of an unflinching, crisp, paper- like image. Consistently rated the best in the industry. age Gules. ite oaaes In addition, you get all the benefits of the classic ewe RadiusWare” features. Including Tear-off Menus in Ses every application. The ability to capture any portion of {os ttt your image in a PICT file. Small or large menu bars. Tearoff Menus And direct control panel access. So, if you're looking for a display for your Macintosh, the first thing to do is visit a Radius Authorized Dealer. You can find one near you by calling 1-800-227-2795* Its clearly the best move you can make. PICT Seren Capture radus Intelligent Hardware “If you live outside of the continental United States, call 1-408-954-6852 for the name of a Radius International Distributor. Thisimage was scanned with a Howtek Scanmaster, processed with Digital Darkroom, imported into Quark XPress and displayed by and photo- sraphed on the Radius Tivo Page Display wth a Radius GS/C Interface. © 1989 Radius Inc. Radius, the Radius logo nelligent Hardware, Radius Full Page Display Radius Two Page Display, Radius Gray Scale Display Radius Color Display and RadiusWare are trademarks of Radius Inc. ll other brand name and product names are trademarks or registered trademarks oftheir respective holders Circle 178 on reader service card The Original AnthroCart. Mobile. Compact. Incredibly strong. So many ways to solve your space and equipment problems! Start with our smallest cart, Customize it. Choose trom 80 options... Call us for a complete catalog or to place an order: 800-325-3841 6:30. a.m. 19 5:00 p.m., PST ° Prices start at $299 for the smallest AnthroCat * All AnthroCarts easily hold up Anthro® to 150 Ibs. (ail steel frame Technology Furniture® construction) - 3221 N.W. Yeon St. eA ible for OE! apoleatene My ©_, Portland, Oregon 97210 «Magan 05, ANTHRO 608) 241-7173 Anthro and Technology Furniture are registered trademarks of Anite HOW TO CONTACT MACWORLD Subscription Services For subscription service questions, call 800/234- 7-9330, or write Sub- seriber Services, P.O. Box 54529, Boulder, CO 80322- 4529. To place new orders, call 800/288-6848. Macworld in Microform Macworld is available on microfilm and microfiche from UMI, 300N.Zeeb Rd, Ann Arbor, MI48106-1346, 313/761- Back Issues of Macworld Write to: Back Issues of Macworld, 144 Townsend St, San Francisco, CA 94107; 8 per issue ($20 overseas), Prepayment in US. funds necessary. 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For dealer ingqiies, call 80 10/521 8455, Editorial and business office ‘one oF more IDK Communications publications each mon Pa omni ATiORS 24-Bit Graphics Systems Are A Lot Like Gunslingers. y: | ( |r CRY a ey Looks Are Impressive, F SuperMac’ revolutionary new 24-bit True Color graphics system puts the “quick” back in QuickDraw. Our Spectrum/24 Series IIT 24-bit graphics card gives you the fastest QuickDraw acceleration on the planet—making painfully slow QuickDraw operations up to 25 times faster. In fact, some operations in 24-bit mode (like scrolling and screen-fills) are now faster than in 8-bit mode. Some are even as fast as in one- bit mode. And we accelerated QuickDraw on every Series III 24-bit graphics card—because we consider it a necessity, not an accessory. Its plugged right onto the board, at no extra cost. So it’s the only single-slot True Color solution that saves you power and money, as well as time. And when it comes to looks, there's nothing more impressive than the super-sharp, flicker-free image of our new 19” Trinitron and other color displays. With their 75 Hz refresh rate . and Apple-standard 72 dpi WYSIWYG screen-image, True Colors never looked better—all 16.7 million of them. We can even give you accelerated i QuickDraw for your Apple 13” monitor with our new, low cost ColorCard/24. All in all, its just the kind of innovation you'd = expect from the company that invented large screen color for the Macintosh. So mosey on in to your local dealer and try your hand at accelerated QuickDraw. Ask for a showdown between our Spectrum/24 and any other 24-bit graphics system your dealer can round up. And for those of you who don’t need 16.7 million colors at: once, we've also enhanced our Spectrum/8 family—rated “best in its class” by /yfoWorld Labs—to give you the sharpest, clearest 8-bit color graphics you can buy. Call us at 1-408-773-4498 ext. 300 for more information and the name of your nearest SuperMac dealer. Or FAX us at 1-408-735-7250 (dept. 300) for a list of worldwide distributors. SUPERIMLAC TECHNOLOGY ©1989 SuperMac Technology. Spectrum/24 Series Ill, PixelPaint Professional, and SuperMac are registered trademarks of SuperMac Technology. All other brand or product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective manulacturers. It Speed Is Everything. Images shown are actual screen-images photographed directly from a SuperMac 19" display Original photography was scanned with a Barneyscan 24-bit scanner into PixelPaint Professional running on a Macintosh lix equipped with a Spectrum/24 Series ill graphics card. Circle 7 on reader service card Share screens. With Timbuktu on every Macintosh, you can invite others to share your point of view. (Advanced password protection ensures privacy.) Sharing screens allows two or more users to work on any document simultaneously. It also allows user support people to help solve users’ problems without leaving their desks. Combine Timbuktu with Farallon’s network management software, and support people can manage computers and servers from anywhere on the network. Timbuktu/Remote functions similarly to Timbuktu, only over modems or ISDN links. Share resources. With Timbuktu installed on each Macintosh throughout the network, you can access any Macintosh and its databases, FAX modems, file or mail servers, or mainframe connections from any Macintosh on the network. Transfer files. with timourtu 20, INVA you can transfer files and folders directly from one Macintosh or file server to any other Macintosh on the network. For a small . network, Timbuktu Teach and Train. is faster and more With Timbuktu, you can turn your cost-effective than company’s network into an electronic other solutions, classroom. Each person uses and for large net- Timbuktu to watch your on- works, it’s an ideal screen presentation while complement to a listening to your descrip- dedicated server. tion over the telephone, Circle 150 on reader service card 0 MAC BULLETIN INDUSTRY NOTES. Priam Files Chapter 11 Hard dk manufactrer Priam hs filed for Chopter 11 protection fram cediors. Priam also reduced its work force by 35 percent. Acquires UNIX, Mac fect Toe Sony has purchased 20 percent of Information Presentation Technologies. 1P1's ‘products include uShare, which provides AppleTalk Filing Protocol (AppleShare) services to UNIX systems, and the recently announced Personal Server Network, a TOPS -compelitor. RagTime Publisher Opens Doors in U.S. RagTime’s European publisher has opened US. offices. The subsidiary, tentatively ‘named Saturday Sofiware, i a 400 Walnut 51, #501, Redwood City, CA 94063. Rogline 3.0 should ship in early 1990. For more information, call 415/780-1800. Quantum Sales and Earnings Up Quantum Corporation, which recently experienced problems with its popular 40MB for the quarler ending October 1 reached $113.4 million, up 185 percent over the same quarter of 1988. Net income also. increased from $2.1 millon for third quarter 1988 10 $12.5 million, Oracle front end for the Macintosh. Belmont, Glifornia—based Oracle and Laguna Beach, olifornia—based Millenium Software ore also planning a comorketing deal. For more information, contact Millenium at 714/497- 7439 ond Oracle ot 415/598-8000. Is Color Crushing Your Desktop? Electronics For Imaging (EFI) is developing a set of coler-compression algorithms for making those huge disk files of color scans a thing of the past. The new company claims its algorithms, which ‘are designed so jhal application developers can incorporate them into software for any platform, can reduce color files to anywhere from '/io to 1/s0 of their original size. |! replaces saster [dot or pixel) information with color frequencies and then examines the frequencies to strip oul unnecessary information. Decompressing a file reconyerts it fo raster format, so the reconstituted file is the same size as the original even though it contains less color information. For more information, contact EFI of 415/742-3400. Aldus Changes Color Plans Aldus has abandoned work on Aldus Separator, ‘he colorseparation project it was developing with Prepress Technologies, and instead plans to publish o product it has been developing internally PrePrint, which Aldus is labeling posiprocessing sofware, will separale PageMaker documents and ather documents that conform to Adobe PostScript color conventions, and allow users to adjust contrast and brightness. Aldus expects to ship PrePrint early in the second quarter at $495 list. Reduced pricing will be available for owners of PageMaker Color Extension. For more information, contac Aldus at 206/622-5500. Quark Releases Color Separation Spec Desktop Color Separation (DCS) is set of colorseparation algorithms implemented in QuarkXPress as of version 2.0. Quark is making the specification public and encouraging application developers to incorporate it in their software to enable programs not intended for color manipulation—for example, most word processors—to import color images and generale four-color separations when printed, Avalon's PhotoMac uses DCS, and letraset’s ColorStudio will also support it. For more | information, contact Quark at 303/934-2211 Canvas Upgrade Adds Four-Color Seps Deneba is loading its combination paintdraw package, Canvas, with new features to keep up with, and in some areas surpass, competing products such as MacDiaw, SuperPaint, and Adobe Illustrator. Version 2.1 comes wilh o process color separation ulility that enables you to adjust color, line-screen frequency, and screen angles. |! can impor! MacDraw II in native format and save in EPS. The new version also adds dashed lines, a 100,000-word Cocch-compatible spelling checker, an objectalignment diolog box, and the ability to add points to already-defined bezier curves. list price for Canvas 2.1 will remain $295; upgrade pricing had not been decided at press time. For more information, contact Deneba at 305/594-6965. GatorMail Lets Mac E-mail and UNIX E-mail Talk Cayman Systems has announced soflware to let QuickMail and Microsoft Mail communicate with Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP)-based E-mail, {he slandard UNIX E-mail protocol GatorMail-@, for QuickMail, and GatorMail-M, for Microsoft Mail, require a LocalTalk-to-Ethemer (TCP/IP) gateway such as Cayman's GatorBox or @ similar unit, Besides translating AppleTalk protocols to TCP/IP protocols, the Cayman box also runs special-purpose applications, including GatorShare, which translates AppleShare’s filing system into the UNIX standard Network File System. At press lime pricing had not been set for these products. For more information, contact Cayman Systems al 617/494-1999. (continues) MACWORLD © FEBRUARY 1990 Looms? 4 new version i copy pre work A servers or, like TOPS, as clients without a centralized server. | AuraCAD’s Plot Thickens 5) | el Announces Modem Option for the Mac MaclnTax Files Electronically in 1989 SolView's aulomated tax software is adding a new feature for fiscal yea through all the schedules your taxes require, you can either print the IRS! sand mail it in, or, for $29.95, send ee to the The Distributed Server A new networking product claims to combine the best of TORS. a ‘Apple Network uses AppleShare client software to lel networked Mi “among any combination of Macs, MS-DOS, and UNIX machin Talk: and is compaiible with all AppleTalk bridges. PSN lists for users. 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I make the short drive over the Bay Bridge 4 solitude of the closed Farallon offic that I can talk with Farallon president one of those midweek few times a year to sit in the es sO y) Reese Jones and vice presi- ISDN ab? ee eee e The United States lags in communications but there’s neat stuff ahead by Jerry Borrell Harrington about their vi- sion of the future. And each time, I leave with more insight into where the world of Macintosh computing is heading. The realm of the Mac in terms of CPUs is fairly pre- dictable: a 33MHz machine, a low-cost machine, RISC processors, new printers, a phased rollout for System 7.0 software, a next-generation operating system that is not based on QuickDraw. But there is long overdue for more announce- an ments: communications, an area of tech- nology that Jean-Louis Gassée spoke about a great deal more when he first came to Apple in the United States. A lot of things are being talked about— personal AppleShare, AppleMail, higher transmission rates over LocalTalk, Eth- ernet implemented over LocalTalk (that is, EtherTalk). Gassée has again begun talk- ing about communi- cations, Gi his wont, preferring toallow his audience to read between the lines, But the key point of some crucial pect of Apple's future ofien lies buried within the context of his seeming generalizations. These days, he talks about ISDN, the International Standards Organization's acronym for Integrated Systems Digital Network. In general, Apple's technology h lowed me to become parochial in my attention to the world of computers and communications, especially the latter. I MACWORLD © FEBRUARY 1990 don't focus on T1 or T3 networks. I don’t worry about the implementation of stan- dards or protocols. Apple takes care of the details, and I get to focus on the imp! mentation of technology from a use point of view. But ISDN is one of those technological oddities, like high-defini- tion television, that by their importance threaten to elevate themselves into the public consciousne: ISDN is a standard that defines the implementation of communications, voice, data, and video over a single cable. It has been discussed for over a decade in Ei rope, where the centralized Post Tele- phone and Telegraph (PTT) networks have the clout to do centralized planning for the future of telephony, computers, and communications in the home. Ordinarily, it is at this point in the dis- cussion that my head begins to nod. [tune out because the topic seems so esoteric, so nonessential to my day-to-day work that I find it unnecessary to give it additional attention. But during my meeting at Fara Jon last fall, when the talk turned to ISDN, the coincidence of both Jones and Gas talking about these issues raised some- ée thing in my consciousness—memories from a decade ago when | worked for Congress in Washington, D.C., and had the chance to meet with PTT officials in France and the United Kingdom to discuss their directions in technology—a time when several the French were holding trials in cities of what was then called videotex. One such trial in a suburb of Pa replaced standard telephone handsets with Minitels, small 8-bit computers combined with telephone handsets offering the use of electronic online services. The most important were directory and yellow pages services. By 1980 there were some 20,000. units being tested throughout France. I expected these experiments to go the way of the dozens of trials with videotex in the United States over the last decade—no- where. But by last September, as I sat eating dinner in Paris with Anthony Cagle of Apple Europe’s research center and Apple's new director of European market- ing Guerrino De Luca, I learned that the number of Minitels had risen to 20 million. The French, long known for posses: (continues) 23 ing one of the poorest telephone systems of any industrialized country, have raced past the United States over the las and have modernized their entire tele- phone switching network with digital switching equipment. decade SO WHO CARES? As we dined, the next bomb hit. Says Cagle, “Next week they're installing an ISDN line in my apartment.” That was one COMMENTARY too many coincidences. Before my eyes I saw headlines, TV news stories, a Michael Keaton movie, and a McNeill-Lehrer spe- cia report on how America had lost first the industrial race, then aspects of the computer race (memory chips), and now aspects of the communications race to Japan and Europe. 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I learned that Reese Jones is starting to sound a lot like Jean-Louis Gassée—on several levels. For one thing, Farallon has become so successful that Reese doesn't like to talk numbers, does not really want anyone to know that Farallon is probably up to $50 million in annual revenues and has only one competitor for PhoneNet, its main product. Or that its nearest competi- tor has less than a 5 percent market share. Or that its twisted-pair implementation of LocalTalk is preferred over Apple's own single-wire approach. Or that PhoneNet has enormous growth potential because Apple's EtherTalk implementation gives PhoneNet users an easy upgrade path to higher network transmission speeds. But Reese does like to talk about tech- nology. This young man, cofounder of the Berkeley Macintosh User Group and Ph.D. student at UC Berkeley, was too excited by what he was doing to finish his academic pursuit of what others had done. 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But as Reese points out, the Mac is too expensive to be used. 7c, a telephone recording devi at about the leased MacRecorder F However, ame time it re- rallon produced ScreenRecorder, a product with a Hyper- card front end that allows users to record screen actions and make little “movies” for demonstration, training, or support pur- poses. With further advances by the com- pany’s engineers in sound compression, COMMENTARY these two products are being combined in a product code-named Hollywood, which allow: screen actions simultaneously. someone to record both sound and I should not have been surprised (but to find that Ree: still w s working with Bright Star Technology’s InterFACE (a revamped HyperAnimator) in conjunction with Hollywood to create a product tha allows little “talking heads” to accompany the films, Desktop help programs , for ccompanied by little anthropomorphs who talk to the viewer while the Mac runs a demo. And there have been dramatic advances in Bright Star's product as well—the little talking head is now in 8 bits of color, the range of fa synthesis is much better than the Macin- talk-like quality of earlier versions. In fact, when combined with Hollywood and sufficient storage space, InterFACE can use any photograph for the talking head and use the person's actual voice. For example, you could choose to have Jean- x= ample, can now be a id the voice ial expr ions is greater, Louis Gassée introduce a product while the Mac replayed a demo (but no hand gestures yet), That's still a far cry from the actual quality of video, but we've got several y IN makes computer-communications networ ars before Is any impact on ng. Hollywood, in the meantime, represents more than just an intermediate step to- ward a picture phone. To give me some insight, Reese showed ail. me Hollywood combined with You could build a file of little talking heads mail addres: have them pop up and actually mail aloud. 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Hyper- Composer lets you play back from the beginning of any highlighted selection in any song and allows the stan- dard Macintosh editing choices. Quick Notes was one of several features the reviewer didn't mention: it allows the user to click on the keyboard or staff without first selecting note duration; holding down the mouse at that point scrolls through the duration choices for you. Also left out were Command Key Advance and Highlight Notes—options that address some of your criti- cisms of the program’s editing, id playback features. Elizabeth Grose Addison-Wesley Publishing Company Reading, Massachusetts MACWORLD © FEBRUARY 1990 aK RCH We found Quick Notes and Command Key ‘Advance to be minor conveniences that did not rate separate mention in the space available. While it’s fair to blame HyperComposer's sluggish performance on HyperCard’s own limi- tations, the fact remains that the program is slow enaugh to interfere with the creative flow of composing. —Ed. Shareware in the Wrong Hands have just finished reading Steven Levy's column “Hacker Hell” [The Iconoclast, October 1989], Interestingly, 1 felt that not being free for all was the core problem with Educorp's distribution of the Chally Micro Solutions prod- uct HexFlags. I was actually able to purchase a copy of HexFlags from Educorp after Mr. Guzelimian said it had been removed from the li- brary, though that may have been his oversight. Without disclosure of these issues in the column, my complaint seemed petty. Exposure from public in- formation services and publi- (continues) Corrections The phone number for Maxcess, maker of 150t (Where to Buy, December 1989), is 215/928-1213. The phone num-ber for NuEquation in Garland, Texas, maker of NuPaint (Where to Buy, December (continues) 37 Cc) LTTE RS t) O4 FASTBACK II vs. RETROSPECT ‘Monsured in MB per minute Lu 1 Ms December 1989 Reviews (page 192). 1989), is 800/272-4663. The price for MacTilt from Ergotron (“Mr. X’s Xmas List,” December 1989) is $99.95. The phone number for Nuvo Labs in San Luis Obispo, California, maker of FastTape A speed comparison between these two backup utilities as it should have appeared in (‘Backing Up with Tape Drives,” December 1989), is 805/544-5766. Samba Bridge (“Network Connections,” November 1989), an X.25 interface for Mac net- works, is made by Access Priv- This is a built-in Courier 14 pt And this is Helvetica Narrow 12 pt This is an optional Palatino 12 pt This is how 300-dpi output from the Hewlett-Packard DeskWriter (Reviews, page 206, December 1989) should appear. A 72-dpi screen image was inadvertently used in place of actual printer output. ilege, Sophia Antipolis, France, and is distributed in North America by Services TL.C., 5253 Boulevard Decarie, #550, Montreal, Quebec H3W 3C3, Canada; 514/483-1294. It retails for $2520 (U.S). The phone number for Decathlon, maker of Logo- Power and Logo SuperPower (New Products, December 1989), is 800/648-5646, In the table “Encryption Products” on pages 148-149 (Data Safety,” January 1990), the product-made column headings “Deluxe” and “PC Tools Sentinel” should have read “PC Tools Deluxe” and “Sentinel.” cations such as Macworld may have done much to affect the business policies of Edu- corp. I’m anxious to see if the change in policy will actually make a difference in Edu- (continues) suse mecion] «1989 Sharp 38 Corp. QuickDraw, LaserWriter Plus and Macintosh are registered trademarks of Apple Computer, Inc. Actual printer outputshown. Circle 327 on reader service card. MACWORLD © FEBRUARY 1990 HOW TO PRINT COLOR THAT'S PRESENTATION PERFECT: INTRODUCING SHARP'S JX-730 PRINTER WITH CHOOSER-LEVEL DRIVER. 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Coniact your nearest dealer or cal BOTT ARTTERINETTIOMETL IIE. (805) 257-1797 alar inquities invited. a Al other $s LETTERS corp’s dealings with devel- opers or if it was primarily rhetoric to lessen the intense heat of the moment. Mark Chally Chally Micro Solutions West Covina, California Educorp Speaks Out | applaud Steven Levy for ad- dressing several shareware issues (The Iconoclast, Octo- ber 1989). Educorp’s new policy of sending letters to authors of freeware and share- ware software requesting per- mission to distribute their products has worked very well. Authors have updated their products and have helped us provide better descriptions for our catalog, Another policy reintro- duced recently provides free software for shareware users who send in shareware regi- stration fees. We are also pub- lishing articles and biographies of shareware authors in our catalogs to promote recogni- tion of and increase financial support for their efforts. In addition, our catalog will include a column of tips to help shareware authors recover fees, such as provid- ing an incentive for sending in the fee—full documenta- tion, perhaps, or a new ver- sion of the software. Most important is the technical support an author can give registered users. We help with many problems, but for more in-depth tance the author is the best resource. Vahe Guzelimian Educorp Computer Services Solana Beach, California Two Views of Visionary | n response to Jerry Borrell’s evaluation of Visionary software from Scitex [Com- mentary, October 1989]: Visionary provides an excel- lent scanning application and complete importation of QuarkXPress files (although you cannot open a Quark file directly, you can export and/ or cut and paste graphics and text to a Visionary page). Object and window rota tion, polygon tools, annotation layers, FPO masking, and the ability to incorporate EPS files directly into the Scitex page medium without external film plotting make the Visionary system unique. Visionary also lets you create Scitex continu- ous-tone (CT) images from Mac PICT and TIFF files. I have had success VIPing QuarkXPress and PageMaker files into Scitex linework, per- forming trapping, and produc- ing film. The Scitex output is clearer, and the trapping is im- peccable; the Lino output has moiré patterns, the trapping is poor, and rarely are the sepa- rations in perfect registration, One note to beware of concerning VIP: it only recog- nizes Adobe Redbook Post- Script language. Also, the 255- color limitation that Jerry dis- covered has been a stumper for all Scitex VIP users, and I am researching two work- arounds at time. 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Alex Studer sults Burbank, California As Jerry Borrell’s column ond Steve Roth's fea- ture ("The Prepress Connection,” in the same is- sue) point out, the desktop-prepress connection is far from seamless. Complete im-portation is nat synonymous with cutting and posting; nor is a muhlistep convert-and-reassemble process an elegant solution; we think Adabe PostScript in- Jerpreters should all he created equal; and we don't want labor- and dollar-intensive work- rounds without trapping—Ed. Get What You Need | t took Thom Hogan's article hey Are A-Changin’” (State of the Mac, October 1989) to urge me to vent my wrath about the ultimate user- unfriendliness in the world’s most user-friendly computer. Consider these: S' 7.0, megabytes of memory, and gigahertz of microproces- sor speed, accompanied by hard dis age capac ing goodi around the cornet s of humongous stor- y. “Mouth-water- alwa just costing to us Yet my s, Written with 3.3 on my old CP/M computer, was about 90K, ludicrously big. buc while my doctoral disserta- tion, to be completed on my trusty Mac Plus with an in- expensive non-Apple external floppy, will not exceed 200K; a typical research quarterly report (including a couple of Excel data sheets), probably imilar to any small § report, does not eat up more than 25 to 50K. We average users pected to “reach deep in [our] wallet (or credit limit)” and fork out huge amounts of re @Xx- money in pursuit of features we do not really need. What about an improved, ter, in- expensively enhanced Mac Plus, or even a 512K? When was the last time you—not the monster program or ting system you were using—needed more than 512K? Jobn A, Paravantis Evanston, Ilinois Hard-Disk Drive Mechanisms T urning 40” in the Sep- tember 1989 issue states that the PCPC MacBottom 45 uses a Seagate S1 drive. The sp on my MacBottom 45 (as indicated in a special Pa- rameters, MacBottom Info file and as told to me by a PCPC sales representative) indicate that the drive is in fact a MiniScribe M8051- I. Has PCPC perhaps recently changed its speci- fications or did someone simply not get the fac straight? W. R. Maes Calgary, Alberta, Canada Some vendors occasionally purchase drive ‘mechanisms from more than one drive monufacturer. Vendors also occasionally drop one drive manufacturer in favor of another. Macworld always notes which mechanism was received and tested. When ordering 0 hard disk, or buying one from dealer, it’s always best to double-check ay - ws J nt | Where will your electronic mail tion and productivity five minutes after installing it. And five years after running it. Introducing Microsoft® Mail version 20—the A c » only company-wide electronic mail system built so strategic business investment that you wont outgrow it. Now you can instantly send | should dramatically boost communica- messages and files Mac® to Mac, Mac to PC, Mac to (Customers inside the 50 United States, call 800) 5411261, Dept. J85, In Canada, call (416) 6737638. Outside the US, and Canada call (206) 882-8661. © Copyright 1989 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. Microsoft and the Micr Some people see electronic mail asa simple desktop utility for shooting messages down the hall. Period. Microsoft, however, sees it as a 44 thot you are getting the drive mechanism you wont—Ed. Pyro IMiuminated R obert C, Eckhardt did a great job of explaining the sometimes arcane subject of INITs (Start with Utilities,” October 1989), 5 de- lighted that Pyro, which I coauthored, made the “INIT Hall of Fame.” However, the article erred in saying that and Tw Pyro users “must select ‘options to monitor the Mac’s ind printer ports. . Otherwise, this s will shut everything down when it darkens the screen.” Pyro versions 1,0 and 2.0 had an Allow Background ‘s option, which enabled background software such as alarms and print spoolers creen saver to operate during screen saves. We removed this option in Pyro 3.0 because it always allows background and application processing to continue during screen saving. The modem-input checking option is provided solely for users who do not want s t during an online session be- cause they often read or scan incoming text. If screen saving were to start, it would en saving to hide the terminal-emulation window but would not interfere with the otherv ssion. In Pyro 3.0, the printer-port check box is for users who have a modem connected to the printer port—it has nothing to do with printing. Steve Brecher Software Supply Sunnyvale, California Government Issue Y our item on products for government publishing {Macworld News, October 1989] contains a small error of nomenclature. The key stan- dard for controlling document structures in the Department of Defense's CALS program is not a graphics language but a generalized language for describing structures of many sorts, The correct title is ISO 8879-1986, Standard General- ized Markup Language (SGML). Incidentally, CAPS Author/ Editor was developed by Soft- Quad in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. And a second Macin- tosh product for editing SGML documents, Check- mark, has recently been re- oterica 106, leased by Software (383 Parkdale Ave. Ottawa, Ontario K1Y 4R4), SGM agement use is growing not only in the Department of Defense but also in other portions of the U.S. govern- ment, 2 ments of Canada and Europe, and in scholarly publishing based document mai well as the govern- too, James David Mason Oak Ridge, Tennessee Letters should be mailed to Letters, Macworld, 507 Second St., San Francisco, (A 94107, or sent electronically via CompuServe (70370,702) or MCI Mail (294-8078). Include a return address. We regret that, due to the high volume of mail received, we're unable to respond personally to each letter. We reserve the ight to edit all letters. All published letters become the property of Macworld. 2 tem be five years down the road? AX; potentially Mac to whatever. 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