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Take control of a you to save the world from an FA/18 and fly training missions or a Tour dncient deadly. god that’s te-awoken Peete) ean BDO Excellent user interface and action detailed missions, gameplay and awe paced graphics and other cool fea- tures like infra-red goggles make this a must! SRP £49.99 inspiring scenery combine with a realistic simulation to give the best combat simula- tor yet. Up to 4 pilots can battle it out over a network. SRP £59.00 Myst a huge surrealistic adventure ren- dered in breathtaking 3D. Can you escape the worlds of Myst? You'll need all your intelligence and wits to solve the puzzles Wallobee Jack is the worlds first interactive cartoon packed full with non-stop action and wacky fun, By using the QuiClik and return yourself to the real world vigation is via simple mouse clicks and the screen updates are much faster than similar CD based games. Highly recom- ¢ ‘ s OU CaN interact, join in mended. CD ROM. SRP £34.03 syne re re and alter the storyline to help the good guys win! Help Francesca find the Bingi Burra Stone whilst avoiding the evil Dagon. CD ROM SRP £29.99 SuperMazeWars the coolest network game since Spectre. Up to 8 people (human or computer) can battle it out against each other. There are 5 different games to choose from covering every- thing from simple ‘shoot everything’ right the way through to ‘strategy and cunning. Makes an ideal single user game as well with the Mac controlling the other players. SRP £39.99, 2 User SRP £69.00 AXIS Gamecheater ts the ulumate game cheater! With it installed you can just hit a button within your favounte game and get extra lives, fuel, ammo, money or even advance levels. Been stuck on one particularly nasty level? Let AXIS solve your prob- lem and get back to enjoying the game! SRP £39.00 Weert ee j crete boeees LEXAFEL. Iron Helix Prepare yourself for some of the most stunning Sci Fi action on CD. The Iron Helix is a deadly military ship, dead crew, out of control and you've only 3 unarmed probes to stop it Smooth animated 3D graphics, an ceric atmosphere and a deadly Darkseed is a nightmarish adventure based defender robot add up to some heart on the stunning art of H.R.Geiger, Time is pounding action! CD ROM SRP £34.03 running out and you're on a collision course Spin Doctor is « revolution in puzzle with destiny. Every decision you make could games! Use simple swings, flips and bounces to navigate through the increas- ingly devious and mind bending levels. You'll need maximum ingenuity to bypass the nasty wands, moving doors, fuses, sparks, bombs and acid pools. Easy to learn Yearn 2 Learn—Peanuts. yet long lasting, elegant and addictive , Join Snoopy and his friends and prac- SRP £39,99 * tice math, reading, colouring, geogra- phy and having fun all in one integrated program! Yearn 2 Learn—Peanuts includes real voice narration with zany sounds and animation that makes the Peanuts characters come alive. Children spend hours ‘playing’ this, the best bit is . @ = that they have fun whilst learning! VAN 2 taney am | \ SRP £44.99 PEANUTS r. be your last—can you save humanity from the bio-mechanical creatures? An adventure which is definitely not for the faint of heart! SRP £38.29 sR SOPF) Fox RK Th ] f) Edinburgh Glasgow . Princes St Newcastle ( Argyle St os ee Liverpool Ay 7 Church St ) > | Chester . f oa 4 Foregate St Z ¢ York ™ > ¥. 4 Birmingham \ WW New Street \~# \ oe Street Oxford Cornmarket Street. Reading es Queens Rd _ tN Ss ; Croydon Brighton > North End Western Road Kingston Bentalls Centre DANG G) XPLORA1 Peter Gabriel's Secret World ~ 4) we ‘A ie J ae ed Northumberland St Sheffield — a “e rs 7 Pinstone St “> WORTH E5 = am oe + Oldham a Sp peer | . hey ® 3 Town Square >" ‘ ya 3 J Sieg id q ras? 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But why is it called ‘Super’? svete 40 Language tutors Learning a language is impossibly easy when you've got a Mac — and the software, of course. Graphics Streamline claims to save artists hours of tedious tracing by hand. We take a look at Adobe's improved offering. ee 48 Interactive Lovers’ Guide We bet you turn here first. Introducing FreeHand 4.0 This new version of the market leader really is worth taking a look at. Editing for beginners Oh no, not the blank page! How to do your first layout — and be proud of it. The DTP column Fonts probably cause more problems than any other aspect of DTP, but luckily you've got MacFormat to help you. @ (> ' v h dure 58 Mi, ¥ Le Get shirty Just what did Cindy, Naomi and Linda want so much? ¢ Shareware guide How to get yourself kitted up with software that costs next-to-nothing. Squashing test There is plenty of shareware compression software, but which is best? pvear and spice. I" yerything nice! 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Next month You won't believe what we've got in store for you next month. “ i ee FURIWVIAL COMMENT HyperCard used to be one of the main reasons for buying a Mac. You didn't need any programming experience to put together a decent looking program which would help you with your work, and it was absolutely free. HyperCard stacks could be databases. HyperCard j stacks could be information resources. HyperCard stacks could even allow you to process files to speed up your desktop publishing - almost anything you could think of, in fact. But somewhere down the line Apple lost the plot. It stopped developing HyperCard and the package f stayed trapped in the Mac’s mono- chrome past. It was still great, but people felt almost embarrassed at using such an antiquated system. Eventually Apple even stopped supplying HyperCard free with Macs. t At last HyperCard development has started up again (in fact rumour has it 4 that a new HyperCard has been ready for months, but was sat on for some ve reason). The new version supports colour and QuickTime, so applications can look professional again. And its support for AppleScript means that it a can act as a control centre for all your applications. Its uses are endless. And HyperCard can now produce | stand-alone applications, so nobody page 25 even needs to know you've used it. Three cheers for HyperCard 2.2, and let’s hope Apple won't leave one 2 of its ‘killer apps’ in the doldrums for { so long again. } H r ON THE DISK | |z# MacFormat, Future Publishing Ltd, 30 Monmouth Street, Bath BA1 2BW Tel: 0225 442244 Fax: 0225 446019 AppleLink: MacFormat E-mail: macformat@cix.compulink.co.uk HIGH BENS" 5 Mike Hawkins Tel: 0225 442244 | F t ; ; / | uture Publishing, Freepost For full details of what’s on this month’s } Somerton, Somerset TA11 7BR ked High D ity MacF t ; Tel 0458 273279 Fax 0458 274378 packed High: Density macronnat cover i disk, turn to pages 7, 8 and 9. Admit it. You daydream about being on stage. Rock musician one day. Classical artiste the next. And as you play the last note... the applause starts. O.K., we can't promise the Carnegie Hall... but with The Miracle personal piano tutor connected to your Mac you'll soon be playing the piano better than you ever thought possible. 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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 February icon, and select your hard disk. When it’s finished you'll find a new folder called MacFormat February, and inside that there are more folders called For PageMaker, For Photoshop, For QuarkXpress, SimCity 2000 demo and Utilities. Inside those you'll find the programs themselves. You'll need around 3Mb of free disk space before you begin. If you have an older Mac if your Mac is chronologically challenged and it can’t use high density disks (Pluses, old 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 NN1i 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 99 for details. s sge 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. MacFormat coverdisk cover Greg’s Browser Browser Camacrormat stutt I Pregs 1 stuf |}. systern Fodder The Mac’s use of icons and folders is jolly intuitive and all that, and we love it, but sometimes it would be much more convenient to see your files as a list which you can move around rapidly. That's what Greg’s Browser does. On the left of its window is a list of the files on the desktop. Click on a folder or disk and the contents of that folder will appear in the next column to the right. Click on a folder in that list and the next column fills up. It’s easier to use than describe! cMulti Plug in h Browse the contents of your hard disk at top speed This Photoshop plug-in lets you produce kaleidoscope- style multiple images quickly and easily, and with full control over the results. It’s one of a series of plug ins from Andromeda Software — check out the read me file for more details. @Rodiai CO Square areas (2 Spoke transitions Radius: 4 [el Width: MacFormat coverdisk SimCity 2000 ° SimCity 2000 is the updated and thoroughly enhanced version of the classic city simulator. Our demo gives you 20 minutes with a small city to try your hand at city management. You can play the demo as many times as you like, and every time will be different - that’s the beauty of this kind of ‘game’, it’s completely non-linear. A few pointers to get you started: to play SimCity 2000 you need to understand three basic concepts: power, transport and zoning. For a city to grow it needs electricity, and every part of the city needs a power supply. Power is generated in power plants - these are already in place in the demo. If you want to extend your city you need to extend the power supply Demo CityJournal Demo City Needs Workers , a | Cors Collide system by clicking on the electricity icon, and then connecting a power line from any building you like, to the new area you wish to build on. Before anyone will move into new areas, you need to provide a transport network. At its simplest, this consists of some roads, but there are also railways, subways and motorways available. Select the road icon and extend an existing road into the area you want to build on. Finally, you need to tell SimCity 2000 what sort of building you want. You do this by choosing the residential, commercial or industrial icon, and colouring the appropriate squares. Nothing will develop in an area that hasn’t been allocated a zone type, and it may take some time for development to occur even in a fully powered and transport-linked zone: there are many factors affecting development speed in SimCity 2000. iDemo City 1979 Budget January 1979 a a I'm proud to report = that crime is at an all time low. >; [Transit Authority Posto gy 7p] i 4 ~- ceececer | MacLifelnsurance FileSaver Play a while and get the hang of creating new zones, then you can try building schools, prisons, hospitals, police stations and fire departments. Maybe you should build a new sports stadium or a zoo. And you can set your tax policy and make the city a nuclear free zone if you want! When you run out of time, just start the demo up again and try something else. Pretty soon you'll be wanting to get out and buy the full version! Click, there it is! MacLifeinsurance-FileSaver CDEU Once you have lost a couple , of pieces of vital work by not saving often enough before a System crash, you soon develop an instinctive ! [command] [S] twitch in your left hand. MacLifeinsurance FileSaver gives you an extra hand by periodically issuing a [command] [S] in the applications you specify. Could be a life saver! Click, there it is!isa stupidly-named Extension which is, nevertheless, really rather useful. If you select Open or Save the Selected application uses ay Correnand Key] tosara Changes will not take effect until you reboot dialogue which appears frequently defaults to a directory other than the one you want, and it takes a few moments of irritated mousing to choose the correct folder. With Click, there it is! installed, if you can see the folder you want to save into or open from on the desktop, just click in its title bar and it will be instantly selected. Simplicity itself really! MacFormat coverdisk Backing up your cover disk I Bobzi i la Search Criteria i {] Loose Justification a XTension |Ranee Manual Hyphenated XX] Widow {] Orphan {] Text Box Overflow (cout) CK) We recommend that you back up your cover disk before you do anything else with it, because floppies can easily become corrupted. Then work with the backup — keep the original safe. A QuarkXPress 3.2 XTension which adds some handy features including a much You can find overmatter and ugly All you need to do to back up your enhanced step and repeat, the ability to Widows and orphans quickly and disk is this: search for widows and orphans and a easily with Bobzilla 1 Insert the MacFormat disk in quick way of getting between pages. your Mac. 2 Drag the disk icon to your hard disk’s icon. 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As simple as that! your hard disk by dragging it into the Wastebasket. If you've upgraded to XPress 3.2, this patcher will fix a if couple of minor bugs with DCS files, fonts, the Document yo u r Layout palette and certain printer incompatibilities. res OV e if d j Ss k won’t work M ac Life i nsu france KeySaver 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 20 February, with a self addressed envelope, to: MacFormat February Disk DisCopy Labs Ltd PO Box 21 Daventry NN1i1 5BU Telephone: 0327 300077 We regret we cannot answer phone queries on disk installation. Ever deleted a paragraph and a few minutes | MacLifelnsurance-KeySaver COEU later wished you hadn't? Or had a system crash just before you hit save? 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There are also plenty of tools included for any users who want to create their own database application, includ- ing RQBE (Relational Query By Example) and a project manager which keeps track of all the component parts of an application. FoxPro is already avail- able for Windows, so it allows cross-platform sharing of data and of applications. The program also allows for upgrades from FoxBASE+. The price of FoxPro had not been fixed as we went to press, but it is expected to sell for about $500 in the US. For more information call Microsoft on 0734 270001. International geographic A scientific image enhancement program has been released which aims to help those who work with satellite images. DIMPLE offers every- thing you need to create those false-colour images of the planet’s surface and costs a mere £1,500. Call Cher- well Scientific on 0865 784800. HyperCard | HyperCard has been upgraded at last to make it into a worth- | while tool once again. HyperCard is the original ‘multimedia’ software, allowing users to easily link graphics, text and sound in databases called stacks, and use a very simple-to-learn programming language called Hypertalk to control them. Version 2.2 was launched in the US last month, and the added features look certain to revitalise the program, which had been looking distinctly elderly. One of the main changes is the addition of colour support. HyperCard had been strictly monochrome since its launch, but now that Apple no longer produces mono- chrome systems an upgrade was a long overdue. Besides colour, the main change is support for AppleScript, a language that enables applications to pass information and instructions to one another. It is now possible for HyperCard to use AppleScript instead of its normal language, Hypertalk, or in addition to it. In principle HyperCard’s support of AppleTalk will enable everyone to write quite sophisticated programs by link- ing other applications together. For instance a button in a HyperCard stack could copy all the files from a floppy disk, open them in Photoshop, convert them to TIFF format, open a QuarkXPress document and import them into picture boxes. The possibilities are truly endless. HyperCard 2.2 includes ADDMotion II, which allows access to 24-bit graphics, sound and animations. QuickTime movies can also be added. Another major innovation is the ability to create stand-alone double-clickable applications with HyperCard. Up until now the revitalised = Fie Feit items Effects Color Ds | . cm [=3) —_ pero ber Press Demo 4 i es ‘gps Crowe * - _— Ys J ios Dy ‘Blea Seane-teene Sep | | iit oie, | Hy | leSerip | | a at Contects MyperCerd Product Date — AppteScript Product Bete — £, Colour at last! HyperCard gets serious again with version 2.2. And it offers a grab-bag of other improvements as well, including AppleScript support. user of a HyperCard stack has needed either HyperCard or HyperCard Player. HyperCard 2.2 is expected to ship in the UK within weeks; the price has yet to be announced, but the US price is $139, with upgrades for $89. Watch for the MacFormat review soon. @ Also about to ship from Apple is the AppleScript Scripter’s Kit 1.1, which gives users simple access to the features of AppleScript. Team it with the new HyperCard... Save the earth on CD-ROM A CD-ROM with the ambitious subtitle of “The Interactive Guide to Saving the Earth” has been released by MDI. Called The Big Green Disc, it exam- ines issues such as global warming, ozone depletion, acid rain and defor- uted by MDI. figures on all pictures and estation. The disk includes 70 minutes disc is intended as an of video, including debates between education in experts on environmental issues. lifestyles. The Big Green Disc costs £60 and is published by MDI on 0252 737630. The latest animal-related CD-ROM is Whales and Dolphins, also distrib- Featuring facts and whale species, plus dozens of video footage of whales, the cetacean The disc costs £49.99 from MDI on 0252 737630. | If you want to save the world or the iene whales, get the facts on CD. WHALES & APPLE BITES More AutoCAD | No more for a price spilt drinks A plastic tray to keep your PowerBook safe on the passenger seat while travelling is new from BreakSafe. The tray also has a drinks slot to stop those If you have the odd three grand to spend on CAD software, AutoCAD is now up to version 12. The industry-standard computer aided design- program, which is avail- Mac software ‘on DEC DEC Alpha systems will berable to run Mac soft- ware with an emulator called Liken. The incredibly power- ful DEC system, tipped by many to be the high- Two-inch hard disk A tiny removable hard disk less than two inches across has been announced by SyQuest. The drive plugs in to a PCMCIA slot, as used in the Newton, and the able on most platforms, is available to the deep- pocketed from Autodesk on 0483 303322. annoying spillages all over your dralon uphol- stery. This valuable aid to travellers is available from most dealers. tiny cartridges slot into that. Each 1.8-inch disk can store up to 8OMb, and prices could be as low as £80. SyQuest: 01049 751 560500. end system of the future, will be able to run standard Mac, soft- » ware when fitted with the emulator. You can contact the makers Andataco in the US on™ 0101 619 453 9191. , 13 NEWS ccocccccccccccccc cece c cece occ ceceece: Windows NT to be developed for PowerPC Microsoft and Motorola have made an announcement which could have major repercussions for the way we use our Macs in 1995. The two. giant companies have announced that they are going to develop Windows NT for the PowerPC chip. This is the chip that will be at the heart of new Macs launched after March this year. It offers blinding speed and will be able to run both current Mac and Windows soft- ware at reasonable speeds, as well as upgraded Mac software incredible fast. Windows NT is the long-awaited successor to Microsoft Windows, the Mac- like operating system that dominates the world of IBM PC compatibles. But Microsoft does not want Windows NT limited to PC clones, and versions of the system, which will run the same software, are or will shortly be available on many different computers. The idea is that you will choose to run Windows NT and its software, and then you can pick whatever hardware is cheapest or fastest knowing that it will work. If Windows NT runs on the PowerPC, it will give the Mac owner access to all the software developed for Windows NT. NT is a true multi-tasking operating system, unlike System 7, which only allows limited background tasks, though NT has huge memory and hard disk requirments. Video camera on a st Get in close, if you dare. = The PC’s Windows NT: could soon be available for the Mac A video camera on a stick allows AV Mac owners to video confer- ence and watch themselves on their Mac screens. The FlexCam Document is tiny colour video camera on a flexible pole which an be attached to the video input of an AV Mac, or any Mac with a video digitising board. It can focus on any distance from 0.25 inches to _ infinity, producing an effective magnifi- cation of 50 to one, and has a resolution of 270,000 pixels. US prices start at under a thousand dollars; contact the maker Videolabs on 0101 612 8971995. If you liked the idea of video telephones, Up periscope, Mr Christian, and let's you'll love attaching a video to your Mac. take a look at what's out there! Speedy CD-ROM CD-ROM owners plagued by low speed can look forward to DriveCD from Casa Blanca. DriveCD uses uses a memory cache that learns the way you work and tries to fetch the next data you need from CD before you ask for it. It also disables Apple’s built-in cache, which can conflict with CD caches. DriveCD is £58 from Amtech: 0202 476977. 14 MacFormat PowerPC gets operating System 7 for PowerPC is nearly ready. The System software has gone into beta testing, the final stage of the de-bugging process. Apple claims that work is right on track for its first half of the year launch. Industry rumour is firming up on March as the most likely date for the new machines. Really tiny PhotoCDs Smaller PhotoCD CDs will soon be available. The new disks are 80mm in diameter, and can hold one roll of 35mm film. The new disks will play in most PhotoCD-compatible players, and may well find a use in portable machines or personal digital assistants. TypeStyler upgrade An upgrade to the text manipulation program TypeStyler has been announced which cures the problems it has had with newer Macs. It also adds better support for spot colours. Upgrades to version 2.03 cost £25 from Studio Box on 0734 502556. How to get into the Net Access to the Internet is available from ExNet for around £10 a month. The new service offers full use of telnet and ftp, which allow you to log on to hundreds of computer systems around the world includ- ing the big Macintosh file archive at the University of Michigan. All you need is a Mac and a modem. Call ExNet on 081 244 0077. Cheap image manipulation Apple’s budget image-manipulation software PhotoFlash will be available in the next few weeks. Priced at just over £200, PhotoFlash is designed to simplify the enhancement of scanned images for use in DTP software. It uses a drag-and-drop system to automate the placement of images in the leading DTP packages Quark- XPress and PageMaker, and also supports AppleScript for the automation of repetitive tasks. Features include the ability to alter the brightness and contrast of a scanned image, straighten scans, remove scratches and resize and crop images. For more information, contact Apple on 0800 127753. @ Look out for a full review of PhotoFlash in next month’s issue of MacFormat. FaxPRO allows modem owners to send and receive faxes, and convert the incoming faxes into text. The maker, Delrina, is well known in the PC world for its WinFax software. It claims that FaxPRO supports most Mac fax-capable modems, and also offers greyscale faxing for extra quality. FaxPRO allows you to create custom cover pages, and its built-in optical character recognition (OCR) software automatically converts incoming faxes into editable text. FaxPRO costs £117 from Delrina on 081 207 3163. 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Apple’s chief of US operations, lan Diery, explained the peculiar machine as “the most compatible personal computer”. The ‘Quadra 610, DOS compatible Quadra-PC hybrid launched in US version’, as it’s clumsily known, runs both its processors independently, can run DOS and Mac software simultaneously, and can even cut and paste between them. If you have two monitors, you can view both envi- ronments at the same time! The machine has built-in support for two monitors — you don't need another video card. The machine is expected to ship with an extra cost of only $500 over the non-DOS model, and Quadra 610 owners can upgrade for the same amount. No UK plans for the machine have yet been announced. MAIN GATE Z00 program for kids vl Kids can try their hand at running a zoo with the latest edutainment software from Ablac. Zoo Keeper is a_ floppy-disk- based multimedia program which is aimed at 6- to 11-year-olds. The children are in charge of 50 differ- ent kinds of animals, and must manage the zoo to keep them happy. The object is to release the animals back into the wild, and along the way children are taught plenty of facts about the animals and their environment. As well as teaching facts, the software attempts to develop skills such as planning and setting priorities. Zoo Keeper sells for £39.95 from Ablac on 0626 332233. Zoo Keeper - looks like the animals are running the zoo, but in fact it’s kids. Which could amount to the same thing really. Oops, did | say that? APPLE BITES Shalom, CD-ROM The Talmud, the key book of the Jewish faith, is now available on CD-ROM. The Insti- tute for Computers in Jewish Life, along with Chicago-based Davka, has published the disc, which contains both English and Hebrew versions. The disk costs $299. Davka can be contacted on 0101 312 465 4070. Going to Towns Software for the Japanese FM-Towns system will be Mac compatible next year. 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Are you a new customer? jYes No MAIL THIS COUPON TO: Queens Road, Barnet, Herts ENS 4DL or FAX to: : 081 447 1696 \ Ae 0800 181 332 Peter Gabriel’s new Xplora 1 CD-ROM melds music and multimedia. MacFormat went to his studio in Wiltshire to learn more... Peter Gabriel's Real World Studios is home to some of the best acoustic musicians in the world, many of whom specialise in playing the ancient instruments of their coun- tries’ culture. The walls of the studios are covered with strange- looking percussion instruments of decidedly ethnic origin. It’s therefore something of a jar to come here for the unveiling of the high-tech merging of music and computers. Peter Gabriel, ex-singer of Gen- esis and long-time music technology innovator (he was the first to use the Fairlight CMI sampler on record), is showing off his new CD-ROM, Xplora 1. In CD-ROM terms it's not that unusual — a collection of hypertext links, QuickTime movies and sound samples, held together with Hyper- Card. But the content certainly is novel. As well as providing a discog- the work and not just have to receive it passively.” But is there a contradiction between the technology of the CD-ROM and the more ethnic, acoustic content? “No, | think this marriage is very interesting because technology with- out any sense of culture or history is pretty empty and shallow. Part of the job of technology should be to absorb and make available that material. This is a hand-made/high tech marriage and this global communica- tion culture is to me what the Nineties should be about. “There’s an image of technology as a de-humaniser, and that’s true of the first wave of new forms of tech- nology. The second wave, once people have learnt, has the capacity to be opposite — a superhumaniser.” Is there more to be done with CD- ROM than has been up to now? raphy you can It’s exciting to “Yes, it’s a great listen to, and all vehicle for story the videos from allow people to telling and we're the Us album as eet inside the very much learn- QuickTime, the CD ing at the attempts to give WOrk and not just moment.” you more of the background. To receive it passively this end, you get interviews with the makers of the videos, as well as Gabriel's own comments on the songs. Most interesting though is the virtual studio: you can explore the Real World Studios complex and play some of the strange instruments contained within. With the help of producer Brian Eno you can set up jam sessions with various Real World record artists. And, if you like, you can remix a Peter Gabriel track on the mixing desk. There’s plenty more on offer — we'll give Xplora a full review in our CD-ROM pages when the finished version is out, which it should be by the time you read this. After the launch, we caught up with Peter Gabriel and asked what he thought the CD-ROM added to the listening experience. “I've always been fascinated by multimedia,” he told us. “I think it’s exciting to allow people to get inside So why did you choose the Mac for Xplora? “On the road we have something like 15 Macs and in the studio there must be over 30. It’s one of those things where we started off getting into it a little bit, and more and more uses were found. So we ended up going that way. Mac is a good envi- ronment for the people we work with and play with.” Are you planning more CD-ROMs? “There are a couple of projects we are talking about. I'm hoping Brian Eno [Roxy Music keyboard player and now respected record producer] will get involved.” Where do you see CD-ROM going? “I think in time there will be a crossover, and the boundaries be- tween information, education, enter- tainment and communication will be washed away.” Amen to that! Xplora 1 will be launched in Janu- ary priced at £39.95. It is distributed by Softline on 081 401 1234. By GGING (W THE Det Semetheeg io tie, dor and ene hy ATT the thmet?’s pettiny etrong No way Of Sealing witt thts feeling Cat go of Itke thes 140 beng j This thine gou"ve gore to ter TMs time you’ gone tho for | This time qou’ve gone too tar Rae told you, | told wow.) yr. This time you've gine too for pois time 20 MacFormat Verbal communication sets humans apart from animals. Our readers assert their species identity... Whatever you want Why don’t you ask people what they would like to see on future cover disks? We all love to get a disk full of goodies, but to be honest there are only so many Extensions you can run before your Mac slows to a snail’s pace or crashes altogether, and there are only so many games you can find time for if Students’ crusade Would you consider publishing one or more screen shots from a multimedia piece that we have developed for Middlesex University? As graduates of the MA in Computer-Integrated Publishing at Middlesex, we were commissioned to develop a multimedia _ prototype for teaching Medieval Studies to undergraduates. The approach we took was based around the symbols and metaphors of the cathedral, on the basis that the cathedral encapsulated much of medieval crusades Castle as Power Base Crusading for Jerusalem Gentlemens’ Fight Orderly Knights Pageantry Politics of Battle oP cu “= Contents you have paid employment and a social life. There must be scope for a bit of variety on the disk, the updated Disinfectant and the product database were much appreciated. I’m sure that readers can think of a few more ‘killer’ applications and items to liven up your disks. I would certainly like a few sounds, extra icon folders, ready-formatted spreadsheets, TrueType fonts and possibly even QuickTime movies. Peter A Reid Aberdeen All right, what would you like to see on future cover disks? Scolding letter Putting remarks about the editor's preference for a particular type of postcard is not big and it’s certainly not clever. Are we supposed to rush out each week looking for the best Monet picture? Anyway mine’s the one with ‘The Bridge at Givenchy’ C Kaplan Cambridge If you’d sent that in on a Monet postcard, I’d have given you a T- shirt. But you didn’t, so I won’t. the medieval world view. “Cathedral as Text’ enables students to access core texts, look at them in both old and modern English, listen to narrations and look at images/icons relevant to their own work, and copy pieces left by others. These could be comments, teas themes | imageey| trails essays, pictures, etc. All of the above information can be accessed dynamically by ‘walking’ through a 3D model of the cathedral. If MacFormat published the pictures it would provide the impetus for the university to publish a full version, as well as informing your readers of the interactive work that is being done by students outside of St Martin’s and the RCA. Eugene Jordan Louise Wass London N6 Our pleasure Eugene and Louise. So how about publishing that full version, Middlesex? Waive the Rules OK so where are the rules of your competitions? The AutoRoute Compo in issue 7 slips in the line *... as always the more unusual the postcard the more likely you are to win!’ (my italics). Apart from a passing reference to Titian and Monet in the PowerCD compo in issue 5 that’s the first we knew of it! If this has always been the case why didn’t you say? Can we have the postage money back for the very ordinary postcards which either my son or myself sent in good faith to your earlier competitions? If we’re entering an art competition we'd like to know first in future! On a much more interesting topic, can we please have some guidance on getting through the upgrade maze that’s bound to arise with the advent of PowerPC? Do we add the card or swap the mother board? Is it all down to price or are there other things we’ll need to know? David Marshall Norwich The rules for these competitions are made up as we go along ’m afraid. Who knows, next month we may decide to only accept entries printed out on papyrus or on the back of the Oxford Dictionary; it makes it more interesting, don’t you think? And thanks for some of the very interesting postcards we have received! We’ll print some of the best ones next month. As far as PowerPC upgrades are concerned, it’s still a bit too far off for a detailed guide, but Apple has said that there will be upgrade paths for most recent Macs, the notable exception being the LC series. But I’d put any money on Daystar coming out with an accelerator card for the LC before too long. Thpelling errorz I have one minor observation regarding your use of the expression broken on the zub’z Mac. I’m zurprized you hadn’t noticed. “A quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog’ to illustrate a particular font. I believe that the expression is Pay up! I think most people are halted from paying fees by the apparently used because it is supposed to contain all the letters of the alphabet. As you may notice, the sentence does not actually contain daunting, and expensive way of getting money over to America. If you are to continue the line of putting shareware onto your disks a an ‘S’. “‘Noddies Guide’ to getting money Richard Price ‘over the water’ would be very Sutton Coldfield handy. Especially if encapsulated as per your PD/Shareware info box. Thankz Richard, the reazon for Glenn Robinson that iz becauz the keyboard’z Norwich System 8’s already here! In December, Rob Amos asked why the Finder has to say, “The document “dogcow.hqx’ could not be opened, because the application program that created it could not be found.”, and why he couldn’t also be told the name of the application. Well, he can. The fact is that the problem lies not with the Finder, but with the application. If he looks at the programmer's bible, Inside Macintosh, he’ ll find the details of the Missing Application Name string. In short, ‘When your application creates a document that the user can open, your application should include a missing-application string in the resource file of the document.’ This string is stored as a purgeable ‘STR’ resource, of ID -16396, and like it says — it should be present in all the documents that the user can open. Unfortunately, most developers don’t bother. Which is a shame, as it is exactly ‘this sort of attention to detail’ that’s going to keep the Mac above the masses of Windows clones. With a Missing Application Name string, the dialogue would then read ‘The document “dogcow.hqx” could not be opened, because the application “BinHex 4.0” could not be found.’ — which is a lot more useful at a cost of about 10 bytes per document... Interestingly enough, Windows doesn’t have any sort of provision above a brain-dead ‘No association exists for that extension’ message. Grant, InterNet Are there any other features which Apple has implemented but no- one uses? Write in if you know of any. How many of our readers are Noddies then? Hands up! We’re looking at ways of simplifying the shareware process, perhaps by acting as a clearing house for shareware payments. If anyone has any suggestions we’d be glad to hear them. Paper chase A couple of thoughts on the Apple Expo: didn’t the crowds around the demos on the Apple stand (on Friday at least) make you think how Apple always estimate demand incorrectly? And if computers were supposed to lead towards the paperless office how come I came away with distended arms from the vast quantities of paper being handed out? Chas Awdry London SW16 Including a couple of ounces of MacFormat, I hope? Can’t find anything Can we have more information about educational software, and developments in that area. Also, when you review shareware and freeware, it is usually impossible to find out where to get it from? Idon’t — have access to bulletin boards the shareware companies I written to don’t have many programs you have revie especially interested Our education coverage is an area we intend to devote a lot more time to in the future. But we don’t just want to review lots of of software, we want to help you use it, and that’s where we need your help. If you use your Mac in education and have a tale to tell which you think could help others, write in to Those Bloody Kids, MacFormat, 30 Monmouth Street Bath BAI 2BW. Any reputable shareware company should be able to supply you with any of the programs we review — if they can’t, find a new company. We get all our software from publicly available sources. As for GNU Chess, just send me a disk Jonathan and I'll gladly send you a copy. And finally, it’s a big goodbye to Jules, our art editor: “Bye Jules, we’ll miss you,” they sniffed. a -F ejita <a | => Keep in touch! Cruising the keys This month's selection of Easter eggs: hidden shortcuts and secret key combinations. @ In Beyond Dark Castle, try setting the date to December 25th and looking at the opening sequence. @ On some Mac Pluses, pressing [command] [shift] [8] has a strange effect on the cursor. In Word 5.1, hold down the [command] and [shift] keys and select Preferences, then click on the new icon. Thanks to David Thompson, Richard Shakeshaft and Sean Furey for those. Do keep them coming in! Free clothes! You are probably already fishing in your pocket for a tenner to buy one of our smart new T- shirts on page 62. But you can get hold of one free by writing such a good letter we decide to make it letter of the month. A letter’s got to be better than £10, right? So get scribbling about an interesting topic (you decide what's interesting, anything under the Apple tree), and send your letter to AppleTalk, MacFormat, 30 Monmouth St, Bath BA1 2BW. 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E&OE (02.12.93) Restocking fee charged on non-defective retuens. DUE TO CURRENCY FLUCTUATIONS ALL PRICES MAY CHANGE ORDER NOW ON O800 558866 ¢ ORDER NOW ON O800 558866 | You can solve puzzles in a dark and horrifying alien dimension... You can battle Nazis for supernatural artefacts just before World War Two... This hernesslaptoll. bridge. .You f Gaaoottalpsu= You can get up to all kinds of Jolly Rogering antics on the high seas... And, if you're not careful, you can meet your death in all manner of nasty ways. Even town-planning fanatics are catered for. You can do it all on your Mac, with... Big bumper games feature Big bumper games feature et’s face it, when you first went out and bought your Mac, the idea of playing games on it could not have been further from your mind. But then you're flicking through a magazine like MacFormat, say, and soon come to realise that, when you're not doing your best to entertain your computer with your latest deathless prose or artistic creation, it can always repay the favour and do its bit to entertain you. Yes, behind that cool creamy (or is it beige?) exterior lurks computing hardware many times superior to those new- fangled Super Nintendos and Mega Drives, and now, after some years of development, we're at last beginning to see a broad range of high-quality games software to match. If anything, that’s what's most surprising when you sit down and think about it - just how many Mac games there are. Some of them are rubbish, sure, and there certainly aren't as many for the Mac as there are for the Amiga, or even the PC. But | reckon there’s enough Mac games out there for everyone to find something to their taste - especially when you consider the wealth of amateur contributions lurking in the public domain. So, join me now on a whirlwind whistle-stop tour of the essential Mac entertainment titles, pausing en route only to see how some of the most intriguing new developments in games are coming along. And don’t worry if trigger-happy shoot- em-ups or massively —]& involved strategy sims aren't really your thing — we'll be taking in all the traditional video-game genres, and seeing what each has to offer. Kicking off with the ones that virtually invented the whole software entertainment business in the first place... It’s widely moder ' Shoot-em-ups A very fine place to start, as Julie Andrews once said. Technically defined as ‘games in which the main activity is shooting’ (in any direction — the ‘up’ bit is just a historical throwback to a more primitive age), shoot-em-ups are the bread and butter of video games. And the game that's bread and butter to Mac shoot-em-up fans everywhere just has to be Oids = a bizarre mutant hybrid of those ancient arcade games, Thrust and Defender, in many ways this has still to be bettered. Fly around a selection of hostile asteroids, take out enemy bases and spacecraft, rescue little men running around on the ground, take them back to the mothership, and do it all over again. It’s fab. Still, if coping with realistic gravity gets you down, there's always Crystal Quest (and its slightly- more-polished, if somewhat-less-immediate sequel, Crystal Crazy), where you mouse-control a funny blob around the screen collecting crystals. Don't worry, you're also under constant attack from all kinds of weird aliens — believe me, it's nowhere near as easy as it sounds. These are all very well, but if you ask me, the future of shoot-em-ups lies in 3D polygons. Spectre Your Mac can more than hold its own in the world of leisure and entertainment software Supreme's the best example to date of a game that takes you inside a virtual three-dimensional reality — it's so easy to forget that you're not actually in a tank battling across a lurid future landscape, especially when you're up against another human opponent playing over a network. As Macs get more and more powerful, games like this will just keep on getting more and more numerous — and better. Flight sims As with 3D shoot-‘em-ups, the enjoyment you get out of these tends to be directly related to how fast your Mac is — so with new machines appearing all the time, this is definitely going to be an area to watch. The general consensus of opinion is that Hellcats Over The Pacific is still the all-time flight-sim favourite (after all, it does offer both dogfights and dive-bombing), with the World War One antics of Red Baron running a closely-contested second. It's widely believed that modern combat aircraft have taken a lot of the fun out of flight sims — after all, where’s the challenge in firing off a heat- seeking missile at a target 40 miles away? That said, Spectrum Holobyte has done a sterling job with Falcon MC, a high-tech silky smooth monster of a game that delivers such a feature-packed payload it's a wonder it ever gets off the ground. Or, if you prefer to be a little more civil in your Just about to burst on to the Mac scene is Bullfrog Productions, a software de