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Milestone 1: Clones
In the event that you've been in Antarcti-
ca and missed hearing about Mac clones,
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computer produced and sold by a compa-
ny other than Apple that can nonetheless
use the Mac Operating System and the
many applications written for it. Clones
are now possible because, after ten years
of going it alone, Apple finally decided to
license the Mac Operating System. The
first clones are here now, although ini-
tially there will be clones from only a few
companies, including DayStar Digital,
Power Computing, and Radius. Power
Computing hopes to license its clone
technology to other developers as early
as this year. You can expect to see many
more units down the line, but not until
Apple licenses the Mac OS to a major
computer maker like IBM, Dell, or
Acer. (For more on clones, see the April
1995 Macworld.)
The presence of Mac clones signals
more choice for Macintosh users. You
will be able to buy Mac-compatible com-
puters from companies offering different
combinations of features for different
prices. You might, for example, buy a less
STATE OF THE MAC
BY ADRIAN MELLO
Map to the Future
A field guide to the technologies transforming the Mac
pensive (if perhaps less elegantly de-
signed) alternative to the Mac, or pay
somewhat more for a clone configured to
meet your special requirements. And
you'll be able to buy clones through the
mail or from a company that
support your particular application or
organization. Choice is great, but con-
sumers will need to be even better
informed than before to make the right
choice. That’s where we come in, Stay
tuned as Macworld Lab tests and reviews
each clone as it hits the market.
Milestone 2: QuickTime VR
and QuickDraw 3D
‘The Mac's next landmarks are the recent-
ly announced twin media technologies,
QuickTime VR and QuickDraw 3D. Quick-
‘Time VR isa tool that lets developers cre-
ate realistic vircual environments for users
to explore, in which you make real-time
decisions as if you were walking around
inside an actual building, national park,
arship, or human circulatory system.
QuickTime VR will usher in a new class
of CD-ROM titles that are more engag-
ing than what's currently available—ones
that virtually set you inside your own
interactive movie.
‘At this writing Apple was readying to
release the developers’ tool kit that will
make QuickTime VR-based CD titles
possible. The only cloud over this happy
scene is that Apple is charging developers
an arm and a leg to use it; that may dis-
courage adoption and slow the release of
titles. That would be a real shame and a
disservice to consumers, because once you
sce a nice QuickTime VR application,
you'll never want to go back to regular
CD-ROMs. (See the feature story “VR:
QuickTime’s New Edge,” in this issue.)
We now take for granted the ability to
cut and paste graphics between applica-
tions. Apple made this possible when it
introduced the PICT file format with the
original QuickDraw. But PICT works
with two-dimensional graphic images
only. QuickDraw 3D will enable you to
transfer 3-D images beween applications
through a new, 3-D Clipboard. Editable
3-D imagery may soon be as common as
2-D graphics, giving Mac
applications a new dimen-
sion (although most inter-
face designers aren’t con-
vinced that they can in the
near term create 3-D inter-
faces that add much value).
Users should be able to get
hold of QuickDraw 3D by
the end of summer. After
that it will be included on
new Macs and be rolled
into the next system soft-
ware update. (For more on
QuickDraw 3D, see News,
May 1995.)
Milestone 3: PCI
You know how trash
collectors are sometimes
called sanitation engineers?
Welcome to PCI, for Peripheral Com-
ponent Interface—a highfalutin way to
say “expansion bus.” The next generation
of Power Macs, purportedly due some-
time this summer, uses PCI instead of
NuBus, the Mac’s primary bus standard
since 1987. PCI slots require PCI cards,
so when you go to buy an add-in card,
take care that you don’t accidentally pur-
chase a NuBus card.
PCI is potentially two to three times
as fast as NuBus, which could speed up
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STATE OF THE MAC
applications such as 24-bit video, motion-
video editing and playback, network
transfer, and Internet access. The other
advantage to PCI is that many PCs also
use it; this may lead to lower costs and
greater choice. (See the feature story
“Why PCI,” June 1995.)
Ah, if only it were that easy. Some
vendors may have to adapt their PCI
cards for the Mac to achieve optimum
performance. This could translate to extra
cost for customers, who, instead of being
able to swap PCI cards between their Mac
and PC, might end up having to buy dif-
ferent versio Some vendors have
already committed to making PCI cards
for the Mac, but many are taking a wait-
and-see attitude. If you buy a PCI-only
Mac, your add-in choices may be limited
until more vendors commit. You may also
face problems if you want to transfer any
of your NuBus cards to a Mac that sup-
ports only PCI. Fortunately, some com-
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Second Wave has announced Xpanse, a
NuBus expansion chassis that will attach
to your new PCI machine to let you use
your old cards. And I won’t be surprised
if some enterprising clone maker of-
fers a computer with slots for both Nu-
Bus and PCI.
Milestone 4: OpenDoc
If you’re tired of switching from program
to program just to complete work that
ends up in a single document, OpenDoc
may be for you. Currently, to produce a
typical report, you write up the text nar-
rative in a word processor, switch to a
spreadsheet to prepare your charts, then
draw a diagram in a draw package, and
finally copy and paste all these pieces into
a page-layout program to produce the
final document.
OpenDoc takes a “document-centri
approach, letting you focus on the proj-
ect as a whole, rather than on its compo-
nent parts. When you work on a given
element, OpenDoc automatically pro-
vides the appropriate menus and tools. In
addition to simplifying the project from a
user’s point of view, this approach permits
developers to focus on fine-tuning tools
for specific purposes, rather than loading
up their applications with redundant f
tures that are better supported elsewhere.
‘The anticipated result will be lower-cost
tools that collectively make more efficient
use of system resources such as RAM and
storage capacity. To work within this doc-
ument-based scheme, you will still need
to have the appropriate tools assembled
on your system and be sure that they sup-
port OpenDoc. Many developers are
enthusiastically revising their applications
to work with OpenDoe, but as is typical
with new technology, others are taking a
more conservative approach. In any case,
OpenDoc won't ship until early 1996,
(See the feature story “OpenDoc and
OLE 2.0,” November 1994.)
Milestone 5: Converged Platform
It could be called the second coming of
the clones, but for now it’s technically
referred to as the Common Hardware
Reference Platform, or more simply, the
converged platform. This specification—
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need any special hardware.
The converged platform promises
some enticing benefits. Users will be able
to change their machine’s identity simply
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In complex workplaces the ability to ea
ily support several platforms will make a
world of difference. Because more com-
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be economies of scale that would make
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tem software, code-named Copland, is at
least a year away (and be forewarned,
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will be the first Mac OS to require the
PowerPC chip, at least at its introduction;
a 680X0-based version looks doubtful and
would certainly be developed after the
Power Mac version, if at all.
While you await Copland’s arrival,
it’s interesting to note what Copland
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user, Copland should run software faster,
efficiently, and crash
less often. You might also pass the time
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terms related to the several archite:
tural improvements that make Copland’s
chievements possible, such as preemp-
tive multitasking, multithreading, demand.
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layer, or HAL.
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Mae’s interface, enabling you to cus-
tomize many aspects of your work envi-
ronment, such as menus, window frames,
and views. An improved Apple Guide will
help automate more operations for you,
and system software components such as
QuickDraw GX that you currently now
acquire and install optionally will be built
in, so more applications will support
them. Although Copland’s interface
shows some of Apple’s famed creative
whimsy, the operating system’s real
promise rests not in its whizzy new fea-
tures, but’ in the substantive value it will
bring users in the daily operation of their
Macs. (See the feature stories “Che New
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New Face,” both in this is
Beyond Copland lies a version of the
Mac OS called Gershwin, about which it’s
too early to say much except that it will
continue to extend the depth of memory
protection and multitasking introduced in
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and stability.
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Even industry insiders and the most assid-
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beyond a one- or two-year horizon is
dicey business. Not only does the tech-
nology develop far too rapidly to predict
with confidence, but factor in the uncer-
tainties of the business world, and all bets
are off. What is clear is that Apple seems
to be striving to achieve a more sensible
balance between the dazzle of new
nology and its pragmatic application. The
synergy among these new technologies
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creasingly impressive graphics, as well as
to cross-platform utility that may make
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article “Meeting the E-Mail Chal-
lenge” in the April 1995 issue of Mac-
world, While the article does give some
valuable tips on setting up mail servers, it
fails to mention any shareware or free-
ware programs. Perhaps the most signifi-
cant omission is Mailshare. This freeware
program is the only true client-server
mail system on the Mac platform. It is a
port of the public-domain POP3 mail
server and can be combined with Eudora
1.5.1 (also freeware) to create a very
robust system, at no cost.
Bart Stidbam
Columbia, South Carolina
No slight to shareware alternatives was intended. We
deliberately focused on products aimed at corporate
users interested in building large, complex E-mail
networks. Since business users typically want the
support that comes with commercial products, we
left shareware and freeware E-mail solutions for
another time —Ed.
Questionable Loyalty
HE RECENT COLUMN BY ADRIAN
Mello (“Cloning Opportunities,”
State of the Mac, April 1995) suggests that
it will be difficult for clone makers to
compete against Apple’s “formidable cus-
tomer loyalty.” He then notes problems
with Apple upgrades and take-it-or-leave-
it systems. I suspect that Mac enthusiasts
are loyal to the Mac Operating System
and the wonderful software available—
not to Apple.
Gary B. Weiss
Webster, Texas
Special Delivery 2.0
OUR REVIEW OF SPECIAL DELIVERY
2.0 (April 1995) left us disappointed
and confused. The review starts off with
4)97) 95
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tion of the product. The reviewer then
students’ experiencing
sistent behavior and sys~
tem crashes, which he acknowledges he
couldn’t reproduce, and then says he
found more glitches than he would expect
ina version 2.0 product.
We were never contacted by either
the students or the reviewer to find out
why they were having problems, and if,
in fact, the problems were attributable to
Special Delivery.
We have thousands of satisfied users
who have not experienced glitches or ran-
dom crashes, In fact, Apple test engineers
tested and approved the Special Delivery
demo that shipped with the Quadra 630.
Peter Rosenthal
Interactive Media
Los Altos, California
Overture, Schmoverture
NA REVIEW OF OVERTURE (APRIL 1995),
you refer to several competing music-
notation programs but fail to mention the
one I consider the best of all, Nightingale.
‘As a professional musician and compos-
er, I find Nightingale has all the capabil-
ity I need in a music-notation program.
A complementary program, NoteScan,
reads printed music with a scanner and
converts it to a document editable in
Nightingale. [hope you give attention to
these programs in the near future.
Abram Plum
Bloomington, Illinois
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net sites —Ed.
Microsoft Library 1.0
HANK YOU FOR PUBLISHING GUY
Kawasaki’s open letter to Bill Gates
in the April 1995 issue of Macworld (Wise
Guy). Bill Gates would be a national hero
if he came to the rescue of our crumbling
intellectual heritage, especially at the very
time the National Endowment for the
Humanities, which has done so much for
the cause of preservation, is under attack.
The Council on Library Resources
was formed in 1956 to assist libraries in
finding cooperative solutions to their big
problems: automation and preservation.
Since then, the council has sponsored
dozens of research and demonstration
projects in libraries.
In 1986 a number of libraries and
scholarly organizations banded together
to concentrate on preservation. The
Commission on Preservation and Access,
for the last nine years, has been acting on
behalf of the nation’s libraries, archives,
and universities to develop and encour-
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lated record.
Both of these nonprofit organizations
have small staffs who are leveraging a rel-
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LETTERS
a MailHub from Control Data Sys-
tems does indeed support cc:Mail (“Meet-
ing the E-Mail Challenge,” April 1995).
Wolfram Research's Optica 1.0 is
an add-on module for Mathematica, not a
stand-alone application (Power Mac
News, May 1995).
@ We incorrectly stated that Adobe
Dimensions doesn’t render in the back-
ground (Reviews, April 1995). Users
may switch, via a Preferences option, to
other programs while Dimensions renders
in the background.
@ The correct phone and fax numbers
April 1995) ave 612/830-1549, 800/
654-5294; fax 612/633-3136,
w The correct Web site for TidBits is
http://www.dartmouth.edu/pages
/TidBITS/TidBITS.html (Macworld On-
line, May 1995).
@ The PaperPort is a 200-dpi scan-
ner, not 300-dpi as reported (Reviews,
May 1995). Also, Visioneer offers E-mail
links for Lotus cc:Mail, CE Software's
QuickMail, Microsoft Mail, and Apple
PowerTalk through a $49 upgrade.
@ The author of Peter's Player 1.1
(The Desktop Critic, April 1995) bas
moved. Peter Lee's current address is
3 Stripe Rd., Haydenville, MA 01039-
9605. The shareware fee is still a disk
and $20.
The word processor included in
ClienTrac 2.0 (Reviews, May 1995) is
capable of multiple-page documents. Mac-
world regrets the error.
atively small amount of money to do the
task Guy Kawasaki outlines. We welcome
assistance from Mr. Gates and all others
who agree that preservation of what soci-
ety has thought and learned is important.
Deanna Marcum
President, Council on
Library Resources, and Commission
on Preservation and Access
Washington, D.C.
Phaser Praiser
OUR REVIEW IN THE APRIL 1995 IS-
sue of Macworld comparing Apple’s
Color StyleWriter 2400 with Tektronix’s
Phaser 140 printer does not stress the fact
that the Mac to which the printer is con-
nected is rendered basically useless while
printing from a Color StyleWriter 2400.
T feel Tektronix has done an outstanding
job of bringing to market a low-cost,
high-quality printer with an internal pro-
cessor. Your chart should also have noted
the speed difference if the user does pur-
chase the Ethernet upgrade as well as
additional RAM. A comparison with the
Color StyleWriter Pro on the graph
would have been nice, too.
Andy Knasinski
Glendale, Wisconsin
Newton Natives Restless
‘TEVEN LEVY'S APRIL 1995 THE ICONO-
clast column, “The Palmtop Blues,”
contained a statement that will probably
cause me not to send in my early renew-
al. The statement was “Now, Palm Com-
puting, maker of a Newton program
called Graffiti, asserts that its product will
allow you to flawlessly input text into the
device. But Graffiti requires you to alter
the way you print, writing some letters in
weird, neo-hieroglyphic fashion. In other
words, change the way you write. Sorry. I
have a near-religious belief that machines
should adjust themselves to my behavior
and not the other way around.” When
you started typing on a keyboard you
changed the way you wrote to adjust to a
machine. It took me about two days to
become proficient using Graffiti, How
long does it take a person to become pro-
ficient at typing?
I received my copy of Graffiti a few
days before receiving the April issue of
Macworld and can only describe your dis-
missal of this great program as the height
of hubris. Graffiti is based on the concept
that it will recognize any letter the instant
you lift your pen. Believe it or not, it does
50 with nearly 100 percent accuracy. This
requires that a few letters contain only a
part of the letter since to complete the let-
ter would take more than one stroke.
Graffiti changed my Newton from a
toy to a computer. Apple should bundle
it with the Newton until they can get it in
ROM. Itis that good. You owe it to your
subscribers to have a complete review of
Graffiti as soon as possible.
Arthur Price
Tulsa, Oklahoma
We're one step ahead of you, Arthur—we gave Graf-
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1995 issue—Ed.
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LETTERS
a Newton as my primary E-mail and fax
point of service, not because | have to,
but because it is lightweight, small, and
unobtrusive. I’ve had the pleasure of eval-
uating for the same purposes a
Link from Sony (on which this y
ten, with my PowerBook sitting
next to me) and find it equally fitting.
I wouldn’t trade my PDA for the
world, It has intimately changed how I
work, not because [am a PDA software
developer, but because it gives me what I
used my laptop for in a small package I
can use anywhere, anytime, with the same
effort I use using a sheet of paper.
Ray Rischpater
AllPen So,
Los Gatos, California
Working Even Smarter
IM HEID'S APRIL 1995 WORKING SMART
column on speeding up Macintosh
performance was very informative, but
there are a couple of things that should
be mentioned about multimedia perfor-
mance: (1) When you're running Quick-
‘Time 2.0, make sure you also install
Multimedia Tuner (as indicated in the
Bugs & Turkeys” section of April's
News), as this greatly improves movie
playback performance; (2) QuickTime 2.0
can actually slow down some applications
that were written for earlier versions of
QuickTime, One example is Broderbund
Software’s game Myst, which runs fine
with QuickTime 1.6 but is nearly unus-
able with QuickTime 2.0.
Erie Bicker
Barrington, New Jersey
Type Problems
WOULD LIKE TO SOLICIT YOUR HELP
with a situation that I believe can be
adversely affecting my and my product's
reputation,
‘There isa Star Trek convention tour-
ing the United States, and maybe world-
wide, at which a regular vendor is selling
a font package named Jackill’s Future
Fonts v1.0. Lam told by people—at least
the 30 that took the time—who have pur-
chased this product that it is defective, if
nota total rip-off! The packaging claims
50 fonts, but some users are reporting that
they cannot a any fonts; those that
can, encounter yet another problem—
defective fonts. Both Mac and IBM users
are affected.
My problem is that my name is the
only name that appears anywhere in or on
the packaging, due to the fact that they
used my product, theTypeBook, in their
package in some way. Consequently, | am
receiving all of what should be complaints
directed to them. If knew who they were
T would attempt to contact them myself;
however, I do not, and neither do any of
their customers.
Thave already made public post
S and AOL, but the message has
a limited reach.
on
only
Jim Lewis
via America Online
But Will the NEA Approve?
NJOYED READING THE MACWORLD
Online column’s pick of art sites on the
Internet in the April 1995 issue. Another
site your readers might enjoy is the Med-
ical Illustrators’ home page, http://siesta
.packet.net/med_illustrator/Welcome.htm,
Cecil Greek
via the Internet
Wahoo—illustrations of pancreatic cancers! Just be
careful if you decide to visit this site before lunch.
—Macworld Online
Taken to Task over Works
OUR REPLY TO A LETTER THAT AP-
peared in the April 1995 issue from a
disgruntled Microsoft Works 4.0 user
complaining about “permanent page
mode” was unfair to him and to Claris-
Works and its users, Your claim that
isWorks “displays documents in page
view only” is not true, ClarisWorks has a
Page View menu item to allow control
over this feature. And when in Page View,
it is still possible to fine-tune the display
to suppress page breaks or margin display.
WYSIWYG should not be used as an
excuse for inflexibility or foisting elegant
inconvenience on consumers. Claris-
Works gives flexibility, allowing its users
to choose a display mode that suits them
at any particular stage of their work.
Microsoft should be chastised for this
human interface error.
David Crowe
via CompuServe
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the new Arcus II can capture more highlights
and shadows, thanks to its 3.0 dynamic range.
‘That’s the kind of image quality you used to have to send out for.
Plus, no other top-of-the-line “desktop” scanner comes with Agfa
FotoLook scanning software, Agfa FotoTune color management
software, and full Adobe Photoshop™ software built in.
And no one else can offer you our new, 42-page
Introduction to Digital Scanning, which takes you step by step
through a variety of scanning situation
‘Truth is, with everything we added to the Arcus II, we're expect-
ing some more awards, But the real prize winner will still be yo
AGFA &
‘The complete picture,
Call 1-800-685-4271 to find out more
information on Agfa’s new scanners.
Circle 43 on reader service card
nage we MacBulletin
© Apple Unveils Power Mac 6200
Series Apple Europe recently began shipping the
Power Macintosh 6200/75 and the Performa 6200CD,
both of which have a 630-series-type system box and
run on a 75MHz PowerPC 603 processor. If Apple fol-
lows its typical pattern, itis likely to introduce a U.S. ver-
sion of the 6200 later this year.
The 6200-series machines both include 8MB of
RAM, expandable to a maximum capacity of 64MB. The
RAM is in the form of an 8MB SIMM that occupies one
of the system's two 72-pin SIMM slots. The processor
has a 16K on-chip cache and connects to a 256K Level
2 cache, which it needs to achieve performance rough-
ly equivalent to that of a 6(0MHz PowerPC 601 chip with-
out external cache. The European configurations include
a 500MB IDE hard drive and a CD-ROM drive.
Essentially a Power Macintosh 5200 mother-
board in a modular 630 box, a 6200 can accommodate
the same multimedia expansion options as a 5200
(Apple's latest LC machine) or 630, including the inter-
nal TV tuner. The 6200 also has an LC IIl-compatible
PDS slot, a communications slot, and a video-input slot.
Also like the 5200 and 630, the 6200 has an infrared
remote sensor, sound controls, and a headphone jack,
all on the front of the case. The built-in video supports
monitors as large as 15 inches. The systems have two
serial ports, one ADB port, a SCSI port, a mono sound-
in port, and a stereo sound-out port. The Performa
comes bundled with more applications. The Performa
6200CD will sell in Germany for about DM 3000
($2182.50), but Apple's prices are generally higher in
other countries than in the United States.
An Apple representative recently confirmed that
the systems were introduced in Europe on April 28, but
when asked by Macworld about the planned date of
introduction in the United States, the representative said,
“Apple does not comment on unannounced products.
We haven't announced that system here in the
U.S. .. . That product doesn't exist in the U.S. at this
stage.” The Apple representative also noted that Mac
configurations can vary from country to country.
© Apple Discontinues Power Mac
Upgrades Apple recently discontinued its existing
Power Mac motherboard upgrades. To help meet
demand for Power Mac upgrades, the company licensed
its Power Macintosh Upgrade Card (an add-in card) to
DayStar Digital. Apple will no longer sell that product
in the United States, but will continue to support exist-
ing Power Mac Upgrade Cards. DayStar, 404/967-2077.
Faster CD-ROM for Summer Macs
Apple has replaced its double-speed CD-ROM drive with
a quad-speed model. The $349 AppleCD 600e also
comes in an internal version, one that Apple will ship this
summer in Macs and Power Macs sold with internal
CD-ROM drives. Apple Computer, 800/538-9696.
SyQuest Introduces Zip Competitor
On the heels of lomega’s well-received Zip drive,
SyQuest recently announced the EZ135 Drive, which
stores 135MB on removable cartridges and should have
a street price around $200. SyQuest says the 13.5ms
average access time and maximum 2.4MB-per-second
sustained-data rate of its 135MB 3'%4-inch removable
Winchester drive yields twice the performance of
lomega's Bernoulli-based Zip. Internal and external SCSI
versions should ship in July. SyQuest, 510/226-4000.
Justice against Microsoft The U.S.
Department of Justice filed suit to prevent the proposed
$2-billion merger of Microsoft with Intuit, the dominant
maker of personal-finance software. The suit alleges that
the merger will be anticompetitive. m
MACWORLD July 1995 33
EDITED BY TOM MORAN
IN THIS ISSUE
p. 35 Power Computing Clones _p. 36 From SIMMs to DIMMs _p. 36 Do-It-Yourself Web Pages
p. 37 More Apple Updates _p. 41 Symantec's Crucial Compiler
p. 118 Color-Calibration Tools p. 122 Low-Cost Internet Connections p. 138 Macs as Internet Servers
System 7.5 Update Causes Conflicts
pple’s recently released
System Update 1.0,
which upgrades System 7.5 to
7.5.1, is causing conflicts with
a long list of software and
hardware (see MacBulletin,
June 1995). Designed to fix
bugs and improve system per-
formance, the update also
offers improved file sharing,
lets users drag and drop items
to the Launcher, handles low-
lets the keyboard pow
key double as a power-off key.
Software Problems The
most common problems by far
are crashes on shutdown. Two
extensions have been identi-
fied as causing such crashes,
both from Symantec. Mac-
Tools Pro’s TrashBack (503/
690-8090) is one of the cul-
prits; versions 4.0 and 4.0.1
now have a free updater (to
version 4.0.2), which resolves
the conflict. The updater is
posted on Symantec’s BBS
and all online services.
‘The other problem exten-
sion is Norton Partition 2.0.
Formerly part of Norton Util-
ities (503/334-6054), Partition
discontinued as of NUM
3.0 and will not be patched.
Symantec recommends that
you back up partitions and
delete them, then switch to
34 July 1995 MACWORLD
another product, such as a
hard disk—formatting utility or
file-security utility.
If you suffer from crashes
and have neither TrashBack
nor Norton Partition in-
stalled, your problem is
probably an old and incom-
patible SCSI driver on one or
more of your hard drives.
Updating with a current, Sys-
tem 7.5—compatible driver
utility (such as FWB’s Hard
Disk ToolKit, Casa Blane:
Drive?, or CharisMac’s Anu-
bis) should solve the problem.
You should update the SCSI
driver before running the sys-
tem updater, and preferably
before installing System 7.5.
If Aladdin Systems’ Stuffit
ver 3.5 loads after the
General Controls, files
ible. No data
lost, but the files are inac-
ssible from the Finder. At
press time, Aladdin (408/761-
6200) had yet to determine the
cause of the problem. Mean-
while, the workaround is
either to use an extension
manager, such as Conflict
Catcher 3 from Casady &
Greene (408/484-9228) or
Now Startup Manager (part of
Now Utilities 5) from Now
Software (503/274-2800), or
to get SpaceSaver to load
before General Controls by
renaming one of the two files.
Also, if you unmount a
shared removable volume in
System 7.5.1 with SpaceSaver
loaded, it will lock up the Mac.
This is due to a design change
Apple implemented in File
Sharing, and thus may affect
other products besides Space-
Saver. It is still unclear who
will provide the fix, or when.
SpeedyFinder? 1,5.9i, the
latest version of the versatile
shareware control panel, will
not load under System 7.5.1
because it does not recognize
the new Finder. Unregistered
copies expired on March 15,
and users have been urged
to upgrade to the commer-
cial package encompassing
SpeedyFinder7’s features:
Aladdin Desktop Tools 1.0.
Under 7.5.1 with File
Sharing enabled and Connec-
tix’s RAM Doubler 1.5.1
installed, files on CD-ROMs
may “disappear.” Data is not
affected, but access to it is,
Connectix (415/571-5100)
says the problem also occurs.
with System 7.5, and that
RAM Doubler version 1.5.2
will fix it and other bugs. That
version should be shipping by
the time you read this.
Metrowerks’ CodeWar-
rior PowerPC debugger, MW
Debug/PPC, did not work
with 7.5.1: Metrowerks (514/
747-5999) has released an
updater to the Net and to
online services.
The E-Machines 3.5.5
control panel for E-Machines’
graphics cards and Futura
IV/DSP cards will cause a crash
when a Macintosh boots with
the update installed. As
E-Machines was absorbed by
SuperMac before SuperMac
was in turn merged with
Radius, an update is unlikely.
Radius (408/541-6100) does
offer an upgrade path for E-
Machines owners, however.
Apple’s Find File 1.1.1
(408/996-1010) now works
with Apple’s foreign-language
script systems (under World-
Script II). However, users of
those systems with 2-byte
characters, such as the Japan-
ese, Chinese, and Korean
Language Kits, had drastic
continues on page 37
Power
Computing
Clones Arrive
USERS GET CHOICE OF
SYSTEM CONFIGURATION
Power Comput-
ing, the first
company to get
an Apple license
to produce Pow-
er Mac clones, shipped its first
Macs in limited quantities on
May 1, with volume
shipments expected
on June 1. The com-
pany hopes to com-
pete with Apple’s
Power Macs by
offering equivalent
systems with a wider
range of configura-
tions, lower prices,
and better technical
support. The first
Power Computing
Macs will be Power-
PC 601-based desk-
top systems compa-
rable to Apple’s Pow-
er Mac 7100 and avail-
able in three speeds:
80MHz, 100MHz,
and 110MHz. A
tower system com-
parable to Apple’s Power Mac
8100 should begin shipping in
June, as should the 80MHz
desktop model.
All three of Power Com-
puting’s Power systems—the
Power 80, Power 100, and
Power 110—will come with
the same ports as Apple’s
Power Macs, including SCSI,
ADB, serial, and Ethernet.
Also included are three NuBus
slots, a front-mounted speak-
er (which the company claims
offers better sound fidelity
than Apple’s), a 256K cache
card, an extended keyboard
(an extra purchase for an
Apple Mac) and mouse, as well
as System 7.5.1, 300 Post-
Script Type 1 and TrueType
fonts, and a special edition of
IDG Books Worldwide’s Sys-
tem 7.5 for Dummies. You also
get software: the current ver-
sions of Intuit’s Quicken;
ClarisWorks; and Now Soft-
ware’s Now Utilities, Now
Contact, and Now Up-to-Date.
‘The standard, accelerated
video card will have 2MB of
video RAM to support mil-
lions of colors on a 17-inch
monitor; the VRAM can go to
4MB to support millions of
colors on a 21-inch monitor. A
first for the Mac market, the
video card includes dual video
connectors (one standard Mac
DB-15 and one standard VGA),
so you can use PC-style mon-
itors without buying an extra
adapter. To use a PC-style
monitor in a Power Comput-
The Power 100 includes
a 100MHz PowerPC 601 processor.
ing Mac without the card, you
need an adapter.
Power Computing will
sell direct, so customers can
get the systems configured as
they prefer. Customers will
have a choice of hard drive
capacity, ranging from 365MB
to 9GB; installed RAM capac-
ity, ranging from 8MB to
200MB; and monitor size,
ranging from 14 inches to 17
inches. Other options include
a quad-speed CD-ROM drive
and an AV video card instead
of the standard video card.
In the future, Power
Computing expects to offer
DOS cards, removable-media
drives (such as SyQuest and
perhaps Zip), and possibly sys-
tems that support both NuBus
and PCI buses. Planned for
summer or fall release are
PCI-based Power Macs (in-
continues
MACWORLD
In Briel
Updated File Translation
The newest version of the
MacLinkPlus file-translation
program includes a utility called
FileView that lets you view
files created by programs you
don't have. MacLinkPlus also
contains updated translation
filters to handle the latest
versions of Microsoft Word,
Excel, and Works for Mac and
Windows, and WordPerfect,
WriteNow, and ClarisWorks for
Mac. The Easy Open Translators
version costs $109; it contains
Macintosh Easy Open, FileView,
and all translators. The $149
Translators Pro version adds
Macintosh PC Exchange DOS-
mounting software, while the
$199 PC Connect adds PC
Exchange and a cable to directly
connect PCs and Macs. 203/
268-0030.
Apple Tech Support
Goes Online
Apple Computer has added an
online tech-support area for its
products to the company's
eWorld online service. Users in
the United States can post
questions in the Ask Apple, USA
forum (inside the Apple
Customer Center in the eWorld
Computer Center) and should
receive answers from Apple's
tech-support staff within one
business day. There are no extra
charges beyond the normal
connection fees.
2 Million Strong
America Online recently wel-
comed its 2 millionth member,
surpassing CompuServe and
Prodigy to become the United
States’ largest online service.
800/827-6364.
‘Modem Merger Final
The stockholders of U.S.
Robotics and Megahertz Holding
gave final approval to the
merger of the two companies.
Now called U.S. Robotics Access
and Megahertz Holding, both
are now wholly-owned
subsidiaries of U.S. Robotics.
708/982-5010.
July 1995 35
| Mews
cluding models that use the
ter PowerPC 604 CPU)
and a low-profile model similar
to Apple’s Power Mac 6100.
Power Computing expects
its systems’ prices to be 10 to
15 percent less than equiva-
lently configured Apple Power
Macs. The company expects a
Power 80, for example, to start
at $2000, while a Power 100
would start at $2900.
One key difference Power
Computing plans to offer cus-
tomers is service. Macworld has
found that Apple’s customer
support is habitually poor
when it comes to new prod-
ucts, since representatives are
usually not trained quickly
enough to answer questions
and solve problems. Power
Computing hopes to be more
active; it plans to call cus-
tomers the day their systems
arrive to ensure that every-
thing was shipped and to fol-
low up within two days to
ensure that everything is
working. Power Computing
will offer toll-free technical
support, and its goal is to con-
nect callers to a representative
within 3 minutes. The com-
pany will also offer a 30-day
money-back guarantee.
Macworld’s tests of proto-
type Power Computing Macs
found them highly compatible
and as Apple’s Power
Maes (se irst Clones,”
Macworld, April 1995). Power
Computing, 512/258-1350.
—GALEN GRUMAN
From Simms
(0 DIMMs
NEW TYPE OF RAM
ON THE HORIZON
n its next generation of
Power Maes, due this sum-
mer, Apple is planning to use a
new type of memory card called
a DIMM (Dual In-line Mem-
ory Module), which promises
much higher RAM capacity,
considerably faster _perfor-
mance, and potentially greater
security for personal comput-
ers. The DIMMs have 168 pins
in two (dual) rows of contacts
(one row on each side of the
card). The older SIMM (Single
In-line Memory Module) cards
have 72 or 30 contacts that are
the same on both sides.
With the additional pins, a
computer can retrieve infor-
mation from DIMMs 64 bits
ata time instead of the 32- or
16-bit transfers usual with
SIMMs. Although you will be
able to add DIMMs to the
coming Power Macs one by
one, if you install DIMMs in
pairs they can support inter-
leaved memory, so the com-
puter can retrieve 128 bits ata
time for even faster operation.
(Some early Quadras had this
capability with their SIMMs,
resulting in a speed boost of
about 5 percent.)
DIMMs will be available
in 4MB, 8MB, 16MB, 32MB,
THE AmMCoEx INDEX
OF USED MACINTOSH PRICES
Average Monthly
Machine/RAM/Hard Drive Sale Price ‘Change
PowerBook 100/4MB/20MB $375 $25
PowerBook 140/4MB/40MB $625 -$50
PowerBook 180/4MB/80MB $1400 $125
PowerBook Duo 230/4MB/80MB $725 $100
Mac Classic/2MB/40MB $275 $50
‘Mac SE/30/2MB/40MB $475 $50
‘Mac LC 11/4MB/40MB $400 $0
Mac Iisi/3MB/40MB $400 $0
Mac lici/4MB/80MB $650 +$25
‘Mac Iifx/4MB/80MB $700 $0
Centris 650/8MB/230MB $1275 +$50
Quadra 900/8MB/160MB $1850 -$50
(20077960717) 4 rttects sales
ae manor and apy board for
36 july 1995 MACWORLD
64MB, and 128MB sizes, so a
future computer with eight
DIMM sockets could conceiv-
ably handle 1GB (1024MB) of
RAM. That huge amount of
memory could change the way
users work—for instance, pos-
sibly letting them create very
large RAM disks for a high-
performance computer.
DIMM memory speeds
will probably stay at 60
nanoseconds (ns) for some
time, at least for mass-produc-
tion computers. Faster mem=
The next generation of Power Macs will
use DIMM strips similar to those shown above.
ory—40ns and 50ns—is expen-
sive and hard to find, and a
memory cache adds nearly the
same speed advantage.
‘The Joint Electron Device
Engineering Council (EDEC)
set the DIMM specification as
an industry standard, so you
will see the new memory card
on many different kinds of
computers. The spec allows
for some extensions beyond
simple memory, such as error
checking and correction to
improve reliability for critical
computer applications and
extended memory addressing
to support encryption for se~
cure communications.
DIMMs will initially cost
slightly more than SIMMs on
a per-megabyte basis, but the
cost premium should vanish
after a few months as DIMMs
become common. Memory
prices have been largely stable
for the past five years, despite
some hiccups, as demand con-
tinues to outstrip supply by a
small margin. Some observers
expect a sharp increase in
demand late this year
dows 95 ships, s
PC makers will be adopting
DIMMsas well, and Windows
95 systems will likely require
16MB or more.
Old SIMMs will not fit
into DIMM sockets, although
some companies may build
socket adapters (so that peo-
ple moving to personal com-
puters with DIMM slots can
use SIMMs from their old
machines, reducing the overall
initial cost of upgrading to the
new system), Adapt-
ers would have to
cope with three
problems. The
memory-addressing
circuitry in the
adapter will slow
down memory ac-
cess slightly, the
additional layer of
contacts could re-
duce reliability, and
mechanical fit will
be a challenge in
the tight space
inside some com-
puters. A few com-
panies will remove
RAM chips from
old SIMMs and
install them on a DIMM, but
remanufactured cards will
always have lower reliability
than new cards.—cary LU
COMING SOON TO
A PROGRAM NEAR YOU
esigning your own
World Wide Web page
is getting easier. A host of
products—add-ons to major
applications, stand-alone pro-
grams, and shareware prod-
ucts—let you design docu-
ments in the Web’s HTML.
(HyperText Markup Lan-
guage) format.
HTML is a set of formats
used to define document
styles, layout, and hypertext
links. Rather than requiring
users to type HTML style
tags, which is common in
older HTML editors, the new
applications let users pick an
HTML style—a particular
kind of header, or a format for
emphasis—and apply it to
selected text.
Frame Technolo-
gy has licensed a ver-
sion of Quadralay’s
VebWorks, a transla-
tor that will be includ-
ed in FrameMaker
5.0. Microsoft plans a
Mac version of its
Internet Assistant, a
free add-on for Word
that lets users create
and browse Web pages.
Quark is working on
Orion, an XTension
to QuarkXPress that eB
can save documents in
HTML format (see “Quark
Extends Beyond Page Layout,”
Graphics news, May 1995).
Quarterdeck plans a Mac-
intosh version of its WebAu-
thor plug-in for word proces-
sors; the company has not
announced a release date. This
summer, WordPerfect, Nov-
ell Applications Group, will
release Internet Publisher, an
add-on to WordPerfect with
HTML capabilities similar to
Microsoft’s Internet Assistant
for Word; WordPerfect’s
Internet Publisher Pro CD-
ROM will also include
‘TCP/IP connectivity.
Leading the stand-alone
HTML editor pack is Soft-
Quad’s HoTMetaL Pro, a
$195 editor now shipping.
‘The product has strict HTML
rules checking and includes
templates, tables, style sheets,
and an import feature.
Links to a variety of free
and shareware HTML editors
can be found at http://www
syahoo.com/Computers/World_
Wide_Web/HTML_Editors/
Macintosh/ on the Web. For
more on the World Wide
Web, see At Work news and
Networks news in this issue.
Frame Technology, 408/
975-6000; Microsoft, 206/
883-8080; Quark, 303/894-
8888; Quarterdeck, 310/392-
9851; SoftQuad, 416/239-
4801; Vermeer Technologies,
617/576-1700; WordPerfect,
Novell Applications Group,
801/225-5000,
JOANNA PEARLSTEIN
“SYSTEM 7.5” continued
slowdowns during some find
operations. Users with such
script systems installed will be
affected even if using a Roman
script at the time. Many are
going back to Find File 1.0,
Apple confirms that
there’s a problem with Macs
freezing on start-up when the
new General Controls control
panel loads. Some users have
solved the problem by delet-
ing the General Controls
Prefs file; some, by rein-
stalling the update; others
have gone back to General
Controls 7.5.
Scott Berfield’s shareware
benchmark utility Speedome-
ter 4.0.1 erroneously reports a
slowdown in math perfor-
mance on Power Macs with
the update installed, according
to many users.
Hardware Problems —So-
phisticated Circuits says its
PowerKey devices (for turning
on and shutting down the
Mac) within the serial number
range of approximately 33000
through 38000 may have a
conflict with System 7.5
Update 1.0 on certain Macs.
With these units, pressing the
control, option, shift, or 3 key
will bring up Apple’s new
Shut Down dialog. Sophisti-
cated Circuits (206/485-7979)
will replace the affected units
free of charge. The company
also offers a free control panel
called Shut Down Control
that fixes the problem, It is
available from Sophisticated
continues
Even More Updates
APPLE OFFERS SEVERAL FIXES NOT IN SYSTEM 7.5.1
sc" of Apple’s recent updates have not been rolled
‘into System 7.5 Update 1.0. Among these are Apple
MultiMedia Tuner 2.0.1, PC Setup 1.0.3, Network Soft-
ware Installer 1.5, and LaserWriter 8.2.2. PC Setup 1.0.3
ships with Apple’s 6100/66 DOS Compatible system and
Reply’s DOS on Mac cards, but the System 7.5 Update
installs PC Setup 1.0.2. You can safely run Network Soft-
ware Installer 1.5 before or after installing the System 7.5
Update; the two do not affect any of the same files. The
System 7.5 Update 1.0 installs LaserWriter 8.2: Laser-
Writer 8.2.2 (available from ftp.support.apple.com) fixes a
bug that prevents using printers in remote zones on mul-
tizone Ethernet networks.
Despite indications in the Read Me file to the con-
trary, 680X0 Macs use the ThreadsLib file that Easy
Install places in most System Folders; this file fixes a bug
in preemptive threads.
The 040 VM extension is rolled into the System 7.5
Update, while the Secret About Box from System 7.5 has
been removed with the update. Also, for anyone whose
Mac didn’t lose its identity in the About This Macintosh
window during the upgrade to System 7.5, the new update
will get you. You can use Jonathan Jacobs’ shareware
application WhoAml? 1,0 or Flux Software's freeware
extension Mac Identifier 1.1.1 to reassert your Mac’s indi-
viduality.—Perer M STOLLER
In Briel
More Mac
for Unix Systems
Apple has announced Mac-
intosh Application Environment
(MAE) version 2.0, which lets
Sun and Hewlett-Packard
workstations run Mac apps
in an X Window with better
networking support. Like the
previous version, MAE 2.0 runs
off-the-shelf Mac programs,
but now it also supports
AppleTalk so that techn
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