2 CDs FREE! ADVENTURE GAME: WORTH £20 MACWORLD MORE NEWS, MORE REVIEWS JANUARY 1999 JANUARY TOP MAC GAMES • MID-SIZE Macworldwww.macworld.co.uk SCREENS • iMAC REVIEWS • PHOTOSHOP MASKING PROGRAMS • PHOTOSHOP REVIEWS SCREENS • iMAC Playtime Top games all here Best screens Apple vs Bill Gates Top iMac reviews! Photoshop masking JANUARY 1999 £4.99 news cover feature: every Mac tested contents January 1999 I I I in-depth stories incisiveness exclusive tests hile this year’s Apple Expo was W a damp tissue Mateworld of a show, with no Adobe, 16–19 Microsoft Agfa or even Apple – and 6262 TopTop MacMac that’s just starting alpha- read me first ‘sabotaged’ betically – January’s Macworld Simon Jary, editor-in-chief test centre Expo held in San Francisco is going to be enormous. Roll QuickTime up, roll up for all the big gamesgames names, new products, and 20 Mac OS 8.6 details 75 Pay and display sneak peeks at tomorrow’s Mid-sized monitors are coming down in price – we technologies. 22 Digital Media World Apple’s iMac Almost guaranteed take a look at what’s out there. exposure is the 24 Streaming QuickTime 3.5 next-generation G3 Power has revitalized Mac, code-named Yosemite. 25 Apple Expo ’98 In our December 1998 issue we reported the latest hot 26 SNEAK PEEK: Director 7 the Mac games rumours on what these 400MHz-plus beasts would 28 Downward spiral for iMac sales? market. contain (FireWire, USB, flashing lights, and iMac-like translucent blue cases). After Macworld Expo, we’ll know for sure. 30-31 Final Cut ships? We are also likely to see demonstrations of the next revision Macworld of QuickTime – be it version 3.5 or 4.0. Again, our sources indicate 32 SNEAK PEEK: Dreamweaver 2 great things, including advanced streaming capabilities (see page 24). chooses 1998’s And, again, all should be revealed in San Francisco. But the most eagerly anticipated new treat we’re praying to see at Macworld Expo is the final piece in Steve Jobs’ product jigsaw best titles and – the consumer portable Mac. product news Apple’s laptop iMac is code-named P1, but, reportedly, will eventually be known as the WebMate. Apple, itself a big fan of DIY, I the top classics what’s new and what’s hot joins Black-& Decker and Virgin in naming products ‘Mates’.I suppose it‘s meant to denote things being informal, friendly and a bit handy. 37 - 40 The latest hardware and software still available. Odds are, that‘s just what we’ll encounter at Macworld Expo. What we know right now is that the translucent WebMate will run a full version of the Mac OS, likely OS 8.6 by the time it ships. And it will closely resemble its predecessor, the Newton OS-based eMate. Aside from the WebMate, Apple is now rumoured to be producing a successor to its old Newton MessagePad range of handheld computers. Even less is currently known about this super PDA, but reviews Competition triple! Macworld agents at the Patent Office report that it’ll be called the media secrets MacMate and run a sort of Mac OS Lite – pushing it several leagues ahead of any other handheld running either the Palm OS or I Macworld has it covered Windows CE. 85 create graphics 101 secrets win win I’d love to catch sight of this at Macworld Expo, but I’d have so many 48 PAINTER 5.5 WEB EDITION A 4D Desktop V6 package A Neato CD labelling kit PLUS a copy fingers crossed that it didn’t suck like the Newton, that I’d struggle to Batch of the day Keep Office running pick it up, let alone carry it everywhere with me. 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