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From the same people who brought you Tristan and Eight Ball Deluxe, this new pinball simulation game is very fast and a big improve- ment, with ramps, multiball mode with 3 balls, surprise attack (which launches multiball at you with no warning whatsoever!) and autobattle, which means if you haven't scored enough points before you lose the ball, you get another go. It’s very real, you can even “tilt” with — the space bar, but it’s quite If hard to control and aim the f ball with the flippers when you first start playing. Once you have the hang of it though, you won't want to quit! SRP £39.99 Return to Zork. An epic adv. nture... underground. Based on the infa- mous Zork series this outstanding adventure includes fully rendered 3D graphics, original music, over ar. hour of spoken dialogue and video starring known actors. The interface has been redesigned from the ground up into what is probably the most intuitive adventure around, including the ability to have ‘real’ conversations. Character responses are determined by ‘your’ body language through a simple point and click icon system. In addition you have a camera and tape recorder which can be used to record conversations and store images containing vital clues. ‘It's of such unparalleled quality that it must become the model for CD ROM adventure game designers’ - CD ROM Today magazine. ‘You'll see the best use of full- motion video in any CD ROM... You're not watching a movie. You're in a movie...’ Multimedia World. CD ROM SRP £42.54 All prices shown are exclusive of VAT. Softline Distribution, Mill House, Mill Lane, Carshalton, Surrey SM5 2WZ Tel 081 401 1234 Fax 081 401 1235 AppleLink UK0037 CompuServe 100012,21 £ J SignPost is an automatic route planner that will generate maps and instruc- tions on how to get from A to B (via C, if necessary). It'll run on all Macintoshes, including PowerBooks and is incredibly sim- ple to use. 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The Soft into th t Ate a tion O products is just a co ups e All this and more, inc lucir shareware, can be yours he ee eel Simply fill in t he ar Beansstcnessquinirediscceesceesee metre ey - call 081 401 | 1 participating | ; CONTENTS VEACEOR MAT elcome to another issue of MACFoRMAT, Britain’s WW iesscuin 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: Macrormét, Future Publishing Ltd, 30 Monmouth Street, Bath BAl 2BW Tel: 0225 442244, Fax: 0225 446019 AppleLink: MacFormat E-mail: macformat@cix.compulink.co.uk Advertising enquiries: Mike Hawkins, Tel: 0225 442244 Subscription enquiries: Future Publishing, Freepost (BS4900), Somerton, Somerset TA11 6BR Tel 0225 442244, Fax 0458 274378 A word on prices... We try to ensure that all prices quoted in editorial pages in MacFormat are accurate at 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, $0 we recommend that you always contact advertisers before ordering to confirm prices and availability. See page 108 for some helpful buying advice. Entire contents Copyright © 1994 Future Publishing Ltd, All rights reserved. FOWTO DO tT Trapped by Colour? 56 The last black art of desktop publishing is colour trapping, that is, overlaying colours correctly so that there are no gaps when they are printed. We explain how to get it right! Looping the Loop 60 HyperCard may be simple, but there are times when you need the power of good old fashioned programming techniques. We show you how Upgrade your RAM 64 As software gets more and more memory intensive, upgrading your RAM becomes essential. Follow our step- by-step picture guide and save yourself money! Mac Answers 66 This is the part of the magazine where our experts devote themselves to answering all your real life Mac problems Using Pictures 70 How to commission, select and crop photo- graphs — our guide for producing small publications , = Se | ge) your copy now — but hurry, they’re selling out fast! MACFORMAT ° ISSUE 14° JULY 1994 4 REGULARS News 15 More powerful PowerBooks; more details on the new System software; colour PostScript for StyleWriters; and every other Mac-related story from around the world Apple Talk 24 This is the part of the mag where you get a chance to tell the world what you think about any Mac related issue What’s New 26 Andy Storer looks at the products and events which have caught his attention this month, including the glories of the PowerMac and the idiosyncrasies of a new route planner Special Offers 85 In addition to all the usual bargains, this month MAcrormat has managed to squeeze in a few newies — all at rock-bottom prices Subscribe! 94 Fed up of trudging out in the seasonal summer rain? Well, subscribe and get Macrormat delivered direct to your door Free Reader Ads 106 Whether your buying, selling, swapping or just browsing — the Reader Ads section is the place you want to be Buying Advice 108 Whether you're buying by mail order or in person, it helps to understand your rights Back Issues 112 Is your Macrormat collection lacking that one special copy? Well, stop in at the Back Issues page and order ee ===) Next Month 113 Take a bit of artistic licence, and find out what’s coming in the next issue of MACFORMAT There are so many competitions this month — and this is your chance to win Screenies 84 Flying Nightmares 108 Fractal Design Dabbler 114 nm REV FW-S HyperStudio 40 We review HyperStudio and check out just how easy it is to create your own multimedia production — and you can try it out for yourself with our cover disk demo Ray Dream Designer 74 We test Ray Dream's innovative, new 3D image creation package, and discover a Virtual Dream for Sinak graphic designers Helix Express 78 Relational databases may be a closed book to you, but if you want more power to your fingers, check out what this mighty new system could do for your computing power The Cruncher 80 A talking spreadsheet for kids? Eh? But could The Cruncher be powerful and easy enough for mainstream use? Shareware Heaven We scan the Internet to bring you reviews of the latest crop of shareware and freeware offerings, including: Calculator 2 Early Bird Patriot Command Dialectic 1.2 Flying Nightmares 96 The very first game specifically programmed for PowerMacs and, surprise surprise, it’s a flight sim 7th Guest The long awaited CD-ROM extravaganza finally makes its debut. Does it live up to the hype? = Deliverance 100 A hack and slash platform arcade-adventure? For the Mac? This has to be a first! " Populous 2 102 The sequel to the game that only came out a few weeks ago! But is this god sim any good? Spaceship Warlock 104 The CD-ROM classic has been re-released at budget price. But is it showing its age? Datebook Pro 109 Can Aldus’s new personal organiser really revolutionise your life? Or even just help a little bit? = a\ VtiMedi 31 CONTENTS The CD-ROM revolution, fore- cast for so long, has finally \ happened — and multimedia is once ~~ again the buzz-word of the hour. But what exactly is it? And how can you get involved? In our our massive 13 page feature, we tell you exactly what it is, what it can do, the Mac kit you'll need to join the multi- media revolution, and how to create your own all singing, all dancing presentations. We also put HyperStudio through its paces on page 40, and bring you a complete beginner’s guide to CD-ROM on page 44 Get Natural Creating computer art which looks like it was created with conventional ‘nat- ural’ media is not easy. But in this new series we set out to show you how it can be done — and you don’t need one of the specialist Natural Media paint programs to do it! 90 ¢ tie 2s 4 4 total Music the Easy Way 82 Using your Mac to make music isn’t as expen- sive as you might think — and it’s great fun, too! We look at some of the shareware programs avail- able and show you how you can create music without adding any hardware at all! Sample programs and music files are on the covermounted disk and CD-ROM COVER DISKS Your Cover Disks 6 Two disks this month, featuring a com- plete font family from Monotype, an exclusive demo of Populous 2, the very lat- est virus checker, your chance to create multimedia for yourself, and much more! YourCD-ROM 12 If you've got hold of one of the limited edition versions of MACFoRMAT with a covermounted CD-ROM, you have everything that’s on the HD disk. PLUS CD-ROM demos including Dracula Unleased and Castles, and megabytes of extra software in MACFORMAT CD Extras. MACFORMAT ¢ ISSUE 14° JULY 1994 5S MACFORMAT COVER DISKS ee Over Who says quantity and quality don’t go together? We’ve searched high and low this month to bring you the créme de la créme of programs to pack both of your MACFORMAT cover disks. START HERE MAcForMart’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 IIs). We spend hours checking all the programs on the MAcForMat 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 9. BACK IT UP Before you do anything else, you should make a backup of the MAcForMatT 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 MACFoRMAT 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 ‘MAcFoRMaT July 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 ‘MAcFoRMAT July backup’. 5. Drag the ‘MAcFoRMAT July 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 ‘MAcForMaT July cover disk’ folder from your hard disk by dragging it to the Wastebasket. Your monthly treats Even more great stuff than usual this month thanks to not one but two disks. And of course on a limited number of issues there’s the CD-ROM! ® HyperStudio demo — your chance to create your own multimedia! ®@ Populous 2- play God with our exclusive demo of this Bullfrog classic. ® Photina — a complete font family from top font makers Monotype. Includes roman, italic, bold and bold italic faces, complete and ready to use. ®@ Pop-Up Folder — try out this Finder enhancement utility. ® Disinfectant 3.5 — protect yourself from the latest viruses. @ Sound Trecker —- make music on your Mac with no extra hardware Plus on the CD-ROM: ™@ Dracula Unleashed — could this be the best CD-ROM game yet? ™ Castles — Siege and Conquest — play this sort of medieval SimCity from MacPlay. ® Hell Cab — a taxi cab journey into the underworld. ® Digital Messiah —- a complete game! In the classic RPG mould, but with plenty of extra sounds and other enhancements. ® Coloring Book — a complete painting pro- gram for kids of all ages. ™ The Macrormat CD Extras — megabyte after megabyte of top shareware for you to try and enjoy. So, even more great stuff than usual this month — much more than any other maga- zine gives you! 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. MACFORMAT ° ISSUE 14° JULY 1994 6 MACFORMAT COVER DISKS POPULOUS 2 DEMO Mac: any with 2.5Mb free RAM Display: 16 or more colours System: any Back in February, in issue 9, Populous earned a Macrormat rating of 93%, and now Bullfrog has come out with the sequel. Populous 2 is a ‘god-sim’. You play god, and although you cannot directly control your followers, never- theless you must influence them to become the most successful group on the planet. The game is reviewed this issue on page 102; here’s your chance to try it for yourself. How to play The World Map gives you an overview of the world you're on, but you play on the Close- Up Map. To change your view you can scroll with the cursor keys or point to the World Map and click on the spot you want to view. The area you're viewing is marked with a white cross. Or, you can hold down the mouse button and scroll around the World Map. Walkers represent tribes wandering the land seeking somewhere to settle. They will settle on any piece of flat land that can support them. When they do so, they build dwellings. So, your first task is to create some flat land. To raise a square of land, move the diamond cursor to the centre of the square and press the [>] or [Z] key. To lower a square of land, move the diamond cursor to the centre of the square and press the [<] or [X] key. To win a world, you have to create new set- tlements. These grow according to the amount of farmland around them - the more farm- land, the bigger the settlement. The biggest settlements are castles. These increase your population fastest, so initially they’re the most valuable. Castles are also more technologically advanced, and better weapons mean your peo- ple are better fighters. To create a castle, flat- ten the land widely around any dwelling. As a settlement fills with people, its flag rises. When its flag reaches the top, the settle- ment is full. At this point, a walker automati- cally goes in search of a new place to settle. Early on in the game, however, you don’t want to wait for your settlements to fill up be- fore releasing walkers. The more large settle- ments you have, the faster your population grows. So you can command a settlement to a Call your guys to the Papal Magnet and they'll join your leader inside a blue flame. Then when you think he’s strong enough, click on Perseus to convert him into a havoc-wreaking hero. ‘sprog’ or send some of the population out in search of a new home. To sprog a walker from a dwelling, point to the centre of a dwelling and press [<] or [X]. The diamond cursor must be on the exact centre of the dwelling. The Colosseum is a population indicator. As populations change, the Colosseum fills and empties to reflect the fluctuating numbers of dwellers. Good populations (your worship- pers) appear in blue - Bad populations (your rival gods’ worshippers) appear in red. Com- pare populations often to keep track of how you’re doing. The Colosseum can also be used to track walkers and settlements and get infor- mation on their strength and inventions. The Papal Magnets are icons of worship for Good and Bad. The first of your walkers to encounter your Magnet becomes your leader. Convert strong leaders into special walkers called Heroes with your Papal Magnet. You can move your Magnet to Bad territory, then influence your worshippers to go to it and in- vade Bad settlements. However, you cannot place your Papal Magnet without a leader. Your powers The Mana Gauge measures your Mana — the reservoir of power you can use to perform Ef- fects. The red line at the base of the Mana Gauge indicates your total Mana. The pointer shows which Effects you can currently per- form. The more worshippers you have, the greater your Mana. At the start you only have enough Mana to raise and lower land. As your people multiply, your Mana increases. Regardless of your Mana level, you have some Basic Commands which you can use to influence the general behaviour of your fol- lowers, or get information on populations and settlements. Use the Influence Behaviour Commands to control your followers. These are available on every world and can be used without cost to Mana. ® Go to Papal Magnet: Influence your peo- ple to find their leader and follow him to the Papal Magnet. You can always find the leader by clicking on this option. Use this option to draw your leader and worshippers together, then turn your leader into a Hero. ® Settle: Influence your walkers to build new dwellings and your people to reproduce. To encourage faster settling, ‘sprog’ worshippers When you have a significantly greater population than the enemy god, call Armageddon — and watch the scrap from their dwellings by pressing [<] or [X] on a house. ® Fight: Encourage your walkers to attack Bad settlements and worshippers. Fight also encourages your people to settle and produce more walkers for battle. ® Gather Together: Encourage your walkers (each one representing a tribe, remember) to walk toward each other and combine into one stronger walker. This option also influences your people to settle as they come together. Divine Intervention Effects Since you're a god, you naturally have an ar- senal of awesome powers and potent disasters at your disposal. There are six categories or el- ements, each with five individual Effects. These become available to you as your Mana increases. The Effects you can perform depend on which world you're fighting. In this demo, you have some People Effects and one Fire Ef- fect. To switch between these kinds of Effects, click on the appropriate icon. The Fire Effect available is Fire Column, which starts a huge column of fire that moves across the land. To use a Fire Column, click on the appropriate icon. A small fire column on the pointer indicates that the column is now ready to be set down. Move the cursor on the Close-Up Map and click to set the column down — it appears in a somewhat random loca- tion. As dwellings burn, your rival worship- pers perish. Any land that the column moves across appears scorched and ruined. Your ri- vals have to raise or lower the ruined land in order to make it arable farmland again. The People Effects include: ® Raise and Lower Land: as before. ® Place Papal Magnet: this enables you to place your Papal Magnet anywhere on the Close-Up Map. Click on this button, and then move your cursor to the Close-Up Map and click again. ® Perseus: this changes your current leader into the Hero Perseus, who marches through your opponent's land and destroys any settle- ments or people he encounters. Simply click on this button to call the Hero. ® Armageddon: this forces Good and Bad forces to fight until only one population sur- vives. Only use this effect when your popula- tion is significantly greater than the enemy’s. “~ >“ ~— ee A typhoon will sweep the land sucking up both good and bad walkers, which it'll then dump in another part of the world. The walkers affected lose some of their strength MACFORMAT ° ISSUE 14° JULY 1994 7 | MACFORMAT COVER DISKS os Ratories Book SE Digital Messiah v2.0 raver eeamaey ore a Pop-Up Folder is a neat utility which enables you to see a hierarchical list of your folders's contents. 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As they say on Tomorrow's World, “But now, thanks to a neat utility called Pop-Up Folder, you can move things around very fast.” It works by making a hierarchical list of the contents of a folder appear when you hold the mouse button down over a folder for a mo- ment. Look at the screenshot on the left to see what I mean, or even better install it on your Mac by dragging the Pop-Up Folder icon on to your System Folder and restarting. Better still, Pop-Up Folder can make the lists in Open and Save dialogue boxes act like lists do in the Finder, with those little triangles, and it can make the Apple menu spring sub- menus. It certainly enhances the System nicely! If you like Pop-Up Folder, the complete ver- sion costs £45.82 , and it’s distributed by Soft- line on 081 401 1234, who will be able to tell you your local supplier. Watch for the full MACFORMAT review next issue. Disinfectant 3.5 Freeware virus killer Mac: any Display: any System: any There’s yet another nasty virus on the loose — there seems to be about one a month these Macrormat and top font maker Monotype have got together to bring you an exclusive font pack which is available only We've chosen 58 of Monotype’s superbly crafted text fonts. These are genuinely useful fonts that you can use in documents to enhance them and make them truly unique, stylish affairs. You'll find no silly headline fonts here that you could only use in invites to a '70s bad taste party; it’s 100% top notch main text fonts all the way. All the fonts work with any printer, including StyleWriters, DeskJets and LaserWriters, and are created by some of Britain’s most skilled font designers. You can only buy this font pack from us, and we're offering it at an incredibly low price — just £49.95, including VAT and postage. That’s well under £1 per font! So forget Times and Palatino, give some character to your work Design professionals: these TrueType fonts use exactly the same font metrics as the PostScript versions, so are ideal for visualisations and proofing work at a tiny fraction of the cost of obtaining the PostScript fonts! Ehrhardt MT Ehrhardt MT Semi Bold Ellington MT Footlight MT Bold Footlight MT Bold Italic Footlight MT Light Garamond MT Goudy Catalogue MT Yes, I’d like to order a copy of the MAcFoRMAT Monotype Font Pack Porrrrrrirrr eee errr rrr rrr tr ir irri rtertet terre terete rites AHEEEE SERRE EERE ESHEESEOESEREEESSESESSSEEEEEEEO HANA ASESHEE OER ER EE Eeeeneeee® Annee een eee e eee e ene e ee eeee eee Eee ee eee eee SESE EO EEE OESESHEEEESESEE EERE SHEE EES AAA neee ERO ee eee eee nena eee eee eeenaneeen eee eeeeee een eeaeeHeEeeeeneneeeesees days. You can’t be too careful about viruses, which is why we at MAcFoRMAT make it our policy to bring you the very latest virus check- ing software available. We get it by direct con- nection to Northwestern University in the US, where a worldwide virus watch is kept. Disinfec- tant 3.5 can find and kill all known viruses as of May 1994, so you can rest safe in the know- ledge that your system is clean. Beware of using any versions before 3.5 — they will not pick up the new virus strains. Photina TrueType font Mac: any ONT Display: any Photina MT System: System 7, or System 6 with TrueType INIT Photina is one of a series of professional quality fonts created by the leading font foundry Monotype, which creates fonts for luminaries such as Apple. We’ve arranged with Monotype to give you this complete font family contain- ing normal, bold, italic and bold-italic versions of Photina. It’s not a demo version, there’s nothing cut down about it and there’s no shareware fee to pay. It will just make your fonts look more professional! To install the font under System 7, just drag it on to the System Folder. It’s a TrueType font and will work right away with any printer, Goudy MT Bold Goudy Old Style MT News Gothic MT News Gothic MT Condensed Nimrod MT Photina MT Plantin Plantin MT Light A Annee EERO EON ERE EONS EAEGOEE EAHA EEE E ESSERE EEO H SHEESH SESE EO EERE REESE EE EEES AAAnERR ERO E ENS H Ee Oe ONRR EEE A He Henaneeeeeeeenennesesseeeeeuneeeeeeeeeeeeeeee Ee ae et eg a MACFORMAT ¢ ISSUE 14° JULY 1994 8 This is Photina This is Photina bold This is Photina italic This is Photina bold italic Photina is a top quality font, and you're getting all four type- faces for free, gratis, for nothing — can't be bad eh? inkjet or laser. And if you like it, there are an- other 50 in our exclusive MAcFormat font pack, for less than a pound each! See the coupon on page 8 for details. Sound Trecker Shareware: $30 Mac: any Display: any System: any ii Sound Trecker started life on the Commodore Amiga, where a music file format called ‘MOD’ files became popular. This system used samples of instruments which were then electronically The Sound-Trecker: ~be_funky™ a 109 [=] Oscitiogram Background Play Back Options : 044.1 @ 220 tiknz An ae W{ Oren em 3 ‘Song List: The musical Mac: Sound Trecker plays all the tunes — you do the mixing. Get down to that funky rhythm — or something. processed to create different notes for use in musical scores. This made them much smaller — and made portable, editable music files a very real possibility. Try playing the music files included on this month’s cover disk (there are many more on the CD-ROM), and fiddling with the mix and the stereo pan. For more information on Sound Trecker, check out the music feature on page 82, or read the comprehensive documentation on the disk. HyperStudio a Multimedia creation package a demo Mac: any Display: colour System: System 7 It almost seems pointless trying to describe HyperStudio — it can do a better job itself using the full power of multimedia! If you’ve seen HyperCard, you'll be familiar with the basic concept of HyperStudio: ‘cards’ in a ‘stack’ which are linked by clicking buttons. But HyperStudio has a number of advantages over HyperCard. It’s in full colour for one, and can incorporate video from a QuickTime movie or live from a camera (if your Mac can handle 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. MACFORMAT COVER DISKS it) as well as sound from the Mac’s micro- phone. But the best part of HyperStudio is that it’s ridiculously easy to use. Try it for yourself! It has seen a lot of use in US schools because creating genuine interactive multimedia with video, audio, text and pictures is now so easy that a child can do it with mini- mal training. But this is not just a child’s toy. You can cre- ate multimedia presentations worthy of soft- ware costing ten times as much, and all with- out doing any programming - it's all done by menus. If you want to get your hands dirty, there is a programming language, the educa- tional language Logo, but you won’t need it for creating stacks. HyperStudio has add-ons technology, which speeds it up and enables you to easily add up- dates and increased functions. (See our review of HyperStudio on page 40 for more details.) ABOUT SHAREWARE 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: MAcForMat June Disk, Discopy Labs Ltd, PO Box 21, Daventry NN11 5BU. Telephone: 0327 300077. Please do not send your disk to any other address. We were so impressed with HyperStudio, and its ability to enable any Mac user to create their own multimedia, that we got together with the UK distributors TAG Developments to offer MACFORMAT Stop oll sounds @ Samples Oln Use O Disk Library... — readers an exclusive deal on the software. We can offer you HyperStudio at a special price of £117 — that’s almost £50 less than the recommend- ed retail price. For just £117 you can be creating multimedia masterpieces in moments. This offer is strictly time-limited, so apply now to get your copy at this price before it resumes its normal £165 price in a few weeks. To get your copy, just phone our credit card hotline on 0225 822511 (9am — 4.30pm), or fill in the coupon below. I Yes, I’d like to order a copy of HyperStudio for just £117 (Order No. I MFHYPER). Date sccscstscasessccaseaeerstectetcs i] 1 I enclose a cheque made payable to Future Publishing Ltd. I NAMIC snc ccseveiatvenscadveseuise I Please debit my Access/Visa with £117. 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Complete & mail the handy coupon NOW! “Fg @ ee Lx MAIL THIS TO RECEIVE FREE CATALOGUE!! =i) ] J E081 838 9993 4071 724 4104 = 708A TUDOR ESTATE. ABBEY RD. LONDON NW10 FAX: 081 963 0624 No 9 HATTON STREET. LONDON NWS 8PR FAX: 071 724 3775 MACFORMAT CD-ROM 7 ya nck anal © 1994 or pot to” here are a limited number of copies of Macrormat available each month with a covermounted CD-ROM. If you have a CD-ROM drive, and haven’t man- aged to find a CD issue, either subscribe (see page 94), or order the CD edition from your newsagent. Larger high street newsagents are more likely to have stocks. It’s impossible to do justice to the sheer vol- ume of programs and demos on the CD-ROM. The best thing to do is draw the curtains, turn the telly off and the answering machine on, and settle down for the evening to explore the contents for yourself. These pages show you some of the highlights. For children we have the shareware program Coloring Book, which features a number of out- line drawings which the child fills in, following the voice commands of the characters on the screen. It’s all accompanied by silly sounds in the KidPix tradition. Games fans have a wealth to choose from in- cluding the immense Digital Messiah (reviewed in this month’s Shareware pages on page 89), a game originally intended for commercial re- lease. Its gameplay is closer to Gauntlet than Dungeons @ Dragons, and it has some great sound effects. Also on the games front, Breakout fans have two of the best from France: BeeBop and StarBop. Spheres meanwhile is a puzzle game to tax even the most intelligent. If you have a modem, you'll find the latest version of the First Class software, which will enable you to get on-line to MacTel, one of the UK’s top Mac bulletin boards with a fully Mac- like interface — no type-in text commands! Considering a memory upgrade? Check out On this month’s CD-ROM SIMMstack, a HyperCard stack with everything you ever wanted to know about RAM, and the exact type you need for your Mac. (Turn to page 64 for our feature on upgrading your RAM.) If you don’t like having a boring grey desk- top, you'll find plenty of options with the Desk- top Textures installer which has no less than 11 volumes of patterns to choose from. And that’s not all - there’s megabytes more shareware packed on to the CD, too! FAULTY CD-ROM? If you have a faulty CD-ROM, please pop it in a strong envelope and send it to: Distronics, Southwater Business Park, Worthing Road, Southwater, West Sussex RH13 7YT. We will then send you a replacement. THE MACFORMAT COLLEGTION — EVERY COVER DISK SHNCE ISSUE 1 Using the vast storage power of CD-ROM, we've managed to squeeze every single cover disk since MAcFoRMAT was launched on to this one disc. We've even updated the software, where possible, to get the latest versions! On this CD you'll find: @ From April 93: Lemmings ® From June ‘93: Spectre Supreme, Colour Flop- py, SuperClock! ® From August ‘93: Arashi, BeHierarchic, Com- pact Pro, BiPlane, Seahaven Towers ® From September 93: Address Book, Ritz starter Accounts, Columns 2, Daleks @ From October '93: Greg's Buttons, Operation Intercept, Do It All!, PopChar, Bomb Shelter ® From November ‘93: Civilisation, Tetris 2000, Eclipse, STD Ou 5 @ Hie « His « he Hie « Ii i iF i Seahaven Towers first appeared on a Macrornmat cover disk way back in August 1993, and it must be good, because our Production Assistant, Yolanda Hughes, is still playing it! ® From December ‘93: Prophylaxis, ZipIt, SmartLaunch, Chuuzr, ICONOpen! ® From January ‘94: AutoRoute, Graphics Con- vertor, Maelstrom, NIH Image ® From February ‘94: SimCity 2000, Greg’s Browser, Quark XTensions ® From March '94: Apollo, 30 fonts @ From April ‘94: SpeedyFinder 7, ResEdit, GNU Chess, Firefall, allDay @ From May ‘94: Prince of Persia 2 demo, Scrapz, Symbionts, ColorKnit ®@ From June ‘94: Syndicate, Schuzzy, Guitar Tuner, Menuette and many, many more. We've selected the best programs from the cover disks of the last 18 issues of Macrormat. Software collections don’t come any better! MACFORMAT ¢ ISSUE 14¢ JULY 1994 12 MACFORMAT CD-ROM Seay Ea J CD-ROM DEMO CORNER Castles — Siege and Conquest. a CASTLES great medieval strategy game from Sncrs.( onaurst MacPlay. Try your hand at castle tities ral building in France! (Requires a 256- colour Mac, System 6.0.7 or better, plus QuickTime.) ae 8 — . ™ a a5 a 6 6 7 7 Serre ee Provence Burgundy Jump Raver. a CD-ROM- based sci-fi % adventure featuring So, you want something to keep the kids quiet? Well, how about signs fe this? Coloring Book is a painting program especially designed for ; ; : he makers of youngsters — but best of all, there’s no chance of paint-spillages. be i pees Fatty Bear. this is one of several educational programs on this CD-ROM — try before you buy! FA/18: hailed by some as the ultimate flight simulator. Now you can try it for yourself! Journeyman Project: this CD is reputed to have the best graphics around — now you can make your own judgement. (Requires a colour Mac with 5Mb RAM and 13-inch monitor, plus QuickTime.) Dracula Unleashed: this brand new adventure promises to be the closest we've yet got to a December" 97. 1899 = sparecine 2% @ seses @ '@' @' ' @ sucess movie. See for ’ . p Dea) 3 = Tae yourself... : Painter 2: try your | hand at the Natural Media paint . ‘ E samacj program. Just the S/MMstack is a brilliant HyperCard stack : a wan Brown siren! thing for experi- which features everything you need to Letraset Digital: not just one program, but menting with the know in order to upgrade your particular demos of the whole range of Letraset's . om techniques covered Mac's RAM. products, including Sketcher, Typestry, in Macrormat’s new re Bi ci ac*AWE ed LetraStudio, Phototone Textures, Custom Natural Media series, starting this issue on page 50. Macintosh LGlil ee | Pemcits i Voriont [ ColoredPencis w Supported sizes in MB 248, Maximum RAM Virtual Memory | ; c | On Board YRAPM —— I uF G Number of YRAM slots Pet at) . ? * Some LCiI! upgrade beards have only 2MB soldered to the logic beard HellCab: a cabbie from the supernatural world wants your soul for the fare — | } wonder what he'll want as a tip? MACFORMAT ¢ ISSUE 14° JULY 1994 13 aoe Asimple demonstration of PhotoFlash software. (A complicated demonstration isn’t possible.) 2. Enhance it © File Edit image Enhance Script Window A ~_— Pepe bE . The PhotoFlash Browser makes it easy Crop, rotate and resize a photo with easy- With a point and click, PhotoFlash to view and pick photos—they're all to-use tools. Dust and scratch removal automatically places the picture in your stored here, whether you got them from is automated. And you can instantly work. You can also record and a CD, scanner or digital camera. preview adjustments you've made. automate the tasks you do most often. You used to have to learn a lot—and spend a lot—before you could work with § ¢& photographs on your Apple™ Macintosh™ It’s fast. It’s memory efficient. It’s very capable. And it costs just £175: So if you want to make your work look great, personal computer. get PhotoFlash. You'll get the picture Now there’s PhotoFlash*” right away. PhotoFlash is easy to use, right out of PhotoFlash is available at your Apple | ch Authorised Reseller—for the name of Photol your nearest Reseller, call the Apple Information Centre free on 0800 127753. the box. It helps you organise pictures, enhance them and drop them into your work. = It does more. It costs less. It’s that simple. ©. Apple © April 1994, Apple Computer, Inc. The Apple logo is a registered trademark, and Apple, Macintosh and PhotoFlash are trademarks of, Apple Computer, Inc., registered in the US and other countries. *Apple Suggested Retail Price as at Ist April 1994, excluding VAT at 17.5%. Apple Authorised Resellers are free to set their own prices. System requirements: System 7.0 or later software, Apple Macintosh with 68020 or faster processor, 8MB RAM, SMB of available hard disk space. LUT OK Gh The 500 series offers users 68040 power at a very competitive price Quadra speed at last for PowerBook range pple is now shipping the lat- A= fastest, and possibly the last, 68000-based additions to its PowerBook range — the 68040-based 500 series. The four machines comprising the family - the 520, 520c, 540 and 540c - feature 9.5-inch displays, high speed Ethernet networking, built-in Processor Director Slots and optional expansion modules for PCMCIA cards. In addition, each model includes full 16-bit CD- quality stereo sound with built-in stereo speakers and a microphone. They share the same design and casing as existing PowerBooks, save for one significant enhance- ment - the trackball controller has been replaced by a TrackPad. This is a pressute sensitive pad which enables the user to move on-screen cursors by fingertip control. A fur- ther difference between the 500 series and existing models is the provision of longer battery life via the PowerBook Intelligent Battery. This offers up to three hours of use between two hour recharges. While purchasers will pay a pre- mium for Quadra performance on THOSE POWERBOOKS IN FULL... Model: Processor: Display: 25 MHz 68LC040 Greyscale Video: 16 shades of grey 160Mb 6.3Ibs £1,897 Hard drive: Weight: Price: 6.4lbs Dual scan colour 256 colours 160Mb £2,438 540 33 MHz 68LC040 Active matrix greyscale 64 shades of grey 240Mb 7.1lbs £2,656 Active matrix colour 256 or thousands 320Mb 7.3lbs £3,977 the road, it remains to be seen just how well the new PowerBook 500 series will actually sell, given the inevitable launch of RISC-based PowerBooks in the New Year (see the story on page 19). However, the power user who can’t bear to wait that long, will be pleased to learn that each of the new 500 series portables will be upgradable to PowerPC once the new 603 logic boards are made available. Meanwhile Apple has pitched its prices aggressively — with the 520 coming in at £1,857 — to make headway into the lucrative, but over-crowded PC portable market. The range is differentiated by processor speed and display quality — see the table for details. The PowerBooks are available now. For more detailed information call Apple on 0800 127753. Mac sales soar as Apple cuts Performa prices again As if you needed any further proof that you’re the proud owner of a machine that’s going places, Apple’s latest sales figures show that since it’s been selling machines through high street stores, the company has cleaned up. Macs and Performas can now be bought in over 1,200 outlets around the country; this is a PostScript for Colour StyleWriter StyleScript is a utility which offers PostScript Level 2 output to users of Apple’s new Colour StyleWriter. Adobe’s PostScript page descrip- tion language is the most powerful imaging model for describing the appearance of complex pages with integrated text, graphics and im- ages, and radically improves the quality of printed type. Coupled with a £645 Colour StyleWriter Pro, StyleScript, which’ll cost in the region of £147, provides an eco- nomical solution to high quality colour output. More information from Academy Software on 081 656 9560. ® GDT Softworks has more good news for Mac owners who are looking for colour output. The company has just announced PowerPrint 2.5 — a suite of printer drivers opening up colour and greyscale support for all leading PC-compatible printers. Bundled with a high-speed serial to parallel adaptor cable, PowerPrint at £159 can be used to connect the Mac to over 1,000 PC printers with no built-in AppleTalk connectors. rather different picture to that of only 18 months ago, when Apple kit could only be bought in AppleCentres. The move, coupled with a radical re-pricing strategy and direct mail order, has led to the Mac doubling its market share in the UK to 8.5%. And this growth could go even further as 12 bits more Mac owners looking for the ultimate in colour scanning should check out MicroTek’s ScanMaker III, the world’s first 36-bit (4,200 million-colour) desktop flatbed scanner. Boasting a resolution of up to 2400 x 2400 dots per inch, ScanMaker III uses a colour charged coupled device, as found in video cameras, to rapidly acquire photorealistic RGB colours in a single pass. This leading edge technology will cost you £3,500. So, if you've got a few grand sitting in your back pocket, call Computers Unlimited on 081 200 8282 for more details. Apple announced further price cuts in the Per- forma range. The Performa 450 (otherwise known as an LC III) will now cost £799 in- cluding monitor and Claris Works. The faster Performa 475 (a rebadged LC475) with its ‘040 processor can now be had for just £899. Contact Apple on 0800 127753. Enter the Net now! US Robotics has slashed the price of its popular Sportster 14,400 fax modems by a third and added a five year warranty and free lifetime technical support into the bargain. For only £234, you can buy the Sportster Mac & Fax with bundled fax and communications software to send and receive faxes direct from your desktop and join the on- line Mac community. The modem supports all the common protocols and is directly supported with zero set-up by most communications programs. More information from US Robotics on 0753 811180. MACFORMAT *« ISSUE 14° JuLY 1994 15 as Nightmares wanted Fancy a free holiday in California in September? All you have to do is write 1,000 words on your worst computer nightmares — you know, crashed hard drives, exploding monitors — that sort of thing. The San Diego Computer Fair is offer- ing the trip to the US to the best entry it receives by Friday 29 July. Send your hard luck story to Com- puter Nightmare Contest, PO Box 83086, San Diego, CA 92138. WordPerfect has launched its budget Main Street range of pro- ducts aimed at the areas of per- sonal productivity, home educa- tion, edutainment and infotain- ment. Priced between £29 and £79, the packages in the range in- clude WordPerfect Works, Clip Art for the Office and LetterPerfect. Works comprises a word proces- sor, database, spreadsheet, comms package and paint application — all for £79. Clip Art for the Office offers 400 images for graph documents, letters and presentations; a sister title, Clip Art for the Home offers a WordPerfect budget range streets ahead further 400 images. The images in both are vector-based, meaning they can be resized without any loss in quality, and come in PICT format, thus ensuring compatib- ility with most Mac applications. Both collections cost £29. Letter- Perfect, a £39 cut-down version of the best-selling WordPerfect proces- sor, gives users most of the latter’s features at less cost and with less memory overhead. More information from Word- Perfect on 0932 850505. The Main Street range cuts the cost of WordPerfect software. New Duos ge speed and co pple has announced two ad- A ditions to its Duo range of dockable notebooks which combine even greater power and portability with innovation. In fact, they’re the fastest portables to date. The 280 and 280c both feature fast 33 MHz 68LC040 processors, 16-bit screens, increased battery life and upgradability for existing Duo 210, 230, 250 and 270c own- ers. Priced at £2,214 and £3,090 re- spectively, the 280 and 280c both feature active matrix displays. The 280 offers 16-level greyscale, while the 280c can display up to 65,000 colours. Perhaps the best feature, though, of the new machines is the weight: both top the scales at under 5lbs, with the 280 coming in at only 4.2lbs. A new Dock — the PowerBook Faster, more colourful and encased ina featherweight casing — can't be bad! Duo Dock II, costing £870 - en- ables the notebooks to take advan- tage of a desktop housing with built-in support for Ethernet and for 21-inch displays, extended key- boards and NuBus expansion slots. In addition, 16-bit colour is sup- ported on up to 16-inch monitors, extra ours and existing ‘030-based Duos can be connected to the new Dock II. They can also take advantage of its built-in Floating Point Unit and 32K cache for a claimed perfor- mance increase of 25%. Existing Duo owners will be able to upgrade to the new logic board for around £700 and, in effect, up- grade to a PowerPC processor, since Apple will offer 603 upgrades for the entire Duo range next year. In sheer performance terms, the Duo 280s run about 10% faster than the latest top-of-the-line PowerBook — the 540c (see page 17) — because they use the full data transfer capability of the 32-bit sys- tem buses, making them the fastest portables Apple has ever made. More information from Apple on 0800 127753. More power for PowerMacs If you’ve just bought a PowerMac 6100 and fancy even more power to your elbow, you can now pur- chase a user-installable upgrade which will speed up the 6100’s processor to the rate of the 80MHz PowerMac 8100. KS Labs in the States (0101 614 374 5665) is offering the Alacrity PM 6100 — an oscillator and fan combination which simply clips on to the 6100 chip — for the amazing price of only $165. Not a bad price for a 25% increase in performance. No information on a UK outlet yet. EPSON training Free scanning book from Epson A free illustrated guide to buying, using and perfecting desktop scanning is now available from Epson UK. The Totally Scantastic Guide To Desktop Scanning covers all forms of scanner technology, including sections on optical character recognition, image display and colour printing. So if you fancy a freebie, write to Epson at Campus 100, Maylands Avenue, Hemel Hempstead, Herts HP2 7TJ or call on 0442 61144. oneeono Links Pro is so beautifully presented, you can almost see the grass growing. Links Pro tees off The Macintosh will shortly have a new golf simulator available which, if the screenshot shown above is anything to go by, looks like it could set a new standard in graphic realism. Links Pro from Access Inc is de- signed to run on PowerMacs, though it will happily run on any colour machine. It features high quality landscape rendering including hills, rippling streams, wispy clouds and even pools with ripples moving across their sur- faces. Users can choose to play each other over AppleTalk or via modems thanks to Links Pro’s built-in networking. The game is a compelling sim- ulation of the leading US golf courses, with new data modules planned to be delivered every three months. Multiple views, instant replays, a commentary and a host of realistic sound effects complete the game which, accord- ing to our sources, is all set for a June release. PC owners will recognise it as Links 386 Pro. More information on Links Pro is available from Access on 0101 801 359 2900. MACFORMAT ¢ ISSUE 14° JULY 1994 16 Syndicate™ Hi-tech cyberpunk action in Bullfrog’s dark vision of a violent future. Global domination is the goal and the cities of tomorrow your battleground. Tool up your cyborg agents and spread the dark stain of your Syndicate from the barrel of a gun. “Syndicate is a stonking game with a very tight plot, superb graphics and sound, and lashings of futuristic violence” 92%, MacFormat, June 1994. PowerMonger™ Rampage through uncharted lands and swell your ranks with recruits from conquered villages. Only the PowerMonger decides when to make peace, and when to hack his enemies into pieces. GOD CREATED THE CREATED GO D. From Bullfrog, the originators of the God Sim, a range of titles designed to perfectly complement your AppleMac’s abilities. Acknowledged as classics across multiple formats, now it’s your turn to play God, dominate the world and shape the lives of multitudes. With games like these, you’ll discover the true meaning ¥ BULLEROG PROOUCTIONS LTO of control. ™ Vo] (nl tldgdatasas Theme Park™ Designer Series™ It's about thrills, spills and paying the bills as you design, build and run the world’s ultimate tourist attraction. Construct rides, respond to the whims of your customers, and fend off unfriendly takeover bids as you fight for supremacy against 40 rival Theme Parks. Populouse The original God Sim pits good against evil, with you as Supreme Being raining disasters down upon your enemies. Once you've played God for a day, you won't want to stop. ‘The Buttrog Mac range of produce | tueribused in Europe by Electronic Arts, 90 Heror Drive, Langley, Berkstire SL3 XP. a Apple Direct closes down Apple is ditching its direct mail order channel, set up only last No- vember, in the face of competition from other dealers and mail order outfits. Despite expecting to achieve sales of as much as 15% of Mac shipments, Apple Direct just couldn’t compete against compa- nies which were undercutting its prices by at least 10%. Warranties on all goods remain unaffected. Elsewhere in the retail channel, Apple dealer Creative Media Group is to sell Macs at cost price. There is a catch, though — you need to pay a £499 advance fee up front, then for the next year, you can buy up to £20,000 worth of kit at substan- tially reduced rates. More informa- tion from CMG on 0427 668800. And finally... Leading UK publisher MDI is readying three new CD-ROM re- leases for imminent launch with ITN World News ‘93 topping the list of multimedia extravaganzas. The disk, which features over one gi- gabyte of international news footage, will be bundled with its ‘92 predecessor to give Mac own- ers an easy-to-use insight into the events that shape the world. Also in the pipeline are Behind the Scenes: The Zoo, a double CD pack telling the story of the day-to-day running of Marwell Zoo, and Ghosts, an interactive tour of a haunted castle. For details call MDI on 0252 737630. Digital pictures on CD-ROM Kagema’s PhotoLib series of CD- ROMs should have something for all Mac owners who want to enter the world of digital photography. The company has released 30 new CDs, each containing between 100 and 330 24-bit images of just about every subject you can imagine. As a taster, you can buy its PhotoLib GO! CD. The disc, which costs £41.70, contains 100 copyright- free images, and thumbnails of 16,000 shots from its other titles. For a full catalogue contact Kagema on 081 532 1515. on 081 401 1234. It’s a screen saver, Jim Softline has released Star Trek Screen Posters, a collection of slide-show screensavers showing scenes from both the TV and movie series. For £19.99, you get a disk featuring Star Trek characters, starships, Klingons and battle action as well as be- hind the scenes photos and images from promotional movie posters. The Screen Posters are all full-colour still images which can be easily used as backdrops for your monitor; they can also be password-protected to discourage prying eyes while you're away from your Mac. More information from Softline © file Edt tow New System u due on August 1st he next revision of System 7 T will be the most far-reaching to date, with Apple delaying its release until Monday 1 August to ensure all its components will be in position and bug-free. System 7.5 looks set to supersede System 7 Pro, the interim enhancement which included AppleScript and PowerTalk, by also directly inte- grating QuickTime 2.0, QuickDraw GX, PC Exchange and Apple Guide. These six main features accom- pany minor enhancements to net- working performance and hard drive control which, all in all, should provide significant improve- ments to the speed, display and ease of use of future Macs. Up- grades to 7.5 will be made available to all current users, though no price has been fixed as yet. Although 7.5 was due to be re- leased this spring, it is believed de- lays in implementing QuickDraw GX, the new System level code which handles both screen render- ing and printing, has forced Apple to put back the launch date. While both AppleScript (an engine for au- tomating file management tasks via a All Macs will be able to display full-screen video clips macros — in essence, providing a scriptable Finder) and PowerTalk, (an architecture providing open collaboration with other platforms) have appeared on PowerMacs, 7.5 will include improved versions. QuickTime 2 — which will enable all ‘030 and 040-based Macs to display full-screen video at 15 frames per second and provide di- rect support for MIDI — is perhaps the most eagerly awaited compo- native releases eae eee Since Apple launched its PowerMac range on Monday 14 March, it’s sold more than 150,000 units. There are now over 50 applications con- verted to run in native mode, with over 150 developers committed to the platform. ee! are the latest arrivals: Alias ee) i lameeaO oll - 416 362 9181, Casady and Greene Conflict Catcher I 0101 408 484 9228 Claris. Claris Works 2.1 081 756 0101 Fractal Design Dabbler 0101 408 688 8800 Macromedia = ———Macromodel 1.5.2 081 200 8282 Pixar z _—_‘Typestry 0101 510 236 4000 Ray Dream 5 ile "Ray Dream Designer 0101 415 960 0765 Specular _— Infini-D 2.6 0101 413 253 3100 Virtus a ‘VR 0101 919 467 9700 nent. Apple itself, though, is equal- ly excited about AppleScript, as it provides the basis for its long-term goal: OpenDoc. This is a document creation system which enables users to create items such as graph- ics and charts independently of a host application with a series of common desktop tools. Users will also be treated to AppleGuide, a revolutionary moni- toring system which keeps track of a user’s actions and suggests more efficient ways of achieving the same tasks; it will also guide you through new procedures. Finally, for users with both desktop and portable Macs, automatic file syn- chronisation between the two will be possible, so that regularly-used applications, like appointment schedulers, will be updated upon cennection. For more information call Apple on 0800 127753. Prince finally released Stocks of the sequel to the award- winning Prince of Persia, cunningly entitled Prince of Persia 2: the Shadow and the Flame, are now available. As the MAcForMat demo version in issue 12 showed, your role is to once again defeat the evil Jaffar who takes the Prince’s place, con- signing him to the role of a beggar. With its lifelike animation, original music score and multi-plane scrolling, the new game looks set to win similar accolades to the original. Prince of Persia 2 is available for £39.99 from Electronic Arts on 0753 549442. MACFORMAT *¢ ISSUE 14° JULY 1994 18 ‘Power PowerBooks’ ready to roll soon ow that it’s shipping its new N ‘040-based PowerBooks and Duos, Apple is focusing its attention on readying a range of PowerPC notebooks for a January 1995 launch. The so-called Power PowerBooks are already under de- velopment in the States and will feature the new PowerPC 603 chips running at 66MHz and 80MHz configurations. Designed to offer workstation performance in a low-power consuming, compact unit with long battery life, the 603 only costs $199 in its 80MHz ver- sion — a price likely to drive the cost of entry-level notebooks based on the chip to below £1,500. Apple has already said that it is to make 603 upgrades available for the new ‘040 PowerBooks and all Duos; these daughterboard replace- ments are expected to be cheap — perhaps as low as $500 in the US. The company is rumoured to be developing a 603-based Power- Book which will feature a remov- able media drive, two PCMCIA card slots and an infra-red trans- ceiver which supports LocalTalk. PCMCIA slots, as used in the Newton, are becoming the stan- dard way of attaching peripherals like modems to portable computers But the move towards an entire range of Macs based on RISC tech- nology is not fully complete yet. Inside sources say that Apple plans to launch one further PowerBook this autumn based on an ‘030 chip. Codenamed Jedi, the new Power- Book will feature a 33MHz ‘030, 9.5-inch 4-bit greyscale screen, 4Mb of RAM, a SCSI port and LocalTalk socket. However, it won't have a microphone, audio ports or an Apple Desktop bus port, and as such it will replace the PowerBook 145B and 165 for a cost reputed to be less than $1,200 in the US, with no UK figure moot- ed. However, it is possible that poor 145B sales in recent months will mean that plans for a very cheap PowerBook may be shelved. Motorola and IBM have completed the devel- opment and manufacture of the next genera- tion of RISC chips — the PowerPC 604 (pictured on the right). Providing close to double the power and performance of the chip in the fastest PowerMac — the 8100 — the 604 will find its way into new machines which are to be launched next year. The secret of this unparal- leled power is the fact that this processor packs New PowerPC chip races ahead over 3.6 million transistors into a chip the size of a stamp. Running at 100MHz, it is designed to run in 64-bit architecture The chip is intend- ed for high-end desktop systems, mid-range servers and graphics workstations, so don’t ex- pect anything like bargain basement prices. In- dustry insiders further expect that by the time volume production begins at the end of the year, the speed will be increased to 133MHz. How to feel chuffed Here’s some figures that'll get right up the nose of any PC-own- ing friends you may have. Inde- pendent research has shown that Apple’s new PowerMacs trash Pentium PCs in all areas. The 8100 is 54% faster than a Pen- tium, the 7100 some 38% faster and even the 6100, rated at only 60MHz compared to the Pen- tium’s 66MHz, beats it by 5%. US analysts, Ingram Labs ran a total of 25 tests on Macs and PCs run- ning Photoshop, FreeHand, Framemaker and Painter to arrive at the figures. Brit award The British company behind the SoftWindows emulation software, Insignia Solutions, has won the Queen’s Award for Export Achievement for the second year running. The company’s overseas sales have more than doubled since its first PC emulation applications were brought to the market back in 1990. In Control 3.0, the latest upgrade to the best-selling electronic organiser is now available from Softline. Combining an easy-to-use out- line with daily, weekly and monthly calendars, the new ver- sion adds more support for popular databases and contact managers. Recurring events can be entered automatically, while a sophisticated series of reminders will let you & know, in advance, what you have to do and when you have to do it. Drag and drop linking has also been added so that users can now cross-reference between schedules. In addition, the program includes access to phone numbers and ad- dresses stored in FileMaker Pro, TouchBase Pro and DynoDex. In Control 3 costs £118 and is available on 081 401 1234. Colour system solves problems The mismatch between the colours you see on-screen and their likely appearance in print (a traditional headache for any de- signer and graphic artist) has been eased with the introduction of a new colour matching system. TruMatch seeks to finally end the process where designers have to wade through swatches of cus- tom solid colour inks (half of which can’t be matched in the four-colour process) to compare RGB colour with CMYK output. Available as an add-in palette to popular programs from Adobe, Aldus and Quark, TruMatch re- places the familiar Apple colour picker with its own four-colour selector wheel, claiming accurate colour matching on output The software is available from TruMatch on 0101 212 302 9100 and costs $98. Icon masters Readers forever on the look out for new icons to grace their staid folders should look no further than the original designs from Gizmos. The princely sum of £7.50 will get you a disk contain- ing over 200 custom-designed icons, which can be easily pasted on to any existing Mac icon — whether it’s a file, folder or drive. Call Gizmos on 081 981 8281 with your order and brighten up your desktop. Instant Art error The review of Magnum Software’s Instant Art CD in the June issue of Macrormat stated that the product cost £52.80. The correct price is £112. Our apologies for any incon- venience this may have caused. Contact Magnum Software on 0884 820240 for more details. MACFORMAT ¢ ISSUE 14° JULY 1994 19 he Frankfurt Music Fair — the largest music exhibi- tion in Europe — attracts exhibitors from all over the world, including most of the major music software developers. The Mac was extremely well repre- sented — in fact, many developers were concentrating solely on Mac and PC programs. Steinberg, Emag- ic and OSC all announced software for the PowerMac. One of the major trends now is direct-to-disk recording. All the major software houses had new or updated programs on show. One of the most impressive demos came from Emagic’s Logic Audio 2 (£225), a module which adds direct-to-disk recording to the Logic sequencer (£325). The latter contains a Groove facility which can take a piece of MIDI music, record in straight 4/4 time, for example, and alter the note lengths to make the piece really swing. Logic Audio was doing this with audio data! And doing it very quickly: it took only a few seconds longer than the length of the audio track itself. Logic Audio also has an audio to MIDI facility which converts a single note guitar line (it’s not polyphonic yet!) into notation. Al- together very impressive. Logic itself has been upgraded to version 2 and now includes colour and support for QuickTime movies. OSC announced Deck II (£410.08), another direct-to-disk system which supports eight tracks of digital audio. All Mac direct-to- disk systems require a sound card, Steinberg's ReCyc: lets you manipulate audio data in much the sam you manipulate MIDI data such as Digidesign’s AudioMedia II, but Deck will run directly on an AV Mac — albeit with only six tracks of audio. The combination of digital recording with a MIDI sequencer has to be the ideal setup for most users, which is why OSC’s Metro sequencer (£249) has been de- signed to fully integrate with Deck. Steinberg has upgraded Cubase Audio to v2.0 (£799). It supports an unlimited number of virtual tracks (limited only by the sound card) and includes a waveform editor and a graphic sound file manager. You treat the digital audio in the same way you handle MIDI data. If you like messing around with digital audio, you'll love Recycle (£TBA), which can process audio data in various ways: you can alter the pitch and tempo of a sample loop, drop in new samples and apply a Groove (as in Logic Audio). Opcode announced version 2.0 of Studio Vision Pro (£499.95), which adds 16 tracks of digital audio to the company’s top-end Vision sequencer. It, too, includes Grooves and the latest version sup- ports music notation. Vision in- cludes an integrated universal li- brarian called Galaxy, which is use- ful, since editors and librarians for All the fun of the fair T fee tan Sirecture Fentiions Optom (ores Wudews oon cam (OD Score has many new functions and supports over 100 music symbols. ay that The editor in Cubase e = the Mac are few and far between. That said, it was nice to see SoundSurfer (£149) from Emagic, a universal librarian which can link to Logic to show the correct sound name in the arrange window. Notation was another trend and most companies now see this as an essential part of a sequencer. Op- code’s Overture (£449.95) is a pro- fessional notation system with tear-off palettes. It includes many features of a page layout program, such as the ability to scale any ob- ject, nudge notes one pixel at a time and support for EPS files. Steinberg’s Cubase Score (£499) has reached version 2.0 and fea- tures over 100 music symbols, au- tomatic layout options, polyphonic voices and a General MIDI setup. You can perform all the edits while the music is playing. Passport is offering MusicTime v2.0 (£199), a slightly cut-down version of Encore. New features in- clude colour, note input from the QWERTY keyboard and a simpli- fied program layout. For a limited time, it is being bundled with the Trax sequencer, which makes it a very good deal indeed. They may be boring old boxes, but let’s face it, we all need a MIDI interface. One of the Mac’s most annoying restrictions is only hav- ing two serial ports. Emagic an- nounced the LOG2Mac (under Wy jd; | ae This attractive domed glass construction is Die Galleria, the central walkway dividing the great music halls. £100) with one MIDI In and three Outs plus a serial port switch, which means you can leave a printer or modem connected to your Mac, then switch between it and the interface without unplug- ging. Opcode’s Translator Pro (£129.99) has two MIDI Ins and six Outs and it also has a serial switch. A MIDI keyboard is very useful for entering data into a sequencer, but if you're not a keyboard player, you may not want a full synthesiz- er. Several companies have pro- duced controller keyboards specifi- cally for computer users. Goldstar’s GMK-49 (around £189) has 49 | full-size keys, pitch bend and mod- ulation wheels and buttons to ac- cess 128 program changes. The exciting news is that while developers are porting software from the Mac to the PC, most new developments are taking place on the Mac. 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Write to ‘Apple Talk’, MAcFormat, 30 Monmouth Street, Bath BA1 2BW. tuart the Publisher is in a generous mood again, and he’s approved an exclusive Macrormat T-shirt for every letter published this month! How long can Stuart’s generosity go on? How long can our stocks last? Better send in that letter you’ve been mulling over... First dalliance I am a new and immensely inex- often confuse memory and disk space — in fact, we have to plead guilty to ob- scuring the distinction ourselves last month for the sake of a good headline: ‘memory magic and disk space presti- digitation’ just didn't grab us, some- how. Strictly, RAM (Random Access Memory) is the ‘work space’ you need to actually run programs in, and disk space is the ‘storage space’ you need to save data in. So, what a computer ‘re- members’ things in is not memory at all, but space; memory is what it uses perienced Performa ——— About This Macintosh ~—-= === => — 400 owner. On reading MACFORMAT | I realised how little I knew and how | Macintosh Quadra 700 System Software B-7.0.1 © © Apple Computer, inc. 1983-1991 confused I was. I al- ready realise I have bought a machine with too little mem- Total Memory: 20,480K Largest Unused Block: 12,920K @r duarkxPress® Kk) a] System Software 2,511K ZT) ory and need advice about how to increase the size, but I still cannot work out the difference between 4Mb of RAM and 40Mb of memo- ry! This is my first dalliance with machinery and it makes me feel like a 13 year old in a brothel — frightened but fascinated. Is there anything available that takes you easily through the workings of a computer and especially a Mac? P Ellis Totnes, Devon I do hope reading Macrormat makes things clearer rather than more con- fused! Our cover feature last month (‘Memory Magic’) was all about in- creasing your RAM and disk space without buying any extra hardware — turn to page 112 if you missed it — and This Mac has a mere 20Mb of RAM, it says here. Kind of makes you sick, doesn't it... Davin Krause of Boondall in Queensland (this issue’s token Australian) writes: “I have a sug- gestion for System 8 when Apple finally decides to roll it out. One thing that really bugs me is error messages like ‘The Application <Unknown> has unexpectedly quit because an error of Type 39 occurred’, whatever the hell that is. What Apple should do is re- place that with something more useful. Sure, have the error mes- sage if that’s what Apple wants, but what about telling the user to ‘think’ in. Simple. (Now I’m con- fused. Anybody know of a good intro- ductory guide for ‘P’ and me?) Demanding RAM While games are not the most im- portant thing to me, I do like trying out the ones on the MACFORMAT cover disk. However, I note that the Prince of Persia 2 demo on your May issue needs over 3Mb of RAM to run. With the System taking up about 1,800K on my 4Mb LCIIL, I was unable to try it out. I did try switching on Virtual Memory, but got a message telling me to switch it off. With more sophisticated games and applications demanding more and more RAM, shouldn’t the ad- verts for all software specify not just the model and System Soft- ware version but also how much RAM is needed? Don Fram Buxton, Derbyshire Macrormat's software reviews will al- ways tell you how much RAM a pro- gram requires. The memory-hungry POP 2 demo caught me unawares too — the only way I could get it to run on my 5Mb IIsi was to restart without Exten- sions. We've heard from several readers who were disappointed at not being able to try out the demo. Over to you then, MacFormat readers: would you prefer to do without exclusive demos of big new games on the MACFORMAT cover disk? Affordable joystick In MacrorMat 12 you asked, “Why oh why isn’t there an affordable joystick for the Mac?” So I thought Id tell you about mine. It cost me £17 and is fully compatible with my (dad’s) Centris 650. It has built-in settings for games and can be used with your own settings as WISH LIST type 1 occurred. This is Sensible Soccer on the Commodore Amiga. Why can't you play it on your Mac? well. It’s called Macfly and I bought it from America. If you want one, the address is: Macfly, IZU Products, RT2 PO3985, TX 75901, USA. Ben Freeman Leicester Macfly? Next you'll be telling me it’s shaped like a DeLorean and powered by lightning... Football crazy Iam on the verge of buying an LCI 4/80. My problem is that I have a 14 year old son who is crazy about football games. Are there any football games like Football Manager '94 for the Mac? C R Richardson Hull Football Manager? Means nothing to me, I'm afraid. I recall a football game called Playmaker some time ago, but I've never tried it. Any football-mad Macrormat readers care to share their expert knowledge? (Now if you'd asked about Australian Rules football games, I'd have been interested. Still wouldn't have known of any, but I would have been interested...) A little confusing I found your article on PowerMacs in MacrormaT 11 a little confusing. Sometimes you refer to PowerMacs The application “unknown” has unexpectedly quit, because an error of Type 1? That'll be a ‘bus error’ then. Wouldn't it be nice to be able to do something about it? how about including an option to fix that error immediately with Yes, No and Cancel buttons that can be clicked on — then, launched, such as the Memory or Extensions panel?” Seems like a good idea to us. Anyone should you choose Yes, having the pertinent Control Panel else got any views about what they’d this issue we show you how to fit mem- like to see in System 8 when it appears? what the error actually is? And ory chips yourself (see page 64). People MACFORMAT ¢ ISSUE 14° JULY 1994 24 This month’s selection of keystroke shortcuts, tips and discoveries... ® Edward Shryane of County Galway in Ireland reports that he found this little trick while using the Monitors Control Panel. Hold down the [option] key and click on the Options button in the Control Panel. A new win- dow appears, giving you access to a ‘secret’ feature — the gamma correction options. “Don’t ask me what they do,” Edward says, “but using ‘uncorrected gamma’ makes the screen a little duller. Try it!” ® Jesper and Lena Emilsson, from Lulea in Sweden, add that if you click on the version number in the upper right-hand corner of the Monitors Control Panel, you'll see the names of program- mers that worked on this part of the System software. While keeping the mouse button down, press the [option] key. You will see the happy face move its eyes and sometimes to PowerPCs. Are these the same thing or two sepa- rate machines? Is a PowerMac a Mac that can run MS-DOS or Win- dows software under emulation, and a PowerPC a PC that can run Mac software under emulation? Could you also tell me whether it would it be possible to connect one of these new machines up to your old Mac or PC and use the old ma- chine as an external hard drive? Nigel Street Douglas, Isle of Man No, the two are not quite the same thing. Power Macintosh (PowerMac for short) is Apple's name for its new range of machines; PowerPC is the name of the central processing chip in- side them (and also inside the new ma- chines from IBM which have not yet ac- tually appeared). The emulation ques- tion is even more confusing than you think: because the new machines use an entirely different family of chip from all previous Macs, PowerMacs aren't ___ Strictly speaking Macs at all and actual- ___ lyrun Mac software under emulation! However, this is hardware emulation — it doesn't require a separate emulation program — and as far as we know is very reliable indeed. If you want to run Windows software on a PowerMac, you need to use the supplied Soft- Windows emulation software, which I understand is pretty hot stuff... but our office PowerMac 6100 only has 8Mb of RAM, which isn’t actually enough to run SoftWindows and any Windows Software... As for using another CRUISING THE-KEYS and stick its tongue out. If you rapidly press the [option] key several more times while continuing to hold down the mouse button, you will see the names change. ®@ Jesper and Lena also observe that although rebuilding the desktop usually involves hold- ing down the [option] and [com- mand] keys when your Mac starts up, System 7 actually lets you rebuild the desktop without restarting. While you are in the Finder, holding down the [com- mand] and [option] keys and press the [esc] key. This brings up a dialogue box that asks if you want to force the Finder to quit. Click on Force Quit, and then hold down the [command] and [option] keys. The