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Your chance to win an Epson GT-6500 colour scanner . cesses 102 106 Start Up COVER DISK On this issue’s MaePormat megadisk we bring you: @ Spectre Supreme A fully-playable three-level demo of this hot new areade action blast-em-up Clock Options Timer Options Alarm Options @ SuperClock. Probably the most useful addition to your desktop ever a permanent menu bar time display with alarms MacFormat disk © Floppy A neat little extension that'll turn all those dull mono floppy icons into 3D colour Now turn to page 7 to get °em loaded COMPETITIONS! We have well over £4.000°s worth of prizes up for nd all of them These are the pages to head for: 59 101 106 Go there now before someone beats you to it 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? Aspecialist 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 Slaten 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. ” Grown-ups get a powerful, fully Authorised Retailer. 4 I : aon ESS > functional desktop PC that can even un EE And try out the one computer for home that ssauewh bln pe read office MS-DOS® and Windows™ "“ya'stevmier assess” can be used by everyone at home. SS, Fine Performa. The Macintosh that’s at home in your home. Apple ‘OFEBRUARY 1993, APPLE COMPUTER U.x. 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-00S & 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 ae Freefone Apple. Or, better still, pop into your nearest Apple files* Plus a built-in program called At Ease™ that ; safeguards your documents from other members of gr? the family. is ~y The kids get to use the same technology that’s a made other Apple Macintosh computers the biggest Sarceshns ster classroom sellers in the world. i 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 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 Mac (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 Spectre Supreme is the nearest you'll get to a real shoot-emup arcade game on the Mac... «« but watch you don't go bumping into these. They'te 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... ..Wwhen you come across one of these lean, mean ‘slicers’ — just blast ‘em to bit 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- porter gates - they'll drop you somewhere else But look out for brown triangular ‘chargers’ — these'll let you just mow through opponents... ; a 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 diamond Acid pools can be found together in a triangular shape in level two ~ beware! And to complete a level just pick up every rotating flag you find - deadly simple really! sk SuperClock! m Option You'll never be late for a date again with SuperClock! to help you keep track of time 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; under System 6.0.7 it works loose in the System folder. (SuperClock! will not work with Systems older than 6.0.7) 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 Just put SuperClock! in your Control Panels folder and you'll have all the time in the worid the clock as it appears. You ear get it to show the date and indicate am/pm. SuperClock! can also chime on the quarter-hour, and you can set Colour Floppy is even simpler than Si different chimes for each time. If juperClock!. To install it (under System 7 only), just drop it in your System Folder, then re: . 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 you really want to drive people mad it can chime the same number of rt your times as the hour — superbly ag; vating at 12 noon if you have a sample of Big Ben installed. Timer Options control Once it’s installed, restart your Mac to g SuperClock! control panel to config- 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 it working and open the Ure it to your requirements. There are three options, and each brings up a further set of choices. The Clock Options let you and white one You wonder why Apple didn’t build this in to System 7, since th obviously took so much time over the appearance of the rest of the interface. 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Users select the program they want Bememe m major stumbling blocks to To help seed the market, the and phone a credit-card hotline; they ers CD-ROM gaining the sort of company has decided to make CD- are then given an access code which __ [Instant Access: Find, Try and Buy your software acceptance that Apple wants = ROM drives available at a very low ‘unlocks’ the software and places it on _'"'@ matter of minutes to see: speed and cost. The cost to users. their hard drive. Manuals are posted speed issue is being tackled The CD SC Plus drives, old Appie the same day. licenses. Although some licence prices by the multi-speed drives like stock which are no longer manufac- Also on the disc are demo versions are quoted on the disc, Dyce says that Apple's own CD300, which tured, are compatible with everything of more than a hundred of the _ large sites should “ting us up with your “goes a fair way to answering except PhotoCD, according to packages; the company’s motto is requirements and we'll quote you a ‘the ‘CDROM is far too slow Technical Manager Richard Dyce. ‘Find, Try, Buy.” price.” Even single-user prices rival ‘to be usable’ critics. In fact, . 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LARIS Simply powerful software.” Yes, | want to know more about ClarisWorks 2.0 (Please print) First Name Last Name Pe | ee Ee : eee | | Tel No 4 i HH ClarisMirks a Post or Fax wo: (Cars tnformation Service CLARIS We a ig Spy mer [FREEFAX 6800:929015, News in brief The London Macintosh User Group (LMUG) has joined together with Apple to introduce a National User Group Council. The Council's main function will be to provide contact numbers for Mac users as well as compiling a.user group guide. It also hopes to act as a voice for users who have any concerns about Apple. According to John McKnight, LMUG’s chair- ‘man, they already know of over 50 user groups, but there are still quite a number of unknowns in and around the UK. The London Macintosh UserGroup canbe ~ contacted on 081 690 2904. The 1993 Weird Software Competition, in conjunction with the San Diego Computer Fair, is now accepting entries. 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. New H-P inkjet printer 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 (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 = SNAP MAIL (Lan) 7 anogy Gre SNRELCDRE! eae Sik onthe Ure batten fea. 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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 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 HyperCardbased 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. Tc = Corporate sienc promise the consumer entertainment leloue and progres while pronase busnee neeseed control Ulbcerds resembled the mission of any of thes ephererl ‘mst jump the gop between industry and consumer, and make the le ‘This clip (prt of mc longer film describing the nuts ned bos of outdoor advertising empelg) demonstrates the slue of ‘ephemeral flees documentation of events unavailable sleenhere, Our ibaies at fal of exemple of advertising bat hold te evidence about the context in which edvertiaing wae experienced. More than any photograph or ten record hie die2p 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. MRS 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 Trekike 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.) ‘Small 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 Tan Wrigley - Just browsing Imspace Systems’ Kudo Image Browser, a cataloguing, browsing and retrieval tool, is now available in the UK. Kudo creates a catalogue of any images on a volume — hard disk, optical disk, CD-ROM or whatever — and displays these images as ‘thumb- nails’ for the user. The program supports a wide range of _ file formats, including TIFF, PICT, EPS, Photoshop, QuickTime, GIF and many others. 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 Kudlo's Find system can search by name, fle format or keyword. When an image has been selected, it can be dragged straight into QuarkXPress or PageMaker document — the original is automatically 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.0.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 a 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 avait able on both floppy disk and CD-ROM, and is aimed at kids aged at three to eight. Price is to be confirmed. Electroni¢ 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 I, 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 LQ570+ 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. FIRST LOOK ‘blooded or warm blooded? (Chure) How were the atthe Dinosaur National FE “Monuenent formed? How did dinosaurs move? How are dinosaurs reconstructed from such small fragments? ure of the Dinosaur Notional nument, Ufoh, 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 Tan Wrigley News in brief Mi 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 1 Frontline Distribution is offering a bundle deal on QuarkXPress and Claris MacDraw Pro through its network of dealers until the end of May. The bundle 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 I 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 100 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 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 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 Mac is a fast enough machine to act as a server for a large network. The Workgroup Server 60 is essen- tially a Centris 610 running AppleShare 4.0, a new version of the file sharing software. Apple claims Apple’s Océ's G5241PS printer: a thermal transfer colour device which has Adobe PostScript builtin 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 ¢yan, 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 based on a Quadra 950 running A/UX, will ship _ ‘this of Unix, and AppleShare Pro, a Unix-based version of AppleShare. The machine, called the Workgroup Server 95, has a built- in DAT drive for backup, and has a version summer. The Workgroup Server 95 should be avail- able from the end of April, and will 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 550Mb 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 assist” — something which is bound ‘to be popular among 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 seaenes 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 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 connect to Macs and 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 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 10Mb, 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 10Mb. @ The Performa 450 is an LC IIl- 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. 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. Developers in the UK are expecting to see prototypes in the next four months or so. Despite confident predictions, the PowerBook Duo hasn't had the astronimical sales figures that Apple was hoping for. Prices have already been reduced in the US, and observers are anticipating more reductions in the near future. To try to boost sales, expect to see Apple releasing a Duo with an active matrix display very soon indeed. Qi Qi Qi GN \ Sle &e) c Ge) iS iz!) =) GS © ree ae [= ei © Eel iz] (eS i, (eS =) © = (eS © LE. all el ee © Performa 200 4Mb to 6Mb Performa 200 4Mb to 10Mb forma 400 4Mb to GMb .. 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Falcon MC £39.00 Pease place me on your Name Company Address Post Code. vveePhONE. C. = @) = = =. wn 5 = S, = = = = = o = = ° =) = — 29 = ANG OL AVM LNSIOIS LSON GNY LSIMOING ‘LSSdWSHO FHL Pleased, peeved, irate, €nraged, amused, amazed, stunned or astounded? Whatever your feelings — about anything in the Mac universe — make sure you write in and tell the Editor — Andy Storer — at: Apple Talk MacFormat 30, Monmouth St Bath, BA1 2BW 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 ‘11/22/63’. 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 1) 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. I 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 thi Hey you! Yes you! - just fire all your ‘\ missives my way... 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. Twas 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 I 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 I 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 rand ‘The more news you putin about games, share/freeware the better! John Walker Wantage, Oxfordshire Congratulations on MacFormat and the best of luck for the future! In particular I welcome the readers’ ads and contacts sections that you plan {o include in future issues. Richard Forway St Ives, Hunts At last — a new magazine that concentrates on that often ignored sec tion of the Macintosh world — the home user. Not a £3,000 laser printer or ‘other high-priced peripheral in sight, thank goodness. And best of all ~ a substantial section for games and shareware. Gordon Barr Renfrewshire, Scotland Congratulations on the best Mac mag on the market. I eared more ‘about Macs from your one issue than I have from all the others put together. Ihave left my well thumbed copy in the crew room for others to browse; I think you may get some more subs. All the best for the future. Peter Godfrey RAR, Bahrain A big thank you to all of you for being the first people in publishing to publicly realise that business use is only one area of computing, the Honourable CEB Portman Brightwalton, Berkshire I write to express my delight in discovering MacFormat. I feel it ils a niche in the market providing good reading, well balanced and informa- tive articles. tis long overdue and puts other magazines in the shade. ‘WD Tucker Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria ‘Congratulations on MacFormat, it’s a winner, I thoroughly enjoyed it! Light-years ahead in all departments. Every success forthe future, Cyril Berryman Poulter Hull Congratulations on MacFormat ...please keep writing those articles relating to the Classic. Clive Bilby Basildon, Essex 1 am delighted to see that there is now a magazine forthe home user; please keep us informed of educational software as it comes out. Jonathan Evans Barlby, N Yorks A wonderful magazine! Recognition for the home user at last, Thank you and well done. LMBurn Redmile, Nottingham Congratulations on a first-class start to MaeFormat. I think you're covering us ‘end users’ very well. There is, however, one particular aspect of Mac use that I would dearly love to see covered more, and that is programming. Mr Renshaw Great Sankey, Warrington ‘Congratulations on publishing @ new Mac magazine. The firs issue is splendid, but please let’s have less on games and more on graphics. Valerie Campbell-Harding Andover, Hampshire 1 purchased your magazine yesterday and all I can say is that lam over- ‘whelmed... a great combination of business and leisure software reviews, interesting ttbits and a bright, colourful launting of the Mac’s capabilities... Mark Edward James Bushey, Herts Keep track of the games, no one else does... Jan Fullemann Berlin, Donnerstag Three cheers. at rodent running, More for beginners please and software reviews of ‘older products. 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