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WizTools a collection of invaluable utilities which make i using your Mac easier and more enjoyable. The set includes backup with synchronisation, keystroke recorder, worldclock Mia launcher, finder tools, submenu and much more... SRP £69.00 WizTools PB is a collection for PowerBook users. ; Includes Security, Battery management, Remote Access | support, Synchronisation and PB Ease to make using your PowerBooks’ trackball easier. SRP £69.00 |- ~~) Popup Folder is the ultimate “| Finder navigator. Gain instant | access to any folder or drive icon, — jee even from open and save dialogs, up to 5 levels deep. You can sim- in ply drag-and-drop files into these menus. Navigating server volumes has never been so Additionally, Popup Folder will add =J hierarchical menus to your Apple Menu. SRP £39.00 easy! = — Virex is the fastest and lel To [zl j] ele rs pond safest anti-virus software for Lele eel Se |e | ee VIREX the Macintosh. 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The package also includes an Appointment diary/calendar sys- tem along with a simple list making utility. — - SRP £65.00 Chingford 081 524 7511 Crawley 0293 541000 Croydon 081 649 7221 Harlow 0279 454375 London WC1 071 304 4113 Staples Corner 081 450 6100 Stevenage 0438 748583 West Thurrock 0708 866699 All prices shown are Suggested Retail Prices exclusive of VAT. Softline Distribution Ltd, Mill House, Mill Lane, Carshalton, Surrey SM5 2WZ Product range differs from store to store. Tel 081 401 1234 Fax 081 401 1235 AppleLink UK0037 CompuServe 100012,21 Please check for availability. 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 rubies 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 MACEORMAT elcome again to Macrormaét, 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: Macrormat, 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 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, so 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. ex OW. 7 OeDOUG; Airbrush Effects 46 Not so long ago, the airbrush created a revolution in illustration. Then along came Macs. Now, you can achieve air- brush effects in your Mac art program. We show you how Putting on the Style 50 Whatever kind of publication youre producing on your Mac, chances are it has standard elements like covers and contents pages. Here’s how to make them effective Font of All Knowledge 55 _ Damaged fonts are one of the most common causes of problems with documents and printing. Discover how to identify a faulty font, and how to get rid of it HyperCard: Onthe Menu 64 It’s the ultimate in Mac customisation! Learn how you can use HyperCard to create and modify your own menus, using just half a dozen easy-to-remember commands ia She Pinder REGULARS Microsoft’s new Office bundle; Gabriel Knight is coming; Quark promises to do better; new storage options; a low-cost portable Mac, plus much more Boston Expo News 20 New products, views and rumours from one of the biggest Mac shows in the world. A special report Apple Talk 29 Your views on everything Mac-related, plus hints and tips, and why a Performa monitor is like a used Skoda... What’s New 32 Andy Storer makes a real find at a car boot sale and discovers some QuickTime tools to save you money... VEO Mac Answers 59 The WEIR 0] and the More of your real-life Mac and Performa problems solved by our team of experts 7 Back Issues 94 If you’re still short of those few issues you need to mm : = complete your MacrorMat collection, act fast! We've scoured the world to bring you some of the best Mac-related products at the best prices Free Reader Ads 112 Flog your old Mac, score a bargain, or just discover how much your kit is selling for these days... Buying Advice 115 Invaluable advice on how to safeguard your rights Dilbert 116 If you don’t take a break and enjoy the sun while it lasts, you could end up like this... Next Month 121 We sweated blood to bring you this month’s biggest-ever issue. And next month we'll do it all again! (Sob) OG $F This month you could win: >] Zargon Zoo 1146 |... = Hitachi 17-inch monitor 122 MACFORMAT * ISSUE 17 * OCTOBER 1994 4 REVIEWS WordPerfect 3.0 72 Looking for the perfect word processor? Microsoft Word has been king for a long time — does the new version of WordPerfect have what it takes to seize the crown? Sound and Vision 84 A Interactive music and video on CD-ROM | from some of contemporary music’s big ‘y names (plus some others...) 74 -? Interactive ‘| Jump | No World Order World Tour Ritz Payroll 87 If your small business has just got larger, now may be the time to let your Mac take charge of the hassles of payroll management. This may be the package you need... Education: Get it Write! Not just another word processor, but a complete toolkit for young writers? Plus a graded reader on CD-ROM... Writer’s Toolkit 88 Zargon Zoo 90 1994 Guinness Disc of Records 92 Great records not listed on this disc: did you know that Andy Hutch once wrote a review blindfolded, hanging upside down from the Forth Bridge? Luckily, it wasn’t this one... expensive film: Shareware Heaven yy The latest low-cost and no-cost software from the Internet! If you have the CD-ROM edition, it’s all yours on the disc to try for yourself. If you have the floppy disk version — hey — at least you won't end up with the Turkey of the month... Games Reviews m7 An exclusive review of the gS newest gun-game from the US, a CD of 1,001 games, and more! "| Sensory Overload 104 ‘SS Wrath of the Gods 106 = DM Carriers at War 2 108 Ultra Mac-Games 110 Alien Arcade 110 Disc-To-Disk Copy sounds off any CD to your Mac! Unleash the potential of your sound chip! Get sued for breach of copyright! 114 Rapid€D 115 If there’s one thing wrong with CD-ROM, it’s how slowly it accesses data. Can this utility speed up your CD drive? y > — CONTENTS They’re pretty impressive, these new PowerMacs, aren't they? But they don’t mean you've got to trade in your current Mac! We show you what the range of top Mac add-ons can do for you, from scanners that enable you to capture the world, to modems j that enable you to talk to it, plus printers, bigger monitors, even mouse-pens... A Presenting... 75 Se Flip-charts are a flop. Chalk-and-talk is on the black list. For presentations today, the smart choice is a Mac- based presentation package — combining charts, graphs, slide- shows and even video-tape output. We survey the top ‘show-business’ programs to help you find which one is right for your needs Anatomy of a Sequencer A sequencer is the central == Die piece of software in just at woe Te Ha 8 0:00.00 0 SSI ley) a a Me JES) about any Mac-based music setup. What ae oases! exactly is sequencing all about, what can a sequencer do for you, and which one should you buy? We reveal all! ° es _ Apple Expo preview 26 Next month the UK’s premier Mac show takes place at Olympia. We’ll bring you a full guide next issue, but here’s a preview of some of the highlights... COVER DISKS Your Cover Disk 6 A cornucopia of completeness! A complete, compulsive arcade game, the definitive start-up problem solver (time-limited), a folder icon customiser, a better calculator and no less than 18 TrueType fonts! Your CD-ROM 8 If you have the CD-ROM edition of this issue, you have everything on the floppy disk — plus demos of Star Trek, Colorize, The Multimedia Workshop and The Cruncher, just about every shareware font ever, and more! MACFORMAT * ISSUE 17 * OCTOBER 1994 S ACFORMAT COVER DISKS Where else can you find help with your Mac start-up problems, play a fantastic game, find a new handwriting font and calculate how deeply in debt you are? Derek Smith reveals the goodies on the disk... 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 17 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 MacrorMat cannot be held responsible for any damage to data or consequential losses. So please, for your own sake, back up first. Game Requires: System 7, 256 colour monitor, 1Mb of RAM Crunch is one of those simple yet completely addictive games. All the action is mouse con- trolled, and the game itself couldn’t be easier. Moving your mouse rolls your character around the screen. The faster you move the mouse, the faster your little character rolls around. Beware of going too fast though, be- cause when you hit a solid object you bounce away again at an alarming rate. The game has three levels, each quite different. But best of all, 2EEE BEEBE EEE I ee ee ee ee a oe # Level 1: you're orange, and you must collect the dollar bills before your opponent and avoid the pit in the middle. But you can bump into the purple guy and bounce him into the pit... Here you have four vampire opponents. Luckily they just float around aimlessly, but if you touch one of them it’s curtains, and I’m not talking Laura Ashley. Hint: use the corners wisely. this game is completely free! So grab your mouse, strap up and get ready for the ride of your life. To get started, simply double-click the Crunch icon, then go to Game and select Begin, or press [command] [B]. {® Start-up manager Requires: System 7; PowerMac native Chances are that at some point you have had a software problem with your Mac - it’s part of life, like running out of toilet paper. Although many things can be the cause, often as not the problem lies in your System folder, with Con- trol Panels or Extensions conflicting with one another. The symptoms can include crashes, printing problems and a slow Mac. Conflict Catcher can be an essential aid in tracking down and solving these problems. Some programs consult a built-in database to see which Extensions clash, but the problem is that these become outdated very quickly as new Extensions appear. Conflict Catcher is intelli- gent enough to look at your current software, test it, and produce a report. You can also select which items you want to load at start-up and save these sets for future use. Conflict Catcher can also tell you a lot about your Extensions, such as how much memory they require. This can be a useful feature when you're deciding whether it’s really worth your The diamond is the entire platform, it's slippery, and there's a deadly drop all around! The tactic here is patience and accuracy. Luckily, your opponent finds it as hard as you do... MACFORMAT * ISSUE 17 * OCTOBER 1994 6 See Conflict Catcher 1) SS Set:| Original Settings 6) Conflict Catcher™ | [Coad RAMDDI- ~ by Jeffrey Robbin Bistatictant Bir role co-Ron Clicking on @ startup file will eSh toggle between enabled and disabled. Ki) _|Foreign File Access ©1994 Casady & Greene, Inc. Network Extension ——<—— | View:[_by Order }{_ Sort rene Sees (Cinabie ail) (Disable an ) |Serierwrem™ 20 Conflict Test }(_ Links...) |padnen> red _|% { Report... }{ 7 }{_ Prefs... Version: 2.1.1 Oona) fi The Contlict Catcher Control Panel gives you access to all of its features, including a test for conflict problems. while to keep an Extension or not. The program comes in two parts, an Exten- sion and a Control Panel. To install the pro- gram, simply drag these two icons on to your System Folder and restart your Mac. So what's the restriction? Well this version will only work for three days before it self-de- structs, so make the best use of it in the time available. Foldericon Icon Utility oN Requires: any Mac I'm sure you will have come across those smart looking folders that have the program’s icon on them. Traditionally, creating them has involved using ResEdit or other utilities. The problem with this is that it is both time-consuming and difficult, especially when you realise that an icon consists of data for large and small icons in both black and white and colour versions. FolderIcon takes all the hassle out of the pro- cess and is simplicity itself to use. Find the icon that you want to appear on a folder, drag and _ drop it on to the FolderIcon application, and sel- ect where you want the result to be saved. Wait around two seconds and — bingo — there’s a brand new custom folder. With Folderlcon’s help your desktop will look more professional and more fun. The only catch (there had to be one, didn’t there) is that you may find these icons take a little longer to draw, so don’t get too carried away. CPE TESST: GETTING YOUR BACK 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 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 MACFORMAT 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 17’ (but it is still not decompressed, so you still can’t run Os @A-@& Movie Folder icon Movie f Creating a custom folder with an icon on it is simplicity itself — just drag the icon over Folder Icon and it does the rest. ProCalc Calculator Requires: any Mac, System 6.0.5 or later Apple’s own calculator, which you'll find under the Apple menu, is extremely handy and very simple to use, but it’s also a little basic and not a lot of use when you want to do some real number-crunching. ProCalc is a full scientific calculator, with enough features to keep even Einstein quiet for an afternoon. Just like the built-in calculator, it uses the separate keypad for number entry, although you can use the mouse if you so desire. To view all the functions of this utility, open it up and select About ProCalc from the Apple menu. ProCalc can be opened in the same way as any other application — that is, by double-click- ing. However, you'll probably find it handier, and easier to open, if you place it under the Apple Menu. To do this open the System folder and then the Apple Menu Items folder. Now drag Apple’s old calculator out and pop ProCalc into the folder in its place. Hey presto, you now have instant access to the new calcu- lator from the Apple menu. so Protac SS Looking at the calculator upside down may give you a message. (Do you ever get the feeling that some of the niceties of these programs are wasted on Derek?) STS 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 17 backup’ (or ‘Fred’ if you want. It doesn’t matter). 5. Drag the ‘MacFrormat 17’ 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 17’ folder from your hard disk by dragging it across to the Wastebasket, and selecting Empty Wastebasket. _ | MACFORMAT COVER DISKS Hand Fonts TrueType Fonts Requires: any Mac You asked for fonts, you got ‘em. There are hundreds on the CD, and here is a selection of the best. They are all in a natural handwriting style, and can give a whole new look to your documents. All these fonts are in TrueType for- mat, which means they will look good on screen and will print out at high quality on any printer. To use them, just drag the ones you want on to your System folder, click OK when your Mac asks if it should put them where they belong, and restart your Mac (If you use Sys- tem 6 you'll need to have Font/DA Mover to in- stall them and the TrueType INIT to use them.) Give them a big hand... These are the fonts on the cover disk. Because they are TrueType fonts, all of them can be used at any size. How razorbach Ey Ping How razorback-jurrping frogs frogs can level six-piqued can level six piqued gy masts! guNnasts! Ashley Architect How rorthok ee weap Hows razorback gamping frogs EreS cor bevel Se pig ved Author Enya Symnasis! tow razorback- jun ping fee carina ae es frogs can level six GYMNASTS! piqued guy nasts! Flintstone EraserDust How vazercback-lumnging =, ee ugar can level sdk. ee oe romney hos pigued syuastied a a ls Treefrog Violation HOw Paz Otback-dmpig frag2 cof level 2ix pigued gymaere! Zachary How rarcrbech-Jum ping frogs com level six piqued gywnestst WetPaint Has eacoroack-jumping Frogs can Pow casoroak-jumping rege level Sx. piqued. emrste can level six piqued gernattet Handwriting LeftyCasual Pow rozorbock-j Erogs con level six prayed How meorback-jumping frogs can level sin gyrrmasT st piqued gy mnacts! LeftyMarker Lilith-Heavy Ho wy razorback-juaaping How razorback -jumping frogs frogs can level siw oan level six piqued gymnasts} = pigned qyuanasts! MarkerFeltThin New Day-Script How RAZORBACK-JUMPING Hews FROGS CAN LEVEL SIX His anlar 0. a A PIQUED GyMNAsTs! piqved qyMnasis! Rog's Hand SteveHand MACFORMAT * ISSUE 17 * OCTOBER 1994 7 MACFORMAT COVER DISCS 200 hundred floppy disks’ worth of lip-smacking, mouse-quenching, game-storming software! n extra bucket of sweat went into making CD number 5 in our endless struggle to bring you the best in Mac software from around the world. There are seven folders this month: @ Highlights: this folder contains aliases of folders elsewhere on the CD. Double-clicking on one of the folders will open the original, so it’s an easy way to get started on the cream of this month’s programs. @ Macrormat 17 Floppy: contains all the software from the floppy disk edition. @ Font Spectacular: over 800 fonts in True- Type, PostScript and bitmap formats. This is the ultimate collection of virtually every shareware font ever released! @ Shareware in MAcrormart: this folder con- tains all of the shareware reviewed in Mac- FORMAT this month, plus a few extras. See page 99 for the start of our shareware roundup. ™@ Shareware City: we now take all the share- ware from the Internet that we can lay our hands on, so this is becoming the definitive collection of all new and updated shareware for the Mac. ® Demos: this folder contains both shareware and commercial demos that we’ve arranged. @ Reader’s Corner: your chance to be fa- mous. This section contains software, letters and comments from MacFormat readers. Well, we only have two pages to tell you what's on the humungous CD, so here are some of the unmissable pieces of software. Font Spectacular Font collection Requires: any Mac; some fonts require a PostScript printer When you open the Font Spectacular folder you are greeted by four folders containing how ‘ -09 eae DF a-cogaee opyn7al R oe can oll coo ever 17x C0el Six 1 Ipl- pieueo aJepel Lqua—l> TrueType, PostScript type 1, PostScript type 3 and bitmap fonts. So what's the difference, you ask? Simply this: @ TrueType: this is Apple’s own printing lan- guage. All the font data is included in a single suitcase — to install it, simply drag the suitcase on to your System Folder. System 6 users will have to use Font/DA Mover and will need the TrueType INIT in their System Folder (it’s built into System 7). The advantage of these fonts is that they look good on the screen at any size, and print out at high quality on any printer, in- cluding the dot matrix ImageWriter. If a font is available in both PostScript and TrueType for- mats, you may well want to go for the True- Type version. ®@ PostScript Type 1 and 3: these fonts are designed to work with PostScript printers and although they will work with other printers, the results are very poor. Unlike TrueType fonts they come in two parts: a screen file (shaped like a suitcase) and a printer file (usually shaped like a printer, but sometimes just a blank paper icon). To install these fonts you need to drag both parts on to your System fol- der. They may look especially jagged at large sizes on screen, but will print out fine. @ Bitmap: this is where you'll find some of the more specialised fonts, but unfortunately they are also the poorest in terms of quality. The font comes in one part: a suitcase that can be installed by dragging it on to the System folder. Only use these fonts at the recommen- ded sizes (these are the sizes that appear in bold on a pull-down size menu). PostScript printers will emphasise their poor quality more than non-PostScript printers, but try them out. Row razorback-jumping frogs can level 44 piqued gymnasts! How razorbads-jumping frogs can level six piqued gymnasts! The TrueType fonts folder on this month's CD contains over 250 fonts, from AmericanUncial to ZedFont. There are 450 PostScript Type 1 fonts, including BlackForest and Rickshaw — ideal if you have a PostScript printer. <-> ——_ Whether you win or lose the battle, you are given the chance to beam down to a planet and sample the rest of the game. Star Trek Demo Adventure game ¥Z Requires: 256 colours, 1.5Mb of RAM, System 6.07 or later This is your chance to command the Enterprise and boldly go where you didn’t even know you wanted to go. The demo places you in the role of Captain Kirk (quick, pass the corset) during a mock battle with another starship. Navigating the Enterprise through space is simply a case of moving the mouse in the direction in which you want to travel. First thing to do is raise shields by pressing S, then arm the ship by pressing W (for weapons). You can now fire the phasers by pressing the mouse button and the photon torpedoes by pressing [space bar]. To find the enemy look at the scanner in the centre of the screen and then try to get on his tail and blast away. Speed is controlled by pressing numbers 1 to 0 on the top of your keypad (not the numeric pad) The key to the left of 1 puts you in reverse. Pressing D brings up the repair screen, where you can tell Scotty (‘she can’t take much more, captain’) what to concentrate on. There Yow pa3z0p6aLlk-“yMnUHr cbpore UWaH nesen cux nvayeg rbiMHactcl How raZorbaek-jymping frogs ean level fi piqued gymnasts! The 112 PostScript Type 3 fonts include Cyrillic and San Francisco. There are also 80 Bitmap fonts in their own folder. MACFORMAT * ISSUE 17 * OCTOBER 1994 8 ee are other controls listed in the ReadMe file, but a more fun way of accessing them is to press [Tab]. This switches you into command mode, where you can click on individual members of your bridge crew to give them instructions. Colorize 1.25 Demo Paint package Requires: 256 colours or greys, 2.5Mb RAM, System 7 Not another paint package, you may say. But wait, this is really very interesting and quite different from anything you have seen before. It has a very specific purpose, that of colouring black and white line art. If you use clip art, par- ticularly shareware, you will have come across really nice pictures, but with the problem that they are bitmap (low resolution) as well as black and white. Colorize is designed to make the job of adding colour to these images easy, and enables you to export the finished job as high quality images. This demo gives you the full program, with all functions, with the exception that any images sop lavert Shade I | eg oe Show Ail Shedes tasead Q Be Import Shades trees Delete Shade vaned € fie ta Toots IRENE ‘voc tion Keys Demonstration i wi Resolution Zoom In me Zoom Out = Fit to Screen Cie (lie ed t es ay % HI | i by Calibrate Screen Protect Shade Gi te ae Colors @ O DSpet et a | What a great idea! Co/orize turns boring black and white pic- tures into boring colour images. Um... let me re-phrase that. GOT A PROBLEM? 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: MaAcForMat 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. Make your own homes movies with this fully featured package which retails for an amazingly low £60. created have a mark across them. The best way to get started is to copy all files to your hard disk, open the program and select Run Demo from the Demonstration menu. Operation is really easy and this tutorial will show you how to get the best from the applica- tion. (And any program with a De-speckle Sen- sitivity command is OK by me.) The Multimedia Workshop » ~ Multimedia authoring Requires: colour monitor, 1.9Mb & RAM Multimedia Workshop was reviewed in last month’s Macrormat and received a huge 93% rating. We said, ‘It’s hard to fault The Multimedia Workshop... it has all the functionality of pro- grams costing three times the price’. It’s not so much one program as three: a writing workshop to produce text, a video workshop to create animated sequences and a paint workshop to draw images. The demo comes in two parts. The first fol- der, The Multimedia Workshop Demo, contains the actual program, but before you use it, please use the MMW Demo Installer. This is both an example of a Multimedia Workshop file and a tutorial. To install it, double-click the icon and click Save. Your Mac creates a second folder Multimedia Workshop's video workshop makes creating a video sequence as easy as drag-and-drop. TOO MANY TO MENTION Well, we have managed to cover at least 3% of the disc on these two pages. There’s just too much for us to list. The only way to find the rest is to explore. The disc contains 140Mb of the latest shareware - virtually released in the past month! Don’t miss the demo of OptiMem (which ‘we covered in MACFoRMAT 13’s ‘Memory Magic’ feature) — it will give you more mem- ory out of thin air. If you already have RAM- Doubler then-don’t worry, they work together hand in glove to give even more memory! MACFORMAT COVER DISCS SPREADSHEET Here we are proud to present a spreadsheet that is fun. Next month we will have a database that is sexually stimulating. called ‘MMW Overview’ and also automatically installs some things in your System folder that you need to run the Workshop. You will probably want to see the overview first - it is a great introduction to the whole program. Double-click on its icon, and when it has loaded, select Auto Play from the Play- back menu. Since this is a demo, a couple of the main features are disabled, such as saving and print- ing, but otherwise you have the full package to try out. If you like The Multimedia Workshop and want to know more, then you can contact ABLAC Learning Works on 0626 331464. The Cruncher 1.1 Demo Talking spreadsheet “| Requires: 1.9Mb RAM Lge The Cruncher is a spreadsheet aimed squarely at children (although a few adults may prefer it to some of the confusing professional packages). The spreadsheet is designed to be as simple as possible to use, but has all the functions that you would want, (unless you are a nuclear physicist). To help you, the program also con- tains plenty of colourful tutorials and guides that are easy to follow and understand. These are designed to aid children in creating spread- sheets, but they also have the effect of helping them with their maths. The Cruncher was reviewed back in Mac- FORMAT 14 where our education expert, gave it a tremendous rating of 89%. To try it out, you first need to install it — but don’t worry, this is a simple process. Double-click on the The Cruncher 1.1 Demo Install icon and click In- stall, select where you want to install the pro- gram and click Save. If you like what you see, then you can con- tact ABLAC Learning Works on 0626 331464 for more details. Derek Smith Crusader is a demo of a World War 2 game that will delight any fans of strategy games. Also on the CD is a demo of Morph, the desktop morphing package that gives pro- fessional results at an affordable price. PLUS! We will give away the one and only gold master disc of this month’s CD to the first person who can tell us which pro- gram Jeff Lewis wrote on this month’s CD. 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PERITAS An iCL company ig changes in the way you B use your Mac are coming — and the first sign of these changes is soon to be released in the form of Microsoft Office 4.2. Office was given its official launch at the Boston Macworld Exposition, which was held in the first week of August. (For more Expo news see page 20.) Despite the version num- ber only moving up from v4.1, it is a major upgrade by Microsoft. The integrated package includes new versions of its word processor Word (v6.0), its spreadsheet Excel (v5.0) and its presentation package Power- Point (v4.0). All three programs will be available separately, but used together they can take advan- tage of the company’s new OLE software system. OLE (Object Linked Embedding) enables you to use one program while staying within another. For example, while you're typing a let- ter in Word, you can open a box which uses the Excel program and create, for example, a spreadsheet chart. One of the terms that’s being bandied around the industry’s corridors for this new interlocking programs concept is ‘component architecture’. Yes, it’s true. Don Pickens, Microsoft’s Group Product Manager for the Mac, told Macrormat: ‘You don’t think: “Today I’m going to sit down and do a spreadsheet.” going to do some word processing.” More likely you'll think: “Today I’m going to write a letter.” Or “Today I’m going to write a re- port.” You don’t think about the mechanism, you think about the job. So the idea of component architecture is [to] have all the components available that you need to accomplish that task.’ Pickens claims that the aim of OLE, as well as the similarly in- spired OpenDoc system that Apple is about to release, is to make it Office shows the way Object Linked Embedding becomes the Microsoft option. Ooer... easier to work with the swelling tide of data - both its type and con- tent. As he says, ‘You can log on to a variety of information sources and grab all sorts of stuff these days. No matter what form that in- formation is in — a picture, a chart, maybe a fax image — you want to be able to toss these things all around and make up whatever the end result is that you want. You don’t want to have to think about the tools it takes to do that.’ The idea is that with OLE, pro- grams become secondary to the words, images and sounds. Other companies will also be able to write programs that work with OLE, and therefore become components that cooperate with each other. ‘The Or “Today I’m a customer sees, we hope, over a pe- riod of time, more and more [com- ponents] becoming available from different sources — and that’s not just Microsoft: that is the entire in- dustry vision. ‘Office is about breaking down the barriers between programs,’ Pickens stated when quizzed about the revamping. ‘[The barriers] aren’t completely down yet, but within Office, we’ve taken the first steps.” OK, listen carefully. The price of Microsoft Office 4.2 is expected to be £470, and you should be able to buy it later this month. Word 6.0, Excel 5.0 and PowerPoint 4.0 will also be available separately, and should be on sale for £259 each by the time you read this. Within a couple of months, you'll also be able to opt to have Office, or any of the in- dividual programs, supplied either on floppy disk or CD-ROM. In time for Christmas? Both formats will also be available for standard and PowerMacs by then. You'll need an LC or better with System 7 and at least 8Mb of RAM to make the most of Office. For more details call Microsoft on 0734 270001. S file {Git _Wiew insert Format Tools Table Windew _tiew Insert Format Ter Betow i » table that Icreated using Excel, whibe reenaining in Word. —v Each program has an Insert menu that enables to you to open a box within a document that actually belongs to an entirely different program. Here we're using Word, but the box is from Excel. File Edit _ View Insert Format Tools Table Window os Praanveeehely. be Aleem ea Peck Eqrica = P= OP Sls]-[y) Mislsle) iF ca a = venga AE 4 eS 3 75 ‘document! ee on zn remy tesshesstresPerctecsSerctes;t- cst; s-S ++ t= aeaneg ; = —__. Chartiizaré — Step 2 of 5 - Seinct a cart hype ares — ia Below is a table that I created using Excel, while reenaining in Weed. —w Calories Comsumed During Heston Expo Double-click on the box, and you're in Exce/. Now you can enter spreadsheet information and make a chart, without leaving your word processor — although you'll see the menu and icons have changed to those for Excel. The chart is made, and sits neatly within the Word document. You'll also be able to do things like dragging a chart from an Excel window and dropping it into a Word window — or anywhere else you like, if it supports OLE. We're going to be throwing one helluva party at Earls Court this October. Yes, the Future Enter- tainment Show is back — and it’s going to be better than ever! Want to know all about the next wave of Mac CD-ROM and multimedia? Well, we'll be covering everything you could possibly want to know Macrormat live! in our own dedicated section of The FES runs the arena. from Wednesday But that’s not all! With dozens 26 October of experts representing Future’s vast stable of mags, you'll also be able to catch up with all the de- velopments taking place on other computer platforms. Let your guard down for a single moment, bar at the time). and you might even meet one of the wacky MACForMaT team (es- pecially if you happen to be in the you — can buy tickets in advance for just £6! For more details turn to page 31. Oh, one more thing: the black tie is optional. through to the following Sun- day. Tickets are available on the door for £7. But! You — and only mir UtUr Entertainment eas Ll Earls Court 2 26" - 30" October 1994 MACFORMAT * ISSUE 17 * OCTOBER 1994 15 Gabriel Knight gets mixed up in murders and voodoo — can you get him out of trouble? enowned adventure pub- R lisher Sierra is set to release another clutch of games for the Mac. The anarchic French tril- ogy of Goblitins, Gobliins 2 and Gob- lins 3 should be out now, priced at £39.99 each, while the moody Gabriel Knight will be available on disk for £39.99, or CD-ROM for £44.99. The interminable ‘adult’ series Leisure Suit Larry marches on with its sixth episode, available on CD-ROM for £44.99 - and remem- ber, you get even more double en- tendres, winks and elbow nudges Dive into adventure for your money with CD-ROM. Puzzle fans will need to hold out until October, when Incredible Toons goes on sale for £34.99, followed in November by Incredible Machine 2 for the same price. Unlike the ad- ventures, which had a long run on the PC before coming to the Mac, you can get the Incredible puzzlers at the same time as PC owners. This makes a welcome change — after all, why should we always have to wait in line behind PC and Amiga owners? You can call Sierra on 0734 303322. In living colour With the rise of DIY multimedia, devices that bring material from the outside world on to your Mac’s hard disk are becoming increasingly essential. Nikon’s new Scantouch colour scanner is designed to be used with Photoshop and other programs that recognise Photoshop plug-ins. The Scantouch can convert pictures, which are up to 8.5 x 14 inches in size, into digital images that you can then manipulate in the usual art pack- ages. Nikon is planning to bundle a graphics program and an OCR reader with the scanner. The package, which is available later this month, will cost £1,345. For a further £582, you can also get an adaptor that A very plain picture for a most colourful scanner. The Scantouch enables you to bring colour pics on to your Mac. will enable the scanner to read slides and transparen- cies. For more details call Nikon on 081 541 4440. Quark — new and improved? Thousands of QuarkXPress users are to get a better deal, according to the maker of the leading desktop publishing package. Launching the PowerMac version of XPress 3.3, Quark’s President, Fred Ebrahimi, promised that the company was going to be more responsive to its customers’ needs in the future. Quark is strongly behind Apple’s new computer — it’s stopped devel- oping the program on other plat- forms, including Unix work- iw tn 1e3308 ae And now, optimised performance for PowerMac users — XPress 3.3 goes native... stations, preferring to concentrate on PowerMac (and subsequently Windows) versions. On the Power- Mac, Ebrahimi claimed, the new ‘native’ version of XPress lives up to its name, running twice as fast as it does on any other computer. At £1,169, XPress 3.3 for Power Macintosh offers no extra features or ‘frills’, just optimised perfor- mance, but it will come with a free CD-ROM full of goodies, including XTension sub-programs, clip art and fonts. Unlike most companies, Quark isn’t offering standard Mac and PowerMac versions in one box. If you own either version 3.1 or 3.11, you have until Saturday 1 October to trade up to the Power- Mac version for £458. If you're a 3.2 or 3.3 owner, £229 paid before the end of the year will get you the package. New upgrade deals for 1995 are yet to be announced. Apple and Quark are also collab- orating on a special PowerMac offer — the PowerMac 7100 with XPress is available for £3,278, while the PowerMac 8100 with XPress is yours for £5,738 — a saving on list prices of over £800. Ebrahimi also announced that Quark is to begin charging for its technical support — partly to en- courage users to simply use the manual more often, rather than phoning up straight away. While support remains free for your first 90 days after buying the program, it'll then cost £206 a year. Com- panies that own several copies will get discounts. Ebrahimi said that Quark would be making a great effort to improve the service, which had been widely disparaged. ‘We've heard the customer,’ he said. ‘We’re willing to change.’ Future versions of XPress will ex- plore the potential of multimedia publishing with developments like the ability to use QuickTime movie clips within its documents. You can call Quark on 0483 454397, or for details of the Mac bundles call Apple on 0800 127753. Apple BYTES Apple makes some money! Somewhat of a turn-up, or an up-turn, this month has been the news that Apple made a profit of $138.1 million (about £92.1 million) between April and June this year. After the company’s heavy investment in the PowerMac, a loss along the lines of previous months had been predicted, but Apple seems to be in better shape than anyone had hoped. A report by US research firm Dataquest shows that Apple's share of the cuthroat personal computer market remained rock solid in 1993 at a little over 10%, meaning Apple kept its position as the second largest computer manufacturer behind IBM. Isn't it nice to know that our favourite computer is on such a firm footing? Take it to the Bridge A new version of TextBridge, an optical character recognition program, will be on sale in October. OCR software enables you to use a scanner to read in text and translate it into a form that a word processor can understand. With TextBridge’s use of AppleScript (Apple's new system that you can use to write scripts for programs), you should be able to automate this process. The program will work on any LC or better with at least System 6.0.5 and 8Mb of RAM. And for the first time, it will also run native on a PowerMac. TextBridge costs £116 and you can call the maker, Xerox, on 0734 668421. Techie corner Internet surfers with nothing better to do might like to look up the File Transfer Protocol server for the Apple Business Systems Division. Here you'll find software fixes, and notes on areas like the AppleShare and AppleSearch systems. There'll also be system news available on the server, which you can access at ‘abs.apple.com’. Apple is also updating its AppleSearch software to v1.1, which will enable you to access Wide Area Information Server sources from the Internet. This means you can search automatically for files on a particular subject over many far-flung e-Mail sites. No idea what any of that meant? Then perhaps you need... Future’s new mag! -net is a monthly magazine covering the exhilarating and exasperating world of communications. Issue 1 goes on sale in November, but Macrormar’s next issue will give you a taster in the form of a free supplement. The essential tour Quide to the Internet is on its way. STOP PRESS: Zargon Zoo We've just heard that the range of educational CD-ROM titles from Plum Productions is now being distributed by Remedia. So if you're interested in Zargon Zoo (reviewed this issue on page 90), Shapes 1 and 2, or the forthcoming 100 Years of Motoring (watch for a review in Macrormat soon), contact Remedia on 0703 871177. 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Claris developed ClarisDraw™ for users who want a quality drawing environment that’s easy to learn and easy to use. With an excellent track record delivering products like MacDraw™ Pro, you can be confident that Claris is bringing you a new versatile graphics standard for Macintosh. ClarisDraw has intelligent features that help you quickly produce sensational, accurate results. Its smart graphics tools eliminate the guesswork of traditional graphics programs. ClarisDraw is the next generation graphics program that makes professional drawing capabilities accessible to everyone. You can purchase the all new ClarisDraw for just £275.00’, or take advantage of a special upgrade or trade-in offer of only £70.50°. (Offer expires 30 September 1994’). To place your order, contact your local Claris dealer or call Freephone 0800 929005 in the UK, or Freephone 1 800 732732 in the Republic of Ireland. Or simply return the coupon below. Simply powerful software.™ Yes, I want to know more about ClarisDraw. Please send me more information and my free demonstration disk. MFIOA Pro, PuintGuide, Simply of a0 trademarks of Charis Corporation. i other trackemarks or beard names are the mpective hakders, All prices are subject to change without mice. AT. VAT 1, upgrentes from MacDrww Pro will cost £70.54: all other wpgrades and tracheins £117.50. include: Deneba Canvas, Adabe Illustrator, Abdus LatelliDeaw, Alda FreeHand, CA Deaw. eee wen wn ee ee tet | cy side of planet Zog. The Optistore 2000 drive from DPL uses 5.25-inch optical disks, each of which can store 2 Gigabytes (2,000Mb) — the greatest that has been managed so far on that format. The drive costs a whacking £3,289, but the 2Gb disks themselves cost only £147. You can call DPL on 0785 57050. In contrast, Sony, which can be reached on 0932 816650, has the RMO-S570 drive. The drive unit is far cheaper at £2,321, but can store ‘only’ 1.3Gb on each 5.25-inch disk. The disks are also rather cheaper at £112, giving you a clear-cut choice between huge stor- Low-cost PowerBook With the release of Apple’s latest PowerBook, the 150, you can now buy a portable Mac for less — just under £1,200, in fact. The new machines will have 4Mb of RAM and a 120Mb hard disk. Bundled software includes PC Exchange, ClarisWorks, and programs to help you compute on the road. You'll be able to connect the 150 Store wars orking with loads of huge data files is all very Wea but your hard disk fills up in no time at all. One way out of the problem is to use a second storage medium, such as an optical disk. These also come in handy for making a second backup copy of vital data. This month has seen some intense com- petition for your cash, as firms vie to offer you the fastest drive and the biggest cartridges you can get this age capabilities at a (rather huge) price and, erm, slightly less huge amounts of storage for a distinctly more manageable price. to external printers, networks, hard disks and CD-ROM drives. Its RAM memory can be expanded up to 40Mb, and it can also use 100 series batteries, so you can swap your batteries without losing data. The PowerBook 150 is on sale now for £1,174. ® You may remember how last month we told you about Apple’s forthcoming range of Performa 630s. Details were a little sketchy at the time, but we can now confirm that the cheapest of the new models is a no-frills £1,149 machine, which comes with 4Mb of RAM anda 250Mb hard disk. At the top of the 630 range, and for £400 more, you can choose a more attractive Apple's new, stripped-down PowerBook 150 offers a good Starting point for portable computing wanna-bes. DPL's optical drive offers enormous storage capabilities, at a price — So be prepared to save up for a while. model with 8Mb of RAM, a 350Mb hard disk and an internal CD-ROM drive. The video-in card and TV tuner, which enable you to show TV and video images on your Mac, are also included with this 630. Of course, there'll be other combina- tions of memory and hard disk size available, but none of the 4Mb RAM models will include the CD- ROM drive. All models will come with a Performa Plus monitor and the new Apple keyboard design. For more details call Apple on 0800 127753. IT’S FREE! US Robotics has published The WorldPort Guide To Portable Com- puter Communications, a free booklet that takes you through all the things you need to know in order to use a modem with your PowerBook. This clearly written and compre- hensive book is available from Linda Croly on 0753 811180. Going to the zoo, zoo, zoo New from MDI is Behind The Scenes: The Zoo, an educational report com- piled at Marwell Zoo in Winchester. Movie clips and narration combine to tell the story of a typical day for Marwell’s animals and staff. At £39.99, The Zoo comes as a double CD-ROM ~— a disturbing precedent that can lead only to triple disc concept CD-ROMs with Roger Dean 1350 20 yom wad 300 28 youn oe aa eth Colao Lehootbenlebecodiomen Redken gi yearn mr enn ee en => ‘paper BYTES FreeHand lives The FreeHand illustration program is to continue being sold in direct competition against //ustrator, despite the fact that the companies behind the two packages are about to merge. Aldus, which owns the licence to FreeHand, has agreed to pass it back to the program's creator, Altsys, when Aldus's merger with Adobe goes through. The considerable, combined forces of Adobe and Aldus will be behind //ustrator, but you'll still have a choice between two of the most prominent programs on the Mac scene. A pricier Nisus Nisus, the popular budget word processor, is currently being revamped by the company from which it takes its name. The renamed Nisus Writer 4.0 has been extensively redesigned to include a host of features including a customisable tool bar. You'll also be able to drop sound notes into your documents, use QuickTime clips, and load and save files into more formats than was possible in previous versions. All these new features don't come cheap, though, and you can expect the price for the standard version to rise by about £60 to £347. The new Nisus Writer will work on any Mac from the SE upwards, but it does need 2Mb of RAM. Softline is distributing both the standard version and its £494 sibling (which can cope with up to 19 languages). For more details call Softline on 081 401 1234. Mail goes quicker Version 3 of QuickMail should be hitting the shops as you read this. For those who have never experienced its delights, QuickMail is an e-Mail manager, which now includes improved searching and spell-checking facilities, as well as the MailManager. This tool enables you to set up your Mac so that it will sort messages for you as they arrive. You can automatically delete unwanted messages or send out a standard reply to others. QuickMail is popular with network users, so there are special deals available for bulk purchases, but the price for a single copy is £147. The distributor, Frontline, can be reached on 0256 841841. Gasp, choke Vermont-based AirMouse Remote Control has just announced the release of a mouse that costs a staggering $545 (about £363). And yes, they are serious. The battery-operated AirMouse Mac works without a surface on which to place it: you can wave it in the air, and the direction will be reproduced by the on-screen cursor. Its infrared remote contro! mechanism means there’s no lead to snag around your coffee cup, and it'll work from over 20 feet away, which the company believes makes it cover artwork. You'll need a Mac with at least System 6.0.7 and 4Mb of RAM. You can call MDI on 0252 737630. perfect for presentation work. For further information call AirMouse Remote Control on 0101 802 878 9600. Go Behind The Scenes at the zoo in the first of a series of — what the maker calls — ‘interactive documentaries’. siege and 90 1.7 he 2 mae mage The = i Sp, a al MACFORMAT *« ISSUE 17 * OCTOBER 1994 18 JULTIMEDIA VOYAGE: Interactive Cockpit Combat photo’s NW iettans Nites Take the pilot's seat, run the CD and take off into the Wild Blue Yonder on an enthralling interactive mission through the history of jet flight. Accompany Yeager on his trip ° through the sound barrier. Experience a dogfight with a deadly MiG. Listen to interviews with pilots who've seen it, done it and shot it. Fly with the video Read their reports and watch video footage of combat action, ---Personal Mementoes FAS Check the stats WILD BLUE YONDER \ ——— a Neca Nesttete aerobatics and test disasters. See the instruments, weapon systems and statistics brought to life with atmospheric music from the period by artists such as U2, Elton John and Charlie Parker. With over 80 hours of entertainment on tap, including 1,000 superb photographs (many recently de-classified) it’s . ; ae View the mission an informative and educational voyage MEDIA --.-Video Footage Official Reports \... ee es 5 er THROUGH HISTORY OF JET FLIGHT =— a Vittee ..-Interviews sieve « oO TLARLY >>> >>> > through every fact of 20 of the most celebrated military aircraft of the past 50 years. If you've been waiting to see what multimedia could deliver, get into Wild Blue Yonder. — You won't want to eject. JV ctrum 5 loloByte Available on CD-Rom for PC and Mac from all good stockists or contact MICROPROSE by calling 0454 329 510 or by writing to: Microprose Ltd., The Ridge, Chipping Sodbury, Bristol, BS17 GAY. ‘a undreds of new prod- ucts, some of which could soon be part of your Mac system, were announced at August’s Macworld Exposition in Boston. Over four days, 49,500 people joined the traf- fic queues to get into the two halls, which were full of companies showing off new hardware and software. Visitors were able to buy tickets for talks covering all things Mac. The massive halls also includ- ed areas devoted to new technology and adult entertainment, while dealers with stands were selling software at knock-down prices. Apple broadcast its presence with a giant tent outside the World Trade Centre where you could see System 7.5 in action and find out about new developments, such as the 630 computer range and eWorld. Apple was concentrating on the Power Macintosh, though, announcing the long awaited news that over 200 programs can now run native on its new generation machine. New to the PowerMac platform are programs like Adobe Premiere, the Microsoft Office series (see our lead story on page 15), a Domark flight simulator called Out of the Sun, and HSC’s mighty image processor Live Picture. Apple also reckons it’s still on course to sell, or at least ship, a million PowerMacs by the end of the year. The Sony display was an oasis for hardware freaks, with stream- lined creations such as a giant wide-screen monitor for TV pro- duction companies and a new portable drive based on the Mini- Disc technology. The 3-inch CD- style discs employed by this drive are re-writable and are able to store up to 140Mb each. Sony also has a new speaker system which sits on top of your monitor. Other major displayers included WordPerfect, with version 3.1 of its eponymous word processer, and Symantec, whose long-awaited Norton Utilities 3.0 will be covered in next month’s MACFORMAT. Reluctant as we were to leave the Macrormat office, we just had to go over there and explore the future of Macintosh. Over the page, you can read Stuart Anderton's take on the Expo experience, but here you will find some of the other highlights and curiosities found at Boston '94... Macs over Boston Gadget is a 3D adventure from Synergy, one of a posse of Japanese publishers who were displaying their wares in Boston. In an eerie world of machines and mysteries, you must solve the puzzle surrounding a missing scientist. We willl be reviewing Gadget just as soon as we can beg, borrow or steal a copy. If you would like more information, Synergy can be reached on 0101 415 221 9477. California's Planet Art has compiled scans from every corner of the fine arts world and put them together in this series of CD-ROMs called Classic Graphics. The stirring artwork includes titles by Michelangelo and printer and designer William Morris, as well as collections of Japanese art and French posters (as seen above). Planet Art can be reached on 0101 213 651 3405. nate nee Mainstay claims to have taken a new look at databases with the ‘object-oriented’ approach used in its new title, Phyla. This enables you to structure your information so you can relate groups of data to others in ever more sophisticated ways. Word has it that it isn’t as impenetrable as it looks, either -— here's hoping! The number of Mainstay’s California Office is 0101 805 484 9400. It's hot ‘cos they make it that way. The 4 Paws of Crab CD-ROM introduces you to the intoxicating flavours of Thai cooking, with recipes and background information on Thailand. The screen here shows part of the Happy Market, a list of ingredients used in the East. | feel hungry already. Currently seeking a UK distributor, Live Oak Multimedia can be reached on 0101 510 654 7480. a New to the PowerMac from German company TechWare comes VivaPress Professional f. You might think that QuarkXPress and PageMaker have completely taken over the Mac DTP market, but VivaPress throws some new ideas into the pot, including headlines that automatically fit the available space. The distributor, Interpress, can be reached on 0101 212 245 2700. Just Think is a new current affairs ‘interactive magazine’ that explores art and politics. Featuring expertly assembled pages and an imaginative control system, the second issue includes discussions about Steven Spielberg’s film Schindler's List and misogyny on the Internet. QuickTime movie clips further enhance the package. Ad Hoc Interactive can be reached on 0101 619 551 0109. BOSTON BYTES It’s got a widget! During its week in Boston, Maxis announced plans for two more entries in the Sim series — but don’t get too ex- cited yet, they’re still in the early development stage. Sim- Tower, which is aimed at ex- perienced SimCity players, heralds a real departure from the usual aerial or isometric viewpoints. Instead SimTower uses a Side-view of the sky- scraper you have to build. SimTown, on the other hand, looks more traditional, but is full of surprises. No money is involved in building your town — instead you have to manage environmental re- sources. Zoom in on a building to see animated sequences, or select a person to choose his or her likes and dislikes. Meanwhile, Widget Workshop is for all the budding inventors among you (yes, that’s right, you with the Meccano set and the nuclear reactor). It is essen- tially a construction set for all sorts of weird and wonderful experiments — and I have to say it looks like being a lot of fun. No release dates have been fixed yet, but for more details call Maxis in the UK on 071 490 2333. Draw, pardner! Claris, Apple’s software divi- sion, used the Macworld Expo as an opportunity to launch ClarisDraw 1.0. A revamped ver- sion of MacDraw Pro, the new program has improved draw- ing and text handling features, as well as tonnes of clip art you can use. ClarisDraw will be out in the UK soon. For more de- tails call Claris in London on 081 756 O101. MACFORMAT *¢ ISSUE 17 * OCTOBER 1994 20 BOSTON BYTES Raise Shields! Paramount was in Boston with an early and somewhat bug- infested version of its new Star Trek: Deep Space Nine game. Mix- ing elements of adventure and RPGs (role-playing games), the finished version will challenge you to find a murderer on the DS9 space station. The help you receive depends on the personality of your character. As you might expect, the game features all the regulars from the US TV series. As gameplaying experiences go, Trek games are traditional- ly feeble - so the question is whether Paramount's effort will prove to be any healthier? (We'll let you know when we've run a diagnostic.) Para- mount Interactive can be reached on 0101 415 812 8200. Cards crash We all want to create gorgeous images, but 24-bit graphics cards have traditionally been out of most people’s price range. RasterOps has plans to change that, though, by cutting the price of its high-end Hori- zon card, which is intended for Quadras and PowerMacs, to below $2,000 (about £1,333). RasterOps can be reached on 0101 408 562 4200. XCeed’s ColorFusion card, while being less powerful than the Horizon, works on LCs and Performas. It also includes a floating point chip slot, so you can simply buy a chip and watch your maths calculations zip by. The card costs just $599 (about £400). XCeed can be reached on 0101 810 598 8030. While we're on the subject of bargains, can we interest you in a Mac video camera for less than $149 (approx £100)? Connectix, the maker of RAM- Doubler, used the Macworld Expo show as an opportunity to announce the QuickCam, a wee gadget that captures sound and black and white images at 15 frames per second. With it, you'll be able to create your own QuickTime movies using the software provided. Connec- tix is currently working on a colour version, and you can call the company on 0101 415 571 5100. Completing the circle What is the future of multi- media? How will you be using your Mac in years to come? Some of the exciting possi- With the Pivot Display/gs monitor you can twist the screen on its side and it auto- matically adjusts its display accordingly This was just one of the Radius products on show at the Boston Expo. bilities are being explored by Radius and SuperMac as they prepare for their merger (see the news snippet in last month’s MACFORMAT). The two companies kept themselves busy in Boston: SuperMac launched Spigot- Power AV, a graphics card that uses JPEG compression to save disk space, while Radius had PhotoEngine, a card you can use to speed up Photoshop. We saw the latter in action — and the good news is, it’s fast. Radius has also been heavily involved in multimedia pro- duction, working with various partners on projects ranging from the American Gladiators TV introduction sequence, to a daily colour newspaper for the recent World Cup. More re- cently, it has collaborated with Time-Life in producing a twice-daily programme, which was shown at the Woodstock 25th anniversary festival. a We asked Roger Siminoff, the Marketing Development Man- ager at Radius, how he saw the company developing as the im- pact of multimedia increased. ‘The artists who use our prod- ucts create the phenomenon. The real critical issue for Radius is that we recognise that the video artform and the desktop publishing artform - any venue in which we have both [still and moving] images — blended together will be the communi- cation vehicle of the future. ‘We want to bring all of the tools out that are possible - we want to talk to these different people, including Time-Life, and deliver the tools for them to create the artform. We see our- selves as enablers, quite honestly.’ Radius can be reached in the UK on 0483 772 773. NEW FACE FOR MORPH Morph is nothing to do with Nick Park animations, but rather a popular image processor that has now been updated to version 2.5. (To see what it’s like, try the demo of Morph 2 on this month’s CD.) As seen in countless television advertisements and music videos, morphing involves tak- ing two images and creating a set of frames that takes you from one image to the other (just like the Castrol GTX advertisements). Morph features brand new, easier meth- ods of editing your images, while a flip- book function enables you to see how your morphed images will look as a sequence, before you save them as a QuickTime movie. If you would like to find out more, the publisher, California’s Gryphon, can be reached on 0101 619 536 8815. Morph enables you to merge images together to create spooky transition effects. Fresh coat of Painter The latest upgrade of Fractal Design’s Painter comes in the form of version 3.0. The new Natural Media package includes an imaginative use of traditional drawing and animation techniques, such as onion-skinning, which simulates layers of thin paper, enabling you to see the last few frames you’ve drawn. The wonderfully-named Image Hose™ enables you to customise your brush shapes. You can even create a set of plant-shaped brush- es that will apply paint in random variations of their leafy structures. This creates some highly convincing effects in very little time. QuickTime is now also support- ed, enabling you to touch up animation frames. Natural- ly, there will be a PowerMac version for dedicated power-users. The creator, Fractal Design in the US, can be reached on 0101 408 688 5300. [apara B72.) Through the Looking Glass? Not quite. Painter's host of thoughtful features are bound to go down well with illustrators. MACFORMAT * ISSUE 17 * OCTOBER 1994 21 THIS MONTH Keep talking! Keynote speeches at the bi-annual Macworld Expos in the States usually centre on how new Macs will change the world. But not this year... ometime soon, maybe in just a few paltry years, human beings will be totally wiped out by a race of geneti- cally engineered superbeings created by renegade scientists. Not the kind of message you want to hear from one of the world’s most respected scien- tists, and it’s particularly unnerving to hear it at what was supposed to be the keynote speech at the August Macworld Expo show in Boston. The prospect of the imminent demise of the human race as we know it was put to the be- mused Macworld audience by Dr Stephen Hawking, professor of applied mathematics and theoretical physics at Cambridge, and author of the best selling book A Brief History of Time. (Yes, you've got it, but did you really understand the bit about string theory?) At first the show-goers were mystified — partly because of the radical ideas Professor Hawking was putting forward on evolution, but mainly by uncertainty about what he was doing there at all. After all, his voice synthesiser doesn’t even use PlainTalk. But all soon became clear: Professor Hawking had something to promote. Not content with doing adverts for BT and providing backing vocals for Pink Floyd, Profes- Not content with doing adverts for BT and providing backing vocals for Pink Floyd, Professor Hawking is now the star of a multimedia disc; A Brief History of Time has been made into a CD-ROM, to be released later this year sor Hawking is now the star of a multimedia disc; A Brief History of Time has been made into a CD-ROM, to be released later this year. Using multimedia techniques to explain the complex- ities of theoretical physics is a sound idea, and this disc will undoubtedly spawn a host of imi- tators. Let’s hope some of them will feature a decent graphic artist, because the pictures in A Brief History of Time are dreadful, especially the sanitised drawing of Hawking himself. But at least he has an easily digitised voice —- though even it did seem to be touched up in places. In practice though, his ideas on evolution For millions of years mankind lived just like animals. Then something happened which unleashed the power of our imagination. We learned to make CDs. were more interesting than his demo of the forthcoming disc (see the ‘Mad scientists to wipe out human race shock!’ box). After Professor Hawking’s literally inaus- picious start, the rest of the show was bound to seem a little flat, but Microsoft did do its best to liven things up when it came to the launch of Excel 5 and Word 6. Several hundred Mac aficionados were transported to a TV studio, where they not only witnessed the filming of an hour long info- mercial for the Office Suite, but took part in it - complete with wild reactions to the flashing red applause lights when someone pointed out a cool new feature. ‘That’s amazing!’ said the straight guy. ‘That’s Microsoft Office!’ replied his OTT companion to audience cheers and yells. I had to pity the director, though, as he cut to shots from the low-flying boom camera that swept over the audience during the most tu- multuous applause. You see, the floor manager had unwisely seated the UK press contingent together, smack in the middle, just a couple of rows from the front. So what the camera actu- ally revealed were dozens of hooting and hol- lering Americans surrounding a bunch of hemmed-in Brits looking more than a little em- barrassed —- and all with their arms firmly clamped to their sides. Microsoft later claimed the whole thing was a spoof; it was just designed to have the look and feel of the real thing. But then that’s what they said about Windows. There was one real puzzler in the Microsoft launch. Not when the PowerMac versions are coming out (this month for Word and Excel, Oc- tober for PowerPoint), but why when the three programs in Office are Word 6, Excel 5, and PowerPoint 4, the Office version number is 4.2. Anyone have any suggestions? Stuart Anderton MAD SCIENTISTS TO WIPE OUT HUMAN RACE SHOCK! According to Professor Stephen Hawking, we are now 10,000 years into the second phase of evolution — a phase which, if his latest theory is to be believed, may not have more than a few years left to run. In the millions of years prior to the last 10,000, information has passed from gen- eration to generation entirely encoded in DNA. Evolution was dependent on the mutation of DNA — which is, of course, incredibly slow. But around 10,000 years ago mankind learned to talk, and this method of pass- ing information down through the generations enormously accelerated the rate of change, as we went from caves to the moon in a tiny fraction of the time it took us to get to the caves in the first place. Advances in printing and telecom- munications have speeded things up still further in the last 300 years, and especi- ally this century. All of this has left our physical bodies untouched: they are still changing at the mutation rate of DNA. But in a few years scientists will have completed the Human Genome Project, and in theory, at least, we should have the ability to manipulate and jackboot over our own DNA. Hawking believes that even though anti-genetic-engineering laws will be passed, the urge to experiment will be too great to resist. We will then start to manipulate our DNA, improving it and ultimately creating a race of superhumans against whom we will be unable to com- pete. Then through natural selection we will simply die out. So it appears the use of external means to pass information from generation to generation — and that includes the beloved Mac, dear reader — may only have been a temporary blip in the evolutionary pattern leading to the new super race. 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