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Out of this world entertainment...
Pararena. The announ-
cers voice booms against the
stadium background. Two
armoured opponents swoop
threateningly close to each
other on hoverboards and
then face each other for
battle. A ball is launched
into the stadium’s playing
field, a parabolic dish, and
the most exciting, sports
simulation game begins.
Games can be played either
against the computer or
against a human opponent
over an AppleTalk network.
SRP £45
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Spaceship Warlock
is a blazing, swashbuckling,
wonderfilled Science Fiction
epic in the grand tradition!
Advanced graphics, 3D
animation, and an original
music score combine to
Create a cinematic adventure
in which you become the
central character. CD-ROM
only. SRP £75
Spectre features dazzling
full colour graphics, fluid 3D
animation and best of all
incredibly addictive multi-
user play over a network.
Drop your battletank into the
virtual reality world and let
rip, collecting flags and
destroying the computer, or
more fun, your workmates!
Play in teams or just run
around chasing battletanks.
Spectre is available either in
single user or 3 User packs.
SRP £39, 3 User £69
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Tesserae is a puzzle
game in which the player
eliminates tiles from a
‘board’ according to colour
and texture. For the
beginner, the object of the
game is to remove as many
tiles as possible. Then move
on and try to improve your
high score by clearing the
board in the fewest possible
moves. SRP £35
Lemmings, one.of the
most talked about computer
games of the year is finally
available on the Mac.
Mac owners will have the
opportunity to lose sleep,
lose their hair, lose their
sanity or all of the above,
saving mobs of imperiled,
confused green haired
rodents from certain doom! *
Over a hundred levels, in
four skill ratings challenge
your cognitive powers to the
extreme. The aim is to
rescue the Lemmings
dropping through the trap
door by guiding them to the
exit. Lemmings is an easy
game to learn, but a
mindbendingly devious one
to master! SRP £39
Oids, rescue the O1DS
from the fiendish Biocretes
who are turning them into
vending machines and
household appliances. Fuel
your ship, charge your
shields, and blast off to
aclventure as you challenge
planetoid after planetoid of
devious gravity traps,
treacherous teleport puzzles,
and wave after wave of
Hell Jets, Heat-Seekers, and
Burst Orbs.
You can also create your
own games with the
included construction set.
SRP £29
Hellcats. You are the
pilot of the Pacific Theatre's
most notorious fighter
aircraft. Take off from your
carrier on a mission to
intercept enemy aircraft,
bomb strategic targets and
strafe enemy airfields.
Hellicats utilises new 3D
technology resulting in truly
high speed full colour
graphics which provide a
sense of fluid motion never
before seen in a flight
simulator. Details include
smoke, flames, intelligent
enemies, parachutes, haze
and even clouds. Also
available ‘Missions at Leyte
Gulf another eight missions
to play once you've finished
the first set in Hellcats—this
time use rockets and
torpeodos to hunt down
tanks and subs. SRP £49,
Missions £29
Diamonds is the highly
addictive colourful
‘breakout’ game. It's simple
to learn but tough to master.
The aim is to knock out all of
the diamonds on each
screen. You need to hit the
paintbrush icons around the
screen in order to be able to
knock out the bricks in that
particular colour or pattern.
If this wasn’t enough there
are instant-death bricks and
cunning direction changers,
which reverse your control
keys, or locked bricks which
need to be opened with
special keys. Diamonds
includes a game editor
which enables you to create
your own screens. SRP £35
3 in Three takes you on
a madcap journey inside
your Macintosh when a freak
power surge zaps the
number 3 and abandons her
in a land where numbers
don’t count and the lettew
spell disaster! 3 in Three rs
an interactive treasure hunt,
an unfolding trail of word
puzzles, logic dilemmas, and
sinister brain twisters, over
eighty in all. Awarded the
overall Best Game of the
Year by MacUser US 1991.
SRP £35
After Dark the ultimate
screen saver, provides a
unique solution to the
problems of screen burn in.
Use After Dark with its many
wacky and weird modules
which activate after a set
time. You can even pass-
word your Mac so that
people can't use it when you
are away. MAD, More After
Dark, Vol 1 expands After
Dark by providing over 25
new displays, including
Boris the kitten and Lunatic
Fringe, the space game.
SRP £35, MAD SRP £25
StarTrek, the screen
saver. Beam aboard the USS
Enterprise with Captain Kirk,
Mr Spock and all your
favourite Star Trek characters
on a mission to prevent
screen damaging phosphor
burn-in. You'll encounter
trilling Tribbles, burrowing
Horta and Klingon warriors
in this incredible After Dark
collection inspired by the
original TV series. SRP £39
Arthur’s Troubles
The latest in the Living
Books series of CD ROM
stories for children. Watch
Arthur represent the class in
the school spellathon under
the eyes of his teacher, Mr.
‘the Rat’ Ratburn. After each
page is read you can join in
and interact with the
characters and objects.
Excellent fun for adults too!
CD-ROM only. SRP £38
CyberBlast is an all
action game—run around
the laboratory complex
shooting aliens and picking
up the useful objects to help
you in your quest to find the
missing computer chip. View
the action from above as you
work your way through 64
levels of chaotic action.
SRP £35
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...and congratulations on picking up the very first issue of a
magazine we hope you'll find an entertaining and informative read!
Our reasons for launching MacFormat are simple. We believe
Mac owers need a magazine which appeals to the home user and
enthusiast as well as business and professional Mac users. So
you won't find page after page of reviews of expensive software or
high-end hardware. Instead you'll find clear and thorough guides
to getting the most out of your Mac — whatever you use it for.
We reckon no other personal computer comes any where near
the Mac and you'll find that enthusiasm reflected in these pages.
Our aim is to provide you, the reader, with definitive guides to
every aspect of what makes the Mac excel — and that includes
reviews of the best games making their way to your machine!
But how are we going to make sure you get what you want?
Well, please write in and let us know! I'm always open to sugges-
tions as to how we can improve any aspect of the magazine.
So if you want more or less tips, advice, news, reviews and buying
guides on any subject then drop me a line.
Anyway, enough of the intros. This is MacFormat — at last!
Editor Andy Storer Publisher Stuart Anderton
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| Production Editor Sally Taylor Circulation Director Sue Hartley
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Amusement arcade
The Secret of Monkey Island, Sim Life,
JourneyMan Project, Red Baron, Out Of This
World and Spaceward Ho! reviewed
PLUS Games-busting tips on Hellcats
Megamorphosis
At only £99, Morph delivers some of the best
graphics special effects of any package.
We show you how to get better results and how
to produce your own Terminator 2-style effects
clips. It's easier than you think
FINDER.
NEWS UPDATES page 7
All the gen on nine brand new Macs and
reports of the latest kit from the US =
LETTERS page 20 _
Issue 1 maybe, but there's still some letters!
— and plenty of money-making opportunities
VIDEO
So what's all the fuss about QuickTime? Check
out how to get started in Mac video page 50
CD-ROM page 40
With over 500 titles available, is this
the time to buy a CD drive for your Mac?
Start Up
page 55
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So you've ripped your Lemmings
off the cover and you're about to
slam ‘em in your disk drive...
Publish-It! Easy
Is it really worth buying a
full blown page-make-up
package for over £500
when you can buy this full-
featured DTP application
for less than a £150?
Just follow these simple steps:
®@ Take hold of the disk
@ Slide it lovingly into your
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@ Wait until its window appears
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: This is a self-extracting
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With over 5000 applications to : . Z Lemmings and Disinfectant
choose from, your machine has
the best software in the world. But
which stand out from the crowd?
MacF ormat showcases the show-
stoppers in the worlds of
All the latest low-cost and
no-cost releases from the
public domain.
PLUS the best in try-
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and where to get it
@ Choose a folder on your hard
disk where you want the files
to be stored and hang on while
the code is expanded.
that's it
@ And hey presto! -
Design, Media, Business,
mac ANSWERS
MASTERING WORD 5.1 page 42
How to perfect your mail-merging using
Wordin 20 easy steps
DESIGN COUNSEL page 59
The first installment in a series bringing
you the know-how on type and design
LET'S GET SERIOUS
WORD-PROCESSING page 67
How should you make the write choice?
We spell out the crucial purchase decisions
SPREADSHEETS page 70
Can't keep track of your bank balance?
How to get your year in gear the easy way
DATABASES
page 72
Do you really need to spend nearly £900
on a good Mac database? — err, no actually
WHADDYA THINK? page 75
Fill out our questionnaire and let us know!
GET IN TOUCH page 76
Where to make contact with other Mac
owners in your locality
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UTILITIES page 78
MacPrefect and Dynodex reviewed — two
essential applets you'll find indispensable
WIN INTELLIDRAW! page 45
We have 15 copies of the smart graphics
program /ntellidraw to give away...
Get your hands on one of these great
£150 packages by answering some
ridiculously easy questions...
Sticking a stamp on a postcard is harder!
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Page 87 - When there's no where else to turn...
All your problems solved!
Whatever your posers and niggles we'll sort it
GOING ON-LINE page 94
Why buying a modem could be the best
thing you ever buy fomyour machine
MAGS. .IN EDUCATION
How Macs are being used for design
training in further education
CHOOSER page 108
Six pages ofall the affordable software in
the Macintosh world PLUS all the phone
numbers and prices to go with it
page 96
BEGINNERS START HERE
New to the Mac?
Six pages of neat tips and advice on
how to get more from your machine:
@ Better ways to organise your desktop
@ How to master all of At Ease at once
@ Moving around the Finder faster
— tons of tips to enhance performance
page 80
ee new generation
Macintos
If you've been hesitating over buying a computer for home, we
can sympathise.
Should you buy a regular business PC that’s adequate for work
but wasted on your children?
A specialist educational computer that’s perfect for the kids to
learn on but not so good for grown-ups? Or a games machine that
gives hours of family fun but does nothing to expand the mind?
To help resolve this dilemma once and for all, Apple Macintosh
have developed a brand new range of computers called Performa™
[ Performa is the first ever Macintosh designed
specifically for the home — as well as for people
who work from home. And the first to let the whole
family work, learn and play, without having to
compromise.
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Every Macintosh Performa comes with one
year’s fret telephone assistance**
that all generations can use.
files* Plus a built-in program called At Ease™ that
safeguards your documents from other members of
the family.
The kids get to use the same technology that’s
made other Apple Macintosh computers the biggest r'fsc‘chmmcae and apne
classroom sellers in the world. aaa ac
And for children of all ages there’s the capability to run a
stunning variety of graphics and games.
Performa is so user-friendly that beginners can learn the basics
in next to no time at all. And to help you get the best out of your
Performa we're offering a year’s free telephone assistance to answer
any questions you may have**
To find out more about Performa just dial 100 and ask for
Freefone Apple. Or, better still, pop into your nearest Apple
Authorised Retailer. g
And try out the one computer for home that
can be used by everyone at home.
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Apple Computer
launched nine new Macs
in the UK in February —
the biggest ever roll-out of
new machines from the
US-based company.
Six of the new machines
enhance the main Mac
range, while the other three
are styled the Performas —
models which have previ-
ously only been available in
the United States.
While most Macs will
continue to be available
only through traditional
Apple authorised outlets,
the Performas are to be sold
in high-street stores such as
Dixons, Wilding, Ryman
Apple’s mega
Mac roll-out
and John Lewis. This
marks a major departure in
retail policy for Apple, and
demonstrates the fact that it
is now firmly targeting the
home user market — tradi-
tionally the company’s
weakest sales area.
All three members of
the Performa family are
based on existing Macs,
and have been on sale in
the United States for some
months now. They come
with the popular Claris
Works integrated package
and two utilities from
Apple, At Ease and PC
Exchange, already installed
on the hard disk. The other
The Performas are the first MacMO® directly targeted
at the home computer market in this country. The new
family comprises three members: the Performa 200,
based on the Classic II; the Performa 400, based on the
LC II; and the Performa 600, which is a hybrid of the
IIvi and the IIvx.
The 200 has a 68030 processor running at 16MHz, and
has a built-in mono screen; it sells for £799 in its basic 4M
RAM configuration. The 400 uses the same speed processor,
but is bundled with a 14-inch colour monitor and costs
£1099. The 400 also has greater expansion capabilities, with
a built-in Processor Direct Slot (PDS) available for third-
party add-on products such as video grabbing hardware.
The Performa 600 has the same 32MHz 68030 processor
as the IIvx, but no RAM cache or maths co-processor
(although this is available as an optional extra).
Expansion is via three NuBus slots, and the 600 is the
only machine of the three to have an optional built-in CD-
ROM drive, the CD300i (the other two machines can use
Apple’s external version, the CD300).
Each of the Performas comes pre-loaded with Claris
Works, At Ease and PC Exchange. They run a version of the
System Software called 7.1P, which has some minor
The Colour Classic, just one of nine new Macs launched by Apple last month.
This one is only available to education users, though
new machines include the
company’s first colour
portable computer, the
PowerBook 165c, and a
colour version of the
Classic II, styled the Colour
Classic, although this
model will only be
available to purchasers
eligible for Apple’s educa-
tion purchase scheme.
® This page: Performas
signal Apple’s interest in
the home market.
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examines the new Macs.
cosmetic differences to the general release version of
System 7.1. Apple says that all three machines will be
available immediately, although demand is likely to be high,
which may mean some delays.
The pace of Apple’s new
product releases has
radically stepped up in the
last two years. In the
1980s, the company was
bringing out maybe one or
two machines a year; last
month Apple launched
more Macs in one day
than in any two previous
years combined — and
there are plenty more new
machines on the way over
the next few months.
One constant factor in
Apple’s sales policy over
the last couple of years
has been a steady
downward pressure on
prices — from being an
‘elitists only’ computer,
the Mac is now well on the
way to being a true home
user's machine.
To complete this transi-
tion, though, another
group of people need to re-
think their policy: software
manufacturers. Mac
software is generally much
more expensive than
comparable programs on
the PC, Amiga et al — and
that is something which is
still putting off many
potential purchasers of
the machine.
Software companies
need to realise that with a
new market opening up, a
whole new range of
programs needs to be
available; ‘lite’ versions of
existing powerful
packages, perhaps; or
maybe the reasons for
Mac versions of programs
being more expensive at
all need to be re-
examined.
Only then will the Mac
be able to claim that it is
‘the computer for us all.’
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Club for users of
Steinberg products
announced —
Two new printers from
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Mac prices — page 9
How the new Performa
will look —
Apple announces five
new desktop Macs and
a powerbook —
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Aldus UK is now shipping
Freehand 3.11, an update
to its popular design and
illustration program.
Version 3.11 includes
full support for Aldus Fetch,
the company’s image
cataloguing application.
The program also
provides a Truematch
colour library, improve-
ments in file generation,
previewing and printing.
Truematch support also
provides nearly 2,000 more
pre-defined colours. The
upgrade will be mailed out
free to all registered users
of FreeHand 3.1.
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The Expanded Book
Toolkit, from The Voyager
Company, claims to give
you the ability to produce
multimedia books in just a
few hours. The Toolkit
automatically turns an
imported text document
into book form, and creates
chapter headings and a
table of contents.
Annotations and text
linking are easy to create,
and the program supports
QuickTime so that video
clips can be included.
Major American publish-
ers Random House and
Macmillan have said that
they will be using the
Toolkit to create electronic
books on the Mac. In the
UK, the program is avail-
able from Softline (081
642 2255). It costs £281.
Users of Steinberg’s
Cubase family of MIDI
music software can now
Join the official UK user
group.Club Cubase
promises to offer discounts
on Steinberg products,
special promotional
product deals, disks of
MIDI synth sounds and a
bi-monthly magazine.
Membership costs £14
a year, and the phone
number is 081 368 2245.
The LC Ill: twice the power of the LC Il, for £1,462
Apple powers up
Apple announced the
launch of five new
desktop Macs and a
colour PowerBook on
February 9, expanding
and changing every area
of its product line.
Two new low-cost laser
printers were also released,
along with the Performa
range of low-cost
machsaes, which will be
sold in high-street retail
outlets (see story, page 7).
One of the most
eagerly-awaited new Macs
is the Colour Classic,
although Apple UK has
taken the unexpected step
of announcing that it will
only be available through
its education purchase
scheme. The base configu-
ration, which has 4Mb of
RAM and a 40Mb hard
disk, will sell for £911; the
4/80 model will cost £1028.
The Colour Classic is based
on the popular Classic II,
but features a 10-inch 512 x
384 pixel screen capable of
displaying 256 colours. It
has an LC processor direct
slot (PDS), which means
that any expansion card
available for the Mac LC
linejskould work on the
fae \ Machine.
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which is bound to be
popular is the LC II, which
is based on — but has twice
Those new Mac prices in full
Machine
Performa 200
Colour Classic*
Performa 400
Lc ill
4/40
4/40
4/40
4/40
4/80
4/160
4/80
4/80
4/80
4/230
4/230CD
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8/230
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Centris 610
Centris 650
Quadra 800
PowerBook 165c
Configuration
Price
£799
£911
£1,099
£1,462
£1,639
£1,851
£1,249
£1,028
£2,050
£2,556
£3,378
£3,049
£3,519
£4,342
£4,694
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£5,587
£5,869
£3,225
£3,519
Configuration is given as RAM size, followed by hard disk size. The
letters CD after the disk size indicate that an internal CD-ROM drive
is included.
*Only available to education users.
The PowerBook 165c: the first colour apple portable
its entire range
the speed of — the LC II.
The LC II was the best-
selling Mac in 1992: the
combination of relatively
low cost and reasonable
power made it a favourite.
The LC III cashes in on
that popularity by coming
in at a reasonable £1,463
for the base configuration.
It’s based on a 25MHz
68030 processor, but has a
full 32-bit bus architect
unlike the LC II. The LC
III can have a maths co-
processor installed and can
be expanded to 36Mb of
RAM - the LC II’s
maximum was 10Mb.
Apple’s mid-range line
has been expanded by two
low-cost 68040-based
machines: the Centris 610
and 650. The 610 uses the
68LC040 processor, which
doesn’t have a built-in
maths co-processor, and
runs at around twice the
speed of the IIvx; the 650
has the true 040, and runs
At the same time as the new Macs were launched, Apple
announced two new mid-range laser printers, which it
has dubbed the ‘Select’ series.
Both printers are based on the Fuji Xerox 300 dots-per-
inch (dpi), 5-page-per-minute engine. The Select 300 is a
QuickDraw device, costing £911; its big brother, the Select
310, is a PostScript version of the same machine and costs
£1,110. Both printers come with a standard 250-sheet, A4
paper tray. The Select 300 is available now; the Select 310
will be shipped mid-March.
Apple’s high-end LaserWriter Pro 600 now includes 8Mb
of RAM as standard, ‘in response to strong customer
demand.’ The printer costs £2,227.
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at three times the speed of
the IIvx. The 650 also
features an Ethernet inter-
face as standard. Prices for
the 610 start at £2,050 for
the 4/80 model, while the
650 4/80 costs £3,049.
At the high end of the
range, the new Quadra 800
runs at 30 per cent faster
than the Quadra 700 —
which it is likely to replace
in the near future. The
machine is powered by a
33MHz 68040 chip, and
features three NuBus slots
in a floor-standing case.
Finally, Apple’s first Goes”
colour portable computer
has been released: the
PowerBook 165c has a
33MHz 68030 processor,
and runs at the same speed
as the PowerBook 180, but
has a passive matrix colour
screen which will display
256 colours. The price for
the 4/80 version is £3,225.
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I’ve spent two years getting it right.
A brand new series of 3 individually specified laser printers. Designed to meet the
growing needs of as many people and their systems as possible — whether it is their first
or fifty-first laser printer. With so many high quality and highly specified printers to
choose from today, I knew it would have to be not just as good but exceed in many areas.
“It must work with your existing system and
software. It must therefore be Industry
compatible,
The paper handling had to include more than
one source and even go up to three. With a
standard capacity of 300 sheets (maximum
800 in any one of four sizes) as well as
envelopes.
The microfine toner and drum had to be a
combined single unit and provide an even
longer life (8000 sheets) at an even higher
print resolution. The definition had to be not
only enhanced but improved. The new Star
Resolution Enhancement Procedure (REP),
available on 2 of the 3 models, will produce a
genuine 600 x 300 dpi.
All companies have to be able to share
printers, which created the need to include
dual interfaces that select automatically.
Lower cost could not mean lower
performance. A RISC processor had to be
included for the first time on this level of
printer, which ensured that the all important
time to first page would be comparable to
more expensive models.
It had to include the widest choice of fonts.
From the basic 14 bitmapped up to 8 scalable,
35 PostScript and beyond. The LS-5 Series
had to come with an additional 15 TrueType
fonts on disk for all Windows 3.1 users, while
the LS-5 TT needed to include 35 resident
TrueType fonts for true WYSIWYG. Whether
used on Windows or Apple MAC systems.”
“Tam sure that when you look at the new LS-5 Series, you will understand why I am now finally satisfied!”
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News in Brief
B® SoftPivot 2.0, from
Radius, allows the Pivot
family of monitors to be
driven from the built-in —
video circuitry of the new
Macs without a separate
interface.
The Pivot monitors are
15-inch displays which can
be used in either portrait
or landscape format — and
can be twisted from one
to the other, even while
being used. The new
software means that the
LC Ill, Centris range,
Quadra 800, DuoDock
range and PowerBooks
160, 165 and 180 can all
interface to the Pivot
without an extra adaptor.
The software is now
shipped with all Pivot
monitors, and is available
free to registered Pivot
users from Radius or via
the AppleLink and
CompuServe bulletin
boards. *
Radius UK: 0635 38531.
@ DirekTek has sewn up
the distribution rights to a
new, low-cost PostScript
printer from Digital
Equipment.
The DECLaser 1152 is
a 300dpi PostScript Level
2 device, based on a four-
page-per-minute engine. It
has built-in parallel, serial
and AppleTalk interfaces,
and also supports the
PC-based PCL page
description language.
The price of £1,056 -
making this just about the
lowest-cost Level 2 printer
on the market — includes a
year’s on-site manufac-
turer's warranty.
For more details, call
DirekTek: 081 845 5969
® Apple Computer has
announced record
revenues of $161.3m for
its first fiscal quarter of
1992-93. Net revenues
were $2bn — the first time
that the company has ~
achieved this level of
revenue — and total Mac
unit growth was up over
31 per cent year-on-year.
Ofoto Upgrade
Light Source has released
version 2.0 of Ofoto, its
easy-to-use scanning
software. The new version
handles colour, as well as
grey-scale images.
The program i
the first applications to take
advantage of Apple’s
ColorSync System software
extension which allows
images to display more
accurately. The new
version simplifies and
improves scanning, editing
and printing of colour
images. The user is
provided with tools to
adjust images so that they
better match the original
scene, compensating for the
differences in film or paper.
A Balance Exposure
command automatically
corrects any exposure
problems, while the Focus
command attempts to
correct out-of-focus photos.
Version 2.0 can create
CMYK (cyan, magenta,
yellow, black) colour
separations of images from
digital RGB (red, green,
blue) data provided by a
scanner, and can save them
as CMYK TIFF or desktop
colour separation EPS files.
The software will
automatically compensate
for such things as crooked
positioning of the original
on the scanner bed, and
uses its ‘Adaptive
Calibration’ techniques to
ensure that the scanned
input will be printed as
accurately as possible,
regardlecs of the output
ou
Ofoto 2.0 costs £295,
from Computers Unlimited
(call 081 200 8282).
HyperBole Studios has
released The Madness of
Roland, a CD-ROM disc
which is being styled
“The world’s first inter-
active multimedia
novel”
The disc contains
256-colour paintings,
QuickTime video, music,
narration by actors, sound
effects, and the full text of
the story.
‘Readers’ of the novel
can listen to, and watch,
the story from any of the
major characters’ points
of view, changing at will
with a click of the mouse.
QuickTime clips illustrate
the story, along with
sound effects and video
montages.
The author and
designer of the novel,
Greg Roach, says that
progressing through the
Spectacular Spectre
Spectre Supreme, an upgrade of the popular 3D shoot-
em-up, is currently in beta testing and should ship soon.
Visitors to January’s MacWorld Expo in San Francisco
were able to pick up a trial copy of the program, with
profits from the sale of the beta going to AIDS charities.
The new version is a radical re-write, with many more
features including a wider variety of enemies, acid pits and
transporter stations. Extra maps are included on the
program disk, and more will be available in the future.
There is also likely to be a CD-ROM version of the
revised game in the near future, including QuickTime
movie clips which play between levels.
Spectre Supreme will work on any Mac with at least
2Mb of RAM (4Mb is required for System 7).
Price and shipping date kaa not been finalised, but it is
highly likely that Softiine, Ao distributor of Specie,
will continue to distribute the product. MacFormat will, of
course, review the game as soon as a finished version is
available. Softline can be called on 081 642 2255.
and should be available in
the next few weeks. It will
cost £70, and has an *R’
certificate — the packaging
says that it is ‘intended for
mature audiences’, which
probably means that it’s
not suitable for children.
Active Distribution is
on 081 838 1280.
whole work should take a
reader several hours;
although you can pick and
choose which chapters to
read, you can’t view the
finale until you have read
all the preceding sections.
The Madness of
Roland will be distributed
by Active Distribution,
The Madness of Roland: Interactive novel on CD-ROM
\CWS update
A-Train, from Ocean Software, is due to
go on sale for the Mac in April this year.
The game was originally released on the
Amiga, and runs in 16-colour or mono
mode on the Mac.
You play the part of the railroad
manager, and the idea is simply to keep the
railroad running and profitable, building up
new towns along the way. You create
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towns, industrial areas, leisure complexes
and so on, and you have total control over
the trains’ schedules: you can build and
destroy railway tracks on a whim. Indeed, it
all starts to sound suspiciously like a
Government Ministers’ training scheme...
There are various ready-created scenar-
ios available, such as ‘Bay Area’ and
‘Downtown Redevelopment’, or you can
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scratch with just a
couple of houses and a
tiny section of track.
The program charts
your railway’s profitabil-
ity on a day-to-day basis,
and your share price
changes accordingly.
A-Train will cost
£47, and should be avail-
able from most Mac
software dealers.
Left: A-Train, from Ocean. See
first hand if privatisation really
is a good thing or not
Fight she good fight
Air Warrior is a multi-
user flight simulation
game run by Online
Entertainment. The
software runs on your
Mac but you connect to
others via your modem,
which dials in to a central
computer.
Once connected, you
can just fly your plane (any
of a number of different
models are simulated)
around a computer-gener-
ated landscape, or hunt
down and destroy other
flyers. Because the software
and maps are resident on
your computer, and do not
have to be downloaded, the
game works at a reasonable
speed even if you only have
a slow modem.
Users of the system say
that the appeal over
conventional flight simula-
tors is that you are actually
interacting with
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human beings, rather than
with computer-generated
opponents. This gives you
the opportunity to form
alliances; a text-based
‘radio’ simulator allows
you to chat to other pilots).
The charging schedule
for the game has recently
been changed: now, for
£9.99 per month users get
unlimited access time at
no extra charge (other
than the cost of the
phone call).
Online Entertainment has
agreed to give readers of
MacFormat a week’s free
trial subscription to the
service. Just send your
name and address, along
with the coupon on this
page, to On-Line
Entertainment Ltd, 642a
Lea Bridge Road, London
E10 6AP and you'll be
credited with a week’s free
on-line time.
On-Line Entertainment
is on 081 558 6114.
Virus Watch
Each issue, we’ll give a list of the latest version
numbers of the major anti-virus utilities. This month,
here are the latest version numbers:
Program Version Price Available from
Disinfectant 2.9 Freeware PD houses/user groups
GateKeeper 1.2.7. Freeware PD houses/user groups
SAM £}5) £176 Symantec 0628 777677
Virex 3.9 £69 Softline 081 642 2255
Sleep easy
Amtech International has
become the UK distribu-
tor of Peace of Mind,a
diagnostic software
package for the Mac.
The program tests
around 150 aspects of the
Mac’s hardware, covering
such things as memory,
CPU, sound chip and
interface ports. It can be set
to run a brief automated test
every time you start your
Mac, or you can run the
whole test procedure
whenever you want.
Peace of Mind costs
£147 from Amtech
International, phone
number 0202 476977.
Right: Sigma Designs’ ColorMax
17, a 24-bit monitor for any Mac
with a NuBus slot. It costs £2,932,
Also in the range is the £1,056
ColorMax 15, designr, any Mac
with built-in video, ft will
16 colours on most Macs, although
connected to the Quadra it is
capable of displaying 256 colours.
Sigma’s ColorMax products
are distributed in the UK by Aptec:
071 627 1000
Low-cost three-year warranties
The KRCS group of Apple Resellers introduced a new
low-cost, three-year warranty for anyone who buys a
Mac from one of the nine KRCS Centres.
Prices for the three-year warranty start at £105 for a
Classic II 4/40, and include all parts and labour. This
compares with repair costs of, for example, £142 plus labour
for the replacement of a Classic II power supply.
For details of your nearest KRCS Centre, call the
company on 0602 505352.
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from PageMaker
Aldus has announced
version 5.0 of its popular
DTP package PageMaker.
The new release will run
virtually identically on
both the Mac and PCs
running Windows.
PageMaker 5.0 has
more than 100 new
features, which include:
@ Full text and graphics
rotation — previous versions
of the program only
allowed text to be rotated in
90° intervals.
@ Multiple open
documents.
@ Built-in colour
separation of PageMaker
text and graphics, as well as
imported CMYK TIFF,
DCS and EPS files
(previously users had to use
the separate utility Aldus
PrePrint to do this).
@ Library palette for
frequently used images.
@ An increased range of
import and export filters,
including support for
Kodak PhotoCD and the
new TWAIN standard for
direct scanning.
@ Improved printing. Aldus
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separation are just some of the features that this new version offers.
claims that printing speeds
will be significantly faster
than before because the
PostScript printing code has
been completely re-written
(PageMaker doesn’t use the
Mac’s own printer drivers).
@ Increased support for
Aldus Additions.
According to Aldus,
many of the new features
are in response to customer
requests for professional-
level tools and controls and
as a result, says Aldus
UK’s managing director
Alasdair Boyle, PageMaker
5.0 offers ‘the power user —
the creative professional — a
serious alternative to
QuarkXPress.’
PageMaker 5.0 for the
Mac will ship 30 days later
than the Windows version,
and both should be avail-
able in the first half of this
year. The program will cost
£817, and anyone who
bought PageMaker 4.2
after January | this year
will receive a free upgrade.
Other registered users can
upgrade for £176, or £88
from version 4.2.
Aldus UK: 081 568 8868.
Accelerated colour for Centris
Radius has become the first company to release a
24-bit accelerated display card which conforms to the
new 7-inch NuBus standard required by the Macintosh
Centris 610 — although it will work on any Quadra or
Centris computer.
Two PrecisionColor
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cards have been announced: the
lutions of up to
152 x 870 pixels, and the 24K X/1024. which provides up
to 1024 x 768 pixels. Both cards are acce
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Doing impressions
A new version of Painter,
lauded for its em
natural painting methods,
is now ready to ship.
The original version
included brushes imitating
the styles of Van Gogh and
Seurat, and rapidly became
popular.
Version 2.0 adds more
than 70 new features,
including the ability to
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perform photo composition,
tools to make an image
look as if it were being
viewed through frosted or
marbled glass, brushes for
Cubist and Impressionist
effects, and ‘snap-to-grid’.
Painter costs £382 from
Letraset: 071 928 7551.
Adobe moves towards application-independence
Adobe’s SuperATM,
which was launched
recently, should prove a
benefit to anyone suffer-
ing from the problems of
font substitution.
The £129 utility
removes the problem by
automatically detecting if a
font is not available and, if
so, by substituting a generic
typeface with the same font
metrics (size, weight, style
and so on). Although not a
perfect replica of the origi-
nal, the replacement is
good enough for viewing
on-screen and, in an
emergency, for using to
print from where the
original is not available.
Currently, SuperATM
only supports Adobe’s own
typefaces, although it is
likely that future versions
will support Type | fonts
from other vendors.
The program also
allows users to create
documents with fonts
which they do not own, by
selecting the typeface from
SuperATM’ s menu.
SuperATM is another
move forward in Adobe’s
development of Acrobat
(née Carousel), the
company’s application-
independent document
viewing technology. This
will provide users with the
ability to open documents
on their Mac even if they
don’t have the application
which created them — for
instance, a QuarkXPress
document can be passed
around a group of people
without the need to buy
each person a copy of the
program.
Acrobat is likely to see
the light of day towards the
end of this year; until then,
SuperATM provides a
reasonable compromise ~— at
least not everyone has to
have all the fonts installed
on their machine.
Adobe: 081 547 1900.
Colour by crayon
Dataproducts’ new Jolt
printer is the first to use
the company’s solid ink
technology to provide
300dpi full-colour output.
Solid ink technology is
a new advancement in
colour printing, and so far
only a couple of manufac-
turers have brought printers
incorporating this technol-
ogy to market. The ink is
supplied as a crayon-like
block, and is loaded into
the printer as a solid. When
printing, the ink is heated
until it melts, then fired at
the paper. When the ink
resolidifies it bonds with
the paper, which should
result in a crisper image
than is produced by many
colour printing techniques.
The Jolt is a PostScript
Level 2 machine which
ships with 6Mb of RAM,
expandable to 1OMb. It
costs £5,399, and is avail-
able from Dataproducts on
0734 884777.
The name of the gaimne...
Newton, Power PC, Caspar. You may have heard of them,
but do you know what they actually are? In this first
Futures page, Ian Wrigley takes a look at the technology
behind some of the latest terms.
In the Futures page of the magazine
each issue, we will be telling you
about what companies like Apple
are doing on the leading edge of
Macintosh technology — but in this
first issue, we felt that it would be a
good idea to bring you up to speed
on just what some of the names
which are bandied about by Mac
cognoscenti actually refer to.
Newtonian ideas
The name which you’ ve probably
head the most about over the last 12
months is the Newton. Strictly
speaking, this isn’t a Mac at all. It’s
a set of technologies, on which a
range of hand-held computers,
known as PDAs (Personal Digital
Assistants), will be based.
However, everyone has begun to
apply that name to the first hand-
held Newton-based machine that
Apple will produce.
The first Newton will be a
pen-based (well, stylus-based)
hand-held ‘personal organiser’. It
will have a small LCD screen, on
which you write your information —
the machine will then translate your
handwriting into computer-based
text. This alone is pretty impressive
stuff, but add to that the built-in
programs which are ‘intelligent’
enough to know that when you
write ‘Lunch tomorrow with Fred’
what you actually want to do is
open your diary, and mark a lunch
appointment from Ipm to 2pm with
Fred Bloggs — and then send hima
memo confirming that — and you
can see why people are getting so
excited about the whole idea.
Unfortunately, the first
Newton’s shipping date has slipped
so often that even the current
estimate of mid-’94 looks unlikely.
Another problem has been the
price. At £100 or £200, yuppies and
technophiles across the world
would be ditching their Filofaxes
for a Newton. But the first model is
likely to cost somewhere around
the £700 mark, so the only people
who will be buying are those enthu-
siasts Apple terms ‘early adopters’.
After the first Newton, several
other PDAs are likely to appear,
from companies like Sharp as well
as from Apple. Future PDAs should
include things like mini CD-ROM
players, mapping software (point
out two positions on a map and the
PDA will give you the shortest
route between the two points,
taking into account any traffic
problems that it’s received from a
traffic control centre via its built-in
. tenna) and so on.
If it all sounds a little too space-
aged to be true, don’t be fooled:
technology like this is already-well
on its way.
RISCy business?
The next most commonly heard
term is Power PC. This is the name
of a range of Macs — strictly, their
processors —which are based on a
new RISC (Reduced Instruction Set
Computer) chip from micro-
processor giant Motorola.
The whole thing has come about
because of an alliance between
Apple, Motorola and IBM. Apple
and IBM will both build competing
Power PC machines, which will be
much faster than existing Macs (or
IBM PCs, come to that). They will
be able to run applications written
Newton is actually the term for a set of technologies to be used in hand-held computers, but it's
likely that Apple will bow to popular pressure and give the name to its first machine of the type
for either Macs or PCs (as long as
they will work under IBM’s OS/2
operating system), as well as those
written directly for the new
machines. This means that there
will already be a huge range of
programs available when the new
range comes on to the market.
The first Apple PowerPC should
ship early 94. Predictions are
that it will be a fairly high-end
machine, both in terms of cost and
speed — priced somewhere around
the top end of the Mac range, and
more than twice as fast as any Mac.
Does this mean that all 68xxx
series Macs will immediately
become redundant? Not in the least.
Although in future years Apple is
bound to concentrate more and
more on the Power PC line, Mac
applications will continue to be
developed for the forseeable future
— after all, more than 10m Macs
have been sold, so there’s a huge
user-base available to developers.
A friendly ghost
Caspar is, so far, a technology that
hasn’t found a home. It’s Apple’s
voice recognition software, and it
made something of a hit in the
newspapers when it was first
demonstrated last year. Say
‘Caspar, set my video recorder for
The Wonder Years next Sunday’
into a microphone, and your Mac
will do the programming for you —
it can work out start and end times
and channel number from
previously supplied information.
Similarly, you could phone up your
Mac and tell it to turn on the oven,
lower the central heating_or control
anything else it’s inientaed to.
At the heart of abl ('"** Star Trek-
style fantasy is an ‘intelligent’
voice-recognition program.
Unfortunately, since first demon-
strating this Apple has remained
rather silent about when we’re
going to see an actual, working
product. It seems that at present the
technology has been put on a back-
burner as engineers are moved on
to other projects such as the
Newton.
There’s another problem too: do
you really want to work in an office
where the staff shout at their Macs
all day? (Sounds like a certain
consultant editor we know — Ed...)
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Lemmings is one of the all-
time classic games that has
intrigued, delighted and infuri-
ated players on virtually every
computer format there is. It’s
perfectly suited to the Mac and
has extra levels that mean
you're getting 120 brain-
boggling tests of your skill.
Our exclusive demo on the
coverdisk gives you four new
levels that you won't find on
any other demos.
Installation and
loading
To play Lemmings double-
click on the Lemmings
application icon. You can do
this either from the floppy disk
or by copying all the
Lemmings files on to your hard
drive. To play in black and
white you will need a Mac
Plus, Powerbook, SE, Classic,
SE/30 or Classic II with at
least | Mb of memory (2 Mb
under System 7.0) and you
need to be running System 4.1
or higher. To play in colour
you'll need an LC, LC II or
Mac II series with 4Mb of
memory and System 6.0.5 or
higher with 32-bit QuickDra’
How to play
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the game
The basic idea behind
Lemmings is very simple —a
certain number of lemmings
drop out of a trapdoor and you
have to guide them to the exit
door. Although the aim is
simple, achieving it is usually
devilishly complicated.
When a lemming drops out
of the trapdoor it becomes a
walker and will walk in one
direction until it hits some-
thing it can’t walk over and
turns around, dies in one of the
many gruesome traps in the
game or walks out of the exit.
On each level of t ame
you have to rescue a certain
number of lemmings within a
set time limit — sometimes
you'll have to rescue them all!
To do this you have to use
some or all of eight skills
which you can endow single
lemmings with.
On each level you may
e given a certain number
of skills to choose from, and
as the levels get harder you'll
have to be more and more
precise about your timing and
how and where you opt to use
those skills.
Once you’ve ripped the disk off the cover of MacFormat, you
get down to the serious task of playing your Lemmings demo.
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he hits his hez
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Miner — digs
diagonally
downwards
using a pick.
Blocker — stands still and
stops any other lemmings
from passing.
Basher — digs a
level path through
| suitable obstacles.
| Builder — builds
bridges of 12 bricks.
Floater — opens
up a brolly to
slow his descent
to earth. If an
ordinary
lemming drops
too far he dies
squelchily.
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Keys and other
commands
The mouse can be used to select
any of the skill icons along the
bottom of the screen, as well as
to select the lemmings and to
scroll the screen. Other on-
screen commands you can
select are the increase and
decrease flow icons to the left of
the lemming skills, and the
‘paws’ and ‘nuke’ options to
the right of the skill icons — bet
you can guess what they do!
Under the Game menu bar
you can change the sound and
music controls and also use the
‘faster’ option which will
increase playing speed on older
Macs at the expense of ani-
mation detail. On small
monitors the menu bar,
removed during play
be accessed by pressi
key and the spacebar together.
[Option] — selects a lemming
under the pointer who is not
doing something else.
[Z] or left cursor — move skill
icon left.
[X] or right cursor — move skill
icon right.
[] or [P] — pause.
[Spacebar] — changes the status
bar function (timer, map,
lemmings out and saved
counts) to the right of the icon
strip on mono screens,
[+] or up cursor — increases the
speed of release of lemmings
from the trapdoor.
[-] or down cursor NS decreases
the speed of release from the
trapdoor.
[Shift] — hurries lemmings on
their way.
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Pause button
In most games the pause button just allows you time
to think or answer the phone, but in addition to that
on the later levels of Lemmings you positively have to
use it to keep track of what’s going on. Time limits
get shorter and you have to do several things at once,
so get used to using the pause option on the key-
board. This way you can switch between areas of the
screen without any passage of time — particularly
useful when you’ve got more than one builder going
or lemmings coming out of more than one trap door.
The pause is also useful when you’ve got to give a
lemming a skill in a very short space or in a precise
position. Rapid double-taps on the key can advance
the action until he is in exactly the right spot and you
can unpause and activate the skill at the same instant.
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Option key
When you hold the [option] key down you can assign
a skill to a lemming who isn’t already doing some-
thing. The usefulness of this may not be instantly
apparent, but for example, if you’re building a bridge
and need quickly to create a blocker without stopping
the builder, you can safely do it with the [option] key.
Quick screen movement
Getting about some of the bigger levels can be a tad
tedious, so there are two quicker methods than just
scrolling the screen by moving the cursor to the left
or right edges. You can speed the scrolling up by
holding down the [option] key or you can use the
micro map in the bottom right of the display — just
click on the section of the micro map you want to go
to, and the main display flicks instantly to that point.
Blo
Blockers are selfless individuals whose will-
power saves many a lemming from an early
demise. But usually, creating one means he’s not
going to be ig home to his family at the end
of the day. The problem is that a blocker can’t be
turned into anything else, he just stands there
resolutely shaki is head. Howe there is
one way to save these poor souls if you must
removing the ground they are standing on. You
can do it with a bomber, but that blows up
another lemming, or you can do it with a miner
If you ge position right the miner
slices the ground out from under the blocker,
who falls and reverts to an ordinary walker. For
emergencies only, but it might save you one day.
Builders
Builders always put down 12 bricks unless they
run into somethin fore that. Get into the habit
of counting the builder down so you know when
to start him building again, or listen for the three
brick countdown you get as a sound effect.
Another trick: wait until they shrug their
shoulders after 12 bricks and let them take half a
step before clicking on them to build again. This
can sometimes get you thase few extra pixels
and so can building on top of an existing brid
On some levels you have to build particu-
larly long bridges high into the air. If you can’t
block the
deaths off the
second brid
odes of lemmings falling to their
nfinished bric ry to build a
underneath them to halt their fall.
And remember: if you start builders building
shortly before a blocker, they will turn around at
the blocker and continue building in the other
direction. If you want to go over the blocker,
make sure you build from far enough back.
Skills
A few other things to remember about the
lemming skills are that diggers and miners keep
going until they fall, bashers bash until there’s
nothing in front of them amd climbers
and floaters retain those skills
until they escape or die. a we
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Bombers
Bombers aren’t just for getting rid of blockers —
they’re useful for more than that. When a bomber
explodes he destroys some of the scenery around him as
well — but fortunately not any nearby lemmings. This
means you have to be careful where you put blockers if
you've got to blow them up later, because they might
create a hole that allows the lemmings to fall to their
death or create a wall they can’t walk up.
Sometimes you will actually want to blow holes in
things in order to get through them. You could try to
time the countdown so that the bomber explodes in the
right place, but if you’ve got blockers as well just stop
the bomber as near to the obstacle as possible and then
let him have it — history will remember him well.
rhe ‘nuke’ option in effect turns every single
lemming into a bomber. It’s absolutely no use — it just
aborts a level you can’t finish — but it looks great!
Time limits
Some of the time limits
for the levels are
frighteningly short and
you will have to
increase the flow of
lemmings out of the
trap door. Some levels
in the main game litér-
ally take you down to
the last second to
complete.
One trick to bear in
mind is to speed up the
appearance of the
lemmings until you get
a few from the end and
then slow them down
again for the last few.
You need to do this on
a couple of levels in the
full game so that you
can isolate a few
lemmings and have
them far enough apart
that you can select
individuals easily.
Here’s your walker plodding
merrily along to the exit and
you need to turn him around
before he gets to it.
To turn him around, first of all
you turn him into a vertical
digger and let him get a few
scoops down into the ground.
Metal blocks
Watch out for metallic
looking scenery
because this can’t be
bashed, dug or
exploded away — you
have to go round it.
Traps
It won’t be long before you discover that there are loads of different
traps in the game, and some are deviously hidden away. We’re not
going to tell you what they all are, but here’s a hint: whenever you
hear a squelching, gurgling, scrunching, sizzling, splatting, snapping,
crunching or other odd sound effect — you’re in trouble.
If a lemming falls in a water
trap, he drowns. End of story.
Watch out for the a oa '
spinning arms or
it’s lemming salad.
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Turning around
Sometimes you will need to turn a single walker around without using
a blocker and there’s no obstacle that will do it for you. There are a
couple of possibilities — the easiest is to build until the builder hits his
head on something or builds into a wall. If you can’t do that, try this:
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Now turn him into a builder and
he will start building into the
wall in front of him. When he
hits the wall he stops building
and turns around.
If you didn’t let him build the
hole too deep the walker will
step out and head back in the
direction he came from.
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Pleased, peeved,
irate, enraged,
amused, amazed,
stunned or astounded?
Whatever your feelings
— about anything in the
Mac universe Wig, in
and tell us!
Okay it’s the first issue ever so how could
we have any letters to print? Ah ha!
Cunningly, both Malcolm Bebb from Poole
and Stephen Daniels from Leicester
realised our potential dilemma and bailed
us out with the letters on the right.
But this is your chance to get your
name into print too — and make yourself
a little money in the process. I'll be giving
away tenners to the best letters so if
you've anything to say about the Big Mac
world — send it in.
So here's a few debates you might
. want to enter into in the meantime:
1. Now that the price of Macs is lower
than ever, why doesn't the price of
software come down too?
2. Piracy is killing the Mac — just look at
the number of games that aren't being
converted because of illegal copying
3. Or, are the two by any chance related?
And be sure to tell us what you think of
the mag! Drop us a lineto:
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Letters Pages
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The man with the
in-tray just waiting
for your letters...
- Editor, Andy Storer
Welcome indeed
I see that you are bringing out a new Mac maga-
zine called MacFormat. As a full time Macintosh
user I am looking forward to the launch.
Although the other Mac magazines run articles
for new users, they cater mainly for professional
and business people. Apple’s new machines, on-
going price reductions and revised market policies
are making the Mac accessible to a different range
of users — and I don’t think that the present maga-
zines can really cater for these users without
moving away from their existing readership.
The fun side of the Mac seems to receive very
little attention, and the range of PD and shareware
for the Mac is largely ignored. I hope
MacFormat will cover these areas and carry
more articles of interest to the Classic or LC user.
I shall be very disappointed if it leans too far
towards DTP — however, I sincerely hope I won’t
be disappointed.
Malcolm Bebb
Poole, Dorset
And you won’t be disappointed Malcolm...
you’ve hit several nails firmily on the head
there and you can rest assured that we’ll be
catering precisely for the needs you express.
The year ahead is going tto be an exciting
one for all Mac enthusiasts and MacFormat will
be there to make sure you get the best in news,
reviews, tutorials and advice
The best game ever
Good to hear someone’s at last bringing out a Mac
magazine which isn’t just targeting BPs users.
This is because I’m sick of wading through page
after page of effusive reviews of kit I can’t afford.
And I’m glad you’re going to start devoting space
to games because, whatever the make of com-
puter, it has games-machine potential.
However, as yet there are few decent games
for the Mac. Okay, so HMV have started stocking
popular Mac titles in their bigger stores — IBM
variants for the most part — and it is common
knowledge that when the going gets tough (e.g.
Flight Simulator) the poor old 68000 processor
will start wheezing under the pressure of GUI plus
graphics plus all that processing.
And that’s the point — this is like asking a pen-
sioner to go 16 rounds with Tyson. The argument
goes that if you just want to play games then buy a
GameBoy or GameGear. Fun should be portable —
and surely fun and desks don’t mix, even at the
office party?
Or so you'd think if you went asking for games
in the traditional Apple retailers. The suits who
come out from the back office, curious to meet a
real, live non-corporate Macintosh user, will
invariably look at you with that friendly-but-
quizzical look reserved for people who don’t use
their Mac in the office. A kind of Macintosh
ethnic minority.
Games? Proper games? You mean you want to
buy an IBM-type, Sega-type, Nintendo-type,
Amiga-type game? This is like asking the staff at
Virgin Records for the Madonna video, book and
a bottle of baby oil.
They claim you don’t really need games on the
Mac. And up to a point they are right because the
Mac’s entire operating systemn is a kind of game.
And so are its applications.
The best game on the Mac for my money is
changing the way things operate at a very basic
level with the Mac’s Graphical User Interface.
Good though it is, you can make it better. With
programs like AufoMenus, with its automatic drop
down menus on demand whenever you touch the
Menu Bar; and On Cue, which allows you to stack
all of your regularly-used applications in one
menu to operate from Multifinder.
But it needn’t be major customisations — look
at Fruits of Passion which simply allows you to
change the Apple in the Menu Bar to other fruits
or objects. And most of these widgets are share-
ware.
There is a truism that the chances of your
machine crashing with potential loss of data are
directly proportional to how interesting it is to use
and how much you have customised it. And I
reckon this is the real adrenaline source of com-
puting. Forget arcade games.
Stephen Daniels
Anstey, Leicester
Points taken Stephen, I’m the first person to
agree that using the Mac can be a game in
itself... and it might explain the appeal of the
Mac-clone Windows operating system on PCs.
But as you’ll find in this and future issues of
MacFormat there are plenty of great games for
the Mac, and now that the 68030 is the entry
level processor for all new Macs we can rest
assured that fast-action arcade-style outings
are going to be thick on the ground. Just check
out the review of Red Baron in this issue.
Beat that!
In the next issue(s) of MacFormat we’re looking forward to printing details of the most
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This month...
Top Scoring Software:
Marketing Department — £5,875!
A package for market intelligence gathering and sales forecasting...
Top Scoring Hardware:
Scitex SmartScanner PS — £65,154!
A huge, colour flatbed scanner which won't work with a Classic...
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Here’s a couple of [Option @™@x‘icks I’ve found for users of 68030-based machines
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1. Go to Control Panels in your Apple menu, and open the Memory icon. Turn on
Virtual memory hold down the [Option] key, click on the Hard disk dialogue box
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the [Option] key and click on the figure 1 in the small box...
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manipulation of stills photographs could
take place on the desktop, video and
audio are the current targets.
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from other formats. Here the applica-
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illustrations, scans — but its complexity does take a bit of getting used to. Once mastered
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The strength of the Mac in the US has
ensured that every major software
company supports it with business
software — while a huge range of smaller
companies deliver everything from
excellent but inexpensive shareware to
four-figure, network applications.
Whatever the need, there would
appear to be a solution — even if you
want to run PC applications — just run
Insignia Solution’s SoftPC enables you to
emulate an MS-DOS machine (if you really
feel you have to) so you can run all the PC's
business software too - there's even a
Windows version.
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suite of applications that'll satisfy all
your office needs then just turn to
integrated packages like Claris Works
and Microsoft Works
Alongside excellent word proces-
sors like Word, WordPerfect and
MaeWrite, there are a number of
grammar, spelling and style checkers too
such as Thunder 7, Correct Grammar
and Word Finder plus more specific
utilities like Quote Finder and Inside
Information — a thought processor.
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there is a wide variety of spreadsheets
and accounting packages to suit most
needs and pockets. Excel, 1-2-3,
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products tending to concentrate on
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Cricket Graph, DeltaGraph Pro and
GraphMaster provide 3D graphing and
slide show output while, finally, presen-
tation packages such as Persuasion,
werPoint and Inspiration extend this
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and applications like PowerPoint include all
the features you need to easily create
desktop slide-shows — ideal for training,
marketing and sales pitches
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Claris Works (left) is five programs in one - a word processor, spreadsheet, database,
comms utility and graphics package. In most cases, you can freely exchange files
between the different modules, making it simple to include spreadsheet data or graphic
illustrations in your word processor documents. So, using Microsoft Works (right) you can
seamlessly merge text from the word processor, graphics from the drawing program,
feports from the database, and graphs from the spreadsheet and charting modules
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sorting, spell checking, word counting and mail merging, plus indexes, tables of contents,
hyphenation, headers, footers, and graphics. VordPerfecttrignt is*anotner word procesnn™
ba, sor that does a lot more than just process words - you can use it to produce anything
HS from a brief memo to a complicated mailshot. The graphics facilities are great for adding
diagrams and illustrations to essays or reports and you can even include QuickTime clips!
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maps (political, topographical aind statistical), but also a host of information files on each
country’s population, education, health, government, crime, economy and agriculture
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HyperGlot's Lingaroms are the multimedia
way to learn a foreign language, consist
ing of lessons which incorporate
illustrations, realistic test situations and
digitised spoken examples
Dictionary of the Living World features
450 colour images, 75 animated movies,
50 full motion video clips and 2,500 data
files containing information on more than
5,000 species of animals
The folks at TIME have put together a
complete multimedia account of the
1991 Gulf War. Colour photographs,
audio narration and news stories are all
provided to give a complete picture of
this piece of modem history
It’s only since the arrival of CD-ROM
that the Mac has been treated to a deluge
of what is referred to as ‘content-based’
software. Featuring everything from
dictionaries to collections of clip photos,
CD-ROM disks, with their huge storage
capability and inexpensive mastering
and distribution, are providing
encyclopaedic masses of easily
accessible information.
The mainstream sellers are US
reference titles like World Atlas,
Time Table of History and the hugely
popular Grolier’s Encyclopedia, which
fit neatly onto CD despite their huge size
in print form.
Developers are seizing on the
chance to deliver interactive mixed
media titles which simply couldn’t exist
as a traditional reference work. Like the
innovative Ecodise — with footage and
sounds from a nature reserve or
Dictionary of the Living World with
its unparalleled use of video
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