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4+ DW, ioc ‘ ce) wa = > = a © VOILOXG M P66] YAAWaldaAS Mm OQ] an e MAHSITANd ANOW ¢ UVM OL 09 MOVE GNV OVI MAOZ OL NAMLIY e dOHSMAOM VIGINILIOW Discover how to do things you never even thought of doing with our guide to brilliant, bizarre and just plain barmy Mac software ‘EXCLUSIVE! You could’go into.publishing (almost) with. our as fully-lisable demos of DJPand graphics programs MACFORMAT Enlarge all Open and Save dialogue boxes to view full file names automatically = Disk 16 Sept 94 senclity demo of the all-in-one colour graphics package HomePublishe Read the review inside, then try this demo for yourself Follow our HyperCard tutorial inside with this fully working stack Our favourite little A fast QuickTime player in shareware program only 16K of disk space! 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Please check for availability. Newton software_ Time Out Guide to London. This guide not only references 1,800 key places to eat, drink, shop, relax and stay in L@ndon—but You can view every restaurant that dm@ets your criteria for cuisine, area, price, opening times or credit cards accepted. The guide will show you €a@hlocation on a map with directions on how to get there by 100%, CarGty public transport. Requirements: Newton Mess@@ Executive Productivity Manager 4in This package contains 4 great products all in one: Presenter Pad: It’s a teleprompter that helps you prepare, time and pace your presentations. Graphical controls ensure your presentation ends when planned. The Economist World in Figures: a compendium of facts, figures and rankings of 60 of the world’s most powerful nations. Notion: The Newton List Manager (see below). And Jigsaw Strategy Game which combines the spatial GS @33 2 * complexity of a jigsaw puzzle with the strategy of a domino game, then adds the challenge of capturing territory. Requirements: Newton MessagePad or Newton-compatible Hardware with a PCMCIA card slot. SRP £129.95. Notion: The Newton List Manager. Over 100 ready-to-use templates! Planning a trip? Shopping for cars? Keep track of people, projects, expenses, holiday options, product features, movies to see, CDs to buy, all the things it’s all too easy to : a forget. Choose a ready-to-use list template, or modify one and create your own—you've never felt so organised! Requirements: Newton MessagePad or Newton-compatible, 1 or 2 MB Storage Card, Newton connection kit (for installation only—- =e @¢3 9% Mac and Windows disks included). SRP £49.95. PocketCall is your intelligent communications ¢ ' assistant. It uses the power and simplicity of Newton to bring the world of on-line information to your fingertips. Simply tap into remote information services and electronic mail systems to automatically log on and retrieve up-to-the minute news and data. Requirements: Newton MessagePad or Newton- © compatible Hardware, Modem and Newton connection kit (for installation only—Mac and Windows included). SRP £96.05 FilePad is the first flat-file database program for the | <—— Newton. FilePad lets you create electronic database = . ‘cabinets’ to help you manage everything from oll " business inventory to personal finances. Create a — . customised database with the ease of Filemaker. Also provides links with many Windows and tent Macintosh database applications. Requirements: Newton MessagePad or Newton-compatible Hardware, 1 or 2 MB Storage Card and Newton connection kit (for installation only—Mac and © © 2s 32% Windows disks included). SRP £88.82 Day-Timer, Meeting & Expense Pack. The Day-Timer system is the preferred personal an ser organiser of millions of busy professionals. Slate brings the tools of the famous organiser to your Newton. Keep track of expenses as they occur. File all your meeting details in one place. Eliminate lost or forgotten expense items. Track expenses for many clients and projects separately. Requirements: Newton MessagePad or Newton-compatible Hardware, 1 or 2 MB Storage Card and Newton connection kit (for installation only—Mac and Windows discs included). SRP £66.61 All prices shown are Suggested Retail Prices 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 The Latest in CD Entertainment! Return to Zork. An epic adventure, underground. Based on the infamous Zork series this outstanding adventure includes fully rendered 3D graphics, original music, over an 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—you can even have real conversations whereby you can show emo- tions. By combining this innovative inter- face with the depth of the Zork series you have one of the most eagerly await- ed Mac CD ROMs! Requires minimum of LCIII and a double speed (eg. CD 300) CD drive is recommended. SRP £42.54 The 7th Guest. Henry Staufs terrifying mansion has been abandoned ever since the children started dying. Stauf was a master toymaker, a maker of extra- ordinary puzzles. Since those six guests stayed on that terrible night it’s become haunted. You find yourself in this mansion, moving from room to room in incredible real time 3D. Full motion video of live actors slowly untwines a horrifying plot within this virtual environment. Twenty-two devious puzzles to solve before you can uncover the mystery of the seventh guest. An astound- ing use of multime- dia technology on two CD-ROMs. Requires a mini- mum of an LCIII with an 040 or | Quadra machine recommended. SRP £39.99 Jump— David Bowie Interactive. Experience David Bowie's musical vision in this interactive CD ROM. Edit your own version of ‘Jump they say—mix the music and edit a video using some never before seen video from the outtakes. Explore the virtual world behind the album; find hidden ani- mations, sounds, pictures and other surprises. Hear David Bowie describe the creation of the video and the album. Jump contains four complete music videos from the Black Tie White Noise album. Requires minimum of LCIII and a double speed (eg. CD 300) CD drive is recommended. SRP £34.03 The Legend of Kyrandia. Kyrandia is a land of dark mysterious forests and sleeping dragons. A fantasy land where tubies grow on trees and magic abounds. Some say that the court jester Malcolm was mad to begin with. Others say is was his burning desire to possess the precious Kyragem that led him to slay the peaceful King William—the protector of that most powerful. As the rightful prince you must pursue the elusive Malcolm to recover the gem. The Legend of Kyrandia includes fluid and realistic ani- mation, a captivating soundtrack with an elegant point and click interface. Coupled with the slightly tongue-in-cheek humour you have a whimsical adventure that'll keep you amused for hours on end! Recommended for all ages. SRP £42.54 | CONTENTS _ elcome again to MAcForMaAT, Britain’s best-selling Macintosh monthly. Whether you’re a veteran or a novice, we'll bring you the latest news, reviews, tips and techniques to help you get more out of your Mac, no matter what you use it for! Editorial enquiries: MAcFormat, Future Publishing Ltd, 30 Monmouth Street, Bath BA] 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 MacrorMaT 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, $o we recommend that you always contact advertisers before ordering to confirm prices and availability. See page 107 for some helpful buying advice. Entire contents Copyright © 1994 Future Publishing Ltd. All rights reserved. Put a bit of old-fashioned style into your publications by adding a sepia tone to standard black and white photos, using only your usual DTP software. Here’s how it’s done Be a Whatever small publication you’re producing on your Mac, here’s how to give it that professional edge with Macrormat’'s guide to verbal and visual consistency HyperCard 64 Creating Mac applications is simple once you know how. This month we take apart the script behind PhoneLogger (it’s on the cover disk). So, erm, Mouseup, chums... | ResEdit 66 Haven't got enough free RAM to run the notorious Prince e 2 Demo | | Prince Of Persia 2 demo? We show you what to do REGULARS News 13 Details of the 630 range, Apple’s new low-cost multimedia Macs. Plus the fanciful delights of eWorld, and a hot range of PowerMacs for ‘95 = CES News 20 We preview all the forthcoming Mac releases featured at the recent Consumer Electronics Show Apple Talk 24 More letters from you, our beloved readers... plus a few answers from that crazy man who calls himself the editor! What’s New 26 Andy Storer investigates the disappearance of Paco and considers the memory problems caused by System upgrades Mac Answers 59 Got a problem you can’t solve? Well, be grateful — we get hundreds every month! (And answer ‘em here) Special Offers 87 Yes, once again we've held a gun to the software companies’ heads just to get you the best bargains Subscribe! 96 Can’t be bothered to walk to the shops, or can’t get our CD- ROM edition when you do? Well, we'll gladly deliver it Free Reader Ads 106 Buy cheap, sell expensive, and don’t fire till you see the whites of their eyes. No, hang on, that’s not right... Mi re Wii Buying Advice 107 ‘ae ok Our back issues are selling faster than platform shoes in Avoid being conned with our everyday survival guide Back Issues 112 a pigmy village. So if you want one, better move fast Next Month 113 Erm, well, we'll be doing another issue of MACFoRMAT with a front cover, some pages and a few piccies. Probably Win! Win! Win! 114 Win a Yamaha Hello! Music! package plus Miracle keyboard & soft- ware MACFORMAT ° ISSUE 16 * SEPTEMBER 1994 4 CONTENTS At just under £70, HomePublisher could be the answer to every domestic and small business DTPer’s prayers 70 It’s already hugely popular, but could this latest version (complete with its all-new mailer feature) topple Word? Mu 74 If you don’t know a sequencer from a sequinned sir, then you're going to need help deciding on a music setup. We review three all-in-one music bundles 78 Point and click has long been synonymous with Apple, but how will the new QuickTake camera fare on the Mac? If you want a solid conspiracy theory, then you simply must read Bruce Sterling’s book, now available on the ‘Net oa 82 t sseestes) Marvin Minsky’'s Society of the Mind and the Resident's SS oak Show — only their mother can tell ‘em apart Pypu| Freak Show 4 a ‘ome of Mind deb 84 lai, = Helping your kid through the National Curriculum is not easy, but these programs could help: Bodymapper Weathermapper Where in Space is Carmen Sandiego? 91 Picture ——s) A program for creating icons, a train- Snr ween TI24 M8 wraliae iH u | spotter’s font and an automatic clock | \ChOR MS adjuster. Plus two new categories — ‘Pick of the month’ and ‘Turkey of the month’ Waggle your joystick with the best of them... Return to Zork Dracula Unleashed Sherlock Holmes 2 The Labyrinth of Time 100 102 104 108 At last, here’s an address book and time-management system that you can share and adapt across a network 109 No, it’s not an aid for the incontinent, but rather another wall-planner masquerading as a Mac utility A program that takes your 3D CAD models and 29 ‘unfolds’ them into 2D. A tree generator. ‘Job Search Software for the Whole Human Being’. Mac-A-Mug Pro. A lonely hearts CD-ROM. Virtual Tarot. Digital Gourmet. The Diet Balancer, If you thought you'd seen it all, don’t miss the Macrormat guide to the brilliant and the bizarre... 38 British war correspondent Christopher Long explains how he avoids drunken militiamen, war-crazed snipers — and worse still, Mac system crashes — in the depths of Bosnia... wy So, you think it’s impossible to get this type of — charcoal effect from your standard paint . | package? Well, think again... 72 The Multimedia Workshop promises to deliver Mac-based video presentations, plus paint and desktop publishing modules, all for well under a hundred quid. How does it shape up? This month we bring you a fantastic collec- tion of top demos and utilities, including: ColorStation, HomePublisher, Keys, Open-wide, PhoneLogger, Fast Player and more — i fact, over 3Mb of great software If you got the CD-ROM edition, you have everything on the floppy disk and all the shareware reviewed in this issue, plus hundreds of megabytes more! MACFORMAT * ISSUE 16 ¢ SEPTEMBER 1994 S MACFORMAT COVER DISKS Once again we’ve travelled the world to find the finest software this side of a Jupiter collision... ColorStation 2 demo ~~) Colour image editing program ie Requires: colour Macintosh, 1Mb of RAM, System 6.0.7 or later and Power- PC compatible. ColorStation 2 is the colour version of GrayStation, which we gave you, complete and fully work- ing, on last month’s MAcForMatT cover disk. It is a paint program that is especially useful for re- touching colour scans. This is a demo, but all the features work as normal — except for two things: you can’t save; and, although you can A high density floppy disk can contain about 1.4 megabytes of software, but we want to bring you as much as possible every month. Therefore, we use com- pression programs to reduce the files in size so we can fit more on — this month there’s well over three megabytes worth, in fact. Unfortunately, that means you can’t use the programs straight off the disk; you must install them on to your hard disk first. Doing this is very simple. Just double- click on the floppy disk icon, then double-click on the MACFoRMAT 16 icon. A copyright message appears; click Continue. A box then appears that asks you where you want to save the contents of the disk. Choose the place on your hard disk where you want everything stored and click Save. After a couple of minutes or so of frantic disk activity, the files will be stored on your hard disk. Before installing the cover disk we rec- ommend that you back up any important work on your hard disk. This sensible precaution will avoid problems should any software not be compatible with your setup. We make every effort to check our software for compatibility and viruses, but the information here is intended as a guide only, and MAcrormMat cannot be held responsible for any damage to data or consequential losses. So please, for your own sake, back up first. print, you'll get a black line down the middle of your printout. The reason the authors of this excellent pro- gram want you to see printouts is because of their HQP technology. HQP, for the uninitiated, stands for High Quality Print and enables you to gain particularly good quality images, even when using cheap printers. The full version enables you to save these COLORSTATION 2 TOOLS Paint bucket: spreads opaque paint on the clicked point and on all adjacent points with similar tones. Brush: draws, applies transparent paint. Brush: draws curves of variable thickness. pictures and use them in other programs. When MacrormatT reviewed this program in issue 13, we gave it 90% and said: ‘It’s hard to fault ColorStation 2. With its straightforward controls, ColorStation is an excellent choice for novice DTPers, covering all the graphics and printing bases in a convenient one-stop pro- gram. It does a great job and offers excellent value for money.’ Air brush: paints a fine- grained paint. Eraser: Double-click this to erase the whole image. Pencil: draws dots, curves and lines of one pixel. Hold [shift] to draw straight lines. PAPC PAR aes NOIDA Lasso: creates selections of any shape. Double- Click the Lasso to select the whole image. Line tool: draws lines of variable size. Rectangle tool: draws empty or filled rectangular or square Text editor: adds text to shapes. your image. Double-click this to set text attributes. a | = Sean - 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 does happen to go wrong. Make sure the original cover disk is write- protected (move the tab so that you can see through the hole) — then nothing can be written to the disk. Then follow these simple steps: 1. Insert the MAcFoRMaAT cover disk. 2. Drag the disk’s icon over your hard disk’s icon. The contents of the cover disk will then be copied into a new folder on your hard disk called ‘MAcForMAT 16’ (but it is still not decompressed, so you still can’t run Magnifying glass: Tone Picker: takes a colour enlarges or (with the directly from the image. [option] key pressed) 5 LA xj BF BACK uP §! . s, —~as Gerrine Yo Magic wand: automatically selects areas with similar colours. reduces the image. 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 that it’s not write-protected, and, if need be, format it, naming it ‘MACFORMAT 16 backup’ (or ‘Fred’ if you like. What do I care?). 5. Drag the ‘MAcFormar 16’ 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 16’ folder from your hard disk by dragging it across to the Wastebasket, and selecting Empty Wastebasket. MACFORMAT ¢ ISSUE 16 * SEPTEMBER 1994 6 Voted. j CERTIFICATE OF MERIT Prevented to MacFormat ties) ne = | s HomePublisher is the ideal DTP program for entry-level _ machines and represents great value at under £70. HomePublisher demo Desktop Publishing Program Requires: 1.5Mb of RAM PageMaker is often regarded as the best DTP program available, but it is rather expensive and slow, and has more features than most of us could ever use. The same company now brings you HomePublisher, which is a fraction of the cost, dead easy to use, and isn’t bogged down with features you won't want. This is a fully working demo, but the option to save has been disabled and printed pages have a small box in the middle. For a full review of this remarkable package, turn to page 68. One feature that HomePublisher boasts, which I haven't seen before, is a copy-fitting command that fits text into a given space by automatically changing text size and leading (line spacing). Try it out. FastPlayer [Ey QuickTime Utility ff, Requires: any Mac, QuickTime. Apple’s own QuickTime player, MoviePlayer, is fine, but FastPlayer does the same basic job in a file a twentieth the size! It’s also very fast since it has a ‘pre-load movie’ option, which loads the movie from the disk into RAM before play- ing it. This can give significantly better perfor- mance and smoother movies — especially when playing a movie from a CD-ROM. ‘No Back- grounding’ keeps other open applications quiet so that they don’t interfere with playing a movie. And the best thing about FastPlayer is that it is freeware. Keys! we] Utility @#8! Requires: any Mac. Whenever you see a button in a dialogue box with a thick black surround, you can select it by pressing [return], which is very useful. Keys! is a Control Panel that takes this one step further by enabling you to select most buttons, radio buttons, and check boxes using the key- board. It underlines a letter (generally the first one, as far as possible) of the name of each button or check box (‘H’ for Help, say); if you type that letter, it will be as if you had clicked on the button. If the dialogue box contains an editable text field (as in Save boxes), then you just need to hold down the [command] key before typing the ‘H’ or whatever it is. I don’t keep much shareware installed on my machine, but this one will be staying, and it’s freeware. || HP LaserJet 4M Page Setup Paper: OUS Letter @A4 Letter OUS Legal O Enecutive Envelope: © Commercial 10 © International CS OMonereh © International ot Printer Effects: & Font Substitution? & Faster Bitmap Printing? Reduce or Orientation: Enlarge: [tea] ™ Start page *: fi] CO Custom Paper: Size: width [" J inches Heignt | __—jinches Position: @ Covi: Footnotes/Endnotes... Keys! enables you to select most options in dialogue boxes by using the keyboard rather than the mouse. MACFORMAT COVER DISKS © Macformat Issue 16 ¥ BD Macformat Issue 16 Disk Pages 1 © MacFormat Issue 16 Disk Pages 2 D Macformat Issue 16 Disk Pages 3 © Macformat Issue 16 Disk Pages 4 © MacFormat Issue 16 Disk Pages 5 © MocFformat Issue 16 Disk Pages 6 © Macformat Issue 16 Disk Pages 7 enables you to see files and folders that have long names. Open-wide Utility Requires: any Mac. = One of the great things about the Mac is its ability to have files with names of up to 31 characters in length, but this isn’t much use when you go to File and select Open only to find that you can just see the first 25 characters or so. Open-wide makes dialogue boxes wide enough to show long file names. PhoneLogger _-. Utility WJ Requires: any Mac, HyperCard. This is a fully usable stack that enables you to keep track of phone calls — to learn all the details of how it works, turn to page 64. 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I urn to: MACFoRMAT promotions, Future Publishing, FREEPOST (BS4900), Somerton, Somerset TA11 6BR. . a J Ce ee me me i i MACFORMAT * ISSUE 16 * SEPTEMBER 1994 7 -, MACFORMAT COVER DISKS lready we are on to our fourth disc and, as it continues to evolve, it has a new look this month. When you in- sert the CD only the first window opens automatically, showing you the follow- ing six folders: ®@ Highlights: this folder doesn’t contain any- thing. Well OK, that’s not strictly true, it con- tains aliases of programs and folders elsewhere on the CD, but gets you started on the best bits. @ Macrormart 16 cover disk: contains all the software that you find on the floppy disk. Some of the programs often contain a larger version TWIG (Time Warner Interactive Group) CD Demos Requires: Colour Mac and 2.3Mb of RAM. Ml This is this month’s big demo — and the reason that the disk has a rather odd name; it turned its nose up and refused to run otherwise. In fact, it’s not one demo but 12. Each one is a demo of a different CD by Time Warner who produce some wonderful information titles. When using the demo, please be patient, it can take a while for the program to do any- thing, so don’t shout at it and keep clicking (well, it didn’t work for me at any rate). The demo includes gems such as: Funny: a CD of jokes, which is the perfect way to learn how to be funny before you go off to a party and try to impress members of the opposite sex. How Computers Work: | was so impressed by this program that I rushed out and bought a copy — only to discover to my horror that I didn’t really know anything about computers after all. Desert Storm: a good example of how to re- process information. News stories, photos and data about the Gulf War, which were collected for Time magazine, have been put on to a CD and organised in order of events for us to use as a reference library. The New Family Bible: the Bible may be the most important book ever in the history of Western civilisation and written by God, but it is a tad hard to read. An ideal opportunity for modern technology to step in and liven it up a Our fourth CD is bursting with 550Mb of great software, specially picked for its freshness. than fits on the floppy. @ Shareware in MAcrormat: this folder con- tains all of the shareware programs reviewed in Macrormat this month (starting on page 91) plus a few extras. ™@ Shareware City: this contains much of the new and updated shareware that has been re- leased over the previous month. @ Demos: this folder contains both shareware bit with pictures, maps and cross references. Hell Cab: a terrifying adventure through time and New York streets. Murmurs of Earth: a record of the data carried to distant worlds aboard the Voyager satellites. The View from Earth: an exploration of the Earth, Sun and Moon. The Lifemap Series: Natural History CDs de- picting evolution and animal diversity. Seven Days in August: an account of the Berlin Wall, from its construction to its even- tual destruction. Clinton — Portrait of Victory: the enthralling, heart-warming story of Bill Clinton’s presiden- tial campaign and ultimate success. Word Tales: one for the kids; set within a fun cartoon world, this teaches children to read. Audio Notes: classical music is made more ac- cessable with explanations and comments. [ae wf. _ & a wy . A re <i le . 7 - = ‘ and commercial demos that we have specially arranged for your delectation. ™@ Reader’s Corner: your big chance to be famous. This section will contain your soft- ware, letters and comments. Exactly what’s on the CD then? Obviously, we can’t fit everything into two pages, so here are some of the highlights. furs HOW COMPUTERS WORK LIFEmap Series DESERT STORM Nice stack of CDs, but they don’t seem to stock any- thing by the Carpenters. Desert Storm recounts the liberation of an unknown country called Kuwait. i ies an Gant b lene lee cas Although Hell Cab is featured in the TWIG demo, we have also included an entire movie in the Demos folders. MACFORMAT °¢ ISSUE 16 * SEPTEMBER 1994 8 | always wanted one of those early computers, but my mum would never let me have a Pet in the house. Details in the Bible show us the original location of the Garden of Eden, place of ultimate peace. Where? Kuwait! Oh great - dinner! Well actually not — these creatures are harmless and might just be of some help to you. Boring! Virtual Reality Bb casires: colour Mac. Enter the Virtual Reality of Mazeworld, a totally mouse-controlled game. Moving your mouse backwards and forwards causes you to move in that direction in real time. To begin with, you will see a pair of eyes that belong to George, who wants to be your friend. Could this be a game where you don’t shoot everything? Yes! Well, almost. OK, no. George is being chased by the Eashire cat and he would be very grate- ful if you could destroy it. To do this you need to shoot it with a destructive plasma ball. Hold down the mouse button and move the mouse to the right and up until you see ‘dst’ in red at the bottom right of the screen. Every time you click the mouse button, you will fire a destructive plasma ball. The rest you will have to discover for yourself, but that will stop you from getting killed in the first ten seconds. Graphics demo Y Requires: Colour Mac and 2Mb of RAM. We reviewed an earlier version of ColorIt! way back in Macrormat 3 — ahhh, those were the days. It received an enthusiastic review and a rating of 88%. Well, it has now reached version 3 and here is the demo for you to try out. As usual, the Save and Print options are disabled and there is a time limit, but you will get an idea of how sophisticated this graphics package really is. Try to allocate as much RAM as possible to this program and don’t choose to have a larger page than you need. This pro- gram eats memory for breakfast, especially if you choose to work in millions of colours — as- suming you are lucky enough to have a moni- tor that can show the result. I love playing with graphics programs and this one has some of the basic features of Photoshop. One of the best features of Maelstrom is all the goodies you have to collect if you want to progress. Shoot-em-up B Requires: 256 colours/greys. Maelstrom is a legendary shareware program be- cause it is completely addictive and much better than many commercial games. It’s based on the original Asteroids, one of the first com- puter games ever on any machine, which I hated because I was no good at it, but this game is several leagues better, with the diffi- culty level pitched just right. One little word of warning: the game is key- board driven and one of the default keys is [shift]. This causes problems with Easy Access, so either remove it from your Control Panels folder or reassign the [shift] control to a differ- ent key. Arcade game co Requires: colour Mac and all of your time. Don’t load this game, whatever you do. It’s more addictive than Coronation Street. I loaded it once and it took three burly security guards to pull me away from the screen. If you have never come across Tetris then let me enlighten you. Blocks of strange shapes fall from the sky and all you need to do is move them left or right and rotate them so they fit together to form complete horizontal lines. You can get a preview of what the next block is going to be, so you can think strategically, if you can focus on two places at once. And that’s all. So it’s about time that someone did proper scientific research into why this game is so addictive — it might tell us a lot about human psychology. Getting a block that is just the right shape at the crucial moment gives you the same satisfaction as finding a pound coin down the back of the sofa. MACFORMAT COVER DISKS 7 rare aN -ri We have had several phone calls from readers worried that Disinfectant was showing a virus on last month's CD. Don't panic! It was just Disinfectant being slightly over- cautious. The CD mastering process we use creates a non-standard System 6 Desktop file which worries that virus checker (and maybe some others). We go to ex- treme lengths to ensure that our disks are virus free and use several checkers to accomplish that. This disc was double-checked by John Norstad, the author of Disinfec- tant himself, and given the all-clear. Well done, those readers who take the trouble to virus check even a CD! Your programs Requires: see individual ReadMe files. A new feature on the CD is a collection of soft- ware that you, the readers, have sent in. Some of it is great, some of it is... how shall I put it? Strange. And some of it was just plain rude and got discarded. The best bits include a very use- ful graph plotter, some lovely icons, space in- vaders and a dog IQ test. No, honestly, look for yourself. Derek Sinith Digital Pictures Imageware is a fascinating idea from Mr Hudson, who also included some free pictures. If the covermounted high density disk or CD-ROM you have is defective, return it to us and we will replace it. Please make sure that it is a physical problem with the disk itself, or the replacement will be just the same! Return HD disks to: Discopy Labs PO Box 21 Daventry NN11 5BU Return CD-ROMs to: MACFORMAT CD returns Future Publishing FREEPOST (BS4900) Somerton Somerset TA11 6BR Enclose a self-addressed envelope with the disk or CD, and a description of the fault. Please do not return disks or CDs to the editorial office; we don’t hold stocks of them and can only refer you to one of the addresses above. 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The new machines are the cheapest yet to have CD-ROM drives al- ready fitted, while extra gadgets and improved access to expansion slots mean that customising your Mac for multimedia will be simple. In Macrormat 13 we reported that this new model was likely to be a low-cost Quadra, but it will now be released as the LC630 for small businesses and education, and as the Performa 630 for home users. The basics remain the same: the standard memory is a miserly 4Mb — _ hotenough to play many of today’s CD-ROMs _ with a single SIMM memory socket for that extra RAM you'll undoubtedly need. The hard disk comes in more generous 250Mb and 350Mb versions. Couch potatoes will perk up at the an- nouncement of a card that will enable them to watch TV on their 630 — although for the time being, the picture will be only half-size, so they'll have to squint. Both this card, and a cheaper card without the TV aerial facility, Apple's new, fatter LC630 and new smarter Multiple Scan 15 monitor It’s switchable Apple launches the Multiple Scan 15 monitor (seen with the LC630 above) this month. The monitor has the ability to show a picture at 640 x 480 pixels (like a 14-inch monitor) or at 1,020 x 800 pixels (the equivalent of a 16- inch screen), as well as its standard mode of 800 x 600 pixels. The MS15 also has stereo speakers. The monitor has a provisional price of £410. Call Apple on 0800 127753. Multimedia Macs for less! New 630s offer video options — with built-in CD-ROM drives. will accept pictures from a video recorder or games console. A third gadget will enable you to use a TV instead of a monitor with your Mac. Buy one of the ‘in’ cards detailed above and the ‘out’ box, and you'll be able to take images from a video source, play around with them in a multimedia program and play the result through your TV — you can even record it on video at the same time. To complement these options, the 630 is equipped with an infra-red detector for remote control. The 630 breaks away from the slim ‘pizza box’ design with a brand new case — this will allow more room inside for new expansion slots. At the heart of the machine is a 33MHz 68LC040 chip which, like the LC475’s, lacks a maths co-processor option. If you need a strong number cruncher for 3D rendering and the like, you'll need to look further up the Mac range, although an upgrade to PowerMac will be available. Inside is a single PDS (Processor Direct Slot) socket, and two new slots for video in and ‘Toons on your Mac. Also, note that this picture carefully avoids any stereotyping of computer users: that’s page 126 Crack open my Mac with a crowbar and stuff in a graphics card? Not me! | just Plug And Play... communications. The communication slot is in- tended for a modem that won’t be available in the UK, due to lack of official BABT approval. Using a design concept called Plug And Play, the memory chips and slots will be accessible by pulling out a rear tray, much like a paper tray on a laser printer. With the relevant slots clearly labelled on the board, you'll be able to expand your system quite easily. The heart of the Performa 630 will be identi- cal to the LC, but the price will include a moni- tor, keyboard and bundled software. Precise details on these — and what it'll all cost you — are not yet available. The LC630 without moni- tor or keyboard starts from £1,234 for 4Mb of memory and a 250Mb hard drive. If you think you'll need more power — to create 3D animations, for example — the beefy Quadra 660AV is still worth a look, if you can find one at the right price. Once stocks of this have gone, however, the 630 will prove an at- tractive multimedia starter package. For more details, call Apple on 0800 127753. We’re off to see the Wizard If you find yourself constantly doing the same tedious but essential task, scripting might be the answer. ScriptWizard is a program intended to make scripting simple. Using the AppleScript language supplied, you can create and test a script, stepping through it via video-recorder-style controls. A browser, which is basically an on-line listing of scripting terminology along with definitions, helps you keep the terms you'll have to use consistent. ScriptWizard needs System 7.1 or above, and a Mac with at least a 68020 processor — that is, an LC or better. The price is £93, but there is a special price promotion until the end of August. Call Full Moon Software on 0727 844232 for details. MACFORMAT * ISSUE 16 *¢ SEPTEMBER 1994 13 16GB turboDAT £968 inc Retrospect 2.1, installation kit MacUser Awards 1993 WINNER vi 4-16 Turbo £908/968 _ £16 REG 4-16 triple £998/1098 £16 MeN Since our DAT was a 5-mouser best buy, we've doubled the buffer size for even smoother backup, doubled the speed and doubled the capacity! No wonder it won the best peripheral category of the MacUser awards! Full compatibility with DDS1 standard drives (2GB and 2-8GB). Power Macintosh optimised. The even faster triple DAT is capable of over 35MB/minute. LGB disk £526 ’ inc UK installation kit ~ tape int/ext __ media 150MB [£499 £16 Se AG Turbo £878/938 £16 150Mb tape £499 int/ext Our 1000MB drive outperformed every 260 12 £168/238 other 1GB drive in MacUser's 1993 P. RO barca tool 330 12 £196/266 gigabyte drive test. 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Se Sea ==B — OO RM a a Ea qne 9 ce ame THe a #] Bi Ei ee FS ee 2 en builds its global village = re 2 Weleane to eWorld 1. The Arts Pavilion is one of the ‘buildings’ that make up eWorld. Pencil us in! Check the latest Schedule of Events in the eWorld Cornmunity Center, How does a savvy cook handle a hinged omelet (| pan? Click here for the answer in Culinary Cues, _ What cornputer industry 4 execs are exercising their #4) stock options? Find out in Money Matters. Visit Aladdin in Straight to the Source & you too out & get small! will Know how to go ® 2. Apple product news, as well as other catalogues and support, lies within the Computer Center. 3. The Newsstand offers electronic magazines created by publishers using eWorld Press software. 4, The Community Center plays host to e-mail conferences, which can accommodate up to 200 subscribers — or ‘members’ — at once. §. Plans for a six-lane bypass have been shelved. 6. The eMail Center functions as a giant Post Office. Send a fax or have your text printed out and sent by normal post. 7. Go to the Info Booth for directions. 8. Go straight to special points of interest by clicking these icons. pple is opening a new e-mail service which it hopes will broaden the appeal of the Internet and make it far easier to use — no more grappling with backslashes. While the use of electronic mail has grown hugely in a short time, it’s estimated that fewer than 3% of computer users take advantage of the facility. Called eWorld, the service is described by Apple as an ‘online town square’. Apple is using concepts based around this phrase in an attempt to make using its network far more inviting. Peter Friedman, the general manager of Apple Online Services in the United States, says that ‘joining the eWorld commu- nity is like strolling through the main square of a small university town. It’s full of interesting people and has many fascinating places to go.’ Some of the things you'll be able to do include: getting news and information from major agencies, such as Reuters; reading an electronic magazine for small businesses, called Working Solo; or conversing with other eWorld users. You'll also have access to the rest of the Internet. Apple is planning a UK launch for September, and over time more material aimed at British users will appear on-line. The software enabling you to enter eWorld will be free — so how do you get it? New Apple computers — including Power Macintoshes and PowerBooks — will soon have eWorld included as a matter of course, and there'll be a mail order phone- line. Users of the existing service, AppleLink, will be offered the software. AppleLink won't be discontin- ued, by the way, until eWorld is able to offer similar features, such as privileged access. Newton users will be able to get into eWorld by using a special version of the software called NewtonMail. A book, eWorld, The Official Guide For Macintosh Users, which also includes the programs you need, should be on sale later in the year. It will offer advice on making your way through the eWorld and the Internet. While the software is free, using the service isn’t. The first thing to mention is that if you connect to eWorld from outside the United States or Canada, there will be a surcharge of $7.95 (about £5.30 at current exchange rates, though of course that will shift around) for every hour of use. The standard monthly subscription on top of that will be $8.95 (£6.00), which includes two hours on-line. Each extra hour will cost $4.95 (£3.30), plus the surcharge. If you connect up inside the US or Canada, the pric- ing is slightly different, but the documentation will set all this out. The payment system will be run via credit cards. With eWorld, Apple is bringing the glossy market- ing of a theme park to the world of communications, believing that such reassuring friendliness will bring in more people to go on its rides. We'll just have to hope that this doesn’t turn out to be a Mickey Mouse concept. More details on eWorld are available from Apple on 081 730 2204. (Note that this isn’t the number for the yet-to-come mail order line.) ia Master of the world KPT Bryce is a new Kai Power Tool program that enables you to create textured 3D renditions of land- scapes, the earth and sky with all types of weather and climates. You can mix together a preset part with something you’ve rendered your- self. Subtle effects, like humidity variation and cloud types, are possible, and the end result can be used by the special Bryce screen saver. The distributor of the £152 program is Principal, who can be reached on 0706 832000. You can shape the earth and sky with the new 3D landscape rendering program KPT Bryce. Picture box The industry-leading image processor, Adobe Photoshop, is to be upgraded this autumn. Photo- shop enables you to alter piccies to your heart's content, whether it’s for subtle retouching or all- out taste warfare. Major changes for v3.0 include a feature that enables you to have an image split into several layers and change just one layer if neces- sary. A revamped selection of palettes, the Drag and Drop block-moving system and new colour correction features are among other changes. The recommended price is £852, which includes both disk and CD-ROM versions. An up- grade from previous versions will set you back by £147, while any- one who buys v2.5 now while they’re waiting for v3.0 will only have to pay a little towards postage and packing. Photoshop 3.0 needs at least a 68020 processor (thwarting the plans of Plus and Classic own- ers), System 7, 6Mb of memory and 20Mb of hard disk space to work. You can get further details from Adobe on 081 547 1900. MACFORMAT ° ISSUE 16 * SEPTEMBER 1994 15 pple is planning to launch the new genera- tion of Power Macintoshes early next year. The three current models will be replaced by a range of five. Although by the time they are launched they'll have the usual number codes as names, the machines currently have development codenames: TNT, Tsunami, Nitro, Catalyst and Al- chemy. (I could’ve sworn they were in the X-Men...) Based on the PowerPC 601 processor — possibly a revamped version — the new machines will all include PCI (Peripheral Component Interconnect) slots, the first Apple machines to do so. Replacing the old NuBus system, PCI slots are a more widely-used method of inserting extras, such as graphics cards, into your machine. Using these will bring the PowerMacs in line with their IBM and third-party PowerPC cousins (when they arrive), making life that little bit easier for everyone. TNT and Tsunami (six PCI slots) come in above the current top-end 8100, serving serious data-crunching and graphics users respectively. Nitro (three slots) will be a more direct enhancement of the 8100. Catalyst (three slots) and Alchemy (one slot) will be aimed at the lower-price all-rounder market. Let’s hope they remember to act as a team. Apple is reported to have developed a new 680x0 emulator (used by PowerMacs to run Macintosh- specific software) which runs programs at up to twice the speed of the current version. Having developed it while working with the now-shelved PowerPC 603 chips (see Macrormat’s story in issue 15), Apple must now decide when to release it. The company will be More PowerMacs on the way in 95 reluctant to risk interfering with the on-going process of software companies making their products Power- Mac-native. Sales of the Quadra, the top-level Macin- tosh, could also be affected if the combination of PowerMac and new emulator proves faster, which isn’t much use to Apple when it has Quadras made and sitting in warehouses waiting to be sold. All this frantic activity by Apple seems to paying off, though. A survey by a major US research firm has shown that in the first 100 days since the launch of the PowerMac in March, it has outsold its nearest rivals — PCs based on Intel’s new Pentium chip — by more than 60% in the United States. The survey assesses worldwide sales for the PowerMac as a little over 200,000. Perhaps more worrying for Apple is that the majority of these sales have been to existing Apple users rather than the PC owners that Apple also hoped to reach, and that sales have since dropped off. Would the new emulator give the machine a boost? Apple can be contacted on 0800 127753. @ Meanwhile, the software firm Corel has announced that it is to convert its graphics package CorelDraw to the PowerMac platform. CorelDraw is actually a suite of programs for drawing, painting and charting which has proved to be very popular on other types of computer. Corel says that a Macintosh version of CorelDraw had been postponed, in part because of Apple’s delay in releasing its new QuickDraw GX printing system. Corel is, however, working on a new graphics program for business users. To find out more, you can call Corel in Canada on 0101 613 728 8200. The Great Escape ‘Houdini’ was the codename of Apple’s ‘DOS-compatible’ Quadra, which contained an Intel 486 PC chip as well as its own processor. In MACFORMAT 15 we reported that the machine was discontinued, but the idea has now resurfaced in the form of a new card prototype designed to run MS-DOS and Windows on the PowerMac, which Apple has been showing off at industry shows. While there are no firm details on pricing or a release date, the card will use a SOMHz 486DX2 processor and will include sup- port for the PC-standard sound card, SoundBlaster. The Windows system software may well be supplied with the card. A version for the PCI slots on future ma- chines (see the ‘More PowerMacs on the way in 95’ story above) is said to be in development. Looking good Hitachi has a new high-resolution monitor with a generous 17-inch screen. The standard picture on the 17MVX Value will be 1,024 x 768 pixels, with a refresh rate of 75Hz — that means a very stable picture. A stand-by mode saves power if the monitor is left un- attended. Macrormat will be re- viewing this £805 monitor next issue. While you’re waiting, you can call Hitachi on 081 848 8787. The beauties of nature ae : se The new Hitachi monitor gives you a huge, rock-solid image, making long sessions a joy. It also, um, makes a brilliant fish-tank. Our friend over on the right is featured in Dictionary Of The Living ) Gekkonidae World, a new CD-ROM from MDI. The Ung Wer O*CHOS Narrated video clips, photos, maps and text introduce you to delights such as viruses, spiders and amoebas. Can things get any more revolting? From September, Dictionary’s price will be halved to £39.99, joining Dinosaurs and the updated /TN World News '93 (see The Biologuts Macrormat 14) at this new price. To find out more, you can call MDI on 0252 737630. toa abana Family. Suborder !, order Sqvamate, subclass Legeseeria, chess Repifie. 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Zoom The new DR-U104X drive from Pioneer has been trumpeted as the fastest internal CD-ROM drive you can buy. While the Apple CD300, the best-known drive, is double-speed compared to the original industry standard, Pioneer’s new baby is quadruple-speed, so loading vast video clips should be a doddle. The price is £704. For more details call Pioneer on 081 575 5757. Crafty Picture Bank is a project run by the Crafts Council, which promotes work in traditional media like ceramics and textiles. The public can use a specially-written reference system to view 35,000 images of creativity on the Craft Council’s Macs — and print out simple copies. The images are stored on CD at the National Centre for Crafts in London, Call the Crafts Council on 071 278 7700. Monitor merger SuperMac and Radius, two prominent monitor manufacturers, are planning to form a joint company. In the short term neither of the existing ranges of products will be affected, Further ahead this may ] mean a stronger company — and less choice for the customer? Bigger, better, faster, more The leading spreadsheet, Microsoft's Excel, is to receive an upgrade to v5.0. Excel devours reams of figures and | presents them in an understandable form, performing automatic calcula- tions to help you make predictions. Using spell-checking, database and colour options, you can prepare your findings for presentation. Microsoft's solution to the com- mon problem of users being over- whelmed by the sheer number of fea- tures found in major programs is Intellisense, a feature which watches | how you perform a task and suggests — a quicker way to do it, PowerMac users running the pre- vious version of Excel under 680x0 Macintosh emulation were frustrated by the astonishing slowness of calcu- lations. This should have been recti- fied for v5.0, and a PowerMac-native version is due very soon. Microsoft is on 0734 270 000. MACFORMAT °¢ ISSUE 16 ¢ SEPTEMBER 1994 16 With ever increasing power being unleashed from Macintosh there are no limits to the levels of efficiency and creativity you can achieve in your business. To truly understand the vast potential of today's Macintosh technology and explore how the diverse range of applications can benefit your organisation, visit Apple Expo’94. From the 12th-15th October you will discover thousands of the most effective latest products and exciting creative developments. Test them in the hands-on Mac Applications Area and learn new skills in the MacUniversity Workshops. Choose which of the many free Apple Expo seminars suit your level of experience. Visit Apple Expo’94, Europe’s largest, independent Macintosh event and discover the true potential of Macintosh computing. For free tickets, previews and seminar programmes either complete and return the coupon or call the Ticket Hotline on 081 984 7711. Under 16's will only be admitted on Saturday, with a restriction of two children per accompanying adult. The organisers reserve the BUSINESS right to control admittance. COMMUNICATIONS 12-15 october ¢ olympia london please return to: please send free tickets and previews to... Apple Expo '94 Driscoll Direct Driscoll House job title job title Renwick Road company company Barking Essex IG11 0SH Apple Expo is an independent exhibition fot affiliated with the Apple Computer Group of companies. Apple is a registered postcode tel no. postcode ademark of Apple Computer, Inc. The Apple Expo Logo is copyright of Apple : ts Computer Inc. January 1992 | require extra free tickets for additional colleagues name address address Maxis overdrive he latest in the SimCity series will be a CD-ROM version of Sim- City 2000. Software company Maxis is holding a competition to Smarty pants The latest version of the gram- mar checker what WordPerfect have wrote should be available very soon. (The previous version was MaAcrorMat’s favourite checker in issue 7, with a rating mark the November release, with a first prize of a gold-plated CD-ROM signed by its creator Will Wright, as well as original artwork, a plaque, a Maxis rugby shirt and a working copy of the game. All you have to do to enter is reproduce your home town within SimCity 2000. When you've got it as close as you can, save the file on to a floppy disk and send it to Maxis at: ‘Home is where the heart is’, Maxis Ltd, 18-20 St John Street, London EC1M 4AY. The closing date is Monday 31 October - and please remember not to send them here. Meanwhile, some oldies but goodies receive the compilation treat- ment in Collection 1: Sim Classics. The games in question are SimLife, SimAnt and the original flatplan SimCity. Available for a limited time only, the price of the collection is £34.99. Call Maxis on 071 490 2333. of 73%.) Grammatik 6 will go through your documents, advis- ing you on spelling and gram- mar mistakes and generally attempting to improve, and respond to, your writing style. You can do a brief run- through with the QuickCheck feature, while the cliché detec- tor will weed out those tired phrases. An on-line help system will offer advice on features of the program and common writ- ing problems. Priced at £46, Grammatik 6 will need a Macintosh with Sys- tem 6.0.5 or later, at least 2Mb of memory and 2.5Mb of space on your hard disk. Call Word- {oy Perfect on 0932 850505 for more details. Capture the essence of your home town in SimCity 2000 —which surely gives residents of Milton Keynes an unfair advantage — and win prizes. Here at MACFORMAT, We're quietly working away at SimBath, complete with tourists asking directions on every corner. The Perfecto remix Software urm WordPerfect Corporation has said that the latest version of its popular word processor WordPerfect v3.1 will be on sale this autumn. As well as the usual bank of features for any task, from basic typing to simple desktop publishing, v3.1 offers ideas new to the program, such as a QuickCorrect spell- checking feature and support for new Apple System enhancements, such as QuickDraw GX printing, Drag and Drop block movement and the Apple Guide help system. QuickCorrect will pick on common mistakes (or typos) such as writing ‘teh’ instead of ‘the’. When it’s sure you've gone on to the next word, it’ll change that ‘teh’ for you — you didn’t mean to write ‘teh’, did you? Network users will be able to have a single ver- sion that contains the necessary code to work on both Macintosh and Power Macintosh, using the de- lightfully-named Fat Binary Installer. Although prices for the complete version and up- grade from previous editions have yet to be set, WordPerfect doesn’t anticipate that they'll be much different from current levels — v3.0 is £330. More details from WordPerfect on 0932 850505. @ The future of WordPerfect may lie with OpenDoc, Apple’s version of one of the latest software concepts currently doing the rounds in the industry, which is planned to be introduced in System 8. While tradi- tional programs take up tons of hard disk space with features you never use, programs using OpenDoc are broken up into sections, or ‘components’. You'll be able to mix and match components from different companies — a basic word processor from one, with a drawing tool from another, for example — depending on what you're doing at the time. Although they’re still being worked on, Word- Perfect’s first two components will be for drawing and making charts. PS ES FS = _OulckCorrect Preterenes @S =e ss S| @ Enable QuickCorrect Sentence Corrections & Capitalize First Letter @& Correct TWo INitiol CAps | & Two Spaces to Single Space nd of Sentence Corrections | @None | O Single Space to Two Spaces | © Two Spaces to Single Space | J & Replace Errors as You Type & Enable Smart Quotes WordPertect's new QuickCorrect feature corrects everyday typing mistakes while you write. You can use this dialogue box to decide which areas of your writing you want the program to monitor. APPLE BYTEs It’s showtime E-mail has traditionally been the pre- serve of the enthusiast rather than big business, but now the trend within the Internet is towards increasing commercialisation. If you're linked to CompuServe, you can now view FMV (Full-Motion Video) clips of some major films before they’re re- leased. The Lion King, Wyatt Earp and The Shadow are the first to receive the QuickTime treatment. CompuServe is on 0734 391064. Upgrade 2 — the sequel DayStar has announced the second of its cards for upgrading Macs to PowerMacs. Due out early next year, the card, which has no price as yet, is designed for the Mac II range, including the Ici, Ilsi, Ivi, Ilvx and Performa 600 models. A selection for Quadras is already available. DayStar in the US is on 0101 404 967 2077. Sci-fi CDs A new offshoot of the United States ‘Star Wars’ laser defence project is the Bundee CD3 repair system for CDs. The distributor, RSD Connections, claims that any optical disc, including CD-ROMs, can be protected with a three-step process. Contact RSD on 0992 584205 for more information on this £14.95 package. Fontasia The latest Agfatype CD-ROM v4.1 ex- pands its selection of fonts, logos and symbols further than ever before. You can view any of the thousands avail- able with the catalogue program, then call an Agfa dealer to order your selection (which costs extra on top of the £28 charge for the CD). Tutorials and utilities, also included on the disc, help you improve your typographical skills. Call Agfa on 081 560 2131. Cost Kurta No, not the Italian footballer, but a graphics tablet. Kurta’s XGT pad is an addition to the Art Systems range of goods. Use the pen to draw on the pad and watch the lines appearon | screen. Starting from £523, this graphics tablet comes in two sizes -a 12-inch square or 12 x 18-inch. Art Systems is on 0602 431 404, Pop in an optical Xyratex is adding two models to its range of optical drives. Using remov- able cartridges, you can save vast quantities of data relatively cheaply - such systems are often used to back up hard disks. The 3000 drive uses 230Mb 3.5-inch carts, while the 5000 drive uses 5.25-inch carts that can each store 1,3Gb - which is over a thousand megabytes. The prices from dealers should be £899 for the 3000, and £2,345 for the 5000. Xyratex is on 0705 486363. 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E&OE. 65 Locksbrook Road, Bath BAI 3ES Fax: 0225 482567 Access > s y) | he US market has long been of vital importance to manufacturers and devel- opers. The simple fact that the country has 250 million of the most affluent people on Earth has seen to that. So it’s not an enor- mous surprise to discover that the largest consumer electronics show takes place there twice a year. The latest CES recently took place in Chicago. Just about every hardware and software manufac- turer had a stand of some sort. Nintendo went a tad over the top by buying up about a quarter of all the available space, and then filling it with a fake jungle and TV screens as big as the State’s deficit. Obviously no-one had told them that size isn’t important — a maxim that Apple proved by not turning up at all. While Apple’s PR bods were catching up on their tans in Cuper- tino, there were plenty of software houses showing some extremely interesting new games for the world’s hippest computer. The most interesting of these were dis- played by established companies, although there were some impres- sive offerings from newcomers such as Time Warner Interactive. These are the highlights... Spielberg Digs It den away at the back of the hall, and shown only to a select few, the company had two brand-new products on display, one a new interactive adventure, the other a screen-saver. Given that LucasArts is the company responsible for the brilliant Monkey Island and Sam and Max Hit the Road, there was a lot of interest in its offerings. The Dig is a graphic adventure which has been co-designed by none other than Steven Spielberg. This deep space game’s special ef- fects have been created by Indus- trial Light and Magic, the company responsible for the dinosaurs in Jurassic Park and all the effects in the Star Wars trilogy. Given that kind of pedigree, your MACFORMAT reporter was expecting something special, and I wasn’t disappointed. You play an explorer by the name of Boston Low. You're a commander sent into space with a small team to blow up an asteroid that is in orbit around the Earth. Unfortunately, the asteroid turns out to be an alien booby-trap, and you and your team get transported to a hostile planet light-years from home. In order to get back to Earth, you've got to cope with alien technology and treachery among the crew. From what I saw, the game cer- tainly looks brilliant. Its character graphics are pretty similar to those used in Monkey Island, and the background graphics, complete with brilliant spinning rocks, are amazing. The gameplay seems to follow the traditional route of prob- lem, object collection and solution, but I didn’t get long to play on it, so it may well change later on. Screen-savers have been big business ever since Berkeley re- leased After Dark. LucasArts is now seeking to tap this market with its own Star Wars screen-saver. There are 14 modules in all. The ones I saw included Obi Wan and Darth Perhaps the biggest buzz of the show for Mac users came in the form of the LucasArts stand. Hid- Looks familiar? That's because the character graphics are similar to those in Monkey Island. Andy Hutchinson brings you all the latest industry and games news from the largest computer show in the world, the Chicago Computer Electronics Show. Vader battling their way around your screen, a bunch of Jawas stealing all your desktop icons, the Death Star trench setting and scenes from the bridge of the Mil- lennium Falcon. However, the largest is the one that plays the entire Star Wars script, complete with digitised scenes from the film. Surely this is the last word in screen-savers. For more details call LucasArts in the US on 0101 415 721 3300. Time for Warner Time Warner, the film company, has been involved in computer The spinning rocks will amaze you. We can only hope that the gameplay does too! The special effects in LucasArts’ The Dig are stunning — not surprising, when you consider that they have been created by the company responsible for the effects in the Star Wars trilogy. game production behind the scenes for about four years now, but this year it launched its own software division, the imaginatively titled Time Warner Interactive. At its opulent stand it was showing three Mac products. Robot City is an adventure cum shoot-’em-up, which will be re- leased on CD-ROM by the time you read this. The idea of the game is to investigate the death of a human in a city of robots. The urgency of this investigation is increased somewhat when you re- alise that you are the prime suspect. The game includes puzzles and traditional adventure problems in a fully rendered 3D environment. The graphics are full-screen and in- clude superbly rendered robots and backgrounds. Time Warner reckons that it’s Myst meets The Journeyman Project meets Lunicus. Expect a re- view in MACFoRMAT real soon. The Multimedia Cartoon Studio is a CD-ROM that features both ani- mated and still colour cartoons lift- ed from the Cartoon Bank — which houses work from the US’s most MACFORMAT ° ISSUE 16 ¢ SEPTEMBER 1994 20 Time Warner Interactive’s Robot City is a puzzle/adventure shoot-’em-up with full-screen $D-rendered robots and backgrounds. Expect a Macrormat review soon. famous cartoonists. Robert Mankoff, Mick Stevens and Jack Ziegler are all included. The package includes a cartoon- making kit that enables you to cre- ate your own cartoons from cus- tom parts. The CD also contains tips from the professionals, 60 fully animated cartoons, animated car- toon screen-savers, cartoons for use in printed documents, a form- maker to create stationery and an electronic calendar. With the tag line ‘It’s an even better trip on CD-ROM’ you know you're in for something slightly du- bious with Woodstock: 25th Anniver- Sary CD-ROM. This rather odd disc includes studio versions of festival songs, ‘live’ performances by dead people (and those who should be by now), video interviews, on- screen lyrics and even a game. However, the funniest part of the CD is a ‘mystical paintbrush’ that enables you to unleash your ‘psy- chedelic creativity’. Having seen this CD-ROM, I have to agree with Johnny Rotten when he said ‘The only good hippie is a dead hippie’. For more details contact Time a a Petar IHARRY CAYcries A Warner Interactive in the US on 0101 818 955 9999. More Interactivity Interactive Electronic Publishing is the company responsible for CD- ROMs like Leonardo The Inventor, Beethoven's 5th and How Things Grow. It was showing a new encyclopedia at the show, called InfoPedia. This claims to be the most comprehensive multimedia encyclopedia around. It contains all 29 volumes of the Funk and Wagnall Encyclopedia and seven other (un-named) reference books. The CD includes a single screen interface, search and report functions, 150 animations, 500 sound files and 2,000 images. It also includes such ‘must know’ in- formation as the favourite pro- grammes on US television (Wheel of Fortune, Jeopardy, Oprah, Star Trek: The Next Generation and Entertain- ment Tonight are the top five, in case you're interested). Given that this is a US reference work, its use may be a bit limited. Interactive Electronic Publishing i ED exrost ot”, fi a TH | Baw | RETURN aro ka | Lacr — er, COM PUTER virus | Leal ee secs wexT The Multimedia Cartoon Studio features both fully animated and still colour cartoons. What's more, you can create your own gags, with a little help from the professionals of course. Unleash your psychedelic creativity in Woodstock: 25th Anniversary CD-Rom. in the US can be reached on 0101 914 426 0400. The most bizarre sight of the show was a Virtual Reality golf club. This is only available on the PC at the moment, but it’s ru- moured to be making its way on to the Mac. Basically, you waggle a stick, which looks like an over- grown truncheon, over a box that lies on the floor. The manufactur- ers, Sports Science Inc (tel: 0101 216 963 0660) reckon that it can measure speed, club-face angle and club path. We can’t wait. Other spurious ‘Virtual’ products included a Virtual baseball bat and a Virtual guitar. Still, moving swiftly on... The most dubious CD-ROM on show was definitely Interactive Penthouse, a ‘glamour’ disc based on the world-famous magazine. In this multimedia experience you play the role of photographer. Var- ious Penthouse pets strip-off to their bare essentials, while you click on a camera icon. The rather peculiar idea of all this is to create your own ‘glamour’ spread for a multi- media magazine. From what I saw, all people were doing was watch- ing the full-motion video. This sickening computer porn (sorry, thought I was writing for The Sun for a moment there)... this en- lightened, politically correct CD- ROM should be on general release by the time you read this. And no, they weren't giving out ‘re- view’ copies. Still, you should be able to get hold of a copy of Interactive Pent- house from any CD-ROM specialist (brown paper bag not provided). Mickey Mouse CDs We've already seen the transfor- mation of various Disney films into games. Now that onslaught contin- ues with its latest animated film The Lion King. While the platform game won't be appearing on the Mac, the educational titles will. The enormous Disney stand (a translucent magic castle) was showing a motley collection of CD titles for the Mac. transformed into animated story- books. These very well-designed CDs enable younger Mac users to see the story and click on the screen to hear sound effects and songs, and to see animations. Each of the stories takes place in a setting that matches the time of day (morning, noon or night) where the disc is being used. The storybook looks at your Mac’s internal clock and adjusts every- thing accordingly. The Aladdin and 101 Dalmatians Activity Centres are like Virtual Fish- er Price™, These use the Disney characters in games, puzzles, art projects and songs. Segments of the films are used on these CDs; Al- addin’s got as much as 30 minutes of original footage. No doubt these will be enormously popular with anyone who loved the films. Then there are The Lion King and Mickey and Crew Print Studios, which were definitely my favourite Dis- ney CDs. These enable you to cre- ate banners, diaries, labels, place mats, invitations, business cards(!), greeting cards and colouring books from a selection of clip art. All of these latest Disney products should be on release by the time you read this. 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