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MACEORMA
ISSUE 27 &® AUGUST 1995S
REVIEWS IN
THIS ISSUE
Here is a complete
alphabetical list of
everything reviewed in
this issue of MacrornmaT
HOWE TO...
79
Sometimes your System
Uncover the X-files
ADAM 104 folder can seem to be
Bloodbath 132 full of mysteries, and
Body Park 105 eee cei Le
FMiG e ‘X-files’. In this first
es __ part of a new series, we
Citizen PN6O X-pose the dark secrets
—— = lurking in your System!
The Daedalus
Encounter 126
Flashback 130
GCC Writemove 2 65 Master the Database Basics 84
Hewlett Packard Databases can be very useful, and they aren’t hard
Deskjet 320 66 to use. Here’s how to create your database in Claris-
HowYour.. Works, FileMaker or even Helix Express.
Body Works 66
Pucemter 65. | Mail Merge in ClarisWorks 86
Legions 131 Sending out standard form
letters to dozens of people is
easy in Claris’ top integrated
package. Our step-by-step
Mannesmann Tally
MobileWriter PS = 65
MusicTime __113 guide shows you how.
Shareware 104
StoryWorld 102
Top 50Games HyperCard = =—ss89
Vol 1 and2 128 Apple’s versatile multimedia
The Ultimate creator can generate an auto-
Human Body 108 mated shopping list that keeps a
ZigzagSt~*«B' running total for you — it’s on
the cover disk! Here’s the details of how it works.
Mac Answers 95
From Mac screen displays that don’t look so hot to
using foreign accents with your fonts, MACFORMAT’s
team of experts have the solutions you seek.
WIN! WIN? WINT
Uh oh! How on earth
do you get out of this
tricky dilemma?
See page 136
A Newton 110 MessagePad 146
Like your own Personal
Digital Assistant? We have
two to be won, worth
£530, complete with
a bonus software
bundle and Mac
Connection
Kit!
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Should you buy a
modem or one of these
GeoPort adaptors?
See page 95
No use trying to pull the wool
Finder
REGUEARS q
Welcome to Macrormat 6
Everything you wanted to know about MACFoRMAT,
even the Macs on our wish lists...
News 19
How a new type of card slot
will give you more choice and
save you money. Plus: get a
Mac for less and take a look at
Apple’ | inters. =
pple’s new colour printers bhp
What’s New 24 ue
Get the low-down on the latest improvements to
ClarisWorks and see if the Zip Drive is the low-cost,
convenient data storage medium you've dreamt of.
MacroScope: Behind the News 28
7 ae Find out how video artists are
making good use of the Mac in
our special exhibition report,
and learn the medical commu-
nity’s diagnosis of multimedia.
88 le Talk:
Apple Talk: Letters 36
Your views on everything in
the Mac universe, from the cost
of PowerPC upgrades, Internet access and CD-
ROMs to ‘anti-Japanese’ games...
Soapbox: ‘When willit stop?’ 121
In the race to switch to PowerPC, Apple are leaving
ordinary people behind, says a MACFORMAT reader.
Special Reader Offers 122
Get on the Internet with our modem, video and
book offers —- with plenty more bargains besides.
Back Issues 124
Fill in the gaps in your Macrormat collection.
Gamebusters 136
Your quest to crack The Secret Of Monkey Island nears
its conclusion. Plus help for Marathon addicts who,
um, aren’t very good at Marathon.
Free Reader Ads 138
Bargains galore plus local user group contacts.
Buying Advice 141
Whether shopping in person or by mail, make sure
you know your rights before you buy.
Dilbert 141
over this employee's eyes...
Next Month 145
Coming soon! (A statement of
intention, made Without Prejudice and pro publico
bono, subject to Acts of God and force majeur...)
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MACFORMAT *¢ ISSUE 27 * AUGUST 1995
As part of this issue’s Going
Places cover feature, we
test the ultimate in ease-of-
use — printers that are light
enough to carry around
with your PowerBook, but
still offer superb printing
quality. We review and
rate five of the handiest
————— you can get.
Kodak Diconix M150+ 64
Hewlett Packard DeskWriter 320 64
Citizen PN60 Pocket printer 65
GCC WriteMove Il 65
Mannesman Tally MobileWriterPS 66
102 ince upon a time...
Not just nursery rhymes on
CD-ROM, but a multi-lingual
learning tool for non English
speakers. Ideal if your kids’
first language is Japanese...
ean
“Ags » Medical science made easy, as we
§ ‘& examine a batch of CD-ROMs
4 — all about the human body.
¥A SS Nurse, the screens, please!
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¥ The Ultimate Human Body 104
>| ADAM 105
} How Your Body Works 106
W Body Park 107
Bodyworks 108
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113
Want to make music without buying all the costly
equipment? This program could be the answer...
117
The cream of this month’s low-cost and no-cost
software from the Internet includes a dose of pure
violence and a top-drawer blaster.
A mixed bag of fun this issue, as
we rate everything from a glossy
interactive movie to a simple
word game. But which one
comes out on top?
The Daedalus Encounter
126
Top 50, Vol 1 and 2 128
Flashback 130
Legions 131
Bloodbath 132
Zig-Zag 134
On the move, or on holiday? Here’s how you can
take a Mac around the world with you - or, if
you prefer, have the world come to you...
Wired World 44
Get to grips with the — >
Internet in the first part . <
of a new MAcForMAT series.
Portable Macs 49
Need to work while on the
move, or just fancy taking a Mac to the beach?
Here’s the details of the kit you can take with you:
@ The full current PowerBook and Duo range
@ The Newton MessagePad and other add-ons
@ Portable Macs of the future...
Portables in education 60
How pupils across the UK learn with PowerBooks.
70
Is your favourite graphics or
DTP package missing the one
feature you need? You may be
able to add it on using these
‘mini-programs’! Here’s how
they work, what they can do —
and 100s to try out on our CD!
With some games looking more like Hollywood
films than the shoot-’em-ups of yore,
¢.. we go behind-the-scenes to the set
of one of the
new breed of
=> interactive
A; movies.
MACcForMaT comes with a choice of CD-
ROM or high-density disk every month:
All the utilities you need to explore the
Internet (except MacTCP and a service
provider!), PowerBook utilities, 100s of
Plug-ins and XTensions. Plus: official up-
dates of System 7.5.1 and QuickDraw GX,
the latest shareware and everything below.
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A creative 3D program, a hilarious anagram
generator, a testing word game and invaluable
utilities - even a PowerBook-like control strip!
CONTENTS
MACFORMAT *¢ ISSUE 27 * AUGUST 1995
See page 130
WELCOME
Everything you never dared to ask about MACFORMAT...
and a few things you never needed to know, probably.
ABOUT MACFORMAT
ABOUT OUR WRITERS
ALEX SUMMERSBY
Macrormat’s editor learned what he knows about
Macs by using them and reading all he could
find about them — including details of brilliant
Macs he could only lust after. He still cries over
the PowerMac 7100DL he couldn't quite afford.
DEREK SMITH
Our technical whizz kid used to run a room full
of Macs for a school in Norfolk. Now, in keeping
with his Action Man image (left), he aspires to a
PowerMac PowerBook so, he says, he can enter
the train numbers directly into his database...
RICHARD HILL
Macrormat’s multimedia man cut his computing
teeth on an Atari ST with 4Mb of RAM and two
floppy drives. Asked what he dreams about, he
modestly says ‘Just a PowerMac of some des-
cription.’ Bound to be an improvement all right.
ROD LAWTON
Our HyperCard expert has been drooling over
the new all-in-one Performa 5200, but he says
he doesn’t really mind what Mac he has so long
as it runs System 7.5, because that's scriptable
and he’s now getting into AppleScript...
MARCUS DYSON
Back when he was one of Future Publishing's art
editors, Marcus had to beg for a Quadra. Now
he works as a graphic designer for a top soft-
ware house, and they give him anything he asks
for. Must be tough having nothing to hope for.
SIZE. DOESN T COUNT...
Don’t you hate it when you turn up at your newsagent
with just enough money to buy your favourite magazine,
only to find that the price has gone up? Unfortunately the
cost of paper is rising worldwide, so more and more
magazines are having to raise their prices, or cut their
page counts, or both. Our enlightened Publisher thought
we'd try another way. If you’ve seen MAcForMart before,
you might have noticed that this issue is narrower — by
trimming some 22mm off the width of each page, we
save enough paper at least to put off the evil day. Plus,
being the standard A4 size means MAcForMart is easier
for distributors and newsagents to handle, and even a
little cheaper to mail. So thanks for buying this issue,
and stick with us — these are the only corners we're
cutting! We are still committed to keeping MACFORMAT
the Mac magazine you want to read. ALEX SUMMERSBY
elcome again to MACFORMAT,
W Britain’s best-selling Mac
magazine! Whether you're a
veteran or a novice, we'll help you get
more out of your Macintosh, whatever
you use it for!
Every month, MAcrormat brings you
tips, techniques and tutorials covering
the range of Mac applications, from
graphics, DTP, education, spreadsheets
and databases to music, comms and
games. This month we help you sort
out your System, discover the Internet,
get to grips with ClarisWorks, and more.
We'll bring you features about excit-
ing Mac developments and novel uses,
accompanied by cover disk programs
whenever possible, so you can discover
what your machine can do and try
things you haven't tried before — like
seeing what Plug-ins can do for you.
We'll keep you up-to-date with all
the Mac-related news, and also keep
you informed about the wider issues,
the people behind the headlines and
the stories behind the stories. This
issue, we explore some of the uses that
medical professionals are finding for
multimedia, and review some ‘body-
related’ titles as well!
We'll bring you authoritative
reviews of interesting and affordable
products, with clear buying recommen-
dations. This issue there’s everything
from the whole range of portable Mac
options to language learning programs,
plus the latest games, a budget music
package and the best new low-cost and
no-cost software hot off the Internet.
MAcFoRMAT does not review demos
or unfinished programs. We review
only the finished products you could
Welcome to MACFORMAT
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whether to buy or not.
MaAcrormar’s covermounted disks
and CD-ROMs offer you demos so you
can try software before you buy, useful
utilities (specially chosen to com-
plement features in the magazine),
selected shareware programs, games,
readers’ contributions and more, every
month. This issue’s details start page 8.
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A word about prices...
We try to ensure that all prices quoted in
editorial pages in MACForMart are accurate
at the time of going to press, and they are
all inclusive of UK Value Added Tax at
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very MACForRMaAT review is
EK designed to inform you in detail
what you'd be getting if you
bought the product and help you decide
whether it’s worth your money. It tells
you the essentials, without jargon.
MAcFoRMAT reviews only finished
products, and we rate them
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worthwhile, though not really
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™@ 60+% means good, but with a few
shortcomings or some limitations.
@ 50+% means acceptable but flawed.
@ A rating below 50% means you
should think carefully before parting
with your money.
The Macrormar Classic Award
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of 90% or more, we'll give
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it says: we judge the product
to be a classic, a standard-setter of
its type, something really special.
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publish, but products and prices do change. We always
quote list prices (RRPs), but street prices do vary. Shop
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your needs. Macroamat cannot accept responsibility for
any errors or omissions or for any losses that may arise
as a result, but it is our policy to correct any errors of fact
whenever we possibly can.
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publish a bi-
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easiest computer to
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little help with bugs.
This magazine offers
hope.
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Macrormat is available
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month: one with a CD-
ROM and one with a
high-density floppy
disk. The CD-ROM
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software on these
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we have an
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the definitive resource of PowerBook
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on the CD...
@ Highlights: aliases of the best bits of
this fabulous CD to help get you start-
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@ Floppy: contains everything that’s
on the floppy disk, plus a bit more.
@ Shareware City: all the best share-
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last month.
@ Shareware in Macrormat: most of
the programs reviewed in our share-
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@ Demos: interactive and rolling
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MACFORMAT.
@ Plug-ins: hundreds of plug-ins for
many major programs.
@ Portables: a collection of shareware
for PowerBooks and Newtons.
@ Internet software: all the utilities
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next issue (Macrormar 28). To keep you busy
until then, we have all the graphics used in
that series, including many of the 3D models
that can be opened and edited with most 3D
graphics programs. |
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you a useful collection of Internet
shareware to cruise all aspects of the
SOUTER re en enema oper mew ne x, Net, including a Web browser, mail
program, and newsgroup viewer. You
satin do need an Internet provider, but if
D\comPuting you're not sure about all that, see our
Competing | guide starting on page 43. Of course,
SFR I) your first port of call should be our
own Web site on FutureNet, which
features all the Future Publishing
Yate Games magazines, covering everything from
[aes ee he oes Macs to PCs to bicycles and needle-
Not only do we have pictures like this on the a7 craft. The MacronmaT page features
CD, but we also have the 3D models of them Sample the on-line world of FutureNet and browse the some handy links to Mac resource
for you to examine. Web. Remarkably, you don't even need a modem. sites, which we'll keep up-to-date.
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MACFORMAT COVER DISKS
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=. A.D.A.M and Ultimate Human Body =
=i: : PowerPete =——[jJ=
Body Demos
Requires: Colour Mac, 1Mb free RAM
Game
Requires: any Mac
Requires: PowerBook or Newton
To complement our cover feature, we are
proud to bring you a definitive collection of
shareware programs for Apple's range of
portable PowerBooks and Newtons.
Everything is there from utilities to games to
applications. You can take it with you!
We have an interactive presentation from
Softline featuring demos of loads of Newton
products for you to drool over.
Another month, another collection of great
readers’ contributions, including a particularly
strong Art Gallery. There's some wonderful
Painter creations from Joseph Pepper, some
professional illustrations from James Liand and
some rather well rendered images by Alan
Wild. All the images in the Art Gallery can be
opened using most graphics programs
including. GraphicConverter, which we feature
regularly on the CD.
In the Readers’ Contributions folder you'll
find an entire icon collection from Alban-
Jéréme Calcagno and Martin Pickering, and
some Desktop textures from Fergus Corbett
and Zack Morgan. This month's HyperCard
stacks include a hangman game from Tim
Geoghegan and an educational stack from
Leantros Kyriakoullis.
On the gaming side there are some
Wolfenstein \evels from Michael McGregor and
a complete game called Zap’T Balls which takes
Requires: see individual Read Me files
Ever wondered what goes on inside you? Well i) The plot for this game is ridiculous. You star
here we have two rolling demos of A.D.A.M. as PowerPete, a toy whose task it is to
and Ultimate Human Body. Sometimes rescue the Fuzzie
gruesome, always interesting, these take you Bunnies, dumb creatures
“through the programs giving you a clear idea who are in danger.
of the quality of the full product. Turn to our Beyond all this is a very
multimedia section to read the reviews. decent shoot-’em-up
action game with big
bright sprites and
addictive gameplay. The
demo contains the
Borie complete first level, so
cn cate load it up and rescue
those bunnies.
re = Stop talking, you
macho idiot, that big
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—= System 7.5 Update 1 ={S}=| your plastic head off.
System Software
Requires: any Mac running System 7.5 _|
Why did the skeleton hate parties so much? System 7.5 is the current version of Apple's {44
Because he had no body to dance with! Ha ha System software, although it has recently
ha... [Oh shut up - Ed.] been tweaked to version 7.5.1. This will
iv update version 7.5 to 7.5.1, providing several VIRUS OR NOT?
el = aE = bug fixes and giving new features, including: Macronsett cover CDs
the ability to turn your Mac off with the often cause virus
=: SSS SE - Story World 2 Power On key, more PowerMac native code, checkers to warn of
= = and the Launcher now supports drag and unusual resources on
Education demo drop. It also solves the problem of Macs not the disc. Don’t worry,
Requires: colour Mac, 3Mb free RAM ejecting CDs when file sharing is turned on. i] this is quite normal. It's
Story World is a wonderful education title oy a Eis) rye naires
designed to teach children the English — - mastering process
language. In fact the program speaks no less |= QuickDraw GX 1.1.2 ‘Sj =| creates so that older
than 18 languages, so it may be the ideal time “| — Macs can use the CD
to polish up your French. This demo has been System software :
specially created for MAcFoRMaT and contains a
Pigeon hte ee This is the latest version of Apple's a
QuickDraw technology. It enables several
new functions such as the ability to create YOUR ARTWORK
documents that can be opened by anyone If you would like to
else who has QuickDraw GX, even if they submit any software or
don’t have the same program or even the artwork for the
= same fonts! A word of warning though, y r
EuroTalk, the British creators of this program, QuickDraw GX does require plenty of RAM, energy sau
recently won an export award for their and we don't recommend it unless you have P (
it on floppy or SyQuest
products. Hurrah for little Blighty. more than 8Mb ‘ i
: = . »<{ — to the Disk Editor at the
el otal a 5 1 address on page 6.
= = Portable = Readers’ Corner - === —E
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Shareware Your contributions
you on a trip around the world.
If you'd like to contribute
your own software and art,
simply send them on disk or
44Mb SyQuest to Disk Editor,
Macrormar, 30 Monmouth
Street, Bath, Avon BA1 2BW.
This rather attractive
Celtic style symbol was
created by Alan Smith
from Norwich. Alan has
entitled his artwork
‘Curves’.
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MACFORMAT COVER DISKS
e have hundreds of plug- some of the more entertaining Photo-
ins on the CD for many shop plug-ins. They also work with
major programs, includ- any compatible programs such as
ing Photoshop and ColorIt! (demo on next month’s MAc- This is the original scan of a leaf taken from the
QuarkXPress. Some are shareware, FORMAT CD) or NIH Image (a share- MDI Image Warehouse CD, which will be reviewed
some are demos, but all should pro- ware program you will find on next next month. Meanwhile MDI can be contacted on
vide plenty of fun. Here is a guide to month’s MAcrorMat CD). 01252 737630 for more information.
Bump: add the third dimension to your pictures, but you'll cMulti: create the effect of looking at an object through a FotoMagic: play around with colours using a variety of
need Photoshop to create a fourth channel to use this filter. multi-faceted piece of glass. powerful tools.
Drop Shadow. automatically create a good looking shadow Erosion: play around with the colours by eroding them to Frosty: if the hot weather is getting to you, add a bit of frost
effect. Ideal for N/H Image. produce startling effects. to your pictures to cool them down.
Watercolour: you don't need an easel, canvas and garret to Plaid: nature is a bit conservative with its colours. If | were Plastic Wrap: my personal favourite — wrap things up in
produce watercolours any more. God, this is how | would have painted leaves. cling film and give them a plastic shiny look.
Sucking Fish: well this collection certainly
wins my award for silliest name, but it can
create inventive effects.
Texturizer: give your picture a
textured look. In this instance
it's like an oil painting on rough
canvas.
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Something
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A Photo-Realistic Game for the Whole Family
1-6 Players Ages 7+
AN ARMCHAIR TRAVEL PRESENTATION
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MACFORMAT COVER DISKS
YOUR
No matter what Mac you have, there’s
something for you on this month’s jam-
packed floppy disk, as Derek Smith reveals.
= =
Macrormat 27
turn to the shareware
reviews starting on
page 117.
compress the software before using
it - you'll need 3.5Mb of hard disk
space. We also recommend that you
make a backup of the MACFORMAT
cover disk, just in case anything
goes wrong. Here’s what to do...
1 Ensure the original cover disk is
write-protected (move the tab so
that you can see through the hole).
2 Insert the MAcrorMat disk.
3 Drag the disk’s icon over your
hard disk’s icon.
4 The contents are copied onto
7 Drag the Macrormart 27 folder
from your hard disk onto the blank
disk’s icon to make your backup.
To decompress the cover disk, open
the Macrormat 27 folder on your
hard disk.
1 Double-click on the MACFORMAT
27 icon.
2 Click Continue.
3 A box then asks you where you
want to save the software. Choose
the place on your hard disk where
3.5Mb in disk
Utilities, graphics and games
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D | & K Anagrams Plug-In Manager 1.0 Word Breaker 1.0.1
DropZone™ 3.1 f ttxt XTND folder earth for Mac folder
hanks to the wonders of data compression, we ( @] (a o
bring you 3.5Mb of great software on this :
month’s floppy disk, including some indispens- Smart Calendar Desktop Strip 1.1.2 Rotater-2.7
able utilities that have impressed the MACFORMAT
team. But it’s not all work, there’s also a couple of won- (sj (Fl a |
derful games to keep you at your Mac all month.
Totallt! Gravité BattleTanks 2.12.1 io
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Requires: any Mac, 700k free RAM ——— Word Breaker =
a Word game
Aneareme Requires: 12-inch colour screen, 684K free RAM |
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as ¥ This game is similar to the Mastermind game not in the hidden word, click once on that letter -4
iL fing Usobie Words J $ {_find Anagrams _ | where you have to work out the hidden pattern _in the alphabet in the top right corner. Click
Lengths: [1 |to[20 Words: {r_}to[? ] of coloured pegs by using logic and twice on a letter if you are sure that it is in the
Tote: sit ; Total: 2186 calculation. The difference here is that you have —_—hidden word.
Selected: 0 Selected: 0 to guess a hidden five
ee heonte Peet conte peer letter word. Type in
soapleinte hoof aul gti your guess, without
semansical ey any duplicate letters,
—— and press [return]. You
It's amazingly addictive —_| Did you know that ‘MacronmaT magazine’ is are then told how many
finding anagrams from —_| an anagram of ‘amazing marmot cafe’? letters are in the hidden
the names of family Probably not, but you will do when you start word. If you establish
and friends, even pets. _| using this program. There are several other that a letter is definitely
My dog’s anagram is shareware anagram programs around, but Word Breaker comes
Rev or. this is the easiest to use. Once you open the , iti
: : ; with a dictionary of
program, type in the desired words, with or 3,000 five letter words,
without spaces, it doesn’t matter. Click on but amazingly it
Jon Usable re then 20% on Find doesn't contain ‘Derek’.
nagrams, and you're away! |_|
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A High density floppy disks normally —_ your hard disk, but are still com- you want everything stored and
NAGRAMS contain a up to 1.4Mb of software, pressed and cannot be used yet. click Save.
To see some anagrams but to bring you as much as possi- 5 Drag the cover disk icon to the
produced with ble, we use a compression program — Wastebasket to eject the disk. Before installing the cover disk, we
oo an SA to fit more on. So you need to de- 6 Insert a blank high density disk. always recommend that you back
up any important work on your
hard disk. This precaution will
avoid problems should any of the
software not be compatible with
your setup. We make every effort to
check our disks for compatibility
and viruses, but the information
here is intended as a guide only,
and Macrormart cannot be held re-
sponsible for any damage to data,
any inability to use this software or
any resulting losses. So please, take
the precaution of backing up first.
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MACFORMAT * ISSUE 27 * AUGUST 1995
MACFORMAT COVER DISKS
= DropZone 3.1 Eee ERE | Smart Calendar {j=
Utility ar Saw ia rs Appointment keeper —
Requires: any Mac, System 7 Requires: any Mac
Smart Calendar is more Smart Calendar
With System 7, you can drag a file onto an ee
than just a screen © Toke Kha oq fo the car veal
application to make that particular program
launch it. This is fine, but of course you need to | calendar, it also serves | [Su»|non| Tue [ea] tha oo
be able to see the icon of the application you jf |> pong . . as a basic diary to keep | E
want to drop it on. This leads to Desktops like | aaa ——— all your appointments. 2{o|+{s i? | .
mine with dozens of aliases cluttering itup. | ¥ Color It!” 3.0 ! Simply click onadate | | or tt S| Good an by copy ot Petormalls
, i ite jj braphicConwerter i 5 Hei Hd | L td
With DropZone, you drag a file onto its icon, | a Mecreeeht Berks 48 and write the details in za | 24 | 25 | 20 | 27 | 28 | 20
and you then get a dialogue box offering you all | the box to the right. By | [S031
your applications, so that you can select the 2 O Alternate selecting Repeating 4 Py Po
desired one to open the file. You can create Press <Shift> to Set Events from the File oo ae 5 = |
specific sets of programs to appear, and even as eer menu, you can detail 3)
set it up automatically for certain types of file to With Dropzoney you now wv only have to > drag a file things that happen ona It's small, it's got little
always be opened by a specific program. onto a single icon to launch it with any program. bs regular basis, like birthdays or full moons. |_| memory, it's very
uy : : ‘
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<I ce foil you of appointments.
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a == —. wife's redundant.
= Battle Tanks = = ——— = Rotator 2.7 sy:
Multi- -player game eae ; = Graphics utility
Requires: colour Mac Requires: LCIlI, 256 colour monitor, System 7
There have been many versions of this e This is a fun graphics program which enables
classic game, but none as good as this. The you to create a three
idea is that each player has a cannon placed dimensional shape by defining
on a hilly landscape. You have to shoot the the x, y, and z points. The shape
cannon of your opponent by firing a projectile can then be rotated in real time
that is affected by wind and gravity. To be using the mouse, and even spun
accurate, you'll need to adjust the angle of on an axis. The are many basic
trajectory and the speed of projectile. You shapes included on the floppy,
keep taking it in turn until one player kills the and some extra ones on the CD.
other. Up to ten people can play against each
tla os ep die sen Rotater is a simple but fun 3D
asap lard la muy program which enables you to
person is left standing, you can buy bigger view .
your creation from any
and better weapons for the next round. angle
SE Fite Fount Tank Game Specs
Desktop Strip
After you've blown
your opponent into oe __ Utility
little squidgy bits, Requires: colour Mac
select more weapons Er a
for the next round. Desktop Strip gives
you the functionality
of the Control Strip
Control Panel which
can usually only be ART RULES!
There are lots of found on Power- * thi
shareware modules Books (although any postr ialtes Se
round that you can Desktop Mac can use and neither could
add to Desktop Strip. this facility). It also anyone else. But the art
2 provides several team said there had to
improvements. To be a margin note here
Bi eonepenperivi for the general
GOFr~ PROBEEM? 4 Colors Panel and the Desk- Baer onlay
pegeclOrs | top Strip Modules any ideas for scin-
If the cover-mounted high density Return CD-ROMs to: ® Thousands cain Faker tO tillating margin notes
disk or CD-ROM you have is defec- Macrormat CD returns will automatically be for our next issue,
” tive, return it to us and we will re- Future Publishing installed in the ay ata them to us
place it. Please make sure you have FREEPOST (BS4900) correct places) and A piace pon
followed the installation procedures Somerton then restart. There pi cipasrarnan = °
described in these pages correctly, to Somerset are further modules aie are space
ensure that there is a physical prob- TA11 6BR in the Shareware J
lem with the disk itself. Otherwise, Modules folder for
the replacement will be just the Enclose a self-addressed padded you to take a look at.
same! envelope (but we’ll pay return They all provide you
postage) with the disk or CD, anda with control over
Return HD disks to: description of the fault. Please do not many important parts
Discopy Labs return disks or CDs to the editorial of the Mac, from a
PO Box 21 office; we don’t hold any stocks of palette that floats
Daventry them and can only refer you to the permanently thay
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New card standard for cheaper add-ons & Apple announce
more price cuts, new colour printers. Richard Hill reports.
New card slot for more
choice, better price
he first of a new breed of
PowerMacs has been
launched, incorporating a
new type of card slot that is
already an industry standard and
will become the standard for Macs.
This means that Macs will be able to
accept a vastly increased range of
plug-in expansion cards — adding
enhanced graphics or networking
capabilities, for example — at much
keener prices.
PCI (Peripheral Component Inter-
connect) is already fast becoming the
standard in the Windows PC market.
Manufacturers will be able to make
one card that will fit in both Macs and
PCs — the only difference is in the soft-
ware the computers will need to
recognise the presence of the cards. So
firms will have a much wider market
for their cards, meaning they will be
able to sell them for less - and mean-
ing a better choice for you.
The first PCI Mac is the Power Mac-
intosh 9500, a top-of-the-range mon-
ster costing over £4,500, but cheaper
machines — the 7500
and the 8500 — will fol-
low shortly. Ultimately,
the entire Mac range
should have PCI slots.
PCI slots will also
form a crucial part of
the set-up for new Mac-
compatible machines
from companies like
Power Computing. The
standard replaces
NuBus, previously the
most popular card slot
for the Mac — but PCI
cards will be far cheaper
and faster. In the near
future, it’s expected that
some companies will be
making PCI interfaces into which you
can slot your existing NuBus card, so
you can use any expansion cards you
already own with the new Macs, until
you're ready to completely make the
switch to PCI.
Apple’s contribution to your choice
of PCI cards will be limited to a set of
PCi CARD MAKERS
Radius, one of the biggest manufac-
turers of Mac expansion cards, are
supporting PCI with an entire range
of graphics cards, which offer the
dual benefits of increased screen reso-
lution of up to 1,600 by 1,200 pixels
and faster graphics drawing. There
are three ranges — ThunderColor,
Thunder and PrecisionColor. You can
also get a closer match between on-
screen documents and the way they
print out. Some of the new cards cost
as little as half as much as their
NuBus equivalents, Radius say — and
all are cheaper to some degree. For
example, the base PrecisionColor
8/1600 card costs a mere £704.
Radius are of course one of the
companies that are making Mac-
compatible computers (see News,
MAcrormart 22), and a combined
bundle of a computer and graphics
card is inevitable. The industry news-
paper MacWeek reports that Radius
have approached IBM to manufacture
Mac-compatible computers to be sold
under the Radius brand (yep, Mac
clones made by IBM!), giving Radius
the increased potential to break out
beyond their graphics professional
constituency.
Other companies making PCI cards
include Truevision (the new name for
well-known video firm RasterOps),
Avid Technology (of VideoShop fame),
Neutral (with a range of network
cards), ATI, Linotype-Hell, and Rock-
well. And Matrox Graphics, one of
the top card producers, are now sup-
porting the Mac for the first time.
network cards for the time being,
while they focus on making the Macs
that can use the cards.
The Power Macintosh 9500 is tar-
geted at graphics and multimedia
professionals — it’s twice as fast as the
previous top-of-the-range 8100/110.
There are two models available, with
different chip clock speeds — both have
16Mb of RAM, a quad-speed CD-ROM
drive and a specialised graphics accel-
erator card from the ATI firm. There
are six PCI slots in each model.
The 9500/120 costs £4,695 and also
includes a 1Gb (1,000Mb) hard disk.
The 9500/132, which has a 2Gb drive,
costs £5,816 — although there's also a
£5,552 model without the video card,
so you can get the card of your choice.
Apple say that they see PCI as one
of the three linchpins of the Mac range
for the next several years, along with
the PowerPC chip and OpenDoc, the
new system which means huge, com-
plex applications will be replaced by
smaller, specialised components that
you can mix and match as needed (for
details, see MACFORMAT 26).
For more details on the new genera-
tion of PowerMacs, contact Apple on
0800 127753. For details on the
graphics cards from Radius, call them
on 01483 772773.
By far the most
powerful Mac ever, the
9500 is the first of a
range of machines that
offer cheaper support
cards.
APPLE CD-ROM
PRICE
The new quad-speed
CD600e CD-ROM drive
from Apple (see Mac-
FORMAT 25) goes on
sale in August for
around £350. It's up to
twice as fast as the
CD300, meaning
smoother playing
multimedia. There's
also an internal version
— the CD600i — that you
can swap with your
current built-in drive.
For more details
contact Apple on 0800
127753.
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much of their PowerMac,
Performa and PowerBook
ranges, with the Performa
630 now available for as little as
£880. The previous price for the most
basic 630 model was £999. The 630
with 8Mb of RAM and a CD-ROM
drive stays at the same price, but its
hard drive size has increased from
350Mb to 500Mb.
In the wake of the new PCI Power-
Mac (see lead story on page 19), the
prices of many of the current Power-
Macs are tumbling by as much as
16%. The hard disk size of the 6100/
66 has also been increased from
350Mb to 500Mb.
It’s now cheaper to take a Mac on
the road as the prices of many Power-
Books fall by up to 8%.
As with all of Apple's prices, the fig-
ures in the table are estimates of what
you'd pay — shopping around could
save you money on these prices. Sig-
nificantly, the 630 is the only Mac in
the desktop range not to have a
PowerPC chip in it. Could it be the last
Mac as we knew them?
Now you can get the original PowerMac model — the
6100 — for less than £1,500. The popular 7100
should be available for under £2,000
Price cuts follow
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PRICES
PowerMacs
Model number/Chip clock speed,
Memory/Hard disk/Features
6100/66 8/500 £1,381
6100/66 8/500/D0S £1,872
7100/80 8/350 £2,074
7100/80 8/700/CD/AV £2,409
8100/100 8/700 £3,261
8100/110 16/2Gb/CD £4,295
A monitor and keyboard cost extra.
Performas
Model number, Memory/Hard disk/Features
630 4/250 £880
630 8/500/CD £1,169
Monitor and keyboard are included.
PowerBooks
Model number, Memory/Hard disk/Features
Duo 280c 4/500 £2,620
Duo 280c 12/500/EM £3,082
540c 12/500/EM £3,945
The prices of other Mac models, including the
new Performa 5200 and 6200 and the 630
DOS Compatible, are unchanged.
Prices include VAT. AV: Audio-visual
capabilities inc built-in speakers. CD: internal
double-speed CD-ROM drive. DOS: DOS
Compatible card for running Windows and
MS-DOS software. EM: Express Modem
included.
VIDEO PHONE
Apple and major
telecommunications
firm AT&T are to
develop a networking
system that will enable
you to communicate
with video, voice or
data. For example,
you'll be able to
discuss a piece of
video with someone in
another country, and
both be able to view
the video as you talk.
TALIGENT
SCALES DOWN
Taligent are abandon-
ing plans to create a
new operating system
for all major computer
platforms, including
the Mac (see issue 19).
They'll focus instead on
CommonPoint, a
system that will enable
programmers to get
their work onto differ-
ent platforms more
easily than at present.
Live video over the Net
If you're using the Netscape Navigator
browser program to move around the
World Wide Web, you'll soon be able
to watch video sequences live.
At the moment, you have to load
the video files onto your hard drive
and watch them later. People using
the Web — already the richest part of
the Internet for graphics — will be able
to communicate in even more creative
and flexible ways.
The development is because of a
deal between Netscape and Macro-
media to share Macromedia’s software.
You'll be able to place files made with
Macromedia Director, a top program for
creating multimedia, onto the Web so
that anyone can watch them live with
a new version of Netscape due later this
year. It also enhances the position of
the Mac as one of the top computers
for creating multimedia — much of
what you'll see on the Web will have
been made with a Mac.
Netscape are busily trying to set
new standards of what can be done on
the Internet. There are already plans
to use Adobe’s PDF (Portable Docu-
ment Format) system to make the
Web look much more profess-
ional, with many more type styles
available. And the integration of
Java, a programming language
developed by the Sun firm, means
you'll even be able to use small
programs like spreadsheets that
are built into Web pages.
Watch multimedia live on the
Internet! These examples
were created by Bigtop,
Canter, Mythos and Red Dot
using Director.
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bulletin board with our
TeleFinder software last
issue — the BBS phone
number was missing
from the Preferences
file. The number you
need is 0141 881 0418,
and the free connection
offer has been extend-
ed until Friday 1
September.
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pple are revamping their
line of printers, with new
or changed colour mod-
els at its core. A
portable printer is now
available for as little as
£350, while there’s a new
laser printer to offer top-
quality colour. All the printers
include ColorSync software
for getting the printed result
as similar as possible to
what you see on-screen.
At less than a foot long and
| only 2.2 inches high, the
) Colour StyleWriter 2200 is an
inkjet printer you can easily
carry around with you. It
can print full colour im-
,
peor for alt: = ages at 360 dots per inch
the LaserWriter (dpi) or in black-and-white at 720
12/600 (above), the by 360 dpi. A 30-sheet paper feeder
StyleWriter 2200 (top) and 64 TrueType fonts are included in
and the the StyleWriter the price of around £350.
2400 (right). Like the 2200 and the monochrome
1200 (see What’s New in MACFORMAT
26), the Colour StyleWriter 2400
IBMS WILL USE MAC os!
The first details of the computer that will replace the
PowerMac have been released. CHRP (Common Hardware
Reference Platform) is a joint project from Apple, IBM and
Motorola, and all three companies will be making their
own versions — but IBM now say that they intend to in-
clude the Mac Operating System with theirs!
CHRP (pronounced ‘chirp’) will be able to run the Mac
OS and any of five other operating systems — Windows NT,
OS/2, Solaris, Novell Netware and AIX - most of which
are designed for specialist use.
On top of the announcement that IBM will be making
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story, page 19),
IBM’s plans to
include the Mac OS
with their CHRP
machines might
seem to mean that
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computers by theend of Supplied as well. Still, with the
1996 - and with IBM's too. huge clout IBM have with business
customers, their support should
mean many more people using the Mac OS in future.
The first CHRP machines are expected to go on sale in
late 1996. A brief proposed specification has been released
to the rest of the industry to invite comments — a more pre-
CHRP will be based on the PowerPC chips used in
PowerMacs, with the 604 as the minimum level.
To use the Mac OS, you'll still need a customised chip,
as the hardware and the operating system work so closely
together. It’s expected that a future version of the Mac OS
will remove this need, but the first version to run on
CHRP will be the System version code-named Copland.
Printers add splash
of
(£410) now
comes with a
range of print-
ing utilities. You
can print up to four
pages at reduced size
on an A4 page, so you see rough sam-
ples of your work-in-progress without
wasting paper. You
can also add a water-
mark (a faint image
behind your type)
to your documents
and create a printer
icon to place on
your Desktop. If
you drag a docu-
ment file to the icon, the
program you used to create the
file loads up and presents the Print di-
alogue box, ready to print.
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The £5,875 Colour LaserWriter
12/600 PS is a top-of-the-range printer
for businesses, offering near photo-
graphic printing quality. Apple claim
that new technology makes the Laser-
Writer as good as printers that cost far
more — they've filed 42 patents just on
ideas used in this one printer. Over
time, many of the ideas used should
make their way into cheaper
machines.
At the same time as the
colour launches are
announced to the world,
the retail price of the
Select 360 drops by
10% to around
£1,174. It’sa
monochrome laser
printer that can pro-
duce type and images at 600 dpi.
COPLAND: A FIRST LOOK
The Mac’s operating system is headed
for a radical overhaul, as we reported
last issue. The new Mac OS, code-
named Copland, is the most powerful
yet — although trickery with virtual
memory means it’s expected to run
comfortably on a PowerMac with
8Mb of RAM. The release date is set
for mid-1996.
Among the many new features is a
new look for the familiar Desktop.
The pictures show how you'll be able
to change Desktop styles between a
number of options, according to how
skilful you are at using the Mac or
simply which look you prefer. Some
designs will be supplied with the
new version of the Mac OS, but
you'll be able to buy others later — or
Using this start-up screen, you can choose the
look that’s best for you. Each person that uses
your Mac can pick his own design.
you can even create your own. (The
designs shown here are early exam-
ples - you won’t necessarily get these
with Copland.)
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tastes, you can choose
from (clockwise from
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with buttons you only
click on once and few
menu options; a fun
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Desktop for young
children, again with
single-click buttons; a
high-tech look for
posers — sorry, ‘power
users’; and the
standard Desktop with
redesigned icons and
windows.
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The most popular program on the Mac is revamped! Plus
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n September we'll see a brand-
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The top integrated package — with
word processor, database, spreadsheet,
drawing and presentation modules —
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desktop publishing programs such as
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style you want for the titles in your
document, for example, and place
those settings into the ExpressStyle
palette. You can then go through your
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a" -
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touch of a button.
all
The Home Finance Assistant is one of 11 useful
templates designed to help you carry out
commonplace tasks — like figuring out your
mortgage payments, for example.
with any ClarisWorks file, not just its
word processor documents — and
there are pre-defined styles to enable
you to make your documents look
good with minimal effort.
With the word processor module,
you can now divide long documents
into sections, using different format
settings in each section. The Mail
Merge facility now has a useful pre-
view option, enabling you to see how
your letter looks before you print it
out. And you can save a document in
the HTML format that’s used on the
World Wide Web — so you can actually
create your own Web pages ready to
put on the Internet.
The database module now offers a
List View option, so you can see lots of
information at once in a simple row
and column structure. You can use the
FastReport feature to make your own
search options and save them for use
another time. Meanwhile, the spread-
sheet module offers the facility to fill
out row or column headings automati-
cally — and this feature can be used for
month by month headings for book-
keeping, for example.
There are 500 pieces of clip art
ready to use and an increased range of
Assistants, the automated helpers that
carry out common tasks for you. New
Assistants include Home Finance,
which can calculate whether you can
afford that car or mortgage.
The whole of ClarisWorks has been
overhauled to improve its ease-of-use
— with new toolbar and ruler options —
without making it too different from
the version you already own. Look out
a full review in MACFORMAT soon.
@ Price: expected to be around
£120.
@ Out: September.
@ Requires: Mac II or better with
System 7 and 4Mb of RAM.
@ For more details contact Claris
on 0181 756 0101.
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WHAT’S NEW
Quick ’N’ Easy
Now Software, best known for their utility
Suites like Now Contact, are offering a mini-
selection of practical utilities for the knock-
down price of £32.90. Quick 'N’ Easy
includes Fonts, which changes the Fonts
menu that's in many of your programs so
you can see what the fonts look like.
ClarisWorks performs a similar feat, but few
other programs do.
FolderMenus gives your Mac ‘pop-up
folders’. If you drag a file icon over toa
folder, a menu will appear listing all the
other folders inside — so you can place your
file just where you want without opening
lots of windows.
Super Boomerang offers an improved file
searching facility, including extra options for
finding files and folders while you're using
an Open or Save dialogue box.
Quick 'N’ Easy comes on a CD-ROM. It’s
actually a cut-down version of Now Utilities
5.0, and there's a discount upgrade offer
available. For more details contact Now
Software on 01525 237100.
Motorola Modem
The 3400 Pro is the first attempt by
Motorola to create a low-cost modem for a
wider market after years of catering only for
big business. It's capable of transmitting at
speeds up to 28,800 bps — the fastest a
modem can do at the moment. Priced at
around £218, the 3400 Pro comes with fax
and communications software that’s
designed to be as easy to use as possible.
For more details contact Motorola on 01293
401628.
Cruise around the Internet at an impressive
28,800 bits per second with the £218
Motorola 3400 Pro.
Hitachi Monitor
The latest 17-inch monitor from Hitachi
costs less than its predecessor, while
offering improved features. At £752, the
CM1711 can display a picture at up to 1,280
by 1,024 pixels at a frequency of 75Hz—
meaning next to no flicker on your screen.
There's a built-in on-screen display feature
to help you adjust the monitor's settings
easily. The CM1711 succeeds the
17MVXPlus. For more details contact
Hitachi on 0181 849 2000.
Scanner bundles
The new Agfa StudioScan Ilsi has had a
package of software added. For £1,099, the
scanner comes with the full version of
Photoshop 3.0, Omnipage Direct Optical
Character Recognition software and a pack
of Agfa’s own scanner utilities. There's a
£993 bundle available where the main
program is Photoshop LE 2.5, a less
powerful version. For more details contact
Agfa-Gevaert on 0181 560 2131.
Drive
ust when you thought you
might be stuck with slow,
uneconomical floppy
disks forever, along comes
a cheap new system that could well
have what it takes to become a new
standard for data storage.
The Zip Drive uses a new design of
disk that is only a little larger than a
floppy disk, but can store up to
100Mb. You'd have to buy seven
boxes of floppy disks to get anywhere
near to storing that amount. And yet
you can buy a Zip disk for the bargain
price of around £17.50.
On top of that, Iomega claim that
their system is almost as fast as a hard
drive. It can send copy data across at
up to 1.4Mb a second — the contents of
an entire floppy every second, in other
words. The drive simply plugs into the
Mac’s SCSI connection, while the soft-
ware to run the disks and make back-
ups is provided.
So with the drive costing just £176,
can the Zip system rise to the top
ith the increased popular-
ity of communication ser-
vices like the Internet, the
modem is fast becoming
an essential part of any good Mac set-
up. And modems are getting cheaper
all the time. At only £140, the Supra
144LC is an economical way to get
your Mac on-line.
Its top transmission speed is 14,400
bits per second, either when using on-
line services or sending and receiving
faxes. The software that comes with
the 144LC includes FAXcilitate, which
adds an extra menu to your existing
MACFORMAT °* ISSUE 27 * AUGUST 1995
PRODUCT NEWS
ZIP
against rivals like the well-established
SyQuest cartridges? It’s off to a good
start, with healthy sales in the United
States. And Power Computing — the
first company to sell Mac-compatible
computers under Apple’s licence
scheme — will be offering Zip drives in
their models shortly. Perhaps the days
of the floppy are numbered.
@ Price: £176 for drive, £17.50 per
100Mb disk.
@ Out: now.
@ Requires: Mac SE or better with
System 6.0.7 (System 7 recom-
mended) and 4Mb of RAM.
@ For more details contact Iomega
on 0800 898563.
144LC
programs, enabling you to send a fax
without leaving your word processor,
for example. There's also the software
you need to get onto CompuServe, a
leading on-line service — and an offer
to get several hours use for free to try
it out for yourself.
@ Price: £140.
@ Out: now.
@ Requires: Mac II or better with
System 7 and 4Mb of RAM.
@ For more details contact Com-
puters Unlimited on 0181 200 8282.
SCREEN CUTS
The prices of Apple’s
Multiple Scan Displays
have been reduced.
The 17-inch model now
costs around £820,
while the 20-inch
Multiple Scan will set
you back about £1,640.
For more details
contact Apple on 0800
127753.
PD SYSTEM
The PD System from
Panasonic is a com-
bined quad-speed CD-
ROM and optical disk
drive. What this
essentially means is
you can record onto
the CD. The drive costs
£645. For more details
contact Ideal Hardware
on 0181 286 5000.
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MACROSCOPE
BEHIND THE NEWS
This month MAcrormat looks at medical CD-ROMs and Internet
health coverage, as well as reporting on the recent Video
Positive exhibition of computer art in Liverpool.
There’s more to multimedia
than entertainment — the
medical community is one
example of a professional group
whose work is being
transformed by the new
technology.
BODY CONTACT
For more details on
The Cardiovascular
System Series, contact
Andromeda Interactive
on 01235 529595. For
more details on the
ADAM series of
education CD-ROMs,
contact Churchill
Livingstone on 0131
§35 1751.
WEB SEARCH
If you have a Web
browser, you can view
BioNet at:
http:/Awww.leeds.ac.uk/
bionet.htm!
and the Virtual Hospital
at:
http://indy.radiology.uio
wa.edu/VirtualHospital
html
n the space of a few years,
multimedia has become king in
the Mac industry. CD-ROM
and, increasingly, the World
Wide Web are changing the way
millions of Mac users think about
their machines. An example of this
can be found in medicine, where
multimedia is offering new opportu-
nities for pooling knowledge.
Functional Anatomy of the Heart is the
first of a proposed set of modules
called The Cardiovascular System Series.
Across two CDs, it provides a detailed
guide to the heart. Extensive notes
and professional photography are ac-
companied by a multimedia training
course. As the medical student, you
use the knowledge you've gained to
complete interactive quizzes. Some are
not unlike the games featured in the
discs covered in our round-up of med-
ical multimedia for the home this issue
(page 104). But the purpose behind
the play is more serious.
The American firm ADAM Software
produces education software for
schools, colleges and medical schools.
Its modular programs combine to offer
a full portrait of the human body at
three levels of expertise. At the top
level - ADAM Comprehensive — the disc
costs £1,760. ADAM are now using
the resources they've built up to bring
their brand of education into the
home with ADAM: The Inside Story. It’s
a CD-ROM that gives a basic and witty
introduction to the body, while using
some of the material employed in
ADAM’s more serious discs (see MAc-
FORMAT’S review on page 105).
The Internet is also proving useful
for medical training. BioNet is a British
co-operative where professionals and
students share their knowledge, creat-
ing multimedia for others to use and
learn from. There’s a whole range of
ideas being discussed, including using
the Maxis game SimLife as an aid to
studying genetics. Also on BioNet are
MacCycle and MacGut, which were cre-
ated at the University of St Andrews
using HyperCard, Apple’s pioneering,
simple multimedia and presentation
program. MacCycle explores the men-
strual cycle, with animations that illus-
trate the hormonal changes in the
body. MacGut maps out the intestinal
tract, showing how it breaks up into
different areas.
Elsewhere on the Web there’s the
Virtual Hospital, a mammoth project
co-ordinated by the University of
Iowa. It’s a resource for doctors and
nurses, offering video and audio
material on patient care. There’s a list
of typical cases with symptoms and X-
ray shots to analyse, for example. The
Virtual Hospital also includes informa-
tion on good health for the public.
The sharing of knowledge and re-
sources in these projects is a vivid ex-
ample of how multimedia technology
can create or develop a sense of com-
munity among people, whatever the
distance between them. RICHARD HILL
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The Virtual Hospital uses the Internet to offer a giant community health project for professionals and the public alike.
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It uses the same principles as many games at
times, but the Functional Anatomy CD-ROM is a
serious aid for doctors.
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provide a careful analysis of the female body for
medical students.
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test their own learning, including making analyses
based on x-rays.
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MACROSCOPE
BEHIND THE NEws
Video Positive ’95
Computer art is more popular than ever. Video Positive, an
exhibition organised by Liverpool-based Moviola, aims to make it
even more accessible to the public and artists alike.
o many ‘fine’ artists the con-
cept of ‘computer art’ has
always represented a contra-
diction in terms — like ‘mili-
tary intelligence’, or ‘political integri-
ty’. But as creating digital images
becomes more sophisticated, artists
are increasingly turning to computers
and other electronic media. If you
want to see some of the best
electronic art in Europe,
Video Positive, organised
by Moviola in Liverpool
once every two years, is
the event to attend.
Unlike previous Video
Positive events, where
Amigas featured heavily,
Video Positive ‘95 was
predominantly Mac ori-
ented with approximately
half of the artists involved
using Macs to some extent
in their work. The instal-
lations ranged from Deser-
ter by Marion Kalmus — a
large back-projected and
Mac-synchronised display of wide-
angle slides — to The Ark by Marty St
James and Anne Wilson — a series of
monitors displaying partial human/
animal morphs. But the most ap-
proachable work for the average non-
artist had to be the CD-ROMs.
Here are a few samples of the work
on show at Video Positive:
Bi Anti-rom, published by SASS Collec-
tive (UK) — ‘a cluster of randomly ac-
cessed audio-visual engines’ including:
Soundspaces — ready-made tool boxes
for IJs (interactive jockeys); Screen The-
ory — interactive video-texts by Sadie
Plant and Nick Land; and Underground
— audio-visual loops that merge typog-
raphy and dance music. Anti-rom was
funded by the Arts Council, so it can
Die Veteranen is a branching series of
gateways to interactive music/sound-
scapes and visual ambiguities. Each
object or feature in the drawings reacts to
a click, playing an animated sequence or
moving on to the next gateway.
‘Underground’ — audio-visual loops merge typog-
raphy and dance music. Featured on Anti-rom.
be obtained from SASS on 0171 727
0812 for a mere £5.
@ The Biomorph Encyclopedia by
Bobuhiro Shibayama (Japan) — using
morphing techniques, this is an ani-
mated reworking of Muybridge’s
famous photographic studies of
human and animal locomotion. Bio-
Morph Encyclopedia is published by 4D
and available from Moviola at £45.
@ Die Veteranen by Eichhorn, [hmels,
John and Touma (Germany) — ‘an ex-
traordinary game’ with no purpose
other than to ‘explore an electronic
dream world’. Published by Systhema,
Die Veteranen is also available from
Moviola at £39.99.
@ The Toy Box — various artists (UK).
Featuring 20 artists who have all cre-
ated small scale interactive artworks
ie.
‘Soundspaces’ — ready-made tool boxes for lds
(interactive jockeys). Featured on Anti-rom.
From Biomorph Encyclopedia, various animal and
human morph animations are presented on these
pages as still-icons. You can select groups of
these to play back linked together as a sequence.
on the theme of a toy box, The Toy Box
demonstrates the potential creative
uses of this newest
medium. Funded by
the Arts Council,
The Toybox is pub-
lished by Moviola at
only £15.50.
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M.I1.C.E.
Moviola are currently
seeking funding for a
Moving Image Centre
for Exhibition, to be
based in Liverpool.
This would be the first
of its kind in the UK.
MOVIOLA
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