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BRITAIN’S BEST-SELLING MA 7! IAGAZINE CEG) Also available with CD-ROM I Wwca ; Discover how image editing can make the impossible real! B Techniques and tricks B The latest software B How the pros do it 7 For more disk details — see the back cover blip photoes on GD Millions of snaps at your fingertips! braphics tat plet Will the Mac replace brushes and paints? ea star Wars! ™ oa Battle the Empire in the paces eoeate 7 ees ‘X-files’? Exactly what 2 do those files in your Juusaisy at System folder do? @ Get into the Internet with our how-to series The word processor that writes in any alphabet @ Spreadsheet basics Based on the best selling book by David Macaulay, The Way Things Work is an outstanding multimedia learning tool. From telescopes to telephones, from lasers to light — bulbs, more than 200 inventions come to life with al the click of the mouse. Children aged 7 to 70 can embark on a journey of scientific discovery with animation, audio f 5 and over a thousand illustrations. CD SRP £50.21 J) > = =\e ~\ The unique calendar, a) a (OM Bre reminder, to-do and ee \ address book system. j J) * With Expresso you can , #55 track your appoint- vw) ments, share them over a network, print J) them and even have them as your Macs desktop [> background. Choose from many visual styles, SEs acseas ree import ot export your data, set-up alarms and reminders. It all here in SS the most powerful and elegant calendar system around! SRP £25.52 The most eagerly awaited flight simulator, ever! From the creators of the award winning Hellcats comes the most advanced simulator to hit the Mac. With physically accurate flight models and intriguing missions, A-10 Attack delivers the — hottest combination of action and strategy J around. Amazing attention to detail—moving flaps, object dynamics, landscapes with canyons, intelligent enemies and the > in this wonderful interactive cartoon ee } There are 30 places to visit, each with an things to do or discover: explore the show tent where you can take part in a a} variety of acts; make up the clowns in their trailer; visit ad the animals backstage and play a series of instruments in é a the music tent. Crisp, fun animation encourages children to develop aaa skills without even realising they are learning! CD SRP £34.03 - TT wee, 1 ’ Taking reference exploration to new heights is ys AVE The 1995 Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia & Seabee With over six full hours of multimedia, this fully updated and revised edition will unleash the power of information in just seconds. This is Vi = q the most complete multimedia encyclopedia on Gi the market today! CD SRP £68.04 8 odasl Based on the best selling game by Dan Gilbert, Triazzle et will entertain the entire family with beautiful graphics Fr and noises inspired by the rainforest. Rotate and match the triangular pieces—simple to grasp, devilishly difficult to master! Easy to the ‘Rainforest Alliance’ with each copy sold. CD or Floppy SRP £21.27 An interactive journey through 3 Louvre the world famous art gallery with the aid of models, blueprints and over 2 hours of detailed commentary. Examine paintings in detail } and even learn about their form and composition via clear animation and narration. ‘A tasteful, elegant & sophisticated CD ROM.’ -Rated 5/5 The Mac. ‘The most comprehensive and powerful display of art through the vehicle of multimedia’ -The Bookseller CD SRP £38.29 The walls between past, present and future dissolve into a richly woven tapestry of betrayal and deception. Falsely accused of altering history, you must travel through the shadows of time, unravelling clues and Sti mortal eee with only Sieg Something terrible has happened at Awkward Manor! For those who love a good murder mystery, heres a new twist. Now you can explore an elegant English mansion, just as if you were there. There are 10 difficulty levels and literally thousands of puzzles. Interview the suspects and explore the mansion to gather clues. Ideal for single players or entire families, up to 6 players can take part! CD SRP £34.00 Take an interactive journey inside the human body to discover what every part of —_— the body is called, see where it is situated, what it | Viac\ 7 - a) LTIMATE Fiuman Body & hed J J { oO" : 5 ee 7 & € a ye. ww looks like and how it functions. gd the body through three intuitive, easy- to-use search paths — The Body Machine, The Body Organs and The Body Systems. Over 100 animations, 45 minutes of audio, 1400 sounds and over 1000 illus- a = trations. CD SRP £50.21 They wait for you. Behind every corner, inside your worst 1 eacamaamane — = nightmares. You are the last hope for defending the starship Marathon against an onslaught of hostile aliens. Advanced weaponry and surreal settings create a truly — captivating single player gameplay with z total network carnage. CD or Floppy SRP £49.99 The FlightStick Pro is the ultimate combat stick for all Macintosh computers. Programmable controls give you unlimited range of functions for any mission, { activate radar, arm and disarm weapons and view outside your aircraft ; without ever removing your hand from the stick. Three fire buttons, Trigger, Throttle, Trims at and an 8-way switch can all be configured via an easy-to-use control panel. The Jetstick offers quality performance at an affordable price. It connects to the ADB port and comes with software that lets you easily customise its features. FlightStick SRP £85.06 JetStick SRP £51.06 + All prices shown are Suggested Retail Prices exclusive of VAT. j Softline Distribution Ltd, Mill House, Mill Lane, Carshalton, Surrey SM5 2WZ y Tel eh 40} 1234 Fax 0181 401 1235 Internet chat@softline.co.uk ~ ae ened VW ACEORMA ISSUE 28 & SEPTEMBER 1995 REVIEWS IN THIS ISSUE Here is a complete alphabetical list of everything reviewed in this issue of MacroRMAT A-10 Attack! 132 AndromedaCDs 61 The Animals! 2.0 103 Blender 109 Calcomp DrawingSlate II 89 Circle Elements 118 Color It! 3.0.2 52 Corel Photo Library 59 Dark Forces 130 DiAMAR CDs 61 Eleven Track Player 110 Garden Wildlife 106 Homegrown Fantasy 110 How Animals Move 102 Ishido 136 KPT Power Photos 58 Kurta XGT/ADB 12C 90 Little Mac Toolkit 138 MacHandwriter 91 Macmillan's Dictionary for Children 112 Makin Music 117 MDI CDs 62 My First Amazing, In- credible Dictionary 112 PaperPort 96 PhotoDisc CDs 60 PhotoLib CDs 60 Photostetics: Strength CD 62 Quadra CDs 62 Quora Cordless A4 90 Spaceward Ho! 134 SummaSketch Ill 89 UnZip 108 Wacom UD-1212MK 91 Wild Africa 104 WorldWrite 98 XRes 1.2.1 56 What does a high-end printer like this have to offer you? See page 24 CONTENTS REGUEARS Welcome to Macrormat 6 All there is to know about MAcForMat, almost... Your Web Pages 15 Macrormat’s on the World Wide Web — here’s what you'll find on FutureNet, and how it can really take you places! News 21 PageMaker is revamped to tackle QuarkXPress, the cost of using the Internet falls, and your chance to upgrade your PowerBook to Power- PC for free! What’s New The latest product news, from budget-price 3D graphics to high-end colour printing and from Windows to arcade games... MacroScope: Behind the News 30 Learn how Apple is behind plans to revolutionise computing networks, and catch up with Apple’s rapidly- evolving multimedia console. Apple Talk: Letters 36 What to do with old software, why demos are a bad thing and why Quark isn’t all it’s cracked up to be! feuded ‘Photoshop’s a pig’ 125 If the Mac is so easy to use, why is Photoshop so unfriendly, asks a MACFORMAT reader. Special Reader Offers 126 Unbeatable deals on top Mac products —- modems, CD drives, and an exclusive offer on KPT software. Back Issues 129 Fill in the gaps in your MacrorMat collection. Gamebusters 137 Discover The Secret Of Monkey Island in the final part of our complete solution, and go to the Ant... Free Reader Ads Buy, sell, swap or contact a local user group. Buying Advice 144 Know your rights when you shop. Classic System Crew 144 Discover what really goes on inside your old Mac... Next Month 145 The most spectacular, packed, fantastic MACFORMAT ever! But don’t just take my word — here’s proof! Understand the X-files 67 What exactly do all those files in your System folder do? In this second part of our exposé of the mysteries of Extensions and Control Panels, we reveal what you really need and what you can trash to save space and memory... Get into the Internet 73 We continue our back-to-basics guide to all you really need to know about the Net with the full gen on the essentials: a modem and a service provider. Master the spreadsheet basics 76 Spreadsheets needn't SES==S82") be dull and boring - Se ciey 3 they’re really just like || fully-programmable | calculators which can | hold vast details in | memory and update ~—————'| instantly! So what can —— | they do for you? Use HyperCard 79 This month we explain how Apple’s versatile multi- media creator can show you a slideshow of PICT images — all the details of how it works are here. Mac Answers 83 More of your problems solved by our experts, from how to send graphics files by modem to how to create custom icons, plus a Mac called Stephanie... WIN! WIN? WINT Seven Wacom UltraPads 146 You could win one of the very latest graphics tablets from Wacom: the brand-new UltraPad A4, UltraPad A5, or one of five ArtPad _ IIs — over £1,700 worth of “ae \ prizes in total! Finder 4d MACFORMAT *« ISSUE 28 * SEPTEMBER 1995 CONTENTS REVIEWS PaperPort 96 More than just a simple scanner, the Visioneer PaperPort also offers faxing, a complete document management system and even photocopying... WorldWrite 98 For a relatively affordable word processor, World- Write boasts some surprisingly powerful DTP-like features — and it even writes in any alphabet! Multimedia: CD Safari! Animals on CD-ROM, from the wild to the zoo to your own back yard: How Animals Move 102 The Animals! 2.0 103 ~ Wild Africa 104 AY, Garden Wildlife 106 Multimedia: Pop Lifestyle Interactive lifestyle mags, plus style without a life... UnZip 108 Blender 109 Homegrown Fantasy 110 Eleven Track Player 110 Education: CD Dictionaries 112 What can a dictionary on CD-ROM offer you that the paper variety can’t? We look it up in Dorling Kindersley’s My First Amazing, Incredible Dictionary and Macmillan’s Dictionary for Children. Music Makin Music 117 An amazing CD full of music programs. Circle Elements 118 An innovative sample-based music creation system. Shareware Heaven 121 The cream of this month’s low-cost and no-cost software from the Internet — utilities, games, tarot readers and even an alien language... Games Reviews Look out! Not only do Darth Vader's Imperial Stormtroopers invade the Mac this month, but the A-10 attacks! as 3 Dark Forces 130 fe mem A-10 Attack 132 L Via ‘nay. Spaceward Ho! 134 ‘mt Ishido 136 = Utilities: Little Mac Toolkit 138 It’s not just a 500-page book, but an amazing collection of utilities on CD-ROM. FEAPURES Unreal! Let your imagination soar! Mac image ~ manipulation can make the impossible real — and you don’t necessarily have to invest in Photoshop to do it... How It’s done 42 What image editing is all about, a step- by-step description of how we ts created our striking cover : image, and a guide to image editing software. Restoration Art 48 How one professional turned to the Mac for photo retouching, and how it compares to traditional manual techniques. In-depth reviews of the new versions of two Photoshop rivals, Color It! 3.0 and XRes 1.2. How do they fare against the champion? Clip Photos 58 Where can you turn for the picture you need, whether you're going to use it as-is or edit it? There’s now a huge range of ‘clip photos’ available on CD-ROM - we test ten of the major packages, and there are over 80 photographic images, most in high-res, on our cover CD-ROM for you to try! Graphics Tablets 88 > More intuitive than a mouse, more responsive than a trackball, a graphics tablet with stylus can make creating Mac graphics as easy as painting or draw- The gratuitous tottie after the absolutely integral violence... ing on paper! We put the top tablets to the test: See page 121 Summagraphics SummaSketch Ill 89 Calcomp DrawingSlate Il 89 Quora Cordless A4 90 ~~. Kurta XGT/ADB12€ =. 90 \{ Wacom UD-1212MK = 91 MacHandwriter 91 Macrormat comes with a choice of CD- ROM or high-density disk every month: Your CD-ROM 8 Try image-manipulation for yourself with our demo of Colour It! 3.0 and the 80-plus photos on the CD (complete catalogue on page 10), plus Dark Forces, WorldWrite, Wild Africa and others, over 100Mb of the latest shareware, and everything below... Your Cover Disk 12 Tetris with a twist, a scrabble game, and a top selection of utlities to add extra Desktop space, customise windows and make navigation easy! MACFORMAT * ISSUE 28 * SEPTEMBER 1995 | WELCOME | ABOUT OUR WRITERS ALEX SUMMERSBY Alex's first computer was a Kaypro II (anyone remember Kaypro? Or even heard of 'em?). He learned about Macs by using them, and is still impressed by windows, icons and folders, but his favourite Mac interface feature is aliases. DEREK SMITH Our technical expert is so good at his job that he’s being poached by Future Publishing’s Mac Services department, so he's been spending half his time solving the company’s Mac problems. His favourite feature right now is multitasking. RICHARD HILL Rich says his favourite bit of the System is the Audio CD Player, and the bit that makes him go ‘woo!’ is QuickTime VR, but the most underused part is AppleGuide. Naive of us really to expect our multimedia man to say just QuickTime... MARCUS DYSON Back when he was one of Future Publishing's top art editors, Marcus was renowned as a Mac graphics whizz. He's now head of the multi- media division of a leading software house. His favourite feature? QuickTime, he says obligingly. RopD LAWTON Our versatile HyperCard expert has been setting up his own business this month, so it's been a very opportune time for him to remind us how much he knows about spreadsheets and utilities too. His favourite Mac feature: configurability. OFIR GAL A new face for this page but a respected com- puter journalist with a special interest in the Mac, Ofir speaks Hebrew, Arabic and probably a whole lot of other exotic languages. His favour- ite feature must be WorldScript (see page 98). You? Speaking of faces, yours could be gracing this page (or not, if you have no features fit to be seen in public...)! We're always looking for free- lance writers who can write well. As a first step, send us details of your particular Mac expertise. Welcome to MACFORMAT Everything you wanted to know about MACFoRMAT... as well as a few of our favourite (Mac-related) things... ABOUT MACFORMAT elcome again to MACFORMAT, W 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 databases to music, comms and games. This month we help you sort out your System, discover the Internet, master those spreadsheets, and more. We'll bring you features about excit- ing 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 mightn’t have tried before - like Mac-based image-editing. 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. This issue, we see how Apple is at the heart of a new form of networking across Europe, and bring you more about Apple’s newest multimedia machine... We'll bring you authoritative reviews of interesting and affordable products, with clear buying recommen- dations. This issue we test the top graphics tablets, a scanner with bells and whistles, a multi-lingual word pro- cessor, some remarkable music CDs and much more besides... 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. Macrormar’s covermounted disks and CD-ROMs offer you demos so you can try software before you buy, useful utilities (specially chosen to complem- ent features in the magazine, including over 80 ‘clip photo’ images this month), selected shareware programs, games, readers’ contributions and more, every month. This issue’s details start page 8. Editorial enquiries: Macrormar, Future Publishing Ltd, 30 Monmouth Street, Bath BA] 2BW or tel: 01225 442244, fax: 01225 446019 E-mail: macformat@futurenet.co.uk or macformat@cix.compulink.co.uk AppleLink: MacFormat FutureNet: Macrormart is on-line as part of FutureNet. Accessing it is free — just point your World Wide Web browser at: http://www.futurenet.co.uk/ Advertising enquiries: Belinda Symington, 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 MACFoRMAT 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 144 for some helpful buying advice. Entire contents Copyright © 1995 Future Publishing Ltd. All rights reserved. ABOUT OUR REVIEWS very MACFORMAT review is EK designed to inform you in detail 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. Macrormat reviews only finished products, and we rate them on this scale: @ 80+% means excellent. @ 70+% means well worthwhile, though not really outstanding in its market. ™@ 60+% means good, but with a few shortcomings or some limitations. @ 50+% means acceptable but flawed. @ A rating below 50% means you should think carefully before parting with your money. The Macrormar Classic Award If a product earns a rating of 90% or more, we'll give it a MAcForMat Classic Award. This means what it says: we judge the product to be a classic, a standard-setter of its type, something really special. We make every effort to verify all the information we publish, but products and prices do change. We always quote list prices (RRPs), but street prices do vary. Shop around, and check with the supplier before buying to make sure that the product you're considering will meet your needs. MacronmaT cannot accept responsibility for any errors or omissions or for any losses that may arise as a result, but it is our policy to correct any errors of fact whenever we possibly can. 1 Macrormat welcomes contributions for publication but we regret that we cannot return them. Submissions are accepted on the basis of a licence of copyright to Future Publishing Ltd, exclusive for six months — call for details. We will assume that all correspondence is for publication and all CD-ROM demos or readers’ submissions may be incorporated on a Future coverdisk/CD-ROM unless you expressly state otherwise in writing. See also page 37. @ We're snowed under, so we can't reply to mail person- ally, even if you include an SAE, or to faxes or e-mail. Nor can we answer technical queries over the phone — sorry! MACFORMAT ¢ ISSUE 28 * SEPTEMBER 1995 a. a ee cs F. Tg Se MACFORMAT COVER DISKS FLOPPY OR CD? Macrormat is available in two editions every month: one with a CD- ROM and one with a high-density floppy disk. The CD contains all the software on the floppy disk in a folder called Floppy. See page 12 for details. secungeeua¥OFd processor demo Requires: any Mac, System 7.1 WorldWrite is an amazing word processor that is designed to handle any language, even non-Roman texts such as Hebrew or Arabic. But it also acts as a perfectly good word processor in its own right, offering tons of features without becoming bloated like some other word processors we could | is fully working but you full review, see page 98. mention. Our demo version won't be able to save. For a 7 merry WorldWrite enters the already crowded word processor market. Will its sophisticated language features be enough? Judge for yourself. EPS ies Up haw Saal es Is that a CD-ROM in your pocket or are you just pleased to be reading the magazine? Derek Smith reveals the contents of yet another bulging MACFoRMAT disc... ware to be released onto the Internet this month. @ Shareware in Macrormat: all the shareware and freeware programs reviewed in our shareware section, starting on page 121. &@ Clip Photos: sample images from top clip photo collections, so you can test the quality for yourself. @ Demos: interactive and rolling demos of various software featured in MACFORMAT. @ Readers’ Corner: your area of the CD featuring programs and art. @ Resources: includes QuickTime 2.0, a database of MAcrorMat reviews, and other utilities. e bring you a special CD this month with over 75 high resolution photos from the best collections in the world. We also have the com- plete first ‘level from the Dark Forces game, so you can take on the whole of the Empire single handedly. But before you do that, let’s take a look at what's on the CD... @ Highlights: aliases of some of the best bits of the CD to help get you started quickly. @ Floppy: contains everything that you'll find on the floppy disk. @ Shareware City: all the best share- = SSS Macromr2 = ——— = 626.9 MB in disk Highlights ry + Clip photos (al Shareware in MacFormat ie} Readers’ Corner Requires: LCII, System 6.0.3, colour monitor, 2Mb free RAM Ny ro Pel Color It! =| j= Circle Elements Graphics demo Music demo Try your hand at image manipulation with the save-disabled version of Color It! and the selection of photos on the CD. Color It! is the brilliant graphics pro- gram from MicroFrontier that delivers most of the features of Photoshop, but will run on entry level Macs with 2Mb free RAM. There's a full review of Color It! starting on page 52, which includes a walkthrough, giving you an idea of what is easily achievable. Used in conjunction with the photos on Tile Edit image Selection Filter Tools Window ———— 100% Punt /OM image a7 (OF UUUUANALAAAN OP LAUANAYAUR VA UUVUAEAUA ARAL AAL I L 1046x711 wanes Making music is one of the most fun things w your can do on your Mac, and Circle Elements makes it so easy you'll be bopping away all day. The idea is to place samples in a circular loop which are then played back at a set speed. The demo is fully interactive, although you can only play eight samples and you only get a very limited number of the samples that come with the full product. For a complete review, read our assessment on page 118. Fa the CD-ROM, you have everything you need to try your hand at image manipulation. The version on the CD is fully working, although you won't be able to save or print. SI Sl ‘S Sl =I MACFORMAT ¢ ISSUE 28 * SEPTEMBER 1995 MACFORMAT COVER DISKS Dark Forces |] UnZip nen FAME DEMO cc Requires: LC475, 4.5Mb free RAM, colour ‘Multimedia demo Requires: If you like games, you are going to love this. You play the role of Kyle, a mercenary working for the rebel alliance in the world of Star Wars. You enter a three dimensional environment where you can walk around and explore, in the fashion of Marathon. The first thing to do is copy the entire folder to your hard disk to ensure the game runs at a decent speed. There are plenty of options for trading graphic quality for speed, but the game is native, so you should have no problems on a PowerMac. See the screenshot for keyboard controls, but at any time, you can press [esc] to pause the game and bring up the menus. | would suggest that you try playing the demo on the medium or hard setting — it makes the challenge more interesting and stops you from completing it too quickly! See how the game fares against our reviewer on page 130. a UnZip claims to be Britain's first interactive magazine on CD-ROM, and | think they may just be right. It's produced by magazine publishers IPC, and is based on several of their paper titles such as VOX and New Scientist. This interactive demo gives you a good idea of how it all works and what it's all about — you can read what our reviewer thought on page 108. Don't worry if your virus checker gives you a warning about the CD. If you get an alert about an ‘unknown strain of WDEF and CDEP’, it’s not a virus — it's just that we use an unusual Desktop file to ensure the disc works with both Systems 6 and 7. falta _j]- SpacewardHo4.0 —[Jj Readers’ Corner Space game demo _ Requires: any Mac, System 6.0.7 Your contributions Requires: see individual Read Me files _ OC E teres xia J | Sen toot TIO peapecrepepeed rare Coon oa It's nice to find a space game that doesn't involve frantic blasting of aliens. Instead, Spaceward Ho is a strategy game in which you take it in turns with the computer to Struggle for the dominance of space — no small task. It’s quite a complex game and the demo is a little difficult to get into, so try selecting Auto Play from the Options menu, or turn to page 134 to read the review and get a better idea of what it’s all about. Oh, and good luck. ts] Fan I>) =) It's always a pleasure sorting through the tons of contributions to readers’ corner each month, especially as we receive so much great stuff. There’s some marvellous art from people such as Martin Davey, Henry Milton and Alan Ekland. Probably the most interesting piece of art we have seen was sent in from lan Gibson, which features a strange invention machine. In the contributions folder you'll find plenty of HyperCard stacks, including a game from Alex Karlsson, a lottery program (yet another!) from Allan Myles, and Steve Stevenson has a bird brain. Really. Dick Jansson has sent in his collection of icons, as has John Bax, and Edward Pearson's icons have to be seen to be believed! If you're a game player, you may want to check out contributions from Malcolm Gill, Neil Simpson and Gavin Black, while a special thanks is due to Thomas Everett for some great music which can be played by any QuickTime player, including SimpleText. | We would love to see any art or software that you have created. Just send it in to Disk Editor, Macrormar, 30 Monmouth Street, Bath, Avon BA1 2BW. Any SyQuest disks will be returned. MACFORMAT ¢ ISSUE 28 * SEPTEMBER 1995 MACFORMAT COVER DISKS Clip photo catalogue n this month’s CD-ROM we have a total of 88 digi- tised photos from the top collections in the world, most of them in high resolution. These pages are a guide to the images on the CD, but for the full head to head review, turn to page 58. The images are saved in a variety of formats, such as PICT, TIFF and Kodak also on this month’s CD, or you could PhotoCD. You'll need a graphics pro- use CorelMOSAIC, which you'll find in gram to open them, and Photoshop is the Corel folder on the CD. ideal, but don’t worry if you haven't We'll be featuring more images from got a copy. There was a demo of Photo- some of these collections over the next shop 3.0 on the Macrormat 24 CD that _— couple of issues, and next month we'll you could use, you can also use the have some sample images from the demo of Color It! on this month’s CD, Photostectics CD, as well as an entire you can use GraphicConverter, which is commercial collection of clip art. 10 MACFORMAT *¢ ISSUE 28 * SEPTEMBER 1995 oe a MACFORMAT COVER DISKS MACFORMAT ¢ ISSUE 28 * SEPTEMBER 1995 1 1 BEBDDD BBB OD BEBHBEY If you thought that Tetris was mind bending, wait until you try to catch the buzz! OLD FAVOURITES Write in and tell us about any shareware that you would like put on the floppy, or any old favourite software that you have and think deserves more recognition. RARARAARAARARA MACFORMAT COVER DISKS The best selling Macintosh magazine brings you the best floppy disk around. Derek Smith reveals the contents of yet another scintillating disk. ia Macrormat 28 oj _2.6Mb in disk Utilities and games galore Oo a [ # TitlePop 2.3 Virtual 1.0 CTB 2.0 cy e have some wonderful KickStart WindowLabels Oxyd™ utilities this month dedi- cated to making your life —— easier and saving you (sy E lots of time. So what can you do with Deskton Stri D F Dab all that free time? Play the three mar- ——o- cag roy panne vellous games that we’ve got lined oO up for you this month, of course! SE | Catch The Buzz Oj P| Lobster fj Puzzle game Scrabble game Requires: any Mac, 800K free RAM Requires: colour Mac, 900K free RAM Tetris is probably the most addictive computer game ever and it has been a while since we had a version on the floppy. This one caught my eye because, as well as playing a good basic game, it also has a feature called ‘catch the buzz’. In this mode the challenge is not just to build a wall, but to encase the bug in the wall and kill him. It requires a whole new strategy and gives you two games in one! BBBBDE BBB Do This is the first shareware scrabble game | that | have come across and it plays a good game. Operation is simple, despite the lack of mouse controls. When it’s your turn, type in a word in lower case. If you have a blank letter, shown as a [*], type in what you want that letter to be as a capital. Press [return], then type where you want to play the word by entering the row letter, column letter, then either [a] for across, or [d] for down. Press [return] and then confirm whether you want to play it or not. Go on, prove that you are smarter than your Mac! —=——=peed ~What a minute, what is a ‘viae'? Stop cheating and play some proper words that I've heard of, like bunny. High density floppy disks normally contain a up to 1.4Mb of software, but to bring you as much as possi- ble, we use a compression program to fit more on. So you need to de- compress the software before using it — you'll need 2.6Mb of hard disk space. We also recommend that you make a backup of the MACFORMAT cover disk, just in case anything goes wrong. Here’s what to do... 1 Ensure the original cover disk is write-protected (move the tab so that you can see through the hole). 2 Insert the Macrormat disk. 3 Drag the disk’s icon over your hard disk’s icon. 4 The contents are copied onto your hard disk, but are still com- pressed and cannot be used yet. 5 Drag the cover disk icon to the Wastebasket to eject the disk. 6 Insert a blank high density disk. 7 Drag the Macrormat 28 folder from your hard disk onto the blank disk’s icon to make your backup. To decompress the cover disk, open the Macrormat 28 folder on your hard disk. 1 Double-click on the MACFORMAT 28 icon. 2 Click Continue. 3 A box then asks you where you want to save the software. Choose the place on your hard disk where zs Before installing the cover disk, we always recommend that you back _ up any rape work on your a check our disks for'coniss here is intended asa 1 guide o and MAcForMat cannot be sponsible for any damage wie: any inability to use this software or any resulting losses. So please, take the precaution of backing up first. 12 MACFORMAT *¢ ISSUE 28 * SEPTEMBER 1995 MACFORMAT COVER DISKS Virtual 1.0 WindowLabels ———— it Des ay Requires: System 7 I'm very happy with my 14-inch monitor, but a The poor old Labels menu often gets neglected, @ File Edit View Label Special 08pm DO there are times when | could do with some which is a shame because it's really quite useful. But ¢ owlabets Dragihing more real estate. Virtual gives you a floating wouldn't it be even better if you could assign labels to <a ree : palette that gives you as many Desktops as entire windows, rather than just icons? Well, now you a eb 4 &] ‘ you want. When you first launch it, you will can with this Extension. Drag it over your closed ie Sroting 1:8 Ra e see a mini view of your current Desktop and System Folder, click OK, then restart. Open a window, | 4555 ae See it all its windows in the top left quarter. Click hold down the [option] key and when yougotothe 4,7 ——— ik To on another quarter and you have a clean Labels menu, you will have more options. You can f i. oto LS lee CiLir a Desktop with no windows, enabling you to now give your windows colours or even a pattern. 15 me at set that one up differently. Het presto, lots of ae Floppy = = 3. cy baskets ror ai | te. oe en 9 items 64 finder MB available Aes} ey “Brmms _gustconer | from the Nisus 5.2508 _\(eq (ao sxe 2) «2 a m4 Application (ay r (4 | “ese nan ahs wana or fe) = |} menu in the top TitlePop 2.3 Simplelent TB 2.0 kx 123 inactiwe Sereen right corner, QuickMeait Petust Tite a mctive screen choose Prefer- (3 ; (@| Gmomscesectereecstreen | ences from the er ne — Caveeew tetyomeieney | File menu, and \_TitlePop..._ > -¥ re : a window Frome ol conse t yourself organis: aa program . a with WindowLabels. On polars gem your own DragThing Lobster [> my Mac all game requirements. T sil | windows are in red. ae c ~ 4 Unfortunately this - — - <=] means my Mac is now —— = Serene —_—— - — —__— running very low on ===] ES = TitePop23 ===) EGE Oxyd j=} ed paint. Requires: System 7.5, LC or better Requires: System 6.0.4 or later Requires: any Mac | GOEA PROBLEM? ee — 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 prob- lem with the disk itself. Otherwise, the replacement will be just the same! Return HD disks to: Discopy Labs PO Box 21 Daventry NN11 5BU System 7.5 has introduced several great 1} This excellent freeware program enables you {a new features, one of which is drag and drop. to switch to any program or window, by In combination with DragThing, you can clicking on the name part of the title bar of drag any Desktop items, such as folders, any window. This produces a pop up menu, disks and applications, onto a floating and you just select the program or window palette, giving you instant access to them. If required. Of course, the same part of the you don’t need = window is used by System 7 to enable you DragThing, - to move backwards through nested folders. simply quit the | ®ea¥risworks 3.0 What you do is press [command] and click program, and EE cd toons on the name of a window. But don’t worry, when you next |B simpleText as soon as you press [command] to access open it up, all (ap kioustart this feature, TitlePop deactivates itself! your items will -_ : = still be there. oh id te (YFloppy i (Ca Lovster 9 items 64 finder MB available 1G Dino's 6100 Tae cea (aaj Dark Forces TitePop 23 ‘SimpleTent 71820 ae Reviews @ QuickMail DragThing gives BD Read me Wlektart “{_TitiePop... > J" you instant |(— Apptications (a (ia a access to your Ga Nicus Prete Sipe DragTieg Lobster most commonly stem Folder used items, Cah Blimey and gosh, I’m now so efficient with wherever they |@C? Audie all these utilities that | finish my work lurk. ia before | even turn up in the morning. hy eae = | is << Return CD-ROMs to: MAcrormat 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 any stocks of them and can only refer you to the addresses above. Oxyd is a simple but addictive game in which oF you control a marble on the screen using the mouse. Guide him round the screen, avoid- ing deadly quicksand and perilous pits. Your tasks are to uncover the hidden shapes that lie beneath the pyramids by crashing into them, or firing laser beams at them. You then have a limited amount of time to match it with its identical twin beneath another pyramid. It may sound easy, but with 200 levels, it should take you a while. FLOPPY TOO We are always on the lookout for readers’ contributions for the floppy as well as the CD, so don’t be put off just because you don’t have a CD-ROM drive. Send them in to the address on page 6. Oxyd, but beware, some screens reverse Accurate mouse control is called for in i the mouse directions! | Sic MACFORMAT ¢ ISSUE 28 * SEPTEMBER 1995 13 Amazing deals on all leadin g brand printers from Printer City! Epson Stylus i yO Sa The new Epson Stylus Pro XL saves time and money with its excellent 720x720dpi output and paper handling up to Super A3 (up to 329 x 483mm). You can output full- size mock-ups in all sizes up to A3, but the Epson Stylus Pro XL is just as outstanding on everyday A4 work. A wide range of output materials are available including coated and gloss papers and overhead transparency film. 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OMe hat Ww eat SST Jumplists mottwedid VW" come raTus on tee te site nay Gary's coal eavegh Vine AZZ Cntr Frage mn by 8 grey cle’ Eee ™ FutureNet, our own on-line service, now boasts a new look with more ways for you to find the feature you want — and a daily news service. a Netscape: FutureNet Books — net Guides | Good ews for Metcape Nevigetor asers a | encrypted fae petracy and w preven fread The -net Guides « _ net Guides series - All you seed te Know about the Internet | met shop until you drop Ceasar If you want to buy something over the Web, you can pay by credit card in complete safety with FutureNet and your Netscape browser. You can take a look at a gallery of photographer Alan Dorow’s image trickery without leaving the room. It’s in the Picture Conversion gallery. You can visit each of these sites by typing its address (immediately below the title) into your Web browser. Or you can go to the World Wide Web Road Map section of Macrormat’s pages on FutureNet. There you'll find direct links to each site and many others. This issue's links will stay on our pages at least until Friday 3 November. Art & Entertainment Discovery Channel Online http:/Awww.discovery.com/ The makers of How Animals Move and dozens of TV programmes present a rich site with daily real life stories of adventure and exploration. How Animals Move review, page 102 The LucasFilms Archive http://bantha.pc.cc.cmu.edu/ A semi-official site focusing on the films and games industry that has grown out the characters of George Lucas — Star Wars, Indiana Jones and more. Dark Forces review, page 130 Zion Train http://www.demon.co.uk/drei/zion-train/index.htmt As well as a new album and CD, this dance music group also have a Web site with discussions on underground You can explore the Web with Macrormat — the Road Map has dozens of links to useful sites. You'll find it on our home page on FutureNet. lishing’s on-line service — to visit sites that can give you more informa- tion on some of the topics we look at this issue. To be able to use these links, you'll need a World Wide Web connection — see our current series for details of what you need and what else you can do once you’re connected to the Inter- net. The second part is on page 73. We've also included a couple of new jumplist addresses — these are sites with loads of pointers toward other Mac-related areas. All the links join the dozens already available on Mac- FORMAT’s Web pages. And we've put in a link for each of the Web addresses that are listed throughout the issue — including the Web sites of each of the service pro- viders listed in our Internet series. Look for these in the Computing area of the Road Map. Each time someone looks at a page or image on the Web, it’s called a hit - and FutureNet now gets over 500,000 hits a week! hink of this page as your fur- ther reading list. You can now use MACFORMAT’S pages on FutureNet — Future Pub- RIcHARD HILL politics and bizarre trivia. Homegrown Fantasy review, page 110 Computing The International Mac http://www.austin.apple.com/macos/tech/intl/ intlover.html Apple have a Web site devoted to technical information about their computers. Here you can find out about the technology that enables the Mac to display non-Roman alphabets like Japanese and Chinese. WorldWrite review, page 98 Design & Graphics Picture Conversion http://www.picture.com/ This company offer all sorts of scanning and picture processing facilities — and their Picture Gallery section includes work by Alan Dorow, a photographer who uses image editing techniques to humorous effect. Image editing feature, page 42 Web F/X http://www. indirect.com/www/webfx/ One of the many companies that are sprouting up to offer WEB PAGES YOUR MACFORMAT’s On the Web! Now you can use a modem and your Mac to read all of Future’s magazines, including us, on- line. Plus: visit some of the top Web sites on the Internet. Getting connected All you need to connect to FutureNet is a modem and an Internet account like Demon or CityScape, or a direct server connection. There are no hidden charges — FutureNet is absolutely free! Just use your World Wide Web browser to connect to http://www. futurenet.co.uk/ professional-quality graphics for designers over the Web. Take a look at the impressive samples — produced on the Mac and other computers. Image editing feature, page 42 Yahoo: Pictures http://www.yahoo.com/Computers/Multimedia/ Pictures One of the Web's foremost jumplist sites presents a list of clip art and photographs you can download from the Web. 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WAVE is a division of Computer Capability Lid 8 Newbery Centre, Exeter Airport, Devon EX5 2UL MACFORVATT PageMaker revamped; great PowerBook upgrade offer; the cost of using the Internet falls. News Editor: Richard Hill. New PageMaker tak on XPress he latest version of top desk- top publishing program Page- Maker goes on sale shortly. Adobe intend the new set of features in the program to rival those of its competitor QuarkXPress more closely. There’ll be an improved colour system, controls for creating HTML pages for publishing on the World Wide Web — and you'll be able to create several master page styles in the same document for the first time. PageMaker was previously published by Aldus; the first brand new version to arrive under the Adobe name re- flects the close ties with other Adobe programs, which you can expect to be developed in the future. Photoshop-like image editing features are to be added, while you'll also be able to save pages as PDF (Portable Document Format) files. Anyone who has a copy of SS fie Tat Utiites Layout Fh — Adobe's Acrobat Reader program can read PDF documents directly on their Mac screens. The price of PageMaker 6.0 is yet to be set, but don’t expect it to be more than the current average of £605. If you buy a copy of PageMaker 5.0 before version 6 is available — or you have bought it since Monday 17 July - you can ask for a free upgrade to the new program. Upgrades after the new version 6 goes on sale will cost around £115. 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Adobe want PDF and their Acrobat programs to become a standard for pages on the World Wide Web and for exchanging documents between indi- vidual computers. As part of this move, Adobe are buying Frame, a company best-known for their FrameMaker publisher pro- gram. Frame enjoy a position in the industry that means they are able to sell to a lot of Internet-related firms. Adobe believe using Frame’s own ideas and giving PDF a stronger role in Frame’s programs will improve their chances of becoming the dominant name in electronic publishing. ™@ For more about PageMaker 6.0, con- tact Adobe Direct on 0131 451 6888. The first Adobe-made version of PageMaker is the most powerful yet, with a flurry of new features. COMPUTER BOOM In a far reaching survey, American research firm Dataquest are pre- dicting that sales of personal computers will double by 1999. They forecast a land- mark 100 million sales in that year, compared with 48 million in 1994. Apple boss on new direction Apple executive Michael Spindler has been speaking about the recent changes of direction and emphasis within Apple. As we re- ported in MACFORMAT 25, Apple are to concentrate on areas like multimedia and the home and education markets, as well as traditional strongholds like publishing. Spindler told journalists in the United States: ‘We don’t want to be simply throwing Macs out there to do office work.’ Saying that ‘the Mac is by definition a multimedia machine’, Spindler believes Apple shouldn’t try to make the Mac all things for all people — just another com- puter. ‘This isn’t diapers or soap’, he said of selling com- puters. ‘We need to make computers that better under- stand their users.’ Spindler reiterated Apple's efforts to overcome the shortage of parts that is besetting the entire industry —at a time when there is more demand for Macs and other PCs than ever (see the ‘Computer boom’ margin note on this page). This means you should find it easier and quicker to buy the Mac you want over the coming months. MACFORMAT ° ISSUE 28 * SEPTEMBER 1995 21 a Free PowerBook upgrade offer 20 MILLION Macs! There are now more than 20 million Macs being used worldwide, according new figures from Apple. This means there are twice as many Mac owners out there as there were just three years ago. Apple also reckon they've sold over 2 million PowerMacs since the new ma- chines were launched rograms written for the Mac enjoyed a prominent role in this year’s British Interactive Multimedia Association Awards. The annual presentations Macrormat Classic 94% rating when we reviewed it in issue 21. And Domestic Funk Products’ PAWS took on all comers to receive the Gold for the New Media Children’s Award. in March 1994. recognise innovation ina number of _In this CD-ROM you take a dog’s eye categories, from entertainment and view on the world, exploring a surreal education to industrial training. cartoon garden. The Multimedia Corporation’s 3D The judges praised PAWS for ‘daring If you're thinking of buying a PowerBook 540, Ww Atlas romped away with the Macro- to be rude, cheeky and playful, as well you'll get more Power than you bargained for. pala ep media Home Reference Gold award. as thought-provoking and visually in- The CD-ROM title, which has been bought by an estimated 500,000 Mac triguing’. PAWS also received a Classic rating in MACFoRMAT 22 with a 90% New portable Macs based on the Macromedia are joining PowerPC chip are due soon, but if software firm ION to produce software that OWMers, uses maps and globes as a review. you buy a 500-series PowerBook should make it easier book would — but you can control and now, you'll be entitled to a free to create hybrid CDs- | adapt the maps according to what you upgrade to PowerPC when they discs with traditional want to see. become available. music content and It was so far ahead of the field that If you buy a PowerBook 520c or computer programs the judges felt unable to give a runner- 540c by Saturday 30th September, you'll be given a voucher that means you can have an upgrade board, which will upgrade your new pur- chasé to PowerMac levels, at no extra cost. The board is due to be released in September, but anyone who has the voucher will be first in line to have the board fitted for them. And if you've bought either of these sharing space. Expect more music CD-ROMs to come out as a result. up Silver to any program. They said that 3D Atlas ‘moves beyond the “elec- tronic book” metaphor and offers users the opportunity for a real multi- media exploration.’ 3D Atlas received a APPLE NUMBER file Cait Contents Bispl In last issue's free World Wide Web Road The firms behind 3D Atlas (left) and Map guide, we gave PAWS (above and below) add more ri : ? “ gee pts * trophies to their already-heaving ae: — — pe you'll - mantelpieces. still qualify for a voucher as long ee a ore a you've kept your receipt. a ee h ny The board features a 603e chip — an pac * et as ag improved version of the chip in the amare co your Mac new Performa 5200 and 6200 desktop But there was a digit Macs — and comes with an extra 4Mb missing! You can call of RAM for running demanding Pow- Apple on 0800 127753. erMac software. Its price after the MACDIARY Macrormat’s guide to what’s happening around the world of Macintosh. If you have an event or exhibi- tion involving Macs that you'd like to be mentioned here, let us know! Our contact details are on page 6. & Digital Express Where: f.Stop Gallery, Green Park Station, Bath. When: now until 19th August. What: a multimedia exhibition of work created on Macs by stu- dents of the Newport School of Art and Design. See the Interac- tive Arts folder on MACFORMAT 25’s CD-ROM for a taste of the work on show. Price: free. Contact: f.Stop Gallery on 01225 316922. @ The Nature of History Where: the Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London. When: now until 28th August. What: an interactive exhibition about evolution — Macs were used to create some of the material and special effects. Video and computer material charts the development of life on Earth. You may be selected as a ‘trigger’ visi- tor - your progress around the gallery will be tracked and you'll set off changes in the surround- ings as you enter different areas. Prices: adults £5.50; children £2.80 (free if under five); con- cessions £3.00; family (two adults, two children) £15.00. In- cludes entry to rest of museum. Contact: the Natural History Mu- seum on 0171 938 9388. ®@ Macworld Expo Where: Boston, United States. When: Tuesday 8th August to Friday 11th August. What: the biggest Mac show of the summer. Companies includ- ing Apple, Microsoft and Adobe will show new machines and software. There’ll be special sec- tions for programmers, scientists and user groups, and conferences on design, the Internet, multime- dia, education and business. Prices: $40 for exhibition, $150 for exhibits and conference. Inter- national surcharge $45. offer ends hasn’t been announced. For more details on the offer, call Apple on 0800 127753. Contact: Mitch Hall Associates on 00 1 617 361 2001. @ Centre for Electronic Arts MA Degree Shows Where: the Candid Gallery, 3-5 Torren Street, Islington, London EC1. When: Saturday 23rd September to Tuesday 26th September. What: an exhibition of work by Middlesex University’s class of ’95 — the graduating students of the MA courses in Design for Interactive Media, Computing in Design and Computer Integrated Publishing. There'll be lots of innovative and exciting ideas produced on Macs on show. Price: free. Contact: the Centre for Electron- ic Arts on 0181 362 5027. 22 MACFORMAT °¢ ISSUE 28 * SEPTEMBER 1995 Microsoft set up new & File Edit View Insert Format Tools Table Window (Chel ta) (wily) Mac hotline icrosoft have set up a technical support line specifically for anyone who uses their Mac soft- ware. In the past, you'll have had to compete with calls from users of pro- grams written for the Windows oper- ating system for attention. The ser- vice is already up and running. Microsoft software accounts for the lion’s share of the Mac market, with Word the best-selling word processor in the world and Excel now the only stand-alone Mac spreadsheet program. Microsoft say there’s a team catering specifically for Mac problems, whether you're using business software like their Office suite of programs — includ- ing Word and Excel — or are having dif- ficulties with one of their reference or education CD-ROMs. ’ The phone number for the support service is 01734 271580 — or e-mail them at MSUKMAC@Microsoft.com. Using the service involves paying a fee — you get a 90 days trial for free, then it costs £205.63 a year. This covers 35 of what Microsoft call incidents — specific problems that may take sever- al phone calls to sort out in extreme cases. If the problem is down to a bug in the program or is Microsoft's fault in some other way, the incident is not added to your tally of 35 for the year. Upgrading from Microsoft Word 5.1 ‘This emplste vil help you convert your addzesses from Microsoft Wood §.1, ode font mess © te Wort 6 0 mecva bar, and convert settings files from Microsoft Word S.1. To access these fears, choose te “S.1 Upgrade” wolker from the Toolbars. tem in the View mean Converting Addresses trom Microsoft Word 5.1 ‘Woot 6.0 coments address took entries © AuwText excises and © 0 Word 6.0 mble seedy for Mail Merge. Click on the “Convert $.1 Addresses” wolber baron above © Having problems with Word? You can get assistance with all of Microsoft's programs on a hotline that's been set up especially for you. internet costs plummet The Internet is becoming cheaper to use than ever, as the cost of using service providers and buying modems tumbles. Demon Internet, one of the oldest established firms to offer you Internet access through their machines, are planning a huge expansion of the number of connection points they offer by the end of August. This will mean that people living across an esti- mated 78% of the country will be able to connect to Demon and cruise the Net for the price of a local phone call (plus Demon’s own subscription fee). Other companies are following suit — see our feature on page 73 this issue for the lowdown on service providers. Local calls through British Telecom at weekends are now down to just lp a minute, giving an hour’s Net access for 60p. And the growth of cable phone lines, which typically give free local calls, should make access to the Net cheaper still. Meanwhile eWorld, Apple’s own on-line service, now offers a route to the Internet as well as its own pages. A new version of the eWorld software, which enables you to get onto the World Wide Web and other popular areas of the Net, is being given free to @ Apple Expo ‘95 Where: the Grand Hall, Olympia, London. When: Wednesday 8th Novem- ber to Saturday 11th November. What: Britain’s biggest Mac show of the year. Exhibitors should include all the big Mac companies, including Apple themselves, showing the latest hardware and software. There are traditionally show bargains from retailers, and also a huge selec- tion of seminars and. workshops, while the Pre-Press Forum will show how the Mac is ‘fully in- volved in the publishing process. Price: free if you call for a ticket by Friday 27th October, or £10 on the door. Contact: the Apple Expo Hotline on 0181 984 7711. ® Computer Graphics Expo ’95 Where: Wembley Conference and Exhibition Centre, London. When: Tuesday 28th November to Thursday 30th November. What: a graphics show, confer- ences and animation festival under the same roof. Exhibitors include Avid, Alias, Softline and Elastic Reality. Plus the Interac- tive Entertainment Development Forum; the Broadcast Design Association Conference; the , Computer Art & Design Contest; — the London Effects & Animatio 3 Festival and much more. Price: free if you register by Friday 3rd November, or £10 on the door. Contact: D | Media on 0181. as 995 3632; or e-mail 4 digmedia@atlas.co.uk subscribers. And soon the program will also come free when you buy a new Mac. Access to eWorld should speed up with the addition of computers in Europe with the contents of the ser- vice stored on them. Currently, when you use the service you connect to machines in the United States. At the same time, Apple are en- couraging users of AppleLink, their previous on-line service, to switch over to eWorld. All Apple staff are ex- pected to have moved across by the end of the year and Apple hope other users will join them. PSION SYSTEMS The phone number given for Psion in last issue's feature on portable organisers should have been 0171 258 7368. Apologies for any inconvenience. CHINESE MAC The Chinese Govern- ment is expected to invite Apple to manufacture Macs within the country. Strict laws make China a difficult market to break into, but the one-billion-strong population offers huge opportunities. MACFORMAT ¢ ISSUE 28 * SEPTEMBER 1995 WHAT’S NEW PRODUCT NEWS Depth 2 he new version of Ray Dream’s low-cost 3D graph- ics program, out now, in- cludes extra help if you want to create designs with as little fuss as possible. The AddDepth Wizard en- ables you to follow simple steps to make a design from scratch or use one of over a hundred templates as a starting point. As the name suggests, AddDepth is a program for taking 2D illustrations and adding depth to them. Version 2 now offers more options for the pro- grams you can import files from, in- cluding Illustrator and FreeHand. AddDepth comes with CD-ROM and floppy disk versions in one box — the CD-ROM has 30 fonts and 200 pieces of clip art. Other new features include the ability to show your work as a From cut-price 3D graphics to the highest of high-end colour printing, MACFoRMAT’s product news section has the latest gear and news of some hot games. Compiled by Richard Hill. Tite (it Arrange ‘gre Effects Views Window 224 el aaa Jer | mM pm Seok B only £46.95 until Saturday 30 September. @ Price: £70.44. @ Out: now. Construct 3D models easily and view them from any angle with the new version of AddDepth. simple wireframe, to speed up the design process on slower Macs. Distributors Principal say selected dealers are offering AddDepth 2 for Kodak XLS 8600 printer olour printers are be- coming more widespread within businesses as the price of the technology - continues to fall. The Kodak 8600 range is the latest designed to ap- peal to companies like printing bureaux and other professionals in the design industry, who demand near-photographic quality in their printing and have the money to afford it. There are two printers — the £8,170 XLS 8600 PS can produce standard images or print PostScript files used in the likes of QuarkXPress. The XLS 8600 lacks the PostScript option but costs ®@ Requires: LCI or better with System 7, 5Mb of RAM (8Mb for PowerMac) and 14Mb of hard drive space if installing clip art and fonts. @ For more details contact Prin- cipal on 01706 832000. £7,580. Both can print full bleed on A4 paper (covering the entire sheet with colour) or make transparencies of up to 8 by 12 inches. The thermal dye printers can pro- duce detail at 300 dots per inch, and include SCSI connections for net- working (the PS also has LocalTalk, the standard Mac network system). Photoshop plug-in programs are also in- cluded to speed up printing of images. @ Price: from £7,580. Out: now. ®@ Requires: LCI or better, System 7.1 and 4Mb of RAM. @ For more details contact Kodak on 01442 845228. MACFORMAT °¢ ISSUE 28 * SEPTEMBER 1995 WHAT’sS NEW NEW FOR THE MAC PCI graphics The XCLAIM GA card is the first from the ATI company to take advantage of the PCI slot found in Apple's fastest ever PowerMac. The 9500 will include PCI as a standard feature, meaning cheaper and faster add- ons. (See News last issue for more.) The XCLAIM cards are designed to increase the number of colours your PowerMac can show and the amount of detail you can have — all drawn on-screen at faster speeds. The two models differ in the amount of memory they have. The £387 2Mb graphics accelerator card enables your PowerMac to display 16.7 million colours at 832 x 624 screen pixels. The more expensive £528 4Mb version increases the detail to 1,152 x 870 dots. ATI claim that programs like Photoshop can redraw images up to eight times faster with the card fitted. For more details contact distributors Taxan on 01344 484646. HoTMetaL HoTMetal Pro 2.0 is an enhanced version of a free HTML editing program. HTML is the language used to create pages that can be shown on the World Wide Web area of the Internet. The Pro program can import files from word processors like Word and WordPerfect and convert them to HTML — or you can start from scratch with the built- in editing facilities. Watch for a feature on paperless publishing in Macrormat 30. You can try the free version by using your Web browser or ftp program to fetch it from the address ftp://doc.ic.ac.uk/pub/ package/WWW/ncsa/htm\l/hotmetal. HoTMetal Pro 2.0 costs £199. For more details contact Viatec Software on 01276 684506. Secure your Mac It's estimated that 20% of all burglaries now involve computers — whether it’s taking the whole machine or opening the case and taking chips or other parts. Boxx Security have started to make cases designed to prevent theft. They have been producing Cases for the firearms market, where weapons are required to be kept under lock and key, for years. The Computerboxx comes in two sizes at £175 and £195 respectively. Boxx claim you should be able to fit most types of Mac into one of these. The cases are made of steel and hide your Mac completely — you can then bolt the case to a table or to the floor. For more details contact Boxx Security on 01494 558181. ColorDrive Pantone, well known for their colour charting systems and tools used by many designers, have announced ColorDrive. You can use this £176.20 program to create colour palettes that can be used by any major graphics program, meaning you don't have to spend time making sure the colour fanges you use in each program match up accurately. ColorDrive also creates palettes set for each printer you use, so you can get a match between how your design looks on screen and how it comes out on paper. A forthcoming version will include support for Apple’s ColorSync 2.0 system, used on Apple's own printers. For more details contact Pantone on 01303 259 959. he Mac is still the best per- sonal computer around, but in certain situations it has become helpful to be able to use software written for the MS-DOS and Windows operating systems used by many computers as well. SoftWindows 2.0 is the updated version of a Mac program that enables you to do exactly that. With SoftWindows, you can run pro- grams like CorelDRAW! that aren’t yet available for the Mac, which may come in handy if your Mac shares office space with PCs, for ex- ample. This is despite the fact that Windows programs aren’t writ- ten in language your Mac can understand. SoftWindows sidesteps this problem by using Mac code to imitate a Windows PC in a process called emulation. Makers Insignia Solutions claim a PowerMac running SoftWindows 2.0 can be as fast as a 486SX PC with a 25MHz chip, so it should be perfectly capable of running today’s demanding applications. And it can also take ad- vantage of Mac abilities like scripting, where you can set your Mac auto- Trackball He and Jetstick | wo new devices from CH Products join the range of al- ternatives to the traditional mouse and keyboard. You can use Trackball Pro instead of your mouse — some people prefer the control that practice with a ball control device can give. It’s set up so the cur- sor will move across the screen more PRODUCT NEWS SoftWindows 2 & Fite Eait _etep Eject S:i7pm 2 ee Windows Desktop - Demonstration File Qptions Window Help | matic tasks like run- ning a program and | printing a document | at the click of a but- ton. With SoftWindows you can easily write scripts on your Mac for PC programs to carry out. The price of version 2.0 has not been decided yet, but isn’t expected to be more than £360. ® Price: TBA. Out: this month. ® Requires: any PowerMac with System 7, 16Mb of RAM ® For more details contact Insignia Solutions on 0800 667706. quickly than it would with your old mouse, and there are extra buttons you can use for any of several pre- defined functions — like dragging an icon from one place to another. Jetstick, meanwhile, is strictly for game-players. It’s designed with flight simulations — one of the most popular game genres on the Mac - in mind, but would also come in handy for rac- ing games. You can use the supplied program to make individual settings for each game you use Jetstick with, and switch to them whenever you play that game. ia ®@ Prices: Trackball Pro, £89.95; Jetstick, £49.95. ® Out: now. ® Requires: Mac SE or better. Jetstick software requires System 6.0.8 or later. @ For more details contact ISM on 0121 327 4499, Now you can run MS- DOS and Windows programs on your Mac as well — with no extra hardware — using SoftWindows 2.0. MACFORMAT * ISSUE 28 * SEPTEMBER 1995 | WHAT’S NEW PRODUCT NEWS Al Unser Arcat oT, Va), nace©r ew Mac games say it all in their title as much as Al Unser Jr’s Arcade Racer, due out later this month. It’s a racer! 15 circuits test your dri- ving skills as you compete to win the Indy Car championship, with detailed tracks and landscapes zipping past. It’s arcade! The accent is firmly on gameplay, with simple options that let you get into the game quickly. You can race friends by connecting up to eight Macs togeth- er at one time. It’s got Al Unser! No, we haven’t heard of him either — but we've been assured he’s a top driver in the Indy series in the oe | States, and Nigel Mansell inhaled his exhaust fumes when the two raced each other. We've played an early version of Al Unser Jr on our PowerMac in the office and it storms along. Look out for a full MacrorMat review soon. Price: £29.99 Out: this month. Requires: LCI or better with System 7, 4Mb of RAM (8Mb for PowerMacs) and a 13-inch screen. For more details contact Mind- scape on 0144 246333. Foul Play he quiet halls of Awkward Manor have been disturbed by a murder. Sir John has been killed in cold blood, and one of his guests is the killer. And now it’s up to you to find out whodunnit... In Foul Play, due out later this month, up to five friends and you can each play the role of one of the guests. By searching the house, you can find clues and question the others until you piece together the time, place, method and perpetrator of the dirty deed. Makers the Armchair Travel Company say there are thousands of different permutations, so no two games should be the same. If all this sounds a little like a cer- tain board game... well, now’s your chance to play it on your Mac. It’s designed to be played by groups, especially families — one of a small One of this innocent-looking bunch is guilty of Sir John's murder — but who? In Fou! Play, the killer's identity changes each time. but growing number of titles looking to this area. Price: £39.99. Out: this month. Requires: LCI or better with System 7.1, 8Mb of RAM, a 13- inch 256-colour screen and a CD- ROM drive (double-speed recom- mended). For more information contact the Armchair Travel Company on 0171 386 5454. If you thought all videogame mags were the same... Ulure | PlayStation On sale mid-September The ‘PS" logo and ‘PlayStation’ are trademarks of Sony Computer Entertainment Inc 26 MACFORMAT * ISSUE 28 * SEPTEMBER 1995 Hard Drives. | Miemory. Networks. We will not be undersold ! 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For a comprehensive round-up of your choice of portable Macs and digital assistants, see last issue's cover story. While Europe is making progress towards getting cables for networks installed, it’s the United States that are setting the pace. You can read about their Information Superhighway project (the NII) on the World Wide Web. Point your browser at http:// sunsite.unc.edu/nii/ toc.html any Macs are now linked together or with other types of computer for all sorts of reasons — your Mac could be part of a network ina sophisticated office set-up or linked to a friend’s for a game of one-on-one Marathon. And the size of the Inter- net, the biggest network of all, is ex- ploding. Using your Mac for commu- nicating is becoming a crucial part of everyday computing. It’s against this backdrop that Apple are spearheading another bold move into personal communication, with the help of a medium that’s regarded almost as quaint against brash new- comers like television and CD-ROM. Radio could hold the key to a series of developments that might change the way we use computers — and even fundamentally affect the design of computers themselves. Networks are limited at the moment Radio could hold the key to changing the way we use computers. because even if you have a portable computer, you still have to find some- where to plug it in before you can join a private network or get onto the Net. But imagine using a computer any- where. You could carry around a personal digital assistant, like an Apple MessagePad, hooking up with a cen- tral computer or network — wherever you are in the building, and for what- ever information you need. Out on the street, you could exchange com- plex information with anyone you meet who has the same device — for example, go into a shop and have a bang-up-to-date catalogue loaded onto your machine for viewing later. And radio networks would be faster and cheaper to set up than ones where you have to install physical wires. This science fiction situation can be- come real with radio networks — and here’s how it works. Each radio station a _—_ , fio Appie you listen to (BBC 1FM or Classic FM, for example) has a radio frequency allocated to it. It’s allowed to broadcast on its frequency over an agreed range. Radio Four can transmit over the entire country, while stations like Birmingham’s BRMB are restricted to a local area. And organisations like the police also have channels set aside for them. In Europe, a system called Hiperlan is being developed by Apple and their partners GEC Plessey and Advanced RISC Machines. With Hiperlan, a range of frequencies (between 5150- 30 MACFORMAT ¢ ISSUE 28 * SEPTEMBER 1995 MACROSCOPE Once virtually ignored by the computing community, the Newton is coming into its own as new technology means portables are in demand. 5300 MHz, fact fans) is given over for computer communication. The range remains limited to 50 metres for the moment, but an established standard to build on will exist. The United States is thinking even bigger. The National Information In- frastructure (NII) is the official name of the much-touted Information Su- perhighway — an America-wide net- work. Again, Apple are involved in the setting-up of the wireless part of the NI, which will enable community net- works to emerge. For example, all the schools in a town could share comput- er information across the airwaves. Or everyone in the town could get access to data stored at the local library. And yes, one of the ideas Apple are proposing is that the American system should use at least the same frequen- cies as Hiperlan, so the computers of the future could work across both con- tinents. The idea is to make the new frequencies open to all. But Apple aren’t getting so involved in all of this for nothing. A widepsread radio networking would add another string to Newton’s bow. Newton is the the design that Apple’s MessagePads and a few other devices like Motoro- la’s Marco are based on. The design is by far the most-used in the PDA mar- All the schools in a town could share computer information across the airwaves. ket - Apple have a 60% share. Up until now, Newton has suffered perhaps from being an idea ahead of its time. Not only were there teething problems with technologies like New- ton’s handwriting recognition, but Apple found it difficult to get across why you might need a PDA. But developments like this may mean a corner has been turned. De- signs like Newton — where the baggage of desktop computing is stripped away until you have a simple, useful tool — promise to become more relevant as we move into the next century. MF Pippin talk BEHIND THE NEWS An innovative Apple console is under development in Japan. Now the silence on the progress of this ambitious project is broken as Apple’s partners speak. ippin is the name of an in- triguing design from Apple. Based on the PowerMac, it bears more rese