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RITAIN’S BEST-SELLING MACINTOSH MAGAZIN«%.~ ACEORMAT SUE 21 & FEBRUARY 1995 & £3.95 WITH HD DIsks | | a Also available with CD-ROM: 1 ad Movie Clips Test run one of the best video editing To get you started making your own packages available. Create yourown = movies we have put together some movies and add special effects for clips taken at the 1994 Apple Expo Stunning results. There's a full review show. It's easy to do by following our of VideoShop in our cover feature. full instructions inside the magazine. See back cover of magazine for more details & compatibility information \FACFORMAT L [WfofRTolsimyi iti Mombasa ae greet new game to test your staractbebeale lary Peter's Player qo Snapz A great movie player § ag The screen grabber that can capture PopChar . any screen A replacement for Key Cap: Macs are changing the face of video editing! 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SRP £49.99 _ These products are distributed. in the X by Sofa able from all good quality resellers. In case o oN details of a stockist near you. Ny aol : CONTENTS a) he Finder MACEORMAT elcome again to MACForMaAT, Britain’s best-selling Mac magazine! Whether you're a veteran or a novice, we'll bring you news, reviews of affordable and interesting new products, tips and techniques to help you get more out of your Mac, whatever you use it for! Editorial enquiries: MaAcrormart, Future Publishing Ltd, 30 Monmouth Street, Bath BAl 2BW Tel 01225 442244, Fax 01225 446019 AppleLink: MacFormat E-mail: macformat@cix.compulink.co.uk Advertising enquiries: Jackie Garford, Tel: 01225 442244 Subscription enquiries: Future Publishing, Freepost (BS4900), Somerton, Somerset TA11 6BR Tel 01225 442244, Fax 01458 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 121 for some helpful buying advice. Entire contents Copyright © 1995 Future Publishing Ltd. All rights reserved. How TO DO I5- DTP: Letter Perfect 62 There’s more to type than ABC with the Mac. Discover the wealth of useful typographic symbols at your fingertips - Comms: ’Net Profit 67 We show you how to get the best in on-line shareware pon HyperCard 78 The latest version of Apple’s original multimedia program includes a powerful set of new tools — here’s the details Basics 90 A step-by-step guide to opening and saving documents Troubleshooting 92 Sometimes even the simplest things don’t go as planned. We show you how to solve those niggling Mac problems Illustration 94 Discover the secrets of creating fabulous 3D images on a Mac in our guide to the essentials of rendering 2 Spreadsheets 110 Keep the wolves from your door as we show you the easy way to balance the books with some help from your Mac | MacroScope 25 , away your mouse and your keyboard? Plus: go-faster «3 ¢, modems and all the latest hardware and software news eee Win! Win! Win! = MACFORMAT *¢ ISSUE 21 * FEBRUARY 1995 A REGULARS 7 | |News 17 | Apple’s redefining the boundaries of multimedia and | PowerMacs are going portable. Read all about it... Everyone’s talking about CD-ROM and the Internet, but which method will you be using to get hold of the informa- tion you want? Plus: Josef Morell on electronic publishing What’s New 32 Will the HandWriter graphic tablet mean you can throw Apple Talk 34 Your views on everything Mac-related... plus Pentium Mac Answers 85 Your Mac ailments cured by our Mac doctors Back Issues 102 Oldies but goodies — catch them while you can Special Offers 107 You want the best gear for your Mac? You've got it Gamebusters 118 The tour of Myst continues — plus help for Bullfrog addicts Buying Advice 121 Make sure your rights are protected with our guide Free Reader Ads 122 Buy, sell and swap for free in the MACFORMAT mart Mac OS rules, OK? 124 Apple’s got it right, according to a MACFOoRMaT reader Dilbert 124 The Globetrotters have nothing on this guy... Next Month 129 Macrormat takes on a whole new dimension 130 i One of the stars of our desktop video special is the video editing program MediaFactory. You " ) could win one of ten copies! | Bors Sn DB Proview tm @ Fede in — Loteeat (Genes) Cor You may be able to create your own Mac movies, but this program helps you write great scripts for them If you want to sell a script, it has to look the part. This specialised word processor makes it easy for you 64 Two printers for the price of one with a model that offers two ways to print good-quality colour So many CD-ROMs promise you the world, but this superb guide actually gives it to you This virtual haunted house is not for the faint-hearted. That bit about Vincent Price was just our little joke, by the way 72 Will the Residents’ disturbing new album and CD-ROM win as many plaudits as its predecessor Freak Show did? 73 A CD-ROM guide to military planes and how they’re used 74 Voyage Through The Solar System will have you seeing stars — planets and asteroids too An exhaustive journal of how the comet struck Jupiter in 1994 — but how useful will you find it? A new education program introduces children to computer programming and makes it fun to learn You can turn your Mac into a recording studio — we look at the best programs to buy for direct-to-disk music Learn the scriptures or trace your family tree with the ultimate in bargain software. All this and a free Newton! It’s not just old games that are getting cheaper — here are two brand-new bargains 116 ™ PegLeg 116 120 Get organised with this all-in-one address book, diary and notebook — never miss an appointment again Keep up with your ever-growing CD-ROM collection CONTENTS 7 The professionals use Macs to make TV programmes and films, and now you can become a video producer too... Learn how Macs are transforming BBC documentaries All you need to know about desktop video editing software Make your own video with Premiere 4.0 or VideoShop 2.0 50 We show you what hardware you need for DTV 53 An exclusive deal on the MoviePak Presenter bundle What's a Mac to do when its hard drive's full? We make sense of all your storage options 112 From Monkey Island to arcade blasters — it’s all here at bargain prices. Which ones are worth it? Our double-disk bonanza includes a demo of VideoShop for you to try. You can also spread harmony across Europe with a language tutor, play three great games and watch movies on your Mac If you have the CD-ROM edition of this issue, you have everything from the floppy disks and much more! There are fabulous demos of Marathon, Ghosts and Nisus Writer, a 200Mb video spectacular of program demos and movie clips, plus 150Mb of the latest shareware! MACFORMAT ¢ ISSUE 21 * FEBRUARY 1995 S When your Client’s calling for ==> , last year’s research "Sef summary now, don't be left high and dry... Access me! Working away from the office can be a real bonus. Whether its time reduced in travelling, or a quieter atmosphere for that all-important client report, it can really boost your personal productivity. But sometimes you need urgent access to office based information, e-mail or fax services, whether its the latest budget figures, a fax to your client or even a midnight e-mail to the design department. That's when you wish you could carry the office network around with you... Well now you can. With Apple Remote Access™ you can access the office network from wherever there is a phone. Whether at home, mobile, in a client’s office or from a hotel bedroom the other side of the world, the office network is always available to you, making it easier to work together as part of a team, even when in completely different time zones! Of course, office networks hold vital company information. You don’t want just anyone hacking into your systems, least of all your competitors. So Apple Remote Access provides full multi-level security for all your network systems but, as with all Apple products, easy use and clarity are assured. Apple Remote Access allows you to work remotely with office systems in exactly the same friendly, intuitive manner as on your office-based computers, any time of the day or night. And calling in from foreign locations is easy too. Apple Remote Access has an integrated Dial Assist feature that takes the effort out of dialling in from anywhere in the world. So next time you're out of the office and urgently need that vital information... Apple Remote Access Don't be left high and dry... Call Freephone 0800 127753 (9am-6pm) for more information “ Apple Computer The Apple Logo is a registered trademark, and Apple, Macintosh" and Apple Remote Access™ are trademarks of Apple Computer, Inc., registered in the United States and other countries. © Copyright November 1994. Apple Computer, Inc. Apple acknowledges all other traclemarks as belonging to their parent companies. Mention of thied party products constitutes neither an endorsement nor a recommendation. A high density floppy disk can contain about 1.4 megabytes of software, but we nt to bring you as much as possible month. Therefore, we use com- so we can fit more on - this month s nearly five megabytes worth. Continue. A box then appears that asks you where you want to save the contents and click Save. After a couple of minutes or so of frantic disk activity, the files will _be stored on your hard disk. _ Before you install the cover disk we ‘recommend that you back up any impor- our disks for compatibility and es, but the information here is in- ¢ to data, any inability to use this soft- or any consequential losses. So se, for your own sake, back up first. 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 MAcFormMat 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 21’. It’s still not decompressed, however, so at the mo- With nearly 5Mb of great software on MACFORMAT’S MACFORMAT COVER DISKS cover disks this month, we really do have something for everyone. Derek Smith tells all... ou’ll have noticed by now that there are two disks on the front of Mac- FORMAT this month. That’s an increase of 100% in real terms over the last economic period. We’ve got so much useful software for you that we simply couldn’t fit it on to the one disk. WordSmith Word game Requires: any Mac with 1Mb of free RAM. This is a solitaire Scrabble game. The challenge is to stretch your vocabulary and beat your own Tiles: 71 Vowels: 20 Score: 160 if 4 a Test your vocabulary with WordSmith. The minimum word length is three letters, but despite that fact, | still managed to spell a couple of words — cat, mat, erm... 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 21 backup’ (or ‘Fred’ if you want. It doesn’t matter). 5. Drag the ‘Macrormat 21’ 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 21’ folder from your hard disk by dragging it across to the Wastebasket, and selecting Empty Wastebasket in the Special menu. high score. In Scrabble style, you have to create the longest word possible from 15 columns of random tiles. You can only use the tile on the top of each stack, and the easiest way to move a tile to the rack is to double-click on it. Once you've spelled a word, click Accept, and the game will see if your word is in its dictionary. If not, you can try again or add it to the dictionary. The longer the word you spell, the more points you get. If you cannot spell a word with the available letters, you can take a tile off the rack and get a new one from the stack, but doing this will lose you ten points. FlashWorks Language Tutor Requires: any Mac with 500K of free RAM. In these enlightened days of Euro harmony we insular Brits have to face up to our responsi- bilities and learn to speak more languages. After all, we'll need to know certain phrases like the German for ‘Please don’t invade us’. FlashWorks is very sophisticated and comes complete with words for French, German, Greek, Hebrew and Spanish. But you can also add your own words and phrases. Trojka 1.0 Arcade Game Requires: any Mac, System 6.0.4 or later and 500K of free RAM. Take Tetris, make it more difficult, more tacti- cal, and more compulsive and what you have is der Abend -e guten “| good evening ; zu ~ essen to have supper evening fs Difficulty! O2 O3 O4 @5 @& Set difficulty automatically for this word Chapter: 3 Frequency: 0 Type: @®Noun O Adjectivi Oth = Overd Simca Sh O Stem Learning foreign languages is one of those important things that we never do. FlashWorks leaves you no excuse. MACFORMAT * ISSUE 21 * FEBRUARY 1995 7 A MACFORMAT COVER DISKS | Trojka is one of the most addictive games that | have ever come across and has caused many an eye- rubbingly late night — you know the sort of thing, just one more game —and three hours later... 3 tenet Se Trojka. It looks very much like Tetris with a ‘well’ in the centre of the screen. Rectangular blocks of one of five different colours fall from the top and you guide them left or right as they fall, until they hit the bottom or another block. The idea is to align three blocks of the same colour in a diagonal or horizontal line. When this happens, the three blocks you have aligned disappear, and any blocks that were above them fall down to fill the gaps. As the game progresses, the blocks fall faster and you stop blinking because you can’t spare the time. Eventually the blocks reach the top of the screen, the game finishes, and your eyes start to bleed. Never mind. Hit [Command] N, and it’s on with the next game. Snapz Screen grabber Requires: any Mac with System 6.0.7 or later. It is often very useful to be able to take a screen-shot, especially if you’re creating printed instructions which involve lots of intricate de- tail. Your Mac has a built-in screen grabber, which is activated by pressing [Command] [Shift] and 3. Unfortunately this may not work with all your applications, especially games, and this in-built program has very few options. You may also have trouble with an ap- plication that uses [Command], [Shift] or 3 for something else. Snapz is the most reliable screen grabber Macrormat has come across so far, and we use it to take some of our more tricky screen-shots (Marathon, for example, which you will also find on this month’s jam- packed MacrorMaT CD-ROM). Mombasa Puzzle game Requires: any Mac and 1.5Mb of RAM. We featured this game in last month's share- ware pages and promptly found an updated colour version on the ‘Net. The idea is simple: click on a pair of identical tiles and they both disappear. The catch is they both have to be free to move to the left or right; they cannot be blocked in on both sides. Remove all the tiles and you win. Easy. Well, sort of. There are several patterns of tiles and back- grounds to choose from, and several different You can choose which Type the key combination you would like keys will take your to use to invoke Snapz... f screen-shot and acne whether or not to Pict Fle Type: (“Standard ) capture the cursor. Snapz also enables you to capture menus when they're pulled down. (CiNide Cursor in Screen Snapz Cm C7) Desktop video editing Requires: LC or better, QuickTime and 1.4Mb of free RAM. Avid’s VideoShop is a desktop video editing package aimed at the home user. You can’t save your work in this demo, but otherwise you have access to the full program. When you first open VideoShop, there will be a dialogue box welcoming you. Just Click OK. The next dialogue box will tell you that it is unable to find the plug-ins folder. Don’t worry about that, just click OK. And the next dialogue box suggests a canvas of 160 x 120. Again, just click OK. You will now see three windows. The Can- vas window is where you can view your movie and control playback. The Sequencer window is where you put the video together. To begin with, you'll see one video and one audio track. The third window shows you the disks you have available, and it’s from this window that you can transfer movie clips into VideoShop. The first thing to do is to set up VideoShop’s preferences. Open Preferences from the File menu and select Desktop. This brings up a Desktop Preferences dialogue box. Click on tile-layouts. You can also create your own tile layout to challenge friends, and you can even create your own backgrounds. For full details of the game, choose About Mombasa from the Apple menu. Peter’s Player 1.1 QuickTime movie player Requires: any Mac with QuickTime and 1Mb of free RAM. What better to go with our desktop video editing disk than a movie player? Well, a free recording studio and a master class from Richard Attenborough would be good, but a movie player comes a close second. Once you have created your definitive mas- terpiece with the demo of VideoShop (also yours on the Macrormat cover disk this month), you 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 NN1I 5BU the Set plug-ins folder and you get an Open dialogue box. Move backwards one folder level. (If you’re unsure how to do this, see our basics guide on page 90.) Click once on the VideoShop demo folder, then click Select Folder. Finally, click OK to return to the program. Double click on your hard drive icon in the volumes window to open it. Find the Mac- FORMAT 21b folder and open that. Open the Expo Movies folder, which contains some QuickTime movie clips from last year’s Apple Expo show. You are now ready to start video editing. For further instructions, there’s a walk-through tutorial on page 48. Tamves United 1 aa Dao Ooms = ntact ormat Di8 Bae woo . = home = Lequens er, bntitied ae and | emote 2 care e —————————— gree me If you can click and drag, you can edit video in VideoShop. can play it back by dragging it on to the Peter's Player icon. Shareware Selection Various Requires: See individual Read Me files To complement the troubleshooting article on page 92, we bring you another collection of troubleshooting shareware, including MiniGrin, Unmountilt, UnlockFolder and MacErrors. PopChar is a utility to give you easier access to all those special text characters — it’s like Key Caps, but better. Turn to the article on page 62 to see how to get the best out of this program. We also bring you QuickDelete, Spring Cleaning and Mode 32 - a trio of excellent utilities that will make your life happier and far more pleas- ant — maybe. Return CD-ROMs to: MAcForMat CD returns Future Publishing FREEPOST (BS4900) Somerton Somerset TA11 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 21 * FEBRUARY 1995 8 here’s a distinct flavour of desktop video in the vast CD-ROM soup that is our cover disc this month. As a little aperitif to whet your appetite, here is a list fol the folders that you'll find on this month’s CD-ROM and the mouth-watering software they contain... ® Highlights: this folder contains aliases of the best bits of the CD-ROM and is a good way to get started. ® Desktop Video: contains 200Mb of demos, movie clips and utilities for desktop video. ®@ Macrormart 21: this folder contains all the software from one of the two floppy disks on this month’s magazine. The software from the other one, the VideoShop demo, can be found in the Desktop Video folder. ®@ Demos: here you'll find demos of software featured in MACFORMAT. @ Shareware City: here you'll find the latest and greatest shareware, hot from the Internet. @ Shareware in MAcrormat: this contains most of the shareware reviewed in the maga- zine, starting on page 103 (plus a few extras). @ Reader’s Corner: we get a constant flow of great software from our readership, and here it is for your enjoyment. ® Back Issues: a database of all our past re- views in ClarisWorks and text format. Now that we've stimulated your palette with that little taster, lets take a closer look at the feast of software this month... aR MACFORMAT COVER: DISKS This month we bring you a gorgeous pouting CD-ROM that you'll fall in love with. There’s over 600Mb of great software to get stuck into. & fite Cait Project Moke Clip Windows b4Som = oy Trimet 4 ] Néditive Biscoive ae | | AL mee atom me moe " 2 | ~ Wand tide eet | r a eage © ehaet ever eae Ae wet Nerotalw verteu bet 7 + Wend Wipe Pe eevee | Bern Boorse | age Bravest wer Pome fram Wa anlar eater — Center Merge oy phen spe wt A ba a canter te reveul mage B [) ' i} j t | O) * | evieteiee o ‘tet ine veer FF g — ts st [iets own Fo Desktop video editing Requires: LC or better with 4Mb of free RAM; PowerMac native with 6Mb of free RAM. And System 7.0 or later. To complement this month’s feature about desktop video (see page 41), we bring you a save-disabled version of the industry-standard ee aaa Nea editing package, Adobe Premiere. When you open Premiere 4.0, a dialogue box will ask you which presentation size you want. Choose Presentation 160 x 120. You can then access clips by selecting Import from the File menu, and selecting either File or Project. For more details see the walk-through on page 48. Macrormat has created a little interactive ex- ample of desktop video. In the Desktop Video folder is another folder named Apple Expo ‘94. Inside you'll see a file named ‘The Apple Expo Show’. Open it to see the presentation that was created with Premiere and Astound. If you missed the show, here’s your chance to see and hear what happened. If you were there, you can relive those Expo moments. QuickTime Movie Requires: any colour Mac and QuickTime. To show you just what is possible with Premiere we've included a video made for Greenpeace by a British company called Spin Two. With a great sound track, this is six minutes of fast moving, effect-studded QuickTime movie. There are several ways that you can view Global Warming. If you double-click on the file, it will open in Premiere, or you can drag and drop it on to Peter’s Player. The original film was produced for PAL television and output to MACFORMAT *¢ ISSUE 21 * FEBRUARY 1995 9 MACFORMAT COVER DISKS in wb a pree ds video tape. However, it was around 1,000Mb in size, so this version is just a touch smaller. Marathon Demo 3D action game Requires: LCIII or better, 3Mb of free RAM, 256 colour monitor and System 6.0.5 or later. PowerMac native. This is quite simply the best game I’ve seen on a Mac. You view the game from a first-person perspective like Sensory Overload and Wolfenstein. But this is much better. To get the best speed out of the demo you'll need to copy the entire Marathon folder to your hard disk. You play a security officer aboard a space ship, which has been over-run by aliens. Your task is to shoot them. Not too much subtlety there. You start armed with only a hand gun, but you'll find a better weapon later on. To see the controls, click Preferences on the main screen, then click on Setup Keys. You can change the difficulty setting from the main screen. There are three levels in this demo (de- spite what the Read Me says), and if you have access to a network, you can enjoy a two player game. For more details contact Bungie Soft- ware in the US on 0101 312 563 6200. _ Ghosts Demo Supernatural encyclopedia Requires: any colour Mac with 4 Mb of RAM, System 6.0.7 or later, a 13-inch mon- itor or larger and a double-speed CD drive. Ghosts, reviewed on page 72, is a collection of tales and details about the supernatural world. -— -3y You can angle your view up and down in this demo of Marathon, which you will need to do to shoot some aliens. But what's that to his left? The motion detector in the bottom left-hand corner is vital to your survival, but beware sneaky aliens who stand still. There's a high ledge that you have to get on to, which seems impossible. | won't give you the answer, but keep trying. It is possible. tait Compare Nisus The CD is stuffed full of great software as always. We can’t possibly hope to cover it all on these pages, so here are some of the best of the rest. f| rege Break Custom Font Size Style View 7 Insert New Weeder OWN[. 3. Be a ul Insert New Footer OF Kony Insert New Footnote OMN Fra arene Writer to WriteNow ——— — se | with our save oI ts | disabled version of to Tent lee py ts | WriteNow 4. Insert Page # Insert Date/Time... Insert Soft Myphen =~ Insert Horizontal Line... OMB |, meme Cotumn Broek Keep on Some Poge ORK Lan, Altow to Cross Pay Become an axe-wielding Elf nymph in the colourful and entertaining shareware game Mac Rogue. Storybook is designed for children aged between 4 and 11, to stimulate their reading and interest in words. Stonehenge poses one of the greatest mysteries faced by mankind. Why did those ancient druids paint it that colour? Christopher Lee is your host on a tour around a very unusual house. This interactive demo is mouse driven, so all you need to do is click on something to investigate it further. When the mouse pointer turns into a magnifying glass with a minus sign in it, you can click the mouse button to go back one screen. You'll have to get a mouse extension cable though - you might want to hide behind the sofa. Warplanes Demo Aircraft encyclopedia Requires: LCII or better, with 4Mb of RAM and System 7 or later; or PowerMac with 8Mb or RAM and System 7.1.2 or later. Either Mac needs a 13-inch, 256-colour monitor and a CD-ROM drive. I’ve loved jet aircraft ever since I lived in Nor- folk and watched the American pilots flying in- credibly low. I have never worked out whether | they were testing their skill or were lost and trying to read the road signs. Whatever, this demo gives you a sample of the full program, concentrating mainly on the Navy's pride and joy, the FA-18 Hornet. As well as getting plenty of technical details and facts, you can rotate the plane around to view it from any angle. There is also some data View the delights of Media Suite Pro from Avid, another desktop video editing program from the makers of VideoShop. 9— = ose s- Oo Bom Jom diame Gor Gan S- @— ax a&-— A= BRAOcH CBB Bee A complete database of CD-ROM products available for the Mac, along with screenshots. MACFORMAT * ISSUE 21 * FEBRUARY 1995 10 : Apart from pictures of planes, Warpiane features diagrams and cut-aways such as this one of an FA-18 engine. on the Gulf War and plenty of full colour pic- tures. Warplanes is reviewed on page 72. Adventures with Oslo Demo Children’s fun Requires: LC or better, 2Mb free RAM and a 256-colour monitor. This is an enchanting demo from an American company that produces fun science programs. Oslo is the computer equivalent of those chil- dren’s toys that have all those buttons to press and gadgets to play with. Click on the different parts of Oslo to Take a leap of the imagination and journey aboard the Starship Enterprise in this interactive demo. ak a look at two excellent products n Microsoft, Fine Artist and Creative both designed for kids. Risiclon Qmionon = Kids will love playing with Oslo and all his games, providing they can get their parents away from the screen. sample many of his functions. My favourite is the maze section where you guide a ball around a crazy maze course, only to end up back at the beginning. We hope to bring you a review when the program is finished. __ Star Trek Manual Demo Interactive Manual Requires: LCII or better and a 256 colour monitor. When Star Trek: The Next Generation was an- nounced, many people thought that it could never match the original. But when we saw the wobbly sets and the unconvincing aliens, we knew it was an- other winner. We reviewed this Star Trek Technical Manual in MACFORMAT 20 and it was awarded 92% and a Macrormat Classic Award. And now you too have the chance to explore the new im- proved Enterprise and peek where no viewer has peeked before. This demo only gives you access to a couple of areas of the ship but you'll get the idea. Just as in Warplanes you can view the ship from the outside as well, Digital Messiah has reached version 2 and is absolutely brilliant. Take a look in the shareware games folder for it. Detare yew HLart i you woe to ese OCR sartwere te recegwene buvinays latlery nd prentouti, then took ne farther, of oe wish te grocers finepe, Uhen the Fevulls are See a: curate = although yew an, ot CBee, mmedity Uae and Japan were taken to Barepe operurgal trade wah Aus They c Get up to date with the latest database of all the reviews that Macrormat has published since the first issue. Is Nisus Writer the best || word processor available? We use at Macrormat and now you can try it. | MACFORMAT COVER DISKS <i] . = | A multimedia CD about how to make paper planes may sound strange, but this is an essential CD for any school. and turn it around to view it from different an- gles. Ideal for Trek-heads every where. Paper Planes Demo Aerodynamic origami Requires: 1Mb of free RAM anda 256-colour 14-inch monitor. Everyone loves making paper planes and seeing if they can hit the sleeping cat from 30 feet away. But if you want to improve your darts, then you're going to have to get serious. Paper Planes is the definitive work on how to build them. The demo contains just one design of dart and you are taken through its manufac- ture in a very clear Blue Peter style. There are even details of how to hold and throw the dart for maximum effect. Reader’s Corner Your programs Requires: see individual Read Me files I’m amazed at the quantity and quality of the software that crosses my desk from readers. Cyber TV is a new type of CD product being produced by a Scottish company and we’re happy to do our bit to promote their work. Damon Creed has sent in some terrific icons, and of real interest is his Read Me file, which shows exactly how he did them. Tim Plumb has also sent in some superb folder icons. Daniel Clav had a game called BeeBop on the Macrormat 14 CD, and here’s the sequel, called BeeBop 2, what else? HyperCard stacks are al- ways popular and we've had plenty from David Wilson, and Mr Pickford from Chester College of Higher Education. Martin McDonald, a regu- lar on the CD-ROM, has also sent in a variety of HyerCard stacks and utilities. Possibly the most famous combat aircraft in history, the Supermarine Spitfire ‘was one of the best all-round aircraft to emerge @ the Second World War Bh th aesthetic appeal, it was the final outcome of years of experience with peider Trophy racing seaplanes It was a superlative fighter and a match for Bits opponents at the beginning of the var Tore Sorensen has created a HyperCard stack featuring planes from World War 2. 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Super-fast networks that any machine could join and interactive TV are just some of the areas the Mac is becoming part of. We think of multimedia as a cross between text, graphics, sound and video taking place on a Mac — but now it’s looking in new direc- tions. Multimedia is set to become more a part of our everyday lives than ever, and Apple wants the Mac to lead the way. Computing, TY, telephones, photography and publishing — all these and more will become interconnected. An ex- ample of this is Apple’s plan to en- able its QuickTime video player soft- ware to understand MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface) files. MIDI files will be familiar to you if you're involved in music, as they are the standard way of making sure computer and electronic in- struments can exchange infor- mation. Getting music into your multimedia work will be much simpler than it has ever been. Echoing this spirit of communi- pple ‘ORMAT Pn ; ~ cal 4 A AY cation, Apple is talking with com- panies throughout the world. It’s developing new ideas with firms including Sony, IBM, AT&T, and Texas Instruments, and the first of these will appear later this year. Who will be the winners and losers of the multimedia revolu- tion? See MacroScope, page 25. eq) SiC Mac technology is coming to TV — giving you interactive television. BT (British Telecom) is connecting a number of homes in Ipswich as part of its tests to see how people can use services like home shop- ping, video on demand (choosing a movie to watch whenever you like, not when it’s scheduled for) and home banking through their TV. Apple’s making the set-top boxes that hook up to the TVs, meaning you will have the benefit of mak- ing your choices in a similar, icon- based way to using your Mac. FireWire is a networking system enabling Macs to be linked to- gether and communicate very quickly. It’s along the same lines as LocalTalk or Ethernet but it sends data much faster. Connect a CD- ROM drive to your Mac with FireWire, and you'll have no more of those incidents of your Quick- Time movie freezing momentarily because the cable can’t transmit it fast enough. Apple is talking to companies in- cluding Sony about fitting FireWire sockets to equipment like video recorders and cameras, mean- ing you'll be able to send video into your Mac instantly. A new partnership between companies including Apple, IBM and AT&T (one of the giant American equivalents of BT) plans to make it easier for ma- chines to talk to each other. It is setting standard ways of comput- erised communication, meaning computers, telephones and other devices can exchange information without fuss. As a result, the Mac and the telephone will be able to work closely together — and other methods like wireless communi- cation will become possible. Imag- ine a PowerBook sending details of your name and address to another nearby Versit device via infrared light — just like using a remote con- trol. A recognised format for a computerised business card has been agreed, meaning this can soon be reality. These Macs won’t be in your homes at all, but you could be passing them on the street. ‘Mac Inside, King Outside’ is the rather coy acronym for a range of devices from Canadian firm King Products. These use the same Mac tech- nology as Apple’s portable Power- Books in streamlined display booths. MIKO can be installed in areas like shopping malls or mu- seums to show presentations you can watch, or control with the MACFORMAT * ISSUE 21 * FEBRUARY 1995 17 ra CZ APPEE BYTES Apple acts on shortages Apple is to build a new manufacturing plant for Macs in California. This should mean it'll soon be easier to buy a Mac without the annoying wait that some people have had to put up with. Programming made easy Even more programs should be appearing on the Mac, thanks to a new programmers’ tool from Microsoft. The Visual C++ Cross-Development Edition for the Macintosh enables software developers who've written programs for the PC to translate them across to the Mac easily. With only a little extra programming needed in some cases, the program is ready to run under System 7. Companies who have lost out by failing to produce Mac versions of their software now have no excuse. Microsoft says future versions of the Cross-Development Edition will be able to create PowerMac versions of the software, as well as versions for the new PowerPC computer that Apple, IBM and Motorola are working on (see Macrormat 20's main story). Word rules The Microsoft Word program has become the best-selling word processor ever, according to the company. It claims 19 million people around the world are now using the program, compared to the 17 million using WordPerfect, its main rival. Graphic offers To encourage you to try its accelerator for Adobe Photoshop, Radius is offering a money-back guarantee. If you buy PhotoEngine before the end of January — it costs £1,291.33 — you can return it within 30 days and receive a full refund if you're not happy with it. The board uses four powerful Digital Signal Pro- cessor chips to slice the time taken by demanding tasks like rotating and converting images. For more details call Computers Unlimited on 081 200 8282. Radius is also consolidating its recent merger with SuperMac by ex- tending its customer support guarantee to any SuperMac product bought after Thursday 1 September last year. If your card or monitor is still under its one- year guarantee and breaks down, Radius will come round to replace it within two days of your call. Radius can be contacted on 0483 772773. Star Trek update ABLAC Learning Works has raised the price of the Star Trek Interactive Technical Manual, reviewed in Macrormat 20, to £49.95. ABLAC can be contacted on 0626 332233. PowerMacs raise the tempo ew PowerMacs that go even faster were shown at the recent Comdex show in Las Vegas. Proto- types of two of the next generation PowerMacs were on the Apple stand, disguised in old-style cases. As well as running 604 chips — the fastest of the PowerPC chips seen so far — the new machines will in- clude a type of card slot new to Macs. PCI (Peripheral Compo- range is also going PowerMac in the summer. The new souped up PowerBooks will use a beefed-up version of the 603 chip, which is the successor to the current 601 chip. It will also be slimmer and lighter and will include slots that take a more standard form of card for nent Interconnect) slots take CPE. modems and networks than cards made by many manu- f = is currently used. Around facturers for other ma- Ff ‘ a Lf re the same time, there'll be a chines, which means Y Ce } r card that upgrades any you'll have a wider i Fa choice of cards to boost your Mac’s video, storage and networking ~~ abilities. The portable PowerBook of the PowerBook 500 series to Power- Mac speed. From the summer, PowerBooks are going to be PowerMacs, but what is Apple going to call them — PowerPowerBooks? CD-ROM puts on its dancing shoes You'll soon be able to use the same __ erial. It isn’t using CD Plus, but still _hi-fi’s speakers. / disc on both your Mac and your hi- — shows the interest of the idea with- If you want more details on fi thanks to anew CD format. With __ in the music industry. Each copy Mike Oldfield’s CD, contact WEA the new format — likely to be called _ includes an offer to see the CD- Records on 081 997 7571. CD Plus — whichever machine ROM demonstrated you're using will automatically use = ona Mac ata local the appropriate part of the disc. dealer and a com- The potential of CD-ROM has petition to win a attracted musicians like Peter Macintosh. Gabriel into making their music in- Other CD-ROMs, teractive. The new format should like the Residents’ encourage more musicians to ex- new Gingerbread Man plore CD-ROM, and Apple is en- (which is reviewed on couraging them further by offering page 72), also use this support and information through a __ older hybrid format, campaign called the Interactive which relies on your Music Developers Programme. co-operation. If you Meanwhile, Mike Oldfield’s lat- play the first track, est album The Songs Of Distant Earth — which is CD-ROM comes in a limited edition format that includes some CD-ROM mat- Musicians like Mike Oldfield are combining material, on a hi-fi, you hear lots of their music with CD-ROM, and Apple’s static —- and you risk damaging your __ making it easier for them to do it. 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Before long a choice of operating systems for your Mac is going to be a fact of life (see MACFORMAT 20's lead story, ‘Apple partners agree on next generation Macs’), although the Mac operating system will dominate. Different systems will offer a far wider choice of programs to use on the Mac. Apple is preparing its quantum leap to a multi-tasking OS. This will mean the Mac can share its time between programs. For exam- ple, you could use a word proces- sor while the Mac worked away on rendering a luscious 3D picture. It sounds simple, but to make it fool- proof requires some careful pro- gramming. The OS will also be faster and more efficient. System 8, due later in the year, takes the first steps in the complex process, while System 9 should really deliver the goods. The Mac OS is strongly placed to compete against other systems like IBM’s OS/2 that you'll be able to run on future Macs. @ An alternative operating system from an unexpected source will surface soon, in the form of MagiC Mac. Developed by German firm Application Systems Heidelberg, it’s a program shell that offers you true multi-tasking now. MagiC Mac doesn’t use Mac pro- grams like ClarisWorks and Photo- shop, but there is a ready source of high speed, low-cost software Smart document reading to Mac n impressive new way of bringing printed docu- ments into your Mac is being launched later this year. Xerox is introducing DocuRT, which builds on the way optical character recognition (OCR) soft- ware enables you to read in text with the help of a scanner. Pro- grams using DocuRT (Document Recognition Technology) can not only scan and convert text but also pictures and even tables of figures. If you scan in a document with columns of text, illustrations, photographs and tables, DocuRT programs will be able to tell the different areas apart (including pictures with a full range of tones or just lines), and change the whole thing into a Mac document where each area can be treated the way it should be. You can edit the text and it will flow between the available — surprisingly from the lowly Atari ST. The ST started as a popular cheap home computer, but has developed into a more profi- cient workhorse with a small but loyal following. Many of the pro- grams written for the ST, and its more powerful cousin the Falcon, work with MagiC Mac running alongside Ease, which gives it icons and windows to work with. The software alternatives will be of interest to specialist users — especially in the fields of graphics and music — but the most signifi- cant impact of MagiC Mac will be to win over disillusioned Atari owners. One of the biggest stands at a recent Atari show in Germany — home for a million Atari com- OL 361 Bytes in ii Obi LASEROSS FILME puter owners — was occupied by Apple showing MagiC Mac. An English version is expected later in the year. For more details # space odyssey ms led Mande 3/8 Leage Of Their On Al fire Si Alien 3 } Alien Collectors Editicn CoS Application Sys- tems Heidelberg, who are based in Germany, can be contacted on 010 |_ 7) Alieas Collectors Edition Bi Allegro Hee Tropes Apckalypse Now IB) Back To The Futere IIT puts uty and the Beast-Herk In Prosress 49 6221 300002. Glive Parker & Richard Sill With MagiC Mac and Ease, Apple hopes to entice Atari ST users to the Mac platform The Xerox OCR program TextBridge is now available for the PowerMac, running many times faster than its Mac counterpart. = Verifier ——— ES) Verify: columns, change the size of the pictures or type new figures into the table while it reformats itself. The plan is that Xerox will be of- fering the technology to pro- grammers to use rather than re- leasing it as a stand-alone program. It’s already talking to WordPerfect and Delrina among others. Expect the first fruits of DocuRT to arrive SCREEN GO ON TO You can have more screen savers than you have ever dreamed of with The Complete After Dark Collection. Screen savers display pic- tures or animations if you don’t use your Mac for a while — it’s supposed to protect your moni- tor, but just as many people buy them for fun. As well as a selection of screen saver modules from After Dark 3.0 and other programs, you can pre- view mod- ules from newer pro- grams and buy the code to enable you to use them over the phone. This sys- tem of paying to unlock files when you decide to buy them is often used when buying fonts, but this is the first some time later in the year. Meanwhile, the OCR program TextBridge is now available for the PowerMac at £116.33. With the help of a scanner, it can bring text into your PowerMac up to seven times more quickly than it could on the Mac. For more details on DocuRT and TextBridge you can contact Xerox on 0734 668421. SAVERS CD-ROM to sell a leisure item like this. The £49.99 CD-ROM in- cludes full versions of After Dark 2.0 and 3.0, as well as More After Dark. In addition, you can pre- view screen savers for Star Trek, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek Screen Posters, The Simpsons, Marvel Screen Posters and The X-Men, and buy any of these later. If you want more de- tails you can contact Instant Access on 081 205 2596. math A bewildering array of novelty screen savers can be yours time it’s been used _ with a resourceful use of CD-ROM. MACFORMAT *¢ ISSUE 21 * FEBRUARY 1995 20 LOW COST HIGH SPEC BIG FORMAT LASER With the EPL 9000 series from Epson, you no longer have to choose one or the other - now you get both low cost and high specification from the same A3 laser printer! 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And choosing the right Apple Workgroup Server for your needs is just as easy. We have a complete family of products, including our newest models based on highest performance PowerPC™ technology. If this hasn’t convinced you then browsing through our Apple Workgroup Solutions Guide will un- doubtedly reveal the perfect solution from the breadth of software and hardware available. To get your hands on our Solutions Guide — and for the name of your nearest Apple Authorised Reseller—call 0800 234800 today. And get the power you need most from your workgroup environment. Apple @. The Apple logo is a registered trademark and Apple, Macintosh and PowerBook are trademarks of Apple Computer, Inc. registered in the US and olber countries. PowerPC is a trademark of International Business Machines Corporation and is used under license therefrom. Retrospect Remole is a registered trademark of Dantz Development Corporation. FileWave is a registered trademark of Wave Technologies, Viper Instant Access is a trademark of IT Design. *See “LifeCycle Costing for PC LAN Administration — A Comparative Analysis of 5 NOS Buvironments” © Business Research Group, 1994. TRetrospect Remote is included in all server configurations that include a tape drive. tFileWave software is optional software available from Wave Research, §Viper Instant Access is optional software available from Our product makes your Mac 40% Faster for under £200 Domain 091 266 8998 = = “MACROSCOPE SCOPE Learn how the ’Net competes with CD-ROM, meet ghostly apparitions, and discover why Josef Morell says the printed page is passé. By Richard Hill. the battle for knowledge ill the Internet make CD-ROM ob- solete? On the face of it the ‘Net and CD-ROM offer very different services, but competition is de- Ploping. As both media evolve, they'll be Hering similar services. Why go out to a shop iid buy a new encyclopedia edition when you § call it up over the Internet? Multimedia is bing to mean more competition among the bviders of our information. There are many ways you could bring this falth of information into your home. With gir Mac, you can use CD-ROM and on-line ices like the Internet or Apple’s eWorld. could pipe information through cables into Hur TV, connecting a box to it to use another mm of on-line service called interactive TV. Enthusiasts embrace these new ideas readily, i we won't know the revolution is truly in fcc until the ‘man on the street’ is using the es. The research firm Inteco recently com- da huge survey where it talked to 11,000 eople across Europe, including 2,000 in Main. (Political polls involve less than 1,000 Why go out to a shop and buy a CD encyclopedia when you can call it up over the Internet? fople.) It asked people what information they nied, how they wanted to get it and what d pay for over the next five years. We looked at quite a wide range of areas’, Inteco’s Miles Thistlewhaite. ‘We looked at i TV as entertainment - TV in general and feo rental. We looked at home shopping and mple’s predilection for paying for on-line in- mation. As far as the computer was con- med, we looked at the balance between on- services and the potential for CD-ROM. We found that people’s willingness to pay all of this was not as great as you might ex- ect — and where there is willingness to pay, it’s bf a mass market thing. It’s something that re- to particular groups of people.’ Thistlethwaite says the TV may not evolve into the multi-faceted, interactive creature many are predicting. Video on demand — bring- ing movies down a cable to watch when you want to — could succeed if it’s handled correct- ly. But a wide range of entertainment would need to be offered. As far as using the TV to use on-line services - news, banking, shopping — is concerned, Thistlethwaite quotes France as an example. A nationwide service has been available for ten years, and yet only one person in four uses it. Thistlethwaite says the computer is more likely to be the source of all wisdom for us. ‘Over the next five years the number of house- holds that have a computer is going to go up substantially — so in many ways the computer is likely to turn out to be the platform we see in many multimedia applications rather than tele- visions. People use them at work and want to have one at home. And they’re driven into the home because of people’s aspirations for their children’s education.’ Internet image problems Kanwal Sharma oversees Apple UK’s multi- media operation. He suggests an alternative path, with the divisions between TV and com- puter blurring. ‘People in the television indus- try are putting in more computing functionali- ty, and people in the computer industry are putting in more television capabilities.’ This could help put a more user-friendly face on the Internet. Thistlethwaite says the survey MACFORMAT ¢ ISSUE 21 * FEBRUARY 1995 25 showed a resistance to using modems and the Internet that will take time to overcome. ‘Look- ing at existing patterns of behaviour says a couple of things. People’s familiarity with using a telephone and their willingness to do so is much less in Europe — outstandingly so in the UK, where people have real problems with it. It’s cultural — they do fewer things, they’re less confident at ringing up and ordering meals. ‘The other thing is costs — at the moment, using a telephone costs you. If we had some paying system that would stimulate the use of on-line services — until we do have, that’s going to act as a barrier. In the States, of course, you have free local calls.’ Sharma agrees the Internet faces some ob- stacles before gaining widespread acceptance in Britain. ‘People are talking about the digital super-highway, but there’s not that much con- tent that’s relevant to a lot of people out there. So you have the Internet, with an interface The survey showed a resistance to using modems and the Internet that will take time to overcome. that’s difficult for a lot of customers to get into.’ It isn’t all bad news for the Internet, says Thistlethwaite. ‘You can have a revolution. If you look at the States — go back 12 months, people were much less aware of the informa- tion superhighway and the potential. There was an enormous national blitz on the subject and attitudes have changed. You might say, well that hasn’t happened yet in Europe on the same scale.’ Sharma adds that companies are working hard to make on-line services more user-friendly, citing Apple’s own eWorld as a prime example. Thistlethwaite reckons that CD-ROM seems set to become the mass information medium — for the next few years. ‘It’s a very natural pro- gression. The CD-ROM, in a sense, is a more ef- ficient way of doing something that people have been doing on floppy disks up until now. It offers them a better version of what they’ve already got — whereas getting on an on-line ser- vice and finding out about it is a relatively radi- cal step. When the steps are easy to take, they’re more likely to take place.’ Lg Pi a - gNUSts If the maci ultimedia company MDI had a few spooks of their own when they were creating their haunted house CD-ROM, Ghosts. No-one at MDI actually saw a ghost themselves, but there were several... unexplained incidents. Ghosts Writer and researcher Claire Griffith explains: ‘Files went missing, photographs went missing. They never turned up — usually things get lost in offices and turn up eventually. You started to think you were possessed by the end of the project.’ Dave Hornsby, who oversaw the design of the CD-ROM, adds, ‘One of our photogra- phers went to a house where there were sup- posedly poltergeists. He was trying to take photographs and his flash gun wouldn’t work. He thought the batteries had gone, but he’d come prepared. So he got some new bat- teries and it still wouldn’t work. He left the building to buy some more, just in case the spare ones had been duds, and it worked as soon as he got outside.’ Ghosts is only the latest release from MDI, which has been one of the busier CD-ROM companies lately. Recent titles in- clude Behind The Scenes: The Zoo and Dictionary Of The Living World (look out for the review in MACFORMAT 22). These discs use established CD-ROM ideas taken from books. Ghosts takes a fresh approach. The interface here — the design of the way you interact with the program —is in fact a house. Ghosts takes in- fluences from 3D games like Myst to achieve a different look for a reference title, and breaks free of the idea that CD-ROM needs to look like a book or a video. Claire Griffith says, ‘The subject lent itself ine to something different. We found that a lot of multimedia products were getting quite dry, using a dry way of looking at the information. So we decided to do something that was more exciting, a completely different way of ex- tracting factual information.’ Dave Hornsby adds, ‘It just seemed like the most obvious thing: ghosts — haunted house. ! think we were originally going to have every- thing in one room. It was going to be like a library, where there are loads of books on dif- ferent topics on the shelves. We thought, “Why not spread all this stuff around the house, have a bit of a story around it?” ’ The CD-ROM format made this possible, but at the same time it was also a limiting fac- tor, says Hornsby. ‘We wanted there to be a lot more going on in the house. We'd love everything to do something when you clicked on it, but there’s just not enough disc space. We wanted to have atmos- pheric music as you walk round the house, but music takes a lot of space as well. We’d have had to sacrifice real, hard content just to put embellishments on.’ The end result adds an extra di- mension to Ghosts, which includes interviews with ghost hunters and people who claim to have witnessed a ghost. But the ultimate ghost story happened to Hornsby himself when he was alone at work. ‘I heard ghostly voices -a man and a small girl. It was ten or eleven at night. I was checking all the doors were shut, and it sound- ed like somebody started laughing — right behind me. I spun round very quickly and there was no-one there. I could hear these faint chuckling voices, so I got out as quick as I could.’ MACFORMAT * ISSUE 21 * FEBRUARY 1995 26 — Trad he heralded age of electronic publish- ing, of magazines on disks and the Internet but not paper, is some way away, says the a top Mac designer. ‘All those days are a long way off,’ says Ian Swift (Swifty), the man behind the Lion Bar TV ad. ‘How many people buy newspapers in a day? Ill take a long time to persuade millions of people to go out in the morning and buy some- thing that they'll stick in a machine. The CD- ROM could be like the eight-track cartridge.’ You may not know it, but you’re probably very familiar with Swifty’s design work. Glam- Orous projects like the art direction on the jazz magazine Straight No Chaser and record sleeves for the Talkin’ Loud label have given him a large following among design students. He also won the XYZ magazine award for Apple Com- puter Designer Of The Year. Now Swifty’s turning his attention to pub- lishing with the release of Command Z, a maga- zine showcasing his work as well as containing interviews with other design notables. The magazine is accompanied by a floppy disk containing two of the font designs from which he gained his reputation. It’s being released mainly as a response to student followers. ‘I get so many letters from stu- dents asking for information — they collect flyers, they collect bits of Swifty design. ‘In the first one, I’ve done logos — some of the ones I liked and the ones that didn’t happen. There’s loads of things that no-one will ever have seen before, and it shows the whole design process. So you might have one logo with perhaps ten ideas as proposals.’ Swifty got his break after his course at Man- chester through renowned designer Neville Brody, famous for his work on The Face. Over the course of his career he’s come to rely on the Mac more and more, he says. ‘The Mac en- ables you to have everything in-house. I can put together magazines, record sleeves and mg posters here raight phaser in my office, here er a at ey Strain TOOT TT) 27 / 30 LUCTIM / PORTISHEAD tw NAD LAKCUAGT Straight No Chaser is the cult Magazine where Swifty made his Mame. It was his spell here that led to other jazz design work. ART BLAKEY/ LARRY el aac GRANT GREET / WAYNE SHORTER / GREG ORIN / BOOBY HUTCHERSON so I can work round the clock, which is always a big plus — I'd rather come in midday and work through ‘til midnight.’ After using the Mac for years, Swifty reckons he’s now arriving at a new understanding of its place in the design studio. ‘I’m a great believer Technology moves too fast — the public can’t keep up with it. They'll always revert to things they know. in the design process — sit down with a bit of paper, scribble out some ideas and then, once you have the ideas... The Mac is only a tool. It’s one of the best tools that a designer can have, but it can’t design things for you.’ Swifty doesn’t at- tempt to deny the benefits the Mac Swifty’s designs for records released by companies like Blue Note and Talkin’ Loud have been much imitated by students. has brought to design, but he wonders if we've begun to rely on it too much. ‘Design is not a craft any more. Design has always been hand- crafted — that’s what it is. Now you have this machine that’s taken it all over. What I'd like is a palette you can sit at, like a draw- ing board. Say you’re doing a Jack- son Pollock — I'd like to be able to splash this palette with a load of paint, and it would show this paint on the screen. And then you save that, and wipe down the palette and do it again... and build up this paint- ing of layers. It’s getting the hands- on effect in there. ‘So you're designing the traditional way, and using the computer as well and getting the benefit of that at the same time. I think they’re too sepa- rate at the moment. ‘ve been working away on this machine and I’m bored with just MACROSCOPE R - =—Ss =| Cult designer and font creator lan Swift — Swifty — says the Mac mustn't replace traditional design crafts: ‘The old existing alongside the new — that's the way forward.’ moving a mouse around. I try to get away from the Mac and back to the drawing board, just to manually create things like I used to. And then I scan them in. The end product is still on the computer, but 50% of that process is going back to the traditional methods.’ This desire for a return to craft is reflected in the package Swifty is putting together. It com- bines the high tech functionality of the Mac fonts on disk with the almost hand-made val- ues of the pocket magazine. The magazine is in- tended to remind people that print is as much a tactile experience as a visual one. ‘I think technology moves too fast — the general public can’t keep up with it. They'll always revert to the things they know. I've still got my vinyl records — I’m not converting to CD, no way. I'd like to see things existing side by side, as opposed to one thing taking over the other. The old existing alongside the new — that’s the best way forward.’ ne Swifty was producing so many designs for jazz records and magazines that he became typecast. ‘| almost became the in- house designer for the jazz scene,’ he says. MACFORMAT * ISSUE 21 * FEBRUARY 1995 27 ACROSCOPE On the line Magazines in today’s form are old news according to Josef Morell. He pockets his cyberbucks and goes looking for newsagents on the Internet. ook, this really is old hat. This whole business: magazines, paper, ink, trees, newsagents — not exactly new, is it? The Chinese had the whole thing sussed thousands of years ago (except the newsagents — one of the two things not invent- ed by the Chinese, the other one being the electric nose hair trimmer.) Here we are, a magazine devoted to the very latest in personal computing technology, and it’s all still done with mashed up Finnish forests. It’s really not good enough, is it? Well, a couple of months back, the powers that be at Macrormat decided it was about time the magazine came bang up to date and went electronic and on-line. And by the time you FutureNet : Indew Page J Jaga) arent [itty //uww Atwroret ee skd J =F) | EE Welcome to PutureNet! Feit aeaahg eeay Opn deems figured out a sensible way of paying for it yet. Credit cards are currently the only option, but they’re not really practical for the small amounts of money you spend on magazines — especially if you take the next step of charging per page read instead of the whole thing. And people don’t like sending their credit card details over the ‘Net, where journalists from The Independent can get at them. Solutions will be at hand, however, with the dawn of electronic cash. A company called DigiCash is one of the furthest along the pro- duction line with this, and is currently beta- testing its cyberbucks. (Yes, that’s what they’re called. Almost makes you feel all nostalgic about the ECU, doesn’t it?) Their system works like this... You open a bank account with them, and pay in some real money. They then give you some electronic Trash home page a] JJ gases 4 a om = : Corre itp Zio Sgicash com /esush/ecaah-tome brat = eS Welcome to the ecash home page Least modified Mewmnier 25 1 7e4 @ 1600 +0000 HOT NEWS rine ad ‘Windows § ont Oo © Be ecach Wants home page! 1 7 = leaden.) Ree Rn isos eome te APs The money of the future is just around the corner. But, please God, don't let it be called cyberbucks... downloaded into a smartcard you carry around. Indeed, a trial of a similar system is under way in Swindon, of all places. So having whetted your appetite for maga- zines being downloaded to your Mac and being paid for in ways that make you cringe every time you see the name, how far away is it? The technology will be there to do it proper- ly in 1995, but you can get a taster now, if you have a modem and an Internet connection. And being the sort of person who wants to get 100% from their Macintosh you have both, of course — not to have would be like having an answering machine and no telephone. To have a look at the way cash will be, point your World Wide Web Client at: http://www.digicash.com/ nearer ie ap A ages ted ams tne easy aren may pc! ema futureNet - Moc format 17. tet O4 21st Century — Modems a ] aj Jodie i 4 Corvant [nitg Ieee fata ene 20 se ting imac format /istue 17 /Ceohary (Modems dtm ce 7 | Here you can read the cover feature from 255 Fx Modems Macrormar 16, enhanced with hypertext lf links and interactive jargon busters! 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Oe The advantages of having an [-——___ on-line magazine are manifold. From the reader’s end, it is in- stantly accessible, contains the very latest information, can be searched like a database and cross-referenced with ease, and video and sound can be included for that truly multimedia reading experience. From the pub- lisher’s end, it’s cheap — two thirds of the costs of a magazine are related to creating the physi- cal object, not the words and pictures in it. Now, to be honest with you, we’re some way off having a 100% electronic version of MACFORMAT at the moment. For one thing, people like having the physical magazine in their hands, and I don’t want to take my PowerBook to read on the loo. And there’s the more serious problem that no one has quite aeons Sed io ..W@ gO, er, where you can see what of Macrormar there is on line. Not a lot yet, but just you wait! tokens — your cyberbucks. These use clever en- cryption and authentication techniques so they can’t be forged. 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