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£1500 to Spend? 22 Multimedia DX2 66S from £949 P454 JUNE 1995 Personal Computer World June 1995 £2.50 Multimedia kits,mice, Overseas Price £2.95 France 58 FF Germany DM 17,00 Italy 13,400 Lire Spain 925 PTS keyboards and software Holland HFL 14,25 Belgium 272.00 BFr Finland FIM 39.50 to Win on page 619 VNU Business Publications ● 157,544 readers can't be wrong • Britain's top-selling personal computer magazine 22 Multimedia DX2 66MHz 486s Awards 1995 ● Best Hardware, Software, Peripherals 1995AwardsAwards ● £1500 to spend? Readers' MATHS SOFTWARE How to buy a complete Awards PC system p408 Best hardware 22 Multimedia Best software DX2 66s from Best peripherals ● £949 p454 Ami Pro 4.0 ● New Releases Quicken 4.0 Ami Pro 4.0 and Entry Level PowerMacs Quicken 4. 0 If your Disk or CD is missing, Volume 18 Number 6 please ask your June 1995 Newsagent June 1995 PCW June 1995 Contents Features First Impressions Regulars Hands On PC Awards 325 Newsprint The Infobahn is set to become a reality; the PC world prepares for the 21st century; 1995 Adobe and NetScape indulge in Acrobatics; Delrina homes in on memory lane; the French have their PCs, the Brits have more fun; The best PCs, Amstrad airs “Text Radio”; Gates on Win95. 627 Introduction 628 Windows 346 News Analysis PC software and DOS Tim Bajarin on the industry vs. Microsoft; 632 peripherals Jack Schofield on the future of Unix; 634 32-Bit 366 Compaq DeskPro 575 Barry Fox on video data storage. Word Processing voted for by you, Model 420 4/4 638 With outstanding network management 642 Spreadsheets the readers 351 Sounding Off by Michael Hewitt and top-of-the-range components, this 646 Databases looks set to make a real impact. 353 Homefront by Tim Nott 650 Graphics & DTP 656 Multimedia 368 3D Interior Designer 355 Straight Talking by Barry Fox Performa Macs 402 Redesign your entire home from the 660 Sound PCW Cover Photography by David Whyte comfort of your PC. 662 Visual Programming PCW Computer Graphics by Magic Lantern Group by CHRIS CAIN 357 Business Matters by Nick Beard 422 666 Low Level Apple’s bid for a slice of the home market is based on three new 369 Quicken 4.0 for Windows 361 Letters 674 Numbers Count Disk with Performa Macs, one of which bears an uncanny resemblance to The best program for balancing your every 676 Networks issue Cover Disk Compaq’s Presario. personal accounts gets better. 680 Macintosh 696 Buyer’s Charter 370 Word Pro 684 Computer Answers With a new name, Lotus’s word proces- Five go mad with £1,500 408 ChipChat 686 Beginners or CD-ROM sor is back to challenge Microsoft Word. 703 ● Cover Disk 12 by THE PCW TEAM Our annual look at how to buy a complete PC system — PC, 372 Micropolis AV Gold Series Group Tests Flamingo Lite: fully featured image printer and software — armed with a pen, a phone and a wad. Capricorn 3243AV The ideal hard disk for jitter-free editing package multimedia performance. Reader Survey 420 ● PCW Interactive CD-ROM 14 374 Visual FoxPro 3.0 Win a Western Systems Pentium 60 and help us make PCW New, easy-to-use version of FoxPro with Hundreds of megabytes of hot stuff, even better into the bargain. 32-bit goodness. including Peter Gabriel’s Xplora, PCW Awards 422 376 Psion Series 3a 2Mb PaintShop Pro 3.0, full-screen demo Psion’s latest organiser puts more RAM by THE PCW TEAM in your pocket. of Hell, plus 30 royalty-free photos The best PC products of the last year, including, for the first time, the PCW Reader Awards. 376 FreeStyle for Macintosh At last, a sequencer that thinks like a CUTTING EDGE musician. 502 Uninstall utilities 378 Acorn RISC PC 486 571 Introduction by PAUL BEGG Windows on the Archimedes is no longer DX2-66MHz 486s 454 PCW Online A close look at seven utilities for clearing out the detritus left a RISCy business. DX2-66 is fast becoming the entry level for multimedia PCs, with prices starting 572 Net.answers by unruly Windows apps. to dip below the £1,000 mark. Eleanor Turton-Hill put 22 of the machines 383 Paint Shop Pro 3.0 Net.surf 574 It’s only a shareware paint package but it through the VNU Eurolabs mill. 578 Net.news feels like Photoshop. Programming in Access 2.0 518 582 Comms 530 588 Net.newbies by IAIN SUMMERS & ANGUS MacKELLAIG 383 VVL PC Card Camera Maths software Eric Adler set tests for seven leading mathematics packages, totted up the The first of a three-part series on how to get the most out of A nice idea for niche applications. PCW Futures marks and awarded the Editor’s Choice prize. Microsoft’s popular Windows database. 591 Innovations 386 Circle Elements 593 Horizons Simple sound-sample fun. 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