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From %he Editor

Contents
ILC. Kdltien July 1991

Features
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on holidays in sunny New Mexico.

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Pull-motion video, compresaon, frame~bbing end more. By Creeree Beee.

We put this issue on remote control;

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 Bentte.

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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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software combination.

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.

Accounting Software

MIDI for the be9inner ...............................................................................82

M ID I asatetatseeassaaesasasaaesasusssaeeseasasseeeassetstseatsttssussetstsseesssesueesassasssssst

In searchof mightiest MIDI program of them eLL. By GreereeBeeee.

Articles
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MusicSoftware

A rapidly growing area of computer use is in the field of music. Computers

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Tricks and tips for getting the best4oohng Lazes. By Cotsfee Clese

Reviews

Check out the article on the best software for beginnerL

Enjoy the issue.

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Digital video in a windowi Ii's TV for your PC.By Delie/ Wept'.

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Editorial
Schedule

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Here's a dassy bean counter. Byneea Hoeen.

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Networking,

July 15

Education 8 Trelnlng,
Point of Sale

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Word Processing,

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Home ONce Computers

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CameraReady Distribution
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moresignificantimpacton buiiness than efFective mice in Ottawa on industry isthe personal computer had in account
sues and concernL
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The vision he and many
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THE COMPUTERPAPER JULY '91 9

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.

most
revealingdemonstra-

One of the

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.
But when the demonstrator clicked

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.

volume of datacreated

Apple

claims
Qucktime will spur thirdparty developers into
creatinga whole range of
new software including
videoconferencing,storeanbforwardvideo mail, lowcost video editing,and dynamic magazines. From
what Newsbytes saw at the

when video is digitized

for storage on a computer hard disk, Apple

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and PICT 6le formats, to provide cross-

platform application developers with a

standardforthe dynamic data exchange
from one computing environment to
another. Apple hasalso setsome Human
Interface guidelines as well.
Three compression/decompression
schemes areprovided with the 6rst release of Qaicktime, Photo Compressor,
Animation Compressor, and Video Compressor, Apple said. These vary from 10:1
to 25:I onMe4ly file decompression
schemes.
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.

s aid. One m i n u t e o f

unco
m
pressedvideodata

can take as much as 1

gigabyte of disk space, so to
make the use of hard disk
storage or CD-ROM diskstorage practical, compres
sion has. to be used to
reduce the sizeof the

conference, thatassesanent
seems correct. The third

data.

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-

Apple describes Component Manager as allowing

digitizer cards, VCRs, system software extensions and other ex-

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-

Quick
time

date the soft@me each time the hardware

was updated, Apple said. Quicktime allows the developer transparent use of all

Contact: Patty Tullcrch, Apple,Tel: 408i974-5449.

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'l4 Companies Support Apple Quicktime

SEVI<M YHILLS,CAUFORNIA,JUN
5 (NS) On the Grat day of the Seybold
Digital World conference at the Beverly
Hills Hilton, 14 companies have announcedsupportfor Apple's@xicktime,
and most are doing demos at the show of
Qucktime applications.
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-

search,

midsummer 1991.

respe
ctively.

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,

t ions and t raining, th e

t hat can b e d i vided i n t o

movie segments that can be
played backat the discretion

company saicL One of the

suggested applications was
to create a selfyaced train-

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dips within the document of someone
actually doing what the document is trying to describe, an Apple representative
said.The product is expected to be formally announced and shipped later this
year, the company saicL
RasterOps announced its video
graphic boardsand allfuture products
would be compatible with Qmcktime.
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BEVERLYHILLS, CALIFORNIA,JUN
5 (NB) Storm Technology has announced the development of the

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

In related news, Adobe Systems has

announced that the spreadsheet package willinclude Adobe Type Manager
(ATM) software and a core set of 18
typefaces&om the Adobe Type Library.

image that was being compressed and

decompressed from the hard disk on the
Hy, moved on the screen by Quicktime

Contact Patricia J. Pane, Adobe Systemsinc., 41 5962-3967;LotusDevelopment Canada Corp.,4169794000.

dition for dynamic multimedia.

I n a d e m o n s tratio n b y S t o r m ,

alone, with the screen obviously being

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communicating with the network. Called

SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, JUN 5

(NB) Dayna Communications has announced a$899 Ethernet adapter forthe
Apple Macintosh which will allowowners
of Macs that do not have expansion slots,
including the Classic, Plus and Portable
models, to connect to Ethernetnetworks.
The adapter consists of an external

box that plugs into the Mac's printer

port, through which it communicates
with the machine'amain processor, while

DaynaportE/Z, the adapter works with

Appleshare, Netware, TOPS and A/UX
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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

JPEG i m age c o m pressor c a lled

Quickpress, that runs on the card, the
company said. The kit is available for now
for a retail price of $1500, through Storm
Technology.

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Lotus also announced that it is currently workmg with two educational publishers, Addison-Wesley Publishing Com
pany and Course Technology, Inc., to
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Mac with the publisher's textbook targeted at different segments of the educational market.
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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as a help in lessening its dependence
Apple andIBM May Exchange Technologies and
on Microsoft Corporation, the sole proNEW YORK, NEW YORK, JUN 7
(NB) Apple Computer and IBM are
discussing "an exchange of technologies
thatcould change the balance of power
in both the semiconductor industry and
the workstation market," according to an

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

vider of MS k PC-DOS, Windows and

OS/2.

Apple's entire line of Macintosh computers is based on Motorola processors

and it appeared to analysts earlier this
year that Apple had decided on the
Motorola 88000 family of processors as
the base for its entry into the highwnd

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the article, Apple has become dissatisfied
with Motorola's ability to deliver products such as the 68040 and 88000 chips in
a timelyfashion and islookingelsewhere.
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

would make sense. The licensing of our

RISC technology is part of our overall
strategy to better utilize our production
capabiTity. The recent agreement with

Hitachi that allows them to put their

label on our 8090 main&ames is another
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Apple Fraud Claim

SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA,

JUNE 14 (NB) The judge hearing the
Apple Computer, Inc. copyright suit
a gainst Microsoft C o r p oration a n d
Hewlett-Packard, has been quoted as say-

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
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THE COMPUTERPAPER jULY '9 I

Atari Changes Mf'g

Strategy, Sells Plant
ALE, CAUFORNIA, J .
(NB) In an attempt to cut manufacturing costs following a disappointing 1990,
Alsri Corp. is planning to sell its main

Newsbytesthe deal onlycoversCanadaat

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the moxnent, but Bold Point is worhng

on a versionfor the U.S. market.
Txnan works with Computer Associates' Accpac Bedford accounting soft-

ware on IBM and compatible PCs. It can

spoke
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Atari posted a 5 percent decrease in

market share.

Liguori, in answer to a question concerning worldwide layoffs and cost~tting moves, told Newsbytes that "we continue to look at all operations each
month," and that the company "is clearly
in a program to improve operationL"
Atari, he said, evaluates operations on a
"countxy~ountry" basis. He particularly identified the European market as
being "sluggish."
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,

Sold Point Signs Nith INerisel

Canada, Updates Tman

VANCOUVER, B.C., JUN 5 (NB)-

Bold Point Software has signed Merisel

Canada as its third major distributor for
Tman, thecompany's point~f~e and
inventory control software. Bold Point

has also announced a new release of the

software, making it easier to adapt to
various businesses' needs.
Torontokased Merisel Canada joins
Ingram Micro D Canada, also ofToronto,

and JB Marketing of Cornwall, Ontario,

asaationwidedistributorsofTxnan. Keny

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assembly plant in Taiwan for a reported
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AugustJ.Liguori,
for Atari,
change the text in menus to suit a given
told Newsbytes that the coxnpany has business. A hair salon, for instance, might
"lined up a s eries of subcontractors
substitute 'stylist' for 'salesperson.'
throughout Taiwan and Hong Kong" and
new relmse also allows users to
that "they are now doing the assembly." callThe
up a customer's accounts receivable
According to the company, a contract
summaxy, stored in the Accpac Bedford
has been signed for the sale of the plant accounting software, without leaving
and dosing is scheduled for late June Txnan. The companyclaims that this new
l991. The sale is contingent upon cer- release is part of a Bold Point policy of
tain conditions of closing being suet.
promising custoxners atleast two updates
sales for 1990, down to $411.5 nullion,
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"The computers are down."

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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;

hardware products.
Access for Windows
now works with IBM coaxial cabling and
direct Taken Ring hast connection.
LegacyStorage Systems of Markham,
Ontario, introducecl its Legacy MA.S.S.
HFD, which it called a "hot 6x device"
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Borland Tops In Customer Satisfaction

u

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Customer Satisfaction

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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

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
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inch, provides 16grayscale levels,and
transmits at 9,600 biis per seconcL The
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HP has said that the new Sut aho
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locations, and sequential polling, which
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NEW YORK, NEW YORK, JUN 10

(NB) The Wakg WotQsas 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
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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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TOKK), JAPAN,JUN 18 (NB) To-

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be avaslaMe for shipment in late June
and will have a suggested retail price of

$R5,950.

kyobased major chemical firm Showa

D enke has
developed an inkwhich disap-

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
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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-

cal, and it wi6 sell for 10,000 yen (fB)

per cartridge earlynext year. Showa
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PERTH,AUSTRALIA,JUN 14 (NB)-

The' library of Curtin University has introduced CD-ROM equipment and data
to facilitate information retrieval. The
installation of the equipment is part of a
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trieval is much easier and ealcient than
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basic libraxy information and on4nefulltext periodical databases.
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sciences, psychology, library and information science, and Australian social science and education. The databases are
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WASHINGTON, D.C.,
JUN 7 PR)-

Roundup is a brief look at some computer stories carried in other pubhcaiions received here this past month.
The June S Cernibxrfermfd 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
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whether 50 megahertz 4SSsjrsbems really
have a set of potential mero lined up to
buy.
ColrPxxfer Ifexelfcr Nenrxdatecl Jxme S
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Coepnter Jfetail Iireab reports in this
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Netsrork I4rer4fpxedicts that Later this
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REDMOND, WASHINGTON JUN 12

Picture Plcicer image Compression

IBSEN
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New PS/2 SX Models,
Touch Screen

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
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Compaq
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IBM ismovingforwardin some areaL

When questionedabouttherumored,
the new 2.88 Mbyte 88" diskette drive is strained relationship between IBM and
now shipping and will become a stan- M i crosoft, Baney said that the most sendard item; some PS/2 machines will be sible course for both companies was to
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101 or 85'0 compaytoo much attenpatible12Qaeyvertion to rumors. "Mi-

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controller card, a newer Basic Input/
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DesktopTV Turns PCs Into TVs

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Microsoft Obtains License

For )PEG Software
REDMOND, WASHINGTON,JUN 5
(NB) Microsoft has announced that it
has licensed rights to the JPEG Qoint
Photographic Experts Group) image
compression and decompression software &om Xiag Technology. The company says it plans to use the JPEG file
compressioa system in future Microsoft
applicaiions, languages and system software products.
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

The JPEG system is, in fact, one of the

technologies used by major wire services
to transmit compressed photo files to
their subscribers &om such events as the
Super Bowl. Image files can be compressed by factors of up to 30 to 1 with no
loss of image quality, allowing for much
faster effective data transmissions via
modem
A Microsoft spokesperson said that
Xing's compression technology was selected because it was the fastest software-

only solution (to compression) that the

company had seen, and also because it is
compatible with a wide variety of hardware.
Contact: Microsoft, (604) 688-9611.

MiclosoA To Host Developers Tools Forum

REDMO N D, WASHINGTON,JUN 5
(NB) Microsoft has announced that it

will host the Microsoft Developers Tools

Forum, an open forum fordevelopers
who use Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Basic

products, Microsoft Word, and Microsoft

C as development tools. The conference
will be held August 25-29, 1991 at the
Washington State Convention Center in
Seattle.

Microsoft Chairtnan Bill Gates will

present one of the keynote addresses.
Other keynote speakers will be Mike
Maples and Steve Ballmer. The cost of
the forum is$795, with a $100 discountif
registration is completed prior to August
1st. For $495, attendees can attend single
emphasis meetings on Excel, Word, C or
Basic, rather than participating in the
entire agenda

Other activitieswill include a dinner

with the developers of the various products being discussed, and sessions where
attendees can meet with their peers to
disnm topics of mutual interest. There

will also be open computer labs where

Microsoft service representatives will be
available to help with specific programming questions, and vendor exhibitions
featuriag add-in products and tools.
Other sessions will discuss the Microsoft
Windows graphical environment, Macintosh, DOS and OS/2.
Registration information is available
by calling 80M74-7748, or outside the
US 408-287-5907.
Contact:Microsoft, (604) 688-9611.

T HE COMPUTER
PAPER JULY '91 2 5

Ballpoint Mouse
Wins Design Award
REDMOND, WASHINGTON,JUN 10

(NB) Microsoft Corporation has announced that the Industrial Designers

Society of America (IDSA) has selected
the Microsoft Ballpoint mouse to receive

a Bronze Industrial Design Excellence

Award.
The Microsoft Ballpoint mouse was
selected &om 690 applicants, a 80 percent increase over last year. Entries are
judged on positive social impact;innova-

WordPerfect Font Scaling For Old Laser Jets

EMERYVILLE,CALlFORNIA,JUN 12
(NB) Fon~n-The-Fly is a fontmaling package with 19 typefaces for
WordPerfectusers. Shippingthismonth,
the package uses popular Laserjet printers (and compatibles) to produce arange
of fonts normally only available in the
newer Laserjet III or through expensive
or complicatedmeans.

The new product &om laser Tools is

Type sizesavailable are from 1/4 to
claimed to provide these fonts even on 200points. Fonts'-The-Flyloadswithin
dot matrix and inkjet printers. The fonts WordPerfect, so users do not need to
include the Times, Univers, Garamond preprocess or postprocess their workfamilies, as well as Futura Bold, Univers just use WordPerfect as normal, but with
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a full range of fonts now available. It
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licensed &om Compugraphics-the same Contact Micheiie Martin, 1-800-767%004.
system the Laserjet IH uses.

tion; benefits to the user; benefits to the

client or manufacturer; appropriate uee

of materials and processes; and appearance.
The Ballpoint Mouse attaches to the
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user can adjust the angle of the mouse
relative to the keyboard.
The Bailpoint mouse can be set to a 0,

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to run under Windows for Pens. This
increases the potential market strength
of Windows for Pens, an extension for
Microsoft's graphical operating environment

PenApps is currently available in a

developer'sreleaee
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This is not an IBM/Apple style rivalry, as
applications created in PenApps for
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Though transferrable, the applications
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hindered bya leastcommon denominator look and feel, according to Slate executives.
No release date for the Windowsproductwasannounced. The product cannot
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pen extensions, which also have no announced release date. Slate shipped
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T HE COMPUTER
PAPER JULY '91

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Novell Ships
Netware For SAA

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PROVO, UTAH, JUN 14 (NB)Novell has announced that is has begun

shipping Netware for SAA Version 1.0.

Netware for SAA is a network operating system which allows Novell networks
to communicate with IBM mainframes
or AS/400 host computers. Users can
also utilize host-based network manage-

An Innovative
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ment, database and oKce automation

Apple Macintosh
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applications.
According to Novell, Netware for SAA
is implemented as a set of netware
loadable modules. A typical application
might be for users in remote locations to

run Netware for SAA along with file,

print database or other networkloadable

What makes our training unique?

modules on the same server. Users of

Netware for SAAwill enjoy reduced costs
by eliminating the need for a dedicated
gateway computer, Novell officials saicL

Interactive multimedia for faster, more effective learning

Design, layout, and desktoppublishmg principles
Take-home review diskettesand companion design guide

Thursdays until August 15

Novell dan t o have received "very

positive feedback" from its beta sites during testing of the product.
Security features of Netware allow
managers to reslrict access to specific
users or groups using standard Netware

tools. For example, a user could be limited to a specific period of time they can

spend on the system by setting up user

IDs with expiration dates. Additional
controls can be set to allow user access

f'rom a specific workstation only or denying access to a user after normal business
hours. Access can also be limited to

specific hasts.
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disk duplexing, read~ a te v n i fi cation, duplicate directory structures and
file allocation tables, disk mirroring, and
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(NB) US West, Rogers Cantel, and

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on creating a roaming service for cellular
telephone customers traveling toJapan
and the United States.

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

said it plans to inaugurate the service by

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Switched Digital International Service to
Canada inJuly. Switched Digital International Service will then be offered to 12
countrieL It involves dialing~ digital
linesatup to 56,000bits/second each far
fast transmission of data or for video
conferencing.
AT8cT wants to expand the service to
64,000 bit/second lines over the next
year. The whole thing is subject ta FCC

approval, and all calls- must start in the

U.S. Two lines ase necessasy for ts~ssy
video calling, but only one line would be
needed for digital sadio broadcast feeds,
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could also be used for burst" data traffic
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THE COMPUTER
PAPER JULY '91 2 7

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

GPS systems are seen as the next technol-

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-

ogy wave in Japan.

ing. It can also be installed in a car as a

navigator.
Sony will also release the GPS core

tically anywhere on the earth.

unit, which it says can be hooked into a

'/ ]

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Currently, there are 15 satellites Goat-

ing in orbit. Nine more satellites are

expected to be launched and will go into
operation by 1998. With these satellites,
one's position should be locatable prac-

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Contact: Sony, +81-3-3448-2200 Fax, +81-3-34483061.

Japan:NTT Laying Phone Cable Capabie Pf TV Ransrnission

TOKYO, JAPAN,JUN l3 (NB) NTI'

says it will lay out powerful optical Sber

cables which can be shared for telephone
lines and cable televisions (CATV). The
cable can aho be used for high deGnition
TVs.
NI T's new Sber cable has an amaz-

ingly large circuit capacity. Asingle optical Sber cable can transmit the broadcast
programs from a maximum of 5,000 to

6,000TV channels simultaneously. It will

t ake at least several years for NI T

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linked with Mitsubishi Electric Mitsubishi is manufacturing the TV

phones and both firms are selling them.
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~
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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.
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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-

owes rice ver~

plays quotes immediately without any

recalculation or other user interaction.

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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Contacts: Patty Conley, The Weber Group(for

Lotus), 617-661-7900; Whitney Greer, Sun
Microsystems, Inc., 415-3364598; Amelia Ross,
Telerate Inc., 201-30~ 3 ; K athleen Farmer,
Teknekron Software SystemsInc., 415-325-1025.

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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

A/UX D e velapment Tools use the

same development toots available now

NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE,JUN 12

(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

for Macintosh, with Unix tools. A/UX

shell, Apple saicL The MPWavaitabiTityin

users can run Macintosh, Unix aiid X

A/UX leis programmers create Macin-

Window System applications simultaneously within windows an the Macintosh desktop, Apple micL Third party
products also allaw users to run Motif
and MS-DOS applications as well.
The tools available in the new kit are

tash applicatians while taking advantage

the Macintosh Programmers Werkshop

to display Macintosh menus and win-

(MPW) and the MPW shell, C compiler,

Ct+ compiler, Object Pascal compiler,
assembler, resource editor, seurce
debugger and assembly language

dows. This allows the developer to create

the appearance of a Macintosh application &om a Unix object file, Apple said.

ef the Unix software development envi-

ronment, the company saitL

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

ContacL Jackit Prornes, Apple, Tel: 408874-3609,

Fax:4088742185.

available fram the workstation manufac-

turer directly, with the exception ofusers

who purchased Transcript 2.1 from Sun
whe should call Adobe directly.
ContacLPatricia Pane,Adobe,Tel:415862-3967,
Fax: 415861-3769.

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MKNLO PARK,CALIFORNIAJUN'I

(NB) Philips, the Dutch electronics

company, has used X/Open's Fast Track
procedure to adapt Philips' CD-ROM
technology to open systems. Larry
Lettieri, spokesman for X/Open, told
Newsbytes that it is "customers that wilt
bene6t" from PhiTip's specification because of the ability to utilize CD-ROM
technology.

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).
Lettieri told Newsbytes that Philips
simply took their existing technologyand
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Application developers can naw write
portable applicatiens for open systems
that can use CD-ROM<pecific information. Without the X/ Open CD-ROM
Support Component (XCDR), obtaining such information would be itferent
for all implementations af CD-ROM file
systems. Additionally, sjrstem administrators can give users access to CD-ROMsin
a uniform way, and information publishers can produce CD-ROMs that will be
usable on open systems &om di6erent
publishei s.
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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.
TogetsufBcientamountsof information
off of a CD-ROM, it is necessary to de-

Desktop Video

Multimedia
Eciitorial hy araeme Bennett

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.
The applications for this Sedghng
technalogyarejustbeginningta emerge,

nece
ssarily

but obvious candidates are multimedia

publishing nd storage, transmission of

video with audio over standard phone
lines, interactive iraining and education,
and more.

Although most full~ation digital

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

play back previousiycempressed video

- and sound at speeds beyond 50 &ames
per secancL Based an compression technology developed by UVC Corporation
of IrvineCA, the audio portion requires
a $60 adapter card, but the video pertien

will play an any VGA~quipped PC/AT,

386 or 486 system.

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

Compression

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

Amia

displayed in resume at 30 &amcaycr- Amiga graphics huis,

uliimedia. It has been called

the zerokillian dollar industry; the integration of all those
things yau never wanted to intqpate;
the solution in search of a market The
trouble is, fewpeople can agree on what
it is. No wonder the market remains
amorphous.
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

de prefer

eddy

Of course, I could be just as vrell

describing advertising, the latest blackbuster Sick, ar a dozen other hubristic
pastimes. The cQFerence, of course, is
that with a desktop computer and assorted gadgetry, ttus awesome power of
persuasion can be yours. People will
rightly claim that multimedia encour-

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.

equipped'-

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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PAPER jULY '91

33

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.

PC Nlultimedia Production:
Desktop Video, Electronic Presentations,
Engineering Simulations, Interactive Kiosks, Demo
Disks, Trade Shows and Broadcast Quality Video.

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Compression, Programming, Record to Videotape. The
experts in Multimedia on the IBM compatible platform.

Vkleotape RecorderController~n external box

VISIDN:

or internal card that allows you to control a videotaperecorderatvariouslevelsofaccuracy.Used for

kame-by-frame recording to videotape. (See also
real-time recording.)

M ultimedia I n c .

VideoToaster~currently, a pl ugs card for the

Do it with VISION.

Amiga 2x00, although NewTek is said to be prepar-

ing a standalone version to work with other com-

puters) supports real-time, fair qualily, ADO-like

digital manipulations of video input in real time. The
Toaster comes with an impressive array of 24-bit
aint and 3-D rendering tools, for U5$1595. The
ideo Toaster requires a TBC for proper use.
Video Display Card-e card that displays graphics
on an RGB monitor. The card may support either 8,

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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
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workstations. Programssuch as AutoDesk Anima-

MIDI Interface-MIDI (musical instrument digital

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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

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CD~uallty~ . 1 KHz audio.
CD-RO~ o m pact Disc ReadOnly Memory. Up
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Overview of Video9raphics
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ized uses such as machine vision, robotInstalling this card did not pose any
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cal "compromise" developed back in the overlayastill image over top of live video.
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The VideaWindaws card is nota computer video display baard. It works with
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ane can switch between a number af
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The software also allows for the control of external devices like video laser
disc players and VCRs. Now, this brings
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on computers software control of external, electraenechanical devices. It is

The functionsof the TV Tuner are:

122 channel capability (12 channels of
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water? 'Use the dryer or hang on the

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line? '," explains DeMuth.

The interactive is being toured across
the country by the Ministry. DeMuth's

Pioneering Interactive Hyperrnedia

byFrank Ganis
It used 'to be that computers could

only produce "twodimensional" materials like the printed word, page layouts,
financial sheets, database and the like.
But now, with c o m puter a n i m ation

tember last year and will continue edu-

AFFOIIIMLBLE

cating his audiences untilJune this year.

Norm has been to St.John' s, to Victoria,

Color Monitor
Systems

and many parts of the B.C. Interior. It is

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
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The limitations of creating animation
on the primitive Apple II disappeared
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eventually, DeMuth graduated to integrating CD quality sound, animation and
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there's now an Imagineers branch in
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DeMuth still flies down occasionally to
consult on projects. After cutting a demonstration presentation of what they had
to offer, Imagineersvisited the MacWorld
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42 THE COMPUTER PAPER jULY '9l

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,

mult
imediagameviaeducational

so that verbal commands will be immedi-

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.
This application proved to be inadequate,so a programmer was hired and
source code purchased to modify this
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Experience
Ask forreferences and a list of other

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

graduates need to spend another five

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later, thiscompanystilldoesnothave the

years unlearning all the mistakes they

application to effectively run their busi-

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ness.

DOS 4.01

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

resp
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T HE COMPUTER
PAPER JULY '91 4 3

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.

Fee types

Documentation

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

hou r s are spent on the contract; and a

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

gram rather than write it i n t h e fi rst

538-5076.

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An Intro to

e ive
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CCOIIn
by DonWilkcs
For many small
business people, accounting is the most
perplexing part of
running their operation. How else could
a ccountants

Check to see how

earn

such a decent living)

Beyond dealing with

workfties,created as

t he i n t r i c acies o f

the program is used,

will gobble up some

bookkeeping, when
the time comes, selectingasuitable com-

nlorel

Since some installation routines will

modify
exi s t ing

puter program only

adds &ustration. That

chore &equentlyends
up being shifted to,
who else...an accountant. Everyone, however,
does not employ outside financial as-

A UTOEXEC.BAT

'coNHG.ssg' 6les to 1rl-

crease the operating

system's buffer and file
handling, check to see how the program
deals with those Slee, or make a copy of

sistance.

Good Proerams Scarce

them before starting the installation.

Decent and easy-t~ b o o kkeeping

software for smaller operations is scarce.
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-

gram or spreadsheet might be used to

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Light

Error Handling 8 Limitations

Iwas notable:to crash thispackage,so

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
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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
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one printer is just as likely to be a laser
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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
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Personally I am not overly impressed

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Consider one other point: when it
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Thusif your needs are met by this simple
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Macintosh & Great Plains:

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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highland

though there are several

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

Ireat Plains a Leader

Great Plains software, one of the lead-

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Product Great Plains Accounting Series for Printer:Imagewriter(l,llorLQ)LaseiWriter

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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
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forms are excellentand the program
all aspects of the software.
allows you to move easily kom task to
resentanyfinantask
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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

Preparing financial statements for your bank?

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Conclusion
Ifyour company has specifi accounting needs,requires a high level ofproduct support and desires fiexibility, I recommend the Great Plains Accounting

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50 T HE COMPUTERPAPER JULY'91

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.
A recent incident in Ye Olde
Com Puter Shoppehadmeandsome

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chap eyeingeach other like wewere &om

difFerent planets. We can't have been
talking about the same IBM PCs; we were
not wrong, just coming from different
anglea

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.

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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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PAPER JULY '91 5 1
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It is not just for calling your buddies;

you can also refer to nationaL and international databases, pay your bills, book

spend this much, butifyou win the pools,

then bully for you.

airline tickets and all sorts of neat stuK I

leame Port

used a modem for the Grat time in Egypt

and they are really not as difficult as you

uae ajoystick Don't knock it, games can

You need a Game Port if you want to

that once you have done it you can' t

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

slot.

Complex lssaaes

around 29 cents for a thousand charac-

There are a few topics that were too

ters sent, it sounds cheap but it mounts

up real quick

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-

Exyarlsion Boards
or Boltmrl aoodies

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.
Fax boards cost around $500 and in
the pricerange we are considering for

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ISA parts and EISA parts alongside each

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.
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To cut this story short, unless you are
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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
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learn to love it so don't worry too much
When you minimize a window it bc.
about it.Just check that the programwill c e mes an "Icon,"whichsai small picture
de what you want. Too many people will t h a trepresents the program
youare runtell you that the sofbeare they use is the n i ng. k a ns typically are placed at the
best Such people will also recommend
the most darling little restaurant in the v

Point and Shoot

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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be loaded for you; after that you should
be able to use the computer with a few
easy instructions.
If you buy
sokware you
This i s how it is said, it stands for
will getman
, leamingprograaLr that "What You See Is What Yeu Get"; the
teach you by example and you may be i n i tiellettersareWYSIWVGand so we say
"Whizzy Whig."
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is

Windows. Te use it you first start DOS

doubleheight. Th'
is extremely useM if I am Ixying to
make a page look good as in a monthly
new sletter or advertising material.

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 REIVR
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

ho w the letter A gets onto the screen-it

between drawing &eehand aad using j u st tells DOS to do it. Similarly, a WinScrabble letters. I s h all call these d o ws application program is only con-

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

res p onds to it; it is not coacerned about

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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runWlndows at an acceptable speedyou
neecl a 886 with a Set hard chive and at
least 4MB of RAM. On top of this you
need tobuyapplicationssoftwarewritsen

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
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grams on the marlret.
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I' ve lots more to tell you such as how
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have the basics. Your best next step is to
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start talking to people-in the shops, your maintain the machine once you haveit
friends,
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59

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.

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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
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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
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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
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2. The Windows Environment

printer, is that the pointsizes available on

Micrceoft Windows has captured the

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approximation (WYSIAWIG - What You
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the menu are much smaller than the

standard Windows point sizes. This is

because the resolution of the fax is much
higher than that of the display, so when
FAXit scales to the higher resolution, the
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font in this case) shrinks. FAXit will

bitmapped
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available font bitmap to whatever size

tion. The FAXit software installs a Windows GDI (Graphical Device Interface)
called CAS, which appears to all Windows applications much like a printer.
This allows you to select FAXit as your
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cover sheet generation and note text
Once this is done, FAXit takes the Win-

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gram provided called WFNSOSS. Un- m q m rting to PCX format at a 150 DPI
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Faxi n g kom your PC is much easier
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R5%, 75% etc. Other values may lead to l ike FAXit and Type Manager to handle
an ixregular pattern which will printwith m o st of the converting/creating chorea
a "plaid" effect, vrhich often looks
I t ' s not a perfect world yet though, as
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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

8 0

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ere
e se or
om uters?

and printers have at least one variable,

MIDI has none.

Another major pitfall with MIDI is
that the so&ware is about five years behind the times. Most MDI software is still
capy~rotected with various methods
which will not inhibit the die-hard boot-

legger, but will just serve te annoy the

legitimate and honegtuser. Another common wealmess is compatibility with all

~s

. M o st MIDI software
is very spe-

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software yau are censidering before you
buy. Fortunately for the beginner, the
lower~ad softwaretakes the more up-todate approach as to copy pretectian and
compatibility.
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contrary, I found MIDI not only to be

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
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ouwant
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interface card and cables.

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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Band in a Box is the bestname for this

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
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will become useful and enjoyable in un-

your

needswith knowledgeable people Irecommend talhng directly to the software

pubhshers as they have better computer
knowledge than the music storea As this

is only a recommended system, check

your needs and desires outwith someone

knowledgeable before you buy.

iano Harchsrare reciuliemenfs:IBM PC or compatible

der five minuets, er, minutes.

The Final Cut

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MIDI is worth considering for home

use, particularly if you have children and
you want to encourage them to get involved in music. MIDI will not only aid
with the educational process through
software such as PianoWorks it will add
can be changed in real time vs oWine
hours of enjoyment with products like
using the MIDI software.
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.

On n bmfget?

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

a feature list the length of your arm does

as much time with your dealer as it takes

Pmfersiruud-loobngxunrlts from your IBM

I Dream of INIDI

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.
Indeed, a tool that could do all of these
things would be wcry cool

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Top 10 NIIDI Programs

1. Cakewalk v4(PC); 12 ToneSystems

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.

4. Vision 3 (Mac);Opcode

5. Finale 2.0 (Mac and PC); Coda Music Software

6. Trax (Mac and PC); Passport Designs Inc,
7. Cubase 2.0 (Atari, Mac y1.0); Steinberg-Jones
8. PC MIDI Pack Plus(PC); (information unavailable at press time)
9. Encore 2.0 (Mac PC, Atari v1.36); Passport Designs Inc.
10. Music Printer Pfus v4 (PC); Temporal Acuity Producis, Inc.

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After deliberating a moment, he said

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alleviatea the need to unplug a modem or
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F or I B M

and Amiga,
Dr.T's Intro,

c on t a i n i n g
both Prism, a

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

enquire about the warranty status of this

program for Atari users requiring sync-

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

~p e capabilitiesis Hybrid Arts'SMPTE

Track Gold.
Amiga inusic software, according to

later, with one MD I in and three MIDI

Martin, doean't sell well at The Connection, a sentiment that was echoed at several other dealers I spoke to. Hewever,

outs for a paltsy Uc459.00.

Mark of tlie Unicorn'a MIDI T i me-

piece ($589) supports 128MDI channels

the general consensus appears to be that

as well as SMPTE read/write capabilitiea

Dr. T's KCS (keyboard controlled se-

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,
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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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and other research, I was able to reach

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the following condusions:

click on it before I read the manuall If 0
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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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deniable power and Finale's mind4og- C u base support printing to PostScripr t

gling complexity. It may be significant p r inters, although both produce excel
that Encore's file format has been cho-

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.

s t u d ios across Canada and the states.

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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st a n dard buttons, menus and window

accomplish the same tasks that make it a t hat look great, but serve to obscure th
complete joy to use.
program's functions.
0a
(At press time, we received a brandUse r s interested in mixing digitale
new title called Multi 1.1 from Oktal
d i o withM D I a rebestofFwithanSE/8
Software (distxibuted by Koxg Canada), o r Mac Ili
es machine, using a spec'
ial
another
nota- v ersion of Vision called Studio Visio
tioneditor/libxsLIrian for thoseluckyAtari
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Multi sports SMFIE compatibility, score tal signal processor) card to record and
printing and all the bells and whistles, editC&qualitydigitalaudiotxacks.Oth
but of' the three, only Multi is not copy- D i giDesign DSP~latedproductsindude
protected afeatureweheartilyapplaud a U S $299program calledDeckthat turn
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priced. Oktal also makes a $249 seEnco r e,whichreceivedanhonorabl
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quenceronly version called MultiJr.)
ment i on in MacUser malpzine's 199

And we' ve
sharpened it

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I preferred the sequencing section of

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arrangements as graphic objects. Many a nd edit scores as deNy as a "purelykoreI
playbackmodificationscanbemadewith- p r i nt" program like Passport'anon-MD
out touching the originalrecording, and N o teWriterH.AllMacnotationprogr
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I saw supp
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Amiga MIDI software support was

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