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t has been said: "The computer you really want costs $5,000' And,.for many years-tmd many buyers-thin has been true. Over the pastdecade, $5,000 or so bought a s t a t e ~ f - the-art c o m puter.

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li ooking a PC printer to a Mac....................................................51 How to do it~d why you might want to.' By One Bcnnctt.

S eftware Pe~ cnpt Emulation ..................................................52

Read this if you don't hswe a PostScript printer. ByCnteoteBennctt. computer forunder $5,000 including GSI'. A P r l l l t e r G I O S Sa r y e eeeeeeeeessoeneeossseseeaeaeeesesseeoeeee saseesoeeeaaaeaeeeesessseeees55 That is amazmg — amachine with enough Betterthan a buzzword decoder ring. By Qnwne Bcnnett horsepower to run a bank or a g easeseeeeessseeses • ss ee e e a e ea56 ten years ago, can now be purchased by a 0 Vorak S G u i d e t o P C G a m e s eseeeeeeesesaeeeaeeeae An excerpt from a new book and a gamer's hall of Same.ByJohn C. Dvonrk and Pc!or Spoor mere m wit h a little extra room on their Visa card. Despite the considerable merits of lb e lest and Worst of 1991 ........................................................62 Three eagles, a turkey and.... By RocdyOncn. other computer platforms, Intel-based machines have once again redefined the What to get the computer user who has everything ..............68 marketplace. Banish boring gifisl Here are some ideas that even Scrooge would love. ByGnaws Bennctt.

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ArScles Show Report: ComdexlFall'91 .....................................................2$

More news from Las VegaL FnanNoncBytoL c hallenging the u p per l i m it s of t h e machine's — and their own — aMities). This kind of power changes the playing field for COm d e x R e p o r t oan se s ossseeeseeseessseeasssessseseeeeaeesessooeeasesesseeeeeaesssaesoeeesa 92 roduct development. Now, designers can create thre~ ena i onal renderings that are so Las Vegas has its own version of the Walkabout. By16rtnn Singh ffhaha. ' elite that they are using the computer~ e l oped images in-their marketing campaignsas if they were actual photographs of a thing which only exists in the mind of the designer. Th e Enabled Computer.......................................'.........................28 Computerized Braille and telecommunications bring the world doser. ByJohn McGessick This significantly shortens the development curve, by allowing marketers to test more ' T eChnll l ue S aesseaasoeeseeeaaosoeeseeeessasoeeeeasassseeeeeeesaeessseoeeaoeaaeeesaae'aeseeeseee 102 realistic representations of a product on their target market, How the cover illustration was created.By QnsomeBenncN. Today, a 486 computer has the horsepower, connectivity and sofiware that, ~te liteiamy. can be measured in a business' bottom litic. PCs can now act as document arduving systems, Co mputel based lTaining ............. . ..........................................96 voicemail centers and major multNne bulletin boards or information networks. Instead of Research discovers how different personality types respond. ByFntns Fanfcy. costing mimfons, we are talking about tens af thousands of dollarL Networked to the world

via the Internet, Compuserve or GEnie, your potential customer base expands into the hundreds of thousands. In the '90s information is power, and people will pay for in5mm ation. How about your database? Lots of records you say? At Comdex, I saw a demonstration of

FoxPro 2.0(Fox Sofia'e 4194744162) The gentleman doing the demo was searching a

Reviews WordPerfect for Windows...........................................................72

The definiiive word in Windows word processing? ByCathayLafontoSssitL database Sle vnth virtually every address in America for streets-millions of addresseL If you bBnked, you missed how long it took to Snd things. Word For Word ..n.........................................................................75 These are just a few ideas that occur to me in my short ponderings about what people A conversion utility for converting word processor iles. ByPs McNwy. can do with a powerful computer. I think we are at a time very much like when Gutenburg and his friends had Snished their movable type printing press. Books stopped being rare, IN eos si INoney..........................................................................76 Home Financial Management software for%endows.By SacPheaSonth. handweproduced oddities, and became massonarket ite~ hea p , readily avafiable and IN ie o s o f t P u b l i s h e r eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee wide~ g i ng. This development probably had the same effect on popularizing the ideas of eeeeeeoeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeoe 77 Easy to use and inexpenave, it promises-and delivers-good DTP value. ByDanicf the Renaissance thinkers that Sx machines had in the recent Soviet coup. Information * moved more quickly. I believe that these morepowerful computers have the capabih ty to A ut o ( A O r s1 1 e e e eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeo 78 quite literally change the way we work, by giving us, as Bill Gates has said "information at our The new release is easier to useand provides impressive 5-D alities. By E8 Tcichcoeb Sngertips. A Taking this kind of quantum change into another area, if you could buy a used Datsun RenderMan shaders add reallfe textures to CAD modelL By Erl TcichfooL pickup in 1981, then this year — for the same $$,0NL-you could buy one of those monster G e n e r I C CA D D S eO ee e eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeesoeeeeeeeee'eoooosoeosseseoeseoooo earthmovers with the 1$foot-high wheeh that are used to haul tons of earth. 82 For those who don't need the power of a high~d CAD system. Bye Trichcock The hardware is awesome. The software is catching up. Are you using it to your best advmtage? Do you htow what it can do for your business? Interesting times — very exciting So ny Laser Ubrary ..................................................................... s85 and empowering. This CMtOM collection gets topmarks. Is it the library of the Siture? ByLinda Rehrbough. Add another $1,000to your $5,000 486 and you can have a MDl keyboard atid some I ntel H a n d S C a n n e r asassssassssasaas aasnsaaaaaasaasosssssassssssassssssassssssaaaasssssaa 86 software — your own personal recording studio. This combination has the ability to produce This add~ fos the SatMAXiion board adds versatfiity. By T. BNcc. the sounds that you had to pay an entire orchestra at union scale 10 years ago.

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For another $1,000 (and up, up, up), you can add Simcnoiion video and imag~pture

capalities, opening up the world of multimedia and-hmm, it seems we' re back at $5,000. Well, maybe next year. Enjoy the issue.

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And I thought nothing could top the article written by Mr. Barr on "A Brand Ncw OS/2" of the August issue, but the arlide Where can I get Canofilet written by Graeme Bennett on "Ersatz In the October '91 issue of 1%eComputer Windows: The Future of DOS" was the best Paper you describe a document storage yet. And by the way, Ihave heard many system (the Canofile) manufactured by or people talk about Deikview 586, how does it disuibuted by Ano Automation. compare to Windows S.O? Keep up the Unfortunately, nowhere in your EXCELLENT workl description do you give thc address of the Ai-Kao Chang company or any other means of contacting Port Moody them. Could you supply me with such information? Windows Allan L Aizenman I read Thc Computer Paper each month Medical Director with enthusiasm. Your artide on "How to Brandon General Hospital Get the Most out of Windows" in the Brendan, Manitoba

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About a year ago, tkc Interact Activities Boenl mrdtimsdia oefsral seith other Aadyerusystsvas. At best, thc ¹XT asd Andrew e-mail systems are dccidcd that thc Internet comvnsnity necdcd a "propn' story'staadards: ¹ X T does not even stasdanlfor the exchange ofmaltimcdiaomaiL docfsmcnt their standanl, alfkoagh it is easy A working grofsP to strsdy this Problem ruas esongh fo rcvcrse-cngiaecr and extrcmcly chartered. 77rcksbors fothis gesfsP are only now dqbesdeaf ePos the ¹XTPletfons end oPssafiag coming iofnsitioa. A PnlPossdstandard turs bess system; Carnegie Nielloa does «ot ia phses for seveml months as a "drerf stasdayd docfsmeat the Andrew messageforesat bart will aad with lfsck will be' advanced thc next step along the standards track at the Interact prmride yofswith thc soayeecode.

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Several of our readers had a hard dme trying to call "The Print Connection" listed on page 17 of the B.C. Nov. edition, in the article about the OhLaser 400. In the artide, it says to look on pg. 36 for The Print Connection's ad. Unfortunately, there was no Print Connection ad on pg. 86. To complicate matters, it was listed in the index u n d er "T," as in "The Print Connection"and tumed up on page 59.The

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Microsoft Announces New 6-Mail Products

REDMOND, WASHINGTON, NOV 15 (NB) — Microsoft has announced several new gateway programs, as well as a free program for Microsoh Mail for Appletalk customers, and new Microsoft Mail for the Macintosh andOS/2. The seven new gatewaysinclude those for IBM Profs, Fax, X.500, SMTP/Unix, Novell MHS and MCI Mail. A gateway to IBM Snads is also shipping in conjunction with Softswitch and Linkage. The gateway programs allow users to connect their electronic maO programs to another network which uses a dmferent protocoL Aho announced is the shipment of new Microsoft Mail workstation software for the Macintosh and for OS/ 2 P resentation Manager. Mail for the Maantosh now has resizable windows, customixable fonts, and the ality to have multiple message screens open at once. Microsoft daims that when using release 2.1, users cnn save messages in hierarchical folders, managing their messages in an intuitive fashion through th e use of subfolders. Messages can be saved by being dragged and dropped into folders,and users with hited hard drive apace have the option of saving locally clr on the server hard. disk The program aho allows users to share information with others on their post o8ice by using shared folders to create bulletin boards for speci6c topics. A post onice is a system with a mailbox for each local user. Shared folders can be established with specific levels of access for each user, induding read, write and delete. The program includes the ability to attach multip)e ales to messages, and has a view attachment which lets users open and read text fBes attached to messages. The program also uses mulrilevel address lists and personal address books, and the addresses can be combined into personal groups for Opttcker mail tranmnisaion. For a hmited time, customers can get a

free copy of Microsoft Schedule+ when they buy Microsoft Mail version 5.0 for Appletalk networks. Schedule+ allows users to add group calendaring and scheduling to their electronic mail program. If you buy a Qve- or 20-license pack of Mail version 5.0 for Appletaik, you will receive a coupon in the product box for a Bee Sve or 2&evorkstation pack of Schedule+.Complete the coupon and send it to Microsoft, and they vnll send you the program. Although Schedule+ ia I'ree, there ia a $5.50 shipping and handling cost Contact: Microsoft Canada, 416-568-0454, fax 416-568-1 527.

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WEST DES MOINES, IOWA, NOV 5 (NB) — CE Software has announced it has started shipping Tiles, the company's newest software product for Madntosh computers. Tiles automatically creates and assigns graphic icons to documents as they are open elL (Icons are picture representations of programs or Qles, used on computer systems with graphic interfacea.) Uahtg TQea, the icon call be selected b}l the user to be representative of the Sle, e.gae a picture of a tree for a document pertaining to forestry. CK Software daima that Tiles is compatible with its buckeye

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B OU L D E R , CO L O R A D O . NO V 1 5 (NB) — Outbotrnd Systems has lowered the of prices on it s whol e lin e M acintoshcompatible p o rtables. T h e decreases in pxice average about 10 percent fer the line of four models. The Outbound R050/440 went from SALEM, OREGON, NOV T (NB) — What $5,999 to $5,499. The R050/441 is new $5,649— dawn from $4,099.The 2050/460 is is being described as the northwestern dawn from $4,299 te $5.899. And the United States' largest display of Apple 80386SX 8N 86DX 2000/440 has gone f' rom $5,299 te $2,899. M acintosh hardware and software i s 16 NNs • St269 2S Nits c Sl299 scheduled for April 2'y-28, 1992 at the The 2050 designation means a Moterela 20 NHs c N299 I M H s - StÃ arche c SN99 2S Nlrr • SlN9 6 0 NI& - 6th' roche cSlS99 68030kasc.d machine. The 2000 is based on Portland Convention Center. Sponsored by Chemeketa (an Indian a Motorola68000. The 440 moniker means SQ486 4 megabytes (MB) of RAM and a 40 MB ward meaning "place of peace ) Community 33 NHx - 64E cache o $1H9 disk. The 460 indudes a 60 MB hard College, the public exhibition, called 33 NHx - bfK cache - EISA o @'249 hard disk. A "1" at the end of the model number MacNorthwest, will include products that UPGRADE MrrhlORY a SS9 Ssr rxtrb(aaas) allow users to mix video, animation and denotes the presence of a 68881 math compact disc«quality sound with traditional ceproces sar. Catt us for prices oo computer text and graphics, and will be an Company otSdab claimed three main hurd disks reisons fer the price reductions: volume opportunity for Apple Computer to show rsorsitors the public new multimedia okexmgs. shipments are allowing for better pridng Merc than 100 companiesare expected dot rrsatrix urrd arrangcmcnts from the suppliers; Apple to shrsw preducts at MacNarthwest, and Notebook pricing has new been firmly tuser prsrrters established; and demand for lower prices sponsors say it is the only such show in the fax ssruchisres ceuntxy to be sponsored by a community &u» customers. fax cards According to the company, demand is comege. The show will xun concuxrently with uÃ other peripheruts very good although exact information an the "Communicate: Technology fer the the munber of units shipped is not available. I nformation A g e ' c o n f e rence. T h e Cunam AsscmtaersCamrxeea Ot O aery raasonabie pace The company daims that all employees are conference will f e ature sessions and 'I «I • working overtime and an entire unit of the workshops demonstrating Mac technology y y y company is involved in the search for used in the areas of education, corporate training and business communications. Madnteshes so that the ROMs can use. Intr processor and 1Mb RAM(80ns) 19' rosser case, 5 bays, 2(OW CSA 12M 52b and 1A4M 3S' (ksypr sgak drivcs 52M, Vsns, Quantum IDE bard disk 14' AOC CM435 VGA ealor maruror, 28mm 512K Oak VGA canl(uy ro 1024 x 25$ yixels) 1 paragel, 1 game and 2 seria parse Focus 2000t enhanced AT keyboard Mlcraaoit MS-IX)8 5.0

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scene but sound effects as well, it is quite engaging. The user's perception is that of having "moved into" t hat computerCALGARY, ALBERTA, NOV 15 (NB)New Horixon Computer Syitems, a twayear- generated worllL From a spectator's viewpoint, the user old Atari dealer, has acquired North American distribution rights for the new looks like he or she has taken leave of their MIC Profiline TT/ 5 2 FastRAM upgrade senses. The spectator cannot see the screen boards f'rom GE Soft Computersystems of to which the user is responding and the user Germany. The boards allow Atari TTOSO is isolated against a dark background, owners to add as much as 52 megabytes obviously deeply engaged and wavmg their (MB) of extra memory to their machines. New Horizon claims it is now accepting "preorders" to gauge th e i m m ediate responseand for longcerm stock planning. The company expects to receive the first boards within days, said Keith Brooks atNew Horizon. The company maintains that the board will be useful with new software specific to the Tl'050, with both Atari System V Unix and 5.06 Multitasking TOS. Using current four~egablt single inde memory modules (SIMMs), it can be populated with four to 52 MB of burst~ode RAM, Brooks said. He added that the board is expected to work with higher~pacity SIMMS as they become available, increasing its total capacity further. The board attaches to the existing TT FastRAM bus, Brooks said. Brooks said New Horixon is the first distributor to stock the board in North America, and so hr the only one in Canada

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then, and irequently swallows the user. But at that point, the user can look around in the shark's stomach and try to get out through an opening in the top through which the ocean environment can be seen. A small octopus also participates in the scene and likes to attach itself to the user, and the user has to shake it off. Obviously, users have to be quite physically active to successfully partidpate in the game.

The Vivid Group's commercial version While the images were much like home used similar technology but without the video with crayon-type drawn animated goggles. Here, users play virtual reality characters to represent the imaginary parts. drums, with the appropriate sound effects, like the octopus under the ocean, the or a video game in which two users, standing sharks' stomach, o r t h e d r u ms, t h e side by side, hit a virtual reality ball back and experience is so engaging that most users forth trying to get the ball into the goal, gave up their time only grudgingly when which was a white square behind each user's asked to let someone else participate. head. The video reproduction of the user is called chromakeying and the screen display is referred to as 8-D stereoscopic video. The software, called the Mandala Virtual Reality (VR) System, runs on an Amiga 500, 1000, 2000 and 8000 series systems and allows users to create interactive environments that can be entered and controlled through the use of any video camera, said Vincent John Vmcent of the Vivid Group. The Vivid Group claims the software was only available as a $20,000 system until recentlywhen the price dropped to $495. The Vivid Group was offering complete VR d evelopment systems i n cluding t h e computer, software and video camera starting at $7,800. More information is available from the Vivid Group at (416) 8409290. Contact Vincent john Vincent, The Vivid Group, Tel: 416-340-9290, Fax: 416-348-9809; Carne Heeter, Comm Tech Lab — Michigan State, Tel: 517-353-5497, Fax: 517-336-1244; 8everly Reiser, Ufe On A Slice, Tel: 415M2-2482.

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EDINBU R G H , SCOT L A N D , NOV 1 (NB) — The Amiga Centre Scotland has announced an enhanced version of its Harlequin 82+it kame buffer system for the Commodore Amiga. According to the centre, the Harlequin has rapidly come to be seen as the premier professional Amiga graphics card since its introduction in February, 1991. The new card — called the Harlequin Plus — supports full PAL an d N T S C b r o adcast color specification without the need for an external synch pulse. The requirement for synch pulses usually pushes the price of video graphics cards up substantially. According to Martin Lowe, managing director of the Amiga Centre, pricing on Harlequin Plus will be decided when the card ships at the end of the year. Existing users of the card w ill be offe red t he opportunity to upgrade to the new version at a piice to be announced. ContacL TheAmiga Centre, Tel: 031-557%242; Fac 031-557-3260. • •

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TOR O N T O , O N T A R I O , NO V 1 5 (NB) — Bill Gates, chairman and co-founder of Microsoft, will be the opening keynote speaker for the first PC Windows/Canada s how and c o nference. Th e e v en t i s scheduled for March 28 to25, 1992, and Gates will speak on March 28 in the John F. Bassett Theatre at the Metropohtan Toronto Convention Centre. Gates and Paul A l le n c o -founded Microsoft in the 1970s. The company had worldwide revenues of $1.18 billion in 1990, and Gates is reported to be the secondrichest person in t h e U n i te d States. Microsoft is also, of course, the maker of Windows, on which the PC Windows shows and conference is focused. The PC Windows/Canada conference rogram will also include sessions on ardware and software migration issues, networking, e n t e r prise c o m p u ting, multimedia, evolving hardware platforms,

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THE COMPUTER PAPER DEC '91 19 through its Strategic Planning for Applied Research an d K n o w ledge ( S PARK) ln16ative. Wolfgang Strigel, coordinator of SPARK and interim director of th e software productivity center, told NewsBytes a recent change of goverrunent in the province — the New Democratic Party was elected toreplace a Social Credit Party government — has disrupted the process somewhat, but government ofBcials have assured him the Contact Roland Klassen, IC+E, 416-5814797, fax plan is among their top priorities and he 416-591-8539. expects the money to start flowing in four to six weeks. Strigel said British Columbia's software companies, most of which are small to 722 percent of the

current and future technologies. The show and conference is produced by International Conferences + Expositions of T oronto a n d I DG W o r l d E x p o of Framingham, Massachusetts. IC+E, World Expo's Canadian representative, also producesMacWorld Expo/Canada and Sun Solutions Expo.'World Expo produces PC Windows shows in the United States,Japan, Australia, Germany, and Sweden.

medium-sized, have little time to think about boos6ng productivity. The Software Productivity Center would employ two fulltime software engineers who would act as a sort of "methodology department" helping those companies become more productive, he said. The center would also arrange seminars and courses as demand arose among its members, Strigel said. The program is initially expected to have a staff of four, including a n e x e cutive director, an administrative support person and the two software engtneerL The provincial government is to supply half the program's funding initially, with the

rest coming from membership fees that would range from C$350 to C$4,500 per year depending on the size of the cotnpany. The Sdence Council plans to sponsor a two<ay conference on software quality assurance in February, and assuming that the software productivity center is in operation by that time, it will probably become a co-sponsor of the conference, Strigel said. Contact: VVoifpang Strigel, Science Council of British Columbia, 604-436-3574, fax 604-4366564.

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2Q THE COMPUTERPAPER DEC '91 include purchasing agreements with chipxnaker LSI Logic of Calgary, and KaoDidak, a diskette manufacturer in Arnprior, M AR K H A M , O N T A R I O , N G V 1 1 Ontario. The company also has strategic (NB) — The Canadian governnient has alliances with the Ontario Institute for granted "rationalized" status to Apple Canada. The distinction gives Apple an Snxdies in Education, the British Columbia advantage in s elling it s p r oducts to Ministry of Education, and 10 university faculties of architecture across Canada govexnment departments and agencies. In 1989, Apple Canada set up a Strategic Rationalized status means the Canadian Sourcing Office to look into buying and government approves ofthe amount of opportunities in Canada and manufacnxringand purchasing a coxnpany manufacturing to create supplier development programs does in Canada. Under the terms of the agreement with the Canadian government, with existing Canadian suppliers. Apple is to increase contract manufactudng, Contact: Edward Gould or John Elias, National software development, and research in Public Relations for Apple Canada, 416-8604180„ Canada. fax 416-860-1094; Sonja Gundersen, Apple Apple's existing rehtionships in Canada Canada, 416-513-5527.

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essentially chains of smaller ones — can produce new polymers with some properties of each of the originals. Xerox's original KINGSTON, ONTARIO, NGV 4 (NB)R esearch at a X e r o x r esearch lab in interest in this research lay in developing new toners for printers and copiers. But the Mssissauga, Ontario, has produced insights into the separation of DNA molecules that process of coxnbining polymersis similar, in reverse, to the process of separating strands in turn produced a new product for a sxnall of DNA, the genetic material that carries biotechnology company here. Q-Life, a three-year old firm with its origins at human characteristics from generation to generation. Queen's University, is now selling software When Xerox researchers realized they that uses algorithms Xerox researchers had something that could help in DNA discovered while looking for ways to research, they contacted the National combine polymers. Research Council of Canada, a federal Dr. Joseph Wright, vice-president and research granting agency. Since the DNA manager of the Xerox Research Centre of work was not related to Xerox's main Canada, told N ewsBytes that mi xing interests, the company wanted funding and p olymers — large molecules t ha t a r e help in finding a partner to develop and commercialize the technology. The NRC put Xerox in touch with QLife, which has developed a device called AutoBase that controls the process of separating DNA strands. This is done by passing controlled electrical impulses t hrough a g e l c o n t aining th e D N A , explained Sydney Pugh, president of Q-Life. Q-Life ha s t a ken t h e a l g o rithms developed at Xerox and put them on a series of readily memory (RGM) card,s that, used with the AutoBase device, can control various DNA experiments. Pugh likened the ROM cards to those on which software for Nintendo and other games machines are sold. Their purpose is much more serious, though: Pugh said they are expected to play a role in the Human Genome Project, a 15-year efFort to map the human gene. ) AutoBase was launched in late October at the Human Genome IH conference in San Diego. The National Research Coundl will continue to fund joint research by Xerox and Q-Life on DNA separation. Canada's Ministxy of Industry, Science and Technology is also providing money over the next year.

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Contact: Dr. Joseph alright, Xerox Research Centr» of Canada, 416-823-7091, fax 416-6956987; SydneyPugh, Q-Life,613-384-8&50, fax 61 3-3844636.

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T OR O N T O , O N T A R IO , N O V 1 4 (NB) — Gntek Development has announced that the professional version of its Quick Returnsl Canadian income tax software now support Revenue Canada's Efile electronic filing service. Ontek also plans to offer electronic filing to individual customers early in the new year. Revenue Canada's E6le service currently allows tax preparers and accountants in Quebec, the four western provinces and the territories to send returns to th e t ax authorities electronically. The sexvice is to be extended to O n t ario and the f o u r Atlantic provinces in early 1993. Julie Tinson, marketing manager for Gntek, told NewsBytes that the professional version of Quick Returnsl, designed for tax preparers, will now allow those with the necessary connection to Revenue Canada to use the ESle service. Early in 1992, she said, Ontek plans to provide taxpayers who buy the individual version of Quick Returnsl with a number they can call by modem to have Ontek relay their returns to the Efile system. The software will check returns for conformance to the Efile rules before submission, Ontek said, and will prompt the user for any additional information that is needed.

The standard version of Quick Returnsl costs C$59.95, while Quick Returnsl Professional sells for C$199.95. Both are able to run on any IBM or compatible personal computer with at least 256K bytes of memory and a diskette drive. Contact: Julia Tinson, Ontek, 416-767-2775, fax 416-76N)720.

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Canada Expanding Electronic Tax Filing OTTAWA, ONTARIO, NOV 7 (NB)Revenue Canada, the Canadian income tax authority, is gradually expanding the electronic income tax filing program that started as a pilot project two years ago. By 1995, plans call for the Eflle service to be available across Canada The program started with a pilot project in Winnipeg and Brandon, Manitoba, early in 1990. In the first year around 5,000' income tax returns were filed electronically through participating tax preparers, a Revenue Canada spokesman said. Last year, 146 tax agents filed returns electronically for more than 100,000 individuals in Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta, and the Northwest Te111to11es.

Early in 1992, tax preparers in + xebec and British Columbia will be able to file 1991 ta x . r eturns f o r t h e i r cl i e n t s electronically, and in the following year the program will be extended to Ontario and the four Atlantic provinces. Up to now, only tax preparers and accountants have been able to file returns electronically, said Greg Cartier, manager of communications and marketing for the Efile program at Revenue Canada However, said Cartier: "we' re looking at ways to make it available to the public." Cartier said that some tax preparers might choose to offer electronic filing as a separate service, allowing taxpayers who prepare their own returns to bring them to a tax preparer for transmission to Revenue Canada. This year, Revenue Canada expects more than one million tax returns to be filed electronically through about 1,200 agents, Cartier said. Contace GregCartier,Revenue Canada, 613-95405B1.

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Comdex ReportComdex: Windows Products Big Winner for 1991

Microsoft Powerpoint for Windows was selected for PC Magazine'sBest of 1990 award and also got the magazine's Editor' s Choice award, in addition to PC Wccls's Analysts' Choice award, and was picked by PC Worfd asthe best buy. Microsoft Works for Windows got the Gold Award in the integrated software category at the Windows Forum earlier this )fear.

exhibiting Super PC-Kwik Power Pak~ . Fin a l l y, Dan Janal, public relations spedalist, said that he had sold 2,000 copies performance enhancing utilities which tnclude a word processor and a graphic o f his book designed to help others in PR display of cache activity while running d e al with the press. Janal said this is a good Windows 3.0. Shipments of DR DOS 6.0 now perfonnance for a self-published book. include the Super PC-Kwik disk cache Corltact: Dan Janal, 408-7342092; MultiSofta John standard, they noted. SourceMate offered AccountMate, which P. Davis, 503-644-5644; SourceMate, Hewitt Jackson, 415-381-1011; Reference Software, Leis it called the leader in pricegerformance Tfgns 415 5410222. Raosoft Mcpoia Rao 206 value in accounting software, based on a survey by the eminent Sheldon Needle.

LAS VEGAS, NEVADA, OCI' 28 (NB)Microsoft Windows applications were a big hit this year, winning many of the major awards at this year's fall COMDEX in Las Vegas, as weil as a number of other major awards. Excel for Windows version 3.0 walked off with the Most Valuable Product award from Contact: Karen Meredith, Microsoft, 206-882PC Cosnprsting magazine, as well as the 8080. P roduct o f t h e Y e a r a w ar d i n t h e applications software category from Systcnss Integration MagasinaBoth awards were in the spreadsheet category. Excel for Windows w as also j u d ge d t h e n u m b e r o n e LAS VEGAS, NEVADA, OCI' 28 ( )spreadsheet by PC Wrack,Softfoare Digest,and At Comdex, you do demos for breakfast, the National Software Testing Laboratory, demos for dinner and demos for lunch. and was cited as the highest rated product Following were some of the products offered at a recent Comdex noontime. by InfoWorfd. In the development tools category, Raosoft, of Seattle, WA, showed Raosoft . Microsoft Visual Basic version 1.0 for Survey, a database to analyze surveys. The Windows won the PC MagarincTechnical product is designed for market research Excellence Award and the Most Valuable fixms and based on MS-DOS. It costs $395, Product Award from PC Computing.Visual and an add-in called Survey-Entry allows for Basic had already picked up Best of Show remote or multiple site entry of data for and Best of Spring COMDEX from Byte in $ 195. For a n other $ 50, you can g e t the windows development tools category at templates for Real Estate. spring's COMDEX in Atlanta P at Meier Associates Inc., of S a n Bytemagazine's Best of Fall COMDEX in Francisco, CA, rented a restaurant called the application category went to Word for Piero's, ac ross t he s t r eet f r o m t h e Windows version 2.0, which was unveiled Convention Center, and offered the press a during the show. In addition, Word for free lunch in exchange for a l ook atWindows collected By te's A ward o f products from its clients. The p ress, Distinction, InfoWorkrs Product of the Year needless to say, ate it up. award, and PC Magacinc'sBest of 1990 Reference Software of San Francisco was designation. showing a new PC-based college dictionary Project for Windows walked away with and thesaurusfrom Random House, based the Best of 1990 award from InfoWmkf,Best on its Grammatik grammar checking Buy award from PC World, Best Project software.It replaces a 1,565-page hard cover Manager for W i ndows from PC Wccir, source book. It costs $129, works with most Editor's Choice from PC Magasinc,Readers' DOS word processors, and requires 5.5 Choice from Byte,and was chosen as the megabytes of free hard disk space. number one product by Sojtrcare Digest M ultisoft o f B e averton, O R , w a s

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One such program is Stephen Neely's TRAN, which produces barely recognizable speech through the tiny speaker on my IBM PS/2 but does a better job with some other MS-DOS computers whose speakers are a bit large type, including Apple II computer larger. manuals, books on computer literacy, and I have found that after a few minutes' BASIC programming. listening I can understand it much better, so For $5, you can get the Apple II gs I suppose that it could prove usefttl for some Owner's Guide on a 5.inch disk, either to people, especially since it is free and print it out in large print or to read via a available on many BBS systems. Braille display. Also for the visually impaired are the As you could probably guess, APH professional voice synthesis products from specializes in Braille products, and one is GW Micro, whose standard business cards the APH PocketBraille, a $905 battery- are thoughtfully Braillewmbossed. operated portable seven-key Braille-toGW M icro develops PC and Apple speech computer with a 224-kilobyte (K) software as well as selling complete tahing memory. laptop systems and a voice synthesizer board Most of their pr o ducts that aren' t for PC compatibles. accessories for th e PocketBraille are Vocal-Eyes is a $450 voicewccess system intended for Apple II users, such as the for computers running MS-DOS software, $8.95 rigid plasfic model of a IIe keyboard which takes up only 42- to 62K of memory with Braillewmbossed keys, useful for those depending on the predse setup or as little as learning the keyboard, and the $59.50 set of 2K of lower RAM memory if expanded or five thin plastic Braille4abeled overlays for extended memory is available to hold. the the Apple Ilgs keyboard. rest of the program. . Documentation on disk, in large print, Speech Synthesis or on tape, as requested, is provided, along' Turning text into recognizable speech with onhne help and pulldown menus. has long been a goal of many people Speech can be regulated for speech rate, working with computers, either because they pitch, tone, and volume, and these settings wanted to make them accessible to those can be made independently for both who can't read text on a screen or just characters read from the screen and the because it would provide a good alternative keyboard. A hard disk is supported, but Vocal-Eyes to reading hour after hour even for those only requires one floppy disk on the system; who have no visual impairments. An oftenwverlooked point is that there it works with most commercially available are a great many illiterate people who could speech synthesis hardware, and it is not copy benefit from using computers that can talk protected. as well as present visual information. SoundingBoard isa $595 internal voice All really useful speech synthesis systems synthesizer fo r M S - DO S c o mpatible involve both hardware and software, computers with the standard PC bus (not although there are some public domain ~ Micro Channel) which provides spell mode, p rograms t ha t w i l l g e n e r at e f a i r l y 10 speech rates, 10 pitch levels, 26 tone comprehensible speech right through a l evels, f o u r punc t u atio n m od e s , computer's speaker. Cotstinmd ma page 90

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capitalization alert, and other important features. This is a fulllength PC board with built-in speaker and a separate external speaker. Those who want one~top shopping can purchase complete 286, 586SX, or 80586 desktop systems from GW Micro, complete with Vocal-Eyes, Sounding Board, and tape, print, and disk documentation. A laptop based on the Toshiba T1000 and complete with Vocal~ca and a headset weighs only 6.4 pounds and lists for $1,749. A similar but bigger and faster, twofloppy system based on the DataVue Spark lists for $2,695, and both systems come with audiotape documentation. A 20cnegabyte hard disk laptop based on

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OAKHURST, CALIFORNIA, NOV 14 (NB) — Sierra On-line is entering the educational software market, investing more than $1 million in its first three educational software titles that are fun enough to steal children away &em television, the company The three new titles are expected to be available before the hohday season this year. Announcing the packages, Ken Williams, president and chief executive officer of Sierra, said the company's plan is not to build software for schools, but create entertaining software which will increase children's interest in learning.

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$49.95. • Ecoquest 1: The Search for Cetus — This game is an environmental learning game that takes place completely underwater.

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g9.95. • Castle of Dr. Brain — Analytical and problem~olving skills are the focus of this game, also designed for children 12 and up. Suggested retail price is $49.95. Sierra claims that its initial marketing strategy targets its best customers — upward of 700,000 Sierra fans. Of thatgroup, according to Williams, 30 percent are under the age o f 1 8 a n d b u y a t l e ast two Sierra/Dynamix games per y e a r. A n additional 29 percent of the company's most loyalbuyers have children under the age of 18 who play computer games. Williams plans to produce four new educational titles per year, with five new titles slated for next year, as only three are being released this year.

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Roundup is a brief look at some computer stories carxied in other publications received here this past month. November's Data BasedAdssizorexplores the world of really large databases. Lotzss magazine for November tells readers where to get help with their Lotus problems. DEC Pr%ssional has its $25 Annual Buyer's Guide dated the October issue. The October 28 Infosmationseask outlines the battle between retailers and truckers over the need for more uniform data exchange standards. November's CommssnicatiosLIfothc ACM indudes stories on the use of computers in molecular biology, a look at the Sist (1990) ACM chess championship with a full game described, and software fo r p a xallel computer L October 28's NctsuoskWorld says that the price battle in frame relay services is heating up, with Sprint Data Group preparing to compete with CompuServe, and the

newspaper saysprices are going to fan. Compn tcnuortdfor the Nth watches Rod Canion being moved out Compaq's door and looks at IBM vs. Comdisco. Cmwpstcr Ilcsclcr Nenssdated October 28 also looksat Canion's ouster and says other companies will also be hit by Hying shrapnel in the ongoing price wars. December s Mactuorldis, of course, devoted to the new Madntosh computers recently introduced at COMDEX. PC Magazine dated November 28 cames the eagerly awaited 8th annual printer review', which takes a critical look at 108 printers. Sharing the cover are the new 800 dpi IBM Laser Printer 10 Postscript printer and the tiny Citizen PN48. Compntcr Rcscncr Nosesfor November 4 headlines the changes at IBM, Apple, and Compaq, as the three giants strive to regain preeminence. Informationsucckfor November 4 carries a story about Rod Canion, founder and foxmer CEO of Compaq was recently ousted. The November 4 Telephony exploresthe ISDN puzzle, carries a special on wireless networks, and comes with the 1991 Pro61es of Top Telecom Executives. Thc Seyhsdd Itcport on Desktop Pesbtizhing for N ovember 1 l o oks at th e Apple/ I B M alliance and tests the new IBM l a ser printers. Also included is a look at Copal's new 900 dpi laser print engine. The November 4 Eefcral CompsstcrWeek s ays that t h e U . S . Depa r t m ent o f Commerce's N ati o n a l T ech n i c al Infoxxnation Service sent out a stoned virusinfected disk to 85 federal agencies. November's ItczcNcrWorld continues its tutorial on selhng to the federal market. The November/December issue of PC AI concentrates on Decision Support and a review of IF/Prolog. Thc Officefor November looks at getting it on paper, Rom fax and copiers to desktop publishing. Technological Horizons in EdsscationJusssna4 dated November, concentrates on school administrative software. November's Netsuorking Managementsays that recent telco outages should be a warning to network managers of things to conic. Esther Dyson's Release 1.0 nevrsletter dated October 51 looks at handwriting recognition and penkased computers. Commesnicationz Weekfor November 11 says that "Windows is the key to Microsok's networking strategy" and r eports on response to user d emand fo r b e t ter performance on S i gnaling System 7 networks. Netsuork World dated November ll says that IBM and SynOIptics have devised a

Boardsuatch Magazine, the BBS bible, explores Internet in its November issue. December's Unix Wsqfkt looks at the top 10 Unix suppliers for 199IL Tekpkonyfor Novexnber ll explains the recent AT&T outage in New England as a mistake made during a routine maintenance pf occdurc. The University of Minnesota's MIS Quarterly dated September carries an interesting paper by UC-Irvine's J. Yannis Bakos titled "A S trategic Analysis of Electronic Marketplaces," which explores pridng strategies for information vendors. — John McConnick

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(NB) — The a n n o uncement o f t h e Multimedia Personal Computer in New York on October 8 was heralded with much excitement and some confusion on the part of IBM personal computer (PC) users who are glad the MPC standard for the IBM PC is available, but not sure what it all meanL Multimedia — or video, sound, and graphics — are fast becoming the new standard for computer software. John Roach, president of Tandy Corporation, one of the companies participating in the MPC standards, said: "Multimedia technology is a reality and will soon be a part of every computer." However, part of the confusion stems from the fact that many users understand they could make their PCs meet the MPC standard, if they knew what it was. In an efFort to educate users, Tandy has released a booklet entitled, "Multimedia, More Than You Imagined," with a listing of the minimum standards for a computer to be called an MPC. Those standards are listed by Tandy as: a 1 0 m e gahertz 8 0 2 8 6 A T - t yp e I B M compatible PC with 2 megabytes (MB) random accessmemory (RAM); a 4 bit video graphics adapter (VGA) card and monitor; a 5.5-inch 1.44 megabyte floppy disk drive; serial, parallel and joystick ports; a 50 MB hard disk; a compact disc readilymemory e

(CD-ROM) drive with compact disc&gital audio (CD-DA) outputs; a 1014ey keyboard; a Microsoft compatible 2+utton mouse; MSDOS 5.5, 5.51 or 4.01; Windows 5.0 with multimedia extensions and Audio support. Audio support is listed as: an 8- or I&bit DAC converter, direct memory access (DMA) and intemxpt, an 8- or l ait linear analog-toAigital converter (ADC), music synthesizer, a digitally controlled analog audio mixer and MIDI-in/MIDIwut. Boiled down, these standards are a 286based computer with a CDROM drive, a sound card, and the Multimedia Extensions software for Miicroso6 Wmdows. Almost any 28$4xased computer purchased today comes with VGA, a 5.5-inch drive, serial and parallel ports and at least a 40 MB hard disk drive. A joystick port is necessary only if the multimedia software in question requires a joystick Many vendors, including Tandy, are offering full MPC systems to users. But just because a computer has the MPC logo on its outside case doesn't mean it will run any software that has the MPC logo on its outside packaging. The MPC standards are the minimum and many software vendors are requiring more. Microsoft, which hosted the New York City MPC event an d w hose product, Windows 5.0, is the basis for the MPC environment, is developing MPC software that will not run on a PC that meets the minimum MPC computer con6guration. Realistically, users need more horsepower under the hood of their PCs, M icrosoft said. V i d e o e s p ecially i s demanding of CPU speed and capability as well as of hard disk space. Microsoft's newly announced Multimedia Works CD requires a minimum of a 586SX CPU, the company said.

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F REMONT, CALIFORNIA, OC T 2 9 (NB) — Video Seven daims it can turn any IBM or compatible Intel 80286; 586- or 486based personal computer (PC) with a minimum clock speed of 10 megahertz (MHz) into a multimedia workstation with its three modular products, the Media FX, Soundengine and Multimedia CD-ROM Kit. The Media FX is a multimedia audio board that allows users to add sound to business presentations, spreadsheets, or even database applications. For game use, the card plays sound from all the popular PC games, and is hackwmd compatible with the Ad Lib and Soundblaster audio cards. The SoundEngine enhances theoutput Rom the Media FX card for MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface). Soundengine, a daughter hoard for the Media FX, can be installed without a MIDI breakout box to generate lai t stereo sound in contrast to FM synthesized sound, Video Seven oi6clals said. Soundengine features sample playback synthesis, 52-voice polyphony and 215 sample presets. Both the $549 Media FX and the 4599 Soundengine carry three-year warranties. Video Seven's Multimedia CD-ROM Kit is a CD-ROM optical disk drive designed to be connected tothe Media FX card or any other fully Multimedia P~ompatible audio aud with a SCSI (Small Computer System Interface) port. The kit is pxiced at $749 for the internal drive and $899 for the external drive. All products conform to Level 1 Multimedia PC speci6cations, the company claims.

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Apple Heralds A/UX 3.0, Explains Poweropen Connection direction and intentions with regard to A/UX and Poweropen. A pple says its implementation o f Poweropen will be A/UX. As Poweropen is planned to be an open architecture, Apple says both it and IBM will implement a "core" of Poweropen for each company's own system. Poweropen is to be based on the Open Software Foundations OSF/1 kernel,

NEW Y O R K , NEW Y O R K , OCT Sl the ( NB) — In co n j u n ctio n wi th announcement of its newest version of the Unix-based A/UX, Apple gave up some more information on its joint venture with IBM, explaining how A/UX version S.O ties in with Poweropen, the Unix operating environment previously announced with IBM. In recent announcements, IBM and Apple have said Poweropen is expected to be at least two years in coming, and Poweropen applications are two to three years away. However, Apple has released what it calls a "roadmap" to define its

Apple said. Much mention is made of migration by both IBM and Apple, with Apple saying A/UX is a step toward the migration to Poweropen, as it provides many of the features planned for Poweropen. Apple says

Poweropen will integrate A/UX and IBM's AIX and is planned to available on a wide range of computers' from desktop to large enterprise servers. Thousands of Madntosh and AIX technical applications will be available to Poweropen customers, Apple asserts. Because of the integration of A/UX, Apple says Poweropen users will have access to the Macintosh interface. Apple, as part of its sales pitch for A/UX version S.O, says A/UX S.O users can have many of theplanned Poweropen features today. Specifically outlined features in version S.O include a Macintosh graphicsbased desktop, simultaneous access to Madntosh, Unix, Posix, X Window System,

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"A Launches promised Unix Push

GARDEN CITY, NEW YORK, NOV 8 NB) — Following through on its statement sst January that it would aim for a leading rresence in the Unix market, Computer tssociates has announced a dozen Unix oftware products. They include systems aanagement, database, and business .pplications packageL CA put particular emphasis on CAJnicenter for Unix, which came from a :ooperative dc,velopment agreement the ;ompany announced with Hewlett-Packard n January. CA-Unicenter is designed to nanage Hewlett-Packard's HP-UX Unix ystems. Its capabilities indude automated torage management and production :ontrol, data center automation, resource tccounting, and security features. CAJnicenter will be available for HP-UX ystc;ms in the first quarter of 1992, with trices f'rom $4,500 to 448,000. New database ofFerings include CA-DB 'or Unix, a relational database system lesigned to work in a client-server setup rith the company's CA-DBJPC Client oftware or the newly announced CAlB/DAL Server for Unix, which links Apple <Iacintosh computers to Unix systems. available now for HP-UX, IBM RS/6000, kTtcT StarServer, Digital Equipment VAX tnd RISC Ultrix, and NCR/S000 systems, A-DB for Unix costs $665 per user, with a ninimum number of users on some systems. ~ A-DB/DAL S e rver c o sts 4 SSS p e r ldacintosh user, and CA-DB/PC Client is FSSS per PC user. CA also announced CA-DB:Generator 'or Unix, a C l a n guage source code Ienerator, available for the same list of tystems as CA-DB at $665 per user. CA said CA+byX, a recently announced query-bycxample package for Microsoft Windows, will let PC users query the Unix

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Solaria 2.0, Sunsoft claims. Software applications written using Openwindows and Deskset components require only a single recompilation to move from the Solaria 1.0 environment to the Solaria 2.0 environment. Sunsoft claims that Oracle, Cadence Design Systems, Informix and the SAS Institute have announced plans to use Openwindows version 8.0 and Deskset version 8.0 in their migration to Solaria 2.0. - The company also claims more than 800 software developers are evaluating the components. In anotherannouncement to encourage development for the Solaria 2.0 operating system, Sunsoft has announced that it plans

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to release the Openwindows Developer's Guide 8.0 in December of this year. The Openwindows Developer's Guide, already available for Solaria 1.0, allows developers to visually design interfaces using objects without writing even a single line of code, the company daims. Sunsoft maintains that advantages to the Openwindows Developer's Guide include reduced development time and cost, while creating a common Open Look interface for applications developed for the Solaria operating system. Solaria, Sunsoft's operating system, is based on AT&T's Unix operating system. Sun Microsystems, the parent company o Sunaoft, develops and manufactures the Sun Sparcstation based on reduced instruction set computer (RISC) technology. The OpenWindows version 8.0 and DeskSet version 8.0 c omponents are available as a single package on a compact disc and, as of December, will be induded as a part of the Solaria 1.0 package. According to the company, current customers of Solaria 1.0 can upgrade to the OpenWindows version 8.0 and DeskSet version 8.0 with a right-torose license of $50. The p r o ducts wit h m e d i a e n d -use documentation are available for f125, while the Developer's Guide is priced at $895 with media anddeveloper documentation.

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REDMOND, WASHINGTON, NOV 14 ( NB) — Microsoft has announced th e availability its Multimedia Edition of Microsoft Works for Wmdows version 2.0. Works is Microsoft's all-inane product with word p r ocessing, database, and spreadsheet applications built-in. Each portion of the product can either stand alone, or can be easily interfaced with the others for uses like producing reports or mail merged documents. While the title may lead some users to believe they can produce multimedia documents, spreadsheets, or databases with the new version, Microsoft has explained the new product incorporates multimedia in its interface to the user, specifically in the Online Tutorial and reference sections. T he a d d i tion o f dig i t a l s o u n d animation, and pictures is to make the learning process easier and more engigmg, Microsoft said. Announcing t h e p a c kage, S usan

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THECOMPUTER PAPER DEC'91 45 Pros: near-photographic-quality, glossy paper, and scalable fonts. (More about scalable the C-Itoh 8510 are twe examples, aloag ultra-smooth blends and gradients, moderately fonts later.) with some oMer Okidata units and many quiet, can be used fer some proofing tasks, Another notguiteaspopular standard is others. In some cases, you may be able to upgradeable, networkable upgrade a printer with a new set of ROM Cons: high equipment and per-pagecosls, limited that of the IBM Proprinter. The Propxiater resolution, colors may appear shghtly muted or XL is the Spin medel, while the 24XL is the (readilymemory) chips. The C-Itoh 8510, 24-pin one. The IBM Graphic Printer' s for example can be converted inte a dark. reasonably E p son-compatible (IBM name crops up fairly regularly, tooespecially in older programs, but, like many Proprinter) machine by installing new Color Laser Pdce range: $28,000 to $62,000 (various options older printers, it suffers in the resolution ROMS, which also happen to give it a aew, hnpreved NLQ font. (an unabashed plug: I can push the priceto $150,000I) and features departments. Consumables: color toner, paper or transparency happen to have an extra set of these ROMs; There are printers on the marketSlm. espedally oMer medels — that are not Epson contact me for details). Cost per page: $0.50 I also recoaunend against purchasing a Pros: near-magazine-quality, smooth, vibrant or I B M Pr op r i n t er c o m p a tible. I recommend avoiding any dot- second-hand dot-matrix printc;r, unless it colors, moderately quiet, can be used for many categorically proofing tasks, very low p e r-page cost, matrlx printer that is not compatible with has not sc.en much duty. Because; printers upgradeabla, nil e one of the above names. The NEC 8025 and are largely mechanical items, there are Cons: high equipment and connec&iity costs.

several key components that can — and dowear out, especially the print head and paperkeeding mechanisms. I have also seen wear~drear problems with the belt and/or gears that makes the prin-head move f'rom sidewoeide. Unfortunately, repladng a print +ca in a dot-matrix printer is usually almest as expenxive as buying a whole aew printer. For example, I was recently quoted a price of $210 for the parts aad installation of a . replacement print head fer a printer that now seHs for $199l Note that printers generally do not come with a c able fo r c o n necting to y o ur computer's parallel pert. This cable is

There are also other high~ad output devices that are outside the scope of this article. Briefiy, some of the notable devices include Canon's color BubbleJet, which caa reproduce (and enlarge up to 20' x 50') scanned or computergeaerated images ea 2' rolls of paper at a cost of about $18 per 22 x 55" section, ~ a l led continuous tone imaging devices such as DuPent's 4Cast (an 11" x 17" print on photographic paper can cost $40-$50), a n d i m a g esetters by Linotronic, Agfa, Varitype and others for ultra-high-resolution output to film or paper. For most people, it is more practical to consider having color and other higLend output done at a service bureau. See the March 1991 issue of 1%cGnspuxsr I'Oper for more details on service bureaus in your area

First time-buyers Most first-time computer buyers choose a dot-matrix printer, usually for reasons of economy. These printers are called dotmatrix because they form characters when a series of moveable pins in the unit's printhead strike through an inked ribbon, producing dots on the paper. The most inexpensive aad common types are 9-pin, while better models are usually' 24pin. The designations ~in and 24pin refer to the number of pins in the printhead, aot the number of dots in each character. Years ago,printe manufacturers found that by moving the print-head slightly and overprinting another series of dots, the characterscould be made to look more solid and, hence, less "dotty. T his is usually referred te as near4etter quality (NL Q) or LQ (letterguality), and today, virtually all dot~trix printershave one or more hag or LQ modes available. When perusing the performance or specifications of a printer, be sure te nete which mode it is in. The SLster draft modes of printers can be 200 characters per second (CPS) or faster, but NLQ is usually much slower — but pxints with better quality. Depending on the number of pins in the pxint-head and the graphics mode they are in, dot matrix printers have various graphics resolutions. There are many possibiTities, but some efthe common ones are: 9~ : 1 20 x 144> 240 x 144, 240 x 216 24pin: 360 x 360, 180 x 560, as above Note that most printers are capable of emulations of various printer standards (Kpson FX, LQ and IBM Proprinter are popular) and, as such, their resolutions may Most dot matrix unitsarc equipped with an industry-standard Centronics parallel port, and many are said te be "Epson compatible." With the myriad of models that Epson has released over the years, this term has all but lost any real sigaificance, unless categorized by spedfic models, as in "Kpson FXWO" or "Epson LQ-2500. T h e -FX is pretty much the de facto standard for 9pin Epson emulation these days, while Epson

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The life expectancy of any printer, w hether d ot-matrix, i n kj et, l a ser o r o therwise i s u s ually s t ated b y t h e manufacturer (sometimes as MTBF or mean time between failures), along with its recommended duty cycle (i . e ., w h a t percentage of the time ia it actually used, or how many pages will be pxinted per month). It is important to have a printer that is capable of standing up to the tasks you require of it. Most inexpensive printers are lightAuty units that 'are not appropriate for steady use, day-in, day-out, as might be required of a heavyeduty office machine. Canon engines — a workhorse at many offices — have a life expectancy of between 800,000and 500,000 pages, usually ata 25% duty cycle. Chris Small at Superior Laser Supply r ec o m mend s pre v e n tative maintenance every 50,000 to 100,000 pages or, he aayso "at least a good, thorough cleaning." The Minolta engine used in the NEC Silent%riter2 Model 90 and the Epson EPI 7000 and EPL-7500 has a MTBF of 8,000 hours, with a life expectancy of 180,000 pages, assuming a duty cyde of 8,000 sheets per month. A good dot matrix printer should have a MTBF somewhc;re in the neighborhood of 4,000 hours at a 25% duty cyde, with the printhead lasting 200 million strokes per wire. Another consideration is the cost of consumables, such as paper, ribbons, ink„ toner, etc. To calculate the costs, you must figure out how many pages per dollar you get. A toner cartridge for IBM'a laser rinters, for example,,seems like a pretty d deal at $265 until you figure out that it gets 20,000pages per cartridge, compared to the 4,000 or so from a $100 Canon toner Thermal Ransfer Color Several models of high~uality thermal cartrMge. transfer printers are available, from a' Some color printers have very high consumable costs — in the case of some number of vendors, including (but, as in all of the other categories, certainly not hmited higherwnd dye sublimation units as high as US$4.50 per pagef Obviously, although such to) Seiko, @MS, Tektronix, and Oce. a unit could perform everyday printing Okidata used to make low-end consumer tasks, it would not be appropriate or cost- models called the Ohmate 10 and Okimate 20. Unfortunately, they broke a lot. effecfive.

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Outline Fonts

One of the biggest trends in printing is the use of scalable outhne fontL Once only found in the domain of expensive units such as PostScript pr inters, scalable f ont technology has gradually filtered down to the mass market. HP now supports outline fonts through its PCLS language, and scalable fonts are available as software for virtually all computers. The newest Epson dot-matrix printers even include scalable fonts as a built-in feature, or you can use outline fonts with the help of software fxom a wide variety of sources. In actual practise, it matters little which method you choose. I generally prefer softwme~ d f o n ts, which makes it easy to add or remove fonts, or improve the driver as software technology improves. On the other hand,hardwarebased solutions are often faster and less troublesome to set up and maintain. Software outline font options include Adobe Type Manager for Wmdows and the Mac, Bitstream FaceLift (for PC), and all software PostScript implementations (see PostScriptErarslexioa Sopusrroon this pageEd.). The forthcoming Windows S.l will reportedly indude TrueType, a scalable font technology already available as standard System software on Apple-brand machines. In all cases, be sure that the applications you use support the chosen outline font technology. For example, ATM for Windows only wor~ s t h en ame suggests — in the Windows environment, so DOS WordPexfect users would be better off with FaceLift. Hardware options for outline fonts indude HPGL 5 and Adobe PostScxipt (and its dones). When it comes to PostScript, I prefer hardware-based interpreters as opposed to software implementations. I am often asked which PostScript cartxidge I recommend. I categorically recommend a true Adobe PostScript interpreter, preferably one that supports (or is upgradeable to) PostScript Level 2. I have seen too many third-party PostScript clone anomalies to trust any of t hem. I f t h e r e a r e a n y v e n d ors o r manufacturers out there that think they have a perfect done, send it to us, and well torturotest it...but be forewarned: none but Adobe's have ever passed all the tests. One of the toughest for many clones is a file available in CompuServe's DTP forum called LYLES.EPS. Figure 2(a) shows how an Adobe interpreter prints it; Figure 2(b) shows how the same file (enlarged to show the detail) p r i n ted w it h M i c r osoft's TrueImage PostScript clone. Note the bizarre anomaliesl There may be other problems, too, including font outlines that do not match Adobe's.

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There are several programs, both commercial and freely-available, that pexform a software emulation of PostScript. The best of these is Freedom of the Press, for PC and Mac. It supports e 1 fonts. (For more info on what a Type 1 font is, see the glossary at the end of this artide.) F reedom o f t h e P r ess comes i n a n inexpensive hte" version, supporting most opular monochrome printers,for about 100, and a full-blown professional version t hat s u p ports c o lo r pr i n t er s a n d imagesetters, too. With the proper interface, it can even turn a Canon color laser copier into a 4(Odpi PostScript printerl UltraScxipt, also available for the PC as RavenScript, still does not support Type 1 fonts, even though Adobe went pubhc with the Type 1 file format over a year ago. Versions of Ul~ pt a r e also available for the Mac and Ataxi ST/Tl'. I recently tested a freely available interpreter called GhostScript (for Unix, PC and Atari ST). It supports Type 1 fonts and can display PostScript output to the screen. Unfortunately, it has the kind of user interface that only a Unix guru could lovefull of command line batch files, parameters and "/" switches. Versions are available on GEnie and UseNet, but be forewarnedGhostScript is big. Eapect to spend a couple of hours downloading it. Other software PostScript clones include C ompoScript a n d GoS c r ip t (bo t h c ommercial p r o ducts f o r t h e PC ) , PixelScript (Amiga, commercial), Post (Amiga, shareware) and Teletypesetting's TScxipt (Mac). One interesting feature of TScript is its ability to act as a network node, so that other Macs on a network can print to TNcript as if it was a standard Mac laser printer. T4cript can also output PostScript to the screen and' even save it to disk as a TIFF file.

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InIrjet (SIrN) DeakJet 500 — {500 dpi). At less than 8500 these days, the DeskJet 500, and its predecessors the DeskJet Plus and original DeskJet, are popular alternatives to midrange 24-pin dot matrix printers and lowend laserL The DeskJets have excellent print quality that dosely resembles laser output,

never want to hear another dot-matrix scf earner agahl To its credit, HP retroactively extended the warranty on all DexkJets to 5 years, and shipped a free kit to all DexkJet owners who requested it that improved the efficiency and life of the ink cartridge. It also has maintained an upgrade policy that allows owners of older models to upgrade to the new, improved models for a very reasonable

C anon Bu b b l J e et B J l o o and StyteWritor — Whisper~ilent, the BJ10e is about th e size o f a s m al l n o t ebook computer, and, at 560 dpi, prints with quahty that rivals or even surpasses that of laser printers costing ten times as much. Speed — or lack thereof — can be a

model. The HP spokesperson I spoke to didn't have an exact figure available, but 'said it was between 8500 and 8400. With olicies like that, this company got my em For Macs,an AppleTaikmquipped model called the DeskWxiter is available. It, too, is

four fonts, pexfoxxnance drops substantially. The StyleWriter took an abysmal 22 minutes to accomplish this test. For comparison, an HP DeskWriter did it in a little over 6

sobc.ring thought. The BJlOe and its Apple equivalent, the StyleWriter, manage only

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Low-cost Lasers: Best Buys Under 3800 OkiLaser 400 (See review, Oct 91). LED engine, comes with a good selection of fonts. A best buy, espedally if you purchase thirdgarty RAM. Note that this additional RAM is required for full~ge graphics. Under $1100 Epson EPL-7000. Using a M i n o lta engine, this fast printer has good print quality. RAM upgrades are inexpensive (it uses commonly available SIMMs.) It has trouble with envelopes, despite its nearly straight paper path. Under S1600 HP's IIIp has new PCL level 5, scalable fonts, an d r e s olution e n h ancement technology (RET) for better print quality. The new 4029 series of printers from IBM/Lexmark, ' including th e $ 1 5 9 5 LaserPrinter Se, also have a feature similar to RET.

PostScript Lasers

I n a test conducted by NSTL for th e April 1990 PostScript laser printer issue of PC Digs' t Ratings Rcpmt,seven of the most popular modelswere compared and rated for overall performance. The results were as f ollows (higher i s b e t t er, w it h 1 . 0 0 representing the average): 1.60 Epson EPL-7500 1A6 Apple LaserWriter II NTX 1 .16 QMS ~ 1 0 1.16 Texas Instruments MicroLaser PS35 1.05 NEC Silentwriter2 Model 90 .92 Hewlett-Packard Laserlet Series III .75 Apple Personal LaserWriter NT The Epson's RISC processor gives it the blazingly fast performance that rates so highly in the performance test. All of the o ther machines ar e b a sed o n C I S C processors — typically a Motorola 680xo series CPU. When rated according to overall output quality, a different picture emerges (based on a subjective zero to 10 scale; higher is better): 8.4 H ewlett-Packard Laserlet Series III 8.0 Epson EPL-7500 6.6 A p ple LaserWriter II NTX 6.4 NEC Silentwriter2 Model 90 5.8 QMS PS-410 5.8 A pple Personal LaserWriter NT 5.6 Texas Instruments MicroLaser PS35 Although the HP LaserJ et III's RET (resolution enhancement technology) gives •r exacts a it the best-looking output, it performance penalty. Nevertheless, we still rate it a best buy. Of course, at the rate the computer industry moves, several of these companies now have new, improved models on the market (@MS has the 600Api PS-815R; Apple has the LaserWriter IIf and Ilg with vastly improved handling of gray scales and other enhancements; TI has new, faster models of the MicroLaser it calls the MicroLaser XL Turbo, etc.)

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Macintosh options: using PC printers on a Mac

option...or is there) Despite font outlines that are not as well~awn as those of its Because Macs lack a parallel port, most aforementioned competition, Expressive +MS printers. Both mades can be hooked Apple dealers will tell you that you must f onts have one b enefit t hat may b e up simultaneously, and the printer switches either use an Applnspecific (serial) printer aignificant to Mac users with 1MB machines. automatically, evm when the optional HPGL or one that connects via AppleTalk, the PrintLink and JetLink's Expressive Fonts plouer emulation card is used. create smooth fonts at any size on your Mac's builtm network connector. Some other pxmters, such as IBM's 600. One alternative method is to use a printer, but are not used. to draw the fonts dpi Model 50, have automatic emulation o n-screen, hen c e , the m emor y parallel-toaerial converter, such as PaxxxLink switching (software is retiuired), but can r equirements ar e m u c h l o wer than or Grappler, and an appropriate printer only switch ports via the fiont paneL TrueType or ATM, even in their minimum driver. These components, available for between one and two hundred dollars, allow configurations. Even those with so little Under $2000 Best Graphics ou to use virtually any printer with a Mac. memory (or ao many system extensional) NEC SsentWriter 2 Model. 90 — Rated a Although the LaserWriter IIf and llg ot only does this jve you a greater choice that PrintLink can't work in conjunction BestBuy in our March 1991 issue (worth a have compatibility problems with the of printers, but you ll often save money, too. with ATM will find that their printouts need read if you' re interested in more details current versions of the two top Mac DTP not suffer if they try Expressive Fonts about desktop publishing or the vartous applications, once these problems are PrlntLink — In general, these are the beat instead. Of colxrse, those with enough RAM laser printers on the market), this PostScript ironed out, I w i l l h ave n o p r oblems to use ATM or True Type should do so. drivers for most dot-matrix printers. One printer is still a solid performer and pxiced recommending them. As the figure at the PxintLink and JetLink work admirably with caveat: be careful, when examining the lower than ever. lef't shows, the PhotoGrade outputs beats compatibility list, to aee if the printer is them. See the June 1991 issue of Thc Texaa Instruments MicroLaaer — Based even that of a QXMpi printer. supported in its native" mode. The 24pin Geaputcr Paper for a full review of JetLink on the Sharp engine, memory upgrades and Fujitsu DL8400, for example, isn' t, and can ExpresL other supplies for this PoatScxipt pxinter are Best bang for the buck Steve Gully of GDT Softworks said the widely available locally and by mailwrder. There is a dear trend towards higher only be used when it is emulating a 9pin company had "no plans" to produce a Epson or IBM. This causes the printer to resolution output, 400- and 6OMpi engines output graphics 8c fonts (sent Rom the Mac) driver to allow the DeskJet C to be used on In INixed Environments are becoming common and some, such as the Mac, as it has done so sucesslally in the +MS 1%410 — unusually fast graphics t he Pro-II a n d P r o -II I m o d el s f r om of lower quahty than it should. past with its JetLink Express for the Worse, the print comes out the wrong performance and a slick feature called PxintWare, go as high as 1200 dpi. monochrome DeskJet, LaaerJet, BubbleJet automatic emulation and port switching Upgrade options are available for some size, causing margins to display smaller onand other normally PCwnly printers. He screen than the final printed version and makes this printer one of the best in an pxinters (usually those that use Canon SX or indicated that they are "considering it," other annoyances. A good 24pin printer environment where multiple users might be LX engines) to increase the resolution. For though. sending it a combination of PCL4 (the IBM and compatibles, DP-Tek, Inc. has one should be able to pxint at a resolution of In other GDT news, the company is 560 x 180 or 560 x 560 in 24pin mode, but "native tongue" of an HP LaserJet SeriesIl) of the better ones I' ve seen. Its PostScriptmay only work at 120 x 144 in Spin mode. planning an upgrade ofthe JetLink and a nd PostScript commands. O n m o st compatible PCmnly interface prints 256 As with just about everything else, though, PrintLink software to coindde with the Jan printers, you would have to manually set the shades of gray at 600 x 600 dpi. '91 MacWorld Expo. 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throughput, it is prferable to slower network standards such as the Macintosh's built-in Apple Talk HPGL — Hewlett-Packard graphics language; the command language of HP plotters. Sometimes available. as an emulation option for laser printers, enabling them to output drawings from computer-aided design applications such as AutoCAD. Imagesetter — typically a digital graphics and photo-typesetting machine capable of producing extremely highquality PostScript output — in a process often referred to as "outputting it to Lino" (a contraction of the brand name Linotronic). Imagesetter ouput can be to film or photographic paper, at various resolutions, including 1270, 2450 or 3300 dots per inch. Inkjet — a type of printer in which ink is sprayed onto the page, either by thermal vaporization or via a hydraulic pump. MHz — megahertz. Often referring to the speed at which a CPU operates, the term means millions of cycles per second. Pantone — a color-matching system. Paralel — a port found on printers and most computers. So called because data fiows from the computer to the printer on several wires simultaneously. See also Centronics. PCL4 — Hewlett-Packard's printer control language found on LaserJet Series II (and compatible) laser printers. PCL5 — an updated printer control language with impmved graphics abiTities and scalable font support. PostScript — a page description language developed by Adobe Systems. PostScript is an interpreted, stack-based language said to resemble Forth. PostScript has various version numbers; the newest is called PostScript Level 2. It has improved support for color and enhancements such as data c ompression, w h il e r e m a ining f u l l y compatible with L e vel I co m m a nds,

according to Adobe. At this writing, only a few machines with Level 2 interpreters are available, but their performance would seem to validate Adobe's claims. There is also a version of PostScript optimi.ed for screen displays, called Display PostScript. It is used on the NeXT and some other computers. Reportedly, the new operating system in development by the Apple/IBM a l l i ance will u s e D i splay PostScript. Many current printers have a PostScript (Level I) version known as 52.3 which, like Level 2, uses an improved font-rendering algorithm called Adobe Type Manager. Older printers such as the original Apple LaserWriter had early PostScript revisions that contained certain bugs; many PostScript clones also contain anomalies from "true" Adobe PostScript. RISC — reduced instruction set computer. A type of CPU that typically delivers faster performance than CISC processors. Weitek makes a RISC processorfound in many of the fastest laser printers. Serial — a communications standard in which data is sent serially, one bit at a time. Several serial standards exist, including RM32, RS422 and MIDI. A bisectional seriallink often relies on the communicating devices sending signals such as "ready to send" and "clear to send" to control the fiow of data. All Apple Macintosh computers have two serial ports for connecting to devices such as printers and modems. IBM compatible and most other computers may have one, two or more, bu t u s ually u t i lize a p a r a l lel connection for the printer. PCs can also use a serial printer, but because of the necessity of setting up baud rates, start and stop bits, flow control and other settings, PC users may find serial printers more complicated to set

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Think about sex aftermarriage for a moment. That'slong enough. Few people come right out and talk about doing it, but babies are born all the time. It's the same situation with PC games; adults don't come right out and talk about playing and enjoying them, but more and more are being bought all the time. We' re not psychologists or sociologists able to draw fine theory out of contradictory evidence. We' re just two guys who work with personal computers in order to make a living. We don't know why PC games are a secret sin and a guilty pleasure. We do know that we spend more time playing them than we mn comfortably confess. We suspect the same could be true for you. Don't worry about it. It's okay for grownups to relax and have fun occasionally. It' s good for you. It relieves stress. It's healthy. It makes you more productivein the office (see below). There's absolutely nothing to feel guilty about. We can hearsome of you right now. You are saying that you never play computer IameL Never. Well, sometnnes a httle btt of fill in th e n ame of th e game you' re thinking of here." And that's the point of this book — nearly everybody can fill in that blank. Many of us can fill it in more than once. A book that made sense of all those names, and all the

different kinds of PC games was necessary, and there was none available. (Many of thcsc gamssare also available for othercomp uterpkstforms.— Xd.)

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Games in the Office: Dvorak's View

Games in the office are too often condemned by management. The litany is simple: You can probably find better things to do with your time. Worse, you may accidentally release a nasty virus on the network thus upsetting corporate bigwigs and fellow employees, especially if files are destroyed. The fact is that in most places the sanction against game playing in the ofSce is as result of a general prudishness and underlying fear that an employee may actually be enjoying his time there. When I was the editor at Iafowerkf, I'd encourage the reporters to play games as much as they wanted and as often as they wantc.d. Writer after writer, when feeling burned out or su6ering f'rom writer's block (or just plain bored), would traipse into the socalled "game lab" and play games for as long as she or he wished. The first thing we discovered was this simple fact: when people take time out f'rom their work to relieve stress, they make up for it with better quality work, and they work longer too. Since then, I' ve talked to over 1000 people who play games in the off ice an, without exception, they are the most producfive employees. I' ve sense:d increased sensitivity and improved intelligence among them. I suspect that their IQs have somehow increased through t hi s activity, too, although I c a n' t p r ove it . P erhaps a government study should look into the mauer. Games do exercise the intellectual facets of the brain. They require problem~Diving, hand-eye coordination, and complex thinking. These aspects are fine tuned and carriedover to humdrum day-tra y office work The game player is more creative and a more forward thinker in the modern office. He or she is destined to go to the top. Ahnost all multimillionaires who run today' s gigantic software companies are avid game players. Ask them. Executives take note: Games in the office are a route to improved productivity. Employees should be required to take as many game breaks as they can manage. In fact, while. we don't condone spying on the minutewo~ u t e activities, we recommend that corporations make their employees log into the game machines and show a certain number ofhours per week of game playing. It's the patriotic thing to do. As for the fear of viruses, a company can set up computers dedicated to games and place them throughout the office. If we are to beat the Japanese in the world marketplace we are going to need to play more computer games. It' s just the way it is, so let's enjoy it.

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Why These are Special When N~ maga z ine ran its hottest haven't heard before. However, people who Cbrisunas gifts Snr 1990 stoxy, the fixst item are not comfortable with this subject may mentioned in the headline was 'a naughty refer to skip these games, since they all computer game. They were writing about . ve the same theme. It's their loss. Leisure Suit Larry. Newsweek knows that sex sems. So does Lnxxy-these games are among A Taste ef the Games the most popular computer games ever We don't know about you, but we published. wouldn't wmt to be psychtcamy stuck in the Sex is one subject guaranteed to get polyester, leisure-suited, disco-dancing ahnost anyone's attention, and that's pretty seventies. Larry Laffer ts, and he is not a much what the Leisure Suit Larry series is all prisoner of those times, but a volunteer. He about: Larry's attempts to find true love and is also a loser of the highest order~ac who make it with women, not necessarily in that doesn't know he has lost The combination o rder. N o t th a t w e ' re d e a l in g i n is often Mariouh pornography here. The material is absurd, As with the King's + test series, these self~ocktng, comical, and somewhat risque; adventures can be played in any order. It' s but you' re not l i kely to come across more hm, though, to do it by the number, as anything you wouldn't see; on prime time you can follow the story line and Larry's television, or, for that matter, a bad joke you misadventures f'rom game to game.

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Why These Are Special Carmen Sandiego is one of the most popular software characters in personal computer history. Kids have been searching for the elusive grande dame of international theft (and her notorious gang of thieves) since 1985, when Broderbund first brought her to software life. There are now five Carmen Sandiego programs, and nearly two million copies have been sold. Now this mysterious mistress of crime has her very own spot on Saturday morning television. Kids love Carmen Sandiego because the programs are fun to play; parents and teacher adore Carmen because the software teaches as well as entertains. Game rules and objectives essentially remain the same from one package to another, yet crooks, crimes, clues, suspects, and educational content differ with each new release. Some titles emphasize geography; other focus on history, politics and culture. Colorful graphics, whiz-bang c r ook-detecting gadgetry, and amusing sound effects motivate kids to play again and again. Every program in the series is a winner.

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This month I am going to tell you about three eagles, a turkey, and Microsoft Windows. My picks for the best utilities of 1991 are Magellan,Stacker and DES @view. The turkey is Central Point's PC Tools. Windows is simultaneously brilliant, infuriating and complicated so I will leave that for last.

like a Disney dancmg hippo. I use MageQan many times a day. It is xny one indispensable utility. When I tell you what Magellan does, you will probably say to yourself, I don't need that. People who had never used electricity thought the same thing. You have to use it before you realize why you need to uae it. Let us first exainine soine if its niore mundane capabilities before I get into the real reason you would want it.

Magellan I really like Magellan. It is like a tropical paradise that. the tourists have not yet discovered. Lotus (the people who brought you the 1-2-8 spreadsheet) wrote Magellan. Lotus has an unhmited advertising budget,

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Magellan has Sle viewers. If you look at a spreadsheet Sle for example, you don't see hexadecimal giMaerish, you see much the same as you would see if you had loaded the file into the spreadsheet program. Magellan has over forty viewers to handle most of the major types of file. Prograimners can buy a toolkit to write your new viewers, so even more viewers are available from third parties. Some competing products (e.g. Norton Commander) also have viewers, but cannot handle as many Sle types. The advantage of a viewer is that you can see the contents of a file in a fraction of a s econd. In c o n trast, to l oad a l a r g e spreadsheet into the spreadsheet program might take minutes. When Magellan is displaying a list of files, you just hit a single key, the down arrow, to have a peek at the contents of the next file. Magellan's designers worked hard to keep the keystrokes to a minimum. One special piece of magic is that Magellan viewers can see inside compressed 2XPfiles without having to decompress them first. You can treat compressed files alinost the same as uncompressed ones. In addition, you can compress and decompress with a single keystroke. Compressed files take up much less disk space.

Magellan as File Finder

However, Magellan's forte is Qnding things. Here is an exainple. You named your file INIERCOM.BAT but you cannot even remember what drive you put it on, much less the directory. You can ask Magellan to searchevery drive,and every directory for it, and in a twinkling there they all are. (You might have several files with the same name.) Magellan can find files much more quickly than other utilities such as Norton FileFind because Magellan maintains its own upcoAate private index of files. Magellan uses efiicient techniques to keep that index up to date without wasting time rebuilding it f'rom scratch the way some competitors do.

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Other programs can find files, even if more slowly, but they cannot handle the following tougher problem. Let us say you have S,OOO invoices, each prepared with a word processor. You want to get hold o f a c u s toiner. You canno remember his name. All you can remember is that he lived on a street that reminded you of royalty; it could have been King Edward, George, Charles, Elizabeth or perhaps Andrew/Andrews. You hit the F9 "explore." key. Then you narrow down the types of file of interest. Y ou select "invoices" on t h e m e n u . Magellan's presets know which drives, directories, and extensions potentially contain invoices. Then you type in the following list of words "King Edward George Charles Elizabeth Andrew," In a few seconds Magellan will give you a list of invoiceswith the best matches sorted near the top. To view each invoice, hit the down arrow key.When you find the one you were looking for, hit the F7 "launch" key,

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Stacker and Olive Oyl In a classic Popeye cartoon, Olive Oyl peered into an Arab's small tent. Inside was a huge palatial room. She was just as puzzled as I was about how Stacker could pull off this magic feat. Here is how it works. Let us say you have an 80 MB disk formatted with DOS 5.0 as a single C: partition. You allow Stacker to create a 60 MB fil e cal led CMTACKVOL.000. This leaves 20 MB on t he C : pa r t i t io n f o r oth e r fi l e s . STACKVOL.000 is a perfectly ordinary file you can copy, back up, view etc. At the same time, a brand new D: drive mysteriously appears on your system. If you

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does Stacker manage to squeeze 120 MB of Stacker is Boring data into a 60 MB file? It takes advantage of Using Stacker is boring because you the fact you repeat yourself in most of your simply ignore it. You never even type any files. It makes up abbreviations for your commands to it. You just treat it as if you had common words and phrases, and shortens an extra disk partition or extra disk drive. the text byapplying these abbreviations. However, I like boring utilities. They just It automatically and tr ansparently work. abbreviates (compresses) and fluffs up (expands) as you read and write the D: disk Stacker's Catches Some files it can compress tenfold this way. There are three catches: Some it cannot compress at all (e.g., ones 1. Stacker software takes up 40K of RAM. already compressed with PkZip). However, Stacker Compression You can load this into memory above Stacker is storing all the information on on average it can compress to half size. It 640K, though. the &ke 120 MB D: drive inside that 60 MB can compress all types of files including' 2. Stacker extracts a slight speed penalty for COM, EXE, WK1 spreadsheet and GIF STACVOL.000 fil e on C:. its use. That still does not solve the mystery. How graphics files. S. If the files are already compressed, they won't compressany further and Stacker does you no good. It takes Stacker time to compress and expand the data as you use it. To my great surprise, Stacker volumes sometimes read faster than ordinary volumes. This is because Stacker can read a tiny bit of densely packed information from the slow hard disk, then expand it into ahuge amount for your program. On a non-stacker volume, DOS has to retrieve the reams of fully expanded data from the slow hard disk When you are writing data, there is always slight slowdown as Stacker fiantically examines your data loohng for repetitions to abbreviate. look at D:, it appears to have room for 120 MB. You can use this new drive perfectly normally. You can copy files, run programs, backup, index it with Magellan, run Norton Utilities, etc. At this point you have the remaining 20 MB on your C: drive plus 120 MB on the new D: drive — a total of 140 MB when you started out with only 80 MB. In other words it magically expanded your disk by 75%.

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THE COMPUTER PAPER DEC '91 65 year, though the program has been around a long time. Now, I spend nearly all my time at the computer using it to help me run several programs at once. Why would I want to do that? When I heard about this "multitasking" I said to myself, "Who needs iti" I thought, "How c onfusing it would bei W ouldn't t h e programs just get in each others' hair)" After some experience, I have completely changed my mind. DESQview is a necessityi I keep a copy of Magellan, Microsoft Word, the Telix modem program, and several copies of the Norton Editor (each editing a different file) running all the time. I can flip f'rom one program to the other in under a tenth of a second. There are many other utilities that allow you to do this, induding Windows. However, what makes DESQview special is that all the programs can continue to run, almost normally, in the background because DESQview manages them so efficiently. DESQview is not magic. If you run three programs atonce, then each runs roughly one third as fast, since the three programs must share a single CPU. To combat this slowdown effect, I give the foreground program extra priority, at the expense of the background programs. You can even pause programs running in the background so that they use no CPU cycles at alL This means, for example, that when I start up a file upload or download with my modem, it can continue in the background while I do some word processing in the foreground. With acouple of taps on my right Alt key, I can look in on the download to see how it is doing, then go right back to my work I write custom software. Sometimes I need to run long programs called compiles that don't require any intervention. I used to take a coffee break when I ran those. Now I just run them in the background and continue with something else. The same

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DESQview versus Windows

DESQvfew and Windows both tackle the problem of running more than one program at a time. DES Qview excels at running multiple ordinary DOS programs. Windows excels at running graphics programs tailored for use under Windows. DESQview is lean and mean. Windows is bigger, slower and loaded with options. Windows works best on a 886 DX with 4 MB or more of RAM, and cannot do multitasking at all on a 286. DESQview gives acceptable performance even on the older slower 286 and SX computers with less RAM. DESQview menus are spartan. Windows is decorated like rococo miniatures. You run DESQview mainly from the keyboard, though some programs support a mouse as well. You run Windows mainly with the mouse. Both are difficult to install and tune. Windows is newer and more complicated internally; thus it has more bugs. However, once you get the base working, installing new applications into Windows is easier than installing into DESQview. Both let you see two or more programs at once, each running in a reduced window on the screen. In practice, multiple visiMity is not nearly as useful as the ads would have you believe. To interact with an application program, you usually want to see its full display. It can be useful, however, to run a program in the background in a tiny window just so you can keep tabs on how it is progressing. If you primarily use ordinary charactermode DOS applications like WordPerfect, Microsoft Word, Lotus 1-2N, Magellan or a text editor, you will prefer DESQview. If you primarily us e g r a phical o r d e s ktop pubrishing programs like Corel Draw, Aldus

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Windows provides: 1. Printer drivers with DESQview. You should be able to find 2. Screen drivers just plain DES+view for under $95. On an S. Highmpeed access to RAM above 1 MB SX or 886 you normallycouple DES Qriew 4. A consistent user interface. Most readers will not even know what with QEMM. On a 286 you couple it with the +RAM memory manager and EMS 4.0 these points mean. You soon will. Drivers don't have much sales appeal, but these are „c xpanded memory hardware (extended RAM alone wJ1 not work). You should find the most important reasons for buying ' @RAM for under $60. In theoiy you can run Windows. DES+view with just plain DOS memory management, or with competitive products The Trouble With Printers like 586Max, but I would not recommend it. '; Consider how m any t h ousands of different kinds of printer there are. Every PC Tools cme has its own private printer language it To paraphrase Winston Churchill, wants the computer to talk to it in, to make Central Point, with PC Tools 7.0, "snatched it change type faces and sizes, to turn on bold and italic, etc. For every new printer defeat f'rom the jaws of victoiy." ' g, Peter Norton and Paul invented, i n t h e ory, every computer In the be Mace had the utihties market sewn up. program in the world must be adjusted to learn yet another private printer lingo. In C entral Point challenged them with a ~ l e idea: "Offer more features for less money. practice, this does not happen. The major They were very successful. The only programs may support a quarter of the catch was, they dick not realize you can have printers extant, but the minor programs too much ofa good thing. They kept adding only supportperhaps a doien of the more feature afterfeature after feature. The popular printers. What do'you do when the program you programs ballooned larger and larger, tahng up more and' more RAM, and more want to run does not speak your printer and more disk space. The programs ran language? You have only a few options, none slower and slower. T hi s is known as of them satisfactory. "featutitis." l. You can beg and grovelto the program manufacturer to teach the program yet The box that PC Tools comes in reads another language and send you a like a combination Ronco cucumber slicer, toastc,r oven and answering machine ad. supplementary set of printer drivers on M any other famous programs have fidlen fioppy into the same trap, but Central Point made 2. You can sometimes hire a computer a second mistake. They did not adequately programmer to adjust the program for beta test the programs. yolL Thc PC Tools programs work fine on S. Usually, you just expeiiment with similar printer languages till you find one that some computers sometimes. However, on many computers, sooner or later they fail, almost works. with catastrophic results. One classic 4. You can sell your printer, and buy one example was the compression utility that that is alrc:ady supported. What is worse, you go through this hassle could squeeze your files down, but could not always fiuff them back up again. Gigabytes of almost every time you buy a new computer the world's data went down a black hole. program. You can avoid the problem to some PCCACHE, the caching program, would suddenly fail, leaving your hard disk a extent by buying a very popular printer complete shambles. PCBACKUP could back brand (such as Hewlett-Packard or Epson), up data to fioppy, but you could not always or an expensive standard PostScript printer, but you cannot escape the hassle altogether. restore it. PC Tools probably did more damage than all the viruses put together. Ironically, the PC Tools checksum+ e anti- Windows as Interpreter viral program could not detect even the Windows acts as an interpreter between most massive damage to the files. your program and the printer. Internally, all Granted, many of these problems were the programs think they are talking to a side effects of other programs interacting h ighly i n telligent p r i n te r t h a t f u l l y with PC Tools. But that is what beta testing understands Microsoft's complex printer is for, to resolve these oblems. 1 eg Angry users poured their complaints into The Windows printer driver interprets Compuserve;. Bug reports came so fast that the 'commands for this hypothetical perfect Compuserve did not even have enough printer into the real-world lingo of your room to store a single day's worth before actual printer. This way each application they had to be erased. Central Point reacted program needs to learn only how to control by offering eithc;r a fiiil refund or to send a a single ideal printer. Further, once one new version, 7.1, at no charge to people who application program works with your phoned in complaints. Normally after such a printer, they all workl fiasco, a company would automatically send In other words, once you get Windows to an apolo a n d a f r ee update, with the work with even one application program, problems ed, to all its users. installing all the other programs is a snap. By shipping PC Tools 7.0 before it was There are st'ill three catches. The first ready, Central Point blackened their already catch is the Windows repertoire of printer tarnished reputation. It may be a while drivers is quite: limited. Teaching it new ones before many people are willing to trust PC is fairly complicated. Microsoft expects the Tools again. To quote Shakespeare's 94th printer manufacturers to do thc work of sonnet, "LiTies that fester, smell far worse writing the printer drivers to handle new than weeds." rinters. So far, the printer manufacturers ave stubbornly resiited. Make sure the printer you buy is one that Windows already Windows M icrosoft W i n d ows i s t h e most understands. One advantage of this state of affairs is successfully marketed program of all time.

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Customers say to me, "And I'd like a copy of Windows. By the way, what is it for?" You have undoubtedly heard t h at Windows is a GUI — a Graphical User Interface. You may have heard that because it shows you little pictures called "icons" instead of words, this makes it easier to use. The icons are window dressing. The true value of Windows is more subtle.

WE COMPUTERPAPER DEC '91 67 that it puts pressure on the ptinter makers to start standardizing the printer languages, rather than inventing a fresh one every time they design a new printer. The second catch is that something is lost in the translation. Typically, Windows printer drivers do not fttily exploit all the features of a printer, with the result the printing is, to be charitable, speedy as a snaiL The third catch is, Windows printer drivers only work for programs specially tailored to run under Windows. If you run ordinary DOS applications under Windows, you are back where you started, individually configuring each program.

with two smaller 16-bit numbers. As you might guess, this faking takes more than twice as much time as doing it directly with a single 52Wt number. Future versions of Windows, coming even later, will also have this 5Nrit aMity.

Consistent User Interface

If you have ever used WordPerfect, when you are familiar with Microsoft Word, you will detest it, and vice versa. Why) Because they use completely different keystrokes to do the same thing. In most programs you h it ESC t o g e t o u t o f a m c :nu. I n W ordPerfect sometimes you hi t F 7 , sometimes ESC and sometimes Enter. There are no official, standard ways of doing things. Windows Screen Drivers In Windows there is much grea'ter Wmdows has a similar scheme to printer standardization. To start working on a file, drivers for i n terpreting the p ainting commands between t h e a p p l i cation you type Alt@ 0 (for File Open). All native programs and the screen. The f reedom to Windows application programs work this invent new types of screen "languages" has w ay. This m akes i t m u c h e a sier t o resulted in a burst of creativity and new remember. It also means that once you have learned one program you faster hardware, such as . are well on your way to t he gr a p h ic s co4~ a T • learning another. process« that In Windows, there are discussed in my October standard ways for sharing column. Without the data between programs. Windows scrc.en drivers, You can cut information there would be almost ous of one program and no prog ~s paste it into another. You this new fancy hardware. can even automate this so Now, the manugsemrers et your word processing need only write a single report is automatically screen driver program, updated with the latest and instantly nearly all existing Windows applicafion programs run spreadsheet figures every time you pmtt it. on the nc w hardware without change. Windows screen drivers have freed the The Dark Side of Windows writers of application programs from the Despite all the nice things I have had to thankless task of endless modifications to s ay about W i ndows drivers and t h e make their programs run on new kinds of consistent user interface, Windows is one of v ideo card. The b enefit for you, t h e my least favorite programs. It gives me more consumer, is a huge array of programs all headaches than aH other programs put running ona wide choice of hardware. together — including the ones I wrote myself. Windows is wasteful of c o mputer Windows and Clark Kent resources, slow, complicated and buggy. If you buy 4 MB of R AM , very few programs will even know it is there. You first Sometimes it is duck simple to install, but need to install an XMS (extended) or EMS other times I have wasted days getting it to (expanded) memory manager like QEMM, work It needs expensive, fast hardware to perform adequately. 586Max o r H I M E M . SYS b efore the Mousing is a motor skill you need to programs can make any use of the RAM. learn, like riding a bicycle. I still have not Even then, programs flnd getting at the fully mastered it. Anyhow, going back and XMS and EMS memory clumsy, compared with accessing the conventional base 640K forth between keyboard and mouse cuts my productivity. RAM. Like the rest of us, Windows should There are three main generations of improve and mellow with age. CPU chip: the XT4088, the AT40286 and the newest SX/DX486/486. When you run DOS, the Supermen 80286 and 586/486 Windows Summary play Clark Kent, pretending they have no You should find Windows for sale for special powers. They fool themselves into under $110. Some companies provide it thinking they are lowly but fast 8088 "free" bundled with your machine or computers that can only access 640K of another program. Keep in m ind t hat RAM. Windows is not a s preadsheet, word Windows unleashes the 80286-level of procc;ssor or desktop publishing system on power. Here progratns can directly access up its own. You also need to bu y some to 16 MB (16,777,216 characters) of RAM, Windowmpecific application programs to but only 64K (65,556 characters) at a pop. go with it. Windows is sometimes tricky to In a way, this is a backward step from the install, especially if you have third-party 8088, but in practice it fi'ees programmers screen, printer, or mouse chivers. Try to talk f'rom trying to perform a ballet in a phone your dealer into installing it for you. booth. To you the consumer, it means large, ParCin9 Advice featurnrich programs are now possible. Though the utilities I have talked about are easy to use, they can be quite difficult to Windbws versus OS/2 set up initially. If you are inexperienced, get However, under Windows,the 586/486 help. Later, after you have used them for a chips still conceal their full powers. When while, again ask someone experienced to OS/2 2.0 finally comes out, we will at last give you some tips. He or she may have use all the power of the 586/486. 'I%en, the some ideas that will make using them more computers will be able to directly address enjoyable and efiicient. 0 memory in stupendous-sized chunks. About the Author Further, they will be able to handle 52+it Roedy Green, president of Canadian Mind numbers as large as 4,294,967,296. Under Products in Vancouver (604) 684-6529, builds Windows, they normally can handle 16-bit custom computers. He also writes custom numbers only as large as 65,556. When computer -software, primarily for non-profit Windows programs need to work with organizatians and charities, and offers training and CohsUIbll9. numbers larger than 65,556, they fake it •

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so. A little Christmas clip-art, a color laser print, and it's watch out, Hallmark By the way, all WYSIWYG Graphics customers also receive their choice of one of two different complimentary 1992 calendars (PostScriptgenerated, naturally), designed especially for WYSIWYG Graphics by Steven R. Gilmore, who also designed the objet d' art mousepads. Every WYSIWYG Graphics customer who produces color PostScript files is also given a complementary Pan t o n e -to-process reference chart. Needless to say, these giveaways are a trend we'd like to see theother service bureaus in town follow. Contact WYSIWYG Graphics at 6044846466. • Computer user groups are another

good place to enquire after computer memorabilia. For example, at the recent NeXPO ( t h e N e X T c o m p u ter s h ow sponsored by Advantage Computers), the local user group (VNUS, 6048224429) was selling pencib (80 cents), cofFee mugs ($4), T~hirts ($5000, and you get a FREE NeXT computer), even $80 Cross pens (ooh, ahhl) emblazoned with the NeXT logo. Other types of computers have similar goodies. There is a list of user groups at the back of this (and every) issueof The Computer Paper. • When I was in Mississauga recently, I found a great selection of gift items at the Microsoft University — sweatshirts, T-shirts, sunglasses, books, pens, mugs and more. Microsoft's phone number is 4166680484.

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Other inexpensive gift ideas in dude:

•A disk case— ranging 8 om a few dollars to quite a few, you can get plastic, metal, or what looks like and may even be wood. For travelling types, there are soft floppy wallets (made from Goretex or some such material) for a dozen disks or so. A variety of weird schemes for storing disks exists, including modular, rack-'em-stack-'em gizmos with foldout doors and whatnot. Try to get the same kind that your friend currently uses. • Printer paper — perhaps in a fancy color, or luxurious parchment. Especially if y our f r i en d u s e s a pr o g r a m l i k e Broderbund's Print Shop, fancy papers are a welcome gift. Besides, practically no one buys parchment for themselves. Many software stores carry a good supply of unusual papa. • Printer ribbons — if you cannot manage to "borrow" one, you' ll need to know the brand and model of printer. There are specialty ribbons available for some printers that come in colors — ideal for printing banners and signs. There are even ribbons that make printouts you can iron onto a Tshirt. • A docutnent holder — there are several brands, i n c l u din g t he T hin g i I I manufactured by Advanced Gravis in Burnaby. These things either stand on the table next to the computer (but who has any desk space next to their computer?), or attach to the top or side of it. • There are also various gadgets that stick onto your computer to hold a mouse (seems a bit dumb, actually). Other cute-butdumb rdiftsare t', ase little ostumes o dress a computer mouse up in so that it looks like a real mouse. Oh, pleasel • Really dumb, but fun is a product for the Macintosh called Shark Attacki "The screen saver that's also a game." You get some software that blanks the screen so that your pal's screen doesn't fry its phosphor and best of all, an incredibly stupid shark fin that sticks on top of his or her computer.

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• A n e w g a d get — Heaven knows, computerphiles love thehr gadgets. Probably because of this, there are a million to choose from. Here are a few that they might not already have: • A wrhst rest. For anyone who does a lot o f typing, a wrist rest can mean t h e difference between comfort and carpal tunnel syndrome, a debilitating af8iction that attacks the nerves in one' s, uh, carpal tunnek A locally made product called Wrist :" Doktor does the trick nicely, and it looks ' pretty good, too. • A new product called the Foot Doktor -' promises to reduce strain on one's lower back resulting from from long sittings at a '!r computer or desk. With happy wrists and a ' happy lower back, even Scrooge would probably cheer up. • The same company (Orbit Industries, also of Burnaby — is Burnaby turning into the hub of high-tech manufacturing, or what?) also makes the Disk Wimsrd, a 5.5inch Soppy punch that turns DD disks into HD disks. Read about it in our Sept.'0l issue. • Special colored ahceta and metallic foils are available that can turn a black~dwhite laser-printed (or photocopied) page into something of an extravaganza are available. One brand name is Color Tag, there are others.

I. What type of computer is it? (IBM compatible, Macintosh, Apple II, Amiga, Atari, Commodore, etc.) 2. What type and size of disk does it uae? (Although there are several difFerent disk standards in the PC world, many packages only come with one. Usually, you need only to know whether the computer has a 5.25" or a $.5" disk drive.) S. What type of monitor display does it have) (This question is primarily relevant to PCs, which may have VGA, EGA, CGA, Hercules, etc.) Macs and Ataris only have to distinguish between color and monochrome Inonl'tera

Some stores sell seftware with a "no At this time of year, many manufacturers add extra goodies to the packages too, like returns" policy, while others have a moreTwhirts, posters, maps, badges, spc:cial offers reasonable policy that allewa refunds if the package is unopened. Still others (Egghead or other goodieL For kids, the best software I' ve sc.en is Software is one) have a generous software Kid Pix, a paint program where every tool refund or exchangepolicy: you can return it has wacky special effects and outrageous as long as it is in original and undamaged sounds. Kids just leve blowing up their condition, within 50 days. You must, of urchase and all pictures with the Srecracker tool. You get course, include p original packaging. I recommend that if yeu the idea. About $50, it's for IBM or Mac. Gary Larson fans with IBMs or Macs will are considering buying a software gift for undoubtedlyenjoy The Far Side computer someone this season, that you purchase it at calendar, a software version of his strange a place with such a policy. brand of humor. Continsted onPage102

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Conclusion

Yes, I was impressed with WordPerfef for Windows; it is a MMedged applicatiu and wellwonceived, as it should be afte such a prolonged development period. Jia like the movie reviewers give stars for Sick I'm going to use the standard rating fo reviews now. So, Igive WordPerfect fou fioppies outof.five; a good product by company which is always ranked first in th number of packages sold, is known to giv excellent customer support, and has million of loyal users. Four ftoppies out of five because I have to leave room to go up, an the perfect word processor is the one ths hves in our imaginaions.

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Summary Word For Word 5.0 struck me as a program that some people would love to have, and others would never in a lifetime use. It converts files from one format to another, e.g., from MultiMate to QUA Write, WordPerfect to WordStar, etc. If you do have occasion to translate file formats from one program to another,' I can' t imagine anything doing it easier than Word For Word (WFW). It's not just for word processing files, either, but will convert spreadsheet Slee to word processing formats and will even convert from PC to Mac formats.

Installation

WFW's instaUation procedure conserves the amount of disk space required by allowing you to instaU only the conversion routines you need from its list of 90 recognized formats. If you install aU 90, you would need about 2.5megabytes of hard

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several different versions of Lotus without any problem. We also converted between Lotus, QscA 5.0, WordPerfect, and ASCII. WFW handled each without any difiiculty. When converting spreadsheets, an option allows you to specify the conversion to be formatted with spaces separating the columns, tabs separating the columns, or each cell being placed in a separate column. There's even a choice of currency options available, so you can select the currency symbol and the location of the period or comma decimal point. Dollar signs can be placed before or after the amount with this option. AU of WFW s choices are available from pull<own menus or function keys, and pulling the Help menu down will allow you to select help for any feature you want The help is dear and "helpfuL WFW will batch-file conversions if you select the automatic recognition option.Just select the files you want to convert by highlighting them and pressing ENTER or clicking with the mouse, and press Fg to start the conversion. The converted file is named by WFW using some or all of the original file's name, plus an extension of ".NEW," unless you have specified a diEerent default extension for the converted files. You can also rename converted files from within WFW. WFW will show you a horizontal bar g raph depicting the p r ogress of t h e conversion, and after all files have been converted, will display an error log if any conversionerrors occurred. We forced some errors and found the error messages to be quite specific. There is also a list of the error numbers with their explanations in the back of the manual, although they wouldn' t generally be necessary, since the on~creen information is so spedfic. WFW even allows Sle conversion directly from the command line.By entering WFW plus the source format, target format, old Sle name and new fil e name, you don't even have to make your selections from within the program. We found it easier to load WFW, then make our selections. WFW does support font translation, and has a nice section in the manual explaining which font selections work and which work in a limited way. WFW will convert PICT and b it-mapped graphics between all t h e supported Madntosh formats, and ignores graphics when doing PC formats, or when converting either PC to Mac or Mac to PC. WFW does not interpret macros. It will handle tables between WordPerfect 5.x, Microsoft RTF, and Ami professional. Programs that do not have a table command will convert columnar data in the source document to whatever column mode the target format uses. If there is no column mode in the target format, WFW will convert the data by separating the data by tabs. WFW handles PC-to-Mac or Mac-to-PC conversions, but you will have to get the data onto a disk that the source machine can read. For example, if you want to convert a Mac Sle to a PC format, you would have to send the Sle to the PC via modem or on the network, transfer the Sle by direct cabling, using something like LapLink, or use a spedal drive such as the SuperDrives some

disks if you don't have a hard drive. As you select the formats you want to install, WFW will tell you how much disk space will be requirecL After selecting about a half a dozen formats we wanted to test, it was just a matter of selecdng the desired Sle, selecting the desired target format, and pressing F9. There is an automatic format recognition for the source file(s) which was very accurate in Newsbytes' tests. If you want, or if the a ut o r e cognition ha s t r ouble recognizing the format, you can manually specify the format of the source Sle. The available formats that you have loaded appear in a window on the screen. While we didn't try any huge Slee, the p rogram does seem t o b e f a st, a n d Mastersoft daims the program will convert at rates up to 5 pages per second. Of the 90 formats available, Mastersoft says in an addendum to the manual that WFW is 100% accurate with 50 of them,. including many of the popular programs such as Lotus, WordPerfect, QScA, Excel, Ami Professional, Microsoft Word for the PC and the Mac,WordStar, and others.The company is up front with the user, stating in the manual that there are some features and commands that do not convert from one format to another, due to differences in those program. In that instance, WFW marks the exceptions, providing two methods of tracking those exceptions. If you Macs are equipped with. The WFW manual has a nice section have selected Embed Exception Codes from containing information about the various the Options menu, special codes are inserted into the target document to mark formats that require any special information. the features that could not be converted. If you chose Create Exception List from RATIN6 PERFORMANCE: 4.0. It's easy to use, the Options menu, WFW creates an ASCII file Usting the exceptions. We liked the and reasonably pnced. It's also easier to use "embed choice, since it was easier to look than some of the earlier programs we have at the converted document and see that used, and will recognize many more formats than those programs did. there was something that didn't come USEFULNESS: 4.0. WFW does exactly across, without havmg to access a separate docunlellt. what it is lied to do, and it does it quickly, One of the conversions we did was to neatly, and elegantly. It handles enough convert some Lotus files to various other difserent formats to satisfy almost any user, formats. WFW handled Slee created with Corsfirstsrd oN

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The program is designed to provide the same basic functionality as-Intuit Quicken, a i s program i s a m em b e r o f popular MS-DOS character~e d financial Microsoft's Solution Series which also management package. Money even allows includes M i crosoft Wo r ks a n d you to import and export files in Quicken Microsoft Publisher. The objective of this Interchange Format (QIF) . H o wever, series is to provide a set of extremely eaa)sco- Quicken has a few features that Money use programs for Microsoft Windows that doesn' t, such as electronic bill-paying over' a wouiPd be very useful for personal home use, modem and an optional Payroll module. home business and small business. You will probably findthat many new computers Lack of Windows Connectivity come bundled with MS-DOS, MS-Windows One thing missing from the program is and some of these programs. any sort of connectivity with other Windows programs. T h ere is no Dynamic Data Exchange (DDE) or Object Linking and Easy To Use H owe v er , t h e This program is very simple and easy to E mbedding ( O L E ) . use. Features were kept to a bare minimum usefulness of these features to the average so that the program wouldn't get cluttered b eginning user would be minimal. O n e like some of the large d~ verything word possible use for DDE would be for Payroll Calculation. Money lets you do Payroll-type processing packages that h ave b e en appearing. This way all the features are easy cheques with what it calls split transactions, to find and easy to use. Each window has an however, you have to figure out the Income icon bar. The window's icon bar gives you Tax, CPP and UIC yourself and enter in the quick access to the other windows, a search final amounts. It would be nice if there was a facility, other views and the Windows DDE connection, so that a Windows Payroll package such as KIS Payroll for Windows Calculator program. could be requested by DDE to do the payroll calculations and return the values to Money. A nother use would be a DD E l in k t o Windows Terminal to allow electronic billpaying and government Payroll remittance 'I over the modem. You can exportreports JQfSNIS MA 'from Money, however, it simply saves the report in an ASCII file with the columns oe\NAst: o o o separated by tabs; it would be nice if the program could use OLE to allow you to i mport t h e r e p o r t m a i n t aining i t s formatting. Simple %ansactions Each transaction consists of a cheque number, cheque date, payee (or payer), memo field, category,subcategory and Nllm IWJ%&l1N:uP W amount. Money fills in defaults for some of les these, such as the current date and next Js4% cheque number. You choose the payee, %as@ I4wv I wA~ ' .% M i category and subcategory from combo l Ills IMm boxes (dro~own lists) or by typing the first lnsnss few letters of the name (and then Money I» C~ filia in the rest). There are three ways to enter financial transaction: 1. the ledger window where you enter Summary the data directly into a ledger; All in all, the program is very easy to use, 2. thecheque window where you fi ll in a and nice to work with. If you need to track cheque template with the data; simple household expenses or expenses for 3. the future transaction window where a fairly simple business, this program could you schedule regular transactions that you be quite usefull. The main thing that can make every month. These three windows ut people off using such a program is are easily obtainable from the icon bar or aving to enter a transaction into the menu. Money maintains lists of payees computer every time they spend some (payers), transaction categories and money. However, ifyou find yourself transaction sub':ategories; these can be spending more than you' re bringing in and edited on the fiy or fi om separate screens. want to find out why, then this program will be a great help. D 4

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Overview

en "desk top publishing" first became a reality, many people p redicted th e d e m ise o f t h e typesetting, graphic arts and printing industry. Today, of course, these activities are still going strong, powered in part by the same DTP activities which were supposed to destroy it. When Aldus Pagemaker first appeared on the scene, it altered the way people prepared all kinds of preseatation material aad documentation. Rather than doing the Xerox/cut-aad-paste ahuff1e, people could compose documents in electronic form and print a fully finishe w ork once, without the terror of laat~ u t e editing. Glueatick sales fell sharply after the first DTP program appearedl Since then, the struggle for superiority haa beea between Pagemaker aud Ventura, the two gargantuan DTP software packages for the PG platform. The race between these two has always been to add more and more features/functions. The only real constraint is the hardwarel In the near future, we may well see these two programs reporting such things as "can handle 1,000,000 pages per documeatl" or "can import TIFF images up to 20 gigabytes in sizel . For those of you in the DTP industry, this would make the heart race wildly, but in most office environments, desktop publishing means much snore mundane tasks. In many cases, 20 pages or leaa, with a few charts and graphs, or maybe a haadArawn diagram or two.Hardly the mahnga of a fuGcolor, coffee@ablehardcover! Oaerhll is the operative word here. Enter Microsoft Publisher. At Brat glance, one would assume that Microsoft is trying to bite a big chunk out of the two established giants of DTP. But upon closer examination, you realize that Publisher ia designed fora type of DTP user who does not require the power of Pagemaker or

Ventura For years now, if you needed DTP software, you had to pay lots of money for a lot of features you would never uae.

Installation Installation of Mi crosoft Publisher follows the current trend for software installation of Windows products by asking you to start Windows, go to the "file' menu in the program manager, and click on "RUN". At this point you enter "A:setup" and the software is installed directly into Windows PubHsher comes on three disks in both 5.25" high density (1.2MB) and 5.5" highAenaity (L44 MB) formats It does not t ake an abnormally long time. O n ce installed, it appears in ita own folder and is ready to run. Simple and relatively fool proof.

Performance MS Publisher is fast. Of course, since Microsoft also produces the Windows environment under which it runs, one would expect it to perform at maximum effidency. This is not to say, however, that busy documents iaatantly appear and that zooaung in and out is breathtahng, but it is comfortably quick ia all but one of ita functions (PageWizarda). The main executable program of Publisher is only 670K bytes, as opposed to Pagemaker, for example, which is around 1.6MB in size. Overall, Publisher is quick and easyto uae, perfect for a great many of the tasks which require speed aad simplioit.

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ADS reference manual, an AutoUSP manual, and an ADS reference manual. You can see AutoCAD would have a fairly long learning curve and it might be worthwhile to take in some short introductory course if you are new to it. You can probably learn the basics of 2-D drafting in a week or so, but it will take considerably longer to become very profident at it, espedally if you are trying to master it on your own.

Drafting with AutoCAD

AutoCAD provides a full complement of commands and variables for you to use. The screen is set up in very straightforward fashion. On the tight hand side is the main menu and along the top is a pulldown menu. Placing your mouse cursor on any of these commands initializes the command and usually takes you through a series of subnnenus. You can also respond to the Command prompt at the bottom of the screen via the keyboard. The first thing to do when you enter aenerai Overview AutoCAD is set up the parameters of your AutoCAD is the most widely used CAD drawing such as the scale, limits, grid size, program available. It probably makes up at snap points, and viewports. least half of all highwnd PGbased CAD sysViewports (which are most helpful with tems out there. I n t h i s latest version, SD models), are like having a number of difAutodesk has improved the 2-D and 3-D ferent screens on your monitor, each of aspect of AutoCAD in a number of impor- which can be set up with a diFerent view of tant ways. the wire4rame model. For example, you may It indudes both ADS and AutolISP, draw a line which only is only a couple of which can be used to write, simple macros or inches long and looks parallel to your xy highly complex commands to customize axis, but on checking another viewport you AutoCAD to your particular needs. ADS is a discover it is drawn at an angle and extrudes progrntnming interface that allows high- into the z axis. Viewports are not usually level C programtning, although you will necessaty for 2-D dtawings. have to buy a compiler for it. AutoIISP, There are over 40 diFerent drawing and which has also been hnprcrved, and doesn' t editing commands with which to produce need a compiler, is a simpler progran!ming your drawing. Each of these has additional language that has been included with submenus. The Arc command, for example, AutoCAD since the mid '80s. indudes 11 different ways to draw arcs. Release 11 also indudes AME, which simThe layering system allows you to apply piifies 8-D construction and is capable of various layers to diFerent line types or assocreating solid S.D modeh. This version of date diFerent colors with line thickness. You AutoCAD aho allows networhng — up to 128 Imn also apply layers to different sections of useri, but you need to have the same memo- your drawing and then breeze (they don' t ry configuration for all workstations. You show up on your screen but stBI exist in the also get a file lockmg system. drawing editor) or unfreeze them according to dadthsg or plotting use. Installation and %'aining Blocks and nested blocks (blocks within Like m ost p r o grams t hese d ays, blocks) can be inserted and manipulated AutoCAD is just about selfmstnlling. You according to scale and orientation and easily insert disk 41, type install, and it does it all created as you need them. You can keep foryou except for maybe three or four ques- them in your current drawing or copy them tions it asks you along the way. Then you go to a main directory for use in other drawthrough the configuration menu which has hsgs. drivers for just about any hardware you AutoCAD a lso i n d u des a ssodative might have. The whole process takes about dimensioning, which changes your dimen15 minuteL sions as you make changes to your drawing. AutoCAD indudes six manualm a referThere is a large array of hatching patence ~ over 600 pages long, a tutcmial, terns, a dozen Ihfferent ways to zoom or

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mends and variables to draft just about anything within reason. Those of y o u w h o a r e w o ndering whether i t i s w o r t h u p grading f'rom AutoCAD release 10 might want to take note of the next section, in which I summarize some of the additions and changes made to release 11.

Release 11 AutoCAD release 11 has improved on many existing areas of release 10, but has also come up with a number of brandmew features, some of which I would now like to concentrate on. Release 11 includes a simple text editor. In previous versions you had to re-type the entire line or write an AutoLISP routine. Release II n e w works in paper and model space. Model space is what AutoCAD has always worked in, whereas paper space is provided to help in setting up and plotting a drawing. Paper space represents the actual sheet of vellum or whatever material you will be plotnng onto. Up to 16 different viewports areprovided, each of which can be scaled differently. You make each viewport active and manipulate the drawing into whichever view or scale you wish. For example, if you want to produce a sheet with a floor plan at 1/8" scale and a detail at I/2" scale you would activate a viewport, make it l arge enough to accommodate the I / 8 " floor plan, and then make a smaller viewport in which the detail fills the viewport, In previous versions you would have had to copy the detail and then trim off' the lines you didn't want and then insert it or make a block of it if you wanted to insert it in another drawing. You can use AutoCAD commands in each viewport to turn layers on and off, etc. External references can now be used. This means you can pull in another drawing

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and not make itpart of your current drawing. It is similar to Inserting a block but only using it for reference. You can manipulate the reference drawing the same way as your current drawing using the editing commands, by turning different layers on or off, or by snapping to objects. You can also attach and detach secuons or elements of the reference drawing tothe current drawing. There have been enhancements made to most areas of the software, making this release a substantial upgrade compared to other upgrades.

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utoShade can b e b o u ght w i thout RenderMan for about half the cost. What RenderMan doesfor you isgenerate photoreaiistic images by applying different textures and surfaces to your model. In some cases these textures come very dose to emulating "real life" textures. You can also use three different light sources, which provide some interesting shadows. I admit to being very impressed with the results. With AutoShade aloneyou are able to have colors of your choice applied to the surfaces of

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Installation and Configuration Like AutoCAD, and most current software, A u t oShade is Configuring can be a bit more complicated. RenderMan is not very well supported and both it and AutoShade will use the default 320 x 200 resolufion if you want to use 256 colors (which, of course, you do). It took t he help of a "computer programmer" friend of mine to get the whole package working at SVGA resolution. Low resolution simply does not allow you to really make sense of the RenderMan renderings as they use such detailed and complicated surfaces and textures. AutoShade does support enough drivers so you don't have to buy any new ones. RenderMan doesn't come with any hardcopy supporting drivers but it does support TIFF files.

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Setting up in AutoCiLD The first thing you do is enter AutoCAD to draw or importyour model. When you are readyfor shading you set up your model with the view you want and then load the Ashade menu, which provides you with the necessary tools. AutoDesk uses terminology borrowed from the movie industry, which is a good idea in that you don't have to learn a -whole new jargon. You set up lights (point, directed, and spot light) and then position your camera with the lens (flsh~ye to super telephoto) you are going t o u se, which determines the way the model will appear on the display. Different light sources and cameras can be used in the drawing but be sure that when you are placing them you are working parallel to the xy axis or you might Gmfinuad on Pagr 82

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get some unexpected results. After you have placed the lights and cameras you create "scenes" by picking one of the cameras and any number of lights you want to use for that particular view. The last stage is creating a filmroH fiie, complete with aH the different scenes, which is copied to AutoShade.

Using AutoShade

In AutoShade you open thefi lmroH and pick the scene of ch o ice. U s ing t h e Generic CADD is very simple to install Fastshade or Qdckshade will give you an and doesn't rewrite any of your .BAT iles. idea of what you are going to be looking at, You can have the program installed and run- and when you are satisfied, the FuHshade ning in about five minutes on an IBM or command will give you the Snal product. IBM clone, as it provides supporting drivers AutoShade allows you to change the paramfor most hardware. eters for hghts, cameras, and the view. There are three manuals inClude, aH of ThankfuHy, the software also provides a which are well writ'ten and laid out and igus- Smooth command for smoothing out awktrated with helpful examples. Besides the ward wireframe models. reference manual there is a user guide AutoShade doesn't have the aMity to which is primarily concerned with configur- create shadows. Surfaces that are facing the ing your system and a tutorial guide which light source are brighter than surfaces that walks you through some basic exercises. are fiicmg away. However, you can set up the light parameters to have the light become Functions and Features dimmer as you move away from the light Generic CADD has aH the draw and edit source. commands you need foreffi cient CAD proThe software's commands are aH set up duction. You can create your ovm fonts if as puHAown menus and submenus. you don't like the ones induded, plus it gives you macro capability up to 255 charac- Rendering in Renderlan ters. Generic also has a few features that are RenderMan works much the same way as not always found in lowland CAD systems. AutoShade. First you apply the surface Double Auto-fifieting allows you to draw shaders and textures and create the filmroH two parallel lines with the arcs automatically in AutoCAD. Then you copy the flle to trimmed for the correct radiua This feature, AutoShade and create an RND filewhich when combined with the Intersection Trim you render. Just like in AutoShade, there is a command (which cleans up crossing double menu for adjusting the shadersand even lines) is quite useful for drawing waHs on changing to a completely different shader, Soor plans. There is also an Undo and Redo although you won't be able to set up aH the (to undo your undo's) that aHow you to original parameters as in AutoCAD. You can reverse your commands up to a limit of 25. also apply shadows, and if you use the With nested commands you can begin a line Spotlight option you can come up with at one end of adrawing and then pan or some fairly complex shadows. Be warned zoom to the other end to complete the line. though, where it will take 15 seconds to The Like command is also helpful in that shade a model it wiH take upwards of 15 you can change values, angles, color, etc., by minutes, and longer, to render the same pointing to an enfity that has the desired model in RenderMan. The results, though, property or status instead of having to type it are very impressive. in or lookhtg for it through the menus. You can also save the drawing in text form for AutoFlix use in text editors. AutoHix i s a n a n i mation p rogram induded with the AutoShade software. It is Limitations also usuaHy available on bulletin boards and Genedc CADD allows you to start and shareware, although you have to send in end drawings within its drawing editor with- some money to get the full worhng softout having to go back to a main menu, but ware you have to be sure and stay alert when it This piece of softwar'e is installed sepapromptsyou fora new drawing name. Itcan rately f'rom AutoShade and utfiizes both happen — and it probably will one late night AutoCAD and AutoShade to produce fuHwhen you are tired and bleaxycyed and blown animations. First you enter AutoCAD nearly Snished an extremely important pro- to produce the B-D model you want to aniject — that you wHI miss the appropriate mate. Then you definethe anhnation path, prompt or make a mistake typing in the new set up other objects for movement, and drawing title. When you end the new draw- adjust the number of frames you intend to ing it will be saved over the old drawing, and use for the animation. AutoHix sends the since Generic CADD does not provide an Sle to AutoShade, where each hne is shadautomatic backup drawing, as other CADD ed. After this you use the "player" provided

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the Laser Library Menu and a full screen graphic of a very realistic CD music player with speakers and buttons came on screen. I used the mouse to press the buttons, just as I would on a real CD player, and here came the songs provided on the demo disk. I was impressed, both with the way it operated and with the music Sony chose to Include. The most difiicult program disk was the Languages of the World, whose interface is not the least bit standard or intuitive. In fact, I thought it was a damaged or buggy program. To get into the program, I had to press AltSpacebar, although the screen says "Press any key to continue." When I pressed any key the first time I was put back in the main menu, and the second time the machine locked up. I had to power off to get it back I called support and they explained that the program instructions have all the necessary keystrokes. They do, but it would be necessary to spend some serious time learning to use the program. It depends heavily on the right and left arrow keys for paging through the menus and pressing the Enter key produces an error message. I did f ollow the i n structions and go t t h e iranslation for the word "tree" in French. By far the best program in the set was Mxed-Up Mother Goose from Sierra We' ve all played it, and the graphics, sound, story line and the interaction were the best of all the programs included, as well as exciting and fun. My seven-year-old is into it the most, however my thtrteen~arwld wants to play as well and the two of them will play for 1 to 2 hours at a time. Though I understand the programs all run in 640 (K) hlobytes of random access memory (RAM), more RAM is better. The Microsoft Bookshelf and the Languages of the World Programs are memory resident and will require more than 640 K if run with a word processing program, which is a - reasonable way to want to use them. I found I had to reboot after using them to switch to another CD program, because I ran out of memory. Also, an addendum is included which states MS-DOS 5.0 users will need to add the line DEVICE~&OS SETVER.EXE to the CONHG.SMI file, if it is not already there, to run the Laser Library System.

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Review

It was a bit scary installing the scanner b ecause of m y p ast h istory with t h e SatisFAXtion board. Readers will recall last year how it caused my system to crash repeatedly. However, the scanner installed without a hitch and everything seemed to be doing fine, for a while..... This hand scanner was much easier to use than the ones I reviewed a year ago. It was a pleasure to scan items for clip art. I also created by scanning a p e r f ectly acceptable 256-gray scale rendition of a color picture of myself and my mother at 400dpi with the DOS scan feature. Later I viewed the picture through XSoft's PCPaintBrush 1V Plus. It was beautifuL I played with various features, Includingdots per inch, DPI, calibrations of 100, 200, 500 or 400,and black and white gray-scale settings of 16, 64, or 256 shades. I was enjoying myself with just the command line scan command. This command was induded with scanner drivers ' and can be included in your DOS subdirectory. Its parameters govern the size of scanned image and provide various file Rating format extensions. PERFORM A N C E: 4. Ifound the Sony Then I installed the LogiTech's Ansel, CD-ROM Leer Library to be outstanding. It is well thought out and I n o t iced no which is packaged with the scanner. Ansel is performance penalty in speed compared to designed to accept scanned graphic images ) what I normally get with programs loaded into the MS-Windows 5.0 environment. ( Ansel proved to be an excellent program for on my hard disk USEFULNESS: 4. The drive itself is manipulation of scanned images. I was confident that all my previous, useful as more CDs for software are becoming available, but so is the software problems with the SatisFAXion board were that came with it. I would recommend this water under the bridge, so I shut off the for kids over a set of encyclopedias or other computer. Later, when a fiend came over to see the scanner, I turned the machine reference books without hesitation. The price is actually $599 instead of the $699 back on — and was crushedl My computer went crazy. Something was corrupting the seen in several advertisements from hardware vendors. I think it would be an CMOS. Over the next couple of days I spent excellent family holiday gift, and one of those gifts a family would spend aII year hours on the phone with various techies Rom Intel Corp. trying to get the board and telling fiiends what a smart purchase it was. MANUALS: 4. The documentation is s canner back up. Every time I cu t m y excellent. I found everything I needed in it, computer off and rebooted cold it would go especially for instailafion, which was one of h aywire. Whatever was going on w a s my concerns. It's a good thing for the user happening between start up and the PowerOn Self Test. that the documentation is so complete, Finally Intel's technical support people because, though technical hardware problems are supported at just the price of said that they would send me another board. the phone call, software support is offered If this did not resolve the problems they on a 900 number with the first minute f'ree, would have me send my computer to their laboratory. Their engineers could then but after that it's $2.00 per minute. AVAILABILITY: 4. No problem here. perform tests directly on my computer to see Since it's from Sony, I'm sure it will be what was causing the problem. When I r e ceived the new board, I available everywhere. I haven't had any noticed an updated chip in the U22 slot and trouble finding it and my contacts in the major chains, like Software Etc., all say what looked like a resistor soldered between two terminals. Much to my relief the new they' re getting them in soon. 0 board worked. The modem, FAX, and scanner all functioned as they should. LirrrfaRokrfrorsfIs rrrrirss f or N~ te s .

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om ex„,e HE MOTHER OF ALL TRADE SHOWS" was held October 21-25 in Las Vegas. Comdex is the largest trade show in North America with 125,000 plus attendees and over 2,000 exhibitors. It fills seven major exhibition halls and takes the full five days just to walk through every aisle. The typical Comdex report begins with a moaning about how ' sore the reporter's feet were after wandering the halls of technology. I am not going to do that. Sure I was a Zombie at the end of every day as well, but I was back out there every morning as interested as ever. It is just such computer heaven to go to. Comdex, around every corner there is something new and

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The advantage is not always The Canadians publishingandprepress requirements. There was a large Canadian contingent lmageseller in lhe lndusby dear~ f o r once environments, where 800 dpi is often "good enough," but in any hnd d isplaying their : wares at t h e S a n d s of graphic arts or desktop publishing uses, Convention Centre. V ancouver-baaed Hyphen u n reeetler pe l bo x Cr o aneld PS nrnrreen See CalComp S n cmtek Sc anMahermore is better. In a d dition to h i gher. h ardware v endor, D a r i u s ( T K - I D M , resolution, there seemed to be a fair number 604/654-1880) was shovring various PC of larger format, ll" x 17" capable printers incarnattons as well as a new continuousform Laser Trac Printer. It manages to being shown. combine laser output with continuous form paper.Tucked into the corner of their Palmtops booth wa s C o m m ercial E l c;ctronics Mmtops, computers that fit in the palm (604/669-5525). showing th e S c r een of one's hand, were at a m uch m ore Machine, a videographics board developed conceptual stage than Pm&ased notebookL in England t h a t o f f ers . multi-media There are some specific implementations developers awesome, capabilities. Advanced that you can buy today, but most suffer f'rom Gravis (604/484-7274) introduced a new PC s ome major limitation, f'rom the lowe d , G amepad, mousestick and t h eir n e w calculator-like Sharp I Q (or Wizard) and Ultrasound board. Incidentally, sister (or is C asio's BOSS u n its, w h ich a r e n o t it aunts) company, Swiss4sased Logitech had compatible with major operating syst'erne one of the hottest booths at the show. They and lack me m o r y for storage or | rl rl were demonstrating a mouse that workers in sophisticated applications, to the Hewlett 8B, combined with 8-D goggles to create,a Packard, Lotus 1-2-8 spreadsheet etiuipped virtual reality environment. They also had a RkIII 95LX vrith its tiny keyboard. The Porpret has camera with which you could take pictures • 20 MHz 3868X CPU a dece n t ' ke y board, but suffers from a and then upload them directly to your • 40NIB HD • 2 kg relatively high price and insufficient memory - • VGA Display computer' and a m'ause designed for kids. It as welL Glimpsed at the show wes a unit had to have been cme of the busiest booths from Sharp called the Palm Executive S HAR P show. (where do Trey get these names'rr This could at thc; The Canadian Gcrvernment buys a big deteriorate quickly.) which had a decent' piece of Comdex real estate and subsidizes sized keyboard and 1 megabyte of both space for budding Canadian high-tech ROM and RAM. Hints that this size of unit For those who are eadyto join companies. Qlrorum Computer Group was will become commonplace came from a demonstrating their Semng with Software the movementto portable small Hong Kong company called Palmcom power, Sharppresentsa marketing program. This inexpensive computer oftruly emszlng International Ltd (852) 75808&0. They were p rogram. allows c o mpanies t o u s e propoftiona Weighing amere showing a prototype of their Pabncom which multimedia .to pr'omote their products or 2 kg endmeasuring only8.5'X employs the AMD 266LX tower power c~. services. (604) fj794886. Aho in attendance 11.0', the ell newPG4340 is Chips and Technologies was also displaying small endgghtenoughle fit 'a complete 286 computer on a credttward were MotionWorks, Quality' Learning Systems, and many oeh'er Western-based comfortably lnyour brlelceseyel sized board ready for versdors to make softwareand hardware developers.Judging powerful enough to rival a Ieger laptop or a palmtop u n i t s . T h e obs t a cles . to f'rom the other country~pect ac displays, Sharp pG-6340 desktop PC.lheSharpPG4340gives youthe commercializing this size of unit seems less powerofanulhn-fest324N886SX-20MHz Canada' has an acuve and vibrant computer severe than those which face pen-'based mlmopfeceteor, thespeedof s fnpht-eccess40lrtB industry. computers. In fact, hard drive sizes. are hard diskdrive, plusthe impactof ingnnwhNeVGA shrinking rapidly as well, such that it may Other Cool lbinls display. Not tomenhons wide nmgeof connectMty options not be unreasonable to expect 20cnegabyte includingsellsl, parallel, CRTendtotsrnsl thfve porta Aboutthe As a pubhsher, I was interested in an palmtop computers by next Comdex. only thingyoudon't getwiththe Sharp PM840 is anotherphce of emerging technology that ties a computer luggageto softy, soyoucantravel lightsndstgl havelol» of dont. directly to a high-.volume photocopier. Color Laptops These units can pump out 100 pages a • i• I • i I i Color screens were also a hot item in minute and have up,to five spat coiors on ' laptop computers. Toshiba, NEC and Sharp hne and in use. They can. be tied to collaters r I ' 'I I I ' I were am showing off models. The best screen and stapling units so that true desktop technology to me looked to be Sharp's T$T publishing becomes more of a reality. ~ type. These models are still prohibitively was showing their 1570 and 1575 Copier expensive for all but specialized use. 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