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COLOR PAINT © MACROS © ETHERNET © SUPERSTACKS WINNERS MACWORLD The Macintosh’ Magazine April 1991 $3.95 Canada $4.95 ROTTER AT Ames Research Center Moffett Field, Calif, FEB 28 1991 special: es WAC 4e LNS A0000061 in Sy ° <7 a < c3) aQ re Q Ht be #LNSA0000061 302544 y) ca i a a = a: ~ Bb oO na cE mi a] E} ¢ 2 tt MOFFETT The largest word history got there ocessor in Mac by thinking small. When we in- _ troduced Microsoft’ Word six years ago, we werent planning on making history. We had just one goal, a” a fairly simple one at that: to make a word processor that suited peoples needs. Then again, we knew that the people we wanted to suit were a wild- ly diverse, independent lot: Mac’ users. So it made sense to let them tell us exactly what to put into Word. Which they did. First, there were some folks who didnt like tabbing much. Fair enough. For them, we developed Ta- bles—an easier way to set up side-by- side paragraphs, columns of numbers, even forms. No tabs. No hassle. Then we heard from a few more people. “Love the Tables gig.’ they said. “Now, about this text-numbers-graph- ics combo all in one document...” We made that simple with“warm links” Once you've linked Microsoft Excel data to a document, keeping that document updated with the lat- est Microsoft Excel figures is easy. Just click your mouse. Sind those Allrighis: Then there were those senders of mail, who didn't want to click-click- dlick-click-clickeclick. So we built support for Microsoft Mail right into Word. Now, with just a click, everyone stays in the loop. And work in progress stays in progress. As it happens, listening to what Mac users want is a pretty good way to design software. How else can we explain Word version 4.0 being the most popular word processor in Mac history? And those cards and letters are still coming; “Listen, someone'll say. “Tn case youre working on the next Word...” Which we are. In fact, if you've got some input for us, feel free to drop us a line. Or if youd like to find out more about Word, call us at (800) 541- 1261, Department N24. Our goal is still simple: to make Word the best word processor around. With the latest technology—translated into human terms, of course. After all, were only making his- tory because we make word processors the way you like’em. sich itall make sense (206) 936-9661 © 1900 Microso Corporation MACWORLD CLONES On the Cover If all goes as planned by one adventurous company, we may soon be seeing a slew of Mac-compatibles. For insight into the technological and le- gal issues involved, see page 116 In News Transform your Mac into a high-powered database server that performs like a main- frame, p. 93. DEPARTMENTS How to Contact Macworld .....................0008 12 MacBullOtines cts: tananad Sie. .02 aeeeeeereen 1] Commentary/Jerry Borrell...................2.00005 23 A guide to the Macworld Expo. Lett tS soy-yeyc)s 16,550 hoe ese.c,0cuctesssncectco a ER ee 51 ArtiBeat ees. ote GH Oe re 59 By Cathy Abes Theileonoclastae a Se ees 63 By Steven Levy Ateaceremony in Tokyo. Conspicuous Consumer.................c0cceee eee 75 By Deborah Branscum Revisiting Jasmine. By Dan Littman and Tom Moran NaWiPrOdets (2.5. .ies. ssc daa anoee aN 181 How sTo/OWICkATIPS sie. .cccce cere cases 191 By Lon Poole How To/Getting Started with Hardware Upgrades ...... 197 By Jim Heid How To/Insights on MacinTax..................000. 209 By Charles Seiter Updates tn eatinaes ewe eeh ees ee ee 2117 WhpreitOMBUyércs-.:. <. stosetrsnaeitantesrsseeee ler nets 223 Bost:allatsiemecciy en acu eames ters 270 MACWORLD = APRIL 1991 Macworld the Macintosh® Magazine April 1991 Send In the Clones................ The moment Apple has been dreading seems imminent. an a my of Macintosh clones may be poised to topple the one and only Mac maker from its previously secure throne. The Secrets of the SuperStacks . . By Liza Weiman Whatsets these 1990 Supet the rest? Each one grabbed our attention and wouldn’t let go. Going the Ethernet Route........... By Dave Kosiur Macworld Lab tests 13 LocalTa which ones give your Macs the best access to high-speed networks The Desk Potato’s Guide to Macros... ... 138 By David Pogue Kickback, relax, and have some fun! Here’s how five hardworking macro programs take the drudgery out of computing The Electronic Palette.............. By Deke McClelland tenders show their true colors in our roundup of 24-bit color paint programs. soper lee You'll find flash as well as substance when 13 con- The Electronic Palette There's almost no limit to what you can do with the right color paint software, p. 14. MACWORLD + APRIL 1991 Studio/92 1.0.........ccce 154 Professional color paint program. Deck 1.03 5.03 cava. 156 Four-track digital recording and playback software, Farthquest 1.0 2.000000... 158 Educational HyperCard stack. WealthBuilder by Money Magazine 1.0....... 165 Financial planning software. ELITE Professional Flight Simulator 1.0.2... eee 166 Professional instrument Slight simulator, {a Cie Tsunami 80-0 and liberty 80 ...........0.. mM Portable hard drives. Software Bridge Macintosh 1.0. . 173 Apple File Exchange translators. MacGraphX 1.0 A Sctentific- and business- graphing program. Window Shopping ........... mM Algebra I Homework Tutor 1.9.4; Alge-Blaster Plus 1.0; Your Personal Trainer for the SAT 1.0; Professor Mac 1.7; MusiCard Maker 1.0; MacPhoneBook 3.0; Maclist 1.5; Offline 1.01; Disk Acces- sory Plus 1.0. In Reviews These two portables vie for lightweight championship of the bard drive world, p. 171, The original AnthroCart. Mobile. Incredibly strong. So many ways to solve MACW RLD °. your space and equipment problems. Choose different sizes. Move ACO Le shelves around. Add space saving 2 options. EDITORIAL : Executive Fitor Advan Mello / AnthroCart. 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Production Editor Jo Ann Villalobos Senior Copy Editor Katherine L ich Copy Editors Marjorie Baer, Paul King, Felicity O'Meara Production Assistant Lisa Brazieal Editorial Assistants Carolyn Bickford, Suzanne Courteau, Danny Loe, Tim Warner Editorial Administrative Assistants Evan Cooper, lyn Taylor Assistant to the Editor-in-Chief Sandy Butler Contributing Editors Robert C. Eckhardt, Erfert Fenton, Rob Hahn, Jim Heid, Dave Kosiur, Steven Levy, Joe Matazzoni, David Pogue, Lon Pool Roth, Charles Seiter, Franklin N. Tessler, Bruce F. Webster Overseas Editors Osmund Lind Iversen, Editor, Australian Macworld, tel. 02-439-5133; Peter Worlock, Editor Macworld (U.K. edition), tel. 01-831-9252; David Ushijimz Contributing Editor, Japan ART ann DESIGN Design Director Dennis McLeod Art Director Joanne Hoffman Senior Designer Lestie Barton Associate Art Director Sandra Koer Assistant Art Director Kent Tayenaka Designer/Informational Graphics Ame Hurty Associate Designers Hae Yuon Kim, Matthew C. 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CIRCULATION Director of Circulation Lindsay Davidson Single-Copy Sales Director George Clark Assistant Subscription Manager Lori Hitchcock Single-Copy Sales Rep Martin Garchar Subscription Analyst Elizabeth Jensen Subscription Coordinator Susanna Camp Administrative Assistant Marjorie Maggenti ADMINISTRATION Director of Finance Vicki Peilen Corporate Business Manager Christina W. Spence ‘Accounting/Operations Manager Pat Murphy Director of Human Resources Shelly Ginenthal Director of Information Systems Walter J. Clegg ‘Accounting/Facilities Manager Michelle Reyes Founder David Bunnell Founding Editor Andrew Fluogelman 1943-1985 = PUZZLES FOR PROGRAMMERS, #2. Why Do Programmers At Use Our #1 Languages? SSE TTY SSeS ay? THINK Pascal’ Is it coincidence that the leading companies in America use THINK C™ and THINK Pascal," the leading languages for the Macintosh®? 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A model with 2MB of RAM and an internal 40MB hard drive will list for $4199, while a model with 4MB of RAM and the same hard drive will list for $4699. Apple will charge owners of the original Mac Portable about $1050 to add the backlighting feature to their machines if they choose to upgrade. No Market for Lotus MarketPlace Saying that Lotus MarketPlace is “at the apex of an emotional fire storm of public concern about con- sumer privacy,” Lotus president Jim Manzi an- nounced plans to cancel publication of CD ROMs containing marketing information about 120 mil- lion U.S. consumers, and to discontinue a similar database of marketing information about 7 million U.S. businesses. The MarketPlace information was to be supplied by Equifax and TRW, two large credit bureaus that compile and sell information on businesses and consumers to private companies. Seeks FCC Approval for Radio Networks ‘Apple has filed a petition with the Federal Com- munications Commission asking it to allocate a part of the radio spectrum for high-speed computer communications. If this is approved, Macs could soon be using radio waves—instead of wire-based networks—to communicate. Radius, Fusion Introduce 68040-Based Accelerators With Motorola finally shipping production quanti- ties of its 68040 microprocessors, several vendors have announced accelerators using the new chip. Radius recently demonstrated a prototype 68040 accelerator for NuBus Macs and said it expects to announce a final version in the first quarter of 1991. The accelerator is designed to work with Radius’s line of graphics products, integrating with its ex- isting calibration, compression, and image-capture offerings. The price, ship date, and name of the product were not set at press time. Also, Fusion Data Systems announced the TokaMac LC, a 68040. accelerator that fits in the Processor Direct Slot of the Macintosh LC. Fusion is planning versions for the Msi, the Hci, and the SE/30. The TokaMac LC lists for $2995 and was slated to ship in late Febru- ary. For more information, contact Radius at 408/ 434-1010, or Fusion’s distributor, Quantum Leap Systems, at 619/457-0781. At the ACIUS Supermarket ACIUS has grown from a one-product shop to one- stop shopping. Hard on the heels of 4DWrite, 4DCalc, and other 4th Dimension add-ons, ACIUS has announced a database server that it claims runs 30 to 100 times faster than multiuser 4D. Several people can modify a database structure simulta- neously, even while clients are changing the database's contents. 4D Server has features com- mon on minicomputers, such as priority levels for clients. ACIUS is also developing a tool kit for us- ing MacroMind Director, RadiusTY, Bright Star's InterFACE, and several other multimedia products inside 4D, and externals to communicate with Northern Telecom digital telephone switches. Pric- ing was not set at press time. For more informa- tion, contact ACIUS at 408/252-4444. The Color of Control Astral Development's first Mac product, the gray- scale image editing package Picture Publisher, em- phasizes scanner and output-device calibration, even providing calibrator strips to scan in and out- put files to test with a densitometer. Astral’s next product for the Mac, Picture Publisher Plus, is a color photo-editing package that will support color separation, blends, color masking, transparency, and other features appropriate for 32-bit color. It will provide tools for calibrating color scanners, and controls for four-color printing, including un- dercover removal, gray-component boost, and dot- gain and ink-contamination settings. Picture Publisher lists for $295, and Plus will list for $695 or $795. Astral Development is at 603/432-6800. Oracle Does Buttons Oracle has licensed the HyperCard work-alike Plus from Spinnaker Software to incorporate in Oracle Card, a point-and-click application-development system and front end to Oracle servers. Oracle Card will support standard Plus features such as color picture fields, buttons that trigger scripts, and (continues) MACWORLD + APRIL 1991 17 7 $$ MAC UL EEE ————— XCMDs. Macintosh and Windows versions, which can share Oracle Card applications, will list for $299 (documentation for programmers will cost extra); Oracle plans to develop a similar product for OS/ 2, OpenLook, Motif, and Nextstep. For more infor- mation, call Oracle at 415/506-7000. ‘New Master for the Finder New Vitamins for irex 3.0 users can key in codes supplied by Micro- Tactic Software is launching its first home-grown product, MasterFinder, which combines most fea- tures of DiskTop, On Cue, and HandOff. It can, search for files by name, type and creator, and so on, and you can batch-catalog volumes and search them when they are offline. It can show four open vol- umes or folders in side-by-side scrolling windows, so you can move files around easily, and it can show an outline of all nodes on a network, even across bridges. You can assign frequently used folders or files to a launch menu, and specify an apy to open files that were created by an application you don’t have. MasterFinder comes in both DA and application form and lists for $99. For more information, contact Tactic at 305/378-4110. irex com each time a new virus is discovered, to update the utility’s detection capability. With previous yersions you had to wait for Microcom to ship an update. Version 3.0’s INIT can now repair as well as detect virus-affected files, and the new version can batch-search folders and ignore nonexecutable files. Virex 3.0 lists for $99.95. For more informa- tion, contact Microcom at 919/490-1277. Worlds of Information Educational software developer PC Globe is pre- paring Mac USA, a collection of demographic, eco- nomic, and many other kinds of information about the United States that does simple thematic map- ping and bar charting. For example, you could chart average income in all the major cities in ‘Texas, or create a colored map showing percent of voter turnout in the last election. Mac USA will list for $69. Future products will have data and maps for the whole world and provide a way to add your own data to the database. For more information, contact PC Globe at 602/730-9000. Reset Preferences 18 Preferred Software appears to be emerging from its time of trouble, after passing through two man- agement purges. Preferred still publishes DAtabase, Vantage, Exposure (now Exposure Pro), and sey- eral other products, and is working on new prod- ucts. FlashCrypt is intended to be a convenient, high-speed encryption tool. DoubleTalk is a full- featured telecommunications program with a scripting language. DoubleTalk can be used to build a BBS, can be driven from inside HyperCard, and has a proprietary Zmodem protocol that Preferred claims is faster than standard Zmodem. Later, DoubleTalk will have a run-time and a Windows version, and support modemless communications over Ethernet (and maybe AppleTalk); the modemless version could be a platform to build an electronic-mail package on. DoubleTalk 1.1 is shipping now at $149.95 ($249.95 for two copies). Pricing and ship dates for FlashCrypt and later ver- sions of DoubleTalk have not been set. For more information, call Preferred at 901/683-3383. 16-ppm Kodak Printer Is Also a Copier Eastman Kodak has begun shipping the Ektaplus 7016PS, a network printer that produces 16 pages per minute and can double as a 6-ppm convenience copier. The printer can also connect to as many as four networks. The Ektaplus 7016PS comes with one serial and one parallel port but can be up- graded to four ports, including a LocalTalk con- nector. It comes with a PostScript controller with 4MB of RAM and also includes IBM Proprinter, HP- PCL, HPGL, and Epson and Diablo printer emula- tions. The Ektaplus 7016PS lists for $6995. For more information, contact Kodak at 800/344-0006. NEC Ships Monitor with Reduced Magnetic Fields NEC Technologies is offering a 14-inch color moni- tor designed to reduce the emission of possibly hazardous VLF and ELF magnetic fields. The NEC MultiSync 3DS works with a wide variety of per- sonal computers, including the Mac II series. The monitor’s design includes extra shielding, a can- cellation yoke, and grounding wires to reduce the magnetic fields. Its suggested retail price is $1099. For more information, call NEC at 708/860-9500. The Virtual Vise SuperDisk, from new kid on the block Alysis, auto- matically compresses files every time you save to fit more files on a hard disk with no loss of data. SuperDisk is an INIT-cdev combo that compresses any file or the contents of any folder or volume that has .s following the name, and it has optional password-protection as well. Alysis claims that SuperDisk will run about four to five times faster than DiskDoubler, and about as fast as hardware- based DoubleUp. SuperDisk will list for $89. For more information, contact Alysis at 415/566-2263. Macintosh LC Supports VGA Monitors Apple recently revealed that the Macintosh LC can support the VGA monitors common in the IBM PC market, giving users access to less expensive color displays of somewhat lower than Macintosh qual- ity. Apple said that the LC supports the VGA standard’s different scan rate and that the only re- quirement is a cable specifically designed to make the connection. Apple said it expects such cables to be available from third-party vendors. 1 MACWORLD = APRIL 1991 SORRY, GLARIS. BUT IT'S DEJA WU ALL OVER AGAIN. THE NEW canvas™3.0 sf a Another new model year. And Canvas is still miles ahead. Lucky you. With brand new models of both the world’s top-ranked drawing programs to choose from. Simultaneously. And MacDraw® Pro isn't a bad try. In fact, it reminds us of another drawing program we've always had the utmost respect for: Canvas 2.1. Unfortunately for Claris, our new Canvas 3.0 includes enough major enhancements to leave their latest effort idling somewhere back in the dust. Again. Let's take a look under the hoods.Canvas 3.0 gives you more high-end text handling features. Like binding to curves. Slanted margins. Text- wrapping outside — and/or inside — irregular objects, and full keming & tracking control. Even conversion of PostScript Type 1 fonts to customizable Bézier outlines. MacDraw Pro doesn't Canvas 3.0 gives you more technical drawing features. Like custom dynamic hatching. Custom parallel lines & curves. Custom dashed lines, curves & borders. Automatic dimension lines. Area & perimeter calculations. Anda ‘Smart Mouse™ drawing aide. MacDraw Pro doesn't. MACDRAW@ PRO. THE NEW £7 Canvas 3.0 gives you More design/illustration features. Including unparalleled Bézier curve editing power—from multi-point selection & editing to automatic object conversion, combining and blending. Magnetic guidelines. Center line auto tracing of scanned images. And full bitmap editing in 24- bit color. MacDraw Pro doesn't. Canvas 3.0 also gives you new built-in translators for important multi-platform formats like CGM, IGES and DXF™. And Open Architecture technology —allowing new tools, effects and translators to be added with ease at any time, MacDraw Pro doesn't. You are what you drive.Like Canvas 2.1 before it, the new Canvas 3.0 was developed in direct response to the wish lists of thousands of CANVAS 30 drawing professionals. Its heritage of performance is proven. Its price is right. And its ease of use is Jegendary.Which leaves just one ‘ast question. If what you draw is important to you, why settle for Claris's sedate sedan when you can get your hands on a dream machine? Note to Canvas Users: Registered users who purchase Canvas 2.1 between Jan 1, 1991 and May 31, 1991 qualify fora free upgrade to Canvas 3.0. All Canvas 2.1 users who purchased prior to Jan 1, 1991 can upgrade to the new version for only $99 US. Canvas 1.0 or 2.0 users may upgrade for only $129 US. Prices. valid through Aug 1, 1991. Allow 4-6 weeks for delivery. All orders. add $10 shipping & handling. International Users: Please contact your local authorized distributor for availability details. Circle 346 on reader service card PRECISION DRAWING POWER FROM A Dernetec SOFTWARE 3305 NORTHWEST 74TH AVENUE MIAMI, FL 33122 PH: (325}594-6965 FAX: (305)477-5794 Ail illustrations were created and color-separated using Canvas™. Canvas 3.0 List Price: $399 ©1991 Deneba Systems, Inc. Canvas™ and Smart Mouse™ are trademarks of Deneba Systems, Inc. ‘MacDraw®™is a registered trademark of Cais Corporation. PostScript® isa regis tered trademark of Adobe Systems Incorporated. OXF™s @ trademark of AutoDesk nc. GUES DES Okay, get ready. This is it. It’s what we call Desktop Video Publishing. Imagine if you could interview a customer on And it’s now possible with MediaMaker." your own camcorder. Then cut to, say, a product The first software that lets you produce a video shot. Overlay some animated text. Add a voice- as easily as you publish a page. over or maybe some background music. For starters, MediaMaker pulls together all the And then, as if that weren't enough, print it all different media you've chosen. Like graphics, to videotape so you could show it on any VCR. Mac sounds, CD audio, animation and video clips. Sound good so far? It should. Then lays out all these elements over time (©1990 MacraMind® Ine. MacroMind and ModieMaber are trademarks or rite trademarks of MacroMind, Ic Videoclip court of O'Naill® I COMES AFTER UBLISHING. so you can be sure everything is in sync. And last, but definitely not least, prints your whole creation to videotape. Note again the word'videotape. Never before has it been possible to print to video. To actually create a walking and talking sales brochure. Or educational guide. Or training manual. aniIWOWVW All humility aside, we think i revolution in desktop communication. s the next Call 800-266-0909 for a MediaMaker videotape, demo disk, or dealer nearest you. Plan to be amazed. After all, revolutions like this don’t come along every day. INTRODUCING MEDIAMAKER FROM MACROMIND. the multimedia company Circle 22 on reader service card © Now with Forms Guide, a step-by- step interview “that leads you fo the specific tax forms that apply foyou. © Graphic tax forms on screen eliminate contusion and ‘minimize learning time. «Display ond ~ access multiple forms on screen — simultaneously. Watch instant calculations and linking between forms, and work just like _ you would at your desktop. ~ © Reach complete IRS instructions and ' helpful tax hints by double clicking the mouse on any line item. Macdhiax... the best selling tax product for the Macintosh. MaclnTax has been the best selling Macintosh- based fax product for 5 years in a row, with 750,000 returns filed. With over 80 commonly used tax forms, schedules, worksheets and state- ments, MaclnTax will organize and complete your faxes whatever income bracket you happen to be in. Easy to learn and enjoyable to use, MacInTax continues to be the industry leader — and anyone of our customers will be glad to tell you why. © Use the estimating feature for fox planning and “what if” comparisons. Find and change estimates quickly with Auto-Find functions. © Completeness Checking and Auto-Find functions direct you to errors, missing Full integration with Softview's information and estimates — for correction prior to final submission. Gitical acdaim! © MacUser Fditor’s Choice Award. —1986, 1989 and 1990. © Macworld World Class Award — 1987, 1988, 1989 ond 1990. Software Publisher's Association ~ Excellence in Software Award % Software Publisher's Association MaclnTax/Toxview®, 1988. 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COMMENTARY = Macworld Expo ’91 Wortp’s LARGEST COMPUTER FLEA MARKET BY JERRY BORRELL or a week last January, San Francisco had the feeling of the world’s largest computer flea market. Not since the heyday of Jim Warren’s Computer Faire (where Steve and Steve first introduced the Apple 1 to the public) has the City by the Bay been so dominated by one event. There was no sign of an economic recession at the exposition as visitors thronged the two major exhibit halls, gawking at the latest products and purchasing enough computer equip- ment to outfit a small city. Through- out the four days there were lines at Dr. Mac, ComputerWare, Educorp, Computer Selection, and at other booths where Mac products were ac- tually sold, And no wonder—at ComputerWare you could buy a 100MB hard drive for $699, a 195MB model for $999, Adobe Photoshop for $475, T/Maker’s SmartBundle for $199. A festive atmosphere prevailed. People waddled out with shopping bags full of products. Marketeers barked carni- val style at passersby. Microsoft cheer- leaders had visitors chanting enthusi- astically for product giveaways. Several companies offered product training to groups of attendees on the show floor. There were even some Classics and LCs in evidence. Developers forgot to curse the exposition’s organizers. And Apple, once the center of the Mac- world exhibits, seemed lost in the crowd of developers seeking to sup- port the Macintosh. More people than we have ever seen at a Macworld. Video Products Lead Announcements made in San Fran- cisco, and those that will precede the August Macworld Expo, show that video is taking a dramatic lead in cut- ting-edge technology for the Macin- tosh. Light Source demonstrated its video editing system. Electric Image was showing software (now shipping after kicking around for a couple of years) that’s designed to do titling in 3-D for video. Digital F/X announced its intention to produce a software- only version of its award-winning video software. Bravo—selling turnkey sys- tems for more than $20,000 is anti- thetical to current Mac trends. SuperMac showed SuperSqueeze, video compression based upon the C-Cube Microsystems microprocessor. E-Machines also announced real-time compression-decompression. A host of smaller developers, led by Com- motion, challenged larger companies’ leadership in this area with software that accomplishes the same result without a hardware assist. Apple was mum about its video software but demonstrated a Sony product with a built-in video interface that hinted at a future relationship in the video product arena. RasterOps pushed its technology further by introducing a $1000 24-bit board with acceleration and video overlay. The old pioneer, Mass Microsystems, introduced a 24- bit video overlay board with a really neat interface, but one that's a little behind the technology of products from RasterOps and Radius. RasterOps also stole SuperMac’s MACWORLD » APRIL 1991 thunder by showing a wall of Barco display monitors organized to act in- dividually or to work together in monolithic, single-display fashion. The first shipping products to expand the display capacity of the LC, Classic, and si were shown. Lapis, Mirror, and Ehman had monochrome displays for the Classic. NEC offered a color dis- play for the si. RasterOps, in another first, had a 24-bit board with built-in acceleration for the si—a real problem, given that machine's poor power sup- ply. Radius offered a connection for the Pivot monitor to the LC, but no two-page displays for the newest Macs. SuperMac showed its 8-bit processor direct slot-based board. Dynamac showed a flat panel LCD screen for the si that, for some, makes that computer a portable (so did John Sculley, in a cheap shot at his own portable). In Focus Systems showed its latest LCD for overhead projectors. Vertical Markets One of the subtle but rewarding as- pects of the show was the richness of products—the breadth of the offerings (continues) SIX REASONS WHY LA CIE HARD DRIVES ARE THE BEST YOU CAN BUY. Quantum mechanisms are the best. That’s why We use them in La Cie hard drives. ¢ A Quantum Difference. Quantum drive mechanisms offer blazing- fast effective access time as low as 8 milliseconds* No other drive mechanisms in their class (Mac compatible) run faster, which is why they are in nee Tsunami, Silvetlining, La Cie and the La Cie Ltd. logo are trademarks of La Cie, Ltd,, a Plus Development Company, All cther trade- La Cie drives? ‘marks are the property of their prospective owners. ll prices, specifications, terms, and descriptions of products and services herein are subject to change without notice of recourse, La Cie, Ltd. 19552 SW 90th Court, Tualatin, OR 97062. Phone (S03) 691-0771, “Typical application access time using 64KB DisCache” Fax (503) 692-8289, © 199) All rights reserved. Printed in US.A. **Seagate drive mechanisms also available (capacities from 300MB to 1.2GB). Software with a Silverlining. Every La Cie drive includes a FREE copy of Silverlining, the #1-rated hard drive management utilities program. Silverlining drivers can get 30% more speed from a drive than the competition. It works with any drive in your system, internal or external. So one program can manage it all. Plus, Silverlining opti- mizes your data so it’s consecutive on your drive, which makes your appli- cations run faster, And, Silver- lining drivers are intelligent. They test the drives’ functionality at startup to ensure that everything is working properly. Ifit’s not, it pro- tects you. For even more protection, every La Cie drive includes a FREE copy of Norton Utilities* for the Macintosh. It automati- cally diagnoses, reports and repairs common and dangerous disk problems. Silverlining and Norton Utilities are regularly priced at $149 each. So, you get software worth almost $300— ABSOLUTELY FREE— when you buy a La Cie drive! A Company You Can Count On. MacUser says, “Siverlining is one of the most power- ful and useful hard disk utilities you can find—most Apple engineers prefer it to Apple's own!" La Cie is a Plus Development Company (makers of the Hardcard* XL), backed by $400 million in assets. That means you can trust La Cie to provide a constant source of high-quality mechanisms and components. And you can be certain that we'll be around to help you with service and support. For along, long time. The Most Unusual Warranty in the Business. La Cie features a RENEWABLE 2-YEAR LIMITED WAR- RANTY.f If anything goes wrong with your La Cie Quantum drive within two years, we'll repair or replace it within 48 hours—and then renew your warranty for another 2 years. Free of charge! Every La Cie drive is backed by toll-free support from customer service and technical assistance experts. ++Restrictions apply. Please contact La Cie for complete warranty information. Award-Winning Design. Hard drives that win design awards? Who says intelligence has to be ugly? The Tsunami and Cirrus hard drives have received prestigious awards from both the industrial design and computer communities. La Cie drives are designed from the inside out. Designed to be quiet (with a % speed fan), light- weight (as light as 2% Ibs.), durable and reliable. Plus, they have an external termination switch, which means you'll never have to open the case for any reason! You don’t win awards for these features, but you do win a loyal following. Rave Reviews from Critics and Customers. Frankly, there’s been a lot of talk about La Cie hard drives. Leading Macintosh consumer magazines praise us. Customers write us fan letters. In fact, we're happy to let critics and customers have the last word about La Cie drives. Because they tend to be words like these: HELE —MacUser “,,.the cream of the crop.”—Macworld “Of all the drives tested we recommend La Cie’s drive.”—MacUser “This is an excellent drive and Silverlining is great!”—D. Jordan Burbank, CA La Ci¢ offers internal and external hard drives from 40MB to 1.2 Gigabytes. Choose from the award-winning Tsunami, Cirrus, and ZFP fomily of drives. Plus, La Cie now offers the Bacster,a hard drive that attaches directly to the back of a Macintosh Plus or SE To order or for more information, call toll-free 800-999-0143, ext. 45 LA Cie ‘* Pus DEVELOPuENT COMPANY Circle 199 on reader service card in vertical markets. On Technology and ASD Software showed multiuser calendaring products that work over networks that are the first generation of System 7.0-related products. Mitch Kapor’s (On) product looks like a real hit. Psybron and PMC Telesystems had new versions of their single-user calendars (CalenDAr, Rendezvous Plus) while Pastel Development COMMENTARY showed a new calendar cum database (Manager). Ethernet Products Proliferate A reflection of the fact that almost all networked Macintosh users are be- ginning to suffer from network slow- downs is that many companies offered Ethernet connections to AppleTalk, including National Semiconductor, Great Grammar ————— Groat Sac 2 sour aeting fr mises rot eg pcs ‘and selling. uaranteed. ™ Mac is the #1 grammar and style checker for the Grammat Macintosh It’s so effective, we guarantee it will make your grammar great, your memos more memorable, and your proposals more professional, or your money back.* Grammatik Mac proofreads your writing for thousands of errors in grammar, style, usage, punctuation, and spelling. It gives you instant feedback, on-line grammar and style help, and even lets you aa your own writing tules. All of which makes you a better writer, faster. Guaranteed. See your software dealer or call: (800) 872-9933 Gram-mat'1 The #1 Grammar & Style Checker Reference Softcare International, 20 Townsend Ste, Suite 129, San Froncigo, CA 94107 (415) 41-0222 = *See your dealer for details. Grammatikis a trademark of Wang Laboratories, © Score a Circle 14 on reader service card Asanté, Tri-Data (with some of the first third-party Ethernet boards for the si and LC), Shiva, Dove, Everex, Dayna, and Cayman. These compa- nies rightfully divine that users are demanding more from a network, even if it is only an improvement in printing and sharing electronic mail. And speaking of mail, Microsoft took the lead at the show with a new version of Microsoft Mail that recap- tures some ground from QuickMail and adds a host of network-analysis features rivaled only by Farallon (in the LocalTalk world). Lalso saw two new network-analy- sis products for LocalTalk: LocalPeek from The AG Group and Network SuperVisor from CSG Technologies. A related product from Pharos Tech- nologies is Status Mac, a software product that enables a network ad- ministrator to check, for example, all the version numbers of applications on those machines. It’s really useful. A lot of companies—Orchid, Dove, and Cypress Research, for ex- ample—are still trying to overcome. the prejudice left in the market by Apple's faulty entry into desktop fax (and subsequent abandonment of its product). Accelerators Aplenty Now that we have Macs with 68030s, naturally some people will want to have Motorola's just-shipping 68040 processor. Radius, Quantum Leap Systems, and Total Systems are glad to oblige. Additional accelerators were shown by Newer Technology (RAM disks, caches), Atto (a SCSI Il accel- erator for overworked printers and scanners), Rodime, and others. Laser and Color Printers It’s clear from the show that the price for color and PostScript is now $9995, or less. QMS, Seiko (showing products with both A- and B-size output), Tektronix, Lasergraphics, General Parametrics, and CalComp all have such offerings. Seiko’s product, at the lowest price, is reported to be back- ordered for several months. Kodak showed a 35mm-quality thermal printer for $25,000. Prices have also tumbled for laser printers. Printers offering better speed (Continues) Survival of the fittest. Which color scanner is the natural selection? When it comes to selecting the right scanner, be forewamed. It's a jungle out there. You may not get the quality you were promised. The La Cie Silverscanner has evolved beyond all that. Just look at this comparison between the Microtek 300ZS and the La Cie Silverscanner. Each image was scanned at default settings with no corrections. This entire ad was then created and separated using Adobe Photoshop, QuarkXPress 3.0 and a Linotronic 330. 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Our new PostScript compatible color printers start at $4995, Where they go after that is up to you. Now you can let your imagination run wild. At a very conservative price. Because Tektronix introduces the first color printer that is PostScript- compatible for less than $5000. The Phaser II SX is great for individuals or small groups. It works with Windows 3.0 or Macintosh QuickDraw and is software-based PostScript- compatible. It also delivers brilliant 300 dpi ther- mal-wax color as only Tektronix printers can. For bigger businesses, we offer the new Phaser I PX. This printer is hardware-based PostScript- compatible with HP-GL and is licensed by Pantone, Inc’. It also works with Macs, PCs, and UNIX workstations. All at once. Now, say you buy an SX, your business grows, and you end up wishing you'd gotten the PX. No “Pastore, Inc's check sanded trdemat for color reproduction and color reproduction materials, PosSarpt ss registered trademark of Adobe Stes, Inc. Phaser is trademark of Tektoni, fn. edema Copyright© 1991 Tekonix, Inc.All righ reserved. need to worry because all Tektronix printers are can make a statement this bold. upgradable so you'll never outgrow them. Printout for printout, ad for ad, you won't find And in case you didn't notice, this entire ad was _ a better color printer. Call 1-800-835-6100, created by one of our printers. That includes Dept. 13C for more information. The the brilliant graphics you see above and 2 test is up to you. the crisp type you're reading now. Because A we have so much faith in our color printers, wektronix t we let them do their own ads, No one else : Circle 143 on reader service card and B-size output were announced by several companies, including Las Max and QMS, Dataproducts has a new product in the wings. Input of Color Images Howtek and Kodak showed reworked. models of their 35mm scanners, while Abaton, Umax, XRS, and Howtek had COMMENTARY showed a small color scanner similar to the small Sharp scanner. Koala an- nounced new technology for video- camera input via the SCSI port. Truvel has a new owner and a simplified product line. Utilities Capture from Mainstay is now in re- new color flatbed scanners. Nisca lease 4.0 (saves TIFF files). MarkUp Go For It! Find what you have with Multi-Ad Search’ the most complete image cataloging and retrieval software system available! Just click to add professional PostScript® artwork to any layout with ProArt Professional Art Library!™ Multi-Ad Creator™ combines the power of a drawing program with a page layout program plus much more! Do It Now! Products of: [+4 | MULTI-AD SERVICES, INC 1720 W. Detweiller Drive Peoria, IL 61615-1695 1-800-447-1950 Circle 8 onreader service card cl (also from Mainstay) with voice an- notation is soon to ship. DiskExpress Ui, from AlSofi, is out. Aladdin Systems has brought out a new version of Stuffit Deluxe. Affinity Microsystems announced Tempo II+, and Central Point Software announced a new ver- sion of MacTools Deluxe. CAD Despite the somewhat disastrous ex- perience of both Autodesk and VersaCAD Corporation in the Mac market (and their absence from the show), other companies continue to forge ahead. In architectural CAD, Graphisoft has taken a strong lead in the United States. There’s a new ver- sion of Innovative Data Design’s MacDraft. Schlumberger’s MacBravo looks ever better. VIDI's Presenter Professional makes Pixar's Mac- RenderMan rendering routines easily usable—a boon to all of us who would like to make use of RenderMan’s ex- quisite rendering techniques. Virtus showed 3-D modeling soft- ware aimed at architectural markets. DesignCAD, GraphSoft, and Engi- neered Software presented new ver- sions of their CAD products. Moda- CAD was showing a stereo 3-D version of its product for garment fabrication and design. 3-D Design Swivel 3-D Professional 2.0 has be- come the dominant 3-D product for the Mac. Byte by Byte’s Sculpt 3D, a perennial favorite (and nonshipping product) of mine at trade shows, is finally shipping at the price of (groan) $2500. Levco has been sitting on a 3- D modeler written by Duane Maxwell for too long—there is a question as to whether that company will be able to publish the product. Specular Inter- national officially announced Infini-D, a 3-D modeler. Paint, Draw, Illustration PixelPaint Professional 2.0, the leader in the color paint market, has suffered in market share due to competition from Adobe Photoshop and has new competitors in Strata's StrataVision and Electronic Arts’ Studio/32. Pixel- Paint 2.1 is now shipping and with a lower price. Time Arts’ Oasis paint (continues) os FREE ~ -OVERNIGHT =. 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All our drives come with a 30 day money back guarantee and a two year limited warranty as well as my own personal commitment to giving Ehman customers the best. Tf you’re not happy with an Ehman drive I want to hear from you and I’ll make it right. After all it’s not just a hard drive you’re getting, it’s an Ehman. Call 1-800-257-1666 or 1-307-789-3830 Fax 1-307-789-4656 Circle 144 on reader service card Mission Starlight combines three different kinds of gameplay. ROLL around the evil Aalgezys as they try to destroy you, SWOOP over planet surfaces to pilot your star fighter around more creatures and ZOOM down the last tunnel for the final battle. Watch out for the cannons! The color 3D graphics are stunning, the game is fun and all kids love it! What more could you ask for? Runs on all Macs from the Mac Plus on up. Quitting Mission Starlight is mission impossible! Crystal Quest's author, Patrick Buckland, has done it again! He's written a shoot-everything-that-moves game, but don't nuke own city and watch out for the little tents with red crosses on them and don't forget to pick up the goodies in the sky like the invulnera- bility icon. Then land at home base to heal, get bonus points and load more bombs. The graphics, silly sounds and fast-paced gameplay combine to form one very addicting game. In color, for you lucky folks who have it! Runs on all Macs, from Mac Plus on up TO ORDER, CALL (800)359-4920 TODAY! Casady & Greene, Inc.” SoFcware For Business & Pleasure P.O. BOX 223779 - CARMEL, CA 93922 . 408-624-8716 Circle 137 on reader service card 32 MACWORLD * APRIL 1991 COMMENTARY program for the Mac was downplayed at the show but is apparently shipping Deneba’s taken over the realm of SuperPaint and MacDraw, was shown in version 3.0, a great improvement. Claris announced MacDraw Pro, with many new features, intended to re its traditional market. Medialab Technologies an- nounced PictureAccess, which the company says competes effective! with Photoshop and has unique tures munications functions. such as compression and com- Animation FilmMaker, the French product at last brought to the U.S. market by Para- comp, is the leader on the Macintosh Two other animation entries were at the show: Motion Works’ AddMotion for HyperCard users, and Gold Disk’s Animation Works, a more powerful gen l-purpose animation package Image Compression There is a race between several ven- dors for image-compression products. Storm Technology has a software- hardware combination that leads the available solutions. But if Radius suc- ceeds with its Impresslt software-only product, Storm may suffer the usual slings ofa pioneer. Pinnacle Micro also showing a hardware comp! decompression board, but no software ce. Kodak showed Color- squeeze, another software image- inte compression product. One of the greatest problems we have is how to access the various types of graphics files. Computer Friends and Radius both have software that works with their h that present view rious file formats with thumbr ¢ represen- tations of files, software that should be rewritten as stand-alone applica- tions. Alternatively, Adobe should write this ability into the next version Symmetry demon- picture database with y, off the show floor Games My picks of the show include Vette (driving at high speed through 3-D representations of the streets of San Francisco) from Spectrum HoloByte; (continues) NO POSTAGE NECESSARY IF MAILED IN THE UNITED STATES Subscribe today and SAVE $23.40! BUSINESS REPLY MAIL FIRSTCLASS PERMITNO.1167 BOULDER, CO Don't let this POSTAGE WILL BE PAID BY ADDRESSEE MACWORLD Subscription Department P.O. 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You would be surprised at the number of people who have confided with me the fact that they've literally given up ever learning some of the programs. They simply put the box on the shelf and wrote the expenditure off as a bad investment. Hard Earned Money Wasted Can you imagine how much money has been wasted on programs and computers that are sitting abandoned? Right now think of the people working on Macs in your office. Do they really understand the ma- chine? Do they know what to do when it goes down? How many programs are each of your people using? Have they really mastered the programs they're using? Do they know the short-cuts and valuable tech- niques that will save you time, money, and increase your professionalism? An Excellent, Low Cost Training Answer Four years ago I founded MacAcademy. My purpose was to create a training orga- nization that provided training similar in nature to the Macintosh itself - simple, easy to use, and effective. 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MAGWORLD * APRIL 1991 COMMENTARY Riddler from Threshold Publishing for the toddler with a yen to compute; Tesserae from Inline Design for those addicted to geometric puzzles on the Mac; and SpaceShip Warlock, a CD game from Mike Saenz. Just buy this disk, will you? Let’s all support Mike so that he can develop the master- piece that is simmering away in his active imagination.) Also a new CD ROM version of Cosmic Osmo, with about 100MB of new stuff and planets from Mediagenic. PC Globe, a PC soft- ware company, was showing carly versions of mapping and educational games for the Mac that have great promise. CD Authoring Meridian Data announced a Mac-based CD ROM mastering system for about $30,000, while Authorware has a new version of its authoring software in the works. Highlighted Data, producer of several works on CD ROM, is shipping anew CD ROM disc called Who Owns What, a guide to ownership of rights to movies and video for the current century. As far as laser discs go, The Voyager Company, Robert Stein’s hobby and working concern, launched four new discs: on Eadweard Muy- bridge, Igor Stravinsky (CD ROM only), Michelangelo, and the Louvre. Desktop Publishing Aldus has finally published Silicon Beach's Personal Pr software. Timeworks has a new version of Pub- lish It called Publish It Easy, which competes with Personal Press and has a richer feature set at a lower price. Aldus has recognized the speed problems of PageMaker 4.0 and is preparing a faster version. Ventura Publisher Macintosh Edition is at long last shipping, and Frame Technology told me about an update to Frame- Maker 2.0 for the Mac. QuarkXPress, the spoiler for Aldus, has increased its competitive drive and is actively taking PageMaker market share. Letraset, jammed into a tiny booth, drew crowds of faithful users to see its Studio line of prod- ucts, with ColorStudio the most suc- cessful. The company has reorganized yet again and announced its firm in- tent to support the Macintosh. An- (continues) The Typist w own personal 3 just like your very stant. One capable of typing 500 words per minute. That includes any text or numbers, no matter what style font, font size or column format. With the Typist you can enter your data directly into any Macintos PC compatible word processor spreadsheet or database, just like you were typing it yourself, only faster The Typist is more than other hand scanners, which are generally suited to but limited when to text. As the world personal scanner, the Typist is a sleek, ergonomically designed peripheral that requires no special training or expertise. Fully simulating your keyboard in every way, the Typist lets you scan up to 2 column inches per most ying fully ned — even when you sean second while nd columns sideways. ista Enter rows and columns of numbers from business journals or periodicals, directly into your most c cal documents — including spreadsheets. Develop business reports, pre or desktop published documents in a fraction of the time. With the world’s canner you will ntations, legal contra most personal immediately become more productive, whatever the assignment. To learn more about the Typist and how it can be of assistance to you, Recognition Company. Circle 1 on reader service card Caere Corporation 100 Cooper Court CAERE nd “trademarks are of thei ©1990, Corporati O There's nothing we like better than seeing some old friends get the recognition they deserve. Which is the way we feel about all the honorable mentions and winners of the 6th annual MacUser Editors’ Choice (Eddy) Awards. 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Also, all software is not copy- protected, unless indicated otherwise by (CP). Letraset 6801 ColorSwuaio 1.11990 MacUser Editors’ Choice Award for Best Color Prepress Software. Proven color imaging and retouching software which includes eee unique PostScript drawing annex at no additional charge. . $649. DAILY BUSINESS * Aatrix Software ... $872 Checkwriter II 3.1 8053 Aatrix Ultimate Payroll 4.0 . a. 178. Abacus Concepts MacSpin 3.01. . StatView SE +Grap! StatView Il 1.03. . 279. SuperANOVA 1.1 ((or Plus/SE orl) ea. 309. Statview Il/SuperANOVA Bundle. . 569. 30 day MBG 8937 4482 4481 5907 7404 DiskDoubler 3.1—Honorable Mention—1990 MacUser Editors’ Choice Award for Best Product. Expands disk drive capacity. Fast, easy and safe, and dramatically increases the storage capacity of any Macdrive.... $45. x Acius ... 30 ae MBG 6948 File Force 1.0.1..... 5618 4th Dimension 2. ‘ll 4 4024. 4th Dimension Runtime (4 user) . 7838 4DCompiler1.0...... 4D Write 1.0.1 or 4D Calc. % Advanced Software 5608 DocuComp1.5..... ALasting Impression 5465 ResumExpert... 48. 5749 Cover Letters 5 . 48. * ASD Software 30 day MBG 7619 Planisoft (1 user).............. 195. Ashton-Tate 8961 Fulllmpact2.0.............-. 189. Eddy H.M. - Best Data Management Avery ... 60 day MBG 7446 MacLabel Pro 1.0... %* Baseline Publishing 8882 1 Shot Worksheet . . 30 day wae HOT. 8881 Thunder 7. . ~ 57 *Chang Labs ... 30day MBG 1611 CAT.3.0 .. ... Special 249. *Checkfree Corp. 30 day Lol 6928 Checkfree Mac 1.5. DARWINS DILEMMA Inline Design ... 8809 Tesserae 1.0-New! 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Point & click to identify points. Discover pattems & trends in your data . $169. * Kaetron Software .. 8941 Topdown2.1... *Lifetree Software ae 30. ian MBG 6984 Correct Grammar 2.0. Ber Oo: *Mainstay ... 30 day MBG 7718 MacFlow3.: 5. ceeee ee 8613 MacSchedule Plus 1.0 . *MECA ... 60 day MBG 2796 Managing Your Money 4.0 . . *Microlytics ... 60 day MBG 7506 Inside Information 1.0... . 7820 Random House Encyclopedia .... 68. 30 day mes 219 169. 199. Microsoft ... 30 day MBG 2884 Works 2.00C.. . s malee, 109: 4969 Word 4.0B . 245. 2865 Excel 2.2A 245. 6500 Excel Money Mgr. 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Eddy H.M. - Best Graphics Program 6644 Adobe Photoshop 1.07......... 499. Eddy - Software Product of the Year 5001 StreamLine2.0............. 125. Smart Art lll, orIV..... +. ea 59. 1-800/334-4444 Onnection Dantz Development ... 30 day MBG 7945 Retrospect Remote 1.2—Honorable Mention— 1990 MacUser Editors’ Choice Award for Best workgroup backup using Apple Talk network. Supports tape, optical, & cartridge drives $265. %* Aldus/Silicon Beach 6674 Personal Press 1.0 . 3506 SuperPaint2.0A... 30 day MBG 199, 1. 135. 8811 SuperPaint/Personal Press Bundle 279. 3980 Digital Darkroom 2.0. 259, 3507 Super3D2.1...... se Tk Persuasion, PrePrint or FreeHand ea. 329. 7088 PageMaker4.0............ . 499. 8054 Design Team (PM, FH & PrePrint) . 889. Altsys 5425 Artimporter 2.0... 6499 Metamorphosis 1.5. 1195 Fontographer 3.2 . ‘ Eddy H.M. - Best Typographic ‘Product Ares Software ... 30 day MBG 8878 FontMonger 1.0. Baseline Publishing 7784 Color MacCheese 1.05. . ——— | DREAMS ele cece ORES Innovative Data Design 4707 Dreams 1.1—Advanced, yet easy-to-use precision drawing and design software. Features include parallel line tool, elue and unglue, add and subtract, trim and fillet tools, true associative dimensioning and mor $349. 14 Mill Street, Marlow, NH 08456. 60314467711. FAX 603/446-7791 Multi-Ad Services 8767 Muli-Ad Creator 2.5—It’s all here: Power, speed, precision, color separations. The high-end choice for producing complex pages—fast. ‘MacUser says “IE you create ads, petit” . $695. Bright Star Technology 6093 interFACE1.0.............. Eddy H.M. - Best ‘Animation Program Broderbund Software 1427 The Print Shop 1.3.2. ba SS. 6281 TypeStyler 1.5.2. .. . 15. Eddy - Best Typographic Product *Casady & Greene ... 60 day MBG 8879 Fluent Font Library 4.0 - 105. Claris 1123 MacPaint II 2.0 . . 92. 1117 MacDraw Il 1.1V2. 289. 8007 Claris CAD 2.0 S ave» 649, * Creative Software ... 30 day MBG 6645 Easy Color Paint 2.0 . saves 40: Custom Applications ... 30 day MBG 8037 Freedom of Press Light 3.0 (17 fonts) 56 6517 Freedom of Press3.0 ....... DeltaPoint ... 60 day MBG 6095 DeltaGraph 1.5... + Deneba Software 6365 UltraPaint 1.01 ... 1769. Canvas 2.1.1 : be %Dream Maker ... 30 day MBG Cliptures: Business or Sports... 64, 69. Baseline Publishing ... 8881 Thunder 7—A truly interactive spelling & thesaurus program for all applications . $57. 7783 INIT Manager—Locate, manage & analyze 30 day MBG all your start-up documents... +... 35. 8882 1 Shot Worksheet—A powerful spreadsheet combined with aforms generator. ....... 57. Electronic Arts ... 30 meet MBG 4315 Studio/8 2.0. . . $189. 8056 Studio/32 1.0 . . 449 Eddy - Best Graphics Program 2+Farallon Computing ... 30.day MBG 6770 MacRecorder Voice Digitizer... . . 2199 MacRecorder Sound System 2. ay Foundation Publishing ... 60 day MEG 6728 Comic Strip Factory 1.6 Frame Technology 7505 FrameMaker 2.1 forthe Mac. .... 795. Eddy H.M. - Best Page Design Program Innovative Data Design 2417 MacDraft2.1........ - 279, 4707 Dreams 1.1. . 349, Letraset 2619 ImageStudio 1.5. + 189. 2621 Ready Set Go! 4.5; . 165. 6300 FontStudio 1.0 . 359. Eddy H.M. - Best Typographic Product ColorStudio 1.1 . Eddy - Best Color Prepress Product tr Linguist's Software ... 60 day MBG Over 100 language fonts......... call 6301 Zedcor ... 60 day MBG 3986 DeskPaint &2 DeskDraw 3.03—Honorable Mention—1990 MacUser Editors’ Choice Award for Best Graphics Programs. Great graphics desk accessories. Supports B&W, gray-scale, or color. Compatible with system 6.04 or better . $115. 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