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Please check for availability. Behind ever corner, inside your worst nigh mares. On board the intergalactic colony ship Marathon, things have gone horribly wrong. You are the last hope for defending the Marathon against an onslaught of hostile aliens. Advanced weaponry and surreal settings create a truly unique environment. Marathon has it all — captivating single player gameplay with total network carnage. Features include: Smooth Real Time 3D graphics (upto full 640x480 screen) * PowerPC Native ¢ Active panning stereo sound with a QuickTime 2 soundtrack ¢ Interactive lighting effects—flash- ing lights, depth-cuing even machine gun bullets illuminate the darkness * Look up and down whilst running ¢ Motion tracker and auto m: ping ¢ Ability to interface to ships computers * ow — Huge arsenal of weaponry ¢ Killer network play, with up to 8 players at once (each player requires a separate serial number, standard Marathon comes with 2). Finally, Mac owners can seriously out doom doom. SRP £49.99 Loony Labyrinth The feel of real P award winning all from the developers of the tal Caliburn. You start off in Modern Times where you have to successfully you back to 2 Then you need to save nine sacrificial victims, defeat the minotaur and escape the Labyrinth (all with just three flippers Labyrinth contains do: activate a time m: ne that take: Loony ns of play-action voices that prompt, encourage and cajole. There are 3D ramps, 3 ball multiplay and scores of sound effects. If you're even slightly interested in Pinball then Loony Labyrinth is the closest you'll get to a digital pinball machine. You can even tilt the table! SRP £39.99 Being in the Galactic Navy has it's ups and downs and for most of your tour of duty you've had it pretty soft. Suddenly your world is under attack from the nastiest renegade pirate hordes this side of the galaxy. They come in droves and there's nothing anyone can do to stop them. Operation PegLeg includes fast-paced arcade action; full screen on any sized monitor; 3D rendered aliens; infinite num r of levels and responsive, whirlwind, controls. Collect magic coi containers to improve your weaponry. PegLeg captures every last ounce of adrenaline with blazing speed, smooth animation and crisp rich sound. SRP £25.52 All pric shown are Suggested Retail Prices exclusive of VAT. Softline Distribution Ltd, Mill House, Mill Lane, Carshalton, Surrey SM5 2WZ Tel 0181 401 1234 Fax 0181 401 1235 AppleLink UK0037 CompuServe 100012,21 Where Other Wordprocessors Will Be In Ten Years a Nisus Writer gives you more he ie ww control over text than any other ff word processor. Naturally there Ley are Style Sheets, Tool Bars, ae iy board Shortcuts, UK Spell checking, a thesaurus, automatic indexing, glos- sary, drag and drop and mail merge. You'd expect all that. But no one gives you unlimited undos, noncontiguous selection and ten editable clip- boards. The PowerFind system gives you unri- and other languages all in the same document, including Arabic, Hebrew, Japanese and Russian. Nisus Writer makes switching languages as easy as changing fonts. It lets you freely move between roman languages, right to left, double-byte languages such as Chinese, Japanese and Korean. All you need for full multi-language support is NisusWriter with Language Key. You can check spelling in many valed tools to locate the languages and take exact word or phrase Some of today’s word processors advantage of a num- with consummate ease. are quite impressive. ber of features specific to the non-roman lan- esl But they’re not Nisus Writer. Nisus Writer : lets you combine text and graphics to guages we support. Standard Nisus Writer will, illustrate, enliven and instruct. A full graphics bar allows you to create simple or complex graphics in up to 256 colours, either as part of the text or as a separate layer. Nisus Writer also imports EPS, TIFF and PICT files, which you can resize, rotate, scale and edit as needed. Break out of one-dimensional word w processing. Create living documents that communicate in text, QuickTime animation or video, sound and the spoken word. We've even incorporated the most advanced Text-to- Speech capabilities that allow your reader to select text and have it spoken by the computer. Imagine the power of an interactive document that can speak or play back each word in the language in which it was written, or even ina different one. ie) Why does Apple use Nisus Writer more than any other application to demonstrate the power of WorldScript? Because no other program in the World lets you write in English however, allow you to write in most standard European Roman languages. Nisus Writer contains all the tools a kai writer needs for composing documents of any length, from short reports to the great epic novel. There are tools to help create Equations, Tables and convert from other formats. For ultimate customisation you can easily create your own floating tool bar, with custom icons that represent any command or operation. There’s even a full programming language complete with Frontier scripting and Macros under the bonnet, if you want to delve that far. Despite this overwhelming power, Nisus Writer is very intuitive and easy to use. A complete set of ‘task orientated’ tutorial manuals ensure a quick and painless entry into the worlds best wordprocessor. Just because it’s big on features doesn’t mean it’s big on memory requirements. At just 3MB of RAM, Nisus Writer lets you spend less time waiting and more time writing. Nisus Writer starts where ordinary word processors stop. 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This is a time limited offer, so don't delay! mo) AppleCentre Cambridge 5 Clifton Court, Cambridge CB1 4BN 0122 3247111 AppleCentre Edinburgh — 01315575995 14 Holyrood Rd, Edinburgh EH8 8AF AppleCentre Leicester 0116 255 6268 LVE Building, 1 Jarrom Street, Leicester LE2 7DH AppleCentre Oxford 106 High Street, Oxford OX3 7BN 0186 520 1100 AppleCentre Swanfast 315-317 New Kings Road, Fulham, London SW6 4RF 0171 731 0846 AppleCentre Warrington 0192 544.4499 244 Europa Boulevard, Gemini Business Park Warrington WAS STN Languatec 0171 247 0761 3 Gunthorpe Street, London E1 7RQ MacLine Mill House, Mill Lane, Carshalton Surrey SM5 2WZ 0181 401 1111 MicroAnvika 0171 580 6382 53-54 Tottenham Court Road, London W1P 9RE Newcastle Computer Services 0166 182 5515 Belville House, Ponteland Road, Ponteland Newcastle upon Tyne NE20 9BD CONTENTS ISSUE 23 & APRIL 1995 HOW TO... Create 3D Textures and Surfaces 86 A convincing surface texture can add the ultimate touch of realism to your 3D graphics. Here’s how to do it — try it for yourself with the demos on the CD-ROM or last month’s disks! Make HyperCard Programs 91 Using HyperCard you can make your Mac do almost anything, and now you can even create stand-alone ‘programs’. Here’s how it’s done Basics: Compression 100 How would you like to double your storage space, save time and money when you’re on-line, and fit more onto every floppy disk? The secret is... oh dear, is that the time? Education: Narrative 102 | Whether you're creating comics on your Mac, making multimedia or just writing stories, you’re doing narrative! What can it teach you or your kids? coil Calculate Credit 105 100 PAGES MACEORY Into the Net Exponential annually compounded variable rate APR with speed stripes and furry dice... how much is credit really costing you? Here’s how to use your Mac spreadsheet to find out OF INVALUABLE INFOR Free with this issue: 100 page Internet book At last estimate, over 24 million people had discovered the Internet. Here’s your chance to learn what it is, what it can do for you and how you can become part of the action! @ Macrormat — along with other fine magazines from Future Publishing, including .net: the internet magazine, CD-ROM Today and even Total Guitar — is on-line on the Internet as part of FutureNet. Accessing it is free — just point your World Wide Web browser software at: http://www.futurenet.co.uk/ Fin 2 FREE Book -— REGULARS Welcome 6 Who we are and what we stand for, by gum. The True Facts In Full. News 19 Mac prices slashed by up to 20%, new Mac clones from Pioneer to fit into your hi-fi/ video/home cinema setup, and much more What’s New - 24 A first look at how to get video on your Mac for just £150, how to print on just about any printer, plus previews of other new products MacroScope: Behind the News 28 7 News-makers Kai Krause and Domestic Funk Products, & §©6plus how PC owners can get the Mac they secretly want Apple Talk: Letters 36 Your views on everything Mac-related, from the useless sales staff in high street shops to violence in games Mac Answers 95 Our experts solve your Mac and Performa problems, including how to find missing fonts and print properly Back Issues 108 Missed that crucial review or vital how-to? Get it now while you can! Mail Order Offers 113 We scoured the world for the best Mac products at the best prices Free Reader Ads 128 Got some kit to sell? Want to find a bargain? Look here first! Buying Advice 130 How to safeguard your rights when you shop by mail or in person Soapbox: ‘Macs are had for designers’ 132 The Mac has meant more work and less pay, says a MACFORMAT reader Dilbert The cutting edge of the communications revolution goes a bit blunt... Next Month 137 Why you don’t need a DTP package, plus sex on a Mac. (More or less...) Win! Win! Win! 138 Your chance to win one of three copies of the latest version of Adobe’s industry- standard graphics/illustration program | POLELESIYYLL AL OLY fl MACFORMAT * ISSUE 23 * APRIL 1995 CONTENTS Challengers to Photoshop, the Mac image-manipulation champion for years, are now coming thick and fast. And XRes certainly is fast. But has it got the stamina to go the distance, the strength to deliver the knock-out punch, or is it all boxing trunks and no action? The hottest new releases on CD-ROM, from comics to sleaze... Daring to Fly 61 Lebanon: Pearl of the East 62 The Complete Maus 56 The Mask 56 Mister X 57 People Weekly 62 Sources of Faith 63 The Way Things Work 60 Wild Blue Yonder 61 109 The wildest, wierdest and wickedest new shareware from the Internet — including a special treat for Trekkers. And it’s all on the CD! Whatever your taste in games, from puzzlers to blasters, you'll find it here Loony Labyrinth 118 Marathon é 116 Troubled Souls 122 Wacky Races 120 102 Your Mac can help your children get to grips with story-telling, so they can grow up and swear it was the other driver’s fault... 77 Jam along with some easy-to-use Mac music software that doesn’t require you to go out and spend a packet on MIDI music kit... 124 Five invaluable utilities in one box, including data back-up and recovery, virus protection and security 126 Screen-savers don’t simply draw patterns on your screen any more. Comics fans will be blanking their screens just to watch these... Marvel Comics Screen Posters The Simpsons Screen Saver X-Men Screen Saver MACFORMAT * ISSUE 23 * APRIL 1995 changing all that, and comics are becoming more vibrant and more dazzling than ever. The professionals reveal all their secrets! How to do your own comics in ClarisWorks 52 A step-by-step guide to how to create your own masterpieces in Works Comics Multimedia 56 Hot comics, classic creators and the ultimate comic database on CD Comics Screensavers 126 How you can turn the X-Men or the Simpsons loose on your Desktop We test the latest versions of the Mac illustration heavyweights head- to-head, feature-for-feature. Which one comes out on top? 80 zs Bring colour to your world for as little as £300! We test the Apple Colour StyleWriter, Citizen Notebook Il, Fargo Primera, HP DeskWriter 310 and HP DeskWriter 560C, explain how different colour printing methods work, and help you decide which one is for you! Macrormat is available every month with either a CD-ROM or high density disk Usable (save-disabled) demos of both Free- Hand 5.0 and Illustrator 5.5, 80Mb of great 3D software, 200Mb of top shareware, all you need to log on to the MacTel BBS and much more, including everything below... 12 Four fabulous new Lemmings levels, the top shareware file-squisher StuffIt Lite 3.5, a great comics font, plus handy utilities that enable you to move any window, read any text and more! Welcome to MACFORMAT This month in the new-look MAcFrormat we bring you the faces behind the words. Just what you always wanted to see, I bet! OUR WRITERS ABOUT MACFORMAT ALEX SUMMERSBY Former academic, former comic book artist and writer, now Editor of Macrormar, Alex still manages to find time to answer QuarkXPress queries for most of Future Pub- lishing. Sometimes he even gets the answers right. DEREK SMITH Macrormat's Technical Writer and cover disk compiler, Derek used to be the computer expert at a school in Norfolk. We're still not quite sure why he left there, but he’s changed a bit since then and plays Marathon a lot. RICHARD HILL Richard came to Macrormat with a background in radio journalism and promptly learned more about Mac products than anybody except maybe Derek, and he’s not telling. This month Rich is playing with his new 630. ANDY STORER A computing journalist with wide experience of just about every platform from Amiga to ZX Spectrum, Andy settled about the middle of the alphabet and was launch editor of Macrormar. He spends much of his time with multimedia. MARCUS DYSON Formerly one of Future Publishing's most senior Art Editors, Marcus is a past master at most art and graphics packages on the Mac. He was also Editor of our sister magazine Amiga Format, so he can write good too. ANDY HUTCHINSON A veteran name to be reckoned with whenever games are mentioned, Hutch has played everything on every plat- form ever, and brings his experience and distinctive wit to bear on the top new Mac leisure software, God help it. ROD LAWTON Another former editor of Future Publishing computer magazines (not that there’s any pattern here or anything), Rod now edits computer books for Future and spends far too much time finding clever things to do in HyperCard. elcome again to MACFORMAT, Britain’s best-selling Mac magazine! Whether you're a veteran or a novice, we'll help you get more out of your Macintosh, whatever you use it for! Every month, MAcrormat brings you tips, techniques and tutorials covering the range of Mac applications, from graphics, DTP, education, spreadsheets and data- bases to music, comms and games. We'll bring you features about exciting Mac developments and novel uses, accompanied by cover disk programs whenever possible, so you can discover what your machine can do and try things you haven't tried before. We'll keep you up-to-date with all the Mac-related news, and also keep you informed about the wider issues, the people behind the headlines and the stories behind the stories. We'll bring you authoritative reviews of interesting and affordable products, with clear buying recommendations. Macrormat does not review demos or unfinished programs. We review only the finished products you could buy yourself, to help you decide whether to buy or not. Macrormat’s covermounted disks and CD-ROMs offer you demos so you can try software before you buy, useful utilities (specially chosen to complement features in the magazine), selected shareware pro- grams, games, readers’ contributions and more, every month. Editorial enquiries: Macrormart, Future Publishing Ltd, 30 Monmouth Street, Bath BAl 2BW Tel 01225 442244, Fax 01225 446019 E-mail: macformat@futurenet.co.uk or macformat@cix.compulink.co.uk AppleLink: MacFormat Advertising enquiries: Jackie Garford, tel: 01225 442244 Subscription enquiries: Subscriptions, Future Publishing, Freepost (BS4900), Somerton, Somerset TA11 6BR (No stamp needed if you're posting in the UK) Tel 01225 822510 (8.45am-—4.30pm) Fax 01458 274378 (24 hours) E-mail: subs@futurenet.co.uk A word about prices... We try to ensure that all prices quoted in editorial pages in MACForRMAT 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 ad- vertisements, so we recommend that you always contact advertisers before ordering to confirm prices and availability. See page 130 for some helpful buying advice. Entire contents Copyright © 1995 Future Publishing Ltd. All rights reserved. ABOUT OUR REVIEWS very MACFORMAT review is designed to inform you what you'd be getting if you bought the product and help you decide whether it’s worth your money. It tells you the essentials, without jargon. MAcForMaT reviews only finished products, and we rate them on this scale: @ 80+% means excellent. @ 70+% means well worth- while, though not outstanding. @ 60+% means good, but with a few shortcomings or some limitations. @ 50+% means acceptable but flawed. @ A rating below 50% means think care- fully before parting with your money. The Macrormat Classic Award If a product earns a rating of 90% or more, we'll give it a Macrormat Classic Award. This means what it says: we judge the product to be a classic, a standard-setter of its type, something really special. @ Macrormar is an independent journal, not affiliated in any way with Apple Computer, Inc. The Apple logo is a registered trademark of Apple Computer, Inc. ‘Apple’, ‘Macintosh’, ‘Macintosh Performa’, ‘Mac’ and the Mac logo are trademarks of Apple Computer Inc, All trademarks and copyrights in this issue are recognised, and have been acknowledged where possible. If we have failed to credit your copyright, please contact us — we will be happy to correct any oversight. @ Macrornmat welcomes contributions for publication but we regret that we cannot return any submissions. Contributions are normally accepted only on the basis of full assignment of copyright to Future Publishing. Any correspondence sent to our editorial address will be considered for publication unless you specifically state otherwise, and we reserve the right to edit published letters for reasons of space, clarity or legality. im We regret that we cannot reply to letters personally, even if you include an SAE, or to e-Mail. Nor can we answer technical queries over the phone — sorry! MACFORMAT *¢ ISSUE 23 * APRIL 1995 How do I sift through 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. en 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”. So next time you need those reports in a hurry... AppleSearch Call Freephone 0800 127753 (9am-6pm) for more information = Apple Computer The Apple Logo is a registered trademark, and Appice, Macineosh"™ and AppleSearch™ are trademarks of Apple Computer, Inc., registered in the Linited States and other countries. © Copyright November 1954. Apple Computer, Inc. Apple acknowexiges all other trademarks 2s belonging to their parent companies. Mention of thied party products constinsies neither an endorsement nor a recommendation. MACFORMAT COVER DISKS Your CD-ROM Enter the wonderful, demo-filled world of MACFORMAT’S CD-ROM. Derek Smith and Marcus Dyson lead you through the delights on offer this month... FLOPPY OR CD? Macrormat is available in two editions every month: one with a CD-ROM and one with a high density floppy disk. If you bought the CD edition, your CD includes a folder containing everything on the HD disk, details of which are on page 12. DIFFERENT DEMOS A ‘rolling’ demo is one that you simply watch. An ‘inter- active’ demo is one that you can play or explore yourself. A ‘save disabled’ demo is an interactive demo — or some- times the whole program — in which you can do most or all things, except Save (and possibly print or export). omplementing our action- packed comics feature this month we bring you three comic demos, including a fully -interactive comics database. We also bring you save-disabled demos of both Illustrator and FreeHand (turn to page 66 to see the head-to-head review of these industry-standard design packages). But that’s not all. There’s also an expanded Marathon demo, tonnes of shareware, and a couple of peeks at the wonderful PAWS program. Here’s a quick look at the folders you’ll find on the CD-ROM: @ Highlights: aliases of the best bits of the CD-ROM. This is always a good place to get started. @ Floppy: all the software from the flop- py disks, plus some expanded versions and a few extras. @ Demos: interactive and rolling demos of software featured in this and past issues of MACFORMAT. @ Shareware City: all the best software from the Internet that’s been released in the last month. @ Shareware in MAcFoRMAT: contains all the software reviewed in ‘Shareware and PD’, which starts on page 109. @ MactTel: everything that you need to get on-line with one of Britain’s best commis services. @ Readers’ Corner: another fine crop of software sent in by you, the readers. To find out how to use FreeHand and Illustrator, have a look at the full instruc- _@ file Eait nut Style Comics Setup @ Action Comics Action Comics is where the world first met Clark Kent, Lois Lane, Jimmy Olsen, Lex Luthor. and countless other of comicdom’s most memorable characters. Over time, the comic has updated itself somewhat. but the stories remain true to their classic form. Today Su skies over Metropolis, battling evil fighting for truth, justice, and the American Way. ) your Mac ft all started back in 1938 with Action Comics #1. That was | with these dene tater cece cteeek ete || fact-and-fic- | ' Som FS ] Explore the : | comic side of rman still fies the saverywhere, tions starting on page 10. But here’s what's on the rest of the CD... Comic Collection comics Requires: LCli or better and 2.5Mb free RAM We have three comic demos this month to tie in with our cover feature. There are rolling demos of Maus and Comic Book Con- fidential, which both come from the pro- lific Voyager stable. And there’s a cut- down, but fully-interactive, demo of ComicBase, a comics database. Turn to the multimedia section, which starts on page 56, for full reviews of these programs. Sources of Faith MULTIMEDIA Requires: LCIl or better, 4Mb of free RAM and System 7.0 or later. This unusual program focuses on seven of the world’s major religions: Animism, Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, Judaism and Taoism. Turn to page 63 to see a review. The demo is fully interactive and gives you the complete section on the Islamic faith. Operation is simple: once you’ve loaded the demo, you simply click and hold down your mouse button on the third icon from the right, and a menu pops up. Select one of the subjects, put away any preconceptions, and start learn- ing! You can contact KimTec on 01202 888873 for more details. we > ill Explore the world of a dog through the eyes of one! Our double-helping of PAWS demos gives you this unique opportunity. PAWS MULTIMEDIA Requires: any colour Mac and 2.8Mb of free RAM It’s not often that I get overexcited by a rolling demo, but this month we have two PAWS movies and they are both ab- solutely ‘tremendous. They show off per- fectly the humour and wit of this delight- ful dog sim, which enables you to see what a (cartoon) dog’s life is really like. PAWS won a Macrormat Classic Award in issue 22, and the design team are inter- viewed this issue (see page 29). Both demos are really easy to use: simply double-click on the appropriate ENS 7S. Sources of Faith gives you plenty of information on-the- world’s religions. Maybe Salman Rushdie should have P| checked it out first. MACFORMAT * ISSUE 23 « APRIL 1995 icon, sit back, and enjoy. For more details contact Softline on 0181 401 1234. 3D SOFTWARE Requires: see individual Read Me files After last month's collection, we bring you yet more demos of 3D software. And perhaps more importantly, we've got some examples of what can be achieved with these demos. In particular, there are loads of images created with the 3D rendering program Infini-D, which is being featured heavily in our 3D series that began in Macrormat 21 and con- tinues this month on page 86. There are 1s Tools Colors Windows aco Il. City Mew also some QuickTime animations created with the same program; these demon- strate the kind of incredibly professional results that you can aspire to. YOUR PROGRAMS Requires: see individual Read Me files Some of the contributions to Readers’ Corner are stunning... CYBER>TV anima- tion certainly is, as is the music video from Modified. But if you prefer a gentler pace, there are gamebusting hints and tips from Adam Shutes, Daniel Warren- der and Allan Crossman (Allan sent in MACFORMAT COVER DISKS some very impressive icons as well). Music contributions this month come from Tony de Laender, Martin MacDon- ald and Dave Andrews. There are also plenty of great utilities, and as always, loads of HyperCard stuff. For future CDs, I'd like to set up a new section for readers’ art. If you produce art of any kind on your Mac, then send your pictures in and we'll include them in the MAcFoRMAT art gallery. You'll be mas- sively famous (sort of), and get loads of offers for commissions (maybe). Please include step-by-step screen grabs of inter- mediate stages, and send any contribu- tions to: Readers’ Gallery, MACFORMAT, 30 Monmouth Street, Bath, Avon BA1 2BW. TOO MANY TO MENTION Tie tai Cantente With over 600Mb of gorgeous software on the vi r = CD, it would take the rest of the magazine to tell you about everything, so here’s a little taste of the best of the rest. This document is for use with the MacTel Iconic Bulletin Board Systems 0602-455444 and 081-543-8017. fp Sitio geids « Sietome to Mactea FiretClass™ User Reference SoRArc Inc. Global Area Communications Some of the rolling demos require you to press [command] Q to quit them. SAV F il Tie (a tpitees Wasews fay ee hed to “ Welcome to SODAColor 2.0 / but remember b INSTRATION COPY of SODAColor ie 1) 2M onc thus it lacks some of the more advanced features, lhe Laser -Disc eu limited to working with only S-cards. you Demc . You are al will receive: a oom ero MACFORMAT * ISSUE 23 * APRIL 1995 MACFORMAT COVER DISKS Selection tool: click on an object in your drawing to make it ‘active’. Rectangle tool: for squares hold [shift]; double-click to set radius of round corners. Ellipse Tool: creates ellipses. For circles, use the [shift] key. Freehand tool: create any shape; double-click to bring up an option palette. Knife tool: this tool enables you to cut all active paths that it crosses. Rotate tool: drag on your drawing to rotate selected objects. | Resize tool: resize ‘active’ shapes by clicking and dragging on their handles. Tracing tool: create an outline trace of selected objects in an area. FREEHAND TOOLBOX Text tool: this enables you to type text directly onto your drawing. Polygon Tool: draws the defined polygon; double- Click to re-define its shape. Line tool: this tool is used to draw simple straight lines. Pen tool: click-move-click for polygons. Click and drag to create curves. Bezigon tool: does same as Pen tool, but you use (option) key for curves. Reflect tool: selected elements reflect around an axis made where you click. Sheer tool: deform a selection by sheering and applying a lean angle to it. Magnifying tool: click to zoom in, [option] click to zoom out. FREEHAND MASTERCLASS This month, to complement our head- to-head review of Illustrator 5.5 vs FreeHand 5.0, we have save-disabled demos of both for you to try out. These are the top graphics and illustrations packages on the market. To get you started with FreeHand 5.0, Marcus Dyson takes you through the basics... 3D rotation: applies a pseudo-3D perspective type effect on a selected object or group of objects. Arc: enables you to draw a curve line (a section of an ellipse) between two points. Eye-dropper: enables colours to be grabbed from a bitmap picture in a docu- ment, using the File/Place menu option. Fisheye lens: applies a pseudo-optical bulging distortion to selected objects. Smudge: performs an auto-blend on any object it is applied to; only really effective on a white background. Spiral: interactively creates a spiral shape. Double-clicking enables further control of number of curls and direction. FREEHAND XTRA TOOLS MENU Eyedropper Fisheye Lens Smudge Spiral GET ACTIVE In FreeHand you have to make an object ‘active’ before you can apply any effects to it. This is done with the selection tool. TRANSFORMATIONS The transform palette gives you exact numerical control over operations like rotate and sheer. It's handy for getting a read-out of the values of one object and duplicating them onto another one. CREATING A SIMPLE LOGO IN FREEHAND ee the polygon tool to create a star. If it doesn't draw a star, double click and edit the values. (And if that doesn’t work, try the time- honoured technique of starting again...) BF draw a circle over the star, using the ellipse tool while holding down the [shift] key. Then use [command] [=] to duplicate this circle, Use the text tool to write anything you like. 2 [command] [=] to duplicate the star. The old star will not be active, the new one will. Click on the inset path tool in the operations palette. Edit the value to about 8. You now have two nested paths. 3 Press [command] A.. Select Arrange/Join menu item to join the paths. Select the Multi- colour-fill tool from the operations palette; drag & drop some colours on it. Select radial fill. Click OK. = ~ 4 we 5 ie down the [shift] key and click to make both the text and the circle active. When you've done that, select Bind to Path from the Type menu. Sorted? Then click on the other circle... ata a 5 ..and click on the Reverse Path tool in the operations palette. Use the type tool to add text, and repeat 5. Use the text tool in the inspector palette to give your type a negative baseline shift. 10 MACFORMAT * ISSUE 23 * APRIL 1995 ILLUSTRATOR MASTERCLASS So now you've got to grips with FreeHand 5.0, here’s Illustrator 5.5 for you to have a dabble with. Like the FreeHand 5.0 demo, the Illustrator 5.5 demo is also fully usable, but save- disabled. Marcus Dyson takes us through Illustrator 5.5’s toolbox and explains what Illustrator is all about... ILLUSTRATOR TOOLBOX | | — Select entire paths or objects. Hand tool: scroll around your document. Path tool: click, move, click for poly- gons. Click and drag to create curves. le Select individual points or objects. Magnify Tool: click to zoom in, [option] click to zoom out. + Scissor tool: click on the point of a path to make a cut. Brush tool: create an editable width path. Double-click for calligraphy pen. Freehand line tool: create a freehand shape. Ellipse Tool: creates ellipses. For Rectangle tool: creates rectangles. circles use [shift] key. For squares use [shift] key. Ruler: click and drag to show the distance dragged. Text tool: enter text normally or enter text inside a path. Rotate tool: rotates selected item; double-click to enter degree of rotation. Resize tool: use to resize single and multiple objects. Reflect tool: selected elements reflect around an axis created where you click. Sheer tool: use to sheer a selected object. Fill tool: fill objects with colour. Double-click to bring up control panel. Eye-dropper tool: pick up colours from the drawing to use elsewhere. Gradient fill: enables you to adjust the angle and sharpness of graduated fills. Blend tool: creates a set of intermedi- Graphing tool: creates graphs from a table of numbers entered into it. Ebobbdhtthee ate shapes between two selected items. Page tool: this adjusts the page grid. a Paint Style Oo ins oe OOgmaen | Vesper at hy! | Overprint: [] Fin , Auto E Gradient Js a t White Omae | | Purple, Red & Yellow Tint | | Red & Yellow — | Cd Steel Bar | White & Purple Radial ‘> | [Btack & white ] Coww) Cepticate @ Linear O Radiat a Paragraph Alignment a = <4 —_ 2 r-Indentation Leading Left:|0 pt before @:/0 pt Right:/0 pt oO Hang punctuation First line :|0 pt Ey Auto hyphenate Tousede Oo Select the ellipse tool, and drag out a shape, until you've got something looking like the one shown above. (It doesn't have to be exact, so don't worry if it's a bit out.) ies Esl _) 2 Open the Paint Styles window, if it isn't already open, and select the yellow-to-red graduated tint. Make sure the fill box is selected at the top left. Your shape should fill with a tint as shown. Select the gradient tool from the main tool box. Play with it a few times, clicking and dragging in your shape, until you achieve an effect that you like. Now select the type tool, and write the words you wish to display. Use the select tool to click on your text’s baseline, and drag it to wherever you want it to go kk To draw the lines above and below the name you can use the rectangle too! to draw two boxes, one above your text, and another one just below it. Or you could use the straight line tool. ine To make your background ellipse active use the select tool. Click on the stroke tool in the paint styles palette, and a box marked ‘stroke weight’ will appear. Just try different values. MACFORMAT COVER DISKS The Paint Style Window: this window is the control for almost all colour application operations in /Mustrator. Colours are created and stored here; the border and fill colour selections are made here; gradient and tints are selected here. A colour can only be applied to a part of an object if the correct box (fill or stroke) is selected. Gradient palette: here multi- colour gradients can be de- signed, edited and stored for use later. Edit (or create) a gradient, and then click below the coloured bar to produce an edit point, which defines a colour for that point. Colours can be selected from a list, or produced using CMYK sliders. The Paragraph window: this window enables easy formatting of text paragraphs. The leading before the paragraph, justification and amount of indent can all be set from here. BORDER LINE If you want to draw a thick black line in ///ustrator you can use the box tool instead of the line tool (see step 5 in the walkthrough). If you are drawing the line within a box that contains a colour you will initially draw with the same colour that is currently active. Use the paint styles window to change this to a solid black fill. Continued on next page MACFORMAT * ISSUE 23 « APRIL 1995 11 MACFORMAT COVER DISKS Your cover disk Get ready for a particularly addictive disk this month. There’s a four-level, fully playable demo of Lemmings, a brilliant hard-disk-saving compression program, and lots more... EXTRA SOFTWARE If you have the CD-ROM edition of this issue, the floppy folder on the CD contains all this software, plus several extras and expanded versions of the same software. nother month, another brilliant floppy disk. If you bought the very first issue of MACFORMAT two years ago, you may re- member that we featured a Lemmings demo on that cover disk. Of course, we used to have a double density disk in those days. Things have come a long way since then, but those pesky, sui- cidal Lemmings are just as addictive. Stuffit Lite 3.5 COMPRESSION Requires: any Mac with System 6.0.4 or later. To fit more than 1.4Mb of software on the floppy disk each month, we use Stuffit (albeit the Deluxe version) to halve the size of files. It does this by creating an archive — this is explained in detail on page 100. The important thing to note is that it’s dead easy to use. To compress a file, all you need to do is: 1. Open Stuffit Lite and select New from the File menu. @ File Edit View Lobel Archive 2. Select where [G GMactora ens’ Pass jaorte 12 ens “rae 3 Convert 1.5.1 Neereme” you want to create = caw, Ket Apptelink Package > [et Sevré your compressed Ba 202 3 theres Binkex4 > RK son . . CO Oresdcast Calendar 3 theme CPT Expand... ex STR file archive. (OD ComtestartoontT 3 items: 00 Expand... bx 2e5 Z apemene a posta ES orden 3. Choose Stuff PKG Expand... from the Archive UnP ar Joih... menu. 4. Select the items 195 1% «x on 2208 sr “x 10% BS = 1™ 478 you want to com- — 8 a press one by one, mses 610K sex | «8 = Tae nef] | and click Add. Using Stuffit Lite you can split archives across several floppy disks, enabling you to send quite large files through the post. 5. Click the Stuff button in the bottom- right corner. You can also make archives self-ex- tracting. This means that people can open the archive even if they don’t have a copy of Stuffit. To do this, just select Make Self-Extracting from the Archive menu after completing step 2. You'll also find Stuffit Expander on the disk. This is a quick and convenient way of unstuffing files that you have com- pressed with Stuffit Lite and many other compression programs. ["S fee ian Otner Siem Tost Ust Oiedow Seer H (57 sat of #7 fonts) ao Fontscon 18 paint Arial MI Condensed Light; 2bcdeighitermopgrstuvwxyz ABODEFGHIRL MNOPOR) Bodoni MI Ultra Bold; abedofyhijklmnopqrstuvwxyz ABCDEFG Chicago; abcdefghijkimnopgrstuvwnyz ABCOEFGHIVKLMNOPO! ComicsCarloon: M@RCAKUANDPORSTUWXYZ ABCDEFGHE. Courier; abcdefghijkimnopqrstuvwxys ABCDEFG 1 Geneva; adcdefghijkimnoperstuvwxyz ABCDEFGHIJ Gill Sans Condensed Bold; ab<defghijidenmoparstawwxys A Helvetica; abcdotghtkimnopgrstuvwxyz ABCOEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUV' Klang MI: abecefghijktmnopgrstuvwye ABCDEFGHL KIMNOPORSTUVWYZ 1d Monaco; abcdefghi jkImnopgrstuvwxyz ABCDEFGHIIKLMNOPQRST! New Berolina MI; atcepjphiptmnopgucnonnys ye ABCDEFGHI KLAN New York: abedefghijkImnopqrstuvwxyz ABCDEFGHI JKLMNO! Old English Tent MI; abcdeighi*himnopqrennexy ABCMES OOIFRIM: Palatino; abcdefghijkimnopgrstuwwxyz ABCDEPGHIKLMNOPORSTU SCriMt MI Bold; atedef phi ADEDETGHI {KEM NOLORS SuUMbOl; cefxseeymerdpvonOpocvaatyl ABXAESTHIGKAMNONGPETY TIMES; abcde ghsjklennopgestuvwxye ABCDEPGHUKLMNOPOQRSTUVWXYZ | | br zt Automatically create detailed lists of all your fonts with the wonderful FontScan. FontScan 1.1 Requires: any Mac Fonts are so easy to come across and in- stall on the Mac that most people have lots. If only remembering what they all GOT A PROBLEM? If the cover-mounted high density disk or CD-ROM you have is defec- tive, return it to us and we will re- place it. Please make sure you have followed the installation procedures described in these pages correctly, to ensure that there is a physical problem with the disk itself. Other- wise, the replacement will be just the same! Return HD disks to: Discopy Labs PO Box 21 Daventry NN11 5BU Return CD-ROMs to: MACFORMAT CD returns Future Publishing FREEPOST (BS4900) Somerton Somerset TA11 6BR Enclose a self-addressed padded envelope (but we'll pay return postage) with the disk or CD, anda 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. looked like was as easy as installing them! This program will create a list of all the fonts that you have installed, with upper and lower case alphabets in that font to show you what each looks like. This can START HERE High density floppy disks normally contain a maximum of 1.4 mega- bytes of software, but to bring you as much as possible, we use a com- pression program to fit more on. This means you must decompress the software before using it — you'll need 2-3Mb of hard disk space. We also recommend that you should make a backup of the MACFORMAT cover disk, just in case anything goes wrong. Here’s what to do... ® Make sure the original cover disk is write-protected (move the tab so that you can see through the hole). ®@ Insert the MAcFoRMAT cover disk. ® Drag the disk’s icon over your hard disk’s icon. ® The contents are copied onto your hard disk, but are still com- pressed and cannot be uséd yet. ®@ Drag the cover disk icon to the Wastebasket to eject the disk. ® Insert a blank high density disk. ®@ Drag the MAcrormat 23 folder from your hard disk onto the blank disk’s icon to make your backup. ® To decompress the cover disk, open the MAcrorMat 23 folder on your hard disk. ® Double-click on the MAcFoRMAT 23 icon. ® Click Continue. ® A box then asks you where you want to save the software. Choose the place on your hard disk where you want everything stored and click Save. Before installing the cover disk we recommend 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 resulting losses. So please, back up first. 12 MACFORMAT ¢ ISSUE 23 « APRIL 1995 | MACFORMAT COVER DISKS | ne lemmings are back in this frus- gly fun game. At the start of a the lemmings fall through a trap- and start walking until they hit g, drop over a ledge, or other- se meet a horrible end. Your job is to them carefully to the doorway and om. To do this, you assign tasks to lemmings. Click on one of e skills at the bottom of the screen, en click on one of the lemmings to ¢ him perform the task. You'll have dig through obstacles, build bridges chasms and avoid the traps. Speed up/siow down release rate if Lemmings 93 iad ' ‘ Climber Detonate a lemming then be printed out and stuck to the wall (or whatever) to help jog your memory. ComicsCartoon FONT Requires: any Mac This font enables you to recreate the type of writing (no pun intended) used by comic artists the world over. It will be es- pecially useful when you've designed and created your very own comic on your Mac, with the help of our comics feature, which starts on page 42. DragAnyWindow 3. 1 Requires: any Mac Some Mac windows have the striped title bar across the top which enables you to move the window around. Some don’t. DragAnyWindow enables you to move any window around whether it THIS IS OH No! Parachutist Blocker f.20]8 2 )8 20}8 2018 20]8 2) Bridge builder DOHHHHHH HH Your first job is to click on the horizontal digger icon, then click on this lemming just before he reaches the solid pillar. He will then make a hole and let the rest through. Horizontal digger Vertical digger _ End the current game 0 \S Pause (geddit?) Diagonal digger has a title bar or not. This can be particu- larly useful if your Mac has a nine-inch screen and you can’t normally see all of a large window. Broadcast Calendar SCREEN CALENDAR Requires: any Mac Never again will you have to hunt through your desk for that free National Farmers Union calendar that you received instead of your Playboy Special. For just 30K of disk space you can have a con- venient calendar on your Mac. You can display every year from 1926 to 2076, which should be more than enough — un- less you’re an archeologist, an immortal, a close friend of Doctor Who, etc. You can’t mark up the calendar on screen, so you can’t set it up to remind you when it’s your granny’s birthday. But you can print out calendars, so you need never buy a new one again. Just MORE LEMMINGS Oo 20 te te ee Click on map to move to that location rip off last year’s dates from your old pic- ture calendar and affix your printout! Also featuring AS Sa Requires: see individual Read Me files LastDitch4 is a HyperCard stack by Rod Lawton; read all about it in his feature on page 91. Bail is a handy program that en- ables you to abort a program launch. If you launch a program and then change your mind, just press [command] [full stop] fairly quickly. Switching your Mac on entails a bor- ing wait, watching all your extensions loading. Startup Player tackles the bore- dom by playing a tune to make the time pass more pleasantly. Finally, eXpress is a small utility de- signed to save time. Once it’s installed, you can make the Application menu, which is normally in the top-right corner, appear anywhere you want on screen. MF Once you've solved the puzzle of getting the lemmings to safety, press [shift] to speed things up. DID YOU KNOW? Real life lemmings do not throw themselves over cliffs. The myth stems from a Disney wildlife program where production staff threw handfuls of lemmings over a cliff so that they could film what they had anecdotally heard was true. CAT FLAP CatFinder (from last issue) had a bug in it that meant it failed to work on many Macs. But don't worry: it won't have affected your Mac. We'll bring you the updated, improved version as soon as it becomes available. QRSTUVWXYZ —S= Sinwn Bore: Be OO Os ben | Patdece ABCDEFGHI IK LMNOPGRSTU VWXYZ | Open the DragAnyWindow Control Panel 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 RRR RRA July Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa 1 KK] Center: [omd-ctri-o 4 2345678 910 11 12 13 14:18 Trista tatatatarstaratatatatstatatstarntarntaeag!s 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 October Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa & Show Startup leon 12 3 4 3.6.7 Zap! Bam! Pow! If you're creating your own cartoon, 8 91011 12 13 14 1S 16 17 18 19 20 21 you can give those speech balloons that authentic and choose which keys will enable the 22 B24 25 2 27 2 comic look using ComicsCartoon. Holy fonts! various functions. Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa ie Se es Ss 7 8 91011 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 August Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa Kee pe 6 7 8 91011 12 13 1415 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 2 26 27 28 29 30 31 November Su Me Te We Th Fr Sa Hmm... according to [@ File Edit Titles Dates COMICSCARTOON = were Sregmoaeindew. H Broadcast Calendar| TG Next Year *) A 4) EF FONT should have finished | January here Year - B G | — Cl] f: writing this page three |*7 "S's ‘33 fq “eer Bad ioe A sti * ae * days ago. Oh dear. iS 1é 5 13 5 24 Stondard Broadcast *B 13 8 1@ a 18 4 L OP Reboot to install 3 22 23 24 25 26 21 Week Beginning Sund en| 2 2B ©1993 Alex Levi Montalcini # 29 20 31 “Week Beginning Sunda 28 29 30 31 Su Me Tu We Th Fr Sa ) Mer We 4.3 ..5..7. 8:2 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24) 25 26 27 28 29 30 September Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa 12 ae ee 2) 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 23 26 27 28 29 30 December Su MoTu We Th Fr Sa 343678 10 tf 12 13 14 15 17 18 19 20 21 22 24 25 26 27 28 29 3 BRaon MACFORMAT * ISSUE 23 * APRIL 1995 13 Authorised Education Reseller Authorised Apple Workgroup Server Reseller } 9 Certified Digital Audio Editing Systems Specialists & es “Need Mac Advice - Just Ask CW" ° 2) com uter Confused as to which Mac to go for? Can't decide on the WwW a r : . U Ss e >. configuration you need? Like to make you Mac go faster, @ display more colors etc? Don't be shy ask the guy! 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Mac prices slashed pple is cutting the prices of virtually every Mac it makes by up to 20%, after a strong final sales period in 1994. There’s also a spectacular PowerMac offer. The top bargain has to be a PowerMac for less than £1,300. The 7100/66 DL is a cut-down version of the mid-range model, and comes with a monitor — un- like other PowerMacs. It can’t display as HOW MUCH IS THAT MAC IN THE WINDOW? If you’re thinking of trading your old Mac in for a new model, now’s the time to start looking. Here are the new bar- gain prices. The prices here are Apple’s own estimates of what you'll be paying for a new Mac at your local dealer - and they all include VAT. Performa Each Performa comes with a monitor, keyboard and mouse — plus software, including ClarisWorks. 460 4/160 £769 475 4/250 PP £845 475 8/250 PP £963 630 4/250 PP £1,049 630 4/250 MS15 £1,149 630 8/250 CD MS15 £1,199 630 8/350 CD TV MS15 £1,449 many colours and has a smaller hard drive than usual, but this makes it ideal for education and home use. It’s now possible to get the recom- mended version of the Performa 630 that you'd need to see multimedia at its best, for less than £1,300 — and that includes a top-quality monitor. Meanwhile, the price of the Quadra 630, which was launched only last Performa Plus This range adds extra bundles of software to the basic Performa. The 475 is a home office pack, and comes with HomePublisher, TouchBase Pro and DateBook Pro. The 630, top of the Performa range, comes complete with multimedia CD-ROMs and ClarisWorks 2.1. See Macrormat 19 for a com- prehensive list of the programs in each bundle. 460 4/160 PP £799 475 4/250 PP £899 630 8/250 CD MS15 £1,249 630 8/350 CD TV MS15 £1,499 Quadra The Quadra adds a maths co-processor chip to the Performa model, speeding up calculations like 3D rendering and huge spreadsheets. Quadra 630 4/250 £1,056 Quadra 630 4/250 MS15 £1,291 month (see MACFORMAT 21’s news) falls by £50 to £1,056 (without a monitor). And you can buy a portable Power- Book for less than £1,000, as the price of the 150 is cut by 20%. For more details contact Apple on 0800 127753. +3 F% Power Macintosh The PowerMac uses the new PowerPC 601 chip - the fastest personal computer chip available today. 7100/66 DL 8/350 £1,291 8100/80 8/500 £2,584 8100/80 16/500 CD AV £2,936 PowerBook The PowerBook is Apple's best-selling portable computer range. Colour screens are denoted with a ‘c’. 150 4/120 £939 280c 4/320 £2,819 280c 12/320 EM £3,289 520 4/160 £1,526 520c 4/160 £2,231 520c 12/320 EM £2,819 540c 4/320 £3,524 540c 12/500 EM £4,229 Key: ‘475 4/250’ means Performa 475 with 4Mb RAM and 250Mb hard drive. AV: Audio-visual capabilities inc built-in hi-fi speakers. CD: internal double speed CD-ROM drive. EM: Express Modem included. MS15: Multi-Sync 15-inch monitor. PP: Performa Plus 14-inch monitor. TV: TV tuner card. Other PowerMac prices are unchanged. Pioneer announces new Mac clones More Mac clones are on the way. The electronics manufacturer Pioneer is making a range of Mac-based com- puters. Due out in the summer, the Pio- neer Personal Computers will use the Mac chips and operating system. The in- tention is to place the machines at the heart of your home entertainment sys- tem — working with your hi-fi, video and home cinema equipment. Two models are planned at first. The MPC-GX1 uses a PowerPC 601 chip run- ning at 66MHz (the equivalent of a PowerMac 6100/66), with _ built-in speakers and a quad-speed CD-ROM drive (that’s twice as fast as the usual speed). The MPC-LX100 uses the same main chip as Apple’s Performa 630, a 33MHz 68LC040, and also includes the speakers and CD-ROM drive. Pioneer is also working on software, monitors and a LaserDisc player to work with its Mac clones. Prices and release dates will be announced later. Pioneer is the biggest name yet to license Mac- intosh technology from Apple. It joins Radius, which is making a high-power video editing system, and Power Computing, which is making cut-price PowerMac clones. Meanwhile, Cutting Edge, a small firm based in California, is launch- ing an unofficial Mac clone called the Quatro. Look out for more details soon. The Performa 630 is one of the best multimedia machines you can buy — and now it’s less than £1,500, even with extra software and a TV inside. Soon you'll be able to use your LaserDisc video player with the new Mac clones from Pioneer. MACFORMAT * ISSUE 23 ¢ APRIL 1995 19 pple is bringing out a piece of System software that could do for 3D art and design what QuickTime has done for video. It’s possible that with its help, Macs could soon be producing the sort of images you've only seen made by high-power Silicon Graphics gic workstations. - The new system's called QuickDraw 3D {not to be confused with the printing sys- tem QuickDraw GX). Any program that uses its standard will be able to show 3D objects and anima- tion. And different programs - a 3D ren- derer and a desktop publisher, for example — will be able to swap files that describe objects. The software runs only on PowerMacs. Apple is not saying if a version will be made for standard Macs like the Performa, but if Quick- Draw 3D is as powerful as Apple claims, then this seems highly un- likely. The system will You'll be able to swap 3D be included with the images, like this StudioPro Mac operating system software on all shot, between any programs PowerMacs from the summer, and be- that use the new system. come integrated with the Mac OS when a = = =| | Maat sb ee Strata StudioPro is one of the programs that are being set up to use QuickDraw 3D. the next major update — Copland or Sys- tem 8 — is released in 1996. Many soft- ware companies are already working on incorporating it into their future pro- grams. Such companies include Ray- Dream, which is the creator of RayDream Designer, and Specular, which makes Infini-D — our cover disk star last issue. The most identifiable part of Quick- Draw 3D is a new type of file format called 3DMF. You'll be able to load and display your 3DMF files in any appli- cation that uses QuickDraw 3D, just as many word processors can recognise a Microsoft Word file because they’re pro- grammed to understand Word’s format. Information in the file can include shapes, textures, lighting and camera viewpoint, so all this data can be swapped between programs. Expect other users and companies to create fully-rendered images and wire frame models to sell commercially or as shareware, especially once a version for PCs running Windows appears later in the year. Libraries of 3D files should become as common as clip art or photo libraries. The software also includes specially- written code to speed up the PowerMac when it’s rendering the files, while pro- gramming guidelines should mean that QuickDraw 3D-compliant programs will have a similar feel and control system, making creating fantastic images even easier. 3D accelerator cards are also being developed by companies including 3DLabs and YARC Systems. Look out for more 3D developments in future issues of MACFORMAT. Word 6.0 gets quick fix The new version of the best-selling word processing program, Microsoft Word, is receiving a revamp that © Fite fait View insert format Tools Tobie Window fale) elels) (2 T=) will be available free of charge to its users. Microsoft If [reve rc mmm (5) fo Gise)2)a) (Sr O07) ER e) announced the release of Word 6.0.1 after criticisms Covering ) EE from some of its customers about aspects of version 6.0, including complaints about its speed compared to the previous version, 5.1. The release was announced at a joint press confer- ence held by Microsoft and Apple that illustrated the complicated relationship between the two compa- nies. The conference was called to reiterate Micro- soft’s support of the Mac, despite its position as the creator of Windows, the rival operating system to the Mac OS. 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Registered users of Word will be contacted about the free update later this month. Microsoft says the improvements include a faster loading time, a faster word count, and the elimination of problems with some Extensions made by other companies. The new The Mac version of the world’s favourite word processor should be improved very soon — but why wasn't it done in the first place? version will also become part of Microsoft Office 4.2.1, the renumbered bundle of business software that in- cludes Word, Excel and PowerPoint. For more details contact Microsoft on 01734 270000. 3D vision for Mac APHLE BYTES Mac market share rises Proof of the explosion of interest in computing comes with the news that an estimated two million personal computers were sold in Britain during 1994. And according to research firm Wharton Information Systems, Apple had a spectacular Christmas, grabbing 13.8% of the market during December — a boom time for family computer sales. Apple's share came a close second to Compaq’s 14.9% and beat every other PC maker's sales. Wharton says the Performa range was particularly successful. More evidence of the healthy condition of the Mac comes with Apple's fanfare to mark the one millionth sale of a PowerMac, just ten months after it was released. The new high tech machine is catching on faster than anyone had expected ~ including Apple itself, which had set itself the target of reaching this figure in 12 months. QuickTime storm Apple is taking leading software company Microsoft and giant chip-manufacturer Intel to court. The dispute is over claims that Apple's program code for QuickTime, its video playback system, has been pirated. The claim comes in a lawsuit that’s been filed against the pair of industry giants and the San Francisco Canyon Company. Apple says that Canyon duplicated a significant amount of code of the Windows version of QuickTime when it produced similar systems — including Microsoft Video For Windows — for Microsoft and Intel. Apple is attempting to get the current versions of these systems withdrawn from sale, and in a related move has made the licence to use QuickTime free of charge for any developer who wants it - on Mac OS or Windows. Micro- soft says it doesn't believe any of the code exists in the current version of Video For Win- dows, and has not agreed to withdraw it. Mac gets Speed Doubled A new utility, due later this year from Connectix, promises to boost the working speed of your Mac. The Speed Doubler program offers several functions — including speeding up file copying with the Finder — that combine to make your Mac zoom along. It’s a companion program to the popular RAM Doubler utility. It will also speed up PowerMacs. When running programs written for a standard Mac, PowerMacs have to use an emulator program to translate the commands so the PowerPC chips can understand them — which takes time. Speed Doubler sets the most common parts of a given program to one side so they don't need to be translated time and time again while the program is running. The price of Speed Doubler is not confirmed but is expected to be around £82. For more details contact Computers Unlimited on 0181 200 8282. Price rise Due to the ever-increasing cost of the paper we use, the price of Macrormat will increase slightly from next month, to £3.99 for the disk edition and £4.99 for the CD-ROM edition. 20 MACFORMAT « ISSUE 23 * APRIL 1995 ‘Quark challenges Photoshop dobe’s best-selling image pro- cessor, Photoshop, is to get a new rival: QuarkXPosure. An official announcement from Quark - the creator of the leading DTP program QuarkXPress - is expected this month. QuarkxXPosure is said to offer significant improvements over its rival, including a concept called a ‘lens’. With the lens function you can move a lens shape over the image that you’re working on to see instantly how a particular effect will change it, before you decide to spend time making the change. Another interesting feature is a list of changes you’ve made to an image. You'll be able to undo or modify any change — not just the last action you did. The launch of XPosure is a strong re- sponse to Adobe’s purchase of the Aldus firm, which has raised the prospect of BONS | ZS SVS SRR SOLED de L Photoshop being linked more closely with major DTP package PageMaker. Photoshop is the program of choice for most graphics professionals — could XPosure be the one to topple it? File Edit Mode Image Filter Select Window De) Revival of the Newton Apple’s portable Newton technology is attracting more atten- tion after a low-key start. The latest of the company’s personal digital assistants (PDAs) is beginning to show the potential of having a computer in your pocket, with the option to use a slot-in card and a mobile phone to send faxes and e-mail — from anywhere at any time. The PDA dream of providing in- stant information on the move is becoming a reality, and this opens up possibilities that could strongly affect the way you use your Mac. The MessagePad 120, priced at £499, includes personal management and e-mail software. Motorola and Panasonic are also showing an interest in PDAs — Motorola’s Marco is based on Newton technology, while Panasonic is planning to launch a Newton-type machine later in the year. Apple is teaming up with telecommunication firms BT, Nokia and Cellnet to offer all-in-one phone kits you can use with the MessagePad 120 or the PowerBook 500 series. Due later this spring, the PowerBook kit gives you a Nokia mobile phone with the cards and software you need to hook it up to your PowerBook. The price is expected to be around £820. The MessagePad will come with the connections and phone in one box for under £1,200. For more details contact Apple on 0800 127753. The computerised personal assistant has had a shaky start, but the MessagePad 120 may signal a change in its fortunes. Romeo « Juliet Tillis STrakesprecie MACFORMAT « ISSUE 23 * APRIL 1995 21 It doesnt look like an ordinary notebook computer because it isn an ordinary notebook computer: This is no boring, humdrum, seen-it-a-million times up to SOOMB with high-performance Ethernet networki notebook PC. It’s something new for a change. (as well as LocalTalk™). This makes the PowerBook 5 The PowerBook™ 500 Series. The next generation of series powerful enough not only for wordprocessing | PowerBook. Computers that redefine, once again, what a documents or large spreadsh notebook computer can be. but also for doing fieldwork wi programs like Adobe™ Photosi and other high-end, graphi (And, as you can see, what a note- book computer can look like.) The sleek lines. intensive programs. The 500 series can of even more power later i The flowing shape. The will be able to upgrade futuristic curves. But PowerPC™ technology’ soon as it’s available| PowerBook. (Contra this with 486 seri the new appearance is only your first clue to the dramatic changes, refine- ments and improvements we have engineered inside. The PowerBook 500 series is designed around the Motorola 68LC040 processor—a chip that offers far more power than the chips that powered previous PowerBook models. that ares In benchmark tests, the new PowerBook 540c upgradable to Pentium™ technolog Direct your attention tot! PowerBook. And with the same chip running at 50/25 MHz, __ revolutionary new Apple trackpad pointing device that nt the 520 and 520c aren’t far behind. replaces the trackball and is in the centre of the comfortal running at 66/33 MHz was 80% faster than the previous We have supported that processing power with memory __ palm rest. capacity of up to 36MB and an internal storage capacity of The trackpad brings a new level of precision! Januar 'y 1995, Apple Computer, Inc. The Apple logo is a registered trademark and Apple, LocalTalk, Macintosh, Macintosh PC Exchange, PowerBook and QuickTime are trademarks of Apple Computer, Inc. registered in the US and other cou | ® capable of showing thousands of PowerBook computing. The trackpad’s ultra-sensitive surface enses the touch of your finger, tracks it across the pad ind moves the cursor across the screen accordingly. This intuitive method of moving the cursor, combined th the new dual-scan and active-matrix screens, gives you nuch more precise control over the location of the cursor ind makes extremely detailed work possible (it’s precise mough for photo retouching) =e geese seeeeees — yherever you happen to be. The PowerBook 540c has yhat may well be the finest screen er to grace a notebook compu- er: an active- matrix, 9/4” display The revolutionary new Apple trackpad makes pointing and clicking even more intuitive than before. lours at the same time. Combined with QuickTime™ video ind built-in CD-quality stereo sound, this makes for spectac- ilar presentations in the most unspectacular locations: on crowded plane, in a noisy restaurant, wherever. The PowerBook 500 series ncludes a lot of things that aren’t standard on ordinary jotebook computers. Things like built-in file sharing and networking, stereo ound and video-out. Award winning ClarisWorks™ software, acintosh PC Exchange™ software, and PowerBook File ssistant file-synchronising software. Plus Apple Remote ecess software that allows a modem-equipped PowerBook y work with the Macintosh™ computer on your desk and fith your network, as if you were sitting in your office. Even during those times when your office happens to be thousands of miles away. Still there’s a lot of room to grow. These are the first PowerBook computers to come with a built-in Processor Direct Slot (PDS) for third-party expansion modules. And they’re also the first ones to offer the optional plug- in PowerBook PCMCIA Expansion Module, so you can use wo Type II or one Type III PCMCIA card for even more flexibility. You can even install an optional 14.4 kbps express modem to send and receive information and faxes quickly and, when it becomes available, a third-party cellular interface for convenient wireless access to your office via the GSM network. Even the batteries have been re- designed. The PowerBook 500 series can use two PowerBook Intelligent Batteries. These high-powered NiMH batteries use special processors within each pack to monitor bat- tery power and the new PowerBook Control Strip-power management software that tells you exactly how much time you have remaining. The result is 40% more battery life than before — up to seven hours per charge—when using both batteries. They recharge faster, too — in as little as two hours for both batteries when the PowerBook is asleep or shut down. And the batteries even recharge while you're using the PowerBook. While this has been an abundance of infor- mation, by any standard, it can’t serve as a substitute for a personal demonstration. Something that can quite easily be arranged at your local Apple these are the first PowerBook computers to use PCMCIA technology. For details of the one nearest to you, simply call the Apple Information Centre free on 0800 127753. And you'll soon discover more of the power you buy Apple @. Authorised Reseller. a PowerBook for. The power to be your best. be and Photoshop are reg. trademarks of Adobe Systems. ClarisWorks is a reg. trademark of Claris Corp. Pentium is a trademark of Intel Corp, PowerPC is a reg. trademark of International Business Machines Corp, used under license therefrom, WHAT’S NEW PRODUCT PREVIEWS MACFORMAT’S product preview section gives you a first look at an exciting, inexpensive video camera, some Joud speakers and a bit of very useful printer cable. Compiled by Richard Hill. Connectix QuickCam 7 CONNECT, = Ahad aT a t only £152, the QuickCam is a tiny device that could catch on a big way. The first version of this compact digital video camera is a little rough around the edges, but the idea is QuickCam there. You can now film and edit your own video material without the need for expensive graphics cards and add-ons. The QuickCam’s great for making rough movies before wasting energy on a pol- ished version, quickly taking still pic- tures and printing them out for refer- ence, sending video e-mail, or just plain goofin’ around with your friends. The camera is housed in a sphere of about two inches in diameter and plugs into a spare serial port in the back of your Mac. Like a mouse, it takes the power it needs to work through the port. There’s a program you can use to record and play back video clips. It’s so simple you don’t need to think about how to use it. The QuickCam isn’t perfect. The most crucial problem is that it only films in black-and-white, and the picture is small — 320 by 240 pixels. This does mean that the files you create take up little space on your hard drive, however, and a colour version is forthcoming. The speed of the display needs to be improved from its current 15 frames a second, and the lead connecting the cam- era to your Mac could be longer — at the moment the lead length restricts the ways in which you can use the QuickCam. But there are, potentially, so many uses. And the more you use a QuickCam, the more you'll think of to do with it. @ Price: £152. Out: now. @ Requires: LC or better, System 7, 4Mb of RAM and a greyscale or colour monitor. ®@ For more details contact Com- puters Unlimited on 0181 200 8282. QuickCam QuickCam VIDEO POWER Take a look at our feature in Macrormat 21 for more on how to create the best in desktop video. | at work (above)... The QuickCam shows you the MacrormaT Office in full flow (right): the Multimedia Manager laughing at the Staff Writer's haircut (left), the, er, Technical Writer hard 24 MACFORMAT * ISSUE 23 * APRIL 1995 WHAT’S NEW Box 6F DELIGHTS Adobe threesome Graphics software company Adobe is jumping on the lots-of-software-in-one-box bandwagon with the Adobe Collection. The bundle contains the image processor Photoshop 3.0, the design and draughting program Illustrator 5.5 (reviewed on page 66) and the 3D program Dimensions 2.0. Normally this trio would set you back more than £1,500, but the Collection retails at £963.50. Bundles like this and Microsoft Office are becoming a more popular way of buying software. For more details contact Principal on 0181 813 5445. Pick up a printer If portability is what you're looking for in a printer, Citizen's latest model could be just the job. The company claims its PN60 thermal printer, out later this month, is the world's smallest and lightest to date. Despite measuring 25.4cm x 5cm x 4.7cm and weighing only 500g (1.11b), it can take A4 (magazine size) paper. You can use most standard sorts of paper; there’s no need to buy special sheets. The PN6O seems well-suited to Mac owners with limited space, or PowerBook users. It costs £410 with a black-and-white ribbon. A pair of colour ribbons, giving limited colour printing abilities, is also available for £10.56. For more details contact Citizen Europe on 01753 584111. What better way to mark Britain's ongoing love affair with Europe than the latest CD-ROM in the PhotoDisc series? European Business And Lifestyles is a collection of over 300 examples of what's called stock photography. Copyright has been waived on these pictures, so you can use them in any of your Mac design work. This disc contains images showing how the people of Europe work and play, and a program to help you browse through the selection. This latest disc is Vol 17 in the ongoing series of themed releases. It costs £292.58, and gives screen versions of each image, plus versions for printing at 300 dpi. For more details contact PhotoDisc on 0800 697622. <<a Triseg vent = 17306.Te 1:8 The Lightbox browsing program shows you all the images on PhotoDisc’s European CD-ROM. With the explosion of interest over the Internet and e-mail (see our guide book that came free with this issue), new modems are coming out thick and fast. The Multitech ZDX 28.8 is the latest addition. Priced at £374.83, it uses the V.34 standard to offer transmission speeds of up to 28,800 bits per second — fast enough for heavy use of the 'Net. The data compression facility means data can be sent at up to four times faster than usual. Fax software is also included; it runs at 14,400bps. For more details contact Computers Unlimited on 0181 200 8282. Aiwa SC-655 speake ment, external speakers are becom- ing an essential requirement. When you're used to the high quality picture of a Mac, surely it’s sensible to make the most of its sound abilities? Hi-fi manu- facturer Aiwa thinks so, which is why it’s launched its first pair of speakers made for your Mac. The speakers themselves are compact — just 18cm tall. Despite the size, the sound is decent enough, with an output of 3.6W (you won't be disturbing the neighbours). Hi-fi speakers are better, but those have the advantage of size and build. At least you shouldn’t experience too much of the bass rumble endemic to small speakers. Controls are sparse, with power, vol- ume and ambiance controls adorning one speaker. The leads are arranged in a daisy-chain style, with one lead connect- ing the left speaker to your Mac's ear- | f you’re using a Mac for entertain- PRODUCT PREVIEWS phone sock- et, and the other lead joining the left and the right speakers. 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