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We explain how to get your nine new
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News update
Cheap Photoshopstyle software and a
Quadra that turns into a PC.
Letters
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SimCity 2000
This game's so good, it receives a
MacFormat Classic award.
Populous
Another ‘god’ sim. But is it as good as
SimCity 2000?
Myst
You've never seen graphics this good on
the Mac before.
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.
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.
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?
MacAnswers
Can a PC virus infect a Mac? What
is an error of Type 1? These and
more burning questions answered.
Beginners
Don't leave home without it! The
essential Mac software kit, part two
HyperCard
Programming with Hypertalk.
Spreadsheets
How to analyse data in Lotus 1-23.
Databases
The mysteries of FileMaker Pro’s
repeat feature explored.
Mac security
Stop thief! Don’t let them get away
with your most prized possession.
Comms
Internet navigation made simple.
How to find what you want!
Music
How to create MIDI echo and where
to find MIDI file suppliers
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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
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
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.
At last HyperCard development has
started up again (in fact rumour has it
that a new HyperCard has been ready
for months, but was sat on for some
reason). The new version supports
colour and QuickTime, so applications
can look professional again. And its
support for AppleScript means that it
can act as a control centre for all your
applications. Its uses are endless.
And HyperCard can now produce
stand-alone applications, so nobody
even needs to know you've used it.
Three cheers for HyperCard 2.2,
and let's hope Apple won't leave one
of its ‘killer apps’ in the doldrums for
so long again.
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packed High Density MacFormat cover
disk, turn to pages 7, 8 and 9.
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the applause starts
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That's because The Miracle is a complete
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Start with simple games that teach
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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
domo and Utilities. inside those you'll find the programs
themselves. You’ eed around 3Mb of free disk space
before you begin.
If you have an older Mac
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Performas can) don't worry. To get the same programs on
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Page 99 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.
‘8 guide only. Nor can we warrant the programs or be in any
way responsible for any problems arising from their use.
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Buidelines you should follow when installing any software.
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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!
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This Photoshop plug-in lets
you produce kaleidoscope-
style muttiple images
quickly and easily, and
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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 you like, and every time will
be different - that's the beauty of this kind
of ‘game’, it’s completely non-linear.
A fow pointers to get youl 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 al ady in place in
the demo. If you want to extend your city
you need to extend the power supply
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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
, this consists of some roads,
iso railways, subways and
lable. Select the road icon
ing 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 and colouring
Nothing will develop in
icon,
an
type, and it may take some time for
development to occur even in a fu
powered and transportlinked zone: there
fare many factors affecting development
speed in SimCity 2000.
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MacLifelnsurance
FileSaver
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. MacLifelnsurance
FileSaver gives you an extra
hand by periodically issuing a
[command] [S] in the
applications you specify.
Could be a life saver!
Click,
Click, there it is!is a
stupidly-named
Extension which is,
nevertheless, really
rather useful. If you
select Open or Save the
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!
there it is!
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
ind it will be instantly selected.
Simplicity itself really!
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QuarkXPress 3.2 Patcher
If you've upgraded to XPress 3.2, this patcher will fix a
couple of minor bugs with DCS files, fonts, the Document
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Maclifelnsurance KeySaver could be your
saviour. It stores all your typing as a text file
in a folder in the System folder, so you can
reconstruct your work. It remembers all your
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‘Fastest’
database
due soon
‘A new relational database
from Microsoft is expected to
be available in early 1994.
The database, FoxPro
2.5, is reckoned to be the
fastest available; one claim
is that it can extract all the
records for a city from an
address database of a
million records in one
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makes it more flexible but
much more complex than
flatfile databases such as
FileMaker Pro.
The features list is
impressive, including a
spelling checker and
‘wizards’ which can simplify
common processes. It also
Supports graphing, and the
interface can be simplified to
allow novices to use It
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 Che:
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 simpletoleam 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
Colour at last! HyperCard gets serious again with version 2.2. And it offers a
rab-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
WHALES &
DOLPHINS
A CD-ROM with the ambitious subtitle uted by MDI.
of “The Interactive Guide to Saving the Featuring facts and
Earth” has been released by MDI. figures on all whale
Called The Big Green Disc, it exam- species, plus dozens of
ines issues such as global warming, pictures and video
‘ozone depletion, acid rain and defor-
estation. The disk includes 70 minutes
of video, including debates between
experts on environmental issues.
The Big Green Disc costs £60 and
is published by MDI on 0252 737630.
‘The latest animatrelated CD-ROM
is Whales and Dolphins, also distrib-
footage of whales, the
disc is intended as an
education in cetacean
The disc costs £49.99
from MDI on 0252 737630.
If you want to save the world or the
whales, get the facts on CD.
APPLE BITES
More AutoCAD | No more
spilt drinks
A plastic tray to keop
your PowerBook safe on
the passenger seat while
travelling is new from
BreakSafe.
The tray also has a
drinks slot to stop those
annoying spillages all
‘over your draion uphol-
stery. Th
to travellers is available
from most dealers.
for a price
If you have the odd
three grand to spend on
CAD software, AutoCAD
is now up to version 12.
The industry-standard
computer aided de:
program, which is avail-
able on most platforms,
is available to the deep-
pocketed from Autodesk
on 0483 303322.
Mac software
‘on DEC
DEC Alpha systems will
bevable to run Mac soft-
ware with an emulator
called Liken.
The incredibly power-
ful DEC system, tipped
by many to be the high-
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.
Two-inch
hard disk
A tiny removable hard
disk less than two
ches across has been
announced by SyQuest.
The drive plugs in to
a PCMCIA slot, as used
in the Newton, and the
tiny cartridges slot into
that. Each 1.8-inch disk
can store up to 8OMb,
and prices could be as
Jow as £80.
SyQuest: 01049 751
560500.
valuable aid
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 longawaited
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 multhtasking operating system, unlike System 7, which
only allows limited background tasks, though NT has huge memory and hard disk requirments.
Video camera on a stick
Wallobee Perfect?
WordPerfect has decided to branch out into entertain-
ment software with its new Main Street range.
Softw
due for launch on the new label includes
Wallobee Jack and the Thai Sun, Kid Karaoke and Clip Art
for Kids, as well as WordPerfect's budget word processor
LetterPerfect.
More from WordPerfect on 0932 850500.
Get in close, f you dare.
If you liked the idea of video telephones,
you'll love attaching a video to your Mac.
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.
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 proces:
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.
=
Up periscope, Mr Christian, and let's
take a look at what's out there!
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.
APPLE BITES —__—_———————EEEE
Really tiny
PhotoCDs
Smaller PhotoCD CDs
soon be available.
The new disks are
80mm in diameter, and
can hold one roll of
35mm film. The new
isks 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.
I 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 Deirina on 081 207 3163.
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Shalom,
CD-ROM
The Talmud, the key
book of the Jewish
faith, is now available
‘on CD-ROM. The Inst
tute for Comput
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
system will be Mac
compatible next year
The popular multi-
media system from
Fujitsu will support
QuickTime, and from
the spring of 1994
software will run
either on the Mac or
on FM-Town:
the press of a button has been
Apple in the US.
‘The computer, a version of
610, was shown at Comdex
PC clones. It runs MS-DOS 6.2.
Apple’
The ‘Quadra 610, DOS
Quadra-PC hybrid
launched in US
A Quadra which can tum into an IBM PC at
response from industry watchers. As well
as its usual Mac processor, the machine
has a builtin 486SX chip, as used in cheap
chief of US operations,
Diery, explained the peculiar machine as
“the most compatible personal computer”.
version’, as it’s clumsily known, runs both
launched by Its processors independently, can run DOS
and Mac software simultaneously, and can
the Quadra even cut and paste between them. If you
to a warm 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.
compatible
Zoo
Kids can try their hand at running
a 200 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 z00 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.
APPLE BITES
Apple takes
a bigger bite
Apple has closed the
sales gap on IBM and
Compaq, according to a
recent sales survey.
Apple's UK market
share is 8.5%, up from
5% this time last
This puts Macs
whisker of IBM on 8.8%
and Compaq on 8.7%.
Mike Newton, head of
Apple UK, said: “Our
Performa line continues
to gain market share in
the High Street.”
program for kids
Zo0 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?
PowerPC
upgrade
Owners of Quadra 950:
900s and 700s will have
an upgrade path to the
new PowerPC processor
next year, thanks to an
accelerator card from
Daystar.
The company, which
offers accelerator cards
for most of the Mac
range, is likely to
announce more
PowerPC cards shortly.
Daystar is on 0101 404
967 0389.
OmniPage
upgraded
Caere’s optical charac-
ter recognition software
OmniPage has had a
facelift.
OmniPage 5 has a
completely redesigned
interface, and can use
Ereyscale scans for
additional accuracy.
OmniPage 5 is due
for UK release sometime
this month, but no price
is known yet. Contact
distributor Computers
Unlimited 081 200 8282.
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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 longtime music technology
innovator (he was the first to use the
Fairlight CMI sampler on record), is
showing off his new CD-ROM, Xplora
4. In CDROM 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-
raphy you can
listen to, and all
the videos from
the Us album as
QuickTime, the CD
attempts to give
you more of the
background. To
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
It’s exciting to
alowepeople to
eet inside the
work and not just
receive it passively
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 leamt, has the capacity
to be opposite ~ a superhumaniser.”
Js there more to be done with CD-
ROM than has
been up to now?
“Yes, it’s a great
vehicle for story
telling and we're
very much lear
ing atthe
moment.”
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.
Fonment 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
Row 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
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
umans apart from animals
rbal communication sets
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”
If you'd sent that in on a Monet
postcard, I'd have given you a
shirt, But you didn’t, so I won't.
Students’ crusade
Would you consider publishing one or more screen
shots from a multimedia piece that we have developed
for Middlesex University?
the medieval world view. ‘Cathedral as Text’ enables
students to access core texts, look at them in both old
‘and moder English, listen to narrations and look at
images/icons relevant to their own work, and copy
pieces left by others. These could be comments,
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
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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
‘ readers of the
jeractive 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 AufoRoute
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
Norwich
‘The rules for these competitions
are made up as we go along I’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.
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Thave one minor observation zurprized you hadn’t noticed.
regarding your use of the expression
*A quick brown fox jumped over the Pay up!
lazy dog’ to illustrate a particular
font. I believe that the expression is
used because it is supposed to
contain all the letters of the
alphabet. As you may notice, the
sentence does not actually contain
I think most people are halted from
paying fees by the apparently
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
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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
‘¢reated 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,
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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?
information
software, and
developments in that area. Also,
when you review shareware and
freeware, it is usually imposs
find out where to get it from? I
have access to bulletin board
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.
Keep in tegen:
Cruising the
keys
This month’s selection of Easter
eggs: hidden shortcuts and
secret key combinations.
Ml 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
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select Preferences, then click or
the new icon
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coming int
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ston, causing a mass ewodus of industry. Your goat
ts to provide employment for your citizens.
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[monster thet takes TinselTown by storm.
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{8 definite objective to achieve In order to provide a more direct game.
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City 2000
Stuart Anderton goes power-crazed as he
takes on the role of mayor — in SimCity 2000.
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local government might not be one of the
all time greats, but SimCity was. It was
one of the first of the simulation games
now known as god sims, although ir
SimCity’s case it was a much more
prosaic position — town mayor ~ that was
being simulated.
In the last few years, SimCity has
begun to look a bit crude, and as Maxis
created more and more sophisticated
Sim games (SimAnt, SimEarth, SimLife
ATrain), SimCity became the poor
cousin. But no longer. Reincamated as
SimCity 2000, the game now features
the gorgeous 3D graphics of A-Train ai
the complex, detailed simulation offered
by the others in the Sim series.
If you've never played SimCity, a brief
recap is in order, You are mayor and
town planner of a tiny community
charged with making the city grow and
prosper while keeping Its citizens happy.
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you set tax rates, you “zone
potential use for industiy, commetce or
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1'm running out of space to describe the extra
features in SimCity 2000. You'll just have to imagine
the uses of libraries, water treatment plants,
colleges, museums, desalination plants, hospitals,
city hall and the rest. There is also a whole network
‘of subways and water supplies to contend with,
SimCity supplies so much depth to simulation
that it's possible to get lost in it for hours, not to say
days. You become quite attached to your city and will
go to great lengths to preserve it and make it grow.
(incidentally, you can import and update any cities
you are particularly fond of from the original version),
It’s not really a game, but to give it some
gameplay challenge, there are a number of scenarios
supplied. In these you take over a city in the after:
math of a disaster ~ a hurricane say - and have to
achieve a certain objective, perhaps of population
growth, in a certain timespan. For me however the
real fun of SimCity 2000 is starting with a bare patch
of ground and seeing what you can build.
mains at 20%, showing the US origin of the game:
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Fire Department F100 Ze and if there is any trouble, such as a riot, you direct | the fevered brow of American programmer Will
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to get used to, is the 3D view. Those with a CSE in town planning? MacFormat caught up with him in
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= name for the perspective it gives, but it makes
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$20,967, to it. Fortunately you can Mac?
rotate the view in 90° incre- WW: All of the games that | created were devel-
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w|i 2 1S 7s TE 1 8 | zoom allow you to take a | it than on DOS machines. Some of the other Sim
eet War Te 13 38 33 FS 122 1211 | close look. This is partic. | games were done on the Mac as wel. In fact, Ken
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{a ul 7% 136 7B 4S 79 2s is not flat — you have hills for Apple, whereas SimFarm had more of a DOS
ts and valleys to contend with. upbringing.
The landscape —
complete with rivers, the MF: How do you go about designing a Sim game?
sea, mountains, trees, | WW: Well, | read a lot of books really. | usually
lakes and streams - adds | spend a lot longer than | have to, to put a game
considerably to the realism. together, and that’s because | really get into the
if you find a waterfall, you | subject and enjoy it. | mean, I'm still researching
can dam it and build a hydro} areas of SimEarth and I'm still looking at city
plant, and you can either | planning material, even though there are no plans
take a road over a mountain | for a future SimCity at the moment. | just keep on
pass, or tunnel through. It ] going.
MF: Do you think the Sim games are the logical
that everyone used to have on their 8-bit
machines in the early 1980s?
Ww: Yes, that’s probably true because, say you
put twice as many pieces into a program, what
comes out is something that looks five times as
complex. The programs themselves may not be
much more complex than the older ones, but they
seem to be a lot more involved and intricate.
MF: What's next after SimCity 2000?
WW: Well, we're working on a project at the
moment that's more focused on people. The
working title for it is DolIhouse, though | don’t
think it will stick because nobody seems to like it
over here. We'll see though.
MF: Is there anything in particular that you'd like
to see as the theme of a Sim game?
WW: I'm looking forward to breaking into new
ground, but how about something like SimSewer -
as long as somebody else does it!
is extraordinary. Not only can you build stadia, you also get to see the current atten
‘current winloss record.
Pick a team and name it:
[EGTHaM [Liamas
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Army SimAnts
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this team to certain failure...
v Top of the po!
Lovely graphics and an involving
simulation make this game a classic.
* Bit of a John Major
Little to criticise; roll on the CD-ROM
version.
Price: £40
From: Maxis 071 490 2333
Out: now
Requires: 2Mb free RAM, System 7, 256-
colour monitor
Controls: mouse and keyboard
play 98%
MacFormat rating
Big bumper games feature
Once you've
created a knight,
he just wanders,
‘across the land
killing and pillag.
ing. Good work if
you can get it.
The desert’s a harsher environment, and if walkers have to wander for long before
finding a suitable place to bulld a house, they tend to drop dead. Downer.
Cameron Winstanley dons his god suit and
gets down to some serious meddling with
people’s lives...
WwW
always get
breath? Well,
hat's a god
and why does Bullfrog
mentioned in the same
god games involve you
controlling masses
of people. In
Powermonger and
Syndicate (two of
their other titles,
due out next year
you're an army
commander and
the boss of a future
corporation control
ling armed cyborgs,
but in Populous
you're quite literally
god. Control
freaks, armchair
generals and
oppressed spouses
game then,
going to love this
Each
one.
e starts a map of a
ater and
nsisting small
islands, one
and the
god. If yo
see them wand!
at bit of tand,
house and start to breed.
habites people
other by evil followers of a rival
J leave your guys alor
they find a
ere they'll build a
After a
around unt
the offspring will emerge, wander off and
build a hut of their own, just like kids do.
This Is all very pleasant and heart
warming, but you're a god for heaven's
sake, so to speed up things, you've got
to get down to some serious divine inter
vention. By using the mouse and two
keys, you can click on a spot and either
raise or lower the level of the land, The
idea is to create flat plains, because the
larger the area, the
guys can grow and the larger the settle
ment. Huts become stone houses, then
towers, and eventually
bigger settlements are easier to def
and also produce stronger people
You can also mess with your fol
ers’ heads. Normally they'll just settle
down, but by placing a stone idol on the
more crops your
castles. The
land,
people,
ence their movem
around,
you can produce a leader of ti
and through him, you can influ
nt. By moving the id
your follower
towards it, giving you contro! over whic
you can direct
areas they populate.
Your main aim is to wipe out the rival
followers, but you also have to rai
tion, as one aim is infu
the other. Being a god, you ge
Mana, from your follow
Conditions in the arctic are even harder. Like the desert, there's the problem of walkers dying from
exposure, but they're also reluctant to leave their home in the first place.
How to find your
This isthe entire word with at /"
settlements shown on it. Land
production and floods are |
dramatically charted here.
Buildings range
from tents on
single blocks of
flat land to more
permanent houses.
This is the control panel, allow:
ing you to scroll the map and
cast down tenible acts of god.
so the more followers you have, the
Mana you get. Simple tasks such as
1g your stone idol or raising land require
mall amount of Mana, but as you get
ou can get up to some seriously
ur opposing followers building too
es? Why not blast them with an
volcano? Or
you could send out knights to bum
settlement and kill them all. Why not
amp near their settlements, so
merging population will be sucke
mise? The more powerful the
the more Mana it takes up, so a
ake or a destructive
down
Believe It or not, this was a flat plain covered in crops and settlements mere seconds ago. That was
before | dropped a voleano on them, putting an end to thelr salad days and fine living. Ha ha ha ha.
V Population explosion
Good graphics and unique gameplay.
X Mass genocide
The long playing time might put
some people off.
small scale earthquake uses
than flooding the entire world.
less Mana
Compulsive and totally addictive
it all adds up to an oddly compulsive and
totally addictive game, with the challenge
increasing all the time. Later levels have
snowy terrain where your followers breed
slowly, and desert terrain which kills off
anyone who wanders around for too long
Once you've finished a world, the game will
even choose the next world based on your
performance, giving you a slightly harder one
if you struggled, or a really mean one
walked through it. The game's packed wi
and
if you
Big bumper games feature
way around the Populous worl:
) You can tag any
walker in the game
with a shield to see
what they get up to.
I've tagged the
leader, shown by
his tiny papal
magnet icon.
options, so you can alter factors such as
aggression and speed of reproduction for
your enemy. You can play against a friend
‘over an Appietalk system,
the game on a monochrome screen, as
the disk contains both a
The
a little confusing in
and even play
mono and
colour
brilliant (although
version. aphics are
mono) the gameplay's spot on,
there's plenty to keep you going unt
Populous 2, Powermonger
Syndicate come out. If they
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powerful state, with plenty of men
and the Mana bar at the back
showing a healthy amount.
Price: £40
From: 0753 546465
Out: early 1994
Controls: mouse
Requires: System 6.07 or above, 4Mb RAM
Graphics 96%
Sound
Gameplay
MacFormat rating
ber
¢ Huge
game, loads gameplay
ate up more Mac time that
f Microsoft d. Well
Robyn Mille
any copy
Osmo’s
reators Rand ans have
spent two years developing Myst fo
the new breed of Mac and the new
breed of Mac use
For a Myst loads from CD-
ROM. You're also going to r
‘ie lef OP you. message
Of Ves} emporbrse
dump forc~ chamber beside
the Bock. Ejer the number
F Wfarkce Swatches on
his fale. njo the ynager
PB reprieve fhe. message
Oh Good Lord! A message? For me? No, dammit, it's
for that Catherine woman again. | never get anything.
That has just got to be a dentist's chair. But why is it on this mysterious island? Is
this the mythical land where Novacaine is fed into the water supply? Clues... clues.
If you said, ‘CD-ROM graphics extravaganza’
to Tim Smith, he would immediately think,
‘Myst’. Find out why...
least 2.5Mb of free RAM t
You've got to have Systen
hard disk space, and a
machine. Hi-tech stuff indeed.
Without a doubt Myst is
cal extravaganza.
a techr
But before we get
nto all
look at the plot
American, RPG mode - with a convo-
and almost impenetrable ‘plot
the game sees you exploring an
of that, let’s have a quick
Cast in the usual
luted
stand. You have to make use of a
teeming mess of clues, red herrings,
cabalistic signs, and
strange goings on. If you've ever read
Foucault's Pendulum (okay so there
are no knights Templar, well none
V've chanced upon as yet), th
have a rough idea about th
tions and tangents you're going to
need to put yourself through before
Play the gan
the same way as reading the book
That is
a variety of
convolu
coming out of h
say that you have to live
A book, with a picture. What we need is
some FMV here, And we'll get it
rst few chapters before
into the
stuff a little further in.
erebrally taxing and
Myst, as a game, is not set up to
make you feel comfortable. It's quite
opposite in fact. The
whole feel
sphere of
erting and
this game is
discon mildly worrying, the
deeper you get into it
Fortunat
cake to play. The
plicity
y though, it is a piece of
control system is
itself. You, your mouse
an onscreen pointer in the shape of
3 hand ( ore atmosphere
enhanc n could have bee
hos that is nitpicking of the
ighest nstitute the entire
process lieve me, in the work
CD-based games, this is a reli¢
me put it this way ~ if you click or
a lever, it does its job, if you click o
a door, it opens, if you click in a
walk there. There
are none of the million ‘Do’ icons
that disrupt the playability of ot
RPG-cum-Adventure
especially on the PC
As for the look of the game, and
let's face it, that's what all the furore
is about, it is a modem wonder. This
is raytracing of almost solar propor
tions. Every single scene is rendered
to the very
direction, then you
games most
highest fevel both in terms
of technique and artistic merit. It is a
joy to see the CD format fin
justice to after
ily done
having to plough
through game after game that could
quite happily have shipped on a few
floppies. You need the 650+Mb of
storage that the compact disc affor
for this baby
You also need a porky Mac spec
fication if you want to play Myst
without concentration-castrating
ne scene
next. Rand and
cross-fades
Robyn
ver, have
that most of us don't h
fork out on video RAM,
built in av
Myst.
speed or even
ave £100s to
so they have
modes for
These basically relate to the
ety of viewing
existence of cro:
ades can be switched while
ingame. There is also a syster
‘alled Zip Mode that enables you t
revisit already explored locations
OK, so this is
mpatient (or
k of the mouse
at idea for the more
ant) gamers, but trus!
means that you wi
formation ni
miss out on
finish this epic
And finish it you must. As Rob
Rand say i puke-indu
jargon, this is a ‘goal oriented’ g:
riented! Essential
Paleese! Goal
Now that really is a tacky door embellishment isn't it? These island dwellers live in one of the
most graphically gorgeous places ever to appear on the Mac, but taste they have not!
uilt in there. So much so that yo
ar Captain Kirk turing t
spite what we've been throug!
leamt something from this”. But he
hat disrupt your enjoyment of the play
you've got to do is to sit back and let the
ric sound effects over you. These
vided courtesy of the Sound Manager
extension that comes on the disc. It needs
stalled on your Mac
FMV extension that
along v e
enables you to
he Making of Myst movie that, somewhat
gantly, accompanies the game. QuickTime also
mated sequences that you
nally enco during the gameplay. Boy
fective but strange
the choice of media.
itself. Do we just
ad example of form over content?
honest, my initial doubts were c
and once
in they ju
But what of the gamepl:
nfirmed
ghed through opening scenes waiting to do
ust to feel a little
d. But, as all know, bias
to interact somehow.
back t
me in a spare moment, it became app
1 of judgement. And after drift
here was muct to the play than | had
: prothers Miller credit for. After al
oven ability
Poy
ny!
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The island of distinctly thin trees. Magick, mystery, corruption and intrigue have this effect on
arboreal neighbours. Let us venture further and examine the shrubs for more signs of bulimia
Big bumper games feature
deeply
esulte great deal
misgivings about CD-ROM game
think that Ame
being constructe
are more e than the passes themselve:
Myst won me over. It
CD-specitic
s quick and probably the
most playable game I've had the
pleasure of interacting with — and I've sat in front
of Seventh Guest, Microco: d the execrable
PsychoKiller in my time
Be warmed though or Defender
dea of fur Myst. You
actually do have to give as much to this game as it
f Crystal Que
are your then you'll hate
u want to come anywhere near
il be makir
you will get lost
get frustrated and want to give up or
But on other occasions.
hours and hours and hours.
provides for you
to scratching its surface. You notes,
you will be piecing together clues,
occasions.
you'll also lose hours and
Here is a game that will have you coming back
back again. It might
ur Mac to get the most
twins. mf
and back, and yes indeedy
even see you upgradin
out of Myst! Nice one Mille
That dentist's chair looks
Worn and overused close up.
Maybe it isn’t a dentist's
chair at all. Maybe there's
something stranger going on.
Price: £4
From: Ele
Out: nc
Requires:
Controls
Superb sea-views with plenty of space to bring up the kids n honest.
healthy lifestyle. It's a shame then, that corruption and greed abound.
Now here's an infernablooking
machine. | wonder what
function it performs?
Amaze-ing
Graphically sumptuous, in-depth
adventure game.
Super-ficial
Very Systemintensive, so can take a
while to play on slower Macs.
0951
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here appears to be
something of an alarming
trend developing among us
weary old hacks who review games for
MacFormat. it seems we can't talk
about a new game without burdening you
with our dreary reminiscences of video
games gone by. No matter how pointless
and dull it is to do so, we'll always try to
find some way of mentioning long-forgot
ten games for the Vic 20 or the Atar
VCS or some other ancient machine
With that in mind I'd like you to promise
10 shoot me immediately if 1
‘mention t
me very much in mind of an old
game for the — Sinclair
Spectrum called Gyron. Is that
a deal? Good.
It won't surprise you to
jeam, given its title, that S
Maze Wars involves, for the most
part, ries of battles which take
part within a selection mazes
{although | think, technically, they're
actually labyrinths, but why quibble over
so tiny a deta Si
as always, totally meaningless an
been added to comply with t
EC regulations concerning marketing
hyperbole. It can be played solo
up to Seven computer-controlled
or over a network, ag
up to seven human being
You control a sleeklooking
called a MazeCruiser
complete with a Blaster™ and
ButtKicker™ missiles (no, really). Call
me a cynical old fool if you must, but
when | find that one of the principal
elements of a new game is the
‘ButtKicker™ missile’, | can't help but
feel that it’s not going to be the sort of
thing that’s going to make undue
demands on my intellect. This in itself
isn't a Bad Thing — | enjoy an adrenaline.
Pumping arcade blaster as much as the
next chap ~ but it does make me wonder
what sort of opinion the game's publish-
ers have of me. Surely the only people
who find the idéa of a ‘ButtKicker
missile’ amusing are American adoles-
cents called Chip and Bud. Still, I'll give
ything a bash
You see the maze in 3D from the
view screen ~ sorry, that should probab!
Screen — of your MazeCruiser
and even on my ropey old Iisi everything
moved smoothly and quickly. The
essence of the game is to career roun:
a maze (or labyrinth) collecting
yellow gems and killing your
Opponents. Clearly the discer
Ng punter expects a little more
47 quid so there are
e bas
which involve differe
combinations of gem collecting anc
opponent killing, and eight different
jabyrinths in which to play them
You have a radar s
your oppor
cubes (which ¢
provide extra weapons), as well as giv
you a clue where the gems are
exact positions of oppone
ups are clearly marked
a yellow rectangle
hinting at the
.
could make out, the gems are always at
the centre of the rectangle, but the
larger it is, the more difficult it becomes
to work out where the centre actually is.
| have yet to decide whether this is a
Good Thing.
Mysterious happenings
Anyway, all you have to do is blunder
bout with half an eye on the radar,
ting some things and killing other
ings, and Bob's your uncle. At first it
seemed a little dull. But after a while
ing mysterious happened.
y. something about the sheer
sness of hurtling around
s took hold of me and it a
rather addictive. The length of
und that | was taking, frequent
time |
get
ally, become quite entertaining to play, |
can't, in all conscience, recommend it to
you. | can see it’s not intended to be a
particularly ‘deep’ game but, at this
price, | can't help but fee! there's
something lacking. Obviously | haven't
described the mechanics of the game in
fullest detail, but there really isn’t very
much more to it. It's slick, it's good
looking and it plays well. The sounds, of
which there are 29 (I counted them,
sorry - | think | was a train spotter in a
previous life), are well used and the
whole thing, what with it being network
able and all, is an amusing and add
diversion. But for ho only had
ita week, and | can envisage being
heartily sick of it in another week's time.
For shor thrills and fun, Super
ze Wars byrint
Price
From
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Requires
Controls
v Amaze-ing
A smooth, fast, addictive 3D action.
X Superficial
There really isn't that much to It -
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Sound 68%
Gameplay 63%
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