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Comment
Instant Access is a new form of software distribution - all(! one wh ich deserves to
succeed . It's well known th at
Apple strongly supports any
COffipafly which evangelises C(}R() M as a distrit>ution medium . and the fact that
virtualI)' all Apple ' s software
- At sese. AppleTal/l. Remote
Access ere the rest - Is
availabl e on the Instant
Access disc snows that
Apple Is doing its bil. There have ceee two
maJOf stumbling blocks to
CD-ROMgaining the sort of
eccecterce that Appl e wants
to see: speed and cost. The
Speed issue is being tackled by the mult~speed drives like
Apple's own C0300, which
goes a fair way 10 answering
the 'CD-ROM Is far too slow to be usable' cr itics. In fact, dependir.g on the application . speed really doesn 't mstter that much at all Instant Access ' own disc . fOf instance. is not speeocntlcat. 00 you mind If it takes two minutes or three to tlownload your fre shlyunlocked software to the
ha«! diSk? Not realty. coosro-
efing the fact that you neve the so ftware there and th en.
rather th an in a day or two.
when the postman can be bothered to call.
The other crucial issue, then, Is cost. Again, Instan t Acces s is leading the way by offering _ albeit fairly oldspec - dfives at a good (some would say incredible) price. But surely Apple could have done this itself, wittlOut leaving it to a tlllld party? Apple 's reason for IXIt selling them off? They are no longer the minimum specification that's a pos ition fil led by the more recent C0 15O ,
It's true that the CD300 is cheaper than JUSt about ali 01 its rivals. But just think how p()p'J1<H CD-ROM would become if that mooel were to be sokl for £150, instead of the £3 20 or so that it currently costs . Then the software industry rea lly would be revolutionised.
Cheap CD-ROM drives -
and low-cost software
A CD-ROM drive and a year's subscripti on to a new software dist ribution servi ce for just £186 - th at 's t he offe r from Instant Access
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Insta nt Access ha s s tr uc k de a ls with man y or the Mac world's top a p p lica t ions d evelo pe rs to distri bute their products on an encoded CD-ROM .
To help seed the mar ket, the
company has decided to make C ORaM drives avai lable at a very low cost to users.
The CD SC Plus drives, o ld Apple stoc k which are no longe r manufactured, are compatible with everyth ing except PhotoC D, according to Tec hnical Manager Richard Dyce .
Tempting users
By effectively selling the drives for
£ 128 including postage an d offering a year's subscription to the CD-ROM discs for £59, Instant Access hopes to tempt Mac users into the CD worl d.
The compan y' s first disc contains more than 180 Mac applications, from
industry-leading packages like ' Norton Utilities to products never before distributed in the UK,
Use rs select the program lhey want and phone a credit-card botline: they
are then given an access code which
' unlocks ' the software and places it on their hard drive. Manuals are posted the same day.
Also on the disc are demo versions of more than a hundred of the pac kages; the company' s motto is ' Find , Try, Buy.'
This type o f ' locking ' tech nology has been used before, on font discs from people like Adobe, but this is the first time that it has been used for wholesale software distribution.
Competitive prices
Dyce says that software prices will be very competitive - especially for site
Instant ~s: FO'ld, Tf)' <WId lluy)':I'Jr sol'l:w¥e in a matter of minutes
licenses. Although some lice nce prices
are qu oted on the disc. Dyce says that
large sites should "ring us up with you r requirements and we'll quo te you a price." Even single-user prices rival those available from conventional mail order dealers, although the company is quick to point out that the CD- ROM is de signed as an extension to , rather than a replacement for, con ventional distribution c hannels.
The first disc can be purchased for £12, or a full year' s subscription can be had for £59.
Keeping data safe
central Point Software has released
a new disll diagnostic package, aimed at Mac users who ' are
neither e lq)l.!Oenced nor interested in understanding what can go wrong with computers.·
Safe & Sound Is designed to be completely user friendly - in the event of a problem. users Insert the emergency disk, Vrtlich automatically scans all mounted volumes, attempts to isolate the fault and automatically repairs it.
central Point claims that the program can detect and repair a wide range of problems including missing files Of folders , virus infection, crashed hald and floppy disks and startup problems .
Safe & Sound has a suggested retail price of £58. Central Point Software can be contacted on 081 848 1414,
Sixt ies art, nineties technology
The Sixties Art Scene in London, an
exhib ition which is running at the Barbican An Gallery until June 13, infuses 1960s art and memorabilia with state of the art tec hnology in the shape o f six Macintos h Perfonna CD-600s running an exclusive collection of Mac C D-Ra Ms.
The exhibition is the fi rst of what
will be a 12-month collaboration be tween the famous phc tojo urnalism library, The Hulton Deutsch Collection, an d the Barbican Gallery.
Visitors to the exhibition can previ ew more than 2,500 images of the 1%Os on the Performas provided. The selection of paintings. sculpture, photographs, design and illustration features works by Care, Hockney, and
Riley. On the pop side, there are
posters from The Beatles 10 Hendrix. Discs are av ailable from Hul ton DeUlsch on 07 1 266 2660 for £ 177.
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· The London Macintosh
User Group ( LM UG ) has
JOlned together ....1111 Apple
10 mtroduc e a Nat iona l
User Group Counc il.
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00I'lfaC1 numbers for Mac users as well as comprhng
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lhnc ~ sou qUIte III
numbtr of unknowns In
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The Loodoo Macin tosh
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conlaCled on 08 1690 ~
. The 1993 Wend
So(lWare Compeuuon. In
conjunction W Ith the San
D!c!lO Computer Fair. is
00'" accept ing er nnes.
Wmne rs of la51 ye ar' s
compel ilioo mcluded a
program 10 he lp people find ou r if the ir neighbours we re
aliens from space. aOO a screen-sever featuring
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Firs! 1'r17.e IS $250. and all emrarus rece ive a
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· WordStar lntemanoaal. <I company best known for
11$ pc ... O«I processor. has
entered the Mac mar\( et
wll h!he acquislllOn of Wm ..No>o'. from US compan) T/Maker. Ve~ion
3.0. ...·hich cess £ 175. "'111
eoeunoe to be :1\'<lJlable through JI$ cumnt d blnbu-
lion channel~. WordSlar 081 6·t) 8866.
New H-P inkjet printer
Hewten-Peccard has anno unced a new
us printer which replaces
popular
Deskw nter. Styled the DeskWriter
5 10. ee new model is claimed 10 be up
10 40 per cent faster than us preoeces-
$01'. It automatically hand les five
d ifferent paper sizes - A4. executive.
letter. legal and envelope - and is
supplied with I I Agfa Compugraphic
font families.
1be new printer is based on 300dpi
(doIs per inch) inl:jet technology, and has a maximum printing speed of~three pages per minute. It has network
capabilities. or can connect directly to a
Mac with a serial cable. The
Deskw riter 5 iO has a recommeodcd
retail price of £3g7; and is available from all He wlett-Pacl:ard deale~.
Hewleu-Packard: 0344 369222.
American movie magic
The VrJf8Cer Company has released two new CD-ROMs
oontain ~ film d ips from the USA that span 1931 to 1960.
But these aren't IUIHlf.the.miII motion pictures from
HoDywood ; instead, they Ift5et1t ill distinctly odd slice of
AmeI'icanlI from clays gone b'I.
The dips haYe been eoeeeee b'I 'media archaeologist'
RichNd Prelircer and rllfCe from films made b'I companies to
promote the ir products (Brealdasl Pals features Snap, Crackle
and Pop sloUirc It out with Soggy, Mushy and Tougfly) to
goyenment advice films $UCl'I as DaINW Dos and lbr'ts.
The movies are presented In QuickTtme format, while a
~sed application provides details about the cl ip
being shown. The discs require a QuicllTime<:ompatible Mac
with 4Mb of RAM, a CD-ROM drive and a monitor capable of
displaying &bit colour or bett er.
The discs, from Softline on 081 64 2 2255 . cost £29 each;
To New Horizons: Ephemeral Rims has clips from '31 to '4 5.
wtlile You Can't Get There From Here covers '46 10 '60.
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Virus watch
Since the lasl issue of MacFormat
went to press. three new viroses have
been d iscovered: new strains of T4 and CDEF,and INIT 17.
Least ltarmful of these IS the new CDEF strain. CDEF is an old virus which infects the Desk to p Ille under SyStem 6 and earl ier - Macs running System 7 are completely immune to infection. It does DOl: altempl: to do any harm. although unexpected crashes may occur.
The new version of T4, called T4C. infects applications. the Ffnder and the System file. An infocted applicalion becomes damaged and must be replaced by a 'clean ' copy - it can 't be repaired by anti-viral programs.
The new virus. called INIT 17. infects applicalions and the System fi le. It displays the message ' From the deptlls o f Cyberspece' when lhe Mac i5 first restarted 00 October 3 1 1993, and causes a number of problems, mainly 00 68000-based Macs such as the Classic. These include applications
unexpec tedly quilting. and System El'l'On. Bod! System 6 and System 7 Macs can be infected.
The major anti-virus progra11I5 Will
have been upgraded to deal with all of these viruses by the l ime you ~ this
magazine. Contact detai ls are:
Disinfectont Preeware available from PD houses
and user groups.
SAM
£176 from Syrnantee, 0628 rrte n .
v irex £69 from Softline. 081 6422255.
Just browsing
Apple Adjustable Keyboard
Repetltill8 Strain Injury - RSI - is becoming more and more
pre~alent among peop le who use comp;.lters. There life
various kinds of Repet itive Strain InJury. but the most
common for COfllpl.lter users is Carpal Tunnel Syndrome.
which affects the hands. wri st s and upper QmlS. The
symptoms are aching in the joints and oocaslonally swelling -
and If you start experiencing (hIs. you'd better take notice
because left unattended. the problem can escetete to the
poiol where you physically eee't use · keyboard arrt more.
Apple has taken Il(l{ice of thIS problem , 80d has now
released the Apple ~table Keyboan:l . a Star Tfet<~ike
lloeYlCe wI'\dl aoms to pt{Mde toue:MypIsts wrth 11 1TI()f'1I
comfonaole t)'PII"e posItIOn.
The ke)tlOard aetualty splItS apaIt doWn the centre by up
to 30 oegrees, so that your hands are posltioned more
comlorUJbly - and p1astoe wrist-fests giYe)'Ol.ll' hands some
support as you 're typing. '" separate numene keypad IS
lI1duOed. which also contClHlS the 151unclion keys normally
found 81 the lop of an extended ke)tloafd .
~ WIth 8fI)' different keyboard layout. some things take a
little gelling used to: in uus case. , found that for the first
few hot.Irsl was hitting the cursor up key by mistake whe n
going l or the right·h and [shift ] key - they are right r.ext to
each other. and the ,shift] key is smaller tI1an 011 my normal
ke ylxlard. Also . there'S no 'lock ' on the keybOard'S soat - it's
llery frustr ating to find just the right angle only to knock the
ke~ by mista ke and change it,
For some reasoe. Apple clearly ocesn't thmk that the
functIOn keys are partICul arly important: they're small plastIC
buttons on the fl\.IIl'leric keypcld , rather than proper keys. If
you're used to a standard keybollrd , thIS WIll be no problem-
you oon't h<We IunctJon keys in the first place, However,
llr'I)'Otle who normally uses an extended keybo8rd may find
thts fNstra~ - and mee really ccesn't seem to be any
reilSOll..my the function keys muIdn't be Il'l their usual place.
(The (_ . . .J key ees smilat1y been replaced WIth III small
button on the miIoIIl keyboard. llut iStl"t SYCh a problem SInCe
lew -If any - progriWTls make use of iLl
SITIaII problems eeee. the Apple ,lqustable ~
really IS an ellCellent piece 01 harOware. It's remMlably
comfOttlltlle to use - go.ng back to a notmaI keybo8rd at the
end of the revM!W period was horfible,
If yoIfre not a touch typist. )'OU probably woo't Mile any
use for tile new ke\tlOard : llut if)'OU 81'&, it can be thoroughly
recommended for WOOl .
Price: £229
From: "n~ "pple dealer
lan Wrigley
lmspace SySteIJ\$' Kudo
Image Browser, a
cataloguing. browsing
and reuie val tool . is now
available in !he U K.
·
Kudo creates a
catalogue of an y images
on a vo lume - hatd disk ,
opt ical d isk , C D·ROM or
whatever - and di splays
these images as 't humb-
.- · ·
nails' for the user.
!!. ,
The program supports a
wide range of fi le /ludo's Rod system can sem ~ name. file tlll'l'OOt or keyM:lrd, WhM an ifTIaie formats. including T IFF, Ms been selected. ~ can be clnMed slIBlgtrt..,to ~ss or PageMllilef
PIer. EPS, PhOIOShop ,
QltickTime. Gl F and man y others.
docu me nt - the ori gi nal is automatically
Keywords can be assigned to images, placed in the file for you. The ma nufact urer
and the Pind system work s by file type, file says thal it is wo rking on adding this feature
name. keyword or localion. 'The program also has a ' Rime' search. which displays
to (J(her applications.
Kudo requires a Mac 11 or above nmnirt!
thumbna ils al a rate of around ten trames System 7: the currenl version is 1,02, but an
per sewnd: Imspacc claims thal it is easy 10 upgrade which supports CM Y K and LZW·
recognise an image at thal speed.
compressed TIFFs. and which will run
An innovative feature is ' Drag and ulldet System 6 is imminent. This will be
Place ' . If you use QuorkXPress or- shipped free 10 all registered users,
PogeMoku you can select a thumbnail and
Kudo COSlS £1.29 from Principal
drag il slraighl to a picture box in !he Distribution on OSI 813 5656.
Mind your own business
M.V.O.B" the popular small business accounting package, has had its price sla s hed to £293 with the release of version 3.0.
The program , according to manufacturer Soft Numbefs Limited. contains 'all the ecccuntjng tools a bI.lslness needs: including s ales orders, invoicing, s toc k control, price lists, cas h book, VAT reports and bank reconciliat ion,
Ve rs ion 3.0 adds data import ami export. producing packing slips ami delivery labels and customisable fonns , Soft Numbers Lim ited : 0992 4 5 1551.
A bum deal for Pink
You 'd be surpnsed at 110" man) people use Macs at worl. home . pia) w hateve r.
Next time )00 Iool. at an album cover. )-ou may find that It ~ been produced with the he lp of a Mac.
Text for- the 112-page ~ that accompamed the
mne C D specrat ed itIon of
PIIIl. Floyd 's complete recorded repenoire were s upplied on Mac intosh di sks at Some Plates . lhc Lon don-based repro house that specrahse s III mu sic indu st ry wo rk,
The absolute ctleeI!: at many repro
houses the bottom hoe Is to turn to
a Mac tor WOfl\ on ~bum covers
The bear necessities
Farty Bear's Blrth<1a'1
SUrptl5e IS the second 'Junior adventure ' release from Humungoo s Enter tammem. ami IS due to s hip in June.
The 'eduta lnme nt' une
is about a lovable stuHed teddy bear who comes to hte for ch,ldren only, and lives w,th a little girl who happens to be havlne a
b ltthday the next day.
Falty wants 10 make It !he best Gay ever for het but IS laced WIth 8 lot of dlStractJonS that are there [0 make \hInIs lftteriRt' lJYely ltIteresllne a"d M ,
The IrtJe fOllOWS the successful PIJrt.#Jtltl ..bns t1Ie Parade. a"d is desigoecl to IIlttOduce IUds to eonpnees. as welt lIS ottler kinds of skills. The program w,11 be av8iIo
able on both floppy dlsll and C[).ROM, and IS
aimed at kids aged at
three to eIght. Price IS to be confirmed , Electronic Arts 0753 549442 ,
Mac network bundle
Apple has announced a ne w bundle for purchasers from educational e5lablishmenlS
which effec tively provides (hem w ith free
prin~ and software. Anyone qualifying for the education
discount who buys 15 or I11OI'e Mac Le lis will pay £ 1.1 69 per workslalion. and will
receive a tree Personal Laserwmer NfR. an
lmageWriter 11. MtM;Prtf«1 (I .security p8Cbge reviewed on page 78 of
MacFor mal issue I) and Clor isWorb (the
integrated package) for each Mac. and all cabl ing for the network. Based on the
m inim um network: o f 15 Macs. this repre-
seas a saving of more than £3.500 on the
indivldualli! t prices of the items. 11le promot ion is available from all
Apple Authorised Education Dealers. To find your local dealer. dial 100 and ask for Freefone Apple.
Mac-ready dot matrix
Epson has IIl1llOUI1CCd a l'Vlge o f dot-malrix prinlCn v..hich are comp.:lliblc with the Mac . The models come with a built-in LocaJTallr.
The LQ-570+ IIllm Epson: 11 ~ 24?J dol nWix
lriUr. row1lith a buiIt.... ~. illertace
interface, and software which makes the prinlet" appear in the Chooser as · nonnaI
outpul device. Dot mauix printers are useful when
multi-pan !il.aLooery or continuous-feed paper needs 10 be used - although. few of the inkjet prinlers on the market can handle continuous paper. an impact printer must be used if cubona.l ed forms are required, since it's the impact which makes the image appear on the lower sheets.
All of the Epson printers are 24-pin dot matrix , which means that they prod uce · high quahty image - equivalent to · maximum of 360 dots per inch.
Pric ing for the printer range starts at £S5 1; they will be distri buted by Aptec -
071 627 1000.
Low-cost Internet access
ExNet Systems has ann oun ced that it can now provide low-cost access to the Internet computer network through its new HelpElI: ser vice. Inte r net is a huge collection of computers and their users, spanning the globe and providing everything from free softwa re to a teeum (or discussing the latest developments In you r favour ite soa p opera.
The entry"level point, called Basic Servke, costs £5.88 per month, a nd glves users Jogging in at 2400baud or less a terminal·based interlace. UUCP Service, for 19.79, provides a mort sophisticated interlace using public domain or sha",wa ", programs on your M ac for reading mail and gdling news,
Rather than a joining fee, ExNel asks that users pay their monlh ly su bscription thrft monlhs or more in adva nce there' are rc'ductions if you pay six or 12 InOn ths in adva ~" The first month on
!be system is t ree,
ExNeI Systems: 081 755 oon
Fax for the memory
ereoweme limited has JOined forces With
Pace Communications to produce a M ac-
compatible tsx/ uara modem. plus software. for lust £351.
The software. prOVided by Glenwame.
IS called Fa~Express. and the modern is a
Pace M,crohn Ix. This supports Group 3 fax transmit and recewe at 9SOObaud. and
2 400baud data transmission With V42l;Ms
compression - which. according to the
manufacturer grves an etrectve throogllput of 96OObatld.
To lax a document. users hold down
the {opt lon j key when selecting the AlII
menu: the POnt... optKW c:hal1ges 10
F3X . .. . aod a dialogue box appears 11\
wl\lch the phone number can be entered. 8ol.h lax transmosS/OIl and receptIOn 0CCUf
III the bacI<ground. The system WIN Iwrk on any Mac; a
multiple user \'er.>ion of the software is
iNatIable for "sers on a nel.'WOt1l who wanl 10 shafe the fax 1TIOOem_
Glei'M'arne lJmIl.ed: 0753 643180
001'1 Clwre or rhe OlnorOlll" MOflol'lol MotIvmenl. Uroh. o~n
Dinosaurs
~. from MeOIa Oesl(rllnl~ (MOl), 1$ one of
the best uses)'et for mutt.wnedoa. If s about as OCJITl(:)Iete a
dictiorIaoy/reference/tutorial about airIosaufS as you WIN
fincI . and takes l.IP over 600Mb on a CD-ROM.
The package ' 5 broken down ll'ltO five sectIonS. They ee-
Age of the DIno$aur$ . (&enefallllfonnatJon); Dinosaur
HlstOfY (whin happetted when }; 510fY of the Fossils (how
fossilS ooc:urred aod where trtey earl be found); Ask The
ecerts (dll'lOSaUf experts answer many commonly asked
CI\lestiorl S}: and DInosaur Ga llery (a complete ~stong of IlII
known dinosau's . l ogether WIth any Informatoon known
llboutthem sucto es what they ate. where they liYecI . how (IIrge they were and so on}.
The information. apart from the Gallefy secuon. is
presented as QutekT/fT16 movies. fe aturif'lg locatIOn filrn from
sround the WOf1d wtlic n was speci ally shot ror the CO. MUCh
loolage comes f,om the OU'l()saur Nation al MOflumenl in
Utah. USA - an if'lC,edlble area where h uge numbers o f
10ssllS nave been fOUnd.
The rescn of all this is Ihat Dinosaurs at t imes seem s
more like 11 TV prog rllmme th an 11 computef program . The
video cli ps lOOk crcressrcoer. tile Interf ace is easy 10 use.
me sutJ1eet m atter Is fascinating and is entertailllngly
presented ... all In all. this Is a Mac program which will
Interest nol on ly the dinosaur fans out there . b<Jt also
anyone who wants nos on how a really greet multlnlf!dia
prodUCI sI'Iould look .
This program Will ecceer to all ages : the experts manage to convey the information In terms that sI'Iould tie
unoerstandable to any child over the age of eight or so. while
still being InlllfeSting to llOults.
Vf!f$IOn 1.0 of the package was written in a combination
of H)'pefCartI and M<tCt'OMIf)(J Dlfl!CrQf' and. OCOOfding to
Phlllp Nash, Managine DIrector of MOl, ' pushes the
programs 10 tneir lIOSOIute III'MS." Vet'S1On 1.1. out by the
lime you reaa IflOS. has been re-writlen '" C and WIll be far
fastef - IlOI that the origlnaI was much of a slouch.
If it SOt.W'ldS as though, have snares III the company. · WIsh · did - it·s great to see a proeram that really makes use
of the t ~ avauat:We. and DInosaurs WIll undoubledly
be a ....ell-de5eNed. htCe success fOf Media OeSlill
~. · took fol wBld to the company's next product.
~ :£7'
F..-: MOl, 0252 737630
Ian Wrigley
News In brief Th ree new Macs from Apple, but hey - they're just old re-badged Macs
· Hewlett.f'aekar<l tee
aonounced th81 it will be
bundlirli the um,ted Edition (LE) YefSion of Pr1o(oshop
with its ScanJet lie scanner.
PttotO$hOp LE is a cut-
00wn Yef'Sion of the
program: It retains many of
the features but doesn't
$UppOft alpha channels Of
CMYK~ .The
ScanJeI is I 400c»i. colour
de$ktop $CII'lMI'. price
£1 ,851. Hewtet.f'atltard: 0344 369222
· FfOntlwle DIstribution IS offering a blKldle oeal on
~andaarls
M'~ Pro tfVouCh its
network of dealers UfltJI the end of May. The bundle
cosl$ £934. a S8YIl'lI of £382 on the r~
retatl price. Frontline Di$tribution: 0256 847110
· Aptee has eeee
~ as the offICial
UK distributor of the IBM
CoIof Jetprinter PS4079 - a
PostSCript device wtllcn
uses inlljet tee'lI'lolocy to
produce output at a resolu-
lion of 360 ~ 36Ollpi.
The printer costs
£4 .699. and will be even-
eore through Aptee 'S
netwOfll of dealers .
Aptec: 071 621 1000
· Fo ntWork s will give El free
Agfa FOCUS Calor Plus
scanner to the first 100
customers who purchase
the ful \ Aclobe Type Ubrsry
0I'l Co.ROM. The l'lOfll'lal price for the
type library - which COIlt8ins 1 .17 1 Type 1 fO<\t$ - ls
£11.691 and the stanner's street price is over £4 ,000, but the /'irst 100 customers
will only P8'l' £8.811 tOf the
tlundle. The CD-ROM .,.,11be shipped WIth all the Adobe faces unlochd and ready for use: there are another 700 or so faces on the disc.
and these can be unlocked
at 36J1 tJme .
fontWofks can be eont8Cted on 0 71 490 5390.
New Macs from 01
Apple has announced a family of three new mechices, designated Apple
WortgrotJ p Servers - but in reality
they are member$ of the CUJTel\I Mac family, re-badged and with extra software included.
'The new machines are part of an Apple marketing plan to target the rnpidl y growing demand for fast file .servm. AI present, many nclWOl'ting COlllOSCt nli aren't convinced lhal the Mac is. (asl enough machine 10 act as
· server for · large netwod::.
Tllc: Wortgroup Server 60 is essentially I Centris 6 10 running App1tShau 4.fJ. I new 'lemon of the file sharing software. Apple claims
that dala throughput of 300K per second shou ld be sustai nable for up 10 15 active users.
Ne:u up is the Woltgroop Server 80. a Quadra 800 with a built-in OAT drive for backup. Again, it will run
AppftShare 4.0. and Apple reckons
that between 400KJsec and .s<lOK/$ec
data throughput T1.1e$ should be
susWnable for up 10 30 acti ve users.
Finally. the high-end m.:hil)C is based on a Quadnl9SO runn ing MJX.
Apple's version of Unix. and
AppItSharc Pro. I Unix -based version of AppleSharr. The machine, called
the Workgroop Server 95. has I buil!-
in OAT drive for backup. and has ·
PD5 (Processor Direct Slot) card. Thil
contains I 28 K o f secood-levd memory cache for extra performance. expandable to 5 12K, and two SCSI
Direct Memory Access (DMA)
channel$ for high-speed eccess 10 peripherals such as hard disks. Apple claims that up to 800Klsec throughpr is possible with up to 100 ecrive users..
No pricing has yet been set for the
Workgroup Savers 60 and SO. whidl will ship 'this summer'. Thr;
Workgroup Server 95 should be avail·
al>k: from !he end o f April, and wiI
sell in twc different configuralions for
d ifferenl target users, priced · between £9,000 and £ 12,000.
Recordable CD-ROM
Och G5241.f'S printer. a tIlermaI traosIer colour deke ""lich 1IB5.ldobe Pos\Scl1pt bui~ in
OCe yah - colour printers!
Qc!! has launched 0 range o f new co lour PostSc ript printe rs. They use the thermal transfer printing me thod to produce 300dpi output, and ore available in A4 and A3 mode ls .
The A4 mode l. called the G524 1-PS, has a print speed o f
around 80 seconds if a four-colour ink ro ll is used , and about 50 seconds if tile three-colour roll (which contains cyan, magenta and yellow but no black) is used instead.
The printers can output to paper or clear film, A SCSI port allows the connect ion of a hard disk for e:ltlra font storage. Pricing for the A4 model starts at £5,047: the A3 printer slartS at £8219. Ocf is on 0454 6 1m7.
Tablets of stone
KimTcc UK is now supplying !he Pi nnacle RCD-202
recoIdable CD·ROM drive. This is one o f the: first reas0nably low-oost recordable devices on !be market; it sells for £4,694, and is able to create CD discs in Macintosh HFS, ISO 9660 (a multi-platform standard), incremental multisess ion. aud io and mixed mode formats. All software is
incl uded in the price.
Blank discs cost £22 for a 550Mb CD· ROM, £25 for I 630Mb disc, Min imum order quantity is 10 discs. KimTec
will also provide train ing courses for users, tailored to suit indiv idua l needs.
If you don ' t want to buy a recordable drive yourse lf, btll you occasionally need CD·ROMs press ing, KimTcc will press d iscs for yo u at a price of £206 per d isc for up to 300Mb, £235 pe r disc for up to 650 Mb. Additional copies of the d isc cost £59 , KimTec can be contac ted on 0202 888873.
The Pmacle RCl).202 ~ roROM drive: j'IeS 100 the ability 10
press)W own CO$ for rri1 U2 eacll
Ccmpuiers Unhm ued is now shipping a new Warom cordless, pressuresensitive graphics tablel.
1be Warom ADO Tab llel meas ures 6 inches by 8 inches, and
C(lltneCll; to the Mac via its ADO port.
1lle stylus. "'hich doesn'r need 10 be
connected 10 the Iablct b) a '" ire .
weip-.s J U I 8 gra.nllne~, and conl.3.ins
no baneries. The driver for the t.ablel tearures
'double chc k assisf - something ",hich IS bound to be popular among users. Previously, users o f graphics
tablets have found it dIffICult 10 use
the m as a replacement for the mouse
because doublc-c hc klOg on an object
meant hilllng the same pixel twee.
Version 2.0 of the driver Increases this to a 15 pi.lc l radIUS - so .a. \ tight
1TlO\ement crue pen doesn't matter.
1he Wacom ADS Tablet casu £469, and is auilable from Computers
Unhmited: 08\ 2(X) 8282.
Newton licensed to third parties
A t the Cebit com puter show in Gennany recently, Apple
annoonced a change in ils previous policies regarding its
Newton technologies, the basis for us fonhcom ing PDAs
(Personal Digital Assist.;ullS). Previously. Ap ple has fierce ly guarded these lechnolo-
gies. which include things lil;e hal'ldwriling recognition . communications and data retrieval. However. the company
now seems 10 recognise the fact that, in order 10 make
Ne....'on·based PDAs an industry Standard, the ind usuy mUSI have access to these lechnolog ies. "As differenl ind usuies
converge and as these technologies come together, no single
company will be able to control all Ihal is needed 10 meet CIIROlJlCr dc:mand.- A pple Chainnan John Scullcy told a
5IlardJoIdeB' mecling in Jan uary .
Apple will now license eJcmcnu of Newton 10 third
parties. the first of which have now been announced. The: companies iTIClude Sharp, which is already involved in ue manufaclUfe o f the first Newton with Apple. and Siemens.
....'hjch will collaborate with Apple on !he dcvelopmcm of the NlXePhone, described u a device " which will provide access 10 telephooc: and Iax featu res." Also licensing core led lllolo-
gics is Japanese electron.ics gian t Kyush u Matsushita.
if;" er.. TIle New\tWl rw:I SpeI
one ... \hit . . . ..._ s hM ,.,
101 possible II.Cln POM
According to Frank O ' Mahoney, Apple 's PIE (Personal Interactive Electronics) PR manager, Apple expectS these
companies 10 produce their own PDAs in the near future. He says that Apple products will compete in the man.etplace with those of its licensees - Apple doesn 'l especr 10 be lo ld
whaJ: any other com pany intends 10 produce.
Portable CD-ROM drive announced
Apple has announced thal ils Personal InteBClive Electronics (PIE) div ision will produce a new CD-ROM drive , scheduled 10 be released in the summer this year,
'The drive, known as the PowereD player,
is a threc- in-one dev ice wh ich will play C D· ROMs, Photo CD and audio discs. TIle device will be mo re ponable than current drives, and
may be powered by rechargeable banenes.
According to Gaslon Basliaens, vice presi -
dent and general manager of the PIE div sion, the drive will provide Ha lightweight. easy to
use, portable CD- RO M sol ution." TIle drive will connect 10 Mac s and
PowerBook:s via SCSI. Users will also be able
to connect the drive to a television to view Photo CD discs.
Prici ng nas yet to be decided.
Mac OS to run
on PCs?
Accordin g to US trade magazine
Macw eek. we may soon be see ing the
Macintosh operat ing syste m up and running on 80486-based IBM -compatible computers .
An ex perimen t currently unde r way at Apple , and codenamed Star Trek, is a rewrite o f System 7.1 so that it will run with OR 005 , a PC-compati ble operating system which is similar to
MS DOS. Sources say thal most o f the
convenion work has been comple ted,
although the porting of the AppleTalk
netWorking syste m. a major task, has yet to be done.
Althou gh M ac applications
wuuldn' l immediately run under Slar
Trek - developers would nave to recom pile the code - a Mac interface on a PC would be III extreme ly alttael.ive plOposition to IIWly people.
We 'll giv e you Il'lOfC information as soon as we gel il. "
Apple ships three new Performas in the USA
Three new Mac intosh Pe rformas were
launched in the States last month, all
based on the Le 11 and LC Ill. · T he Pertorma 405 is based on the
LC 11 and comes with 4Mb of RAM , expendable to 10Mb, and an 80Mb
hard disk. It can d isplay 16 colo urs,
e xpandabte 10 256, OIl a standard 14-
inc h Performa monitor.
· T he Performa 430 is also based on
the Le 11, bul comes with a 120Mb hard drive, and displays 256 colours as
standard. It. too, has 4 Mb RAM expandable to 10Mb.
· T he Perf(lf"mll 450 is an Le 01-
based machine, l\UU1ing at 25 MH:t
rather than the other two machines'
16MH:t. It can display 256 colours, eltpandable to 32.000 and ships in a 4/120 configunuion. The RAM can be u panded to 36Mb.
All three new Pe rformas have a
G lobal Vi llage Teleport/Bronze fill
modem built in. This prov ides se nd-
onl y fill ca pabilities at 9600baud, and
24<Xlba ud data transmission. The Perfonnas come wit h software
to access two en-ure services: CheckFrec, an automated bill payment system, and an Apple special edi tion of
the popular US bullelin board America
Online. Software bundled includes ClaTu Worb and Mac intosh PC
£XChallgr. indi vki ual dealers will be
able to decide what e lse to bundle with
their machines.
As we went 10 press. Apple UK had
no commenl on whether the new
Perfoemas wou ld be available in this country; the Perfonna 200, 400 and 600 were available in the US for some
months before be ing launched here.
Rumours ...
· Rumours are circulatJng that Apple will release two digital colour camera s before the end
of the year. They are based on
tectvlolot:f licensed from
fuji . and will produce 24bit aMour images. The higtM!f end camef3, codenamed Mars. should
cost less thar1 $2,000
and wiN store images on
a PCMCLA card. like ttIat
which wiN be presenI in the Newton; a serial lIlter-
face will allow users to 00wrI'0ad the images to a
desktop Mac.
The coeece- model.
0Ddenarned Venus. WIN sell for aroond $501). and will have a lower resolution. It WIll store images
in RAM and . again. will
connect 10 the Mac Yia a serial cable.
· The lifSl prototype Powerf'Cs have been shipped to deYelopefS in the States. according to sources. Although they are stili nowhe re near finished units. first impressions have been
good - although some
deve lopers have said that applications running under the 68020 emu la-
tion system are s till
rather slow.
Developers In the UK
are eapecung to see
prototypes in the neltl four months or so.
· Despite confident
predictions. the
Power6ook Duo nasn't
nee the astronimical
sales figures that Apple was /'loping for. Prices have already been reduced in the US. and
eeseoee are anticipatir'C
more reductions in the
near future .
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apect to see Apple
releasrc a Duo with an
aetIYl! matrilt display W!f)'
soon iudeed.
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Please don' t fa ll into tile usua l mag tra p o f
pu blicising kit that you r readers can't ge t for love nor mo ney. O r at least be hone st about the supply situation . I 've been after an Apple C D300 (w hic h you plugged in Issue I) for a co uple o f month s. No dealer I have spoken to has see n one ye t. Com puter Ware hou se says none has been shi pped. Actua lly a story on Appl e ' s supply operation and a charl showing true wait ing lists as agai nst what de alers say would be very interesting. I was told ' mid-February. de fi nite ly ' . 'end of February, mate' and fi nally ' A pril l st. I'm afra id' . The latter I almost bel ieved. for the obvious reason. lOO. Still no CD300 though .
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be' ble to read this one... games review s.
In 'sting articles ... and a bit of a se xy cove r
too! Despite what other Mac mugs th ink, mOSI
people who use these computers aren' t middle-
aged. boring, verve dri ving gec ks! Some of us
_ . still have all our own hair and find 20 pages
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Lessons learned from history
Well Done! The first Mac magazine that I have wanted to sit down and read through . It even
e ncouraged me to down load the Beliierachic
uti lity . which I had not heard of before.
On the subject of the availability of software,
one major issue that might be brought out is the con tinuing lack of educational software in some subject areas applicable to BRITISH topics. As a
history teacher J have spent quite a time looking
for software suitable for National Curric ulum history . The amount available can be counted on one finger - 'The Railway Age' stack by Bridge Publications (written by G Davies 1990).
The catalogue for History issued by a leading educational software distributor - AVP - contains among its many hundreds of programs for Nimbus . Archimedes , etc. only two Mac programs and the se are only low level database revision programs.
The re are one or two good stacks on American-related topics - the Vietnam War stack and Assassination of Kennedy called '1 1(12/63'. Although this si tua tion is not qui te so difficult in othe r subjects where the US origination doesn't affect content, the lack of British writers prod ucing soft wa re for the Mac is a major obstacle in a
n's on e of o ur jobs 10 publicise ki t a s soon as
we hea r about it - a nd if t here a re lik el y to be
d ela ys we' ll let you k now, But I k now t he
fee ling - we've on ly j ust ta ken deliver)' of a C DJOO a fte r wa iting three m ont hs ourse lves.
Cur lies in short
I was interested to read yo ur new magazine . whic h I found both useful and ente rtaining . Im agine my horror, however 10 sec page 21 full of what I be lieve are known as 'dumb apostro phe s ' (ie what you get when you hit the q uote/dou ble qu ote key on an Apple keyboard). Sure ly, you of all people should kno w tha t you can get proper curly apostrophes/q uote marks by
You won't believe this!
nil' ,,'Ul'" m"q I-'''Ird 'Hul w<Hukrhlllll'!1l 01
,,,n w~rl' "r hardl\ an; 1\ IJ u:h lal..".. the e,"teri,'
t" ludu:mu' kId, I' S"'"I1.II11/ l'I Thi .. <., I(~) (' I)-R(>:\1 Icalur", ~l~l ,t,,'t, "I hil..lll1-dad nymplwttc' , Ol1ly III Amencu .. D" )"U han'" "elrd "ne you've conic aL'n", ',' Send It to ' You '''1I1't believe ihi-,". \ la l'Furnm l . r:lItuTl'l'uhli,hin~. I() \ ]o nolllul h SI. Balh H..\ I ~B\\ Wl"1I 'end you a liver uu, pnmc.L
hin ing [op tion I [sq ua re b rac ket]. Word 5 allows you to spec ify this sort automatically (ami the software knows whic h way ro und to put them) , but Qlw rk. for instan ce , doe sn 'I. Ple ase fi x this com mon prob lem.
David Nu ll , London
Ca n we j us t p lead ' d ea d line blind ness ' on t hls onc '! I'm su r e ot her r ea de rs wi ll t han k you for t he l ip th ough..,
More modern memory
Congrat ulations on your fi rst issue . Here ' s a couple of points for deba te .
When will we gel proper multi-tasking on the Mac? Unless an application has bee n written in a particularly friend ly way. a busy foreground application will sto p you switc hing to anyth ing e lse. Sim ilarly it is poss ible for a bac kground application to hog lhe processor and not let anyth ing e lse in,
TIle Am iga, a ' games machine ' , has proper pre-empti ve mu lli-tasking like a mainframe operating syste m - once a task has had its quantum of CPU time . it is swapped out and someth ing e lse is gi ven a chance . Why isn' t this the case with
System 7?
Ala n Sm it h, Nor wich
Cruising the keys
Try selecting the Apple menu in [he Finder will! till. Option key held down and clled OUl ·About the Finder . Sust wail a white and see what happens.
J erome Deweu est
Chesham, Bucks
Hidden features an: vcry common m Mac programs, and do nee always involve the OpIton key.
tkre's [WO For SlarlCrs: In ~ System 6.0.7. Irrsl.allcr. ty ping 'S KI' will give a dialoglK OO~ wnh credits. and allows you [0
choose different cursors. In System 7. turning Balloon Help on and f>OSn ion· ing!he cursor over the QuickTim, extension gives
an inleteSlmg Iinll' par.tgraph on the nature of llme.
Gordon BliT. Rewnfr ewshi n-. ScutJand
.. .Than k.!: J e rome alld G Of"don - a liver is o n ils _y 10 you bol h. Anyone else found any hidden " 'gllts? Wfl l j ust send 'em 10: 'Opl>ooal Momenls ', Ma<:Furmal, 30 Monmou lh SI, 8 alh BA1 2BW
I would like to set up an agency wh ich wi ll
offe r both ho me ruirion an d in- house tuition. The
idea would be 10 se t up a nat ion wide database of
expe rie nced Mac users who would be w illing to
teach othe rs in the required soft ware. T o keep costs to a minimum il would be practicable 10 have tutors in as many areas as possibl e. Thus when someone asks for hel p in Bri ghton I can send someone who live s in that area .
It would be nice to have some sort of recog-
nised certificate at the end wh ich could go somew ay 10 helping prove that someone has had
decenttuition . It wouldn't be a full time job for
lite tutor. j ust simply 10 offe r their l ime whe n the y can , Thi s way [ hope to be ab le to offer a useful serv ice at a reaso nabl e cost.
I would be eXlremely gratefu l if you could print th is le tter so you r reade rs can ring me if they are inte rested . If the response is good I can then go back to my ban k man ager with some fact s an d figures an d prove it's a via ble idea. G r a he m S mit h, Sea fc r d, S ussex (0323 896767)
Good luck Graham - I hope it works for you.
Wen you won't be sur prised 10 lea rn that sfnce I'm nOI a ba rdeore C++ progra mmer
based in C u pe r t ino. C a lifor nia I' ve no easy a nswe r ... but 1 th ink you ' ll fin d Apple ' s tine is t hat true mul li ta skin g would lea d 10 incompatlbiluy pr oblems wilh th e Mac 's e nti r e son wa re r a nge 10 da le. Rumours a r e t hat Syslem 8 may lake Ihe p lunge t ho ugh - if il ever comes 10 ligll1 .
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After having spent a fe w ye ars in the printing trade. I was able 10 see fi rsl hand what the Apple Mac has ac hieved. eve n though I lo st my job bec ause of its introduction. [ was kee n to kee p in the prin tin g trade. so I gOI myself a Mac and have been lea rning lt eve r since. and eve n making a bi t o f money from it
The difficulty I'm findi ng is that because [
have had 10 learn it m yse lf I cannot find a job in DTP because o f my lack o f ind ustr y ex perie nce. They seem 10 regard ' home taught' as not good enough . BUIl'm not one 10 be o utdone and I have an ide a I'm hopi ng you m ight help me gel offthe ground.
Gimmie footie
Why are there no soccer game s for Ihe Mac ? I hav e absolutely no interest in A rncncan football and I wou ld pre fer soccer to savi ng green- ha -red things with a de ath wish or flying an aircraft.
Alan Brads ha w, R ahen y, Dublin
Well I'm s ure Kick. 0//2 or Sensible Soccer
....ould n 't be \'t'ry d iffi c ult to port to m e Mac but th er e lies t he rub - a re t he re enoug h Ma c footie freaks in Ihe UK for it 10 be worthwhile for t heir pu bli she r s? G ot to be worth a gamble a t the end of t he da y sell ing ou t t he sta ll hasn ' l it lki an ?
The Lemmings hard line
You looked quite shagged out on your ' We lco me' co lumn pictu re . Hardl y su rprising. as launch ing some th ing lik e Ma d ' orm al must be qu ite grue lling. 11 is a superb product bUI in the depths o f a rece ssion should you be encourag ing
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Internal expansi·on
There are plenty of ways t hat
you can expand your M ac with out hangi ng loads of peri phera ls uff it ; mo re RAM, a ma ths
eo-processor , even an expa ns ion board w ill all increase the
fu nction a lity of your- co m p uter wit hout tak ing up s pace o n yo u r desk . And ofte n if s a n easier procedur e than you'd thin k.
The first. and most o bviou s expan-
sion IS to increase lite amount of
memory that your Mac has insta lled. If you' VI' a Mac with a
built-in screen. such as the Cl assic.
Classic 11 o r Perfo rma 200. th is is
an operation th at really should be performed by a dea ler - the voltage present In the screen's tube is very
dangerous, and you shouldn't consider taking the back off your Mac unless you're very confident indeed. Anyone w ith a 'modul ar' Mac (t hat is. any Mac without a built-i n screen). though. will find that fitting extra memory is a fairly
s imp le procedure. On the other
hand , do remember that thi s can inval idate your warranty - so make sure that you know what you're doing before yo u start.
Memory is suppl ied on small circu it board s ca lled SIM MsSingle In-Line Memory Mod ules. They conta in the mem ory ch ips themse lves. plus some anc illary c irc uitry that makes everyth ing wo rk togethe r. and are easily slotted in to soc kets on the Mac 'S main circ uit board .
All Mac s exce pt the new LC
Ill. Centris 610. Ce ntris 650 and
Quadra 800 use basically the same
kind of S IMM - but there are some sm all differences between models. so you should m ake sure that you spec ify what Mac you'u be using them in when you buy them from a dealer. Most noticeab ly. the Ilfx
needs a different ly shaped SIM M:
and some Macs require faster (and so more expe ns ive) memory chips than ot hers. Memo ry speed is measu red in nanoseconds (ns) . and a typi cal SIMM w ill be rated at 7Ons. sOns . l OOns or 12On s. Ear lie r
Macs will be happy w ith lOOn s o r eve n 120ns RAM . but the newer. more powerful machines need the SOns or 70ns chi ps. (Act ually . most
me mo ry sold these days is sonso r
faster. but yo u st ill need to be sure and c heck.) If you install memory that's too slow for your Mac . you will find that you start having une xpected cras hes and S ystem errors - so make sure tha t you get the right speed.
The re arc some lim ita tions to what memory you can fit inside eac h d iffere nt model o f Mac : S IMM s are tined in ' banks' of soc kets - t here are e ithe r o ne. two or fo ur sockets per ban k. and most Macs have lWO ban ks.
Each bank m ust be filled with
SIM Ms of the same size - so. for
example. if you 've a Mac llci. w hich has two banks. eac h o f four sockets. you can only add 4 Mb SIM Ms if you have four of them.
so that they fill an entire bank . (Or,
of course. eight of them. whic h
wi ll fill both banks.] To confuse things sl ight ly,
Apple changed tile rules when the
LC 111. Centris 610. Cenrris 650 and Q uadra 800 were be ing
des igned. These m achines (and. presumably. a ll th at come after them) use 72-pin SIMMs. which
are the standard in the IBM PC-
compatible world. and so should be slightly cheaper than ded icated Mac-only me mory. These SIM Ms
can be used in any configurat ionyou don ' l have to fi 11 an ent ire
ban k w ith the same size. alt hough
you do get a sligh t perform ance
increase if you do. The ta ble on the right
summarises the amount o f me mory supplied as standard with Mac s. and the maximum amou nt that yo u can add. Remem ber when buy ing to spec ify the model of Mac that you ha ve . and to ask if the de aler that you' re ta lking 10 has an installatioo guide to he lp you through the process. If not. keep an eye out for the next issue of Ma cFo r m a l which will conta in a step-by-ste p walkthrcugh to S IMM ins ta lla tion.
$IMMcit)'. AOding extra ~ is easy- jIlsl sticil the SlMMs iIl lhe slots...
Compatibility issues
Whe n accele rat or c ards nrat a ppea red for t he Mac, tnere _re a larce number of compatibility problems - so me a pplleatlons and Extensions Just WOUldn't work with t hem. Things have c hanged sfnee then, and these days accele rators are muc h more likely to wor\( harmonious ly with a ll your softwa re . But you s hould make s ure t hat you t ell your dealer e xactly what software you're using, a nd get a l uarantee t hat lt's a ll compatible before yOll part with your money.
RAM sizes for Macs
This table ccntalr-s the maximum RAM sizes for a ll currently availab le
Macs , as we ll as a couple of the now obsolete models . Remember to
cnecx with your dealer before you buy memory , to make s ure that it' s
compatible with your particular machine .
Mac
RAM so ldered on Maximum RAM
board (Mb)
(Mb)
Class ic
Class ic 11
Performa 200
Colour Cl assic
LC..
.
LC 11
Perfo rma 400
IIvi
Performa 600
IIvx
LC II I
Centris 610
Centris 650
Quadra 8 00
Quadra 950
Power800k 145
Power8ook 160
PowerBook 16 5c
Power8ook 180
Duo 210
Duo 230
1 2 2 .4 2 4 4 .4 4
4
.4 4 4/8 8 0 2 4 4 .4 . . ..4 4
4 10 10 10 10 10 10
68 68 68
36
68
132/ 136 136 64 8 14 14 14 24 24
Hot" l/>Il1l11t11Ouif1lOm11 of !he maximum RAM 0PeCifIr;~ 100I< pretty lmpreo_ - 136 Mb on
!he centrlo 650 &'Id Quadro 800. fo< "'01...,. - tI>II ~Ires \lie uoe of 32 Mb SIMMO. ""'"'" ... "'<treII'le1y _ ..... at present.
Shopping checklist
~ Tell your dealer which Mac you 're buying your SIMMs for If the dealer doesn 't seem to know much about the subject. s hop elsewhere - or you may end up with uns uitable chips
~ Ask if the dealer supplies a guide to fitting the memo/)' or not If you're no t totally coo fiden t about performing the upgrade yours elf, ask your dealer to do it for you . (You will probably be charged extra for this) ' " Make sure that you buy enough SIMMs to totally fill a t least one bank of
s lots - again. a sk your dealer for advice. Remember, though. that you doo·t need to do this if your Mac us es the new 72-pin SIMMs
Accelerators
Co-pro conund r um
A numba of MlICS - such as the
Le. Le 11. lis! and Classic 11 arcn ', fined with 11 maths eopeccessce as standard. The
eo-processor is a chip o,xim ised 10 do mathe matical cakulations extremely quickly - which me ans WI il ules some of the WOI'tIoad off Ihl: main processor chip.
If your wart involves I 101 of malhs-inlensive cakulations. such as ",minI ..... ith 3D modelling programs.1hen you may ""ell filld tJw performance increases if you add. malhs cc-processor. However. things ....111 no! become
draslIcally better - expect a speed-
up of be'lwcen 5 per cent and 15 per cent. Also. remember tha l unles5
you 're doing maths-intensive wort.
you may find vinually no speed
ecease at an. In that C3.SC'. if your Mac is j 1J5l l00 slow for comfon.
you'll nave to examine a fultynedged ecce ferarce.
Accelerating things
Accelerators range in price from 11 couple of hundred pounds 10 a coup le of thousand, alld can do anyth ing from doobling the speed of your humble Classic to mak ing you r Le run as fast as 11 Quadra. How they are fi lled depends largely on the kind of Mac rh;.' you're using. If you ha ve a machine with a built-in scree n, then tilli ng the upgrade is likely 10 invo lve
pluggi ng a new processor 'piggy
back ' on top o f the old one _ and is
definitely a job best leftro your
dea ler, The e X~ I)\ IOn 10 this ru le is the Coloor C lassic, which has the same expansion bus as the LC JlI -
and so actS like th at mach ine whe n
it comes to upgrades, Most acu~llltors for Macs
without built-in screens come as
NuBus or Proces sor Direct cards, although some newer Macs 1IOIl.' ha ve a specific, separate s lot for accelera lor cards. Wh ichever route !he prodUC1 lbat you choose tak es,
installation is a si mple mauer of slotting the board into a slot. possi -
bly installing some drive r software
r ucts for the Mac Is incredibly large and diverse
and then res tarting your Mac ,
The range of ecceleraror
produclli available for !he Mac is inc~ibly large and diverse, Don ' l be afraid of shopping around differe nt dealers and man ufacturers; and n: me mber that j ust because a product claim s to 'double the
speed' of your Mac, lhat doesn 't
necessarily me an that a ll your application s will ru n twice as fast, Some , such as games. ha ve timing loops in lhem 10 attem pt to reg ula te lhe game' s speed across all model s o f Macintosh. w hile some are
restric ted by things like the speed
o f dis k access and sc ree n redra wwhic h your accele rator is unli kely 10 double ,
Speedy graphics
These an: cards designed purel y 10 speed up the Mac ' s drawing to lhe (u sua lly eX lerna l) monilor. This may 1101 seem necessary if you' re
Shopping checklist
. / Consider whethM )00 really need to uPlflJde tile speed of)UW' Mac at
e.wa all - WoOUJd yfXJr t7lOIle)' be better spent on, say,
RAM ?
. / Makll sure)l'JUl' dealer guarantees tIIat tile accelerator is compatlOle
with }Ollf soflwarll
. / Do)OO need to add exva RAM 10 tile accelerator card itself'? (The
Radius RocMt ~ one or !WO others ~ III1S,) If SO. is any RAM
included In the bask~?
. / How is tile acceJeralor cwr1 inSt_ 1e<1? If it's not a s lr8lg1lf MJBus or
PrDcessor Orrecf cwr1. )00 should asJI. )00( dealer to install Jr fr;x )I'JIJ
. / Is there a'I upgrade pM/l lWltil-..e fr;x the accelerator card!hat)OO /xly?
f11lat is. can)I'JIJ eM:harlge It fr;x . fMt~ one later on. so accele,afirW
J'OlK accelerator?}
only using a 14-inch monilor, bul yoo ' ll know if you use anylhing
larger thal scro lling around a
document can be a n:al pain,
Chip replacement
Accek r:lIOf'S re place the ~
chi p in your Mac Il.·ilh a new one -
either an u pg~. say from a
68Q(X) to a 68030, or lhe same
mode l chip bul I\m ning fas ter: for
example n:placi ng a 25 M Hl6803O with a 33 MHl version.
First . if you 've goc a Mac tha t's usi ng a 68000 or 68020 Chip, Ihml
seriously aboul upgnd ing 10 an
'030. Th is provides you Il. ilh a
number of e.xtra features. such as
the abi lily 10 use vin ual ~mory.
and is now the Standard bese model
for all Macs lbat Apple produces.
Also, you need al least a 68020 to use QuirJ;Ti",~ . Apple ' s muhirredia System E.x lensioo.
If you've already got a 68030.
yoo ha ve IWO choices: a fasler
versiOf\ of tha t chip, or upgrade 10
an '040. To be honesl . in lhis s ilua-
liOlt you should let yocrseu be
guided by bow m uch money you
have 10 spend, and bow muc h faster the boards that you 're looking at will ma ke your Mac ru n. There is no rear advantage in
upgradi ng from an '030 10 an '040 - no Mac software req uires an '040
ch ip 10 run - bu t, of co urse, the
68040 is inherently faster. O n the
other hand. some o lde r software especially PD and sbarew are _ is
incompatible with me 68040clti p.
ThIs is · TokaMac; a:celei atOI . The large
,eJ obJtd. is the lilI040 processor
Although just about every current
Mx cevelopers' preducts have
been upgraded 10 make sure thal
lhey won: . if you 're using an old
program you ought 10 check first before you buy a 68040 upgrade
Apple upgrades
·
Apple does offer offICial upgrades for many of 115 older Macs. These
normall y consisl of a lotal s....ap o r the motherboard - and somelimes lhe case, 100 - so lhal you ' ve got a Nand new. higher specced
mach ine . However. rtese upgrades
can be 11I1her pricey - and if you have an old Mac like the 11 or IIx.
lhe upgrade is no longer avai lable
(the large-boxed Macs could only be upgraded 10 a ll fx . whic h is new itse lf fIO lo nger made). The ad vantage of goi ng for an o ffici a l Apple upgrade is tha t you esse ntia lly ha ve a new. currenl· mode l Macintosh ,
But for many. it' s c heaper -, and JUSt as effective - 10 go for a third-
party sotu non instead.
I t y - Tbere are so many different manufacturers that we can't hope 10 give a
comprebensive listing - but th is list should give yoo a reasonable Slart.
Meristl
Tel: OS I S68 8866
Distributes the popular DaySlaf series of
accelerators, many of which arc themselves upgrscable.
A M M ic r o Distribution
Distributes a wide range of ecceteraroes, for
all Macs from the Pl us upwards.
Te l: 0392 426473
Comp uters Unlimited
Tel: 081 200 8282
D istributes the Radius Rocket ecce jeratce ani. ·
Peefermance Direct Ltd
TICI: 081 99J J IOS
Sells a range of upgrades, including maths cc-processors. cache
cards and accelenlon, including Tob-Mac cards.
Fereseer Systems
Td: 081 993 1516
Distributes a range of accelerators, including the Toka.'-1ac boards.
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IA I[,,, ,,,'''''''''''0"' Mac probably the first per iphera l you'll want is a primer. For most peo ple it' s the most important, 100 - one n it's the only hardware that is ever added to a system. However, choosing exacny which mach ine 10 buy isn' t
made any easier by the plethora of
differen t models av ailable, eac h
offering different advantages, and
all of them insisting that the y 're
the only possib le option for the di scern ing Mac intosh purchaser.
Wi th this in mind. we have ta ken a look at five reasonably priced models - the results are on the next fo ur pages. No te tha t lhe printers detailed aren 't all that is avai lab le in the market by any
means. However. they are fa irly
represe nta tive of the type o f equipment ihaf's avai lable, and by read ing what we thou ght o f the
mod els on lest, you should al least have a good idea of w hat yo u shoul d be look ing for.
A co uple of points should be made before we start. First. remembe r tha t not all the printers are designed for the same job. You 'd never use a Sryle wruer 11 in an o ffice which had high volume out put require ments. for exam ple, and like wise it' s unrealistic to expect the Epson LQ-570+ to
produce top-qual ity graphical Ou tput - that's not what the y an: des igned for.
Also, do n't be deceived by a ' page per m inute' (ppm) q uote fro m a manu facturer. This is the pr inter 's 'engine speed ' - that is, how fast it can actua lly take a sheet of paper and pass it through the machine . But you 'd never ge t a fi ve-page word processor document ou t o r a 5ppm printer in
StyleWriter 11 GCC PLP 11
The Srylew rite r JI is an inkjet de vice , ca pable of pro viding up to 360dpi (dots per inch) resolution , The original StyleWriter has beco me extreme ly popular am on g Mac users who can't justify the expense o f a laser printer: and th is new version adds loads of extra feat ures - and Appl e has managed to red uce the price by around £30 as well!
Setting the pri nte r up is easy connect it to your Mac with the cable prov ided, install the driver software, restart yo ur Mac and you ' re ready to go, Initi al impre ssions of a very compact device are gi ven the lie some wha t by the time you ' ve extended the paper feed and rece ive trays to the ir prope r positions, but the StyleWriter Il stilltakes up ra ther le ss
space on your des k than a laser printer would. And . of co urse , it ca n be 'fo lded up ' w hen it' s not be ing used.
The printe r connects via a se ria l cab le, blJl can be shared by Olher Macs on the network usin g a new piece of Ap ple software which ' publishes' the printer SO that it can be seen by everyone else. You can assign the pr imer a password, so that Olt ly authorised use rs can access it, and the sharing can be di sabl ed if you wish. The d isad vant age o f sharing a printer in th is way is that your Mac will s low down to some ex te nt when other users access it - but th is is a small price to pay.
The printer can ou tput in three modes : draft, normal and be st. Output from drdft is at ISOdpi, the other two are at the full
GCC has been in the A pple printer market for several years, and has gained a reputation for hig h quatity.t ow-cost equipment. Well, the PLP (Personal Laser Prin ter) 11 ce rtainl y lives up to that reputa tion . h's a Q uic kDraw -based machine which connects 10 the Mac, rather surprisingly, via the SCSI port a lthou gh it is still selected via the C hcose r . It' s internall y terminated. and re moving the terminator requires messing around with a sc rewdriver - so it' s best to mak e sure that it' s the last th ing on the SCS I cha in. SCS I ID is set via the printer 's LCD co ntro l panel. as are options suc h as how long the primer shou ld rema in idle before the inte rnal fan sw itches off (to save power and red uce
noise). That's fine , exce pt that you mu st remem ber to turn it on and check the
initial ID before you connect it if yo u
already have other SCS I de vices att ached - otherwise you may get a conflict which will preve nt yo ur Mac starting up.
The design is fairly attractive , although the paper tray does stic k o ut a
fair way, so you need plenty of room on
your desk (a rather short SCSI cable precludes putting the printer too far away from your Mac , and since SCSI cables have a limited maximum length, you can 't replace it with a longer one ).
In use, the printer performed faultlessly. It prints by first creating an image of the page in the Mac ' s memory and then send ing that image down the SCSI
· - rve 0
a mLnUIe - Since the figure takes no nocke of lhe facl lhallhe printer
has 10 ' image' (calculate) each
page befon: it can be OUtput.
Having Slid that. we were imprt:ssed by all the pein ters on
te:sl. &dJ one represents good value in its specific arena - it' s up 10 you 10 decide .... nat you wam a printer for. and to make your selec-
tion based on those requiremenlS.
MOSl of !he printers tested here
were QuickDnlw. since PostScripc printers lend 10 COSt · fair bit moee. Ho ....ever. the price is dropping T1IIpidly. and for Ih.al reason we also
looted at one PostScript oevee.
the DEClaser 1152. Why this. I1Ilher than Apple 's LtinWriter
Select noo occ-, BLP Elite?
Becau se lhe DEClasc:r is the cheap-
est PoslScripc Leve l 2 device
avai lable. Level 2 is the new
vcrsiorl o f Adobe ' s PostScri pt
language . and printer drivers which
lake adV8lItl.gc of its new features
shou ld be av,i lable by the lime you
read these lines.
The kind of testS Utat ...-e put the
prinlcrt lhrough rqlf"eSenl ' real warid ' jobs - oulpuning mitt
pages of a word processing
document (created in NislU). and
printing a Q_rtxPrt'$S tile whM::h
co",.ined ueee ppn~ fi les: an
EPS. a T IFF and. PICf. We
checked OUI both the printer's
speed and the quality of the OUIpUL Our 1"e$U11$ are below.. .
· STOP PRESS; We inlellded to
review a HewJett·Packard
DeskWrileT 500 (or this feature, bul juS! before we wen! 10 press !he
company announced a replace-
ment, !he DeskWrileT 510 (see
News, pa.ge 13). It didn 't arri ve in
time (Of this issue, but look OUt for
a full evaluation I'IUt lime.
J60dpi. Apple claims printing speeds of up to 3ppm (pages per min ute) in dOlft mode. 2ppm in
oormaI and I.S ppm in best. Th is is defi nitely a ' best case' figure. though - on our rese . the
three-page Nisus doc ument took tWO minutes to
output, while the QuartxPru .s fi le had us
waiting fOf almost eight minutes.
This lack o f speed may be a problem for some people , although it 's far faster than its predeo;:essor. if you're like ly to be creating
complex pages regularly, you shou ld proba bly look al a faster device - or plan yo ur work. so thal yOll can pnnt overnight.
The quali ty of outpu t is excellent; A pple's GrtySJrart software mean s tha! graduated tints
appear smooth. with little or 110 noticeable stepping, and greyscajc images are probably high enough qualit y - e ven in normal mode _ 10
be photocopied, Indeed , there see med 10 be very
link differeoce between norma1 and besl mode; apparenlly the print head makes an extra pass when best is sejecied, 10 funher ink the black portions of the document. but with a relati vely new illk can ridge" normal mode provides pe rfectly dense enough coverage - printing in best rnode almost ove r-inks. resu lting in slight warpi ng of tbe paper as il gets damp.
The onl y com plaint with the Srylew riter 11 _
other than speed - is that il's fairly noisy, Unlike a laser printer. whose fan prov ides a constant background no ise, the StyleWriter whines as il prints eac h line and is sile nt at other times - something which, eve n in a fairly no isy office, wc found to be o btrusive .
Other tha n that, the Srylewnrer 11 is an fi ne
pri lller, and one that ca n be thorough ly recom-
me nded - especia lly fo r the home or sma ll business user.
StyleWriter 11
Prict: 0 23 From: Apple UKj Dial 100 a nd ask for
Freefone App le fOf you r nUort:$l dealtr. InlVet: J60dpi Imagi ng method: QukkDraw Speed tes ts :
Nisus 120 sea QuarUPrtss 478 sea
lbtilll:
NN %
O ne of the c hea pest printers a round, with great grey-scale quality, On the down s ide , ie's fa irly no isy a nd very s low,
cable - so you need a reasonable amoum of
RAM to print immedi ately, If there isn 't ellOOgh memory a vailable in
your Mac , or if you've selected bad.ground
printing , the page image is SIOre<! on your hard disk, and can be printed later using a special
utility supplied. (The software supplied also includes AdolN T)'pr MQoogu , so PostScripl
Type I fonts can be printed properly.) The utility allows printing 10 be set for a specific time, and yoo can also set various printer
characteriSlKs from the Mac , rathe r than battling your way ihroogh lIS menus using the LeD display and control panel.
Although the pri nter's fan isrf l the qulCtesl
in the world, the noise isn' l panicularly noticeable - and after a pre-sel idle time !he fan switches off. reducing noise further.
The printers output quality is fine; greys<:a le qua lity is really rather good, thanks to recent ly
upgraded driver SOfIWll«' , It's reasona bly fast .
too: the Nisus fi le took. Just under two minutes.
the QU(Jr!iXPrt ss docume nt likewise. Nonnally
the printer rs supplied with 00 bu ilt-in RAM ,
but adding the optional I Mb e xpansion shou ld speed th ts up a lm le more. Unlike ll'IOSl laser
printers, the PLP WIll allow yce to pont right to the edge of the paper,
1be only real com plaint IS thal . becau se it's
a SCS I device, yOll m usr either switch on or
discortne(:t the printer before you turn on you r Mac each time. Tberes no way of turnmg it on
Of off while YOll're waning.
The PLP 11 is an excellent . workhorse , printer. If you are looking for a low-cost laser
pemter. this is well worth a look,
GCC PLP 11
Price: £763 !"rom : GCe Tech nologies, 081 5694(134)
Lasotr pri nte r : JOOd pi I magi ng method: Q uick Draw
Speed teses:
Nisus 115 secs QuarU Pnss 108 secs
93 %
Low cost, high quality j tMrt really isn't
m uch "" roo g with this p rinter a t a ll, exoept that it can 't be net"'OI'"ked.
special
LaserWriter Select 300
DEClaser 1152
The Select 300 is Apple's new bottomof-the-range laser primer. It' s a Q uickDraw , J OOd pi device based o n a Xerox 5ppm engi ne. and co nnects to your Mac via a serial cab le - although it can be shared with ot he r peopl e ove r a network in a s imilar way to the St ylewr itcr 11.
Unpacking lhe box reveals a reall y "-<1thcr bul ky. clunk y-loo king device. w ith the very mini mum o f controls - a power
switch and three LEDs (power. paper out and pape r jam) a rc all you gel. In some ways. of course. this is good - some primers are horrifically complicated .
As ever. you select the printer via the C hoose r. When you've done that. you
will notice thal lhe Page Se tup and Print
d ialogue boxes are significantly different from Appl e' s standard l aser w riter drivers. For a start. the c umberso me chec k-bo xes for available paper sizes in
the Page Set up dial ogue ha ve been
replaced with a much more elegant pop-
up menu. And the Prin t dialogue now
allows you 10 spec ify that the fi rst page should be taken from one source - say, manual feed - and the rest from another (normatty the paper cassette).
Unus ually. you can also set the prim
density from the Pri nt d ialogue bo x. via
thc O pti ons button - mostlaser primers requi re you to phys ically c hange a selling inside the primer itse lf to do this .
In use. the primer performs pe rfectly
we ll. II uses Apple 's Fine Prim tect mor-
The DEClaser is uniq ue in these tests fo r a number of reason s. First. it's the o nly Pc srScnpt primer that we loo ked at Second . it's rhe most expens ive - £ 1.146, allhoug h if you shop arou nd you should
find It at a street price of JUSt over £: 1.000.
More intere stin g. tho ugh. is that it' s the cheapest PosrSc ript Leve l 2 primer currently available.
Posrgcripr is vital if you intend to do
graphic s work in programs like Freeltond or tttunrotor, and if you are going to send pages from a program like QuarkXPrl'ss or Pagl'Makl'r to an imageselling bureau: only with a PostScript printer WIll you get an exact represenralion of what the page will loo k like.
Level 2 take s the basic concept of PostSc ript and extends it, adding support
for things like co lour management and data compression - which mean s that fi les should prin t more qu ickly. since it doesn 'ttake as long to se nd the informa lion to the printer. Unfortu nately. no
Leve l 2 dri ve rs are yet av ailable for the
Mac: they are in beta test by Adobe now. and should be sh ipping by the time you read these line s. You can. though. happily use a Level I driver such as App le' s standard Lase rw riter dr iver with a Level 2 device - it j usl won'ttak e any advantage of the e xtra fac ilities .
So, on to the DECl as er. Th is is based on a standard 300d pi Canon eng ine and runs at four pages per minu te. It connects 10 the Mac via the usual serial imcrface . and is fully networkable . In fac t. the primer has Apple'Talk, serial, para llel and
Epson LQ-570+
Th is printer is rather different from all the others on test. and is designed for a spec ific gro up of use rs: those who need an impact printer.
The pro blem with laser and inkjet printers is thar you can 't use them if you need 10 print on mUlti -pa n stationery> and. although some inkjet printers can acce pt cominuous-feed stationery. the majority struggle. (A notable exce ption is GCC ' s Wick Writer, which is a 360dpi inkjet primer capable of taking con tinuous stationery up to 16 inche s wide.)
To answer thi s demand, Epson ha s produced a Mac interface and software Whi ch makes its LQ-570+ dol matrix primer totally Mac com patible. It will. if you really want, print graphics. page
layouts and the like - indeed. the results are exce lle nt - but it's very s low at doing so, because that really isn't what lhe mac hine was de signed for. Ho we ver, accounts departme nts and the like will find thi s a godsend .
Because the printer is an Epson. you can be sure that the hard ware is good quality: Epson is one of the most famou s dot matrix primer manufacture rs in the world. Ho we ver, s ince the manual nece ssaril y ha s 10 cover options for a ll the kinds of co mputer 10 which the printer can be connected. peopl e not used 10 dealin g with PC peripherals may well end up being rather co nfused by the who le thing. The an is to take things step by step and frequ ent ly refer to the
ogy 10 SlTlOOlh the edges of tut , whic h is supposed to give better q ualily OUlput although m reality. un less you ' re printing at
very lerge or very smaJl tut sizes, you're
unlikely to nol:ice muc h d iffere nce, OulPUl
speed wasn 't panic ularly fast - around two Illld
I half minutes for the Nisus test . live Illld I
ql.Llm'r for the QuarI.:XPu ss docume nt. Many people bu y Apple printers s im ply
eecese they hi ve the Apple name - and must ,
tberefore. be the best Ivai llble , But, as with OWly Apple periphenls, If you shop around you
Wllllind thal there are bargains to be I'Iad wh ich put EM ' official' Apple offerings In the shade.
llus is certainl y the case: with the LaserWriter Select 300. It 's I perfectly good
product - good gte)'SClle OUtput. shareable over
I networi:; and so on - bul il just doesn 'l relll y
stand up on price. YOII can buy a Qu ickDra w printer for far less than its £91 1 asking price from any number of manufllClureTS - Illld ... ilh prices d ropping all the time. you can even bey a
PostScript printer for roughly the same price, On the other hand. man y companies insist on
buying Apple printers 10 go wilh Apple comput·
ers - tha t wl Y. they can be assured of absolute
compat ibilily. If you fall into th ar category , then you can be confidentlhal you woo ' t be
disappoimed with the LaserWriter Selecl 300which can be upgnKkd to the PostScri pt Select
3 10 I t a later dal e , if you Wln t, Bu t If you' re buying 00 I budget. and you are Willing 10 shop around. then there are pknly of lltemall'~
avai lable 10 the Apple soIulion tha t you ma y
well find offer you just as good performance for a I1Ilher more competItive price,
LaserWrlter Select 300
Price: £91 1 From: App le UK : Dial 100 a nd:ask fOf"
FreeFoot' A pple for you r nearest d ealer. Laser prtnte-: JOOd pi
Ima gi ng mdhod : Q ukk Draw
Speed teas: Nis..s 158 sea QIUlrtXPrtSl 375 secs
75 CJc
H igh buikl qualil,. reasonab~ speed,
net"·orkab~. good resuns - bu l somehow Ihis printer just doesn 't s mack of the inno,-alion Ihal is A pp~ 's stock-in-trade_
DEC~I iraerteces built in - so it can be easil y
used in a mixed environmenl.
You can even plug in computers to mo re than one interface at lhe same time: the printer will lutomalically sense: w hich is being used and will
adjust ilse:lf accordingly.
Seventeen PostScript ronu are bu ilt in: the
Times. Helverica. Hel velica Narrow, Cou rier and
Symbol fam ilies. Of course. any PostScripl fonts thal aren't built in will be downloaded by your
Mac as they are needed.
As standard, the prime r is shipped wit h 2M b
of RAM. allhough it can be expanded to 4M b,
(You may well find that you need 10 increase lhe amount of on- board RAM if you' re outputdng complex pages from a graphics or page layout
program.end 4 Mb does seem a little miserly, given some other printers' max imum memory
capacrties of 8Mb or mo re.)
No speo:.:ial drivers are supplied. smce the
printer worb perfect ly well wit h lilt standard
Apple Laserw nrer driver. Accord mg 10 the di stributor. Dire kTe k. as from lhe begmnmg of May Ibis year a Level 2 dri ver will be supplied as par1 o f the standard System 7.1 pack.age; the drivers have now been in development for
around t....c years,
Perfcnnance is fine: although n's not as faSl
as the GCe PLP. this is because: it's a POstScnpt
printe r and so has more wo rk 10 do - and lite speed shou ld increase w hen PostSCr ipl Level 2
drivers are used. Output quality is good. a lthough some slight stepping was noticeabl e on the graduated lint sam ples that we tried .
Although this isn't the che apest PoslScr ipt primer available, it is certainly one of the best for the price - and is well worth checking o ut if you need a PostScript dev ice .
DEClaser 1152
Price: (1 .146 .·ram : [);N:kTtk 08 ls.&5 5969
Lastr pri nte r : JOOdpi I m ag ing method : PoslScript Ltl't~ 2 Speed tests :
Nisus 124 secs Qua,tXPrrss 200 secs
Rutinn
90 %
Leve l 2 PostScript mea ns that this is a pr fnter which is relatively futu re -prcef
Alt ho ugh il isn 'll he fast est a vail able, you'd s l r uggle 10 Hnd a machine wi th a
sim illlr s pecihcatlen fo r t h is pr ice.
diagrams when you're selling rt nngs up . And
keep a note of any settings. DI P swnches and so
on that you change - so that you c an change them back again if you need to .
The printer is full y nel ....orkable: once set up
with the software supplied, it appears j ust like
any other in the Chooser . You can decide 10
print in draft mode - in ..... hlCh case the printer
uses ilS o...-n. built-in fonts and prims at very
high speed - or graphics (QuickDra w) mode; in the letter, you can choose: the resol unoe from
one of 180 x 180, 360 x 180 or 360 x 360 dots per inch. You can also specify whether the
head worb in unidirectional or bidirecriona1 mode - the former gives IIl'lOl'e ICCUrlle OUlput. the latter is faster,
The printer can use tractoe-fed paper or
single shtels. al though only one shtel can be
inserted into lhe printer at a time, so you 're obliged 10 sit in front of it, feedi ng il pa per If you' re outpull ing a long docume nt
In use. the printer is rather more oolsy than an inkjet or laser primer - you ....ouldn't ....ant 10
have il sitting on the desk next to you. That. sadly. is the price that you pay for a dot mamx primer - and it must be SIld lhal the LQ-570+ IS far quieter than simi lar printers on the maltel three or four years ago.
You will nol:ice that ...·e don't gl\e timings for this primer. we fe lt tha t it ....ould be unfair. gi ven thal 11 was never designed 10 compete With ' norma!' Mac outpul devices m terms of speed - and you shou ld bear lhat in mind if you're thinking of purc hasing it. Ho...-ever. If you find yourself wishing that you could pnnl on carbonated forms. th is is an ideal machine,
Epson LQ-570+
Price: £551
From : " p l« 071627 1000
Dol MlIt rix prtnter: 24pin
Imllg ing melhod: Q uickDraw. Of" own bu ill·in fools
Speed tests: N/ A
S9 '7c
' 00. "ou If,oo j ust want a oorrnal Mac printe r,
t his isn ', fOf" 8 uI if ha,'e t he sort
of specialised needs Ihal it eaters fOf", il"s
wen ..orth in.-estigaling.
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Scanners
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There are plenty of d iffere nt ty pes of sca nner on th e market ranging fr om ha nd- held devices
for a few hu ndred pounds, up to
co mmercial-q uality colour jobs tha t cost many lens of tho usands. T hey split into two areas: ha nd sca nners a nd flatbed dev ices.
Thai's handy, Harry
At the lower end of the pricerange, hand scanners dominate the
market. BUI don', be fooled - these can be perfectly adequate for many jobs. and offer a flexibility that their larger, flat-bed cousins can't.
The reason that a hand-scanner
is cheaper than a flat-bed machine is simple - much of the machinery is dispensed with. and inste ad you do the tricky work of accuratel y moving the scanning head across the original artwork. Also, hand scanners can normally only scan a width of four inches or so at a time
- although most come with
software that allows you to 'stitch' such four-inch strips together on screen to end up with a much wider image.
The big advantage of handscanners is that they can access material that's impossible 10 scan
with a desktop model. Th is includes. for inst ance . pictures in
thick books, sections o f large
objects hke paintin gs. and even wood grain . wa llpape r patte rns and
rhe like. On the down side, the
resolution and accuracy of a handscanner isn't likely to be as good as that of a flat-bed device, and even with software whic h 'stitches' strips of scan together, the results can be less than perfect.
Hand-scan ne rs are available as both colour and grey scale devices; some have extra features, such as the Typist, from Computers
Unlunited (08 1200 8282), which
has built-i n OCR (O ptic al C haracte r Rec ogniti on ) soft ware .
Flathed lings
Flatbed sc anners come, basically, in two flavou rs: gre yscale. and col our. Greyscale models te nd to be cheaper, but aren 't as widely available as they used to be - tbe price of colour scanne rs has
dropped remarkably in the last 18
months or so, and a 300dpi, 8-bit colour scanner can now be
purchased for le ss than £1 ,000 (plus VAT) - some are as cheap as
£800. Colour scanners can, of
course, also be used as greyscale
The Apple OneSC!W\llef - a -eI'Y good value . 300dpi greyscale deI'ice
.bilit y
their larger, flat-bed cousins
can 't
devices, so as the prices of colour and greyscale scanners are now so sim ilar , lhe arguments for buying a greyscale -only model are becoming hard la susta in.
In the past. co lour scanners used to use a ' three pass ' mecha nism, send ing the scan ni ng head across the Image three lime s. once each for red, green and blue. However, many devices now scan
for allthree colours on a single
pass - which radically decreases
the scanning lime per image. It al so (arguably) increases the accuracy, since a one- pass scan substantially reduce s the possib ility of registra uon errors.
The software supplied with scanners used 10 vary from manufacturer to manufactu rer. but the ind ust ry has no w more or less standard ised o n usi ng ' p lug-ins' for the Adobe PhotosllOP image man ipulat ion program. Virtually all limbed scanners are supplie d w ith a vers ion of PhulOshop (either the full program or a slightly limited version w ith fe we r capabilit ies) and a ' plug-in' wh ich lets you contro l lhe scanner from
w ith in the program. (The excepnon
10 th is is Hewlcu-Packard . whi ch InSiSlS on controlling its scanner via a proprie tary piece of
Resolving resolutions
The reso.utton of a scanner is measured in dots per Inch (dpi), and tells you how 'fine' t he final scanned Image will be. By and large, the higher the resolution you scan at, the better and less 'jaggy' the final output will be . But the re 's no point in scanning at 600 or 1,200dpi if you're only going to be outputting your image on a laser printer; t he highe r the reso lution of the scan. t he large r th e file . and a 1,200dpi full-colour scan ca n e asily run to s everal te ns of megabytes . The re 's a simple rule which determines the resolution at which you need to scan an image for good quality output:
SCan rescieucn = 2.5 x output line screen in Ipi x (output s ize in %/100).
A lase r printer's optimal output line screen is around 561pi (lines per inch); so if you' re going to output to a laser printer at 2()()% of the original image size, the resolution you'll need is :
2.5 x 56 x (200/ 100 )
= 2.5 x 56 ~ 2
= 28Odpi. So you just s et the resolunon of your scanner to this value - or the ne xt highest, if you can only choose from a pre-set range of opt ions. if you're going to output work via an image setter and have it printed profess ionally. your line sc reen is likely to be around 1331pi - so the same image, re prod uced at 2()()% of original s ize, will have to be scanned at 665rlpi or higher, When in doubt, ask your output burea u or printer what li ne screen you'll be using.
Shopping checklist
,/' Do you need a flalbed scanner, or is a hand-held deVice a better idea ?
,/' Do you need colour or just greyscale? There are some bargain greyscale devices to be had at the moment
,/' What resolution will you need to scan at? Always overestimate - just eececss you 're using a laser printer for output now ooesot mean that
you'll never want to output via an imagesetter. See the 'res o/lling resolll"
tions ' boxout for details on how to work out scan resolution ,/' Check the colour depth of the scanners you're investigating. &bit Is just
about adequate for colour. but if you're scanning in greyscale you really
should go toe an B-bit device. The higher the colour depth, the 'richer '
the final Image is likely to look ,/' If you're buying a flatbed. is it possible to add on a unit which will let you
scan transparencies (s lides)? If not, do you think you might ever need
this facility?
,/' What software is supplied wi!h the scanner? If it's Photos hop (it nearly always is). are you getting the full package. or the limited edition (called Ptlotoshop LE)?
,/' How fast is the scanner? Does it matter to you if the scan speed isn't
particularly high?
,/' Ask to see output samples from the scanner - both from photographs
trs and al!HJ from line a rt (it 's harder to scan line art well). See if poss~
ble to have one of your own images scanned ~ output sample s are no good If you haven 't seen me original
so~. ) This is g1\"at for lhe user
- as well as I colour scanoet.
you'~ gemng I £700 piece o f
software for eeet
One other exceplioo 10 tllis rule
is Apple. wlllCII supplies I package
caUed O/OfO wi lh its greyscale
OneScanner and Apple Colour
Scanner. O/OfO is greal for people
who don't nav e lite t ime 10 mess
around with the image oeee if s
been scanned in - the sonwere
performs . lIlhe necessary image
adjustments itself. after you 've
performed a sim ple inili.1ulibfa-
lion scan. O/()/O can be bought as a
stand-alone pac kag e, lOO. and will
work with a range of differem makes of scanne r. C ited: with the
distributor. Com puters Unlimited {OSI20(8282) losee if you r particular mod e l IS euppoetcd.
Another fac tor 10 co nsider
wlten choosing a flatbed scanne r is
whethe r you can add a rmns -
patenc y adaptor - whic h w ill allow you to scan slides. Th is normally
lakes the form of a replace rnenl 10 lhe scanner 's lid. and conunns a
moving light source which illum inetes the Image so that the scanning head can pick up rbe
details. Remem ber, Ihough , Ihat
even if you can add such an adapIor, you' 11 ne ver gel brilli ant qualily - for realtop-class results. you need 10 bu y a dedicaled unit
Quality concerns
Tbe quality of image Wl I SClOllCr
produces is measured by IWO malleB: resolulion, in dais per mch (dpi) - see 'resol ving resolutions" on this page - and "colour
depth '. This is I measure of how man y diffCTenI colours the SClO oet can differenliale between. and is swed IS '&-bil' . ' IO-bil' and SO 011.
An g·bit ooIour scannel'" can 'see '
tWG-lo-lhe-power-of-eiglll, lha! is .
2.56 differenl shades of each of red. green and bloc. So in IOIDI il can produce 256 x 256 x 256 '" just over 16.7 millioo colours - the
maximum !tulllhe Mac can display , and certain ly e nough for- a
very good quali ly fina l image.
Why . then , is 11 possible 10 bu y
IQ-bi t and even 12·bit scanners? Well. al lhou gh the Mac can't
an uce extremely good results
display all these co lours. the info r-
matien is retai ned in use image -
and can hel p if you need 10 do a 101 o f manipu lat io n o f the image. for ex am ple increasing the brightness of a very d ark orig ina l.
Unfortunately. JUS! bec au se IWO
scanners have the same specifica-
lions - 6CX)dpi. 8-bi1. for eXlO lp6e - doesn 't mean lhal !hey "'Ill produce e.laclly !he same resuhs, Some are better lhan OIhers - and thaI's \Ohy it's imponam 10 check
oot act ual sam ples of scans.
At the high end ...
At the lop of lhe ' dcsk lop' range are desklop drum scanners. These
woR: on tbe same pri nciples lIS
.rea l ' repro scanners. and can
produce exue rre ly good resu lts. Howeve r. lhe y do ha ve disadvantages . The fi ~ is lllal you need 10 tape yoor image 10 a revolving
drum - so you ' lI ha ve 10 CUI up any books o r whatever Ihal you wa nt to scan from .
Secondly. they can be m lhe r
more tricky to SCI up correc tly and use . Finall y. you should be wantcd
Ihal so me drum scanners use
esse ntially the same technology as ord inary ffatbcd sc anne rs _ and don 't prod uce noticeably better q uality images .
It,.
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i'i There is a large number of scanner man ufactu rers a OO distributors In
this country; a ll we can do here is give you a brief lis t of companies
that you might like to try. Keep an eye on adverts in MacFormat. too,
as many dealers offer a range of machines.
Aptee
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0 1l627 1000
Computers Unlimited
081 200 8282
OIrekT e k
081 845 5969
Forut 5ystems
, ,..081 993 1516
Hewlett-Packard
"."h
0344 369222
IMC ,.,·.,." .,."
0753 830999
\..oCIteeh .,
,..,., ..,.,0344 891313
MacEurope
." .".,." .,..,., 0603 741222
Mirror TeehnoloCles "
0376 325500
NuS, .
,..,.,." ,
0379 650777
PJtnclpal Dlstrlbution ..""
081 813 5656
p, iAyloa
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0235 530933
T~
,..,." .,.,0562 882125
on Busters
Aatbed acanner This is a desktoo deYice, as
opposed 10 a hanc:H1e1d scanner.
which is far smaller. It resembles a small photOCOl)ief - excepl that it t:klesn't actually make a paper copy
of the image. Instead . the mage Is S1ored , usually II'l nFF formal. on
the Mac.
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This is a tedlniqoe of takirlg a
SoClWYlef.mic:h voorIIs at. ~. 3OOdpl1W'd fooIii C it into thinIurlg t.hat. it CM searI at ~ resoIutiorIs . n:s done by tallq each paIT
of indMduaI SCanned dots and
wOOo.inI out the Irid-point in colour
between the two. ThIs difference is
then placed bet.. een them as a
~ dot - so ifs lairty easy to elfectrvefy double the resoIuIJon of
the scanner. Often. a 30Qdpi
scanner interpolated to 6OO<Ipi is almost as good as a ITUe 600dpi de'o'ice - but not quile.
Uno '" Basically. 'drawiogs' - images created by lines. rather than photographs or whatever. It's
di1fictltl to scan line art well - you'll
often find that the scanned version has 'jaggies', where the original had s mooth lines .
OCR
Optical Characte r Recognition. This Is the process of taking a scanned page of text and translal ing tbat te~t into com pute r-readable form. So you start off with. say. a sheet of typewrlllen copy and e nd up with a Microsoft Word Iile containing
that text - without you having 10 re-
key it into the computer. There is lots 01 diffe rent OCR software
available. and some is so soptIl sti-
eetec that it can reccesse multiple
columns 01 text on the page. ignore
pocIures and so on.
Rep tr8tlon A scanned colour image is normally made up of three . ~ . - red.
green and blue. Pen::erltages of
eac/'t of these on top of each Olher combiIle 10 pmduc;e the IinaI ooIour image, Regislr3tioll is the process
of ~ sure that the three ~ sit e>.actly on top of each othe1 - if
they lJidn'l the image would look blurred and tIave s~ colour ·stwIdows·.
.'.bow! left is a t)'IlICal SlQuest 'erTIO'IilbIe clriw - this one is meoe lI')' d2 Systems, £ach cartridge C(II1 store llI(lY11d 40Mb of data. On the right is a Mac's intemal hard driYe -thiS one Os an 80Mb
unit, manufactured lI')' IBM
Hard drives
You can never ha ve enough storage space - and howe ver large your Mac 's inte rnal hard drive, you'll soon find that you're having to delete fil es to ma ke room for new stuff. Fortunately, the cost of extra storage has dropped over the last couple of years, to the point where it's not a ridiculously expensive operation to add an extra drive - or even IWO . Bu t along with this drop in price have come numerous different options. all with their own good and bad poi nts. Should you buy a conventional hard drive or a removable device? What about an optical drive? What's a floptical? Ho w about just replacing your
internal drive wit h a larger unit? To simplify matters. we've
noted the good and bad points of each type of drive. What you need to do is ma ke a list of your requirements. and then sec which of the formats is right for you . Then shop around the dealers. seeing who call o ffer you the best after-sa les su pport, what software is bundled
and so o n. Of course. price must come rmc your decision of whic h unit to buy, but remember that It'S sometimes bener to pay shgh tly
mo re If. by doing so. you're dea ling
with a friendly, helpful company with good after-sales service.
All hard drives connect 10 the Mac via SCS I (pronounced "scuzzy". the Small Comp uter Systems Interface ): you shou ld check whether the price tha t you're quoted incl udes a SCS I cable. If
you 've already got one or more
SCS I devices attac hed, you should c~k that it's a 'SCS I to SCS I' cable, rathe r than a ' Mac to SCS I'
- the two are di fferent, si nce tile
Mac 's SCS I connector isn't the same physical shape as those found on just about every SCS I device.
Internal drives
Probably the cheapest option is 10 replace your internal Mac disk drive with a larger unit. These days, you can fit up to a 230Mb device into just about any Mac (except the
Shopping checklist
I ' Will an internal upgrade do? If so. make sure that your dealer transfers
the data from your old drive to the new one. And take a backup before
you send your Mac away!
I ' If you decide on an external fixed drive, buy the largest capacity that you
can afford
I ' Remember. the price--per-megabyte of a removable setup rapidly becomes
kJwer the more cartn'dges you buy - if you decide on a S)<luest. you're
only paying an extra £6() or so for every additional 40Mb of storage
I ' Check to make sure that a SCSI lead is included in the purchase price. If
)'tIU need a SCSI to SCSI lead, rather than Mac to SCSI. remember to
specify this
I ' rw What so ftware is included with the drive? The very least tha t should
get is formatting software , but some drives are now being bundied with
backup packages or disk diagnostic software such as M>rton'Utilities
I ' Do you need an extra hard drive at ali? Check out our review ofTimesTwo
on page 78 for de tails of a remarkable piece of so ftware that doubles the
capacity o( roor e~isting drive
Po we ru ook s): all you need to do is find a dealer w ho will transfer your existing data from your old imerna l dri ve o n to the new unit. Chec k to see if your de aler can se ll you a cas ing and pow er supply for your old inte rnal dri ve , tOO - th.ll way. you ge t an exte rna l unit as well .
The di sad vantage with doing this is
that you can' t connect the dr ive to
anot her Mac , as you can with an
exte rnal unit. But if yo u' re the only one who needs access to the dat a, that isn 't a problem.
Standard externals
You can buy a standard externa l. or 'fi xed ', hard dri ve for your Mac from JU Sl about any dealer in the
co untry . Sizes ran ge fro m 52Mb
(although some dea le rs still stoc k 40M b uni ts) up to 1Gb (G igabyte a thousand me gabytes) or eve n more. The price increase s rap id ly over about 230Mb. though, and you're likely to have to pay over £ 1,000 (or a rea lly large drive.
If you decide to ta ke this ro ute , you should buy the largest ca pac ity
disk e is that you have essentially unlimited storage
drive that you can afford - even if you don't thillk that you' ll need all
that extra space right away. The re
arc a couple of TeaSOIlS for this; first, the COSl of the casing. power supply and so 0 11 m akes up a sizeable portion of the unit's cost, so it's far more expensive buy ing two 50Mb externa! drives than one 100Mb uni t. Also, as a gene ra l rule, Ihe larger the drive, the faster it is (alt hough unless you're doing something like multimedia work, you're unlikely to notice that much of a difference).
Removable drives
The advantage of a removable dis k drive IS that you have essentia lly unlimi ted storage. al a very low pound-per-megabyte ratio. All tile electronics. power supp ly and so on are in the base unit, and you sim ply buy removable d isks wh ich slot in to that base unit. Each d isk can hold a nywhe re from 20 to over l OO megabytes of data - and the disks
cost far less than if you we re to buy
a whole ne w d rive .
The onl y real disad vantage is
that removable drives te nd to be
slightly slo wer than the ir fixed
cousins >
but this is unli kely 10
ma ke much rea l difference.
The most popular removable
dri ve is based on the 44 Mb
SyQ ues t mechanism - the drives
are genericall y ca lled SyQuest
dri ves. The cartridges cost arou nd
£60 eac h, which have a capac ity of
40Mb or so. If you 're goi ng to be
swapping data with other people , a
SyQueSl dri ve is pretty muc h
ma nd"lo ry - Ihe uni ts have been
aro und for some time. and have
become a de fact o indust ry
standard . It's now also poss ible to
buy an 88Mb SyQuest drive which
will read and write 44 Mb cartridges
too (pre viously the 88 Mb units
co uld re1.d bUI not write 44 Mb
canndges and so weren 'I pop ular).
Another form o f removab le
drive which is becoming popularis
the ' floptical". Thi s is a unit whic h
will read and write standard high
dens ity floppy dis ks, but which can
also accept ' floptical' disks - the
same s ize and shape as a normal
fl oppy - that h{)ld around 20 Mb of
da ta each . These ft opticals onl y
COSl around £2 1 each , and with the
drives se lling for as little as £350 ,
it's a very cost-e ffective way of
adding storage capacity. On the
dow n side , flopricals are s lowe r
than most othe r forms of remov able
hard disk. which in turnare slowe r
than fixed units.
128Mb optical drives are also
now gaining populari ty; again ,
they 're slower than fixed drives ,
and COSt ra the r more than
SyQuests. But the added storage
capaci ty per cartridge may well
appeal to you - and if so. t hey 're
definitely worth a look.
If you need 10 archive large
amounts of dat a , you may dec ide
tha t a WORM (W rite O nce , Read
Many times) drive is req uired.
These are based on optical tec hnol-
ogy, and normally acce pt up to
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data is 0 11 the cartridge. il can 'I be
overwnnen - when the cartridge is
filled up. you must buy another
one. Aga in, WORM drives aren' t
part icularly fast, and wouldn't be
used in place of a norm al hard
drive. But - despite thei r relative ly
hig h cost - they are idea l fo r
backu p purposes . nit
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Civilization lets you recreate all of human history on your Mac. Stuart Anderton takes on the Romans .. .
T
he c rowds are leaving the theat re when the ne ws co mes through : the Germans have landed three miles down the coast. There is
paruc as the infantry lea ve their barracks and
march south: an angry mob gathers and demands
action from the mayor. who is forced to flee from
City Hall. All work in the shipyard grinds [0 a
hall. In the d istance . the towns-
people can hear the
rumbling of tank s as
they move towards
tne invadin g force.
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try to win the bailie before the Gennans
have a c hance to finish the ir
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This is a typ ical sce ne from Civilization, a
complete simulator of human histo ry and society on four d isks.
When you begin the game. yo u are the despot running a sm all tribe which has just mad e the necessary advances to found a c ity. As time goes on and your em pire grows you become kin g and. if all goes well. e vent ually the el ected president of a major superpo wer. You run your empire with a co mbinat io n of direct control over settle rs. diplomats and the military. and indirect influence over the popu lation themselves.
Your people cons ist of farm e rs. factory worke rs. sc ientists. entertainers and merchants. and you can alter the balance between them for eac h city you found. The fanners produce the food necessary for the c ity to gro w. Factory workers in eac h c ity are assigned a single project to work on - perhaps building a battlesh ip. construc ting a hbrary or assembling a trade caravan. Scientists produce the advances in knowledge required to produce more sophisticated goods. espec ially military units. Entertainers keep the populat ion happy and
merchants generate the mone y to kee p the whol e
system tic king over. In the beginning you have just one band of
settlers and your firs t decis ion is where to found your capital ci ty. There must be enough natura l resources to supply the bui lding trade . and enough good farmland or fishing to kee p the
townsfolk fed. A site with good potential is essen -
tial-later you can irrigate loc al plains . build mines and construct a road netwo rk to aid trade .
O nce the c ity is established. it' s a good idea de vote all its energies to produc ing a brigade of mili tia to defe nd it from marauding barbarians.
'0 Then you set your scientists working on a project
- say . invent the wheel or di sco ver ironworking. When after a number of years they succeed, you can build mo re sophisticate d defences chariots in the case of the wheel. and a legion in annour for ironwork .
Once you have a reasonable defence and a f
s ized c ity. you can put your energi es into assern-
bling a grou p of settlers and se t o ff to explore try 10 find a suitable site for another city. Eventually in your exp loratio ns you will encounter one of the othcr ci vili sations on the planet. and yo ur diplomatic skills will be tested.
Get it wrong (or ju st feel aggre ssive ) and you
could have a full- sized war on your hands. Gel it
right and you can establish an embassy. open trade routes, exchange technology and mak e treaties to attack other civi lisations.
A kingdom for a stage
The stage of Civilization is a planet which is
completely unknown to yo u when you start out; you must explore to find out more about it. Bd you begin the game you can define the average temperature. percentage of oceans and so forth. and the Mac generales a new pla net each time.
The other civil isations are run by the Mac using an artificial intelligence system which provides you wit h some stiff opponents, and y can se lect the level of difficu lty from C hieftain (easy) to Em peror (impossible).
Have you seen Sid?
CJVi/ization is the brainchild of Sid Me le r, His previous game. the excellent Railroad Tycoon. had been a success and he was looking for a follow up. · We wanted Civilization to require the oectston maker to Juggle several balls at once. We found in Railroad Tycoon that this helped kee p the challenge and Interest high: says Sid. He certainly succeeded in that: Civilization is probably the most engrossing game available
on the Mac.
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This Is planet Earth
One option In Clvlliz8110n Is to play on planet Earth
it self Instead of a random plan et. The rival civilisations are placed In roughly their histor ical positions and )'OI.llet to replll)' history. A word of warning - If )'OI.l patrioticBlly select to pill)' the English, be pIl!pared lor hu ndreds OI)ellB scrapmg a livina on
a tiny island belore )'OI.l raIse the resources to builds boat and extlIOrel
If Ibis all sounds mher cornplicaled. lha!' s
... ... it is- and your first few minutes with
Cirih:.atWlr are likely 10 be as confusing as hell.
AI)'OIl slowl y &et involved in the game and begin
· .:Imwtd what's JOing on. however, the
· job)' becomes cxuaordinarily addictive. I
.._.' .... of It leas!: two relationships which have
... dIreatencd by long evenings spent playing
A pmr; can easily ~ len hours at. strereh
-)'OIl don', notice !he lime pass. 8anery power
ptildittift&·· PowerBook and I copy of
CMlUmion are the best way of passing a trans-
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The COIIlplications and the competition are
IlIded to by the ultimate objectives of the game:
~to wipe OUI all other civiJisatioru. or 10
I spKeIhip and colonise Alpha Centauri. I
the linl option easier. especially after
CO invent nuclear weapoos.
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One ~ tile bht ways to suee! cd in CMliz8tion
is to buId one of the seYetI wonders of the
world. In fact there _ 21 - a set for ancient.
medie'o'al8lld moclem . Each wonder has 8l'1
effect on your Pl)l)Uletion or the game In
Jenlml. For I~tance. buiklln& Shakespeare's
theatre make, your cltllens more content, ·
"Chthouse lets your ships to move further on each I'I'lOY8 and the United Nations makes eu
other cMlis81lons offer to slgo a peace treatyl
boys are on the: Eastern fronl fight ing. it' ll take all
the: entertaioes, theatres. d!urt:he5 and 50 on that
you can build to keep them from insisting on peace. Keeping the: popil8llon happy is j lol5l as diffICUlt and time conswninS as waging war
lpU1SI the Romans.
Civil,:otion is In amazingly detailed, complex yet engrossing and addictive same. If il has a fault it is the inlCl'facc. which is dU'eClly ported ova from the PC version of the: program. It' s not as responsive as it wuld be, and it has a ICndency 10 move from onc area of the planctto another bcfon you had fini$hed whal you were doing.
You t an al ways return teer. but if s irritating 10
have 10 do 50. Overall however C"·i/j ro lion IS thoroughly
reoommended. Moch more than a war
game. you get to replay all of hislory, on your own terms.
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AUTO VAN GOGH
Well, okay, it's not likely to make it to the Stedelijk museum in Mlsterdam, But you
can produce images
shockingly sill11l ar to
those created bythe great master. Is this
0' the beg]Ming the
erld for the histOl)' of
great painters -
0' destined to become a
· llOlHJp mer1u· the tulure?
GRID
Painter gl-.es yoo a grid
layer to help guide you in your work. To activate this yoo ,didI 00 the 'grid' K:on at the top right h<n;l sil:le for the image ";nc:\ow, With the grid click OIl, you will see yoor brush strokes at 50 per cent
of their value (click 011
and n's bac:ll to 100l')
- and don't WOIl)', the grid won 't prill1
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Im reSSlo n s
Gord on Druce takes a look at Painter 2.0, a package t hat allows you to manipul ate your design s endlessly and even emulate t he work of Old - and maybe some of the New - Masters
[ J irst seen almost two years ago, this paint and image editing program features some of the most realistic emu lanons of fine an and commercial an materials e ver seen on the Mac. It includes simulations of oil paint, water co lour, penci ls. charcoal. air brush and many more, all with plent y of co ntrol and scope for personal custcmlsatlcn.
Along with Pain/er' s extensive selection of tools, papers and textures, there is a powerful image editing facility wh ich lets you sharpe n, softe n and distort scanned
material. You can a lso add visua l effects like marbling. o r give your picture the appearance o f being viewed through rain or g lass.
Basically. Painter sim ulates atmosr all the too ls and materials you might expect to find in a traditional artist' s stud io.
Action art
The mini mum system requirements that Fractal Design recomme nds are the Mac Il. Performa and Quadra machi nes,with colour monitors, although if you are a mono cartoonist or scraperboard art ist, then
Paim er 2 will run perfectly well in grcyscarc. TIu: manual also recomme nds that you have 4 Mb of RAM. but once you have double-clic ked the appl ication into life yo u will find that it suggests you have 8Mb on board. Also recommended is a pressure-sensitive graphics tablet althoug h some of the pressure-sensi -
tive effects can be achieved using
the stan,Jard mouse.
Gelling star ted
The re are several ways of starting work in Painter 2. the first and mos t obv ious of which is to open up a
new document by going to the File men u. selecting New and starting work . Anothe r is to edit work which may have started life in another Macintosh pain t o r draw program, and tilt: third is 10 use material that has been scanned in. Painter 2 accepts fi les in TI FF, EPS, PICT or Phowshop format (either RGB or greyscalej.
Once you have o pened up a new document and set your paper colour, you' ll find that all Pain/a's drawing and painting tools are III the brushes palette. The re' s everything from felt pens to oi l paint.
More about Painter's methods
ThiS is a further loo!< at the depth of control ~ have over the art materials (brus he s ) at your disposal in Painter. There are far to many to give a full list, but this is a taster of the kind of thing ~ can expect .
BUILD UP METHODS - the build up methods all add COlour density to an Image as you draw: Soft build up - for non-grainy work, applies a smooth spread of dye on your image Grainy hard build up - applies dye like a coloured pencil. with semi-an t~a liased grainy edges
COVER METHODS - the cover methods a re for use With chalk, charcoal. oil paints, ecoecs and spray paints: Soft mask colour - this draws in the s trokes that cover the underlying image. The colour of the
stroke is a mixture of the Pfimary and secondary colour, de term ined by the frtsket. This can be useful for colouring up cartoon cells Sott paint remover - this remove s density from yom image . It works like bleach and can be used for cle aning an im age or in a traditional photographic darkroom sens e. to 'ble ach out' an area 01 a photo
CLONING METHODS - You use the cloning methods to bring textures and sections of a n image from a n original. You can als o 'random clone', a proce ss whi<:h lets you buiid up very complex textures: GraIny soft elone - this cre ates a soft, cloudy stroke and looks like a form of burnis hed charcoal Drip clone - ~ can paint the distorted parts of your Image {s ee Dri p Methods)
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WET METHODS - to us e the wet layer control ~ must choose Wet Paint lrom the Options menu: Grainy wet build up - the strokes build up over the colour beneath them, and produce a traditiona l wate r colour feel Wet remove deMlty - this le ts you do something whic h wou ld usually be impossible for the true water colour artist - it removes colour from the wet rayer
DRIP METHODS - the drip method Is for hquidisiog your artwcrx and pull ing it a round the screen: Grainy drip - this applies a smoo th distortiOl1 to the image in the direction of the stroke and is us efut for a suck. clean brush look GraIny hard drip - this applies a coa rse crstc ruco to the image, like the effect generated by blowing paint around a canvas using a straw
GLASS
DISTORTION ThIs eeeet gives )IOU
lilt very popdar ptao.
lVap/I(: i!fld cWlematic
etfect r;t, ¥IeWirt lW"
wo,h s iU had been
I.t betwld a sheet of i\aSS - e.u:epllh3l
WIIhin thI! Glass
Olslortion 6¥C' 'l' bol
yWlIM U eMlJOl
......._!he ilIl'IOIR.of
disIlIItian 1lIaI1he
UQUID This is wet on the w~
to IocJlU:1; more like
605 Action art tIIan I "eat -...;wt inoils. bul
with the licMtt ieorI
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01' ~ in the 605
a'IlIIOS.llvs couIlI soon become I q _' \lSJRl1ec1ft...
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T hree-level palette
an ist:. This puts you in full control
1001 for Imponing TrueT}-pe IUlCI
TIle brushes palcue "" orb on three
of cuslomising a111be bru~. You
Type l fosus as Iriskets, You can
differenalevds, all active logelhu.
I;aJI go 10 dw:o Brush Siu ""lndow 10 also call up a number of other gTUI
but at the 61'S! level all your tools
alter your stroke width, or the
fea lute$ once your Image has been
are set to What You See Is What
P~ ral kNt Slid " to customise lhe opened In Painter , like dlOpping a
You Get - . kind of 'default 10 real life ' , For instance. if you select the
way your brushes mterliCt with paper grain. FlNIlly. theTe islbe
grid over your unage to make It
appear al 50 per cent o f ns opacity.
c~J lool lhen you will use the
charooal juS! as if you had wen il
Brush Beha viour "'lIIdow, where
among other things you I;aJI fine-
Visual effects
OUl of the box.
rune: your size IUlCI style of brumes. Some incredible visual effects I;aJI
On jevet rwo. yoo select yoor
Kandinsky in can material. say chalk this lime, in the Image editing
be produced by means of the Surfa tt Cootrol item under the
Painter is shipped In some of lhe most IlOYeI and fun packaging of any Macintosh software. The sbl IIoppy disks and manual atriYe with a Painter 2 surf/skate-style
sticker. all neatly packed inside a
paint tin - so you need an old
spoon or a scre Wdriver to get In.
Not too eco-friendly, though...
same way. by high lighting lhl: icon.
but now by selecting the Var ia nts pop-up menu which is below the
iCQlls in the Brush Pa lette diaJog box. you ha ve a se lect ion of presets,
so you can seiect your choice from
S ha r p cha lk, Large cha lk or Artist pa stel cha lk.
Leve l three will be most use ful 10 lhe more advanced Macintosh
The other side of Pa;nur's characte r is that of image edi ting . Pa;nu r
has a basic soolbos Ihat will be:
fam iliar to most Macintosh users . wit h the usual ma gn ifier. grabber
1001. eye dropper. se leclion tool and paint bucket. and clicking on the
end of the roonox revea ls four more
toots for c reating ' r»kets (sec lhe Jargon Busre rs panel], and a lex l
Effects menu. A ll e ffects have a
good clear preview of your treat-
me nt in the dialogue box. Fi rst up is a Colou r Onrlay. This is exactly
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a~ il sounds, al lowing you to
overlay a new colour. but also
leuing you mix in a ne w paper
grain. so you can add te xture as well
as a colour sat ura tion. Also you can
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used · Ma: paont ~ - alItIougtIlhere
ani · ClJUllIe of nlM'I ones here
The mllu palette Is clear ..., oetY
"'*' · The 1lIWllll:lW inPiIftef, with · cIixtmenI
ml~ -wIlIdlls peal news for 51'1\!11 SClftfI useR
· wen. ~ the bonom Ief\ ~ corner a T iWflTIa.
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The Paper PIIette CIlSII)lT'I$fS )'011"
paper I f " You Clf'l1Ibo ~ oiler
te.lIt.ft5l!o1l1 PWUf's PiJIII" ~
_ ..... IItIictl contJd)'Oll" - - - can see, Ih!nl is
and laDlil)
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AI PWltf(s ~ cn.q and ctolq ItXJIs ae caIed
bl\IsIle:s. Once \IOU ' - ctlosen the IIrustl and yaria'f. \IOU
wilt, \IOU CIf'IlNf4; <11 anclrnooe il lIxU the screen
rar PEN 1
Usi!' the ten pen tool,
se! up in fe~ marker
mode in the pop up
Variants menu, you
can create punchy,
aeti'Ie looki.. work
whi<:h is ideal for
8dvertislrC 'IisuaIs Of
slO/)' boardl... The I\n~ effect Iool<s very much as W~ had
been created usirl;
Magic Markers Of
somethire similar
FELT PEN 2
AIteInativeIy, usirc the
fek pen tool se! up in
line tip mode from the
Variants menu, you
can produce a look
now very mucIl associ-
ated wittllhe design
fOf'green' prtOJct
~ .k'sfar
cheapef to do than gettirc a specialist photographef with
e- oses ~
works by adjusting the pigments and could be used for darkening an over-exposed photograph.
One of my personal favourites is the Ap ply Lighting item . Th is gives you a dia logue box with your preview and a selection of pre-set lighting sty les, such as Bill board (three to p lights in a row) or Dra ma (one strong centre light. shinning in from the bottom of the frame).
The rest of the controls in the dialog ue box will be fami liar to anybody with a passing interest in studio photography, as you can set the expos ure. brightness, distance and so on of your lighting setup.
Ap ply su rface textu re is yet another great effect which lets you choose a paper grain - matt or gloss, - then select a lighting direc tion from which it will pick up your gram.
Anybody used to working in o the r image editing programs (li ke Adobe Ph otoshop) will fi nd man y of the same image control devices, like distort, fl ip, rotate, softe n and
sharpen. One feature I do like is in
Cloning
the effects me nu, again under
With Painter's cloning feature it is
Focus, called G lass distortion - it' s possible to transform any scanned
a filter which gives the impression
image into almost any an medi um
of your picture being viewed
yo u can d ream up, and in some
through glass. You
cases you can take
hav e plenty of
what is really a
control here; a
fa irly indifferent
sneer bar in your
picture of, say, a
dialog box sets the
land scape or
amoun t o f d istor-
build ing, and by
tion, and a
care fully choosing
variance slider
a new med ium for
gives the impres-
it (and perhaps
sion of shatteri ng
e nhanc ing it with
g lass the more you
ot he r Painter
apply it.
e ffects ) il can be
One of the most realist ic of Painter's e mulations of tradition al an techniques is
WATERCOLOURjSPAITER
In the right hands (not minel), Painter can create a great water coloureffect.
They were neYer my IhirC 1JnfNltf...
transformed into
usa ble artwork or
a ne w piece in ilS own right. Thi s clon ing fea ture
its ability to
can e nhance all
s imulate the effect of marbli ng, You manner of styles by add ing, for
can comrol the angle of rake and the rake itself, by means of spac ing,
ins tance, a painter's eye to a
montage o f scanned-in material or
offset. wavi ness, wavele ngth, phase , changing the feel and lighting of
pull and quality.
your water co lo urs.
Cloni ng is simple to perform: open an already existing Paintercom patible doc ume nt, then se lect Clone fro m the File menu and a duplicate of the image will appear with the new file name C lone of.., You can now app ly all manner of effects to prod uce yo ur wor k, but remem ber that you must keep your origi nal document open if you are using cloning methods (see the boxout on page 46).
Playback function
Strange as it may seem for a paint program, Pa inter has a record and playback function. Th is not only lets you take the le g wor k out of the labour inte ns ive , re peated brush movements stroke, but you can record your whole session , to then play bac k wheneve r you like .
This is not on ly good for displaying yo ur work, but will be a welcome feat ure for art teachers and students alike . It' s an e xce llent way to learn how Painter works, and to
discove r some o f the secrets behi nd
Four steps to new light ing for your scans
.; ru . rol ' ur. " . O. ' lon, WloOow. Bru. h !lrot.
Open )'OtJf image in Pai/ller and select pat 01 ~. as you wouk:l Wyou were makiTf: a photographic contact strip
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lIg h l Colo,
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Now select Surface control and apply lightiTf: from the E1Iem menu. This wi ~ give you a (lialogue box and preview of your image
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beginning 10 fi nd o ut a bit aboutthe pay. as many budget pain' programs definitely the soft ware for you.
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have some of the same features. But
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great painters.
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It may have the ugliest name in the hist ory of hardware , but SuperM ac's VideoSpigot really is a beauty. Andy Storer shows you how to use it t o produce instant Mac movies...
F or most people, just playing back and enjoying movies you 've picked up fro m PO disks, bulletin boards and CD-
ROMs with your QuidTime system
extension will be enough, App le's
own QuickTime starter CD-RO M,
for instance , contains dozens of clips featuring everything fro m NAS A missions to nuclear test foo tage and whac ko 19 50s US te levision extracts. But how do you go about creating your own movies?
Well, at whatever level you're working , there 's t wo d ist inct stages invo lved in the movie business prod uction and post-production.
Applications like Adobe's Premiere
take care of the post- prod uction side of thi ngs - giving you the means of pulling all your footage together,
Sound advice
Although VldeoSpigot doesn't inch.Kle a socnc input socket. yoor movies needn' t be silent. You just have to direct the a udio from yOlJr video sou rce to your Mac's built·in audio socket. If you have an older Mac then you'll need a sound sampling board. In either case. you use your Sound Control Panel to select the device yoo're recording audio with and check the ReGord Audi o box in SCreenPlay's Preferenc es menu. The appropriate sound input device will be triggered and the inwming audio combined.
editing clips, adding effects and laying down soundtracks.
But as far as the actual produclion of you r own video material is concerned you'll need a video digitising board of some kind. And SuperMac's VideoSpigot relatively low-cost. entry level composite video input board is one of the best for the budding Mac videcgrapher.
The Spigot card llook at here fit.'; into Macs with NuBu s e xpansion slots but there' s a version which fits into the PDS slot of LCs.
I loo k a composite video output
from an ageing lye U-Mauc
recorder I picked up in a car boot sale for £25. No really! Ten years ago these babies COSt several thousand so [ had a retired video eng ineer check it over and service
the serves, record and playbac k heads . Hey presto! - a mean beast that knocks out roc k-steady still images and clean moving images from induslrial gauge tape. A modem S- VHS o r Hi-8 deck would giv e you comparable quality but not for less than £50!
The supplied software with the card, ScreenPlay 1.02, requires no system extensions other than
QuickTime so as soon as it's loaded
and an incoming video signal is detected, you immediately have full motion video running in a 7cm x 5cm window in the centre of your Mac' s mon itor.
Simplicity itself
The interface co uldn' t be simpler to use. Clicking on the Live button
displays incoming video , you can resize the display to e ither 192:1: 144 pixels (3.5c m :l: 2 .5cm) o r 388:1: 28 8 pixels (7c m :I: 5cm) by draggi ng on the Size buuon and determ ine the area of the image you want to view with the C rop button .
Clicking the Record button collapses the win dow to a th umb nail view of the incoming video being processed in rea ltime with a readoul of e lapsed lime and frame rate . After a few seconds you hit Stop
and the resulting clip is presented as
an umitled movie with du ration, frame rate and fi le size details, Here you can play back the video cl ip immed iately and frame advance individual shots . If yo u want to change the chroma tint , sat ura tion, colour or hue of the incoming video
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mind that if you want you r movie s
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10 run on slower Macs you should
The neatest fe ature is the abi lity record al the frame rate they can
to editthe cl ip you 've just recorded com fortabl y display.
by means of the slid ing I n and O ut
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point markers. You can quickly
frames left , right and cen tre as they
adjust precisely where you want
auemptto keep up. Wi th an LC this
your clip 10 start and finish.
is 10 frames a second, with a Ilsi it's
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more like 15fps. Movies recorded at slowe r rates have fewer frames and
II'S atthis pointihat you may
therefore smaller fi le sizes,
encounter yOUT first shoc k. A m in ute
of recording typicall y takes up
T hr ills and stills
12Mb of storage space. You can
While in the Preferences menu I
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compression rate at wh ich the clip is
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eventually saved but imagine m y
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surprise when the 2 m inutes 20
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seconds of video I'd just recorded
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the clip w indow and dra g the im age
Time 10 consultthe Prefe r ences away, A new window contain ing the
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any DT P or art package.
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. using a ' 88 Mac 11 accelerated with the qu ality of the image. Wh at
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from severa l consecutive frames together to construct a com pos ite .
So all you need do is point your camera at a still object or pause your VC R, clic k Li ve and then Slop at the desired frame.
But after looking at that daunting 69Mb overhead again I decided to re sample the w ho le lot at a lower frame rate, adju sted the
In and Ou t points of the interim
sequence and headed for the File menu to se lect Save.
Here you're g ive n t ile option o f ch oosing the quality of com press ion you wish to dep loy before you commit the clip to disk .
All the sta ndard QuickTime
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Onl y the latter two should be used with video cl ips, wh ile graph ics and photo can be employed if you're dealing with still images
you've sampled with ScreenPlay.
With each of these options you can also choose how much you want the material to be com pres sed by using a sliding sca ler to de fine the resulting quality.
Basically, if you 've no worri es about spare hard di sk space and don't intend distributing your movies on floppies then go for the highe st qual ity possible.
C onclu sion
V ideoSpigol is an e xcellent yet inex pensive video digitiser which produces impre ssive results .
Its bundled software is straightforward and friendly to use and once you've installed the hardware, sampli ng video is incredibly easy.
Indeed it's hard to see how it co uld be improved other than by knockin g a co uple of hundred quid o ff its recommended retail price!
In short , it' s an ideal set-up if yo u want to produce your own
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lan Waugh shows you how to fine tune your musical masterpiece with quantisation and brings news of music software developments from the Frankfurt Music Fair
11 ,.1 I w, astissue looked at the basic equipment you need to start making music on the Mac. We 'll assume you 've acquired a sequencer and some bits of m usical equipment and installed them in a suitable location. Next, you'H need 10 find a candle with
wicks at both ends and a pot of
coffee. Now what do you do? There are as many approaches to
recording a song as there are
musicians. Two skills you need to
master are arranging and quantisation. Arrangement refers here to the organisation of the sequencer tracks
rather than the creation of brass fo urths and harmony lines.
The arrangement method you use will depend on your sequencer's faci lities and on the way you prefer to work. Most people begin by recording and arranging in a linear
fashion and that's fi ne.
You'll probably find that your record ing is not quite perfect. If you hit any bum notes, these are eas ily
removed in the editor. However. it's
not so easy to adjust the ' feel" of the piece using a note edito r - it would ta ke foreve r to adj ust the timing of each note by hand. Fortunatel y, there's an easier way - quant isa tion.
Quantisation
Quantisation means moving the
notes so lhey sit on certa in divisions
of the beat. For example. if you want a smooth eighth-note walking bass line you wou ld use a quantisation value of eight to make sure the notes sit exactly on each eigh th-note di vision of the bar.
Such severe treatment of th e notes , howe ver. can result in mec hanical music so some
sequencers let you apply a partial
quantisation 10 the notes. This is
sometimes ca lled a strength factor and is usually given as a percentage
which the user can adjust. Instead of pu lling the note from
its current posit ion 10 the nearest
subdivision of the beat. a pa rtial
quantisation of 50 per cent for
example. would only pull it half way. This helps tidy up poor timing while still retaining a few of the errors we refer to as human feel.
Most classical music can be
strictly quantised with no 111 effect.
If you have several orchestral parts playing together then the timing must be tight otherwise the resull will be very raggy indeed.
MOSl dance music is sequenced and this is heavily quantised -cthat's part of its charm. Rock and pop often have a looser fee l and here if s worth experimenling with partial
quamisation although keep the bass
and the drums light.
Into the groove
Quaruisaticn is a great equaliser - if
your performance skills don't match
your musical ideas, quamisation can puttnem in the groove. But beware of fully quantising everything. Se lect the strength of quaruisation 10
Unear versus pattern based recording
There are two ways to put a piece of music togethe r. Linear recording is similar to using a multj-track reel-to-reel recorder. You
record on several parallel trac ks e nding up with a song which runs from the begirm ing to the end. With the development of the compute r-based sequencer, an alternative method was devised - pattern-based recordi ng. This simply involves creat ing a number of individua l patterns and linking them together to form a song, in much the same way that a rhythm track is constructed on a drum machine.
Pattern-based recordi ng has ma ny advantages over linea r recording. A verse section. for examp le. needs only be recorded once but can be used many times . If you dec ide to a lter it, then the alterations automatica lly occur thro ughout the song. tt's easy to ins e rt material into a pattern-based arrangement and to try different versions.
The method you use wi ll depend on the capabilities of your sequencer. Most people start by using linear recording and the ones who rea lly get into it progress to usi ng patterns, though some accomplis hed music ians prefer to mimic the linear audio multi-track tape recorder they we re weaned on.
suit the music. Many sequencers let
you select a section of music for quantisaticn. not the whole track.
Finally, make sure you save your music before quantlsing: it's easier to reload it than it is to re-record it!
All the fun of the fair
While new mus ic software products come on-tine allthe time, the Frankfurt Mus ic Fair is a good opportunity 10 catch most of lhe
'Nhen jIlU get tired of walking around jIlU can
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Press re leases are cheape r!
Opcode's EZ Vision is one of the
best -selling seque ncers on the Mac
mainl y, I suspect, because it's cheap (£100). It makes way for MusicShop.
essent ially a souped-up vers ion o f
EZ Vision with notation. wh ich
should be ava ilable in the s um mer.
Opcod c's top-end seq uencer-
Studio Vision, has been updated to
vers ion 1.5. It features integrated digi tal audio recording, one of the grow ing trends in computer mu sic software devel opment.
Edit One is a cu i-down vers ion o f
Opcode's famou s Galaxy Plus
Editor fo r users w ho only need a
orccce had alarge number of Mac software programs OIl show at tlle Frankfurt fair
si ngle ed itor or librarian . A nd the de ve lopme nt boys haven 't fo rgotte n about ed ucation as Opcode releases
an ear training program called Ctaire
(t here's a song there somewhere). S teinbc rg cont inues to de velop
Cubase, Cubase Score and Cl/base Audio w hich integrates the Cuhast:
seque ncer with direct-to-disc record-
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Aneo' quantisation the notes sit on the correct bar divisions for eighth note triplets. Note that in the QuIntlM boI the EntIN Nob Ojl(ion was selecIed as 0\lIl0Sed to the AtIKkI only button. This maintains the duration of thIl notes. 1f )'Oll ~ this ligure with the pre-.;ous one )'OIl Will see that the aIlTIplete notes have been moved rathef than Just the stet ofthe notes
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Ojl(ion, 'INs can be applied most effectively to runs of regular notes - such as Mr Bach used to write
This is what aswil1 ~sation can do to Bach's Jesu Jay. It's easier to see the
effect ina notation progrlJll thana grid editor
Logic and Notator Logic Audio which also integrates the sequencer
with direct-to-disc record ing. Cubase Audio has the edge over
teouuor Logic Audio at the momen t.
Cubast is already well-known and well-loved by thousands of music ians who migrated to the Mac
from the ST. The main wgic sequencer is still being updated,
~ign coeurces ~s successful rqe of
SoIro' rools record ing systems
albeit quite rapidly. so we are
unlike ly to see a defi nitive version
of wgic A udio for a wh ile.
Lost in France
Digidesign's range o f d irect-to- disc So und Tools software con tinues to develop. The company recently removed its UK distribut ion to a HQ in France bu t has seen the error of its ways and is in the process of appoint ing a UK contact - whose phone number they did not have. We ' ll tell you when they te ll us!
Akai has taken on distribut ion of editing software for the company's S 1000/1 100 range of samplers. The soft ware was deve loped by Italian company Intersound & Soft and although it is only currently available for the ST, it is being ported 10
the Mac . Versions are also be ing
developed for Akat's new SOl and S3000 series of samplers.
The musical instrument manufacturers have started to notice computer-based music making . Roland and Yamaha both have new pac kages based on a sound module with bundled software.
Roland is using the Se-7. a General MlD1-.::om palible expander with sockets which connect directly to the Mac. sav ing you the expense of a separate MIDI interface.
Apart from the most fo rgettable
name in music land, Roland's DTM-
7-A PL (£335) pac k includes the SC- 7. Band-in-a-Box (an accompaniment ge neration program) and the Turbo Trax sequencer-
Yamaha is puuing together a
Apple was there , t!lotJglI ~ len the demonstra-
tion of music softWare to the other lXIlIlpanieS
bundle called Hello! Music! . It
consists of the CBX·K3, which is a
revamped version of the TG 100 GM
expander and it, too, can connect
directly to the Mac , The software
which will accompany it (sorryl) is
still being decided along with the
package price. A CBX-K3 keyboard
and CBX-S3 powered speakers are
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Quantisaricn is such an essential part of modem sequencing that some seq uencers even let you
quantise notes while recording. This can be useful
when recording regular runs of notes such as a walking bass line, or for notes which you find difficult to play suc h as triplet arpeggios. or to ensure that the note s in a chord start at exactly the
same moment. It can also save you time as you
don' , have to quaruise the track later on. However, if the sequencer has good quantise
facilities, you will retain more fl exibil ity by quantising after recording. You will be ab le to quantise only a section of the music ( if your
sequencer allows this) and you lessen the risk of
having a really ou t-of-time note put onto the wrong beat division - e ither too late or too ea rly.
Quantisation is a very final process, one which permanently alters your data. If you get the quanti sat ion right, that's okay. But if you get it wrong you will have to reload the fi le and try anoth er quanti se setting. It' s not an ideal situation.
So some sequencers have a ' quantise on playback' function which onl y. er, qu antises the note s on playback. As well as preserving yo ur orig inal data. this lets you try different quantise values before selecting the o ne which so unds best. This is by far the best option and a fac ility to chec k for if you' re in the mark et for a sequencer.
Although scque ncers are capable of very subtle
quantisarion, it' s still quantisation - it still pushe s
and pull s notes towards ce rta in d ivisions of the beat. If you e nter a section of music in step-time,
that' s the equivalent o f 100 per ce nt q uantlsanon
and consequently it will lack any kind of feel.
Humanisation
Some sequenccrs co mpensate for this lack o f feel with a humanisation function. Used carefully, it can put back a bit of error into an otherwise mechanical performance . Master Tracks Pro has quite a so phisticated humanisation function which lets you adjust not only the start times of the notes but the durations and the velocities , too. mf
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Contacts
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ishi ngly capable package for its modest £147 price. It was stated in that review that comparable budget offerings from the DTP big names came in at around £50 more than
Easy, but prices had begun 10
realign even as we wrote. The recommended tag on
Version 2 of Personal Press is now
just £116. and for that price it's a surprisingly good piece of software.
This package sells on tne slogan that it' s ' the first automated pagelayou t program'. This refers to a
unique feature called Acrccreere. in
which you select a document
template (either one of those supplied or one you have created yourself). tell the program which
text documents and graph ics you
want to use in the text and gra phics
areas built into the template, and it
will make them fit for you. AutoCreate is too big a feature to
go into in deta il here: it wo uld almost need an article o f its own. so we will be ret urning to it for a mo re detailed examinat ion in the near future. and concentrating for now on examining the more orthodox features of the package.
Text and graphics
Like Quar1r.XPress. Personal Press is based on the concept of creating a set of design frames to be filled with either text or graphics. These frames are known as 'objects' in this program, and in many ways it does not discriminate between text and graphic objects - both can be rotated by any whole number of degrees. fo r example.
Copy can be typed directly into any tex t object, or imponed from ou tside the program ~ it can read and import Microsof t Word/Works, MacWrite, MacWrite If and
w riieteow If documents . plus ASC II
(text only) fil es. which any sens ible
word processor can export tex t as.
and RTF (Ric h Text Form at fi les. carry ing font and style info rma tion
as well as ASC II characters) which
an increasing num ber of word processors also support.
If you are importing text. you have the option to look at the fi rst few lines of any story selected in a preview windo w. In fact. Personal Press is though tful all ro und on pre viewing. Yo u can take a peek at graphics be fore importing them and documents before openi ng them : when you change ty pe specs in the te xt di alog . a WY SIW YG (What
PersooaI Press lets too kIok at ee first
few lioes ot tell ~les before )'Ol.I import
\hem into a document
You See Is What Yo u Get ) sam ple o f the font. sty le and size comes up so you know what you're asking for.
Word for word
Bas ic word proce ssing facilitie s are built into the program ~ rather more than basic in some cases. For exam ple, the fi nd and c hange dialog ues can be zoomed to incor-
pcrate typographic al information . so
as well as being able to find all ins tances of a give n word or phrase, you can rep lace only those examples in 12pt Heivetica. or change them to
the same or another word in a differ-
ent ty peface. The program wi ll use any of
you r fonts in s izes from 6-500 poi nts , with the usual style o ptions such as bold or underline. and with alignment choices
Text objects can be c hained
How Personal Press makes text fit the space
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seiecuco arrow: selects both · text arid graphic objects, resues them and moves them around the page
IAITeKt tool: creates new text objects and can be used to enter or edit text in existing text obj ects
IaiJ Link 1001: links text objects
~ into a story chain . or can be
used to draw linked text
I~ ~I Unlink tool: unlinks text
,181 objects from a sto ry chain (lin k
passes to next cojecr in the cha in)
I ~ I Posted note tool: ,creates the
eqclvatent of a suc k-on commen ts note to be attached to the docu ment
[PI] Page numbering tool:
l:!J automates consecutive
num bering of bac kground pages in your publication
[A] Date tool: sets up t he
lllI automatic add ition of the
current dale to each page of
the pu blication
OCE)I Time tool: sets up the
., .' automatic addition of the current time to each page of the publicat ion
[Fi'i;l Grabber hand: hotds onto the
l:i..1J page and moves it around in
the window - an alte rnative 10 the
scroll bar
I!:iI Cropping tool: restzes graphic ~ objects to show pon jon of image without changing s ize 01
~nl Equals tool: m akes one
U objec t the same size as
another. With (comma nd) key. cop ies object attributes
i±J r:::Ll PerpendiculClr line toot: drClws horizontal and vertical lines from Cl choice 01 styles and patterns
r:-l ure tool: draws straight lines
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[shift] for perpendicular and 450
R Rectangle tool: crews recteo
Q gjes - use with [option] [shift]
corntnnatton to restrict shape to
gR
Rounded rectangle tooi : draws rectangles (sq uares us ing
[option] [shift]) with round-ed corners
r.::=:::1 Ova! tool: crews ovals - hold
lQj do wn (option] [shift] combina-
tion to restrict shapes to Circles
together to flow co py between them. You can' t see the links. but there 's a pop-up navi gator which you can use 10 follow the co py flow if yo u've
forgotten which objects you 've
chained together. I do have a co uple o f gripes
about the typographica l handling o f Personal PrH S, which are detailed
later. These are picked out not to be
gratuitously mean. but for the
particular information of serious
designers who might not regard the package as quite such a bargain in view of the shortco mings in lhe leading and kem ing departments.
Gra phics capabilities
Graphic handling extends to PICT ( 1-24- bil), T IFF ( 1/418-bic), E PS ,
MacPaim , ThllnderSNm . S" perPaim PICT and Digi/al Darkroom PICT
and Archive . There's a standard
Appl e Scanner dri ver built In, and QllickTime movies can also IX' placed in documents.
Li ke PUBLfSH·{n Easy,
Personal Press does not handle full colou r work. so only mono and greyscare images are supported there a re useful co ntrols fo r modify -
lIlg the look of greyscale images.
Graphi cs m ay be cropped and
scaled in the dialogjpreview. or imported full size ami manipulated
o n- pag e. Te xt can be wrapped aro und the rectangular boundary o f an object , or around the shape of the
graphic it contains. There are far too many features
in P l,'rSOIlO! Pr ess to li st all of them
here. but some worth noting are spot co lour support. automated drop, raised and adjacent caps. automated
drop shadows, spe ll ing c hec ker with
suppl ied dicl ionary (user dicnonar-
ics can be cre ated) . thesaurus, the
abilit y 10 stick the electronic eq uivalent of Post -it notes 10 documents. automated objec t alignment and
obj ect nudging (sh ifting objects by
one pixel at a t ime),
Leading and kerning
The cleara nce be tween lines is
know n as ' lead ing - (pronounced
'tedding " - see Design Co unsel in M acFormat issue I for an explana-
lion of how it works) and tile space
between letters as 'kernin g" . and i n bo th respect s Personal Press is a link disappc innng. To help the
nov ice, m an y DTP packages now i ncorpor ate a feature to lead text autom atically to defau lt val ues
which w i ll be approxi m atel y
correct. bUI with an overri de for the expe rienced designer.
To this extent. Persona! Press
comes up to scratch. It adds default
leading to any texl you ente r or
import. and there is Cl dialogue
whi ch allows the 'l ine spacing' to
be modified i n f ull poi nt Increments from -72 to +72 points. W hat it
won 'tler you do, however . i s
specify the leading on an indepen-
den t basi s. In a pack age such as
QuarkXPress , i f the type is specified
as IOpt on auto. you can leave the
'auto' specification on and nudge the leading up or down in the same
way, but it is also possib le to
override the auto command and
enter a specific leadi ng size .
This option is not simply
missmg In Personal Press: because
you have no indication wh at file
value of defau lt leading is, the only way to be sure you've achieved a specific leading value is to print out
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A feat ure Personal Press makes extenslve use of in its 'autom ated page-iayout'
is its copy fitting capability. I put this feature to the test in a scratch document by ask ing t he progra m to m ake a top-of-page story fit the same dep th as a gr aphic incorporated in the story space.
D The /i rst ste p was to set up a simple document. headline it and import one of the pr actice clip-art greptucs provided with the package. The
graph ic has been siZed to a little less than half the page width, With a singlecolumn text object P\lnning alongside it to the same depth, An old style gUide extract has been imported as sample text .
D I have chosen copy which is currently 100 short to fit the space provided. Before aflem pting a copy lit, it is possible to determine which permutation of three parameters should be ailowed as variables, In th is case. I'm pe rmitt ing the program to j uggle wit h all three - the s ize of the type, the amount of leading and the space between paragraphs.
El This is what Personal Press has to offer - a sol ution that you could have arrived at manua lly, but rather teas quickly, part icularly if you are not accus tom ed to fiddling wit h typography in this way . The results aren't always what a professiona l designer would come up with, but they would prove perfectly accept able in the average club newsletter.
The range of palettes in Personal Press 2.0
Line Indicator: shows hne
sty1e cu rrentl y selected
Main Tools: see di~ag,~.:m:..
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Li ne Style s Palette: scrolling select ion of available line styles
Image Controls Pale tte : for adjustrng the apoeara nce of greysceie images
Pre se t gra ph for 1:1 grey value ma pping. a lso ret urns modified image s to normal s e tti ng s
Sl ide. contro l for adjust ing the brightness of an im age
Slide. control for Mjusting
the contrast of an image
Pre s et po stertsa tfon graph co nverts an image to just four sh ades of grey
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a typescale and then add or subtract leading as appropriate.
There's a more serious problem in the kem ing department. In the example shown here. [ have se t a Ileadline requ iring four pa ir kern
adjustments in rersooat Pr/,SS (top) and in QuarkXP,f'Ss. for comparison
of what a hrgh-end package can do .
The res ults are identic al up 10 the
"I". but then see ho w XPress pu lls back the' A' so that the crossbar of
the ' r hangs o ver it. whi le
Personal Press leave s too large
space between them. The same is true of 'AW', ' WA' and 'A y ' ,
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eac h o ffend ing space and reducing the kcrnin g in the C ha r act er s paci ng dia log ue, but if s a poor show that you should need 10 do this by eye when thcre's dat a bu ilt into the fon t to tell thc software how to do it for you auto matically,
T he verdict
PUBLlSH· ITI ElIsy was described
in M acForma t issue I as 'by far the best va lue DT P package arou nd' on
the baS IS of a £200 pncc tag on Ptr,~ol1111 Press. Alt ho ugh 'best
val ue' probab ly still st ands, the words ' by far' m ust be retracted in vie w of the ex tremely cornpe utivc price of th is new version, It lac ks the comprehe nsive range of dra wi ng tools offered by Easv (just rectangles , rou nded corne r rectangles. ova ls, straight lines and object fi lls he re), an d doesn't have the built-i n da tabase, btu otherwise it matc hes many of the fea tures of Its nearest rival an d has a few uniqu e ones of its o wn ~ notably, the whol e
AutoCrealc system. Personoi Press is excellent in
parts - some of its features were n't av ailable at any price whe n I ed ited my firs t dcsktop-publisbed m agazine ~ bUI it does ha ve some shortco mmgs . It would be c hurlish to criticise a package which can be picked up for under £1 20 fo r not matching software at five times its price. but it does see m odd for a
prod uct with so many be lls and whist les to fall short of the mark on leading and keming features.
The oversights in thi s package would put off the majority of
publish ing professionals , but it is
well wort h considering for those whose aspirations run 10 company statio nery and newslette rs . mt
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Pu.': fi le (ormal commonly used for gr..phic< from a draw package, l1Iese are objecl-oriented (lhey desc ribe lhe relalive sires. weighls and posilions of shal" eS, Iilles and so on). and Can use the full resolution specifi ed by your QuickDmw or PostScript OU lput de vice, no mallcr whal size you scale lhem 10. NB : Some bitmaps can be saved as Pler.<. SO knowing lhar a gnophlc is a Pier IS no! a guaranlee Ihal n IS objecl-orienled
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To get the best out of an A4 page, you need to know about grids, picture placement and use
of space. Designer Gordon Druce teaches you the rudiments of good page design
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The basic grid
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There are tour basic w~ of dMdirc up this standard AA
window frame. You will now see how this configuration.
shape by s licing the AA pa£e IrllO seetiorls Ot vertical
based on one, two and wee columns has become the
co lumns. You can have one NU column (usually the default s tanda rd; these propoI'tion$ are what we expect (0 see; we
grid style ). or two and three column arrangements. The
are happy looking at these patle m$. Take a look at other
other option open to you Is (0 split the page horizontally.
printed material a nd you wi ll see how oh.en this standard
To constsuct 11 basic grid. you need to combine an arrange- grid crops up; for simple an<tngements of material a's
ment of both vertical and horiuPntal columns, (see
great. SO by sticking to this traditional format you will help
Illustration) (0 split up the space rather like a nine-paoed
yourself and the reader will feel more at home.
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Pictures
One c:oIumn, with large
pictUfe and headi~
One full column, diYkIed up with tIvee ~Iustrations
One wide column with text
~ around the pictures
Illustrations. diagrams and pictures can be Inserted into a
one column grid at My size you want them. But you will
QUlck/y diSOOYllf that if you use your pictures to the full ""'dth of your default OI1ft.(:(lll,llTVllrid. they will appear oveno.tleImirc and the wtlole pap will be tal<eo up with your IllUstration or picture. This is fine if the subject matter
of that picture is very Important (0 )'Oll. But it is more likely
that you will need 8 more balanced mix of words and
pictures. Iiere are a few llSeas to help)'Oll slot in pictures
to the one<oIurm fom'Illt. As you can see it is possible to place plttl.ll'es and/or illustIatlons of many different
shapes and s izes into your grid. If you want to use a portrait-shaped picture and a smaller refereooe photo-
graph, then you coukl lry lISirc a runaround. ThIs means text IIowif1g around a picture. Try this by p(aclrc your
picture boxes ./ttttirc into the sirC\e colOOVl of text and let
the pic;:tures push the IIOOrtts into the remainirc shape . But don't 0YefI0ad this style of layout with too many pictures ancl inustrations. as this brakes up the flow of)'OlM" mater-
ial and makes the page feel ctlaotie and unfriendly to the
reader. SO keep it smpIe - one tlWge element and two or three others at the maximum.
I~ J\l s rreneoeed in <he ' ''' issue of MacFormat, in t.his design section we ' ll be looking
at a wide variety of topics linked to art and design. This month 's topic is grids. Most Macintosh owners already use a grid of some son, even
if it ' s only the defau.lt grid style of
their word processing program.
FITSl icl: me debunk a bit of design jargon. A grid is just a way of organising space on a page. 11'5 a simple and common-sense 1001, to
help you arrange your words and
pictures in the mosl effective way
possible. So how can using grids
help you gel your message over
more effectively'!
Take a look al almost any printed matter, from the newspaper you read, to the j unk m ail thal comes through the Ietterbox. 11Jey all have some sort o f grid or structure, they are al l trying to persuade
you to read them , and e mploy ing all sorts o f visual tricks in do ing so.
For example, which do you prefer to read, wide co lumns of
type. say 30 words in a line or na rro wer . say around eight words a line, (li ke this M ac For mal page)'! O n the whole people like shorte r lines of type, just becau se it' s easier and fas ter 10 read.
Plan ahead
Before you stan working with grids. ,
there is one bit o f common sense :
that somet imes gelS forgo tten in the
eagerness to sw itch your Macintosh
on and gel started. and that's to
clarify the contenl of l!'le material .
11' 5 no good dreaming up some
snazzy· looking page layou t, poster
design or visiting card layoul, then
go forcing the material into that design, JUSt because you think il looks 'cool' or inleresting.
Tbe pattern or lay-OOl you choose should be sensitive to the
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material you have 10 work w ith. So.
for instance. you don ' t design a
funen.l service sheet: that looks Tl'IOl't
like a rave flyer. You must have '
some understanding o f the informa-
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The one-column format is the mos t straightforward and easiest to use, All you have to do is choose how wide your margins are going to be and what 's left is your column sire .
By leaving a lot of depth at the top of the page you give a lighter appearance t o your work. If you leave space free at the bottom of the page it can
be utilised for reference information.
By changing the size of your
margins it Is possible to give your
page the feeling of grace and
One column filling the wtlole ~ - not very anrecuee
More space at the top makes
fIX a mlll;h friend lier page
Space at the bottom - not
such a good dea
Wicle margins add eegerce
and value to the page
elegance. Try making your margins much wider; this will give your work
the ecceererce of more value ,
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ti on before y ou can help th e reader 10 digest i t more easi ly.
This might sound like stati ng the obviou s, but you would be surprised how many trained designers forget
, to read the material they are about
to lay out . So read it through , and make sense of it. If y ou d id not
write the words or originate the picture and/or illustrations yourself,
then talk to the person who did. Find out wh at' s important. What
may seem unim portant to you
maybe crucial to the unders tanding
of the total document. G ell ing the
content clear in your mind early on in the process will hel p you get a bener result in the long run.
You will quickly fi nd that you are already starting to give your information a natural sense o f order and structu re, which is going to make your life placing it on a grid much easier.
Default grids
M ost Macintosh w ord processing
software and DTP programs -
, whether it is powerful ' i ndustry
,: standard ' software like
: QuarkXPress and A/dus : PClgeMClker, or the excellen t budget
: DTP software PUBUSH-rrl ECJSY -
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,: the f ull page of A4 with a small
: margin, so your documents are : 2 1cm wi de and 29 .7cm high , (including the margins). Th is is
because A4 is the mos t co mmon Briti sh paper size .
So you hav e your sketch, plus the rest of your information, and your A4 document set up and ready to go. Around th is page are fi ve
bas ic tips f or using a si mple A4
grid, 10 help in the o rganisation of your material. rnf
Margins
Plenty of margin, so no type
is likely 10 be trimmed
Leave a good malgin so the
paper can be held
Space
One column - with space to ~I the heading stand out
One narrow column with
hanging indents
The space left on your page is a desi rable element in your design whether it Is at the top of the page or at the side, If your work is part of a multiple page document yoo can use this 'white space' to drop in your chapter headings, or maybe leave a large margin one side of your page aOO construct what is knoWn as a 'hanging indent' . This lets you highlight important information by letting the mai n facts or headings of your document stan d out in the space. You will see th is technique put to good use in well designed technical manuals. B~ leaving a large
Margins are not just a little slice of White or coloured space left around the border of a page, just because a designer thought · oh that will looks really neatl ". There
are good reasons to have 10 or 15 cm margins around
your A4 page. For one , it allows for any inaccuracy in the manufacturing or output of your document. You do not want any of your wor!< to be trimmed off by mistake , Next you not only want the reader to fee l at home with the document's format , but you might want them to pick it up. SO you should leave plenty of space around the edge, so their fingers will not cover any of the text and
make it uncomfortable to read, (more common sense
really), Also remember your work may have other uses;
if your document is to be stored in a binder , you may
need extra space in the left hand margin
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Narrow column, using extra space for a picture
central column, using extra space for pictures
margin on th e right or the left, you affo rd yoorself the opportunity to drop In a picture or small illustration and any other snippets of Information you would like to gWe special prom inence to . This extra white space surround ing
a one colum n layout can be surprisingly useful. But take
care, do not start filling th is space up with diagrams, pictures, and margin roteuces. because you will destroy
the very effect you are trying to achieve, by choking t he
informati on, instead of letti ng it breathe and making it more accessible.
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Claris has just released version 2.0 of its popular ClarisWorks package. lan Wrigley puts a beta test version through its paces
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inood'lced. C/orisWorb has been die IIWtcl-lcading integrated pad:age. This is partly beca use it "''as the fim ' real.' applM:aI}on in !he
martel - Mk rosofi Works 2.0 was I
collection of linked. nlllher than integrated. programs - and part ly because it really is very good, and vtty good value for money. Now l'U'5ion 2.0 has come along. promising an added paint module. an
outliner. I slide show. shonculS (JnacrO$) and am features in some
other modules.
Looking good
Numerous changes have been made
to !he user interface; the most obvious one i ~ that - if you're using a colour MllC - all the buttons in the «clbars and rulers are now in an euractive greyscare. bas-retlef style.
All tear-off palettes, such as colou r. arrows. line widths and 50 on, now have ' gravity zoom boxes'.
These arc similar 10 the ones found
in MacWrirl' Pro palettes (turn to page 66 for a rev ie w of MacWrilt Pro) and . when cl icked. shrink the palette and place il 011 the right hand side of the main monitor. To speed things up more. (option l-cticking
on lhe G r avity zoom box will collapse or expand all the pajenes
curren tly open. and [optio n )-click ing on the close box will c lose al l
lear-off palettes.
TIx: worn percentage box al the
bouom -Iefl of the window is now a pop-up menu with a variety of
different sizes 10 choose from;
prev ious ly il j ust cycled between the
current size and a 100 per cent view. You can choose a size 00( currently
on the me nu by selec ting the Othn..· option.
Tbe Preferences section has undergone a major overhaul. 10 reffect the weal th o f new features throughoutthe rest of the prog ram.
11 now resem bles the Syste m 6
Co nt r ol Panel display - agai n. something which is becom ing
almost standard in many programs.
Separate sections are provided for te xt. graphics, pajcues and commumcarlon s - sho wing that com ms is no longer the black sheep of the mod ule fam ily.
Word up!
The modu le w hich most people wi ll use for mOSI of lhe time is word proce ssing. Th is has been improved quite radically s ince Ctaris w orks
1.0 - allhough even lhat version was
perfectly usable . Version 2.0·s word
processing modu le really is jusr as
good as a stand-alone package - il
has many of M acWr i l//! Pr o' s features. and could cenainl y knock
MacWritt! 11 inlO I cocked haL 11Je ru ler has I new pair o f
buuons in e vidence, which conlrOl
the number o f col umns in the
document You cl ick 10 increase or
decrease the number, or you can select this d irttlly from the
Co lu m ns ... item in the Fo r m.at
menu. Columns can be of ide ntical
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width . or you can have some wider than others. and vary the space betwee n them. Again, this is all selectabje fro m the Formal me nu.
or by [op tion )-cl icking on a
co lumn' s ma rgi n and d ragg ing it to the req uired place 011 the page . Text rettows automatic ally and vin ually
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A P.an graph Forma t d ialogue box has been Ukd. which allows
you to specify such things as the left indent. first line indent and right
indent numerically, rather than via the ru ler. Yoo can also set line spacing and the space befoxe and afte r paragraphs; line spacing can also be set by clicking a button in
the ruler, as was the case in versioo I . Ho we ver, you can now specify
measure me nts 00( only in lines and points . but also in inches. m illimetres, centimetres or picas.
Also new is a T a b d ialogue box. which again al lows you to spec ify tab stops numerically. Yo u can also se lec t the fill character from one of fo ur alte rna tives, and specify what
character the decimal cab al igns on (no nnally a full sto p, of course).
The re are plenty of other ' hidde n ' feat ures too - such as hold ing down the [op tion ] key when us ing the Insert Date, Time
or Page # commands fro m the Edit menu, whi ch will insert neverupdated value s in the
curre nuy-selecred format - and a
thorough read of the manual will be necessary 10 get the absolute best from the program.
M inor problems
There are still a couple of niggling
little problems with the module, though (aren't there always'!).
Double-clickin g 011 a word and then
hi tting the (dekte ) key removes the
word but 00( the space thal fo llowed il - so you' re left with two spaces between the pre vious and next
words. And wh y ob wh y hasn 't
Claris implemented a pOptr word COlInt feature'! You m USl still check the whole document's spellin g 10 find out how many words you 've . ·.. · .. · . . · .
written. Now, c hec king a document ' s spelling is an admirabl e thing to do - but finding out that the word ' Mac' isn't in the dictio nary seventeen times in an hour and a half becomes rathe r tiresome if all yo u want to know is the word count.
Following the outline
One of the main new features added
to ClarisWorks 2,0 is, in fact, pan of
the word processing module: an outliner. This is a way or organising yo ur thoughts before you start writing. You se t down section headings, sub-headings and so on. These are displayed as a ' tree struc ture' , so that you can write paragraphs under each heading.
ClarisWorks' outliner seems
reasonably po werful (although I
now ost as powerful as that In Excel
must come clean and confess that I don 't use one myself). You switch betwee n outline mode and no rma l text mode by selecting Outline vtew from (surprisingly) the Ou tli ne menu. From there you can enter your top ics, using [command ) [Ll and [command ) [RI to select ne w top ic s on a higher or lower le vel than the present one. All the usual outliner features, such as promoting and demoting a topic or moving it around the docu ment are supported.
the latte r by clic king on the topic and dragging it to its new position. Yo u can co llapse the outline down to its basic core topics, or expand it to a use r-selected leve l. which makes for easier perusing o f a comp licated document.
Each topic has a marker in front of its na me; this can be selected from a large range , encompassing s uch things as diamonds , bullet points and e ven the 'legal' style. which gives yo u things like subsections labelled ' 3.1.2.4 '. Or, if you prefer, yo u can dispense with markers altoge ther. The marker format can be spec ifi ed for each diffe rent topic - alth ough quite why you'd want to do that is beyond me .
If the lack of an o utliner has previously put you off using
- New to ClarisWorks
the slide show
You can now use Claris Worlls as a presentation tool, thanks to a new slide sho w option wh ich Is available In eve ry
module except comms. To use It, you s imply select Slide show from the View menu. A dialogue box will appear asking you to specify how the slides will a ppear - whether they s hould be scaled to fit, centred on the screen and so on - a nd how transitions shocld lake place; whethe r slides fade from one to another, continuously cycle, a nd whethe r they should ectc-eevance - in wh ich case you can specify how many seconds each one should be displayed.
The actual slides a re the pages of your cccu ment. which is where the Master pa&e option in the draw module come s in: you can define a Slandard backgroond for your slide s and then create however many different pages you want. e ach with differentlnformatlon over the standard background. To order the slides you just drag the page numbers around in a windoW until they're In the ccerect sequence.
Slides can be de fi ned as opaque - that is, the page will be displayed as an individu al slide - or trans pa re nt. where the page wilt be shown on top of the previous slide, so complex diagrams can be built up from s ucceeding slides. If you don't wa nt a page to be sho wn at all, you define It as
blank. If you've Included a QW;kTime movie in any of your s lides, this can be set to play automatically when the slide is displayed, or 0f11y to play when clicked on . If there is lTlOfe then one movie on a s lide, you can choose to have them all play at once or 10 play coosecutively.
While the slide show secncn isn't intended to be 11 re placement for dedicated packages li ke Microsoft PowerPolnt and Aldus Persuasion, il provides a re asonable, IQVHXlst alte rnative 10 those packages for people who only occas ionally give compute r-based presentations and can't Ju stify the cost of a dedicated program.
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completely sa tisfi ed now. Most people , I suspect, wi ll never use this particular feat ure after an initial experiment or two .
Drawing conclusions
The o ld ClarisWorks graphics
modu le has been replaced by two new ones: draw and paint. They share some of the same tools, a lthough they use the m in a rather different way .
The difference between 'draw' and 'paint ' is that draw packages are what is known as 'objec t oriented ' . ThaI is, once you' ve drawn an object yo u can alter it, move it aro und and reshape it. Once an objec t has been placed in a paint pac kage , on the other hand , it ceases to be an 'object' and instead just becomes a collec tion of pixels. So you can rub bits of it out and move chu nks around , but you can ' t resiu or reshape it, and it will e rase anything that was underneath it.
Taking the draw module fi rst, thi s has new tools for creating ' be rigons' and regular-shaped polygons. Bezigons are smoothlycurved objects cre ated using Bezier curves, which are used in virtua lly eve ry high-end drawing package.'
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Put simply , a Bezier curve provides
' handles' on any line. with whi ch you can define ho w sharpl y it c urves and in what d irect ion. The polygon tool all o ws you to select th e number of sides that your shape will have, and allows you to rotate thal shape before you place it.
The draw module now ha s a
'maste r page'; when you create ne w pages, any item s on the master page will be automati cally placed on them. This is usefu l for page layout, where you want thing s like a
newsletter's page numbers and columns of text to be in th e same
position o n eac h page . The paint modul e has all of the
above tool s - a lthough once the object has been drawn, it is tre ated
like a paint object and can 't be
mani pulated. There are also the standard pain t package tool s , such
as a marquee and lasso for selecting
areas, a magic wand for auto-select-
ing areas with the same co lour, and brush, pen cil, paint bucket. spray can and eraser tools for pain tin g .
A number of different e ffects can be applied to an y area of your paint
document , includin g dis tortion. a
perspecti ve effect and free rotation. There are gradient fills available , and these can be ed ited if you want.
Charting the spread
The spreadshcer module has had a few minor improvements made-
the major c hange is in the c harting section , where there are a large
number of im provements. Users can now c hoose from ten different types of chart , all of which can be in colour and man y o f Which can be
shown as 3D. Labels and legends
are easy 10 add , and bar and histogram charts can include pictures in them - pictures which you can create in the draw or paint
modul e. All in all, the c harting
modul e is now almost as powerful as those in Excel and Resolve - and should certainly cate r for most
~pl e's n~s.
Data management
The database modu le has inherited a number of new featu res from Clans " full y-fledged product, FileMaker Pro. For a start, suppo rt for Ave ry labels has been added. Anyone who
Irms risWorks as
t he best pack age
has w asted sheets and sheets trying to get label s to print out accurately w ill upgrade for this feature alon e !
Some fie ld types - text, number. dale and time - now have ' auto entry ' options - which mean s that dat a will au tomat icall y be placed in the field w hen a ne w record is created. You can a uto-enter things such as the cre at ion date or time , or a serial number - the program will allow you 10 specify the starting number and the increment. You can also check that a fi eld is not empty, is uniq ue or is w ithin a spec ifi ed range . Finall y, yo u can also set up a pre-dcfined list o f data whi ch pops up when the fie ld is se lected. Thi s way, the user needs onl y c lic k on a value for it to be e ntered in the fi e ld - great if you want pan numbe rs or something s im ilar to be input.
Communication
The ccmms module has been upgraded some what - it' s rathe r more user-friendly and now s uppo rts a phone book whe re you can enter the phone numbe rs for an y
regularl y-d ia lled bulletin board s o r whatever. There are cosmetic improvements 10 the d isplay. includ ing a split- pane option (w here the w indow can be split into two) and the option to e xpand the w indow vertically . A timer di splays how long yo u've been on -line.
Claris now includes a Kermit file
me transfer tool with program-
Kermit is a file transfer protocol und erstood by just about every
computer in the world, so you
should have no problem dewnload-
ing files no matter w hat machine you want to connect to .
Shall I upgrade?
Whether to upgrade a program or no t is often a tricky qu estion: with ClarisWarks 2.0 there rea lly is no qucstion e- the extra features in the word process ing modu le alone should have you reaching for your cheque book; combine this with
th ings like the new range of charts
in the spreadsheet module and the
ne w paint module , and it 's we ll worth Ihe upgrade fee .
And if yo u are st ill tryin g to
dec ide w hich integrated package to
buy. this is a major upgrade to a
best -selling appli cation and solidly confirms Ctarisworks as the best integrated pac kage o n the market. It ' s hard to know w hat the com pet it ion can possi bly do to knock it fro m that posit ion now . ...
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I)iaklgue box: a window which appears 011 the screen asking you for <ome IIl fonnation - for example, if you save a fi le, the window which appears asklllg you where you wam to save hrc is a dialogue box
Field : a database record wntain . fields. which are spaces where the user can enter data. For msrance. a database set up as an address boot;: would have fields for a person's name, address and phone number
Macro: a macro is li ke a recording of actions thal you perfonn wll h lhe keyboard and mouse. Once made, this re<;ording Can then be played back . SupjlOS<" you frequently open a dmabase of your home accounts, SOT1 rtrc find 311 the unpaid bills, prim those lIe1ails and then close the database. All of these actions are identical every time. so you can record a macro which 'watches' you do the task once. and then repeats it whenever you want
I';xtl : one dot on the monilor - the smallesl dIstingu ishable element
Qu ielffime: Apple's methOO of displaying moving video and sound from wi thin Mac applicalions
C1arisWor ks 2.0
Some of the more sophisticated features tak e a littl e ge tt ing used to, but basically they don 't come much more user-friendl y th an thi s.
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1Il Clarl,Worl/, requires any Mac with 1Mb of RAM to run, or 2Mb If yoo 'li are running System 7 or want to use the eomms module. It Is available
from Frontllne on 0256 20534 and costs £229. An upgrade from
.... version 1.0 of the program costs £55,
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Syste m 7 was released - which
makes it roughly two years ago .
Indeed , some members of IlK: press
were eve n shown a ' late beta
version' at thatrime. But it' s taken
Unlit now for the product to be
released - during which lime
Microsoft has established some thing
of a stranglehold on high -end word
processing with Word 5. /, whil e
integrated packages such as Clans'
own Claris Works have word
processing modules almost as good
as MocW,ite If. So MocWrilt' Pro
really does have 10 be something
special to redress the balance. BUI is
it really special?
Well. based on evaluating a beta
version of the software (w hich
should be shipping by the time this
issue of Ma cJo'ormat is on the
newsstands) the an swer is a
resounding 'Yes '! MaclVrire Pro
has eno ugh tool s to sati sfy almost
e veryone ; from word processing
features such as footnotes. powerful
style -sheets and mail merging, via a
powerful ta ble editor, to de sktop publi shin g fea tures hk e mu ltipl e co lumns WIth independently variable widths. and pic ture and text fra mes wh ic h can be inserted any where . Th is really is a powerful program: even people committed to other packages will be surp rised at just how mu ch is o n offer.
The basics
MocWri lf Pro is based on a ' true WYSIWYG ' (What You See Is Whsr You Get ) di splay; un like some othe r word processors. the program always shows you a display which includes page margins. an obviou s gap at page breaks and so Oil.
There are many supporters of
this mode of work ing - after all , it' s
importnntto know ju sl how yo ur document will look when yo u print il out. Detractors. 011 the other hand . say tha llhi s form of display is s lowe r 10 re-draw and sc rollth rough than the plain text displ ay which programs like Microsoft Word use as default. Also, many people don 'I care about rhe formatting of their
work unli l it's actually been wrinen
MacWrite Pro has been a long time
coming. Now it's here, lan Wrigley
asks was it worth the wait?
- and sometimes not e ven the n. If the wo rd processor is bei ng used to inputtext which will then be imported into a different package, such as QuarkXPress or PageMaka.
Assuming you're happy with the ' page display ' mode of wo rking, the
basic MacWrite Pro window seems
10 have few surprises, If you're already using ClorislVorks or MaclVrile If. you will be able to start using the program straighl away - the ruler is virtually identieal (the only addition is a co ntro l for selecting the number o f co lumns on lhe page), It' s only when you start e xplo ring the menu bar that you
really sec jU' 1how m uch has been
added 10 the product. For a Slart. the re are now a
number of floating palettes. which g ive access to commonly-used feutures. The three palettes are Tools , TUI and St yles. In order, the Tools palette has bunons for insert illg new te xt or pic ture frames. a new table and a lso for pulling a 'sticky nore' on the page.
Th is is analogou s to using a
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MacWrile Pro has more than 130
new featufes or ImptO\lefllCfltS on
MacWrite 1/. OtMousty it·s imposst-
bIe to list them all here, but we can giYe you a taster...
· Aoatinc Tools , Styles and Text
Format palette
· Paragraph and char8cter styles, wtlich can be SlMld and used in
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· Automatic t able creator · Intemational spelling checker -
Fre nch , Gennan, Italian a nd Spanis h can be added
· New loon 00 toolbar for e as y
multiple column creation
· CJn.scfeefl chatlging of margW1s , headers, footers and columns
· Auto-save fe atwc
. Mail ~
· Insertion of date. time and page nt.mber evailable
· Fft;l and replace worKs for text stytes as wetl es jcst words
· Text and graphic frames can be placed anywhere In the
document. Graphics can be
5(:aled and cropped · Publis h and Subscribe informa-
tion s haring s yste m is supported
Post-It note 011 Cl shee r of paper you can type in a me ssage on the
note. whi ch will be kepI with lhe
documcnt but not printed OU I, You can even add a sound recording to the note . if you have Cl Mac with a sound input port.
1bc T ext palette gives easy
access 10 Ihings like te xt size. font.
lypeslyle and colour. It also al lows
you to de fi ne the te xt spacing. in 'em umrs" - the larger the val ue o f spacing. lhe more w idely.spaced OIl l the characters. Finally, the Slyks palcne a llo ws you to select or edit both charscrer and paragraph sty les. Character sly le sheets ate IlOl yet very common in word processors:
Mac" rue Pro's implcmeruaticn is
good. and many people will buy the
program just for this feature. All tool palettes ha ve a
'collapse ' boil ; di ek ing this reduces the palette 10 j ust ilS title bar, and places it :ll the lop right hand corner of the main WIndow - very usefu l if you want occasional access to a palette bul don'l have lhe screen spece to keep it open all the lime.
Tabula rasa
M a,Wr i t' Pro has a new. powerful
ta ble ednoe bulll In. Tables can be
ant"hored 10 lext Of' placed indeprn-
dentlyon a page, and lhings such as cell borders. size and so on are all easily customisable, When a table is sejected. a new menu appear; which gwes access 10 allthese features.
and lo pt ion ]-<Jou ble -c llc kmg on the
table (or selCCllng M odi r) .'rame from the f ra me menu) prod\lC('S a dialogue box IOohich allows you to specify 1IS dimensions and decide
IOohether or not 10 ant"hor it to text.
Tables have always been a pain
in lOoord processors; Microsoft Word 5.0 was .bout the first to have any
kmd of usable table editor. but even
thal can be cumbersome 10 use. Mue"ritt Pro's version. on the
other hand, is simple 10 gel the hang of. while still being powerful.
Desktop publishing
n's lhe program's DTP Iaciluies
that will really ha ve people excited: probably 90 pe r cent of users w ill
fi nd MaclVrirt Pro e asily powerfu l
enough for a ll thei r page layout requiremcnt-,
Fil'l;l up. lhe program will allow yoc 10 ha ve m ultiple columns on a page - selected either by c licking OIl the comrot in lhe ruler or by alteri ng the values in the S«l ion ... dialogue box. Columns can be set to be identical widths. or you can choose an IndIvidual lOo Kith for each cee. Again, lhis is done from the
Sertion ... dialogue ball if)OII lOoanl
to ~ify the dimensions by number. Altcmallv'e1y. (Opl ion]clk-l.:mg a column border allows you to aher It b) hand - and 10 set rbe gap between columns. too. Different pages can have different numbers of columns SImply by selling each to be a new Sect ion.
Once you've got your basic
cclornns ser up. you' lI wanttc insert
graphics and small chunks o f text. Again, this is easy: click on the text Of' picture frame icon from the Tools palette (Of' from the Frame menu). draw il out and you're done. Graphics Of' lext can be imported from other files - mosI popular
lOoord processor file formats are
upported. and graphics in EPS. M acPulrlf . TIFF and PICT format can be used. Once a graph ic is in place. a new menu appears with options for cropping or scal ing both the image and its bounding frame , You can also set the frame to be 'transparent' - wh ich means that text w illllo w around the image, ratnc r than around the fram e.
These fea tures, togelhe r w ith
things like the table edi to r and style
sheets, make M acWri tt' Pro a viable alternative to dedicated page makeup programs for many people; true. 11 doesn' t have fea tures like colour
..eparalion - but not many people
use such things anyway.
Tbe lOoord processor manet has recently become vel)' crowded and. as a late entrant. MocWnft' Pro will
have its work CUI out m ing itSelf I niche. Butit really does eeserve to uccecd: 1I's po....erful, easy to use,
and is a logical upgrade from lhe
mo;.t popular integraled pICkage. Clor.sWorb. lfYOll·re in the markel for. word processor. this is one Ih.t you shou ld check 001. Iftf
The student's saviour
MlICWrlt. Pro h.. on. feature wh ich aloM could make It a vital P\lr<:hase for lIClldemlc e and et udenta: pale numberlni I Upportl t he 'pai e 6 01 23 ' format , Vert few word processors will do this a ut omatically: Instead, you /lav. to count the paa;es yourself and manually t ype In the t otal number. This is, of COUrN , . . - to errors - and It doQn't ltVe a partkularfy lood Impression If you r IlIt PlIe is numbeNd 'paa;e 72 of 68' . MlICWrlte Pro will do all Utis for you - 8nd you can even customlM how the information is d1sptayecl, 150 If you r document 's paa;" must be numbefed .., uy, '3/U' lmt Nd of '3 of 15', It', no problem.
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TIFF; tagged image file format. A graphics file tonnat often cre ated by scenrers
PICT; common Macinlosh me format for ifa ph-
tcs. PICT fi les are us ually small
MlICWrlte Pro NlClUlres. Ctasslc 11, $Ef30, Le, 11
senes, Power8ook, Quadra or PeIforma to run.
The pn:lCf1Im MIh for L206; eurrant ~ of
MacWrlte can uPCl'lde for £65 before the end of
June 1993, and _
of Mlerouft WOId,
WrlteNow or Wonthrftlet can uPCJMle for £112
before the same date.
MacWrlte Pro I, available from all Clam dealers.
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Is it worth buying a fully-feat ured spreadsheet package when t he spreadsheet module of an integrated package will do the j ob? Greg Morri son and Si mon Cox pit Claris Works against Microsoft Excel
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henrrying to decide w hic h s preadshee r
pac kage to buy it is
te mpting to go for the pac kage with
the most featu res. However the COS t
of spreadsheet program s varies
Immense ly fro m a fraction o f the
price of an integra ted 'Works '
pack age to a few hundred pounds
for a package like Microsof t EXa'1
or Low s 1-2-3. O f course. the
question is . ' what feat ure s do I
really need? ' In this article we will
compare how [WOof the most
popular spreadsheet applications-.
the spreadshee r mod ule in
ClarisWorks and the fully-featu red
Microsof t £xcel4 - ca n be used to
sol ve the same problem.
The prob lem we have c hosen is
one in financial planning - the
persona l bank statement. We will
prod uce a spreadsheer that can be
used atthe beginni ng of each monlh
to show w hatthe kno wn credits and
debits are on a ban k account. It can then also be used during the month 10 kee p a running balance and can
be updated as nece ssary.
C1misWorks first
As a start we will prod uce a spre ad-
sheet in C/llrisWorks. We will use a
s ing le spre adshee r as a II'm prare
which we will copy each mon th . We
will divide the spreadsheel into
three areas. The firsttwo will be for
regu lar month ly debits and credi ts that we know about in adv arlCe ,
such as be ing paying a mortgage. We will use different colo ured tex t
for these differe nt areas : black for
c red its and red for deb its. The third
area is bel ow the twe ntieth row and
will be used for plan ning. These
areas are shown below.
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In boththe c redit and deb it area
there are totals which are created via
sim ple sum formul a, Also, note that
co lumn G has been left blan k and
thatthere is the formula '", E2 1-
C22+ 022' in the ce ll E22. We have
chosen this structure as we wi ll
copy the debits and cred its 10 the
wo rkin g area at the beginning of
each month . The col um n E will be
lI.'ICd 10 ho ld the run ning ba lance
and will be calc ulated by subtract-
ing a debit cell from the pre vious
ba lance and add ing in a credit ce ll.
Havi ng prepared the spreaosheer. it
can be tu rned into a stationery pad
in the Finder as be low:
,
We can prod uce a new spread-
sheer atthe beginni ng of eac h
mon th j ust by open ing the statione ry pad . Th is will then c reate a ne w
unthled window in CllI ri.,·Wor/.:s
co ntai ning o ur spreadsheel.
So . having created lhis spread -
sheet. how is it used ? We will wal k
thro ugh the use o f the spreadsheet at
the beginning of a month. We carry
outthe fo llo wing ste ps:
I. Enter the bal ance fro m the pre vi-
ous month's stateme nt in ce ll E2 1.
We have c hosen the figure 345.56 10
show the spreacsheer in use .
2. Copy the debits area fro m the
top left hand corner to the area stan-
ing at A22 as below.
3. Copy the c red its area from the
lOP right area corner of the window
10 be low lhe debits as shown.
4. Now SOrt lhe working area of lhe
spreadsheet by the dat e of the trans-
action. Do this by selecting the area
horizontally fro m A2 2 10 022 and vert ically to A3 0 and SO rt fro m 8 22.
5. Se lect meco lumn from E22 10
E30 and perform a fill down operalion. The fi ll down opera tion will copy lhe form ulae in El 2 to the ot he r ce lls. The c le ver th ing abou t this operation is that il changes the formulae to refe r to the co rrect ce ll as it fills do wn. ·
We now have I basis of a month's planning. Now each lime
we want 10 add a transaction we
pe rfo rm the sim ple operation of selec ting an area, moving it down and inse rting the ne w transaction. Say for examp le we take out £80 on the 611l. We then perform the operalions belo w-. I. Selectthe area after the dale needed and move it down one row. 2. Ente r the new information . : 3. Fill in the 101al col umn aga in. Now by ente ring with dra wals and any credits we can see whet her or nor we are likely 10 ove rdraw by the end of the mon th.
On to Excel...
Having now accomplished this in
C!lIri.,·Wor/.:s we could duplicate this
in virtua lly an y Olhe r spreadsheet package . Ho we ver as we shall see
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Designing a spreadsheet
When deSIgnIng ecreeceneets here arc a few s imple lhmgs that can make
development easier. · If you have colour don 't be afraId to use It. It can help \'OU to o.sungursn
between different pieces 01 mtormanon and also tell you where that data came from · Whenever ooss-oe diVIde your soreecsneet into different areas wh ich eenect me st ructur e of the problem. USing borders will encourage you to stay in the correct areas · 1\ IS better to copy something than war!< on it m place. Then jf you make a mistake you can go back 10 the Original data · Prot ect cells that are not !J.e;ng used , This WIll help avoid the problem of
acooen tauy cnang.og a f"ed value · Add comments to lour spteadsheet and name areas. They 1'1,11h elp you
wl'en you retur n to cnange someth ing $UCh a'> addong a ne" creun card
to your M m", hnance $\ $tem
there are a num ber o f things that make this easier 10 accomplish in
Excel. We could improve the
appearance of the spreadsheer as EXCl'1has super ior co lour and formatting capabilities.
We co uld also incorporate regularly-performed o perations into special sma ll programs lhat can be run when required. These programs
are called 'macros ' ,
Clarisworta has a macro facility
by which operations (like mouse movements ) can be recorded and replayed, Th is facilit y is very sim ple
and can be eas ily 'con fused ' , Exce t
has a more sophis ticated macro s
facility. The operations are repre-
sented by com ma nds which ca n be
edi ted . To use this we can ma ke the
spreadshee t record the action s we
performed at the beginn ing of the
month. We can then add to that an
inpu t statement that asks us for lhe
previo us mouth's balance . The
re sultin g ma cro with some com me nts is shown bel ow.
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MOSI of the stateme nts are
reasonably self exp lanato ry. The
re sult of runn ing the mac ro is the n
show n be low ,
We cou ld also cre ate a mac ro
lhat prov ides us WIth an automatic
met hod of entering cred its and
debits. The options are unlim ited for thi s kind of automation.
Having created this macro we can add it as a command 10 a menu or assign it to a button . The macro shown here represents the simplesl one we could gel away with. It con ta ins no erro r check ing and the re fore if used in the wrong wa y cou ld produce problem s. Also. in use il does normaintainthe formatting of lhe spread sheet.
There remain many more things we can do with this spreads heet in £"'('('1. We could pro vide simi lar spreads hee ts for cred it cards and loan repayment s. The se cou ld then a ll be linked together into a work book. The ban k state ment spreadshec r could then co nsult o ther spreedsheers to find out information on vario us payments . We could also incorporate annual or quarterly bill s,
on Busters
. ' un ctlon : lhe power o f a spread_<heet
is in the fUllclions availa ble. A
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on a rnnge and returns the sorted result to the spreadsheet
Macr,, ; a group of commands WhK h work 00 a SpreadShccl in orde r 10 change It. Th is can repl ace whole lists
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Entering error-free information into a database can be a nightmare, Jack Weber recommends some applications and features that wil l help to adjust sloppy data entr y
S ome years ago. ..hen the personal computer revolution was JUS! lakmg off. everycoe suddenl) goc ....onicd
about ke)"boald 5l llls. The ability 10 thmk and waggle fen lingers I t me same ume had always been restticud to secreuries and
concert pianlSl$; now . 11 looked as if our
fUI~ prosperity ought depend on 11. As it
happened. touch-typing classes proved even less appealing than lhc prospcc1 of I13liona1 decline. and the panic soon subsided. The
problem didn't go away though.
ParQxicaJly. sloppy typing isn', so bad
when you 're writing nonnallt>:l - misspell I
....ord in the middle of a memo. and a
spelling c hecker WIU usuall y find it. If nIX.
then the real meaning may still be: cjear from
!he context. BUI try 5eaIChing a database f~ addresses in London. and any Ihal have been
accidentally entered as Loodom. Lonfon or
Lindon will never appear. 'The solulK:Hl - at least. a partial solu tion - is called data validation and ifs one of the most useful.
though under-used features of a database.
11lere are various approaches 10 valida-
oo t tion. generall y speaking, yOll esta blish
the criteria when you define a fi eld, and lhe
program then checks each lime lhat yo u
ente r or modify a record to mal e sure thar
the contents of the field match the criteria.
Defining data
TIle first step to wards mi nimising entry errors is to go through allthe fie lds in your database and see how narrowly you can define the data that needs to go into each.
Obv iously. the worsl case is a free-form text
field "hlCh, by definition , can coruam
anything a1 all . Even there , some programs
can help - Fif~MQk~r Pro IS the only
mainstream daUlbasc 10 provide a spelling
checker. bul so do the database modules of Symenrec Gr~otWorks and ClorisWorb , In
all cases, yoo' re rese-eted 10 c hed :..ng ..... hole
records or selected blocks of tex t - neither of
whidlls particu larly con vemenl, but you can paniallyautomale the process by creatmg a scripl lO selec1 and check specific fields.
Typing by default
At the opposite extreme come fields .....luch
are 50 peedsctabje that you can Iel the computer do the lyptng for yoo, Alllhe main database apphcauons Will auto-enter things hke the current ume and date, or a senal number that automallca lly incremenlS with each new record,
M05t will also let you specify defaul l
data. This is always worth domg if a SIgnificant number of records an: expected to have the same value in a field.
Panorama. a database a ppticanon that' s
been popular in America for many years, provides a vari ation on auto-entry ca lled
"Ditto". This copies the contents of the corre-
sponding field in the precedin g record - very handy if records which share some com mo n data are likely to be entered in batches .
Another novel and powerful fea ture in
Panorama is 'Clairvoyance". As fasr as you type data into a clairvoyant field. Panorama
scans all the other records and completes the
entry as soon as it find s an unam biguous
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have differenttelephone numbers. Making tbe field unique may not catch most mistake s. but il doe sn 't COSl anything aOO it may JUSt find the odd o ne. especially if you 're copying numbers from a list.
Anothe r valuable featu re that is available in most database programs allows yo u 10
defi ne a list o f preset values for a field so rnar. rather than type it in, you se tecrthe
req uired va lue from a pop-up list or menu . Among some of the other va lidation options, Fi/eMa!.:er Pro lets yo u set minim um and max imum values for a field , while Panorama lets yo u spec ify e xac tly which c haracters can. or cannot. be e ntered into a field. Both opnoos can be use ful for certain type s o f data.
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As you mo ve upm arkcr 10 llle more advanced database programs, lWO more levels of error-tra ppi ng come into play. The fi rst of these is c alled pattern-matchi ng . Th is is usefu l for things like pan numbers whi ch may have 10 fit some very specific paUem suc h as three uppercase lette rs followed by a hyphen. fi ve di gits. ano ther hyphe n and a fi nal letter which can not be J or O . Appli cations like 4th Dimension. File Force
or NuBASE make it easy to set very preci se
criteria. and Wi ll reject any entrie s that don ' t
com ply, In this respec l, Amer ican users ha ve
an ad vantage because their telephone numbers and POSt codes all fi t into cons tsrem pattern s. UK ones don 't .
The other techn ique thal ·s available in
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lhe mo re co mplex appl icati ons invol ves programming a proced ure whi ch will be invoked whenever you e nter anything into a fie ld. If you need validat ion that depe nds o n lengt hy ca lculations or on cross-c hecking agai nst other fi e lds aOO records , then this may be the onl y way to achie ve it. But be warned - it's not for the fain t-hearted . At the very least a bit of programm ing ex perience will be useful.
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Wit h suc h a wide ra nge o f techniques 10 c hoose from. you should be able 10 find a com binationrhn suits your partic ular needs - obv iou sly a database that is fu ll of welldefined codes-and numbers req uires differem validation methods from o ne that handl es large amounts o f text. However, since you can ne ver elim inate e rrors attogemer. a good database program should also he lp yo u 10 track dow n the blunde rs that creep in. PileM"k"r pro scores well in this respect by letting you search for records thar contain blan k fields, duplicate value s o r va lues tha t don't match the flelds data type . More importantly. it has a very use ful. though obscu re. featu re called Paste From Index .
The rationale behind this is that it allows yo u to dupl icate precisely an y ex isting fie ld
value by copy ing it from the fi eld 's inde x.
The practice, untcrtunarely. ccesn'tnve up to the theory - it' s s low and cumbersome. and J wouldn 't recommend it as a me ans of data ent ry, but it does pro vide a very use ful way of checking what ' s already there. All
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you do is choose the Find mode . the n click in the fie ld yo u wantto c hec k and press IX I 11 ]. A small scro lling window will appear showi ng. in alp habetical order, e very word that's been e ntered in that fie ld . If you find a mistake , you can paste it straigh t in and cl ick Find to take you directly to the o ffend ing record . It' s pan icularJy useful fo r minor errors - for example if ' widget' and ' wigder' appear ne xtto each other, it' s much eas ier to spot the mistake than when you see them individually ill a cluttered layout.
Fina lly. if a ll e lse fails and you r database remains a me ss o f mistakes . I would suggest tne original re medy from rhe early days learn to touch type. 11 may not be the answer to recession or unemployment. but u's hard to beat for accuracy. mf
Cla;r vOJ an« : an optiOO that cllecks Jour keystl'Qtes agai nsl previously entered val\ioC.S in a fi eld and complete, t"" ",'om or phra'\e as soon as you 've typed e!\OUgh characters to make a unique match. It can be a rea l time saver with repeutivc entries, aOO a val uable way of reduci ng errors. Clairvoyance is onl y available in PonoronuJ and a speciali' t business database caned CAT I V
Data "a lida tion: any means of checking data as it is emcred to enSure that il matclles SOme pre...refined criteria
Indu: a list of al lt"" words anod values that have been emcred into a panicular fiek!. Some programs (for example FileMoker Pro) automatically iildc x every field; most Olllers let you selec t " 'hich fields you want to have inde xed . 1lIc value of inde xi ng is mostly in faster search times, but jt can sometimes be useful for finding rogue emries
Palter n matching: a validation method that speci fies a pan icular pattern of letters, nlimbers aOO punctuation marks. bill I10l tile actual values of those chanoctcrs
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lmemet (_Ialer),t~Iohooldn't
be 100 much of a problem - you ju5I address your mail and away il ps. Make swe lhat it'uddressed
p ope ll) . though - otherwIse you' ll lind lha t it never arri ved I1 its des unatlOO. RlreJ[ample. if somrone ens )'ou " W their e-rnailllddre»
on CompuServe is '100016.320'
lmy address, as it happens). you
can 't j ust use a service like C IX Of
AppleUnk to send a ~ge 10
"'" ""'= You have 10 find out lhe full
Internet address - which in thrs case ts: '1000 16.J20@ compuserve .com ' .
Fonunately, it' s like ly thal
someone else has experience or
.-.ending e-mail to whatever system
)'OlI 're lrying to access. \.0 be fore yoo send anythi ng imparl ant. a~ l other u~er; of you r 885 for advice as 10 lhe exact addre ssin g conven-
lions required.
Tbe Internet
The Internet is a rather ncbulouv conc ept - but bei ng connected
bring~ yo u vast bene fi ts in termv o f
access to sonware. infonnuuon.
discussions nod so on. lmemet is the term used to
describe a loose netw ork of
computers across the globe lhal
communicate with each other-
some on a regular basi s. some more sporadically. Il lw. grown in a fairly ad hoc way over the years.
and comprises j ust lboul every
universily in the United States,
most major academic inslitut ioos in man y (J(her counlries (including lhe
UK). a large number of oompanle'i,
and SQIJ1e 'stn'ice providers ',
.... hich are in busineu jUSllo hill
people in 10 this vast net WOl't .
Its scope really is VL\t - and ....ilI be the '>UbjeCl o f a .... 1101e
artICle in MIICFormal '>OOfI - but
just as a taster. here are a couple of
the Ihings thal il encompasses:
· FTP. UsingfTp (w hich ~tands for File Transfer Prorocot). rou can reueve fi les from computers
lround the world. Tbese files can be jlI'vgflIfIls. informatioo. texts o f speeches - j usr about anything you can thmk of is available.
Want lhe sext o f the American
Consti tul ion" No problem. Tbe complete .... orl..s of Shakespeare
III compuler-readable form? You
gOl it. The west version of
Mu~blr(}f1f, a st unning sIIarew~
game" Psece of me. lnformalion
on global mvironmental pressure groups?... You gel the idea.
· useee. Th is i~ a huge lisI o f
'newsgroup' discussions. You subscribe to !he newsgroeps that
you're mleres.ted in. read articles that (J(her people have posted and
respond as you will. Tbe range is
enormous - if you can thm k of a
subject. there·s hlely to be. ne wsgroup devoted to it, As an example, here are a few ne.....sgroup lopic~. picked (more or less) 11. random: MacinlOSh programmtng:
-rv !he N onhern Exposure
programme : hackers: US v isa and
im m igration informalion: movie
BSS: short fOf BullelJn Board Syslem - a remote COfl'lPOler that stores files, &mall and so on for Its
users. You connect -.ill a modem,
USing comms sottw_
&.ud: speed of data transrnls.slon, which Is roogtoly equivalent to 'bits
can read it lIIhen he or she next
toes on. HClWeWlr, it' s not infallible
- there is always the possibility that
)'OIH e-mail hasn't reached lhe
person)'DU sent it to. (But then.
that can be the case .....th lhe PosI Office. too...)
per 5eCOnd'la/though tlOI QUite).
The hleher the bald rate, the faster
the claIa Is IriInSmltted to and from )OW COIl'lpuler - and so the Iowet
)'Ol.W phone billsl
~Ic domain: free¥dislributabte
sottware Whdi )'OU can use and give to other people with no charge
SMI_- .: try before )'DU buy
DowNo.d: melln$ to relrie'il! lites from a remote ~, and store
them on )'Ol,M' Mac
software - 'rs freely dislributable.
but)'OU must pay the author a fee If
)'DU .ke and use it
E- . .: eIectrornemail.ltIlS has the
lldvantage that it's lar 'as!ef ~ flOm'IaI. POSted letters. It's stored
on a bulletin board or hosI
c.cJmpuler. and the redpietrt
S~: SYSten1 OPerator _ lhe
person If) ctIatge of a bulletin board
Uploacl: means to transfer files from )'Ol,M' comput:er to a remote
mactllne, Yi<ll'lIOdem
ne ..... s; pinbal l : Fnml lappa.
A~ 10 the Interne t IS fIOfIlUllly only possible ei the r VI" c~r cia) service provider or - If)'ou re
lucky and I student - from a terrm -
nal al yourulII~'e rs it y . Each pe~ OTI lhe lnterret l'w; hi$ or her own
personal, unique 'address' - and e-
mail from anyw here in the world is
forw arded to that address on the
computer thal. they use .
.
· Next month: A gUide to gelllTII
on the Inll:mel with Demon Internet
Systems; the sofl.....are.is ~~ all free, and the s ubscn peioe ISJust £ 11.75 per monlh. ,.,
a:Bulletin board information Apple Crackers
Illterf.ee: text-based SubKl1ptlon deta.l.: limited access is free: Annual mem berships:
PIII>M: 0268 781318. 0268 780724 Interface: tezt-besed SubKl1ptlon detail.: £10 for unlimited downJOads: free otherwise
Othlra: fi les, con ferences. e-matt
Name : App!eUnk Phone: 0800 585682 (voice! )
Name : ComPUServe
PIII>M : 0800 289378 (volcel) Interface: text-based
SUbKl1ptlon detail. : phone for infor_ mation af\CI a membership Pack Othlra: files, conferencing. e-mail .
Huge Amerlcan-based board with over a million members
Staf\CIard - £25; Gold _ £ 50:
Platinum _ £80
Othlra: primarily PC-based, but there Is a Mac files area; e-mail; con ferenclng
Name: OTP User
Phone: 081 656 5190
'Ilterface: teld-based
Interface: graphical Suba<:l1ptlon detaU.: membership pack Is £117.50; charges vary aceon:lmg to access speed Used. Call lor details
otrera: e-mail. files. conlerencing.
Used by Apple dealers & developers.
N8fTItt: CIX
Phone: 081390 1255
11ltet1~: text.f:lased
Subscl1pt1on deUlls: £25 registration fee ; £2.40 Per I'1ow peak, £3.60 Per I'1ow otr~ak Ofrera: files, conlerencing. e-mail. limited P1eway 10 the Internet
Name: Demon Internet Systems
Phone ; 081 343 3881 (voice l) l nte~: depends on the software
rcc cse
Subscl1ptlon lIetaIla: £11.75 Per
moo~
Ofrera: full ac:oess to !he Intemet,
inclUding Usenet news. fTP file
access. wor1dwide I-In8II. Turns)'OUr
machine mto an Internet 1'1Ode;)'OU
then use ~are programs to
read news. get mad and so on .
N_: Oorect ~
Phone: 081 845 8228, 081841
4 114 (and others)
SUblcr1ptlon detail.: free
otrera: This board is mainly aimed et
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av ailab le to hel p you getthe most OUI of your Mac . Th is issue we
tw o na rrow st rips of te xt or
lake a look 31 D)'noPage. a fuss-free printing utili ty. and Tsmesl'wo.
whatever - and whether the o utput
which dou ble the storage capacity of your Mac's hard disk
sho uld be double-sided . Then hit
P r int and the program goes off and
DynoPage
in Issue I of Mac-For mat. page 79) and comes in the form of a Contro l
does its job with no more fuss. The range of different fo rmatting
If you 've ever wished that it was
Pane l and an INIT which puts a ne w
llynoPllfle res options tor more possible
opti ons is huge - a lthoug h (ce rta inly
easy to print documents out dou blesided. or to reduce pages and print
men u Of] yOUT menu ba r. The idea is that the program
lapJIs lhoo )'00 C¥I imagine - ilOd it s/Il:IUd WOI'K with just about any pimef
o n the vers ion I tested) you ha ve to manu all y install the UK paper sizes
four per A4 sheet. DYlloPage is the intercepts any prim job which you
from lhe di sk. since this isn 't done
product for you.It's from Port folio start. and does its own fc rmaning 10 Mac' s normal method. Howe ver.
automatica lly by the Installer
Systems. the company which
the doc ument before passing it on 10 you can ge t around this - hold down program. Still . it' s j ust a matter of
produces DynoDu (see the review
the Mac 's built-in primer driver.
the [s hift] ke y as you se lec t Pri nt
dragging the right files to a fo lde r
This means lhat it sho uld work w ith and the program will use the Mac 's within your System folder , so
any pri mer. and just abo ut e very
normal printer dri vers , so Dy1loPage the re ' s no great problem. Once
application - althou gh the re are a
wil l work fine.
you 're usin g D)"roPage, yo u can
couple that ir's not happ y w ith. including the 4D database , and
hav e yo ur OUlPUt more or less
How to use DynoPage however you want. For e xample . if
PogeMaku .1lH: laner problem is
In use , DynoPoRe appears as a new you wantto pri m sheets to Filo fax-
because AId us, in its infinite
set of d ial ogu e boxes which appear style paper - no problem . Lik e wise
llynoPllfle bes on-screen help whid'l descr'bes llfI the tOllllatti~ OI'!JOOS
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w isdom. has decided to access the
when you se lec t Pa ge Set up . From there are opt ions for prim ing 16
printers di rectly fro m wi thin the
the re you se lect the layout lhat you
' thumbna ils' per pag e. so you can
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TimesTwo
TimesT....o is a utility Which sets itself an ambitious tas k: to double
the storage capaci ty of any hard disk. If it can achieve this aim, of course, many people w ill buy it like a shot - after all. a new ha rd drive costs considerably more than
TimesT....o·s £ 116 asking price.
There are, of course, already numerous file compression packages on lhe marke!. A typical
program is AlI/oDouhlu. wh ich
automatically compresses files on
the d isk and decompresses them
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when they 're requ ired . But the probl em with this sort of sol ut ion is that decompression takes time , and it can be the case that so me applicalions aren ' t e ntire ly com pat ible. Also, a fi le must be deco mpressed if It IS to be passed on to someone without the sa me software.
TimesT...o works in a md icall y d iffe rent way -to un derstand it , yo u need to know so mething about how the Mac accesse s hard d isk s. Each disk has on il a p iece of softwa re
ca lled the 'dri ve r' - which is installed when you format a di sk for the fi rst time. Thi s soft ware tak es care of all the rea lly messy business of decidin g exact ly w here on the dis k to store each file , what happens if there' s nor e nough space to store it as a sing le ch unk, where the free space is and so on. A ll the Mac has to do is se nd a message lhal il wants to de lete a tile . perform a save or whatever and the dri ve r does the rest. Th is all ha ppen s torau y transpare nt ly to the use r, of co urse .
~~=- = TimesTwo'" Info
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k in d : TimHT'ffo Disk
TimesTwo Size : 83 .1 MS Origin..l S ize : 4 t .5 MS Ung e : 55 .6 M8 used 27 .5 M8 availabko 'W'her e : SCSI 10 4 Tobl Blocks : 86456 blocks
Ph,lS'!;'''_ US"'!Ie : 48 t 89 blocks us~ , 3 82 6 7 . a v a ilable
Compression : 2.000 : t Av..iI..ble Space: 27 .5 MB (pr ojected)
Vour Mac's hard dis!< \'!ill appear to have increased in size rmesrwo gives you 00ubIe the original capacity
TimesTwo '"
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Installaoon of rmesTIOO is teilly srnple, arid should wor. onjust about
any hard dislllhill JOU throw at the program
The TimesTwo way
Tinrl."sTwo repl aces the normal drive r with its own. which pe rfor ms 'dri ver lev e l com press ion ' . Thai mean s that when the Mac wants to save a file. it sends the message to the d rive r, w hich takes the fi le, compresses it an d the n stores it on the disk. When retrieving that fi le, the d rive r decom presses it before handing it ove r to the Mac - so as far as the user (and the Mac) is conce rned . the file is never o bse rved in its com pressed form.
This me thod of com press ion has a couple of advant ages. First off, it is co mpat ible with all app lications because no applicati on bypasses tile
the major criticisms of earlier versions was that turning it on and off meant going 10 the Co nt r o l Panel every time. If your Mac is networked and you have to swap between printers frequently. Printch ooser is invaluable: just
select the pri nter from the menu . DynoPage is effic ient and easy
to use. II does its job well, and JUSl
the ability 10 print double-sided pages or produce ready-collated booklets will be enough 10 encourage some people to buy il.
layout without having to print the whole thing a page a! a time, or you can set the program to output your
pages on to the paper so that they
are in the right order 10 be co llated and fo lded into an A5 booklet.
A long with IlK: ma in utili ty, you also get Prfmcheoser. which allows yo u to select different printers
wi thout going through the C nooser.
and which also allows you to tUnl DytlOPage on an d off easily - one of
D,Y no Pag e
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Simple 10 COnfigure. simple to use,
Fl'a t u res
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Just about any arrangement of pages you can think of is possible.
90% 90%
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You could (just about) format all your pages manually rather than use the program - if you had the time.. .
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Does ils job well. Whether you buy il will depend on
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disk dri ver . Secondly, there's no prob lem when giv ing a fi le to someone else - as you copy it to another hard disk or a floppy, it's already been decompressed by the
Times'Iwo driver. The upshot of all this is quite simply that, to all
intents and purposes, your disk drive ap pears 10 have increased in
size - Timestwo gives yo u roughly
double the original capacity. Installat ion is fairly simple, an d
should work o n just about any hard disk that you throw atthe program. Howe ver, take notice of the manual's warnings; you shou ld bac k up all your data first, and follow each step 10 the letter. If you don't. or if something unexpected like a power cut occurs, you run the risk
of losing all your data.
Like a dream
Once installed. the software works like a dream . I used it on my SyQuest removable drive, and each 40 Mb cartridge sud denly had 80Mb of space - incredib le! There are limitations, of COUTSC: TimesTwo
won't work if one file takes up more
than a quarter of the entire d isk . or if you've less than about five per ce nt of the disk free. Also, the
program doesn't yet support automounting of re movable drives - you
mustuse a ulility hke SCSI Probe to
mount new cartridges on the desktop, an d occasionally I had 10 restart to gel a can ridge 10 appear.
(An update 10 the program which
cures this is immmen l.) There is, of COUTSC. a trade-off
for all this extra space: speed. I performed a nu mber of tests on cartridges with and without
Timet'Iwo installed, and lhere is a noticeable slowing down during
proced ures like copying files to and from . and launch ing applicat ions
off, a Timestwo disk. Copying a
3Mb folder from my internal hard drive to a TimesTwo canridge look around twice as long as when copying 10 one wi th the norm al driver present (just over a minu te.
compared with 33 seconds]. and
launching QuorUPress took about 35 per cent longer. However. un less you use a program which makes incredibly frequent use of di sk access. such as one which plays Quid-:Time movies (or you wa nt to use a TimesTK"o disk as a virtual
memory store) this rea lly isn' tlik ely
10 bolher you too much - you soon get used to the slightly longer wail.
And, after all, you now have twice as much storage space to play with!
If you're running out of room on your hard disk, TimesTK"O could well be j ust what you need. And for people with removable drives, the
advantage is even greater: I can now get 80Mb of free space for each £48 I spend on a SyQuest cartridge. which means that after I buy three cans the software has more than paid for itself Recommended.
T imesTwo
Ease uf use
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Installation is a simple procWure. and the software guides you through it well.
Features
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Disk acceSS times are redu""d - although lhis shQUldn' t be 100 much of a problem for most people.
Il"cumenl ati un
One small manual is supplied - but then. thaI's all you will need.
Valu e For money
Double the size of your hard drive for far less than the price of a new one.
(h erall ralml: A great produCllh3l's well worth purchasing.
90% 80% 88% 95%
TlmeJlTwo IJl distributed In the UK by DlrekTek, phonll number
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The Eraser is not just for rubbing «n
as such - you call
also draw pictures with~. This,
believe ~ or not. is
my teOdy bear
Kel lie Si mmons (pictured below) finds that
Kid Pix is great for teaching children t o draw
IKI ta esx is a paint program, based on the type of
. T ex l that basic ally speaks for itsel f. Just clic k on a name or
pac kage used by adu lts
number and you 'll hear a cute - but
but aimed squarely at children.
rather twangy American - k id say
It was created by Craig
them as they are selected.
Hickman for his three-
· Last and most impor-
year-old son after he
tantly: no mess! Let your
found thal the k id loved to
child roam arou nd in K id
create an with a fully-
Pix. splauing paint all
fea tured pain t program.
over the page . No fuss,
The pac kage fro m
nothing 10 clean up later, Just
Brederbund is a larger
save thei r masterpiece and qui t
version of the original.
out of the program. Not a handprint
It' s very simple to use, and
or splat of paint to be seen - unlike
includes some amazing
the real stuff which can take a bit of
graph ics and sound effects '
shi ft ing from your wall-to-wall
to boot. Just some of the features included in Kid f ix are:
fitted carpets.
Ki d r ix will keep the average
· A Small Ki ds mode found under
adult, k id , pensioner or an edi tor
the G oodies menu . Clicking 011 this (we have proof) entertained for
switches off the main menu bar and hours, and when a work of art is
prevents kids fro m accidentally
finished i t can even be printed out -
clicking into other applications and
al though it'll cost a fair few bob to
making a mess of your desktop.
invest in a printer that will print it
· A big while area to draw in.
out in colour. I t still looks good in
Uncomplicated and hassle free.
black and wh ite though.
· Amazing sou nd effects like
Perhaps the o ne of the other great
splauing, blobbing paint,
- but hidden - features of K id Pix is
stretching, penci l drawing and
that it introduces small kids to the
eraser rubbing sounds.
world of compu ters in a fun, creative
· Sm art moving graphics to put a
and even educational way, The
smile on even the most stubborn and best thing i s that they won't even
stroppy kid in town.
realise it!
After te st ing it vigorously in the eortor-
ial offic e. Mac Fonnat has given Kid Pix the thumbs up. It's fun, easy to use, the graphics are great and the differe nt sound effe cts are brillia ntthe art ed itor had hours of fun creating mast erpieces on her Quadra 700.
Brllderbund ciaims that kids as young as three can use Kid Pix, so our offic ial testing was carried out by James and Amy, aged three and fou r res pectively.
At the grand old age of three,
Jemes is at the beginning of the
suggested Kid Pix age group. He was at first very excited at the prospect of actually playing with a computer and found the various sou nd effects a pleasure, but as many parents know the attention span of a three year old is not very big.
After about 20 minutes he got
bored and wanted to use a normal pencil and paper to draw with. The reason for this was beca use he had to be guided through the use of the mouse - which was fa r too big for his hand and diffiCUlt to control. Although
the menu bars w re Qu ite il lustrative, he still found it diffi cult to scroll up to them and p:~ k a suggested option.
The other problem was the size of the palette on the left hand side of the page. Basically, the colours and icons were to small for him to do anything With,
The positive aspects for Jernes
were the various sound effects and the Kid Pix Companion slide Show. An adult picked some options from the palette and helped him fill in the blank screen, as well as mak ing up a
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Areal masterpiece. Arrpt's house was created
using lines, paint W <nI the wacky pencil
This is Amy's very first attempt at drawing with
Kid flU. Err... next!
The resu ~ of drawing to sound effects. The
wacky brush appears to be a ~rm favoorile
The slKle show, courtesy ot Kid Pix Companion.
also proved to be popu l<lf
Id~IX
Kid Pix - the options
Below and to the righ t are just some of the options available from the standard Kid Pix package. Kid Pix Companion adds even more!
Tool palette
Wacky Penell: main Wlitln g tool (allows you to draw or Wlite)
M enu BRr Small Kids Mode: hides the main menu bar to stop kids from accidentally selecting items other than Kid Pix. Just click on 'Small Kids Mode' in the 'Good ies' menu and you'll find the main menu bar will be
replaced with a 'Short Kid Pi}/. Menu' . YO\J can' t save or qu lt Dui of the
program in th is mode. You 'll have to scroll to the Show M enu Bar, open Goodies and cliCk on Sma ll Kid PI", M ode again .
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W acky Bruah: click on th is and make a re al mess by spl attering paint all over your page
Paint Can: select an area you want coloured , ene fill It
Erase,: rubs out any unwanted bits - or draws In negative
Text : produces a palette of letters at the bottom of the page
Stem per: select an image from the palette and press .. ,
M oYl I\I Van: allows you t o move sections around In blocks Face : actually called the 'undo guy' in the manual, with a scream of 'Oh no!' the face makes parts of your picture disap. pe ar. Click on your picture again t o bring it back
Colour palette: a selection of colours for you to enccse
from . To select. simply Cl fck on the colou r of your choice. The colo ur you choose will show up In the bigger box at the top of the colour palette
Tool option. : gives you a number of options 10 choose from. to coincide with the functions on your left
hand tool palette . Here the wac ky pencil options are
displ ayed - things like how thick or thin the nib is
Arrow Icon: clic k on t his to display extra options
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slide show with his work . This is what actually held his attention.
At the age of four, Amy is al ready at SChool. Her reaction to Kid Pix s howed that one year between children so young can make a lot of difference . Amy also foun d the same problems as r emes. but she found it easier to concentrate to the point that she was totally engros sed and would have happily played all day.
Favourite Kid Pix good ies for Amy Ircrucec the sound of the man's face on the palette which, after clicking on
a pictu re, makes It disappear and
screams 'Oh nor. She also li ked the
Paint Brush, scretttog paint all over
the picture, and she was amused with splishing paint sound effect.
The slide show was also a plus poin t . After sampling sounds and moving graphics, she was pleased to see her pictures changing shape one after the other.
In fact. Amy described the package in one word: 'Fun!' - which is about the shortest and best way to describe Kid Pix.
'= Kid Plx costa £34.9 9 and la avaJlable from Softllllll on 081 842 22U. Kid Plx Companion, which adda seVllral utrll featu,". COIta £29 .99 a nd Is a lso avellable from Sottllne, ,r
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Sound effects from the rubber stamp ~gures
put a sm ile on ieres' face
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phone - so lhue 's no point ringing us up wilh technical enquiries.
We an: also unable 10 en ter inlO perronal correspondence - even if
you enclose an SAE. We can only deal w ith que;:liOfl$lhrough the
pages of MacFormat.
Please do try 10 fill in as much of the form as you can. After all.
the ITM,lI"e details we know about the setup of your Mac and the way
you an: using it, lhe mere likel y we are 10 be able 10 find a sol ution
10 your query or problem. There 's no poinlllSking something like
MWhy woo' , my docume nt print from ZingWord 9.2'r if you don "'
tell us w ha t kind o f printer you're using!
If your question relates to software, make sure that you tell us
what version of the program you are using. You can fi nd this OUI by
cl icking once on the program 's icon, sc: lecting Getl nfo from the
File menu and read ing the information that appears. Version
numbers tend to be things like ' 1.2 ' or ' 9.6b3',
Do-it-yourself
problem solving
One of the main causes of a program not
wor1cing property Is somethioC called an
lNrT clastI -)'OUI" program isn't happy with
one of the system-lew:l extensions (C8l1ecl
lNlTs) that are runnirC-
Fortunately, if s easy to check if this Is the case, First of al l, restart your Mac:: without twlY System Extenslon$ (INITs ). If you're rumirli System 7 .0 Of aboYe, that
meaos restarting the Mac Md hoIdirli
down the [shift) ke)'- a message saying that 'ExtensiOnS are off will appear . For
8I"T'I System version beloW 7.0, move an the
Control Panels Md INITs out of)'OUr System folder Md restart the Mac.
lf)'OUr program now wor1ols , it mus t have
been unhappy with one or more of the
INITs. The only wa'f to \VClltI out 'tVI'tich one it
was is to lTlCIVe them all out of the System fokler, then put them back one at a time restarting)'OUr Mac after each one - and
te st the program again after each one has been replaced .
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Q 1h(1l'e ton my m(1n/la/ for
MacroM ind Director 3,0. Where
I ocan I gel another one? F letcher
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MacroMind Director is prod uced by MacroMed ia. so you cou ld try contacting the co mpany 's UK distri butor, Com puters Unlimi ted on OSI 200 8282. or the UK MacroMedia offICe on 0344 76 11 11. If you're a registered user, you shou ld have no problem gelli ng a replacement man ual (for a small fee): if nol. you 'll probably ha ve to prove. that you own a legitimate copy of the program by phococopying your master disks or 50lllCthing s imilar. It' s a good idea to register any software that you receive - you then get informed of any upgndcs by the manufacturer, And it comes in handy in situations like this, too!
Q Lemmings did not run in cotour
Olt my Le , as suggested on page 16 of MacFormal. I tried it on an Le 11 and i/ was fine.
A Steven
Pence, Lasswade
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Although you don't say which monitor you use, I suspec t that it's
13 or 14-inc h. A5 standard, the LC
can only dri ve these monitors in 16 w loul1i - and ummings requires
156 (the Le drives a 12-inch Apple Colour Mon itor in 256 w lours).
Fortunatel y, there. is 50lllCthing that you can do about it: unfortunately, it will cost you money ,
You need to add 50lllC extra video RAM (VRAM) so that your Mac can d isplay the full 256 roIours on yow monitor. You should check OUt the adverts in this issue of MacFOf'lIIal, lind a dealer who sells memory upgrades (IIIOSI do) and ask
them fora Mac LC S I2 K VRAM upgrade , Then you need to have it fitted - or, if you 're confi de nt, you can fit it yourse lf.
The extra mem ory comes on a S IM M (single in-line me mory
module ) circ uit board just like
normal RAM, altho ugh it' s a
slightly d iffe rent size, The Le has a
2S6 K VRAM SIMM line d as
standard, so you simply need to take.
this OUl and insert your new SI2 K VRAM SIMM in its place. When you restart your Mac, don' t be
alarmed if the screen has reverted to
black-and-white - jus t go to the Monilors Co ntrol Panel and you 'll sec that the choices ha ve now increased to include 256 colours.
Incidentally, if you are running a 12-inch colour moni tor and you u~ the VRAM, you can
display ' thousands' o f colours,
rather than just 256.
1bcrc are. a couple of things to
note if you do decide to pcrfonn this
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memory dealers even include an instruction booklet with their SIMMs that takes you through the procedure step by step,
Incidentally, the reason that the game worked fine on the LC 11 is that it is shipped with the larger VRAM already insla1led.
Q W~nl huyon Le 11, do l gtl O
ColOIU monilor wilh it or 1IOl? I C(III' 1 trIah Dulfrone I~ ~rts
whtlhtr Ims is IM cast or IlOl,
Would il mob moTt U IIH for
~ 10 buy a Colour Chwic
QIIyway?
J Mitcbell
Oundle, PeterborouaJI
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It all depends on the deal thlt'S
being offered. The LC 11 - and LC
111 - don' t come with I mooilOl" 1$ standard, but most dealers offer I bundle price which includes either 111 Apple 14· inch monitor 01', in some cases, I third-pany monilOl" of I similar site. If in doubt, phone up the dealer to che<:k.
As for buying I Colour Qassic: well, there are advantages and disadvanlages. The primary advan· tage is compactness - it's all one
unit, so it' s easy to transport, On the
other hand, it only comes with I 10inch screen - SO if you wan t the e~U'I desktop real-estate. you'd be beuer with one of the Le famil y, Remember, though, lhatthe Colour Classic is currently only available to purchasers who qualify for the Apple Education scheme.
Q I would likt to USt an old
modt m that was originally ustd
on a PC - it MSa 25-pin
modtm cablt . Ca n I USt if wilh
Cteriswcrks. or am I ~ing
tOfolly unrta/islic?
Phillip Ives-Owee Shem eld
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It should be perfectly possible 10 use the modem with your Mac: all that you need to do is buy I modem-toMac cable, which should be available from just lboul any dealer. Then you have 10 determine whether it's Hayes compatible or not. If your manual is full of dellils about 'AT commands ' then it is, and if so you should be able to use ChJrisWorb with no problem. If it
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of the modem and. when the
machine on the other end answers, hit the ' on line' bunon..
Q At work M't' hm't' a ntrwork of
Acorn compultrs r:otlMcttd 10 a
Canon UutrDirtct LBP-4
printtr, and a PC nttworl: conntcttd via Ethtrrltt to a BrOlht r HL-8PS printer. What call i do to USt ~ith~r ofthtst printers from my Mac '!
S Falconer
Co Fer managh, N Ireland
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Macs can be connected to some kinds of PC Etberner network and use the printers on that network: gel in touch wi th your network supplier to see if this is the case. If 50, they will be able to sell you some software, and you' ll need an Ethemel card for your Mac. I don' t know of any method of connecting your Mac to 111 Aoom network.
However, if you' re content with disconnecting the printer from the
fWeA ;'.. price £159, 1ets}lOU taIIe
lJdvlrUe! ofa mety ofIDlMal; piUn
network to use it, then you could lake a took at POM'trPrint, from GOT Softwor!r.s, This takes the form of a cable and software to let you use a variety of oon-Mac printers,
including both of the ones you
mention, It's available from Academy Software (OS I 656 9560), and COSI$ £ 159.
Q Do I domogt my J..ourWrittr in
any K'tIJ' if I turn it on and of!
mort thonftvt limts a day'! I do this 10 COll.urw t ltctric;fJ, but
dots it !Ut a largt amounl anY"'tIJ''! Also , how much tl«tridfJ dots my Mac !Ut?
Anni Hartridge Brigbton
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You shouldn' l really lurn your LaserWriter on and off that frequendy: it doesn' t actually save you much on your bill It all, since the printer uses far more when warming up and printing than it does when it' s idle.
Neither your Mac or your printer uses that much electricity in the first place; the two put together probably use around 1$ much as - or slightly less than - your television and video.
Q In your answer to Sltpht n
Daniels (Applt Talk. MacFormat issue I ) yo u say thot the fact fhOllht 68030 processor is no w tht t lltry·ltvtl CPU will mean ttas more fastaction arCadt ,slyle games will appear. DtHS this mean thattht y won' l run on my LC ? Havt I purchased Iht Mac t quivaltnt ofa dodo ?
John Freeman La ncaster
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Don't wOIT)', John: the chances of many - if any - programs being written that will only run on the 68030 chip are very slight indeed, The only real p10cess0r restriclion that some programs impose is tha! you need a maths cc-peccesscr (sometimes referred 10 IS an fPU). Very few programs demand this. though. and you could alwa)'t add
In FPU to your LC if you Wll1ted.
(Or, indeed, use · piece of share-
ware called So/twort FPU, which
fools your Mac into thinking that it
has the real thing installed.) The basic advantage of the
68030 is that il is rather faster than the ' 020 in your Le. so some games may play a little more slowly on your machine than they would on a higher-end mode l. But games programmers are conscious of the fact thaI a bell of a lot of Macs out there have 68000 and '020 pecces5Ol'S - you can rest assured that you
woo 't be ignored.
If you really do feci that your Le is 100 slow, you could alwa)'t consider adding an accelenuor turn 10 our f~ on page 23 for some general. buying advice.
Q I nul uYual £ xttns;ons and
DiU which auut I~ Sp ttm to
Ulkt up abolU 1.8 to 1.9Mb of RAM. Afttr _ hours ofase. I
find thot Systtm RAM has
_~s grown to over 2Mb , Itavillg nit Ki th tess fhatr 2Mb
for programs. How wul M'hy dots tM System laU up mort RAM? If I restart my Mac. tht Sysftm r~tunIS to its original siu (for a whil~).
Or Dilagen de Alwis Hove, East Sussex
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What you're experiencing is something called ' memory fnlgmentation'. Basically, every time you launch a program, it reserves memory space for itself from whatever's available. When you quit the program, it is supposed 10 free up that space so that other programs can use it. However, some appllcalions are slightly less well behaved than others, and don't mark memory as free properly - so the System thinks that it still isn' t available, although really it is. The only way around this, I'm afraid, is to resterr -. although you could try quitting all open DAs and programs, then reloading them Starling with the one that requires the most memory. since this sometimes helps.
Q I hovt fhru questions:
I , How con I gtt picturtsfrone my Amigo 10 a Mac ? 2 . What is Iht~st programmillg padogt Oil fht Mac? 3 . Whtrt con I gel a bulletin
board podogt '! I M'Wl/ 10 U I up
a club with our OM'n BBS.
Marcos Scrinn
Dis:s, Suffolk
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I. Getting images from an Amiga to a Mac is fairly easy, as long as you ' ve got a SuperDrive - that is, a flopp y drive capable o f read ing high density disks. You should save your Amiga graphics as IFF ( Interchange File Format), and then use an Amiga utility such as the shareware
MessyDOS or commercial CrossDOS to write the fil es to a PC-
formal dis k. Then use Apple File Exchange, which is supplied on your Mac System disks, to read the PC d isk and put the files on to your hard drive. Finall y, you' ll need a
program to convert from IFF format
to some thing that most Mac applicati ons can handle. such as TI FF or PlC[. For thi s you can use the sharew are program Imagery, w hich was revie wed in MacFor ma l issue I , or - if you 're rich - A dobe Phot oshop, both of which will read IFF files and then save them out in a Mac-com patible formal.
If yo u don' t have a SuperDrive, you could try connecting yo ur M ac to your Amiga with a serial lead ,
and using corn ms software to trans-
fer the files across : but fo r that you will have to have a special lead, called a ' null modem cab le' made up. Remem ber to specify that it should have a connector for the Am iga at one end and the Mac at the other. An y cornms software, such as the shareware ZTerm on the Mac and Term on the A m iga, should do the tric k.
simplest M ac applications do tend to look profess ional - for exactly the same reason.
A very good way to start is by e xplo ring f1yperCard - a limited version of which is currently bund led WI th every Mac that' s sold. The full deve loper's kit is di stributed by So ftline, and costs £170. If yo u write an application which you want to di stribute , the HyperCard L icense Kit, whic h is a one- off payme nt allo wing you to di stribute HyperCard players with
each copy, will cost you £298 -
again fro m Scftline. Man y impressive appl ications have been written in HyperCard , so don 't unde restimate its power,
3. There are a few pu blic domain BBS (bulletin board syste m) packages about, but they tend to be fairly o ld and not incredibl y reliable. (No w we' ll get hundreds of people writing in sayi ng that they' ve used one for years with no problems ... ) If you're looking at com merc ial syste ms, one you shou ld definitely check out is
TeleFinder 3.0, a graphically-
o riented BBS wh ich has wo n great acclaim. The system costs £434, whi ch includes the right to di stribute th e end-user software . (If a user doesn't have th e software the y can still access the board - it j ust doesn 't look as good.) UK dis tribution of the software is bein g handl ed by A M Micro distribution, 0 11 03 92 4 2 64 7 3
2. First off, it should be said tha t
programming the M ac is not ajob for the faint-hearted! It can be far trickier than o n most other comput-
ers, because you've gotihings like
menu s and m ouse clicks to th ink about. On the other hand. even the
Q f have a PCW, a PC and a Mac.
Why are there no ' I12' and '/ 14' symbols on the Mac keyboard ? Bob Graham Su nde r la nd
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This may seem a little inconve-
nient at fi rst, but in fact the Mac is far more flex ible in such matters. O n the PeW and PC you are restric ted to jus t the quarter, half and three-quarters sym bols.
O n the Mac you can create any fraction you want in yo ur word proc essor, using the superscript and subscript typestyles for the numerator and de nom inator, putting a '/' betwee n them and then red ucing the typesize of the whole thing.
Q Your sister magazine Mega
often contains screenshots of
various games on the Sega
Megadrive , and I ha ve read that
they use Macs to do this. Co uld you tell me how this is
achieved? At presen ct only
know how to take screenshots
directly off the Mac .
cu-e Bilby
Ba sildon , Essex
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Me ga uses a rea lly q uite sophisticated setup to take its gra bs ; you can ac hieve s imi lar res ults for less money, but I'm afra id that it wou ld still cost a fai r bit.
First, you need a video gra bbi ng card: these are de vices wh ich grab compos ite video sig nals such as are produ ced by ma ny video recorders, and di splay them on the Mac screen. Then you need some way of conve n ing th e RF output from your Sega Megadrive (or, indeed, any other video game) into com posite video. You can e ither do this by vid eotaping your game play on a video recorder w hich has composite video outputs, o r by bu ying a conversion box - you should be able to find one at a decem electronics store . You 'll the n be able to grab game scree ns, although the qu ality
~,s
won 't be particu larl y good. Unfortunately, your particular
case is not even this easy, since you say in your ori ginal lette r that you
have a Classic 11 - and there are no
digi tisin g boards available fo r that model of Mac . Digitisers are only available for Macs with expans ion SIOIS, such as the LC and Mac 11 families. Sorry .. .
Q f am Iulving trouble producing
two-colour separations in QuarkXPress 3.1 1. My aim is to produce graphs from data in an
Excel spreodsheet and drop
them into pages of a doc ument produced in XPress . / use Graphmaster 10 size and produce the graphs to fit in a box on the page, but the problem comes when priming. I can not specify which line on the
graph is 10 be 50% bl ue and which is to be 20% black. Of len no pages ge t primed, even if I specify 'colour separations'. I
though t XP ress could handle something as simple as this.
C ra ig Jauac
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There are a couple o f ways around the problem. First, if you own a co py of Adobe Photoshop you could import the graph as a PICT and save it OUI as a C MY K TIFF or (prefera bly) a DeS tile, whi ch you then import into XPress. The ot her way is to draw a coloured box over each of the bars of the graph from within XP ress. Sel ect the Text Box tool , dra w a text box e xactly ove r the line on the gra ph that you want to colour, hi t Ico mma nd ]IM ] to modi fy the box and spec ify that it should have a background colour o f 20% black or w hateve r. Note that you shouldn 't speci fy the co lour as the default XP ress ' red' , 'green ' or 'blue ' these won't separa te. A perc entage o f cyan, ma genta, ye llow or black will be fine, or you can spec ify your o wn colour from the Ed it colo urs dialogue box as long as you define it
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to be a proce ss separated colour made up from CMYK. Th is isn' t a particu larly elegant work-around. but at least it wi ll do the job. XP rl!ss 3.2. wh ich is due sometime in the fi rst half of 1993, should be able to separate PICfs - so that will solve your prob lem altogether.
Q Is it possible to give folders
passwords so that other people do not have access to them? Matthew Rickard
Tru ro, Corn wall
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There are loads of sec urity programs arou nd that wi ll do the job for you , incl uding AME, Citadel, DiskLtxk and FolderBolt.
Check o ut this issue's Shareware
Zone for a couple o f PD and shareware alternatives .
Q I' m lookingfora cheap way of
making my Mac a bufauer, Would adding a maths eo-processor 10 my Le help with graphics and/or games? Some accelerators seem to COSI as much os a new Mac ~ but do they really work?
J ohn Wa lker Wa ntage,Oxro r dsh ire
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A maths eo-processor would hel p to speed up some gra phics work, but not by a vast amount. It' s unlikely to have a noticeable effect on games. Take a look at our feature start ing on page 23 for the full lowdown on accelerators.
Q What is 32·bit addressing? Is il
the same as. or connected with.
sz-w QuickDraw?
MrsJ Yates Un ton, C a m b r id ge
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32·bit addressing is a method of le tting your Mac acce ss large amounts of mem ory.
If you have loads of RAM installed, you'll have to turn 32·bit addressi ng on so that your Mac can take ad vantage of it. 32·b it Qui ckDraw, on the other hand . is part of the System which allows your Mac to display more than eight colours; it is available as an
Extension for old Macs, but has been built in to the ROMs of new Ma cs for a few years (even mono only machi nes like the Classic).
Q I would really like to own a Mac ,
blll I have the eternal problem of nor enough cash. Is there any Apple deal for students? Carl McCarthy Su m mer town, No r t h O xro rd
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Q Using a word processing
document in Clarisw orks. I was creating a questionnaire with text and boxes which were formed using the spreadsheet tool , I moved all the items 10 the correct positions and on the screen it looked perfect. However, when / printed it some ofthe words were not in line underneath each other as they appeared on the screen. I thought that Macs always printed exactly what you saw on thl! screen - but this didn'l happen forme . Why ?
C D T rayle r-S rnit b Newport, Gwe nt
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There are a couple of possi ble reasons why this may happen. First, it depends whether you're using PosrScript or True'Iype fonts , If
you're using PosrScript without ATM (Adobe Type Manager), the represe ntation on the scree n isn' t absolutel y perfect. Second, you may be try ing to line up the words using spaces to place them in the correct positions . Thi s is never perfect you shou ld use tabs to line things up, since this is always accurate.
Q Is it possible to buy a Mac
emulalor for a 386 PC ? I lulve a Mac at home bllt l have to use (1 PC at work; Apple File Exchange works to convert my files between the two, bUI it's Imrdly an elegant solution .
Paul Ramsbottom Hove, E Sussex
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There's a Ma c em ula tor available for the Com modore Ami ga but not, as fa r as I know, for the PC - at least, not one ava ilable in this country, There were rumours of a board that 's available in the States, but it ne ver seems to have fo und its
way across to the UK. Have you
thought about try ing to persuade your bosses to let you use a Mac at work, running something like SoflPC to emulate a PC, rather than
the other way ro und .. .?
Q I used to have an Amstrod PCW
951 2, and I now have a number of3.5·inch disks with LocoScript fi les on them.Ls there a painless way of getting them read by the Mac? Andrew Roduer Auchtera rde r, Pert hs h ire
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You don' t say whetherthe disks are PC or PCW form at, although from your letter I suspect the former. If that' s the case, you can use Apple File Exchang e - which comes on one of your System disks - to read them , but even then I can' t track down a package that will convert LocoScript-forma! fi les, It' s possible that yo u may be able to extract some o f the text using a utility such
as Canopener (from A M Micro
Distribution, 0392 426473, price £ 110). If the disks are in PCW format, you're in an even worse position -the Mac can' t read disks of that type , so you'd have to go to a trans lation bureau to have them converted to PC or Mac disks ,
Q I' ve been trying to gel to g rips
with programm ing the Ma c in C. but I can'l afford the six or seven volumes ofInside Ma cintosh , the App le program·
mers' reference guide books. Will you be covering prog ram-
ming in M tu:Format?
J W Renshaw
Warrington
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We may well cover Macintosh programming in future issues of MaeForma t, if space a llows - and if enough readers are interested. However, I'm afraid that you really do need to buy In side M acintosh to do any serious work; the information it contains is inval uable, and
there ' s so much you need to know
that we could never include it all in the magazine.
Q I own a Mac Plus , and I don't
really like the mouse that comes with it . Are there any alterna -
lives available? Alternativety,
can you prinlthe pin·out diagram so llult I can adapt a different mouse . A E lla n Newto n -Le-Willows, Me rseys id e
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A quick call around a few suppliers reveals that the Mou se Systems
Little Mouse is availabl e fo r the
Mac Plus, from either Mac Line (08 1 6422222) or the Mac Accessory Centre (09 1 295 0353). Recommended retai l price is a rather hefty £ 100, although you may pay slightly le ss than that.
O ptical mice (mouses?) have no moving parts; ins tead, a beam of light shines from the bottom of the mouse on to a special mou se pad which has a fi ne grid o f lines printed on it. The reflection tells the mouse which way it' s movi ng. Because there are no mov ing parts , the mou se tends to be smoother to use. But don ' t lose the mouse mat!
Unfortunately , it isn't possible 10 j ust customise a PC mouse with a di fferent connecto r - Ap ple' s mouse uses a different method o f work ing to PC devices.
If you orde r, remember to spec ify that you want the version that works with the Mac Plus otherwise you'll be se nt the standard ADB vers ion,
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Q My problems mostly concern
memory , its usage, management and possible expansion.
J. Disk cache size and 32-bil addressing. Can you please explain these two fe atures of the Mac? What do they do,
what seuings should be chosen,
should 32-bit addressing be on or off? t' ve had mine set 01 the defau lt settings, bUI often get 'OUI of memory' messages when using CAD packages.
2. 'Zapping the PRAM' , t ' ve
heard Ihis term used but nave no idea what it does or even
how 10 do it. There is no mention of il in Ihe handbook Ihat came with my Mac.
3. Rebuilding the desktop . The handbook also says that the desktop should be rebui ll e~ery month or every other month. Why? What does it do ?
4. Expansion slots , performance boards, SIMMs. moths
eo-processors, FPUs. If I install an accelerator in Ihe single Le
expansion slot, can I still increase the RAM with, say, a 4M b SIMM ? The CPU accelerator I'm thinking of using is called the Extender, by Performance Direct Ltd and claims that virtual memory can be used. Does this mean that the 68020 processor in the LC is replaced ?
5. SryleWriter ink cartridges. Is there any way ofrefilling the ink cartridge to save having to buy a new bubblejet nozzle when only the ink has run out, or does Ihe nozzle only last as long as the ink? A nd rew Buck ley Eastleig h, Ha m psh ir e
A
Well , you' ve certainly posed a lot of questions! Here are the answers . ..
I. 32-b it addressin g has been explained in a previous answer this issue , You should only turn it on if you need it -that is, if you have large amounts of RAM in your mac hine - since some applicati ons are incompatible with 32-bit addre ssing. The disk cache is an
area of memory which the Mac uses
to speed up disk re ad and write
Subjects
times. It sto res data tha t it has read from the hard dis k in this area - so if it re ads a portion of the disk and
-
Be g i n ne rs
new applications - espec ially updat es of ones you already have which use d ifferen t ico ns -the Mac
the n immed iately need s to read it agai n for some reason, the inform ation is al ready there in RAM , which is mu ch faster to access . There' s no point having a cache o f more than a few hundred kilobyte s - you won ' t really notice any greater increase in speed. Ho we ver, it's a good idea to set the cache to the default setting o f 128K o r greater - A pple has decided that 128K is the optim al trade-off bet ween hig h speeds and
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General/Syste m
Hardwa re Bu yin g Adv ice T e c h nic a l A p p lication s G raphic s DTP Co m ms
can fa il to update the Desktop file correctly, whic h means that some files will appear with the w ron g ico ns - most commonly the 'blank document' icon, which look s like a w hite sheet of paper with one corne r turned ove r. Rebui lding the Desktop by holding down the [ X ) and [option j keys as yo u restart, and
hi tting the OK button when the ' do
you really want to do this?' dialogue box appears make s the Mac searc h
memory usage.
Remember that when you
increase the di sk cache size , you' re reducing the amount of free mem ory in your Mac - so if you're havin g trouble with appl ications requiring mo re RAM , try reducing the cac he value to its m inimum.
Are you s ure you wont to re buil d t he
desktop file on t he di sk "S y Quest 1"1 Com ments in Inf o w indow s will be lo st,
( Con, " I U OK B
Your C AD program 'out of memory ' e rrors sound to be just that, I' m afra id, You cou ld try
Rebllikhng the desktop can ofte!l cure strangl! problems sucn as appjicalions unexpectedly ~hllng, 80s Errors and the like - alt/lcM.Jgh why h eces ISiW10ther matter ".
disabling all unnecessary
Extensions and Contro l Pane ls, and your monitor behav ing strange ly, or for all applications, and check what
sell ing the di sk cac he to its
the Mac occasionally not recogn is- icons the y should assign to their
mini mum 32 K val ue to sq ueeze a
ing your intern al hard drive, you
doc ume nts. The Desktop file also
little more spare RAM out of th e
should try ' zapping ' the PRAM. If
controls a fe w other things , so it's a
machine, but in the end you'll
you're runnin g System 6 or earlier, good idea to mak e sure that it's up
probably have to ta ke the plunge
you do this by holding down the
to dat e by re building it fro m time 10
and buy extra memo ry,
[com m a nd] , [sh ift] and [op tion ]
time even if all your icons look OK.
keys together while you select the
2. The PRAM - short for Parameter Con t r ol Pa nel from the A pple
4 . The PDS (Processor Direct Slot) ,
RAM - is an area of battery-backed men u. For System 7 machines, you which is w hat your LC 's expans ion
memory where the Mac stores infermation about various Control Pane l settings such as time , date, mouse
should hold down the [co mmand].
[option], lPl and rH) keys whi le
you restart your Mac - hold the
s lot is called, is totally separate from the SIMM slots which you use
to install extra RAM - so you can
speed and so on. It also stores some keys unt il the deskt op appears.
install an expansion card and still
information about th ings like what
upgrade your memory. To run
mo nitors are con nected. Sometimes 3. There is an invis ible Iile called
v irtual mem ory you need a Paged
th is gets corrupted and strange
the Desktop fil e on your startup
Memory Management Unit
th ings seem to be happening. It
di sk , which keeps track of the icons (PMM U) - something that the
doesn't occur very ofte n, but if
that applicati ons and thei r
68020 processor bui lt in to the LC
you're having trouble with, say,
documents use. When you install
doesn't have, but that is built in to
the 680 30. The Extender has a
n~). ·
Memor
68030 processor running at 16MHz,
like the LC 11 , so you ' ll be abl e to
run virtual memory and you 'll get a speed increase of abou t 5% (according to Performance Direct ).
S,l,o\ Herd Disk :
For more detai ls on acce lerators, check out our hard ware featu re ,
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Av.ilablt 01\ disk : BM Toh l memory : 5M
beginning on page 23 of this issue.
5. There is at least one comp any that
allows you to refill StyleWriter ink
32-Bit Addf"tuil"'iJ
00.
@orr
cartri dges , but we haven't been able to trac k down any contact details. If yo u' re that com pany, perh aps you co uld wri te in and let us know ...
The nozzle on an inkjet cartridge
The Metnoty Control PllrleI. ~ )'OII're short of RAM. reduce the disk eecee to ns smal lest
value, OtIlerwise, keep h at its defautt 128K setting - or ocreese h ~ IOU'Ye got pieill)' of
spare mernol)', to increase j'OIJr Mac's performance
should be good for at least one refill before you throw the whol e thing awa y - although you might noti ce a slight drop in quality.
Q I have the Sonata music font
installed on my Mac - it's a PostScript fo m. Although I can access it with Page Maker 4.0 and put staves on the page, all the notes position themseil'es on the boaom stave line. The cursor arrows will not move them up or down, and I wonder whether 0 special program is needed 10 use this fon t,
Raymond Walker W ilmslow, C hesh ire
A
You must be pres sing the same key each time you want some more of The stave to appear. if yo u get the same note on the bottom line of the
stave every time. Sonata. lik e any
Beg inners
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Ge neral/System Hardw are Buy ing Adv ice Technical A p p l ic a tio ns G raphi cs DTP Com ms
other font , has characters mapped to each key press - try hitting other
keys and you shou ld see different
notes appearing. To see which
characters are attached to wh ich
keys. pull down The _ menu and
select the Key Cops desk accessory.
This provides you with a picture of the keyboard. on which are drawn the characters obtained when you press each key.
From the Key C a ps menu , select
The Sonata font and you should see
the picture redraw to show which characters are mapped to each key. Holding down modifier key s such as [sh ift] , [op t ion] and l com ma nd] will c hange the d ispl ay to show the characters obtained when a key is pressed in conjunction with that particular modifier.
If you actually pres s keys when in the Key Cops desk accessory, the characters appear in the sm all window above the pi cture of the
keyboard - so you can experiment
there, and even select, copy and paste the characters into your PogeMoker doc ume nt.
For an even better method of
displaying what c haracters are avail -
able in the font , there are a number of freeware and share ware ut ilities such as TypeBook which display all the characte rs, alon g with the
keypresses requ ired to access them.
You can get PD and shareware utili ties either from on-line bulletin boards or from com merc ial PD hou ses - check out the adverts in this issue for addre sses.
Fina lly, programs like Microsoft
Word 5. 1 have an I nsert Symbo l
comm and which shows all th e characters and allows you to se lect one and them paste in into the word processing document. mf
Macintosh model
System software version
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To find this dialogue
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mousabutton
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There are t housands of PO and shareware programs available for the Mac - hundreds more are released each month . lan Wrigley sort s the good eggs from the bad to bring you the very best - and worst - around
To rate or not to rate
We thought long and hard about whether to inc lude ratings with the PO and shareware
programs that we review on these pages - and decided not to. There are a number of
reasons; the primary one is that there is so much PO and snerewere out the re, that we
can afford to pick and choose what we review and only look at the better - or more esoteric - offerings. We may also cnecx out the odd absolute turkey - but you can be sure that you'll be able to tell from the review what we thought 01 it!
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Pretzel 2.0 £10
In the last issue we looked at the .... Pretzel DA, a small utility which allows you 10 log OIl to viewdata systems s uc h as Prestel. Just after we wenl to press, author Paul Russell released a new vers ion o f the program, 2.0. whi ch adds many major improveme nts. For a start. it 's no longer a D A - Pretzel is no w a
f ull appl icat ion. B ut the major benefi t for most users is that c ustomising buttons is IlO longer a
hack er-onl y task requiring Reslidit
Of something equally scary. Instead,
there ' s a new user-friendly dialogue
box into which you can ente r your settings. These are kept i n a sm all file i n the Syst em fo lder, so you don 't have to be concerned that you
might be givin g away your password when you give someone a copy of the program.
A s before, Paul requests that you
send a donation of £ I0 or so to
O xfam Of yo ur favourite chanty if yo u use the program - and it'S certai nly well worth the money. The old , DA version was a perfectl y good piece of software, but version 2 .0 is streets ahead, and is an essential acqu isition for anyone who accesses viewdata sy stems.
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PO and shareware - what exactly are they?
PO is short for 'public domem': lt's software t hat may be free ly sha red around among users - there is no fee t o pay. I1 can be obl<lined from PO
house s (ccrnparnea whicll special ise In co llect ing
together and distributing this sort of software), user groups and bulletin boards.
Actually, most free software Isn't PO - it' s what' s known as 'rreewere'. This is because putting a piece of sonware tnto the public domain deprives tile author of any rights to, or control
over, tnet software. So someone else can mod ify
it . cla im ownership of it and even sell It as a commercial package . Clearly, most programmers are not at all happy at that sort of ti1ing, so the concept of 'freeware' was created. This is software which you can use lor no charge. but Wh ich the autnor still reta ins rigllts over. for example, many Ireeware authors specify that their programs must I'\Ot be altered. and may only be dis tributed if they are accompanied by the dccurnentatton files. For s implicily. t hough, most people still refer (slightly inaccurately) to this type of software as 'PO'.
Shareware Is a different thing altogether: It's a lorm of 'try before you buy' approach to softw<lre
seiling. The idea is ti1at you can ootain the programs f rom the sam e sources as PO and Ireeware, but ti1<11 if you like ti1e softw<lre, you send the author a contribution - normally somewhere between $5 and $40 (most sttereware authors live in t he Stales). This fee . called the 'registration fee', is for you to become a registered user of ti1e program. Sometimes you get added benefits from the author - sllCh as a printed manual, or a version of the program wit h extra features - but wnetner you rece ive sllCh goodies or not. you should register any shareware which you regularly use.
The shareware idea benefits boti1 users and authors, Users get 10 try out a program before they buy it (and if you've ever boughl a commerci<lJ program that turned out to be a rear dog, you'lI kflOW how valuable ti1at call be), while the author saves money on ti1ings like marketing and distribution. Unfortun<ltely. many people treat sherewaee as if it were PO - Ihey use the programs all the time . but never send payment 10 the author. Now. while it's true that sending money overseas isn't as convenient as just writ ing a sterling crecue 01.11, it's stm your duty to do so.
Only by sendi ng your registration fee will you encourage the author to continue developing boti1 the program you're registering and any others that ti1ey mighl have in t he pipeline. Much snarewere is just as good as commercial sonware. and costs fa r less ; if you doll"! pay fo r it, you could be contributing to the author's decision that writing sherewere jusl lsn't viable, and that their next project will be fully commercial.
venents on snerewere go under names such as 'chari~are'; the author requests that if you use a program, you send a donation 10 <I specified charity. Some programs are called 'postcercwere'
by their ewers - send them a postceru - <lnd
there are even a couple of programs knocking around described as 'bee rware': - se ro me a bottle of beer f rom your part of t he world if you use
ti1 is program.' Now that's my kind of programrnerl
You will be able 10 see at a greoce what the
status is of all the software tnat we review on
the se pages - PO, treeware or shareware - and, il the latter, what the fee is. Remember, even if you've paid a PO company for a disk with <I shareware program on It , you still have to send payment direclly 10 ti1<11 ectocr.
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· !Dos
If you 're sick of friends with Pes (and anoraks) telling you that " real computers have to have a CLl" (lhal' s Command Line Interface to you), you'll be happy to know that you can no w have one of your very
own. tiros. a treeware application
by John Wi ne . prov ides just that - a CLI with commands for things like changing directories, copying, moving and de leting files. The commands will work in the background , and the '. ' OOS wildcard is supported . (A wildcard can take the place of any character or characters , so 'Smi. ' is the same as 'S mit h', 'Smubers', "Smitheree n' and so on . The on ly c haracte r that it doesn't match is the full stop.)
IDos requires System 7 to run it crashes under System 6 .
Acco rding to the author. this is done on purpose, bec ause the program was writt en as pan o f the continuing debate on CLI versus GU I (Gra phical Use r Interface) sys tems , and most Cl.l-based she lls don 't check properl y whether they are running on the correct hardware. ICs a strange idea, and one that isn' t exactly in line with Apple 's programmer guidel ine s, but as lon g as yo u' re warned yo u shouldn' t fall foul o f the problem.
In fact (and I hate to say it), this program could actuall y come in usefu l. There are time s when, for example, you want to oelete all the files in a folder that e nd in the characters' .bak' - bec ause they 've been created by a program which save s backup fi les every so one n. Now, you cou ld use the Mac ' s supe r graphical use r interface to se lect
them all and drag them to the wasrebasker - but it' s far qu icker to
launch toos and issue a 'delete
·.bak ' command. Likewi se , maybe you want to copy all the fi les that
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life ~ il oomple~ and meCWlir(less COI'I'lI1aI'ds. Rl"l il'Wa)1 Rl"l il'Wa)1
end in the word ' pict' to a separate folder. Sim ple ~ issue the com mand from !Dos and it will all happen automat ica lly for yo u.
The program is fairly limited in the range of command s that it suppons - it can' t launch fi les, for exam ple - but it's ce rtainly interesting as an experiment. and
wi ll no doubt fi nd fans among those who were bro ught up on Pes and still miss having 10 laboriously ty pe every command . And if you ' ve neve r used a Pe before, at le ast now you can find out what son o f horrible drudgery Pe enth usiasts have to get used 10 in order 10 perform the s implest of tas ks.
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Last issue we loo ked at Compact Pro, a popular fi le compression program by Bill Gocdman. This issue it' s the turn of Stuiflt Liteanother compress io n program. with a ped igree that dales bac k to 1987, when its author, Raymond Lau. was still in high school. Than ks to the program 's success, Lau is now a
rich man - and Stuiflt is available in
two vers ions: Lite, a shareware
offering, and Sru!f1t Deluxe, a fully -
fledged commercial application.
When Raymond Lau first started wri ting his progra m, the fi le com pression utility that everyone used was PockJl; howev er, the fi rst version of Sluifll changed all that it was faster. prod uced sma ller archives and was generall y a far more sophisticated (and stable) program. Since then, other programs - most notabl y Compact Pro - hav e appeared . but Sluifll has remained the program of c hoice for many peopl e, Basically, any fi le you come across that ends in the letters ' .sit' has been com pressed using some variant o f Slu!f1t - and the shareware Liti' version shou ld be able to read the file. (Files e nding in "sea' are self-extracting archi ves. created normally with either Stuiflt or
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Using the progra m is easy: you sim ply crea te a rKW arc hive, select the fi les that you want to add and hit the St uff buuon. Com press ion is fast, and the window gi ves a full display of how much space has bee n saved . the origi nal and ne w file sizes and so o n. To decom press an arch ive , you sim ply double-clic k on it, se lect the files in the archive that you wantto ex tract and hit Uns t u ff fro m the floating tool palette below the mai n window .
As we ll as basic file com press ion, Stuifll Liti' ha s plenty of other features on offe r. For a start. it can read a number of othe r com pressed fil e formats - AppleLink packages.
Compact Pro archives. Pack!t fil es
and DiskDoubler liles (if you have the DiskDoubler Extension in your Syste m folder). The program will also decode Bitlllex 4 fi les (which are normally found on Unix computers) and create MacBinary files (useful if you' re tra nsferring files to and fro m Pes),
There is also support for Apple
Events so when Apple fi na lly
releases a scripting package you 'll be able to write scripts to automatically deco mpress archive s or whateve r. (If you o wn UserLand' s Frontier pac kage, you will be able
to do this right row.j Registered use rs of the program
gain a few extra fac ilities , suc h as the abil ity to open up to e ight archives at once, and to encrypt archives so that onl y users with the password call access them .1be regi stered version also has more support for Apple Events.
Befo re Sruifll Lite appeared . many people were switching from the previous shareware version o f the prog ram to Compact Pro, which seemed to offer more features, such as tile ability to mak e se u -oecompressing archives. and cre ated smaller archives faster. But Aladdin Systems has leapfrogged Compact Pro with this new version of Stuifll - self-decom pressing arc hives are available. arch ive sizes are smaller and the program is much faster than its predecessors .
Another advantage is that Slu/fft Lite will open archives created with
CO"lpaCI PrO;COmpact Pro, on the
other hand, can only cope with archi ves created by version 1.5.1 of Stuiflt, which ceased to be c urrent more than a year ago.
For years, Stuiflt was the de facto standard compress ion program. And after a brief h iatus, if' s bac k with a vengeance. This program is a vital add ition to anyone ' s software library, and can be highl y recommended.
Shareware and pu
Maelstrom cheats!
Maelsuom, reviewed in M aeFormat issue 1. Is one of the best shoot-em-ups available for the Mac - it's certainly a contercer for the best shareware game ever written.
It's a version of Asteroids with full colour. sam pled sound s, load s of features and so on but it can be fiendishly tricky 10 play. Well. for those wno've been wishing tor a wat to beat the system , we present the official cheat guide - as writte n by Al'\drew Welch. the program's author.
There's only one problem ~)'Qu need MacsBug. Apple's debugger program. YOI.l shou ld be able to
find it on bulletin boa rds such as Com puServe and
Applelink. but you won "I be able to get it from PO
houses - Apple spe<: ifically forbids its distribut ion by all but Apple authorised sources. If you rea lly can't find it. you might tl)' dropping in to your local eccreceove ami pleading...
The following text is taken directty from Andrew's cheat sheet:
-orce you've installed MacsBug. load up Maelstrom 1 .03 and hit [PJ to start playing the game. When you want to use a cheat. hit the lnte rrupt s witch on your Mac intos h to drop it into MacsBug: ta ke care to hit the right switch: one retoots the machlr>e, the other will drop you into MacsBug. On mectunes like the nsr (which doesn 't
have an interrupt s witch). hold down the
[command ] key and hit the l powe r on ] key to drop you into MacsBug.
Now for the cheats: Type : SW (A5}-$338 1 [return] for ACME XQJ·3 7 Retro Thruste rs Type: SW (A5}-$3361 [ret urn ] for Machine Guns
Type: SW (A5}-$334 1 [ret urn] t« LlICk
Type: SW (A5}$332 1 [re t urn] fOf Long Shots
Maelstrom is one of the best games avai~ II)' the Mac - and now Wll 've got the cteets tllari help)OU get to the top of the higtI-score table!
Type: SW (A5} $3 30 1 [ret urn] for Triple Shots
Type: SW (A5}$384 #X [ret urn]. where x is the
number of lives you want Type : SW (A5}$32C "300 l ret urn] for maximum shields
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~ Image 1.47
Image was written by W aync
Rasband. who work s for the United
States NationalInstitute of Health. Although the lac k o f doc ume ntation make s it a little tricky to work out
what some of the features of the program do, it appears to be part image man ipulat ion program ~ la PhOloshop. part image analysi s 1001. 11 supports image captu re from an
unspecified dig itising board. and has
a large number of analy sis tool s built in 10 deal with this data. such as producing a plO! of the co lo ur density in the image. mat hemarically addi ng and subtracting values from the image and so on ,
All of thi s is probably preuy
exciting for people who want such
things, bUI for the re st of us the program' s real beauty is that it is free. and a pretty reasonab le substitute for an expens ive, commercial image manipu lation package.
It supports things like c hang ing the colour look-up table (e ffec tivel y altering the colo urs that are displ ayed, and cre at ing some pretty wild effects ), smoothing. tracing out lines, adj ust ing the number of co lours , convert mg to and from greyscale ... in fact. just about anything you might want to do to freak about wit h an image.
Image will ex port files as TIFF, PICf, MacPailll or PI CS, and will
import sim ilar file form ats - whi ch
mean s that you should have no probl e ms ge lling your masterpiece in to the program. The lac k of doc ume ntat ion is a problem, but [ found that hal f an hour of playing about worked wonders - e xce pt for the really esoteric features, which remain a mystery but which I
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If yo u want an ima ge man ipul ation program but can 't just ify the
cost, you shou ld check out Image.
Ve rsions of the program are avail able for Macs with or without an FPU (Floating Point Uni t),
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Tape Labeler
Tape t.abetcr, by Jon athan Simon,
is a simple program designed to do
a simple job - prod uce labe ls for
cassette tapes. (Not that you're
recording your COs - the only use
that you'd have for this program would be to document you r own experime nts in hom e record ing ...)
Data e ntry is sim ple ~ ta bbin g take s you to the different areas of the labe l. and the font , size and sty le can ei ther be changed globally or j ust for individual sec tions . You can set things like the tape ' s make and leng th, date recorded (does anyone actually want to know this ?) and noise reduction used, and - since the
Mac uses a standard pri nter driver
across all applications - the re sult should be exactly the right s ize to be
cut out and placed in a cassette box. There is support for co lour
(altho ugh, of course, you 'll need a
colour printer for there to be m uch
point ), you can paste in graphics and
even print a pattern across one corne r of the labe l in case you're
anally retenti ve e nough 10 store your tapes by cat egory (one pattern for train sound effec ts, another for bi rd calls, perhaps?). TIle final result
looks professional. and is far eas ier a ll round than trying to set up a
s imilar template in Ctonsworia.
QuarkXPress or whatever,
Thi s isn' t a program that w ill set
the world on fi re, but it 's very good at what it does .
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Shareware and pu
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To Do!
$15
I
To Do.' is a simp le 'to do ' list organiser (surprise, surprise) that comes in the form of a Desk. Accessory (DA). It' s written by A ndrew Welch , who as ks a $15
shareware fee, and may well save
you many times that amount if you
were th inking o f b uying a commercial product that does a sim ilar job.
The easiest way 10 use the
program is to put it - or an alias -
into yo ur ~ menu . (Of course.
users o f System 6 and below have no option - it's a DA, so il m ust be installed into the System.) Then it' s
accessible whateve r you're doing as a DA . the amount o f memory requ ired is tiny. so you should n't have probl e ms opening it while yo u' re running an application.
Using the program is equa lly easy. You can split you r "0 do ' lists into variou s categories - for examp le, work , personal or whatever - and have a separa te list for eac h. Acjual items in the list can have no tes attached, and e ach is
assigned a priority between I and 3
- the list is then autom atic ally
sorted into priority orde r. Once
you've com pleted an item, you can e ither mark it w ith a t ic k or delete it altoge ther.
Print ing a list in To Do! is s im ply a matter of clic king a cou ple of icons - the who le thing can be ou tput , including all notes and the
priority of each item. There are co mmerc ial programs
available which organise your To Do lists for you - the y generally cost £ 30 or more. O r yo u could get
hold o f To Do! and pay a me re $ 15
shareware fee - whi ch, in my book, is rather better value . (Even better value, of co urse , is to kee p your To
Do list on a piece o f paper and not
use a com puter at all. But that 's another matter. .. )
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i:J1991 " To Dor is a shareware program wIllCh is better1tIan some simjlarcornmertIal applications
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8iPI_ is a futly-featUted sIlarewille spreadsheet. wIlich suppeJltS coIouf. nume,oos bui~-IIl f\lnctions and even chart crellliol1
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BiPlane 2.0 $79
BiPla lle is a more expensive sharewart:': package than most - but fo r yo ur money you get what is, essentially, a fully- fledged soresdsbeet. Th e vers ion c urre nt ly avai lab le from PD hou ses is 2.0. althou gh yo u' ll get an updated version when yo u registe r. Indeed . registrat ion al so en titles yo u to a DA implemenration . on-l ine help, a 200 page manual and techn ical support.
Un like e arlier versions of the program, 2.0 is very fully-featured. 11 has numerous built -in nume rical func tions. differe nt form atting for
numbe rs, currency, date and time and so on, and variable widt h colum ns that can be altered jus t by dragging the cursor 011 screen something which I reall y didn 't expect to see in anyth ing other than a full commerc ial applic ation . The creat ion of c harts is also supported. although I had some trouble persu ad ing BiPlanc to do exact ly what I wanted in that area.
If you don't reall y know whether you need a spreadsheet or no t. it' s
worth checking out BiPlone. A nd if
your budget won ' t stretc h to the
likes of Excel or Resol"e, the regis-
tered vers ion wi ll probably be perfect ly adeq uate - most peopl e use very few of a progra m like
Excel"s features. and BiPlone
certain ly seems to have just about everythi ng that I want.
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SoundMaster $15
So undMas/er is an absolutely vital acquisit ion for any Mac gadget freak. With it, you can make you r Mac play sounds when it performs just about any act ion - starting up, inserting or eject ing a disk, beeping - e ven the user pressing a key. For this you pay a measly $15 to author Bruce TomJin.
There are thousands o f sou nd sam ples knocking around in the
public domain if you don' t have the kit to sam ple your own. They are m ainly take n from TV shows and movies - and predom inantl y the kind of TV sho ws and movie s that yo u'd expect computer fans to w atch. so JUSt about every seco nd of every Mon ty Python film has been sampled, The Sim psons have been done to death and 200 I: A Space Oddity (s ic) and The Te rminat or are both we ll represented. Howe ver. others do crop up - the re ' s a good se lection of samples fro m the kids ' T V show Trapdoor . for example.
To use SOUl,dMasler, you simply
select the action that you want to ha ve a sound assigned to , and the
sound th at you w ant pl ayed. TIle samp le rate can be set to one o f four ra tes - tile higher the rate at w hich the sound has been sa mpled. the bener the qu ality.
Apart from a couple of limitauons. suc h as em ptying the wasrebasket not playing a sound under Syste m 7 , Soundsdaster is a fabulous piece of programming.
Have your Mac say "Ban!" instead o f the normal beep. "Okey dckey" when you res tart. "Bleaugh" when you eject a d isk. " Yo u are scheduled for terminat ion" when you shut down.
You get the idea: the office will never be the same again . . .
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"Desktop Textures
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A nyone who 's used the Performa version o f System 7.7.1 P. will kno w tha t. miller than being able to ed it you r Desktop paue rn. you instead ha ve a ran ge o f about si xteente xtures IQ choose from. Well , Desktop Textures by Geoff A darns and Ssepben K rauth now gives the rest of us the same sort of funct iona lity.
Using the program is simp le. dou ble-clic k on the file. select O pe n from the File me nu 10 choose a fi le
of te xtu res, and the firlil one is
di splayed in a w indow. You can
clic k on the text ure to see what it looks like on your main screen and .
wnen you've found oue that you 're
happy wit h. cl icki ng the Inslall buuon pots the textu re penn ane nt ly
in to your System - well, perma-
nently Ulll il you waratc choose a differe nt te xture. You can reve rt to
the normal Co ntrol l'ane! by installing the 'Control Pane l Com patible' pattern.
The textures supplied with the program arc great - some are a little eye-boggling, bot most arc pleasant and definitely make a change from the norma l boring Desk top pa tterns .
The program ' s authors say th at the program is released as ' share-
ware with a tw ist ' - you can pay
any amou nt that you want, or nothing at a ll; there's no obligation .
Desiclop Textures: Roll upl Roll up! Get j')U' freaky oeseccs here
I th ink that a lot of peopl e will be pay ing a fee, though - it' s nice to see a program that ' s so s imp le and elegant to use . Th is is a program
th at" s high1'1 recommended if you ' re
bored with the standard, staid Mac desktop patterns and pine for somethi ng a litt le mo re exc iting .
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$ Crystal Cave
Crystal cove. by Ke vin O'Gorman. is a text-only advent ure game based
on the original compute r advent ure,
which was written in Fortran by a
programmer ca lled willie Crow ther, way back when compu ters were as big as roo ms .
For the uninitiated. an adventure game is a lest of your reasoning powe rs: you ta ke the pan of an exp lorer, out to gat her up as much treasure as you can. You mov e around by issuing com mands like 'go north', ' c limb tree ', 'rub lamp ' , ' hi t dwarf or whate ver; there are ple nty of objects other than treasure lying aro und to hel p yo u (and
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You can obtain PO and sha rewa re from a number of different sou rces, F irst, t he re are the commercial P D houses (check the a d verts in this magazine for a d d resses), T hese are com panies w h ich collect softwa re, package it 011 to di sks and t hen se ll it on to you fo r a
moderate cha r ge. Next co me bulletin boards,
To a ccess o ne of these you' ll need a modem, of co urse, b ut o nce you' re con nected you will find Ihat there' s a wealth of software availab le. If you use th e CIX bulletin boa rd (mode m
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include VAT and are the manufacturers' recommeroeo ret ail prices. But watch out because
prices might rise with it being the new financial year aOO all that. SO shop around for the keenest
prices! And if you're intendi ng buying by mail order remember these five golden rules:
· Pay cash on del ivery or · Pay by personal credit card · Collect your gear in person
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