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ACEORMAT ISSUE 20) JANUARY 1995 £3.95 WITH HD Disk Also available with CD-ROM a? Experience far-away places, create new realities, and discover virtual worlds within your Mac! MACEORMAT Create your own realistic three-dimen- One of the all-time classic games just sional landscapes in this superb free got better! Play this addictive game, graphics program. Mountains, seas then read the author's own account in and sky are at your control! the magazine of how it's all done. Disk 20 JAN 95 Wee ‘Paint finished ies te ran bi $ arr , Don't just create new worlds, explore Create a super fast extra ‘disk drive’ p them too! With this program you can —_—on your Desktop! This RAMdisk offers link pictures together to create a pro- ‘the most features we've ever seen, OB EEE EEE fessional interactive walkthrough of including automatic copying of files to any environment. the RAMdisk at startup. 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Follow Ruff into a far-flung search for CD contains the new After Dark 3.0 along with his missing bone. He travels to a distant the modules from More After Dark and After jungle and ancient ship and... = Dark 2.0. SRP £49.99 —— J Ling 3 All prices show are suggested retail exclusive of VAT These products are available from all quality resellers, In case of difficulty call us for a stockist near you. Ors on wee protecti¥our w merier OP POPULAR SCREE THE WORLD ution Ltd, Mill House, Mill Lane, Carshalton, Surrey SM5 2WZ 234 Fi ax 016! 401 R 235 ee ink UK0037 C -ompuSen tve > 100012 2,21 ne Dx wh Lg tev hb rg Ud 8 CONTENTS REGULARS | = News 17 elcome again to MAcrormart, Britain’s best-selling — FF) a — Mac magazine! Whether you're a veteran or a = The shape of Macs 10 Come, budget games, DIY novice, we’ll bring you news, reviews of affordable multimedia, even videos on your Mac screen... and interesting new products, tips and techniques to help you get more out of your Mac, whatever you use it for! MacroScope 25 Get the story behind the stories! Meet the man behind Painter, experience the home computer explosion, see more shows with Josef Morrell, and much more... What’s New 32 The hottest new hardware and the strangest new soft- ware, from an accelerator for your Quadra, Centris or PowerMac to an aquarium simulator Apple Talk 36 Your views, from the price of games to the cost of violence Mac Answers 87 Your Mac and Performa problems solved by our experts Back Issues 98 H OVW cRe) D ©) | tT SPECIAL Complete your collection of Macrormats while you can! TTL Special Offers 103 Transparency 58 SEE PAGE | on some specially-selected top Mac goodies Making a ‘transparent’ object look convincing 29 in your Mac artwork is one of the trickiest Gamebusters 1 1 6 § challenges in illustration. Here’s a step-by-step Lost in Myst? Routed in Rebel Assault? Help is at hand! guide to doing it in your Mac art package a ms Buying Advice 120 Some pointers on how to protect your rights as a consumer Free Reader Ads 122 Buy, sell and swap for free in MAcrormar’s reader ads Can’t Pay, Won’t Pay! 124 Shareware authors get it wrong, says a MACFORMAT reader Dilbert 124 He’s virtually real, and even better looking... Next Month 129 Yes, you too can picture what the future will look like Editorial enquiries: Macrormat, Future Publishing Ltd, oF 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 120 for some helpful buying advice. Entire contents Copyright © 1994 Future Publishing Ltd. All rights reserved. Comms: Easy Loader 69 Going on-line doesn’t just mean being able to exchange e-Mail messages. You can also download shareware and send and receive just about any kind of file. Here’s how a A Better HyperCard? 79 HyperCard is not just a fancy database, it’s a complete Mac customiser. It used to come free with all Macs, but the new version costs £150 plus. What more can you do for that money? Your Tour of HyperCard Troubleshootin 92 Does your hard disk seem to 4 grinding to a ae Win! Win! Win! 1 30 a halt? Your keyboard developing a life of its This month you could win one of five own? Your mouse in need of a good clean? copies of the state of the art in ‘Natural Here’s how to fix your hardware problems Media ’ paint programs, Painter 3.0! MACFORMAT ¢ ISSUE 20 * JANUARY 1995 ff Brushes are boring and airbrush is out. Now you really can do it all on your Mac! The world’s best-selling word processor ever =) (it’s official!) gets upgraded. Who needs DTP? Let's face it, earlier versions of Nisus didn’t stand up too well next to the big guns of word processing. But now...? 72 It’s the first CD-ROM title to make use of QuickTime VR (Virtual Reality, of course). So how does it shape up? 74 Put the ‘multi’ into ‘multimedia’ — with 16 reference books squished and squashed and shoe-horned on to a single CD 74 The full text of the Scottish play on CD, along with heaps of notes, QuickTime movie clips and much more 75 Oh wow. Unreal. It’s a CD-ROM, it’s got Brian Eno, and it’s just indescribable... This issue’s puzzler: what does the title of this Thai cookbook on CD-ROM actually mean? And for afters, how about some cakes and pastries? It’s another lip-smacking CD-ROM cookery book, of course 82 Helping kids learn to read doesn’t just mean teaching ‘em the alphabet — they need to learn that reading is fun. Can these new titles from Broderbund and Omnimedia help? Turn your Mac into an intercom, track one-legged animals, create folders with names — in the wild world of shareware aa @ «<> Games of every genre— an RPG, a shoot-’em-up, a classic god-game, even a paper dart sim... PowerMonger 106 Eat my Photons 108 Inherit the Earth 110 Glider Pro 112 Fury of the Furries 114 118 If your music’s in a mess, you need a librarian — not the clichéd bespectacled cardigan-clad variety, but a program that can catalogue and organise your synthesised sounds CONTENTS Your Mac can transport you to far-away places, virtual landscapes and whole new interactive realities... Winter Hiking & Australian Walkabout 44 a Experience the Rocky Mountains or the Australian out- | back via CD-ROM ~as real as being there, maybe KPT Bryce 46 Keen on ‘god-games’? This inexpensive program enables you to create new worlds of your very own! Vistapro: Shaping Our Future 49 How the landscape-generating program Vistapro is being used to enable people to visualise the future today Macinteriors & Virtus WalkThrough 50 |, Creating whole worlds a bit daunting? How about 3D rooms? You can then even wander through ‘em! The Future — It’s Almost Here! Take the next step into virtual reality — don a headset, plug into your Mac, and start bumping into the walls! \ 94 Ever wondered how Mac games really work? Play the complete, manic Pacman-style game on the cover disk, then find out from the author himself how it’s all done! COVER DISKS | 7 Try your hand at world-making with our complete fractal landscape generating program, create an interactive walk-through, give your Mac a super-fast extra ‘disk drive’ and play our exclusive version of an old classic! If you have the CD-ROM edition of this issue, you have everything on the disk plus demos of software reviewed this month, including Painter 3.0, KPT Bryce, Word 6, PowerMonger and many more, all the shareware in this issue, and much more — over 600Mb and 7,500 files in all! MACFORMAT ¢ ISSUE 20 * JANUARY 1995 S How do I sift through 5 years press cuttings in 5 minutes... search me’ It’s that vital client meeting in the morning. Your presentation must be spot on, informative and, above all, on time! Now where are those reports...? You've been there before. The information you need could be in any files, including ones you have never seen. Anywhere on the network. ‘Trying to find it quickly — and putting it together — can be your greatest nightmare. That's why Apple™ are introducing their revolutionary AppleSearch™ software. AppleSearch takes the sweat out of information gathering, even across the largest networks, providing you with a true competitive advantage. It condenses all the knowledge and effort of the whole company into a single report. Intelligent network query handling will filter out any irrelevant data using advanced reporting. It even prioritises information to fit your brief. By And it’s fast. By indexing all documents, AppleSearch conducts accurate, i = reliable searches that take seconds — not hours. What’s more, you don’t need to be a computing genius to use AppleSearch. Search queries are made in English, not computer language. And it doesn’t demand endless repetitive searches: a search on “car”, can also pick up all references to “vehicle” and “automobile”. poTET leSearch AppleSearch Appieseat Call Freephone 0800 127753 (9am-6pm) for more information ; H Hy i ; So next time you need those reports in a hurry... “pe Ul Apple Computer ‘The Apple Logo is 2 eegistered teademark, and Apple™, Macintosh ™ and AppleSearch™ are trademarks of Apple Computer, Inc., registered in the United States and ocher countries. © Copymgly Nowember 1994, Apple Computer, Inc. Apne acknowledges all other tadcmuarks as belunging to their parent companies. Mengion of thin! party products constitutes neither an endorsement nor a recommendation. 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. Unfortunately, this means you can’t use the programs straight off the disk. You must install them on your hard disk first. Doing this is very simple. Just double- click on the floppy disk icon, then double-click on the MAcFoRMaTt 20 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 disks for compatibility and viruses, but the information here is intended as a guide only, and MAcFormat cannot be held responsible for any damage to data, any inability to use this software or any consequential losses. So please, for your own sake, back up first. cover disk MACFORMAT COVER DISKS Raining outside? Reality getting you down? Don’t despair! Switch on your Mac and let this month’s cover disk whisk you away into virtual worlds. his month’s disk is so jam-packed with goodies that we had to dispense with custom folder icons just to get it to fit on to the floppy! Still, I’m sure you will agree that it was well worth the effort. Tak- ing you through the disk this month are Clive Parker and Derek Smith... HyperSlider Slide show creator Requires: System 7.1 or later Have you ever wanted to escape into your own virtual world? Use HyperSlider and its simple point and click interface and you'll be able to create and present a slide show of virtual im- ages to fire the imagination. Through the use of clever hyper-links you can flip to another picture in the sequence by clicking on ‘hot’ areas of the image. All you have to do is move your mouse pointer around the image until it becomes ‘active’ — that is, changes shape. There’s a demo slide show sup- plied and the disk gives you plenty of practice. To create your own walk-through, select New Slide Show from the File menu and wait for the file selector box to appear. Now select the image you want — this will be the one to start off the sequence. Now you have to create a ‘hot spot’ that will — GETTING YOUR BACK UP - Before you do anything else, you should make a backup of the MACFoRMAT cover disk and work only with the backup — just in case anything 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. After that, follow these simple steps: 1. Insert the Macrormart 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 ‘Macrormat 20’. It’s still not decompressed, however, so at the mo- ment you can’t yet run anything directly. 3. When the copying finishes, drag the cover disk icon into the Wastebasket to eject it. 4. Insert a blank high density disk. Check that it’s not write-protected and if need be format it, naming it ‘MACFoRMAT 20 backup’ (or ‘Fred’ if you want. It doesn’t matter). 5. Drag the ‘Macrormat 20’ 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 20’ folder from your hard disk by dragging it across to the Wastebasket, and selecting Empty Wastebasket in the Special menu. lead you on to the next screen when clicked on. Press [Command] and drag out a rectangle on the picture. When you release the mouse button a file selector dialogue appears; here you can select the picture linked to your ‘hot spot’. It’s now time to select the desired pointer shape and special effects. Do this as often as you like: there’s no limit to the number of links you can create, with each link going to a different image. It’s all dead easy to use and you'll soon be wandering around your own home-made worlds. SP OK, here's the first picture, a chair and lamp in the corner of the room. Press [Command] and drag a rectangle around the area of image you want to use as a ‘hot spot’. Visual effect: | cut S| Speed: wipe left 6 wipe right | | wipe up | wipe down barn door open a Cursor: ESE | i mG By pressing the [Option] key after you have selected your ‘hot spot’, you can define the shape of the pointer and select the special effect used to load the next image. tilt MACFORMAT * ISSUE 20 * JANUARY 1995 7 y Rit MACFORMAT COVER DISKS as 2 ee —S— : —s You can use Fractal to build up a contoured landscape image from a framework of interconnecting lines Fractal 1.2 Landscape Generator Requires: Colour monitor, 2.5Mb free RAM Until now the Capability Browns among you may well have been frustrated; creating land- scapes required acres of manor house grounds, millions of pounds and many, many years of work. But not with Fractal 1.2. ‘Fractals’ are actually the building blocks of nature (believe it or not). A fairly simple math- ematical equation enables your Mac to build complex shapes using just a few easily adjusted parameters, called seeds. Using Fractal you can generate rendered landscapes with as little or as much detail as you like. If you want less detail then set the number of iterations to a low value, say be- tween 1 and 5. This generates a landscape with a distinctly ‘blocky’ look to the polygons. In- crease the number of iterations and the result- ing image becomes increasingly smoother. Of course, the more iterations you use to create your scene, the more memory you need and the longer it takes to render. If you're im- patient and want to generate your images in, say, ten minutes or so, then keep the number of iterations to five or less. By keeping the same basic seed parameters you can create a rough sketch of a scene using a low number of iterations. Once you are satis- fied with the basic look of your scene, you can increase the number of iterations and create a smoother looking version. It’s all very easy and you don’t have to be a mathematician to create brilliant images. CL Maniac Lite 2.1.1 Arcade Game Requires: LC or better, System 7.0 or later, 256 colour 14-inch monitor, 1.9Mb free RAM The arcade game we all abandoned ‘Space In- vaders’ for in days of yore has been given the full treatment. Yup, the classic Pacman has been brought bang up to date in this superb adaptation by Alex Metcalf. Find out about his hows, whys and wherefores on page 94. Playing the game is easy-peasy; simply double-click its icon, and when the intro screen Alternatively, you can use polygons to create a more natural and rather less triangular-looking world appears, press [H] to get background help and instructions. Then press [P] to see the control keys for the game. Now it’s full steam ahead — press [N] to kick it into life. Oh, and watch out for the ghosts! DS This is a truly excellent game, so if you like it, support British shareware and send off your £10 to Alex Metcalf. RamDisk+ 3.23 Utility Requires: Any Mac and absolutely no sheep Even after you buy a really fast Mac, disk access times are barely any faster than they are on a Classic. Irritating, isn’t it? Well this utility puts some real drive into your disk drive. It will create a super-fast, friendly-making disk on your Desktop that consists entirely of Noise Type... Aiternate View Modify Parameters... Hus HON... Wove Poremeters... You can change the look of a landscape rendered in Fractal by changing the colours in the various picture elements. RAM. What this means is that you can allocate some of your Mac’s internal RAM to be used as a disk, so it’s no longer all squandered on pro- grams (as it often is). All you need is a little spare RAM to try this utility out. Drag its icon on to your System Folder and restart. Now open the Control Pan- els folder and double-click RamDisk+. Read the help in the bottom half of the screen, then click on Create RAMdisk. You now need to restart your Mac to gain this extra disk drive. DS i — RamDisk+ —— RamDisk+ ¥3.23 At startup: EX] Copy to RAMdisk C] Copy back RAMdisk Switch to RAMdisk (] Enter MultiFinder Eject Floppies [l Setup... | (Selections... ] (Test... le Controls - &] Show startup icon Create RAMdisk im Arm Restart button im 4rm Interrupt switch } All options described below take effect the next time you Restart the Mac. [X] Show startup icon Selecting this option simply displays the program’s icon at the bottom of the screen during startup. [¥] Create (or Use with) RAMdisk This is the best RAM disk program we have come across. It features a wealth of useful options. 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 you have followed the installation pro- cedures described in these pages correctly, to ensure that there is a physical problem with the disk itself. Otherwise, the replace- ment will be just the same! Return HD disks to: Discopy Labs PO Box 21 Daventry NN11 5BU Return CD-ROMs to: MAcrormat CD returns Future Publishing FREEPOST (BS4900) Somerton Somerset TAI11 6BR Enclose a self-addressed padded envelope (but we'll pay return postage) 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 the addresses above. MACFORMAT * ISSUE 20 JANUARY 1995 8 NE ———=—=— hen the idea of putting a CD on the front cover was proposed, we thought we might have trouble filling that vast space every month. Not so. In fact, this month we could have filled it twice over, and we've had to select the best. I’m sure you'll agree that it’s great value. Lead- ing you on the merry dance this month are Brian Larkman, Richard Longhurst and, of course, Derek Smith... Painter 3.0 Graphics package Requires: LCII or better, 6Mb free RAM, System 6.0.7 or later. (PowerMac native) Your chance to become the Van Gogh or Dali of Macintoshes. Open up Painter and you'll get ac- cess to a wealth of artistic techniques that have been strangers to the Mac, until now. But first, open the Painter folder and you will see one icon. Double-click this and select where you want to install the demo. If you have a PowerMac, the native version will automatical- ly be installed for you. You will now have the full version of the program except that Save, Print, Copy and Export are disabled. Once installed, open Painter and put some paper on to your drawing board by selecting New from the File menu and typing in the di- mensions of the page you require. On a stan- dard 14-inch monitor, 400 x 400 is a the sort of size you should start with. (Square images are more manageable for beginners, as they leave more room for stacking the palettes.) Now to get your hands on the tools them- selves. They're fairly obvious, and a number of the tools on the palette will be familiar from other programs you may have used, but try the Brush icon first. The Brushes palette uses essentially a grown- up version of Dabbler’s drawers and drawer- fronts metaphor. It displays five brush icons on the Drawer Front. Just below the icons is a pop-up menu with a range of Variants of each brush. To select other brushes, click on the arrowhead just below the central icon and the drawer will open. Here all of the available tools are displayed, dimmed if already on the Front. Another pop-up menu shows them all by name if you aren’t sure. A few like Cloner and Mask- ing are rather complex, but most are obvious. Try them and find out. Look out for the down-pointing black arrow- head that opens drawers. And it’s worth ex- ) MACFORMAT COVER DISKS é This month’s CD is chock-full of exotica: tastes of Thailand, colourful images from Painter 3.0, plus games and utilities too numerous to mention. ploring everything. Treat the interface like a good adventure game. Leave no button un- pressed. The Library Buttons especially give ac- cess to lots of extra goodies. In time you will become familiar with all the palettes but many of the controls can be left alone; the defaults are more than enough to get on with. Try using the provided Sessions. Click on the Sessions button in the objects Palette. Running these with the VCR type controls will give you some idea of what can be done. While running a session, watch all of the buttons and palettes. Often you can see which tool was used to get a particular effect. If you have got back issues of The Image Hose is one of the most excit- ing of the new features in Painter 3.0. Get a blank page by choosing New from the File menu, then follow these simple Click on the Image Hose icon (you may need to select Brushes from the Window menu). Brush Controls :Nozzle ” 2| Click on the Nozzle icon (you may need to select Brush Controls from the Window menu). Macrormart, check out the Natural Media tuto- rials in issues 14 to 19 for tips and information on how to get particular — and with luck spec- tacular — results. Floaters are to be found on the Objects Palette. Click the Floaters button, then you can just drag-and-drop any of the thumbnails you see on to the page. Notice the Controls palette. What it displays varies for each tool and other palette you select. For instance it enables you to control opacity and feathering of Floaters. The palettes can be hidden with [Command] [H], and full screen mode is [Command] [M]. That should be enough to get you started. BL I |] CO) Open Numbered Files 3 Click on Load just below the Nozzle icon. Locate the Nozzle folder inside the Painter 3.0 folder and open it. Double-click one of the six different nozzles. Press and hold down the mouse button to spray images on to your paper. To change nozzles, click on Load again. MACFORMAT *¢ ISSUE 20 * JANUARY 1995 9 MACFORMAT COVER DISKS | Strategy game Requires LCII or better, 2.4Mb free RAM, System 7.0 or later PowerMonger is a game of conquest, fighting, strategy and death. You play a gen- eral who’s in the pay of a powerful warlord, and your boss wants you to get him more land. And then some. The full game challenges you to conquer 195 islands — an archipelago, no less — but our fully-playable cut-down demo gives you three islands to tackle. The first one’s a piece of cake, and gives you a chance to get to grips with the control system, but from then on you're on your own. You have been warned. 1 Copy the demo to your hard disk and double click on the Demo icon to start the game. 2 Select Start new conquest from the Con- quest menu. In the full game you can choose to play a randomly selected island, but that op- tion is disabled in the demo. 3 You now see a map screen, with three green islands in the top left-hand corner. Select the island in the very corner of the screen — this is where your conquest starts. You can choose one of the other two icons once you have won the first island. y This CD is so ridiculously stuffed to the gills with great software that we can’t possibly cover it all in these pages, so here are some of the other highlights to watch out for... See for yourself the beauty of Vistapro with some sample images from the CD, along with one of its animations. ™ icons: One sword means your men have a passive posture, two is neutral ne three means they act like psychopathic killers The balanc ofp we When the scales tip to the right, you are in control croll view: Click on a part of the compass to scroll the view in that direction Sends the captain and his men home Sends your captain into a village to gather intelligence 4 You now see the playing area, with your men huddled on the top of a hill. The first island is easy to conquer, but first you need to see where the enemy settlements are, so select Set- tlements from the Map Mode option in the Configuration menu. (See picture 1 above.) 5 Two white dots appear on the overview map TOO MANY TO MENTION... e d: Food can be oattered from a friendly settlement or from where you've previously dropped food sn: Send your troops into a friendly village to recruit men et me k: Click here and then ona target village to launch an attack n: Tells your captain to go toa specific place and help a comrade in the top-left corner of the viewing window. Click on the lower dot and the view zooms in on the settlement. Select the attack icon and then move the pointer over the village. A red line will appear on the overview map and a fast drum-beat will sound. Click on a building to start the attack. (See picture 2.) & Experience some unadulterated blasting with the demo of the excellently named Eat My Photons. Experience the cutting edge of virtual reality with Virtus. So realistic that when | went to examine one of the houses, someone had broken in and nicked the telly ENCORE INSTRUMENTS tint hinee camry pees meenemeaey ts eby Carmen "Pee Bones tapaaga Yea Adrarnmeng, Doe Desa Patent oon, avr om es oes View Microsoft's new version of Word and Excel with these two rolling demos. They are very well put together but why doesn't Microsoft produce working demos? MACFORMAT *¢ ISSUE 20 * JANUARY 1995 10 | MACFORMAT COVER DISKS CURRIED CATFISH W/ GINGER }PHAT PHET PLA DUK TOD Gi20B 6 Your men will swarm across the countryside and butcher the villagers. When the battle is over, they’ll go and have a sit down and a gos- sip in the trees near the village. You'll notice that the scales that show the balance of power have swung in your favour. 7 Attack and conquer the other settlement and you'll find yourself in control of more than two thirds of the population. Select Retire from the Game menu and your victory’s complete. Stop pounding the table, captain.(See picture 3.) 8 Select Continue Conquest from the Con- quest menu and you can select a second island to tackle, but this time, it’s up to you what to do. Experiment with the different icons to find out what they’re best for. RL stats ta Si shaver time, a business conimmity develops. THERE IS AVERY GOOD REASON WHY THAI KITCHENS ARE OUTSIDE; FRYING ieee th STINKS UP THE HOUSE. raditional eualtaral ioty have © abolished systenu The sakdinaa which allociod weal and wolisty s Pees trac ts uininit onomic base A, ard sO is created snd, tor the first Cookery programs Requires: LCII or better, System 7, 1Mb free RAM, Colour monitor Also on the menu are two delicious demos of cookery programs for you. Four Paws is an interactive taster of the CD which is all about Thailand and its food. There is a full review on page 76. The Arome folder contains a rolling demo of two titles, Making Great Pastries and Gourmet French Cuisine. To improve speed, you can copy Four Paws to your hard disk, but Arome is probably too large, unless you have a hard disk the size of David Mellor’sego. DS ie Tait Wew Layout Mrrenge Text Paint Window Point Tiered VERTICAL Paint Tecan in Fes enarrgme, you will do some mage ‘edting to add a te 10 thes pecture First, select and move the Sle tent, 1. Sebect tne Lasgo Toot EJ and draw a selection circie around the weed “VERTICAL 2. Ding the selected text to the tefl and pce over the camber’ head Now add sore specal etects 3. Choose Piet Up fron the Paint menu 4. Chek the Lighten trttors LBA) twice Now you can expertment and add some ettects of your ownt On the CD are some truly astounding pictures created with KPT Bryce that will give you an idea of its flexibility. You won't find the one with the cone, though, ‘cos | drew that. Good, eh? Try out ClarisDraw, a great new graphics program. This is a working demo with Save disabled Enjoy the latest Living Books title, Harry and the Haunted House, with this delightful demo papereneeen— Your programs Requires: see individual ReadMe files The highlight this month is surely a collection of Australian folks songs from down under by Mark Gregory. The HyperCard stack contains the words so you can sing along, but sadly lacks any explanation of why Australians like to tie their kangaroos down. Hmm. Also, there’s the complete text from ‘Around the World in 80 Days’ for Olivier Tableau; mind you, it’s all in French. There are more HyperCard contributions from Peter Hastings and Matthew Jones, who sends us a horror stack that’s even more scary than XCMDs. There’s a magazine on disk from Adam Sculthorp, plus a rather good card game from Christian Riley. It’s not a lot of use for playing a game of strip cards, though, as it’s a patience version. (Unless of course you’re really, really lonely, and rather sad.) If you have any software that you have writ- ten and would like to expose to the world then send it along to Derek Smith at the usual ad- dress. If you have something you would like to say, then exercise your right to free speech, send it along in TeachText format and we will publish it. (If it’s not too rude.) DS Confluence Vistapro files Requires: Colour monitor, QuickTime (supplied on the CD) Confluence is a company which produces a range of British landscapes for use with Vistapro. On the CD you will find two QuickTime movies flying across two of those landscapes, produced with Vistapro CD using the new MakePath program. Also in the folder, you will find an item called ‘Nevis’, which contains a sample of the landscapes available from Conflu- ence. You get many such landscapes in each set. See page 49 for full details. 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Among other things, this means that future Macs should be able to run pro- grams written for other operating systems without needing extra emulation software. The three companies jointly developed the super-fast PowerPC chip, but so far only Apple has ac- tually brought out a machine based on it — the well-received Power Macintosh range. IBM and Motor- ola, meanwhile, had agreed on a standard called the PowerPC Ref- erence Platform or PReP — which PowerMacs did not conform to. The new computer specification combines the best elements of PReP and the PowerMac. PowerMacs are currently cap- able of running IBM PC software only by using a PC operating system emulator such as Insignia Solutions’ SoftWindows program. IBM's own PowerPC-based com- puters were not originally expected to be able to run PowerMac soft- ware. But from now on any machines conforming to the new standard should be able to run the same programs. Other companies will also be invited to make com- puters based on the new standard. Ultimately this will mean you'll be able to choose from a broader range of software that will run on your PowerMac, and a have choice of machines from different makers that can all run your programs. All this won’t happen before 1996, but the agreement reinforces Apple’s strategy to get more people using the Mac OS. As MACFORMAT reported last issue, Apple’s first step is to attract other companies into making computers that use its operating system. What this means to you is a greater variety of gen- PowerMac Apple has announced a new PowerMac that it claims to be the fastest ever personal computer. The PowerMac 8100/110 has a sig- nificantly faster chip than the current 8100/80, which will re- main on sale. It is well suited for professional graphics users in- volved in TV, for example, because it has an amazing 2Gb (2,000Mb) hard drive, a floating point unit chip for complex mathematical cal- culations and 2Mb of VRAM, which dictates how many colours your Macintosh can display (most Macintoshes usually have only goes faster about 512K or maybe 1Mb). With 16Mb of ordinary RAM and a double-speed CD-ROM this weighty Mac has a chunky price to match — £5,169, and that doesn’t even include keyboard or monitor. At this price it’s obviously aimed at the professional not home market, but it does mean that you can mix and match peripherals to get your ideal set up. Faster versions of the 6100/60 and the 7100/66 are expected but are yet to be announced. If you would like more details contact Apple on 0800 127753. ACEORMAT uinely ‘compatible’ computers to choose from, more people using Macs and consequently more Mac programs being written. Further evidence that the Mac is on the up comes in figures show- ing Apple at the top of the sales chart in the United States. During July, August and September, Apple shipped 640,000 machines to dealers, compared to 600,000 PCs from Compaq and 500,000 from IBM. British figures from research firm Wharfton Information Sys- tems show Apple only narrowly behind IBM during August, with the Mac boosted by strong sales to schools and colleges. New Per- formas mean the Christmas period should prove equally fruitful. 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She had no trouble obtaining a refund, but — be warned - PowerMacs and Macs are dif- ferent machines. While the PowerMac’s software emulation that enables it to use Mac pro- grams is more reliable than many emulators, games are one area where problems are likely PowerMac problems to crop up. This is due to the programmers’ tendencies to bend the rules a little to get the best results. If you use a PowerMac, Mac- FORMAT recommends you check with the publisher that its game is compatible before you buy it. Return To Zork is Mac-only (and makes no claim to work on the PowerMac), but happily, Activision is working on a PowerMac-native version, as well as a patch program to up- date the Mac version so it runs with no trouble. For further de- tails you can contact Activision on 081 742 9400. Gard offers two computers in one Mac users who also need access to the MS-DOS and Microsoft Win- dows operating systems will be able to have the best of both worlds early next year, as Apple releases the DOS Compatible Card for the PowerMac 6100. The card, which will only be available for that par- ticular PowerMac for the time being, is expected to be sold by dealers for less than £600. Fitting the card into your 6100 will give you a PowerMac and a PC in one —if you connect a second \ monitor to your PowerMac, you can even run both at once. This means you can run programs that require Windows and MS-DOS on the Power Macintosh at the same speed as a typical PC — but at a far lower cost than buying an addi- tional machine. Close dialogue between the two chips is possible with software that enables them to swap data via a clipboard (like the way you can cut and paste on many Mac programs). The card features an Intel 80486DX2/66 processor, which is one of the fastest PC chips that you can get — although it isn’t in the same league as the PowerPC 601 chip. It can have up to 32Mb of its own memory, or it can share your PowerMac’s memory. The introduction of the card magine buying all the Mac games you ever wanted with- out breaking the bank. Im- possible? Actually at last it isn’t. Well-known budget game label Kixx is starting a line of low-price Mac games, which will cost just £19.99 each. The first three, which are out now, are Indiana Jones And The Last Cru- sade: The Graphic Adven- ture, Another World and all-time great The Secret Of Monkey Island. For more details contact Kixx on 021 625 3366. And everyone else is jumping on the budget bandwagon. Activision has brought out a compilation of five of Infocom’s Zork text adven- tures on a single CD-ROM. Despite modern graphic finery being en- tirely absent, Infocom’s adventures have a good reputation. You can make your way through Zork I, Zork Il, Zork II, Beyond Zork and Zork Zero for £14.99. If you would like further information give Activision a call on 081 742 9400. MacSoft is adding to its range of £19.99 arcade games and simula- tions with five new titles: Chess, SkyShadow, Crystal Quest, ParArena and Mission Starlight. All are on sale now. Call the distributor One Stop Computing on 081 780 1001 for more details. Look out for the low-down on these games in MACFORMAT 21. follows Apple’s experiment with a similar card for the Quadra, which was nicknamed Houdini (see MAc- FORMAT 15). Unlike that one, this card caters for the multimedia and games crowd, with sound chips that follow the popular SoundBlaster standard and also a joystick port. The card should be on sale next month. Apple has announced a prototype card that will fit the Performa 630. It also says that it may allow other companies to make cards that will fit into other types. If you would like further details you can contact Apple on 0800 127753. APeie BYTES Apple games console? A surprise entrant in the ongoing battle for supremacy in the games console market may be Apple. Following announcements of powerful new games machines by Sony, Sega, Nintendo and others, information has leaked out that’ Apple and Japanese company Bandai are working on a console with more beef than any of these. It’s said to use a PowerPC 601 chip, specially-designed new graphics and sound technology and a fast CD-ROM drive. Code-named ‘Pippin’ for the moment, the new machine may appear as soon as next Christmas — we'll keep you posted. FreeHand swaps hands Macromedia, which is best known for its multimedia creator program Director, has bought Altsys, adding FreeHand and Fontographer to its stable of well-known programs. Future ver- sions of FreeHand should feature lots more multimedia and 3D facilities as a { result. And Aldus had only just returned FreeHand to Altsys after Aldus itself was bought out by Adobe... Big Mac A ~ device enables you to display Mac pictures on a TV — whether it’s British or American, a small portable or a giant wall-projector. The TVator comes with a remote control that gives you the ability to zoom and pan across the screen, making detailed business presentations simple. You could also connect your Mac up to a video recorder to save multimedia and animated masterpieces on to VHS tape. The TVator costs £464. For more details contact Neutral on 081 599 9902. Question Mark In our review of the questionnaire making program Question Mark (rated 89% in Macrormar 18), the number printed was the company’s fax number. You can talk to Question Mark Computing on 071 284 3999. Universal Power Cache In our accelerator round-up last month we printed a price for Daystar's Universal PowerCache. There are actually two available. One has a 68882 maths co-processor, and retails at about £615. The other one comes without the co-processor and is about £460. To find out where your local dealer is contact Carol Wigham at Aptec on 071 627 1000. A real screen saver If you leave your Mac switched on and unattended for hours, the £57.58 EcoMonitor-Mac is for you. It’s just like a hardware screen saver, but turns your monitor off rather than just the screen, which of course saves energy. The manufacturer reckons you could make back the cost in little over a year. For more details call Nighthawk Electronics on 0799 540881. MACFORMAT * ISSUE 20 * JANUARY 1995 18 ree advice. ame price. TT Apple Point gy When you take the time to chat to customers . . . first ApplePoint Stirling. Because our ability to compete on price time buyers or experienced Mac users . . . about computers, is matched only by our excellent service and backup. software, applications, compatibility, you Right now we're offering the latest can't possibly compete on price. Right? ) y) PostScript networkable A4 laser printer Wrong. N00) 4 | 33 including 1 year on site warranty When you've taken the laborious route for just £495.00 + VAT*. of getting prices and specifications from all of the other Here's our first piece of advice. advertisers in this magazine, you'll still come back to Call ApplePoint Stirling now. U oe ApplePoint Stirling Authorised Reseller [STIRLING] 231 BAKER STREET, LONDON NW1 6XE TELEPHONE 071 935 5262 FACSIMILE 071 935 1978 Apple and the Apple Macintosh logo are registered trademarks of Apple Computer Inc. All Trademarks recognised. *Subject to availability. of D y mult timec he dream of making your own multimedia is be- coming more realistic as prices drop. For a mere £206 you can edit QuickTime video clips on your Macintosh. Media Fac- tory from NUTS Technologies in Hong Kong uses layers of video channels, enabling you to edit and link several clips into one seamless movie. There is a selection of sophisticated pre-set transitions that enable you to cut from one channel to another. There are fil- ters to alter the look of the images. You can also hook up a video ®& File Edit Options Window Cap rule Peele ruriuiinl ’ ’ 1 , 00.00.0406 00-00-04:08 Watch videos on your Mac Relax with some popcorn and a good video as Video CD comes to the Mac. Two companies are re- leasing films and music videos in CD form, which you'll soon be able to view with a Macintosh and CD- ROM drive. Video CD is a new format that’s being launched as a potential rival to VHS video tapes and LaserDiscs. It places over an hour of VHS-qual- ity pictures and digital sound on to one CD, meaning most films will comfortably fit on to two. Like a music CD, you can go straight to a particular track or pause it — giving you a perfectly still picture. Video CD can be played on your television with a special player, or on a Mac. But this is not Quick- Time-style video in a window — Video CD gives you a full-screen image. To do this, you will need a card that can read the picture for- mat, which is called MPEG. The cards are expected to be released early next year. Titles coming up from Omni- media include a selection of music videos from artists including The Clash, Sade and The The, while Castle Multimedia is releasing a film of the Rolling Stones playing Live At The Max among its titles. For more details call Omnimedia on 081 974 6766 and Castle on 081 974 1021. Meanwhile, CD Vision is adding docu- mentaries on jazz legends Billie Holiday, John Coltrane MACFORMAT « ISSUE 20 * JANUARY 1995 20 source, such as a digitiser card and camera, to record from real life. 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These programs can reproduce the effect of traditional artists’ tools, making the same kind of marks on simulated grainy paper. Zimmer and Tom Hedges, two of the founders of the company, worked together at Letraset as developers of graphics programs, in- cluding ColourStudio and ImageStudio. After they left the company, Fractal Design was born — at first specifically to sell Painter. ‘With Painter,’ Zimmer says, ‘we introduced natural paper grains and brushes that behaved more like felt pens than ever before. What we specialise in doing is bringing new, often un- tried, technology to the graphics marketplace — stuff that has never appeared before.’ Painter is less an art program than a program for artists, Zimmer says. Use it for a while, preferably in tandem with a graphics tablet, and he reckons you'll start to forget you're using a Mac. Instead, you'll be playing with a box full of pastels, chalks and water colours. You can even tip your computerised canvas so as to draw at whatever angle you like. Painter can handle everything that’s been covered in MAcForMAT’s Natural Media series (see MaAc- FORMAT 14 onwards). Zimmer believes that using the Mac and achieving a handmade feel in your artwork are not necessarily mutually exclusive. ‘It’s really a matter of satisfying artists that the computer doesn’t get in the way of producing the art that they’re used to. They’ve spent years developing talent that they should be able to transfer to a computer — so we try to present an environ- ment that’s as natural to them as the one they've used in the past.’ Many of the new ideas in Painter 3.0 have their roots in a windy week in Chicago. ‘John Derry [another Fractal Designer] and I were in Chicago for a show, and we went and bought a couple of notepads and started filling them with ideas. One of the ideas that went in was = file Cait Effects Canves Tools Movie Window PENNE Painter 3.0 enables artists to create traditional brush-stroke- effect pictures, as well as clinical, futuristic images. Lio the ability to take the real world and paint di- rectly with it. You point at a texture and say, “I want to paint with that texture.” So as the thinking went on we eventually developed the concept of the Image Hose — along with several Mark Zimmer of Fractal Design: ‘It’s a matter of satisfying artists that the computer doesn't get in the way.” other interesting things as well.’ The Image Hose isn’t just another traditional artist’s tool for your Mac, but a new direction. Zimmer explains: ‘You know how you can spray water on to a garden at will with a hose and it falls wherever you want it to go. With the Image Hose, you can take clips of images and spray them directly on to your work.’ Zimmer says that the technical side of getting the Mac to act naturally isn’t too difficult. ‘Pro- gramming is pretty different from coming up with the ideas and developing them. It’s just like driving a car — after a while you forget about the details and concentrate on the task in hand. The real challenge is to find a method to model the way the real world works in a logical fashion. This is really all that computers do — doing something you could do yourself, only lots of times faster.’ Painter 3.0 review, page 56. Try it for yourself with the usable demo on this issue’s CD-ROM! File Edit Effects Canvas Tools Movie Window MACFORMAT ¢ ISSUE 20 * JANUARY 1995 25 MACROSCOPE Mac explosion! ne million home computers are ex- pected to be sold next year — many of them Macs. An explosion in first time buyers should send sales rocketing to around 700,000 this year, a million next year and even more in 1996, acccording to major computer manufacturers. ‘It’s down to price,’ says Mark Floisand, who oversees Apple’s Performa range — which is being targeted at new users. ‘At the beginning of last year you started to see products that were comfortably sub-£1,000. What that meant to the home buyer was that a computer then fitted on a credit card. Suddenly that opens up a market all in its own right.’ On top of this, computers are often in the public eye, says Floisand. ‘You can be watching News At Ten and suddenly there’s a report on the Internet. Sure, not every person at home is connected to the Internet — not by a long shot — but computing terms are being talked about, right up there with politics and everything else we're familiar with.’ A third reason for growing sales is simply the pressure of change, he says. ‘Children are using them at school and what we're seeing from parents is a recognition that they either em- brace the technology, or the gap between them and their kids grows even further. ‘What they’ve seen is their kids growing up on consoles and video games — it’s what they talk about, and it’s what they do. As those kids get a little bit older, they’re using computers, and they’re doing elementary programming. They’re certainly working with CD-ROMs at school. Some parents are now seeing it as an Mark Floisand of Apple is keenly aware of keeping up with the demands of consumers: ‘We need to listen to customers, making sure we have products that fit what they want.’ opportunity to catch up with their children, to go through an encyclopedia and help them with their homework.’ The challenge lies in convincing each person that he or she needs a computer, Floisand says. ‘While people in small businesses or the home office rely on the computer as part of their work and understand that it’s an essential piece of their life, this reliance on the computer has not yet found its way into the home. ‘What people are starting to see is that there are things they could be doing with their com- puter that maybe they do manually at the mo- ment. If they can do those at the same time as helping their kids’ education, and improve their correspondence with their bank manager and so on, then that’s great. What you don’t get is people saying, “I’m going to buy a computer just to type one letter.” They have to see a package of reasons to justify the purchase - in the same way that I probably wouldn’t buy a television just to watch BBCl1. A computer is still not something that’s as clearly understood as a video recorder. ‘What we've had with the 630 has been people saying, “OK, I can see why I’d want a computer, but why would I want a TV built into it?” When you go into the process, for ex- ample, of looking at video editing with their camcorder, you immediately see the intrinsic use of the computer. They’ve already been out and done their homework and found that an equivalent video editing suite costs them an arm and a leg — if this is yet another thing that their home computer can do for them, then that’s just one more thing on the list of many that they can bring into the household.’ People are realising that computers are be- coming a more intimate part of everyday life, but more education about what the machines do is needed, says Floisand. ‘One of the things that’s challenging for all computer manu- facturers is that a computer is still not some MACFORMAT * ISSUE 20 * JANUARY 1995 26 MACROSCOPE thing that’s as clearly understood as a video recorder, which most homes have. I don’t think we've quite got the awareness of what a home computer does at that level yet.’ All the computer manufacturers, Apple in- cluded, are trying to find out who their new customers are and what they want. The old days of focussing on business users and assum- ing - usually correctly — that the home users were enthusiasts who could take care of them- selves are over. Business demands powerful technology to keep its competitive edge, and also has the money to pay for it. Now Apple has to learn to adapt to a new set of demands. According to Mark Floisand, ‘When we do our research and we talk to customers, one of the things that comes to us frequently is, “Ah, the thing with computers is the moment you buy one, it’s out of date” — it’s like an encyclo- pedia but much more expensive. Parents recognise that either they embrace the technology, or the gap between them and their kids grows. ‘That’s a real concern in consumers’ minds and they’ve every right to be concerned. It’s probably one of the fastest changing technolo- gies that’s available on the market today. Things like televisions improve incrementally. ‘What Apple has managed to do in the past is continually show that we have a strong up- grade path. If you look at hardware technology, the development of the PowerPC chip is obvi- ously a significant change in Macintosh com- puting. So what you’ve got with something like the 630 is a forward upgrade path. ‘What we find with home buyers is no, they don’t buy every year — absolutely not! Especi- ally with family purchases. We want to be able to reassure people that throughout the life of their computer, should they want to, they can upgrade it or plug something else into it. If you look at the Performa range — the 460 is upgrad- able to the 475, and all three Peformas can take a PowerMac chip. ‘The fact that consumers can have all these things later should they wish, and won’t be left behind, is very reassuring.’ Floisand is confident that Apple has what it takes, not only to hold its own against its com- petitors from the PC-compatible platform, but also to take the Mac to new heights of success. He cites the Performa 630 as an example. ‘What we see there is an amalgam of traditional Macintosh computers along with what are cur- rently regarded as the things that make a multi- media computer: CD-ROM, speakers and CD- ROM titles. And you've got the video connec- tion and the TV tuner built in there as well, so from a home entertainment point of view, we've gone the whole hog and built all that into the product. ‘We expect the consumer market to outgrow any other market — and we need to be a part of it. We need to keep listening to customers, making sure we have products that fit in well with what they want.’ Gizza job! ven the best of Macs is a white elephant EK for business if the employees can’t use it. Expensive, and potentially very use- ful, hardware demands staff with Macintosh savvy. A good place to get them is to pick up the phone and call MacAddicts International. ‘We started MacAddicts to say, “Look, you’ve got Macs, you’re going to need some people — we've got them,”’ says Andrew Walter, Senior Partner in this latter-day temping agency. ‘When we started the company we tried to make it all things to all men. If you looked at the magazines it was all “new releases, up- grades!” Everything was bigger, faster, more — but there was nothing in there about people, about training and skills development.’ MacAddicts International is one of the com- panies that exists to fill this gap. It talks to busi- ness clients, discovers their needs and finds on its books the right people for the job. It spe- cialises in the corportate communication area. ‘We recruit individuals skilled in areas where Macintosh productivity is more important than creativity,’ says Walter. ‘The Mac has a very secure foothold in the desktop presentation market — particularly with management consul- tants and corportates.’ MacAddicts has been successful over a num- ber of years, but now it faces rapid changes in technology and the way we use it. New ele- ments are emerging, like CD-ROM, multimedia and the Internet. This means MacAddicts needs adaptable temps. ‘For companies like us to survive we have to become a kind of jack-of-all-trades,’ says Wal- ter. ‘We make a point of reading magazines like Macrormat. We have to know enough about multimedia to talk about it, know enough about the Internet to talk about it; the same with Apple licensing clones and so on. We have to know a little bit about eve