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It has been adapt- ed and enhanced for CD ROM by combining the material and footage from the video with entertaining, well researched psychome- tric tests which enable users to enhance their relationships. Using the in-built password sys- tem it can be easily turned into an edu- cational aid. SRP £34.03 ZOa The Zone of Avoidance. Alone in space on the border, your job is to defend the space station against hoards of asteroids and hostile aliens bent on your destruction. Zoa includes fluid full 3D graphics and excellent sounds. You'll need to sharpen up your space fighter skills before trying this one! SRP £39.99 virex 4.0 is the new version of the popular virus protection package. Virex was the first comprehensive solution to threat of computer viruses. Not only does Virex detect whether there is a virus present it will also remove it. 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All trademarks are recognised. E. & OE. =) Organise your life and work Mind-bogeling, 30 adventure demo t ‘ry out the fastest game ‘over Change the face of your Mac Find odd characters instantly WIGHBieK «sew Make your clock run on time Almost three megabytes cee disk! If your Mac can't a be don't despair ~ see page 6 replacements ‘Super utifities ‘ation on page 6. Si, JGGER, BE : AND... BEST! ‘Speed up your hard disk Wi {or details of gettin: Compatibility inform OCTOBER 1993 pisk 5 = Start here! 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’s 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 lf you have an older Mac If 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. s age Compatibility We spend hours checking all the programs on the disk with as 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 a 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 guidelines you should follow when installing any software. Cover disk 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-a-glance display, but Do /t 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 It 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 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- lent on-line help facility too. & File Edit Jobs Joblist Schedules Options Le] Pratay, duty 30, 1993 4:36 pm Name Pro Tye Dee Write Gank you letter te Tedd G. Te lors Pay Ms. Wessendert Make new meeting pester Ensure wttic bs sate ter Aritécle fer magszine ‘Dinaer wah Bradoa heck that the hd mae chan wes ‘Breach wih Parents tall datagnoas to verity heck on & a « on foreign cheque oa Clana @ Oue O Appt/Event O Schedule Pathways Into Darkness 7 34 tt Shareware fee: £10 2 DEL oC ES Greg’s Buttons crvsisiic: = —an Macs: any Py = System: 7.0 or 7.1 . Sraataa Ola Pia Display: any, but most effects Ss need colour of 137 points and recovered The Mac customiser’s dream colt 45 Pi program! This control panel lets Inventory you add 3D buttons, colourise wee Ta your menu bar and windows, and beg wate (on writ ’ 2 ‘Smell Cenves Seck change the font used in the —_— tea Kae ’ * Messages _ Mote menu bar. You're right, it has no ‘Sunday, 0804(8:04AM) TET SUAREN [REST ||P Yltter P¢ Pit in dant) Greg's Buttons lets you mess about with your Mac's practical use, but it certainly Survive Katt reety. Maal mere er appearance to your heart's content. Beats working makes your Mac look better! Ieadest fowler yulaer D4 rapaion (x3) is all | can say Welther P4 Pistol reedy Stiver Medel You see 0 deed Headless Welther P4 Megazine (x8) You see 0 deed Hesdiess Despite trying to sneak around a corner, you've been spotted by a ‘headless’ who intends mayhem. Only your Luger stands between you and certain death Goudy Hundre An ‘antique’ font based on a design by Frederick Goudy. Shareware fee: none must return to the surface and | Shareware fee: none This is a PostScript Type 1 Compatibility signal an extraction team to Mac: any, requires PostScript font, so will not work with a Macs: minimum 2Mb RAM pick you up. System: any StyleWriter unless you have System: minimum 6.0.5 That, however, is more easily Display: any Adobe Type Manager installed. Display: 256 colours said than done. You move around a dungeon, rendered in If you've seen Ultima Underworld 3D in real time with your Mac. on the PC, you'll have an idea of You can explore using the Operation Intercept what to expect from Pathways mouse, and it’s a good idea to into Darkness. You are a Special find a weapon before the Shareware fee: none Forces agent with a mission to monsters find you! Compatibility save the world from a hostile This fully working playable Mac: any, but we found problems with some SE/30s alien demon. To complete your demo will give you an idea what System: minimum 6.0.7 mission you must detonate a to expect when the full version Display: any small nuclear device at the ships from BungieSoft “real soon bottom most level of the now”. | have to confess that the This has to be the fastest demon’s tunnels. To complete zombies always get me before 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, the usual scheme. There's music, there's frenetic action and I'm damned if | 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, it still gives you an excellent taster of a groundbreak- ing game for the Mac. ntercept Operation Intercept goes so all out for speed that it disables our screen grabber, so you'll just have to imagine spaceships, aliens, laser beams, et al the mission and survive you I've even finished the demo! PopChar is a handy control panel which IP a pc in a i can assist you in typing the more unusual characters, such as li, é and &. When installed, clicking in a designated corner Pop! of the screen brings up a chart of every Shareware fee: none - = available character in the currently Compatibility char} selected font. Choosing a character Macs: any pastes it into your document at the System: any, but we had a problem with cursor. PopChar is especially useful for some versions of Adobe Type Reunion working with Symbol and Zapf Dingbats, Display: any when you can see what you are typing. Zapf Dingbats 10 There's no excuse for not writing to that German penpal now (er, unless of course, you haven't got one) because PopChar makes finding obscure characters - like umlauts - a doddle bd Safety Belt retrieved if you could get at the temporary files - unfortunately, —omem=asmss they're invisible! Safety Belt is a control panel which spots these —— files when you restart after a crash, eee" and makes them visible. It won't —— | repair them, but it might just give penis Shelter useful by quitting the program that crashed and returning you to the Finder. You'll still have lost 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 iT 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, it is possible that some of it might be Fast Unfrag When your hard disk is brand new, the Mac Starts saving files at one end of | 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 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 disk - this should have the effect of speed- 5th ay wn The quick br fox jumped over the lazy dog. 1234567890 ing it up. It requires a fair amount of free 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. en your Mac crashes out with a System Error, as ly 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 anything you were doing in the aberrant application, but you might (note, might) be able to save work in any 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 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 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 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 a 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 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. If you think you have one, just read the installation instructions again to make sure you're not missing something. If it still won't work, then return the disk by 26 October along with a stamped addressed envelope to: MacFormat Disk 5 Disk Copy Labs Ltd PO Box 21 Daventry NN11 5BU We regret that we cannot answer telephone enquiries on faulty disks or disk installation. . 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Centris 660AV features @ 25MHz 68040 processor @ 55Miz digital signal processor @ 8Mb RAM expandable to 68Mb @ 16-bit colour support @ Works with NTSC, PAL, VGA, SuperVGA displays and all Apple monitors @ Internal CD-ROM drive @ Direct video input and CD-quality sound B@ Built-in Ethernet AV Macs add video power Both combine video and speech technology and telecommunications in what Apple calls ‘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_ plug-and-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- pointment considering the hype that has been surrounding it in the past. The UK version isn’t due for release 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- rised 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 other Macs from third parties. Call 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 @ 40MHz 68040 processor @ 66Miz digital signal processor @ 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 B Built-in AppleTalk Every year, there are two Macworld Expo shows in the United States. They are used by Apple and_ third party developers to showcase their Macworld Boston (in August) products 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. The highlight of the show, for many people, 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 i voin 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 LCIIis not likely to last much longer on the product line. Here are some of the more notable changes: Mac Mac Was Is now LCII 4/80, 14-in monitor £999 £821 LCIII 4/80 £1,289 = £998 - IIvx 4/80 £1,888 £1,606 IIxv 5/230cd £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 165c 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 6 06seb0 60400660064 666440860R08 5 ,.WordPerfect perfected WordPerfect 3.0, a major enhancement to the popular Mac word processor, is scheduled to be on sale within the next two months. Enhancements include ruler bars with easy access to features such as "fonts, styles and tables; ‘button bars’ - customisable tool bars for single-click access to menu items. Grammatik 5, a grammar checker, is included in the package - making the range of features very similar to Microsoft Word 5.1. No UX pricing has yet been decided. & An ‘interim release’ of WordPerfect Works, 1.2.1, has begun shipping. It | provides faster scrolling, faster switch- ing between modules and better compatibility with System extensions. An updated CD-ROM disc which now contains almost 300 applications is now available from Instant Access, a new form of try-before-you-buy-software distribution. Lotus 1-2-3, 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 Access 081 200 0100. NMEA \ EXPOSITION ee FO ce A Newton software on the way At the launch of Apple’s Newton MessagePad, the ground-breaking personal digital assistant, there were a number ar EXPOSITION Mi Li AM ) ) Boston 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 iy Pro, while ClarisImpact, according \\ to Claris, ‘creates an entirely new * category of productivity software: business graphics processing.” Boston 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 of months, 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. If an object from the library is cloned, any alterations to the original are EXPOSITION re ae ae reflected in the clone. New tools include gradient fills and Bézier ClarisDraw comes with more than 3,000 curve creation. pieces of ‘smart’ clip art which can be ClarisImpact, jesized and altered as required 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. The company has recently announced that ClarisDraw will be £323 and ClarisIlmpact £264. 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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, Dubl-Click software is preparing GoFigure, a package of calculators, and Portfolio, the company behind DynoDex, will launch Dyno Notepad, a ‘free-form 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. @ 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. SO0;000 i Companies are falling over themselves to develop software for the Newton MessagePad and SESS NAL Tek Special Educational Pricing Available-Contact your Dealer 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 o-oo “se wes Sompton’s Encyclopedia li 26 volumes of Compton's Encyclopedia have been put onto ine CD-ROM. The £353 disc, called Compton's Interactive incyclopedia, incorporates ‘virtual workspace’ which means hat any topics or pictures can be active in windows on screen jimultaneously. There are more than 33,000 articles, 120 fideo/animation sequences, sound, an atlas and the 165,000 ull entry Merriam-Webster OnLine Dictionary which is a dictio- Jary with definitions, not just a spelling checker found in DTP and word processing applications. To run the disc you'll need either the MacPlus, SE, Mac II >; Quadra range of Macs with at least 4Mb of hard disk space yee. For more info, call Active Distribution on 081 838 1280. 7 ath tome — i] Qaacsemaed (Cee) Ce ‘Sovence and Vee 7 IntelliDraw smarter IntelliDraw, Aldus’ ‘smart’ drawing program, has been upgraded to version 2.0. IntelliDraw is designed for people who aren’t graphics professionals, but who need to produce profes- sional-looking illustrations. Things like technical diagrams, room plans, flow charts, organisational charts and so on are easy to create, using the program’s built-in templates. Version 2.0 introduces ‘drag and drop’ cup Shape Links Tene In teutide ace be dragged on to the main 4 templates — a window Of professionablooking technical diagrams, room plans, flow charts and graphic elements which CaN organisational charts are easy to create in IntelliDraw 3.0 such as perspective and ‘envelope drawing area and then resized or reshaped. Other enhancements in the new version include new file import filters for Illustrator 1.1 and Illustrator 88, PhotoCD, MacDraw and MacDraw II, PCX, TWAIN and Metafile formats, full OLE (Object Linking and Embedding) support and compatibility with Aldus Fetch, the‘company’s graphics cataloguing on en seny 2. oo Guinness Disc of Records The Guinness Disc of Records has all the features of the book On one disc complete with pictures, sound and video. It may not look as good as the hardback variety sitting comfortably on your book case for all to see, but when loaded onto your Mac you'll experience all the topics from the original which are brought to life with video sequences and synchronised audio. The 1993 disc includes more than 2,000 updated records, over 750 pictures and a Random Record Explorer which includes 400 photo and text records. Information has been indexed and records can be accessed alphabetically so it's easy to locate the topic of your choice. The disc costs £60, from Softline on 081 401 1234. One thing clearly demonstrated at the Macworld show was that CD-ROM is finally coming of age as a distribution media. Speaking at a pre-show press briefing, Apple Chairman John Sculley said that the company had sold around 50,000 CD: ROM drives last year; this year, Apple expects to sell one million. And there were certainly plenty of CD-ROM products on sale; ranging from interactive cartoons to encyclo- pedias, games to porn, you could find just about anything you wanted on disc. Some of the highlights included @ Space Adventure for the Macintosh, This disc covers space exploration, the universe, rockets and the search for extra-terrestrial life. It’s due to ship in the Autumn, and will have a US price of $89.95 for the CD-ROM version B Wallobee Jack. This ‘inter- active cartoon” is destined to utility. There are also extra special effects warping’, which allows users to bend and twist graphics and text. A ‘Polymorph Shape’ command lets users smoothly transform one shape into another. In the US, the program will be available in the fourth quarter of 1993 for $199 — version 1.0 retailed for $299. Pricing and availability in the UK has not yet been announced. Power Tools to pep up Photoshop Kai's Power Tools has become a firm favourite among Photoshop practitioners. Extra effects now include ‘noise’ and ‘video cyclone’ be a huge hit. The characters are professionally-drawn, and the whole thing looks just like a cartoon on TV. Wallobee Jack's first adventure is The Bingi Burra Stone, and devel- oper Tune 1000 plans to release several sequels. @ Rads, Eres & Cheeseburgers. This disc features a ‘magical energy blob named Ergon’ which ‘introduces us to our own planet. It’s due to ship before the end of the year Kai's Power Tools, the Photoshop plug-in package, has been significantly enhanced with version 2.0, which contains 33 plug-ins; provid- " ing users with a wide range of extra effects to alter images. These include smudging, textures, fractal genera- tors, ‘noise’, pixellation, ‘video cyclone’ and many more. The user interface has been improved, and the plug-ins now show previews before they are applied to the image. Since its release, KPT has become a firm favourite with Photoshop users; the new version is significantly more powerful, and will undoubt- edly prove a big success. The US retail price for KPT 2.0 is $199. It will be available here some time in September. ~ 2 Vornan receives a 2 strawberry facial Lawnmower puzzles, Man — the film that 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 ‘fly-through’ 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, is MACWORLD EXPOSITION 6) Boston challenges and original footage 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 testosterone-filled 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 said bimbo. 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? Is 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 in a plain brown wrapper. APPLE BITES ACWORTI User-friendly comms RR 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 fi as they’re uploaded and downloaded. SiTcomm supports the XModem, YModem and ZMod protocols as standard. Because it uses the Comms Toolbe other protocols can be added by dropping Extensions | the System folder. A toolbar gives quick access to t program's main features, and automatic log-on procedury are provided for a range of commercial US bulletin boar (although whether these will be localised to deal with \ services has yet to be decided). 4 SiTcomm is expected to be available in October 4 November this year; it will retail for $120 in the US. Sim City to go 3D Sim City, one of the most popular Mac games, Is to go three-dimen- 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. just in time for the Christmas rus As yet no price has been fixed b the original Sim City, now sto Sim City Classic is still availa Mindscape, distributor of the and costs £40. : Sim series believes that ‘2000 will For more _ information cal be ready for release in December, Mindscape 0444 246333. Super-fast graphics program stuns shot Live Picture is a new imaging package which provides t speed of high-end workstation packages on the Mac. It h been created by French company FITS Imaging, and w demonstrated at the Boston show by US distributor HS! Software, generating considerable excitement from graphie professionals. Huge files can be opened in a matter seconds, and effects such as rotation, skewing and scali take only three seconds or so. A Quadra with at least 32Mb of RAM is required to ri the program, which will be available in two or three months Kids cut out 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 screen 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. 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: 0101 513 321 1777. 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. @ 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 ; : at reviewed in MacFormat issu 3 - to Print Shop Deluxe. Th new package allows users t create calendars, stationery easily using pre defined templates. It mp greetings supports TrueType fonts - a9 . are included in the package and a wide range of graphic formats for Shop Deluxe costs £55, an is available from Electron’ Arts, 0753 549222. d cards - ! banners = an import. Prin § An innovative new ‘screen saver’, UnderWare, has been developed by US company Bit Jugglers. Rather than blank- ing the screen, it animates items on the 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 thre also effects such as icons which grow legs and walk off the my ORLD t&ereen, and a dragon which burns holes in the Desktop. f The program also works as a conventional screen saver, Gnd allows you to change your desktop patterns to textures such as granite. Guy Kawasaki, the original Mac evangalist, is behind the one product at Macworld Boston guaranteed to faise a smile, - InderWare is due to ship within the next couple of weeks, pre will sell for $60. As we went to press, no UK distributor has et been announced. Faster, cheaper PowerBook replaces 160 The Apple PowerBook replaced with a Mac that is not only faster but less expensive. The PowerBook 165 68030 processor while the 160 only ran at 25MHz. Features include: @ 4Mb RAM as standard ®@ 640 by 400 display with 16 grey scales @ 256 colour support for some external displays ® built-in microphone ® 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 has been a 33MHz £1,900 or £2,100 with an express/fax modem. For more information call Apple free on 0800 127753. GiddyUp Thangs, Rad, Mythos. Believe it or not, these are some of the typefaces included in the latest font package from Adobe. Adobe Wild Type costs around £47, and for this you get & the weird and wacky fonts vs such as Critter - creatures who say who they are by their letter - and Mythos, featuring =r legendary beasts. | Adobe says the fonts can be used to add a bit ESS (" of fun to invitations, < design or brochures. peti Alongside the ‘Wild 2 Ones' are five original Adobe type faces: Myriad Sketch, Myriad Headline, Myriad Tilt Birch and —— Utopia Headline. \dobe forges ahead in the competitive arena Call Leading Edge on of font technology - with Adobe Wild Type 071 454 9360. ‘un fonts ) wild 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. ok talk ers Expanded Book Toolkit, which allows users to create their own ‘electronic. books’, now includes Support for nine different languages. Users thé program, which then re text and graphics into creates a stand-alone appli- cation similar to the electronic books that Voyager itself sells, with a table of contents and text Search capabilities. Voyager: 0101 212 431 5199. Power tool WizTools for PowerBook, from ASD Software, is a collection of modules that provide file security, file synchronisation, battery status display and simulation of function keys for PowerBooks. The product, which should be available by the end of September, will compete with Connectix PowerBook Utilities, Norton Utilities for PowerBook and Claris ClearChoice’s Power To Go. ASD _ Software, 0101 909 642 2594. ElasticReality. the user draws over the outlines of the two shapes, and the program does the rest APPLE BITES Framed! Screenies 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 99-inch screen ‘compact’ Macs such as the Classic. Not yet available in the UK, they sell for $11.95 each in the States. Screenies: 0101 707 939 6060. ElasticReality has been used, in its Silicon Graphics version, in the production of movies and TV shows Mixed ink HJ-400, an inkjet printer aimed at home office users, is the only inkjet that can be used in both a Mac and Windows environment. The HJ-400 costs £351 and should be available from most high street computer retailers. It has been designed for the desktop, so those with a limited workspace will see its small size as an advan- tage. It also features 18 TrueType fonts and uses a Canon inkjet cartridges. 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 QuickDraw printers such as the StyleWriter, Hewlett- Packard DeskJet and Apple Colour Printer. It combines all the features of the previ- ous versions, and includes 35 fonts mirroring those provided in most PostScript printers. 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INSTANT ACCESS LIMITED, FREEPOST (NW5936), THE ACCESS CENTRE, LONDON NW9 9YR * Carriage prices are for UK Mainland only - please phone for a quote if this does not apply. 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 return 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 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! I am 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, Helicats 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 post us the improvements you'd like to see made 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 compressed,’ Hmmm, sounds alright to me. Yeah it’s a new office - with twice as much space for your sacks of 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 3 Saussez. What's his problem? Faicon's got no atmosphere, historical context or real world terrain - and Helicats is better facility? Why, for such a complex simulator to master, no training ground? I 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 Iam concerned, 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 icon fie: ¢ ‘Firsty you must have Mac Ilci ‘hoticed Cruising the keys Mor another batch of £5- winning hidden Secrets from your favourite keyboard.... ® Hhis is a useful tip for owners of Word 5 or 5.1 who don't own a screen saver. Go to Commands under the Tools menu to get {@ that huge list of menu items. Then iyperscr so that screen test is highlighted. Activate it so that it appears under the Tools menu and assign a keystroke for the Screen test. @n watch the beautiful patterns!!! i Jerome Dewhurst, Bucks Here's another Map secret. Just after Youdouble click on the Map control panel fold down [option] [shift] and oH]. This will magnify the map without eg! RyINE the text. Different combinations Magnify to different levels. Robert Wood, Leeds fo there, here are my hidden delights: set the date of your Mae to 20.09.1989.Then restart (9nd old down [command] [option] [C] [1]. ita while and see what happens. yOu have Mac Ilfx, try the same as } but set the date to 19.03.1990 and he [command] [option] [F] [X] ke Simo Neuvonen, Tuusnieme, Finland if yah use HyperCard 2.0, have you ow it displays the name of a differ- ent auunoreach time you select About Hypereard? Now try it while holding down aero key! Ben Poole, Essex 3 for those, young cruisers — keep Sending ' em into Cruising the Keys, Mackormat, 30 Monmouth St, Bath BA1 2BW and win yourself a fiver! r . . . _ historical context and real-world terrain. I can’t f wait for Graphic Simulations’ next offer (F-18 Hornet). Dr am I again expecting too much? Paul J Saussez, Wezembeek-Oppem Phew! you really like your flight sims don’t you? Mmm, I think the main problem with delivering the level of detail you’re after is Speed. 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 TI ‘ere are three reasons why I am writing; |. | want to achieve world-wide status Ben Willis, Saltash 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 Wora’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, it’s a good idea for a feature on insurance — I’Il look 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 it he 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 everybody 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, | 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! I’ll 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? I have 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! Mysterious eh? ee | KINGS QUEST V LARRY 5 LOOM 25.99 23.99 23.99 MACINTOSH/PERFORMA GAMES ALL SYSTEM 7 COMPATIBLE A-TRAIN (6.05 M&C 2MB) . AFTER DARK (THE ULTIM. 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However, most TVs don’t, so you'll either have to buy an optional RF unit which’ll let you plug PowerCD into your TV’s aerial socket or go through a video recorder which will more often than not have the right video input sockets. 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 great 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 I'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 oN PRACT ase to me, and my home CD player cost £600. So check out those specs with a sales- man who knows his stuff — | think you could — be surprised. 7a, We om “<, a “OLS nya ..as CD-ROM 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 disc 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- dia encyclopedias, shareware CDs, Photo CDs or just listen to music while you work on your Mac, then PowerCD will do the job. ‘4 -Gan you use it on you would want to be seen on a tube, long. While a regular audio CD player will perhaps h or plane carrying the CD equivalent © Starship Enterprise, how well does the D function as a portable? Well the good that at 3ibs it doesn’t weigh you down th, but it’s a bit inconvenient. The eigh