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Your complete guide to the Apple Mac WIN!!! - a 17-inch Hitachi monitor — COCETE PEUAb al SCAN+T— From hand-helds to flatbeds - choosing \ and using your scanner } — @ Morph 2 secrets! i i @ Scores of expert tips — NOVEMBER 1993 ISSUE 6 ! ‘= = . | ulure Your guarantee - 23) Pa <— 7 of value Over two megabytes on one super value disk! If your Mac can't read HD disks, don't despair - see page 7 for details of getting replacements. Compatibility information on page 7. Se) N N =) sO rox 0 WwW Ww =) ro) ue Ww j- ee. 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Software Lid W1 071 636 2666 Micro Anvika Ltd W1 071 580 6382 available at these resellers: PC World NW2 & Brentford 0800 486111 Stirling Micro Systems Lid NWI 071 935 5262 The Macintosh Centre W14 071 602 9444 Tower Records Piccadilly Circus 071 439 2500 Virtual Reality EC2 071 588 4831 Amsys Technology Ltd Kenley 081 660 7750 AppleCentre Cambridge Cambridge 0223 247111 AppleCentre Croydon Croydon 081 681 0772 Bidmuthin Technolgies Ltd Harrow 081 868 4400 Callhaven Ple Kingston 081 549 5612 Gordon Harwood Computers Derby 0773 836781 Guernsey Computers Lid Channel Islands 0481 728 738 Imago Europe Ple Haslemere 0428 645 225 Ind Lid Maldon 0621 840666 Logic Computer Solutions Bournemouth 0202 319845 PC World Bristol 0800 486111 PC World Croydon 0800 486111 PostScript Bath 0225 483 151 Visual World Bristol 0272 258 823 Copystat Cardiff Limited Cardiff 0222 566133 Clwyd Computers Clwyd 0745 814156 PC World Cardiff 0800 486111 Virtual Reality Cardiff 0222 641089 software available from these selected retail stores Manchester, Arndale Southampton, Bargate Coventry, W. 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SRP £34.03 2Oa 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. The new versions features include an enhanced interface supporting drag-and-drop testing and a variety of startup discs — ammmattaatems to work on To | all Macs ae —— which | ? include the dual function Scan/Installer program. SRP £69.99 iron helix. Control a robot probe whose mission is to stop a renegade starship on an automated course of destruction. Prevent intergalactic war and the spread of deadly a virus by destroying the doomsday weapon—codenamed Iron Helix. Navigate through dozens of corridors and rooms. Search for ways to stop the looming annihilation while eluding the ships deadly defender robot. Iron Helix takes advantage of the CD ROM and blazes a new trail for ifteractive virtual media, every scene and all move- ments happen entirely in 3-D! SRP £89 morph 2.0 is the latest version of the breakthrough applica- tion which lets you smoothly transform one image into another. With v1.1 you can take two static images and create a movie of the transformation. With v2.0 you can additionally take two movies and morph between them, you can warp an image (make Mona Lisa smile!) or use the innovative caricaturing features to accentuate vari- j Fie ait Seqvence view Keyonts Movies windows Ou ous key facial features. Morph v2.0 SRP £179 Morph v1.1 is SRP £119 softline memory The amount of memory you need depends on the software you use and whether you want to have more than one application operat each time. If you find yourself wanting to try more demanding applications or you've already come up against out of memory problems Softline Memory Kit’s are the answer. They supply you with everything you need to upgrade the memory of your Mac in convenient boxed Kits. Each Kit contains detailed installation instructions, SIMMS and an anti static wriststrap. Upgrades from 2MB upwards available. crystal crazy It’s back! The all time favourite Crystal Quest now has a sequel and it’s even more addictive! Crystal Crazy contin- ues the quest to collect the crystals but this time there are also jig- saws to complete, ridiculous pictures to erase, pool balls to sink and beautifully fragile ornaments to smash against the walls! 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A scanner is one of the most useful things you can buy for your Mac — opening up a whole new world of possibilities. But how do you go about choosing one to suit your needs and pocket? p23 y \ . @ CIVILIZATION DEMO e Play the best ever Mac came fer # he © ECLIPSE The seancoie wcrees were @ STARTUP DOWNLOAGER Save tame pruning te your Lanerertter 4 © MARKER FONTS ‘Tee feats Yor thet cans! touch @ THE GROUCH Sename Street in pour trocar - © TETRIS 2000 ‘ - Ow fevoertte ‘Teens game For the big low-down on loading and using this month’s High Density MacFormat cover disk software turn to pages 7, 8 and9 Deliver presentations on screen including QuickTime movies Store frequently Ae Shortcuts give you pein a to - of your ently use m frome ‘edie Introducing __ ClarisWorks 2.0. For All The Helping | Hands You Need. cae Presenting an entirely new version of the best-selling integrated software for Macintosh. ClarisWorks™ 2.0 gives you new tools for outlining, colour painting and presentations. 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C LAR | be) Simply powerful software” — mt cs r--— Yes, | want to know more about ClarisWorks 2.0 (Please print) First Name —__ Last Name = Institution — Address MEMS _, = + Claris Werks fe Post or Fax to: Claris Information Service PO Box 2935 Dublin 1, Ireland FREEFAX 0800.929015 Town — County Postal Code Tel No ae » CLARIS Simply powerful software.” wer Mac game for @ 1 Fully playable ‘ose’s brilfiant Play the best e thousand years! version of Micropr game of strategy The sensible screen saver Save time printing to your LaserWriter Two fonts for that casual touc n Sesame Street in your trashcan Our favourite favourll® BIGGER, Tetris gam BI R AND ig replacements details of gettin page 7- Compatibility information of = NOVEMBER 1993 ae BEST VALUE! DISK 6 eee Start here! MacFormat’s coverdisk is now a high density floppy, so that 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 if your Mac only accepts double density (800K) disks. 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 #6 icon, and select your hard disk. When it’s finished you'll find a new folder called MacFormat #6 f, and inside that there are four more folders called Games, Fonts, MacFormat Database, and Extras. Inside those you'll find the programs themselves. You'll need around 2.1Mb 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 free disk space for them all. If you have an older Mac if your Mac is chronologically challenged and it can’t use high density disks (Pluses, SEs and original Mac lis 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 90 for details. 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 three disks’ worth of goodies on to this month’s enormous disk. Check out these great programs... Startup Downloader wews Whenever you print to a PostScript laser printer, your Mac has to download any fonts which are not built in to the printer. That means that for most documents a significant amount of time is spent sending the fonts to the printer. It is possible to send a font to the printer just once, then it remains in the printer's memory until it is switched off. Then any documents containing that font don’t need to download it afresh. Over a day, this can save a lot of time! There are plenty of utilities to do this, but they are mostly inconvenient to use. Startup Downloader can completely automate the process and make it transparent. It's a control panel which lets you select a printer and the fonts to be downloaded to it. It then creates a document which will send those fonts to the printer when double clicked. If you then put that document in the Startup Items folder of the System folder (under System 7; the Read Me file explains what to do with System 6), the fonts will be downloaded when you start your Mac. You can even set a slight delay to allow the NewsGot printer to warm up NewsGotBol if you switch on NewsGotBol0b1 Mac and printer NewsGotObl simultaneously. Don't go mad downloading fonts as your laser printer has limited Startup Downloader 1.02 memory, but pick Add File aaa three or four fonts Remove which your documents CT] Ignore file-not-found errors Printe normally use. (And Permanently Download Set r do remember that almost all printers Minutes to wait before starting: | 1.02 have fonts like Helvetica and Times already built in.) 7 MacFormat Compatibility a @ eB | Civilization Demo *2"-~~- System: Any Display: Any (less than 265 colours displays in B&W) Many people would argue that Civilization is the best game on the Mac - File Edit Orders Advisors World Civilopedia City bar none. If you haven't played it yet you have a treat in store. The object of Civilization is to build a society from a single band of wandering settlers to a multi-million person high-tech empire spanning the globe and beyond. Easy. Now, fitting all of that in a demo would be a bit tricky, so on the disk you get a thousand year span to play, starting a couple of thousand years BC. Your civilisation already has a foothold — two cities and some military units, and it has just encountered enemies. There are two main ways to control Civilization. One is move the individ- ual military units. If you move a unit into an enemy unit or city it will attack it. Other commands can be given from the Orders menu. The other control point is the cities. Click on a city to bring up its complex control screen. From here you can decide what the city is making as its main product, and choose how the population works. See the diagram on the right for more details on this screen. Civilization is quite complicated, and can be daunting at first, but don’t despair. Play the demo a few times to get the hang of the controls, and read the on-line Civilopaedia to work out what things do. Then start setting yourself objectives. You could play to get the largest civilisation possible, or perhaps to make as much money, to wipe out as many other cities or explore as far. When the demo ends you get a civilisation score and percentage; you can play to maximise those. When you have exhausted the This is how you start out. You are the yellow cities and armies, your enemy is in green. A good possibilities of the demo, go and buy the real game. It’s money well spent! first move might be to attack the green army with your chariot. The full version of Civilization costs £35 from Microprose, 0666 504399. Shareware fee: $11 and $12 Compatibility i" Macs: Any ‘Ty se System: Any (requires PostScript printer or ATM) = Display: Any = Poy, These are two fonts which simulate felt tip pens. They're useful for car- AMBROSIb. by Andrew Welch toons, or just adding an informal note. They are PostScript type 1 fonts, so they need a PostScript printer or a copy of Adobe Type Manager to work. MarkerFinePoint Eclipse: a screen saver for people who just want to save their screens Shareware fee: $10 showing only the time, which Compatibility is moved randomly around the Macs: Any screen. You can customise the A quick bh Own fox jump d over the lazy dog System: Any font used to display the Display: Any time, but that’s about it. This simplicity is Eclipse's big advantage. Because of it, it uses up only a tiny 5K of MarkerfteltWide A quick brown fox jumped over There are plenty of screen savers which will march toasters across the screen or beam Mr Spock onto memory, and background tasks | your desktop, but while these can carry on uninterrupted ‘ the lazy dog | programs are very amusing, they because of its low processor | aren't always very practical. demands. Eclipse is a straightforward, If you want a screen saver no-nonsense screen saver. Aftera _ to actually save your screen user-determined length of time, rather than entertain, look no the screen is blacked out, further than Eclipse. Cover disk = In the heart of the city... These are the citizens of the city. These are TT : o This shows what buildings there are in the all content, but if you offend them they == a Bea ee tees BARRACK $ Fel} city (a palace and barracks) - each has an change appearance and may cause a civil ABhe — BP |__ effect on the way the city works. For disturbance. Pipi SA Sif YY YY vv] ae ae instance, a city with barracks produces 2 2 3 3 yey rar ; tah | stronger military units, The Civilopaedia Clem & a2 oh ye fi has details of all the different types. Rl od ee | oh ‘el This box shows what the population of the 4g a _ — city are producing. The corn shows food f : - : Here are the military units currently within production; the two sheaves at the end are | ‘ a the city environs - at the moment a surplus and are put in the food storage box at > ’ “= phalanx, a good defensive unit. the end of the turn. Shields go toward making ‘\ » | the Colossus. The arrows indicate the amount “\ | of trade which is being done. Trade becomes || ‘N the contents of the next line - coins if it is j ® taken as taxes, or light bulbs which create knowledge for development. How these are y Here you decide where the citizens work. The window shows the surrounding area; split is set by the tax rate in the File menu. \ \ The food storage area shows how much excess food there is. When the box fills These are the military units which belong to the city. The phalanx is in the city, but the chariot is off fighting the enemy. up with sheaves of corn the population of the city grows. The Grouch Did you watch Sesame Street when you were a kid? Or perhaps you still do? Well The Grouch puts the Grouch where he likes to be best — the trash can. Beware: show kids this and they might just trash your disk just to provoke him! f"} as Mac ve / enhancem straight Tetris with no frills. As with any Tetris | This shows what the city is currently building (The Colossus, one of the wonders of the world, which brings a lot of extra points). It also shows how far building has got - when the box is filled with shields the item is built. Everyone has their own favourite version of the classic . puzzle Tetris, but as far rsions go. This could be the best. — there are no fancy ents, it’s the symbols show what is currently being | produced. You can move the population around and the balance of shields, food and trade will alter as different terrain produces different things. For instance, grasslands produce lots of food, sea produces some food and trade, deserts produce little unless they are irrigated. | Tetris 2000 clone, play with caution Backing up your cover disk We recommend that you back up your cover disk because floppies can easily be 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 co into a folder called ‘MacFormat November disk’ 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 November 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 November’ folder on your hard disk by dragging it into the Wastebasket if a deadline is close. come pied 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. 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LONDON NW8 8PR FAX: 071 724 3775 NEWS update ©0000 COCCHHCOCHEEHEOCHEEEEELe: advice line Mac users in the UK can get direct customer support from - Apple through’ a £95 a year subscription to its Mac Helpline. The Helpline includes a team of Mac experts, a telephone help service to talk you through any system software problems you May encounter, and advice on which Mac, software or acces- sories to buy to suit your needs. On subscribing you get a Mac Helpline Starter Pack with the Helpline freefone number, details of a 50% AppleLink regis- tration discount scheme — only available to Helpline subscribers - an Apple newsletter and a CD- ROM with examples of how to get the best from your Mac. Observers have been amazed that Apple UK is charging for its technical support. In the States, support is free - and is even available via a toll-free phone number, so customers don't even pay for the phone call. With more and more Macs being sold in the UK by non-specialised outlets such as Dixon's, it is seen as a strange move to make customer support a (highly) chargeable item. For more information on Apple UK's £95 telephone supp- ort line, call the company (free) on 0800 127753. A dozen Apples due A 68LCO040 version of the LCIll is expected to be released this month, along with many other new Macs, and a range of improvements to many existing models is also due. The new LC will be known as the LC475. Its '040 processor and price - expected to be far less than $2,000 - will give it the same performance as a low-end Quadra — far faster than the current LCIII. However, the 68LCO040 doesn’t include an integrated FPU (floating point unit), the chip that speeds up some maths intensive programs such as graphics and spreadsheets. Although the addition of an FPU was easy in the LC and LCIil - the extra chip was simply plugged into a socket on the circuit board - the only way to upgrade the LC475 will be to replace its main processor with a full 68040. Also on the cards for an October release are seven new Performa models — although it’s difficult to say which of them will make it to the UK, since Apple doesn’t have a_ policy of introducing Performas simultaneously wordwide. Instead, models are likely to trickle to the UK over the next few months, with some never making it to this country at all. The new Performas will mirror the LC range, with a few extra options, such as the Performa 460, 466 and 467, which will all be 33MHz versions of the LCIll with different memory and hard disk configurations. Se 2 vege, alee De ee haa - ’ Be 1a\ a Apple is releasing the new Performas as part of a drive to restrict US sales of the LC family to the education market only by the end of this year. The company will then have three distinct families of Macs: the Performas for home users, the LC family for education and the Quadra family for business. @ A low cost Quadra, called the 605, based on a 25MHz 68LC040 processor is also due for release, along with two new Duos and a possible '040-based Colour Classic. For more details on the other new machines, and the demise of the Centris name (but not the machines), turn to page 18. Apple: 0800 127753. The LC line is soon to be augmented with a 68040-based machine, offering much greater performance than the fastest current member of the family and now sells for £76. Shortlist cut by half Shortlist, an organisational package that combines features such as word processing and an address book, has had its price almost halved The program features an address book, diary, contact manager, word processor, mail merge/label printing software and project management. Shortlist is mainly aimed at PowerBook users, - although of course it works perfectly well on a desktop Mac - and is fully " System 7 compatible. For more information call Amtech International, 0202 476977. A 68040 version of the Colour Classic may appear in October, although it’s possible that Apple will hold off on its release until nearer to Christmas Claris users form exclusive club ClarisWorks now has its own user group. Membership will be £30 a year; for that users will have a telephone helpline, a quarterly newsletter, seminars and special offers. The user group will share the same offices as the Macintosh Association, which has full-time staff to give advice and support on Macintosh Association members get a discounted subscription if they want to join the ClarisWorks User Group. ClarisWorks - the package not the user group — includes word processing, graphics, spreadsheet and databases rolled into one package and costs £229. the most popular Mac packages, with Claris claiming sales of more than one million packages so far. For more ClarisWorks User Group, Macintosh House, 11 South Parade, Oxford, OX2 7JL. Phone 0865 311530. software and hardware problems. It’s one of information contact, The The PowerPC range was due for release in January next year, but it now looks likely that the first machines won't be seen until a later date. Some of the first batch may not appear until 1995. US Sources say that the January 1994 release date of the PowerPC range is becoming unlikely as the year draws on, and it’s expected that the launch date will be some time in mid-March. The reason behind the delay is said to be due to the original date not leaving Apple with enough time to manufacture the models; mianage- ment didn’t want there to be any shortages of stock — something which has happened with past product releases, angering both customers and dealers. Getting PlainTalk — Apple’s speech recognition software — running on the new processor has also been blamed for the delay. Three products are expected to be released in March. All will be based on a 601 RISC (Reduced Instruction Set Computer) chip, and will have cases very similar to Ball & Stick models molecules in movies Ball & Stick version 3.5 is a 3D graphics package aimed at scientists who use Macs. Version 3.5 gives users the ability to create movies featuring colour 3D molecular models that can rotate, drift, zoom or track. Ball & Stick costs £235, with a 15% discount for education orders, from Cherwell Scientific | Publi- shing on 0865 784801. Ball & Stick: create your own molecular models in full colour. This is testosterone, by the way. Faster Aldus Fetch retrieval A faster version of Aldus Fetch, 1.2, has just become available in the US with localised versions for Europe to follow shortly. According to Aldus, search times will be up to 300 times faster, due to a new database engine developed by Sierra Software Innovations. Fetch 1.2 costs $275 in the US. No UK pricing or availability details have yet been set. Aldus UK 081 568 8868. £59 has been slashed off the price of the Stylus 800 A4 desktop printer from Epson. Launched eight months ago at £445, the printer now costs £387. “Having gained a significant share of this growing market, we are deter- mined to keep the price of the Stylus 800 highly competitive,” said Mark Vagg, product manager at Epson. The Stylus 1000 A3 wide-carriage ink jet printer, launched last month, will remain at £680. Contact Epson UK on 0442 61144. Apple’s current Centris 610 and 650 models. They will run System 7 as well as a ‘native’ PowerPC operating system, for compatibility with existing Mac applications. The single slot version will include a processor direct slot as well as a NuBus adaptor, so that users can install NuBus cards. Another machine is expected to have three NuBus slots. Other models, including the second generation RISC machines from Apple are not likely to appear until 1995. The first generation PowerPCs from both Apple and IBM will be built around the Motorola PowerPC 601 RISC chip Cheap ClarisWorks schools templates Primary school children who use the integrated package ClarisWorks will now have access to 30 new curriculum-based templates from Claris. The templates are pre-created documents that have been designed by educationalists to help teachers conduct class activities using a computer. For example, one template uses the spreadsheet module, with pre-created charts and pictures, so that children can measure and record the height of each of their classmates. The templates cost £23, and have been developed by Claris with close supervision from Tom Baird, a senior researcher at the Technology Education Research Unit (TERU) at the University of London, who was assisted by two primary school teachers. “The templates exemplify the way particular industry standard software can be used to produce materials appropriate for the individual age, ability and interests of children,” he said. In conjunction with the templates, a ClarisWorks Education User Group, with an £18 subscription fee, has been established. For more information contact TAG Developments on 0474 357350. @ file Edit Formot Colculate Options View 1100 | ale EE S ei ClarisWorks Templates for primary education are designed to allow teachers to use ClarisWorks in the classroom with the minimum of effort. There are 30 templates in the package. ~ S update COCOCHCHCHCHCOCHCHOOCHCOCOHOOCHOOC OOOO Memory costs have increased dramatically over the past few weeks. In some cases, prices have actually tripled in a short time. In June this year, 1MB SIMMs cost an average of £24. By September, the price had risen to £35. The price rise is mainly due to a fire at a SIMM factory in Japan. This resulted in panic buying of some of the components used in the manufacture of SIMMs. According to Performance Direct, a leading moving to build the more modern 72 pin SIMMs, which has caused a shortage of the 30 pin SIMMs If you are intending to buy a Mac in the near future, it’s a good idea to buy one with as much SIMM vendor in the UK, many manufacturers are Conflicts solved Conflict Catcher II is a utility that finds conflicts between your startup files -— exten- sions and control panels — through a series of tests. Unlike other similar utilities, Conflict Catcher Il finds problems by selectively enabling and disabling start- up items, then checking to see if the problem still exists after startup. Other programs tend to rely on a database of known conflicts - which quickly goes out of date because new software is being released all the time. Because many users don’t need to run all of their startup software at the same time, the program allows you to create separate sets of startup software for different situations. There’s also a_ special feature for PowerBook users Conflict Catcher || RENEE who've had to sot dri! Songs] Conflict Catcher™ bby Jettrey Robbin Cticking on 0 startup fle vil ‘toggle between enabled and disabled. [| Cheport..}(7) Prete.) (| create a RAM disk to improve speed and extend battery life. Conflict Catcher costs £69 and is distributed by Softline (081 401 1234). @ For a full review of Conflict Catcher II: sorts out conflicts between extensions and control panels automatically Conflict Catcher Il, turn to page 77. used in the majority of the Mac range. A RAM as you think you'll require — don't buy one spokesman went on to say that because planning to add extra SIMMs yourself. major computer manu- factures are building 25 June 1993 14 September 1993 Increase more low cost comput- 1Mb SIMM £24 £35 46% ers than ever before, the demand for RAM 2Mb SIMM £49 £64 31% has been boosted - 4Mb SIMM £95 £119.50 26% another cause of the 16Mb SIMM £434 £499 15% shortages. Figures supplied by Performance Direct Cable adds flexibility to PowerBook The PowerBrick Extender adds more cabling between a PowerBook adaptor and the actual PowerBook. The cabling is intended for people who find the normal length of a PowerBook power supply restrictive. It costs £13, but can also be purchased with the PowerBook Connection Package which costs £30. TeleAdapt, 081 429 0479. es APPL BES Colour crash If you have a Colour Classic, you may find that it crashes when you try to run Apple File Exchange. This is a known problem, and Apple says that the solution -— as long as you're running System 7.1 - is to install the Hardware Updater 1.0, which is available from user groups and on-line services such as AppleLink and Compu- Serve. Bad cheques Cheques stolen from a Building Society are being used to buy computers and software around Great Britain. The National and Pro- Building Society says that the stolen batch numbers run from 433401 to 433800, and feature the N&P ‘Bee _ logo’. Anybody who receives any of the cheques should contact their local police immediately. vincial Apple Expo Apple Expo is the UK’s only Mac-specific show, running from 24 - 27 November in the Grand Hall, Olympia, London. Exhibitors will include Apple, Microsoft, Word- Perfect, Claris, Radius UK and Canon as well as distributors Computers Unlimited, Principal and Softline. For more information contact EMAP International Exhibitions on 071 404 4844. Handy scanner Caere’s OmniScan: with its bundled OmniPage Direct optical character recognition software, you'll never need to re-type anything again OmniScan is a hand-held scanner from Caere which comes with image editing software, an OCR package and fax software. The £539, 256-greyscale device scans at 400 dots per inch. The image editing software is Caere’s Image Assistant, a package which features an ‘assist mode’ for people who aren't confident with the full range of the program's features. OmniScan is distributed by Computers Unlimited (081 200 8282) and Principal Distribution (0706 831831). @ For a first look at OmniScan, turn to our feature on page 23. Future Entertainment show The 1993 Future Entertainment Show is_ taking place at the Grand Hall Olympia, London from 11- 14 November. Channel 4's show GamesMaster will be broadcast live from the show, as will a Radio One show. A number of major software companies will be exhibiting, including US Gold, Acclaim Entertainment, Commodore, Sega, Nintendo and Gremlin Graphics. The show is a ticket-only event; if you're interested call the ticket hotline on 051 356 5085. »e@@e2e02020020200808000080080808808808080888 8888 8 update NEWS Cellular PowerBooks Calling all PowerBook users; Axcell Cellular gives you the ability to send faxes when you can't get to a phone. It's a cellphone/modem adaptor which supports two different telephones — the NEC P3 and OKI 900 — and can be used with any modem. There are two cables, one to plug into the PowerBook and one for the portable telephone. The adaptor normally costs £410, but has an introduc- tory price of £351. The two cellphones supported by Axcell Cellular cost around £300 — and calls, of course, are charged at the normal cellphone rate. For more information call TeleAdapt on 081 429 0479. Misteries of Myst Myst is a CD-ROM game featuring stunning 3D graphics from the program- ming team who created the children’s classics Cosmic Osmo and The Manhole. Due for release this month at around £53, Myst’s storyline is based around an author called Atrus who produces unusual books. The books are described as ‘doorways to fantastic worlds’, which are referred to in the game as Ages. But the doors are being destroyed so the player - who has fallen into one of these books - has to find out what has been destroying the books, and on the run discovers all the different worlds and what happened to the author himself. The adventure game includes some impressive photo-realistic graphics and an original soundtrack, and takes up hundreds of megabytes on the CD-ROM. It's played in first person perspective and there are a number of puzzles to deal with along the way. Electronic Arts, 0753 549442, Myst: a new CD-ROM adventure game, played in 3D from the character's perspective for an added feeling of reality Aesop goes electronic The Tortoise And The Hare is the third title in Braderbund's Living Books CD-ROM series, and the first to be based on the classic fables of Aesop. Available soon (but yet to be priced), the book is aimed at young children, giving them the opportunity to inter- act with the story. The animated Story, complete with feat graphics and Cosmos is a computer bulletin board sound effects, is based service, which costs from £20 a year to on Aesop’s famous join. There are no ‘per-minute’ fees on top fable of the same of this, although some sections of the name, the race board - known as ‘forums’ - cost extra. between the slow Members are allowed on the board for one tortoise and the speedy hour in any day. hare with the tortoise | The Cosmos Community Notice Board coming up trumps. offers information, files and programs as For more informa- well as ‘Conferences’ such as the Public tion call Electronic Arts Who's this cute creature? You'll have to buy Area which contains: on 0753 549442. the package to find out... Stunning photo-realistic three-dimensional graphics and a great sound track are just some of Myst's attractions The Tortoise and The Hare follows the familiar Broderbund Living Books format . @ Anti-Virus software @ Apple News @ Buy/Sell noticeboard @ UK Mac User Groups @ Apple software @ Microsoft Software Because it's a community noticeboard, Cosmos also caters for special interest areas. If anyone is involved in areas such as cancer support groups, Cosmos will offer to set up a public or private conference for your group or interest. For more information | telephone 081 690 2904. Omni cuts Prices of the OmniPage family of Optical Character Recognition software (OCR) Far out! Far Side Planner/Calendar The Time version 3.0 has been released in the US. It Newt guide Out/Newton Guide to London will be available in December for Subs on tap OnTap is a QuarkXPress XTension that has been designed specifically for It’s amazing Super Maze Wars from the Callisto Corporation is the latest network game due includes a year’s supply of the Newton MessagePad. have been cut by as much sub-editors. It adds a for release soon. cartoon animations from It covers art galleries, as a_ third. OmniPage number of functions to It’s a colour update to cartoonist Gary Larson, theatres, eating out and Professional has been help anyone who has to the popular Maze Wars made famous by the visiting clubs and includes reduced from £934 to edit text with Quark- and is similar to Spectre newspaper strips, books London maps. If the user £699, OmniPage from £699 Xpress - for example, Supreme. and greetings cards. The program _ includes an animated cartoon with animals or people zooming across the screen. Delrina Corporation, 0101 206 820 7007. selects the address of an entry, the location and directions are shown on the map. The guide will come in the form of a plug-in PCMCIA card; no price has yet been set. to £464 and OmniPage Direct from £529 to £269. Caere is distributed in the UK by Computers Unlimited (081 200 8282) and Principal Distribution (0706 831831). paragraph indents can be deleted with a_ single keystroke, rather than via a dialogue box. 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Prices exclude VAT & delivery cliveeeece cs cbeceece cee eee ULWVIARKE | new Hae So The third dimensio MacroMode! 1.5 is a three-dimensional modelling program which creates 3D Waphics from a 2D reference image. It’s aimed at professional designers, @aphic artists and CAD (computer aided design) users. This new version includes a slew of new tools such as a Bézier pen, twist, bend and taper tools, and an improved 3D extrude feature. MacroModel 1.5 sells for £1,408, or £1,585 when bundled with Pixar Renderman. \t’s available from Computers Unlimited, 081 200 8282. Laser in colour Colour laser printing on the desktop is at last possible thanks to a much smaller machine from QMS - although the price is still prohibitive for all except large users. The QMS ColorScript Laser 1000, launched in mid-September, contains four toner cartridges, one each for cyan, magenta, yellow and black toner. Unlike previous colour laser printers, which tended to be extremely large, the ColorScript Laser 1000 only uses one ‘marking engine’ to place the image on the paper, and transfers the four coloured toners to this engine using a new technique involving a flexible rubberised belt, rather than the conven- tional solid drum found in most laser printers. Output is to plain paper - no special coating is required. The ColourScript Laser 1000 prints at eight pages per minute (ppm) when outputting black-and-white, and 2ppm when producing colour work. It has serial, parallel and AppleTalk interfaces, which can all operate simultaneously, spooling jobs until the printer is free, and comes with a GOMb. hard drive and 65 built-in fonts as standard. The resulting output is high quality, with only a small amount of colour bleed, and is good enough for business documents, QMS’ new ColorScript Laser 1000 delivers colour from a desktop laser for the first time presentations (the printer takes standard overhead transparency sheets) and so on. QMS' UK managing director Moira Craig is keen to point out that the printer is not primarily aimed at the graphics industry. “It is an important breakthrough in the future of office and business printing.” she said. Cost? A mere £11,744 from QMS on 0784 430900. Optical Oscar The Oscar 128Mb rewritable optical drive is claimed to be the fastest available for the Mac. It stores data on 3.5-inch removable optical cartridges, and its access time — often the limiting factor with such drives — is 30ms, which makes it comparable with medium-speed hard drives. Data transfer rate is 1.09Mb per second, which again means that users shouldn’t find the speed limiting — especially since such drives are often used for archiving and backup. The drive has a retail price of £1,169, although distributor Lockside Computer Solutions expects the street price to be somewhat lower. Lockside Computer Solutions: 0635 528303. | Digital colour output — at a price Pictured right is output from | Fuji’s new A4 digital colour : | printer, the Pictrography 3000, which is now available from distributor Phase IV Systems. | The printer uses a_ unique . digital imaging process which, i according to Company Manager Steve McDaniel, “to all intents and purposes produces a photographic image.” He believes the printer to be the only one currently fg = available which uses _ this “= technique. | The Pictrography 3000 will set you back a rather hefty COMPUTER DESIGN al £22,000. Details from Phase . : » BE EL.: 0211 612043 IV Systems on 0865 883355. ne 20 MacFormat news FUTURES @eeeeeeeoedeoedeaeedeoeeeeeee eee @ @ October revolution Apple's traditionally launches a slew of new Macs in October each year, and this month will be no exception. As well as the LC475 detailed on page 12, other new machines are likely to include a replacement for the Centris 610 with a full 68040 proces- sor (the current 610 contains a 68LC040), Duos with active matrix displays, and the renaming of all Centris Macs as Quadras in an attempt to re-structure the desktop product line. Sources suggest that the Centris 610 will, along with the full ‘040 processor, get a_ clock increase from 20MHz to 25MHz, while the 650 will increase in speed from 25MHz to 33MHz. Both will be renamed Quadras, as will the recently-introduced 660AV. A new, low-cost Quadra likely to be called the 605 will also make an appear- ance, sporting a 25MHz 68LC040 chip. It will ship in a new casing even thinner than the LC family’s, with no room for an internal CD- ROM drive (although, of course, external SCSI units will still be supported). Two new Duo models should appear: both will have active matrix displays for better quality, but while the Duo 250, with a speed The Centris 610 is due to be upgraded to have a full 68040 processor, rather than its current 68LC040 33MHz 68030 processor, will be capable only of displaying 16 levels of grey, the 270c will support up to thousands of colours. In the US, Apple is attempting to split its machines into three’ distinct areas: Performas for home use, LCs for education and Quadras for business. However, since the education market is less vital for Apple in the UK — and because the Performas don't have such a prominent market position over here — this is unlikely to happen in Europe in the near future. New Newt on the way Apple showed models of a number of ‘prototype’ Newtons at the August Macworld Expo in Boston. These were described by Apple officials as ‘ideas which may or may not happen in the future’, and included a ‘My First Newton’ model and a device with an integrated phone. One model, though, had a rather more ‘finished’ look than the rest, and may in fact be released in the near future. Rumours are already circulating the the device, which is roughly ten inches wide by eight inches tall and incorporates a much larger screen than the current MessagePad, is in an advanced stage of produc- tion. One reason for these rumours is that the casing of the ‘prototype’ looked very much as though it had been made from moulded plastic, rather than created as a one- off. An observer at the show said that to create the mould for such a_ casing would cost in the region of $50,000... Apple sells others’ apps Apple US is to distribute encrypted third-party applications — on a CD-ROM, in a similar method to UK company Instant Access. To buy a program, purchasers will phone up with their credit card details, and in return will be given a code _ which ‘unlocks’ the application and allows it to be trans- ferred to their hard disk. Manuals will be stored electronically on the disc. The CD-ROM will only be available in the US for some — time after its launch, but is likely to appear here if it proves successful. Upgrades to Newton software A little under two months after the Newton was launched in the USA, it has already undergone four operating system upgrades. These have been supplied in the form of plugin PCMCIA cards, which add a ‘patch’ in RAM to cure bugs in the machine's original ROM. The upgrades cure problems with memory management, which in earlier models meant that the machine had to be reset frequently (although The Newton's handwriting recognition has been improved with a bug-fix to the operating system, recently released by Apple this doesn't actually lose any data), and improve handwriting recognition. Some users have complained that there seems to be a new software upgrade every week or so, but Apple’s policy in freely shipping out PCMCIA cards to any registered user who requests an upgrade has helped to reduce criticism. However, confusion was increased when a number of Apple’s US support staff started shipping upgrade 1.03 via AppleLink to Newton users before the patch was officially supposed to be available (it was withdrawn a few days later and replaced with version 1.04). Although the Newton hadn't starting shipping in the UK at the time that MacFormat went to press (the official launch date was September 16th), it's expected that UK Newtons will ship with operating system software version 1.04. Customers in the US who have purchased the Newton fax modem will be able to download future patches to the operating system free of charge via a toll-free bulletin board number, but at the time of going to press it was unclear whether this facit ity would be available in the UK. ¢ Apple UK is rumoured to be talking to two companies specialising in paging systems, with a view to launching a Newton paging service early in 1994. An Apple spokesman did not deny the rumour, but would not comment further. There’s absolutely no excuse for such radical changes in the pricing structure. If the machines were originally priced correctly, then they must surely be selling at a loss now — not something that Apple would want to be doing. And if they were overpriced initially, then someone in the marketing department hasn’t been doing their job properly. Although people buying a Mac for the first time must be ecstatic at the incredibly low prices of much of the Mac range, Apple is doing itself a great disservice to its existing customers by effec- tively devaluing their equipment so soon after they bought it. Please note: we're in no way advocating high prices for Macs — the lower the better, since that way as many people as possible can get their hands on one of the best computers ever made. All we're asking is that Apple takes a long, hard look at its pricing policy — and injects a little consistency into it. VENT nine months Apple has rewritten the rules somewhat with what many see as an increasingly crazy pricing strategy. Sure, you expect the cost of machines to be reduced as the:company tries to clear stocks in readiness for new models; but (to take one example) you certainly don’t expect the street price of a machine like the Centris 610 to be effectively halved in the first six months of its life. That isn’t stock clearance — it’s ridiculous. If you haven’t yet bought (say) a 610, you may well be wondering why we're complaining — after all, surely the cheaper the better? Well, yes and no, It’s fine if you are just about to buy — but not quite so nice if you forked out for the thing at the original price less than half a year ago. mat COW Deciding when to buy a Mac is always difficult. You know perfectly well that within a few months of taking the plunge something faster, nicer and cheaper will have been released. However much you peruse magazines like MacFormat, Apple always seems to have a secret machine tucked away that it’s waiting to launch just as soon as you've parted with your hard-earned cash. This is one of the facts of computer life, and always has been. Traditionally, the only sensible way to console yourself was to realise that you bought the machine that you did, when you did, because that’s what you needed and that’s when you needed it. ' Traditionally. However, over the last six or 18 MacFormat eeisllaie JOPs0 jeIyot s}Jem ey “Noy 9y} 4ox4ep Oy} ‘pl oud esey3 uo Hulunz90 49430 04} YUM 43 043 ul pezuled ole “When I saw the great discounts on printers HP are offering Mac users, I couldn’t believe my eyes.” “Interior design, that’s my line of business. So every piece of literature my company produces needs to ooze style and flair. Because of this, we've all got Macs but they're of little use if you haven't got a printer that can do them justice. The trouble is justifying the price of buying top quality printers. That isn’t a problem with HP’s DeskWriter range. They have now been reduced by up to 30%. And they weren't even expensive to start with! The HP DeskWriter 510 gives great black and white printing. The HP DeskWriter C eu “ejeos e Guisodun uy jezUuO0ZHOY pue | TULLE ‘spis6 ojeos e612} quowuBye pue He40A0 OY] “Ul gives the option of black and white and colour when my staff need it. Then there's the HP DeskWriter 550C — the printer I've got. This produces the most eye-catching colour I've ever seen and makes my graphics jump off the page. I don't know how Hewlett-Packard DeskWriters manage to produce such high- quality output at such a low price. But I'm glad they do. Because of how impressive my presentations now look, I've put my charges up!” Call Hewlett-Packard on 0344 369222. Ci; HEWLETT® PACKARD A heretic writes... I’ve always believed that the Mac is special and shouldn’t be cloned. And I’m sure loads of other people do too. So how can Apple decide to allow the Mac to be cloned? How can Apple write System 7 for PCs? How can Apple continue to develop the Mac if System 7 is out en mass on PCs? Think up Apple! Steven Checkley, Droitwich, Worcs Whoaa! there Steven — Mac clones are still some way away, and I don’t see System 7 run- ning anywhere on PCs yet either. But Apple might argue that it’s only by joining the clones that it can continue to underwrite its enormous R&D budget. In the end it all depends on what you think makes the Mac a Mac. Is it the system software, the applica- tions or the hardware? It’s all three, I guess. But I wouldn’t complain if Mac clones cost half the price of Apple equivalents and if System 7 replaced Windows as the world’s favourite operating system. It’d make life a lot easier — and easier on the wallet too. Sound advice Why does audio take up so much disk space? You mentioned a mere minute of sound taking up 10 Megabytes! I’m sure other people would like to know this as well. Steven J Humphrey, Taunton, Somerset Well, it all depends on the rate that you sam- ple it at — if you want CD-quality stereo you have to sample incoming audio many more times a second than if you want mono Mac speaker quality sounds. Look at it another way — a CD can contain 72 minutes of music, taking up around 650Mb of data. That’s 9Mb a minute. Ducking and diving Here’s a tip for anyone out there like me who has a CD-ROM with a demo version of Color-Jt! but doesn’t have an actual paint package (one with save, export and print functions enabled). Have you tried using Flash-It to grab pictures created in it and exporting them to another package? I use Color-It! to create pictures then grab them with Flash-it and paste them into the ClarisWorks paint module. Hell, it’s not as good as having the package but it works and it’s free. Keep up the good work. Matthew R. Fox-Wilson, Aylesbury Good one — and all anyone who doesn’t have Flash-It but is running System 7 has to is hit [command] [shift] [3] to activate the built-in screen grabber. That Classic tip How glad I was when I spotted your magazine, with its treasure of hints, tips and reviews. Many thanks — you have made me very happy on numerous occasions already. One of the things I especially liked was a note from Fredrik Dehner in the August edition about starting up the Classic with [command] [option] [x] [o] to start up from a ROM-based System boot disk. I tried it immediately, and it worked! When I bought the Classic, I thought, who in the world needs 2MB or RAM? I figured that Send in all your letters to the Editor, or fax him direct on 0225 446019 - the more the better! two Megs was about enough to fill six books and I expected to easily multi-task five to ten programs in that much space. Those great expec- tations sure didn’t last long — System 7 used up about half the amount of memory before I started! But, once I started up the Mac from the secret System 6.0.3 built in, I had an enormous 1700K left. The ROM System has more advan- tages, however. For instance, have you ever tried re-initializing your hard disk with a System on floppy disk? I have, and had to change disks a few hundred times before even the System folder was properly installed. I tried it again using the internal system and found initializing had become easy. Also, when I restart with System 7 after having used the ROM-based System, the desktop file is automati- cally rebuilt, thus keeping my Mac fit and fast. Thank you, Apple Computer, thank you, MacFormat, and thank you, Mr. Fredrik Dehner! Sierk Meijer, The Netherlands Thanks Sierk, glad to have been of help, and thanks Fredrik. The reason this only works on the Classic was that one version of the machine was intended to be useable on a net- work, with no internal hard disk and probably no floppy drive either. So they burnt System 6.03 in to the ROM and, fortunately, left it there. High or what? Dear Sir, I would like to set the record straight. There are more than 6 million Tibetans, some of whom do indeed use Macs. The world’s first national daily newspaper to be produced entirely using Macs was from Bhutan, a country which uses a dialect of Tibetan. One reason as to why there may be a less than average number of Tibetan Mac owners is that most of the country is at an altitude of more than 10,000 feet — the maximum operating alti- tude which Apple specifies for its machines. Andrew M Brannan, Keswick Cripes. I never realised. I wondered why we got so few letters from there... Paying the price Why didn’t I wait? Why did I subscribe to a magazine before they were offering their introductory goodies? It was just the same when I bought my Macintosh LC with a bank loan two years ago; just prior to them being sold with System 7; with Cruising the keys 's this month's bunch of £S-winning only 2Mb RAM; a tiny 12-inch screen; and secrets from your favourite keyboard: before the prices fell through the floor and the Here's another little known feature of the hardware improvements shot throught he roof! Book range. Alas! It only works on Why should those with the balls to take a risk rBooks: be punished? I hope you will reward my initial Turn on Balloon Help, and turn [eaps loyalty (and last month’s subs cheque) by also lock] on. Now, using the track ball, move sending me a free copy of Prince of Persia. the cursor to the up arrow in the menu bar. Neil Clark, Warrington u will then be faced with the original code Fipule . ames of all PowerBooks! Hmmm. Yes, it’s just one of those things. We Richard M J Shakeshaft, Atherstone, are always trying to give the best deal possible Warwickshire to our subscribers, so the subs offer is improv- ing all the time. When we first started we were Here's three: a bi-monthly magazine so a year’s subscrip- sing [option] while emptying the tion was only for six issues and we couldn’t Wastebasket turns off the warning mes- afford to give a free gift away. Now that a sub sage while you are emptying, and will is for 12 issues we can afford two. You can, of empty locked files. course, extend your subscription for another TOMER Uauaecimiciacm 12 issues and get the gift — see page 90. Or just sit back, happy in the new-found knowledge that a copy of Prince of Persia is on its way to you, and only you, right now. Switch, pressing [control] [command] [power key] forces a restart. § @ If your Mac is asking for a disk that is on jesktop but it no longer recognises jisk, pressing [command] [.] a few Time and time again s will override the problem and avoid In the August issue you carry an advertisement you having to restart. from IND with a form at the bottom which, if WE let Bee CReatutiGie § = returned before July 29th, qualifies one for an entry into a draw. Could you please send details ere’s a few more ‘hidden secrets’ for you of the time warp program that renders this possi- t's amazing what you can find when you ble, and is it System 7 compatible? tart looking!): Alan Emmerson, Lockerbie ®@ PageMaker — hold down the [command] key while selecting About Pagemaker to The program you refer to is Event Horizon st a list of installed Additions. and it requires System 32 running on an r control panel — click on ‘sample Apple-Sony Vortex. It’s on its way real soon second time to get the author's now and is relatively expensive. As for the advert, well that’s just some human who needs Text — hold down the [option] key a soft reset. hile selecting About TeachText to get . nfo about the program's authors. No Trojans here William Sandison, Lerwick, Shetlands With reference to the anti-virus program Disinfectant, I am curious to understand why it is [FUN WITH SPILL-CHOCKERS: PART 1 Here's a new spot suggested by Rob Bailey of Petersfield in Herts, who's just won himself £20. Rob writes: Most spellcheckers don’t understand names and give large numbers of alterna- tives that most of us ignore.Those of you with extended dictionaries should be able to ome up with some brilliant alternatives. 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Well, it was just one face and it is, of course, Jacko — but his sister's name is La Toya Jackson, not Janet Jackson, Diana Ross or Boy George. Confused? Well it’s just Michael, right? Like full stop. Anyway, forget it, the winner of a free year’s sub is... ta da da da... Kevin Lack of Northampton. Well done Kev, and hard luck to the millions of other readers who also got it right... All you have to do to win this issue's free sub is work out which two faces comprise the almost charmingly effete yet viciously clinical a macho-morph on the right and send the two names on a card to: ‘Looks like trouble to me’, MacFormat, Future fr Publishing, 30 Monmouth St, ig Bath BAI 2BW. i Oh and no, it isn’t Donny Osmond and Mike Tyson. - that before a disk can be checked for viruses it must also be unlocked. Although I understand that it must be unlocked to be put right, I have trouble understanding why it must be unlocked for checking purposes. After all, we’ve all heard of ‘Trojan Horses’, and I must confess that if I were writing a Trojan Horse virus program, I could not think of a better way of doing it than writing it in the guise of an anti-virus program. Richard Brooks, Reading Richard, it’s simple. What you have is a Trojan Horse masquerading as Disinfectant! Only joking. I think you must be mistaken because Disinfectant doesn’t ask you to unlock a disk before it checks it. It’s the worse possi- ble thing it could do for the reasons you point out. Send me the version of Disinfectant you’re using and Ill have a look at it. It’s black and white Why do you refuse to review any games that run on a black and white Mac? I realize that there are not many B/W games available but of your 16 reviews since issue 3, only three or four games were also for B/W machines, Thank you for your time, wisdom, magazine and wastebasket space (where this letter will probably end up). Barry Pollard, PortStewart, N. 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MR.Boxshift-plus is a division of MicroeRent PLC = a Sl a lan Wrigley throws light on choosing, using and understanding scanners In the early days of the Macintosh, you didn’t scan anything yourself; everything — black-and-white or colour — was sent to a bureau, which charged you the earth for the service. But as more and more people started seeing the that desktop publi: companies quickly began producing desktop black-and-white — and even possibilities g offered, some greyscale — scanners so that the whole process of page composi- tion could be performed on the Mac. Now, some ten years after the first Mac appeared, desktop scanning has become the norm. It’s quite common to see scanners attached not only to Macs used as graphics workstations, but also to normal business machines — because the scanner can do much more than just input images, as we’ll see. And as desktop scanners became cheaper, they also increased ij sophistication. These days, if you’re buying a flatbed scanner it’s actually quite difficult to find a greyscale- only device; almost all the flatbed scanners on the market are now colour machines. Good quality colour, too - many magazines now rely on desktop colour scanners to input the vast majority of their colour images, only using a bureau for the really high-quality scans required for, say, the cover. Over the next few pages we'll take a look at the principles behind scanning; talk about the points you should bear in mind when shopping for a desktop scanner; give some hints to get the most out of your machine once you’ve bought it; and print some scans created by some of the many device A scanner is one of the most the market. useful peripherals you can buy for your Mac. To see just how useful, read on... oS Talkin’ *bout resolution It may seem at first sight that the higher the resolution of a scanner, the better quality image you will end up with. Well, to some extent this is true — but remember that the higher the scanning resolution, the more disk space is required. Even a relatively small greyscale image scanned at 400dpi takes up well over a megabyte of space, and a 600dpi colour scan is likely to eat up LOMb or more. Fortunately, there's a practical limit to the resolution you need to scan at to get decent results — and, not surprisingly, it all depends on what you're going to do with the image after it's been scanned. For starters, if you're only going to be displaying your scans on the Mac's screen — perhaps for incorporation in a computerised presentation, or just as a custom desktop pattern — then it’s pointless to have an image that’s been read in at several hundred dots per inch — the Mac’s screen is a 72dpi device, so that's all you need to scan. (Some third party monitors are 88dpi, but only relatively few.) However, (and here's where a tiny bit of maths starts to come in), if you're going to use the scan at twice its original size, then the effective resolution halves. For example, say you scan a 1-inch x 1-inch picture at 10Odpi, but you want to display it at 2-inch by 2-inch. You've doubled the size of both horizontal and vertical dimensions, so you'll only see 50 dots per inch in either direction — you've effectively reduced the scan to 50dpi. For that reason, you need to take into account the final output size of the scan when you're determining which scanning resolu- tion to use. When you're going to output an image to paper (or film, if you're going to have it professionally printed), things get a little more complicated. This is because | greyscale and colour images can’t be directly printed; they have to be turned into ‘halftones’. This is all fairly technical, and is handled by whatever program you're using to print the image, but you do need to know the ‘line screen’ frequency that is being used, measured in lines per inch (Ipi). We won't go into exactly what this means, but if you're printing to a laser printer you're likely to be using a 53ipi or 56lpi screen, while if you're outputting to an imagesetter the line screen will probably be more than 1OOIpi (common values are 133Ipi and 150!pi, but your printer will tell you the screen that you should use). You normally set this line screen either from the Print or Page Setup dialogue box, although it really does depend on the software that you're using. The actual resolution that you should scan at, to get good quality results, is given simply by: Resolution (in dpi) = 2 x line screen (in Ipi) x size multiplier The size multiplier is the proportion of the original image size at which you're going to be outputting your scan. For instance, if you'll be print- ing at the same size as the original, the size multiplier is 1. If you're going to print at twice the original size, the multiplier is 2, while half size means that the multiplier is 0.5. There is no point scanning at more than the resolution given by the above formula (although some professionals say that you should use the number 2.5, rather than 2). You won't get results that are any better, and you'll just end up with huge file sizes. On the other hand, scanning at any less resolution could reduce the image quality, so if your scanner has pre-set resolutions, you should scan at the next highest. If you're still confused by the whole thing, the table below should help. For given line screens and output sizes, it shows the minimum resolution at which you should scan (in dots per inch). Buying a scanner There are plenty of things that you need to look out for when buying a scanner; some obvious, some less so. But the first thing that you need to do is decide exactly what you are going to use the device for in the first place. This may sound obvious, but it’s worth thinking about for a moment. Where you're going to use the images, whether OCR (Optical Character Recognition; see the boxout) is going to be important to you, what software is bundled or whether you already have your own — all of these are important consider ations. But then again, so is just what you're going to be scanning in the first place. Illustrations from huge, heavy, thick old books? Bet they won't lie flat on the glass of a normal desktop flatbed scanner, so perhaps you'd be better off witha handheld device. Very large images? So how good is the supplied software at matching the edges of two partial scans? Very detailed images? Make sure that you've got a steady hand if you buy a hand scanner... And so on. To aid your decision- making, on these pages we've given a run-down of scanner basics, and taken a brief look at five typical scanners — three colour flatbeds, a greyscale flatbed and a greyscale hand-held machine. There are plenty more on the market, but these are a reasonable, representative selection. By the time you've finished this feature, you should have a fair idea of how scanners do their job, and what you'll need to ask the salesman to make sure that you buy the right machine for your requirements. Finally, on page 28 we've printed sample images from the five fners that we tested, together With the same picture scanned by ihe high-end repro house scanner hat MacFormat normally uses for figh-quality colour work, so that fou can see the difference. Basic plectronics Although the technicalities of how Scanners work are pretty complex, the fundamentals are reasonably simple. The scanning ‘head’ consists bf a row of tiny photosensitive cells. AS the head makes tiny steps across the scanning area, light is shone on b the image, and the amount Hlected back is registered by the tells. The internal workings of the fanner then convert this informa- ion into an electronic representation iol the image, and that’s passed down the SCSI cable to your Mac, ere whatever receiving software being used (normally a Photoshop plug-in) turns it into a digital image ‘on the screen. The ‘resolution’ that a scanner Works at is the number of individual dots’ that an image is turned into by device. The higher the resolu- on, the more accurate to the Original the scanned version is hough see the ‘resolution’ boxout for practical limits to this). Resolution is normally measured in Mdots per inch’ (dpi), and it’s easy to tee that a scanner’s horizontal ution is equal to the number of Dlosensitive cells across each inch of the scanning head. In most WMesktop devices, there are 300 such lis, so the horizontal resolution is 300dpi. Vertical resolution is deter- Mined by the number of steps that ithe scanning head makes per inch. is, again, is normally 300 in Mesktop devices, although some now shave a vertical resolution of 600dpi, @S they take twice as many steps. The colour’s the thing hese days, most scanners tend to be colour devices; improvements in Mechnology have meant that it’s most as cheap to manufacture a eolour scanner as it is to make a Black-and-white one. ) Greyscale scanners make one Ppass’ of the image that they're "Scanning — that is, the head steps Gross the image just once. However, things get more compli- seated when colour is being scanned; Nhe human eye ‘sees’ colour in terms Mf red, green and blue, and that’s talso what the scanner must do. There are two ways to do this: either RGB v CMYK We've said that colour scanners and monitors work in RGB (red, green, blue) mode, so a scanned image can be displayed on your Mac's screen with no trouble. It’s when you come to outputting the image on to paper that things get more complicated, because print uses a different colour model, known as CMYK (cyan, magenta, yellow and black, the K part of the name). Whenever you see any printed colour in a newspaper, book or wherever, it will have been made up of a combination of these four colours. (Look at a colour picture through a powerful magnifying glass and you'll Software see the individual coloured dots, grouped together to make up the total image.) So to prepare a scan for output, you need to convert the RGB image to CMYK. Unfortunately, this isn’t a particularly easy process, and powerful software such as Photoshop is required to do the job properly. Be aware, too, that the colours you see on your screen won't necessarily be reproduced perfectly when the scan is printed. Some colours which are easy to create using the RGB colour model are virtually impos- sible to print with CMYK inks — and vice versa. Gone are the days when scanners came with their own, often hastily put-together scanning applications. These days, with a few exceptions, scanners tend to offer Photoshop plug-ins to acquire their images — and, as an added bonus, you get a version of Photoshop included free with the scanner. Plug-ins are simply extra modules that enhance the functionality of the program — in this case, by allowing it to control the scanner so that the image is directly placed in Photoshop, rather than coming via some other program — all in all, it's a far more sensible option. Many of the lower-cost scanners bundle Photoshop LE, which is a cut-down version of the main package, lacking some of its more sophisticated features. This isn't a problem for most users — unless you have a colour scanner and want to create CMYK separations of images, to be placed in page make-up packages or whatever. The LE version of Photoshop can't convert images from RGB to CMYK, so you'll have to upgrade to the full version of Photoshop to do this. Alternatively, many scanner manufacturers have bundles which include the full version of the program for just £100 or £200 more than the LE version — so it’s worth checking that out before you buy your scanner, and considering whether it's sensible to go for the slightly higher-cost option in the first place. Bit depth Contrary to popular belief, resolu- tion isn't the be-all and end-all to the getting good results from a scanner (greyscale or colour). Just as important, if not more so, is the device's bit depth. Bit depth is a measure of how many levels of a colour are recog- nised. It's the same measurement as is used to describe how many colours a monitor can display, and is expressed as a power of two (yes, more maths...). A one-bit monitor can only display two colours — black or white — because two to the power one is two. A four- bit monitor displays 16 colours or Zreyscales, because two to the power four is 16, an eight-bit monitor shows 256 colours or greyscales, and so on. It’s the same with scanners: a four-bit greyscale scanner can recognise 16 different levels of grey, an eight-bit scanner can deal with 256 different levels. Now, an eight-bit greyscale scanner is as good as you'll need for greyscale images. That's because only 256 different levels of grey are practically distinguish- able by the human eye. For this reason, you'll never see, say, a 24- bit greyscale scanner. Colour, on the other hand, is a rather different matter. To represent accurately what the eye sees, you need rather more than 256 levels of colour - several million, in fact. It turns out that for practical purposes, you need to scan 24-bit colour (16.7 million different colours) — so all decent colour scanners are 24-bit models (or, at the expensive end of technology, even more). Fortunately, this isn't as