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She Finder
elcome to another issue of MacrorMar, Britain's
W best-selling Macintosh monthly. Whether you’re
an old hand or a newcomer, we'll keep to up to
date with the news, reviews of interesting and affordable
products, and tips and techniques to help you get even
more out of your Mac, whatever you use it for!
Editorial enquiries: © Macrormar, Future Publishing Ltd,
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the time of going to press, and they are all inclusive of UK Value Added Tax at 17.5%.
However, this may not necessarily be the case with prices appearing in advertisements,
so we recommend that you always contact advertisers before ordering to confirm prices
and availability. See page 101 for some helpful buying advice.
Entire contents Copyright © 1994 Future Publishing Ltd. All rights reserved.
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Creative Colour 58
How to use colour on a page to guide your readers, high-
light what's important and enhance your message
Count the Cost 60
Use your spreadsheet's financial
functions to find out how much
that loan is really going to cost you
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HyperCard Properties 62
Alter fields, fonts, buttons, text styles and much more using
‘properties’ — plus your HyperCard questions answered
YouandtheLaw 68
Whatever publication you're producing on
your Mac, you need to beware of libel and
even contempt of court. We reveal all!
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Into the Internet 82
Got the hang of comms? Ready to try
connecting to the Internet? We show you how to do it
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REGULARS
15
A new modular audio-visual Mac for half
the price of existing AVs; a ‘home publish-
ing’ package for under £100; what the
next version of the Finder will look like;
the newest game from Bullfrog, the
Sia team behind Populous and Syndicate;
and much more
Apple Talk 20
Your views on everything from out-of-stock games to
ResEdit and MacrorMat, revealed in an orgy of T-shirts
What’s New 22
Andy Storer returns from the PowerMac launch party in
New York with the latest from Apple’s big names. Find out
how ‘Point and Click’ is being replaced by ‘Ask and Tell’,
and why the Newton’s such a great deal... in the US
Special Offers 89
MacrorMat has gathered some not-bad Mac products and
offers them to you at pretty reasonable prices, we reckon
Back Issues 94
If you've been meaning to catch up on some-
thing in a previous MACFoRMaT, we must say
you'd be well advised to act quite soon, really
Subscribe! 98
It wouldn't be a bad idea... No, it’s no use.
We just can’t pretend not to be excited any
longer! Just think what you might be missing!
Free Reader Ads 100
Buy buy buy! Sell sell sell! Contact contact contact! No,
somehow this approach isn’t working either...
Buying Advice
Whether you’re buying by mail order or in person, it helps
to understand your rights and how to protect them...
Next Month
Find out what’s coming in the next issue of the magazine
E they’re already calling MACFoRMAT!
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Multimedia Kit 106
All you need to step into the dazzling
| world of multimedia - Apple CD-ROM
drive, speakers, cables, the lot! Brilliant!
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REVIEWS
Print Shop Deluxe 36
It’s fun. It’s friendly. It helps kids learn the principles of
DTP. Its results are great, and it costs all of £55. Tempted?
ColorStation 40
An all-in-one graphics, image-editing and print-enhancing
program from France, at a bargain price
Primera Printer 42 You can have more RAM and more 27
disk space without having to pay
Dye-sublimation quality colour for any extra hardware. We explore the
printing becomes more affordable software options that could more than
with Fargo’s new Primera printer double your RAM for under £100!
Cyberspace! 45
Multimedia brings the future (and the American past) to
you in this latest crop of new CD-ROM releases, including:
American History
Instant Art et
WO Shapes ta 2
Story Book Weaver 50
Now children can create their own multimedia stories,
complete with sounds, from ready-made elements
Music 52
Want a personal music coach to teach you ear training and
sight reading? The latest Mac music news, plus reviews of:
Claire
Dr Rave
Latin Guitar
It’s so easy: 4D First 55
A relational database for just £99? No, it’s not a demo, and
it does have a full range of features, including programming
and a graphing function. So what do we think of it...?
Shareware 71
A breathtaking bag of low-cost and no-cost programs —
games, genealogy, presentation, even money management
Mac Answers 70
Macrormar’s experts tackled a
range of your real-life problems at
the recent Computer Shopper
Show. Here are the answers to 20 of
the most commonly-asked questions
of your most comm:
on
Mac problems
Solved
Can you survive this future? 86
Governments have lost the
plot completely, syndicates are in
control, and violence and crime are
rampant. So, no change there then
Your Cover Disk 6
Sample Syndicate for yourself with our exclusive
PowerBook Tools 84 demo, PLUS a new version of the essential anti-
virus program, a useful little word processor, and
A neat little package of useful utilities for PowerBooks, a range of handy productivity-enhancing utilities
with a better battery monitor, hotkeys and more ~ there’s even a guitar tuner!
Games reviews
The latest games for your Mac - every-
thing from a pinball simulator to a
bundle of board games including chess,
backgammon, bridge and Go
Astro Chase 3D 92
Caesar Deluxe 95
Crystal Caliburn 88
Strategy Games 96
Your CD-ROM 10
If you've got hold of one of the limited
edition of this issue of MAcFoRMatT with
a CD-ROM covermount, you have
everything that’s on the disk version
PLUS a virtual shopping centre where
you can sample hundreds of software
packages and over 30Mb of extras!
MACFoRMAT
blockbuster action/strategy game
by Bullfrog — unique to this disk!
Once again, MAcFor™
‘A Photoshop plug-in that gives
You instant smooth drop shadows
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‘SCSI problems solved instantly!
Plus
AR
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Whether you want to strafe your way through
Syndicate’s gangland or eliminate the latest wave
of viruses — the MAcrormat cover disk is all the
ammunition you'll ever need.
START HERE
MAacrorMat’s cover disk
is a high-density
floppy, so it can
bring you more for
your money. Almost
all Macs made in
the last four years
(anything since the
SE/30, including ————
Classics and Performas) have
a ‘SuperDrive’ which can read high-density
disks, but older models don’t and can’t
(that’s Pluses, old SEs and original Mac Ils).
We spend hours checking all the programs
on the Macrorar cover 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 is intended as a guide only, and
we can’t warrant the programs or be in any
way responsible for any problems arising
from their use or inability to use them. Check
the ‘Get Going’ box just to the right for
guidelines on installing any software.
Of course, some disks are occasionally
damaged during the copying process. If you
suspect yours is one of these, then please
refer to the ‘Faulty Disk’ box on page 8.
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.
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 ‘Macrormar June cover disk’ (but not
decompressed, so you still can’t run
anything 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 ‘MAcrormaT June
backup’.
5. Drag the ‘Macrormar June cover 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 June
cover disk’ folder from your hard disk by
dragging it to the Wastebasket.
Your monthly treats
Want to know what's lurking on this
month’s Macrormat cover disk? Well, read
on, MacDuff, read on...
@ Syndicate demo — an exclusive MACFORMAT
special mission! Now you can be as vicious
as Big Vern as you wipe out your under-
world enemies with this gangland blaster.
See page 86 for the full review.
@ Disinfectant 3.41 — keep it clean: immu-
nise your Mac against the all the latest
viruses, like the recently discovered SysX.
1 Schuzzy - keep an eye on the activities of
both your internal and external SCSI
devices
Ml UpWord - a compact but highly useful
shareware word processor.
@@ IconBOSS — create or customise your
icons to give your Mac that personal touch.
@ Menuette —- another personality package.
This one enables you to replace the menu
bar text with your choice of icons.
§ Fade Me - fade your screen during shut-
down and booting-up. Nifty!
1 Drop Shadow plug-in — the Photoshop
plug-in that enables you to drop soft shad-
ows under the objects in your documents.
Abracadabra — helps childproof your Mac
by hiding the System Folder.
i Guitar Tuner -key in to get in key. This
shareware will help you tune your guitar.
Last Bootup — is somcone else using your
Mac? This Startup Item will help you find out.
PlCTurelt — got HyperCard? Then this'll
enable you to display colour or mono PICTs
in their own windows. See page 62 for more
Hypercard biz.
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
applications 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. ReadMe 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
similar 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
installation; check the ReadMe files which
come with the programs for details.
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Shareware fee: none
Compatibility
Mac: any
System: 6.07 or better
Display: 256-colours/16 greys
Welcome to the world of the
syndicate. Governments no
longer control the world, having
Jong ago ceded power to huge
corporations. If anyone steps out
of line, well, they soon find out
just how uncompromising
modern business can be.
This pitched battle is about to get bloodier. Those
red blobs on the left of the scanner are the enemy.
You play an executive from
one of the smaller syndicates, and
you must ‘persuade’ three
journalists to join your side using
four remote-controlled cyborgs.
The game is viewed from
overhead. To move your cyborgs
you simply click on a location on
the main screen or on the
scanner. To make all your agents
move at once, click on the
asterisk bar between the large 1
and 2, and 3 and 4 icons. From
now on they move as one
unit, To turn it off, simply
click on it again.
The large number icons
represent each of your
agents. The white bar
shows how much energy each has
~ if it drops to the bottom, your
cyborg is dead. The three bars
beneath each of the energy bars
enable you to alter each cyborg’s
behaviour. The top one is
adrenaline (which makes the
agents move faster), next is
perception (which increases their
awareness) and the third is
intelligence. To increase the
levels. simply click on the
right-hand portion of the
bar. If, for instance, you
want your droids to look
after themselves, then
boost the levels of all three
bars,
Beneath the agent icons
are your weapons. In this
demo, cach has the same
weaponry. The first two are
mini-guns — very powerful
and enormously deadly
machine guns. Next
up is the
Persuadatron (more
on this in a minute),
then there's a time
bomb. On the bottom
row are two energy
shields which will
protect you from
virtually every attack
and finally two
lasers,
To use any of the
weapons, simply click on the
appropriate icon. To shoot
someone, move the pointer
over the target, hold down
the [command] key and click
the mouse button.
To persuade the three enemy
agents to join you, you need to
use the Persuadatron. This is the
chip-like icon in the weapons bar
Click on this and anyone you pass
(you have to be pretty close to
them) will flash blue and then
start following you around.
Unfortunately. you have to
protect the newly acquired agent,
because if any of them get shot.
you'll fail in your mission.
The game starts in the north of
the city zone. If you look at the
scanner in the bottom left of the
screen, you should see a radar
blip coming from a point south
east of your location. Follow the
blip and you'll find your first
target. It’s best to keep all your
agents’ behavioural bars topped
up as you travel around. Oh, and
keep a laser selected just in case.
Once you find a building where a
These are the weapons which will be at your disposal during
the mission. The icons at the bottom left are energy shields.
journalist is hiding, switch to
Persuadatron and enter the
building by clicking on the door.
‘The small white blip on the
scanner will change into a blue
blip. They've been persuaded to
This building is contains the first of the three
journalists which you've got to persuade
Watch out for all those enemy agents.
join you and you can move on.
If you end up backed into a
corner, hold down the [control]
key and click the mouse. Your
agents will go into panic mode
and blow hell out of everything. If
things are really bad though, hit
[command] D to self-destruct.
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System: any
Display: any
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and will delete all the files on your hard disk.
Of course Disinfectant 3.41 also protects you
against all other known viruses. It’s an essen-
tial! Run the program to install an Extension
that automatically scans any disk you install.
Schuzzy
Shareware fee: jewellery or gifts!
Compatibility
Mac: any
System: any
Display: any
Schuzzy is a control panel which tells about the
peripherals you have attached to your SCSI
(pronounced scuzzy, hence the name) port, in-
cluding any inside the Mac’s case. It’s useful for
prompting removable hard drives or CD-ROMs
to mount up, and lets you put an icon in the
menu bar to show disk access.
Last Bootup
Shareware fee: none
Compatibility
Mac: any
System: 7
Display: any
Suspicious that someone's playing with your
Mac? Drop Last Bootup in your Startup Items
folder in the System folder and every time you
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switch the Mac on it will tell you the last time
it was activated. It’s not foolproof, but if you're
feeling paranoid it can help prove you right.
UpWord
Shareware fee: $35
Compatibility
Macintosh: any
System: any
Display: any
Sometimes you just don’t need Microsoft Word,
but TeachText is too limited. Enter UpWord.
UpWord is a word processor which gives you
full formatting control, with tabs, rules, search
and replace, and full control of fonts.
It is ideal for knocking out quick notes, and
as it requires only 342K of memory, you can
run it simultaneously with most other pro-
grams. UpWord is genuinely useful — if it had a
spelling checker
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UpWord: a small but
perfectly formed
word processor.
Shareware fee: $15
Compatibility
Macintosh: any
System:
Display: 256 colours
—SJ—
Menuette converts the text in your menu bar
into cute little icons, which you can edit. This
tidies things up a little, but it’s really for people
who like to customise their Macs to look
unique. And let’s face it, who doesn’t?
IconBOSS
Shareware fee: $25
Compatibility
Mac: any
System: 7
Display: 256 colours
IconBOSS is a handy utility for editing icons
or creating them from scratch. Simply drag
an icon on top of the lonBOSS program
and it displays a paint window with the
usual paint program controls.
If you create any particularly cool icons
with /conBOSS, send them in — we'll include
the best on
a future
MACFORMAT
cover disk.
Now you can
Clean Up Desktop
Empty Wattebasket
Eject Disk
Erase Disk...
Restart
Shut Down
File, Edit, etc rendered into icons for that truly graphical look.
Fade Me
Shareware fee: none
Compatibility
Mac: any
System: any
Display: colour
This Extension slowly fades your screen to
black on shut-down, then fades it back in on
start-up. If you have a Mac with a manual
power off switch, you won't be able to see the
‘It’s now safe...’ message, but don’t worry, it is.
Just drop the Extension in your System folder
to activate it.
Abracadabra
Shareware fee: $7 ~
Compatibility = a7
Mac: Any
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Display: Any
Abracadabra makes the System folder invisible,
preventing tampering by little hands. To make
the System folder reappear, simply run Abra-
cadabra again.
Guitar Tuner
Shareware fee: $12
Compatibility
Mac: any with microphone
System: any
Display: any
Guitar Tuner is a lifesaver if, like me, you find
tuning a guitar next to impossible. Simply play
an open string note into the Mac’s microphone
“file fait Microphone
An end to out of tune strumming, thanks to Guitar Tuner.
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 6 just to double-check
that you're not missing something.
PiCTurelt
Shareware fee: none
Compatibility
Mac: any
System: any with Hyper-
Card
Display: any
This stack enables you to display a colour
or mono PICT in its own window using
HyperTalk’s ‘Picture’ command.
Click on the ‘Add picture’ button to se-
lect the pictures you want to display and
they'll appear in a scrolling window. Just
click the ‘View picture’ button, and you'll
go straight to it. To discover how it all
works, check the scripts — and see page 62.
and adjust the pitch until the line on the Guitar
Tuner’s display indicates the correct note.
Drop Shadow plug-in
Shareware fee: none
Compatibility
Mac: Any with Photoshop
System: Any
Display: Any
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Just select the object to be shadowed and
choose the plug-in from the Filters menu. Ad-
just the offset and transparency, et voila.
Here's a picture with a drop shadow showing a drop shadow
This Photoshop plug-in enables you to easily cre-
ate ‘proper’ soft drop shadows in Photoshop.
being put on a picture with a... erm, see for yourself! |
Some of the software on the MACFORMAT
disk is shareware. If after a fair trial
period you decide to carry on using it,
you are obliged to pay the fee specified in
the program’s documentation files.
If the disk still won’t work, we'll replace
it for you. Just return it with a sturdy self-
addressed envelope (a Jiffy bag is ideal) to:
Macrormat June Disk, Discopy Labs Ltd,
PO Box 21, Daventry NN11 5BU.
Telephone: 0327 300077. Please do not send
your disk to any other address.
MACFoRMAT « ISSUE 13 + JUNE 1994
7 Courses and a
choice of greens
PGA TOUR’ Golf II, served up on the Macintosh with a feast of new features. In
addition to Practice and Tournament modes, there's now a Skins Challenge
on the menu, bringing you all the tension of high-stakes golf for cash.
And that's just for starters!
The 7 main courses are the most challenging the American Tour
has to offer, each one identical in every way to the real thing
— even down to the wildlife. Select a club, compensate for the
wind gusting up to 20mph, draw or fade your drive around
obstacles. But miss the Accuracy Point, and landing in a
Sahara-sized bunker could be your just desserts.
You'll eat up these greens. Every ridge and contour has
been modelled after its PGA TOUR® counterpart. And
when winning the championship, taking 4 Skins, or
simply making the cut depends on a 16 foot putt,
you can bet that the tension will reach boiling
point.
PGA TOUR? Golf II - finish all these courses,
and you'll still be gagging for second helpings.
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Has your copy of Macrormat got a CD-ROM with i
If so, here’s what’s on it; if not, rush back to the
shop and get one! Go on, you know it makes sense.
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As well as all the CD goodies explained
here, the Macrormat CD-ROM includes
the entire contents of the HD disk of the
normal edition - except they are not com-
pressed, because there is no need!
We recommend you copy the programs
to your hard drive before using them,
however, as the speed constraints of the
CD disk make them a little cumbersome
otherwise (see pages 6-8 for details).
To speed up SoftCD, try copying the Soft-
CD folder to your hard disk, and running
it from the icon inside it. This will make
things move a bit quicker!
his month sees the introduction of the
regular, monthly CD-ROM cover-
mount. That's right, every month from
now on, a limited number of copies of
Macrormat will include a CD-ROM, as opposed
to the usual HD disk. Our reader surveys have
revealed that a significant proportion of you al-
ready own a CD drive, so we thought we'd give
you the option of choosing your preferred soft-
ware format.
If you're lucky enough to have one of
these precious, limited edition, director’s cut
(hang on, that’s not right) copies of the mag,
then read on to discover what files are
filling the hundreds of extra megabytes
which you now own.
If, on the other hand, you’re a CD-ROM
owner who's reading this in an HD disk edition
of the magazine, you may like to know you can
Visitors to Bath may recognise this as being the courtyard of the Seven Dials building, where
Macrormar has its palatial offices. Except the building next door isn't really an AppleCentre,
‘more of a restaurant really...
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Subscribing to Macronmar is as easy as clicking that button
there. Go on, you know it makes sense...
find CD-ROM copies in large, high street
newsagents. If you'd like to ensure you get
the CD-ROM version delivered direct to your
door every month, though, then why not
become a MAcrormar subscriber? (See page 98
for more details.)
The main program on this month’s CD-ROM
is a sneak preview of Softline’s SoffCD project.
Softline is attempting to use the CD-ROM to
create a virtual environment, where you can
discover more about hundreds of software
SoftCD uses a virtual shopping
% centre to enable you to explore
, information, demos and videos
a of top software
products. Through the medium of compad
disk, you can read about the software, see
videos of it in action, try interactive demos and
even study how to use the package itself.
SoftCD uses a virtual shopping centre t
enable you to explore this information
At present only two of the shops are
occupied — the Macrorat office and Softline’s
store — but new shops will be added over
the coming months to provide ultimately @
complete software directory.
The SoffCD program begins in the corridot
leading to the shopping courtyard — visitors t¢
Bath may recognise it as the Seven Dials centre
where Macrormar has its real-life offices! From
The Macrormar office - minus the Macs; the empty boxes left over from when we first moved _|
in; and Arthur the lovable, cuddly rat. Try clicking on the table to explore the software director |
and use the tablet to subscribe to the magazine and register the SoftCD.
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Folde:
The wma Finder to
The Living Books
In SoftCD’s Popup menu you'll find volumes of information
about software, all accessible at the click of a mouse button ~
you don’t have to open a single folder.
this point, you can navigate your way around
the virtual environment by simply clicking on
the building you wish to visit.
In the Macrormat office you'll find the
prototype software directory. Here you can
search for different kinds of products, use
demos, read about the software and watch de-
scriptive videos — it’s much simpler to use than
it is to explain!
The best thing in the Macrormat office,
however, is the option which enables you to
subscribe to the world’s best Mac magazine
(that’s us, by the way). You can also register
the CD; this will entitle you to SoftCD updates
Find out more about key products, such as Morph, with these
brilliant animated tutorials.
as and when they are released. And that, as Mr
Forsythe is so fond of saying, is all there is to it.
So what are you waiting for? Go and explore
this virtual shopping environment and get a
taste of what the future of home shopping is
really about! Stuart Anderton.
Try out demo versions of CD-ROM and floppy products,
including Broderbund's ‘Living Books’ series.
: wale
Use the index and icons to find information on dozens of
essential products.
Macrormat CD-ROM
The wonderfully huge capacity of the CD-
ROM means that we can now include vast
amounts of extra software, which was
previously impossible on the HD format. On
this disk you'll find over 30Mb of super
shareware to explore — over a thousand files
in all!
As I’m sure you appreciate, there’s far too
much on the disk to explain in detail here; it
would take the entire magazine. If you
explore the contents, however, you'll find
hundreds of extras, including games, fonts
and utilities. Don’t believe me? Well, just
take a peek at the following list...
Files on the disk include: 7 for Seven, A-Trap,
AboutThatMac, Alias Director 3.5, Banner Maker
1.2.5, Before Dark 1.1, Billy Goes Bowling,
BitMapsToEPS v3.10, Blindfold, Brickles Plus v3.0,
Calculator Il, Calendar 2.5, Catapult, Changeling
1.0, Changeling 2.0, Color Daleks, ColorAlias,
Coloring Book 1.1, Compact Pro, Cribbage 2.5, ctc
1.6, Custom Killer, DataShredder, Deflate, Delcon,
Desert Trek, Desktop Deleter, Diamonds, Digital
Camera, Disinfectant 3.3, Disk Charmer,
DiskDup+, Display All Docs, DTPrinter, EPSI to
EPS Converter, EyeClock, FastLabel 3.0.5sw, File
Commander 1.0, Find Printers v1.1, Folder of PICT
/ BMP, Forty Thieves 2.1, Fractal! 1.2, Fractal!
manual v1.2, Gatekeeper Application, Getinfo,
GlFConverter 2.2.10, Glypha I 1.1, Group Launch
Menu, HeartQuest 0.8, IconClock, IconClock, It’s
Just a Clock, JPEGView, JustPrint, Level Mover,
LightningPaint 1.1, LockSmith, MacColorBars 1.1,
Mandella, Memory Mapper, Mouse Odometer 1.0,
MyDude 1.0, Name Stripper, No Vowels Il,
Obliterate, Oxyd™ 16 colors, Oxyd™ monochrome,
Peek-a-Boo, Pesticide, PICT / BMP, PowerAdd,
PowerLaunch Lite, QT Movie ToolBox, QuicKeys
Menu, Right On Time, ROT Utilities, Sample
Editor, Scale, SCSI Startup, SetInfo, Site-to-Site,
SndConverter Pro 2.1, SndConverter Pro 2.2,
Sokoban 1.1.1, Solarian II 1.04, Sound Menu,
Sound Mover 1.76, Sound RoundUp, SoundStudio
Light 1.3.5, Speedometer 3.23, SpoydWorks
Solitaire 1.2.1, ST PerfMonitor, Stapler 1.1,
StartWabbit, Stationer, StudioCraft™, Stuffit
Expander™, Stuffit Lite™, Switch-To-Finder,
System 7 Pack! 3.5, TestDemd, Tetris Max 2.2,
TEXT Converter, TextBreak, TextMerge, TheBar,
TrashMan Emptier, UpWord™ v1.2, Vegas Poker
(Color), World Time, Yes Vowels Il, ZoneRanger
0.9.5 f, Zork, ZTerm 0.9, NewBold TT, Aarcover,
AmericanUncial, Aneirin, Ariosto, Attic, Beatsville,
BlackChancery Typel, BuccaneerT1, Columba,
Crillee, DotMatrix, EraserDust, Franks.suit,
Futhark, Genoaltalic Typel, Genoaltalic,
GenoaRoman, Gessele-Script, Gravicon-Display,
The Macrormat CD Extras! Over 30Mb of essential shareware
HarringtonTypel, HelvFracs, InformalOblique,
InternationalTy1, Juliet, Kelmscott, Kennon,
Kramer, Lassus, LED, Logger, Luxembourg,
Maginot, Marydale, Milano True Type,
NeedlePointSew, NewRixFancy, Octavian,
Phaedrus Italic (TT), Phonetic-Alphabet, Premium
Fonts, Publius, RansomNote, Rhyolite Fonts,
Rothman™, SansFractions, Sharktooth, Shelldon
Type 1, SnyderSpeed, Spooky, TimesFractions,
Treefrog.suit, UltraBlack, Visage, Wiltonian, PC
PaintBrush (PCX) — XTND, StartUp Screen —
XTND, Windows (.BMP) — XTND, Gatekeeper,
FlashBeep 1.0, Get More Info, Gravity Mouse 1.0,
ICONOpen!, Mouse Odometer INIT, NetBunny 2
1/2, PowerLock, StartupSndInit 1.4,
WindowStacker, Zoomin’, PostCard, Print to Paint,
Print to PICS, Print2Pict, BroadCast, Public Folder
1.0, GIFConverter 2.2 Doc, Papyrus 1.0, BMP,
dBase II @ Il to CSV, EPSF (IBMpc to Mac),
WordStar to RTF, Captain Dingbat, Genoaltalic,
Remote Shutdown, TappyType v1.3, Basic Black,
BeHierarchic, CustoFinder 7, DragAnyWindow,
Gatekeeper Controls, Gatekeeper Privilege Mover,
Helium, IBeep2 2.31, It’s Your Default!, MenuBall,
MountAlias, Okey Dokey, PwrSwitcher, RamDisk+
3.22, Sav-O-Matic, Schuzzy™, Shutdown Delay,
SndControl 2.1.1, SoftwareFPU, SuperClock!,
TrashMan, Volume Menu 1.0, Zap!, MacsBug,
Desk Invaders and many more!
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Cheap multimedia
Macintosh on the wa
es, it’s true. This August,
Apple are planning to
launch a low-cost Quadra
with full audio-visual ca-
pabilities. The as-yet unnamed ma-
chine includes 4Mb of RAM, a
250Mb hard drive, CD-ROM drive,
14-inch colour monitor and key-
board as standard, and will, amaz-
ingly, retail for less than $1,500
(£1,000) when it is released in the
States later this year. With a 33
MHz 68L.C040 processor at its
heart, the new AV will initially be
offered in a Quadra 610-style cas-
ing, but later models will include
LC and Performa-style versions.
The key to the stunningly low
price point, which is effectively half
that of the current entry-level AV
3D graphics
breakthrough
Criterion Software has released a
fully-featured, 3D graphics ren-
dering package for the Mac,
which makes £100,000 worksta-
tions redundant. The RenderWare
package - which can generate
40,000 polygons a second on an
non-accelerated 68030 based
Mac, ora stunning 150,000 poly-
gons per second on a PowerMac
~ should result in better Mac
games at cheaper prices.
While RenderWare will be of
principle interest to games pro-
ducers, it will also find favour in
multimedia, CAD and virtual re-
ality fields. Don’t count on get-
ting it at home though, not un-
less you've got a cool £10,000 sit-
ting in your back pocket, that is.
The first games company to
use RenderWare is Virgin Interac-
tive with its multimedia explo-
ration game, Hex.
Are these the kind
of glossy graphics
we'll be seeing on
tomorrow's Mac
Mac - the Quadra 660AV — is the
machine's modular design. This
will incorporate not just the PDS
slot introduced in recent Macs, but
also three ‘direct connect slots’
(DCS). These will enable users to
buy in additional features, as and
when they're required.
The DCSs will be configured for
a variety of expansion functions: a
communications slot for either
Ethernet, token-ring or modem
cards will sit alongside another one
supplying audio-visual functions.
Cards occupying this slot will cost
less than $250 (£170) and provide
quarter-screen video capture and
display facilities.
The third slot is designed for
Mac TV ~a TV tuner which Apple
is hoping to sell for less than $200
(£150). This setup will enable you
to receive sound and pictures di-
rectly. To further compliment this
feature, the new Macintosh will
also include a front-mounted,
infra-red receiver. This will initially
be configured for remote control,
but will eventually be upgraded to
act as a transceiver for two-way
communications with Apple’s
Newton range and forthcoming
infra-red PowerBooks.
In a further bid to reduce costs,
the new Mac will use an IDE hard
drive interface. This approach has
proved a popular alternative to
SCSI on the PC, but it’s the first
time Apple has incorporated it into
one of its machines. A SCSI port
Novell buy WordPerfect and Quattro
According to our sources, the leading publisher of network software, Nov-
ell, has just bought WordPerfect Corporation in a deal reputed to be worth
a cool $1.4 billion. The good news is that the merger won't affect Word-
Perfect’s range of software, its warranties or continuing development.
The purchase comes just a week after its merger with Adobe Systems
and Aldus Corp, and means that Novell is now the second largest software
company in the world — after giant Microsoft.
The acquisition is in response to Microsoft's domination of both the
Apple and PC markets, where it currently holds 75% of the word process-
ing and 90% of the spreadsheet sectors. This has got to be good news for
Mac users, because prices are sure to fall as the two giants battle it out.
solution
The latest addition to Syquest’s
family of removable hard car-
tridge drives, the $Q3270S, is a
3.5 inch unit which reads and
writes to a 270Mb cartridge.
Priced at a competitive £435, the
$Q3270S is alleged to be up to
three times faster than optical
disk drives and, with its 13.5 mil-
lisecond seek time, it’s the fastest
removable device on the market.
It can also read and write to
105Mb cartridges and the 270Mb
versions are expected to cost less
than £100. Pricing is clearly an
important issue; Syquest has re-
cently been forced to cut the
prices of its 44Mb and 88Mb de-
Syquest’s storming storage
Syquest’s new 270Mb drive offers a cost-
effective solution to future storage needs.
vices to under £250 in a bid to
fend off increasing optical drive-
based competition. By offering
increased capacity and cost-effec-
tive performance levels, the com-
pany is obviously hoping to gain
a larger share of the multimedia
market. For more information
call 071 222 8515.
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With the launch, this autumn, of a new cut
price audio-visual Mac, the current best buy,
the B60AV, could be discontinued. Watch out
{or low prices in the coming months as
dealers begin to off-load static stock
will, however, be retained for
hooking up external devices. In ad-
dition, the machine will also in-
clude the usual ADB port and 8-bit
stereo sound. The modular unit
will also offer upgrade paths to the
next generation of low-cost Power-
PC 603 logic boards.
Whether this heralds the demise
of the Quadra 610 and 660AV,
only time can tell, but it certainly
means that low-cost multimedia is
waiting in the wings at break- ~
through prices.
Publishing
for peanuts
If you’re put off by the price of
leading DTP packages like Aldus
PageMaker and QuarkXPress - some
£816 and £934 respectively -
Aldus’s Home Publisher, at a mere
£82, might just resuscitate your in-
terest. With over 50 ready-made
templates, a spell-checker with
100,000 words, a 660,000 synonym
thesaurus, 100 clip art images and
12 fonts, Home Publisher certainly
appears to contain everything the
budding desktop publisher requires.
Capable of supporting multi-col-
umn layouts and imported graph-
ics, the package employs a ‘ques-
tion and answer’ format to meet all
your design needs. Once you've
imported some text and graphics
into a blank document, Home Pub-
lisher asks you to choose what kind
of publication you wish to produce,
and then suggests an appropriate
template. These built-in, layout
grids include: brochures, newslet-
ters, flyers, labels, business cards
and calendars.
Macrormat will be giving Home
Publisher the full review treatment
in the very near future, but in the
meantime you can contact its dis-
tributors, Iona Software, on: 081
241 8925 for more details.
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Rests saree
Tomorrow’s Finder
revealed
he Mac may have the
friendliest face in comput-
ing, but if Taligent (a re-
search and development
company set up by Apple and IBM
in 1991) have their way, the Mac
will be kitted out with a radically
different Finder by the end of
1995. News of the Mac’s impend-
ing face-lift came to light this
month in Cupertino, California,
where Taligent showcased the pro-
totype of its new, graphical user in-
terface — known as People, Places
and Things.
Taligent’s new interface promis-
es to be even simpler to use than
the Mac’s previous Finder soft-
ware. Based on a task-centred ap-
proach to computing, the desktop
will feature icons representing tem-
plate and ‘stationery’ documents;
icons for input, output and storage
devices; and windows containing
cards of your contacts and clients.
Loading and printing a letter will
be a simple case of dropping the
addressee’s card onto the relevant
ing document on t
printer icon. It’s thi
same sort of thing
just dropped on to
icon. Whereas in a
desktop’s In and O
Places and Things,
proposed interface
cilities as required.
Applications wil
stationery icon, typing
your correspondence
into the pre-set layout,
then dragging the result-
e-mail: the document is
vironment, communication with
other users will involve dragging
and dropping documents on to the
Taligent are clearly keen to pro-
mote the friendliness of these oper-
ations, hence the name People
most innovative aspect of their
component. The Tools, which sit
on the desktop as collection of
icons, alter depending upon the
task the user wishes to perform; of-
fering editing and modification fa-
blank templates which you can
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these strange new jackets.
your modem
networking en-
modify as you need them. And be-
cause most functions will already
be built into the Mac’s operating
system, additional applications will
be smaller, faster and cheaper.
In order to bring these innova-
tions to the market and incorporate
them into future operating sys-
tems, Taligent will, later this year,
ship its Application Environment
and Development System to devel-
opers working on the PowerPC,
IBM O$/2 and Unix platforms.
Meanwhile, you can expect to see
selected elements of People Places
and Things on future upgrades of
System 7.
ut boxes.
but perhaps the
is its new Tools
1 be replaced by
State-of-the-
art screen
Apple's new Multiple Scan 20 display must surely take the
award for the ultimate Mac monitor. The 20-inch screen is
capable of displaying an A3 document at full size, and its
resolution can be switched according to the material it's
displaying without restarting your Mac. It also offers fine
pixel editing at resolutions up to 1280 x 1024.
Compatible with IBM PC clones, the display also includes
support for Apple's ColorSync extension to give better colour
calibration. The Scan 20 is also capable of being driven by
Apple's own display
card, the 24AC, to give
full 24-bit colour and
high-speed
QuickDraw accelera-
tion. The estimated
street price is
£1,550, but for more
information call Apple
on: 0800 127753.
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Even more instant
Instant Access has just released its third try-before-
you-buy CD, which features locked versions of over
230 applications, games and utilities. Compendium CD-3,
which costs £9.95, contains 100 new products, includ-
ing PD programs as well as demos of popular Mac
titles; the most notable being ten Claris applications.
ClarisImpact, Clarisworks and MacWrite Pro join other
new business, educational and entertainment titles. It
even has expanded books, graphics and DTP releases. If
you do find a
program which
you simply can’t
live without (or
ten of the little
blighters for that
matter) all you
have to do is
phone IA with
your credit card
details and the
code to unlock
the program will be given to you over the phone. You
can then simply copy it on to your hard disk.
Because the products are bereft of packaging, you
can look forward to significant savings, too. RAM Dou-
bler for just £44.95; a Morph and Dynamic Effects bundle
for £149.95; and Now Contact and Now Up To Date for
£89.95, to name but a few. For more information call
Instant Access on: 081 205 2596.
Hees
Instant Access's Compendium CD3 is an ideal
buy for the Mac browser,
moni
Mitsubishi have just announced
a high performance 29-inch
monitor (try fitting that on top
of your PowerBook) called the
DiamondPro 29. Created espe-
cially for computer aided de-
sign, presentation and training,
the monitor is microprocessor
controlled and flicker free. It can
accept input from all Macintosh-
es as well as S-VHS, NTSC, M-
NTSC, PAL, and SECAM. If you
have £4,495 to hand (and let’s
face it, who hasn’t?), call Mit-
subishi on: 0707 276100.
ce your ancestors
Family Tree,is a new genealogical
program. It places no restric-
tions on the number of entries,
will go back as many genera-
tions as you require and can
cope with any number of mar-
riages (Liz Taylor's already put
her order in). The program will
work on any Mac, and costs just
£5 (plus P & P). For more details
contact Mike Ainscough on
0273 493856.
ng ons
Virgin Interactive have been
busy signing up a pile of Mac
games to boost their portfolio.
First, is Trilobyte’s 7th Guest.
This multimedia game features
fully rendered graphics and im-
pressive video overlays, and not
surprisingly, received rave re-
views in the PC press last year.
The game is now available on
the Mac for £44.99. Its sequel,
11th Hour, another mystery epic,
is scheduled to be released on
the Mac at the end of July, you
don’t need to wait that long,
though, because we'll have the
full, exclusive preview in next
month’s issue. Dare you miss it?
conference
Designers among MACFORMAT’s
27,000 readers will be pleased
to hear of a major design confer-
ence being organised by Aldus
and Monotype. Windows On
American Design will be held
on Wednesday June Ist at the
University of London in Russell
Square. The conference will
showcase the work of the States’
leading graphic designers, in-
cluding David Carson, Barry
Deck, Dan Friedman, Syvia
Woodward and Lucille Tenazas.
With over 1,000 attendees,
the promoters are expecting this
to be Europe’s largest design
conference this year. Registra-
tion costs £45 for professionals
and £17.50 for students. For
more information fax the Typo-
graphic Circle on 071 388 2296.
a
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APPLE BYTES
Going on-line
seated ‘s a new bulletin board
now operating in London. Port-
land (which is the board’s
name, in case you hadn't
guessed) features Internet and
Usenet e-mail. It also has two
CD-ROMs on-line, three phone-
lines operating at all speeds up
to v32bis (including v42bis) and
over 250 different conferences. If
you’d like to check the board
out, you can modem Portland on
081 241 2639.
Telefinder Pro
Telefinder Pro ~ the program we
got all hot and excited about last
month — has now been released
as a shareware program. The
program offers a remote access
host mode; full support for 200
different modems (including
high speed models); 32-bit
ZModem and XModem transfer
protocols; a 250 number dialling
30 command macro
language; built-in GIF and PICT
graphic viewers; a built-in
mail outbox and balloon
help. If you'd like to get
your hands on this bril-
liant piece of software —
or would just like to
know what the hell it
all means — dial the AM
Micro Distribution BBS on
0392 493651.
New comm forum
CompuServe has expanded its
UK service by launching a new
dedicated forum for British
comms users. The UK Commu-
nications Forum covers Internet,
modems, comms software, net-
working and telecommunica-
tions/telephones. Psion, Dacom,
US Robotics and Pace have al-
ready started their own libraries
in the forum, so what are you
waiting for? Call 0734 391064
and get in on the action.
Fonts in a whirl
Garamond, Bodini, Futura,
Univers. Fancy 1,400 typefaces
from the world’s finest typogra-
phy company, for only £149?
That's the deal being offered on
Fontworks new CD-ROM: The
Berthold Diamond Types CD. The
disc contains 300 dpi versions of
all Berthold fonts. If you wish to
use them at higher resolutions,
you can unlock the professional
version for £45, or bag the entire
lot for £5,500 — a saving of over
£6,000 on the list price of
£11,500! These offers are only
valid until the end of June, so
give Fontworks a call now on
071 490 5390.
BM and Motorola have devel-
oped a new 100 MHz version
of the PowerPC 601 processor
which is at the heart of
Apple’s acclaimed PowerMac range.
The new chip is expected to run
25% faster than the PowerMac
8100's current processor. What's
more, it manages to achieve this
blistering performance despite
being smaller and using half the
power of other 601 processors.
IBM and Motorola, Apple’s part-
ners in the PowerPC initiative, are
very keen to push these new RISC
processors, which offer twice the
performance of comparably-priced
conventional processors. To this
end, three further chips are in the
pipeline, the smaller 603 which is
destined for notebooks, and the
604 and 620 series for heavy-
duty workstations and general
server work.
In the meantime, however, the
601 (with its language transla-
tion, 3D image rendering, inte-
grated office communications
and voice recognition capa-
bilities) should improve
the consortium’s chances
of cornering a large share of tomor-
row’s DTP market.
Now the new 100 MHz proces-
sor look set to put a further nail in
Intel’s coffin. The company won't
go down without a fight though,
and it’s combating the PowerMac
threat with a campaign promoting
new 100 MHz versions of its CISC-
based Pentium processor.
While production of the 601 chip
eames
New PowerPC. boost
Alga
The new 100 MHz 601 processor is 25%
faster than the PowerMac 8100's current
chip. Spoliers and go-faster stripes, anyone?
will begin in the autumn, Apple
hasn’t revealed yet whether it will
be used in forthcoming PowerMac
models. For more details on the
PowerPC chip range write to Mo-
torola at: 88 Tanners Drive, Blake-
lands, Milton Keynes, MK14 5BP.
If you're a big fan of ei-
ther Populous or Syndi-
cate, then you'll be first
in the queue for Bull-
frog's latest game, Theme
Park. The object of the
game is to build the most
profitable digital Disney Land while
taking on 40 other competitors
from around the world.
Theme Park has three levels:
Sandbox, a basic construction site;
Simulation, where you have to
make your attractions both safe
and fun for visitors; and Business
The ride of your life
which plunges you headlong into
marketing and contracts. The first
thing you have to do though, is
choose a location. The site — which
can be anywhere in the world (but
not Paris, eh?) — then has to be
filled with your choice of 32 pur-
pose-built and six user-definable
rides. And just to add a certain re-
alism to the whole shebang, you
can then position 16 shops within
your park. Then the there’s securi-
ty thing to deal with —just in case
some impudent thugs decide to do
some construction of their own,
MORE POWERMAC APPLICATIONS
The list of forthcoming native applications for the Power Macintosh
seems to go on and on. This month’s list includes:
Product Publisher Telephone number
Color Central 2.1 Aldus 081 568 8868
Excel 5 Microsoft 0734 270000
FoxPro 2.6 Microsoft 0734 270000
Freehand 4.0 Aldus 081 568 8868
LetraStudio Letraset 071 928 3411
MacroModel 1.5 MacroMedia 081 200 8282
Maewrite Pro Claris 081 756 0101
Office 4.2 Microsoft 0734 270000
PageMaker 5.0 Aldus 081 568 8868
PowerPoint 4 Microsoft 0734 270000
Premiere 4 Adobe 081 547 1900
RAM Doubler Connectix 081 200 8282
Trapwise 2.0 Aldus 081 568 8868
Vicom Connect Vicom 0202 293 233
Visual Basic Microsoft 0734 270000
Word 6 Microsoft 0734 270000
Works 4 Microsoft 0734 270000
XPress 3.3 Quark 081 200 8282
ania ama SV
World domination has
never been so much fun!
Electronic Arts
(who can be contacted
on: 0753 549442) will be
handling the distribution of both
the floppy disk and CD-ROM ver-
sions of the game, and you can
book your ticket for just £44.99,
Roaring to go
Following the introduction last year of its
1930s, ‘50s and '60s collection of images,
Hulton Deutsch has now launched its 1920s
Decade CD-ROM. The new package contains
25,000 black and white photos of the roaring
20s in full effect. From the high-life of
‘flapper’ aristocrats to the utter deprivation
of the General Strike, the disc draws on the
best of Hulton Deutsch’s collection of 15
milion images.
Running on any colour Mac with a CD-
ROM drive, each of the Decade discs cost
£117.50. For more information give Hulton
Deutsch a bell on 071 266 2660.
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PowerMac blasts off
ne of the oldest UK soft-
ware houses, Domark,
has just released the
first game specifically
designed for the PowerMac range.
Flying Nightmares combines a state-
of-the-art flight simulation with
strategic war-gaming and draws on
RISC technology to deliver fast
arcade action and smooth realism.
Developed from AV8B Harrier
Assault on the PC, the game is bang
mission, as squadron leader of a
fleet of jump jets, is to take on the
armed forces of an invading force
by deploying your sea, air and
ground forces. Thankfully, you
have laser-guided missiles, cluster
bombs and radar-jamming pods to
chuck about when military guile
begins to evade you. You can fly up
to four missions at the same time
and switch between different air-
craft, passing campaign control to
the computer while you concen-
trate on flying and dog-fighting.
The game's animation and
scrolling are far slicker than those
used in the original PC version. The
game will also run on standard
Macs with colour capability - albeit
with some loss of speed.
Although Apple is understand-
ably keen to attract games develo-
pers to the PowerMac, Domark is,
as yet, the only company to have
up to date in more ways than one.
The game puts you in charge of a
rapid deployment force running a
UN-authorised invasion. Your
made a public commit-
ment to the platform.
Let’s hope Flying Night-
mares sells enough
copies to encourage
more native PowerMac
games ~ all that raw
power under the hood
should ensure some
stunning releases. Flying
Nightmares costs £29.99
(the standard Mac ver-
sion is included in the
same box). For more
information call Domark
on 081 780 2222.
Multimedia Director
overhauled
The power and performance of MacroMedia’s
leading multimedia authoring tool Director
have been substantially improved with the
release of version 4.0, which is now available
as an upgrade for £199.
The new version compiles its Lingo scripts
to enable faster execution of Director movies.
Further speed enhancements include im-
proved data retrieval from storage devices
such as CD-ROM drives, and a revised file
structure to reduce disk access time.
Ata scripting level, 4.0 doubles the number
of channels in a Director Score to 48, and pro-
vides interactive handling for 32,000 ‘cast
members’ (data such as stills, titles, sounds,
videos) per movie. In addition, file size is now
unlimited. Version 4.0 also enables several
Director movies to run on-screen simultane-
ously without any loss of interaction between
windows. This means users can pass info from
one movie to another (bit of a first, that).
Director's detractors will like 4.0’s colour
coding and drag-and-drop facilities, which
enable users to directly place cast members
into scores. Developers will also benefit from
full binary file compatibility with the forth-
coming Director For Windows, which should
provide easy cross-platform authoring.
Director 4.0 costs £1,175 and is available
from Computers Unlimited on 081 200 8282.
Radius hardware Scottish
& software —free multimedia bash
If you own any Radius software The Scottish Hypermedia Users’
or hardware and are thinking of | Group is to hold an all-day
buying or upgrading to a multimedia workshop at St
PowerMac, call Computers
Unlimited on 081 200 8282
before Tuesday 31st May. From
now until then, Radius will
upgrade all its graphics,
acceleration, display products
and associated software for users
wishing to use them with
PowerMacs —and you don't have
to pay a bean.
Andrew's University on Saturday
21st May. Events include tutorials
and workshops with guest
developers.
The all-day event costs £25
for members, £15 for students
and £35 for other non-members.
For more information call the
Scottish Hypermedia Users’
Group on 0698 882935.
Peace of mind for less
MacTools, the impressive suite of utilities offering
disk repair, optimisation, data recovery, automatic
back-up and anti-virus protection, is now part of a
bargain bundle put together by Iona Software. For
£94, buyers of MacTools 3.0 will also receive a copy
of Stuffit Deluxe and Underware. Bought separately,
these three products would cost £249. For details of
availability call Iona on 081 241 8925.
Meanwhile, Central Point Software, the creator
of MacTools 3.0, has released a PowerMac version of
the package with an improved performance of be-
tween 200 and 400% on functions such as disk-
fixing, copying, un-deleting and disk-scanning.
MacTools was the first dedicated PowerMac product
to be released. In fact, it came out on Monday 14th
March — the day the PowerMac was launched. It
has a suggested retail price of £99 and is available
from Central Point on 081 848 1414.
Premiere
powered-up
Fast video editing on the Mac is
now a step closer with the latest
Premiere 4.0 now runs in native
mode on PowerMacs, offering
substantial performance gains,
most noticeably on QuickTime
movies which make use of
Premiere’s built-in special
effects, filters and overlays.
The upgrade will also be
available — in the same packag-
ing — for use on conventional
Macs. The most significant
enhancement is the new Trim-
ming window which really
simplifies common ripple and
rolling edits. Other improve-
ments include automatic insert
edits; customisable filters and
special effects; unattended batch
Processing: a pop-up tool menu;
time-lapse capture and support
for Illustrator 5.0 and 5.5 files.
Prices of new and upgrade
packages were unavailable at
the time of going to press, but
you can call Adobe (081 547
1900) for more information.
Premiere 4.0 offers plenty of new and
improved teatures for video editors.
Free CD with |
PageMaker
Aldus is giving away a twin CD-
ROM package worth over £500 to
anyone buying its leading DTP
package, PageMaker 5.0.
The PageMaker ProPack is a col-
lection of type. art and photos
which enables users to add extra
style to PageMaker documents. It
includes over 250 high-end EPS il-
lustrations and 177 graphics. In ad-)
dition, the CD contains 50 royalty: |
free, high res, photographic images
84 illustrations and symbols; and |
two complete typeface families, Ex’ |
isting users can buy the pack sepa-
rately for £395. More information _
from Aldus on 081 568 8868, |
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APPLE BYTES
Pro PhotoCD viewer
Kodak's PhotoCD Access software
~ the low-cost PhotoCD viewer
and editor from the people who
make PhotoCD — has now been
enhanced to support the com-
pany’s new higher resolution
Pro PhotoCD format. It provides
an on-screen contact sheet for
images, as well as basic func-
tions such as cropping and
image rotation. These images
can then be exported to page-
layout or image enhancement
and manipulation programs.
Since its introduction, 200,000
copies of Access have been sold.
The latest version is available
for £39.95 from Computers
Unlimited on 081 200 8282.
More Optical storage
on the way
Philips has almost doubled the
current capacity of most optical
disks with the launch of anew
230Mb 3.5 inch disk. Although
the disk can’t be read by exist-
ing 128Mb format drives, IBM
and Fujitsu will launch com-
patible units later this year. For
more information call Philips on
0101 49 611 962 8804.
@ For an overview of storage
options including optical disk,
see the special feature in Mac-
FORMAT 12. (If you missed that
issue, turn to the MACFoRMAT
back issues service on page 94.)
How to be really remote
Fancy a free guide to accessing
Mac networks over the phone-
line? Leading network company
Shiva has produced the imagi-
natively-titled booklet, How To
Successfully Implement Remote Net-
work Access to provide answers to
all your network questions. It'll
even show you how to log on to
your office Mac from home (Oh,
what joy! Teleworkers of the
world, you have nothing to lose
but your leisure time!). Call
Shiva on 0753 833007 or fax on
0753 831383 and the booklet
will be winging its way to you,
before you can say ‘24-hour
working day’.
Powering-up your
News has it that those clever
souls at Connect IT have manu-
factured a power adapter for
Apple’s PowerBook, Duo and
Newton range which plugs into
your car’s cigarette lighter. The
adaptor costs just £60.45 (in-
cluding delivery). For more in-
formation call Connect IT on
0525 240008.
Acrobatic ilustrator
upgrade Ww
Adobe lllustrator’ 5.5
dobe is all set to release a PowerMac
version of its leading graphics appli-
cation Illustrator which it claims will
Tun two to four times faster than
standard Mac versions. With it comes a host of
new features, which will also be available as an
upgrade to standard Macintosh versions. Chief among
the new enhancements offered by Illustrator 5.5 is the
introduction of plug-in filters which will provide
greater control over the program’s trapping and text-
handling capabilities.
Trapping is made possible by Adobe's ‘Pathfinder
Trap’ feature, which can handle process and custom
colours; compensate for paper stretching; tint variable
pastel colours; and convert custom colours to process
colours from within the application. Innovations in
text handling include a user-definable spell checker; a
utility to search and replace by font; graphic tabs;
smart punctuation and a change case utility.
Graphics handling has also been radically improved:
Illustrator 5.5 now offers expanded file import support,
which means that TIFF and PICT images can be im-
ported directly, without your first having to convert
them to EPS files via Photoshop.
But perhaps the most interesting addition is the
inclusion of Adobe's innovative Acrobat Technology.
This enables documents to be saved into a Portable
Document Format (PDF), so they can be viewed, edit-
ed, saved, printed and distributed in an entirely inde-
pendent manner. Adobe is pushing Acrobat as the dig-
ital paper of the future — PDF files will run on any o
erating system, irrespective of whether it has the origi-
nal application used to create the file installed or, in-
deed, the correct fonts, It stands to reason, then, that
everyone purchasing 5.5 will receive a free copy of
Acrobat Distiller and Exchange — the key components of
the technology — as well as 180 Adobe fonts, QuickTime
movies featuring expert tips, 100 examples of clip art
and a lite version of Adobe Dimensions on CD-ROM.
Illustrator 5.5 costs the same as the previous version:
£564. Upgrade prices have yet to be confirmed
(although users who purchased version 5.0 after
March 14th will receive free upgrades). For more
information call Adobe on 081 547 1900.
HELLCATS OVER KINGS CrRossS
Combat
Macrormar, in conjunction with training company MacUniversity
and Hellcats publisher Parsoft, is running a one-day event in which
you can sharpen your flight-sim skills and become All-England
Helicats Champion! Topics to be covered include:
@ Game strategy — master the basic flight techniques and learn how
to earn maximum points
‘§® Combat techniques — getting awkward customers off your tail,
dive bombing, mission strategies
@ Tips and techniques
'@ Demos of Parsoft's latest flight sim, A10, and what's on the
horizon — including new terrain-mapping techniques
‘1 Plus the first All-England Hellcats Combat Trophy, a knockout
‘competition for all-comers!
'& Softline will be there, offering you the chance to play all the best
Mac games
‘BA licenced café, serving food and drinks, will be open all day
Compete in the first
All-England Hellcats
Championships!
Win the first Hellcats Trophy, a Gravis joystick and a copy of the next
generation flight sim, A10! All runners-up win a Gravis joystick
For more details contact MacUniversity on 071 582 3702
Hellcats over Kings Cross:
The place: The Cross nightclub, 27-31 The Arches,
Kings Cross Goods Yard, London N1
The date: Saturday May 28th
The time: 10.00 am to 5.00 pm
Entrance fee: £10
For an entry form, send your entrance fee to:
MacUniversity, Southbank House,
Black Prince Road, Albert Embankment,
London SE1 7SJ.
But hurry! No requests will be processed after
Wednesday May 7th
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| LETTERS
ental
ee neon Zz,
ag — |
This month: a T-shirt for every letter.
Next month...
? Take a chance and
write to ‘Apple Talk’, MAcrormat, 30
Monmouth Street, Bath BA1 2BW.
na fit of generosity brought
on by Macrormat's increas-
ingly wonderful sales figures,
Stuart the publisher has
okayed a Macrormat T-shirt for
the writer of every letter published
this month! So I thought, let's try
to get as many in as possible... Will
he realise what he’s done before
next month? Send your letter in
now — the shorter the better. At
the very least it might get printed!
ResEdit Primer
Thanks for giving
away ResEdit with
MAcForMat issue
11. [You're welcome.
~ Ed] Neat little
thing, that booklet
that came with it,
too. One thing
though: on page 15 it states that
caps are not mandatory for the pri-
vate resource name. This is not the
case in System 7, which requires at
least one capital letter. (Actually, it
doesn’t, but Apple reserves the
right to use any signature which is
all small letters or numbers. Which
is, I guess, the same thing.) Just
thought you might like to pass that
along to your readers...
Steve Marsh
Stirling
via CIX
You were right.
Games machine _
interface guidelines, but once you've
worked out the routines for that you
can apply the lessons in other cases,
Some people even release games with-
out bothering about the official require-
ments (we've certainly seen plenty of
games like that here at MACFORMAT).
‘Makes you wonder why other software
houses don't share Bullfrog’s commit-
ment to the Mac.
Lost real estate _
In your March issue you mention
that you can reclaim lost floppy
disk real estate by rebuilding the
floppy’s Desktop file. Under Sys-
tem 7, however, you can’t do this
if you've deleted everything on the
disk. After you've thrown every-
thing on the disk in the bin and
emptied it, create an empty folder
on it and then eject the disk and
reinsert it with [command] and
[option] held down.
I don’t know why this works
better, but I suspect it’s got some-
thing to do with a less-than-intelli-
gent System. (“Oh, an empty disk!
Goody, that means I don’t have to
do anything with it!”)
Morten Ingebrethsen
Stavanger, Norway
Another thing to wish for in System 8.
_ Fun Fonts |
When will software houses treat
the Mac as a serious games
machine? When a company such
as Lucasfilm releases a big game it
comes out on PC or Amiga, while
we have to be content with also-
rans, or else wait a year for the
Mac version of something like
Monkey Island II. Games houses
should take a leaf out of Bullfrog’s
book - they know a good opportu-
nity when they see it
Matthew Hancock
Glasgow
The Mac and the Amiga are based on
the same central processor chips, the
Motorola 680x0 series, and Bullfrog’s
boss Peter Molyneux says it isn’t actual-
ly that difficult to port a game from one
to the other. The only problem, he reck-
ons, is fitting in with Apple's stringent
‘Monkey Island 1. Worth waiting for? Would you buy an Atari ST just to play this a year earlier?
In Macrormat 9, in reply toa
question from Jackie Gilligan, your
Mac Answers section states that
the font Arial costs around £165.
In fact it is available as part of the
Monotype PostScript Value Pack,
57 typefaces in all, which is free
when you buy Suitcase from
MacWarehouse for £47. It is also in
the Adobe Type Set Value Pack,
with 30 typefaces, for £35, which
includes Adobe Type Manager.
Monotype Fun Fonts at the mo-
ment costs £23 plus postage direct
from Monotype and has the full
family of Amasis, and various fonts
and symbols - 25 fonts in all.
Nigel Hazle
Wokingham, Berks
MacWarehouse advertises regularly in
‘Macrormar. You can contact Monotype
on 0737 765959. A TrueType version of
the Arial font family (six varieties of
Arial in all) is available as part of the
special package of 100 classic Montype
fonts for only £49.95 direct from Mac-
ForMar. TrueType fonts are ideal if you
don't have an expensive PostScript
printer. See page 89 for the details.
In Stalled
I’m no mental giant when it comes
to computers, and I can’t for the
CRUTSING
THE KEYS
This month's selection of keystroke
shortcuts, tips and discoveries
Colin Dalziel of Bridgnorth in
Shropshire has these few tips
which he says he’s picked up
over the years...
@ You can sometimes force a
‘frozen’ application to quit,
enabling you to save your work
in any other running
applications before you restart
your Mac. (If you choose to
continue working, the problem
that caused the first application
to hang will often cause other
severe, and unrecoverable,
System crashes.) To ‘Force Quit’
the current application, hold
down the [option] and
[command] keys, then tap the
[esc] key.
1 When viewing an Open or
Save As dialogue box, make
sure the list is selected (a dark
border should appear around it;
if not, click in it), then type the
first few letters of any name to
select it quickly.
System 7 too slow at opening
windows? Open the Views
Control Panel and check
whether Calculate Folder Sizes
is set to On (an X appears in the
check box). If you are using a
listing view (View by Name,
Date, etc) in a window, your
Mac may be spending a lot of
time adding up the sizes of all
the items in a folder to calculate
its size. Turn this feature off for
an increase in performance.
@ Don't forget System 7’s Drag-
and-Drop feature: you can drag
files on top of an application
program’s icon and the
application will often launch
them, even if the file was
created by a different
application. You can drag a text
file on top of an alias of
Microsoft Word, for instance,
and it will open the text file.
W If you'd like a look back at
the original startup screen for
the Apple Mac, hold down the
[option] key while you select
the Apple menu. Instead of the
usual ‘About This Macintosh’
option you will see ‘About The
Finder’. Select this to see the
original startup screen from
System 1! Wait a few seconds
and you will see credits for the
various versions of the Finder
over the years.
If you've found any hidden secrets or
keyboard tricks, either in the Finder
or in any program, send them in!
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POSCELeEgeszeE
ge
ln SRREERBSP?
life of me read the ReadMe file on
Macrormat’s May cover disk.
When I double-click on ReadMe,
all I get is a message saying the file
can’t be opened because the pro-
gram that created it hasn't been in-
stalled. The same goes for the info
files for all the other programs on
the disk. What am I doing wrong?
Graham Nown
Southport
Itsounds like you haven't got Teach-
Text on your Mac— search for it using
[command] F when you're at the desk-
top or look for it loose in your System
Folder. If you don't have a copy or
¢an't get one, try launching your usual
word processing program and then
using its Open command to open the
ReadMe files. Most Mac WP programs
should be able to cope.
Some sort of index
Could Macrormat include some
sort of index showing what was re-
viewed and what articles were run
in which issue? This would help
those who come across a problem
and have to look through all their
back issues to find the appropriate
advice. And when you're giving
tips or demonstrating how to use
applications, could you sometimes
use older versions of applications?
Not everyone has PageMaker 5.0,
Word 5.1, XPress 3.3, etc.
David Jones
Cardiff
We always try to keep earlier versions
in mind. And an index sounds like a
great idea ~ we could do with one our-
selves — but we haven't had the time to
compile one. Tell you what, You get a
T-shirt for mentioning the idea, so it’s
only fair that we offer a free subscrip-
tion for the first reader who sends in a
usable, comprehensive and accurate
index for MacrorMAT I to 12. (But if
you haven't yet started work on one, it
might be an idea to contact us first and
talk about an appropriate format...)
Why not?
Why don’t you start a cheap BBS
with Internet/Onenet access? And
why not put readers’ own material
on the cover disk — stuff like Hyper-
Card stacks and scripts, tips, pro-
grams, etc? I for one would rather
see this sort of stuff than demos of
high-priced, bloated commercial
software. And can you please stop
the silly addresses bit? Like your
recent Those bloody kids’ address
for education coverage. It’s not big
and it’s not etc...
Arthur Battram
Luton
A Macrormat BBS? Watch for a special
announcement next issue. We'll always
consider any reader’s submissions for
the cover disk, and suggestions for what
you'd like to see on it are always wel-
come. As for the ‘silly’ addresses: over
to you, the ranks of Macrormat-dom
assembled. Would you prefer straight-
forward addresses like ‘Education’ and
‘Letters Page’? Answers to ‘Improperly
Addressed’, MacrorMaT, 30 Monmouth
Street, Bath BAI 2BW.
A Luddite writes
LETTERS
OT IN STOCK
Is there a law against dealers ad-
vertising products they don’t
have in stock? I ordered SimCity
2000 for Christmas from a very
reputable dealer and was assured
over the phone that it was in
stock. However when it hadn't
arrived a month later a call to
Maxis (the distributor) revealed
that it wouldn’t even be available
for another two weeks!
Daniel Cressey
London NW5
Dealers often place their adverts well
in advance to coincide with the re-
lease dates set by software houses,
and then get caught out when the
products fail to appear on time. The
Advertising Standards Authority (tel:
071 580 5555) told MacFormat that
the important thing is that the con-
sumer is not misled. Advertisers
‘Coming soon! No, really. Any day now. |
know, ‘cos | read it in an advert..
should get as firm a guarantee as
they can that the product will be
ready by the due date, but then if, for
reasons beyond their control, the ad-
vert appears before the product is ac-
tually available, the advertiser must
inform anyone who orders it that
there has been a delay and offer
either a firm delivery date or a re-
fund. Telling you porkies over the
phone is definitely out of order.
I waited in eager anticipation for
Macrormat’s cover disk demo of
Prince of Persia 2. And there it was
on issue 12! My excitement, how-
ever, was short-lived. The blurb in-
side the mag informed me that I
need 256 colours to play. lam
some 254 colours short of this re-
quirement. Do the developers of
these games not appreciate just
how many people are still using
monochrome Macs? | will wager
that the best selling games are
those that operate on all Macs, not
just the technicolour versions. I
have neither the desire nor the
means to fork out for a colour Mac.
B&W is fine for most of my work.
Yes, Lam a Luddite.
Paul Foster
Peterborough
Not all new games require 256 colours.
When you install Bullfrog’s stunning
new Populous II, for example (watch
(for the review next issue), you get to
choose between three versions of the
game, designed for different monitor
capabilities — and all three work fine in
greyscales too. Last issue, we noted that
PGA Tour Golf I worked just as well
in BOW. But surely most people want
The demo of Prince of Persia 2
on last month's MacronMaT
‘cover disk needed a 256-colour
monor (end lots of memory,
‘but we won't mention that)
Could you cope with it in B&W?
mew games to look as spectacular as
possible? And that must mean colour.
Baffled of Devon
Your review of printers in Mac-
FoRMAT 11 in April had me baffled.
You find as a “bad point’ of the
StyleWriter I that it “takes up a lot
of desk space” (presumably only
with the paper tray extended), and
then you find as a ‘bad point’ of
the HP DeskWriter 310 the fact
that it doesn’t have a paper tray! If
it did have one, 1 can only assume
you would have said that it took
up a lot of desk space...
Personally, I think the Style-
Writer is compact, extremely good
and easily available for much less
than the price you quote — and I
don’t have a vested interest in say-
ing so. Please don’t feel you have to
find something negative to say
about a product. If your T-shirts
are good, I'll say so!
Brian Cook
Dartington, Devon
What do you mean ‘if’? And for the
record, ail our reviews quote official
recommended retail prices, including
VAT. It is always worth shopping
around, especially in the case of Apple
products: Apple’s policy is that its
Authorised Resellers are free to set their
own actual selling prices.
___TV quiz PhD
Re: ‘quick brown fox’ variations.
How about a minimalist ‘Mr Jock,
TV. quiz Ph.D., bags few lynx’?
Sure it’s full of abbreviations and
doesn’t make a lot of sense but
count the letters — 26! Plus comma
and full point typing practice
thrown in. Why type more?
Eamonn O'Leary
London W5
OK, that one takes the cake for shortest
alternative. But I'm still waiting for
any Mac-related ones.
Fluent Martian
When I bought my IIvi about a
year ago, I received a set of CD-
ROMs with it as part of the pack-
age. One of these contains what is
apparently a complete working
version of HyperCard 2.1, less all the
standard stacks except Home - I
can certainly select level 5 and cre-
ate cards, for example. What rights,
if any, do I have to this application,
and others such as MoviePlayer,
which are supplied on CD-ROMs I
got in this way? The documen-
tation gives no guidance except a
few paragraphs of the usual legal
disclaimers written in fluent Mar-
tian. Similarly, can I incorporate
the fonts I was instructed to drag
from the CD-ROMs to my System
Folder into my own documents?
Dave Lockwood
Leamington Spa, Warwicks.
Whether they're thrown in as part of
the package or paid for separately, these
programs and fonts are yours, and you
have the same rights to them as if you'd
bought them individually: in a nut-
shell, you yourself can use them as you
wish, but not make copies to lend, give
away or sell to others.
Got something to say? Write to
Macrormar at the address opposite,
MACFormar +
SUE 13+ JUNE 1994
21
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THIS MONTH ]
What’ S439
Andy Storer reports on the New York christening
party for the Power Macintosh. What’s it mean?
It means Andy blagged a free trip, for a start
elcome to the future: a 40-channel
interactive TV; Nicam digital video;
Nakamichi CD, tape and tuner;
and Bose wall-mounted speakers —
and that’s just the hotel room. Tune in to
Hot97, whack the volume way up, open the
blinds and down below it’s New York, New
York. Yours truly is over for the Power Macin-
tosh launch, courtesy of Apple. The place
Hold on to your hats! Apple proves that it spares no expense in flying a few lucky
journalists halfway around the world, Mind you, 'm still smarting from the carpet burns.
hasn’t changed much — razor wire, rising
steam, roaming psychos, cop sirens, hip hop
and major fear — but it’s still the greatest city in
the world. Easily. And it’s the perfect place to
christen the new Power Macintosh range. Big
Apples indeed.
To add just a little more pizazz to the pro-
ceedings, Apple chose to christen its new baby
on the anniversary of Finstein’s birthday. And
so, at 10am on Monday
March 14th, 1994, myself
and around 500 assembled
journos and tech support
guys eased our way into the
Lincoln Center for the floor-
show.
I arrived early to bag a
good seat up-front, only to
find myself sitting next to
the Head Engineer for the
whole PowerMac project —
Phil Koch. He was naturally
pretty chuffed; after three
years of working like hell to
make the fastest PC in the
world, the launch was right
on time. Best moment,
Phil? “Getting the Finder up
and running on a Powerl
chip for the first time”
Worst? “Dealing with 68K
chauvinism.” Sorry, Phil?
~The reluctance — higher
up — to move away from the
68000 series processor.” Ex-
pecting any surprises today
then, Phil? “Not really.
We're all here because this
thing has got to be officially
born; everyone here knows
everything already.”
True enough; I had
written all the ‘official’
MACFORMAT news stories a
month earlier; prices, specs
— the works, The launch
was really just an expensive
90 minute christening party
for a product that’s all ready
to roll then. (Still, it was
For the moment, this is what PowerMacs are all about: reak
time, ray-traced graphics spinning as superfast native
applications, OK, so it doesn't look all that hot an page, but
it’s utterly gob-smacking on-screen,
great for all the journos who'd flown in &
pecially — no stories to file.) So when the light
dimmed and Apple’s CEO, Michael Spindle
strode along the spot-lit catwalk, you knew:
was all going to be a little self-congratulaton
But why not; there was a lot of back-pattia
called for — and it’s what Americans do best.
__ The future’s so bright...
Spindler’s speech had a single theme: Apple
commitment to providing real solutions to re
people’s problems — at affordable price/periar
mance ratios. To that end, Apple is offeris
future-proof PowerMacs at fierce prices wil
full PC compatibility thrown in. OK, it mig
cost you £300 for SoftWindows, and you'll nee
at least 16Mb of RAM on board, but you'll hat
the equivalent of a 25MHz 486SX PC on you |
desktop. So I reckon he’s on to a winner.
And you didn’t need to listen very long tof _
convinced by Apple’s other assembled mark
eers. The PowerMac’s production capacity! ,
around 6,000 machines a day, and pre-orde_ |
already amount to over 150,000. (Pentium PO *
have only ever managed to sell half that num
ber during their entire trading history.) Powe
Mac sales are expected to top one million ow
the next 12 months and, over the next three!
five years, Apple plans to increase its worl {
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4
wide market share from 11% to 16%. Wa
come to the future; it’s Here and it’s Now.
After Spindler’s spiel we were treated 10
bunch of testimonials from various academil
and corporates on just how great the Powe
Macis, followed by some really deft demos, jul
in case you still needed persuading. Then ther
was a satellite message from Microsoft's Bl
Gates, smiling in the knowledge that he'll wi {
MACForMAT * ISSUE 13 + JUNE 1994
22
THIS MONTH
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Gemrenan ing
chenr ina vane Bose
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That litle calculator in your Menu items hasn't changed
during the ten years since the launch of the original Mac. So
Apple decided it was time for an overhaul and here's the
‘result: all 590K of the Graphing Calculator.
out whichever company brings the most pack-
aged chips to market. Yes indeed, welcome to
the future. A future which Intel and its clients
will be approaching with a good deal of appre-
hension. After all, Apple now delivers the most
powerful, the most affordable and the most
compatible PCs in the world. Moreover, since
Apple has seized the hardware advantage, it’s
now likely to license its hardware and operat-
ing system to third parties. The reasoning?
Major dosh of course.
Talk to Apple’s bosses, like Executive Vice
President Ian Diery, and you'll hear precisely
what the company plans to do with this new
found hardware advantage. Couple it with
the friendliest operating system in the
world, license it to other manu-
facturers and prepare to
meet the forthcoming
personal communica-
tions revolution head-
on. Today’s PowerMacs
are at the forefront of to-
morrow’s extensive voice
processing, telephony and
multimedia capabilities. Yes,
the Power Macintosh is cer-
tainly ready to bridge the gap
between personal
comms and digital
This is the upgrade card which plugs into the PDS slot on Quadras,
But before you start thinking this is all about
high-end machines with a £4,000 price point,
be reassured that Apple has announced that it’s
looking at providing PowerPC upgrades for the
entire LC range — not just its newest arrivals.
When all this is scheduled to happen is still un-
clear - but, although Diery wouldn’t confirm it,
you can bet on a company like DayStar getting
the rights and pumping out £500 PDS slot up-
grades by Christmas. Add the inevitable Power-
Mac notebooks and Duos due out this summer,
and you're suddenly looking at an entire Mac
range based on RISC technology.
If you're looking to upgrade this summer,
you may like to know that prices in New York
for all logic boards work out a couple of hun-
dred quid cheaper than in the UK. Even the
PowerMac upgrade card - which you can pick
up in the UK for about £650, if you shop
around — sells for just over £400 in the States.
So I'll just remind you of the £199 return flight
some airlines are currently offering, and leave
the rest up to you.
Great expectations?
Interestingly enough — and I’m not for one
moment putting myself forward as some kind
of messenger of doom - the US promotional lit-
erature for PowerMac contains a curious little
footnote, which I'll reproduce here word for
word: “Apple expects Macin-
tosh Quadra 610, 650,
660AV, 840AV and 950
customers will quickly
transition to Power Mac-
intosh. The Macintosh
Quadra 605 will re-
main in the line.”
Now what does that
suggest to you? That
the entire Quadra
range is to be dropped
apart from the 605? Yep, me
too. I don’t think there’s any
problem with that though, it’s
just that now it’s a case of when
rather than an if —
and little foomotes
superhighways at
cost-effective rates.
Diery’s vision is so
effectively doubling their performance, Apple has now announced like that will prob-
_ bold, in fact, that he
claims that “Power Macintosh will do for multi-
media what PCs did for spreadsheets.”
The old metaphor we've all come to know
end love, ‘Point and Click’, will be overhauled
by the more far-reaching interface ‘Ask and
Tell’ - an option made possible by RISC tech-
nology. And let’s face it, isn’t that what every-
one wants? A world where speech, voice and
gestures replace the ‘80s windows, icons,
menus and pointers? Apple plans to build on
the power of RISC, to take the lead in what it
deems to be the future of personal computing -
with system level software agents, animation,
3D design and high-resolution video joining
voice communications as the key user de-
mands. What’s more, the capabilities of Power-
PC will be blessed with a new user interface, an
‘active agent’, an ‘application for the Internet’,
and a ‘universal mailbox’ for a variety of media
(electronic-mail, fax and voice included).
plans to provide upgrades for its entire LC range, too — although a ably sell more
third-party manufacturer (Daystar perhaps?) may well get the licence. logic board up-
grades than you
would imagine. On the brighter side, you can
expect the price of the Quadras which are still
left in the retail channel to drop rapidly as the
year progresses.
Talking of cheap deals: just before I left for
America I bought a Newton. I've always been a
sucker for gadgets, so when I was offered a
half-price MessagePad I thought: why not? I
can always flog it — without losing out — if it’s a
flop. So I taught it to recognise my handwriting
during the seven-hour flight, then used it to
take notes at the PowerMac launch and during
subsequent meetings. And I have to say — to
my great relief - I find it genuinely useful. It’s
not exactly what I'm after: I'd like a cellular
fax, phone and pager built-in too, but until
those arrive in the UK — and they will this year
~ itll do.
What I like most about my Newton, though,
is the way it organises all those disparate little
odds and sods: scrappy ideas, numbers and re-
minders which I never know what to do with —
except lose. The MessagePad is ideal for people
like me, the kind who rely on Post-It notes, dic-
taphones and watch alarms, because they can’t
buy RAM expansions for their heads. And
people for whom filofaxes are just thick slabs of
hassle. At least these Newtons are fun — and
you can get hold of plenty of freeware games
and joke utilities like Star Trek Tricorder emu-
lators. If Apple knocked the price down to £199
and bundled it with a pager, it’d clean up. It'd
certainly be a better ploy than relying on loads
of vague global travellers with meetings in 15
cities every half hour for the next ten years.
You can lease a wireless Newton pager for
$70 a month in the States. This offers a coast-
to-coast service which can deliver a 25-word
message to your screen — no matter where you
are, What's more, news briefs can be automati-
cally downloaded to you four times a day. Now,
this is exciting; only five years ago it was still
the stuff of sci-fi. But I don’t think we'll ever
see a hand-held digital assistant which com-
bines everything a mobile user requires. My
wish list starts with a cell fax, phone and pager,
but goes on to include an answering machine,
radio, CD drive and TV. None of this is techni-
cally over the top; all these devices are available
in portable formats. It’s just that this Swiss
army knife approach to digital assistants is un-
likely to materialise, largely because there’s
more money to be made by offering modular
systems. You want a pager add-on? Here's one
for £50. A TV tuner? Yours for only £99. Low
orbiting satellite link-up? Just bung us £500.
Still, I bet the Japanese will sit back for a while,
then come in all guns blazing. Andy Storer
INTELLIGENT WIRELESS MESSAGING
Get a Newton.
~WHAT
_ Get a pager.
bam THEY
Wee
THINK
Get a deal.:.
| OF NEXT ten!
$692 a month.
Now, this is the kind of deal which would really make the
Newton take off in the UK. A bundle like this, for around
£19.99 a month, would surely clean up. (We'd need to get
our cellular systems standardised first though.)
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