Macworld back issues from March 1994:
Three generations of PowerPC Macs: bridges to a new interface. (State of the Mac) (Column)
Mar 01, 1994; ... Yes, It's odd to start thinking about the second and third generations of a product before the first even arrives. But with PowerPC Macs it makes sense because the new processor is the foundation for interesting future technologies that promise to revitalize the Macintosh.The buzz ...
MacBulletin.
Mar 01, 1994 ... PowerPC UpdateSeveral companies detailed their PowerPC plans in January at the Macworld Vision 94: PowerPC conference and Macworld Expo.Apple's PlansAV capabilities will be optional in the PowerPC Macs, although the current AV Macs' speech-recognition ...
Apple unveils first PowerPC product. (upgrade board)
Mar 01, 1994; ... As part of Apple's effort to maintain sales of existing Macs while raising confidence in the impending PowerPC line, the company announced a PowerPC processor upgrade board that will work in several current Mac models. Shown for the first time in January at Macworld Expo in San Francisco, ...
Apple's online mail. (eWorld online service) (Brief Article)
Mar 01, 1994; ... At Macworld Expo in January, Apple announced eWorld, an online service designed as an electronic mall where users can access Apple technical support and purchase products and services from third parties. Planned for release in April, eWorld will link Newton, Internet, and AppleLink users ....
RasterOps' high-end video bundle. (RasterOps MoviePak 2 Pro Suite) (Brief Article) (Product Announcement)
Mar 01, 1994 ... RasterOps' MoviePak2 Pro Suite is a $4999 digital video-editing solution. It includes the 24XLTV 24-bit color display adapter and graphics accelerator; the MoviePak2 60-fields-per-second JPEG video compression card; the Video ...
Tempo expands AppleScript support. (Affinity Microsystems Tempo II Plus 3.09) (Brief Article) (Product Announcement)
Mar 01, 1994 ... Affinity Microsystems' macro recorder, Tempo II Plus version 3.09, adds a script runner that can read and change variables in AppleScript scripts. Version 3.09 does floating-point ...
FWB RAID software. (FWB RAID Toolkit for Macintosh) (Brief Article) (Product Announcement)
Mar 01, 1994 ... FWB's RAID ToolKit family of software can stripe or mirror data (RAID Levels 0 and 1) to partitions on any two like drives, as well as logically link multiple ...
Hard Disk ToolKit competitive upgrades. (FWB Inc.) (Brief Article)
Mar 01, 1994 ... A non-Apple SCSI disk-formatting utility gets you $100 off FWB's Hard Disk ToolKit. Trading in your software gets you the ToolKit for $99. FWB is ...
Price of PostScript plummets. (NEC SilentWriter Model 640)(Brief Article) (Product Announcement)
Mar 01, 1994; ... For those who'd like a PostScript Level 2 laser printer for a home office or small business, the news just keeps getting better. NEC has announced its Silentwriter Model 640, a 6-pages-per-minute, PostScript Level 2 printer for a street price of $800; and Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) ...
Timesaving tools from Atticus: utilities for PowerBook and desktop.
Mar 01, 1994; ... Two time-savers from Atticus Software can speed file searches and make using a RAM disk practical. Atticus Vista makes a copy of each directory found on your disk, CD-ROMs, or any user-specified volume, and places the copies in an ordinary folder on your desktop. When you want to find a ...
Drives on the run. (removable hard drives) (Mega Drive Systems Mercury) (Brief Article)
Mar 01, 1994; ... The latest additions to Mega Drive Systems' Mercury line of removable hard drives are 1.6GB and 2.1GB large, sport Fast SCSI-2 interfaces and 1MB internal caches, and can de-liver sustained data-transfer rates of up to 10 Mbps ....
Will FireWire replace SCSI? High-speed data transfer. (Apple developing new bus technology) (Brief Article)
Mar 01, 1994; ... Apple, Texas Instruments, and other key industry players are nearing a final version of FireWire, a very-high-speed serial data bus that could replace serial ports, ADB, and SCSI in future Macintoshes, other personal computers, peripherals, and consumer devices. FireWire will be fast enough ...
Desktop color LCD monitor. (CTX International LMT-5030) (Brief Article) (Product Announcement)
Mar 01, 1994; ... Now coming down the runway is CTX International's sleek thin-panel monitor. The LMT-5030 is a 9.4-inch, active matrix, color LCD screen for the desktop Macintosh in your life. It produces 4096 colors on a 640 by 480 screen and includes digital controls for horizontal ...
RAID stack: fast, modular storage. (Procom Personal Array disk array subsystems)(Brief Article) (Product Announcement)
Mar 01, 1994; ... Procom is shipping its Personal Array line of disk-array subsystems, which come with two Fast SCSI-2 drives in a single case (total capacity 480MB to 2.6GB) and a software extension that supports RAID Levels 0 and 1 for striping and mirroring, respectively. With striping enabled, the arrays ...
Bugs & turkeys.
Mar 01, 1994 ... When using PageMaker 5.0's story editor, hitting the help key disables the toolbox and some other functions. Aldus recommends quitting and restarting to clear your CPU's cache. The company hopes to fix the problem in the next maintenance release.Logitech MouseMan users have ...
Fast talkers: V.Fast-class modems anticipate V.34. (Supra SupraFaxModem; Multitech Multimodem II)(Brief Article) (Product Announcement)
Mar 01, 1994; ... Can't wait until summer for the V.34 (V.Fast) modem standard? Some companies have announced V.Fast Class modems, based on an interim Rockwell chip set, that send and receive data at 28.8 Kbps.Supra plans to ship the SupraFaxModem V.FC in the same case as the current V.32bis model ...
Lapis cuts prices. (Lapis Technology ProColor Server graphics cards) (Brief Article)
Mar 01, 1994 ... Lapis has cut prices by up to 28 percent across the board. Prices on the ProColorServer line of graphics cards are now $50 to $200 lower, and the ...
QMS eases printer upgrades. (QMS Inc.'s 1725 SLS) (Brief Article) (Product Announcement)
Mar 01, 1994 ... The 1725 SLS 17-ppm, 600-by-600-dpi (true-resolution) network laser printer stores its operating code on a 40MB internal hard drive rather than in firmware. That means users download software ...
CD-ROM utilities. (Casa Blanca Works introduces DriveCD) (Brief Article) (Product Announcement)
Mar 01, 1994 ... Casa Blanca Works is shipping DriveCD, a $79.95 collection of CD-ROM utilities with drivers for several popular CD-ROM drives, a sound player control panel, and caching software that speeds data ...
Now Compress update. (Now Software introduces Now Compress 1.01) (Brief Article) (Product Announcement)
Mar 01, 1994 ... Now Software has updated Now Compress to version 1.0.1, fixing all known bugs, increasing the speed of the Inspector Window, and adding AV Mac compatibility. In addition, users can now decide whether ...
APS HyperDAT. (digital audio tape drive) (Brief Article) (Product Announcement)
Mar 01, 1994; ... If you're worried about your data, get it on tape. This DDS-2 tape drive fits up to 10GB on a single, 120-meter DAT tape and features sustained data-transfer rates of up to 28MB per minute. The drive is available in ...
CD/Maxtet. (Optical Access International CD-ROM jukebox) (Brief Article) (Product Announcement)
Mar 01, 1994; ... More CD-ROMs than the mind can imagine. The CD/Maxtet starter unit contains seven CD-ROM drives, which, when connected to your network server with the company's driver/cache software installed, only take up one SCSI ID number. The drives sport average access times of 180ms with up ...
Color Fusion. (Xceed Technology Color Fusion display adapter) (Brief Article) (Product Announcement)
Mar 01, 1994; ... Now LC, Color Classic, and Performa owners can run large color displays. This PDS card provides accelerated 24-bit color on monitors up to 16 inches (832 ...
FontPac. (NewGen Systems external 120Mbyte SCSI drive) (Small Computer Systems Interface) (Brief Article) (Product Announcement)
Mar 01, 1994; ... How much would you pay for a 120MB external SCSI hard drive? But wait, there's more. This hard drive comes with 240 Bitstream PostScript Type 1 fonts preinstalled and a SCSI cable. You just ...
Genicom 7610. (laser printer) (Brief Article) (Product Announcement)
Mar 01, 1994; ... This 10-ppm, 600-by-600-dpi true-resolution laser printer is PostScript, HPGL, and PCL 5 compatible; ships with 83 memory-resident fonts and 2MB of RAM (expandable to 34MB); and handles paper sizes up to B5. It also ...
Impact RGB Color Classic. (cards for expanded graphics, CPU acceleration) (Extreme Systems) (Brief Article) (Product Announcement)
Mar 01, 1994; ... It's tiny, it's beautiful, it's got color, but it's just too darn slow. We're talking about the Color Classic, but the Impact line of cards provides both CPU acceleration (via a 32MHz 68030) and expanded video support (up to 24-bit color on 16-inch monitors with the RGB/21 ...
JetDirect EX. (HP printer interface) (Brief Article) (Product Announcement)
Mar 01, 1994; ... Take nearly any printer with a standard Centronics parallel port, add a JetDirect EX interface to it, and you've got a networkable printer that can be connected directly to a LocalTalk, Ethernet, or Token Ring network (individual versions for these networks are sold separately). All ...
LFR-X. (Lasergraphics film recorder) (Brief Article) (Product Announcement)
Mar 01, 1994; ... Coming in at the middle of the company's LFR line of film recorders, this product can handle either 35mm film or Polaroid instant film, depending on the installed camera back (both backs are included). The product can record images at up ...
MaxXtend I and II. (Patton Electronics short-range modems) (Brief Article) (Product Announcement)
Mar 01, 1994; ... This line of short-range modems allows Macs to communicate with compatible terminal servers, other computers, or serial devices equipped with a matching short-range modem. The Model 1007 MacXtend I provides connections at distances up to 17 miles over unconditioned twisted-pair wire. The ...
PageBlaster Universal FMC. (PRDS) (Brief Article) (Product Announcement)
Mar 01, 1994; ... If you've got a color ink-jet printer and one of these boxes, you can send and receive plain-paper color faxes, with resolution limited only by the resolution of your printer. The unit includes a 14.4-Kbps fax modem and 4MB of RAM, and connects directly to the printer for ...
Panther for Macintosh. (Tandberg Data SCSI tape backup system) (Small Computer System Interface) (Brief Article) (Product Announcement)
Mar 01, 1994; ... This SCSI Quarter Inch Cartridge (QIC) tape-backup system comes in a range of capacities, from 250MB to 2GB, with sustained data-transfer rates of up to 18MB per minute. The package ships ...
PLI DAT 10GB. (Peripheral Land Inc. tape drive) (digital audio tape) (Brief Article) (Product Announcement)
Mar 01, 1994; ... A tape drive like this one can leave you with something to remember your data by. The product is DDS-2 compatible and stores up to 10GB of data on a single 120-meter DAT tape, at sustained data-transfer rates of up to 732 Kbps. It ships with ...
ProColorServer 24 and 24x. (Lapis Technologies graphics cards) (Brief Article) (Product Announcement)
Mar 01, 1994; ... Graphics cards designed to fit LC-style PDS slots. The ProColorServer 24 provides 24-bit color on monitors up to 16 inches, and 8-bit color on monitors up to 21 ...
SelectPress 1200. (GCC Technologies Inc.'s laser printer) (Brief Article) (Product Announcement)
Mar 01, 1994; ... Laser printers and ink-jets are great, but have you ever tried to feed one itty-bitty label into that office behemoth? This small thermal printer inks labels, and nothing but labels, in as little as six seconds. An integrated software package, ...
Simply TV. (E-Machines board for using a TV set as a Macintosh monitor) (Brief Article) (Product Announcement)
Mar 01, 1994; ... Regular computer monitors are still relatively expensive, but for a cheap display, it's hard to beat a TV. The Simply TV card plugs into the LC PDS slot on machines like the Quadra 605, LC 475, Performa 460 and 470 series, Performa 550, and the Color Classic. It sends your Mac's video ...
Smart Label Printer Pro. (Seiko Instruments USA) (Brief Article) (Product Announcement)
Mar 01, 1994; ... At 1200-by-1200-dpi true resolution, this PostScript Level 2 laser printer handles paper sizes up to 12 by 19 inches with full bleed, or tabloid-size pages with registration and crop marks. The printer is PCL 5 and HPGL2 compatible and comes standard with simultaneously active serial, ...
Axis, The Gamecheater. (Baseline Publishing utility for cheating at computer games) (Brief Article) (Product Announcement)
Mar 01, 1994; ... We know. You're tearing your hair out over all those games you got for Christmas. Admit it: you're weak, and you need help. This control panel gives you extra health, lives, strokes, or whatever ...
Binuscan. (Monaco Systems plug-in for Adobe Photoshop) (Brief Article) (Product Announcement)
Mar 01, 1994; ... Even big, bad graphics professionals need help now and then. This Adobe Photoshop plug-in interprets scanned images and automatically sets highlight and shadow points; balances the color; adjusts the hue, saturation, contrast, and brightness; and corrects for your output device. The software ...
Business Blueprint. (Spreadware small-business planning software) (Brief Article) (Product Announcement)
Mar 01, 1994; ... Planning is one key difference between being a small-business success and a small-business statistic. This set of Microsoft Excel spreadsheets helps users create business plans for periods of up to three years, complete with employee data, projected ...
CD-Q. (Human Software utility for adding Photo CD support to image processing applications) (Brief Article) (Product Announcement)
Mar 01, 1994; ... Any application that can support Adobe Photoshop-style plug-ins can acquire Photo CD images with this software. The product will perform cropping, unsharp masking, gray-component replacement, ...
CheckPost. (Working Software utility for imitating imagesetter output on laser printers) (Brief Article) (Product Announcement)
Mar 01, 1994; ... Given a set of basic colors, patterns, and shapes, this software creates random graphic images at the click of a mouse. You can control symmetry, layering, and blending of objects; and you can overlay ...
ColorDesign. (Momentum Software) (Brief Article) (Product Announcement)
Mar 01, 1994; ... Ninety percent of work philosophy could be summed up by the following statement, "Get it right the first time." This software takes PostScript document files and imitates imagesetter output on your laser printer, alerting you to any problems that may be encountered during the download. The ...
Creative Whack Pack. (Creative Think brainstorming software) (Brief Article) (Product Announcement)
Mar 01, 1994; ... Helping you delve into new creative strategies, each card in this 64-card electronic deck contains ideas and strategies for fostering new ideas, figuring out ways to uncover new information, and evaluating and implementing ideas. Each ...
CrissCross 'em. (Synaptic Software tool for creating crossword puzzles) (Brief Article) (Product Announcement)
Mar 01, 1994; ... Stand aside, New York Times. This software creates puzzles from its included word lists, or lists that you type in your favorite word processor. Then, you get to solve the puzzles in the same ...
Distant Suns. (Virtual Reality Laboratories astronomy software) (Brief Article) (Product Announcement)
Mar 01, 1994; ... Tool around the Solar System with this astronomy software. The package renders 3-D visions of planets, and includes QuickTime movies of space-exploration highlights. You can calculate ephemerides, lunar phases, planet positions, and star charts, as well as set your viewpoint anywhere within ...
DoDot. (Halcyon Software screen-capture utility) (Brief Article) (Product Announcement)
Mar 01, 1994; ... Grab anything you can see with this screen-capture and graphics-conversion software. Users can capture rectangular areas, windows, dialog boxes, pull-down menus, and arbitrary shapes. Keyboard shortcuts are available, plus a timer option ....
Egyptian Hieroglyphics. (picture font from Deniart Systems) (Brief Article) (Product Announcement)
Mar 01, 1994; ... Now you can write like the pharoahs of old with this set of TrueType picture fonts depicting ancient Egyptian phonogram and ideograph hieroglyphics. The package ships ...
The Even More Incredible Machine. (Dynamix game) (Brief Article) (Product Announcement)
Mar 01, 1994; ... So you've got this cat, and you need to get the cat to the other side of a chasm, but all you have is a teeter-totter, a bowling ball, and a conveyor belt. If you can solve this problem, you will probably do ...
FotoMagic. (Ring of Fire Adobe Photoshop filters for special effects) (Brief Article) (Product Announcement)
Mar 01, 1994; ... A set of eight filters for producing photographic effects. They include ColorExpander, which controls the gamut (number of colors) of an image; ColorFilters, to selectively brighten or darken a color or color range; ColorNoise, for randomizing colors; ColorRanger, ...
Intellihance. (DPA Software filters for enhancing scanned and Photo CD images) (Brief Article) (Product Announcement)
Mar 01, 1994; ... This family of filters lets users enhance scanned and Photo CD images by adjusting contrast, sharpness, brightness, and saturation. The base product includes tools for despeckling (noise removal). The professional version supports cast removal, color correction, and prevention of shadow ...
macBible. (Zondervan Electronic Publishing) (Brief Article) (Product Announcement)
Mar 01, 1994; ... For study or reference, this line of Bible software lets users read and search ten different translations and supplementary works (all sold separately). The latest version features linked parallel translations for side-by-side comparative studies, a concordance view, complete font control, ...
MacPrompter. (Grozik Associates electronic teleprompter software) (Brief Article) (Product Announcement)
Mar 01, 1994; ... Bill Clinton may be able to ad-lib complex speeches to important people, but then, he's the president. You, on the other hand, could probably use software that turns your Mac into a TelePrompTer. This package scrolls text at variable speeds, is controllable from the ...
Object Master for Think C and C++. (ACI US programming tool) (Brief Article) (Product Announcement)
Mar 01, 1994; ... This programming environment works with the Think Project Manager. Software developers get tools to aid them in object-oriented code development, such as a Class Tree window. Users can expand and collapse the class tree, color-code classes, and open and print multiple windows showing ...
SimCity 2000. (Maxis game) (Brief Article) (Product Announcement)
Mar 01, 1994; ... There's nothing like the taste of power to get your blood moving. Of course, it's tough to crush the citizenry beneath your booted heel when it'll up and leave if the quality of life dips too low. This is SimCity as you've always known it, plus subways, tunnels, water systems, highways, ...
Synchronize 3.0. (Qdea file-synchronization software) (Brief Article) (Product Announcement)
Mar 01, 1994; ... Synchronicity. To The Police it was a hit tune that meant a pile of money, but to you it means having the right versions of your files on both your desktop Mac and the one you lug around. The latest version of this file-synchronization utility ...
Take a Break Crosswords, Volumes 1 and 2. (Dynamix game) (Brief Article) (Product Announcement)
Mar 01, 1994; ... Dashing through the crossword puzzle is great, until you get stuck and have to wait until tomorrow's newspaper to get a hint. This software adds new options to the old word game; for instance, players can find out immediately if an answer is right or wrong. Your Macintosh will ...
UnderWare. (Bit Jugglers utility software) (Brief Article) (Product Announcement)
Mar 01, 1994; ... More goofy stuff to do with your Mac--isn't that why the darn thing was invented? This software package does typical duty as a screen saver and desktop-pattern installer, but it also runs its animated modules (or After Dark-compatible modules) underneath your ...
Great Business Jokes. (ClipAction CD-ROM) (Brief Article) (Product Announcement)
Mar 01, 1994; ... You'll have em rolling in the aisles when you unleash lines like, "Our CFO is so cheap that he sends his voice-mail postage due." This disc has more than 175 QuickTime video clips of professional comedians performing jokes on ...
OceanLife 2: Micronesia. (Sumeria educational software) (Brief Article) (Product Announcement)
Mar 01, 1994; ... You don't have to travel 20,000 leagues under the sea to find out about marine life. This disc contains narration, original music, text, photographs, maps, and over two hours of original video ...
Disc-Saver Restorer. (Pleasant Associates CD Corp.) (Brief Article) (Product Announcement)
Mar 01, 1994; ... Don't jump off the bridge just because your favorite CD-ROM has a scratch in it. Just rub a few drops of this stuff into the surface, let it dry, wipe it off, and according to the ...
ProPresenter Plus. (receiver unit for moving forward and backward in presentation slide shows) (Brief Article) (Product Announcement)
Mar 01, 1994; ... This package consists of a receiver unit, which plugs into your Macintosh's ADB port, and a 21-button remote control. If all you want to do is move forward and backward through a slide show in most major presentation packages, you need no ...
Tempo 3.1. (Boston Acoustics speakers for microcomputers) (Brief Article) (Product Announcement)
Mar 01, 1994; ... OK, so you aren't exactly listening to The Who on your Macintosh. Then again, maybe you are. In any case, serious audio applications require serious audio hardware. This set of magnetically shielded, ...
Universal Notebook Guardian. (PC Guardian lock for PowerBook computers) (Brief Article) (Product Announcement)
Mar 01, 1994; ... Lasso this 6-foot steel security cable to a stationary object and slide the business end into your PowerBook's floppy drive, and any prospective thief will have a tough time walking off with your precious portable. The all-metal anchor unit grabs the metal ...
Books.
Mar 01, 1994; ... 4 Colors/One ImageCMYK can sound like a magical incantation to those of us raised in an RGB world. This full-color book is a guide to the fundamentals of four-color reproduction, covering such topics as printing, screens, resolution, color theory, scanning, tone correction, ...
Macintosh Quadra 605. (Hardware Review) (Evaluation)
Mar 01, 1994; ... Macintosh ComputerPros: Least-expensive 040-based Mac; excellent price-to-performance ratio; expandable built-in video drives; wide range of monitors; LC III-style PDS for expansion; system disks included; door on floppy drive prevents dust buildup. Cons: No FPU; nonstandard case ...