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UnderThe Apple Menu KeithTolemon rF Accessto thepower and magic of DeskAccessories TheHumon Touch i**d n.f FronkCotolono An interviewwith Apple'sJean-Louis Gass6e ffis%ffi page I 0 VideoWorksll Review Mick O Neil iPWffi Animation fbr the rest of us | !r rr$Nsi: i:r:::tss LeorningThe Fonf/DA Mover PhilipC. Russell Everybody'sgotta start somewhere
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A LittleBit of History driversinto theoperating system. Device drivers are the programsthat allow your hen the time cameto Mac to work with a wide varietyof pe- build a new computer ripheral devicessuch as printers.disk '),: operatingsystem. the drives,modems. and monitors. Common folksat Apple (and/or $@;*a*1- t'*.:*'"*;- examplesinclude the LaserWriterand ji nbout tlfl's... Xerox PARC. de- ImageWriterdriver files in your System pendingon whoseautobiography you're l'l suitcase Folder. reading)made some inspired decisions. lntermail While MS-DOS requireseach appli- For file manipulation,they went fbr cationto supplyits own devicedriver(s), Rlarrnllrq:k theelegance and simphcity of thedesktop theMacintosh operating system offers 48 IeskZaF metaphor.replacing the PC's non-intui- Ili*kTnp tive text stringsand commandline input FindFile with a graphicrepresentation of thecom- UUhen you're atyour Keg frps mon desktop. For the complexhierarchical system desk,the stapler, scotch Snnart$rra p of directoriesand subdirectories.what tape,calculator and f alrula t*r could be more naturalthan the file fblder f,*ntral F*nel metaphor'? addressbook are always FKegMnnnger And.for theincreasingly popular ram- rightat hand, no matter minilllfilT[R residentutilities (Sidekick is themodel). it whatyour current task. MackTurrnina! theychose the deskaccessory. Look at thisway - whenyou're at your desk. the Sark0nrun stapler.scotch tape, calculatorand ad- $cribbl*r dressbook are alwaysright at hand.no flrti*ln' whatyour matter currenttask. "drawers" LnsUega* $tgl* (RAM-residentutilities are smallap- within theoperating system to holdthese drivers. By puttingyour driver $iden flnk*r plicationsloaded intcl main memory (RAM) in one of these drawers (putting your f nlrnd*r eitherat start-upor duringa ses- sion.They capturea portionof available LaserWriterdriver in theSystem Folder) P*urerSistion memory and remainthere for the entire you give all your applicationsthe same Talkingft{n*;e sessionwithout disturbing any of the basic laser printing capabilities,in the MnNurrll application(s)used. They can be run at sameway that all your applicationscan (Microsoft U*tlnrk any time by pressinga uniquekeystroke Cut and Paste. Corporation hasadopted this device-independentway Litlln Blark Snck sequence.In mostcases,the main applica- tion suspendsprocessing while the utility of life with Windowsand OS/2. ) is running.) Desk accessoriesare containedin the And. most importantly,Apple built a operating system, are available from homefor theseaccessories within theop- withinall applications,and work the same eratingsystem itself. with each application. Sound familiar? One of the advantagesof the Macin- Yes.desk accessories are actually a vari- toshs)'stem is theincorporation ofdevice ationon thedevice driver. Let'stake another look at our 48 driver
MaeA.P.P.L.E. - November 1987 slots.Twelve slotsare allocated for non- installonly comesup within thatparticu- processingof an applicationwhen you SCSIperipherals, eight for SCSIdevices, lar application.and doesnot effectyour switchto a new application. fifieen for the deskaccessories under the SystemFile DA count. Multiprocessing,or backgroundproc- Applemenu, five fortheDA's installedin And sincethe 5-DA limit only applies essing,is identicalto multitaskingexcept applications(more about this later),and to the loadedapplication. you caninstall thatlhe application continues processing the remainingeight slotsare held in re- up to 5 DAs in eachone of your applica- even after you switch to a new one. In servetornew peripherals. This is why you tions! I've fbund this to be particularly otherwords, you'll be ableto download can'tinstall more than l5 DA's in your usefulwith the DA help files writtenfor thelatest goodies from your favoriteBBS System. applicationslike SuperPaint.MS Word and lay out your newsletterwith Page- The first DAs camefrom Apple,and andIllustrator. Maker at the sametime. The background were mostly Sidekick-likeutilities such And many of the t'unctionsyou are process(in thiscase, the terminal emula- as the Alarm Clock. Calculator.and lookingfor in deskaccessories are avail- tor)is invisible while you use PageMaker. Notepad.The Control Panel off'ereddi- able in fkeys (functionkeys) and inits. The much-anticipated MultiFinder rect accessto operatlngsystem parame- ters, and the Scrapbookwas the perf'ect demonstrationof dataportability among applications. As with all things, the Macintosh community wasn't satisfied with the statusquo. Prof-essionaland amateurdevelopers tookApple's original vision as a startin€l point,and an amazing variety of newDAs beganappearing on bulletin boars and usergroups. Today, you canfind spread- sheets,word processors.terminal emula- tors, games, graphics tools, spelling checkers,help files. print spoolersand many more full-featured applications underthe Apple menu. The vastmajority of theseproductiv- ity enhancersare available from your local usergroup or informationservice (suchas GEnie and Compuserve).And Essentialutilities, entertaining diversions:the best of both woilds. since most of them are shareware,the startup(imagine the unmistak- pricescouldn't be better. MostMacintosh users have pressed Shift- soundson able voice of HAL from 2001 singing Option-3at one time or allotherto dump "Daisy"), th-ecurrent screen display to a MacPaint reversingblack and white on Fifteenis NotEnough file. This is an fkey iupplied by Apple your screendisplay, emulating a large As mentionedearlier, your System with your SystemFlt.- At with DA's. screenmonitor.andevenmakingretching File holdsno morethan l5 at a time (and fkeyscan be installedand removed,and soundswhen you ejecta disk (the infa- someDA's take up more thanone slot). you'll find anamazing selection available mousMacPuke)' However.there are severalalternatives i.n.n ynu, usergroup or BBS. Anothervariation on theinit themeis available. FKey Manager.a publicdomain pro- Suitcasefiom Software Supply (408- Thereare a varietyofdesk accessories gram fiom Carl,osWeber M.D.. tetsyou 719-9311' $49.95).Since we're a little availablefbr usinguninstalled DA's from install fkeysjust like the familiar Font/ behindon the EastCoast, Suitcase is not "Double disk.My favoriteis Apple"fiom DA Mover. Once installed.these fkeys availablehere as of this writing. How- Stefan Bilaniuk. available on most canbe usedfiom within all your applica- ever.advance word says that this might be BBS's.Simply group up to l0 DAs in a tions.Fkeys are availablero let you use the perf'ectsolution to all our DA (and "suitcase" single usingFont/DA Mover, uninstalledDA's andfonts. blackout your font) limitations(reviewed elsewhere in then open it using Double Apple. You screento avoidCRT burn-in.tell thetime, this issue). now havetwo DA menusto choosefiom ! andmuch more. DoubleApple is alsoperf-ect fbr test- Inits (initializationresources) are MUltiFindef? Bah, hUmbUg! ing new DAs befbre installingthem in lunctionsthul execute when vou startup common desk accessoryalso yoursystem. your Macintosh.Init titeslavaitaule from represents, ,The the most elegantsolution to And remember,up to 5 DA's can be the usualsources) ure ,imptv ftacea in multitaskingand multiprocessingwe'll installed into any application.When your systemFolder. ru.ry iirn. vou rrua fbr quitesome time' Thesetwo terms you're in the Font/DA Mover.just hold your Mac, the init tun.ti,rn u.lo..r u :ttha,v1 been given quite a few different down theOption key while you click the seamlesspart of' tt'. op..uting ;y;"..'j.0 "Open" meanings' but for the purposesof this button.All yourapplications will assumingyou are u'n!-sfrt.lr' ; -*iri let's define multitaskingas the offer themselvesas potentialDA sites. later.Inits do not work ."tii., iut article ability to loadmore than one application just asif theywere System Files (you can rems. into memoryat thesame time andswitch dothe same thing with fonts).The DA you There are inits for playing----J-'-c digitized- c between them. Multitaskins suspends
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Gass6eis alsoinstantly likeable - if quick o you enjoy wit, a somewhatself- s deprecatingsense of humor, someone j o who's as comfortablein leatherjackets f E and jeans as in three-piecesuits, and a ()o collegemathematics dropout. This last -oo mademe feel right at home, as a former a andunconsummated math major myself. o So how did the currentSenior Vice a E f Presidentfor Researchand Development o o get into this businessin the first place? fi,T "The first memoriesI haveare when I t readan encyclopediawhen I wasage | 4, I heyalways fascinated mebecause and I decidedthat, yes, I wantedto be in computers,"Gass6e says. This, obvi- vounever know about computers . . . does ously, before he joined Apple France. ihemachine think or not? We know they "They alwaysfascinated me becauseyou neverknow aboutcomputers . . . doesthe don'tbut they still exhibit properties whrch machinethink or not? We know they havealways fascinated bipeds like me." don't but they still exhibit properties whichhave always fascinated bipeds like subjecta Wright-handedspin, pointing adventure. me." "This Gass6ewent from that interestto his out thatcomputers' technological matur- is still a very youngtechnology. first job at Hewlett-Packardin ity is still up in theair. Thereare many more thingsto discover computer "I 't I 968,helping introduce the first scientific think we areat the first transatlantic thatwe can eventhink of. Also, contrary desktop computer in France.A decade flight.I think we now cansafely consider to maybethings people have said in the before Apple started making its mark, personal computing as a commercial, last few years,there is more technology Gass6e'sfirst personalcomputer was an long-term businessadventure. It's both availablein the next five yearsthan there H-P. businessand an adventure. It's a business was in the lastfive years.So, technology Despite the advances since then, becausewehavetotakecareofourcus- is accelerating,which is not usual,and Gass6eisn't ready to say the ultimate tomers,and there's the regulatingaspect which is a sign thatthis is a very young computeris here.Instead, he gives the of being overseenby our constituency, industry.This is the beginningof the the marketplace.And also there's the beginning.If we took the computerswe 10 MacA.P.P.L.E. - November 1987 hadjust shippedtoday for the computer,I didn't read into the announcementthat care,who want to get theirjob done,who think we would be in great danger of therewould be a hugeindustry of clones, think computers are too difficult, too missinginnovations to come." that would make our novel and worthy obscure." "I'm Ah, but have Gassde'sopinions competitora minorityplayer in thatfield. On toyingwith computergames: changedover the years? "I That has surprisedus, but also it has going to get in trouble,but I don't like rememberhow I thoughtof comput- convincedus that we shouldkeep com- computergames. To me, writing is a bet- ers in 1968,and what I think aboutper- putersthat are hard to clone." ter gamethan playing games. or usinga "Even sonalcomputers in 1987,and I'm opento On IBM's PS/2line - if I had changingmy mind in the next 19 years a strongopinion, I would not discussit "My too.I hopeI will. Thisis going to makeour publicly. I buy a lot of equipmentfrom definitiono{ livesvery interesting." many. many brands.My wife Brigine interestingadulthood is usedto say I havethe largestcomputer you Apple///'s and PS2's storein thearea at home.Obviously, I'm thaton the one side, Gass6e'sphilosophical musings on the interested.because good ideas and bad operateas a responsible stateof Apple and the industryare well ideas,all of that, is good information, person,you worry about known, and widely publishedhere and good food for our thoughtson the evolu- andponder the conse- elsewhere.Not so well known, perhaps, tion of personalcomputing." quenceofwhat you do areGass6e's thoughts on a varietyofother On talkingabout products in develop- - "No. computer-relatedtopic - topicstouched ment I'm notthe VP in chargeof beforetaking a risk. 0n on in a friendlyand far-reaching conver- pre-announcementsat Apple." theother side, you are - "What sation. On Apple'stenth birthday I morein touch with your On thenot-so-successful Apple /// and hopeis thatwe arebecoming an interest- Lisa-"Let's bepositive. It showswe are ing adult. My definition of interesting childhooddreams," a patientcompany. So areour customers, adulthoodis that on the one side, you operateas a responsibleperson, you .(l worry aboutand ponderthe consequence I f wetook the com- of whatyou do beforetaking a risk. On the puterswe had just other side,you are more in touch with spreadsheetis a bettergame. But that's shippedtoday for the your childhooddreams." my opinion. That's not the dogma, the Doesthis meanApple hasreached the truth,I'm statinghere. computer,I think we ageof majority at ten? "But, "Those I've seenincredibly sophisti- wouldbe in great might be somethingbetween cated games. I'm very grateful to the dangerofmissing humanand dog years.so maybe we are30 people who write games becausethey innovationstocome." yearsold." show sidesof computing that needto be On what the adult wantsto do when it shown." - "I'd growsup like to seeus, someday, On having artificial intelligencetoy "1'm with the reputationas the Honda of the with you - interestedin nice door computerindustry. since the role of Gen- handles,not hugegas refineries. I'd like by the way, sometimes.We tried things eral Motors is takenby someoneelse." artificial intelligence applied to word work, we I that didn't keep trying, and On adult industriesmaking computer processing,so I could type a few sen- think we hit a coupleof goodones. magazinesand radioflV showsobsolete tences,and the computerwould do a very "In prod- - "Computers the Applelll, we releasedthe have to become more polishedbusiness letter. I canturn down a were uct too early, before all the bugs importantto people yet. You still notice requestin the mostdiplomatic fashion. I ironed out. An initial bad reputation is the presenceof the computer,you don't would tell the computerone very brutal very hardto shakeoff. Then,we fixed the noticethe absence.When you go into an phrase,and the computer...." product, very well, was it worked and it office,you don't seea telephone,you see On throwing out a good ideabecause people "l recognizedby lots of asone of the a personalcomputer. In ahouse, you don't the timing was bad- don't think so, personal best computersin the business. seea TV. you still seea personalcom- but maybe the future will demonstrate But, in addition to that, we made it very puter. There are shows about cars on thatwe did.Right now, we havetoo many difficult for third-party developers to radios... so the transitionin radio shows ideas.The difficult, the painful process, is write software for the Apple lll. That was will be from the computeras an excep- to decidewhat not to do." a seriousmistake. tional thing to the computeras part of our "I'm fond of the Apple lll. When I everydaylives - I hope." started with Apple to create Apple On thosewhose fondest hope is never France,we werebelievers in the Apple // to havea computerin their everydaylives "1 /. We solda lot of them.And we werevery - still haveto explainto non-technical proudof them.Each time an Apple /// left peoplewhy thesetechnical machines can thewarehouse, we knewit wasus, not the be usefulfor them.It's alsohealthy for me reputationof the product.that sold it." to be in touchwith peoplewho don't like On theClassic IBM-PC-"We all.not or areafraid ofcomputers. It keepsus a bit Pleaserate this article on the only Apple but the industryin general, honest,because we like computers,there- ReaderService Card by circling: underestimatedthe effect it would have. fore we're not normal.It's good to be put 51 Excellent 52 Good becauseof the cloning effect. We do back into the reality of peoplewho don't 53 Fair 54 Poor computersthat are very hardto clone.We MacA.P.P.L.E. - November 1987 11 Partlll YideovlbrksII: Wherethe Action Is Mick O'Neil ne of the highlightsof the recent Macworld Expo was the releaseof Vid- eoWorksII. For the past few years softwaredevelopers have dabbledwith the graphicscapabilities of the Apple II andthe Macintoshto providecute anima- tion programswith no particularutility. Product: VitJeoWorks Gomparry: MacroMind,lnc. 10281t.Wolfram Chicago,lL 60€57-0101 (312}871-0e87 Prles:$195.00 0:lfl,srE l0 on q,r-{pfft 8fir?v]cf cAr?D I rememberspending hours enthusias- tically creatinga donkeythat walked acrossthe screenand then issued a re- phasized 'Hee expansionslot on the SE or any of the featuresat the expense of acces- sounding Haw.'Of course,when I NUBUS slotson theMacintosh II. Thus. sibility,MacroMind, Inc. appears to have hadto reviewone of theprograms, I had real time presentationsoftware is the lat- spenta lot of effort to maintainconsis- a difficult time finding a worthwhile est niche in the software market. and tencywith the Macintoshuser interface. applicationfor this technology.There VideoWorksII, along with Microsoft's ln addition.the softwareis logicallydi- seemedto bemore than one ass perform- recentlyacquired PowerPoint, may be videdinto two parts:the OverView Win- ing on thecomputer that day. poisedto dominatethe field. dow fbr creating animated slide show VideoWorks II is a major revamp of presentationsand VideoWorksfor creat- BigScreens and Slotted Macs VideoWorks.significantly expanding the ing andediting animations. The division With the introductionof largescreen power. easeof use, and utility of the of these overlappingbut separateproc- displaysand the'slotted' Macintosh. earlier software.Like the original pro- essesmakes each one more accessible. animationsequences take on newimpor- gram, VideoWorks II includes some tance.It's now possiblefbr morethan one pretty spectacularfeatures. Recognizing Overviewof OverView viewerto seea Macintoshdriven monitor that the softwaremarket is littered with The icon-based'OverView Window' or a projectionsystem connected via the the remains of companiesthat overem- allowsthe userto constructslide shows. 12 MacA.P.P.L.E. - November 1987 combination slide/animationpresenta- FIGURE1 tions. and movies with relative ease. MacPaint, MacDraw, and Glue docu- lcons represeotingpoint. drow. ond Similqfly.on moted c ips. glue grophics con be drogged down sounds tronsilions.ond mentscan be addedsimply by dragginga nt^ ^ ^'6.6nt^n^^ qor6-t^^ ^ other pfesentol ons con correspondingicon from the icon tool bar coresponding documenl fiom the file nseded Inlo o pfesenlotion selecl on window odds ihe slde to lhe and choosingthe required artwork from snow cotresponding rcon the file selectionwindow. 'animation Similarly, clips' can be selectedfrom the animationlibrary in- t Control S cluded with the softwareor from anima- tionsequences created by theuser. Placing the 'clip' beneatha graphicsdocument causesthe animation to appearwith the documentas background.Several anima- tionsequences can be run simultaneously. limitedonly by memoryand disk capacity. Rabbit,6r American Flag f'lale charac .+d. Fs A Slidescan be individuallytimed by em- f- tl fl-v.l 11.V -Tl ploying a clock icon and an impressive \v/ \r-7 \-/ 9 9 3 selectionof soundscan be linked to each A/- ?l4 slideor animatedclip. A transitionicon J_ E presentsthe user with a comprehensive 8.ch 1 Hehcopler l m Here choice of animatedtransitions between slides.and an overview icon allows the userto link severalpresentations together. Other windows relatedto the Over- View sectionof the softwareinclude the 'Panel' whichis analogousto thecontrols 'Stage' The c ock icon of a Videorecorder and the which Sounds ore selecled lrom ollowsyou lo The pone lookssimilof fo on efensve sound librory ,nd,vduolly i me The conirols ol o blanksout all otherwindows for a clean wh ch con be ougmenled eocn s[oe or Videorecorder ond oy souno generoron view of theanimation or slideshow. Like onrmolron boslco ly operotes In lhe 'Panel' OrogfomsIkeo some woy The oop a Video recorder.the includes MuscWofks b!fion couses lhe Rewind.Stop, and Play buttons,but also conr nuousty allows the userto move forward or back- 'OverView wardthrough the presentation one step at The VideoWorksll Window' 'Loop' a time.Pressing the buttoncauses makesthe programboth simple to use and utilitarian. the show to continuouslyrun until you pressthe 'Stop' button. It's alsopossible to FIGURE2 editthe shou whileit's running. Adding simpleanimation clips helps focus the attention of the audienceand dramaticallyenhances the impact of a slideshow. Though the package includes a library of 'animationclips' rangingfrom moving arrowsto jumping frogs, much of the power of the software derives from inserting original animated sequences addinga localbut professionaltouch to the presentation.To createyour own anima- 'OverView' tion it's necessaryto leave 'VideoWorks.' andgo to VideoWorks The VideoWorksanimation module is a kind of supersetof the OverView pro- gram with a numberof specialanimation f'eaturesadded. It take some time to be- comef'amiliar with both the terminology, the function,and tl^^ interrelationshipof An extensiverange of soundclips are includedin the library thesetools and windows. but thenanima- disk.Each sound topic under the mainmenu has a corresponding tion is a fairly complex process.Vid- 'pops submenuwhick up' if the userhas installedthe latest eoWorksmakes a braveattempt to balance MacintoshSvstem and Finder. easeof usewith powerand flexibility. MacA.P.P.L.E. - November 1987 13 ThePanel(VideoWorks) FIGURE3 The Panelin VideoWorksis similarto 'a r that in OverView exceptit alsoincludes a File tdit Control Sound lljindour Te*t Drau lnk I | :26:40 ChannelIndicator and Selector.a Frame llJRtKTHE 00G Score Counter,and a SpeedControl. It also controls sound (off or on), background (inverse),and frame by frame recording. TheCast I The 'Cast' is a kind of pictorial data- base for storing artwork, text, and film loops. Art work can be pastedinto the 'Cast' directlyor canbe touchedup first choosingthe 'Paint'option. pasting onto an Easel,and using the standardpaint tools.Multiple easels can be selectedand eacheasel corresponds to a window in the llrnLKTHt 00GCast 'Cast.' Thus,changes made on an easel areautomatically reflected in the 'Cast.' Artwork from the 'Cast' can be dragged directly onto the 'Stage' for background or animationpurposes. Thebasic comoonents of theVideoworks module are the Cast whichstores artwork, the Score which coordinates motion along several TheScore channels,and the Panel which allows for real-time editino. 'Score' The is similarto anorchestral scoreor a theatricalscript in that it ties a 'Guided 'Clip placesan object at an initial point andthen Tour,' Animation, Art- seriesof disparatefunctions togetherto 'System, a final point and the program supplies work & Movies,'and Program producea work of art. Icons usedin the 'in animatedsequences between.'This & Tutorials.'The documentation consists 'Score' identify a wealth of information tool servesas an incredibletime saverand of a spiral bound, clearly written, 300 I helpssmooth motion in an animation. pagemanual. Both the manualand disk- I t'stailor made for any ettesare chock full of examplesand tuto- Color rials that easethe user into the complex 'Color businessuser considering The window' takesadvantage field of computeranimation. In addition, realtime computer presen- of any color graphicscard insertedinto a the program includes some limited on- NUBUS slot of a Macintosh II. Mac- line help,accessed from the Apple menu. tationsto largegroups, indi- roMind,Inc. claimsthat the speedof the MacroMind, Inc., will provide technical vidualizedtraining pro- Macintosh II compensatesfor the extra supportto registeredusers for a period of processing required to generate color 90 days. grams,or even for market- animation.VideoWorks supports the new ingdisplays inshop win- color QuickDrawextensions that are resi- Conclusion dent in the Macintosh II ROMS and, For a productthat pushes the technol- dows. therefore.will work at both 4 bit or 8 bit ogy to the limit, VideoWorks II is amaz- color resolutionautomatically. Thus, the ingly solid and reliable.It's tailor made userhas the choice ofa paletteof 256or I 6 for any businessuser considering real including artwork, motion, position,and colors. The color window is dimmed time computer presentationsto large inks. Up to 24 channelscan be usedfor unless you are working with a color groups, individualized training pro- castmembers with an additionalchannel Macintosh. grams,or evenfor marketingdisplays in reservedfor sound, tempo, and transi- shop windows. The program's ready tions. Text accessto sound,speech, color, and ani- Becausemotion progressesfrom left mationcould help it 'play- Text can be typed directly into an dominatethis new to right as indicatedby a moving animation window and the user can niche in the softwaremarket place. back head' it's relatively straightforward chooseto employ the MacinTalk speech The to shift channelsto control timing. programto readit aloud.Though several overall lengthof the movie is determined 'Score' speechchannels are reservedfor Macin- by the number of frames in the Talk, it's only possibleto haveone voice andthis is limitedonly by memorycon- activeat a giventime. siderations. Pleaserate this article on the Documentation ReaderService Card by circling: InBetween andSupport Excellent 'In VideoWorks II is provided on three 61 62 Good between'is a specializedtool for 800K unprotected diskettes, including 63 Fair 64 Poor smoothins animation in which the user 14 MacA.P.P.L.E. - November 1987 Memory Mup and FileEdit D-oductivitv r r\,rLt-L r-Llvlt./ Tools from SoftPlus! Memory Map... the desk accessorythat explores Macintosh memory ! Memory Map is a desk accessorywhich allows you to display Macintosh system and application heaps, resource maps, global variables sorted by name or address,and both predefined and user-defineddata stnrctures.Data may be displayed either in hexadecimal or according to data type. 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Russell fyou stillhave the Puzzle underthe Apple.But if youhave a LaserWriter,you choiceof deskaccessories. But thereare Apple Menu,and you aren'tusing won't want either font - you'll want literallythousands ofdesk accessories out it, this articleis for you. Times and, perhaps,Zapf Chancery.On therein theWorld of Mac -mostof them If you move graphicsfrom one public domainor shareware.For instance, applicationto anotherand don'l one called DiskTop from CE Software have Art Grabber, Art Roundup or a will rename,delete, move and copy files. similardesk accessory installed, this ar- Ttisisthe It will let you changecreator and date, ticle is for you. make a new folder, and will launchyour If youare a Macintoshowner and don't heartof the logic favorite programs.It will also find that know how to usethe Font/DA Mover, this lost documentwhich you buried down 9 articleis definitelyfor you. layersin a folder. I am appalledby the number of Mac ofthe Font/DA Other desk accessorieslet you have a "little owners who don't use the Font/DA MacPaint" under the menu Mover. Further,I am surprisedthat most Mover:two (CheapPaint),a tool to copy piecesof bit ownersf'ear learning hou. to useit. mappedart (Art Grabber+,Art Roundup, boxeswhich al- Artisto), or an improved Scrapbook WhyLearn? (SmartScrap)which letsyou takejust part Why do you need to learn to use the lowyou to take of a Scrapbookpage, or switch between Font/DA Mover? severalScrapbooks. If you haven't usedFont/DA Mover fromeither side Thesearejust a few examplesofuseful yet, when you open up an application deskaccessories which you probably are - (MacPaint,Word 3.01.PageMaker, etc.) andadd to the not making use of unless you have thefbnts available to you arethose which leamed how to operate the Font/DA Apple installedin your System.If you otherside. Mover. have severaldifferent systems,you may TheEasy Way seedifferent fonts availablewhen you go the other hand, if you have an to theFont or Charactermenu. If thereare ImageWriter,you won't want Times or This will bethe ultimate easy lesson on fontsthere which you do notuse, why not Helvetica- both areoften in Apple in- usingFONT/DA MOVER. replacethem with someotherfonts which stalledsystems. You are operatingat a Click on the . Seethat list of items? - you like the look of? Or don't replace very primitive level if you don't move Thoseare the deskaccessories which are add somenew onesif you haveroom. fontsin andout of your systemto makeit currently available, becausethey have For instance.New York and Venice conform to your particularuse. beeninstalled in your operatingsystem often come installedin Systemsfrom Under the Apple ( ) are Apple's with the FONT/DA MOVER. Openany graphicsor word processing 16 MaoA.P.P.L.E. - November 1987 program. Find the Font or Character placedon the disks are oneswhich you HowMuch Room Left? (Figure Menu. The list of fonts you seethere are wouldlike to havein yourSystem A legend under the box will tell you currently available because they have I and2). what you are looking at and how much been INSTALLED in your operating Shall I repeatthat. folks? This is the room is left on that disk. SYSTEM with the FONT/DA MOVER. heartof the logicof the Font/DAMover: At thispoint, theright side(remember, Now find a suitcasethat looks like this: two boxeswhich allow you to takefrom it doesn'tmatter if sidesare reversed) is eitherside and add to the otherside. blank, and so is the legendspace beneath Sinceyou openedthe FontI)A Mover ir. itself. it looks for the operatingSystem First,let's takea font out of the Sys- andplaces its fbnt contents in theleft hand tem. Lets call it Duck 12. Do you have box. Now don't everget upsetif thefont anothercopy of this font somewhere?If DeskAcc contentsof the Systemare on the right so. we can be cavalierand removeit. If side.It doesnot matter.Either side will That suitcasecontains one or more you are not sure,we want to savea copy do. desk accessories.You cannotuse desk of Duck 12 in a suitcasefor futurepos- accessoriesin suitcasesuntil you install them with the Font/DA Mover. FIGURE1 Find a suitcasethat looks like this: =n: Tutorial0isk:Ei 5 items 15,859Kin disk 4,534Kavaileble 0 FontE That suitcasecontains one or more SustemFolder Font/DAl"lover fonts.You cannotuse fonts in suitcases until you installthem with the Font/DA Mover. Finally.find a littletruck iconwith an A on it, titled Font/DA Mover,like this: DeskAcc Beaver1 4 Fonts ? tr Doubleclick on the Font/DAMover. When it opensup, you will see the FonVDAMover Screen. This is the Font/D A l"lover timefor somesimple logtc. This is the Font/DA Mover. It may havea numberafter it, like 3.2,3.4 or 3.5. FIGURE2 Be sureyou have3.5 or any highernum- ber. If you don't haveone, take a blank disk to an Apple dealer.or askanyone in ,: Tutorial[isk your MUG for a copy. Now to usethe Font/DA Mover. While D 0eskHcc learning, please make a copy of your Systemon a blankdisk and play with that D Font/0HMouer until you are experienced. D Fonts It won't takelong, believe me. D SgstemFolder StayVery Basic Get at leastone or two of the suitcase icons containingfonts and one or two NeurFont File Name: : BigCas... containingdesk accessories. Place them on the samedisk or on a disk which you Beauer| 4 will placein the externaldrive. Be sure that the Font/DA Mover is on the System disk. Our assumptionis thatthe System you areplaying with hasdesk accessories and/ or fontsinstalled which you want to get rid of. and that the fonts and/or desk Thereare two boxesbecause you are goingto accessoriesin suitcaseswhich you have TAKE somethinofrom one sideand ADD it to the otherside. MacA.P.P.L.E. November 1987 17 sibleuse. To removeDuck 12,without saving a copy, highlightit. Noticethat the center FIGURE3 option box, Remove,is now activated. We want to RemoveDuck 12. so click Geneua| 2:The qulck bro\Ynf oxj umFedover Remove.Duck l2 disappearsforever - no warning "do you really want to do lntoThe Empty Suitcase and it will presentyou with the fonts in this'1" that System in whichever box you Sincewe do wantto copy Beaverl4 Opened. into the suitcasewe haveprepared, click OnlyOne Dangerous Feature Now, on the blank side, click the >>Copy>>.A copy of Beaverl4 moves This is Font/DAMover's only danger- Open...button. Use Drive and Eject until intothe blank box with thelegend Beaver ous f'eature.The rule? you find the tbnt suitcaseyou placedon l4 beneathit. Don't useRemove unless you aresure the disk for tutorialpurposes. Let's call Now you canclick theRemove button you have a copy of the item being re- this Husky 12.11,18,24.Click on the saf'elyto removeBeaver l4 from your movedsomewhere else. Husky 12,11,18.24icon. Shift click a System(it's safebecause you just madea Everythingelse is ducksoup! Simple. coupleof sizes,or highlightthe entire list. copy in its own suitcase). Youjust removedDuck 12,and you know Click Open. You can Remove or Copy several you haveanother copy of it somewhere. fbnts at once, highlighting them by Now let'stake a fontout of theSystem, sweepingover contiguous fonts, or shift- Movinga Copy ol Husky12and24 butsave a copyof it for futureuse. We will clickingnon-contiguous fonts. Selectthe Husky sizes you want.Now callthis font Beaver14 for thepurpose of Now, with yourSystem on theleft side the < 18 MacA.P.P.L.E. - November 1987 Now for desk accessories.Double theSystem box. Now clickOpen... which click Font/DA Mover again. When the will appearin its place.Use Drive and Sempersoft" fonts show up in the left hand box (we Eject buttonsuntil you find Blockbuster don't careif they areon the right, do we?) 36's suitcase(or the Systemcontaining Modula-2 At the top of the screenthere are buttons it). OpenBlockbuster 36 (or the System labeled Fonts and Desk Accessories. containingit). SelectBlockbuster 36 and For the Macintosh - (There is a secretmethod hold down continueas above- >>Copy>>it into Programmer's Workshop the Option key while opening the Font/ MacPaint. - DA Mover andyou go directly to DAs Now Quit. If you start up MacWrite, SemperSoft, the frrst Modula-2 no passingGo, no collecting$200.) look in the Font menu. No Blockbuster compiler written expressly for the 36. Now quit MacWrite and start up Macintosh, puts MacintoshrM frrst! SeeingDesk Accessories MacPaint. .Now, at your request, Semper Guesswhat? There is Blockbuster36 Click the DeskAccessory button and Software brings you another first: you will seethe samefamiliar two boxes, in your font menu. duplicate libraries give you the exceptthat this time therewill be a list of The sametrick works for desk acces- choice of mixed upper- and the System'sdesk accessorieswhere the sories.For example, you might want a lower-case or all lower-case. .IJse fonts were listed a momentbefore. dialer or a terminalemulator DA in your our latest module to make your programs There are no further instructionsfor communicationsapplication. But you MultiFinder would neverneed them in anyother appli- friendly. moving desk accessoriesin and out of .Our cation.So stick them into your communi- libraries include every your System.Why is that? constant, variable, data structure, You do it exactly the same way you cationsapplication, using the technique and procedure from Inside moved the fonts. above. Macintosh Volumes I through V (even "[Not Questions,class? those marked in HowMany K Does lt Use? ROMI"). The number of modules you have to import from is MoverTricks you OtherFont/DA A couple of other notes. When drastically reduced because we put (or The FontlDA Mover normally letsyou highlight a font, or series of fonts all of Inside Macintosh volumes I movefonts and desk accessories into their DAs). look in the center of the screen. through III into a single module. .Our generates own suitcasesor into a System- any You will seehow manykilobytes the font compiler native (DA 68000 code with calling conventions System.You can also move a font or a or fonts or DAs) you selectedoc- cupy. and data representation compatible deskaccessory into an applicationrather with MPW Pascal: Call or be called Also, abovethe buttonthere is a thana System.This means that the chosen Quit from Pascal, assembler, or ROM font (or DA) will be availableonly when Helpbutton which gives you thebasics of without glue. you are in that application. theuse of theFont/DA Mover.Consider it .Our generic HANDLE type means Let's sayyou want Blockbuster36 in a reminderor a refreshercourse. no type transfers are needed for MacPaint,but you don't needit in Excel, That's about all there is to using the memory or resource management. .We support Pascal-style STRINGs or Word, or any other program. Font/DA Mover. The restof the learning is just a matter of practiceand of using as well as Modula-2's own, and Here's how you do it. Double click library standardMacintosh Open... dialog box include string-manipulation Font/DA Mover. Let's say you want to modules for both types. We support installBlockbuster 36 in the application techniquesof highlighting,shift-click- both inline and out-of-line code MacPaint.Hold down the Option key and ing, and use of the Drive and Eject but- procedures. click the Open...button under the blank tons. .AII the source code used in the box. Insteadof just seeingSystems and You are now an expert with the Font/ libraries is included. .Naturally you get the convenrence suitcasesdisplayed, any application on DA Mover, so go get that Puzzleout of thereand put in DiskTop by CE Software. and power of Modula-2's separate thedisk will alsobe displayed. compilation, procedure types and Use the Drive and Eject buttonsto get variables, absolute-address to thedisk with a copyof MacPaint(You variables, open array parameters didn'tforget, did you?Use a copy,not the and the portable, standard libraries "quick original)on it. Click MacPaintto selectit. for and dirty" programs! .The Now click Open. Sieve ofEratosthenes written in SemperSoft Modula-2 runs in MacPaintwill showup underthe blank 4.52 secondson a Macintosh SE. box. Now look for Blockbuster36 in the System.If it is there,highlight it and use SemperSoft Modula-2 $125 >>Copy>> to move it into MacPaint.By with full MPW (Release2.0, $285 the way, in MacPaint you will see requires 1 Meg) MacPaint's own font (which you never seeat any other time) Leave it alone. al aI DemperDoftware Findlt Somewhere! Pleaserate this articleon the P.O.Box 225 If Blockbuster36 is not in the System ReaderService Card by circling: GlenEllyn, lL 60138 on theleft handside. click Closebeneath 71 Excellent 72 Good (312)790-1253 73 Fair 74 Poor CIRCLEI4 ON READERSERVICE CARD MacA.P.P.L.E. - November 1987 19 DiskQuickand Me A Catalq of YourDisk Drive, Servedu-p Piping Hot Andrcw Hirnes,Editor heday carne fbr me asit did fbr all of us at one time or another.I earted mr first personalcomputer home. andunpacked the box with loving care. Nestled inside was what seemedto me a kind of masic talisman- an Apple Il+ with 48K of RAM in a beautifulbeige case. Along with it I got a green screenApple monitor (matching color) and an enormous5 l/r1' f1opp1' drive. I soon added another l6K of memoryso I could run my word proces sor. has expanded the horizons of my intbr- examiningtwo or threedisks at a time,but mation world tar beyond what I once a littleclumsy when you need find Not muchsottware. to beginwith. The to a thought was possible.We got a review singlefile somewhere in a pile floppies. DOS 3.3System Master disk had enough of copy in the mail of a new disk librarl' With DiskQuickup andrunning, you strangelittle utrlities and games to keep can f'eedf1opp1' after floppy into a drive.and me enthralledfbr hours.Little Brick Out. the programwill readthe especially.had the tendencyto tum me disks and as- semblea catalogdescribing intoa computerzombie, with thepatience Wnr, mattersabour theircontents. You to sit fbr hoursbefore the screen with my can savethe catalogfbr lateruse or newhardware and print strugglingto break through a simply it out. .ioystick The programreads tloppies wall of imaginarybricks. I hadto tbrcibly softwaretechnology is automati- you remindmyself that the only way I could cally. but to cataloga harddisk need notthat it is comolexor to selectProcess all disks and HD's on justify thehole in my budgetwas by using the menu.Two windows my Apple to write. powerful. Options appear on your screen.The Diskswindow 64K, in thoselong ago days.seemed shows Whatmatters is thatit is name enorrnousto me. I couldn'timagine how the o1'eachdisk as a headingin bold, anybody could really use that much useable, andlists allthe basic infbrmation about the memorv. I l-eltlike I had an enorrnous. disk's contentson a separateline: the name untappedresource sitting right at my fin- of a tblderto beginwith. then info utility calledDiskQuick Version 2. 10. abouteach of theitems in it, including gertips.When I hookeda Hayes300 baud the fiom Ideafbrm,Inc. I usedthe program to name. modem into one of the slots. I had a size.and the date and time it waslast catalogmy 20 meg.hard disk drive,and modified.The t'eelingof beingconnected to theworld in Documentswindow is a wastaken aback by the results. r wa) no humanbeing in a previousera completecatalog ol'every item on every The ideabehind DiskQuick is to help couldhave been. disk. It includesthe nameof the item.its you organizeyour disks. applications. type(e.9.. application, document. or util- TheMacintosh Disk Librarian andfiles so you can lay yourhands on the ity).the date and time of its lastmodifica- right piece of infbrmationat the right tion.and the disk it ison. Finally, it tellsthe I realizedanew. a few daysago. that the time.As theDiskQuick manual says, fhe nestingorder of all your foldersas it lists rapidevolution of thepersonal computer normal Macintoshdeskton is fine for foldercontents. 20 MaoA.P.P.L.E. - November 1987 keepour attentionclearly focussed on the I essentialthings: what matters about new I realizedanew iust hardwareand software technology is not howfar away we are thatit is complexor powerful. What mattersis thatit is useable. fromthose days when I like DiskQuickbecause it helpsme wewere imoressed with keepthat cardinal principle in mind. theraw computational ### extravaoanceofa 48K desktopengine. DiskQuickrv Version2.10 $49.95 IDEAFORMINC. P.O.Box1540 the time I installedthem. but now I've Fairfield,lA 52556 movedbeyond such childish things as (515)472-7256 screendestroyers. (Or haveI?) As a result.I haveroom tbr moreappli- cations.DA's. and utilitiesthat I really will use.and which will makeme more efficientthan before ifl usethem well and installthem with a measureof selectivity Pleaserate this article on the I haven'tbeen f'amous for up to now. ReaderService Card by circling: If r-'ouused Version 2.0 of this pro- 81 Excellent 82 Good gram.you'll be pleasantlysurprised by a number of new features.including the 83 Fair 84 Poor ability to exportcatalog infbrmation as a text file or createdata fbr input into a databaseprogram. the ability to interrupt thecatalogue of a disk.and speedier proc- essingof a harddisk. A sidebenefit of usingDiskQuick to catalogmy harddisk was that I realized anewjust how far awaywe arefrom those days when we were impressedwith the A helpful feature is the ability to use Kieran rawcomputational extravagance of a'18K the Sort menu to change the order in lnteractivelearning System desktopengine. Only a few yearslater. I which itemsappear in the window. You for PreSchoolers. havethe unmitigated gall to sit in frontof can sort itemsaccording to the alphabeti- a Mac Plus with a meg of memory.two cal orderof theirGet Info comments,by floppy drives and a hard disk. and be their size. by the most recent date they dissatisfiedwith the system'sspeed, the were used,according to what application sizeof its RAM. andits storagecapabili- createdthem, and by type (text files or ties. paintfiles. for instance). I usea muchlarger number and variety of applicatio word processors, Timeto Clean House spreadsheets,databases. graphics and One thing the program did was make pagelayout programs. communications me a bit more carefulto havethe stickers packages,and amultitude of DA's, fonts. I put on my floppies correspondto their and utilities - and I have the nerve to IntegratedLearning Program for ages 2-6. Uses child's respectiveicon labelsin theFinder. lf you criticizesome of them becausethey are childrenof own name in speech & pictures. allow thetwo namesto diverge,the cata- tooslow. or toodifficult to use,or because Totally Mouse Driven Interactive log won't do youmuch good. In thisway. I actuallyhave to reada manualonce in "encouraged" Programwith iconicinterface. Cov- I was to organizemy work awhile.A few yearsago I would never ers AlphabetTraining, time-telling, a bit more efficiently. have complainedabout an application countingskills, upper-lower case, Also,having a list printedout of every havingtoo much power, but now I do soin arrd MysteryDoorl 4 Mice-MacUs- itemon my harddisk reminded me of how thename of simplicity.elegance. utility. erslGreatGilt! M/C or Visa,$39.95. much extraneoustrash collects on a hard and advocacyfor the interestsof users. disk, and led me to do a long-overdue We have indeed moved far beyond QhmSoftware Company housecleaning.I threw out about6 mega- where we were. The remarkablething is 163Richard Dr" bytesworth of old letters,duplicate files, that we are far from wherewe will be. Tiverton,Rl 02878 "idiot fonts I neveruse. and what I call In the surgingtidepool of technologi- (401)2s3-9354 - DA's" you know, they lookedcute at cal innovation,it is importantthat we CIRCLE9 ON READERSERVICE CARD MacA.P.P.L.E. - November 1987 21 A DA Bonanzain a Small Package Sidel(ick 2.0 Lee A. Webster ideKick is a collection of ing message,look up areacodes, set dial- also a Week-at-a-Peekfeature showins elevendesk accessoriesand ing speed and method. configure sevendays together. seven utility/applications.MacTerm. examine Phone Log, and Release2.0 has two major changePhone Books. The Servicesmenu DeskAccessories DA's: MacPlanand Outlook. itemsinclude: standard. change long dis- . Area Code Lookup (2638 bytes): Using the FontlDA Mover application tanceservice. and add long distance serv- Whenyou enter the area code, the locality you installthe desk accessories you want lce. (state),region (section of the state),and on your applicationdisk(s), being careful To setup your own PhoneBook, you time zoneare displayed. (lf you want to thatyou don't exceed the limit on thetotal selectthe New Entrybutton and fill in the find the areacode of a particularcity, you numberof accessoriesyou can have in- Product; canuse the search feature in theNotepad+ stalledat once ( I 5) or overfillthe applica- $ftJeKick:The Desktop &ganizer accessory. tion disk with code (for each of the I I ) ffelsase2.0 . Calculator+(5822 bytes): This is accessoriesdiscussed below, I've listed an &mpnny; expandedcalculator which has features the file size).For someaccessories. you go*dnd kilernational,lnc. (like trigonometricand financial func- also need to add some data files to the q!$ $cottsValley Orive tions) not found on the standard SystemFolder. Apple $etrsValtry,CA 9f086 menucalculator. The functionsinclude: SideKickApplication _ t4sl.t?9-8400 square root, natural log, e to a power, Frhc: $99,95,e dbk$ valueto a power,sign change,pi, expo- The SideKick application combines nentialnotation, sin, cos, tan, arctan (all the normal activitiesassociated with us- C}RCI.€Sg ON R€AD€RSfRVICE .' CARD anglesin radians),future value,present ing a phone book, phone log, and auto- value,annuity, and level payment. There pre-formatted "card" matic dialing. The screenlayout (ac- with the name, is a scrollableadding-machine type tape address,phone cessedby double-clickingon the Side- number,and categoryof display(which can also be printedout). Kick icon- it's not a deskaccessory), is the firm or person.You can also enter Data entry is by clicking the keyboard information shownin Figure1. At theupper left is the about the telephonecharges keys or (for numerical and mathematic (cost/min dialing statuswindow, manual dialing for thefirst x minutesand cost/ symbols)using the numerickeypad. pad (generatesdial tones)and Dial/Clear min thereafter)and about your consulting . CalendarBook (2412 bytes): This (cost,hr). buttons.Below that are four buttonsfor charges The programwill then accessoryis the same as the Calendar (in accessingthe Calendar, working with keeptrack of thesecosts thecenter of featurein the SideKick application. themain Notes,and making a New Entry into the screen)in realtime asyou make . MacClock (1009 bytes):This is an PhoneBook. To theright of thesebuttons thecall. Incoming calls can also be logged analogclock with a sweepsecond hand - is the areafor displayingthe phonenotes. in thisway. A PhoneLog canbe examined interesting! on printed. At the upperright theentries in the Phone screenor . MacDialer (2431 bytes): This short- You Book are shown. In the upper middle of also have accessto a Calendar ened version of the dialing part of the Book for the display arethe nameand phonenum- managingyour time schedule. SideKick applicationcan be usedwithout Calendars ber of the partyyou arecalling alongwith are availablefor every month quitting another application. These are from other control buttons. January1905 until December2030. somelimitations in termsof addingnew Free-form pages The menubar items for Goodiesin this note are available for namesand viewing the PhoneLog, how- applicationinclude options to log calls, each month so you can enter notes,ap- ever. pointments, sort by name, category, or company, etc. These notes are acces- . MacPlan(40025 bytes): The MacPlan siblefrom changearea code (default),change wait- searchcommands too. There is spreadsheetis one of two major accesso- 22 MacA.P.P.L.E. - November 1987 riesin thispackage. It hasa 20 column.50 FIGURE1 row limit with cursormovement either by '* mouseor cursorkey. Cell valueformat- Edit Goodies Seruices ting is limited to label (by a somewhat "forcing awkward process called la- bels").dollars and cents. dollars. percent. andnumbers. Operators include the usual (addition,subtraction, etc.) along with logicaloperators (less than, greater than or equal to, etc.). Functionsavailable include compoundedfuture value. dis- countedpresent value. future value of annuity. net present value. mortgage paymentper period,present value of an annuity,compounded yield per period. double declining balancedepreciation. PhoneNotes straight-linedepreciation, sum of years lUrite Notes digitsdepreciation, absolute value. aver- age.maximum. minimum. round. stan- darddeviation. sum. IF. Lookup.DCate, NeurIntrU and Today (numberof days from llll I 904to currentdate) - a ratherextensive list for an accessoryspreadsheet. SideKickApplication Screen Thisaccessory also has limited graph- check the operationof this accessory. FIGURE2 . Notepad+(10781 bytes): This mini- ' * Fire Edit Uieu, Speci6l MacPl6n'" word processorcan create text files, up to 28K in size,which are compatiblewith MacWrite and Microsoft Word. It is handyto haveavailable as an accessory while working in a databaseor spread- sheetif you want to make notesto your- self.etc. You cancombine text from other Notepad+and text files. You have some searchingcapability and standardediting procedures.but no choiceof font styles/ sizes. . Outlook(113110 bytes): This is the other major accessoryin the SideKick package,and provides an outlineprocess- ing capability.When you open a new document.a bullet (circle) indicatesa new line (Figure3). It is followed by a folded-pageicon. and then you can type in yourtext for thatlevel of theoutline. Sub- points can be indented(by TAB) and when you needto out-dent(shift-TAB) MacPlanAccessory you can.When thereare sub-points,the bullettumstoablack dot. Editing oftyped MacWrite.You cancut/ ingcapability. You selecta row or column in operationand thereforeeasy to learnif text is similarto paste (main point and all its sub- from the spreadsheetand select Graph you have any experiencewith other blocks - from the MacPlan menu. A bar graph is spreadsheets. points) selectingthe block by clicking which time the block is automaticallycreated and overlaid in a . MacTerm(13256 bytes): This com- on the bullet.at "boxed" with line (Figure window on the spreadsheet(Figure 2). municationsaccessory has Hayescom- in a 3). Oncean outline has been created, you You can then selecta pie, line, stacked patibility for 300. 1200.and 2400 baud "Hide Detail"to removethe subhead- bar, or a comparisonbar chart (such as modems.and can transmit/receivewhile can the selectedbullet level to shown in this figure). By selectingthe running other applications.There is a ings under you can seethe appropriatecell(s) on the spreadsheet.Configure utility to set up the necessary compressthe outlineso your document.To you can transfer text information as a communicationparameters. and you can broaderstructure of process,you "Completely graph titte, legend,or category(x-axis have a directory of frequently-called reversethis label). Changes in the spreadsheetare numbersfor automaticdialing. As I do not Expand." very useful featureis the ability to automaticallyreflected on the graph.The have a modem (yet!) I was unable to A MacPlanis similarto most spreadsheets attachtext or picturesto any line of the MacA.P.P.L.E. - November 1987 23 outline.You do this by double-clicking on the folded-pageicon on the line your want,and you get a blank screento type 0utlook'"- 0utlookTutorial textonto. By Copyingfrom otherapplica- tions.you can Pastea pictureor spread- . D TodEU'sAgend8 sheet etc. from other Macintosh pro- o D PrepErespeech for Fridag grams.When there is somethingattached o I Lunchwith President to a line of the outline,the folded-page r S finish budgetreport iconchanges, so for examplein Figure3. o | 't tlheckcurrent invento "Finish budgetreport" has a text associ- "review reviewssles Froiectjon ated,and salesprojection" has a graphassociated. You can get a printout of the outline in severalformats, specify- ing margin selection, headers/footers, pagenumbering, etc. Text and graphics associatedwith the outline appearon the printout below the appropriate outline line. . QuikSheets(2432 bytes): A setoffour sheets,set up like a notepad.is included with this accessory,but you cancustom- ize theseor addnew onesfor a total of 2 I suchQuik Sheets.Each sheet contains 15 linesof data.The four givensheets are: "When," a. Alarms:for eachevent, "What." "Comments" and columnsare the pnnter. sign,e.g., =SUM(...). included. When the alarm time is . Converter:This allows you to copy The disks contain 12 MacPlan ex- reached,the computer beeps, the apple from Habadex.MacPhone. and text files amplefiles (where I learnedof the- sign on the menu bar flashes,and you go to into your PhoneBook. mentioned) covering budgeting, load . the Alarms QuikSheetto checkit out. Quik Editor:This utility isfor modify- analysis, business applications,stock You thenhave the choice of Reschedul- ing the includedQuikSheets (except fbr portfoliomanagement, and others. Seven ingthe alarm. or Removingit. Alarms)and for creatingyour own cus- exampleOutlook files arealso included. b. Things to do: for eachevent, you tom QuikSheets.You can haveup to 15 "When "What," enter (date)," and row. I to 7 columns(minimum column Conclusion "Comments," width is 3), anda columnof checkboxes Thereis alsoa smallbox Thereare full-blown applications cov- in your design. into which you canplace a checkmark ering many of the functionsincluded as to indicatecompletion. The Squeeze . Configure MacTerm: For setting "checked" desk accessoriesin SideKick, so you command removes all communicationsparameters. can't expect SideKick's accessoriesto items. . CopyPhone Book: Used to createnew have equal power. Nevertheless,these c. Credit card: keeps a record of the PhoneBooks by extractingselected en- company,number, expiration date, lost tries from an existing PhoneBook. accessoriesare attractive because they are report phonenumber, credit limit, and . Outlineapplication: Used for select- soeasy to use.I thinkthe best parts ofthe balancefor up to l5 credit cards. ing existingoutlines or openinga new set are the SideKick application(with d. Expenses:columns are included for one. PhoneBook, Calendar,Phonel-og, etc.), "What," "Who," "Date," "Purpose," along with the MacPlan (especiallywith "Amount." and Manual theability to do simplegraphs), and Out- . ReadiPrinter (6953 bytes); Print A 7" x 9" paperbackmanual has about look (outlinewith associatedtext or pic- spoolingfor textfiles is offeredwith this 220pages (plus about 22pages ofads for ture screens).The Calculator+and Alarm accessory.You canmove the mouse and Borland sofiwareat the back!) with a QuikSheetmay alsobe useful.An acces- "cute." usethe keyboardto open other accesso- completetable of contentsand index. sorylike MacClockis merely But while printing.There are a limited ries Thereare tutorial sectionsfor the Side- then,you canchoose only the accessories numberof printeroptions you canselect, Kick application,MacPlan, and Outlook. you wantand install them on yourdisk(s). including:10112117 chars/in, 6/8 lines/in. MacPlan and Outlook have Reference You'll haveto decideif any of thesewill 8/14 in paper,headers, left/right margins, sectionstoo (althoughMacPlan's is an tabs,and number of copres. Appendix). There are brief but adequate be adequatefor occasionaluse or whether descriptionsfor the other desk accesso- you'll preferto havethe full-blown appli- Utilities riesand utilities. The manualis reasona- cation instead. . Print Manager:This utility givesyou bly clearwith ampleuse of samplescreen displays. problemI notedwas that flexibilityin printingall or selectedinfor- One Pleaserate this articleon the mation from the Phone Book. Calendar the useof functionsin MacPlanindicated nothing was neededpreceding the func- ReaderService Card by circling: Book, and QuikSheets files. You can get 91 Excellent 92 Good preview the output on the screenor go to tion name.I couldn't them to work until the namewas precededby an equal 93 Fair 94 Poor 24 MacA.P.P.L.E. - November 1987 market today modern terms as well as Shanghai traditional words. fromActivision lnc Macintosh512K,512E, Plus,SE The window for looking up words can $29.95 CodeSMBSSH Ship$1.00 be set automatically to appear so you can seethe word in the document. The Suitcase A centuries old game has come of age Macintosh interface has been very Mac512K,5128, Plus, SE,ll on the Mac! Shanghai, based on the well handled with this product. from $oftware $upply ancient Chinese game mah-jongg, is a Features: great addition to your Mac library. . for l5,O0O $,39.s5| CodeSMBSSC I ShiP$.so 22O,OQOsynonyms Chinese characters drawn on tiles dictionary available, or smaller require a keen eye and good concen- Do vou like atl those desk accessories 120,000 syrlonyms word if disk tration.'Ihe tiles are randomly placed thai you have been collecting? Are you space is a problem. in a shape called a Dragon. The object . frustrated when the font and desk Not copy protected. of the game is simple * clear off the . aacessory mover says there is a 15 Easy to use, great Macintosh tiles in the Dragon. A counter is left desk accessory limit on your Mac? A interface. that keeps you informed of the num- . solutlon hss been provtded for all the Will work with any program that ber of tiles remaining. DAcollectors in the Macintp.sh world. suppons desk accessories. Software $upply has introduced the The rr-rlesare simple, yet the game is product Suitcase which allows you to never boring! A new game board is QuickDex have mulUple sets of desk accesso- generated each time you play, so Mac512, 512E, plus, SE, ll rtes. defeating the lrmit. $uitcase also there is alwavs a new challenge. A from Greene Inc. allows usens to use fonts not installed new board can be made at any time, CodeSMBSQD Ship in s5rstem file. Your system file can $23.951 I $.75 if you get stuck or don't think there now be a manageable size and can You is much hope of defeating the accessoryaimed still have aceesa to the fonts and desk QuickDex is a desk dragon you are playing on. Shang- the person who does not want to accessories needed t9 at -m4(x Jgg hai can be played as solitaire, as a lntenupt thetr work to look up a Odcuments iook great-- ?bu can hdve team taking turns to beat the phone number or address in their hundreds of DAs available to Your dragon, or challenge, trying to beat while using their word proc- applications. database the other persons number of tiles essor. QuickDex is a lree form data- Features: left or making a move in a specified base that allows for quick access to . Virtually unlimited desk acces- time. information, the search is quick and (kept sories in separate flles for Features: you can store any text inlormation. qutck access!. o ChallenEling for beginner and You can also highlight a word in the . 0rrli*it.d fonts (which don't expert alike. rest of the body of the card. to be installed trrto syetem lgve . Games can be saved for play file). later. Only limited by available memory. r Choose a DA by u6ing a scroll Facilities are built in to allow import- ' CoPy Protected. bar or typiflg the {lrst few char- ing of information currently contained acters of the name. "4rrol" in a text only format. so you can use all Includes the $creen ""o*t WordFinder@ that info you have been gathering for that has llreworks gotng off on fromMicrolytics Inc. ages on your Mac. QuickDex also al- the scr.een {in color on a Mac II}. with a modem connected Workswith any Mac lows dialing Tasks are not suspended unless to your Mac. It comes with two other SMBSWF 75 you want them to be. $39 95 Code lShip$ useful items - PrintDex, a utility that Not eopy proteeted. prints the cards on Rolodex have you been in your QuickDex I{ow many time cards for the times you can't have your processor just could not find word and Mac by your side. and a get QuickZIP, the right word? You have to up and card deck that contains the word, QuickDex get the thesaurus look up the area codes and zip codes for over a another... thcn another. then I OOOcities. Wouldn't it be nice to have a thesau- rus available in your Mac? Microll'tics Features: has provided just that! A desk acces- . Up to 8 QuickDex files open at sorv that you highlight a word and once. then call up the DA and it copies the . Limited only to available mem- word into the look up feature and a list ory. of s1'non1'rns is provided. See one you . Works with any application that like? Double click on the new word supports desk accessories. ar-rd it replaces the word in question. . Sort cards prior to printing. Worcl Finder has one of the most . Cutting and pasting supported extensive list of synonyrns in the with most applications. pound 4. Findyour geographic area, then look up theshipping for the total weight of yourship- ping. 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Sole 999.95 ,4J_^ ll^l ()//ffi /\t-t-!-!l\ ,.121I u conPsr"#*-F L ir r- 382.5050X Gorf we Love our custorners! Mqtl SFJIJI%t-"$;ii;rffJ,?ooo FiIe E Whenwords are not enough Icon-it!1.0 Bill Kaye con-it!is a utilitythat allows the Mac userto assignmenu or you canbegin building your own barby settingthe variables selections(including DA's andfont menuitems). menu at the left which definethe size of the individualicons. the keyboardequivalents. F-keys. and/or macro ke."-boardnumberof iconsin thebar. and where the icon bar will appearon combinationsthat launch a macroto clickableicons (see thescreen * henit open.. Figure 1). So. for instance.instead of pulling down the Whenan individualicon has been selected by clickingon it, File menuand dragging to Print...to getthe print dialogbox or thecenter column of buttonsbecomes active. which allows you pressingcommand-p to get the sameresult. you can use the toedit that icon. Selecting the Edit Icon button or doubleclicking mouseto click on a pictureof, say.a printer. the icon bringsup thedialog box shownin Figure3. Hereyou To usethe utility. you put the 4.1K lcon-itl file in r ()ursystem draw or edit your icon using MacPaint-likeFatbits editing, turningpixels either off or on with a penciltool. You alsoset Proeluc{: "Menu tcon-itl1.0 what happenswhen you click the icon. Clicking by position"selects that item in a menueven if thename changes Cornpany: "ShowAlide," asin thecase of togglingmenu items like Undo/ 0lduvaisoftware,Inc. "Menu 6900 klentone Redo."etc. Selecting by name"selects that menu item CoralGables,FL 33146 evenif theitem has changed position in thatmenu as when you addor deleteDA's or fonts.Select Macro allows you to assign ; i3o5) 665-4S5 Prbe: $59.9$ macrokeyboard combinations that launch a macroor command key equivalents.To selectthe menu items by nameor position CINCLE1*I ON ruADERSERVICT CARD 1oujust pulldown theappropriate menu and select the item. To selectthe macroor commandkey equivalent,just type them. folder,then restart your Mac with that disk. Icon-it! will thenbe When you're donewith an icon bar, you can eithersave it or accessibleas a DA. To createan iconbar, you select Icon-itl installit. fromthe DA menuand up pops Figure 2. You then either use the Onceinstalled it isready to useand will popup automatically open command to get a predefined icon bar (there are.lI whenyou openthe applicationit was installedin. Click on an supplied with the program) which you can use as is or modifl'. iconand the function you assignedto it happens:simple! If you FIGURE1 ,* File Edit lUindour Search Format Font Stgle Icon-it! l-O hy Olduvai Software, Inc Icon-it! is a utility that allows Lhe Mac llser to assrgn rnenu 30 MacA.P.P.L.E. November 1987 FIGURE2 supporttyping fonts anddifferent font sizes;you canonly draw in it. . Icon-it!doesn't work with MacDraw 1.9and is not recom- rconBaruert. |- dE I f tditrco;-] i Ic'";B"a mendedfor SuperPaint1.0. It bombs MacTerminal 2.0 when t(onBarHoriz. | 'rli3 -\ - you quit, although System 4.1 is supposedto solve this. u!.!g9ll9! | upen'.' J Numberorl(onsI 22lij MacPaint1.5 can bomb when you print so you're supposedto f-s",rearf f-cut---sBrrl close the icon bar before you print. It does not work under tconHeight f 181 -s€tl t-r"pu t-nb""tll_l Switcher. lcon luidth f- r81 e€ul H;e I GenerallyI usecommand key strokeswhen I want to invoke - fEG- t- rcon rconGEp r-rl a commandsuch as a menu item and the mousewhen I needto cr"*--] co,'c.r-_l f- f look atthe screen, as when I'm selectingtext. It's morework for |-FFG.-_l -r"'f"r- me to usethe mouseto selectan icon of a printer to bring up the print dialog box than it is to type command-p.For this, Icon-it! has little value for me. However, if I owned a program suchas MS Word 3.0 which has many proceduresinvoked only by FIGURE3 multiple key stroke commandsnot easily remembered,then Icon-it! might be handyto setup theones I usemost often sothat l( on: lg.l they would only be a click away. In a world where the power users want more keyboard handson thekeyboard, Icon-it ! offers tunclaon: combinationsto keeptheir ltttllllllll relief for thosehaving trouble remembering how to invokethose at aaaaaaaaa' O MenubU position I tttrtt t MenubU name infrequentlyused procedures. .!...... !; O O Macro ttlrrrilrltllalt Menunamei on the Reader rllrrrr.rrrr!rI !.i Fale:Print... Pleaserate this article ServiceCard by circling: 101Excellent 102Good 103Fair 1 04 Poor I CleEr Cancel _l -l {- l"ra fTishTl t-- tr f 0"rrl"--l [-T"re a-t--l SpaceEdit*'Version2.0 wantto movethe icon bar, press the command key andyou can dragit like a window.If you wantto work on somethingunder theicon bar, you can hold down the option key whilemanipulat- ing themouse. Problemsand Annoyances: . Icon-it! does not automaticallyresize the window of an applicationto makeroom for the icon bar asthe softwarejacket saysit will. It, therefore,will coversome part of a windowunless you resizethe window after you open the program. . You can copy icons and/ortheir functionsfrom other tem- platesto the one you're building to savedrawing the icon and/ or setting up the function, but there is no index showing the different icons and their functionsand what templatesthey are 2 &3D CADfor theMacintosfi' in; you have to open eachtemplate to seethe icons and check .4 . Vector-baseddocuments eachicon's edit dialog box to find out its function. Simultaneousviews .2 & 3Dobject library . I wasable to setup iconsfor menuitems (including DA's and (Plan,front, side, axonometric) .3 perspectivemodes . Multilayers fonts), command keys, and keyboard combinations for my different . . Built-inolotter drivers Automac.However, the specialFKey bar usedto Hiddenline removal macroutility, . . Infinitezoom FKey iconsdidn't work with System3.2-Finder 5.3. It did Shading setup . . User-definablegrid with System4. l-Finder 5,5. Viewsfrom the sun work, though, . Walk-throuoh mode . Associativedimensioning . you the option key to work on what's under the When use . Colorootion-for Macintosh tl . Automaticarea calculation icon bar, the icon bar doesn'tdisappear or go behindan under- lying window;in otherwords, you can'tsee what you're doing. . Removing icon bars from an applicationand the program from the system are non-intuitive, 3 and 2 step operations. ABVENT @ 1987,Abvent respectively.It ought to be easier. 268 . Sometimesa word is easierto understandthan a picture,as 9903Santa Monica Boulevard, Suite "save" is easierfor me to understandthan whateverpicture one BeverlyHills CA 90212USA (213)659-5157 Inc. SpaceEdit is a tradomatk of Abvent might want to draw to indicateit. Yet the Edit window doesnot Macintosh is a trad€mark of Appl€ Computsr CIRCLEI ON READERSERVICE CARD MacA.P.P.L.E. - November 1987 31 - I - - - - - DA Switcher - a 1.0 I n Bill Kaye A Switcher( l8K in size)is eachapplication you use.Open an appli- haveto havea Systemflle fbr eachappli- a desk accessorythat lets cationand selectthe set that's right for cation or do a lot of Font/DA Mover youchange the set of DA's what vou're doing: changeapplications shuffling.Lotlus Becker's Other... DA is under the Apple menu andchange DA setsto match.You don't a solutionfbr addingone DA ata time.but without leaving the pro- DA Switcherseems like a cleaneranswer gramyou're inl You buildsets of DA's for the productivity-madMac DA user. (only the first 14 will show) with the Do switcherseems My only wish would be for a similar Apple Font,lDA Mover (to createa new productfbr fbnt sets. DA File afteropening Font/DA Mover, likea cleaneranswer selectOpen, New, type a namefor thefile. productivity- Pleaserate this articleon the and then click Create;then open this forthe ReaderService Card by circling: empty file and copy your DA's into it). madMac DA user. lll Excellent 112Good Then, after you've loadedDA Switcher 113 Fair 114 Poor Product: DA $wilcher 1.0 FIGtIftE:| Company: OlduvaiSoftware, Inc. S900 Mentone CoralGables, FL 33146 {305}665"46$5 HbouttlH-Sruitcher... Pilce: $99.95 Help ffiH CtI*CtEITO ON READERSERVICE CARD into your systemfile with the Font/DA Mover and invoked it fiom under the InstallHnother Set... 881 Apple menu,another menu (Figure 1) is addedto theright of theoriginal menus. If you've put your DA setsin the system {t+:t,*+}flt ,#.fl folder,they arelisted at thebottom ofthis menu and any one can be selectedto installunder the Apple menu.Any other DA set(a DA setcan be just oneDA) can flose 8rK be installedby selectingInstall Another DA . . . To getback to theoriginal DA's in the systemfile, selectRevert or Close. Closealso unselects DA Switcher.A util- f alendflrl. I ity isincluded to installDA Switcheras an FKey. DA Switcherdoes not currently work with OverVUE,Iazz,Trapeze 1.0e, f onfode 1.5 andThink Tank 5 12. That's all there is to this utility! It MenuMfl$ter worksand it's quiteuseful. You canhave one SystemFile and, say, a DA set for 32 MacA.P.P.L.E. - November 1987 Breakingthe ScanningBarrier AST TurboScan JohnLaney The Mac he introductionof affordable aseasy as a placinga Paintor Pictfile. Scannerswere here before the new scanners means the TIFF format is a new industrystandard Plus. but they could only capture Macintosh.at last,is a pro- thatot-ters desktop publishers the ease and MacPaint(72 dpi) bit maps.One of the fessionalgraphics worksta- speedof placingand scalinga PICT file mostexciting things about the new scan- tlon. with the high-resolutionoutput of half- nersis thatthey are better mainly because com- ofhard- Desktoppublishers have been distin- tonescans. TIFF files arecurrently oftheirsoftware. and not because "real" justify guishedfrom publisherssince the patible with PageMaker.ReadySetGo. wareimprovements. It is easierto pagelayout programs. peripheralrf you beginningby a majordeficiency. It hasn't Xpressand other buying an expensive Theycan be editedin SuperPaint.Graph- know it won't be obsoletenext year. Produc{: icWorks and Letraset'ssoon-to-arrlve Improvementsin sofiware technology A$T TurboScan ImageStudio. couldmake the scanner you buy thisyear Company: Cheapand largestorage capabilities a state-of-the-artperipheral for years to AST Research,Inc. (moreRAM. and harddrives with more come. Appl€Enhancement GrouP capacity)are necessaryfor storingand 2121Alton Avenue printing scannedimages which can be ScannerTypes lrvin,CA 92714 quite large.(When 256 gray levels are The scannerscurrently available for (714)756-4942 usedthe files can become immense - 4 theMac canbe divided into two groups: Frlce:$1795.00 megabytesfora 3" x 5" photois possible). thosethat use the serial port and those that C1n*rn,tf,o$N Rfi&A+ctt$Envlcs cARD usethe fasterSCSI port. The SCSIscan- ners.which alsouse an enginemanufac- beenpossible to incorporatetrue halftone hptouementsturedby PrincetonGraphics. are the most photographsin pagelayout on a Macin- recentarrivals. The serialport scanners, material tosh.When you've seen halftone which sharethe Microtekengine and use it wasmost in in a Mac-createdpublication, software a linear-arrayCCD sensor,have been photo was likely becausea screened aroundlonger. The AST TurboScan,al- pasted by hand into the camera-ready technology thougha new contenderfor the scanner mechanical. market,uses this oldertechnology. The new scannersare about to change couldmake the TheTurboScan is similar in size,price that. andfunction to scannersmade by Abaton The two things that have done the scanneryou buy and MicroTek.(ln fact,software may be most to expandthe useof scannedmate- interchangeable;it is. at least,with the rial are the adoptionof standardfile for- thisyear a state- Abaton and the TurboScan.)lt weighs matsand the decreasingcost and expand- -the-art eighteenpounds and has a relativelylarge ing storagecapabilities of both extemal of footprintof 15inches wide by 17.5inches and internalmemory. deepand a heightof4.5 inches.Because TIFF (TaggedImage File Format)and peripheralfor documentsfeed through the top of the encapsulatedPostScript make the inclu- machine. it cannot be placed under the sion of halftonematerial in a pagelayout yearsto come. comDuter. MacA.P.P.L.E. - November 1987 33 ThePackage FIGURE1 TurboScan arrives complete and readyto usewith anyMac from the512K ' 6l@ rait tont size StUle Fill Border Uieu lljindou.rs on up. The packagecontains a power 0123 45 5 7I cord, serialcable (with a 9-pin to 8-pin Brightness: o% Half Line -n adapter)and a smokedplastic document Tone ffrt :r Offi lf:ifiil-l.4iiifil:il-flO :l guide,an extrafluorescent bulb, Super- :^ Contrast: E% :- Scan software and a 144 page manual. IH €tFEtril-1fiil.:ililC (The parallel Printer also has a interface -q Besolulion: 75 for usewith PC'sand compatibles - PC rsFElF:EEilEEfflsoo usersrequire a different supportpackage ,A that containssoftware, an interface/con- =f Q fldd ltfindours troller card and cable.) :R Settingup the scanneris easy.Plug it =S Q l)*:lntr: llJiftttr)lrrs :I U in, attachthe cables, tum it on andboot the t,, Q ndjust Scanflrea software. (The manufacturer suggests :rl tuming on the scannerbefore booting the lrr Settings Macto allowthe Mac to recognizeit asa i,^ I Load I peripheral.Failure to do this sometimes PatternG resullsin an errorthe first time you try to PaperLength: 11.0 scan.)I found that cancellingand re- Etr Image Size: 1 52K I CancelI clicking SCAN usuallysolved the prob- Avtilable:68 I K @l lem and savedme the troubleof havins to The ScanSet Up Windowis presentedbefore each scan. You can change Shut Down and reboot. settings,load a settingfile from disk or usethe defaults.Besides the obvious choiceson thisscreen it is alsopossible to havemixed scan areas for halftones Scanning and lineas longone is the backgroundthe otheris confinedto rectangles. ChoosingNew Scanopens the scan setup screen. You must initially make your layoutprogram. dependingon the scanningspeed (fastest somechoices about document sizes and Despite these scaly ponderablesit at 75 dpi andslowest at 300dpi). There is scanningareas, halftone and line scans. only takes a few clicks in the Set Up a pausebefore the paper begins to feed resolution,etc. There are also settings for Window andyou areready to make a test andthere is a slightdelay after the mecha- contrastand brightnessand a choice of scanof your first document(Figure 1). nism stopsbefore the scanappears on the half-tonepatterns ( 12,labelled A - L). screen.The scanned image is initially You can name and save frequently FeedingDocuments displayedin the Edit Window at thehigh- usedset-ups and the lastscanning win- estmagnification. dow is savedautomatically as the default Another areawhere scanners differ is If theimages are too dark or light, of if for thenext scanning session. Resolution documentfeeding. The TurboScanuses a you didn't get the scanning window settingsrange from 75 dpi to 300 dpi. combination gravity and traction feed. placedproperly, you go back to the con- Resolutiondetermines the output size of The document(up to legal size) slides figuration window by choosing NEW the scannedimage. Scanningat 300 dpi from a rampedguide into a set of rollers SCAN, make adjustments,and re-scan. will output at 1007oof the original when whichthen pulls it pastthe scanning head. At the end of each scan you are in edit printed on the LaserWriter. The same The rollers are springloaded and located mode and many familiar MacPainttools scan displayed at MacPaint resolution at the front of the machine.They provide are availablefor editing the image.Each will be 4 times larger than the original. eventraction for smoothfeeding of docu- new scan createsa new file in memory To createa bitmappedMacPaint im- ments. If the paper shouldjamb (a rare and if you don't do your housekeeping ageat l0oo/o,you move thescroll bar to 75 occurrence)a door on the front of the choresyou can quickly run out of RAM dpi for the RESOLUTION setting and machineacts as a lever and will release (Figure2). save it as a MacPaint document.If you thepressure on therollers so the paper can savean imagescannedat75 dpi in anyof be easilyremoved. EditingScanned lmages the other formats (TIFF, PostScript or The mechanismcan handlevery thin scanformat) and print, it will be Il4 the pages right on up to postcard weights In Edit Window, the selection rec- sizeof the original. (maximum recommendedis 0.012 tangledoes double duty to selecta portion All this can be a little confusing at inches).The smallestsize paper the scan- of the image for saving,and for editing. first.Ifyou havebeen paying close atten- ner can feed correctly is about3" square. Becausemost scannedimages are much tion you will have discoveredthat it is The TurboScanI testedfed most docu- larger than ordinary MacPaint files, the impossibleto scana bit map any smaller ments without any trouble. The paper tools do not work as fast as you might be than looo/o,or any other format larger guide provides a straight edge which usedto. Thereare four levelsof magnifi- than 100o/c.Bit maps can range from keeps the page on track. I found the cation - ll8, ll4, ScreenBits and Fat- 100Voto 4O0Voand other formats from TurboScan'spaper feed superiorto those Bits. You can zoom betweenmagnifica- 25o/oto l00o/a.lfmost of your scanning of front feed scanners. tionsusing the + and- signsin thetoolbox will be for desktoppublishing, leave the When scanning,the scannermakes a or on the keyboard. dial setat 300 dpi anddo any resizingin vibrating noise which varies in pitch At certain magnifications I found 34 MacA.P.P.L.E. - November 1987 rectanglefor selectingareas to save,but if FIGURE2 the areais too large (or if the aspectratio is not correct)part of the image may be Edit tont Size Stule till Border Uieu lUindous lost (the lower right hand corner) and if the selectedarea is smallerthan a normal Briohtnes$: O% H6lf Line FIlliT-TriXm 8 x l0 MacPaint image, a large area of Tone flrt O O black will be savedwith your document o% - a nuisance.and inefficient from a stor- ffiH tc agestandpoint (Figure 3). 500 Most of the scanwareI've seencould 500 be improvedfrom theuser's point of view by payingmore attention to theMac inter- face.Selection rectangles should act like selection rectangles, for example' SuperScan'sscan-area selection rec- tangleon thescan setup page is a strange t2 beastthat can only be approachedfrom Set LI the sidesand can not be be repositioned t-",;l without individually readjustingeach PatternG side.Being able to move a pre-sizedbox P8perLenqthll 0 wouldbe very helpful when you are trying lmrnc ar:p (F 4li Etr F""*t] to locateand scana small areaon a page. Available575K @ The bestpiece of scanningsoftware is Thunderware.and when you are using 300dpi scans take up lotsof RAM.You get this dialog box when SuperScanyou miss Andy Hertzfeld's youare doing a largearea scan or if youhave too manyscan straightforward and Mac-like way of documentsin memory.The first number indrcates how much things.Which is not to say that RAMis available. doing SuperScanis bad software.I wasable to testboth theold andnew versions.More thanjust incorporatingnew file formats, FIGURE3 AST hastried to makesome real improve- ments.The new versionclears up some redundanciesand a leastone cul-de-sac that forced you to starta scanbefore you could canceland make changesin the settings.The configurationwindow con- tainsmost of thesettings you will needto accessand is well organized.A visual displaywhich letsyou previewhalf-tone pattemsis especiallywelcome. SuperScan1.20 can savefiles in its own SuperScan format, as TIFF, MacPaint,and two types of Postscript. The softwareincludes Adobe's SendPS program for printing PostScriptfiles on the LaserWriter. The TurboScanseems quite flexible, and hasremained current with technical advancementsby keepingits softwareup- to-date.OCR (Optical CharacterRecog- nition)and other enhancements are likely to be availablein the future. The menuitem Border is in realitywhat mostPaint and AST has made an obvious commit- Drawingprograms call Outline Pattern. The patternsshown ment to this product by continuing to hereare the same ones available under Fill. Since only one upgradesoftware. They offer good tech- oointlines are availableit is not a very usefulitem. nical phone supportand even have their own Apple products BBS for feedback and the latest software upgrades.(See The editing componentof the soft- problemswith the screenbeing redrawn Figure3.) wareis. for themost part. barely adequate. correctly,after adding rules and boxes For example.there needs to be a default Please rate this article on the with thepaint tools. I alsohad the resolu- selectionrectangle fbr MacPaintdocu- Reader Servrce Card by circling: tion of an imagechange after I hadmoved mentsthat can be positionedover an area successiveparts of the imageusing the 121Excellent 122Good for saving. You can use the selection selectionrectangle. 123Fai 124Poor MacA.P.P.L.E. - November 1987 35 (SomeFallen Apples) Philip C. Russell ashingtonApple Pi's tersas largeas seven feet tall. It alsolets Fred Seelig, com- you setthe runaround margins forrunning menting on David text aroundirregular graphics. You'll be Bunnell of ableto fill odd-shapedobjects with text Macworld: "He's androtate them in onedegree increments. alwaysdropping names. The man doesn't ut know the meaningof shame...'l was J talkingto Bill Gatesthe other day and...' 'John and Sculleycalled me for a recom- If you thinkthe IBM-PC hasany busi- mendationfbr a greatsushi bar and I said, nessin desktoppublishing, try thison an hey Jack, can't go wrong with Mushy IBM or clone:Select a rangeof formatted of Sushy...'I mean,lets take a realitybreak text, copy it to the Clipboard,leave the here.Dave-O. People aren't calling you word processor.enter your pagemakeup becauseyou're a nice guy. You're the program and Paste.If you can get the editor of the third most importantMac same fonts you startedwith, consider Mv mag around (second is MacUser). IBM-PC. Can't?Stick with Macintosh. They'rekissing your gluteusmaximally Editor'shint: you can't. so you won't shafttheir product in some futureissue." . a Tieb JohnSculley (in MacintoshToday) on MacintoshII downwardcompatibility: "l Scoop,the as-yet-vaporwaredesktop think it' s safeto sayall of thepower user publishingprogram, will createcharac- applicationsrun on the MacintoshII." 36 MacA.P.P.L.E. - November 1987 Imaa,lneyourrelf ar thc Sreatert proSrammer lntheworldl Whero do you 1o lor technlcal proltemmlnl lnlormrtlon ? MacTutor Ths Maclntodr Protrrnnlnt Journal f:;:N'."" TiPsu \+ck1t - 1'> n"g, S BoYbs? A;*eo*B Quen,t:|- with otherreaders to us to share ,*UI"* LJ The Best of MacTutor, Vol. I t24.95 LJ ThG c6plctG rrstrtq vol 2 t24.95 LJ one yer U.S. thlrd cls subscripuon S3o.oo LJ Onc ycs U.S, fiBt cla$ subscrtPuon/ Ceada & M.nco 045.00 l-l Forctgn Subscrtpuon t6O 0O lJ Source Code Dtsk Subscdpdontor & F mmth onld E72.OO Ph.! blud. a:].m rhpptrrg a hudlg m d bL ordc6 ca. EdmB.dd 66 !& *fir MacTutor. P.O.Box rO0.PlrccDtis' CA.92670 (714)630'3730 x* CIRCLE 6 ON READERSERVICE CARD I Lisker notes that IBM's orientationis versionwith all of theclumsiness of MS- mainframes,Apple's is the workstation. DOS coming back with it. Or don't you And on Macintosh'slead over IBM, The implication is that IBM seesthe think so.Word 3.0 users? Sculleypoints out thatthe 68020, now in micro as adjacentto the host. The PC is theMacintosh II, isthe complement to the alwaysgoing to be subservientin IBM's a Intel 386 to be used(future tensein most mind. Apple. on the otherhand, sees har- Journal says that cases)in MS-DOSmachines. nessingthe power of the micro and de- The Wall Street the Mac in He saysthat the new operating system signingwhole computingsystems around HyperCardwill revolutionize revolutionized for IBM's is the 286.not the 386,so the them.IBM is an unwilling playerin the the same way the Mac computingforever. Mac is THERE NOW. Apple hasa Yearto micro revolution. a yearand a half leadnow, andthe 68030 He alsosays that the cultureof IBM is J will be available by then, extending not suitedto innovativesolutions. Apple Apple's leadinto theforeseeable future. is.IBM mustintegrate any new ideas with He points out that as IBM moves to an existingfamily of disparatemachines. Don't convert Pagemaker1.2 docu- you haveto. They are 386 technology,they have to deal with Appledoes not haveto. He likesApple's mentsto 2.0 if don't patch up. Keep 1.2 developertools, languagesand applica- vision of the computing future. All this a lot of trouble to Prep on a tions. The time to develop these items from a contributingeditor to PC Week. around. Keep the old Aldus when cannot be compressed, even bY the handyfloppy andstick it in thedrive world's largestcompanies - no matter a asked.I often do this for clients whose what resourcesyou have. originalwork wasdone in 1.2.Of course The average Fortune 500 comPanY I make their new documentsin 2.0a. - spent$72 million lastyear in producing printedmaterials. Think thereis a market a The New York Times is usingMacin- for the Mac and the LaserWriterthere? vaporware: tosh in their art departmentto developits Here's your guide to own graphicsand to supporta graphics a Vaporware announcedat the San Fran- wire service, furnishing Mac produced cisco MacWorld Expo is promised in graphicsto newspapersacross the U.S. Microsoft bought PowerPoint.Now April; vaporware announced at we can expect them to make it non- MacWorld Expo Boston is promisedfor Maclike andthen make an advancedIBM October. (Thanks, MUDSlinger, from J version.After that is done,they will port MacintoshUsers of Delaware.) "improved" In the new Macintosh Todav, Peter the resultsback to an Mac MacA.P.P.L.E. - November 1987 37 a What is going on insidea harddrive anyway?There is a flying head racing over the surfaceof a spinningplatter. Checkthis out: The installedbase of Hot news:Aldus andCricket Software Soundssimple? Well. translatingthe size Macs with 1 meg or more of RAM is arein ajoint ventureto producetheir first of the head and the distance from the largerthan the installed base of IBM-PCs pieceof hardwareforthe Mac.It's a plug- spinningplatter into somethingyou andI andclones with I megor better.The best in alarm which rings when your Laser- can wrap our mindsaround, this equates guess is 500,000 MS-DOS computers Writer is ready to print from Pagemaker to a l4l flying 1/8th inch above the with a megor moreout of 10million total or CricketDraw documents. They are ground. IBMs andclones, and 975,000 Macs with unableto market a similar devicefor the Whew! No room for pilot errorhere. a meg or more.Anyone out thereknow Linotronic,since they haven't figured out Seewhy harddisks are a little fragile? firm statisticson this? how to integratea calendaras well asa 24- (FatBits,Conejo-Ventura MUG, first hour clock. (From FatBits,Conejo-Ven- MUG in theworld.) . tura MUG, the world's first MUG.) a Excel for MS-DOS is coming. One a surpriseitem in the packageis a disk PC Week saysthat IBM needsWin- bankl Huh?A disk bank? Miscellaneousrumors: dows and Adobe far more than they need Yep. You're going to need one, be- . Apple is looking for a laserprinter to IBM. Interestine. causeExcel on an IBM-PC takesten ( 10) handleI 1xl7 printout. (that'sten) disks! Wow! . There will be a 100 Mb internalhard - diskfor theSEs and IIs by December. - . A laserprinter and scanner in a single You can copy miniaturePagemaker machineis comingsoon. pages into other Pagemakerpages by Little Apple is Shift-Option-K in . Motorola is pushing Apple to get holding down the Option key while se- HelveticaKev Caos. going on a 68030 machine. They lectingPrint. Now selectPrint Postscript badlyneed volume production on that for a file you canplace on anotherPage- chip. makerpage. . A fasterclock speedfor the Mac II is Pleoserote thisorticle on the almost sure to come soon. Apple a ReoderService Cord by circling doesn't want to lag behind the 386 l3l Excellentl32Good computersin any way at all. RalphBegleiter writes in Washington with (These miscellaneousrumors from Apple Pi that a friend an IBM-PC 133Foir I 34Poor proudly years Thunder Enlightening from Thunder braggedthat after of using IBM, he had found how print a Bay, Ontario,Canada MUG.) an out to multiplepage document. Ho hol LASERLETTERS Seemshe had to reviewthe manual to "the a find correct codes" to enter so his printerwould printing page Draw in MacDraw twice as large as continue after one.Does ring bell??? your desiredfigure. Print out at 50o/con MacWrite a This was be- the LaserWriter for excellent smooth- same friend overjoyed causehe hadjustfound a programwhich NCSS. a would print wide spreadsheetsby turning themto landscapeprintout. Imagine ! Two major accomplishmentsfor this old IBM To rotatetype in Pagemaker,type it in MacA.P.P.L.Ewelcomes letters from hand! MacDraw, rotate it there, save as PICT its readerson any topicrelating to the If you startedcomputing on a Macin- and import it into Pagemaker.Now you magazine'scontent, experiences with tosh, you probably don't appreciate can shrink, stretchor distort it in Page- hardwareand software,A.P.P.L.E. enoughhow the Mac haschanged com- maker" services,current issues in computing, puting forever! or programmingnotes. Because of a spacelimitations, not all letterscan be J selectedfor publicationor printedin Wantto know thesecret of theMacin- their entirety,but we try to presenta Here'sa HyperCardhint. Do youjust tosh? At least one part of it is the con- representativesample of yourviews. lf hate going to the menu to select the stancyof theEdit Menu.It is on all prop- youwould like your address published, Browsetool? Here comes the lifeguardto erly programmed Mac applications. It pleaseinclude it nextto yoursignature. + permitsthe Cut, Copy andPaste between the rescue.Command Tab selectsto Browsetool. Thankyou, thank you, thank applicationswhich can'tbe done on IBM- Sendto: you, Danny Goodman! Of coursethis PCsand compatibles. It is the soulof the "in Laser Letters keyboardequivalent is themanual," if Mac. MacA.P.P.L.E. Mac ownersare into readingmanuals by 290 SW 43rd St. now. a Renton, WA 98055 38 MacA.P.P.L.E. - November 1987 WhenYou Needto Sum Up LeeA. Webster f youare writing technical, mathe- matical.or statisticaldocumenta- tion with MacWrite(or any word processor),you may find thatthe brackets,braces. superscripts and Product: MacEqn Company: Softwarelor RecognitionTochnolo- giee 110University Park Rocheeter,NY 14S20 {716}461-0923 Prhe: $44.95 CIRCLEI4{I ON READERSERVICE CARD subscriptsare only adequatefor simple equationsor fbrmulas.Enter MacEqn - a deskaccessory which allows you to constructcomplicated expressions and copy/pastethem into your word process- ingdocument. This accessory,installed in the stan- dard way usingthe Font/DAMover, re- uires l9K of memory and is designed E nterMacEqn - a deskaccessory whichallows you to constructcompli- catedexpressions andcopy/paste theminto your wordprocessing document. primarily for use with LaserWriterfonts Helvetica.Times, Courier, and Symbol. You can useother fonts but thesefour are readily accessiblethrough the MacEqn pull-downmenu. Equations can be built up with as many as 255 charactersin each,with 16 nestedlevels. A levelis anymathematical constructionthat requiresspecial format- ting, like the integralsymbol which re- MacA.P.P.L.E. - November 1987 39 quireslower andupper limits. Figure 1 shows the window which FIGURE1 appearswhen you select MacEqn from the desk accessory menu (the Apple menu). Along the bottom, the type font and type sizeare indicated. The "Stack" "Level" and indicatorshelp you follow throughin enteringthe informationfor an equation.For example,if you wantedto enteran integralsymbol you would begin by selecting INTEGRAL from the MacEqnpull-down menu and the symbol would be drawn on the screen. The "Status"indicator would show "lntegral" "Level" and the indicatorwould show "Lower 2" indicating that you would enterthe lower limit for integration.The accessoryautomatically adjusts to a MacEonWindow smallerfont sizefor theselimits. After enteringthe desiredvalues from the keyboard,you would pressENTER PATCH1 and the "Level" indicatorwould show x=5 "Upper 1". After enteringthis value,the . . . in orderto f indthe result, take A = (x)dx andset "Level" lf , indicatorwould be 0 and the "stack" x=2 indicator empty. It gets more complicatedwhen you have nested levels. such as parentheseswithin fractions geta result(see Patch 1 ). I wish, however,that it made better within roots,etc. In someways, the proc- The MacEqn manual containsabout use of the Macintosh graphic environ- essis similarto that of working with an 32 8 Il2" x 11" pageswith installation ment for data entry and editing. Some- RPNcalculator (Hewlett-Packard, for ex- instructions,abrief tutorial, discussion of times with complicatedor multi-level ample). the menu commands(most have key- nestedconstructions. the screendisplay boardCommand Key equivalents),hints. getscluttered by overwritinguntil a stack a one-page reference keyboard YouFigure lt Out sheet, is complete (the Refresh command mapsfor the four laserfonts, and sample The functionsavailable with MacEqn helpedhere). and editing can be cumber- technicalequations. "bonus." include: integral, summation,product some.As a thedisk I havecame "unreleased" (looks like a big pi symbol), centered TheBottom Line with an MiniDraw desk super/subscripts(centered horizontally accessorywith has a subsetof familiar on the middle of the last character),frac- I haveused MacEqn for nearly a year MacDraw features (lines, rectangles, tions,roots, overbars, matrices (2-dimen- wheneverI haveequations or formulasto ovals.text. fill). sionalwith upto 50elements), and groups integrateinto a document.Although us- (with squarebrackets, curly braces,pa- ing it does take some getting used to renthesesor verticalbars). In addition to (when you learn the command key font selection,you can usebold, italics, equivalentsit is a little faster),I find it underline.or outline characters.You can preferableto writing the equationsin also have a grid (seriesof dots every 8 MacPaintor MacDraw and pastingsince Pleaserate this article on the pointshorizontally and vertically) to help the sizing of super/subscripts,root indi- ReaderService Card by circling: layoutan expression. ces,etc. are automatic as is the sizingof 141Excellent 142Good Editing is easiestif you catcha mis- bracketsand braces for groupedinforma- 143Fair 144Poor take when a backspaceor deletekey can tlon. correct it. If you are in the middle of a stack, it gets more complicated, and I found it easiestjust to backspaceto the beginning of that particular stack, then \\ \ \R redo.There are also limited insert/delete and shift capabilities. Whenthe equation is finished, you use Copy from the Edit menuof your applica- tion, activatethe MacWrite window and Pasteinto thedocument. There is an auto- This month'sfeatured an,.o-", to us from theJeraisy News, a Macintosh matic indentof 314"(which can be de-' newsletterpublished by the Micro SupportGroup of JeraisyComputer Services, feated).If youwanttext in thesame line as in Riyadh,Saudi Arabia. According to AbdullahFaris, Andalus is a kufi style theequation in MacWrite.you mustin- laserfont, bundledwith all the art of fine Arabic calligraphy.Andulas is a must cludethe text in the MacEqnwindow to when you want to write Quranic versesor usequotes. 40 MacA.P.P.L.E. - November 1987 Tips and Tricks Bill Kaye Option- Quit If youhold down the option key whileopening folders on the PictureBase in thiscategory. desktop.leave the desktop,and then return.the new desktop won't havethose folders open as they would be if you hadn't CharleyJackson and Silicon Beach pressedthe option key. I just discoveredthat if you hold down theoption key whenyou quit an application.all fblderswill be Charley Jackson of Silicon Beach Software visited closedwhen you return to thedesktop. leaving onlv thedisk and/ A.P.P.L.E.Coop's Usersgroup in September,demoing three orvolumeicons showing. This means the desktop willbe redraw new programsthat will be releasedsoon: morequickly. Also. if you hold down the optionke.v- and click . ApacheStrike ($49.95). a gamein whichyou fly a helicopter in the close box of ore windorr'.it will close all windows throughthe canyoned walls of a skyscraperfilled city to destroy currentlyopen. a target. The 3-D animation and sound appearedvery good, giving one the feeling.for instance,of real time bankingto turn U.S.Maps down a crossstreet. This is a MacDrawfile I found in GEniewith a map of the . In BeyondDark Castle($49.95). a sequelto Dark Castle, contiguous48 UnitedStates. Each state is a polygonobject. that Prince Duncan must gather 5 magic orbs and then battle the canbe pulled out from theother states and reshaped ifdesired by' BlackKnieht. United Sfofes of Americo New Hompshire vmonl chuseits Rhode Etono Connecticut New Jer€y Delowore Morylond selectingReshape in MacDraw.Handy for includingstate maps . Super3D ($295)and Super3D Enhanced(for the Mac II, whereyou will. with colorand 6888 I support,$495) are 3D drawingprograms (notCAD/CAM) thatallow you to draw 2 dimensionalobjects ReadySetGo andthen create3D objectsfrom them. You can work with wire frame objects, you LetraSethas set up a customersupport category on GEnie's solid objectsand can set light sources. Probably MacintoshRound Table (Category 6, Topic 3). You'll alsofind the most interestingaspect of the programfor me was theanimation capabilities. It supportfor 4th Dimension,Trapeze, MacMoney. Acta, and appearedfairly easyto build files MaoA.P.P.L.E. - November 1987 41 of objectsand then have Super3D play them back for you at a PresentingHieroglyphic Communications' userdefined speed. As a sidenote, an Applecolor monitor was usedto demonstrateSuper 3D Enhanced;this is the second time "wow" I haveseen it used;it still getsa ratingfrom me. MANDIETOOLRememberthat these are not reviews of theseprograms. I didn't the OriginalManual Disk getto run them; I just watchedan expertdemonstrate some of EjectionTool from HCOM theirfeatures. Charliealso said: . 2 meg is theminimum RAM for runningcolor on a Mac II. Onlyffiw. SiliconBeach now hasa patchfor SuperPaintwhich allows (USfunds; Canada $10 CDN) it to run on the Mac II. Also, SiliconBeach is workingon a <--" majorenhancement of SuperPaintthat will be out next € vear. pat. pros. HyperCardNotes . saferthan paperclips . . GEnienow hasa categoryset aside on itsMac roundtable for ertractjammed disks Hypercard.category 2 1. , disksremoved with power off . This year's onslaughtof interesting.powerful new Mac MakesGreat Gift! productshas had its down sidefor me. I haven'tbeen able to HCOM affordthem (At thetop of my list is theMac II). Thismay be one Ste.1103, Znyx Building, Box 951, Stn. "B" of the most unsungaspects of HyperCard;it's powerful,it's London,Ontario, CANADA N5A5K1 fascinatingand it's affordablel 519/672-9658ext.68 (10 am - 4 pm,eastsrn) . Paul Snively. who wrore the review of HyperCard in August'sMacA.P.P.L.E.. reports on GEnie'sHyperCard round Yesl Sendme_ MANDIETOOLS@ US$8each tablecategory (Cat #21 ) thatalthough HC needs750K of RAM (C$10each in Canada)plus $1 S&H($2 S&H odside the to work.it doesn'tneed any more. no matterhow largethe stack U.S.& Canada).Ont. res. add 7"/" (77A). MA1 mav be. Pleaserate this article on the Reader ServiceCard by circling: 151Excellent 152Good 153Fair 154Poor CIRCLE4 ON READERSERVICE CARD MacScheme+Toolsmith Version l.O - with Application Builder and Native Code Compilet A lot of advanced programming languages are You get a fast. incremental native-code LISp downright primitive when it comes ro compiler as q'ell as multitasking, an inrerrupt- delivering stand-aloneapplications. But driven event sl'stem, two levels of accessto MacScheme+Toolsmith makes it easl'. the Toolbox, source-leveldebugger, and MORE. The Scheme LISP dialect is easv to Just call the Application Builder to create a learn - there are 300 pages of documentation double-clickable application that is plus lhe Little Lisper and extensive on-disk indistinguishable from one writren in C or examples. Pascal.Then you can distribute or sell it without having to pay royalties. Modestly priced ^t fi39j. "Beautiful language for the developer, studenr or For more information. call or write: hacker with a deep interest in programming." "MacScheme+Toolsmirh Elernantic MicFoayst€rlre grearly simplifies rhe process of creating full-scale Maclntosh applications." 4470SW Hall St.,Suite 340 Beaverton, - Macuse! Augusr 1987 OR 97005 (s03)643.4539 CIRCLEI3 ON READERSERVICE CARD MacA.P.P.L.E. - November 1987 bv Bob Huelsdonk TheWorkstation Wars A lotof peopleare speculating about the competition the Mac TheMacintosh ll Apollo and Sun' II may provideto workstationvendors like I now haveaccess to a MacintoshII to evaluatenew CAD microprocessorsand It mightseem that with identical68020 software,and I am both thrilled and discouraged. Mac II machines math co-processors,the Sun. Apollo. and To begin with, thereis a lot of softwarewhich will not run so wh1'not just shouldbe at the samelevel of performance' properlyon the II, or makesit necessaryto put the machineinto choosethe Mac? into monochrome(2 gray scale)mode in orderto avoid seeing to seethe Mac II be the I would like nothingbetter than multiplesmall images on the screen. environment.but I workstationof choicefor an engineering On theplus side, the Mac II's screensize and responsiveness possible. think a lot hasto happento makethis make it a dream to work with, and the gray scaleimages are MostMac engineeringor CAD softwarehas developed from more simplesources - drawingor illustrationtype applica- tions. These are very user-friendly but fall far short of the T capabilitythat is availablewith minicomputeror workstation I helarge, established engineering software. softwarevendors who are writing work- On theother hand, the workstation software has been devel- oped from a basisin mainframeor dedicatedminicomputer stationsoftware really don't understand sottware.It includes:analysis. checking. American National Macintoshinterface, and StandardsInstitute (ANSI) documentationcapability' a data theworld of the base associatedwith componentsthat allows extractionof howto takefull advantage of theavaila- information(such as bills of materials.hole sizes and locations). andthe ability to generatecoordinate information. which allows bilityof theQuickdraw toolbox. thenumerical control (NC) of machineoperations like milling. 0n theother hand, people who have drilling,and cutting. There are programs that have been ported down to the beenwriting other kinds of applications MSDOS world from mini systemslike Computervision'sPer- sonalDesigner. These tend to be slow and not user-friendl,v. forthe Macintosh don't know the world though they do include many of the featuresexpected by ofdesign data bases and post-process- designers. There are also programsfor the MSDOS and Macintosh inglinkages worlds which are startingto includefuller functionality.One MSDOSprogram, for example.is AutoCAD.which allowsbill of materialextraction, and can be extendedto includeother superb. I don't have a color monitor yet but I have seenit information.Another example is MGM Station.tbr theMacin- perform, and it is absolutelygreat! tosh, which providesNC machinecontrol. Back to thenegative aspects - I haveonly one megabyteof Two kindsof peopleare writing engineering software for the memory and this animalreally cravesroom to work in' Someof Macintosh.and they each have special problems' the demo softwareI have will not evenbring up a blank screen The large,established engineering software vendors who are to work with. writing workstationsoftware really don't understandthe world A hardwarenote here: other people have said that when you of theMacintosh interface, and how to takefull advantageof the increasethe number of bit planes(gray scale levels), you useup availabilityof the Quickdrawtoolbox. the main RAM memory.This is a misleadingstatement, since On theother hand, people who havebeen writing other kinds theimage memory for increasinggray scale levels is on thevideo of applicationsforthe Macintosh don't know the world of design card (the optionaiextended card memory). databases and post-processing linkages. However.there is an overheadof main RAM that is usedas Given thatsituation, who will win? Well. an engineering you increasethe numberof gray scalelevels you are using.In organizationchooses the sofiware that will accomplishthe task fact, if you try to run thetour disk on a onemegabyte Mac II with at hand. So an engineersearching for softwarewill almost thegray scaleset to 256,the dialogbox will quickly tell you that - alwayschoose the full-functioned workstation software even there is not enough memory to operate.The tour software thoughit takesmonths to learn.is far from intuitive.and does not evidently switches to 256 gray scalessince the images are 'oerlbrm as well as goodMac softwareshould. definitely not 2 level images. What will happEn?I believethere needs to be an alliance betweenprofessional CAD vendorsand Mac softwaresystem designersso thesetwo worlds can come together.Until that Pleaserate this article on the Reader happens,the Macll will have a hard time providing Sun and ServiceCard by circling: Apollowith muchserious competition. 161Excellent 162Good 163Fair 164Poor MacA.P.P.L.E. November1987 43 tollowingitems are selected by our editorial staff from the large number of product announcements andnews releases sent to us daily, They are presented solelyto keep you inlormed about the cunent market for Apple related hardware and software. As we have not tested many ol these products, appearance heredoes not necessarily represent endorsement orrecommendation byA.P.P.L.E. Further inlormation about items appearing inthe Macinplace can be obtainedthrough the Reader Service Card, lf youcontact any manufacturers directly. please mention that you learned about them in MacA.P,P.L.E. TransLink CommonLISP. as well asone at exactorinted size. or can compatibilityproblems, and or more Prologs.The company serveto displayextra windows. frces up the 2 l0K of memory Transputer is alsointerested in working . The MacintoshSE can be otherwiserequired to savethe Levco Comoration intro- with suppliersof Macintosh quicklydisconnected and used large-screenimage. ducedTranslink, a modular, developmentenvironments and independentlywithout modifi- . The Viking I controlleris parallelprocessing system that end userapplications who wish catlons. designedto avoidprocessor wait puts the power of VAX 8600 to make their productscompat- . A hardwarescreen-saver states.making screen updating mainframecomputer into a ible with theprocess model of automaticallytums off the 207cfaster than with the MacintoshSE or MacintoshII parallelcomputing architecture. Viking I screenafter a se- standardMacintosh SE. mlcrocomputer. A Translink starterkit for lectableinterval. This orotects the MacintoshII retailsfor The Viking I fbr theMac- The Translink systemcon- the screen.avoids software priced $2.499.00with theTranslink intoshSE is at S1995.00, sistsof Translink boardsfor the which includesplug-in MacintoshII or SE,a varietyof starterkit for the MacintoshSE at Sl.t{99.00. The staner kit UPGRADES controllercard. software, Transputerprocessor modules manual,and six-foot cable. No which plug ontothe Translink includesa singleTransputer ( Macintoshmodifications are boards.and completeset of module 15 Mhz Transouter MicroPhone1.1 processorand 256K RAU), a required.The monitoris softwaredevelopment tools. The SoftwareVentures Comora- Translink card and the Software compatiblewith any SE- product wasjointly developed tion announcestheir first up- Toolkit.Individual Transputer compatiblesystem and Finder. by Levco and Mechanical grade,MicroPhone l.l for the (with modulesare availablefrom Switcher animationand Intelligence. popular telecommunications $ 1.299.00to $3.,199.00. screen-savingoff), and the The heartof the Translink program for the Macintosh, dependingupon the module's Levco Prodigy accelerator-board systemis a high-speed,32-bit Versionl.l - which is fully Drocessorclock soeed.on-board series.A MacintoshII card for parallelprocessor which with all Macintosh itAM and option;l on-chip compatible theViking I will be announced providesultra high-speed modelsincluding the new SE floating point math co- in the nearfuture. communicationand synchro- and Mac II - offers severalkey tn j g tt processor. lVL 1 vrn C' pt,7 0 11,, t1. nization.the key to effective improvements.The program Levco.6160Lusk Boule- 5710 GreenCircle Drive, parallelprocessing. With a now featuressubstantial ( vard,Suite C-203. San Diego. M innetonka.MN 55343,6 I 2) throughputof l0 million in- enhancementsin VT100 cA 92121 . (619)157-20 I I . 935-1t5t. structionsper second(MIPS), a C]RCIE2I ON READERSERV CE CARD CIRCLE20 ON READERSERVICE CARD terminalemulation. including singleTransputer delivers the supportof stylistic attributes- performanceof a mainframe bold. underline.blink. and comDuter. Viking1: Large reverse.These, together with Individual TransDutersare MicroPhone'spowerful mountedupon credif card-sized ScreenMonitor scriptingcapabilities, allow the Trapeze2.0 moduleswhich are then plugged The l0-inch Viking I mostsophisticated communica- Data Tailor, Inc., is now into Translink cards.These monitorfeatures 1280 x 960- tions betweenthe Macintosh shipping Trapeze 2.0, features cardsthen act asmodular with non-interlaced66 Hz and DEC computers. include: oixels . building blocks, allowing the iefreshrate for flicker-lree Other key enhancementsrn- Presentation:Trapeze constructionof largeparallel viewing.Displaying over I cludes updatesto the MacBi- combinesdesktop publishing processingsystems. With 20- million pixels.the Vikrng I nary standarddictated by with calculationsand chartson (up Mhz T-800 Transputers,for createsan image seventimes Apple's new systemsoftware, singleor multiple to 32) examole.a MacintoshII largerthan the standardMac- and increasedscreen soeed for pages. . enhancedwith Translink has intoshscreen and displays a work with fast modems. Analysis:The built-in nearly the performance of a readablefull page,or two facing To addressdesktop pub- spreadsheetand databaseca- supercomputerwith a through- pages. lishing needs.MicroPhone's pabilitiesof Trapezeallow you put of 200-300MIPS, compared to evaluatenumerical and The Viking I introduces packagenow includesGlue. the 'information to 2.5 MIPS of the standard severalinnovations in large- programfrom solutions,Inc., textual on the same MacintoshII. For even greater screenmonitors for the Mac- GIue complementsMicroPhone worksheet. performance.multiple Macin- . Graphics:Eleven basicchart "hosts" intosh: by allowing usersat different tosh II Transputer may sitesto shareand processtext typeswith thousandsof . Three specialdesktop-pub- be interconnectedto form huge and graphicsefficiently. The combinationsallow you to lishingmodes are available. In networksof thousandsof bundle includesthe ImageSaver, graphicallypr€sent your cal- Extend mode, the screenimage processors.Levco software which lets usersprint files to culationsand information.Price: extendonto the MacintoshSE. develoomenttools make true disk.and the Viewer,which lets $295.00.Free Updateto allowing for a largerimage to be parallelprocessing available, usersview and print files RegisteredUsers of Version1.0. displayedand to be vertically throughthe Macintosh without recourseto the original SystemRequirements: enhanced scrolledon theMacintosh SE. In Programmer'sWorkshop program.As a specialbenefit, Macintosh512K with 800K Magnify mode,the Macintosh (MWP), assemblerand C lan- the bundle also includesthe externaldrive. Runs on SE providestwo levelsof guages.In addition,Levco plans Viewer desk accessory,a utility Macintoshversions 512e, Plus, FatBits-stylemagnification ot to supply the Occam language not available. SE andMac II (in colorl). whateverthe cursor is pointrng commercially by licensinga versionof the Software Ventures, Corpora- Data'l-ailor, ln<., 1300S to on the largescreen, reducing Inmos DevelopmentSystem. tion, 2907 ClaremonlAve, Suite UniversityDrive, Suite409, the needto changepage size Levco intendsto aggres- 220, Berkeley,CA 94705,(415) Fort Worth,TX 76107.(817) sivelypursue additional de- during pagelayout. In 332-8944. WYSIWYG mode.the Mac- 644-3232. velopmentenvironments, rn- CIRCLEIE ON READERSERVICE CARD CIRCLEI9 ON READERSERVICE CARD cluding object-orientedfull intosh SE displaysthe document 44 MacA.P.P.L.E. - November t9B7 phix andCompufilm. users will hardwareSCSI select. pouer printersare supportedby the be ableto scndtheir tum- anddata acccss indicators. and new drivers.Ink jet printersare around.receiving slides or other GigaCellMass platinumor beigecolor. exccllentfor producingcrisP imagesand leavingthe task of NuDATA.Inc., -1206Stort imageslbr makingor"erhcad Memory andcopying in the Illvd..Sonta Clara. CA 95051. transparencies.Among the ink devcloping prot'essionals. Subsystem (501) 727-1019 jct printcrsto bc supportcdb1, handsof the CIRCLE22 ON READERSERV CE CARD Cricketare the He\r'lett-Packard A choiceol oneCrickct Inc..introduces the NuData. LaserJetIl. andOkiclata clrivcrwill bc bundlcdwith lu- memorySCSI Giga Cell Mass Laserlinc. tureCrickct product rclcases. subsystemfor the Macintosh CricketDevice Eachuser will be ableto redeen.t Plus,SE, andII. Availabletn DriverCollection Thermalprinters: a couponin erchangefor spccial 250 Megabyte,330 megabyte. firnts.cable. and driver. Any and 660 Megabyteconfigura- Cricket'sdcvice drivers al- Criekct drir crs u ill olli'r numberof extradevice drivers tions(a 1.2Gigabyte model will low usersto createboth color optionsfor printingon color canbc purchascdlatcr. beavailable in late'87).the andblack and white presentation therrnalprintcrs. an erccllent Cr ic ke t Soltvu re.,10 V u l lcv Giga Cell includeseither a 40 graphicson a wide varietvof * al' for crcatingtransparcnclcs StreuntPurkuut. Great l:ullet' Megabyte3M tapedrive or a l0 media.olfering u\ers c()mplcle andoverheads. CorporutL' C orter, M alvcrn. PA MegabyteVerbatim/Kodak flexibilitf in thc *'av thevprint I9.t55.(2I5))51,9890 removablemedia drive. theirgraphics. C RCtF23 ON READERSERVICE CARD The Giga Cell comeswith a Thesedrir cr. anda hasir'rel full complemcntof memorv of tbntsincludcd ri ith themri ill Film recordersallou l"outt'r managementsoftware, including ol'feraltemrtir es to Po.tSeript crcate3-5 nim. slidcsfbr 1.2of Cricket defectmapping initializer. prrntingfor userselgcr to enjor dramaticcolor presentations. Graph automalichead parking. printcr clerr.altrre tir e Hi-Re:output Cricketdrivers will allowvou CricketSoftware announces spooler.partitioning. copy usingboth color and black and accessto slidesrn vour \\'on :.rrtupgrld.' to ilr adrlnect. utilities.file organization.data *'hite derices. otficemeans that 1t'ru can save graphingprogram fbr the compression.and Omini backuP The tvpesof outputdevtces monet andmintnrizc tum- N{acintosh.Cricket Graph. The and restoreliom any volume to supportcdincludc: aroundtime. The cvcle of r'rclrlinu.prinrirrg. rtnd rer iring specilicchanges arc: any volume.comprehensive . Printers s ill nrtIongcr be .1 dcra.lalrnu. Largcrnumber of dataitems folderand file trees.multiple Film recordcrs incremental supported( I 00 x 2700cell i selectioncriteria. Film sen'icebureaus auto Filmservice bureaus: layout.sub.ject only to backup,and time delayed crs backup. For manl orrningancl mcm0r)'restnctl0ns. A wide varietyof printers lears. The Giga Cell's hardware operatingfilm recorder Abilitl'to insertand delete will be supportedb1 Crickct featuresinclude a long lif-eDC cquipmcntis inconlenientor rowsand columns. lnk Jetprinters Both fan, a thick aluminumscratch sotiu'are. impossible.With arrangements Supportfor dataitems up to colorand black and uhitc inkjet rcsistantheat srnking case. from companieslike Autogra- 3 I characterswide. good for Introducing... ComputerAlded Software Englneerlng Forthe Macrntosh MacDgsigngf-,l$lllr. P* _ A ?"Pu" / S;:y"; comptetesortware Desisn rool Includins I F""jjo+ Ia StructurestructureChartsL;nans I Undo/Redoundo/HeooCommandsuommanos A ^- rr^it.?o^- 1aeloe J TreeDiagrams J UserDef ined Templates / -.col'aytcal J,l'qJun I CrossReference Lists I UserDefined Symbols / J ModuteDescriptions J UserDefinedg:lij,:,^^ I f """,o^._or. to thedevelopment ,,:S; V-"'> )A a disciplined,engineering approach of qualitysoftware systems. \"2 Requiresa Macintosh512K, Plus, SE, or Macintoshll - qcFeep{a*es To receiveyour copy of MacDesigneror moreinformation contact: Gcr MacDesignerProduct $498 Excel Software 1a*eg .*",o1 Box 1414 ?rJ MacDesignerDemo $+A P,'O' Marshalltown,lA 50158 Visa,MC, Check, or CODaccepted 515 752-5359 CIRCLE3 ON READERSERVICE CARD MacA.P.P.L.E. - November 1987 45 MAIN OFFICE: e06t2sr-s222. 8:i0 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. PSr . OrderDesk . MembershipInformation . Accounting.Dealer Services . Marketing . Testingantl Evaluation . Publications. 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Doug Fraser (206\ 282-2202(t 46 MacA.P.P.L.E. - November t9g7 long stringsor f'loatingpoint automaticall)'insened. so that StreuntPurkv'av. Great Vullev drivcrsprovided by Cricket. numbers. thecolor imagescan be properll' Corporote Center.Malvern, PA CricketPresents...will be Columnscan be widened aligned. I 9-t5 5, (21 5 ) 25t -9890. availableOctobcr 31, for and narrowed. lmportingEPSF Files CIRCLE25 ON READERSERV CE CARD s.l95.00 Go to commandallows easv Cricket SoJtv'are,-l0 VuIIev accessto any cell. Userswill be ableto import Strcunt Purkv'av.Gre ut I'ollev Datacan be optionally filesgenerated by itselfor other CricketPresents C()t'pot'oteCenter, Mulvern, PA shiftedwhen blocks of cells programs(such as Adobe ( -9890. CricketSotiware introduced 19.155. 2 I 5 ) 25I are inserted. Illustrator)in the EPSFformat. C RCtE26 ON READERSERVICE CARD CricketPre sents...a major Columnsarc giren spccrfiu Havingrmported an EPSF sotiwareotfering in theApple datatbrmats: alphanumeric. image.users will beable to desktoppresentation market. numeric,decimal, scientifiu. .cale.rotllc. till. t'r eronrt. ju.t MarketPro 2.0 CricketPresents...is dcsktop percent. asthe) canno$ do ri ith Cricket dollars, presentationsofiw are that Pro PlusSoflware. Inc.. . Numeric tbrmatsspecify Draw images. prorides Macintosh Computcr announces the releasc of Market numberof decimalsplaces. ColorSeps usersw,ith the abilitl to create Pro 1.0 an enhancedversion of Alongwith SYLK file.. With versionL l of Cncket high-quelitrpre:entation: in InvestmentManagement & CricketGraph will now allow Drau'.users can create either colorand to reproduccthem on Analvsissotiware. the userto impon fWKS files. processor spotseparations of r u ider urietrol oulpulder ice:. Mar(et Pro allows the userto JWKS files are generatedbv anv image.Lscrs do thrsb1 first CrickctPresents... contbincs tert managetheir stock portfollo. Lotus' JAZZ program.Files assignin-ecolors to an1oblects handlingcapabilities and a seto1. and perform both Technicaland from Lotus 1-2-3can also be in a CrirketDrau dru* ing. dra* ing toolslbr usein the FundamentalAnalysis within importedl'rom the IBM PC. Thr'r mur thcnprint the ,'hjcct:. creati0n of hand-outmatcnals. oneMacintosh software Cricket Graph also otl'ers selectingeither process tfour reports.and presentation program.Version 2.0 is fully variableline thicknessand color) or spotlmulti-colort clocuments.Macintosh II users compatiblewith the Apple pattemfbr all line graphs.It also separations.Each color u ill be ableto r icu documcnts MacintoshSystcms including plot allowsfbr a wider varien'of separation$ ill print asa on-screenin full color.All users the new MacintoshSE and symbols.The new version separatepage on thc laser ri ill benefitfiom the u ide range MacintoshII computers.Product allowsthe userto entermulti- printer.u ith registrationmarks ot .tandardlntl .frecialel'lect description: line text on graphs.Now 1ou includcdto allo* a commercial text formats.With Cricket The Market Pro Portfblio canenlcr sereral lines. alignrng printerto llign thcrcprllstirrnr. Presents...it'seas) to customlzc Managerallows the userto keep thetext thatyou enter.Along 166f ize..l) le.lnd colorfor detailedrecords of securitiesand with ourprei ious e apabilitie. TextHandling rndividualuords. The product lran\action\a: uell asofl-ering tbr settingfont. size. and style CricketDra* no* allo*: alsoprovidcs justification. tendetailed portfolio reports. theseadded 17,000stocks, for all text entries. 1ou to changethe dcfault tont. tuhbing.indentatton. marc.in.. Accessingover featurcspermit the userto make size.and stvle of drarrrng. Ther andadranced tablin-e capabili- options.mutual funds and bonds more informative and eye- cun3l.o.hunge rll thetert in iles. on the I.P.Sharp Data base catchinggraphs. oneor moreblocks to a neu Usingan arravol MacDraw makesMarket Pro a powerful Cricket Softu'are.30 \ allev tl pe sn'le. likc tools.Cricket Pre- TcchnicalAnalysis Tool. lt can StreamParku'av, Great Vullet' sents...userscan easill incor- be usedto studysecurities on all Corporate Center,Malt'ern. PA ShowSpecs poraterectangles. circles. lines. themajor L .S.and Canadian 19.t55.(215)251-9890 With VersionL 1.users can grates(parallel lines). arrows. Exchanges.With thc Funda- C RCLE24 ON READERSERV CE CARD no\\ gctdctuiled \pcr'il'icf,ti()n\ andother useful shapes in mentalAnalysis portion of the on the Iocation.angle. an sizeof creationof graphs.charts. and program.the usercan access objectsin the dra* ing area. tables.A simpledouble click on over 100financial facts on over Releaseof 1.1 Thesespecifications include the an objectssets width. line st1'le. 12.(X)0publicly owned ColorSeparations currentposition of thecursor: andcolor intensitr'.Zoomrng. companics.The Prospcctor thc height.width. and diagonal -erouping.and stacking options l'eatureof the programallows CricketSoftware announces lengthof objectslike rectangles. arealso available. Precision the userto selectinvestments thatVersion l.l of CricketDraw poly'gons.and circle: the ne* alignmentis madepossible with the sameway mutualfund and will give usersthe abilityto dimensionsof objcctsas thel thelddition of a lull .et 01- prof'essionalinvestment createcolor separations.This arebeing resized: and the rulers.grids. and guides. managersmake their selections, new featuremeans that users relativeposition of vertices Scannedimages and graphict i.e..b1 'earchingand screening will be able to print separate (suchas the comers of a can be imponed from any' securitiesbased on specificrn- imagesfrom a Cricket Draw poll gonr a. ther areheing. standardPICT formator vestmentcriterra. Featurcs (list picture,either for four-color adjusted. graphicsprogram including Format),Market Pro 2.0 has (process)printing or lbr spot OtherNew features: CricketDraw. Cricket Graph. theseEnhancements: printing.This new color . A newpage lalout allous Pict-O-Graph.MacPaint, . Daily - 2 yearshistorical capabilitygives Cricket Draw the userto seethe borderof MacDra*. andSuperPaint fbr (500days). usersthe chanceto create theprintable area and thc casyincorporation into Cricket . Weekly- 7ll2 yearshis- imagesfbr separateoverlays tbr ^,lao nf thp n rnpr Presents...documents. torical(390 weeks). usein creating.color plate.. . Logarithmicradial grates are Cricketalso provides a new. . Monthlv7l12 years his- usershave assigned Once no*'supported. optionalAutographir Der icc torical(90 months). colors they want to objects the . Userscan Placein an*'ork Driver thatenables users to . StochastieTrend sludy. Drau image.thcl in theCrickct fbrm PictureBasc. transmitimages on their . Historicaldata and transac- can createcolor scparationsbv . Variousimprovements make Macintosh,via modem,to any' tion fileshave variable day an optionin the Print choosing iI easierfor usersto select of the Autographiximaging allocation. command.With Process andmodify' the attributesof centcrsacross the nation. . Allows additionof Factsand separations.the prrnterwi.. objectsthat are behind other Intemationalsites are available Companiesafier download four pagesfor each make objects. in Australiaand Westem in Fundamentals. Cricket Draw page,one eachfor . The extentand direction of Europe.Imaging through . New Categoriesadded to magenta,yellow. and black, fbuntainsand shadowscan Autographixprovides a flexible, PortlblioManager: Munic- separations.For the Spot cyan nou hespeciiied numcri- cost-effectivealtemative to on- ipal.Govemment, Mutual option,a will separations Page cally.as uellu: b1dragging sitefilm recording.Documents Funds,Money Funds, Check printed fbr eachcolor be . Bitmapsmay now be scaled can be output to laser.thermal. log. specifiedin the drawing upward to 2007r. and ink jet printers.film . Annual retum on investment (currently to 8). With each up recorders.and slide services (AROI) addedto Portfblio type, registrationmarks will be Crit ket Srfiv ure. 30 Vallet usinga hostof easilyaccessible Managcrreports. MacA.P.P.L.E. - November 1987 47 . Pcrcentageofportfirlio quentiallywith a fixed record ln addition.the CacheCard the Macintosh-5 l2K. Price: columnfbr securities,Plus lcngth.Rccords can be storedup wasengineered with luture $39.95 muchmorc... to 32 kilobytesand contain as compatibilityin mind. It f'ea- InJinirvSoftu,are, Inc., I 144- manyas 2.000 fields of up to turesan on-boardexpansion bus 65th St., StudioC , Emerytille , Price:5495.00. Market Pro 255 alphanumericcharacters or thatreproduces the Macintosh CA 91608.(1t 5 ) 120-155I . productsarc soldcxclusivcly' 63 decimalnumbers each. SEerpan:ion $us in qonjunetion CIRCLE30 ON READERSERVICE CARD throughApple Authorized McMax supportsMicrosofts with Levco'soptronal BT (Bus Dealers. firrmat.thus allowing thc Transter) card.This allowsthe Pr" Pl tt.t.\,,ftu,tt r. l tt, transf'erof datato Microsoli CacheCardto be usedin MacSQZ 28-10E. Broun Rtl..Suitc C'12. Word. MicrosotiFilc andExccl. conjunctionwith a varictyof S1mantec Corporation in- Mesu.AZ 8520-l. r602 t 8-10- It canalso exchange data with otherMacintosh SE boards. troduce.MacSQZl for Mi- 8,9.1-s. otherpopular Macintosh includinglarge screen video CIRCTT27 ON RIADTASTQVICE CARD crosoftExcel. MacSQZ!, a applicatronsthrough thc usco1' cards. Macintoshversion of the localcomnrands that support Lert'o Corpnration.6 I 60 company'spopular SQZ! data severaldifferent ASCII file Lu.skBlvd.. Suite C-100. San compressionprogram for Lotus DataBase ( t)pcs. [)iego,CA 92I 2 1. 6 I 9) 157- I -l-.1.i: anadd-on application Management The non copr'-protected 20il. firr MicrosoftExcel. MacSQZ! System programshardw are require- C ACtE29 ON TEADERSERV CE CARD compressedMrcrosoft Excel rncntsincludc a Macintosh files up to 9-57rand offers NantucketCorporation Iemilrr'omputer u ith r mini- G0for the numerousutilities and features McMax is a relationaldata base mum of 512kilobvtes of ran- thatincrease the functionalityof managementsystcm fbr thc dom accessmemorv and a hard Macintosh the Microsofi Excel program. AppleMacintosh 512E. diskdrive or dualfloppr dnves. In additionto compressing MacintoshPlus. Macintosh XL It is conrpatiblcurth Applc lnfinitl' Sofiware.Inc.. MicrosoftExcel spreadsheets, andthe ncw MacintoshSE and ImugcWrrtcrlrnJ Lrrcr\A'riler announcesthe releaseof GO fbr MacSQZlenables users to as- MacintoshII computers. printers.Customer Technical thc l\{acintosh.the legendan' signa passwordto a worksheet. The packagc.which incluclcs supportlor \'lcMar includes.10 gameol strateg)'trom the keepgenealogical record of a dBase-compatibleprogram- dur. ol'lrce.unlrrrrited tele- Orrent. It plavsat the l8 k_v"u changesmade to a worksheet. r"el. ming language.uses the same phoncsupport. after which users le lnventedin Chinasomc andeasrly back up spreadsheet -1000r'ears go programand data fllcs on both mav purchasell monthsof ago. the rulesof files.By, compressing data, surpnsinglv the Mac andthe PC. Filesma1 uniimitedsupport for S99.Thc arc easr to leam. MacSQZIreduces the amountof be transfenedusing sirnple cconomrcalsupport progranr \el the strategiccombinations disk spacerequircd to saveand scrialconnections and ctlmmu alsoincludes access tcl the on the boardare almost storespreadsheet flles. The nieltitrn: soflu rrc. No reuritinu NantuckctPrivatc Nctuork on unlimited.Basically. the object programthereby provides a is ncccssaryand rn fact.N{cMax thc sourceancl a subscriptiontcr of thegame is to conquer fasterand lessexpensive way to runrdBASE rpplication. rr rit NantucketNews. a quarterly tcrritorl bl surroundin-tand \cnddatir o\ er thcphone line: tenfbr the PC up to tentimes technicalnew sletter. capturinestones. andreduces the need fbr f'asteron thc Mac. Nuntutket Corpttt utiort, GO fbr the Macintoshrs a additionalfloppy disks.The For usersnew to database 1l-5-5-sW .le.ffersonBlvd.. Surre tuo-plavergame. desisned to let compressionand dccompressron managcmcnl.McMax canbe ,100,Los ,1ng,elt.s,C.A 90066. usersplav matchesagainst the processis transparentto the user uell usedin the Assistmodc. Mac- r2l-tt -t90-792-t. computeras asother and doesnot interf'erewith other C RCtF28 ON REA:)E?SEA\,, C: CARD plaversvia intosh-specificfeatures modemor a directlv Macintoshaccessories or includingdialog boxes. scroll connectedcable. Users can programsthat reside in the barsand pull-down rlenus are adjustthe game'sparameters computer'smemory. CacheCard ompulcr proritlerl lor euseol-ure. L':in.c lnd thcrchrelrcr thc e \ MacSQZl'sback up utilityis ( personalit)'and RcsourccEditor RES.EDIT). LevcoCorporation intro- its responsetcr designedto quicklyand easily userscan create customized alert ducesthc Cer'hcCrrJ. r plug-in difi-crcntboard situations. There backup andrestore Microsoft and filc boxcs.cursor icons ancl acceleratorboard for thc is an optionto pla) \\'ith Excelspreadsheets. It allow,s the context-scnsitil'chclp screens.A MacintoshSE. rihich doubles handicappedstones fbr either userto compressor decompress (omputer, built-indebugger allows users to thecomputers speed and per- thcplarcr or thc multiplefiles simultaneously. run a programin onc window lormanceb1, ac'lding a tast 6,1K GO fbr theMacintosh also The programalso contains a while trackingcommands rn RAM cache.a l6-Mhz 68i100 *orks beautifulll'ona largc- customizationf'eature which another.McMax alsoincludes a processor.an on-boardcrpan- screenMacintosh and of'ters allows usersto presetprogram full-f'eaturcdtcxt cditorto create sionport andan optionall6- usersa boardsize that is -j by 3 optionsand customize the programfiles up to the available Mhz 68881math co-processor. eamepoints up to l9 bv l9 dcfaultsettings so thatthey are disk memorv. Whilc thc CachcCardcan points.Users can annotate personallyconfigured when the games Thc packageincludes Mc- Ittrihute\()me r)l i1.perlor- and savethe moves along userruns the program. with Max Run.a runtimemodule mancesimplr to thedoublin_u of- thc datcand trmc appcnded MacSQZlgenealogical fea- s ()f tot he file nameand can also u hrchlrllo\ d\cculi()n the6ti000 clock speed.a ture keepsan historicalrecord of businessprograms without significantboost corres trom the replavfamous games from the spreadsheetchanges, allows the program havingto purchasemultiple 6'1Khardware cache that storcs Japanesemaster. The userl() seethe size of the files, copiesof McMax.As a rcia- the instructionsand data most t'eatures-lD stonesand the and determineswhich files are tionaldata base management lrequcrrtlluscd hr thecpu. digitizedsound of stonesbeing linkedtogether. placed system,McMax cancrcate data Cacheclinstructions and data can on theboard. MacSQZlrequires a Macin- bases.rrranipulatc slructurcd be fed directlyto the GO tbr the Macintoshcomes tosh-5 l2K. -5l2K Enhanced. with datafrom multipleliles and CachcCard's6li(XX) processor at an interactivehypertext Mac Plu:,Mac SE,or Mucin- with producccustomized reports. Thc a significantllfaster rate than if tutorialon disk.created toshII. The progrrmoccupies svstemhandles data base files the Levcoboard had to access CIUIDE.an intcractivcgraphics 30K when residentand will run up to O3megabytes and files the standard.slower Mothcr- anddocument system by Owl with all versionsof Microsoft confornrto thc structurcand boarcl.Similar in designto the International.The on-line Excel.The stanupdisk must problem tbrmatof dBASE files.Ten othcraccelerator boards tutorialoffcrs sctsand containSystcm File 3.0 or funda- st:parateclaia basc filcs can be produccdb1' Lcvct'r. the cache examples.teaching the above.Price: $79.95. opcnsimultancously for built in to the68000 processor mentalsof GO fbr the Macrn- Svmctttlc, C ttrpr t1'41 i 1,11. merging of data from diff-erent toshto beginnersthrough ma1he lrlckedlr) nrc\er\c il\ I ():()I Tt,rr( Ar cnue. Cupct tint,. files.In additron.report forrns contcntr|tthcr thrn allouing thc intermediateplayers. c-A9s0t1, (108) 253-9600. 1br runs and labelscreated by McMax board'scontrolling sotiware to Go the Macintosh C RCLE3I ON READERSERV CE CARD arecompatible with oneanother. alhreate inl'ormation rccesr. on all Macs.cithcr with a single Each recordis storedse- U00Kdisk or two.l(X)Kdisks fbr 48 MacA.P.P.L.E. - November t9B7 lnnerdrive90/ll Stret't.I)t.t l\4oines,IA 50-ll:. lnternalDisk C RCtE33 ON AEADERSERV CE CARD The ncw Jasminc90- The Only True CAOOsystem rnegabytelnner Drive 90,{1.is MacTell developedexclusively lor the Macintosh! Bir:r'lirrc.lhc orrlinr'crr- designecllbr usewith Macintosh Minicad Standard Fealures N6w Foalures on 3.0 , Advancedautomatrc al€nme.1 tcrteinmcnlinlirrmllron \cr\ ir'c. .9 decrma precsron(1 000000000) Il computers.Pricc ol'the . / . CenterL/nes Dashed Ines.& more Multiplowrndow Multipledocumenl announccsthc availabilitr- sl' . Symbo odilor wnh search & 'e0 ace lnnerDrive90/ll is $ 1.,199.(X). . Draw by Tools or Dala Entry Eores . Pr6s€t ArchrtecturalScales MacTell.MacTell gives users . Un rmiledUs€rDel ned S€l€s Thehigh spccd lnncrDrir c . Texl al 90'incremenis . ..+ rclales accessto morethirn 6.(X) Minitel Drsplay& Type Coord natss, .Detacht6xttromdim€nsonnes 90fllboastsa 16millisecond . scn'rccsavailable around thc Un m led Zoom ng H'AdvancodAulo_Dmonson ngwlh accesstime and includes . Tota 2Dr3OIntegratron Btnass lln€s mountingbrackets. cables. ancj world.as well asthc usual LJ.S. . R€ad & Wnle P ci Flles l- .66 Fiil& Psn Patterns.32edtab€ .AuloScioll ,\SCll scrriccs. N4acl'cll has . 40 Coror& AcetaleLaye6 >€( other hardwaretbr easl' . User'DelinedSnap & V sua Grd installationrequiring no special minitclcnrulation arailablc lirr . Degrees mrnul€s secondsrolato. theUnited States. . Doube I ne too Perteclior Archlec Ioolsor expcrtlsc.It conreswith . Well docurnentc-dand casl L ne segmenl Tnm loo ninemegabytes of public . And our exc us ve Polygoq Cl PPel donrainsoftwarc.. sharcware to use.N'lacTell is an all purpose and backupsoflwarc. one-vear communicationspackaue u,ith full warrann,anda 30-dav numcrousoutstandrng tcaturcs. moneyback guarantcc. It hasa powerfulscript lanluage Jttsrni nc Te t hnoI o g, i t's.I nL., with a learningmode which 555DcHurtt Street. Sun makcsrt possiblcto autonratc Ftdnt i.\( r,. t-A aJ lr)-.'l l5 t cornplicatedprocedures rnore 621-1.t.tq. casilrthan uith rnostother C RCiF32 ON READERSERV CE CARD L ilIlllllUnlL i.tllOn: nl O:'fitlll. N'lacTelI also rncludes complctccolrlnunicatrolrs sct- e@ DiskTop3.0 tingscapabilities . All the standarc'll'iIc transl'crprolocol s CE softwareannounce) area'" ailiible. MacTcll's Minitcl DiskTopversion 3.0.a. DiskTop ernulltionrntrdc ol ler.,tnline is a dcskaccessor) that has been MiniCad graphics..The- lilc- scn r-r. Diehl GraphsoftInc. describedas a portableFinder. uniqueto MacTell.makes the 8370 Court Ave, Suite202 Diskfop 3.0 arrivedclosell on user's\'lacintosh accessible br' EllicottCity, MD 21043 301-461-9488 the heelsof versron2.0 due tc'r all kindsof conrputcrsand thedegree and intensityof cus- perr.nitsusers to \et up rnd run a CIRCLE2 ON READERSERVICE CARD tomcr-rcqucstcdf'eaturcs. High rrini bulletinboard. Callers can on the requestlist. the Find downloador uploadl'ilcs. rcad tectecl.End usersunable to beginningin No',emberl. 1987. cornmandis now thc most messages.send ntessages. and ,rhteinthc prtrdLr.t lronr thcir' RAMSnapis a combination poiverl'ulon thc Macinlosh. rcvicu otherscomrncnts. rctailcrcan order dircct l'rom thc RAMdiskand disk cachc utilitv Othernew f'eaturesinclude ac- MacTellhosts claborate tilc publisherat (800).1-13-0100. ext, tle:icnedl() inrfrr)\ e proce.iing tivatingDisklbp with a lrrn.tertepehtlrtres. Nlathirrlr'1. "+51. powcrand rnaxinrizc pcrlirr- keystroke.running all filesby X rnodcr.nand Y rnodcm.permit Thc uscrciln dcsignale a set nrance.RAM start.publrc double-clicking. normal/ the transf'erof t'ilesindividuallr of suitcasel'iles that will be d')muill\{)lluitre. uer preri- tcchnicaluser levels, spccial or rn hlock.u ith crrore hce kiqll. "Get lrut()mati(all\opcn\'J \'\ \'r\ lililc ouslyrncludcd r.i'ith MacSnap intb" commentsthat aren't Incorningtcxt canbc savcdto the Mac startsup. Suitcasealso products.A RAMSnapupgrade lostwhcn the desktop is rcbuilt. files in MacWrite.\licrosoft includesits ovn'nDA. lr'hichis pathlor current RAMStart andmorc command-key Word. or an1'othcr uscr- uscdto opcnand/ or close ounerswill beavailable through equivalents.j specifiedformat. suitcasefiles any time after DOVE tor\1,).q5. In rddition. LaserSlatusand Wrdgets. thc Buscline, lnt..8.l8 Brrud- in startup.cxccpt whcn Switche-r. Dovc rnnour.rcesa price bonusprograms included the n ar','\'cx for't, Nf 1000-l. f ) | 2 I Scrn'irnt.or MultiFinderis reductionon RAMSnapas a package.have also been :-54-8:.1.5.in Ct\ t) l.l t 659- running. standalone product. Furmerlt improvcd.Thc deskacccssorv -18-10. priccd LaserStatusmonitors Laser- C RCIE34 ON READERSERV CE CARD Thc DA includcdwith Suit- at 559.9-5.RAMSnap will Writeractivity as well as cu\cill\() pror ide: irn allerttiilir e now retailfbr 529.00. lontsor inlcrl'er'elirr trpan1""ntnat l)rtvt Cont1ttttcrCrtt rcsctting.downloading "lt ltrtru- PostScriptlile: rnd drrplaring Suitcase DA's. canbc tiresorncto riott,1200 Nortlt2-lnl Street. misccllanc,.ru:LaserWrilcr choosea DA thatis at the lI;i Inri rt cttttt, N rtrth C u rol i nu Softwarc Supplv introdut:cs 'Applc' intbrmation.The application Suitcaselbr the Macintosh at bottomol'an ultra-long :81()5.(E00)62:-7627 ol rrrN(' Widgetscontains a potpourl of nrenu."Brecher explains. (919)76.1-79 1E MacWorld F-rposition in "Suitcase utilitiesthat includc the abiliti' Boston.Suitcase is a utilitv that letsthe useropen DA C]RCtF36 ON READFASFAV CF CARD to print thumbnailcatalogs of allows desk accessoriesand b1'using a listwith a scrollbar. parntfilcs ( I 6 perpage at 300 tirnts to bc alwal's avarlablc or by,-tl,ping the first t'eu WorkPlus dpi.)on a LaserWritcr.convert without requiring that they be charactersof its nameand PICT filesto paintfiles, conven installed into the Systerrrfile. It prc..ingRclurtt. irs uell rs itt Command findcrcommcnts to DrskTop ulrr'.lic.J\\ll\ \\ itlrthe lirrrit,rn theusuul r.l ur ol thoorirtgit comments.and create custom the number of available desk fronrthe menu. Lundccn& Associatcsrs starl-upscreens and much more. acccssoncs. Softv'ureSr4pA, -599N introducingWorksPlus Conr- DiskTop3.0 is compatiblc Suilcasc runs on all rnodcls MuthiIduAt enue,Sunn.tyuIt. mancl,a rlacro package1'or usc with Mac -5l2K. Plus.SE. or of the Macintosh which have CA 91086.(108) 719 9-lI | . with Microsol'tWorks on the Mac II. Pricc:$49.95. lt is not 5l2K or morc of RAM. About C]RCtE35 ON READERSERV CE CARD Apple Macintosh.Command copy-protected.and is available .1K of Sr-ritcasecode is installed will allowthc usert0 accoln- plish throughdealers nationwide or into RAM when the Macintosh RAMSnap a nrultitudeof taskswith dirccrlylrom CE S()l't\ilrc. starts up. Suitcasc is compatiblc greatease and skill. Like its product. OrderLIne (800) 523-768u. with the new MultiFinder Dor c (-ontpulcr (-oTprrntlion sistcr WorksPlusSpcll. technicalsupport number (515 ) system that Apple introduccd at will includeRAMSnap with all Corrmandinstalls directly onto 221-t99s. thc show. Thc prograrr rctails MacSnap mern0r) products thc Microsol'tWorks disk CE Stlltvura . 60I 7Jrd fbr S-59.9-5:it is not copy-pro- adclingmenu itcms and MacA.P.P.L.E.- November1987 49 becomingpart of the program. modem data from interruptions, Commandcan be usedwith or thesedevices also have another withoutSpcll. leaturc.1'hcy can bc uscdas a Corrmandadds many useful privacydcvicc. Whcn onc Welcometothe New MacA.P.P.L.E.! teaturesto Works.For example. telephoneextension is picked it will printmulti-column labels up. all otherextensions arc lorm r Drlu brsernd automati- disabled.The data protection lfyou've followed MacA.P.P.L.E sinceour beginning in cally generatetable of contents devicesare available in four thefall of 1984, you've seen some pretty major changes. and indexesfor Word Process- differentconfi gurations: Model ing documents.It will alsct MP600 is a standalone in-line Inour first incarnation wewere published bythe perform global searchand unit;Model MP620 is a standard A.P.P.L.E.Coop's Lisa/Macintosh SlG.Our name was replacein DataBasc and surface-mountedmodular ver- "32 printed Spreadsheetdocuments. and sion:Model MP630replaces the littleapples." Our copy was outon an muchmore... standardtelephone modular lmageWriter,andwe had a blackand white, 16 page For professionals.such as wallplatetand Model MP640 is newsletlerwith no ads. lau'vers.and doctors. Command usedfor a wall-mountedphone canbe usedto help log dailv (suchas a kitchenphone). ByMarch of 1985 we had become MacA.P.P.L.E. telephonecalls and au- Prices: magazine- a realleap forward, with glossy stock, full color tomaticallvchar-ue the appro- $9.9-5 Model MP600. priatcclrent. No more won- cover,and high quality production values supported by ad $10.0-5ModelMP620. deringwhere a telephonecall $ 13.9-5Model MP630. sales. shouldbe chargedor how much $ I 1.9-5 Model MP640. trmeto bill.Command will Youhave in your hands the next step in the evolution of :implill hrllinghr allouing the Ddtd Spe( Crtrporution. MacA.P.P.L.E.Aclean, elegant design. Professional userto creatca macroto do the 20120Plummer Street, wholejob. In additionto ne*' C hutsurtrtlt. CA 91 -l I I : t 8 1E ) editorialstandards. Consistent andextensive use of Works lcaturcsand record/ 99-t-t202. graphicsthroughout.. play'back.Command includes a C RCLE38 ON READERSERV CE CARD Wewill continue topublish MacA.P.P.L.E. fromthe tull programmin-elanguage for extendingand customizing PageMaker pointof view of the individual user. We will carry tough, Works.It allowsfull accessto criticalreviews. Helpful tutorials. Provocative commentar- all Worksdocuments. and Portfolio comeswith a dialogeditor lbr Aldus Corporationan- iesand editorials. Interviews with major figures inthe dereloping pou erful u.er in- nouncesthe release of Page- terface.The programmin,uen- Macintoshworld. Maker Portfolio:Designs for vironmcnthas over 100built-in BusinessCommunications, a Andwe will never foroet where we came from I'unctions for :oning..errching. packageof l[3Templates de- parsing.and manipulatine si-encdto hclp PageMakcrusers information. produceprofessional business WorksPlusCommand re- documents. quiresMicrosoft Works and a Designsfor Business MacintoshPlus. SE or Mac IL Communicationscomes with Commandi.rrll bc available predesignedpage formats for throughdealers or canbe or- i-.-i i;.-^r1., +.^-. proposals,memos, overhead transparencies.reports, hand- Lundean& Associutes.PO books.and business plans. The Brn 300-18. Oakland.C A 916I 2. disksare accompanied by a 148- r 800t 23-t -685 l . t 800t 922-7 587 pageinstruction book explaining rn Cul illtrnia. Prit e. 599.95 people C RCtE37 ON AEADERSERV]CE CARD how can incorporatetheir text. charts,and other graphics into any oneof thetemplates. DataInterrupt PageMakerPortfolio: Designs fbr BusinessCommunicatrons rs Eliminatorsfor availablefor the Macintoshand Modems PC to run on rll Postscript- compatibleoutput devices. A Data SpecCorporatron an- vcrsionfor PCL-compatible nounLc\Data Intenupt Elimi- printerswill availablein late natorslor modems.The Data October.Pricc: $99.00 InterruptEliminator. are der ices AldusCorporution.1l l thatprevent accidental loss of FirstAt'enue South, Suite 200, datain a situationwhen modems Seattle.WA 98101.(206) 628- andtelephones are used on the 2-152. :lme line.When the:e devices CIRCLE39 ON READERSERVICE CARD arein place.any extension prckedup while themodcm (or phone)is in usedis disable. Oneeliminator is neededfor Call us todayl eachtelephone or modem sharingthe sameline. Operating ,HLSTHR like a switch.thc Dataintcrrupt Eliminatorssend signals to the to electronr- oo2l IrL,ntltle,Arcnu. otherEliminators Chatswr,rth Caliiornir olll I cally tum off any instrumenton Telephone:(818) 882-5822 the line. exceptthe first one to \1.r(inlr.'f L..rlrr!l{nr,rrl,,l.\1'rrr (,,r..r'LrrrrI rL be used. \l rr,,\..\\'.r lf.r,itr,rr\,,'I-rrrl,r t,iL. I'rr''r'l ( In additionto protecting 'I2 CIRCLE ON READERSERVICE CARD 50 MacA.P.P.L.E. - November 1987 ilIacA.P.P.L.E" DBMaster. CD-ROM- The Storage FOR Technologyofthe 1990's. THE WhereAre the Apple Standards? Whatrole does Microsoft Play? MAG HyperCardand CD-ROM CD-ROMDiscs and Drives I Database Management CONVENIENT. POWERFUL. FLEXIBLE Store, organize, retrieve and print in- Gamesfor the Mac- Reviewsof formation- inventory records, address lists. research notes, client files. Shadowgate,MacRacquetball, I Easy to Learn Pattonvs. Rommel. Ideal for the first time user! No programming required. GuyKawasaki - An Interview I Easy to Use Dimension Like using MacWrite and MacPaint- fromthe Fourth just point, click and type. T High Capacity HyperCardHints from Great for small or large databases. PhillipRussell T Flexible Design screens the way you want Homebrewinga Hard Disk - A I Not Copy Protected DouglasFraser Adventure 3O-DAY MONEY BACK GUARANTEE DBaseMac - A ToughLook at a Newcomertothe Database Special Rodeo lntroduGtoryOffer PracticaMusica - An Entire $59.95 Call now or send check. money order or MasterCard/Visa MusicalConservatory onDisk inlb for $59.95 plus $5 shipping/handling. Acrossthe Desktop With BillKaye oB Masle, s a reg'sreredlrade markor DB MasrerAss@rares Macnrosh s a tadomark or appe compuler .. Macwne a.d MacPanr are.elrsrered tademarks or AppreCompurer nc CIRCLEI6 ON READERSERVICE CARD MacA.P.P.L.E. - November 1987 An ImportantMessage To EveryMac User WhoDoes Not HaveA D.gree In ComputerProgramming Let's face it; sooneror later you'll Creatinga V.I.P. programis simply naturally structuredprograms with auto- want to do somethingthat your Mac just a matterof clicking on logic form icons maticallydocumented modules. won't do. It's not its fault, the Mac only and procedureclass icons to choosede- FEATURES doeswhat its programsallow it to do. siredprocedures. V.I.P. providesmore Icon-basedprogramming. S implified Here'syour chanceto do what you want. than 180pre-compiled toolbox procedures interfaceto Mac toolbox. Visual, source Createyour own programs! to greatlysimplify programming. level debugger.Fast, intelpreted with doz- It usedto be that you had to spend BEGINNERSLOVE IT ens of pre-compiled routines. 200 page hundredsof dollars and severalmonths of tutorial and referencemanual. More than V.I.P. , an interpreter,provides im- 20 exampleprograms. Run-time package. study to evenbegin to program.You al- mediatefeedback; as such,it's ideally No licensefees. Not copy-protected. most had to havea degreein computer suited for beginners.They can be creating programming.No more! Programminga programs with full Mac features 30 min- Mac can be as easyas using one. utesafter openingthe package.V.I.P. is VISUAL PROGRAMMING alsogreat for programmers, skilled in NN\- The idea is to usethe visual power otherhigh level languages,who are seek- .P6 and intelligence of the Mac to make it ing a painlessintroduction to the Mac. easyto program.You programvisually EXPERTSARE AMAZED and the Mac interactswith you, keeping V.I.P.forms the nucleus of a power- you on the right track. Thus the name ful andversatile development system. $dtdot Visual InteractiveProgrammingrM or Extemal procedure V.I.P. for short. sets,available as separate V.I.P. is a totally products,facilitate spe- new type of language cializedtasks such as where a graphic interface spreadsheets,databases V.I.P. only replacesa text editor. $124.95 andvertical applications. Procedure Sets: SpeechManager Traditionally,program- Translators,also Grid Manager Database ming is done by typing $49.95, $59.95, sold separately.automat- Manager ISAM Manager programstatements into $149.95, ically turn a V.I.P. pro- Matrix Manager an editorfollowing rigid V.l.P.'SGraohic Editor "C" $59.95, $95.00 gram into or Translators: LightspeedC or Pascal, rulesof a language'sar- "Pascal" sourcecode, MPW C or Pascal,or to Turbo Pascal canesyntax. readyfor compilation. $89.95each. Visual Program- Imaginethe benefits ORDER V.I.P. TODAY ming. on the otherhand. of developmentin a To order, seeyour dealeror call is done by pointing, friendly. interactiveenvi- Mainstay at (800) 628-2828#864. Mas- clickingand entering ex- ronmentand with a few tercard,VISA and C.O.D. are welcome. pressionsand arguments additionalmouse clicks, Add $5 for shippingand handling.CA into elementsof an on- having a ready to run, residentsadd 6.5Vo sales tax. screenflowchart. ZoomView of Flowchart stand-aloneapplication. A V.I.P. programis For more information,write or call composedof graphicelements which can PROGRAM 10X FASTER Mainstay,531l-B Derry Ave. Agoura (818) be cut, copiedand pasted. The programis V.I.P. offers significantproductivity Hills,CA 91301 991-6540. automaticallystructured with classical gains;in testsat Fortune500 corpora- In Europe,contact our subsidiary: logic forms such as if..lhen...else or tions,programs were finished 10X faster. Emday, 34 Ave. Tervuren,Brussels, (02) loops suchas while...do andfor...next. V.I.P. also meanslinear progress;the last Belgium 734 89 12,Telex 62239. Theseare presented graphically. The l07o of a project won't take the traditional program becomes visual! 50Voof the time. Other benefitsinclude Mainstay Visual Interactive Programming is a trademark of Mainstay. Lightspeed is a trademark of Think Technologies, Inc. MPW and Macintosh is a trademark of Apple Computer Inc. CIRCLE7 ON READERSERVICE CARD