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Andy Storer — Editor Max Mac Power Catch our ten page buyers’ guide to upgrading and expanding your present Mac set-up. We give you the low-down on how to choose memory, accelerators, printers, scanners and hard drives to suit your needs and pocket A word on prices... We make strenuous efforts to ensure all prices quoted in MacFormat are accurate at the time of going to press. They are all inclusive of UK Value Added Tax of 17.5%. This may not necessarily be the case with prices appearing in advertisements so readers should double-check to see if VAT is included or not. ..and congratulations on picking up the second issue of a magazine which, judging by your response to the first, has been extremely well received! We’ ve had well over 500 questionnaires and letters sent in congratulating us on issue | and that’s great news for all concerned because it means we’re right to have targetted MacF ormat at the home user and enthusiast as well as business and profes- sional users. 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KINDER COVER DISK On this issue’s MacFormat News updates s issue’s MaeForma All the essential gen on affordable new products «s+. 11 megadisi: we bung you: Apple Talk See what your fellow readers have to say about the Big Mac world... and what they thought of issue] _—_........ 20 Push your Mac to the max We show you how to add go faster stripes and power peripherals to your machine for the minimum outlay __ ....... 23 Shareware Zone Gena Turn here for the latest low-cost and All the new releases previewed, reviewed and busted __........ 35 @ Spectre Supreme no-cost releases and the best : “s A fully-playable three-level in try-before-you-buy Graphics demo of this hot new areade are wiare ...page 95 Why Painter 2.0 is the best bet for budding artists —........ 46 action blast-em-up Video How to create your own QuickTime movies cheaply _ ......-- 50 Music Clock Options Quantisation explained, plus news from Frankfurt —........ 52 Desktop publishing rh Timer Options Do you really need to spend £800 on a DTP package? _ ........ 56 Alarm Options Design All you need to know about getting to grips with grids ........ 60 © SuperClock! ClarisWorks 2.0 Probably the most useful = iy Is this the only business package you’lleverneed? _—_........ 63 addition to your desktop ever ~ a permanent menu bar time ClarisWorks 2.0 Word processing display with alarms : : MacWrite Pro, it’s finally here — but is it a good buy? _ ........ 66 Why the Mac’s most popular integrated business package just got a Spreadsheets whole lot better ..-page 63 ClarisWorks slugs it out head to head with Excel4. 1+ 68 Databases Never make a data entry mistake again... well almost ......-. 70 MacFormat disk Comms Ee ean Your guide to the best bulletin boards inthe UK «sees 72 ®@ CFloppy U o/Rend d A neat little extension that'll ser groups/header ads turn all those dull mono Where to get in touch with your fellow users seeeees 76 floppy icons into 3D colour Utilities ? Two handy new applets: DynoPage and TimesTWo sveus-+s 78 Now turn to page 7 & to get ’em loaded # Beginners es : wy | How to make your print-outs look more professional _ .......- 80 ‘ = ; Painter 2.0 Sas COMPETITIONS! g ® DOS connectivity ; 82 We have well over £4,000's Making an ‘aha is now easier than File transfers to and from a PC? — we show you how © .......- WortheURprizesaipforecabs ever — see how this great package Ed . this issue — and all of them ucation 2 can work for you... -.. page 46 KidiPix gets a good going over by a three-year-old! «...-... 84 could be yours if you answer a few easy questions correctly Mac Answers — When there’s nowhere elsetoturn..,. (4 eeneveee 87 These are the pages to head for: PD/Shareware Where can you get great software for next tonowt? —...... 95 59 a Bt _ Subscriptions 101 Page 87 - When there’s The best things in life are free... pounds fifty. sess 98 no where else to turn... We solve your problems, posers, queries and quandaries! Whatever the hassle we'll sort it... Chooser 1 06 Part one of our listings guide to Mac hardware. 102 Go there now : - before someone Win! Win! Win! beats you to it Your chance to win an Epson GT-6500 colour scanner ...... 106 SYAMSNV Introducing Performa. The new generation Macintosh that all generations can use. 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. P EEE ‘The Macintosh Performa 600 is available with a built-in CD player. Got. G Grown-ups get a powerful, fully j : > functional desktop PC that can even Gus read office MS-DOS® and Windows™ "“jarstee tor sssarce™™ 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 fi‘. Gxsvons sear et classroom sellers in the world. ne ae 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 Pd Authorised Retailer. ) 2 And try out the one computer for home that can be used by everyone at home. fs ieee Performa. The Macintosh that’s at home in your home. Apple OFEBRUARY 1993, APPLE COMPUTER U.K. LIMITED. THE APPLE LOGO IS A REGISTERED TRADEMARK, AND APPLE, AT EASE, MACINTOSH, MACINTOSH PC EXCHANGE AND PERFORMA ARE TRADEMARKS OF APPLE COMPUTER, INC. CLARISWORKS IS A TRADEMARK OF CLARIS CORPORATION. MS-DOS IS A REGISTERED TRADEMARK, AND WINDOWS A TRADEMARK OF MICROSOFT CORPORATION. *ALL MACINTOSH PERFORMA COMPUTERS INCLUDE MACINTOSH PC EXCHANGE™ WHICH ALLOWS THE MACINTOSH TO READ MS-DOS & WINDOWS FILES. **ASK YOUR APPLE AUTHORISED RETAILER FOR DETAILS. CALLS CHARGED AT NORMAL RATES. SERVICE AVAILABLE 9.00AM-5.30PM MON-FRI, MAIN SCREENSHOT OF AUSTRALIA CREATED IN “FROM ALICE TO OCEAN” CD-ROM FILE Spectre Supreme So you've just ripped the polythene and tape off your brand new cover disk and now you're just dying to get started. Well, you better get used to dying because Spectre Supreme will take some beating... Begin... Spectre Supreme is a real cyber freak’s dream of a shoot-em-up arcade game which includes superb sounds, 3D graphics and — even if you don’t tend to go for games of the battling kind — is incredibly addictive. This sequel to the original (Spectre) includes those little extras that increase enjoyment in the playability stakes and is a great game for the Mae (promising that up to eight people can play at any one time over a network). Our cover disk demo includes three exciting levels that will keep you on your toes for ages. Install and load Spectre Supreme runs on any Mac, colour or black and white and all SeesecrTe Surreem=e~* oemo Spectre Supreme is the nearest you'll get to a real shoot-em-up arcade game on the Mac... ««. but watch you don't go bumping into these. They're useful though for hiding behind... you have to do to prepare for battle is just double click on the Spectre Supreme icon. Remember though that your coverdisk has been compressed so you won't see this icon until you have extracted it from the compressed file. Turn the page for instructions on how to do this... How to play the game Easy — kind of. It’s not just about firing at everything in Sight. It’s also about timing. You can’t play the demo over a network so the object of the single player game is to collect a number of flags (shown on a radar on the top right hand of the screen as small crosses) by running over them. But beware because there are also a number of nasty red robots and ‘slicers’ travelling around the screen. Shoot them all The initial aim is to check your radar for the ted dots representing these red robot tanks... ..when you come across one of these lean, mean ‘slicers’ — just blast ‘em to bits... down before they get to you and gain extra points. As you get past level one you'll find levels two and three become increasingly difficult. It may take you ages to complete, but then this demo is a good practice run for anyone thinking of buying the game when it’s finally released. Keys and commands To move your selected vehicle you will need to use the number pad on the right hand side of the keyboard. [4] moves you to the left [6] moves to the right [2] to move backwards [8] to go forwards. The [space] bar fires the cannon but you can select an optional weapon with the [38] key and the [option] key will let you fire it. ..and then just blast ‘em to smithereens before they attempt to do the same to you ...but if you get stuck, head for these trans- You can select three different views from your vehicle by pressing the [tab] key. You can also use your mouse to control your movements but it’s easier to stick to the keyboard for more effective control, If you are in need of a break from battle, click on [P] to pause the game. However, don’t think you can use the pause button to take a look at the radar screen and check out the enemy objects. The game scenario will disappear! a” If you're running low on ammo just drive over one of these green diamonds... Acid pools can be found together in a porter gates - they'll drop you somewhere else _ triangular shape in level two — beware! But look out for brown triangular ‘chargers’ - these'll let you just mow through opponents... And to complete a level just pick up every rotating flag you find - deadly simple really! SuperClock! 40 93 by Steve Chr Clock Options Timer Options Alarm Options You'll never be late for a date SuperClock! to help you keep track of time again with There are many extensions which add a digital clock into the menu bar, but SuperClock! is the best. To install it simply drop the SuperClock! extension into your System folder. Under System 7 it will be stored in the Control Panels folder automatically: 6.0.7 it works loose in the System folder. (SuperClock! will not work under System with Systems older than 6.0.7). Once it’s installed, restart your Mac to get it working and open the SuperClock! control panel to contig- ure it to your requirements. There are three options, and each brings up a further set of choices. The Clock Options let you specify the font, size and colour of erClock! Would you like your Mac to chime away the hours? Or how about 3D colour icons for your floppies? Then you need SuperClock! and Colour Floppy — two small utilities you'll wonder how you ever managed without the clock as it appears, You can also get it to show the date and indicate am/pm. SuperClock! can also chime on the quarter-hour, and you can set different chimes for each time. If you really want to drive people mad it can Chime the same number of limes as the hour — superbly aggra- vating at 12 noon if you have a sample of Big Ben installed. Timer Options control SuperClock! s built-in stopwatch, You start and stop it by clicking in the time on the menu bar, which switches between time display, date and stopwatch. Alarm Options just replaces Apple's built-in Alarm Clock and provides audible warnings. Just put SuperClock! in your Control Panels folder and you'll have all the time in the world! Colour Floppy is even simpler than SuperClock!. To install it (under System 7 only), just drop it in your System Folder, then restart your Mac. Then whenever you put a floppy disk in the drive it will appear with a stylish colour 3D icon instead of System 7’s boring black and white one. You wonder why Apple didn’t build this in to System 7, since they obviously took so much time over the appearance of the rest of the interface. Still, it matters not because Colour Floppy is here! 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The "speed issue is being tackled by the multi-speed drives like Apple's own CD300, which goes a fair way to answering the ‘CD-ROM is far too slow to be usable’ critics. In fact, depending on the applica- tion, speed really doesn't matter that much at all — instant Access’ own disc, for _instance, is not speed-criti- cal. Do you mind if it takes _two minutes or three to download your freshly- unlocked software to the hard disk? Not really, consid- ering the fact that you have the software there and then, rather than in a day or two, when the postman can be bothered to call. The other crucial issue, then, is cost. Again, Instant Access is leading the way by offering — albeit fairly old- spec — drives at a good (some would say incredible) price. But surely Apple could have done this itself, without leaving it to a third party? Apple's reason for not selling them off? They are no longer the minimum specification — that’s a position filled by the more recent CD150. It's true that the CD300 is cheaper than just about all of its rivals. But just think how popular CD-ROM would become if that model were to be sold for £150, instead of the £320 or so that it currently costs. Then the software industry really would be revolutionised. Cheap CD-ROM drives — and low-cost software A CD-ROM drive and a year’s subscription to a new software distribution service for just £186 — that’s the offer from Instant Access Instant Access has struck deals with many of the Mac world’s top appli- cations developers to distribute their products on an encoded CD-ROM. To help seed the market, the company has decided to make CD- ROM drives available at a very low cost to users. The CD SC Plus drives, old Appie stock which are no longer manufac- tured, are compatible with everything except PhotoCD, according to Technical Manager Richard Dyce. Tempting users By effectively selling the drives for £128 including postage and offering a year’s subscription to the CD-ROM discs for £59, Instant Access hopes to tempt Mac users into the CD world. The company’s first disc contains more than 180 Mac applications, from Keeping data safe Central Point Software has released a new disk diagnostic package, aimed at Mac users who “are neither experienced nor interested in understanding what can go wrong with computers.” Safe & Sound is designed to be completely. user friendly — in the event of a problem, users insert the emergency disk, which automatically scans all mounted volumes, attempts to isolate the fault and automatically repairs it. Central Point claims that the program can detect and repair a wide range of problems including missing files or folders, virus infec- tion, crashed hard and floppy disks and startup problems. Safe & Sound has a suggested retail price of £58. Central Point Software can be contacted on 081 848 1414. industry-leading packages like’ Norton Utilities to products never before distributed in the UK. Users select the program they want and phone a credit-card hotline; they are then given an access code which ‘unlocks’ the software and places it on their hard drive. Manuals are posted the same day. Also on the disc are demo versions of more than a hundred of the packages; the company’s motto is ‘Find, Try, Buy.’ This type of ‘locking’ technology has been used before, on font discs from people like Adobe, but this is the first time that it has been used for wholesale software distribution. Competitive prices Dyce says that software prices will be very competitive — especially for site Sixties art, technology The Sixties Art Scene in London, an exhibition which is running at the Barbican Art Gallery until June 13, infuses 1960s art and memorabilia with state of the art technology in the shape of six Macintosh Performa CD-600s running an exclusive collection of Mac CD-ROMs. The exhibition is the first of what will be a 12-month collaboration between the famous photojournalism library, The Hulton Deutsch Collection, and the Barbican Gallery. Visitors to the exhibition can preview more than 2,500 images of the 1960s on the Performas provided. The selection of paintings, sculpture, photographs, design and _ illustration features works by Caro, Hockney, and Riley. On the pop side, there are posters from The Beatles to Hendrix. Discs are available from Hulton Deutsch on 071 266 2660 for £177. 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Winners of last year’s competition included a program to help people find out if their neighbours were aliens from space, and a screen-saver featuring bungee-jumping cows. First prize is $250, and all entrants receive a “Certificate of Weirdness’. If you've written a program that you think might qualify, send it on a Mac disk, along with your name, address, phone number and asking price for the software, to: 1993 Weird Software Contest, c/o ComputorEdge Magazine, 3655 Ruffin Road, Suite 100, San Diego, CA 92123, USA by July 30. ® WordStar International, a company best known for its PC word processor, has entered the Mac market with the acquisition of WriteNow, from US company T/Maker. Version 3.0, which costs £175, will continue to be available through its current distribu- tion channels. WordStar 081 643 8866. Hewlett-Packard has announced a new printer which replaces its popular DeskWriter. Styled the DeskWriter 510, the new model is claimed to be up to 40 per cent faster than its predeces- sor. It automatically handles five different paper sizes — A4, executive, letter, legal and envelope — and is supplied with 11 Agfa Compugraphic font families. The new printer is based on 300dpi New H-P inkjet printer (dots per inch) inkjet technology, and has a maximum printing speed of three pages per minute. It has network capabilities, or can connect directly to a Mac with a serial cable. The DeskWriter 510 has a recommended retail price of £387; and is available from all Hewlett-Packard dealers. Hewlett-Packard: 0344 369222. The DeskWriter 510: Hewlett-Packard's new baby 7.5 SNAP MAIL (lan) og Catady & Greene Wed, Oct 26 11:1Z0m ey WELCOME: Please click on the “Open” button to rea. 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It does not attempt to do any harm, although unexpected crashes may occur. teem 7 ey American movie magic | |(Repty ) or The Voyager Company has released two new CD-ROMs | |C 5) on containing film clips from the USA that span 1931 to 1960. Hoan) But these aren’t run-of-the-mill motion pictures from (Groups ~y) Hollywood; instead, they present a distinctly odd slice of Americana from days gone by. | The clips have been collected by ‘media archaeologist’ | Richard Prelinger and range from films made by companies to ~ promote their products (Breakfast Pals features Snap, Crackle oe and Pop slogging it out with Soggy, Mushy and Toughy) to government advice films such as Dating Dos and Don'ts. The movies are presented in QuickTime format, while a HyperCard-based application provides details about the clip being shown. The discs require a QuickTime-compatible Mac with 4Mb of RAM, a CD-ROM drive and a monitor capable of displaying 8-bit colour or better. The discs, from Softline on 081 642 2255, cost £29 each; To New Horizons: Ephemeral Films has clips from '31 to '45, while You Can’t Get There From Here covers '46 to ’60. To Market larket a ai . am —— | he M Peoduced by Jam Handy Organatation tor General Outdooe Advertising Co Comnpleted Jarnary 23, 1942, Raleared in black-and-white with Kodachsome pequence at end Corporate science promised the consumer entertainment, leisure. and progress, while { : over customers. “Scientificall throughout the city of Chicago, aa inated the visu snd “influenced the buying choices” of all Chicagoans, young or old, As explained in the narration, the mission of thes e billboards resembled the mission of many of these ephemera! films: to jurnp the gap between industry and consumers, and make the sale This clip (part of a much longer film describing the nuts and bolts of outdoor sdvertising campaigns) demonstrates the value of ephemeral films as documentation of events unaveilable elsewhere. Our libraries are full of examples of advertising, but hold little evidence ebout the context in which sdvertising was experienced. More than any photograph or written record, this qi 0r2) To New Horizons: Ephemeral Films features detailed insights into subjects of real import - like the significance of outdoor advert campaigns in 1940s USA The new version of T4, called T4- C, infects applications, the Finder and the System file. An infected applica- tion becomes damaged and must be replaced by a ‘clean’ copy — it can’t be repaired by anti-viral programs. The new virus, called INIT 17, infects applications and the System file. It displays the message ‘From the depths of Cyberspace’ when the Mac is first restarted on October 31 1993, and causes a number of problems, mainly on 68000-based Macs such as the Classic. These include applications unexpectedly quitting, and System Errors. Both System 6 and System 7 Macs can be infected. The major anti-virus programs will have been upgraded to deal with all of these viruses by the time you read this magazine. Contact details are: Disinfectant Freeware available from PD houses and user groups. SAM £176 from Symantec, 0628 777677. Virex £69 from Softline, 081 642 2255. Minko! LOOK Apple Adjustable Keyboard Repetitive Strain Injury — RSI — is becoming more and more prevalent among people who use computers. There are various kinds of Repetitive Strain Injury , but the most common for computer users is Carpal Tunnel Syndrome, which affects the hands, wrists and upper arms. The symptoms are aching in the joints and occasionally swelling — and if you start experiencing this, you'd better take notice because left unattended, the problem can escalate to the point where you physically can’t use a keyboard any more. Apple has taken notice of this problem, and has now released the Apple Adjustable Keyboard, a Star Trek-like device which aims to provide touch-typists with a more comfortable typing position. The keyboard actually splits apart down the centre by up to 30 degrees, so that your hands are positioned more comfortably — and plastic wrist-rests give your hands some support as you're typing. A separate numeric keypad is included, which also contains the 15 function keys normally found at the top of an extended keyboard. As with any different keyboard layout, some things take a little getting used to: in this case, | found that for the first few hours | was hitting the cursor up key by mistake when going for the right-hand [shift] key — they are right next to each other, and the [shift] key is smaller than on my normal keyboard. Also, there’s no ‘lock’ on the keyboard's split — it's very frustrating to find just the right angle only to knock the keyboard by mistake and change it. For some reason, Apple clearly doesn’t think that the function keys are particularly important; they're small plastic buttons on the numeric keypad, rather than proper keys. If you're used to a standard keyboard, this will be no problem — you don’t have function keys in the first place. However, anyone who normally uses an extended keyboard may find this frustrating — and there really doesn't seem to be any reason why the function keys couldn't be in their usual place. (The [escape] key has similarly been replaced with a small button on the main keyboard, but isn't such a problem since few — if any — programs make use of it.) Smail problems aside, the Apple Adjustable Keyboard really is an excellent piece of hardware. It's remarkably comfortable to use — going back to a normal keyboard at the end of the review period was horrible. If you're not a touch typist, you probably won't have any use for the new keyboard; but if you are, it can be thoroughly recommended for work. Price: £229 From: Any Apple dealer i Ian Wrigley Just browsing Imspace Systems’ Kudo Image Browser, a Fees Tare: cataloguing, — browsing eo, ; and retrieval tool, is now | \ available in the UK. : bs Kudo creates a # catalogue of any images on a volume — hard disk, 3 optical disk, CD-ROM or whatever — and displays A these images as ‘thumb- RES in nails’ for the user. The program supports a wide range of file formats, including TIFF, PICT, EPS, Photoshop, QuickTime, GIF and many others. Kudo's Find system can search by name, file format or keyword. When an image has been selected, it can be dragged straight into QuarkXPress or PageMaker document — the original is automatically Keywords can be assigned to images, and the Find system works by file type, file name, keyword or location. The program also has a ‘Riffle’ search, which displays thumbnails at a rate of around ten frames per second; Imspace claims that it is easy to recognise an image at that speed. An innovative feature is ‘Drag and Place’. If you use QuarkXPress or PageMaker you can select a thumbnail and drag it straight to a picture box in the placed in the file for you. The manufacturer says that it is working on adding this feature to other applications. Kudo requires a Mac II or above running System 7; the current version is 1.02, but an upgrade which supports CMYK and LZW- compressed TIFFs, and which will run under System 6 is imminent. This will be shipped free to all registered users. Kudo costs £229 from Principal Distribution on 081 813 5656. Mind your own business M.Y.O.B., the popular small business accounting package, has had its price slashed to £293 with the release of version 3.0. The program, according to manufacturer Soft Numbers Limited, contains ‘all the accounting tools a business needs,’ including sales orders, invoicing, stock control, price lists, cash book, VAT reports and bank reconciliation. Version 3.0 adds data import and export, producing packing slips and delivery labels and customisable forms. Soft Numbers Limited: 0992 451551. A bum deal for Pink You’d be surprised at how many people use Macs at work, home, play whatever. Next time you look at an album cover, you may find that it has been produced with the help of a Mac. Text for the 112-page book that accompanied the nine CD special edition of Pink Floyd’s complete recorded repertoire were supplied on Macintosh disks at Sonic Plates, the London-based repro house that specialises in music industry work. The absolute cheek: at many repro houses the bottom line is to turn to @ Mac for work on album covers The bear necessities Fatty Bear's Birthday Surprise is the second ‘junior adventure’ release from Humungous _ Enter. tainment, and is due to ship in June The ‘edutainment’ title is about a lovable stuffed teddy bear who comes to life for children only, and lives with a little girl who happens to be having a birthday the next day. Fatty wants to make it the best day ever for her but is faced with a lot of distractions that are there to make things _interac- tively interesting and fun. The title follows the successful Putt-Putt Joins the Parade, and is designed to introduce kids to computers, as well as other kinds of skills. The program will be avail able on both floppy disk and CD-ROM, and is aimed at kids aged at three to eight. Price is to be confirmed. Electronic Arts 0753 549442. News upd: Mac network bundle Apple has announced a new bundle for purchasers from educational establishments which effectively provides them with free printers and software. Anyone qualifying for the education discount who buys 15 or more Mac LC IIs will pay £1,169 per workstation, and will receive a free Personal LaserWriter NTR, an ImageWriter II, MacPrefect (a security package reviewed on page 78 of Epson has announced a range of dot-matrix printers which are compatible with the Mac. The models come with a built-in LocalTalk The LQ-570+ from Epson: a high-quality 24-pin dot matrix printer, now with a built-in LocalTalk interface Low-cost Internet access ExNet Systems has announced that it can now provide low-cost access to the Internet computer network through its new HelpEx service. Internet is a huge collection of computers and their users, spanning the globe and providing every- thing from free software to a forum for discussing the latest developments in your favourite soap opera. The entry-level point, called Basic Service, costs £5.88 per month, and gives users logging in at 2400baud or less a terminal-based interface. UUCP Service, for £9.79, provides a more sophisticated interface using public domain or shareware programs on your Mac for reading mail and getting news. Rather than a joining fee, ExNet asks that users pay their monthly subscrip- tion three months or more in advance — there are reductions if you pay six or 12 months in advance. The first month on the system is free. ExNet Systems: 081 755 0077 MacFormat issue 1) and ClarisWorks (the integrated package) for each Mac, and all cabling for the network. Based on the minimum network of 15 Macs, this repre- sents a saving of more than £3,500 on the individual list prices of the items. The promotion is available from all Apple Authorised Education Dealers. To find your local dealer, dial 100 and ask for Freefone Apple. interface, and software which makes the printer appear in the Chooser as a normal output device. Dot matrix printers are useful when multi-part stationery or continuous-feed paper needs to be used — although a few of the inkjet printers on the market can handle continuous paper, an impact printer must be used if carbonated forms are required, since it’s the impact which makes the image appear on the lower sheets. All of the Epson printers are 24-pin dot matrix, which means that they produce a high quality image — equivalent to a maximum of 360 dots per inch. Pricing for the printer range starts at £551; they will be distributed by Aptec — 071 627 1000. rikST LOOK Ask the Experts What are the problems f excavating and preserving dinosaurs? Ww dinosaurs cold jooded or warm blooded? (Chure) How were the fossils at the Dinosaur National Monument formed? How did dinosaurs move? How are dinosaurs && reconstructed from such small fragments? Dan Chure of the Dinosaur Notiona Monument, Utah, answers Dinosaurs Dinosaurs, from Media Design Interactive (MDI), is one of the best uses yet for multimedia. It's about as complete a dictionary/reference/tutorial about dinosaurs as you will find, and takes up over 600Mb on a CD-ROM. The package is broken down into five sections. They are: Age of the Dinosaurs, (general information); Dinosaur History (what happened when); Story of the Fossils (how fossils occurred and where they can be found); Ask The Experts (dinosaur experts answer many commonly asked questions); and Dinosaur Gallery (a complete listing of all known dinosaurs, together with any information known about them such as what they ate, where they lived, how large they were and so on). The information, apart from the Gallery section, is presented as QuickTime movies, featuring location film from around the world which was specially shot for the CD. Much footage comes from the Dinosaur National Monument in Utah, USA — an incredible area where huge numbers of fossils have been found. The result of all this is that Dinosaurs at times seems more like a TV programme than a computer program. The video clips look professional, the interface is easy to use, the subject matter is fascinating and is entertainingly presented... all in all, this is a Mac program which will interest not only the dinosaur fans out there, but also anyone who wants tips on how a really great multimedia product should look. This program will appeal to all ages: the experts manage to convey the information in terms that should be understandable to any child over the age of eight or so, while still being interesting to adults. Version 1.0 of the package was written in a combination of HyperCard and MacroMind Director and, according to Philip Nash, Managing Director of MDI, “pushes the programs to their absolute limits.” Version 1.1, out by the time you read this, has been re-written in C and will be far faster — not that the original was much of a slouch. If it sounds as though | have shares in the company, | wish | did — it's great to see a program that really makes use of the technology available, and Dinosaurs will undoubtedly be a well-deserved, huge success for Media Design Interactive. | look forward to the company's next product. Price: £79 From: MDI, 0252 737630 Ian Wrigley News in brief @ Hewlett-Packard has announced that it will be bundling the Limited Edition (LE) version of Photoshop with its ScanJet llc scanner. Photoshop LE is a cut- down version of the program; it retains many of the features but doesn’t support alpha channels or CMYK separation. The ScanJet is a 400dpi, colour desktop scanner, price £1,851. Hewlet-Packard: 0344 369222 @ Frontline Distribution is offering a bundle deal on QuarkXPress and Claris MacDraw Pro through its network of dealers until the end of May. The bundie costs £934, a saving of £382 on the recommended retail price. Frontline Distribution: 0256 847110 @ Aptec has been announced as the official UK distributor of the IBM Color Jetprinter PS4079 - a PostScript device which uses inkjet technology to produce output at a resolu- tion of 360 x 360dpi. The printer costs £4,699, and will be avail- able through Aptec’s network of dealers. Aptec: 071 627 1000 @ FontWorks will give a free Agfa FOCUS Color Plus scanner to the first 100 customers who purchase the full Adobe Type Library on CD-ROM. The normal price for the type library — which contains 1,171 Type 1 fonts — is £11,691 and the scanner's street price is over £4,000, but the first L100 customers will only pay £8,811 for the bundle. The CD-ROM will be shipped with all the Adobe faces unlocked and ready for use; there are another 700 or so faces on the disc, and these can be unlocked at any time. FontWorks can be contacted on 071 490 5390. Three new Macs from Apple, but hey — they're just old re-badged Macs New Macs from old Apple has announced a family of three new machines, designated Apple Workgroup Servers — but in reality they are members of the current Mac family, re-badged and with extra software included. The new machines are part of an Apple marketing plan to target the rapidly growing demand for fast file servers. At present, many networking cognoscenti aren’t convinced that the Mac is a fast enough machine to act as a server for a large network. The Workgroup Server 60 is essen- that data throughput of 300K per second should be sustainable for up to 15 active users. Next up is the Workgroup Server 80, a Quadra 800 with a built-in DAT drive for backup. Again, it will run AppleShare 4.0, and Apple reckons that between 400K/sec and SO0K/sec data throughput rates should be sustainable for up to 30 active users. Finally, the high-end machine is based on a Quadra 950 running A/UX, Apple’s version of Unix, and AppleShare Pro, a Unix-based version PDS (Processor Direct Slot) card. This contains 128K of — second-level memory cache for extra performance, expandable to 512K, and two SCSI Direct Memory Access (DMA) channels for high-speed access to peripherals such as hard disks. Apple claims that up to 800K/sec throughput is possible with up to 100 active users. No pricing has yet been set for the Workgroup Servers 60 and 80, which will ship ‘this summer’. The Workgroup Server 95 should be avail- able from the end of April, and will tially a Centris 610 running AppleShare 4.0, a new version of the file sharing software. Apple claims Océ’s G5241-PS printer: a thermal transfer colour device which has Adobe PostScript built in Océ yah — colour printers! Océ has launched a range of new colour PostScript printers. They use the thermal transfer printing method to produce 300dpi output, and are available in A4 and A3 models. The A4 model, called the G5241-PS, has a print speed of around 80 seconds if a four-colour ink roll is used, and about 50 seconds if the three-colour roll (which contains cyan, magenta and yellow but no black) is used instead. The printers can output to paper or clear film. A SCSI port allows the connection of a hard disk for extra font storage. Pricing for the A4 model starts at £5,047; the A3 printer starts at £8219. Océ is on 0454 617777. Tablets of stone of AppleShare. The machine, called the Workgroup Server 95, has a built- in DAT drive for backup, and has a sell in two different configurations for different target users, priced at between £9,000 and £12,000. Recordable CD-ROM KimTec UK is now supplying the Pinnacle RCD-202 recordable CD-ROM drive. This is one of the first reason- ably low-cost recordable devices on the market; it sells for £4,694, and is able to create CD discs in Macintosh HFS, ISO 9660 (a multi-platform standard), incremental multises- sion, audio and mixed mode formats. All software is included in the price. Blank discs cost £22 for a 5SOMb CD-ROM, £25 for a 630Mb disc. Minimum order quantity is 10 discs. KimTec will also provide training courses for users, tailored to suit individual needs. If you don’t want to buy a recordable drive yourself, but you occasionally need CD-ROMs pressing, KimTec will press discs for you at a price of £206 per disc for up to 300Mb, £235 per disc for up to 650Mb. Additional copies of the disc cost £59. KimTec can be contacted on 0202 888873. The Pinnacle RCD-202 recordable CD-ROM drive: gives you the ability to press your own CDs for only £22 each Computers Unlimited is now shipping a new Wacom cordless, pressure- sensitive graphics tablet. The Wacom ADB __ Tabliet measures 6 inches by 8 inches, and connects to the Mac via its ADB port. The stylus, which doesn’t need to be connected to the tablet by a wire, weighs just 8 grammes, and contains no batteries. The driver for the tablet features ‘double click something which is bound to be popular among assist’ - users. Previously, users of graphics tablets have found it difficult to use them as a replacement for the mouse because double-clicking on an object meant hitting the same pixel twice. Version 2.0 of the driver increases this to a 15 pixel radius — so a slight movement of the pen doesn’t matter. The Wacom ADB Tablet costs £469, and is available from Computers Unlimited: 081 200 8282. Newton licensed to third peses Rumours... At the Cebit computer show in Germany recently, Apple announced a change in its previous policies regarding its Newton technologies, the basis for its forthcoming PDAs (Personal Digital Assistants). Previously, Apple has fiercely guarded these technolo- gies, which include things like handwriting recognition, communications and data retrieval. However, the company now seems to recognise the fact that, in order to make Newton-based PDAs an industry standard, the industry must have access to these technologies. “As different industries converge and as these technologies come together, no single company will be able to control all that is needed to meet customer demand,” Apple Chairman John Sculley told a shareholders’ meeting in January. Apple will now license elements of Newton to third parties, the first of which have now been announced. The companies include Sharp, which is already involved in the manufacture of the first Newton with Apple, and Siemens, which will collaborate with Apple on the development of the NotePhone, described as a device “which will provide access to telephone and fax features.” Also licensing core technolo- gies is Japanese electronics giant Kyushu Matsushita. The Newton Draw and 1d Spell is just one idea that Apple engineers have had for possible future PDAs According to Frank O’Mahoney, Apple’s PIE (Personal Interactive Electronics) PR manager, Apple expects these companies to produce their own PDAs in the near future. He says that Apple products will compete in the marketplace with those of its licensees — Apple doesn’t expect to be told what any other company intends to produce. Portable CD-ROM drive announced Apple has announced that its Personal Interactive Electronics (PIE) division will produce a new CD-ROM drive, scheduled to be released in the summer this year. The drive, known as the PowerCD player, is a three-in-one device which will play CD- ROMs, Photo CD and audio discs. The device will be more portable than current drives, and may be powered by rechargeable batteries. Mac OS to run on PCs? According to US trade magazine MacWeek, we may soon be seeing the According to Gaston Bastiaens, vice presi- dent and general manager of the PIE divsion, the drive will provide “a lightweight, easy to use, portable CD-ROM solution.” The drive will PowerBooks via SCSI. Users will also be able to connect the drive to a television to view Photo CD discs. Pricing has yet to be decided. connect to Macs and Apple ships three new Performas in the USA Macintosh operating system up and running on 80486-based IBM-compati- ble computers. An experiment currently under way at Apple, and codenamed Star Trek, is a rewrite of System 7.1 so that it will run with DR DOS, a PC-compatible operating system which is similar to MS DOS. Sources say that most of the conversion work has been completed, although the porting of the AppleTalk networking system, a major task, has yet to be done. Although Mac applications wouldn’t immediately run under Star Trek — developers would have to re- compile the code — a Mac interface on a PC would be an extremely attractive proposition to many people. We'll give you more information as soon as we get it... Three new Macintosh Performas were launched in the States last month, all based on the LC II and LC II. @ The Performa 405 is based on the LC II and comes with 4Mb of RAM, expandable to 1OMb, and an 80Mb hard disk. It can display 16 colours, expandable to 256, on a standard 14- inch Performa monitor. @ The Performa 430 is also based on the LC II, but comes with a 120Mb hard drive, and displays 256 colours as standard. It, too, has 4Mb RAM expandable to 1OMb. @ The Performa 450 is an LC III- based machine, running at 25MHz rather than the other two machines’ 16MHz. It can display 256 colours, expandable to 32,000 and ships in a 4/120 configuration. The RAM can be expanded to 36Mb. All three new Performas have a Global Village Teleport/Bronze fax modem built in. This provides send- only fax capabilities at 9600baud, and 2400baud data transmission. The Performas come with software to access two on-line _ services: CheckFree, an automated bill payment system, and an Apple special edition of the popular US bulletin board America Online. Software bundled includes ClarisWorks and Macintosh PC Exchange; individual dealers will be able to decide what else to bundle with their machines. As we went to press, Apple UK had no comment on whether the new Performas would be available in this country; the Performa 200, 400 and 600 were available in the US for some months before being launched here. @ Rumours are circulating that Apple will release two digital colour cameras before the end of the year. They are based on technology licensed from Fuji, and will produce 24- bit colour images. The higher end camera, codenamed Mars, should cost less than $2,000 and will store images on a PCMCIA card, like that which will be present in the Newton; a serial inter- face will allow users to download the images to a desktop Mac. The cheaper model, codenamed Venus, will sell for around $500, and will have a lower resolu- tion. It will store images in RAM and, again, will connect to the Mac via a serial cable. BB The first prototype PowerPCs have been shipped to developers in the States, according to sources. Although they are still nowhere near finished units, first impressions have been good — although some developers have said that applications running under the 68020 emula- tion system are still rather slow. 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Persuasion, Illustrator, FreeHand, FileMaker, Claris Works and Lotus) NEW THIS MONTH Fly a Falcon F-16 in mortal combat against MiG-29s, dodging SAM missiles while trying to take out your designated target deep within enemy territory. Full col- our 3D graphics and realistic digitised sound make for an exciting simulation. You can even play against a real live opponent if you link up to another Mac over a network or even a modem. Colour Macs only. Faicon MC £39.00 a = @ —y ay — Te) = o> = : — = =, o = = oo Cae = <—) pe¥) — ANG OL AVM LNIIOIS9 LSON ENV LSANOING ‘LSAdWIHO IHL Lessons learned from history Well Done! The first Mac magazine that I have wanted to sit down and read through. It even encouraged me to download the BeHierachic utility, which I had not heard of before. On the subject of the availability of software, one major issue that might be brought out is the continuing lack of educational software in some subject areas applicable to BRITISH topics. As a history teacher I have spent quite a time looking for software suitable for National Curriculum history. The amount available can be counted on one finger — ‘The Railway Age’ stack by Bridge Publications (written by G Davies 1990). The catalogue for History issued by a leading educational software distributor —- AVP — con- tains among its many hundreds of programs for Nimbus, Archimedes, etc. only two Mac pro- grams and these are only low level database revision programs. There are one or two good stacks on American-related topics — the Vietnam War stack and Assassination of Kennedy called *1 1/22/63’. Although this situation is not quite so difficult in other subjects where the US origination doesn’t affect content, the lack of British writers produc- ing software for the Mac is a major obstacle in a Mac equipped school to applying technology to teaching in a subject such as mine. Peter Morgan, Epsom, Surrey Well hopefully that situation may begin to change if Apple’s education drive is successful and Nimbus and Archimedes developers began to port over some of their titles. But I guess we'll just have to wait and see. When oh when oh when Please don’t fall into the usual mag trap of publicising kit that your readers can’t get for love nor money. Or at least be honest about the supply situation. I’ve been after an Apple CD300 (which you plugged in Issue |) for a couple of months. No dealer I have spoken to has seen one yet. Computer Warehouse says none has been shipped. Actually a story on Apple’s supply operation and a chart showing true waiting lists as against what dealers say would be very interesting. | was told ‘mid-February, definitely’, ‘end of February, mate’ and finally ‘April Ist, I'm afraid’. The latter I almost believed, for the obvious reason, too. Still no CD300 though. Paul Fry, London It’s one of our jobs to publicise kit as soon as we hear about it — and if there are likely to be delays we'll let you know. But I know the feeling — we’ve only just taken delivery of a CD300 after waiting three months ourselves. Curlies in short I was interested to read your new magazine, which I found both useful and entertaining. Imagine my horror, however to see page 21 full of what I believe are known as ‘dumb apostro- phes’ (ie what you get when you hit the quote/double quote key on an Apple keyboard). Surely, you of all people should know that you can get proper curly apostrophes/quote marks by You won’t believe this! This issue’s most weird and wonderful item of software or hardware which takes the esoteric to ludicrous levels is Swimsuit v/ This $100 CD-ROM features 200 shots of bikini-clad nymphettes. Only in America Do you have a weird one you've come across? Send it to’ You won't believe this’ MacFormat, Future Publishing 30 Monmouth St, Bath BAI 2BW We'll send you a fiver if it’s printed Hey you! Yes you! - just fire all your missives my way... — tar letter —wins £500 _—| ouldn’t believe my luck. I think I just might ble to read this one... games reviews, esting articles... and a bit of a sexy cover | too! Despite what other Mac mags think, most | people who use these computers aren’t middle- | . | | aged, boring, Volvo driving geeks! Some of us | still have all our own hair and find 20 pages $ pretty goddam sad! . e at the top | er — wins £500’. bloke to write some th the £500 scam there remark halfway through one | you want. Just keep up the | | Vince Sneed Hackney, London | | ore secure now we've questionnaires back, ce we’re avalanched Volvo drivers / but that may c with letters from b: hitting [option] [square bracket]. Word 5 allows you to specify this sort automatically (and the software knows which way round to put them), but Quark, for instance, doesn’t. Please fix this common problem. David Nutt, London Can we just plead ‘deadline blindness’ on this one? I’m sure other readers will thank you for the tip though... More modern memory Congratulations on your first issue. Here’s a cou- ple of points for debate. When will we get proper multi-tasking on the Mac? Unless an application has been written in a particularly friendly way, a busy foreground application will stop you switching to anything else. Similarly it is possible for a background application to hog the processor and not let any- thing else in. The Amiga, a ‘games machine’, has proper pre-emptive multi-tasking like a mainframe oper- ating system — once a task has had its quantum of CPU time, it is swapped out and something else is given a chance. Why isn’t this the case with System 7? Alan Smith, Norwich Well you won’t be surprised to learn that since I’m not a hardcore C++ programmer based in Cupertino, California I’ve no easy answer... but I think you'll find Apple’s line is that true multitasking would lead to incom- patibility problems with the Mac’s entire software range to date. Rumours are that System 8 may take the plunge though - if it ever comes to light. Mac networkers wanted 4 After having spent a few years in the printing trade, I was able to see first hand what the Apple Mac has achieved, even though I lost my job because of its introduction. I was keen to keep in the printing trade, so I got myself a Mac and have been learning it ever since, and even making a bit of money from it. The difficulty I’m finding is that because | have had to learn it myself I cannot find a job in DTP because of my lack of industry experience. They seem to regard ‘home taught’ as not good enough. But I’m not one to be outdone and I have an idea I’m hoping you might help me get off the ground. I would like to set up an agency which will offer both home tuition and in-house tuition. The idea would be to set up a nationwide database of experienced Mac users who would be willing to teach others in the required software. To keep costs to a minimum it would be practicable to have tutors in as many areas as possible. Thus when someone asks for help in Brighton I can send someone who lives in that area. It would be nice to have some sort of recog- nised certificate at the end which could go someway to helping prove that someone has had decent tuition. It wouldn’t be a full time job for the tutor, just simply to offer their time when they can. This way I hope to be able to offer a useful service at a reasonable cost. I would be extremely grateful if you could print this letter so your readers can ring me if they are interested. If the response is good I can then go back to my bank manager with some facts and figures and prove it’s a viable idea. Graham Smith, Seaford, Sussex (0323 896767) Good luck Graham - I hope it works for you. Gimmie footie Why are there no soccer games for the Mac? I have absolutely no interest in American football and | would prefer soccer to saving green-haired things with a death wish or flying an aircraft. Alan Bradshaw, Raheny, Dublin Well I’m sure Kick Off 2 or Sensible Soccer wouldn’t be very difficult to port to the Mac — but there lies the rub — are there enough Mac footie freaks in the UK for it to be worthwhile for their publishers? Got to be worth a gamble at the end of the day setting out the stall hasn’t it Brian? The Lemmings hard line You looked quite shagged out on your “Welcome’ column picture. Hardly surprising, as launching something like MacFormat must be quite gruelling. It is a superb product but in the depths of a recession should you be encouraging clandestine office Lemmings addictions? Peter McGrath, Saltburn, Cleveland Oh dear. A busy workforce is a happy work- force? Actually, our cover disk games are specially optimised for lunchtime sessions... AW SHUCKS GUYS... We're still blushing after the floods of letters we received after our launch issue. Many thanks to everyone who wrote in — here’s a few we picked out at random... ...The more news you put in about games, share/freeware the better!... John Walker Wantage, Oxfordshire ..-Congratulations on MacFormat and the best of luck for the