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From %he Editor

Contents ILC. Kdltien • July 1991

Features y the time you read this, I should be on holidays in sunny New Mexico.

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Pull-motion video, compresaon, frame~bbing end more. By Creeree Be»ee¹.

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pushed the Publish' button on the way out of the oflice. Oh, if it only were possible.

Some day computers will be that good, in the meantime we still have jobs.

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Ceuiionl Video and audio buzzwords ahead. By Greetee Bentte¹.

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Multimedia

An interview with muldmedie maven Steve DeMutb. ByPrank Garcia.

This month wehave covered avarietyof topics, with multimedia being the latest buzzword. Check out our coverage of this exciting area. We also got Dan Werger to have a look at Super Video for Windows 3.0, anewlowcostscreen~pture hardware and

When shxink-wrapped solutions just won't do. By Ceoqp Shak.

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A guide to setting up an accounting system.ByDna WiQer.

Customhing aDatabase for Your Business

Armchair musicians, get hipt PCINIDI is tm easy. By Ceetge8kuik

Getting your business to run smoothly can sometimes be a real problem.

Often oLFW~elf packages don't Lit the way your business works. The solution often is to get a custom database written that deals with the procedures speci6c to your business, invoicing, customer tracking and receivables. This month, George Slade gives us some suggestions for getting the most for your money when shopping for a database consultant to solve your problems.

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MusicSoftware

A rapidly growing area of computer use is in the field of music. Computers and the newelectronic keyboards have openedupmanyexcitingncwpossiblities for people wanting to learn about music.

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Reviews

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Editorial Schedule

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Education 8 Trelnlng, Point of Sale

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Word Processing,

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Home ONce Computers SEPT 91 OCT 91

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A computer with a CD-ROM and Aeremany programs?By Gtttetee Beeeert.

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What's Illegffy Electronic Arts Buys

of the most attractive features of Selling Distinctive Software with Software. Asecondis the speed with BURNABY, S.C.JUN19 (TCP) — Dis- which thecatalogue can be updated and tinctive Sokware Inc.,producer of popu- distx%uted to the target audience of 60 lar games induding the est million PC users.

Drive series, has been sold to Califomiabased Electronic Arts for a reported $11 Canadian Software and million. Under the terms of the sale, EA Hardware Associations Merge will pay $785,000 in cash, with the balVANCOUVER,S.C.JUN 11 (TCP)ance in shares. Don Mattrick, who co- At a luncheon held June 11th in founded DSI in 1982 with thengarfaer Vancouver CADAPSO (Canadian AssoJefF Sember, will continue as V.P., Mar- ciation of Data, ProfessionalServiceaand keting, and Tarrnie Williams will stay on Software Organizations) and ITAC (Inas DSI President. formation Technology Aseociation of Canada) announced their merger. The SO INillion Desktop 1V's: new national association, which will be And Now A WordVrogn ... known alTAC,forme"...acriticalmassof VANCOUVER,B.C.,JUN 19 (TCP) industry members" and "...createsa One area where multimedia projects hit strong, Canada~de mice" to help ina very fargeted market is in marketing via dustry uae information technology to interactive catalogue. According toJohn enhanceitscompetitivenessandproducSindair, a Vancouver based communica- tivity. One of the new organization's obtions consultant, the use of multimedia jectives is to give its B.C. members intechnology in marketing could have a creased credility with the East and an moresignificantimpacton buiiness than efFective mice in Ottawa on industry isthe personal computer had in account sues and concernL ingand finance.

The vision he and many IGmberfeyBrooks,Director of PublicRelaothers have is of thousands of people Cowfacf: gonc, (604) 667-5993. who routinely work at a computer, running sofbvare demonstrations of prod- For that OUI Look and Feel ucts on their PCs. They can browne until TEGL Systems of Vancouver has antheir interest is piqued, then investigate nounced Release 2 of TEGL Windows further, until they are ready to order Toolkit II, for developexs of sfand&one using the automatic form resident in the DOS applications with a graphical user software. interface. The tooHit comprises three A Vaacouver4rased company, The parfa the graphic intexface, a memoxy Quorum Computer Group, hopes their manager, and a window manager. New service, called Selling with Software, featuresinclude world coordinates, a font catches the rising tide of interestin inter- editor, dialogue management, and supactive media and turns the attention of port for SVGA reading EGA PCX image computer users toward using aofitware files. The price including the complete catalogues when shopping for their source code is $99. needs.The low costofreproducing and distributing disks (floppy or CD), is one Corrfacf: Brian Gorval, TEGLSystems Corp., (604)

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opera to incorporate support for 'movies'in their applications. 'Movies' are any dynamic data such as sound, video and

the featuresof the hardware.

Apple has also announced file formals they wish to standardize for the System 7.0@aicktime — Movie and PICT. Movie is the new term Apple is using for any dynamic data, and they refer to the Movie 6le format as the container for this timekased data PICI' is the file format Apple is attempting to standardize for image compression. Apple said it is publishing the specificationsfor the Movie

animation.

The Image Compression Manager allows developers to take advantage of the many data compression schemes necessary when working with the large

Apple Previews QLlicktime, New 7.0 Addition System BEVERLY HILLS, CALIFORNIA, JUNK 5 (NB) — In a flurry of excitement, Apple Computer ha s announced Quicktime, a multimedia extension to the new System 7 operating system for the Macintosh at the Digital World Conference at the Beverly Hills Hilton. The Quicktime release will be made available to developersand customers by the end of 1991, Apple said.

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tions of the newcapabilities ofQuicktime was at the WordPerfect booth, where

WordPerfecthad created a document about a new film, Only flu Lcrnoly,that contained what at fir3t appeared to be

color photos of scenes f'rom the movie within columns of text.

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on one of the color photos, the image came to life in full action and sound video and displayed nearly threeminutes of scenes from the movie. What was even more impressive was that the video in the WordPerfectdocument could be moved to another Macintosh with System 7.0 Qacktime, and viewed there, without

the software that was necessary to create it.

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Upon release, Apple has stated developerswill be offeredQuicklime CD-ROM, including the Quicktime extension, documentation, picture and movie utilities, Hypercard, XCMDs, sample code, sample drivers, and sample content.

The@xicktime Developerwill beavailable from Apple, a Qaicktime sampler will be available through Apple resellers, and a Qucktime extension will be available through user groups and bulletin boards. Pricing will be determined at time of shipping, Apple said.

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party software for application development was already proliferating, and at reasonable prices of between $500 to $1000.

Qucktimewlll be installed by the developers and customers by dragging the Qmcktime extension into the system folder. Acsyscording toApple, tem software is composed of three parer that enable software developers to incorporate dynamic data in a consistent and seamless fashion across applications: the Movie Toolbox; the Image Compression Manager;and the Component Manager.

Apple describes the Movie Toolbox as a set of system software services for devel-

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ternal system sources to register their capabilities with the Macintosh system so any application can access these capabilities. This solves the past problem of software developers having to write custom softwarefor a piece of hardware, like a digitizer card, in order to use all the features of the card, and up-

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Quicktime is Apple's newly announced multimedia standard in the Macintosh operating ~ , Sy s tem V, and it is expected to be available to the public at the end of 1991.

WordPerfect has announced its full support in WordPerfect for the Mac, and was demonstrating video in a desktoppublishing type document with still screens, calle:d 'Posters' — imported graphics that came to life in full~otion

and sound video when clicked on with the mouse, A WordPerfectrepresenlailve said the 2.1 version should be available this summer.

Chris announced Filemaker Pro,a Mac database manager, supports Qxicktime in the current version, 1.$4.

Supermac was demonstrating its Videospigot and Videospigot Pro for the Mac LC and si. Supermac said the boards allow digitized video capture and playback&omavideocameraorothersource, anddo compression of the images on the Ilyin 5:I to 20:1, based on the boarcL Videospigot Pro had accelerated 8and 24bit graphics support on large screen displays on the Mac si, the company said. Reeltime is digital movie edit-

ing software„ that allows editing of the vicleocaptnredbytheVideospiiotboards, SupcrmacsaicLSupemrachasannounced that each Videospigot board will be bundled with Reeltime, for a total price of $499, and are expected to be available

Opcode announced Qaicktime support for Max, an object oriented proylnnning environment for music and multimedia, and said Max is expected to ship in the third quarter of 1991. Diva and Multis announced video cataloging software, Videoshop and Multi s

Linker announced its product, The Animation Stand version R,0, is compatible now with Qricktime, giving The Animation Stand the ability to read and write animation Slee that can be shown on auy Mac monitor.

Vividus announced supportfor Q uicktime i s b u i l t i n t o Cinemahon, its upcoming presentation and authoring application, whose uses include copyingandpastingvideo dips intomultimediapresenta-

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National Instruments announced Labview and National Instruments data acquisition hardware canbeusednovr to acquire soundwaveform through a microphone using Qaicktime.

Supportisalreadyavailableformanaging an external window through the use of Qucktime's standard movie controller, the company said. An example &om the company was a sound wave form acquired through a microphone using Q6cktime,

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Several RastcrOpsmonitorscouldbeseen at the show displaying the Quicktime applications.

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Quicktime Joint Photographic Expert Group /PEG) acceleratorcard that ac-

celerates up to 15 timesApple Computer's new Quicktime operating System 7.0 ad-

and is on target for fall release. Lotus

daims it will support Apple's System 7.0 operating system and will be compatible with all existing Lotus 1-2-8 files and macros.

Newsbytes saw a large, complex graphic

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DaynaportE/Z, the adapter works with Appleshare, Netware, TOPS and A/UX operating systems.

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Daynaport E/Z hasa BNC connector for thin Ethernet, as well as an AUI port that allows connection to an external transceiver for thick Ethernet

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ContactDavid Pascoe,Dayna,801-531M00.

redrawn, then with the acceleration of Storm's Nubus acceleratorcard, where the changes were almost instantaneous A spokesman forStorm said research was done to determine what functions of

Quicktime were used the most, and those functions are the ones accelerated in the card and software.

Certified Apple Developers can purchase theQuickTime Developer Toolkit, which includes Storm's Nubus acceleratorcard, documentation and a Quicktime

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Announcing the new product, Alan Minard, Lotus' education market manager, said: "Our goal is to make Lotus spreadsheet technologyaccessible to students in a compact and affordable manner. Integrating 1-2-8 with course materi-

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artide in the Wall Street JournaL The article, by G. Pascal Zackary and

Stephen Kreider Yodel, states that Apple is considering licensing the IBM RISC (reduced instruction set computing) microprocessor that is used in IBM's RISC 6000 line of workstations. It also indicates that IBM has interest in Apple's software technology which it sees as both a shot~-th~ for t he OS/2 platform

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The report says that Apple is considering chips &om both Hewlett-Packard and IBM. An Apple use of IBM chips would also provide a strengthening of IBM's position in the RISC chip market. The announcement earlier this year of a Compaq-Microsoft-Digital consortium to develop a new RISC platform, centered around a chip &om Mips Computer Systems, has led to speculation that IBM's RISC processor will be doomed to settle for a very small portion of a market already crowded with industry leader Sun and March 1991 entrantHewlett-Packard.

An IBM executive contacted by Newsbytes, while not able to comment directly on the Wall StreetJournal statements, did say, "Such an arrangement

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ing that he was "indined not to allow Apple Computer Inc. to accuse Microsoft Corp. of &aud" in its obtaining of a licensingagreement &omApple in 1985.

Although U.S. DistrictJudge Vaughn Walker was quoted as calling the &aud issue a "sideshow" and saying that it was "pretty outlandish that Apple discovered this &aud (daim) at this late date," three years after filing a lawsuit against the softwarecompany, he deferred a decision on this daim and others byApple to enlarge the suit. Thejudge is expected to issue a written decision on these issues prior to the next hearing which is scheduled for July 8.

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He said that Atari would continue to pursue the U.S. market, but slowly, as it currently onlyaccounts for 10percentof the company's revenue.

Contact:August J. Liguori, Atari, 408-745-2069,

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Montreal Computer Show Brings Handful Of New Products MONTREAL, QUEBEC, JUN 6 (NB) — About 200 exhibitors showed their wares at the Montreal International Computer and Of6ce Exhibition. Products on display induded a smattering of new hardware and software from Wardperfect, Eicon, ~ c y , and Fujitsu.

The Montreal showwas a logical location for WordPerfect to announce shipment ofa French version of DrawPerfect 1.1, its presentation graphics package.

Available now, it retails for C$645.

Eicon also enhanced its Access far Windows software, which works with the

tion cover sheet fram a copy af Harvard Graphics,Lotus Freelance, or AshtonTate's Applause II can get DrawPerfect far USg95 or C$165.The offer holds until August Sl. WardPerfect also announced that WordPerfect5.0for SCOXenixand Unix SystemV S86 is now shipping in French.

Finally, aFrench~ a d ian version of the company's PlanPerfect 5.1 spreadsheet software has just become available. This retails for C$515.

Local manufacturer Eicon Technology announced three additions to its SNA Gateway line. The SNA LAN GaM way connects a local~ ne t work, locally or remotely, to an IBM mainframe host system. The SNA PC Gateway for DOS and SNA PC Gateway for OS/2 are meant for connecting remote PCs to a host. The LAN version sells for C$1,0S5;

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LegacyStorage Systems of Markham, Ontario, introducecl its Legacy MA.S.S. HFD, which it called a "hot 6x device" because each of its eight storage devices can be pulled aut and replacecf while the unit is running. The Legacy HFD uses Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks (RAID) Level 5 technololr, which stores

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New Plain-paperFax INan Catches PALO ALTO, CALIFORNIA,JUNE Computer Virus?

04 (NB) — Hewlett-Packard (HP),i~ a leader in the laser and inkjet printing markets, has entered the &xinarketwith

its first standalone plain~per SLa, the HP Fax-800.

This is the second plain~per fisx device HP has developed, the firstbeing the HP Laaerjet Fax accessory, a device that sits between the phone and the Laeerjet, and allows plain~perpr i nti of fax documents on HP Laserjet print

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HP says the new standee plainpaper fax retails for $2,095. It is said to h old 100 sheets of letter~ (8 . 5 x l l inch) paper, and eliminates problems associated with thermal &Lace, such as curling, fading and the need to photocopy documents before they can be archivecL The HP Fax-800 allows &ont4oading paper and haa an outmfyaper sensor. It also prinls at laser~ t y 8 0 0 detain inch, provides 16grayscale levels,and transmits at 9,600 biis per seconcL The Sx can automatically redial a busy number up to 15 times at threoeninute intervals as well.

HP has said that the new Sut aho allows storage of 100 numbers that can then be speed~ ed , allows delayed dialing, sequential broadcslting for sending transmissions te as many 100 preset locations, and sequential polling, which allows the unit te call as many as 100 locaiions to pick up waiting transmission s.

NEW YORK, NEW YORK, JUN 10 (NB) — The Wakg WotQ¹sas has reported in itsJune 18th edition thatJohn

Stevens, a Philadelphia~ca computer ogrammer, hascontractedaviruskem computer.

Accordmg to the story, Stevens' doctor, Mark Fordland, agrees that the SRyearMd's symptoms are identical te that of a so&ware vnus' attack on a computer.

Fordland is quoted as saying, "Stevens has become forgetbsl, like something is eating up his memozy, his data He has less and less energy. He can't hold on to thoughts.

Even an ERG (electroencephalogram) of his brain waves keeps changing. It's becoming mere and more erratic. The virus could eat him up until his mind is a blank and he's like a vegetable."

Stevens was quoted as saying he becamesickaboutaweekafterhiscomputer began to showsignsof avirua— avirushe attributes te his own behavior, saying, "I was careless about boirowing software prograsns Srom other people, people I didn't know welL" Other stories in theJune 18th Wak •

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Xerox Windows Document Input System

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JUN 5 (NB) — Xerox Imaging Systems

TOKK), JAPAN,JUN 18 (NB) — To-

(XIS) has announced the introduction of K650, its new high~ doc u ment input system for the PC. The system will be avaslaMe for shipment in late June and will have a suggested retail price of

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The KSIS document input system is composed ofa RISGbased processor, a high~eed, heavy~ty scanner with an automatic document feeder (ADF), and XIS' proprietary intelligent character recognition (ICR) sokware. The processor unit centains Advanced Micro Devices'AmQQOOORISCmicrapmcessorand of RAM,while the scanner sixm features d o t opercnch (DPI) atascan rate of8.7 secondsper~, an ll x 17 inch platen, a 50page ADF, and 4 MB of internal RAM. The system's Graphical User Interface (GUI) runsunder Windows 8.0and, according to XIS, the software supports more than 50word processing formats, spreadsheets,database electronic publishing and graphics editing programs.

Contacts Janet Knudsen, Xerox Imaging Systems, 6174644700.

pears under the light of halogen lampL The ink is expected to revolutionize the idea ofrecychng and to contribute to the prescsvation ofnaturalreseurceaItcould also reduce tons of waste paper at many corporate ofilcea This unique ink can be used in copying machines and on computer printer ribbonL A document whichiscopied or printed with this special ink is reusable once the ink is erased with a device

equipped with a halogen lamp.

The ink is made kom ctianinetype coloringelement,whichiscombinedwith boron ammenium kalium. The ink disappears under the light of a shortwave in&ared ray with a wavelength of SRO nanometerL Showa Denko says a halogen lamp is the best candidate for the hght.

A carbons lacktoner for copiers vnli be developedjointly with Bando Chemi-

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Roundup is a brief look at some computer stories carried in other pubhcaiions received here this past month.

The June S CernibxrferÃmfd says that Lotus 1-2-S faces an uphill dimbrein the world of Macintosh users who see no reason to jump &om Excel to Che longdelayed Lotus spreadsheet which is fxnally in beta testing 4S months after the initial announcement. The &ont page also carries a look at the question of whether 50 megahertz 4SSsjrsbems really have a set of potential mero lined up to buy.

ColrPxxfer Ifexelfcr Nenrxdatecl Jxme S says that IBM's big OS/2 push is attracting valu~ddedretailexswhoaremoving &om minicomputers to micros using the powcrlul operating system.

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June'sDECPhofeasienrahnalpzinelooks ateaxcientmemoxyusein theVAX/VMS environment.

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TORRANCE, CALIFORNIA,JUN 18

(NS) — Following quickly on the heels of (NB) — Video and Image Compression the release of MS-DOS Version 5.0, Mi- Coiporation (VIC) has announced Piccrosoft has announced the famihar GW- ture Packer, the image compression softBasic interpreter found in previous DOS ware and acceleratorcard for the IBM WHITE PLAINS,NEW YORK, JUN releaseshas been replaced by a module personalcomputer market 12 — IBM haa introduced a family called the+Basic Interpreter.

Storage space is at a premium with of (NB) 866SX PS/2 personalcomputers, in@Basic Interpreter is an interpreter- color image files, as storing a onc e two systems thatutiTize the AT or only(notacompiler) subaetofMicroaoft's color image requires 2,400 times more cluding "industry standard" bus rather than the Quckbasic compiler Veiaion 4,5. +Basic disk space than storing a on~age letter, Interpreter will load and run most GW- according to VIC. The uncompressed Micro Channel one which IBM has put Basic programs without modification, one@age color image, at800 dpi with 24- forth as the architecture of the future.

Microsoft claims. The Interpreter is up- bit color could nike up to 5 MS of storage Additionally, ISM announced a trade~ program for U.S.owners of earlier syswardly compatible with Microsoft's space,but Picture Packer would reduce tems' REDMOND, WASHINGTON,JUN 18 QuckSasic compiler version 1.5. this same image down to 170 KB with ita The trad~ p rogram, announced as (NB) — Microsoft haa announced that it Basic is probably the most popular 80to-I compression ratio, the company running through the endof the year,will will offer significan discounts for large programming languagein use todayand salcL allowcustomerswith older IBM personal sites that want to upgrade all of their is the language which most programPicture Packer compresses Ml color DOSkased PCs to Version 5. mers learn initially. It has been induded and gray~ale images using the JPEG computers as well as certain models of computerskom Apple Computer Corp.

Under the "MS-.DOS 5 upgrade 100% with MS-DOS since 19S1, when MS-DOS implementation standards with 804o-I Progxaui, companiea will be able to up- was first introduced to the computer in- lossy compression rates, and ~ l no and Compaq Computer Corp to receive rebatea toward purchases of IBM PS/2 e toVersion 5 for aslow as $87 per dustry. loss compression. It works with Targa, syatema The sugymted list price for single Contact: Microsoft, (604) 688-9611.

TIFF, PCX and GIF file formats. It is aho IBM Canada has no plans to impleuser upgrades is US$99.95, or $79.95 for resident, and can be activated ment the trad~ p r ogram, said Anne PC WindowsExpo/Conference memoxy the Micros' License Pak from anapphcation toreadacompresaed Hay, a spokeswoman for the subaidiaryin An additional benefit of the new pro- Debuts In December file.

Markham, Ont FRAMNGHAM,MASSACHUSEITS, giam is that the customer will nothave to Picture Packer is either software, or a The bigh system introduced as have multiple licenses on hand, or mul- JUN 6 (NB) — PC Windows Exposition half~ a c celerator board that fits into tiple copies the documentation which and Conference,which the organizers the PC and produces compression at up the 57SX utilizes Micro Channel Archiwould conic with single copy upgrade say was created due to rapid acceptance to five times the speed of the software, tecture, while the 40SX and 85SX utilize ofWindowa,willpremiere at the Moacone VIC said. The software is $79, the b.oard the AT bus. All utihze the Intel 20 megapackageL Toqualifyfor the program, user com- Center inSan Francisco on December 9, is $595. Decompression aoflLware is also hertz (MHz) 886SXmicroprocesaor. The panies must have atleaat 100 DOSkased 1991. available through ahareware channels 57SXconiainsasstandardtheSmallComThe show is cosponsored by World PCs at one or more locations, and must and on Compuserve, so other users can puter System Interface (SCSI) found on upgrade allof their DOSbaaedPCs. Once Etio Corporation and computer indus- decompressimagesfilescompressedwith the IBM'sto~We4ne PS/2 Model 90 and Model 95 XP 486. the company signs the 100% Program try magazine PC WorM. On December 10 Picture Packer.

Also introduced waa the PS/2 8516 and ll, the show will be open to the agreement, they receive a single license Contact: Video Image Compression, Tel: 800I472- Touch Display, a I+inch color display to install the upgrades on anynumber of public.

Show director Chris DeSalvo says PC 1688, Fac 213i543-2117. machine L Coatiamd oa eeet page Windows Expo will provide, "innovative The per~chine pricefor the 100% program isdeterminedby thenumber of Windowskaaedsolutionsforanyonewho DOS4xeed machines in the company. uses a PC." Referring to the show's proxFor less than 1000PCa, the costis$59 per imity to the Christmas holidays, DeSalvo machine, Users with 100 but less than said windows marketers can team up pE S I C H 5000machinescanupgradefor$44each, with theirresemers to give a boost toyear/ feimhapsot1hsfuture while companiea with 5000 or more PCs end sales, while buyers can take advanINTROPUCINC tage of show discounts to pick up barwill pay the $87 fee.

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PemtumExec'&6IQSNWAOMB reason don't want to upgrade all of their According to research firm InternaNat machines, an optional discount plan is tional Data Corporation, by 1992 nearly Compaq available. Microsoft a@erathe Iicenae 50 percent of the 51 million PCs in the LTE/38NtgKMHrlSNB Nalsbook ........445N Pak, which provides an upgrade package US will be located in home offices and SystemPio14e6188hfh/82NS Tower.41 +5 for $79.95 per madiine. Additional cop- householdL IDC also predicts that the ies af documenlation are available for installed base of PCs on which Windows INI $20eachifthecuslonierupgradesvia the can run will increase substantially.

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JPEG is an international standard agreed upon by the International Standards Organization (ISO) and the Consultative Committee For International Telephone and Telegraph (CClTT) standards committee, for compressing and transmitting digitizedmonochrome and color photographic imageL

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Microsoft Chairtnan Bill Gates will present one of the keynote addresses.

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Ballpoint Mouse Wins Design Award REDMOND, WASHINGTON,JUN 10

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Cellular telephones in the U.S. and Japan are, at present, technologically incompatible. Under the agreement, DDI customers visiting the U.S. would pickup a US West telephone at a DDI office

before departing, then retuxn it after their slay and payair~e charges, which DDI will then pay to US West. The same process will work in reverse, and in Canada through RagenL, Daini-Denden

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AT8cT wants to expand the service to 64,000 bit/second lines over the next year. The whole thing is subject ta FCC

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Handy-size Global Navigation System Debuts From Sony TOKYO, JAPAN,JUN 10 (NB) ~ony

personal computer through an RS-N2C port. This system is expected to appeal to transportation Sr' Japanesecar mak-

has developed apor table device to locate

one's position on the globe. Called the Portable GPS Receiver Pixcess, it weighs

only 590 grams (1.5 pounds) and is small enough tocarried around. Itmeasures 10 x 17.5 x 3.9 cm. It will be sold at 158,000 yen onJuly l.

The gadget locates its current posi-

ers Mazda and Honda, meanwhile,have developed their own GPS system and

have installed it in theu cars for lowed consumer use. Pioneer has developed a GPS system with a Cinch LCD and CDROM+ased area mapL Consequently,

Gon using two or three space satellites

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called Navstar, which were launched by the U.S. Defense Department, The device can locate one's latitude, the altitude, and the navigational speed. This devicecan be used for sai Ting, Sshing, diving, ghders,mountaineering, and hik-

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In other news, NIT has developed a threadimensionalliquidcrystal color display for TV phones.

The company has incorporated a technology called alenticular lens, which is curved on both sides. The lens has an LCD on the back It projects an image which looks thr~ ens i onal from all viewing angles. The display is 1$enches large, which is quite sizable for an LCD. The basic technology of this display was developed a year ago, but has been

improved. The previous version required a person to move their head slowly in order toperceive the 8-D effect.The new display is said to be more flexible and easily viewed.

NIT's three~ e n sional displayisdesigned to be usedin computers, TVs, and TVphones. NIT has already developed a beta version of a thre~ ens i onal TV phone. With this color display technology, 8-D viewing does not require the use of special 8-D glasses, as has been traditional since the 50s.

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Unix System V Relmse 4 Shipping From Interactive SANTA MONICA, CALIFORNIA,

JUN 12 (NB) — Interactive Systems an-

nounced at its developers' conference held in Universal City, Cahfornia (the location of Universal Studios), that it has begun shipping Unix SystemVRelease 4 for the Intel 1886/i486 platformL The 1886/1486 are the chips used in the topof4he4ine IBM personal computers and compatibleL The company says that this is its first shipment since its appointment as Principal Publisher of SVR4 by Unix System Laboratories (USL) and Intel earlier this year. Interactive also announced shipment to and support of the Intel SVR4

customer base as well as delivery for its future SVR4releasesandextensions, and a new developer program to support its Unix System V environments.

Interactive Systems is a Kodak company and describes itself as a supplier of Unix software products, licensed software technologies and consulting and development services to the Unix iud~ try and open systems market. The company is headquartered at 2401 Colorado

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Lotus releases 1-2-3 For Sun SPARC Systems CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETI'S, JUN 18 (NB) — Lotus will ship in 80 days Lotus I-M for Sun SPARC Systems version 1.1, $695, an upgrade which the company says integrates Lotus' C Add~ Toolkit directly into the product.

This newversion also supports X Windows and Lotus Realtime, a sophisticated technology that feeds real%me financial data directly into 1-2-8. Lotus Realtime is intended to enable financial traders, portfolio managers and analysts in investment and commercial banks, bro-

keragehouses,and money management firms to use real-time data in a spread-

sheet environment when making investment decisions.

Lotus Realtime, also available in 80 days for a price of $1,600, can be purchased from Lotus Realtime Business Partner Resellers. The resellers include EJV Partners, LP., ERI, FD Consulting, Inc., Fusion Systems Group, Ltch, FXD/ Telerate Systems Incorporated, Market Vision Corporation, M i crognosis, Qxotron Systems, Inc., Reuters Information Services, Inc., Spreadsheet Solutions, Co. and Teknekron Software Systems, Inc. Realtime Toolkits which allow the developing of feed servers are available directlyfrom Lotus for $25,000 and can be used to write an unlimited number of feed serverL Commenting on its use of Lotus mealtime, Dennis Rohan, the chief executive officer of FXD/Telerate, said, "Lotus Realtime will be a fullyintegrated part of FXD/Telerate's trading room product line. This will be a highqerformance, rea14me spreadsheet that dis-

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Lotuswill also allow the addition ofFXD/ Telerateproprietaryfunctions and other third~ , ad en functionscovering variouss financial markets."

Another Lotus Realtime Business Partner, Tekuekron Software Systems Inc., as part of the Lotus introduction, demonstrated Realtime on its Teknekron

Trader Workstation system. The firm's president, Vivek Ranadive, was quoted as saying, "IMs is not just an enhancement to a spreadsheet. This is a powerful generic tool." Teknekron will funnel the "river of information, carrying live data

to update portfolios," he added "Lotus is

t hefirstcompanytoembraceevents computing." Rauadive predicted that

Lotus could sell a few hundred thousand of the systems in three years

Gerald Mintz, senior sales and marketing executive for EJV Partners, ajoint venture amongaffiliates of Citibank, First Boston Corp., Goldman Sachs 8r. Co., Morgan Stanley Bc Co. Inc., Salomon Brothers Inc. and Shearson Lehman Brothers, enthusiastically endorsed the

Lotus combination, saying, "Lotus did what we needed, real-time spreadsheet control in the hands of people who make hanthe decisionson dling portfolios. The Lotus product will provide E JV users with significant advantagesincluding speed, fiexibjTityandcreative capabilities."

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Adobe Intros Software For Unix Postscript Printing

Development Tools for AIUX

MOUNTAIN VIEW, CALIFORNIA, JUN 12 (NB) — Adobe Systems has announcedTranscript S.osoftwarefor Unix.

The packageconsistsof a group af pro-

Exhibition a new set of software develop-

grams that enable applicatians ta com-

municate with and print ta Postscript printers,6lm recorders and imagesetters.

Transcript 8.0 is an upgrade from version 2.1, and can convert standard Unixfile formatsinto Postscriptlanguage files,so theycan be formatted andprinted on Postscript output devices. It indudes communications software fer serial (RSN2) communication with aPostscrip printer, can handle print jeb banner pages,page accounting and other functions, and it is fully integrated into both the Unix and System Vline printerspooling architectures, Adobe said.

Transcript S,o is expected ta be available &om June 15 onwards Upgrade pricing and availabiTity informatian is

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(NB) — Apple Computer announced at the USENIX Technical Conference and ment tools for A/UX, Apple's version ef the Unix operating system for the Mac. The new A/UX Developer's Tools allow developers to create Macintosh, Unix and X Window system software, as well as 'hybrid' applications that incarparate Macintosh and Unix functionalityin one environment

debugger and an MPW tool that runs Unix commands fiom within the MPW

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ronment, the company saitL The new C compiler allows the developer to call the Macintosh toolbox kom Unix applications, and use the toolbox

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NOpen Spec Adapts Philips' I-RQM To Qpen Systems MKNLO PARK,CALIFORNIAJUN'I

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Fast Track isa program established by X/Open that lets outside companies or organizations develop specificatiens far submission to X/ O pen for passible adapfien inta X/Open's Commen Application Environment (CAE).

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Movies on CD? Because, even after compression, digital video Sles tend to be huge, they are a natural for distribution on CD-ROM. Unfortunately, the slow speed of disc access presents some technical barriers.

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compress the data in teatime. Paster cemputers aan, of course, decompress data more quickly, but at the moment, even the SLstest machines can only decompress and display a small fullmotion i mage (or a correspondingly low~ l u tion image atlarger sizes) • Of course,itis safe to assume that tomorrow's generation of computers and/or CD-ROM players will be able to improve: upon this limitation.

emotion digital video is coming to aPC near you, even ifyou, like the majority of other computer users, are still wondeiing why.

The namefu Sesoticm,in this context, does not refer to full~een/ full-motion images, but rather to an effect akin to watching a motion picture in a window on your computer's screen.

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video systemstechniquesuse proprietary Sle formats, some standards are beginning to emerge. Microsok, Letus and IBM are, of course, solidlybehind Intel's DVI (digital video interactive) spedScaiion, which it, in turn, bought &om GeneralElectric. The DVIspecpromisesvideo compression ratios af up to 200:I, along with synchronous sound. Intel says thatit intends te build DVI capabihiies into iis future80x86 familyCPUL IBM has shown real-time software decompression of limited motion" (15

&arne per second) videe in a small inset portion ef a VGA screen; Microsoft has established a Multimedia PC speciScation that calls for a 286 or greater, VGA graphics and CD-ROM player.

Iterated Systems (408S400810) has a PC4msed digital video system that can compress Sles up to 98 percent. For US$495, Iterated will convert two minutes of your video to a 1.44MB Soppy disc, or sell you the $10,000 board to do it yourself.

Total Multimedia Inc. (TMM) of Thousand Oaks, CA (805-5714500) has a system called SoftVideo that it says can

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I saw the TMM system play back a grainy, but nevertheless impresshe oneminute 127megabyte dip &omSiar Wats, direct &om disk, with full screen, full motion video. By shrinking the image to 25 percent ofthe screen of a Super VGA display, the apparent quality can be increased TMM intends to focus en licencing the technology to third parties, for applications in the CD-ROM, educatien and theentertainmentmatkets. TMMintends to extend SoftVideo tarun under Mac and Unix operating systems in the near future.

PGbased digital video systems typically require special harchsate and software to digitize, compress ancl store the original video to disk Once stored, however, the Sles can be decempressecl and

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Mast compression systems today are based on an emerging standard called second on a standard $8Sclass PC with JPEG, named fartheJoint Photographic VGA. Of course, the quality is not yet what you'd get &om analog video,"and Experts Group that devised it. JPKG is with a storage appetite af 40MB per hour termed a "lassy" form of compression, af video, it eats hard chives for brealdastl meaning that the algorithm changes and Although you might think that with reduces the image dala when it saves the these heAystarage requirements, digital compressedSle,jPEG takesadvantageof certain characteristicshumanvision (i.e., videocannotcompare totheeconomyof we are nat able te detect some porlions videotape,many developers areworkmg on ways ta compress images enough to of the color spectrum as d6cienlly as make reaMme decompression, anima- others) and other techniques which intion and audio possible &om CD-ROM, crease the amount of redundancy in the which, as therecordindustry hasproven, image. Unlike ARC or ZPuiiliSes,which has at least the potentiaL to produceinex- typically achieve non4essy cemptession pensive discL At the abo~ e n t ioned raiios of 2~1, JPEG compressions can storage ratio, a 650MB CD-ROM4ased be «s high as 504a-l.

At maximum compressions, some movie could be over 12 hours long Apple, as usual, has come up with its deterioration of imagesisnoticeable,but own sound, animaSon and video man- at lower ratios (i.e., ROD-l), JPEGproagement~ whic h i tcalls QuckTime. cessed images look virtually idenScal to Designed as an extension te its new Sys- the originalL However,JPEG is net optimized for tem 7 operating system, the current defull~ation video, and does not, for exvelopersanly version of QuickTime is ample, take into account &amece4ame also compatible with any calorwapable redundancies. Another standard-inMac running System 6.07. rogress, called MPEG (the "MP" stands The company says it wants users to be or motion picture), which is technically able to work with video and other dynamic media as easily as they now work a method ef run4ength encoded deliawith graphicL As an Apple product man- compression, should prove to be more ager put it, Soon you won't be able to eFective. I'llexplain thatane some other time, OKP manage shipping an application that For more information on JPEG and doesn't suppert the cut, copy and paste MPEG, contact GCube Micresystems at of dynamic media" 40M444500.

SuperMac Technology,a leading Apple graphics productsyendor, has also arahhinl Frames been showing a Mac4vased softwar~nly With the increasing popularity of playback system. It demonstrated a onecamcorders and other home video tech(160x100 pixel) &ill~aquarter screen nology, what can you do if you want to get tion video with Shit color and audio, your computer into the actP running on a stock Macintosh IIci. If you want to capture an image &om a videe source, you need a kame grabber, sometimes known as a video digiCommodore-Amiga has officially adopted Alan Hastings' ANIM speciSca- tizer. These are available far every type of tion, and most Amiga "desktop video" computer and budget, Pricesrange &om applications can now save and load this a few hundred te many thousands of Sle fermat. The Amiga is the only system dollarL Here, in a nonwamprehensive list, I ' ve seen that can play back full~ a , are some of my favorites: full~ation video with sound, with anything resembling smooth animation, on PCOo~nd): ComputerEyes the standard hardware conSgutation. PC (highland): Tat'ga+ Because of this, Amiga D'IVsoftware and Mac (lo~iid): RasterOps364 or 24STV hardware is plentiful and considered Mac (high-end): NuVlsta stateofWeert in the personal computer Amiga govv-end): OClV market.A sizable market for video add- Amiga (highwii4: Video Toaster ons such as genlocks, digitizers, render- Atan Sl'(low-eiidI: Vidi-ST wMdiChroma ing and animation packages (and the NeXT (high-end): NsXTdimension inevitable mi rag e devices and CPU accelerators they demand)) has sprung up to feed the voracious appetites of •

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One common explanationbandied about is that multimedia serves as a catchy term for the fusion of video, audio and computer graphics. Others (usually &om the educational sector) will insist Hug multimedia is all about interaction; the term mteractive media." Still others remember when multimedia was a hyphenated word describing a multi-projector slideshow,perhaps with a tape decksupplying the audie. What everyone gems to agree on, though, is how well we, as of a humans, respond to the superWck graphics presentation; how aurimaginaiiansstir at thesurrealgraphics ef an alternate 5-D hyperweaiity, or the sonic caress ef a C D ~ u a lity soundtrack Multimediaisa feast for the senses, the hallucinogen of the video age, the ultimate sales tool. It has the power toseduce our eyes, eacsandminda

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agesimmediategratiScadan over deeper learning; that jumping around a hypertext book festers shallow undersiandingsandshartattention spans. But, just as a memorable adverhsement can leave its indelible mark an your psyche (and pocketboak), se can multimedia help youconvey an idea, or sella product. Multimedia can be a potent business tool, whether in your hands, ar in those of an hilt multimedia maven.

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Just as some of us prefer ta let others de out taxes or accounting, so there will always be a market far multimedia gur us. But,nawthatsecamedd~ vide o producSon allewa us ta steal some of their arcane magic, how long will they be able to charge their premiums for the medium, when after all, the value is in the message.

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Video Cards and Devices 8mmw video format used on low-end controllable VCRs and camcorders.

ADO — see Special Effects.

Bit-(as in, "84iit graphics ) 8-bit graphics may have 2"8, or 256 colors or shades.24-bit praphics (2"24), allow continuous-tone "true color ' graphics, with over 'l6.7 million colors.

Blltter-see Video Display Card.

Control 5,Control Loafers to the protocols usedto

con'trol playback from, and recording to, consumer (e.g., SONY) videotape recorders and cameras from the computer via its serial port. 5 stand for speak and L stands for listen.

Composite Video-A video signal in which the luminace and chrominace have been combined (encoded) as in NTSC or PAL Generally speaking a component video signal is supenor to a composite video signal. (seealso Component Video).

Component Video-A video signal in which the original elements (e.g., RGB) have been retained separately rather than combined (encoded) intoa single signal. The RGB video signal is a component signal. Generally speaking, a component video signal is superior to a composite video signal. (see also SuperVH5, Composite Video).

Frame Capture (ake digitizing, frame grabbing) — the ability to diqitizea frame or sequence of frames from an NTSCvideo source and save as a Ne. Lowermost digitizers are known as si~ a n d evices; they cannot capture a single frame of video and therefore can only be used with a still-video camera. Framecapture devices than can capture video at one-thirtieth of a second are considered frame grabbeis because they can capture an individual frame.

Frame-to&mme Recording-refersto recording files on a fram~ ra t e basis to a controllable video. tape recorder. lhough the process is slow, the output is highest quality, flicker-free and you can output and animate 324iIt color images. Videotape recorders needed for this process must have a senal port to accept information (stop, start, forward, reverse) from the controller.

HAM(holdwndmodlfy)-the Amiga's4096<olor mode.

HIM video format used on hi-end VCRs and calrlcordeis.

Interlace-NTSCTVor video isknown as"60 Hertz inteAaced.Alternating sets of scan lines are dawn by the tubes's electron gun, each refreshing and updating once every 30th of a second. Images only one pixel high, such as thin horizontal lines tend to visibly flicker on interlaced displays.

Multimedia Device Controller-a device that allows you to connect and control multiple video, audio and other multimedia devices.

tor, CyberPaint and Zoetrope (IBM, Atari ST and Amiga prcxirams, respectively), are able to create special optical effects such as images that spin, shrink or flip by saving individual, incremental-motion frames to disk- or RAM-based animation files.

Although the processing of the source images can take several minutes or more, when played back from memory, the smoothly animated effects resemble those createdby costly Ampex Digital Optics (ADO} video processors, used in many professional broadcast studios.

SuperVHS (5-VHS)-unlike standard composite NTSC output, 5-VHS separates the CHROMA (color) and LUMA (brightness or luminence) portions of the video-signal, resulting in better picture definition.

The Commodore 64 was one of the few computers that provided this form of video as a standard feature; most Commodore monitors(featuring both SVHS and composite inputs) make excellent video monitors orlVs, whenused with a tuner such as that found in virtually any VCR. Time RaseCo rrector(TBC) —W hen mixing or dubbing video images, the signals must be properly nchronized so that rolling or tearing of the images oes not occur, and they may be properly recorded.

TBCs are priced from about $2000.

Vldee4n-Window —the ability to display an external video signal (e.g., from a VCR, laserdisc player or camera), in a window on the screen.

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Vkleotape RecorderController~n external box

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16 and/or 32-bit color(see bits). Often, special video cards also require the presence ofa video display card. Some video cards contain special circuitry designed to optimize graphics performance. A chip especialiydesigned torapidlypeiformbit-block transfers (bitblt) is called a Blitter. The Amiga and Atari STE computers come standard with Blitter chips, enhancing their graphics performance. Intel, Texas Instruments and others make high-performance graphics accelerators for the PC and Mac. VHS-avideo format found on most home and office VCRs.

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NTSC video-refersto "television" video usedin U.S.

TV, consumer VCR's, camcorders, videotape recorders and laserdiscs. Also called composite" video.

NTSC is clifferent from the video used on computer screens, called RGBvideo, and has lower resolution.

A device is needed to convert the video signal between most computers and NTSC video sources.

NTSC is an interlaced video signal. (See also PALand RGB.)

Overlay (aka eenloddng) — the ability to place

computer graphics on top of a video image, e.g., titling and credits. Some genlocks produce broadcast~ality NTSC video, which is termed RS-170A. (SeeNTSC.) Genlocks which are not RS-170A-Wndard can sell for as litt& as $300 dollars, and may be adequate for home videotitling. The Amiga series of computers have a pargculaiiy gcod selection of reasonably~riced Geniocks avai bie.

PAI refers to television video usedin Europe and other countries for TV and video devices. It is an acronym of phasea lte rnatingline. (see also NTSC and RGB).

Real-Time Recording-refersto recording animationsin real time fromyourcomputerontoa VCR. (see also Frame-to.frame Recording).

RGS-refersto component video used in computeis and high~d videotape recorders. Stands for Red, Green, and Blue. RGB video is different from the video used for television, called NTSCvideo, and has better resolution. A device is. needed toconvert thevideosignalbetweencomputers and NTSC video sources. (see also NTSC and PAL).

Spedal Effeda-the abiTity to manipulate NTSC

video images on anRGBmonitor (e.g., zoom, pan, shrink, roll, warp elc.) Some programsoutput irnages on a frame-Isy-frame bas5 to a diskRte;high-

resolutionimages™ andcomplex3% animations must be done this way on all but the most powerful

workstations. Programssuch as AutoDesk Anima-

MIDI Interface-MIDI (musical instrument digital interface) interface connects to the serial port of a Mac or Amiga, or any available slot of a PC. The* facto PC standardis Roland's MPU-IPC. Atari ST and TT computers have MIDI in and out ports built in.

MIDI allows for control of external synthesizersand

sequencers. Although designed as a prorocol for contiolling elecronic musical instruments, MIDI can a lso be used as a general-purpose devic~ t r o l language; in fact, MIDI lighting and mixing boards are widely used.

MIDI devices can be triggeredfiom many multimedia programs suchas Commodore's AmigaVision, or MacroMind Director. Technically, MIDI is a 3125 IQlobaud asynchronous serial communications protocol, with 16 channels. MIDI plugs (IN/OUT/THRU) and MIDI(5-pin DIN) cables are uniquely "beginnerroof because there is no way a short-circuit, armful shock, or other el~eel damage can occur in normal use.

CD~uallty~ . 1 KHz audio.

CD-RO~ o m pact Disc — ReadOnly Memory. Up to 650MB of digital data can be stored on a disc.

Drives can also play audio CD tracks and segments.

SMirTE — Society of motion picture & television engineers' standard for synchronizing computes and other devices to audio or video tracks.

Audio!Nedla, SoundTools —The Digidesign AudioMeclia card lets NuBu~uipped Macs digitize and store for playback sounds from a stereo or CD andletyou edit thesound. You can also play live" sound files stored on a disk. Digidesign SoundTools is the professional version which offers higher fidsfity sound, digital le, SMPTF„and communication capability with most MIDI samplers. Both can save soundsas 8 or 16 bit SND resources. Digidesign,

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A TV picture is, in fact, a fairly low resolution image, and if it were not for the fact that it never stops moving, it would look very poor indeed. The key to this differencebetween video and computer graphics is that a TV signal is "analog" (bandwidth), and computer graphics are connection (slot) - MS@OS 3.1 or higher - A "digital" (zeros and ones).

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The software also allows for the control of external devices like video laser disc players and VCRs. Now, this brings us to a problem which is central to video on computers — software control of external, electraenechanical devices. It is

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Pioneering Interactive Hyperrnedia byFrank Ganis It used 'to be that computers could

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being shown at shopping mails as part of their campaign to keeping the public knowledgeableabout how theireveryday lives affect the environment. As a bonus for the Ministry, DeMuth incorporated statistics compilinto the p ing program on the users. At the very beginningof the quiz, the users are polled for their sex, age, and whether they live in the city or the country. Managers of

graphics, CDguality sound and video, computers can create a "multimediapresentation." With the proper talent, ideas Imagineers' specialty in Hypermedia and equipment, multimedia creates a presentations (a type of multimedia) has dazzlingvisualandauralexperience that' s become "touch screen interactive inforsure to revolutionize the education pro- mation systems." Their project, an envicesia ronmental decision-maker quiz, was proMultimedia doesn'tjustpresentyou a duced for the Ministry of Environment. topic with flashygraphics, music or sound A completely animation-based interac- the presentation can then access the proand video mixed in together — it inter- tive quiz on Supercard, it consists of an gram to get data on users: their sex, age acts with you. Using a mouse, you can (if original cartoon character, "Norm", a and location. Iater, the scores on how the designers did their work right) stop ball with arms, legs and sneakers. Norm knowledgeable users are about the enviat certain points of a presentation and go pacesthe user through amap ofeither a ronment will also be compilerL city or a country. Norm posits a situation A related project for the same Minisoff to tangents to learn more about a trywas a vldeobased presentation on the subject and then return to the main topic (washing your laundry, shoppingat the marketplace, or going to the beach) Environmental Youth Corps, about their to continue.

So newis thisburgeoningtechnology, where the user must make the best envi- activities in recycling and the institution standards have yet to be set and very few ronmental decision. Norm gives the user of the blue boxes in municipalities.

"We seem to bypass business and go companies are actually engaging in and three choices in the form of questions. producing them. Other than major com- AAer the choice is made, an answer is right through the government just by revealed on whether the user picked cor- word of mouth," explains DeMuth. 'The panies such as Motion W orks in Vancouver, and Shane Lunriey, also of rectly. On touching the answer again, government seems to be very ideal for Vancouver, there is Imagineers Publish- more questions and situations appear this kind ofwork Businesswants to haggle ing, headed by brothers Steve and Paul until the quiz is over and the final score you down to something cheap whereas DeMuth. Imagineers began in 1986 in is revealed. The score tells the user how government is willing to pay for it. I can Vancouver as a desktop publishing com- knowledgeable they are about the envi- expand my skill a little bit more and pany. Theyquicklygrew into multimedia ronment. explore what's available while I'm get"Touch on the character and a ques- ting very decent money for it" presentations as soon as the technology DeMuth agrees that a good applicabecame available.

DeMuth, 28,had been tion pops up. 'What should Ihave for tion for such a technology is in commuexperimenting with black and white ani- breakfast?' or 'How should I do my mation as early as high school, fiddling laundry?' Should I use hot water or cold nity events and shopping mails — directaround with his Apple II. "I had been experimenting with animation as a kid with Super 8 cameras and stuff," says DeMuth. "%Pith a computer it's great because you can change the animation — not just the concept. With film you have to get all your artworkjust perfect, and commit it to film. [With Macs] you don't have to have a finished product all the time. I' ve been working with bsew animation with Macs before there was color."

The limitations of creating animation on the primitive Apple II disappeared quicklyonce the Mac Plus appeared and eventually, DeMuth graduated to integrating CD quality sound, animation and video images into a Mac II. P. GAMB(286) /2MB (SX) RAM "Our first multimedia job was to create a demo for ourselves to show the 1A4MB 3.5" Floppy Drive technology to other people so we could 40MB (286) /80MB (SX) Hard Drive

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ing shoppers to the location of their favorite store and providing information about that store.

"Initially,videopresentationswerejust graphics generated on the Mac but new they are updated to interactive touch

screens," says DeMuth. People at trade shows canjust walk up and touch buttons on the screen and see a presentation about, say, particle acceleratorL "We educate people as to what they can use the interactive for — and that' s reusable information. Once you create a

presentation [for a company] you can make a small subset presentation, incorporate other graphics with it and expand it as well. And not just do it and it' s finished and leave it until it's outdated

and never use it again. [We take] existing videotape and [adapt the material to bring] the information out sopeople can view for themselves instead of seeing a linear videotape and saying 'oh, that' s great' and walk away. It's on videodisc.

People cancome up and accessit" Suchpresentationscan takeanywhere

at this point into usable videodisks that are catalogued and indexed far better than a videotape can be.So I see educa-

tion using videodisk. technology extensively. Iibraries will get into this eventually as more products become available through education.Maybe in ten years."

In two or three years' time, DeMuth predicts that more people will enter the institutions such as Capilano College. Their INFOTECH program allows interested programmers to develop skills and get handeon experience with this technology. DeMuth also sees a day where voice recognition by a computer will advance,

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atelyexecutecL This "voice macro" would be a boon for physically challenged individuals.

DeMuth points out that to create a presentation today it's necessary to con-

nect together a wide variety of equip-. ment — laserdisc players, videotape recorders, with animation generating equipment. Eventually,he says, there will be an integratedplatform where all these

hen most people hear the words Custom Software they complete. DeMuth says that he and his elements are together. conjure up thoughts of endless brother are now working into getting "Itwouldbe nice to compressvideo to roundsofdebuggingandprodmore complex video graphics generated a computer disk instead of a laserdisc," onto videdtape and into laserdisc. laments DeMuth. "If they were in the uct routes till the product is half fln"There' s lots of technology I' ve inves- same medium it would be a lot easier to ished then the programmer or the client the situation and drop the tigated and I want to workmore into high workwith. [I wish] video andsound could project.

Granted, this is the case when a ends — graphics, animation, video and be compressed to workable level on a custom programming project is emtry to get that onto videotape and then computer harddrive and therefore on a barked upon withoutsufficientplanning videodisc for a presentation," says CD-ROM disc.

DeMuth. "Down in California, they're "Those two haven't merged yet but and designi The other side of the coin is dearly also interested in interactive and virtual theywillatsomepoint Andwhen theydo portrayed byan extent of mine &om reality." itwillbeaverydean environment. Today fiveyearsago.

This company, after investWhere is multimedia headed? you have to have two different storage ing almost $500,000 in a computer net"Education and presentations are media and link those together to work work, needed a software package to where the moneyis going to come&om," with them." says DeMuth. "Converting all the video Frank Garcia (2664054) is a Vancouver-based handle the process of doing their business. As all businessesoperate differently, information of the 20th century amassed freelance writer and graphic artist. even in the same industry, I recommended a custom database application at a cost of about $25,000. Against my best advice, this company purchased an off-th~helf application &om a company in Florida for $1,000.

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projectsyour prospective company has worked for. Phone and talk to these references and if possible look at the product. The more recent the product the

better an idea you will have of what you will receive. A look at a product developed one or two years ago is unlikely to demonstrate current ability, Also look

for at least 5 years' experience in the

purchased and countless hours spent convertingdata toyetanother inadequate

computer industry, notjust education. It is a sad commentary on our high tech education, but most computer science

program. I estimate that over $200,000

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pear. If you select a custom programming company with the resources and talents of manydifferentpeopl, you will ay much more (expect to pay $125 to 150 per hour for to~ u ality people), but you will save in the long run because the project will be completed on time and the application will operate in a way that benefits your business.

How do you insure who you choose is going to do the job right? This is the toughest question of all. Numerous custom programmers spend enormous amounts of time impressing the prospective dient on all the wonderful things they will do only to be proven later that they cannot deliver. Here are a few tips on how to attempt to prejudge a custom progrsunmer or custom programming company.

The point is that for certain applications (word processing, graphics, desktop publishing, general accounting), offth~helf packagesare your best bet For the application that is specific to the operation of your business, a custom program is your best bet.

The next question is, howdo you and a good customyrogramming company, and how do you plan for success? The simple truth is you pay for what you get, and in custom prolpwnnnng nothing could be more true. If you choose a programmer who hasonly afewapplications under his/her belt and purports to lookafter thewholeprocessasaon~an show for $40 per hour...well, expect to wait a long time for the solution to ap-

were taught in university. To be fair this but a problem with slow moving education systems and a rapidly changing industry. BCIT graduates are generally better trained but they still need a few years

of realmorldexperience before they are Mly capable of handling the job. The best experience is the long-term industry experience where time has taught many lessons,

INoney How hungry for your money rs the company? Therearecertainaspecfswhich are considered the sales process and all rolpammerswillperform &ee of charge, like a test drive in a car. One or two meetings to discussyour needswould be in order. If the programmer is not willing to offer a little &ee

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advice as part of the sales process, they will be unwilling to offer a little free service whenthey make a mistake down the roacL You want to be able to feel the custom programmer is more interested

in solving your problem rather than just emptying your bank account. This is a gut feeling you have to develop. Unfortunately therearemanycustom programmers who are hand to mouth flnancially; their price may be cheaper but will they still be around to solve your problems next year is a good question.

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Havealookatthedocumentalionfor T her e are two types of custom proother applications the company has writ- grammingcontracts: the hourlycontract ten. If you can read andunderstand the w h ere the fee is based on an hourly otherapplicationsfromthedocumenta- c harge, openended to however many tion thenyoushouldexpectthesamefor

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aker all the time and efFort has been spent. You will have to show good Esith and pay up f'ront for at least 50% of the total bill and in small projects 100% of the bill would be expected up kont.

There are textbooksituations to avoid

the documentation for your application. f i x e fee basis where the contract is esti- and the firstis neve deal with a programSize has no bearing on the quality of the m a ted at the beginning and the fee'is mer/analyst. Is this a new concept? NO. document. Ease of understandingis the f i x e . If the programmer isnotwillingto The analysts who develop programs for enter into a fixed fee contract, find one all the major sofltware companies never essence of quality documentation. who will. Basically writealineofcode. The reason for never Support you are paying for letting these jobs be performed by one Get support ar• the programmer's person is that in most cases the design ex p ertise in pro- will be the simplest programsning solurangements in writ For apphcations like Word mgsupp«~g ~ Pr o c e ssing, Graphics, Desk- g"~ g l f th e flon rather than the simplest operational Planning ments will vary but be programmer is not solution. There is a natural conflict of No program can start or even be sureoftheirownex-interest in the programmer/analyst role quoted on without a certain amount of sure you lmow what top Publishing and General planning. If you receive a quote without youwinreceive and Account i n g , o f f - t h e - shelf Pe rtise and how and you, the end user, are never served g' long a project will by this role. Deal only with companies atleastone meeting and discussion, think how you will be payto yourself: does the progranuner know ing for the support. packa geS are the Way tO go. ta ke,whyshouldyou where the analyst will be directing one or more programmers; in this way the dehave confidenc m what I want or is he just going to give me There is no such thing For an application that is sign of your program will be to meetyour what he feels like? The planning process pp rt~ is the biggest part of a custom program. pay for it some- spec +c to the operation of open-ended con- needs, not those of the programmers. t ract is a b l a n k Remember: it is the analyst who should Another aspect of planning is the where, either in cash speciflcation. If the analyst is willing to or by not receiving /Our bu S i n e SS, a C u S tOm c h eque for the pro- be planning your program and controlling the direction of the project, not a embark on the project without flrst pro- what you exPect. program is your best bet g usually mm e r, whid isprogrammer. neverwndducing a detailed specification you also ing.A fl xed fee conThe flnal word is, you have to be able will have to wonder what your flnished Bugs tract is a firm com- to trustyour custom prolpammer. If you All custom softproduct will be like. Some analysts will charge forthisspeciflcation and some ware will have bugs the first time out but m i tment on the part of the programmer at any point in time sense that you are receiving less than you expect, inform consider it part of the salesprocess. When usually there are fewer bugs in custom to flnish the job. your programmer and if you cannot recyou receive the specification, read it software than in commercial software. tify the problem, cut your losses and flnd through, as your product will be exactly Because custom sokware is designed un- Payment TermS as the specification states. If you forget to der narrower definitions than commerThe n a ture of custom progrannning a new programmer. Your business deinform the analyst of a certain process he cial sofbvare, there are fewer variables is that once the job is done and if you pends on the quality of custom program cannot readyour mind and the process and less chances for bugs. Be sure your d o n't pay the bill there is little recourse y« r eceive. er. The custom prowill be missing. It is always more expen- contractcoverathebugflxesinamanner for the pro gram is of ttle value for repossession George Sladeof Regent Computer 5eniicas solves sive to add a process to an existing pro- which suits your needs. custom programming problems. Contacthim at •

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A-T's flagship product was — and remains — dBASE. Developers the world over usethe dBASE language todevelop custom applications for inventory, orderwntry, pointsof~e, accounting and other database tasks. With dBASE/Mac relegated to the curiosity shelf, the company did what now seems the obvious thing: develop a program that allows dBASE applications to run sasis on the Macintosh.

This package is the onlysolution available for the Mac that runs dBASE IV programs. Others, such as FoxBase, are 1/mited to dBASE III and III PluscompatibiTity. RunTime is networkwware, and supports multi~ d a t abases, complete

for interfacingto HyperCard and Mac prograauning languages.

The conversion imposes a few hmitations that may affect some dBASE applications. A handful of commands found in the PC Run Time version are excluded, including ASSIST, CREATE/MODIFY (several categories) and SQL commands of all types. Also, PC databases that call Intel sspecific binary code will need to be altered. nnl Ie S MFI In e n n n »

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GSI' and PST implications may exclude foreign programs. Potential business growth and expanded softwarecapacity demands must not be overlooked.

Minimalist Approach If minimal bookkeeping is required, computer toolssuch as a database pro-

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That done, compare what's available to your list. In considering software cost (not the most imporlant iteml) bear in

mind that 'street' prices vary considerably &om suggested retail prices.

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Will it run on a dual-Soppy micro (if needed)? Do you need accounts receivable or payable? How about micro billing? Must it keep track of inventory?

Would job costing help? How do you want to deal with provincial and federal taxes? Is budgeting a requirement? Is file backup incorporated? Will it help reconcile the bank account? Are there any awkward printer restricfions?

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Unlike many programs where the allnumeric date is confusing, this format has the month in letters (e.glp 81MAY91).

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Dac Easy Light

Error Handling 8 Limitations

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I feel the error handling is complete.

Each time an incorrect entryis made the

Product DacEssyLight EntryLevelAccounting Software Publisher.

DacEasyCanada,Inc.,20 SteelcaseRoad West, Unit 7, Markham, Ontario, L3R 152 Phone (416) 940-3314.

System Requirements: 512K memory (640K for graphics), DOS 2.0 or later, hard disk Price: $69.95 Of Interest To: Small businesses with basic accounting needs, home businemesand consultants.

Overview DacEasy Light is an entry level, fullfeatured accounting system for individuals or small businesses that have basic accounting needs. DacEasy Light tracks both bank accounts and creditcards, giving you the ability to have a snapshot look at your current financial picture.

DacEasy Light does have the ability to track other assets or liabilities, but the

main functionsare based around bank account and credit cards.

Setup and Ease of Use DacEasy Light installation is controlled by a simple program; all options are checked during the installation process. Once it is installed, setting up accountsisautomatic for the basic accounts,

then you may add more if you wish or delete the ones you don't neecL The menus are of a pulldown nature, which is nice. The appeaxance of the screen is quite pleasing and professional.

Reports and Documentation The documentation and packaging is complete and easyto read. There are suflxcient help guides to allow an expexienced user to obtain the desired results

from the package without reading the entiremanuaL If you do have to read the entire manual it is nice and small. The

packaging is in line with all other professionally produced software package.

Moststandardaccountingreportsare available. Higherend accounting packages have report wxiters so you can customize your reports. Considering this is an entry4evel package, all the reporla I would expect are available.

package traps it and returns an error message. I found that for the needs of most individuals and small businesses, DacEasy Light has most of the features required butthere are a few features missing that I believe are required.

DacEasy Light does not have the ability to change the printing format of the cheques, invoices and statements. This is a limiting actor that reduces your ability to personalize the package.

There are only a few printers supported, and one I found missing was mine. There are no laser printers supportecL You may ask, why does an accounting program have to support a laser printer? The reason is, if I am only spending $69.95 to buy the program I don' t want to have to get anewprinter to use it Most small businesses will only have one printer, and these days, that one printer is just as likely to be a laser printer.Check the package tomake sure your printer is one of those supportecL

Conclusion If all you want is basic checkbook and credit card accounting with nothingspecial, DacEasy Light is a stable package that wiII do the job. If you choose to use DacEasy Light you will be committing yourself to buying cheques, invoices, and statements from DacEasy. It is a pity that the package does not suppoxt usergenerated laser cheques.

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ACCOUNTING

Overview While businesses have traditionally tumed to DOS based accounting programs, many small businesses and corporate departments are now turning to their Macintosh to manage their books. Al-

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though there are several bookkeepingprogrtms available for the Macintosh,only afewpackages have been modified to deal with the reporting requirements of the GST.

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Product Great Plains Accounting Series for Printer:Imagewriter®(l,llorLQ)LaseiWriter® Macintosh Version 5.4 orcompatibfe. ImpactprinterrequlredlfmultlPublisher. Great Plains Software Inc.1701 S.W. pelt forms are used.

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port The modular line has a wide range of accounting functions including multiuser capabilities.

Great Plains has a historyofupcLtting their software based on suggestions &om their customers and from accounting professionals. (Version 6, to be released in September, will include over 100 of these enhancements.)

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Available Modules Programs that are packaged as separate modules are the most powerfitl and

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following modules: General Ledger, Accounts Receivable with Invoicing, Accounts Payable,Payroll, Cash Management with Checkbook Reconciliation, Inventory', Order Entrywith Point of Sale, Purchase Order,Job Cost with Estimating, Costing and Billing.

The program modules are fully integrated and employ the batch processing system (a key feature for many bookkeepers).The sofbvare makes extensive use of lookup windows which assist in the input of transaction details such as vendor information.

All modules have an extensive range of reportswhich in many cases can be customized to suit your requirements.

Most of the modules list for approximately $795 U.S.

Series. Although the initial investment in the software is more than some simple integrated package~, the additional features and the outstanding support make it an economical long4erm investment Norman Hovan,B.Comm.,is presidentof Rockland Coast Projects Inc., a Vancouver consulting Srm specializing in Macintosh business software and support 1f you have additional questions about Great Plains, you may reach him at 737-3903.

Insight Expert Accounting Series

Another Macintosh highendaccounting aeries, which was recently modified for the GST, is the Insight Expert Accounting Series.

Unfortunately, Layered Inc., the origiLearning the Program The modules usually come in three nal publisher of the Insight ExpertSeries components: an orientation package, a is no longer in business. Peachiree Software Inc., the newpublisher, is primarily learningguide and a reference manual The orientation package indudes the known for its DOS accounting software program diskettes, instaUation booklet although it was one of the flrstpublishers to develop a entry level accounting proand the registration information.

The learning guide has a series of gram for the Macintosh.

The series indudes modules for Gentutorial lessons for learning the module.

Included is data for a ample company to eral Ledger,Accounts Receivable and practice on. The lessons are straight Billing, Accounts Payable, Inventory and forward and easyto follow. The refer- Time Billing. No Canadian Payroll module existL ence manual isthe fi nal piece of docuThe Insight Expert Series makes the mentation. I t c o n tains screen shots, sample reports, checklisls, suggested pro- bestuse of the Macintosh interface of any The screen cedures and detailed explanations about forms are excellentand the program all aspects of the software. allows you to move easily kom task to resentanyfinantask Support Customer reatPlainssoR- cial reportgraphicallyand has the abiTity ware is excellent, both directly &om the to analyzenumbers in terms ofkeyfinancompanyandthroughitsextensivedealer cial ratios such as liquidity, profitability network Your purchase indudes instal- and asset management.

Peachtreeiscurrentlyoffering SOdaya lation support &om the company. Although the support center is located in of &ee telephone support with the proNorth Dakota, the tollkree 800 number gram. Optional support plans are availis accessible from Canada. As well as able at an additional cost.

The program also offers a live link to returningcallsprompffy,support technicians can be counted on to be extremely the 4 t h Dime n sion da t a base. knowledgeable andgenuinelyinterested Presently, the program is not multi~ in your concerns. (A re&eshing change (although modules can be shared on a &om the typical overloaded techsatmany local network). Peachtree has suggested accounting software companies who act that they are working on a multi~ as if they don't have the time to take an version to be released this year. interest.)

(The company has also recently anThereareoptionalsupportplansavail- nounced its p1ans for incorporating Sysable at additional costs depending on tnn 7.0 features into the program. These include support for the Edition Manyour needsand requirements. The company also conducts periodical training ager, which would allow transfers &om sessions in major Canadian and U.S. cit Insight to a spreadsheet program for more advanced analysis and graphing. les, The Account's Receivables module will support System 7.0's Sound Manager, so Areas to Improve No software package is perfect, yet that users can attach voice messages to customer ledger cards The new soundGreat Plains software comes close. Bc, cause of its DOSroots, the software makes recordingcapabiTitieswill provide ahandy

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The final installment of a three-part series on 'how tobuy a com puter'fornovices

Here is the last of the "How to Buy" letters. Today I will tie up loose ends and go into some advanced stuJF, just i in c ase. I say, just in case, because however much you know there will alwayabesomebodywho knows more, will have a difFerent opinion and it may worry you. Keep your cool and all will be well.

They may indeed know more but it may not be relevant to you.

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Peripherais Peripheral refers to something other than the basic CPU. These typically are screen (monitor), keyboard, printer and mouse. Of course these all have some decision to be made about them. This is the sort of stufF that keeps me in a job.

Last time I covered disks, both hard and floppy; monitors; graphics standards and printerL Topics remaining are: keyboard, expansion boards, mouse, modems, faxboards and game port

Keyboard Most people End that the "inverted T" is the best layout for cursor keys.

There is not much that you can do about thekeyboard. Ipreferthe 101-key Enhanced keyboard, it has a separate numeric keypad on the right which is useful for entering lots of numberL 101 should come as standard.

Try the keyboard out. Ifyou are a decent typist,you may want to get a keyboard that suits your particular method.

The current buzz word is "tactile"; this means you can restyour fi ngers on the keys and there is a little give before the key is considered pressed.

You can get keyboardswith and without keydick,but whatever you have you are stuck with. You will learn to love it.

Mouse

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Buy a mouse. I have seen cheap ones in a chain store for $15. Logitech and Microsoft sellmoreexpensive, buthighlyregarded ones.

You use a mause to point to a command on your screen. The mouse sits on your deskandifyoumoveitforward, left, right or backwards the arrow on your screen moves with it. W h en you are pointing at the desired command you press a button on the mouse and your wish is done. A mouse is associated with a Graphical User Interface (GUI), which I describe below.

My main activity is word processing and I find it a hindrance to have to move

myhands &om the keyboard area (where all thelettersare) to the mouse and back I find it easier to use the function keys on the keyboard.

Having said that, manyprograms, not just word processing, letyou use a mouse as an extension to the keyboatd. Moving around a document, selecting text or spreadsheet area is much easier with a mouse. This is what I recommend a mouse for: as a minor extension of the normal keyboardoperation.

Modems Modems use a telephone line to connect one computer with another. This still gives me goose bumps when I think of it. You can transfer directly between your computer and your &iend's computer or use an electronic messaging service such asEnvoy or CompuServe.

To use these, you connectwith a central computer and leave your message in your &iend's pigeonhole for them to read whenever they connect.

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spend this much, butifyou win the pools, then bully for you.

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be fun and are a good way to wind down ifyou have been working. I have ajoy-

understand what the problem was.

stick but I don't like it very much. Many

might imagine. It's one of those things

I might expect you to be using a mo-

machines todaycome with a game port as standard, if notyou will have to spend an extra $10 to $80 and it will take up one

dem within the next Gve years or so; sooner if you buy software that does the

dialling for you. If you do get one, be wary of the charges. A modem will cost anything upwards of $80 and with rates

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comphcated to put in earlier but that I consider important If you have managed to read up to here then you can probably handle this.

Facsimile Boards I feel that I am getting into the ridicu-

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lous here but Imayas well point outwhat can be done.

These boards allow the machine to

facsimile machines. Th e nice thing is

that incoming is kept in the machine for a permanent record and you can make a printout any time you want on any paper

The more spare slots you have, the more boltwn goodies you can buy later.

I think that three SPARE slots will be ample for you and your purchase now.

you buy a scanner, one of these would cost big bucks so don't bother.

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Having information is of no use un- other in the same computer and as there less you can communicate it. The CPU is competition in the marketplace the uses a device called a BUS (said "bus"price should be low. don't spell that one out or they' ll know To cut this story short, unless you are you' re full of it) to pass information be- told otherwise, it is safe to assume that tween it and the other parts of the com- your bus is ISA. This is the cheapest puter. There are different sorts of bus option and is fine unless you have a special requirement. designs available.

The industry standard bus is called ISA (Industry Standard Architecture). Where Doesthe StuffGoT This has worked well for I like a desk that I can a coon's age (say, how use for papers, coffee cups long cgo raccoons live, and general stufK I do not anyway?) and is still OK like sharing my desk with c o mputer equipment If However, IBM felt that T O A m W endows at the bus would be a limit- ~ accept bie speed y o u are the mme then you ing factorin newer mahave to find other places

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You can pay money to go to night school, pay a lot of money te go to intensive training, buy a book or enter into a correspondence course with me.

This is the wayefchoosingcommands b y having them available on the screea an d using the mouse to point at them. at the desired W h en you are p command, a dickon the mouse button is a l l it takes to run it. Clickiag on somet h ing and holding the mouse button d e wn wl e m oving the mouse is quite sensibly called dragging.

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You can expect some help with the computer &om the people that you buy &om. Youmightaskforyoursoftwareto be loaded for you; after that you should be able to use the computer with a few easy instructions.

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and then run the Windews program like ashell on top. Mine'ssetup soIjusthave When I talk about DOS and Windews to type WIN and then press REIVR¹ I am t a l king about an operating system Windows uses the full capabilities of an d an operating eaviroament that supthe amilable graphics adapter to display po rtother programs. ADOSapplicafion screens; DOS uses a grid of characters to pr ogram does net have to bather about make a screen. I t's like the difference

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"graphic" and "characterised" operat- cerned with the input it gets and how it ing environments. Remember, we are

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talkingonlyaboutthescreendisplayhere, w h ere the windew is or how big itiL the printout is a separate matter.

OUI programs have much more flex- M U l t l t a s ldng ibilityin hewtheydrawsemething. This The l a test release of Windows (verhas led to a whole new set of things that sion S.O) has one extra goody called your computer candoandhenceawhele m u l titashng,whichmeaasthatwhileyou neersetofjargon such as: Windows, Icons, work with one application the computer Point and Shoot, and Whizzy Whig, I' ll c an be processing ~ othe r s. This explain all below. dimers &om 'task~tching," which allows you work with oae application but all the others will be halted.

Windows and Icons Each Windows progzsea you run has Mulfi taskiagiscool~ s t e fyour time its own window (clever name, ehP). It is w o rhng with the computer is spentwith what it sounds like: a rectangular area of on e of you waiting for the other. The the screen where you can see a program computer is so fast that it has no trouble run. You can change the size of awindow keepingup withyour typing. Generating &om full~ a (ma x imized) to nearly a l arge database report can be slow, se nothing (minimized) and everything in r a ther than wait for the report to finish between. you may want to get on with something You can have mere thanene vrindew e lse. Yeu get the idea. openatatime. Heaceyeucanhavemore The p roblem with Windows and than ene program running at a time and m u ltitasking is that it is painfully slew with most normal~ed cemputera Te you can swap between them at will.

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I don't think that running DOS programs is all that hard and I earn a living convincing others of that. There is a dcpcc of tcchn&fcar out fhcfc arid I specially for Windovae, think Windows is earning a living because of that %e Competition However, some applications are just The only serious competition to Win- meant tobe graphic. For eaunple, deakdows is a really nate program called to p u b lishing just begs for good GeoWorks Ensemble (a.k,a. PC/GEOS) MtG and you could not have multiwhich is much faster; I Ikc it, but, as a media without a GUI. A m u ltimedia GUI, it has problems. Right now, the example might be: a database of fashion only programs that take acbrantagc of its models which contains that usual typed GUI &aturesare theones that come with information but also includes a photoit — a ama4 but decent selection inciud- graph, a voice recording, aud maybe a ingaddress book,calendar, tclecom,writ- short video of a show pcrformecL Note: ing, drawing, printing and fileenanagc- this technology is here but has not bement toola come big time yet.

Also, whenyou run a DOS program, A personal comment &om my &ace is PC/GROS halts and waits for you to Sn- that my eyes dry out and I get ent rain ish with yom DOS program before rc. more quickly with GUI than with characturning to GEOS. tcr~ dp r ograma Idon'tknowwhethcr I liked the word processor and draw- thisis because of thescrcen beingbrighter ing tool very much and generally found than my normal whitemn&lack, or PC/GROS hetter to look at than Wmwhether I tend to stare rather more as the dews. For a full review of PC/GROS sec mouse Siesacross the screen froru winJanuary's Tks Cmnputsr Pope: dow to icon-or ~ it's just my imaginalion.

Do We Abandon DOS ProI believe that Windows and ils ilk are QNlmSY with us at least for my hfetime. I don' t DOSbsmd programs are fast and full really think there will be a big change featured andapartfrom WMWAG there until we start speaking our commands is a characterised product that will do out loud. I think the Best equipment to whatever a GUI will do. This is not the uee voice control will be the car teleplace to compare GUI a'nd charactcr- phone. Sut then shat is another story... baaed products; besides, Windoves has not yet got all of its applications pro- SigninI Oft 3 grams on the marlret.

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I' ve lots more to tell you such as how to setup the computer so that itis easiest have the basics. Your best next step is to to use, how to protect your data, how to start talking to people-in the shops, your maintain the machine once you haveit friends, in fact,anybody. Once you have (you should see the cat hairs in my CPU). a computer, you might want to go on You'I probablyneed about 30 feet of talking so check out the user groups- shelf space for all the computer books your local library or The GnaPufer PaPer and magazines you' ll collect. The most would be a good place to start looking for important thing is that you have fun with this newfangled computer thing. listings. helped youand thatyou now feelcon6dent to get out there and buy. There is always something more to learn, but you

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1. What fs Fax?

200 X200 DPI on an 8.5-X l I~eh page This may seem a httle basic, but a with.Machmargins= 1,500X2,000dots, goodunderstandingof Group-SSlcsimile or 8,000,000 dots per page! Transmit(the currentfaxstandard) is necessary to ting each of these dots one at a time better understand how to control it. Es- (serially) even at 9600 BPS adds up to sentially, fax is a serial transmission of a over 5 minutes, plus handshaking (the time needed to establish the connecPleased facsimileboards have been panies, who must spend hundreds of digital bitmap. Transmittingataspeed experiencing a tremendous growth in thousandsofdollarson corporate image, of 9600 BPS (Bits Per Second), standard tion). This process is speeded up by having the fax "look ahead" down the popularity recently, as more and more fancyletterheads and reports and such, Fax sends a typicaltyped page in about a people are recognizing the capabilities who send faxes that are flfth~neration m i n ute, by scanninq your domment a current line it is sending, and determinof these devices. Usually, it starts when a photocopies of a typed fax form with horizontal line at a tune, at a resolution ing whether any dots repeat in a string. of 200 dots per inch. The vertical resolu- 200 consecutive blackdots (a 1-inch line) person receives a fax that was sent to handwritten messages on itl is sent as a token advising the machine on or them &om a Sat board. "How did you do Fortunately, the hardware and softFANS hit Allen the other end to print 200 dots, as opthat?" and "This can't be &om my fax ware available 100 DPI) in machine ar e two common responses today make s • standard posed to sending200onodotcommands. . s•• This speeds up the process greatly, but I' ve heard &om first4me PGfax recipi- quahty m ode. T h i s fax the transmission speed is still dependent eats. may sound d ocum e n t s like a lot of on the construction of the bitmap (more The truth is, a Sx machine is a very easy and even dots per inch, on this later). capable 200 X 200 DPI (Dots Per Inch) fua to accombut it is barely printer at the end of a very long cable. plish. All you A PGfax board is essentially the elecThat's 2/5 the resolution of a laser need is a little adequate to image a type tronic"guts"ofafaxmachine, connected printer, and is much better than most preparation, character full to your PC via the bus slot, and operated people get &om their dot~ t rix print- and the right ers. The secret to creating shmaing Sat mixof tools. At of curves that with contml sokware to provide the instands only structions to the Sac modem regarding presentafions rather than just clean text Can-FAX Ser- FA X it,by Alien Cozaputlag what bitmaps to send, when to send, and messages lies in the total control ofevery vices, we' ve po ps up this cemmasd ansdoar eutomatiosgy whoa yes 2mm t all the %Hat" cmsmaad pmmaay N%acfoaIs ~ticN" (typical 10to what number. T h e software also dot that is on the printed fax page. Sec- b m a shedLeuc tiolL Thisoaookpptlp48$$ $$chsshlp~tk4 AOS Jcloaf po i n t l o w er ond generation fax boards like the Intel handles log hmctions, viewing of sent or PGb~ stc, sduy,and oNouepN su of cN foam, g received bitmaps, fili ngand othe houseSatisFAXtion and sokware like FAXit ) keepingchorea A PGfax board isessenresolution is (Alien Computing) or WinFAX (Dehina) years, and allow a nearly seamless interaction with we've learned some things that we'dfike av a ilable by using the Fme Mode setting tiallyasoupedup modem, and in Ssct the a v ailable on most faxes, which doubles processes are so simile most Ssx boards your everyday saf4tare. Add to this mix to pass on to all PGfax users, in the the abilityto "broadcast" documents to interest of better looking Sees every- r esolution to200vertical DPI. Unfortu- also provide modem functions. What is large groupswith a singecommand (like wherel The pmducts we will refer to in n a tely, most people are not aware of this lachng is the ability to scan a document, allyour customers or branch oKces), t his article consists of a n I n t e l fe a t ure (or how to turn it onl). T h e but since many documents aregenerincorporate style sheets and templates SatisFAXtion fax board, operating un- d o wnside of this enhanced resolution is atel on the PC in the first place, this can (like Company letterhead, signatures, der Micmsok Windows 8.0 via FAXIt, a t h at the: page takes twice as long to hens- actually be a benefit, as scanners are next etc.), and even link up to databases for program &om Alien Computing that is m i t ,because thereis twiceasmuchinfo- to impossible to line up exactly perpenSax~ i nv o icing,purchasingand other rsupplied &eewi the Intel board. Adobe m a tion to send. This is not much of a dicular to the page beingscanned, hence electmnic fonnabased documents. 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This allows you to select FAXit as your output device (via the Control Panel, or the program's Printer Setup). Subsequent commandstoprintcause theFAXit program to intercept and pop up a window to allow phone number selection, cover sheet generation and note text Once this is done, FAXit takes the Win-

you specify (as does Windows) but the uitejagged and rough looking. You can workaround this by generating additional bitmap fonts (via Fontware or SoftType or some such font builder) for your display at larger sizes (the ratio varies depending on your display type), hutyou can quicklyrun out of hard disk space as these large font files mulfiply. Even worse if you also have to make sets for your laser printer.

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practise our simple musical skills.

MD I is net without its pitfalls, and I

for the beginner or thoseof uswho have computers at home and are looking for an-

other fun and worthwhile use for e computer, let's have a look at MIDI for the begianer. MDI stands for "Musical Instngment Digital Interface." When ane first starts to consider MI DI , on e

believes it is only for the professional recording artist, In same ways, enly the

professianal recordiag artist can obtain full results from MIDI. But for those same reasons only a professional pianist can obtain Ml results from a piano. How many livingrooms in Vancouver have a baby grand sitting in them? My point is, even thoughMDI is a very powerful teal for the professional musician, we amateurs can have a lat of fun with it, and

will point those aut first. Probably the most dificult task eacountered when attemptiag to get involved in MIDI is dealing with the MIDI salesperson. The biggest problem with MIDI for the computer user is that you mast often have to purchaseyour equipment and saftware through musicstores. In every cise, I found these salespeople to consider the tmhnical aspect of MIDI te be teo dilicult for us simple computer folk to understand. The other problem is if a computer store does carry the product, they

donotunderstand the musical side. MIDI is a vertical market and requires both

musical skill and coinputer technical skill ta adequately service.

As was the case with most computer stores several years ago, the musicMDI salesperson will invariably run all the support and training linea past yeu, to convinceyou that theyaretheonlypeople capable ef settingup a MIDI system. This is simply garbage. MIDI is about as di%cult ta set up as a printer, and running the MIDI sokware is about as difficult as running awordprocessor.MDI is simply the music vmtical apphcatsen fer com-

puters and is the same as commuaicatiens or any vertical which has a specialized hardware component. In fact, MIDI is simpler because MIDI is a standarcL While mast cammuaicatien protocols

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veryentertaining but useful, too. Ifyou've ever spent hours practising musicwith a conventional instrument, you know how

boring that was, and if you eventually gave up music, it is most likely because of the boredom of practising. MIDI provides the ability to learn and practise

enjoy able

musical skills in a very fashion.

The biggest example of tlus is that, after giving up the violin seventeen years ago, I am again interested in music and having fun with it

What doesthe beginner needT There arefour main components for a beginner MIDI system.

I.MIDI i n terface — the interface card

between the MIDI system and the computer. This can come in two forms: a stand&one MIDI card priced &om about $99 to $250, or a combination MIDI interface and sound~neration card.Ipreferthe combination because this also doubles as the most impres-

sive "sound blaster card" you have ever heard when you are playing game+ 2. Sound Generator- The hardwarecomponent which generates the musical insfrumentL This maybe either a separate box such as the Roland Ml 32, or in the keyboard such as the Roland E70,or on the MIDI interface card such

as the Roland LAPC-l. Again, as I stated with the MIDI, I prefer the combination card such as the LAPC-l, which retails for$985 with a connection box.

3. MIDI keyboard — a pianoetyle keyboard with the ability to intnface with a MIDI system. These range &om the K-Mart speciale at about $300 to the latest &om Roland, the E-70, which is about $2,800. Personal choice is abig factor here but I prefer the E-70 because of the number of features which

The Final Cut is a I &mack sequencer

for MIDI. In the real worldthis is like a 16track professional tape machine. In fact when you use The final cut the screen displays a simplified tape machine. If

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PianoWorks is the only educafional software I could find for MIDI on the PC. This will allow you to use your computer and a MIDI Keyboard to assist in teaching piano. The program is developed with a music~hool situation in mind but there is a special home version which can deal with up to five different students. The price makes it perfectly acceptable for the home user. In addition to the basic

program you must use courses which start at the basics and develop up &om there. The home version comes complete with th e f i rst two courses.

PianoWorks lets you see the notes you play on the keyboard, in real time, thus helping not only with the audio part of music but also with reading the music.

From the educational point of view, PianoWorks is amustyurchase program to start out your MIDI software library.

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software. This is music accompaniment software which produces a drum trac',k, base Irackand the left hand of your p or the rhythm track You simplyenter the chordsfor the appropriate bars and the music style and Band in a Box will be. come the rest of your band, This is a simple «nd easy~ p r ogram which will become useful and enjoyable in un-

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Band in a Box and The Final Cut. An 4. MIDI software — controls your com- added bonus to MIDI is the soundgenputer and all the MIDI devices attached eration system on boards such as the to it. I 'will closewith quick reviews of LAPC-1 &om Roland,whichwillenhance three very worthwhile beginner MIDI the sound in games and animation prosoftware packages. grams like cartooneii. For my money, I vote yes to havingMIDI in the home.

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Quest for In Search of the Perfect MIDI Program

by Graene Bennett ne of the measures ofa great tool is what I call its transpare ncy. By this, I m ea n t h e unobtrusiveness of its form, the intuitive

nature of its functions, and the immediacy of the process between intent and content. With a great tool, you should be

able to sit down and do the task at hand without having to concern yourself with the workings of the tool itself.

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This, of course, is one of the central issues behind the trend toward graphical user interfaces (GUI) for personal computers. But,just as a GUI does notnecessarily guarantee intuitive Smctionality, neither does a non&UI+ased program necessarily lack the elusive usability factor I call "feel."

Certainly,mostnon&UI~ cumbered programs share a speedy screen redraw speed that greatly contributes to their perceived speed andeKciency. Similarly,

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not asane that these features will be implemented intelligently or transparently. So, when I went looking for the best music program, I searched for a balancebetween featuresand "feel."

Although, asyouwillsee,myquestwas for MIDI, I believe that the same concept can — and should — be applied to any purchase decision where a tool is chosen for a specific purpose. Whether the tool is a software package, VCR, camera or what-have-you, the usability factor is at leastasimportantasthefeaturelist. Spend to get a real feel of how the tool works.

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The ideal "music processor" should naturally allowyou to make music in the style(s) that you are comfortable with.

For pop music, that might mean the convenient creation. and revision of verse/chorus/versesong segments;various arrangements of a song could be tried out, each with different voicings or

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Esoteric forms of music might bene6t &om a compositional tool that could

take a theme and modify it in some way, so as to create a variation. Percussion

pieces can grow &om simple rhythms, looped over and over, adding notes or rhythmic accents, possibly while another part proceeds rsitlrcnctlooping. When a rhythm track is laid down, wouldn' t it be great to be able to assign a "feel" to itsay, a shu6le or laidkeck grooveP Virtually any type of music can benefit &om the punch~/ punchout abiTities of this digital equivalent of a multi~ck tape deck Perhaps the electronic music

Iilllffili Clockwise from left: Cubase's Key Edit, IPS, MIDI Manager, Arrange, "Tape" Transport and Notation Editor windows as seen on a large-screen monitor.

the style of the program "get along." The dealer mightgrumblewhileyouspendas many minutes (or even hours) as it takes For orchestral or similarlyetructured to get acquainted, but considering the longer pieces, it might involve the ability price of high~ad software, it's not an to speed up or slow down the tempo, unreasonable request! Of course, you have forty or fifty independent instrudon' t need to explore every possible fea- mental parts and print out sheet music. ture;just spend enough time to get a feel An important capability is to display nofor how it works. As computers become' tation quantized to a dMerentvalue than (or at least appear) more intelligent and the actual MIDI data. This helps avoid intuitive, I expect this process to become the myriad of rests and smamMue notes that litter the sheet music displays of increasingly necessary — and common. many notation programs.

needs tobe synchronized to a tape recording of an acoustic instrument such as a vocalist's singing. Because MIDI is allWgital data, transposing the music to different keys, adding echo effects and changing instrument voices are all possibilitiea Synthesizer users will want to be able to save and load Sysex (system exclusive) data for each of their synths, edit voice parameters or mixdown tracks and adjust volume settings. Precise editing and quantization (errorcorrection) featurescan eliminatevlrongnotesor tighten

up a looseeounding rhythm section.

The ideal program should be able to multi~ al l owing loading, saving, formatting of disks, editing, deleting or recording of erformancesor even run completely different progranm (say, a word processor) at the same time. As your needs grow, you should be able to add mixer automation softurm:, synth editors and SMPTE synchronization devices, and send andreceive data as if they werc.' part of the main program.

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2. Performer 3.5 (Mac); Mark of the Unicorn 3. Master Tracks 4.5 (Mac, other versions for PC, Atari and Amiga); Passport Designs Inc.

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According te Chris Bryant of Annex Hi~ h , themost Mac MDI interface for the money is the Sonus MacFace ($199).

It features 3 ina, 2 outs and a switch that alleviatea the need to unplug a modem or printer plugged into to same port Because Sonus is no longer in business, potential purclsasersshould be careful to

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sequencer, and Copyist, a notation package, is popular, but Cakewalk ($250) remains a favorite for PC userswho don't require sheet Inusic.

Steve Martin of Ward's Music Connection agrees that the most popular PC title is Cakewalk although, in his opinion, the'combination sequencing~dscoring program Musicator ($495) desesves tobe more popular. Passport's Encore, he says, is another topnotch PC scoring program. (Encore is nvniksblcfor the 1BM, Mac assdAtari ST, although ths cosspcsay has discoatiasccd dsosloprasat of ths Atari osrsiois,sohich, iis itsfsaal iacaraatioa, usss still soasssuhatbscggy.—EcL) Martm's favorite Mac title is Vision, but says that Performer is running neckaadweck in terms of popularity. He named EX-Vision as a good entry4evcl title.

Notator, he says, is the top seller for the AtarL A new version called Notator Alpha ($899) includes all netation functions, eliminating only some of the editingaadquantiziagfeaturea Anothersolid

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product The best Mac MDI iatesfacc bargain I could find was fo Opcode's MDITraas-

~p e capabilitiesis Hybrid Arts'SMPTE Track Gold.

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later, with one MD I in and three MIDI

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piece ($589) supports 128MDI channels

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It works best with the company's own Performer 3.61, which is Bryant's pick for "Best Mac Scqueacer,"although Bryant says he knows of no program for the Mac that compares to C-Lab Notator on the Atari, which he calls the "best MIDI program forany computer."

According to Adam Shaikh of Tom Lee Music, the two most popular Mac

quencer) is the best available Amiga MIDI program, Pro 24 for theAmiga is apromising new entry From SteinbergJones, but only serves to illustrate how Su. behind the competitien Amiga MIDI software is. Pro 24 I, H and III were released for the Atari beFore Cubase version 1.0 (and still later, 2.0) obsoleted and replaced them. Another up~ @coming Amiga MIDI title isBarsand Pipes Professional, from longtime Amiga MIDI programmer Todor Fay. B&P Pro, like Fay's earlier effort SoundScape, is said to be plagued by some annoying bugs.

titlesare Markofthe Unicorn'sPesformer

and Opcode's US$495 Vision. For the Atari, he recommends C-Lab Notator or Steinberg Cubase. I asked Shaikh, a Cubase owner and user himself, what his biggcstcomplaintwith thatprogramwas.

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the following condusions: click on it before I read the manuall If 0 a Professiona14evel MIDI software for c h ord is displayed as sheet music on I BM compatibles is surprisingly scarce, singlestafF,youcanexplodeitaut~ gi and most dealers claimed that PC MDI c a l ly so that each voice is on its own software is weak compared to ofFerings separatestafF — mstantarrangementl The for the Atari ST and Mac. The most p r ogram notates in ree v e , and even popularPCsequencerisclearlyCakewalk, recognlzesanddisplayseachchordnam e while the best scoring program is a toss- as the music plays. up between Encore, Music Printer Plus I n fa ct, Cubase 2.0was the only title I (MPP) and Finale. (Of the three, I per- f o und that included cillof the features in sonally prefer Encore's Mac+ke user- m y "dream list" at the beginning of tlus interface and ~

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le n t r e sults to dot~ a t rix, inkjet, and

sen as the standard by which a company Atari or HP LaserJet~ l a ser printers. called MusicWriter is now distributing The M a c is up there, too, with Per sheet music in electronic format. ) Bill f o r mer and Vision both vying for "to p Brooks of Noteworthy Music recom- s equencer" title. Of the two, I prefe x' mended the $179 Laser Music Processor Vision, which is especially popular ' as the best lo~ost PC ncitation printing title.

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Vision hasamor~tandardlook~dkeel The Atari ST appears to be the favor- bu t lacks the on~ e n standard nota ite for MIDI sequencing~d~ o ring ap- t i o n sheet-music editing that later ver plications,withnearlyeven praisefor C- s i ons of Performer have added to i ls f Lab Notator and SteinbergJonesCubase. arsenal. Itisironic that, with all mytalko Of the two, Cubase has a somewhat more "Mac-like" PC and Atari programs, I Mac4kelook~ dkeel (even down to its should criticize Performer as "un-Mac ersatz Mac system fonts), while Notator is l i ke," considering it runs only on th a more rapid in its creation and editing of M a c. Nevertheless, Performer sports e musical notation. Still, Cubase has a cerwacky art deco user interface with non taintransparencyinthemanywaysitcan

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