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This month we have changed the disk to a huge high density floppy so we can fit more on. Almost all Macs made in the last four years have a SuperDrive and so can use these disks, but older models can't. Don't worry, however, you can exchange your HD disk for two ordinary ones - see below for details. Because we've compressed the software to fit more on, you can’t run the programs on the disk straight from the floppy: first they must be decompressed and copied on to your hard disk. To do this just double-click on the MacFormat #5 icon, and select your hard disk. When it’ finished you'll find a new folder called MacFormat #5 f, inside that there are three more folders called Games, Applications and Extras, and inside those you'll find the Programs themselves. You'll need around 2.8Mb of free disk space before you begin. If you bought August's MacFormat (issue 3) you'll have a copy of the excellent Compact Pro, which you can use to open the archive and select which Programs to decompress - useful if you don't have enough disk space for them If you have an older Mac ¥f your Mac is chronologically challenged and it can't use high density disks (Pluses, SEs and original Mac Ils can't; anything since the SE/30 including Classics and Performas can) don't worry. To get the same programs on two ordinary disks, just send your disk with a self-addressed return envelope to: MacFormat Disk Swap, DisCopy Labs, PO Box 21, Daventry NN1 5BU. Make sure the envelope is big enough for two disks and sturdy enough to make it through the post. If you don’t want the hassle of doing this every month, then subscribe and you can choose to get your two disks delivered for no extra money! See page 66 for details. Compatibility We spend hours checking ail the programs on the disk with @8 many different machines as possible, but we can’t check every combination and we can't guarantee that the Programs will work with your system. The information on compatibility in these pages and on the disk is intended as ‘@ guide only. Nor can we warrant the programs or be in any way responsible for any problems arising from their use. Check the Read me! file on the disk for common-sense Suidelines you should follow when installing any software. Cover d cover We've packed four disks’ worth of goodies on to this month’s enormous disk. Check out these great programs... Do It All Do It All! is a to-do list, job priori- tiser and appointments manager in one. You can use Do It All! simply as an electronic diary, entering your appointments on its week-at-aglance display, but Do It All! can do much more than that. For one thing you can program alarms for events so that you're never late. In addition to entering your appointments, Do /t All! allows you to keep a list (in the form of a pop-up menu) of all the jobs you have on currently as well as the dates they're due. By assigning a priority to each Job, Do It All! can show you the order you should be doing things. Give Do It All! a job's deadline and it will gradually increase its Fie Cait Joo priority until it makes it to the top of the list in plenty of time to get done. And Do It All! can juggle as many jobs as you can! For when you're away from your Mac Do It All! prints out your schedule neatly for you to carry around. Because of its power, Do It All! can be a bit daunting for the first few minutes, but once you've spent half an hour or so sussing out stuff like, how to move between the diary and things-to-do lists (just click an icon), it soon becomes clear. There's an excel- ent on-line help facility too. Your cover disk Greg’s Buttons The Mac customiser's dream program! This contro! panel lets you add 3D buttons, colourise your menu bar and windows, and change the font used in the menu bar. You're right, it has no practical use, but it certainly makes your Mac look better! Greg's Buttons lets you mess about with your Mac's appearance to your heart's content. Beats working is all | can say Goudy Hundred 4" 2tie’ font based on a design by Frederick Goudy. This is a PostScript Type 1 font, so will not work with a StyleWriter unless you have Adobe Type Manager installed. Operation Intercept This has to be the fastest action game the Mac has ever seen. It’s a shoot-em-up: enemies attack in waves, your lone ship with its laser must defend the planet, Pathways Into Darkness ~ Messages. If you've seen Ultima Underworld ‘on the PC, you'll have an idea of what to expect from Pathways into Darkness. You are a Special Forces agent with a mission to save the world from a hostile alien demon: To complete your mission you must detonate a small nuclear device at the bottom most level of the demon’s tunnels. To complete the mission and survive you _ must return to the surface and P signal an extraction team to pick you up. That, however, is more easily said than done. You move around a dungeon, rendered in 3D in real time with your Mac. You can explore using the mouse, and it’s a good idea to find a weapon before the monsters find you! This fully working playable demo will give you an idea what to expect when the full version ships from BungieSoft “real soon now”. I have to confess that the zombies always get me before l've even finished the demo! the usual scheme. There's music, there's frenetic action and I'm damned if I can get past level five. It is so fast that if you're running it on anything faster than a Classic, you might need to turn the speed down ~ thankfully something the program lets you do. Show it at full speed on a Quadra to a Nintendo owner, and then ask them which has the fastest action! This is a demo version, so your ships are limited and the two-player option is disabled. However, still gives you an excellent taster of a groundbreak- ing game for the Mac. Intercept PopChar PopChar is a handy control panel which can assist you in typing the more unusual characters, such as ii, é and 6. When installed, clicking in a designated corner of the screen brings up a chart of every available character in the currently selected font. Choosing a character pastes it into your document at the cursor. PopChar is especially useful for working with Symbol and Zapf Dingbats, when you can see what you are typing. Safety Belt scien anata temporary files ~ unfortunate! ' ——=—= they're invisible! Safety Belt is a contro! panel which spots these SS Tiles when you restart after a crash, =a and makes them visible. It won't repair them, but it might just give you (or your local wirehead who understands odd file formats) a chance to get your work back. Safety Belt is written by those nice guys at Alysis, who have made it free for everyone to use. Programs often use temporary files to hold the changes you make to documents in between saves. If your Mac crashes and you lose work, possible that some of it might be Fast Unfrag en your Mac crashes out with a System Error, as likely as not the Resume button just sits there taunt- you by not doing anything when you click on it. Bomb Shelter attempts to make it do something The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog. When your hard disk is brand new, the Mac Starts saving the disk, and saves them sequentially and contiguously until the disk is full. After a while, when you have deleted a few files, ‘holes’ of empty space appear where the deleted files were, which are then filled up _ 1234507890 ies at one end of ing it up. It req Bomb Shelter useful by quitting the program that crashed and returning you to the Finder. You'll still have lost anything you were the aberrant application, but you might (note, might) be able to save work other programs you have ‘open. Even if Bomb Shelter does return you safely to the Finder, it’s a good idea to restart your Mac as soon as you can. Kingyo This is, well, sort of a. oh, just try it! AJ Times es a fair amount of free by new files. When the disk gets nearly full, the Mac may have to split a file up into several pieces to fit it in the available holes of free space. This slows access down, and is called fragmentation. Fast Unfrag will attempt to remove as much fragmentation as possible by rearranging the files on your hard hard disk space to completely de-fragment a disk, but it will do a partial job with what space it can. WARNING: before using any disk defrag- mentation software, back up your hard disk. If the program crashes while it is working, data on your disk may be lost. Does your Mac's clock run fast or slow? Mine certainly does both of these, and as | tend to tell the time via SuperClock! rather than my watch, I'm often late for appointments . (Well that’s my disk ~ this should have the effect of speed- Backing up your cover disk We recommend that you back up your cover disk because floppies can easily become Corrupted. All you need to do to back up your disk is this: 1 Insert the MacFormat disk in your Mac 2 Drag the disk icon to your hard disk's icon. The contents of the disk will be copied into @ folder called ‘MacFormat disk 5' 3 Drag the floppy disk icon onto the Wastebasket to eject it 4 Insert a blank disk. If you need to, initialise it as a double sided and name it ‘MacFormat 5 backup’ 5 Drag the MacFormat folder from your hard disk on to the new floppy disk’s icon 6 When it has finished copying you have a back up of the original disk. You can now delete the ‘MacFormat 5' folder on your hard disk by dragging it into the Wastebasket excuse, and I'm sticking to it.) AJ Times is a control panel which allows you to get your clock working accurately. Just use the Speaking Clock to set the precise time to the second, wait a couple of days and do it again and AJ Times will calculate how inaccurate your clock If your cover disk won’t work Unfortunately when you duplicate as many thousands of disks as MacFormat does, a few duds are bound to slip through the net. 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They're the first Macs that have direct video and audio support and both have built-in CD- ROM drives as standard. AV Macs add video power Both combine video and speech technology and telecommunications in what Apple calis ‘AV Technologies’. These include: @ Desktop video conferencing for communicating with other computers. The Macs are capable of displaying full motion video from VCRs, Laserdiscs ‘and camcorders. You can even connect the AV Macs to a standard television for presentations Purposes. PAL and NTSC, the UK and US standards for video are supported. & Facilities to access voice mail, electronic mail ‘and faxes. Collectively named GeoPort, this is all achieved through a plugand-play access system. Using GeoPort, the AV macs can act as an intelligent answerphone, ‘Speech technology comes in the form of Apple PlainTalk, originally known as Casper, a system extension which recognises speech. But this is not shipping with the Macs in the UK because it only recognises North American English ~ a disap- ointment considering the hype that has been Surrounding it in the past. The UK version isn't Centris 660AV features 1 25MHz 68040 processor 1 55MHz digital signal processor I 8Mb RAM expandable to 68Mb 1 16it colour support Works with NTSC, PAL, VGA, SupervGA displays and all Apple monitors Wi internal CD-ROM drive Direct video input and CD-quality sound @ Built-in Ethernet due for rel until next year. Until that time there is an option of buying the North American version and speaking with an accent... The Centris 660AV has a ‘reference’ price of £2,291 (8/230) and £2,655 (8/500), remarkably ‘similar to its non AV counterpart the Centris 650's £2,750 (although rumour has it that many autho- fised Apple dealers are actually offering the Quadra 800 for less than £3,000, more than £1,000 cheaper than its reference price). The Quadra 840AV is priced at £3,819 (8/500) and £4,582 (16/1,000). Centris 610 and Quadra 800 owners will be able to upgrade to the high powered Macs using logic board upgrades which should be available towards the end of this year. The AV technologies. may be available through add-on boards for othe Macs from third parties, Calll Apple free on 0800 127753 for more info. All Apple products have reference prices. These are merely guides as prices may vary. Quadra 840AV features i 40MHz 68040 processor 1 66MHz digital signal processor 1 8Mb RAM, expandable to 128Mb ® Supports 24-bit colour on monitors up to 16 inches with 1Mb upgrade Works with NTSC, PAL, VGA, SuperVGA displays and all Apple monitors @ Internal CD-ROM drive MBuiltin AppleTalk EXPOSITION Every year, there are two Macworld Expo shows in the United States. They are used by Apple and third party developers to showcase their ————— |. odes and announce new releases (many of which won't actually see the light of day for months). This year’s Boston event (the other is in San Francisco in January) was held at the beginning of August, and on the next few pages you'll see some of the more interesting stories that emerged. Because many products don’t yet have UK distributors, we've had to give US prices and contact numbers. y The highlight of the show, for many people, ‘Macworld Boston (in August) featured more than 400 stands with the very latest Mac kit on show Macworld Expo report was the official debut of the Newton MessagePad — queues at the stands actually selling the things were enormous. Because of this, Apple's other big news ~ the release of the Centris 660AV and Quadra 840AV — had a rather lower profile, although the machines themselves provide plenty of new features and are certainly an important step forward for the Macintosh line. For those who are worried that the debut of the PowerPC next year will mean the end of 680x0-based Macs, there were words of reassur- ance from Ian Diery, Apple’s new Executive Vice President of the Personal Computer Division. He said of 680x0-based Macs that we'd “certainly see them after the end of the year, especially at the low to mid end.” He also pointed out that PowerPC-based Macs will be able to run standard Macintosh applications. Despite his resignation as Chief Executive Officer, John Sculley was at the show to demon- strate his commitment towards the Newton. The personal computer market over the last year “has been like Bosnia-Herzegovena,” he said, but he was convinced that Newton would help Apple to re-establish its lead over the other computer manufacturers ~ even though “in some ways this is the highest risk thing Apple has ever done.” Apple has made sweeping price cuts on much of the Mac range - some prices drop as much as 39%. - prices Slashed “ite tein end of the range, the LCII 4/80 with a basic Apple monitor (the type sold with Performas) is now avail- able for £704, while bundled with the standard 14-inch monitor the machine will sell for £821, The Colour Classic 4/80 is now also available for £704 — suggesting that the LCILis not likely to last much longer on the product line. Here are some of the more notable changes: Mac Mac Was Is now LCH 4/80, 14-in monitor £999 §821 LCI 4/80 £1,289 £998 Tivx 4/80 £1,888 £1,606 Ixy 5/230ed £2,433 £2,089 Centris 610 4/80 & Ethernet £1,888 £1,253 Centris 610 8/230cd £2,433 £1,884 Centris 650 4/80 £2,751 £2,363 Centris 650 8/230cd £3,326 £2,863 Quadra 800 8/230 £4,929 £3,175 Quadra 800 8/500cd £5,723 £3,518 PowerBook 165¢ 4/80 £2,344 £1,698 PowerBook 180 4/120 £3,402 £2,873 PowerBook Duo 210 4/80 £1,528 £1,174 PowerBook Duo 230 4/80 £1,688 £1,463 Enhancements include ruler bars jwith easy access to features such as ‘fonts, styles and tables; ‘button bars’ - ‘customisable tool bars for single-lick cess to menu items. Grammatik 5, a 18 An ‘interim release’ of WordPerfect Works, 1.2.1, has begun shipping. It provides faster scrolling, faster switch- ing between modules and better ‘An updated CD-ROM disc which now contains slmost 300 applications is now available from Instant Access, a new form of tr-beforeyoubuysoftware distribution. Lotus 1.233, After Dark Painter and Ritz Accounting are among more than 90 additional packages that can be found on the latest disc. Other packages include training programmes and more than 20 upgrades and extensions. A yearly subscription costs £49.95, Once you've decided what you want to buy all you need to do is call the Enablement Centre. An access code is then issued which downloads the software onto your hard drive. Software purchased is backed by technical support from Instant Access. Instant Aocess 081 200 0100. L = Newton software on the way At the launch of Apple's Newton MessagePad, the EXPOSITION 1 \ ground-breaking ve personal digital + assistant, there Boston were a number of third party developers on hand to show their own products for the Platform. Apple itself has set up a new division, Starcore Publishing, which will release some Newton Products before the end of the year, but plenty of other companies are also actively developing. Starcore’s products —_ include Fodor 94 Travel Manager: Top US Cities. This is an electronic version Of the popular Fodor's travel guide, and includes details of eight US Claris is to introduce two new graph- ics products in the next few months. ClarisDraw will replace MacDraw Pro, while Claristmpact, according to Claris, ‘creates an entirely new category of productivity software: business graphics processing.” ClarisDraw has many new features, but is essentially an improvement over MacDraw Pro, rather than a completely new product. One of the reasons for the change of name is that the program will be offered on both Macintosh and Windows platforms; the Mac version should be available in the next couple and the Windows version will ship in the first half of 1994. ClarisDraw comes with more than 3,000 pieces of ‘smart’ clip art, called the SmartSymbol library, which can be re-sized and altered. EXPOSITION reflected in the clone. New tools include gradient fills and Bézier curve creation. Claristmpact, which is due in the spring of 1994, is aimed at people who create business graphics. It includes tools for the automatic creation of graphs, calendars, organisational charts, timelines and so on, and has an integrated word proces- sor similar to MacWrite Pro. Changes made in one part of the graphic alter the whole thing — so, for example, adding another box to an organisational chart alters the image so that everything fits correctly. The program has built-in presentation features, and comes with the same SmartSymbol library of clip art as ClarisDraw. ClarisDraw comes with more than 3,000 pieces of ‘smart’ clip art which can be resized and altered a8 required If an object from the The company has recently announced that library is cloned, any alterations to the original are — ClarisDraw will be £323 and ClarisImpact £264. = fhe tot Hew Lagest frenge teat Orgchert Wineow bw er es Fiscal Year ‘93 spam met my road Baa Clarisimpact is eimed at people who create business graphics, and should be available here by spring 1994 Make an impact with Clarisimpact: the program has builtin presentation features and has a SmartSymbol library of clip art cities. More than 500 locations are detailed for each city, including restaurants, hotels, airports and local sites of interest. The product will retail for $120 in the United States. Among Starcore’s other products is Columbo's Mystery Capers, loosely based on the TV detective series and described as having ‘more than 40 brain teasers complete with graphics and text- based clues’. It will sell for $80. Claris’ first product will be ClarisGames for Newton, a collec- tion of five traditional games including Enigma (hangman) and Pegs (solitaire). No price for this has yet been set. On the more serious side, MobileSoft will have a spread- sheet for the Newton called Mobile-Calc, DublClick software is preparing GoFigure, a package of calculators, and Portfolio, the company behind DynoDex, will launch Dyno Notepad, a ‘freeform writing and thinking tool’. None of the software was immediately available; most will ship in the next couple of months. Apple estimates that more than 25 Newton applications will be available by the end of the year. Ml Keeping a low profile at the show was Sharp's own version of the Newton, the Expert Pad. Sharp was not selling the device at the show, although sources said the company had agreed with Apple not to sell the rival device until after the show. The Expert Pad will retail for $899. SC9O:000 Companies are faling over themselves to develop software for the Newton MessagePad and Tek Special Educational Pricing Available-Contact your Dealer The Intelligent Laser Qua The new Oki OL 400a is a Macintosh™ compatible personal page printer from OKI and DirekTek Distribution. With it's small footprint, four page per minute engine speed and high quality results, it is the ideal printer for the first time buyer, the student user with a tight budget, or the home user with limited space. The new OL 400a, provides excellent text and graphics and is a perfect solution for those requiring to output reports, letters, and desktop publishing. IDIREK DISTRIBUTION 4 IntelliDraw smarter Dompton’s Encyclopedia ji 26 volumes of Compton's Encyclopedia have been put onto IntelliDraw, Aldus’ ( T ne CD-ROM. The £353 disc, called Compton's Interactive ‘smart’ drawing POON Encyclopedia, incorporates ‘virtual workspace’ which means Program, has been \ hat any topics or pictures can be active in windows on screen upgraded to version v ™ fimultaneously. There are more than 33,000 articles, 120 2.0. IntelliDraw is A), ) = fideo/animation sequences, sound, an atlas and the 165,000 | designed for people Be iull entry Merriam-Webster OnLine Dictionary which is a dictio- who aren't graphics Boston i jary with definitions, not just a spelling checker found in DTP professionals, but tt ill lz jnd word processing applications. who need to produce profes- cs 2 To run the disc you'll need either the MacPlus, SE, Mac I sional-looking illustrations. 5; Quadra range of Macs with at least 4Mb of hard disk space Things like _technical = & diagrams, room plans, flow — charts, organisational charts and so on are easy to create, using the program’s built-in ji templates. Version 2.0 introduces “drag and drop’ [ii templates — a window Of proessionabooking technical dagrams, oom plans, Now charts and graphic elements which can gazanisational chars are easy to create In IntellDrew 3.0 be dragged on to the main drawing area and then resized or reshaped. such _as_perspective and ‘envelope Other enhancements in the new version _ warping’, which allows users to bend and include new file import filters for twist graphics and text. A ‘Polymorph Mlustrator 1.1 and Illustrator 88, Shape’ command lets users smoothly PhotoCD, MacDraw and MacDraw II, transform one shape into another. PCX, TWAIN and Metafile formats, full In the US, the program will be OLE (Object Linking and Embedding) available in the fourth quarter of 1993 for support and compatibility with Aldus $199 — version 1.0 retailed for $299. Fetch, the‘company’s graphics cataloguing Pricing and availability in the UK has not utility. There are also extra special effects yet been announced. Power Tools to pep up Photoshop , Kai's Power Tools, the Photoshop plugin package, has been significantly enhanced with version 2.0, which contains 33 plugins; provid- m ing users with a wide range of extra {Guinness Disc of Records FRCL ATER TENG ctfects to alter images. These include IThe Guinness Disc of Records has all the features of the book smudging, textures, fractal genera- ion one disc complete with pictures, sound and video. It may a ‘tors, ‘noise’, pixellation, ‘video jot look as good as the hardback variety sitting comfortably on \ cyclone’ and many more. The user lyour book case for all to see, but when loaded onto your Mac SS Interface has been improved, and the lyou’ll experience alll the topics from the original which are Bo ton plugins now show previews before to life with video sequences and synchronised audio, they are applied to the image. 1993 disc includes more than 2,000 updated records, Since Its release, KPT has become a firm ‘over 750 pictures and a Random Record Explorer which favourite with Photoshop users; the new version includes 400 photo and text records. Information has been Se oa) 1s significantly more powerful, and will undoubt- indexed and records can be accessed alphabetically so it's — - - edly prove a big success. easy to locate the topic of your choice. The disc costs £60, Kai's Power Tools has become a firm favourite among Photoshop The US retail price for KPT 2.0 Is $199. It ifrom Softline on 081 401 1234. Practitioners. Extra effects now include ‘noise’ and ‘video cyclone’ _will be available here some time in September. One thing clearly demonstrated —_pedias, games to pom, you be a huge hit, The characters the Macworld show was that could find just about anything are professionally-drawn, and CD-ROM is finally coming of — you wanted on disc. Some of the whole thing looks just like age as a distribution media. the highlights included: a cartoon on TV. Wallobee Speaking at a pre-show press Ml Space Adventure for the Jack's first adventure is The briefing, Apple Chairman John Macintosh, This disc covers Bingi Burra Stone. Sculley said that the company space exploration, the universe, oper Tune 1000 plans to had sold around 50,000 CD- rockets and the search for release several sequels. ROM drives last year; this extra-terrestrial life. It's due to Rads, Ergs & Cheeseburgers. EXPOSITION year, Apple expects to sell one ship in the Autumn, and will This dise features a ‘magical million. And there were —_ have a US price of $89.95 for energy blob named Ergon _ ertainly plenty of CD-ROM the CD-ROM version which ‘introduces us to our d {\, )) products on sale; ranging from Ml Wallobee Jack. This ‘inter- own planet. It's due to ship iteractive cartoons to encyclo- active cartoon’ is destined to before the end of the year Boston Lawnmower Man — the film brought the concept of virtual reality to the masses — is soon to be available as a CD-ROM game. It will have more than 30 levels, incorporating puzzles, ‘fly-through’ challenges and original footage from the film and its sequel (the inventively-titled Lawnmower Man II), which is due for release in early 1994. The game's manufacturer, The Sales Curve, working with the film’s director to shoot some footage specifically for the game — the first time that this has ever been done, According to Sony Electronic Publishing, the game's US publisher, the CD-ROM will be ‘the benchmark for all future CD development, not only in its visual appeal but in the way the game actually plays — more like an interactive film.” The Lawnmower Man is due to be released on Mac CD-ROM in the first quarter of 1994; price has not yet been set. @ Sony is also working on CD-ROMs of. Bram Stoker's Dracula, Cliffhanger and Last Action Hero, all due for release some time in 1994, By far the saddest sight at the Macworld show was a queue of testosteronefilled men waiting to take a peek behind the curtains at one of the many ‘porn on CD-ROM’ booths that seem to have suddenly become popular. Once inside, they were (allegedly - MacFormat didn’t check It out) treated to the sight of naked bimbos cavorting around — all In glorious, jerky QuickTime. On the way out, a photo of a Playboy/Playmate from about 1963 was pressed into each sweaty palm, Personally autographed in lipstick by If this is the future of multimedia, we should put a stop to the whole technology right now. Why on earth would anyone want to buy porn that they can watch on their Macintosh? 1s it somehow more acceptable than buying a video of the same material? And who could possibly be stimulated while sitting in front of a computer? Even better than the curtained booths, one enterprising vendor was standing in an aisle, whispering, “Erotic CD-ROM, only $5” to any male who walked past him. Presumably he would hand over the offending article said bimbo. Kids cut ou Kid Cuts, from Broderbund, is part of the same line of products as KidPix, It has many of the same drawing features - rubber stamps and magic wand - but also comes with a large range of ‘templates’ for things like animal shapes and puzzles which can be coloured in on sereen and then printed. It even ‘comes with a pair of safety scissors, so objects can be cut out. Kid Cuts costs £35 from Electronic Arts, 0753 549442. in a plain brown wrapper. User-friendly comms Aladdin Systems, creator of the Stuffit file compression program, has branched out Into comms with the forthcoming SiTcomm. It's designed to be easier to use than other comms programs, and features automated compression and decompression of as they're uploaded and downloaded. ‘SiTcomm supports the XModem, YModem and ZMod protocols as standard. Because it uses the Comms Tool other protocols can be added by dropping Extensions | the System folder. A toolbar gives quick access to tf program's main features, and automatic log-on proceduty are provided for a range of commercial US bulletin boan (although whether these will be localised to deal with & services has yet to be decided). i SiTcomm is expected to be available in October November this year; it will retail for $420 in the US. Sim City to go 3D ‘Sim City, one of the most popular Mac games, is to go threedimen- sional by Christmas. Renamed Sim City 2000, it | will feature a large number of new | structures which can be viewed at three levels of magnification. You can even rotate the 3D model | through 360 degrees for a more | realistic feel, Mindscape, distributor of the Er series believes that 2000 will AAs yet no price has been fixed by the original Sim City, now Sim City Classic Is still avaitat and costs £40. For more information ca Mindscape 0444 246333. be ready for release in December, Super-fast graphics program stuns sho Live Picture is a new imaging package which provides 1 speed of high-end workstation packages on the Mac. It hi been created by French company FITS Imaging, and wé demonstrated at the Boston show by US distributor HSI Software, generating considerable excitement from graphii professionals. Huge files can be opened in a matter seconds, and effects such as rotation, skewing and scalit take only three seconds or so. A Quadra with at least 32Mb of RAM is required to r the program, which will be available in two or three monthi APPLE BITES: ea SIMMs saved MacSIMMiser is an add-on card which allows new Macs to use older memory SIMMs. The latest generation of Macintoshes, including the Centris family, use 72-pin SIMMs rather than the 30-pin devices that earlier Macs use. It accepts four old-style SIMMs and then plugs into the 72:pin slot ~ so owners of new Macs don't have to throw away memory cards. Available from — Interex Computer Products, 0101 316 524 4747. Plate power Three new rechargeable batteries for the PowerBook family are now available from Technoggin. Two of the PowerPlate batteries are designed to attach to the bottom of the PowerBook, Providing up to three and five times the standard battery life. The third is a stand-alone device which connects to the PowerBook via a cable and offers up to three times standard battery life. Technoggin: 0401 513 321 177. Good games Several new games from GameTek are set to appear before the end of the year, including Wheel of Fortune featuring Vanna White, Jeopardy! featuring Alex Trebek, and Air Warrior, an air combat game that involves flying any of 11 World War Il planes, GameTek is on 0753 553445, MH Also from Gametek is Nascar Challenge, a hold-on- to-your-seat-belts stock car racing sim reviewed in this very issue on page 92. Deluxe prin‘ Broderbund has upgraded it Print Shop layout program ' reviewed in MacFormat issu 3- to Print Shop Deluxe. Th new package allows users t create greetings card calendars, banners an stationery easily using pr defined templates. It no! supports TrueType fonts - 3 ‘ are included in the package and a wide range of graphic formats for import. Pri Shop Deluxe costs £55, an + is available from Electron j Arts, 0753 549222. An innovative new ‘screen saver’, UnderWare, has been developed by company Bit Jugglers. Rather than blank- ing the serees desktop — and is guaranteed to reduce productivity seriously! The program will run After Dark modules, but animates them as the computer is being used. There thee also effects such as icons which grow legs and walk off the Nereen, and a dragon which burns holes in the Desktop. daxowo! HERPOSITION it animates items on the ql program also works as a conventional screen saver, Gna allows you to change your desktop patterns to textures juch as granite, Guy Kawasaki, the original Mac evangalist, is behind the one product at Macworld Boston guaranteed to false a smi = UnderWare is due to ship within the next couple of weeks, nel will sell for $60. As we went to press, no UK distributor has jet been announced. Faster, cheaper PowerBook replaces 160 The Apple PowerBook 160 has been replaced with a Mac that is not only faster but less expensive The PowerBook 165 has a 33MHz 68030 processor while the 160 only ran at 25MHz. Features include 4Mb RAM as standard 140 by 400 display with 16 grey scales 19256 colour support for some external displays uilt-in microphone BB sound in and sound out ports The estimated price tag is £1,500 for the 4/40 while a 165 4/160 configuration will cost £1,900 or £2,100 with an express/fax modem. GiddyUp Thangs, Rad, Mythos. Believe it or not, these are some of the typefaces included in the latest Fun fonts A gO wild font package from Adobe. ™ ‘Adobe Wild Type costs around SS air, ad tie eh it € the weird and wacky fonts such as Critter - creatures who say who they are by their letter - and Mythos, featuring legendary beasts. Adobe says the fonts can be used to add a bit of fun to invitations, design or brochures. Alongside the ‘Wild Ones’ are five original Adobe type faces: Myriad Sketch, Myriad Headline, Myriad Tilt Birch and —$_________} Utopia Headiine. Adobe forges abead in the competitive arena Call Leading Edge on of font technology ~ with Adobe Wild Type 071.454 9960. ok talk Vovaer's Expanded Book Tagikit, which allows users to create their own ‘electronic! books’, now includes support for nine different languages. Users Power tool WizTools for PowerBook, from ASD Software, is a collection of modules that provide file security, file synchronisation, battery status display and simulation function keys for PowerBooks. The product, which should be available by the end of September, will compete with Connectix PowerBook Utilities, Norton table of contents and text Utilities for PowerBook and search capabilities. Claris ClearChoice’s Power Voyager: To Go. ASD Software, 0401 212 431 5199, 0101 909 642 2594. inifort text and graphics into | of the! program, which then creates a stand-alone appli- cation similar to the electronic books that Voyager itself sells, with a For more information call Apple free on 0800 127753. ElasticReality changes shape of movies ElasticReality is a new, high-end morphing package for the Mac from ASDG. The program has been adapted from the Silicon Graphics Workstation version, and uses an ‘outline-based’ technique - the user draws over the outlines of the two shapes to be morphed, and the program does the rest. There is control over the speed at which different parts of the image move, both still and moving images can be morphed and the program is resolution independent —-so morphing between very high-resolution images can be previewed using low-res versions, and the transformations can then be applied to the high-resolution images when the user is satisfied with the effect. ElasticReality has already been used, in its Silicon Graphics version, in the produc- tion of several movies and TV shows. The Macintosh version sells for $995 in the US; no UK distributor has yet been appointed. ASDG: 0101 608 273 6585. ElasticReality has been used, in its Silicon Graphics version, in the production of movies and TV shows ElastioReality the user draws over the outlines of the two shapes, and the program does the rest APPLE BITES Mixed ink 1-400, an inkjet printer aimed at home office users, is the only inkjet that can be used in both a Mac and Windows environment. Framed! Soreenies is a range of 51 frames’ for Macintosh monitors, featuring illustra- tions of different scenes and designs. They attach to the monitor using Velcro pads, and are available for 13-, 14- and 15-inch monitors.. Some of the designs are also sold for the inch — screen ‘compact’ Macs such as the Cheap PS Freedom of Press Classic is a new version of the software PostScript RIP which allows users to output PostScript quality graphics and text to The HJ-400 costs £351 | QuickDraw printers such as and should be available from | the StyleWriter, Hewlett- most high street computer | Packard DeskJet and Apple retailers. Colour Printer. It combines It has been designed for | all the features of the previ the desktop, so those with a | ous versions, and includes 35 Classic. Not yet available in | timited workspace will see | fonts — mirroring —_those the UK, they sell for $11.95 | its small size as an advan. | provided in most PostScript each in the States. tage. It also features 18 printers. We'll let you know Screenie’ TrueType fonts and uses a | UK pricing and availability as 0101 707 939 6060. Canon inkjet cartridges. soon as we have it. foot (1 Includes one year's ie GreatWorks LOTUS 1-2-3 the dl his [Expert Version includes many of the most owerful functions. 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Retum in a sealed envelope to INSTANT ACCESS LIMITED, FREEPOST (NWS5936), THE ACCESS CENTRE, LONDON NW9 9YR PWD Softwar, ntart Aces andthe nstrt Acorss ogo re epstare Waders of * Carriage prices are for UK Mainland only - please phone for a quote if this does not apply stant Aces ntetoral Ltd Alte! vademarks are roto hae restate Aare Pleased, peeved, irate, enraged, 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 Total systems crash? Let me be the first to congratulate you on your achievement of becoming monthly, Let me also point out to you what a wonderful magazine MacFormat is. I would just like to ask how many PC users do you know that transfer their work to a Mac format disk. I don’t know any. Whenever I want to exchange text with any other PC it is always me who has to transfer the file using Apple File Exchange it is NEVER the other way round. Oh yes, and while I remember here is some- thing for your Cruising The Keys bit. ‘How to get out of a crash’. I don’t know if this works on all machines but it certainly works on my old SE. When you get a bomb message box press the interrupt button (not the reset button) on the pro- grammers switch. You should get a dialogue box with a >. Now type SM 0 A9F4 then hit the retum key then type G 0 and hit return again. ‘The Os are zeros by the way not capital Os. You don’t have to worry about capital letters because it will come out in capitals anyway but do make sure you get all the spaces in the right place. Keep up the good work, Loise Hurst, Canterbury Thanks Loise - funnily enough we've covered three PC programs that'll let you read Mac disks in this issue! I think it'll probably be the only time we cover PC applications but we thought it would be bound to be useful to someone. Oh and thanks j for the Cruising the Keys tip — have a fiver! The Mac answer Thank God someone has finally brought out a Mac magazine which I can actually understand. I’m just a poor little schoolboy and so find wading through masses of business software reviews and pages and pages of hardware that I could never afford even if I took on another 70 paper rounds, too boring for words. ‘Anyway, I'm thinking of getting a Mac to help me organise and word-process all the work I'll be taking on when I start my ‘A’ Levels. I'd find it damn helpful if you could suggest which would cater to my needs best. Daniel Wallace, Bath Well, the first thing to do Daniel is make sure that as a student you get hold of an educa- tional discount. Call Apple free on 0800 127753 for details. As for the model you should buy for word-processing and the like, well, the best deal on price/performance is probably the Colour Classic. You should find one for £600 or so with the discount. Flights of fancy When I decided five years ago that my profes- sional practice should go Macintosh, little did I expect to fall prey to what has become a true addiction: computer games! Lam particularly interested in flight simula- tors, and I wish to comment on your review of Falcon MC from Spectrum Holobyte. One of the first flight sims I bought was the Falcon version 2, which I found, in those Mac Plus days, positively astounding. Much later, Hellcats came along, and I found that fantastic. Then Spectrum Holobyte released their Falcon 3 for IBM-compatibles, which simply knocked my socks off; by that time, I was liter- ally foaming with expectations of what lay in store for the Macintosh version; I actually phoned Spectrum in California to enquire! Roll on System 8! or handy little suggestions where you can it us the improvements you'd like to see to your Mac. When we've got a good batch we'll pass ‘em onto to Apple's crack coders in Cupertino and see what they reckon. This month's wannasee Is from Mark Fields of Brighton: ‘Why doesn’t Apple include auto- matic file compression in its software to preserve hard disk space like DOS 6 does? It could be user-definable so that only those programs you don't use much are permanently Hmmm, sounds right to me. Yeah it’s a new office - with twice as much | space for your sacks o letters to the Editor... I mail-ordered a copy direct but to be honest, I was thoroughly disappointed. Wouldn’t you agree that Spectrum misses the point when pretending that Falcon MC puts you in the seat of the most realistic air combat simulator for Macintosh, when it fails to provide a real-world terrain and a true historical context? Why are Macintosh users deprived of the topical environments, such as Desert Storm, which Falcon 3 delivers to IBM-users with an atmosphere so dense it seems beamed over live to them by CNN? Alright, there are noteworthy improvements over the previous black and white version; now it's in colour (albeit only 4-bit deep!), the mission scenarios are woven into a global campaign, and the soundtrack is Oscar-class. But why such a small screen resolution (507 x 358 pixels only)? Why no replay or recording Falcon MC it might be good ~ but it's not that good says Paul Saussez. What's his problem? Falcon’s got no atmosphere, historical context or real world terrain ~ and Hellcat is better facility? Why, for such a complex simulator to master, no training ground? L agree that Falcon MC is technically very sophisticated; in a word, it’s a serious game; in fact too serious! It lacks that built-in cheekiness found in Hellcats, or the redeeming facilities of Red Baron. In Falcon MC, at expert level, I can’t possibly imagine any player staying alive more than ten seconds when in combat zone! As for as I am concemed, Hellcats/Leyte Gulf is the best aerial combat simulator currently available for Macintosh. Here’s why: ( TIP: start holding your breath now — Andy) Exceptional fluidity, 256 colours, full-screen window, gradual pan views in all directions, moving ground targets, intelligent enemy tactics, varied missions in varied locations, excellent | graphics (could be slightly more detailed) fantas- tic replay shots (could be longer), soundtrack could be improved (music by Glenn Miller?); concise, to-the-point manual; full bonus points for the highly interesting reproduction of the actual F6-F pilot’s manual; and above all, true Go fo Commands under the Tools ype ’ser Activat Jerome Dewhurst, Bucks Map secret. Just after « on the Map control panel ) [option] [shift] and feontrol]. Th 1 tMegnity 2 text bevels magnify to different levels 3 Robert Wood, Leeds @ Hello there firstpyau Ofyour Ma [command] [option] [C] [1] Simo Neuvonen, Tuusnieme, Finland @ you us hoticed Wo the [option] Ben Poole, Essex Thanks for those, young cruisers - keep Sending "em into Cruising the Keys, Macrormat, 30 Monmouth St, Bath BAL 2BW and win yourself a fiver! context and real-world terrain. I can’t phic Simulations’ next offer ornet). Dr ant I again expecting too much? Paul J Saussez, Wezembeek-Oppem you? Minm, I think the main problem with delivering the level of detail you're after is eed. You'd need at least a Quadra to update detailed scenery past a cumbersome beast like System 7. On the PC, you just bypass DOS and you're ‘hitting the metal’. On the Mac, a programmer has to get his finger out. It'll happen though. And if enough people like you " and me speak out it'll happen sooner. There you go then ‘There are three reasons why I am writing; 1. T want to achieve world-wide status Ben Willis, Saltash 4 5 | Phew! you really like your flight sims don’t And there you have it, Ben. Sorry I didn’t have space for the other two but thanks for | Your long letter and yes, I'd like to see a footie | game for the Mac too. Racialist idiots indeed I was shocked to read in MacFormat under the heading ‘You won't believe this’ your sneering reference to the availability of a computer interface in Tibetan. What sort of racialist idiots think it is amusing to have a computer interface available in different languages? There are a couple of million Tibetans, some of whom presumably have computers and therefore would need to have a system in their own language, and in this respect they are no different from the English, the Greeks, or the Chinese. ‘That certain English people can consider this ‘ludicrous’ — and be awarded a prize for saying so publicly — is a sad comment on them and you. Seamus o Brogain, An Charraig Dhubh, ‘Co Bhaaile Atha Cliath What can I say? Other than to offer my utterly unreserved apologies to all our many Tibetan readers for this alarmingly unprofessional lapse. Great address! The finer points First off — a simple mistake: On page 77 of issue 4, you say that Word’s File Finder can only scan its own files — not true! It can scan any files — try it. Secondly, you print a letter about Stylewriter driver upgrades — beware, apparently using the II driver on the I increases wear on the print head because the II was re-engineered. And — they do print in the background don’t they — just select “background printing’ in the Chooser. Thirdly, please remember that lots of kids will be reading your magazine — don’t review crap like Virtual Valerie! You need to be a teensy bit more responsible — think of your audience as if they fit a ‘PG’ rating. And finally, re HyperCard — I'd like to make contact with HyperCard scripters out there, particularly someone who can help me with basic programming concepts and structure — mostly I just thrash around until something works. Overall MacFormat is excellent. One last thing —can you do a feature on insurance? It would need to cover Macs in transit in cars, your own Mac at work, working at home, PowerBooks at home etc. Insurance companies always quote silly prices — surely somebody must be aware just how careful we are about our Macs! Arthur Battram, Luton Any HyperCard programmers out there should send in disks and chat, tips, tutorials etc etc to Rod Lawton at MacFormat, 30, Monmouth St, Bath BA1 2BW as I’m sure he'd build them into column. And yes, good idea for a feature on insurance ~ into it. As for Virtual Valerie, well, I take your point but it’s no use us thinking of our readers as 15 year-olds is it? Our questionnaires showed most are at least twice that age. But, yes, when it came to the crunch we probably wouldn’t review it in any case. PowerBook 100 rules okay? It’s not just brilliant: it’s become indispensable since I snapped it up at a bargain price. My colleagues using inferior PC notebooks try to hide their envy with pointless arguments about their wide choice of software, but why bother to reason with men whose trackballs are on the Win a year’s subscription! So just which two faces did we ‘merge last issue to make up the rather heavy-duty looking geezer- ‘morph on the left? No, Buddy Holly didn’t get a look in, nor did Anthony Perkins, John Major (why is ithe crops up every time —even in the one that merged The Incredible Hulk with Samantha Fox?), Sylvester Stallone or Boris Karloff. No, the correct names were ageing crooner Lou Reed and Michael Douglas (in Falling Down mode). And the winner of a year’s free sub is... ta da da da J Faith of Exeter! Well done J and hard luck | else. All you have to do to win this issue’s free sub is ‘work out which two faces comprise the world’s most famous living morph on the right. Yep, 1 know it’s really difficult but you'll get it in the end, When you do, send the names to: “Now what was his sister's name again?’, MacFormat, Future Publishing, 30 Monmouth St, Bath BAI 2BW. Oh and no, Diana Ross isn’t in there! wrong side of their keyboards? Now I find myself the custodian of a small, but much admired piece of MacHistory which would be seriously devalued should your campaign for its reinstatement be successful. Yes, I own a PB100 and I'm awaiting the deliv- ery of a PowerPortrait screen, a spare battery, a charger, and a 12-volt car adaptor which together will cost more than my original investment. Long live the PowerBook 100! Ill be severely embarrassed if it doesn’t. A Hardwick, London Yes, I'd like to track one down too. Ian Wrigley bought one and I’m seriously impressed. On the other hand, perhaps some enterprising dealer would like to give me one. I'll write about you every issue, honest. Hyper queries It was great to see the start of the HyperCard series last issue. Is a colour version in develop- ment and, if so, when will it be released? Ihave read brief descriptions of a program called SuperCard that translates HyperCard stacks with colour. How effective is this program in translating existing stacks and adding colour? Martyn Gawthorpe, Hull SuperCard does handle colour and is brilliant but you do have to fiddle with some HyperTalk scripts. We'll review it. As for a colour version of HyperCard, last I heard it wouldn’t see the light of day until the launch of Macintosh PowerPC! 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Unlike some CD-ROM drives, PowerCD is ‘multi-session’ capable; this means that it can read disks that have had new images added to them since they were first mastered. So this is a very cost- effective feature; it’s possible to have up to 100 images on a disk for around £20, instead of a number of disks with a roll on each. The feature on the next three pages shows you how you can both view and edit Photo CD pictures on your Mac, but as far as setting up PowerCD with your TV is concerned you're confined to viewing only. However, PowerCD’s remote control offers more than just a slide show of images. With it you can pan, scroll and zoom into images, rotate them, enlarge specific areas and program Sequences of your favourite pictures for automatic shows. In other words, it’s easy to use and great fun. Now, the quality of the images appearing on a domestic TV will depend on the set's specs, but Photo CD's quality is very good and PowerCD does a Breat job of handling them. Whilst any CD-ROM drive can be used to play audio CDs, they all have one major drawback — you have to have your Mac connected to them. This is fine as long as you want to listen to music on headphones while you're working or you have an amplifier and speakers right next to your desktop, but either way you're constrained by the need for a controlling computer. Enter PowerCD and a full set of functions you'd expect to see on any regular hi-fi CD player. With its remote control you can program just the tracks you prefer, randomly shuffle the play order, scan backwards and forwards and repeat and pause your favourite selections. Simply connecting a lead between PowerCD and headphones, powered speakers or an amplifier's audio sockets means that any audio CDs can be treated to this range of controls. What's more, using the remote you can store any preferred program orders, of up to 30 tracks per program, permanently in PowerCD’s built-in memory so each time you load up that disc it will only play the selected tracks. This, as "'ve no doubt you can imagine, is an absolute boon and something you won't want to live without once you've tried it. Another innovative feature is Time Edit which enables you to play music for any time up to 99 minutes ~ essential for easy copying to cassette. But how good does it sound? Well, the three principal gauges Apple publishes specs on are signal-to-noise ratio (95dB), dynamic range (80dB) and channel separation (90dB). Now I'm not an audiophile and this is not an audio buff's magazine but if these mean anything to you, corresponding figures for a top of the range 18-bit 4-times oversampling CD player come in at 105db, 97dB and 100dB respectively. All | can say is it sounded pretty impressive to me, and my home CD player cost £600. So y \ check out those specs with a sales- man who knows his stuff - | think you could Le, x be surprised. PowerCD hooks up to any Mac running System 6.07 or later with a standard SCSI lead attached via the unit's base. All you then have to do is set its SCSI ID number, drop the bundled extensions in your System folder and the brave new whirl of CD-ROM is all yours. Each dise can hold over 650 Megs of data - the equivalent of 270,000 pages of text, up to eight hours of speech and music depending on sound quality, hundreds of hi-res images, or a combination of each. Once connected to your Mac, PowerCD can be accessed just like a hard disk and CD files can be run and copied — but remember it’s strictly one-way traffic; you can't write to a CD. Not yet. Not in any affordable kind of way at any rate. So how well does it perform? The two factors to take into account with any CD-ROM drive are its data access time and its data transfer rate; the former refers to the average time taken to find a particular chunk of data, the latter to how fast the drive can pump that data to the host computer's memory. Now, for my money the best Mac drive on the market today is Apple’s CD300 which you can pick up for around £320. This can access data in as little as 295 milliseconds and transfer 2.5 Mb of it to your Mac in a second. PowerCD can't match these figures; managing to find data in 550ms and sending it at 2.1 Megs a second. While these figures may not seem to be worlds apart the difference in access times is pretty significant. You can improve this no end by buying a cacheing utility like CD-ROM Toolkit. This aside, you're still looking at a much slower system. Having said that, the CD300 is the one of the fastest on the market and sells for an absolute giveaway price. But it all depends on what you want to use a CD-ROM drive for. If it's for the new breed of games arriving on CD then it’s probably better to go for a CD300. But if you just want to occasionally run multime- PowerCD dia encyclopedias, shareware CDs, Photo CDs or just ASStiming you would want to be seen on a tube, Hain. coach or plane carrying the CD equivalent Sfithe Starship Enterprise, how well does the PoWerCD function as a portable? Well the good AEWS is that at 3ibs it doesn’t weigh you down TG uch, but it’s a bit inconvenient. The eight AB Batteries it noods to power it for true PAFability fit into the PowerCD’s base unit, which ISG holds the SCSI port, so instead of carrying SoMiething shaped like a discus you're left holding Sbmething much more unwieldy. The other bad news is that even with eight Ratteries in position it doesn’t operate for very listen to music while you work on your Mac, then PowerCD will do the job. long. While a regular audio CD player will perhaps give you three hours on two AA batteries, you'll be lucky to get away with an hour of continuous play on PowerCD. While you can use recharge- ables instead of AAs, the problem then becomes carrying enough to last you for whatever journey you're on. So is this really the use a portable should be put to? Perhaps not. Perhaps it's more destined for on-the-road surveyors, engineers and sales forces who need access to CD data they can display on a PowerBook. In this light, the PowerCD is far more functional and versatile than a mains machine. Turn over to see how to use Kodak’s Photo CD © / Graphics Ns [et C319. 1 Will Photo CO revolutionise photo scanning? Kodak reckons so, and has even produced its own family of software to go with it If you’re into photography and you’ve got a Mac, Kodak’s new Photo CD technology is set to take your world by storm. Or so Kodak claims... Gordon Druce gives you the facts and checks out four new applications for the system odak’s Photo CD is a really elegant system which offers a reasonably priced way of getting excellent quality digital images on to your TV. More importantly, with the aid of a Photo CD compatible CD-ROM drive, it lets you display and edit them on a Macintosh. Suddenly that trusty (or should that be dusty) old 35mm SLR camera that only comes out at weddings and Christmas, is now a potential high end input device for your machine... could this be the death knell for 35mm desktop scanners? With Kodak's combination of marketing power and some very impressive sample work produced using this system, it looks to be that way. The Photo CD system works something like this. You snap away merrily on your roll of 36 exposures or whatever, (no special film is neces- sary, anything from a roll of supermarket ‘happy snapper’ to Kodak's own range of films will do). Then you can either go to your local branch of Boots the f Chemist, a professional photo lab or any of the many other high street stores offering a h CD transfer service. Within a week you will get too! your gold-coloured compact disc back, with your original , negatives or slides and a full i set of regular colour prints. If you have old 35mm slides or negatives (colour or black and white) it is also possible to transfer them to CD. Professional photographic labs have Kodak imaging worksta- tions which create your CD from your slides or film. At the moment it is only possible to produce the CD images from 35mm film, but Kodak hopes to accommodate larger film formats later in the year. For most people the flexibility of the system will probably be its most attractive feature; the fact that you can get your colour film processed and prinied in the usual way, then decide which pictures you would like to place on your compact disc and also add more images at a later date if you like, until your disc is full. The Photo CD will hold up to 100 colour images and many more if you are shooting on black and white film. There is one drawback with this method of adding more images to your disk at a later date; you will need a Multisession CD-ROM drive (try Apple's CD300 drive, PowerCD or the Toshiba TXM 330). This system lets you read in your picture files from any number of different image copying sessions. This will be very useful if you are working in the design or publishing industries, as you can archive your pictures for instant erm access and retrieval, plus it will no doubt be used by Mac photographers to make up a ‘digital Portfolio’ or it could be just a neat way of storin, all those cherished monients from your own sli collections and transferring them to digital format for future generations (although Kodak reckons that the discs have an expected lifetime of around 50 years). When you receive your CD, it contains copi of all your images. The resulting files, which are § in Kodak master format, hold five different versions of the scanned images in an Image Pai Thumbnail or Wallet at 128 lines by 192 pixels, Snapshot at 256 lines by 384 pixels, Standard (TV) at 512 lines by 768 pixels, Large at 1,024 lines by 1,536 pixels and Poster at 2,048 lines by 3,072 pixels. These images are all compressed, using Kodak's own compression system, from a 18Mb original image scan for a single 35mm frame, down to a SMb file with little or no loss in? picture quality, and then stored on the CD. To gel to grips fully with Photo CD you will need a CD-ROM XA Mode 2 drive (Apple's own 1 At the beginning of each roll of film shoot a colour test card or grey card. This will help you get better results ‘om the processing lab as ur exposure and colour accurate over the whole roll alk to your lab about doing lip test. They will cut the first two or three frames off our roll and process them separately. If there are any wrong exposures the lab can go some way to improving the results before you take the plunge. 3 If you are shooting a scene which is mostly lit by artificial light, it's important to correct it with colour filtration at this stage. 4 Ask your local camera shop for advice about films, filters and lenses; they should be only too happy to help. You may find they offer a Photo CD service. 5 Minimise reflection problems in close-ups by wrapping black cloth around the legs of chrome tripods and/or use a large piece of black card with a hole cut in it to shoot through. t rive is now only £323) then you can spin a disc and view your thumbnail images. k wn fleet of Photo CD players ranges in p £299 to £429 (MacFormat is giving aw ak Photo CD 865 on page 89!) ‘ot content with coming up with this high orage medium for digital images and Photo CD players for viewing them on ‘odak has branched out and produced wn family of Macintosh and PC ages. grams have been released so far, all c design/publishing and photographic st is Photo CD Access: this program ew your CD images in digital contact plus it lets you save your files ready a fo ortation into DTP and word processing : s. Next up is Kodak's own image ftware PhotoEdge, then comes ‘e, which is the most extensive of the cludes powerful design/layout plus Js. Number four in the family is the hoebox (not a great name, guys!), which s nage database in the same vein as ge Browser or Aldus Fetch. programs have some tough a in this area of the current market, some stunningly powerful software on does the Kodak family of software ainst the Macintosh design software cer league like Aldus PageMaker 5.0 and "eich or Fractal Designs Painter 2.0? For 7 how does it fare against the best of > budget packages? Let’s take a look at each of 1 fc Jak programs individually. KODAK RENAISSANCE This is pitched somewhere between a basic drawing program and a DTP program like Publish-It! Easy and Personal Press. It's ano nonsense ‘grab and go’ design program; one tear-off toolbox with 20 tools which let you draw shapes, select colours and create type; ail the tools necessary for you to lay out newsletters, posters and stationery. My first gripe comes in the way Renaissance controls type. It may well be intuitive and fun, but pulling type about like it’s made of elastic does not aid the design or communication process. Any designer who cares about communicating with type will be insulted by these controls. For example, say you want to make a word or character italic; you can just grab a handle on the top corner of the text box and ‘yank’ the type into an ‘italic style’ ...primitive! This is a real shame because some of the features in Renaissance are neat and well executed: colouring type is quick and simple, as is working with colour blends, preparing interesting picture treatments, editing Photo CD pictures and other image files. It seems as if most of the smart work went into looking after the imaging side of the Renaissance and some of the fundamentals of good design software got lost in the mix. But Renaissance is a serviceable design program and as the packaging slogan goes it is ‘intuitive’ and has many handy features for the non-professional editor/designer. For example its dummy text boxes with preset styles for body text, by-lines, captions, drop caps and headlines are helpful... oy JUDGING. THE QUALITY OF PHOTO CD Reprographics house drum scan from a transparency Reprographics house drum scan from a print Scanning method used in MacFormat Photo CD scan Graphics att KODAK PHOTOEDGE Kodak PhotoEdge is an image editing program. First off, this is NOT Photoshop in disguise, (at £130 how could it be?) but it is a fairly powerful image editing package. PhotoEdge lets you sharpen or soften your pictures, plus it gives you control over brightness and contrast. You also have the usual manipulation tools and functions associated with this type of program, like changing the perspective, rotating, flipping and cropping your images. But it might be worth paying a bit more and going for something like Colorlt! or Colour MacCheese which has many more features. KODAK SHOEBOX Kodak Shoebox is a Photo CD image catalogue or audio/visual database of your mater- ial that allows you to attach keywords and descriptions to your images for easy retrieval. It lets you index, search and retrieve images in PICT, TIFF and EPSF formats, as well as QuickTime movies and audio files. You can also copy files between catalogues, zoom and crop your images and there’s a neat touch added which lets you customise your contact sheet style, allow- ing you to adjust the size of your thumbnails and control the brightness and background colour which they are viewed against. The Shoebox indexing system is about the most friendly I have seen; it gives you a set of ‘pop-up’ lists and you select values rather than having to key in ail your entries Kodak Reaahesuncey PhotoEdge, Shoebox 2 and Photo CD Access are ail available from |, Computers Unlimited, 084 200 8282 @ Shoebox is on offer at £117 until the end Does Photo CD stack up againsj desktop or high end scanning? Is Photo CD really a cheap way to good quality ‘scans? Well Kodak reckons a typical cost for your images to be transferred to disk would be around £2.50 an image (there is also a small charge for the disk to be added to the overall, cost). Compare that with the usual printers’ repro house charge of around £10 or £12 a Scan, and you can see that even with the Purchase price of a CD-ROM drive at, say, around £300, this still looks like good value if you are using images regularly in your work. But | know what you're saying... what about quality? I've spoken to a number of people about Photo CD images, from print buyers to professional photographers — and all agree that Photo CD Images capture the full range of detail and colour saturation that you would expect to see on a good original. It may never match that kind of quality perfectly and there will always be photographic printers or highly trained high-end scanning operators who will tell you that shadow detail is “not there yet”, but Kodak’s Photo CD system offers great quality images at a realistic price. KODAK PHOTO CD ACCESS Photo CD Access lets you load photographic images stored on your Photo CD disc and view the stored photos on screen in a contact sheet format or as single images in a variety of sizes. You can then select and display a single photo of a group of photos and edit them by using the cropping tools, change the image size, colour settings and orientation. 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