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CONTENTS
Welcome
hether you're a regular reader or you've picked up
W this magazine for the first time, welcome to the
new-look Macrormat! Whatever you use your
Mac for, whether you're a novice or an expert, MACFORMAT
is committed to helping you get more out of your Mac. The
Mac revolutionised computing ten years ago, and Apple’s
new machines prove there’s plenty of excitment to come.
Let MAcFormat be your guide to the whole Mac universe!
Editorial enquiries: Macrormat, Future Publishing Ltd,
30 Monmouth Street, Bath BAl 2BW
Tel: 0225 442244, Fax: 0225 446019
AppleLink: MacFormat
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Advertising enquiries: Mike Hawkins, Tel: 0225 442244
Subscription enquiries: Future Publishing, Freepost,
Somerton, Somerset TA11 7BR
Tel 0225 442244, Fax 0458 274378
Entire contents Copyright © 1994 Future Publishing Ltd. All rights reserved.
How TO DO IT
Editing for beginners 48
Whatever publication you’re producing with your Mac,
here’s the scoop on researching, interviewing and reporting
Designing with clip art 58
- Howto make best use of the vast
range of ready-made art in your own
letterheads and
documents, plus
how to modify the
images yourself
HyperCard messages 60
HyperCard can do almost anything for you, if you know
what its messages are and how to handle them...
Cashflow 72
If you run any kind of business, you
need some way to keep track of your
cashflow. Here’s how!
Databases 98
How to avoid data loss disasters, no
matter which database you’re using,
or repair the damage if it’s happened
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News 13
: oe Exclusive full details of the new range of
. _——— ». PowerMacs, with a special report on what
SS Saeel= it means for you and for the future of
the Mac. Plus the latest products,
Se tt ) including a camera you can plug into
“= your Mac and an ‘unfolding’ program
Apple Talk 22
Your letters on everything to do with Macs, from the
ignorance of sales staff to the size of our T-shirts
Special offers 63
Macrormat has scoured the planet (well, almost) for top
Mac products and brings them to you at amazing prices
Subscribe! 66
Get Macrormat for a year plus a special free software offer
SSE Your real-life Mac problems solved
bs re . by our experts — from RAM to the
pecans Maes black border around the screen...
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Gamebusters 86
More problems solved — how to beat your favourite games,
with tips and tactics from MacForMat readers
Back issues 94
Catch up on the issues of MAcFoRMAT you've missed
Free reader ads 100
Find a hardware or software bargain, contact a local user
group — or flog your own used kit for free
Buying advice 101
Whether you're buying by mail or in a shop, here’s some
helpful advice about your rights and how to protect them
Next month 105
I'll bet you’re wondering what's coming up in the next issue
of Macrormat. Find out here (but read this issue first)
Win a colour inkjet 106
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MACFORMAT * ISSUE 11 * APRIL 1994
PowerMacs are here! 19
A comprehensive special report on the new range of Macs.
Amaze your friends with your in-depth knoweldge!
Sort out your System 27
Learn what the contents
of your System folder
actually do - and how
you can make your Mac
faster and more reliable
Printing solutions
All you ever wanted to know about
printing but didn’t dare to ask, plus
three sub-£350 printers reviewed
Check this out! 84
We let four Mac chess games battle it
out. (One of them is yours, complete,
on the cover disk.) Which one won?
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COVER DISK
Your Cover disk
Apple’s customising program, complete; a better Finder for
System 7; and much more.
Details and installation
instructions on page 7
CONTENTS
What’s new? 24
Take a first look at some of the
latest Mac software, including:
FreeTrieve
HyperStudio 3 |
Open Sesame! ER
Premiere 3 Fam
RAM Doubler ana
VideoShop 2 inlcudes picture-in-picture...
HyperCard 2.2 34
The new version of Apple’s multimedia meta-program (to
coin a phrase) is here. Does it live up to its promise?
PuzzleMaker 36
A QuarkXPress XTension just for creating crosswords?
(Check it out yourself with our cover disk demo!)
Phototone Textures 38
Quality ready-made textures you can use as backgrounds,
or even tile like wallpaper so you can’t see the joins!
SuperPaint 3.5 50
A draw and paint program all in one, for just £150, with
lots of nifty ‘plug-in’ tools — can it be all it seems?
CD-ROM round-up 53
What's new on CD, including interactive demo discs...
Dinosaurs
Info Mac Ill
Instant Access to Entertainment
Mac Essentials
Musical Instruments
Quadra Photo Library Vol. 1
Supersonic
Shareware 75
Plot the earth, plan a wedding, navigate your frets (it says
here) and much more, all for free or next to nothing!
Anarchie on the Internet 980
How can you find anything on the Internet, the world-
wide computer comms network? Try this little $10 wonder!
Star Trek 25th anniversary 88
To boldly etc etc. Stardate blah blah. You've heard it all.
But have you seen anything like this new adventure game?
Breakline 92
It’s fast. It’s furious. It’s got a great intro. But this
arcade game also has something familiar about it...
A score-writer for less than a fiver. A
truly complete Cubase handbook. Mac
music making was never easier!
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MACFORMAT COVER DISK
A complete chess game, Reskdit to play with the
innards of your Mac, SpeedyFinder to improve the
Finder beyond recognition, and Firefall to blow
aliens up. And that’s not the half of it...
START HERE
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a ‘SuperDrive’ which can read high-density
disks, but older models don’t and can’t
(that’s Pluses, old SEs and original Mac IIs).
If your Mac is chronologically challenged,
don’t worry: you can get the same programs
on two ordinary (double-density) disks. Just
send your original cover disk with a self-
addressed return envelope to:
MACFORMAT Disk Swap, DisCopy Labs,
PO Box 21, Daventry NN11 5BU.
Make sure the envelope is big enough to
hold two disks and sturdy enough to make
it through the post.
If you don’t want the hassle of doing this
every month, you can subscribe and choose
to get your copy with two ordinary disks
delivered for no extra cost. See page 66 for
details; when you subscribe you also get the
choice of the following software: Lemmings,
SimEarth or Adobe Type Manager!
BACK IT UP
Before you do anything else, you should
make a backup of the MACFORMAT cover
disk and work only with the backup, just
in case anything goes wrong. Make sure
the original cover disk is write-protected
(move the tab so that you can see through
the hole) - now nothing can be written to
the disk. Then follow these simple steps:
1. Insert the MAcrorMat cover disk in your
disk drive.
2. Highlight the disk icon (but don’t double-
click on it) and drag it over your hard disk’s
icon. The contents of the cover disk will be
copied into a new folder on your hard disk
called ‘Macrormat April disk’ (but not
decompressed, so you still can’t run any-
thing directly).
3. When the copying finishes, drag the cover
disk icon into the Wastebasket to eject it.
4. Insert a blank high-density disk. Check
it’s not write-protected, and, if need be,
format it, naming it ‘MAcFrormat April
backup’.
5. Drag the ‘MAcrormart April disk’ folder
from your hard disk on to the new floppy
disk’s icon. When it has finished copying,
your backup is complete.
6. You can now delete the ‘Macrormat April
disk’ folder from your hard disk by dragging
it to the Wastebasket.
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This month’s goodies
Yours on this issue’s MACFORMAT cover
disk (more details overleaf):
@ ResEdit — the ultimate Mac customiser.
Rewrite those alert messages, change
colours and fonts — but use with care!
Full details in the ResEdit Primer free with
this issue!
@ GNU Chess — probably the ultimate share-
ware chess game.
Mac chess games roundup, page 84.
§S Firefall Arcade demo — a hot new arcade
shoot-‘em-up, straight from the States.
Watch for a full review next issue.
ll SpeedyFinder7 — improve System 7’s
Finder.
@ lastDitch - a HyperCard stack that enables
you to read any text file, clean it up, run
the fastest word count in the world, and
more. Use it or pull it apart and see how
it’s done.
How’s it done? See HyperCard, page 60.
@ AllDay - give yourself a pop-up calendar.
& Typesetting Marks XT - haven't upgraded
to QuarkXPress 3.2 yet? Neither have we. So
use our exclusive XTension and you can
create curly quotes, em and en dashes and
ligatures in XPress 3.1.
BS FindStuff — a vastly improved ‘Find’ util-
ity for System 7.
® Puzzler XT demo - try out this crossword-
puzzle-creating Quark XTension for
yourself! See review, page 36.
® Quitit - quits applications for you auto-
matically. ;
GET GOING
Before you install any new software on your
Mac you should ensure that you have a full
backup of your hard disk, in case anything
goes wrong, and that applies equally to our
cover disk. Once you have backed up your
hard disk, make sure you have no applica-
tions running, only the Finder, and insert
the cover disk in your floppy drive.
Double-click on the disk’s icon to open it;
there will be two files. Read Me contains
information about the programs on the disk
— double-click on it to read it. The other icon
is the compressed file containing the cover
disk programs.
We compress the programs into a single
file so we can fit more on the disk, but
before you can use them you must decom-
press the files. Double-click on the icon, and
a dialogue box will appear which looks sim-
ilar to the normal Save dialogue. Select the
place on your hard disk where you want the
expanded programs to reside, and click
Save. After a few moments, the software
will be installed on to your hard disk. You
do not need to copy the files on the disk on
to your hard disk before doing this.
Some programs may need further installa-
tion — typically dragging them into the
System Folder; check the Read Me files
which come with the programs for details.
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MACFORMAT COVER DISK
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ReskKdit
Shareware fee: none
Compatibility
Mac: any
System: any
Display: any
Before we describe ResEdit, a word of warn-
ing. It’s an extremely powerful program
which directly alters both programs and
System files. Because of
this it can easily damage
files beyond repair. Never,
ever, use ResEdit on any-
thing other than a copy of
a program, and if you use it
on System files, make sure
you have the proper emer-
gency disks to repair any
damage done. We can’t stress
the importance of this too
GNU Chess
Shareware fee: none
Compatibility
Mac: any
System: any
Display: any
Challenge your wits against your Mac in this
complete and fully operational chess program.
It plays a pretty good game, and you can see
how it compares to commercial games in our
feature on page 84.
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Can you beat your Mac at chess? GNU Chess is a black-and-
white game, but then what more do you need with chess?
Firefall Arcade demo
Shareware fee: none
Compatibility
Mac: any
System: System 7
required; needs 2.8Mb
RAM free
Display: 256 colours
Firefall Arcade is based on Millipede, the arcade
classic from around 1980. On a playing field
filled with obstacles, a millipede winds its way
much. Right, dire warnings over with, what
does ResEdit do? It edits resources. And what
are resources? The fundamental building
blocks of all Macintosh applications. When
you choose Save, the dialogue box which
appears is a resource. So is the File menu you
used to pick it, and the mouse pointer you
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editor that enables you to tweak your Mac's appearance.
towards the bottom of the screen, from where
you shoot at it. If you hit a segment it turns
into an obstacle, and three shots on an obstacle
clears the area. If any segment of the millipede
hits you, you die. Other nasties fly at you from
time to time, as do power-ups.
The sound and graphics on this version are
delicious, and it’s one of the best-looking
straightforward shoot-’em-ups available on the
Mac. Watch for a review of the full program
next issue; meanwhile try it for yourself!
Firefalt: fleets of maniac fireworms worm their way down the
screen to zap you and your heavily-armed ship.
SpeedyFinder7
Shareware fee: US$25 (A$25 to
Australians)
Compatibility
Mac: any
System: System 7
Display: any
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SpeedyFinder7 has been described as the ‘Swiss
army knife’ for System 7 Macs. It offers many
useful improvements to the System 7 Finder in
one package: speed up copying, no more delay
when renaming files, fast emptying of the
Wastebasket, auto Alias resolving, opening doc-
uments from one application with a different
indicated with. All these resources are stored
in the program file and called up when
needed.
With ResEdit you can tweak these resources
— create your own mouse pointer, change the
text in dialogue boxes, alter the colour of the
menu bar or add a keyboard shortcut. The
free book with this month’s issue explains
some of the things you can do.
WARNING
ResEdit is a powerful program which can
fatally damage files very easily. You use it
at your own risk. Always make a backup
of anything you intend to modify using
ResEdit. MAcrorMAT cannot be held
responsible for any damage caused by
your use of ResEdit, nor can we answer
any queries on it, either by phone or by
post. Take care and good luck!
application, and much more. Its package of
enhancements makes anyone’s life that little bit
easier. SpeedyFinder7 has a big advantage over
similar programs in that it doesn’t directly alter
the Finder at all — it’s a configurable Control
Panel, so you install it by placing it in the
Control Panels folder and de-install it simply by
dragging it into the Wastebasket. Other utilities
require that you re-install the whole System!
The speeded-up copying is worth it alone!
SpeedyF inder7 cool options
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for your Mac!
lastDitch
Shareware fee: none
Compatibility
Mac: requires HyperCard
System: any
Display: any
This is a HyperCard stack that’s not just a
demonstration of HyperCard but a useful text-
reading utility in its own right. You need to
have HyperCard on your Mac to use it. You can
elect to load only text files or all files. The stack
loads them into memory (very quickly) and
displays the contents in a scrolling field. Hyper-
Card fields can display a maximum of 30,000
characters, and if the file is longer than this it is
broken up into blocks which can be displayed
MACFORMAT ° ISSUE 11 * APRIL 1994
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consecutively. This stack can also export files in
ASCII format. You can load a file and then
export it immediately. This exported version
can be read by anything that can read ASCII.
The stack will do very fast word counts, and
you can also check for words or phrases. Click
on the Info button to display a scrolling text
field and click on the button again to hide it.
AllDay
Shareware fee: none
Compatibility
Mac: any 4
System: System 7
Display: any SONI
A simple desk accessory which provides a pop-
up calendar. Simple and extremely useful. To
use it, you just copy it into your Apple Menu
Items folder, and it’s then available in your
Apple menu any day you need it.
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AllDay gives you instant access to a pop-up calendar.
Typesetting Marks XT
Shareware fee: none
Compatibility
Mac: requires QuarkXPress
System: any
Display: any
A custom XTension which was written here at
Future Publishing, makers of MACFoRMAT. We
wanted an easy way of using proper ‘curly’
quotes, correct em-dashes and en-dashes, and
ligatures (fi fl), not to mention an easy way to
remove excess spaces. Some of these features
are implemented automatically in XPress 3.2,
but for everyone who’s still using 3.11, here it
is! Just copy it into your QuarkXPress folder,
and next time you launch XPress there it is in
your Utilities menu.
Typesetting Marks
Smart quotes & hyphens to rules —
Replace | -
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Give your XPress documents the professional touch.
FindStuff
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Quitit
Shareware fee: a postcard
Compatibility
Mac: any
System: any
Display: any
One of the worst things about System 7 is the
dreadfully inflexible and slow Find File com-
mand (many people feel that System 6 did it
better all along). FindStuff is an enhanced file
finder which can search for files based on many
more parameters than the ordinary Find, and
it’s quicker too!
2 SSS Find Stuff
Ignore
System
Folder
Search Volumes:
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Name Label
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The Puzzler XT Demo
Shareware fee: none
Compatibility
Mac: requires QuarkXPress
System: any
Display: any
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ABOUT SHAREWARE
Some of the software on the MACFORMAT
disk is shareware: commercial software
which can be freely distributed. If after a
fair trial period (normally one month) you
decide to carry on using it, you are
obliged to pay the shareware fee specified
in the program’s documentation files.
Shareware fee: $15
Compatibility
Mac: any
System: System 7
Display: any
Using this nifty Control Panel you can prevent
your Mac’s memory being cluttered up with
applications with no open windows. You know
the problem: you close all of an application’s
windows but you forget to select Quit from the
File menu, so the application is still in the
background, guzzling memory. But no longer!
Now, when you click the close box of the last
open window, QuitIt will quit the application
automatically! (Beware though: you won't
want to install Quitit if you like being able to
switch back to an application using the
Application menu at the right of the menu
bar instead of waiting for it to start from scratch
again.) Just copy QuitIt into the Control
Panels folder in your System folder.
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© 1993, Berrie Kremers
Quit out of a program simply by clicking the close box.
When you duplicate as many thousands of
disks as MACFORMAT does each month,
unfortunately a few duds are bound to
slip through the net.
If you think you have one such lemon,
read through the installation procedure on
page 7 just to double-check that you’re not
missing something.
If the disk still won’t work, then return
it by 20 April with a sturdy self-addressed
envelope (a Jiffy bag is ideal) to:
Macrormat April Disk, DisCopy Labs
Ltd, PO Box 21, Daventry NN11 5BU.
Telephone: 0327 300077.
Please do not send your disk to any
other address — we have no stocks of disks
at our Bath or Somerton offices. We regret
we cannot answer phone queries on disk
installation problems.
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Based on the PowerPC 601 RISC
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now. Starting at £1,750 for the
entry-level 60MHz 6100/60, the
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machines offered in different con-
figurations. At the high end, the
80MHz 8100/80 represents the
sharp edge of Apple’s new technol-
ogy, offering double the power of
the 6100 for a competitive £4,700
in its 16/500CD format. Pitched
between the two, at £2,600 for a
8/250 configuration, is the 7100/66
rated at 66MHz. Each model also
comes in an AV form with S-video
and composite video in/out com-
pleting each base system’s built-in
16-bit stereo audio capabilities.
The PowerMacs come bundled
with the new System 7.1.2 Macin-
tosh operating system and the
leading PC equivalent combi-
nation — MS-DOS 6 and Win-
dows 3.1. Each can run the
host platform’s software under
emulation, typically at speeds
broadly equivalent to Quadra 700
Mac and 33MHz 386 PC perfor-
mance. On the Macintosh side,
users will also benefit from new
versions of PC Exchange, Apple-
Script and QuickTime, as well as
Plain Talk, Apple’s text-to-speech
and speech-recogntion software.
All this is configured to run auto-
matically on startup.
But the biggest benefit to users
will be the ‘native’ versions of most
of the popular Mac applications
converted to draw directly on the
underlying RISC architecture.
These so-called ‘accelerated appli-
cations’ or ‘fat apps’ will deliver
performance levels some two to
four times the speed of a 33Mhz
Quadra on a basic 6100, rising to
the unprecedented peak perfor-
NEws
PowerMacs storm in
The cheapest of the new PowerMacs is the
£1,750 6100/66, housed in a modified Quadra
610 casing. The 7100 and 8100 models use
the Quadra 650 and 800 designs respectively.
are priced slightly higher than
widely reported previously, per-
haps due entirely to Apple’s
reduced profits over the last few
* ‘ quarters, the range still represents
———. extraordinary value for money.
mance of the 8100, delivering eight
times the power of a Quadra 950.
In addition to the three desktop
models, Apple has simultaneously
announced logic upgrade boards
for six current Mac models. The
6100/60 board, for use in the
Quadra 610 and 660AV, is £800,
and replacement PowerMac boards
are also available for the IIVi, IIvx,
Performa 600 and Quadra 650 in
their 7100/66 format. Quadra 800
and 840AV owners can enjoy the
benefits of upgrading to the
8100/80 specification for £2,000.
Again, each board will be offered
in AV configurations.
Although the new RISC Macs
THE PRICE OF POWER
Product
Computer
System*
System w/ SoftPC*
Power Macintosh 6100/60 8/160
£1,526
£1,761
£2,254
Power Macintosh 6100/60 8/250/CD
£1,878
£2,113
£2,607
includes video display adapter as standard
Bo e"e eae \
Se Se
And while it’s difficult to antici-
pate sales figures for first-time
buyers, Apple expects to
sell one million units in
the next year to both
consumer and _ pro-
fessional markets.
But for existing Mac owners, the
promise of an upgrade path will be
matched only by the pressure to
take that path and upgrade.
Since Apple has announced
upgrade paths for all current Macs,
including the LC 475 and perhaps,
thereby, the LCII and LCIII, the
best bet might be to buy a Power-
PC-capable machine before the
value of your current model begins
to plunge and upgrade later. The
advantage is that, in the meantime,
all the bugs should be sorted out in
six months’ time. But the temp-
tation to buy now is a strong one
because existing Mac owners have
an affordable opportunity to trans-
form their machines beyond recog-
nition. Mac Ilvi users, for instance,
hitherto constrained by average
16MHz 030 performance, need
now spend only £800 to harness
the power of a 66MHz RISC
processor driving System 7 five
times faster than they’re used to,
and offering built-in video grabbing
Power Macintosh 7100/66 8/250
Power Macintosh 7100/66 8/250/CD
Power Macintosh 7100/66 8/250/CD/AV
£2,466
£2,701
£3,406
£2,701
£2,936
£3641
£3,194
£3,429
£4,134
and CD quality audio sampling too.
Just how successful Apple is in sell-
ing this dream is the key to not
only the fortunes of Power Macin-
tosh but Apple’s very future as a
company.
Power Macintosh 8100/80 16/500/CD
Power Macintosh 8100/80 16/1Gb/CD £5,403 £5,638 £5,808
Power Macintosh 8100/80 16/500/CD/AV £4,933 £5,168 £5,338
*System’ inc 14-inch colour monitor and extended keyboard; SoftPC is an IBM-PC emulator
Upgrades
Power PC Upgrade Card B Tum to
Power Macintosh 6100/60 upgrade 20
Power Macintosh 7100/66 upgrade
Power Macintosh 8100/80 upgrade
Power Macintosh 6100/60 AV
Power Macintosh 7100/66 AV
Power Macintosh 8100/80 AV
£4,816 £5,051 £5,220
“ Andy t St Orel
No-RISC!
RISC — Reduced Instruction Set
Computer — chips are faster by
design than the chips currently
used in Macs. They use fewer
instructions, all of a uniform
size, and handle them more
efficiently, all of which means
extra processing speed at every
stage, whatever the task.
pages
and 21 for a
closer look at the
Mac
and
new Power
intosh range
what they could
mean for you
MACFORMAT ¢ ISSUE 11 ¢ APRIL 1994
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More compact Quadra power
If anyone needs assuring that
Apple is committed to conven-
tional Macintosh models in the
face of the PowerMac initiative, its
announcement of two new LCs
should allay fears.
The LC 550 and LC 575
machines, based on 33MHz 030
and 040 processors respectively,
have just been launched into the
US education market following the
same route as the LC520. Like the
earlier model, both are shipping
with a built-in 14-inch colour
Aldus has expanded the creative
and productivity features of its
high-end illustration and graphics
package FreeHand, with version
4.0 now available as an upgrade
for £150. The full version of the
new package will come bundled
with a trial version of Fetch 1.2,
Aldus’s multimedia cataloguing
software.
New features include a user-
customisable interface with float-
ing palettes, a live pasteboard for
multiple page design, and greater
control over columns, rows, gut-
ters and margins. Perhaps best of
all though is that text insertion is
now direct: users can now type
text straight on to objects for
and shoot
In a bid to corner the market for affordable digital pho-
tography for personal computer users, Apple has
announced a £700 camera which plugs directly into
any Mac. QuickTake 1000, based on Kodak’s £6,000
DCS200 digital camera, shoots full screen, 640x480
pixel, images in 24-bit colour. Using built-in flash
memory to store up to eight images, the camera offers
simple point-and-click auto-focus and auto-flash oper-
ation. Once shot, images can be ported to the Mac via
a serial cable connecting it to QuickTake and loaded
into any QuickTime-aware application for editing. A
lower resolution mode of 320x240 is also available,
enabling users to store up to 32 images to be saved in
the camera. Results are said to be perfectly acceptable
for personal DTP purposes where the final output is for
lasers, colour printers and photocopiers.
@ For more information call Apple on 0800 127753
Free goes four
monitor with unidirectional micro-
phone and stereo speaker. In ad-
dition, both come with a tray-load-
ing CD-ROM drive, 160Mb hard
disk and 4Mb of RAM upgradable
to 36Mb. The 550 is priced at
$1,199 (£800) while the 575, pre-
senting Quadra 800 performance,
sells for $1,699(£1,150).
Along with the LC520, these
two new machines represent what
Apple has labelled its Entry Sys-
tems PowerPC line — in other
words, models which will be pro-
styling. Enhanced colour han-
dling and custom palettes com-
plete the list of major innova-
tions. For more information call
Aldus on 081 568 8868.
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a typical context... This user could upgrade
to the new version 4.0 for just £150.
vided with upgrade paths to the
new RISC platform. It’s not clear
yet though whether upgrades for
these, and the LC475, will be based
on the PowerPC 601 chip. Sources
close to the company indicate they
could well be based on the 603
chip, a cheaper derivative due later
this year and delivering similar
performance levels.
Apple UK is not yet in a position
to confirm whether either LC will
find its way into Europe.
@ Apple is on 0800 127753.
All of life is there
‘All Human Life’ is an exhibition of great
photographs from the famed Hulton Deutsch
Collection at the Barbican in London until
April 24. As well as viewing almost 500 pho-
tos from the earliest days of photography up
to today, visitors can pop downstairs to see
12 Macs displaying Hulton’s ‘Decades’ series
of CD-ROMs — 1920s, '30s, '50s and '60s.
Each disc is £116 and contains 2,500 low-
resolution images from one decade; you can
export and use them as-is or order a high-res
image or print from Hulton (071 266 2660).
With the custom Photofinder software you
can search for images by keywords or types...
Top 3D rendering and modelling package Ray
Dream Designer has been upgraded to include Photo-
shop plug-in extensions and more than 50 other
new features. Version 3.0 now integrates model-
previous
Dream users
grade for free.
ling and rendering modules and includes a 3D
Paint feature allowing artists to add colour and tex-
ture directly on to an object’s surface. It’s priced at
£428 to new users; 5 Fr
upgrades for any
version
cost £75, but Ray
who
bought a copy of
the previous ver-
sion after July 15
last year can up-
@ Contact Amtech Gilding the lily, or just colouring the
on 0202 476977 for raytrace? Ray Dream Designer now
further details.
enables you to colour objects directly.
APPLE BYTES
Apple in catalogue
With the news that Ryman Com-
puter Shops, one of the high street
retailers selling Macs, is to ditch
computers in favour of telephones
following the company’s takeover
by a telecommunications outfit,
Apple has struck a deal to sell its
Performa range through the cata-
logue store chain Argos. 34 outlets
will stock the range, adding to the
516 Dixons, John Lewis and PC
World stores retailing the range
nationwide. We are unable to con-
firm the rumours that you will
soon be able to buy a Mac in your
local corner store or order one from
your milkman for Christmas.
PowerCD slashed
Apple’s three-in-one portable CD-
ROM drive, PowerCD, has had its
price cut from £411 to just £199.
Capable of playing CD-ROM titles,
Photo CD and audio disks, the drive
can be used directly with tele-
visions, hi-fis and as a portable
stereos as well as a regular CD drive
connected to your Mac. More
details from Apple on 0800 127753
Wanted: cloners
After months of — speculation,
Apple’s boss, Michael Spidler, has
finally confirmed that the company
is seeking PC manufacturers to
build Mac clones in a bid to boost
market share. Dell and Compaq are
believed to have been among those
approached, but IBM looks the
most likely candidate to sign an
agreement. Till now, production of
Macs and the Mac operating system
has been firmly in Apple's hands.
Colour without cost
The price of PostScript-compatible
colour printing has been signifi-
cantly reduced with the launch of
the Fargo dye sublimation printer
from Colorgraph on 0734 819435.
The 2.3-page-a-minute Fargo costs
£995 and comes with a thermal
transfer option which its manufac-
turers claim produces results virtu-
ally indistinguishable from glossy
colour prints. Watch for a review in
MAcFoRMAT next issue.
Stylish Colour
Next month, Apple is set to unveil
a Colour Stylewriter costing less
than £600. The 600dpi inkjet prin-
ter, based on a Canon engine, out-
puts on to plain paper using fast-
drying inks to overcome the
absorption problems associated
with inkjets. Its drivers are Quick-
Draw-based, designed to compete
head-on with Hewlett Packard's
acclaimed 550C inkjet in terms of
price and performance. More infor-
mation on the Colour Stylewriter is
available from Apple, 0800 127753.
MACFORMAT ¢ ISSUE 11 * APRIL 1994
14
NEws
APPLE BYTES
MacTel goes global
Leading Mac = sg MacTel,
home to more than 30,000 share-
ware files, is now providing sub-
scribers access to the worldwide
Internet network. For £2 a month,
users can e-mail any address any-
where in the world using an icon-
based interface. MacTel can be con-
tacted by voice on 0602 455077 or
on-line on 081 543 8017.
Macs on telly
E-Machines’ Simply TV card could
be ideal for anyone wanting to dis-
play their Mac screens on standard
colour TVs. The £295 card -
designed to fit into the Processor
Direct Slot of Colour Classics, LCs
and Performas - outputs the Mac
display signal to any TV or VTR
with composite video or S-video
socket to provide flicker-free pic-
tures. Simply TV is being handled
by DirekTek on 081 845 5969.
Pushing the Plus
Macrormat readers deliberating
over whether to buy a CD-ROM
drive might do well to wait a few
months for Apple’s new Apple
CD300 Plus device based on a NEC
engine. Expected to sell for £50 less
than the external version of the
current CD300, the Plus offers the
same data transfer rates of 300K a
second and average access times of
295 milliseconds. But don’t wait
too long. The Plus could well be the
last of the dual-speed drives in the
Mac market - Apple is said to be
working on a four-speed drive
using the same NEC mechanism.
Write on
MacWrite Pro 1.5, updating the pop-
ular Mac word processor, has just
been released by Claris, offering full
support for the features of Apple’s
System 7 Pro, including AppleScript
events scripting, QuickTime and the
PowerTalk electronic mail system.
It can also generate an automatic,
configurable Table of Contents and
even ‘text wrap around QuickTime
movies’, which sounds like quite a
trick. MacWrite Pro 1.5 costs £175, or
£23.50 to upgrade from MacWrite
Pro 1 and £70.50 from earlier ver-
sions of MacWrite. More from Front-
line Distribution, 0256 463344
And for DOSsers...
DOS Mounter Plus, the popular PC
file access utility, has been up-
graded to enable Mac users to
access DOS and Windows files resi-
dent on Novell Netware network
servers. For £9.95, users can mount
any DOS-formatted floppy disk,
removable cartridge or optical disk.
the latest version, 4.1, is available
from Computers Unlimited on 081
200 8282.
Works first on PowerPC
A new version of ClarisWorks 2.1,
the best-selling integrated appli-
cation on the Mac, is set to be one
of the first applications to ship in
a ‘native’ PowerMac form (that is,
optimised for best performance on
the new machines). The new
release will also début on the Mac
as a standard application, pack-
aged in the same box at the same
price of £195.
Added to what could quickly
become the standard method by
which most new software is
shipped and bundled, the soft-
Graphics for
ee
For converting graphics between formats,
DeBabelizer may be for you — and now you
can also choose its ‘lite’ little brother!
Readers wowed by last issue’s
review of Equilibrium’s elegantly-
titled DeBabelizer may be interested
to know that a cut-down version of
the £293 comprehensive graphics
file format converter is now avail-
If you’ve always wanted to draw
and paint but never attempted to
get started, Dabbler from Fractal
Design may provide some inspi-
ration. It provides an educational
approach to computer art, featur-
ing an easy interface, visual tuto-
rials and a good choice of natural
media painting tools. Among
Dabbler’s innovations are exten-
sive use of sound to accompany
selection from a_picture-based
menu system, animated exam-
ples of colour basics and artistic
techniques linked to a step-by-
step manual — and, perhaps best
of all, the facility to draw directly
over photographic images. Scans
or Photo CD images can be
ware automatically detects
whether the Mac is PowerPC-
based or not and then installs the
appropriate version. This means
that PowerMac users will be
treated to a version of ClarisWorks
which takes advantage of Apple’s
PlainTalk technology, enabling
users to convert text to speech
and vice versa, as well as signifi-
cant performance enhancements.
As far as conventional Mac func-
tionality is concerned, 2.1 now
features hyphenation and ad-
ditional file translators. Updates
under £100
able. DeBabelizer Lite, priced at only
£99, can handle 55 cross-platform
bitmapped graphics formats and
can utilise Photoshop Acquire, Filter
and Export plug-ins. What’s more,
you can translate individual images
or entire folders in one go.
Lite is able to ranslate images
made in any paint, scanning or
photo retouching application and
maintains maximum colour integ-
rity and quality to and from each
platform. Common file types in-
clude most Macintosh, Windows,
Atari ST, Amiga, Silicon Graphics,
Sun and general file formats like
JPEG, GIF and Photo CD.
Would-be cross-platform con-
verters should call Letraset on 071
928 3411 for more details.
dabble?
treated to Dabbler’s built-in nat-
ural media brushes, which in-
clude mimics of Van Gogh and
Seurat, before being removed to
reveal your overlaid creations.
For details on availability and
price call Letraset, 071 928 3411.
All my own work, if you don’t count tracing.
for 2.1 cost £23.50 through Front-
line Distribution, 0256 20534.
ClarisWorks on a PowerMac could set new
standards for integrated packages...
The future unfolds
A bit of a weird one, Touch 3D; it’s a
CAD package which enables you to
take a solid 3D model created in
any major CAD program and break
it down into its constituent parts to
be unfolded on screen or in print.
Any CAD output device can be
used to print Touch 3D’s de-con-
structions — PostScript lasers, ink-
jets, plotters, cutting machines, the
works. Pitched at prototyping
industrial design, sheet metal work,
packages, sketches, fabric pattern-
ing and architectural, exhibition
and theatrical models, Touch costs
£299 from Gomark, 071 731 7930.
Take a CAD file
from AutoCAD, Blue-
print, DesignCAD or a host of
others, and... well, unfold it with Touch 3D.
Falling Newtons
Apple has dropped the price of its
Newton MessagePad to £499 in a
move believed to be due to lack-
lustre sales of the hand-held organ-
iser. But the company is expecting
sales to improve now that several
innovative applications are avail-
able. Titles like The Economist World
in Figures, Time Out Guide to London
and The Good Food Guide look set to
change the MessagePad’s fortunes.
B® More information from Apple on
0800 127753. :
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It may look an awful handful but
FAST Electronics’ Video Machine
contains all the tools you need to
use your Mac as a video post-pro-
duction studio on your desktop.
Which is why it'll cost you just a
little under £4,000 to get it up and
running. But its features really go
to show what your Mac is capable
of when applied to custom re-
quirements.
VM-Studio 2, the software which
holds this modular hardware sys-
tem together, can directly control
DAT (Digital Audio Tape) drives
and handle eight-channel, broad-
cast-quality vision mixing with
FAST video br
audio. With its TitleMagician com-
ponent, users can combine Post-
Script fonts with on-screen mater-
ial to produce titles while its DVE
Editor offers more than 300 Digi-
tal Video Effect presets which can
be user-modified. A few years
ago, this sort of power might have
cost tens of thousands and filled a
largish studio. So if you're a bud-
ding Mac videographer and would
like to find out more, give Mag-
nifeye a call on 071 221 8024.
If you thought ‘desktop video’ meant playing Quick-
Time movies on your Mac, you may find the new Video
Machine from FAST Electronics a bit of an eye-opener.
Smarter than Newton? Maybe not, but you could say it was a pretty Sharp alternative...
Mobile organisers with pen input
and facilities to transfer files to and
from the the Mac aren’t just con-
fined to the Newton MessagePad.
Sharp’s new IQ-8920 also fits the
bill, weighing only 300g and fea-
turing a QWERTY keyboard. And
at £299, its infra-red file transfer
capability and optional fax/modem
unit may seem to be an attractive
alternative. With onboard calendar,
word processor and database appli-
cations, all of which can process
handwritten input from the accom-
panying pen, the IQ-8920 is avaial-
ble from most high street stores.
@ More details from Sharp on 061
205 4255.
Powerhouse mouse
It had to happen. The first PowerMac mouse is ready to ship. Logitech has
even got a PowerMac trackball too. But don’t be fooled into thinking
there’s any special technology involved — both just plug straight into the
same old ADB port to be found on your Mac. But if you’re after smooth,
precise and comfortable input devices with a utility to assign commands
like Cut and Paste to either of the two extra buttons, MouseMan (£69)
and TrackMan (£75) are worth checking out. Call Logitech, 0344 891313.
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so if you're thinking of buying a
new Mac, want advice on soft-
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Want the latest low-down on PowerMacs?
MAcFormat has the exclusive full details.
Imost exactly ten years after its first
machine brought a smiling face to the
dull world of personal computing,
Apple is poised to storm the nineties
with a range of desktop RISC computers of
unprecedented power.
The company’s first three PowerMac models
are being billed as nothing short of the founda-
tion of Apple’s future. Apple’s confidence rests
on three premises. One, PowerMacs combine
significant breakthroughs in price and perfor-
mance; two, they offer existing Mac and PC
users smooth migration paths; and three, they
deliver top-notch ‘native’ applications drawing
directly on the custom hardware.
In terms of price and performance, the
PowerMac range certainly looks a winner. For
£1,500, you can now buy a 60MHz 6100 which
delivers two to four times Quadra power in
native mode and Quadra 700 performance
under emulation. Couple this with a range of
hardware upgrades for most Macs starting at
£700 or so and demand could certainly begin to
exceed supply. :
But since any Mac owner's major investment
is in software, it'll take more than raw power to
convince existing users to upgrade — the key is
in how effectively PowerMacs run all current
Macintosh applications. As you might expect,
Apple had paid a great deal of attention to this
matter. Its emulator for PowerMac, System
7.1.2, is a port of System 7.1 running on the
68LC040 chip to be found in the LC475. And
since few if any of the 200 leading developers
readying native applications for the range have
publicly declared any incompatibility problems,
one can only assume the emulation is both
stable and thorough. The machines MAcFoRMAT
tested certainly performed flawlessly, even run-
ning shareware titles with no inexplicable com-
plaints. Moreover, we found them to be faster
in many respects. All file transfers are now car-
ried by SCSI-2 architecture, and hardware calls
for essential system level functions like Draw-
Text, QuickDraw, font management, QuickTime,
and resource and memory management now
directly address RISC architecture.
These performance benefits under emulation
aside though, System 7 on PowerMac is still an
unknown quantity to most of the Macintosh
world’s 6,000 developers despite Apple’s claim
that applications can be converted at the rate of
half a million lines of code in less than five
days. While over 200 have committed to date,
Apple wants to make 1995 the year in which it
will concentrate on co-marketing a sustained
conversion of applications to PowerMac.
Besides pitching the platform as the ideal
solution for the publishing, productivity, tech-
nical and multimedia markets, the company is
also targeting the education, consumer, mobile
and entertainment sectors. A significant per-
centage of both kinds of customers are expected
to be from the world of PC users, attracted by
Pentium-beating horsepower, Windows emu-
lation running at 486 speeds and prices that
Mac model
IIvi
Vendor Type Speed AV option Upgrading to PowerMac should not be a problem -
Fi Apple promises a range of hardware upgrades start-
1 board 7100/66
} SEpe i a bie ing at £700. Macs listed in the table (left) have
Apple logic board 7100/66 yes already been designated as upgradable. Apple is
reer inpie board 7100/66 expected to offer upgrades for the LC 475 later this
ppc ni caitcrant 4 Lied year, while DayStar has indicated its intention to
Apple logic board/PDS | 6100/60 provide upgrades for the full Mac II family. There
T ay lola boaraPD T 7100/6 are no details yet concerning other Mac models.
eae cere oars 5 4 ia: How it works: with the addition of a processor
| 6100/60 yes upgrade card fitted in PDS slots, 040-based systems
PDS 7100/66 AG will run at twice the speed — eg a 25MHz system
| 4 will run at 50MHz. Users will be able to switch
logic board/PDS | 8100/80 yes between PowerPC and double-power Mac modes.
; Logic board upgrades can include optional AV tech-
Appl 1 board 8100/80
4 pee 4 x. acts hi nologies, but this is not possible'with PDS upgrades.
DayStar PDS 8100/80 no @ For enquiries contact Apple on 0800 127753. For
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Performa 600
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Quadra 650
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Quadra 700
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If your machine appears in the upgrade table above, you might be
considering making the move to PowerMac. Bear in mind, though,
that if your current machine is already faster than a Quadra 700,
you'll derive no determinable performance benefits unless and
until you: buy native PowerMac applications. However, you may
consider it worth selling your current Mac CPU and buying a cheap
Ilvi or Ilvx CPU, which are now discontinued, so you can buy a
7100/66 logic board upgrade. This will work out cheaper than
buying an off-the-shelf 7100/66. The latter may be a wise move if
you're a Classic or LC owner since no upgrade paths have yet been
announced for these machines. The decision, as they say, is yours.
While many readers will greet the PowerMac range with open
arms, some of you may be wondering what this means for the
future of the Macintosh we all know and love. Will developers con-
tinue to offer new Mac software? And will they continue to offer
software upgrades to existing titles? Will parts supplies continue to
be available? Will third party hardware manufacturers continue to
bring new peripherals to market? In short, will the Mac be around
for much longer? The answer to all these questions is yes. With ten
million Macs sold, only a fool would abandon the platform. But
Apple is adamant the future of the Macintosh is RISC and to that
end no more Macs based on Motorola 68xxx chips will be built.
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crush the best mail order bargains. Indeed, the
success of Apple’s PowerMac plan is assured by
the relatively low technology cost involved. In
fact, there’s simply no point in buying a new
Mac, or upgrading an old one, unless it’s a
PowerMac. With prices close to £1,500 and
£700 respectively, the future-proofing benefits
are obvious. Existing technologies are improved
by near real-time responsiveness, while new
technologies like speech recognition can draw
on the hardware’s native power. Andy Jtorer
The first thing you notice on powering up
a PowerMac is that the startup sound has
changed to a higher pitch. And from then
on in, everything else seems to follow
suit. Simple things like copying files,
emptying trash, loading and saving appli-
cations really shift. Apple invited me to
its HQ and left me with all three models
to play the day away. I took along leading
Mac applications like Word, Excel, Claris-
Works, Morph and Premiere, which all ran
under emulation with no problems at all,
enjoying Quadra-level performance
enhancements. Even the odd shareware
titles ran with no complaints.
But the best results were from the
‘native’ or accelerated applications on
offer. Painter for PowerPC, for instance,
applied filters and refreshed screens with
alarming ease, while a new application,
Atlantis Render, enabled near real-time ray-
traced rendering of solid 3D geometrics.
SoftWindows, Insignia’s Windows 3.1 emu-
lator, flew along at speeds I'd associate
with a fast 386 or 486 sx PC, while Claris-
Works for PowerPC ran at a blistering
pace. The only disappointment was the
absence of a native version of Adobe
Photoshop, or rather one which would
load. So although we’re assured Photoshop
native is all ready to roll, its absence blew
any chance I had of comparing native
speeds with straight Mac versions of the
same software, applying time-intensive
tasks to 24-bit colour images. You'll have
to wait until next issue for the full-low
down on that...
Just how fast do PowerMacs
run System 7?
Mac Overall Performance Rating
Classic 1
IIsi 6.21
LCI 7.81
Ici 8.34
POWERPC
POWERMACINTOSH SPECS IN FULL
PowerPC
(Casing based on
6100/60
7100/66
Quadra 610
Quadra 650
8100/80
Quadra 800)
Processor
PowerPC 601
PowerPC 601
PowerPC 601
Speed
60MHz
66MHz
80MHz
Performance
Native
2to 4x 040@33MHz
25% faster than 6100
2x faster than 6100
emulated
fast 030 to 040
fast 030 to 040
fast 030 to 040
RAM
8Mb standard
8Mb standard
8Mb standard
max possible
72Mb
136Mb
264Mb
SIMM slots
2
4
8
Expansion slots
1 x 7-inch NuBus
3 full-size NuBus
3 full-size NuBus
Storage
hard disk
160Mb to 250Mb
250Mb to 500Mb
250Mb to 1Gb
floppy
1.4Mb
1.4Mb
1.4Mb
CD-ROM
optional
optional
optional
Video
VRAM video
1Mb standard
2Mb standard
VRAM expansion
2Mb
4Mb
Audio
16-bit audio stereo in/out with DMA
Networking
Ethernet onboard with DMA channel
SCSI
high speed asynch
high speed asynch
high speed asynch +
dual SCSI channels
AV option
yes
yes
yes
video in
NTSC/PAL/SECAM
NTSC/PAL/SECAM
NTSC/PAL/SECAM
video out
NTSC/PAL
NTSC/PAL
NTSC/PAL
interface
S-video/composite
S-video/composite
S-video/composite
Onboard software for all machines
System 7.1.2, AppleScript, PC Exchange, QuickTime, PlainTalk text to speech and speech
recognition software
Optional software MS-DOS/Windows 3.1 with Insignia Solutions’ SoftWindows
Quadra 610 12.74
PowerMac 6100 20.08
Benet Mac 7100 21.58 So far 61 developers have publicly commit- launch, with 15 to 20 having native appli-
Quadra 700 23,17 ted to port versions of their software to cations ready at launch. Most vendors look
ae Mac 3190 24.59 PowerMac. Here’s the best of the software likely to release just one version of their
Quadra 800 29.43
bunch:
Adobe, Aldus, Claris, Fractal Design,
Insignia, Macromedia, Microsoft, Quark,
Virtus and WordPerfect. Most are promising
software within six months of the March
software - dubbed ‘fat binary applications’ -
which will run on either processor. Hard-
ware companies signed to ship PowerMac-
compatible kit include Dayna, Radius,
RasterOps, Scitex and SuperMac.
We ran the system performance analyser Speedometer
3.23 on the 6100, 7100 and 8100 under System 7
emulation. As you can see from its findings, all three
broadly compare to Quadra 700 performance.
MACFORMAT ¢ ISSUE 11° APRIL 1994
21
LETTERS
Reckon you could tell
us a thing or two? Go
ahead — you might win a
T-shirt for your trouble!
Feeling unlucky? Never win
any of Macrormat's fabu-
lous competitions? Cheer
up! Just use an unusual
postcard when you enter,
and even if it isn’t drawn
as the winner it could win
you a consolation prize!
Every month we'll pick out
the most eye-catching
postcards and award
them a Macrormat T-
shirt. This month's win-
ners include R A Hein of
Edenbridge (for a very
clever image from the
Canon Portfolio by artist
lan Murray, left), and M
Pyke of London WC1
(below). (Yes, London
streets can often seem
like that, right?)
A horrendous jungle
I have to tell you that there is a horrendous
jungle out there for Mac buyers. I am looking
to upgrade and I find that most sales staff out in
the high street and some of the main dealers
just don’t know what they are talking about. In
fact 99% of the people I have spoken to know
less than me (and I’m not fully conversant with
all aspects of the Mac range). I’m sure they
have lost sales simply because of lack of know-
ledge and expertise — and those with the infor-
mation most useful to the beginner just don’t
want to know about the small purchaser.
It has taken me ages to sift through the data
to decide what I want — now I have to find a
dealer who can offer it to me at a good price.
This is where some of the Apple people come
into their own — they prefer to wheel and deal
rather than get involved with advice and sales
and back-up.
I would like to see a report showing the
machines most suited to a given use, based on
what an individual is actually looking for a
machine to do. Unless someone wants to play
with a computer, what is the point in buying
an ’030-chip-based machine? They are already
out of date. Why should a buyer accept a
machine that has ClarisWorks 1 pre-loaded
when that too is out of date?
Paul Ruck
Bushey Heath, Herts.
It’s true of computers, and washing machines, and
hi-fis, and dishwashers: most of the people selling ‘em
know very little more than the best price they can do
for you. Paul wins a Macrormat T-shirt for making
the point. We've considered doing ‘buyer's guides’ to
Mac setups, but there are so many options and per-
mutations, and so many potential uses that people
might have in mind, we couldn’t possibly cover
enough of them and give you enough digestible infor-
mation to base an informed choice on. It's usually a
good rule of thumb to buy the fastest, most powerful
system you can afford, but then if you find something
that isn't the very latest or very best but does what
you want at a good price... well, there's always a
market for Fiestas and Metros as well as Rolls-Royces.
One small thing
We all know that Macs come in all shapes, sizes
and configurations. Here is some news for you:
So do humans! I am, of course, referring to
your knee-length dresses — I believe you call
them T-shirts. Yes, just like my Classic I am one
of those ‘best things that come in small pack-
ages’. So if you want one of my hard-earned
tenners you will have to come up with some-
thing a bit smaller than L or XL!
On a more serious note, there is one small
thing you could do to help combat the theft of
our precious Macs. Why not print a list each
month of serial numbers of stolen Macs? Then
people looking for second-hand Macs could
check the serial numbers against your list first.
Obviously the list would not be comprehensive,
but it could go some way to deterring thieves.
Audrey Hudson
Larkhall, Lanarkshire
Even assuming we could get a reliable source of serial
numbers, keep the list up to date and eliminate the
merest possibility of typographical errors, would such —
a list justify the space it would take up? Our feature
on security (MACFORMAT 9) suggested some ways to
prevent theft, and here's another novel security mea-
sure we've just heard about: normally when you
start up you get a screen that says “Welcome to Mac-
intosh”, but one company has created a startup —
screen that reads “This Mac has been stolen from
CCM Concepts, Middlesbrough. Call the police.” Now —
that would deter you, wouldn't it!
It’s easy to do in System 7: simply create a screen
in startup screen format (you can do it in PixelPaint
2.1, SuperPaint 3.0, UltraPaint 1.1 or Canvas
3.0, or use ResEdit) — any bitmapped colour image
will do, so long as it is saved out in the correct format ©
— and save it with the name StartupScreen in the
root directory of the System folder (ie loose). If you
fear that Mac thieves are savvy enough to find it, you
could always use ResEdit to make it invisible — it
will still work. (The nearest you can get in System 6 is
to use SetStartup to open a document with a similar
message on startup, but this is much less elegant.)
Thanks to CCM and Mark Smiddy for that idea.
Oh, and I am reliably informed that knee-length ©
Macrormat T-shirts are the ultimate fashion state-
ment, so I'm sorry to hear you'll be missing out.
Can’t be sure
Please help me, I think I’m cracking under the
pressure! I have just been playing A-Train and
doing rather well, even if I say so myself. I was
up to the early hours of July 8th in my second
year of operation (in the game, that is — I’m not
that sad), using the new town scenario and was
looking at the ‘Railroad’ fly-out, when my eye
was caught by something moving erratically on
the screen behind. J saw a UFO in A-Train! I can
tell you that it was white and shaped like a
floppy sun hat with black square dots for win-
dows around the edge. I don’t think I was ab-
ducted but I can’t be sure. It certainly didn’t
affect anything in the game; it just flew in top
left and exited middle right. Please don’t tell me
that the medication has stopped working... I
really did see a UFO in A-Train....
Graeme Babbs
Edinburgh
A UFO in A-Train? Ridiculous. Next you'll be say-—
ing there's an alien in Sim City 2000.
‘Drop’ charts?!
Could Macrormat publish an article on geneal-
ogy programs for the Mac? Family history is
one of the fastest growing hobbies and keeping
records on a computer is ideal.
I've looked at a couple of PD programs but
they hold limited records and are not that easy
to use. I need something that will go back at
least eight generations, cope with marriages
between cousins, up to three marriages, print
out pedigree and drop charts and, as a bonus,
print out the whole thing as a book. I have not
seen any commercial programs advertised but
I'm sure there must be some out there.
Agnes J McGhee
Glasgow
Not the McGhee of Glasgow? Family history must be
a growing hobby: we've had a couple of requests for
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More T-shirt winners: Mark
Gritten for an uncannily
accurate portrait of the
editor (or, if you prefer, an
interactive exhibit from the
“Science for Life’ exhibition at
the Wellcome Centre for
Medical Science, Euston
Road, London), and Richard
Thomson of Edinburgh for the
truth behind the haggis.
Remember, whenever you
enter a Macrormat competition
or send us a tip or query, you
have an extra chance of win-
ning a T-shirt, so think weird!
information on genealogy
programs, from people who
weren't even related to each
other. We'd be happy to
hear from anyone who's
found such programs and
can recommend one.
Poor soul
As one of those poor souls who haven’t man-
aged to purchase a removable 1Gb hard drive, I
have very little space hanging around on my
internal hard drive. My problem is this. Un-
Stuffit and Compact Pro will not decompact indi-
vidual programs from Macrormat cover disks.
It is therefore necessary for me to copy about
1.5 to 2Mb of stuff off my hard drive just so I
can look at the programs contained on the disk,
many of which are of no interest anyway
(although in all fairness I have to say that a
great many are extremely useful). Please,
Mr Price [MAcForMat 9, complaining that
‘The quick brown fox jumped over the
lazy dog’ does not include all the letters of
the alphabet] will find that changing the
expression to the correct one, namely ‘The
quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog’,
will include his missing ‘s’.
We Scandinavians are still left with the
problem of showing our peculiar z, @ and
4. Perhaps we should take a clue from
Inspector Clouseau: “Yes, yes, a dog, that’s
what I said...”.
Personally, I've always liked ‘Pack my box with
five dozen liquor jugs’, or at a pinch ‘Jackdaws
love my big sphinx of quartz’. Any more? How
about some Mac-related ones?
please, please change back to a format that I
can get at individual items in —- I am sure that
I’m not the only one short on space.
I do however have a couple of suggestions
for items for your cover disk. As a manic card
player I would recommend Gin Rummy to any-
one, and as a slightly less manic player of
arcade games (no, I don’t know why it is that
way round either) I would recommend Space
Junkie and Cyclone. All three are shareware and
well worth a look at. And on a purely personal
note would it be possible to put some Harpoon
scenarios on the disk at some point?
Guy Sansom
via CIX
Anyone else unhappy about getting 2Mb or more on
the Macrormat cover disk? I don’t know, some people
are never satisfied... But thanks for the suggestions,
and thanks also to John Walker of Leeds, who
asked for genealogical programs (what, again?),
“something to make these Mandelbrot and fractal
type images to help while away the winter evenings,
and something that would let you put notes onto a
musical stave and then hear what it sounds like
without needing to buy keyboards and MIDI inter-
faces, whatever they are.” Jonathan Alldis of New-
castle upon Tyne asks for some more fonts, virus pro-
tection and disk tools utilities. (“Are there any share-
ware fonts for Roman numerals?” he asks. I thought
Roman numerals were letters like MCMLXVIII, or
am I missing something?) Jonathan goes on: “Utili-
ties that defragment hard disks, utilities to improve
graphic handling. On the leisure front, can we have
Seahaven Towers please?” (You did have that on
Macrormat cover disk 3, but that’s now sold out, so if
we get enough requests to repeat it that’s a definite
maybe.) “Also [You still there, Jonathan?] shareware
about astrology, Tarot, biorhythms and astronomy,
sailing, cycling, and other specialist subjects. File com-
pression programs. How about the shareware you
review each issue?” Etc etc. All duly noted. Any fur-
ther cover disk suggestions gratefully received.
Got something to say? Write to Apple Talk,
Macrormat, 30 Monmouth St, Bath BAI 2BW.
Cruising the keys
This month’s selection of tips, keystroke
shortcuts and discoveries.
Jeremy Bloomfield of Lud-
reas low wins a Macrormat T-shirt
for finding an interesting use
for Font/DA Mover (remember it?) with Sys-
tem 7. [Option]-opening causes everything to
appear in the dialogue box (ie not only suit-
cases), so you can extract odd fonts from
games etc. But it goes further than that. The
Wordfinder thesaurus DA that came with
MacWrite II only works with System 6, until
you use the above method to install it into
MacWrite, and it then appears in the Apple
menu only when MacWrite is running. The
implications of this are huge — you can have
a different Apple menu selection for every
application. Jeremy says he hasn’t explored
it fully, but he’s installed the §uperhelp DA
into SuperPaint, and knows you can have a
different, non-global, font menu for each
application too.... Anyone know more?
@ Richard Laing of Colchester reminds us
that when you get a system error and can’t
get out of it with [command] [option] [esc],
you don’t have to switch the power off to
reset. As long as your Mac is one that can be
started up from the keyboard, you can reset
with [command] [control] [start button],
even on Macs that lack an interrupt switch,
like the Colour Classic or Isi. Of course, you
still lose unsaved data, but at least you spare
the hardware the shock of switching off and
on again. You don’t have to move your fin-
gers so far, either.
@ This month’s token Australian presence:
Paul Bonetti from Brisbane notes that if a
dialogue box comes up asking you to insert
a disk that you don’t have handy, pressing
[command] [full stop]) will get rid of the
dialogue box and the computer will forget it
even asked. It’s always worth trying this key
combination (it’s the universal ‘cancel’ com-
mand) when you get one of those annoying
dialogues where the only option is ‘OK’ and
it’s not OK — it sometimes (but not always)
saves you from a fate worse than crashing.
334 Finally, this from regular tipster
PRE) Tom Paterson of Loughborough.
(Thanks, Tom — keep ‘em coming!)
If you have SuperClock running, while in the
Finder hold down the [option] key and click
on the time. It disappears until you click
there again. (Of course you already know
you can display the date and a stopwatch by
clicking on the time display.) Tom also says
that if you forget your password when run-
ning At Ease on your Classic, just press the
furthermost button on the right hand side of
the Mac to return you to the Finder. Then
go to the At Ease control panel and change
the password. This is a lot simpler than hav-
ing to boot up from a floppy disk. (But, kids,
don’t try this at home. Daddy has a reason
for not wanting you to find the Finder....)
@ Have you found any hidden secrets?
There’s a MAcrormat T-shirt for the best,
and a fiver for the rest, every month!
MACFORMAT ¢ ISSUE 11° APRIL 1994
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WHAT’S NEW?
What’s new?
Feast your eyes on the latest software to arrive
at the MAcrormat offices... including a RAM
doubling extension and a ‘software assistant’...
his has been a really great month for
new Mac software, with at least three
notable new programs turning up.
First up is a software-only innovation
which doubles your RAM. No, really! Connec-
tix’s RAM Doubler is here alright, and it works —
what more can I say? A couple of things actu-
ally. On the one hand installation’s a breeze —
the RAM Doubler extension simply copies itself
to your System folder, you restart and hey
presto, your Mac has double its original mem-
ory. But on the other, your Mac must have a
System SoftwareB-7.0.1 ¢
com Macintosh LC © Apple Computer, ino. 1983-1991
Built-in Memory: 4,096K Largest Unused Block: 5,044K
Total Memory: 8,192K
Nisus 3.258 sock a)
& Phonebook 20K «Oo
©) system software 2,11
Well here it is — RA oosting a 4Mb LCIl
to the wide open sp legs. So what's the
catch? There just hi. here...
bec LCIY with cone vi 7i-
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.. and here it is. As
runs slower than or
—in any case it’sas
ht only be 5% or so
ble your memory.
Performance Tes
cpu: 3.793 Disk
Graphics: 4.009 Math 4.803
Why RAM Doubler registers a lower performance rating in
Speedometer is the key to how it works — the program cons
the Mac into thinking it's got double RAM via virtual memory.
Memory Management Unit (MMU) fitted,
which effectively rules out older machines
based on the 68000 and 68020 chips, like the
Mac Plus, SE, Mac II and original Classic, and
secondly there’s a marginal trade-off in perfor-
mance. As you can see from the Speedometer test
I conducted, RAM Doubler has had the overall
effect of slowing down our office LCII by about
5%. Interestingly, graphics handling suffered
the worst — down by 8.5%.
Whether this is a small price to pay in return
for double your precious RAM largely depends
on what you use your Mac for. If you’re into
QuickTIme video or audio, for instance, you'll be
disappointed. I have to confess I don’t know
how RAM Doubler works — and until Connec-
tix’s US patent clears, no-one outside the com-
pany will — but I guess it may work by emulat-
ing virtual memory in some way. I think this
because when I was running the new Microsoft
CDs reviewed on page 53, I got error messages
telling me to turn off virtual memory before the
applications would run their QuickTime compo-
nents. I never use virtual memory — I don’t
fancy plodding through sludge — so I checked
the Control Panel and found that it was indeed
turned off. So something’s definitely odd some-
where. Luckily, you can disable RAM Doubler
before starting up by holding down the ‘~’ key,
so you can circumvent these virtual memory
clashes. Meanwhile, for all other intents and
purposes, it works fine; I can now use both
Photoshop and QuarkXPress at the same time on
an 8Mb Mac. So now I’m hoping Connectix
will go one stage further and bring out Clock
Doubler to ramp up my CPU performance to the
point where they'll both run rather than crawl.
Someone’s watching me
Another item on my wish list has arrived, and
that’s Open Sesame! — the Mac’s first ‘learning
agent’. It’s a software assistant which over a
period of time picks up your working patterns
and begins to automate them for you. At its
heart is a neural learning module, lurking in
the background, which observes your mouse
clicks and keystrokes and attempts to form pat-
terns of meaning, which it passes to its infer-
ence engine. This then compares incoming user
event patterns with patterns for instructions
that have already been automated. When one
matches, Open Sesame! produces a set of Apple-
Events to perform the automated instruction.
But no, this isn’t the answer to your prayers
for a Mac which anticipates your every move —
it does have certain limitations. In a nutshell,
Preferences
Your neme: Learn:
Ba Open Item
& Close item
dal & Empty Trash
O by Dialog 69 Shut Down
@ by Menu & Make Stationery
© Don’t Notify & Rebuild Desktop
voice Biide
& Show
Confidence: & Arrange
O Very High & Apple Menu
Oligh J Startup items
@ Medium & Desktop Items
Open Sesame! is the first ‘learning agent’ to make it to the
Mac. Here you're able to configure the range of events it'll
offer to automate for you once it’s learnt your habits...
the patterns learnt are those based on time or
sequences of Finder level events. So if you
switch off your Mac at 5.30 every day, Open
Sesame! will automate that, or if you regularly
load up your diary on startup to catch up on
your appointments, then check your e-mail,
then run your word processor, Sesame! will pre-
sent you with that too. Such repetitive, sequen-
tial events are no problem.
This is fine in as far as it goes, and I expect as
Open Sesame! begins to learn my patterns, I'll no
longer have to do tedious chores like emptying
the Wastebasket myself. But what I’m after is
something a little smarter, something which
auto-saves my work for me, which loads up my
For any decent QuickTime
quality you need to capture at
30 frames a second, and saving
that to disk takes an eternity.
accounts package only on days when bills are
just about to go into the red, which reminds
me, when I’m not busy, every day for a week
that I have to buy my wife a Mac for her birth-
day. That kind of thing. Then our two software
agents can argue out whose turn it is to do the
washing up. I'll keep you posted on just how
smart Sesame! really is — bet it’s not as func-
tional as QuicKeys 3, which I'll look at next
month. Nice to know there’s a neural network
lurking somewhere in my Mac though...
The third new product which I just couldn't _
word processor, paint
program, music program,
‘and more have all been
While HyperCard’s only just got round to offering full-colour
support, one of its derivatives, HyperStudio, has provided it
for a while now. What's more, it'll read the same stacks...
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Title Task Status
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genuinely useful — like auto-
matically putting regularly-
used programs in your Apple
7
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LJ
Menu, for instance.
wait to rip from its shrink-wrap was HyperCard
2.2. I first started using the program in 1987,
back in the days when no one really had a clue
how to describe it. What I liked about it then
was the ease with which you could script
HyperCard to execute commands with the mer-
est click of a button. It made authoring interac-
tive applications a cinch, and I always expected
it to become the de facto multimedia authoring
package on the Mac. Apple’s lack of support
may have had something to do with why this
hasn't happened, or maybe it was more its lack
of colour capability. I won’t pre-empt Rod’s
review on page 34, but just say that full colour
support still isn’t included and I simply can’t
believe this remains the case after seven years.
So, as coincidence would have it, I was more
than pleased when a demo of HyperStudio 3.0
turned up in the office mail bag.
Less hype, more studio
HyperStudio offers built-in support for
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