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VOLUME 14, NO. 11, ISSUE 147
DECEMBER 1992
FEATURES
8
WINDOWS PROGRAMMING
FROM SCRATCH
By Tom Campbell
Microsoft's C/C++ 7.0 may
be the programming deal of
the century.
18
TEST LAB
Edited by Mike Hudnall
We test four MPCs and four
multimedia upgrade kits.
72
lOT GREAT GIFT IDEAS
By Tracy Mygrant
and Danielle Best
What can you get for the
computer users who seem to
have everything?
84
PRODUCTIVin CHOICE
By Stephen Levy
Quattro Pro 4.0 for DOS.
90
SERIAL PORTFOLIO
By Rosalind Resnick
Trading stock online.
COLUMNS
4
EDITORIAL LICENSE
By Clifton Karnes
Undocumented Microsoft.
44
NEWS & NOTES
By Jill Champion
Top computer news.
49
FEEDBACK
Answers to tough questions.
56
WINDOWS WORKSHOP
By Clifton Karnes
Is the NCR 3170 the perfect
Windows notebook?
58
TIPS & TOOLS
Edited by
Richard C. Leinecker
Tips from our readers.
Cover photo fay Andrew Unangst
62
INTRODOS
By Tony Roberts
DOS 5,0's Shell.
64
PROGRAMMING POWER
By Tom Campbell
Initialization files revealed!
66
HARDWARE CLINIC
By Mark Minasi
Two new battery
technologies are less
powerful than they seem.
70
COMPUTE/NET
By Troy Tucker
What's new online.
82
SHAREPAK
By Steve Draper
Shareware treasures.
86
PERSONAL PRODUCTIVITY
By David Abels
Get the lowdown on your
bottom line with statistics.
96
ART WORKS
By Robert Bixby
Font fun with TrueType.
102
MULTIMEDIA PC
By David English
Portable CD-ROM meets
laptop and desktop.
192
NEWS BITS
By Jill Champion
Top stories at press time.
ENTERTAINMENT
98
DISCOVERY CHOICE
By Keith Ferrell
Science Adventure from
Knowledge Adventure.
100
PATHWAYS
By Steven Anzovin
Electronic democracy.
104
ENTERTAINMENT CHOICE
By Alfred C. Giovetti
Gods from Konami.
106
GAMEPLAY
By Paul C. Schuytema
What to do when a game has
you up against the wall.
109
THE TOP 25
By David Sears
Just in time! The top 25
entertainment packages.
REVIEWS
114
Tandy 4860HD Notebook,
Norton Desktop for Windows,
A-Train,
NEC Silentwriter Model 95,
Grand Prix Unlimited,
Window Phone,
dBASE IV 1.5,
Solitaire's Journey,
Home Alone,
PGA Tour Golf for Windows,
Maynard ArchiveXL 80,
Banner Blue Movie Guide,
Family Origins,
Mathematica,
Stickybear Town Builder,
DosFax PRO, and 14 more.
ADVERTISERS INDEX
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There are three main
Questions that
emerge from the
revelation that
Microsoft applications
use undocumented
Windows calls.
Is Microsoft playing fair?
Undocumented Windows,
a superb recent book by
Andrew Schulman, David
Maxey, and fvlatt Pietrei< from
Addison-Wesley, raises this
question, sliowing in great de-
tail thiat Microsoft has used
undocumented Windows
calls in its applications. As
soon as the book hit the
shelves, Microsoft fired off a
press release admitting that Mi-
crosoft applications did in-
deed use undocumented
calls (something the company
had previously denied), but it
also went on to state that M\-
crosoft's competitors used
these same calls, so Micro-
soft has no unfair advantage.
There are three main ques-
tions that emerge from this rev-
elation that Microsoft applica-
tions use undocumented Win-
dows calls. First, did Micro-
soft systems and applications
divisions knowingly conspire
to gain an unfair advantage
over Microsoft's competitors?
Second, if they did not con-
spire, did Microsoft's applica-
tions division have greater ac-
cess to undocumented infor-
mation than Microsoft's compe-
titors? Third, what should be
done about the situation?
Regarding the first ques-
tion, whether there was a con-
spiracy at Microsoft, the an-
swer is certainly no. Microsoft
used these calls, to be sure,
but the same company creat-
ed tools for general distribu-
tion that make it fairly easy to
find undocumented calls in
applications. Microsoft was ob-
viously not trying to hide the
fact that it used undocument-
ed calls. This is especially
important, since there are tech-
niques Microsoft could have
employed to hide the use of
these calls in its programs.
The second question,
about Microsoft's applications
programmers having greater
access to undocumented in-
formation, is harder to an-
swer. In Undocumented Win-
dows, the authors point out
that Microsoft's systems pro-
grammers have usually
helped independent develop-
ers with information about un-
documented calls, if they
thought the programmers real-
ly needed the info. It stands
to reason that they do the
same with Microsoft applica-
tions programmers. But since
the applications and systems
programmers are in so much
closer contact, they would sim-
ply have more opportunities
to acquire this information.
The answer to the second
question. Do Microsoft's appli-
cations programmers have
greater access to this informa-
tion?, is almost certainly yes.
Before answering the third
question. What should be
done?, it might be a good
idea to backtrack and talk a lit-
tle about why there are undoc-
umented calls at all.
First, every operating sys-
tem has undocumented calls.
There are several reasons for
these. Some calls are just old
code that's been replaced
with better (usually document-
ed) code. Other times, undoc-
umented functions are quick
fixes to system problems. The
code usually isn't clean, and
the company doesn't want de-
velopers to use these calls, be-
cause it'll probably change
them in the future. You'll find
undocumented calls like this
not only in Windows but in
DOS, Unix, OS/2, and VMS.
Then why are Microsoft and
its competitors using these
calls? Sometimes these calls ar-
en't necessary because there
are documented equivalents.
But other times they are essen-
tial. Undocumented Windows
takes us through the calls
used by several applications
and cfearly shows which ones
are useful and which ones ar-
en't. You quickly get the feel-
ing that to do real-world Win-
dows programming, you need
these calls.
So, what should be done?
My first recommendation is
for Microsoft to document all
Windows calls. Instead of mak-
ing a distinction between doc-
umented and undocumented,
it could divide Windows into
supported calls (those the
company guarantees to keep
in future versions of Windows)
and unsupported calls (those
the company doesn't guaran-
tee). This would give Micro-
soft the flexibility it needs to de-
termine which functions
should represent the official
core of Windows and would
give developers access to
the forbidden fruit, but with a
use-at-your-own-risk caveat.
My second recomrmenda-
tion is for Microsoft to move
its applications or systems di-
vision to another area to
avoid the appearance of col-
lusion. Although I don't think
Microsoft's applications divi-
sion intentionally takes unfair
advantage of its competition,
as long as systems program-
mers and applications pro-
grammers are all eating at the
same Burger Master, there
will always be the suspicion
of impropriety D
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Windows
from
Scratch
Someiimes. a deai
comes along that's so
sweet you're fooiish not
to take advantage of it.
t^/ticrosoffs C/C++ 7.0 is
one of those deals. If
you're serious about
programming m V/in-
dows and haven't yet
decided on a deveiop-
ment environment, get it-
Microsoft used to sell
its professional C devei-
opment system for S450.
It's added a C++ com-
piler and tossed in the
SDK {the latter without
printed documentation)
and dropped the price
to an obscenely low
S139. You get 5000
pages of fabulously writ-
ten and superbly printed
documentation on C,
C++, the runtime libra-
ries, and the highly es-
teemed Microsoft Foun-
dation Classes (MFC).
You also get a some-
vyhal staid but incredibly
flexible programming
environment, a topnotch
debugger, the debug
version of Windows, and
a substantial amount of
online documentation for
less used features, which
doesn't appear anywhere
in the printed manuals.
Unless you already
have a comprehensive
library of third-party
books on the SDK. go
the extra S150 for the
printed manuals {see
"Should You Figh! or
Switch?" if you're still not
convinced). This article
assumes you're willing
to trade six months of
intense study of the
Windows API and C++
in exchange for guru-
level Windows program-
ming skills, and that you
may. but probably don't,
have a favorite develop-
ment system (other than
Microsoft's) already. If
so, it will help you
decide whether Micro-
soft gives you the best
tools for the job-
Microsoft's C/C ++ 7.0
may be the programming deal
of the century
By Tom Campbell
Don't make the mis-
take of thinking that all of
these tools and manuals
will make programming
Windows applications
easy. They won't. V\/hat
they will do. however, is
hour on my 33-MHz 386
and consumed a terrify-
ing 50MB of disk space.
You need not apply if
you don't have at least a
386, by the way.
C/C+-h 7.0 is so mem-
to provide the strongest ofy hungry that Microsoft
foundation any program- throws in a $150 memory
ming environment has
ever had for any operat-
ing system— and all in a
singSe environment. Nor
are all of these tools the
very best. Here., though,
the whole vastly exceeds
the sum of its parts.
Megabyte Porodise my
Installing CIC++ 7,0 and 50f\
manager called 386-to-
the-Max that you have to
run if you fire up the
compiler in DOS (you
don't need the memory
manager to run C/C + +
7.0 from a DOS box in
Windows, however).
As I mentioned above,
my installation took
50f\/IB. Expect to surren-
iler about 40 megs for a
minimal system. The
installation programs do
a great job of letting you
choose what to install, so
you can easily shave 10
megs from that number
(by eliminating online
help options and sample
code), or you can add
10 megs to it (by adding
a couple of memory
models and including
the full complement of
online help).
In a vivid metaphor
(or the greatest weak-
ness of C/C + + , the
C/C++ installation pro-
gram forced my machine
into running Windows.
Then, not only did the
SDK installation refuse to
run under Windows, but
it wouldn't even run in a
DOS box. You must exit
Windows to install the
SDK— the modules used
to create Windows appli-
cations! And in fact,
there's no Windows envi-
ronment in v/hich to pro-
gram Windows applica-
tions; you must compile
under DOS and then
switch to Windows to run
the program. This is the
product's Achilles heei.
and it's made accept-
able only by the corre-
spondingly high quality
and selection of the other
tools and documentation.
A Windows program is usually
made up of several C or C++ source
files, a resource script (whiichi instructs
a set of auxiliary tools to construct dia-
log boxes and other parts of tfie user
interface), a command file just to run
the linker, and a text file describing
this process for a utility called Nmake,
which oversees the entire process and
helps you avoid wasting time during
this necessarily slow and laborious
process.
The C compiler takes care of the C
or C++ source files, natch. Another
utility or three will process the
resource scripts, and the linker literally
puts them all together. If this sounds
like a much slower turnaround time
than with, say. Visual Basic or
ToolBook, you're right, if you suspect
that you can probably do a ton of
things with the SDK that would be
totally impossible in Visual Basic or
ToolBook, you're right again. (What
language do you think they were writ-
ten in, anyway?)
Microsol! C/C++ 7.0 provides the
strongest foundation any programming
environment has ever had for any operat-
ing system.
Hammering Out the Code
The C 7.0 compiler is no speed
demon, but it turns in respectable
Should You Fight or Switch?
Questions and answers about the
development deal of the decade:
Q, Isn't $150 a lot for just 5000 pages of
documentation?
A. You're getting greedy. That's like
buying ten books of 500 pages each at
the bookstore. Assuming you pay the
bargain price of $25 per book, you're
Still saving a hundred bucks. Spring for
it. Especially if you haven't invesSed in a
lot of third-party books, this is a no-
brainer.
Q. Does that 5000 pages of documen-
tation include any filler?
A. No, there's not a page of fluff. In fact,
it's so good. I wish there were more.
And there is — online. Even the 33
pounds of freight this $289 deal drops
on your doorstep mentions important
material thai is available only online.
O. Does all this make programming
C++ or Windows easier?
A. No, no, no! At least, not as easy as,
say, ToolBook or Visual Basic (which
still have a learning curve that's a few
weeks long). But you will find a mother
lode of information, tools, code exam-
ples, and cross references you can't
get anywhere else. And you'll have
everything you need to program any-
thing that can be programmed in
Windows — a claim that couldn't be
made for Visual Basic or any other
Windows programming kit on the mar-
ket. If you don't know how to program in
C, you'll need an introductory text on
that subject. But the C++ tutorial is fab-
ulous, rivaling even the best of the third-
party books.
Q. Should I switch from Borland C++ if
I'm happy with it?
A. No, not if you're happy — but here are
a few kickers. Borland's OWL sheath
over Windows depends on nonstandard
C + + coding, so it's not portable.
However, Microsoft's Foundation
Classes have been ported to Zortech,
Watcom. and Borland C++. I know a
number of programmers wfio bought
the (^/licrosoft special just for fvlFC, the
documentation, and the abundance of
development tools. As a longtime fan of
Borland's, I must reluctantly suggest
that a good alternative would be to buy
Borland C++ without the Application
Frameworks option, get the Iviicrosoft
special, and log on to CompuServe to
find out how to port MFC to Borland
C++.
Q. Is it worth the full $495 if I miss the
special?
A. If you don't own another Windows
development system, it's worth every
cent — and more. If you're happy with
the C you have, stick with it. Vicious
competition in the development market
means your product will be forced to
improve its tools and documentation
immensely or die a quick but humiliat-
ing death.
Q. There must be a downside. What
don't I get if 1 go all the way and pay
$139 for C/C++ with the SDK and $150
for the manuals?
A. Tech support. Learning how to pro-
gram Windows is just plain hard, and at
that price, Microsoft isn't going to hold
your hand. Expect lo read Charles
Petzold's classic Programming Win-
dows, to do a lot of studying of the sup-
plied manuals, and to spend a good
$50 every month on CompuServe.
Believe me, it's worth the investment.
times. Slower than Borland but faster
than Watcom, it produces solid code
with some good optimizations. There
are many, many command line switch-
es and extensions to the C language
to let you fine-tune the generated
code. The C++ support seems to be
good, but the C++ classes I've written
are only a few thousand lines long.
Note that while the product is called
C/C++ 7.0, the 7.0 only applies to the
C compiler itself. C++ support is at
version 1.0, but I've heard of very few
bugs in the C++ compiler. That's an
unexpected but very welcome devel-
opment.
The linker is also much slower than
Borland's, but on projects of over
50,000 lines or so, they start to reach
parity; Microsoft seems to have a pro-
nounced lead in resolving thousands
of references at a time. The dialog,
font, and bitmap editors are all good,
and I'd say they were excellent if I
hadn't seen Borland's Resource
Workshop. But they more than do the
trick- In neither product can you edit
TrueType fonts. One unique tool is the
Hotspot Editor, most helpful for editing
the clickable images in online help.
Windows programmers never have
enough debugging tools, but
fvlicrosoft goes a long way toward
redressing that problem with this
release. The fvlFC has a full comple-
ment of integrated debugging and
memory-tracing macros. A replace-
ment Windows kernel that runs dog-
slow but which catches many hereto-
fore invisible programming errors
gives you one of the ultimate tools
there is — an operating system that
helps you debug. (It's also fun to see
how other programs fare under the
debugging kernel, because you don't
need source code to find out what's
going on with a Windows executable.)
Utilities are included to monitor
Windows messages and view
Windows memory usage graphically.
HeapWalker, for example, shows you
icons and cursors in memory while
Windows is running. Stress lets you
fake heavy system usage to see tiow
your program survives in the low-
memory conditions that seem to be a
way of life in multitasking environ-
ments, and the serviceable Source
Profiler lets you see what routines eat
up the most time.
I can't say CodeView is my favorite
debugger, but it does the trick. It can
finally work with Windows applications
in graphics mode, unlike Borland's
Turbo Debugger, and it fully under-
stands C+ + . If you have a second
monitor, such as a Hercules, you can
use it to show code while the program
runs unmolested under Windows.
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Microsoft deserves to be a bil-
iion-dollar company, and one
of the main reasons is thiat it
learns from its mistakes. The
documentation for its C 5.1
was so good that I actually
sent a fan letter, but that docu-
mentation consisted of three
loose-leaf volumes. It costs a
lot to print and ship that many
manuals, and many users
claimed to be sick of so many
books.
Consequently, version 6
came with just a few introduc-
tory paperback texts and the
rest of the documentation
online. I was so disgusted that
I didn't even ask for a review copy.
Meanwhile, I switched to Borland but
used Microsoft's great version 5 docu-
mentation because I couldn't find its
equal anywhere.
Evidently, a lot of users felt the
same as I did, because Microsoft has
Microsoft C/C++ 7.0 comes with Programmer's Workbench
and a Dialog editor.
finally bounced back with the best
documentation of any development
system around. It would take an article
at least this long just to outline all the
manuals, but here are the highlights.
A slim but complete Getting
Started guide takes you through not
just installation but where to go
depending on whether you want
to code in C or C+ + , DOS, or
Windows. To learn how to pro-
gram Windows in C + + using
MFC, take the time to read the
400-page C++ Class Libraries
User's Guide. Although Getting
Started implies you can learn to
program Windows from scratch
with this book, you probably
can't. You'll probably need to
learn C and plow through Charles
Petzold's excellent Programming
Windows, even though you'll
have some unlearning to do
when you use MFC.
C++ Class Libraries User's
Guide is a great way to see real
live C++ classes in action and to learn
MFC itself. There is also a much-
needed tutorial on the iostream class
of C++, which is infinitely more power-
ful than the C standard I/O library but
harder to learn. It goes deep into the
heart of the iostream, even showing
It's true thai programmrng Windows wilh
C isn't for the fainthearted, but there are
toois that can make working with C easi-
er and faster. These tools fat! into two
groups; code generators and custom
controls.
Code generators are programs that
let you create a Windows interface inter-
actively. If you've used Visual Basic,
ToolBook, or almost any Windows dialog
editor, you tiave an idea of what this
means. Instead d writing code to create
the fundamental aspects of your window,
you work with a simulation of the window
and interactively modify it to suit your
design.
After you're satisfied with the win-
dow's design, you teil the code genera-
tor to generate the source code for your
interlace. You then take the source code
and add your own routines to handle the
main tasks your window is supposed to
accomplish. Finally, you compile the
code, and you're done.
Code generators are expensive, but
they take the most tedious aspect of
Windows programming and make it
quick and fun. And since it's so much
easier to create an interface with these
programs, you'll probably be willing to
spend more time on interface design and
wind up with a better, easier-to-use pro-
gram. It's also easy to experiment with a
code generator, which makes one a
great learning tool
The Windows code generator market
is stiared by three excellent programs:
WindowsMAKER Pro 4.0 (Blue Sky
Software, 800-677-4946, $995), Case:W
4.0 (Caseworks, 404-399-6236. $995),
and ProtoView (ProtoView, 908-329-
Windows Programming Mode Easier
8588, $395). All three offer the essentials
outlined above: You work in a simulation
of your window, and when you're fin-
ished, the generator produces the code
to create the simulation.
All three of these programs can gen-
erate code for every major compiler,
including Microsoft C/C++ 7.0 and
Borland C++ 3.1, and versions are com-
ing out that support these two compa-
nies' C++ class libraries: the f\1icrosoft
Foundation Classes and Borland's OWL.
Case:W offers some extra features for
generating CUA-compllant code, and it's
the only tool that has an OS/2
Presentation Manager version. ProtoView
is the bang-for-the-buck winner and has
recently been selected by Borland to
bundle with its C++, which is quite an
endorsement.
WindowsMAKER Pro is the easiest to
use of the group, and it offers some out-
standing features. First, it sports a tool-
bar that not only generates source code
with the press of a button but lets you
build your appfication and run it, too. You
can also quickly find and edit your
source code using any text editor you
specify. With these features,
WindowsMAKER Pro can easily become
the interface for your development envi-
ronment. In addition, WindowsMAKER
Pro has a powerful dialog editor that sup-
ports custom controls and is very easy to
use. You just can't go wrong with this
program.
Programming in C can also be simpli-
fied with custom controls. In Windows,
most of the objects that populate dialog
boxes and other windows are called con-
trols. The most common of these are but-
tons (including push buttons, radio but-
tons, and check-box buttons), text boxes
(both for displaying text and editing it),
and list boxes.
You've probably noticed that in some
programs these controls appear in sim-
ple black, while, and gray, but in others
they have a sculpted 3-D look. The
sculpted controis are examples of cus-
tom controls. You can create these from
scratch yourself, or you can buy a
library. Obviously, the easier way to go is
to let an expert do the work and buy a
prepackaged set. There are three excel-
lent groups worth considering: Borland's
Resource Workshop (Borland
International, 408-438-8400, $49.95),
Blaise Computing's Control Palette for
Windows (Blaise Computing, 510-540-
5441, $169), and Farpoinl's Drover's
Toolbox for Windows (Farpoint, 614-765-
4333, $345).
Borland offers only a few controls with
the Resource Workshop, but they aren't
the package's main attraction. The
Resource Workshop is an amazing
resource editor that's an unrivaled tool
for creating dialog boxes and decompil-
ing resources from exe and dH files.
You'll probably want to get it whether or
not you wind up using the controls that
come with it.
The Farpoint and Blaise controls are
both superb. They are easy to work with
and produce stunning results. I've found
the Blaise controls to be a little more flex-
ible, but the Drover package comes with
a huge number of functions to enhance
the Windows API, which balances things
out. Both are excellent values.
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you how to create your own manipula-
tors, wtiichi format output more flexibly
ttian vprintf{ ). The tutorial develops a
Windows phone book application of
several thousand lines, so you get a
realistic view of MFC in action.
Programmer's Reference, Volume
1: Overview is the kind of book that
should be with every major program-
ming environment but never is.
Certainly, Borland has nothing like it,
and ridiculously few third-party books
even approach it in scope. This is truly
an overview, directed at the capable
Windows programmer but covering
issues that only an expert could
explain properly. There's a section on
the new common dialogs with code
fragments; an extensive, if still too
short, section on OLE; a section on
GDI; and a short description of net-
work programming issues. These are
all well and good, but there are some
tremendous bonuses. The data
decompression API is covered, a
whole section on writing screen savers
comes with the code for a screen
saver, a stress testing section shows
you how to shake out memory leaks,
and some useful tips for international
applications round out the group.
C and C++ language reference
guides explain Microsoft's implemen-
tation and compare it to the interna-
tional C and C++ standards. Anyone
interested in portable software (not to
mention compiler design) is well
advised to scrutinize the section com-
paring ANSI C to the Microsoft flavor,
which is a superset of ANSI.
The trendier among you will appre-
ciate manuals on multimedia and pen
support; these aren't as well docu-
mented as some of the more mature
parts of Windows, but they're still
exceptionaily well covered. Along with
the working example code, this is
enough to get you going for 90 per-
cent of your pen and multimedia pro-
gramming needs; for the other 10 per-
cent, you'll need to visit CompuServe.
Although this article is mostly con-
cerned with the C programmer, it
would be a crime not to mention that
the DOS runtime library reference has
examples for every routine and can
hold its own with any bool< on the
shelf at B. Dalton. The reference is in
alphabetical order but preceded by
summary chapters that attack the
subject from all possible angles.
Every routine and variable has exam-
ple code, and a see-also note is pro-
vided whenever it makes sense. Not
only is the manual itself a masterwork,
but the DOS runtime and graphics
libraries have both grown to be major
achievements. Read the first chapters
carefully before you create your next
DOS app, because there's a good
chance a lot of the code you expected
to write will already be there, ripe for
the picking.
Is It Worthwhile?
I'd like some refinements to the devas-
tatingly powerful one-two punch of the
C/C++ and SDK bundle. Obviously,
the compiter and editor should be
Windows based and run faster. I'd like
more on learning to program Windows
in C. I still don't like CodeView as
much as Turbo Debugger.
But these shortcomings pale when
set against what can only be
described as a magnificent product.
There is simply no other way to get so
many high-quality tools and so much
insanely good documentation at such
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TEST LAB
Edited by Mike Hudnall
Reviews by Tom Benford
More informative, more persua-
sive, more fun — that's multime-
dia. And for a number of reasons,
it's a technology you should con-
sider now.
Increasingly powerful proces-
sors, bigger drives, and advanc-
es in sound and CD-ROM technol-
ogy mean that multimedia works
better than ever before. Falling pric-
es in the hardware market and in-
creased competition among mul-
timedia manufacturers mean that
you can afford more in a comput-
er than ever before, including mul-
timedia capabilities.
Who needs multi-
media? Just a year
or two ago, CD-
ROM-based appli-
cations were most-
ly limited to the are-
as of institution-
based education,
business presenta-
tions, computer-aid-
ed training, and in-
formation kiosks.
Today, there are
hundreds of CD-
ROM applications
for the average PC user, includ-
ing business, general-education,
and entertainment programs.
Many of these, especially those
with full MPC support, have digit-
ized voice, music, and sound ef-
fects; full-motion video; and a
screen resolution of 640 x 480
with 256-color graphics. If you've
been waiting for enough MPC ap-
plications to become available be-
fore you consider buying an MPC
or an fVlPC upgrade kit, you don't
need to wait any longer.
Do you stiil need to use the
MPC version of Windows instead
of the more up-to-date Windows
3.1? In November 1990, when
Microsoft, Tandy, and other major
companies in the industry
announced the MPC specifica-
tions, the software platform was
officially named Microsoft Win-
dows graphical environment 3.0 -i-
18 COMPUTE DECEMBER 1992
Multimedia Extensions 1.0 (or Win-
dows with Multimedia for short). It
was a separate version of Win-
dows with the various multimedia
drivers built in. In April 1992, Micro-
soft brought the audio drivers into
Windows 3.1, as well as the MCI
(Media Control Interface), which
lets you add CD-ROM drives, vid-
eodisc players, MIDI sequencers,
and other multimedia devices. As
a result, you can run just about any
MPC application under Windows
3.1 as long as you have the appro-
priate multimedia software drivers.
This month. Test Lab looks at
four MPCs and four multimedia up-
grade kits from Acer, ALR, AST
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The sound capabilities of multimedia are truly impressive.
Creative Labs, Media Resources,
Media Vision, NEC, and Tandy.
These powerful yet competitively
priced computer systems and up-
grade kits offer you a range of pric-
es and technologies from which
to choose. You'll find sound
boards from Acer, Creative
Labs, Media Vision (including its
16-bit sampling board), NEC,
and Tandy; CD-ROM drives from
Mitsumi, Panasonic, Sony, Tandy,
and NEC (the speedy MultiSpin
drives); and an abundance of fea-
tures— headphones, micro-
phones, speakers, voice mail, com-
munications hardware, an AM/FM
tuner, and much more. And keep
in mind that the manufacturers of-
fer a variety of configurations and
options.
How to choose? As always,
you'll want to consider your budg-
et as well as your current and fu-
ture needs. To help you make a
more informed decision, this
month's Test Lab provides in-
depth reviews, with discussions
of installation, configurations,
special features and capabilities,
documentation, software bun-
dles, and performance. Pay par-
ticular attention to the CD-ROMs
provided with each package; of-
ten offered at an unbelievably
low price, these discs are frequent-
ly a major selling point for a pack-
age. For convenient side-by-side
comparison of features, you'll
want to take a look at the features
grid.
Because multimedia technol-
ogy involves con-
cepts and terminol-
ogy that may be
new to you, this
month's Test Lab
provides helpful
sidebars; a glossa-
ry, a description of
the MPC standards,
and a description
of the testing meth-
odologies. Whether
you're a techie or a
novice, you'll appre-
ciate the authorita-
tive descriptions,
definitions, and explanations pre-
pared in collaboration with indus-
try experts.
While price and software bun-
dles are important, you'll also
want to consider performance,
and here our benchmark results
should prove quite useful. The
graphs that present the results of
the various tests are designed to
help you understand as much as
possible about the sound and CD-
ROM technologies provided by
the various manufacturers. Once
you've considered all that multi-
media has to offer, the only rea-
son you may have for not buying
a system now is that the future
promises even more capable mul-
timedia technologies. But then,
there's always something better
on the horizon. Why put it off? Mul-
timedia beckons!
DAVID ENGLISH AND MiKE HUDNALL
ACERPAC150
The AcerPAC 150 is so feature
rich that a term like multimedia
doesn't tell the whole story. Acer
calls it a Personal Activity Center,
hence PAC. and when you look at
the list of standard features, you
can see why this term fits so well.
Based on a 20-MHz Intel
386SX CPU, the AcerPAC 150 of-
fers as standard equipment a
13GMB hard drive and 4rvlB of
RAM {expandable to 16fv1B on the
motherboard). The system's foot-
print measures 14.4 inches wide
by 16.5 inches deep, and the box
stands 5 inches high, so this is a
reasonably compact computer.
On the front, you'll find the high-
density 3y2-inch floppy drive just
below the internal CD-ROfvl drive.
Jacks for attaching headphones
and an extension microphone are
also front mounted along with
push-button volume controls and
switches for power and reset. A
built-in condenser microphone
and a built-in monaural speaker al-
so grace the front of the unit, along
with LED indicators for power,
disk drive activity, turbo speed (20
MHz), and CD-ROM activity.
Two serial ports, a parallel
port, a joystick or MIDI port, a ded-
icated PS/2-style mouse port, au-
dio line in and out ports, a coaxi-
al antenna jacl<;, and a modem
connection port round out the list
of basic I/O connectors. A single
16-bit expansion slot is vacant for
adding a peripheral board of your
choice, and the system will accept
an E-mu daughterboard (for very
advanced MIDI and sound-sam-
pling capabilities), as well as an
80387 math coprocessor.
The front-mounted CD-ROM
drive doesn't require a caddy.
Pushing in the front of the drive
lightly causes the disc drawer to
extend. Lifting a door inside this
drawer provides access to the
disk compartment, and closing
the door and pushing in on the
drawer seats the disc and read-
ies it for use. "Caddiless" CD-
ROM drives are usually a tad slow-
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er than those which use a caddy,
but the Acer CD-ROM drive per-
formed respectably nonetheless.
What makes this a Personal Ac-
tivity Center? There's an internal
960Q-bps send/4800-bps receive
fax unit with 2400-bps Hayes-com-
patible modem capabilities built in.
There's also a built-in digital Tel-
ephone Answering Device (TAD),
which is a functional voice mail sys-
tem featuring automatic switching
between the phone's answering
machine and the fax functions.
You also get a Sound Blaster-
compatible audio board with a soft-
ware-controlled eight-channel mix-
er installed in the system and, of
all things, a built-in AM/FM stereo
tuner (now you know what the an-
tenna jack is for). A flat ribbon an-
tenna aiso comes supplied to
improve radio reception.
The radio at first seems an unu-
sual idea, but it has its practical pur-
poses. Since you can make and re-
ceive telephone calls through the
PC (as well as faxing and using
the modem), the built-in radio can
serve as your "music on hold," in
addition to providing listening en-
joyment as you use the system.
The AcerPAC 150 offers an
attractive software bundle. The
included software starts with MS-
DOS 5.0 and Windows 3.0 with
Multimedia Extensions. Delrina's
WinFax, a Prodigy startup kit,
Microsoft's Windows Entertain-
ment Pack, and Acer's Music Cen-
ter software and Telephone An-
swering Machine/Speaker Phone
software are all provided on flop-
py media. The bundled CD-ROM-
based software titles include Mi-
crosoft Works for Windows Multi-
media Edition, Microsoft Book-
shelf, and Compton's MultiMedia
Encyclopedia — al! excellent pro-
ductivity and reference titles.
The Telephone Answering De-
vice is really something special
that deserves mention here. If
you're away from the PC, the TAD
records incoming messages and
lets you retrieve them remotely.
The ability to send and receive fax-
es, exchange data via the mo-
dem, place and take voice
phone calls through the PC, and
have it receive faxes and tele-
phone messages when unattend-
ed is a significant achievement
that you will readily appreciate
whether you use your AcerPAC
150 at home or in a small busi-
ness, A single telephone line con-
nected to the PC can perform all
of these functions, and they are
all seamlessly integrated to work
together while running under Win-
dows—talk about productivity!
The VGA graphics adapter
with 5 1 2K of video RAM supports
256-color palettes; an AcerView
35 UVGA color monitor with flat
screen presents a dazzling dis-
play that makes your computing
a truly pleasurable experience.
This package includes a com-
fortable 101 -key keyboard, a two-
button Microsoft-compatible
mouse, and a one-year parts-and-
labor warranty with on-site serv-
ice. And in addition to excellent
user manuals, Acer also provides
a toll-free help line if you need fur-
ther assistance.
With all this going for it, the
AcerPAC is easy to love, indeed.
Circle Reader Service Number 304
DECEMBER 1992 COMPUTE
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TEST LAB
ALR FLYER
32DT 4SX/25 MPC
MODEL 80
Multimedia readiness and 486SX
power are the flagstiip features of
the ALR Flyer 32DT 4SX/25 MPC
Model 80. And in keeping with
ALR's usual practice, the list of fea-
tures goes on and on.
The Flyer 32DT has a low 3-
inch profile and occupies a stan-
dard PC footprint area measuring
14 inches wide by 17 inches
deep. Weighing in at a trim 25
pounds, the Flyer 32DT is nonob-
Irusive and light enough to move
around if necessary.
As one would expect with a full-
featured machine such as this,
the I/O ports consist of a pair of
9-pin serial connectors, a paral-
lel port, and a dedicated mouse
port (an ALR two-button mouse is
included), all located at the rear
of the machine, along with the con-
nector for attaching the 101-key
keyboard. Audio l/Os, which re-
side on the mounting bracket of
the sound card (a Media Vision
Pro AudioSpectrum Plus), consist
of jacks for microphone input,
line input, and line output; you1l
also find a jack for a joystick (or
optional MidiMate kit). On the
front of the internally mounted So-
ny CD-ROM drive, you'll find a
headphone jack.
Although external speakers
can be connected to the line-out
jack on the sound board's brack-
et at the rear of the machine, you
won't need them unless you want
additional volume; the ALR fea-
tures its own built-in speaker sys-
tem, which provides more than ad-
equate sound reproduction and
plenty of volume. This factory-
equipped audio setup should
prove to be entirely satisfactory
for most users.
The heart of the Flyer 32DT, an
Intel 80486SX CPU running at 25
MHz, gives the machine the com-
puting oomph required to run to-
day's GUI-tJased applications at
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CPU in its computing chores, the
Flyer 32DT comes with 4MB of
RAM as its standard comple-
ment, although you can expand
this to a maximum of 36MB. A 16-
bit Super VGA controller with 512K
of RAM and capable of 1024 x
768 256-color resolution drives the
14-inch ALR FlexVIEW 3X color
monitor; this video package offers
both text and graphics in dazzling
color and brilliant clarity.
A single 3y2-inch 1 .44MB flop-
py drive is front mounted just
above the Sony CD-ROM drive;
adding another internal device
such as a second hard drive is pos-
sible, though your options are lim-
ited because of the case size (one
additional 3y2-inch drive bay is
available). This Flyer 32DT came
with a 19-ms 80MB IDE drive {you
can order a 200MB drive), which
proved to be a speedy and relia-
ble performer for all the applica-
tions loaded and run from it dur-
ing the reviewing process.
MS-DOS 5.0 and Windows 3.1
come preloaded on this PC. To
make your use of the system
even easier, ALR preconfigures
Windows for the Pro AudioSpec-
trum Plus sound board and pre-
installs the requisite Windows
sound drivers and a special Mul-
timedia Tools group containing
four audio applications. These
complete and useful accessories
allow you to enjoy the full sound
potential of the machine.
The Pro Mixer application, a mix-
ing console, combines synthesiz-
er, CD, microphone, and auxiliary
audio sources, adjusting their indi-
vidual volumes and recording and
playing back from each of these
sources. You get eight individual
banks of slider controls with left
and right sliders for each bank.
The Mixer application sets the over-
all volume of music, CD-audio, mi-
crophone, wav sounds, and auxil-
iary sounds. The Pocket Mixer
application, yet another utility for re-
cording and mixing sounds, uses
more of an analog-type interface,
with dial controls rather than slid-
ers. The Pocket Recorder records
sounds and is quite similar in ap-
pearance and operation to the Win-
dows Sound Recorder accessory.
The internal Sony CD-ROM
dhve uses a standard CD-ROM
caddy (supplied). And to get you
started immediately in the realm of
multimedia, three Microsoft MPC
CD-ROMs are also included with
the system; MultiMedia Works 2.0,
Microsoft Bookshelf, and MultiMe-
dia Beethoven. Because ALR pre-
configures Windovjs for you, you
can run these CD-ROMs as soon
as the system is turned on. ALR
even includes an excellent multime-
dia presentation that acquaints the
new owner with the Flyer 32DT's
features. All documentation is ex-
cellent and easy to understand,
even for the novice.
The Flyer 32DT provides an
excellent means of getting 486
power along with multimedia ca-
pabilities painlessly in a factory-
configured system built right
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386SX/25
MULTIMEDIA
Snappy performance, an excel-
lent assortment of standard fea-
tures, and full MPC Level 1 com-
patibility make the AST Advan-
tage! 386SX/25 Multimedia a ma-
chine worth taking a closer look
at if you're in the market for a mul-
timedia PC that's ready for action
right out of the box.
The system gets its computing
power from an Advanced Micro
Devices AM-386SX CPU running
at 25 MHz. As part of the stan-
dard configuration, you get 4MB
of RAM, expandable to 8MB or a
maximum of 16MB (1MB or 4MB
SIMMs populate the four sockets
on the system board, but you can-
not intermix them to produce con-
figurations other than those listed;
for example, a 5MB configuration
isn't possible).
The data storage chores are
handled via a Sys-inch 1.44MB
floppy drive and an 80MB IDE
hard disk, a slimline unit side
mounted at the rear of the chas-
sis. Just below the floppy drive
you'll find a Matsushita (Panason-
ic) CD-ROM drive. Internal drive
expansion is limited to adding
one additional side-mounted
hard drive, as the system box
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doesn't offer any more front-acces-
sible bays.
An average-size PC, the Advan-
tage measures ISVx inches wide
by 16V? inches deep by 6 inches
high. AST supplies an AST SVGA
13-inch color monitor with .28-
mm dot pitch as the standard vid-
eo device for the system, driven
by a Super VGA adapter with
512K of video memory. Because
AST integrates this 1024 x 768
resolution video adapter right in-
to the motherboard itself, you
have a valuable expansion slot
available for other uses. Of the
five full-size, 16-bit expansion
slots on the motherboard, four
are vacant and can accept any
user-installed peripherals (the au-
dio card occupies one slot).
MS-DOS 5.0 and Windows 3.1
come preinstalled on the Advan-
tage!, and for input and control,
you get a comfortable 101-keykey-
board and a two-button mouse.
The Advantage! provided for re-
view came with software preload-
ed on its hard drive.
Documentation — an MS-DOS
5.0 User's Guide (Condensed Edi-
tion), a Concise Guide to Micro-
soft Windows 3. 1 , and a Microsoft
Works User's Guide — accompa-
nied the system, but no floppy
disks were anywhere to be
found. I should note that all of the
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The Hi-Res Image Retrieval Test measures the actual
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required to retrieve three high-resolulion scanned color
images and display them. The recorded time is the average
of three individual tests. Nimbus Infornfiation Systems'
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user manuals bear the AST logo
and color scheme rather than the
standard Microsoft blue, so
these are apparently special edi-
tions. Upon calling AST, I
learned that in the haste of get-
ting a review unit out in time to
meet our editorial deadline, the
company inadvertently left the
disks out of the box. However, the
company representative assured
me that end users will indeed
have the original floppy copies of
the software.
The Advantage! comes with a
Sound Blaster Multimedia Up-
grade Kit already installed in it, so
users are ready to start adventur-
ing into multimedia immediately.
The Sound Blaster Pro audio
board provides stereo output,
which you can enjoy through a
pair of amplified Lablec CS-150
bookshelf speakers. A Labtec AM-
20C dynamic microphone lets you
sample your own sounds.
The internal Matsushita CD-
ROM player connects to the
Sound Blaster Pro, so all audio
(CD-ROM, FM synthesized
sounds, wav files) is channeled
through the audio board. A head-
phone jack at the front of the CD-
ROM drive allows for private lis-
tening, and a joystick port (which
can also do duty as a MIDI port)
is available on the audio board's
mounting bracket, along with the
microphone and auxiliary input
jacks. The CD-ROM drive bears
the MFC logo on its front bezel,
since it, along with the Sound Blas-
ter Fro audio board it works with,
complies with MFC Level 1 stan-
dards (the Advantage! case itself
bears no MFC logo, however).
Four CD-ROM titles come
packed with the Advantage!.
King's Quest V and Mixed-Up Moth-
er Goose from Sierra On-Line are
sure to provide pleasant recreation
for all age groups; Macmillan's Dic-
tionary for Children supplies ready
reference in an easily digestible for-
mat for younger PC users; and Mi-
crosoft Bookshelf offers up a
wealth of reference resources
with a mere mouse click, including
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an online encyclopedia, dictionary,
atlas, thesaurus, and more.
All of the CD-ROM applica-
tions are set up at the factory to
run through Windows, which is
very convenient. I did, however,
experience some clicking and
choppiness in the audio portions
of King's Quest V when running
the game through Windows;
these problems were not present
when I ran the program from the
DOS prompt. I also noticed that
the game moved along faster in
general when run from DOS rath-
er than Windows. Bookshelf and
Macmillan's Dictionary for Chil-
dren require Windows to run,
while King's Quest V and Mixed-
Up Mother Goose run from DOS
as well as Windows.
AST presents this machine as a
good entry-level multimedia sys-
tem. Having worked with it myself,
I agree with that appraisal.
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SOUND BUSTER
MULTIMEDIA
UPGRADE KIT
You can't say, "Sound Blaster,"
without immediately thinking of
the best-known sound cards with
the longest list of supporting soft-
ware titles available today. Crea-
tive Labs, the company that prac-
tically set the standard for PC
sounds cards with its Sound Blas-
ter models, now provides a com-
plete multimedia upgrade kit that
includes everything you need to
get started in multimedia.
The heart of the Sound Blaster
Multimedia Upgrade Kit is the com-
pany's flagship product, the
Sound Blaster Pro audio card.
This three-quarter-length card fits
into a 16-bit slot and features ste-
reo output utilizing the Yamaha
YMF262 OPL-3 FM synthesizer
chip to produce 20 voices of instru-
ment sounds and effects. Jacks,
mounted on the metal mounting
bracket of the card, are provided
for microphone input and stereo
line input and output, A wheel on
the bracket controls volume. Dou-
bling as a connector for the includ-
ed MIDI kit, a joystick port, also
mounted on the bracket, can han-
dle one or two joysticks.
The Soun d Blaster Pro ca rd con-
tains the proprietary interface re-
quired to activate the CD-ROM
drive that comes with the kit. A
flat ribbon cable mates the audio
board's 40-pin connector with its
equivalent on the CD-ROM drive.
A CD-ROM audio interface cable
routes CD audio through the
Sound Blaster Fro for amplifica-
tion and mixing. All of the sys-
tem's multimedia audio (CD, sam-
pled, synthesized, MIDI) thus
comes through the sound board,
so you'll need only one set of
speakers or headphones (not in-
cluded), regardless of the
sound's origin.
If you don't have an available
drive bay for a CD-ROM drive,
take heart. You can buy the kit
with either internal mounting for
the CD-ROM drive (this was the
one supplied for review) or exter-
nal mounting. Essentially, the on-
ly difference between the two
(aside from a slight difference in
price— the external version being
a tad more expensive) is that the
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external version encloses the CD-
ROM drive in a freestanding cab-
inet containing its own power sup-
ply, wtiereas the internal version
mounts internally in a S'A-inch
half-height drive bay and gets its
electrical current from the PC's
power supply.
Not all upgrade kits permit us-
ing the audio card's MIDI capa-
bilities right out of the box; most
require the purchase of an addi-
tional MIDI accessory kit to ac-
cess these functions. Such is not
the case, however, with the Cre-
ative Labs kit; it includes a cable
which attaches to the joystick
port at one end and terminates
with DIN connectors for MIDI in-
put and output at the other end.
MIDI sequencing software
comes with the package.
Good instructions and keyed
cable connectors simplify instal-
lation. The internal version even
provides mounting screws for in-
stalling the CD-ROM drive in an
available front-accessible drive.
The software portion of the instal-
lation is highly automated, only oc-
casionally requesting user input
in response to a prompt. The on-
ly disk-based software provided
consists of 3y2-inch floppies con-
taining the CD-ROM drive instal-
lation program (a single disk) and
Mathematica's Tempra, a DOS-
based paint program (two disks).
All other software is provided on
optical media.
An excellent assortment of soft-
ware comes on the six CD-ROMs
packed inside the kit. Microsoft
Bookshelf, a versatile multi-
volume reference work, is includ-
ed along with the multimedia edi-
tion of Microsoft Works to get you
off to a productive start. To light-
en things up in a recreational
vein, you can take a stroll down
Baker Street or tour old London
Towne in a horse-drawn cab with
ICOM Simulations' Sherlock
Holmes — Consulting Detective.
You also get a CD-ROM called
Software Library, which contains
Authorware Star and Macromind
Action! for creating and produc-
26 COMPUTE DECEMBER 1992
MULTI-IMAGE RETRIEVE/DISPUY TEST
The Multi-Image Retrieve/Display Test uses our
proprietary TIME_IT program to record the actual
elapsed time in minutes, seconds, and hundredths
ot seconds required to retrieve and display 28 black-
and-white clip art images from an automated display/
viewing program. Our source files for Ihis test come
from Dover's Clip Art CD-ROM from Aide Publishing.
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tations and productions. On an-
other disc you'll find Windows
3.1, the Sound Blaster Pro soft-
ware, and an assortment of mu-
sic clips. A Creative Sounds disc
with an abundance of music and
effects rounds out the optical me-
dia software library.
Creative Labs certainly didn't
skimp on the audio and multime-
dia utilities included in the Sound
Blaster kit. You gel Voice Editor,
a full-featured waveform editor;
SBTalker, a text-to-speech pro-
gram; FM Intelligent Organ, an
easy-to-use music creation and
playback program; MIDI Se-
quencer SB Pro, a full-featured
sequencer package; CD Player,
a control panel lor playing audio
CDs on the system; and MMPlay,
a utility program for integrating
graphics and animations with
synchronized audio.
Most of the kit's documentation
is truly top-drawer, from the ma-
terials checklist through the refer-
ence and application manuals.
Do pay careful attention, howev-
er, to the instructions for attach-
ing the cables between the
sound card and the CD-ROM
drive; some versions of the kit
have used a ribbon cable that
can be attached incorrectly if
you're not careful.
The Sound Blaster Multimedia
Upgrade Kit packs lots of value
and features into a single box.
Just add speakers and a micro-
phone, and you're off to explore
the fascinating world of multime-
dia on your PC!
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independent testing and evalua-
tion laboratory based in Ma-
nasquan, t\lew Jersey. Every effort
has been made to ensure the ac-
curacy and completeness of this da-
ta as of the date of testing. Perform-
ance may vary among samples.
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MEDIA RESOURCES
MEDIA KIT
(ADVANCED MODEL)
If you're interested in professional-
level music and sound capabili-
ties that go far beyond the basic
MPC Level ! requirements, you'll
want to learn more about the the
f^edia Resources Media Kit (Ad-
vanced Model),
The designation Advanced cer-
tainly applies 1o this multimedia up-
grade kit, since installing it turns
a mundane 3B6-or-higher PC in-
to a commercial-level sound and
multimedia production facility.
The kit provides a higher-speed
CD-ROM drive than Media Re-
sources' basic multimedia up-
grade kit and adds a dedicated
MIDI card in addition to the stan-
dard sound card, increasing the
sound capabilities of the system
significantly.
Since two cards come sup-
plied in the kit, you'll need two
slots for installation. The three-
quarter-length audio card, a Me-
dia Vision Pro AudioSpectrum
Plus, requires a 16-bit slot for in-
stallation; you can install the three-
quarter-length Roland SCC-1
MIDI board also included in the
kit in an 8-bit slot.
An NEC CDR-83J internal-
mount CD-ROM drive with its blaz-
28 COMPUTE DECEMBER 1992
MEDIA RESOURCES
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avatlable from the manufacturer
Warranty: one year, parts and iabor
ingly fast MultiSpin technology
takes care of the optical reading
capabilities for the kit. The drive
interfaces via an included ribbon
cable to the SCSI connector on
the audio board, and another ca-
ble channels CD audio through
the sound board for mixing and
amplification.
Adding the Roland MIDI
board to the system increases
the number of voices from the 20
available through the Pro Audio-
Spectrum Plus itself to a whop-
ping 317 sounds and nine
rhythm sets using both the audio
and MIDI boards in combination.
Additional benefits derived from
the Roland board include rever-
beration and chorusing effects;
dedicated MIDI in and out ports,
which leave the joystick port on
the audio board free (an optional
MIDI breakout box is required for
MIDI in and out with the basic ver-
sion of the kit); and a dedicated
MIDI headphone jack and left-
and fight-channel RCA jacks for
direct connection to external am-
plification sources.
Hardware installation is easy
and doesn't require any special
talents, but since there's an extra
peripheral to install, it takes a cou-
ple of minutes longer to complete
than with most other kits. I found
all cabling clearly marked and
keyed, ail required hardware sup-
plied, and the instructions excel-
lent. Even a novice shouldn't
have any difficulty completing the
installation in well under an hour.
The kit includes the Microsoft
CD-ROM Extensions (MSCDEX),
of course, and a collection of Ro-
land Utilities for the MIDI board,
both supplied on SVs-inch disks.
The optical media software is
provided on two CD-ROMs, The
first contains Midisoft's Record-
ing Session for Windows, which
is a MIDI sequencing package
with realtime music notation;
Brightstar's At Your Service ani-
mated talking appointment calen-
dar software with greetings, re-
minder, system report, and health-
watch services; Gold Disk's
Screen Craze animation pack-
age; and Microsoft Windows 3.0
with Multimedia Extensions 1.0.
The second is Nautilus CD Sam-
pler, an MPC CD-ROM "maga-
zine" chock-full of samples of
music, sound effects, games, pho-
to images, multimedia industry
news and views, programming
tools, utilities, and tips.
You get all the necessary ca-
bles and adapters, along with a
pair of amplified speakers, al-
though no microphone comes
with the kit.
User manuals and reference
guides accompany all of the kit
components, and everything is
well written and clearly illustrated
to help you get the most out of
multimedia.
If your multimedia computing
needs are modest, you may opt
for the Media Resources Media Kit
(Basic Model), a less expensive kit
(model MKB-01 ) which consists of
a sound card, a CD-ROM drive,
software, and accessory items. An
intermediate multimedia upgrade
kit, possibly available when this re-
view is published, will include Dig-
ital MIDI sound. And if you own a
Sony Laser Library, you may wish
to look into the Media Kit for the So-
ny Laser Library, which includes a
CD controller, a sound card, and
Windows 3.1.
However, if you're interested in
doing serious music and audio
production work with professional-
caliber results, the Media Resourc-
es Media Kit (Advanced Model)
is definitely a multimedia solution
you should consider.
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MEDIA VISION PRO
16 SYSTEM
High-quality components are
integral to the success of any prod-
uct. That reality is obvious in
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List price: $1,105; $895 tor
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Warranty: three years
individual components for its mul-
timedia upgrade kit, the Pro 16
System. What makes this system
really special, however, is the 16-
bit sampling rate of the fvledia Vi-
sion Pro AudioSpectrum 16
card. The result is a high-end,
high-powered multimedia up-
grade kit that will delight virtually
any PC user.
The MediaVision Pro AudioSpec-
trum sound card handles the
sound functions, as well as pro-
viding the essential SCSI interfac-
ing required to control the CD-
ROM drive. This 16-bit three-quar-
ter-length card uses a Yamaha
YMF262 (OPL-3) 20-voice stereo
synthesizer chip to generate
sound, and the board delivers
four watts per channel of output
power. While almost every other
multimedia sound card offers only
an 8-bit sampling rate, the Pro Au-
dioSpectrum 16 offers both 8-bit
and 16-bit sampling rates. The 16-
bit rate gives you more sound in-
formation and cleaner samples.
The kit's NEC CD-ROM drive
mounts internally in any front-
accessible 5y4-inch half-height
drive bay of your PC. A ribbon ca-
ble connects the CD-ROM drive
EUPSED TIME TESTS
The Elapsed Time Tests measure the elapsed time for the transer of a source file (1 ,257,344 byles)
from Compton's MutliMedia Encyclopedia CD-ROM. As in the tesls ot rale of transfer, we used four
data block sizes in the test passes.
12
10
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m Block
(65,535 bytes)
32K Blotk
(32,768 bytes)
16K Block
(16,384 byles)
8K Block
(81 92 bytes)
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J
TEST LAB
to the SCSI interface on the au-
dio'board, and an audio cable
routes the CD audio through the
sound card, as well. Having all of
the audio (CD. wav, and FM-syn-
thesized sounds and nnusic} em-
anate from one location (the out-
put port of the audio board)
means that you can intermix
sounds with individual volume ad-
justments for each audio source.
Additionally, you need only one
set of speakers (or headphones)
for all audio playback.
I found installing the kit an es-
sentially straightforward process
that doesn't require any particu-
lar technical or mechanical skills.
Excellent descriptions and illustra-
tions in the documentation facili-
tate your installation of this up-
grade equipment. To install the
hardware, you remove the PC's
system cover, insert and secure
the Pro AudioSpectrum board in
an available 16-bit slot, install and
secure the CD-ROM drive in an
available bay, attach the "pigtail"
power connector from the PC's
power supply to the socket on the
CD-ROM drive, connect the
SCSI ribbon cable to both the
drive and audio card, connect
the audio-link cable to both devic-
es, replace the system unit cov-
er, and attach a pair of speakers
or headphones to the audio out-
put port on the board's mounting
bracket. All connections are
keyed so that they will only mate
when properly oriented to each
other, which greatly reduces the
chances of making a mistake.
As for the software, you'll install
Windows 3.1 (supplied on flop-
pies with the kit) on the system if
it isn't already resident and then
run the Pro 16 Multimedia System
installation program, contained
on two 3y2-inch disks. Highly au-
tomated, the installation process
only occasionally requests user in-
put in response to a prompt. An
additional disk contains Media Vi-
sion drivers for Windows. And a
fourth floppy contains Mono-
logue, a memory-resident text-to-
speech utility that runs from DOS
32 COMPUTE DECEMBER 1992
THE MPC STANDARD
The fvlPC standard is a set of lechini-
cai specifications for multimedia
hardware products which is being
widely adopted in the PC industry.
The standard provides plug-and-
play simplicity for the consumer and
helps the marketplace develop quic k-
ly for products ttiat comply with
these specifications.
The fvlPC Hardware Specifica-
tions Version 1.0 are as follows:
CPU
The minimum requirement is a
386SX or compatible microproces-
sor.
RAM
The minimum requirement is 2MB of
extended (linear address space)
memory.
CD-ROM
The drive must be capable of a sus-
tained 150K-per-second data trans-
fer rate with an average seek time
of one second or less. (For specific
benciimarks. see the bar graph
with Data Transfer Speed Rate Test
results.) The drive must also provide
Mode 1 audio capability (the ability
to play your audio CDs) and an
tviSCDEX 2.2x (Microsoft CD Exten-
sions) driver that implements extend-
ed audio APIs (Application Program-
ming Interfaces). The drive cannot
consume more than 40 percent of
the CPU bandwidth (in other words,
no more than 40 percent of the
CPU's computing power) while main-
taining a sustained transfer rate of
150K per second. The drive must pro-
vide CD-DA (Red Book) audio out-
puts and have a front-mounted vol-
ume control.
VIDEO
There must be a VGA-compatible
display adapter and a color VGA-
compatibte monitor.
INPUT DEVICES
There must be a 101 -key IBM-style
keyboard with a standard DIN con-
nector or a keyboard which delivers
identical functionality using key com-
binations, a two-button mouse with
a bus or serial connector, and at
least one addittonal available commu-
nication port.
I/O
There must be a standard 9- or 25-
pin asynchronous serial port, pro-
grammable up to 9600 bps, with a
switchable interrupt channel: a stan-
dard 25-pin bidirectional parallel
port with interrupt capability; one
MIDI port with input, output, and
throughput capability with interrupt
support tor input and FIFO transfer;
and an IBM-style analog or digital
joystick port.
MPC SYSTEM SOFTWARE
MPC system software must conform
to APIs, function, and performance
as described in the Microsoft Win-
dows Software Development Kit
Programmer's Reference, Volumes
I and II (version 3.0) and the Mlao-
soft Multimedia Devetopment Kit Pro-
grammer's Reference (Beta version,
published November 15, 1992, and
due to be updated at the final re-
lease of the Multimedia Develop-
ment Kit).
Additional information on the tech-
nical specifications required lor hard-
ware compliance are available up-
on request from the Multimedia PC
Marketing Council.
The term multimedia applies to a
number of new computer technolo-
gies on the market today. Keep in
mind, however, that only MPC up-
grade kits and full systems which
have been certified by the Multime-
dia PC Marketing Council as being
compliant with its MPC specifica-
tions are granted the right to use the
official MPC trademark logo, shown
above. Look for it when considering
a product.
—TOM BENFOflO. PRESIDE^^■.
COMPUTER PRODUCT TESTING SERVICES:
IN COLLABORATION WITH
GLENN OCHSENREITEB.
MANAGING DIRECTOR, MULTIMEDIA PC
MARKETING COUNCIL (A SUBSIDIARY OF
THE SOFTWARE PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION)
(not Windows).
The kit consists of tine audio
board, the CD-ROM drive, the req-
uisite cabling for connecting the
two devices, documentation, soft-
ware disks, and five CD-ROMs;
no additional accessory items
come with the kit. if you want to
use speakers, headphones, a mi-
crophone, or any other accesso-
ries, you'll have to purchase
them separately.
You'll find plenty of sound utili-
ty software in this kit, most of
which runs under Windows (a pro-
gram called Audio Mate is a DOS-
based multimedia application,
and the Monologue program men-
tioned earlier also runs under
DOS). The Windows utilities in-
clude Stereo Studio F/X, a stereo
waveform sound editor; TrakBlas-
ter Pro, a four-track music studio;
SP Spectrum, a MIDI sequencer
that facilitates composing and
playing back music; Control Pan-
el, a software-controlled mixing
console; and an assortment of
music and sound files.
The CD-ROM software includ-
ed with the kit provides some-
thing for everyone: Lotus 1-2-3 for
Windows v/ith Multimedia
SmartHelp provides spreadsheet
and charting for the business
user, Compton's MuitiMedia Ency-
clopedia provides a wealth of refer-
ence material on myriad subjects
for users of all ages. King's
Quest V provides recreational ad-
venture for the whole family, and
MacroMind Action! provides all
the tools needed to create daz-
zling multimedia presentations
easily. As a bonus, you also get
an introductory "sample issue" of
Nautilus, a multimedia "magazine"
on CD-ROM with sound bytes,
MIDI and wav music flies, graph-
ics images, demos of software pro-
grams, utilities, and lots more.
The Media Vision Pro 16
System has iots of the "right
stuff" to get you off lo a fine start
and keep you happily running
with multimedia.
Circle Reader Service Number 309
DATA TRANSFER SPEED RATE TESTS
Ttie Data Transfer Speed Rate Tests measure the actual transfer rate in kilobytes per second. Our
source file (1,257,344 bytes) comes from Compton's IVJultiNyiedia Encyclopedia CD-ROM. We used
TIMEJT with our CD-SPEED utility to automatically record the performance data. Performance was
measured using four data block sizes In the test passes. While these drives are optimized for one
particular block size, you're likely to use more than one block size in your daily work, so we left that it
would be useful to show performance for these other block sizes as well.
64K Block
(65,535 bytes)
150,000
100,000
50,000
r ?
D
D
32K Block
(32,768 bytes)
16K Block
[16,3S4bvle5)
8K Block
(8192bytss)
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DECEMBER 1992 COMPUTE 33
TEST LAB
^LiniEDU
NEC MULTIMEDIA
UPGRADE KIT
The NEC Multimedia Upgrade Kit
offers you quality and features
that show just how seriously the
company takes multimedia tech-
nology. In addition to a CD-ROM
drive that's among the speediest
around, you get just about every
component and accessory you
could possibly ask for in this kind
of kit.
The heart of the upgrade kit is
the NEC CDR-74 CD-ROM drive.
An external unit, this drive has its
own cabinet and power supply.
It connects to the PC via a sup-
plied SCSI cable (a SCSI termina-
tor plug is also provided tor the
drive's pass-through SCSI port).
The CDR-74 drive {which is the
same as the NEC CDR-84, ex-
cept that the latter installs internal-
ly in your PC) features NEC's Mul-
tiSpin technology, which makes
it the fastest MPC-compliant
drive available (as of the time of
this review),
The cable that links the CDR-
A NOTE ON PRICES AND
CONFIGURATIONS
The multimedia market is changing
rapidly, partly because of competi-
tion among manufacturers and part-
ly because of the rapid advance of
technology. As you make your way
through this month's Test Lab,
please keep in mind that between
Itie time wg receive our information
and the time the issue hits the
stands, there may have been chang-
es in prices, packages, and compo-
nents. As hard as we try to keep up
with changes and provide you with
the latest information, it isn't always
possible to do so.
To make sure thai you're getting
exactly what you want at the price
you want, you should check with
the manufacturer or retailer before
buying. Also, keep in mind that we
provide suggested list prices and
that you can often find street pric-
es that are much lower It pays to
shop around.
^IKE HUDNALL
34 COMPUTE DECEMBER 1992
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(800) NEC-INFO
List price: $1,379 (external);
$1,299 (Internal)
Warranty: two years (liiniled),
parts and labor
m/
74 to the host PC also has audio
and MIDI cables attached to it so
that CD audio can be played
through the audio board. Line
input and output jacks and dual
lyilDI connectors on this master
umbilical cable facilitate connec-
tions. NEC labels all cabling clear-
ly making the installation quick
and easy for virtually any PC
user, even the novice.
The audio board supplied with
the kit is a Media Vision Pro
AudioSpectrum Plus unit that has
been modified to NEC's specifi-
cations. The board supports full
stereo output using a pair of Yama-
ha YMF262 0PL3 synthesizer
chips (one for each channel),
which deliver 22 voices in 18 tim-
bres. Two MIDI ports (one for
input and one for output) are also
supported by the board and
accessed via the DIN connectors
on the umbilical cable. In addi-
tion, the audio board contains the
SCSI interface for controlling the
CD-ROM drive.
This kit offers a rich assortment
of accessories — the most com-
plete of all the kits (and systems)
reviewed here. In this kit, you get
a pair of amplified Labtec CS-
T50 miniature bookshelf speak-
ers and a DC power adapter for
powering the speakers when you
don't want to use the four C cells.
However, the speakers do not
have to be powered to operate;
without batteries or DC power
connected to them, the speakers
operate in the passive mode,
deriving their volume from the
sound board itself. Adding pow-
er to the speakers amplifies the
audio coming from the sound
board and provides a bass
boost, as well.
A pair of lightweight Labtec ste-
reo headphones also comes with
the kit for private listening. The
headphones are equipped with a
stereo miniphone jack, but you
can also use an adapter supplied
in the package to plug them into
your home stereo or other audio
devices sporting standard-sized
headphone jacks.
A Labtec AM-20 deluxe micro-
phone with an on/off switch
comes with the kit. With the
Labtek microphone, you can sam-
ple sounds and record your own
voice. As with the speakers, the
mike has a stereo miniphone
jack installed on its eight-foot
cord and comes with an adapter
so that you can use it with devic-
es requiring a standard phone
plug.
The kit also includes a copy of
Asymetrix's Multimedia Toolbook
software package, an "industrial-
strength" multimedia authoring
system. Of the multimedia author-
ing and development packages
available on the market today, Mul-
timedia Toolbook is probably the
most flexible and is certainly the
best known. NEC's decision to
include Multimedia Toolbook was
a solid one, adding significant val-
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ue and versatility to this excellent
upgrade kit.
NEC provides only one CD-
ROM application witti the kit — a
copy of Windows 3.1 along with
the appropriate drivers required
to upgrade your PC to multimedia
Windows and activate all of the
MPC features of the hardware.
The documentation in NEC's
upgrade kit is truly excellent, ex-
plaining every step of the instal-
lation in lucid detail with a gener-
ous assortment of illustrations to
further clarify the upgrade proc-
ess. Most of the installation is au-
tomatic, requiring only minimal us-
er input. Believe it or not, you can
install the entire upgrade, includ-
ing Windows 3.1, in under an
hour, and it doesn't requireany spe-
cial technical knowledge or prow-
ess. NEC keys ail cable connec-
tions so that they will fit together
only one way (the correct way), a
good feature that further guaran-
tees a successful installation.
Make no mistake about it: This
is not a "bargain basement" mul-
timedia upgrade kit for the budg-
et conscious. But then again, qual-
ity never comes cheap. Looked
at in that context, the NEC Multi-
media Upgrade Kit is indeed a bar-
gain when you consider the qual-
ity and quantity of the goodies it
contains. With it, you get more
than your money's worth,
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MPC AUDrO TERMINOLOGY GLOSSARY
ADPCM. This is an abbreviation for
Adaptive Differential Pulse Code Mod-
ulation. ADPCM is an algorithm (or
compressing audio data so that it
requires less memory and disk
space. The amount of compression
appears in ratio format, such as 4:1 ,
3:1 , and so forth. The ratio numbers
indicate the degree of compression
in a sample. For example, a 2:1 ratio
means that the compressed sound
is only one-half the size of the origi-
nal uncompressed sample; a 3:1 ra-
tio indicates that the sound has
been compressed to one-third its
original size.
chip sets. The YM3812 and the
Yf(/IF262, manufactured by Yamaha,
are known as frequency-modulated
(Ftvl) synthesizers, since they can
generate sounds. The principal dif-
ference between the YM3812 chip
and the YMF262 chip is that the lat-
ter has stereo capabilities and pro-
duces 20 voices, while the former is
a mono chip producing 11 voices
(thus, two YM3812 chips are re-
quired for stereo sound cards). Also,
the YMF262 has four additional
"'operators," or modes, which
makes it capable of producing a
wider variety of sounds and timbres.
See timbre.
dynamic range. This is a represen-
tation of the span of volume between
the loudest and softest sounds, ex-
pressed in decibels.
MIDI. An acronym for Musical In-
strument Digital Interface, the spec-
ification was developed as a coop-
erative effort among major manufac-
turers of electronic musical instru-
ments in the 1980s with the objective
of permitting musical instruments of
different brands to communicate
with each other. Additionally, several
MlDI-equipped devices can be
linked together under the control of
a PC and software for creating, stor-
ing, editing, and playing back music
in digital data format,
MPU-401. The Roland company
(a major developer and manufactur-
er of music synthesizers and sound
processors) developed the original
MPU-401 fvllDI interface for use with
PC-compatible and Apple II series
computers. MPU-401 is a widely ac-
cepted interface, featuring its own on-
board CPU for processing some IVIIDI
data without taxing the system's CPU
for these tasl<s. The MPU-401 inter-
face also supports the UART (Uni-
versal Asynchronous Receive and
Transmit) mode, which bypasses the
card's processor and relies entirely
on the host PC lor ail processing.
sample size. This is not to be con-
fused with the physical size of the
expansion slot Itie sound board fits
nto. Simply put. the sample size is
the range of data for the sampled
sound, with 16-bit sampling encom-
passing double the amount of
sound data that 8-btt sampling does
(B-bit sampling provides 48 decibels
of dynamic range, whereas 16-bit
doubles the range to 96 decibels).
Since more sound information is
involved, 16-bit sampling requires
more memory and more disl< space
for storing the sounds than 8-bit sam-
pling.
sampling rate. Measured in kilo-
hertz (kHz), this refers to the lowest-
possible and highest-possible rang-
es of sound that can be successfully
digitized. According to the Nyquist
Sampling Theorem, the highest au-
dio frequency that can be repro-
duced must be sampled at a frequen-
cy at least twice that high. This
means that in order to reproduce a
20-kHz lone, you must sample it at
40 kHz.
Windows 3.1 has a sampling limit
of 44 kHz, although some audio
cards are physically capable of sam-
pling up to 88 kHz. The threshold of
human hearing is about 21 kHz. Why
sample at rates beyond the limits of
human hearing? The higher rates pro-
vide much cleaner samples by reduc-
ing the amount of alias distortion (ex-
traneous information that filtering
removes from the sampled sound).
signal-to-noise ratio. This number,
usually represented in decibels, de-
picts the strength ratio of the desired
signal (for example, music) to the ex-
traneous noise present (such as back-
ground hiss). The higher the num-
ber, the "cleaner" the sound will be.
The signal (music) is measured at
full volume, whereas the noise (hiss)
is measured when no signal is pre-
sent (during silence). In addition to
hiss, noise can also be the whine of
the computer or any other undesira-
ble noise that isn't a part of the sig-
nal itself.
timbre. Also called tonal color or
musical quality, this term refers to the
sound characteristics that allow us
to differentiate one sound from an-
other, the qualities that make
sounds unique. For example, timbre
is what makes a saxophone sound
like a sax instead of a guitar.
—TOM BENFOHD, PRESIDENT,
COMPUTER PRODUCT TESTING SERVICES:
WITH TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE FROM
BRAD STEWART, VICE PRESIDENT.
PRODUCT DE/ELOPMEMT AND
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36 COMPUTE DECEMBER 1992
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TEST LAB
TANDY 4a25 SX
MULTIMEDIA
Editor's note: After testing and re-
view evaluation oftliis system had
taken place, Tandy announced its
new SensationI multimedia sys-
tem. According to Tandy represen-
tative Fran McGehee, you'll still be
able to order tlie 4825 SX system
witli tiie multimedia features de-
scribed in tliis review when the De-
cember issue hits the stands. The
Sensation! uses the same CD-
ROM drive as the 4825 SX but a
different audio card.
In the same way that Tandy
brought computers to the home,
the Fort Worth company is now
bringing multimedia computing
to the masses. Its 4825 SX Multi-
media PC takes the new user gen-
tly by the hand on a colorful audi-
ovisual excursion into MPC-land,
A compact PC, this Tandy of-
fers a baby-AT form factor of
15'/2 inches wide by 15 inches
deep with a low profile of 4'/i inch-
es and a weight of about 17
pounds. The review unit came
equipped with the standard con-
figuration of 4MB of RAM, al-
though you can expand memory
up to a maximum of 32MB.
An Intel i486SX CPU provides
the power to mal^e it all happen,
and with a clock speed of 25
MHz, this PC makes things hap-
38 COMPUTE DECEIvlBEH 1992
TANDY/RADIO SHACK
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Fori Worth, TX 76102
(817) 390-3011
Ust price: $Z.1S8 without the
monitor, S2,500 with the monitor.
Warranty: one year, parts and labor;
extended warrantv available
pen fast. The machine's highfy in-
tegrated motherboard features a
built-in 16-bit IDE hard drive inter-
face, as well as a built-in Super
VGA video port. The standard vid-
eo memory configuration is 512K,
which yields noninterlaced 1024
X 768 and 800 x 600 graphics
modes with 16-color palettes. Tan-
dy offers an optional upgrade kit
for boosting the video RAM to
1MB. which supports 1024x 768
noninterlaced graphics in 256 col-
ors (the review unit had the stan-
dard 512K video RAM setup). A
socket on the motherboard lets
you install a math coprocessor.
A3'/2-inch 1.44MB floppy drive
and a 3'/2-inch 120MB IDE hard
drive move and store data on this
machine. A PS/2-style Tandy two-
button mouse plugs into a dedicat-
ed PS/2-style port, also integrated
into the motherboard. Two serial
ports and a parallel port handle
the input-output chores, while an
excellent 101 -key keyboard with au-
dible key clicks makes typing fast
and comfortable.
Since the audio board in the
4825 SX occupies one of the
three 16-bit expansion slots, only
two remain available to accept ad-
ditional device cards, A single
S'/'-inch front-accessible drive
bay is available for adding a sec-
ond floppy or hard drive or a com-
pact tape-backup unit.
A Tandy VGM-441 14-inch col-
or monitor supplied with the 4825
SX for the review provided crisp,
comfortable viewing, even for very
prolonged sessions exploring the
MPC capabilities of the machine,
as well as for extended text and
number-crunching sessions.
MS-DOS 5.0 and Windows 3.0
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from the National Geographic IVlammals CD-ROM to
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TEST LAB
with Multimedia Extensions
came premstalled on ttie 4825
SX. I was somewliat puzzled
when 1 first booted Ihe system
and saw the 3.0 opening screen,
since I fully expected to see Win-
dows version 3.1. A bright red
card in the documentation pack-
et immediately caught my atten-
tion witti its boldfaced heading:
■■WARNING: DO NOT UPGRADE
THIS COMPUTER TO WINDOWS
3.1 r' The message went on to
say that the Multimedia Exten-
sions work correctly with Win-
dows 3,0 but not with 3.1.(1 know
from personal experience that
this is true; however, since 3. 1 al-
ready has the Multimedia Exten-
sions built into it, I found this mes-
sage to be even more confusing.)
The message also said that Micro-
soft plans to release Windows 3. 1
with Multimedia Extensions in the
fourth quarter of 1992 and, at
that time, owners of registered
4825 SX multimedia systems will
be notified about how to receive
their free 3. 1 upgrades. The mes-
sage ended with a repetition of
the bold warning it began with.
Indeed, Windows 3.0 with Mul-
timedia Extensions is installed on
the system, and it moves along at
a decent clip, thanks to the 25-
MHz CPU. Having become accus-
tomed to the faster performance
that Windows 3.1 delivers, I was
pleasantly surprised at how swiftly
this machine performed with the
older, slower Windows version.
The built-in CD-ROM drive
doesn't require a caddy. With a
slight push, a drawer extends
from the drive to accept the CD-
ROM directly. Another push re-
tracts the drawer and seats the
disc in the drive. Tandy's pub-
lished specifications list CD-ROM
drive disc spin-up time as one sec-
ond, although it certainly
seemed much longer than that
whenever the drive was ac-
cessed initially (the benchmark
test times for the 8K block test cor-
roborate this); after the initial "log-
on," subsequent access of the
CD-ROM drive was almost instan-
40 COMPUTE DECEMBER 1992
MULTIMEDIA TESTING
METHODOLOGY
Complete IVIPC systems were test-
ed using only the hardware sup-
plied by the manufacturer unless
a required component was not
part of the standard package (for
example, a microphone for sam-
pling sounds); in such cases, a
Shure Unidyne dynamic micro-
phone served as the standard test
instrument. A pair of Labtec SS-
100 series amplified speakers and
a pair of Sennheiser HD-414 Pro-
fessional Series dynamic head-
pfiones allowed us to check audio
quality when manufacturers did not
supply speakers or headphones.
MPC upgrade kits, on the other
hand, were all tested on the same
computer. The test system used a
Mylex i486/33-MHz motherboard
with 8MB of RAM. The chassis for
the test system was equipped
with a calibrated 200-watt Sen-
stron regulated power supply pro-
vided by Triton Technology Lab
(New Hyde Park, New York) along
with hard and floppy drives.
The MPC Audio Test Suite con-
sists of several tests designed to
establish the sound card's ability
to record and play back sampled
sounds using the supplied soft-
ware utilities as well as those pro-
vided in the Microsoft Multimedia
Development Kit. We tested
sound cards to ensure correct play-
back of sound files with the wav ex-
tension as well as MIDI files using
the card's on-board FM synthesiz-
er. Wav files use the native sound
formal understood by WindoiA/s (dig-
ital sound data). Not actual sound
files, MIDI files contain control sig-
nals for activating a MIDI device.
Additionally, our MPC Audio
Test Suite included numerous
tests to check the audio capabili-
ty of the CD-ROM drive itself, its
playback audio capabilities
through the audio card, its confor-
mity to the MPC hardware stan-
dards, and its ability to read the
(SO 9660 High Sierra data format
(the original CD-ROM format
agreed upon by major manufactur-
ers) as well as audio-only CD-
ROMs.
— TCM BENFQRD, PRESIDENT
COMPUTER PRODUCT TESTING SERVICES
taneous. This wasn't a great sur-
prise, however, since "caddiless"
drives almost always take longer
to achieve proper spin-up speed
than drives that use caddies.
The audio board contains
jacks for connecting two Tandy-
compatible joysticks and a MIDI
cable, as well as a jack for attach-
ing speakers or headphones and
another jack for plugging in a mi-
crophone. No microphone, speak-
ers, or headphones are supplied,
although a MIDI cable comes
with the system.
You'll find Microsoft Works for
Windows supplied on floppy disk
and also preinstalled on the hard
drive. Manuals for Works, DOS
5,0, Windows with Multimedia, and
general system features are up to
Tandy's usual fine standards.
The one CD-ROM disc in the
package provides lots of soft-
ware demos of programs, includ-
ing multimedia titles for entertain-
ment, education, reference, and
productivity, as well as an intro-
duction to the system's multime-
dia capabilities.
While this is a good system for
getting started in multimedia com-
puting, the sparseness of acces-
sories (no mike, speakers, and so
forth) and the demo-only CD-
ROM (instead of at least one fully
functional, useful CD-ROM soft-
ware title} put a damper on my
enthusiasm for it.
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ULTIMEDIA FEATURES 1
AcerPAC 150
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ALR Flyer 32DT Advantage!
Cfeatfve Labs
Sound Blaster
Media
Resources
Media Kit
Media Vision
Pro 16
NEC Multimedia
Upgrade Kit
Tandy 4B25
SX MunimedfB
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CD-ROM DRfVE INFORM/
CD-HOM imerface
propnetary
SCSI
pioptielary
proprieia'y
SCSI
SCSI
SCSI
proprietary
Location of interface
molherboard
audio board audio board
audio board
audio board
audio board
audio board
motherboard
CD-ROy manufacturer
Mitsumi
Sony
Panasonic
f^nasonic
NEC
f4EC
NEC
Tandy
Headphone jack
yes
yes
yes
yes
yes
yes
yes
yes
Phono (RCA) jacks
no
no
no
no
adapter included
no
yes
yes-
Auxiliary audio hookup
cable
yes
no
yes
yes
yes
no
yes
yes
Caddy requited
no
yes
yes
yes
yes
yes
yes
no
Internal (fits in bay)
yes
yes
yes
yes-
yes
yes
no'
yes
External (stands alone)
no
no
no
no
no
no
yes
no
Plays audio CDs
yes
yes
yes
yes
yes
yes
yes
yes
Nuir.ber of CO-ROM title
s 1
3
4
6
2
B
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1
Speakers supplied
;
1 (internal
2
7
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Audio boaid
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Sound Blaster
Pro
AudioSpectrum
Plus
AuOioSpeclrum
16
Plus
proprietary^
IRQ and DMA setup
software
sollware
software
software
software
software
sollware
software
Drivers tot Windows 3- 1
yes
yes
yes
yes
yes
yes
yes
yes
Stereo or mono
stereo
stereo
stereo
stereo
stereo
stereo
stereo
stereo
Power of tjuilt^n amp
(watts per channel)
2.5
4
4
4
4
4
4
2
Volume control
External
yes
'":
;,9S
yes
yes
no
no
yes
Hirough software
yes
yes
yes
yes
yes
yes
yes
yes
Sound Blaster compalib
e yes
yes
yes
yes
yes
yes
yes
yes
Ad Lib cortipatible
yes
yes
yes
yes
yes
yes
yes
yes
Sound sampling
yes
yes
yes
yes
yes
yes
yes
yes
MIDI
yes
requires
MidiMate
requires
MIDI kit
yes
yes
reqijtres
MidiMate
yes
yes
MPU-«t compatible
■;'£S
yes
no
no
yes
no
yes
no
Sampling
8-b:t
22 kHz
2-44 kHz
4^W.rkHz
4-44,1 kHz
2-44.1 kHz
2-44.1 kHz
2-14 kHz
5-88 kHz
16-bit
no
no
no
no
no
4-44.1 kHz
no
11-44 kHz
ADPCM2;1 ADPCM2:1.
3:1,4:1
ADPCM 2:t,
3-1, 4-1
ADPCM
ADPCM 2:1.
3:1,4:1
AOPCfil 2:1
ADPCM 2:1.
3:1. 4:1
Audio compression
Syftthesizer ctiip set
Yamaha
YM3812;2
Yamaha
YMF263
Yamaha
YMF262
Yamaha
YMF262
Yamaha
YM3812
Yamaha
YMF262
Yamaha
YMF262
Yamaha
YM3812;2
Number Dl wlcas
8
20
20
20
20
20
22
11
Sampled audio PCM (n
3>se) na
55 dS
48 da
48 dB
55 dB
90 dB
55 dB
na
Microphors supplied
internal
no
yes
no
no
no
yes
no
Headphones supplied
no
no
no
no
no
no
yes
no
'iniemal and external ver
^wllti Cneative Labs chips
lions available
na=intoni5a!»n no! available
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Aircraft Design, Interacteve Media and Audio Fught Plans for Microsoft* Fught Simulator*
Simulatnr
Speaks
L/ndl now, diere's been somediing
important missing from your Flight Simulator
experience. Speech. Vital instructions.
Weather, And navigational directions. Bur
four new products from
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craft designer, test pilot, flight
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You'll design and build your
own aircraft — for beyond the
limitarions of Flight
Simulator's library. Then put
your creation through its paces with your own
test flights!
Add speech, sound effects or music. Even
audior your own Flight Simulator ad\'entures
sending fellow aviators instrument flying
through clouds, over mountains or the open
CRAFT
ADVENTURE
FACTORY
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For Microsoft' Flight Simulator
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In addirion to creating your own
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NEWS & NOTES
Jill Champion
The Vertical:
It's not
just another
QWERTY
keyboard.
And the Survey Said . . .
Logitech, the world's largest
producer of sensory input de-
vices, recently conducted its
"PCs and People" poll to find
out what PC users think
about using products that
bring human sensory dimen-
sions to computing. However,
the results were a bit more
newsworthy than the research
team expected, so the compa-
ny released its findings at PC
Expo last June.
Serge Timacheff, Lo-
gitech's senior manager of
public relations, says that in
this poll, people who are us-
ing computers are saying to
people who don't that it's not
as bad as they thought it
would be, and they're more
productive as a result.
Over 55 percent of PC us-
ers personalize their comput-
ers by giving them names;
nearly 50 percent think com-
puters need to be more user-
friendly; overall, women focus
on getting their PCs to de-
crease their workload while
men focus on making "touch
and feel" improvements; and
American businesswomen out-
number men two to one as
PC users in all occupations,
According to Timacheff,
"The people making comput-
ers assume their audience is
84 percent male, because the
company buyers are typically
44 COMPUTE DECEMBER 1992
male. Their advertising is direct-
ed toward men, but the end us-
ers are mostly women."
Open the Pod Bay Door
If you've ever dreamed of turn-
ing your home into a 2001-
style computerized home,
check out the HAL catalog
from Home Automation Labo-
ratories for the latest in futur-
istic home-automating goods.
The mail-order catalog special-
izes in equipment for do-
it-yourselfers who want to
automate their homes.
Featured in particular are X-
10 remote-control products —
modules that
send control
signals to ap-
pliances and
lights over exist-
ing house wir-
ing. Prices are
reasonable —
$12,99 for plug-
in lamp and ap-
pliance mod-
ules, $13.95 for
wall switches —
and there are
many special-
ized products
for things like
ceiling fans
and hot-water heaters. About
half of the more than 400 prod-
ucts for sale can be controlled
by your IBM-compatible PC us-
ing HAL'S Dynasty software
($395.00), which lets you pro-
gram lights, heating and air con-
ditioning, and entertainment
and security systems to re-
spond to your every whim.
The catalog is free. Write or
call Home Automation Labora-
tories, 5500 Highlands Park-
way, Suite 450, Smyrna, Geor-
gia 30082; (800) 466-3522.
What's in a Keyboard?
Concerned about the stress-
es caused by ordinary key-
boards? You might want to
get Vertical.
The Vertical is designed to
eliminate torque of the wrists
and arms and reduce the risk
of repetitive-motion injury. In-
ventors Jeffrey Spencer and
Stephen Albert of La Jolla, Cal-
ifornia, say their design is con-
ceptually endorsed by hand
surgeons and therapists from
the University of California at
San Diego Medical Center
and at OrthoMed, UCSD's
hand-rehab center.
While The Vertical uses a
QWERTY configuration, the
right and left sides of the key-
board are split and mounted
vertically. This design allows
the keyboard to adjust to
your torso width, which elimi-
nates pronation (downward ro-
tation of the hand and fore-
arm), eliminates arm and shoul-
der extension, and accommo-
dates your hands. Currently un-
der testing at the UCSD Med-
ical Center, The Vertical isn't
yet on the market, but
Spencer and Albert say
they're shooting for a price un-
der $250- To find out more,
contact The Vertical, P.O. Box
2636, La Jolla, California
92038; (619) 454-0000.
Mini Travelers
Looking for big things in
small packages? Look into
these new finds from ZEOS
and Best Data Products.
The Pocket PC from ZEOS
is barely the length of two
passports. Yet this ultralight
computer comes bundled
with eight different software
programs, including DOS 5.0
and Microsoft Works, and its
adjustable, nongiare LCD
screen measures a full 7 x
2% inches with 600 x 200 res-
olution (80 columns x 25
lines) and 16 shades of gray.
The 81 -key QWERTY key-
board is designed for touch
typing and includes 12 func-
tion keys, an embedded nu-
meric keypad, and handy
built-in hot keys that let you in-
stantly access preselected
software windows. The bat-
tery gives you ten hours of con-
Hi.
A! I n^ ' Awi. Tr.ui It ■ I ■■.iNTiiOLLEK FoR AmcRAFT AND Adventure FA(rrt)Rv anp Mk kosoft ' Flight Simulator"
Hearing is
believing
/VnJ now diorc'.s a g<;xxf reason to listen. Tlirco
new products from Mallard SotKrare bring yoi!
prolcssionally reeoaled iulvennires witji
Jigiriied audio sixx-ch and sound
cttects so realistic, your Flight Simulator
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Tlianks to Mallard's Aircraft and
Advenaire Faaory- ", you and Flight
SimulaCor can join tine world of multi-
media, creating; your own audicKiriven
fliglit atlvenaires.
From a familiar Air Traffic
Control voice to tlie drone of your
engine, Mallaai gives you unheard ot
Fliglu Simuliitor audio rcpaxJuction.
CRAFT
Calitomia - Under Instalment Flijjht Rules and
ChJGi^o Meigs Field to Kankakee, Illinois - Under
Visiial Flight Rules next to flying a
a-al check-ride to test your IFRand
VFH skills, Fliglit Ad\'enttire
No. 685 i.s as close as you can get.
Take your directions, set your
radios and compass, and let Air
Trafiic Control (ATC) guide you
tliroLigh tiie flight
Rescue Air 91 1
Tilt' pressure's on. Seconds count. All
your (lying skills anti reflexes are about to l-ie tested.
Digiti:etl audio Air Traffic Qintroi directs you
diniiigK eight ditfcrcnt rescties, from fire,s to flocxils to
auto accidcniy. Qmditions include weadier and
insnaimcnt thing in an advenaire witli -sound efiects
and simulation so real, you'll bieadie a si;^ of relief
when you land.
Right Adventure No. 685
Exercise VFR and IFR tedmiques vAth twt) diUy
programmed advenaires. Stockton to Livennore,
ADVENTURE
FACTORY
Multimedia Creation Software
For Microsoft* Flight Simulator*
Flight Adventure No. 701
Two more great flight advenaires in
one package — Peter O. Night -Tampa
to St Petersburg, Florida under
Instrument Flight Rules and Oakland
to Concord, Gtlifbmia under Visual
Fliglit Rules.
Add these two and your Aircraft and Adventure
Faaory has some wings!
With Mallard flight simulation products, you're
getting the latest in enhancements for Mictosoft Flight
SimuLitor. In fact you're taking a major step mwatd
flight realism widi digitized audio and pre-progtammed
advenaii-es.
Tlie right stuff to make good pilots better, and
great pilots ecstnOc Just call us at l-SOO-WEB-FEET.
Because seeing is believing, but hearing makes
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NEWS & NOTES
The Freestyle/SL
notebook
from ZEDS sports
a unique tilt-
and-swlvel LCD
screen.
tinuous use and up to 30
days of operation in suspend
mode. Suggested retail pric-
es start at $595, which will
buy you 1MB of RAfvl and
I.SfVlB of ROM, Two built-in
slots enable the system to ac-
cept memory cards.
Based on the Intel 25-MHz
386SL chip, the Freestyle/SL
is a complete system with
2MB of RAM upgradable to
20MB. a 60MB hard drive,
one 3'/7-inch 1.44MB internal
floppy drive, and a 64K inter-
nal processor cache. Prices
start at $1 ,895 for the system
described here. For more infor-
mation on either system con-
tact ZEOS, 530 Fifth Avenue
NW, St. Paul, Minnesota
55112; (800) 423-5891,
From Best Data comes the
Traveler, a 9600- or 4800-bps
send/receive fax and 2400-
bps data modem combined in
one pocket-sized package.
The Traveler's background
mode allows you the option of
continuing your work while you
receive a fax. DOS, Windows,
and MacTraveler versions are
available at a suggested retail
price of $199 each. For more
information, contact Best Data
Products, 9304 Deering Ave-
nue, Chatsworth. California
91311; (818) 773-9600,
Day Runner's Complement
"The need for a software pro-
gram that works with our or-
ganizers became obvious
when we learned that nearly
half of Day Runner purchas-
ers use a PC every day,"
says Hope Neiman, vice pres-
ident of marketing for Day Run-
ner, makers of the popular
Day Runner paper-based or-
ganizers that account for
more than half of all U.S. retail
sales of personal organizers.
The company knew that its
busy customers wanted
simple-to-learn computer prod-
ucts that would make plan-
ning easier, and the result is
Time Plus software.
At a suggested retail price
of $60, Time Plus is an afford-
able personal information man-
ager full of time-saving fea-
tures that are easy to learn.
When scheduling appoint-
ments, you can quickly note
open blocks of time during a
week by checking the Time
Bar. Try to schedule two ap-
pointments at the same time,
and the program wilt indicate a
conflict and offer a resolution.
Especially appealing to
Day Runner users are the pro-
gram's numerous print op-
tions that produce letter-per-
fect pages for you to carry in
your organizer.
For more information, con-
tact Day Runner, 2750 West
Moore Avenue, Fuilerton, Cal-
ifornia 92633; (800) 635-5544.
Yesterday Once More
The wall is down, but anyone
who remembers the chilling
events of the Berlin Crisis is in
for a fascinating trip down
memory lane when Warner
New Media releases its CD-
ROM program Seven Days in
August, slated for the first quar-
ter of 1993. This "interactive
documentary" takes you
back to 1961 to the events
that led to the building of the
Berlin Wall. If you're too
young to remember, or even
if it happened before your
time, you'll appreciate this me-
ticulously researched history
lesson on one of the more
frightening periods in the Nu-
clear Age.
While the Berlin Wall is the
documentary's main empha-
sis, other areas and icons of
early-1960s pop culture are al-
so explored. For example, the
program includes a game
called First Lady of Fashion,
based on Jackie Kennedy. Ex-
emplifying her tremendous
popularity, the object of the
game is to choose which out-
fits she wore to different
events during her reign as
first lady
Another game. Four Min-
utes to Midnight, focuses on
stocking a fallout shelter.
True to the times, you feel
that nuclear war is imminent,
and in four minutes you must
stock your fallout shelter with
enough provisions to last for
two weeks. Along with the list
of supplies you're given, tak-
en from official civil-defense
publications of that tinne, are
several worthless items, such
as gamma radiation suits and
no-glow salve, that were actu-
ally sold to consumers.
Other games in Seven
Days in August include For
the Record, a baseball trivia
contest, and Out of This
World, an early-1960s space
fantasy. Suggested retail
price for Seven Days in Au-
gust is $79.98. For more infor-
mation, contact Warner New
Media, 3500 West Olive Ave-
nue, Burbank, California
91505; (800) 593-6334.
Companies with items of inter-
est suitable for "News &
Notes" stiould send informa-
tion along witfi a color slide or
color transparency to News &
Notes, Attn: Jill Ctiampion.
COMPUTE. 324 West Wen-
dover Avenue, Suite 200,
Greensboro, North Carolina
27408. Although space is lim-
ited, all items will be consid-
ered for publication. D
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FEEDBACK
High/Scope Number
Thank you for publicizing the
1992 High/Scope Buyer's
Guide to Children's Software
in a recent issue. I noticed,
however, that you identified
our fax number as our phone
number. Our phone number
is (313) 485-2000. Our fax
number is {313) 485-0704.
RITA TODERAN
HIGH/SCO='E EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH
FOUNDATION
YPSILANTI, Ml
Searching
I'm looking for a way to write
a BASIC program that will
search for a string tn a file
and replace that string with
another string.
APRIL WAKEMAN
SHEPHERD, Ml
Here 's a pretty bare-bones rou-
tine tliat does what you say.
When it runs, it asks for the
file to search, the search
string, and the replacement
string. It replaces the search
string with the replacement
string and names the
changed file TEMP.$$$. It's
case sensitive and doesn't
search for whole words, but
you could easily overcome
those shortcomings.
CLS
INPUT "Enter name of text (lie: ",
filenames
INPUT "Enter string to look lor: ",
searcfiS
INPUT "Enter replacement
string:", replaces
OPEN filenames FOR INPUT AS #1
OPEN "lemp.SSS" FOR OUTPUT
AS #2
WHILE NOT E0F(1)
c$= INPUTS(1,#1)
IFcS = LEFT$(searcti$, 1)THEN
d$ = INPUTS(LEN(searcti$)-1,
#1):d$ = cS + d$
(F d$ = searcliS THEN
eS = replaces
ELSE
SEEK1, SEEK(1)-(LEN(search$)
-1)
END IF
END IF
PRINT #Z, cS;
LOCATE 1, 1: PRINT SEEK(1);
"bytes read,*'; L0F{1);
"remaining."
WEND
CLOSE 1
CLOSE 2
This program was written in
QBASIC but should be trans-
latable Into most versions of
BASIC.
PC Programming
About six months ago I pur-
chased a Gateway 2000 com-
puter. Prior to that purchase,
I owned a Commodore com-
puter for many years. It has
been quite some time since I
had seen COMPUTE; then
my son brought one home re-
cently. It didn't appear to
have much in it for program-
ming the PC or learning
about its systems, Isn't there
a need for a magazine for peo-
ple who want to learn program-
ming and learn more about
their systems in general?
Also, I have a Commodore
computer, and there doesn't
seem to be much interest in
Commodores in my area. You
almost have to give them
away to get rid of them.
JIM MULLER
GREENE. NY
If you're Interested in introduc-
tory programming and system
Information, checl< out the "Pro-
gramming Power" and "Intro-
DOS" columns In COMPUTE.
Tips & Tools and this column
often have programming exam-
ples, too.
Many book publishers
have books out that cover BA-
SIC on the PC. Most full-serv-
ice bookstores will stock at
least a few books on DOS.
the PC operating system. If
you don't find any books on
the shelf check with the pro-
prietor A quick glance at
Boof<s in Print will reveal sev-
eral dozen books on program-
ming the PC in DOS and varl-
Pull on a string,
learn to program, add
4,210,752 colors
to QBASIC, and more.
ous other languages.
Although there isn 't a large
market for used Commodore
8-bit computers, they're
much more In demand than
any other kind of 8-blt comput-
er. Run a want ad in a local pa-
per or buyers' guide, and
you'll probably get a few
calls from Interested parties
(assuming the price is low
enough). After all, the Commo-
dore 64 is still being manufac-
tured and sold. And there's vir-
tually no difference between
a used one in good condition
and a brand new one.
Only 4 Million Colors
I'm having trouble figuring out
how to mix and cycle colors
with QBASIC. Can you ex-
plain the process? The manu-
als can't.
RUPERT SILVEHSTEIN
WALLED LAKE, Ml
It's not nearly as complicated
as it might seem, and yet a re-
view of the manuals for three
kinds of BASIC and a dozen
books turned up nothing help-
ful. The key is to create a
long integer (a variable name
followed by an ampersand is
the mark of a long integer).
The reason you need such a
big variable type is that you
can create up to
64-h256'64+65536'64 (that's
4.210,752) colors. You've prob-
ably heard that some graphic
adapters can draw their col-
ors from a palette as large as
16,777.216 colors— the cur-
rent QBASIC only provides
about a quarter of that.
Here's a program that mixes
colors and cycles them.
RANDOMIZE TIMER
DIM a(2550), b(25S0), i:&(2S6)
id = 1: jd = 1
tryagain:
INPUT 'Please enter12 lor 16-
color VGA oris for 256-color
MCGA"; screenmode
IF (screenmode <>12) AND
(screenmode <>13) THEN GOTO
DECEMBER 1992 COMPUTE 49
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ABS(yhelght - i)), (lNT(i /-(1.S *
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AND (colors -1))),BF
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top:
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- 63 * (colors = 256)
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How to run
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listings with
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and a Caps
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Debug Tips
Lots of people have asked
how you enter those Debug
scripts. Here's how.
First, make sure the DOS
Debug program is in your
path or the current directory
How can you tell? From the
command line just type de-
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be called debug.com). Once
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directory or somewhere else
in your path. If you're using a
recent version of DOS, all the
files will be in their com-
pressed state, so Debug will
look like debug. ex_. To install
this file, type expand a.de-
bug.ex_ cidebug.exe. To get
out of the Debug program,
type Q and press Enter.
When you begin to type in
one of the programs, you'll
see different styles of type.
The italic text represents
what the computer prints; the
roman text is what you need
to type. It's not always easy.
The hyphen at the beginning
of each line of code is put
there by the computer.
Typing in the programs al-
ways begins the same way.
You type debug followed by
the program name and then
press Enter. The computer
should always print the line
File not found. If it doesn't,
that means you have another
file with the same name. You'll
have to delete that file or try
using a different filename.
Next, you'll see the hyphen
prompt. Enter each line of da-
ta. Each one starts with e and
continues with the data. Each
line is ended by pressing En-
ter. It doesn't matter whether
the alphabetical characters
are uppercase or not.
After you've entered all of
the data lines that start with
an e, you'll type RCX and
press Enter. The computer
should print the line CX 0000.
Then you'll type in a hexa-
decimal number representing
the size of the file and press
Enter.
The next line is the charac-
ter W followed by Enter. This
tells Debug to write the file to
disk. The computer will print
the line Writing 0028 bytes (or
whatever the file size should
be). Finally, type O and press
Enter to quit Debug and re-
turn to the DOS prompt.
I've received a number of
Debug codes as tip submis-
sions. That's great, but I also
need source code so I can
take a look at how the pro-
gram works.
RICHARD C, LEINECKER
MIAMI, FL
New Slants on Old Tips
Your program for showing di-
rectory listings of multiple file
specs, dirr.com, inspired a
batch file that I named m.bat.
To use it, simply enter M and
then one or more file specs.
echo off
if !%1==! goto end
:ioop
dir %1
shift
if !%1==| goto end
goto loop
:end
Capoff.com in the June is-
sue is almost what I've been
looking for. I say "almost" be-
cause what I really want is a
program that will warn me
with a beep whenever I hit
Caps Lock.
DAVID PHELPS
ST, LOUIS. MO
Asl< and ye shall receive.
Here's a program that beeps
when Caps Lock, Num Locl<,
or Scroll Lock is pressed. If
you run Checl<sum (July 1992
"Tips & Tools") on this com
file, 079 should appear.
debug keytieep.com
File not lound
-eiaO eS 67 DO 2a e4 a3 7a 01
-e108 1)8 1c 35 cd 21 89 1e 76
-e110 01 Be 06 78 D1 ba 24 01
■e118 bB 1c 25 cd 21 ba 20 DO
■e12D b4 31 cd 21 50 53 52 b8
-e128 40 00 2e 8b 1e 7a 01 3a
-e130 c3 74 19 8a tl8 b7 05 ba
-6138 61 00 ec Oc 03 ee b2 43
-e140 bO b6 ee 4a bO ff ee bO
-e148 05 ee eb 11 Oa ff 74 Od
-e150 fe cf Oa ff 75 07 ba 61
■e158 00 ec 24 fc ee 2e 89 1e
-el GO 7a D1 5a 5b 58 2e ft 2e
-e168 76 01 1e 2b cO 3e d8 aO
-e17D 17 04 24 70 If c3
-RCX
CX aODO
:76
-W
Writing 0076 bytes
•Q
JVlake and Enter
The June column contained a
simple utility called mcd.com
that needed to be typed in
with Debug. The same thing
can be done with a batch
file. Here's mcd.bat,
echo off
IF%1.~. goto noparam
md %1
cd %1
goto end
moparam
echo parameter missiig - need
echo name of new subdirectory
echo example: mcd newdir
:end
As long as the batch file is in
your path, you can create and
enter a new subdirectory by typ-
ing mcd and the subdirectory
DENNIS SULLIVAN
DAYTON. OH
dBASE DOS Commands
The June 1992 "Tips &
Tools" column featured a
dBASE tip. It provided a short
QuickBASIC program that lets
you shell temporarily to DOS
from dBASE and then type ex-
it to return. It's an undocument-
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Easy access to
DOS from dBASE,
directory ot
directories from a
batch file,
simplifying daily
liaclmps, and
performing DOS
commands from
within WordPerfect
ed feature, but dBASE pro-
vides for thiis very task. You
simply run ICOMMAND or
RUN COMfvlAND at the dot
prompt, It'll even display the
Type EXIT to Return message.
JAMES A. MCKNIGHT
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Directory of Directories
There's another way of seeing
a directory of directories be-
sides typing in the dirdir.com
program from the December
1991 issue. It's a batch file
called dirdir.bat that uses the
DOS filter in combination with
Find. It takes advantage of
the fact that subdirectories
have a < character in the di-
rectory listing. (It's part of the
<DIR> text string that indi-
cates the entry is a subdirec-
tory and not a file.)
echo off
dirlfinil"<"
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CENTRALIA, WA
Easy Backups
I back up my work every day.
But I don't like backup soft-
ware for my simple needs.
The problem is that there's no
convenient way to back up on-
ly the files that have been up-
dated for that day. I've written
a small program called to-
day.com that can be entered
with Debug. That in combina-
tion with a batch file gives
you everything you need for
daily backups,
debug today.com
File not found
-el 00 ba 62 01 b4 3c 2b c9 cd
-el 08 2t Sb dS 2b c9 ba 74 01
-e110 b4 4e cd 21 72 Oe eS 13
-e118 00 b4 4f cd 21 72 05 e8
-e120 Oa 00 eb fS b4 3e cd 21
-el 28 b4 4c cd 21 b4 2a cd 21
-e130 81 eg be 07 8a e9 8b c1
-e138 8a c6 b1 04 d2 eO d1 eO
-e140 Qa c2 3b 06 98 00 75 1e
-e148 ba 78 01 b9 05 00 b4 40
-e150 cd 21 ba 9e 00 e8 01 00
-e153 b4 40 cd 21 ba 7d 01 b9
-el 60 05 00 b4 40 cd 21 c3 be
-e16S 9e DO 2b eg ac 41 Oa cO
-e170 75 fa 49 c3 2a 2e 2a 00
-el 78 43 4f 50 59 20 20 25 31
-el 80 Od Da 4G 4c 2e 42 41 54
-el 88 DO
RCX
CX 0000
■M
-W
Writing 0089 bytes
■Q
If you run Checksum (July
1992 "Tips & Tools") on this
com file, 000 should appear.
The batch file is called back-
itup.bat. To use it, type back-
itup destination, where destina-
tion refers to the path to the
backup disk or directory. It'll
copy to the destination every
file in the current directory that
matches your system's date.
echo off
if !%1=l goto end
rem First call t)ie today program.
today
rem Now call the fl.bat file
rem created by the today program.
call fl %1
rem Now delete the fl.bat file.
del fl.bat
:end
RICHARD C. LEINECKER
MIAMI. FL
WordPerfect Shell
I stumbled on an easy way to
do a single DOS command
from within WordPerfect. Nor-
mally, I press Ctrl+FI and
then 1 to exit to DOS. In my
haste, I pressed Ctrl+FI and
forgot to press 1. I then be-
gan to type the word copy,
but after I'd typed the charac-
ter c, I saw the prompt DOS
command:. I then typed copy
filename a: and was returned
to WordPerfect.
I now press Ctrl+FI fol-
lowed by c every time I want
to run a single DOS command.
It's easier than using Ctrl+FI fol-
lowed by 1 because, when
you're done, you don't have to
type ex/Mo return to WordPer-
fect. It's also quicker than the
combination of F5 (List Files), 8
(Copy), and Y (Confirm).
JERRY BILLIOT
HOUMA, LA
Easy
DOS Macros
There's an easy way to add
macros as long as ansi,sys
has been loaded. And they
can be part of your prompt
statement to simplify things in
your autoexec.bat.
You might want to experi-
ment from the command line
before adding anything to
your startup files. Here's an
easy one that causes F2 to
do a directory.
prompt $e[0;60;"dir'';13p$p$g
The $e translates to Esc
when used in a prompt; [0;60;
stands for the keycode being
hijacked. Substitute any value
from 59 to 68 for keys F1-
F10. Dir is the command you
invoke when you press F2.
The 13p simulates pressing En-
ter. The $p$g prompt follows
to display the path and greater-
than sign.
Here's the same command
except that it attaches to the
Fl key the command Type
c;\autoexec.bat.
prompt $e[0;60;"dir";
13p$e[0;59;"type c:\auto-
exec.bat";13p$p$g
KEVIN LO
PALM BAY, FL
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PLAYING THE
SHELL GAME
MS-DOS Shell
knows tricks Qiat
the command
line can't match.
62
If you have DOS 5.0 and don't
run MS-DOS Shell every once
in a while, you may be missing
a few tricks.
MS-DOS Shell is a file man-
ager. It provides a menued
environment for managing
files, launching applications,
and performing DOS com-
mands. If you prefer to issue
commands with a mouse rath-
er than with the keyboard,
you'll be more at home in MS-
DOS Shefl than on the com-
mand tine.
It certainly isn't the most el-
egant file manager in the
world, but if you don't have ac-
cess to a better program, MS-
DOS Shell certainly beats the
command line for some tasks.
For example, if you have sev-
eral files to copy, move, or
delete, tagging them in
MS-DOS Shell is quicker and
significantly less suscepti-
ble to error than typing in
names one by one at the
command line.
Another of MS-DOS Shell's
fancy tricks is that it allows you
to view your entire disk as one
unit rather than as a collection
of subdirectories.
To try this option, select All
Files in MS-DOS Shell's View
menu. The display wiil switch
from a view of the currently se-
lected subdirectory to a listing
of all files on the entire disk.
They'll be ordered according
to your default sorting option —
most likely alphabetically.
What good is such a list?
You can use it to find dupli-
cates. As you scroll through
the list, you may find several
files with the same name. This
indicates that you may have du-
plicate copies of those files
in different subdirectories.
When you select a file in the list-
ing, an information panel dis-
plays all the details about the
file — subdirectory, size, date
COMPUTE DECEMBER 5992
of creation, attributes. By com-
paring this information for
each of the possible dupli-
cates, you can determine
whether the files are identical
copies or are different files
that happen to share the
same name.
Running out of disk space?
Use MS-DOS Shell's All Files
listing to show you the largest
space eaters on your hard
drive. After selecting All Files
from the View menu, select
File Display Options on the Op-
tions menu. Select Display by
File Size, and select the De-
scending Order option.
The result is a listing of all
the files on the disk from larg-
est to smallest. You'll be able
to concentrate your disk-
cleaning efforts where they
will do the most good— on the
largest files.
If looking at everything on
the disk is a little overwhelm-
ing (large hard disks can hold
thousands of files), return to
the Options menu and select
File Display Options. Instead
of specifying *.* to see every-
thing on the disk, narrow the
selection, depending on your
focus.
For example, enter 'Jxt to
see all the files with a txt ex-
tension. If you enter '.bak, you
can locate all the backup files
on the disk and delete them all
in one fell swoop if you like.
MS-DOS Shell has a search
function that lets you search
an entire disk for filenames
that match a pattern, such as
*.txt or *.bak, but the resulting
display lists only the
pathname for each file. I find
it more helpful to use the All
Files approach outlined
above, because the resulting
directory includes information
such as file size and date of
creation.
In addition to being a file
manager, MS-DOS Shell is al-
so an application launcher
and swapper. You can set up
a program list with the titles of
your favorite applications. For
each application title, you fill
out a properties box in which
you specify what happens
when you activate that appli-
cation. You specify a com-
mand line, a startup directory,
a shortcut key combina-
tion, and even a password if
you like.
Once you have an applica-
tion running, you can switch
back to MS-DOS Shell and run
another program without shut-
ting down the first application.
Under this scenario, the pro-
grams aren't all active at the
same time. MS-DOS Shell
swaps the inactive programs
to the disk and places the ac-
tive program in memory. The
speed with which this hap-
pens depends on the speed
of your hard disk.
MS-DOS Shell also is good
at associations. If your word-
processing program, for exam-
ple, uses the doc extension for
its document files, you can as-
sociate the doc extension
with the word-processing pro-
gram. From that point on, dou-
ble clicking on any doc file
will start the word-processing
program and load in the select-
ed doc file. Follow a similar pro-
cedure for your database
files, spreadsheet files, and
so on,
With all its file management
and program management
features. MS-DOS Shell is a
little like a combination of
Program Manager and File
Manager in Microsoft Win-
dows. In fact, MS-DOS Shell's
menus, file selection conven-
tions, and operating proce-
dures are similar to those
of Windows.
If you're accustomed to run-
ning Windows, you should be
quite comfortable with MS-DOS
Shell operations. If your ma-
chine doesn't have the speed
or memory to run Windows, MS-
DOS Shell can give you a simi-
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Init files let an
application know
how to select
variables on startup.
INIT FILES AND
EXTRA MEMORY
If you've ever used Windows,
you may have noticed several
text files that end with the ex-
tension ini in your Windows
directories. These are simply
text files with the following ap-
pearance: [SecttonName] En-
tryName=AddString.
Initialization files, usually
called init files, let an applica-
tion know how to select varia-
bles on startup. Say you have
an application that needs to
DIM an array at startup, The
more you DIM, the more mem-
ory is used before the pro-
gram even starts. The less you
DIM. the poorer performance
becomes on a high-RAM ma-
chine because there's extra
memory lying around with no
way for you to get at it. The fix
is to DIM that array with a varia-
ble at startup and to have
your program read that value
from an init file.
Here's the format of an init
file. The text in brackets is
called a section. The variable
name on the left is called an en-
try. The value on the right can
be changed. It's like assigning
to a variable in BASIC:
Pl=3. 14159.
Windows has a routine
called WriteProfileString that au-
tomatically updates an entry in
win.ini and that used to be the
preferred place to put your ap-
plication's configuration varia-
bles. Reading a configuration
value, which was a text file,
meant reading every line of
the file until the preferred sec-
tion and entry could be found.
Predictably, system perform-
ance on networks and on
hard disks of users with lots of
programs slowed to a crawl
whenever a program started
because win.ini could be thou-
sands of lines long.
Beginning with Windows
3.0, Microsoft came to its sens-
es and added the API call
WritePrivateProfileString,
which takes a filename, a sec-
tion, an entry, and the string to
write to the entry. This column
presents a BASIC version of
that routine.
WritePrivateProfileString is
complicated. If the init file
doesn't exist, it's created.
That's pretty easy. The tough
part is changing ttie value in an
init file and section that already
exist, because it requires that
these laborious steps be taken:
Create a temporary file. Read
in each line of the existing init
file. If it's not the entry in ques-
tion, copy the line out to a tem-
porary file. When the entry is
found, write out the new value
instead of the old one. Copy
the rest of the init file to the
temporary file. Delete the old
file. Then rename the tempo-
rary to the name of the old file,
And this assumes no errors oc-
cur! The working code is even
more complicated because it ac-
counts for errors every step of
the way and because of the
deceptively simple phrase cre-
ate a temporary file.
Like Windows, this routine
first checks for the existence of
a temp environment variable,
which specifies the drive and di-
rectory Windows and some oth-
er Microsoft applications use
for temporary files. It also
checks for tmp, which some oth-
er applications create. Since it's
possible that neither environ-
ment variable has been de-
fined, the routine must check
for a hard disk. Then a unique
filename is created. It's based
on the system time, so it's un-
likely that such a file already ex-
ists (the function fails if so: call
it again in a loop because the
time will have changed later).
The routine is then appended
to the temporary drive and
path already created. All of
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tines were necessary for the
creation of WritePrivate-
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This Month's Routines
FileExists% Returns nonzero
value if the specified file is pre-
sent or 0 if the file can't be
found.
FindFirst% Returns informa-
tion about the specified file
such as size, attributes, and
time of creation. If a wildcard
specification (like '.txt) Is
used, it returns information on
the first matching file. Find-
Next is used for each remain-
ing file.
FindNext% Returns informa-
tion about files matching a
wildcard specification such
as ".txt. Must be preceded by
FindFirst.
GetCurrDir$ Returns the cur-
rent working directory.
GetCurrOriveS Returns the
currently logged drive,
GetTempDir Returns the
name of the temporary direc-
tory by checking the temp en-
vironment variable.
GetTempDrive (based on
Windows routine of the same
name) Selects the system
hard disk if the parameter is 0
or the letter of the next availa-
ble hard drive.
GetTempFilename (based
on Windows routine of the
same name) Calls DOS to de-
termine the name of a file guar-
anteed to be unique.
lsAlphas% Returns nonze-
ro value if the specified string
consists only of letiers or 0 if
there are characters other
than letters.
lsDigits% Returns nonzero
value if the specified string
consists only of digits or 0 if
there are characters other
than digits.
NumHardD!sks% Returns
the number of hard disks in-
stalled on the system.
SplitFilename Breaks the in-
put filename into drive, direc-
tory, name, and extension.
WntePrivateProfileString%
Changes an entry in the spec-
ified init file if it exists or cre-
ates the file, section, and en-
try if it does not exist. □
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IVfO new battery
technologies
have some real
disadvantases.
MORE ON
BATTERIES
The more I find out about this
battery stuff, the more there is
to know. This month, a bit
more on the nicads and charg-
ers, a discussion of their
would-be successors — the
nickel metal hydrides, and a
quick peek at the El Dorado of
batteries . . . lithium.
Last month, I talked about
some of the basic problems
with nicad batteries and their
chargers. For those who are
just joining us, here's a quick
60-watt bulb that you probably
have in your desk lamp. My ear-
lier 8088-based laptop with no
hard disk and a backlit screen
drew an even more pusillani-
mous 8 watts, but that comput-
er was a power spendthrift
when compared to the 386SX
notebook. Even though the
notebook uses more power,
it's doing a lot more.
Notebooks have to be
more miserly in their use of pow-
er, largely because it's hard to
make batteries better, and bat-
teries are heavy. The battery
in my Dataworld notebook is
just a tube containing four D-
fvlerely saying that a battery
provides, say, 1 .5 volts doesn't
tell the whoie story. Battery ca-
pacities are rated in terms of mil-
iamp hours, which tell how
many milliamps the battery can
provide for a period of one
hour. The batteries in my lap-
top, for example, provide
about 6000 milliamp hours.
Milltamp hours measure ca-
pacity, but, again, we're inter-
ested in capacity that's light-
weight. That's where a new
unit of measure comes in. En-
ergy density is a measure of
how many milliamp hours
each pound of a battery pro-
Figure 1: Typical Battery
Figure 2: Rechargeable Battery Figure 3: Damaged NiMH Battery
IVi«nLif e I liu-h;irj:eJ
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PcrTTDLiKC nivh.iipfd
review. Nicads are the most
popular form of batteries that
store electricity for portable
computers, hand-held radios,
videocassette recorders, and
the like. Nicads can't really
store that much juice, so any-
thing that really needs a lot of
power won't work well with ni-
cads. That's why you'll never
see nicads under the hood of
an electhcally powered car.
Look back at the list of de-
vices that use nicads — VCRs,
notebooks, and walkie-talk-
ies— and you see devices
that are basically solid-state.
It always amazes people
when I tell them this, but com-
puters basically use no power
at all. For example, my 386SX
notebook contains 16MB of
RAM. a floppy drive, a backlit
LCD screen, and a 120MB
hard disk, yet it only draws 15
watts of power. Fifteen watts!
That's about one-fourth of the
amount used by the common
cell batteries, and that proba-
bly accounts for 20 percent of
the weight of the notebook all
by itself. By the way, in the
process of researching this ar-
ticle, I found that the battery
classification system that's
based on letters was devel-
oped in 1926 by the American
National Standards Institute —
ANSI to its friends. It includes
not only the common AA,
AAA, C, and D batteries, but
an A {kind of long and narrow
like the AA and AAA), as vrell
as a B (which pretty much
doesn't exist any more), an E.
and an F. You can find an F by
opening a lantern battery;
there's a bunch of them in
there. Nowadays, there are al-
so AAAA (really tiny), as well
as G, J, N, and 6. Some of
these can actually be found in
your local Radio Shack; I
know because I need the N bat-
teries for my hand-held laser
pointer that I use in class.
vides. Obviously, if my battery
could hold 6000 milliamp
hours in one ounce, my laptop
would be a lot lighter. Tiiat's
where nickel metal hydride
comes in ... or so they say.
According to the makers of
nickel-metal-hydride batteries,
these batteries have an ener-
gy density that's 25 to 50 per-
cent better than that of nicads.
But the more you know about
them, the less you like thenn.
First, most makers of nicads
underreport the capacities of
their batteries by 20 percent or
so, Nickel metal hydride, on the
other hand, doesn't get under-
reported. (I don't know why Per-
haps because it's a new tech-
nology and needs some hyp-
ing?) As a result, nicads don't
look as good as they would if
put on an equal basis with nick-
el metal hydride. While that
dulls hydride's luster a bit, don't
give up hope for battery im-
provement in general.
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Screen Antics: The Adventures of
Johnny Castaway is a Windows i"
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starring imps with attitudes.
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When a nickel-
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COMPUTE
An even newer technology,
the lithium battery, promises an
energy density two or three
times better than that of nicads.
But it's still on the drawing
boards. And with rechargeable
batteries, it's always a guessing
game as to how much longer
they'll work until they die. To
see why, take a look at figure
1 . What you see is a graph of
the voltage output of a battery
plotted against its remaining ca-
pacity. As the graph marches
from left to right, more of the bat-
tery capacity is gone, but so al-
so goes the output voltage. As
most batteries discharge, their
voltage drops steadily. That
makes it easy for a sensing cir-
cuit to predict when the voltage
will drop below some critical
point. It's also why the built-in
battery tester on the Energizer
batteries works — it's measuring
output voltage and using that
as a proxy for the remaining mil-
liamp hours. But look at the
same curve for a rechargeable
battery in figure 2.
Rechargeable batteries pro-
vide just about the maximum
voltage level until right before
they die. That's why your laptop
runs just fine up until the mo-
ment it dies. It's also why you
need a computer-controlled
charger and battery analyzer,
as I explained last month. If you
use a laptop, I can't stress
strongly enough that you must
have some kind of charger and
analyzer, I used to get about an
hour's use from my laptop
when 1 used the charger that
came with the laptop. But after
buying the HME System 90
charger (call 800-233-6868 or
619-458-1500 for information),
I've gotten almost three hours
of work out of a single battery
It's simply wonderful that I can
carry three batteries with me
and get a solid eight hours'
worth of computer time to
write, draw, and, of course,
play Risk for Windows. With the
kind of deadlines that I've had
this month, I simply couldn't
DECEMBER 1992
have written my latest book.
The Windows Problem Solver.
on time without it.
The second thing to consid-
er about nickel metal hydrides
is that, as with nicads, there's
the old problem of recharging
these things. I told you last
month that nicads must be treat-
ed properly when they're being
recharged or they'll grow crys-
tal dendrites that reduce their
charging capacity. That's
related to the common notion
that nicads can develop
a memory problem whereby
they lose their capacity to
charge. Nickel metal hydrides
don't have that problem, which
sounds good.
Nicads grow dendrites if
they're overcharged or
charged when hot. Removing
the dendrites involves a proc-
ess called conditioning the bat-
tery Again, an analyzer and.
charger can help; mine took a
severely abused battery (OK,
I was the abuser, but I didn't
know any better at the time)
that could deliver only about
4100 milliamp hours and
raised its capacity to 5900 mil-
iiamp hours!
The bad news with nickel
metal hydride is that it can al-
so be damaged by overcharg-
ing, but when it's damaged,
it's damaged for good — no con-
ditioning is possible. Worse, a
damaged battery may exhibit
a discharge cycle like the one
in figure 3, About halfway
through, the battery drops its
voltage output dramatically,
perhaps below the voltage lev-
el needed for the laptop. Re-
sult— you've instantly halved
the useful capacity of the bat-
tery Again, no fix.
Another popular feature of
many rechargers is a fast-
charge feature whereby a bat-
tery charges fully in only an
hour or two. That's possible
with nicads, but not nickel met-
al hydrides. You need a fairly
complex charge cycle to safe-
ly charge them quickly, and
even then they don't charge
as quickly as nicads.
While on the subject of re-
charging, there's another prob-
lem with nickei metal hydrides.
Battery chargers use charging
circuits that detect when the
battery is charged so the charg-
er can throttle back to a trickle
mode, rather than continuing
to force power into the already-
full battery One way of doing
this is negative voltage detec-
tion; the nicad kind of splash-
es back power when it's full.
Some charger circuits use
this method, but it won't work
on nickel metal hy-
drides— they don't show a neg-
ative voltage when full.
The third problem is outgass-
ing. In plain English, that
means the emission of gases
by the battery when it's charg-
ing or discharging. If charged
when hot. nickel metal hy-
drides outgas hydrogen gas —
you know, the stuff that blew
up the Hindenburg? I mean, I
iike a hot notebook as well as
the next guy, but there are lim-
its ... I should mention here
that outgassing is one of the
big reasons why lithium batter-
ies are still on the drawing
boards; they produce some
fairly toxic gases.
Finally, nickel metal hy-
drides just don't last as long.
Nicads can be charged and
discharged many times more
than nickel metal hydrides
can. If you routinely charge a
nickel metal hydride to 80 per-
cent of its capacity you'll only
get 50 percent of the service
life you would've gotten from
a corresponding nicad.
So what's the bottom line?
It seems to me that the money
spent on laptops that use nick-
el metal hydrides isn't well
spent. If you want good capac-
ity and less trouble, get a ni-
cad laptop and a computer-
ized analyzer and charger.
But what about making the
laptops use less power?
That's next month. D
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What can you get for the computer
users ori your gift list who seem to
have everything? The perfect gift
might not be the obvious one. Here's a list of
ideas — some off the beaten path and some
off the wall^that will lose those holiday
blues. You don't have to break the bank to
get interesting and useful computer gifts.
This list contains gifts in every price range,
including both hardware and software,
1. Parent's Guide to Educational Software for
Young Ctiildren: Compiled by the
educational team at Edmark. Tells how to
select deveiopmentally appropriate software
while balancing technical considerations.
Lists additional resources. Free. Edmark,
6727 185th Avenue NE, P.O. Box 3218,
Washington 98073-3218; (206) 861-8200.
2. Panic buttons: Save your keyboard when
the urge to smash it against the wail arises,
$3 for a set of tviJO, $30 for 12 packages of
two each. Computer fvluseum Store, 300
Congress Street, Boston, Massachusetts
02210; (617} 426-2800,
3. Templates: Quick help for those tinnes
when keypresses escape you. Color coded,
nonglare, UV coated, stackable, and easy to
use. Custom templates and decals also
available. $3,50 each, $33,00 for 10, $79,00
for 25 (no mixing allowed in sets). Max Data,
625 North Gilbert Road. Suite 104, Gilbert,
Arizona 85234; (800) 292-4629,
4. ChocWare Diskette: Pure milk chocolate
disk, $4,50. See 2 for order information.
5. Disks in bulk: Always a great gift. Prices
usually include sleeves and labels and run
anywhere from SO. 49 to $1.25 apiece,
depending on how many you buy. Check
out your office supply stores, computer
supply retailers, and computer catalogs for
tfie best prices.
6. Disk cases: Hold either 80 3''2-incti or 100
5V4-inch disks and stop you from asking,
"Now where did that disk go?" Locks
included. $4.95 for SVinch case and $7.48
for 5Vinch case. MidWest Micro, 6910 U.S.
Route 36 E, Fletcher, Ohio 45326: (800) 972-
8844.
7. Fellowes New Document Holder: Easily
attaches to the side of your monitor to be
used as a convenient copy holder. Its
pact size makes it a practical way to keep
messages, reminders, and information in
clear view. List price, $5.99. Fellowes, 1789
Norwood Avenue, Itasca, Illinois 60143;
(800) 955-3344 or (708) 893-1600.
8. Computer wimp poster: "COMPUTER
WIMP: 166 Things You Should Know Before
You Buy a COMPUTER!— or before you
give up on the one you have." 23 x 31
inches. $7. See 2 for order information.
9. Murphy's Computer Law poster: Contains
adages such as "Every task takes twice as
long as you think it will take. If you double
the time you think it will take, it will take four
times as long." 23 x 31 inches. $7. See 2 for
order information.
10. Antiglare filter: A 14-inch filter that
Seasoitial
gift suggestions
for the com-
puter enthusiast
wlio has
everything
By Tracy Mygrant
and
Danielle Best
relieves eye stress for comfortable
glare-free viewing. S15. Disk Count
Software, P.O. Box 3, Carteret, New
Jersey 07008; (800) 448-6658.
11. Surge strips: Steel cases that
fiouse multiple outlets and protect
equipment from electrical surges.
Come in handy if you ever run out of
places to plug things in. Can be found
in most supply or hardware stores and
computer catalogs.
12-14. Quick help with Windows, Word
for Windows, and Excel for Windows:
101 Essential Windows Tips — $9.95,
101 Essential Word for Windows
Tips — S9.95, 101 Essential Excel for
Windows T'/ps— $9-95. Order through
local bookstores or direct from COM-
PUTE Books, c/o CCC, 2500
McClellan Avenue, Pennsauken, New
Jersey 08109. Send cover price plus
$2.00 shipping and handling per book
in the U.S.. $4.00 per book in Canada,
and $6.00 per book elsewhere.
15. Business Forms for the Fax and
Copier: This book provides 64 profes-
sionally designed tear-out forms for
faxing, memos, notices, greetings,
and more. $9.95. Hello Direct, 140
Great Oaks Boulevard, San Jose,
California 95119-1347; (800) 444-
3556.
16-17. Smack I! and Data Dog: Stuffed
versions of your computer ready to
suffer the wrath that you can't afford to
take out on your PC. And they even
come with owner's manuals. $10
each. See 2 for order information.
18. fvlulticolored propeller beanie and
cap; For S, M, L, and XL propeller
heads. $11.50. See 2 for order infor-
mation.
19. Discalculator: A solar-powered cal-
culator in the shape of a S'^s-inch flop-
py. $12.95. See 2 for order informa-
tion.
20. Dust Control Cleaning System (for
computer and home/office electron-
ics): Includes two six-ounce cans of
STATX high-tech cleaner and dust
repellent (which also repels static
electricity), a ten-ounce can of
Tornado dust remover, and two lint-
free wipes with LintBiock. Also cleans
keyboards. List price, $14.99. STATX
Brands, 1110 Lake Cook Road, Suite
150, Buffalo Grove, Illinois 60089;
(708) 520-0007,
21. Discoasters; Coasters willing to
entertain any glass you bring home.
Look just like 3''2-inch disks, except
they're a lot more colorful. $15 for a set
of six. See 2 for order information.
22. Fractal T-shirts: 100-percent cotton
shirts with full-color fractal images.
ClnoGse from two designs: Nautilus
Shell/Newton's Julia or Candy/The
Jewel. SI 8. See 2 for order information.
23. COMPUTE subscription: One-year
74 COMPUTE DECEMBER 1992
Make your own greeting cards with
the Custom Greetings Kit.
Fractal T-shirts and Discoasters help
support the Computer Museum.
subscription to the practical comput-
ing magazine. $19.94 in U.S., $32.04
in Canada, and $29.94 elsewhere.
COfvlPUTE, P.O. Box 3245, Harlan,
Iowa 51 537-3041 ; (800) 727-6937.
24. F-1: A tabbed, flip-over reference
pad for organization and fast retrieval
of information, offering left- or right-
side mounting on a computer monitor.
List price, $19.95. Husco Engineering,
17 Calvin Road, Wilton, Connecticut
06897; (800) 752-3181 or (203) 762-
3181.
2.5. Fax Kleen: Are you getting snow
on your incoming faxes? It's caused
by oily residue in the fax machine.
Running a Fax Kleen sheet through
the machine removes the buildup, so
your faxes are clear again. Ten sheets
per box. $19.95. See 15 for order
information.
2(). Computer floor stand: Hoids your
computer case vertically on the floor
to free up desk space. Adjustable
base fits standard PC cases from 4
inches to T^ig inches wide. $19.95,
JDR f^lcrodevices, 2233 Samaritan
Drive, San Jose, California 95124;
(800) 538-5000.
2?-.'50. Service and repair kits:
f^idWest fVlicro sells a useful repair kit
for $23.95 that contains 23 tools,
including antistatic strap, vacuum,
cleaning fluid, screwdriver bit/handle,
flat screwdriver, tweezer, crimp, wire
cutter, cleaning stick/pad/disk, and
more. Also available are a computer
cleaning kit for $12.95, a cleaning kit
for 3' j-inch disk drives for $23.95, and
a cleaning kit for Si^inch disk drives
for $19.95. See 6 for order informa-
tion. But check around — you can get
them almost anywhere computer sup-
plies are sold,
31. Wave of the Future poster: A 23 x
36 inch computerized, digitized ver-
sion of a print created by the nine-
teenth century artist Hokusai. $25. See
2 for order information.
32. Laser paper with a twist: Unique
laser paper products that range from
the ornate and oriental to the rugged
and recycled. Call (800) 272-7377 for
a free catalog. PaperDirect. P.O. Box
618, 205 Chubb Avenue, Lyndhurst,
New Jersey 07071-0618; (201) 507-
5488.
■.V,i-:\4. VIRUSCAN and CLEAN-UP:
Anti-virus programs that are sold sep-
arately but work well together. VIRU-
SCAN scans your system for infec-
tions, and CLEAN-UP removes them.
What a team! A home-use license is
$25 for VIRUSCAN and $35 for
CLEAN-UP. Products come bundled
for business users. Prices differ for
business and network users. f^cAfee
Associates, 3350 Scott Boulevard.
Building 14, Santa Clara, California
95054; (408) 988-3832.
35. Adjustable footrest: Raises feet to
reduce stress and ease back strain.
Continually adjusts to body position.
List price, $29.95. Computer Coverup,
2762 North Clybourn Avenue, Chi-
cago, Illinois 60614; (BOO) 282-2541,
36. ROf^^ LC 1 (CD-ROfvl laser lens
cleaner): Cleans the optical lens of
CD-ROfvl drives. List price, $29.95.
AudioSource, 1327 North Carolan
Avenue, Burlingame, California 94010;
(415)348-8114.
37. cardsNOW: Designs and prints
custom business cards. Includes
enough cardstock for 250 cards, but
you can order more at affordable
prices. List price, $39. Topitzes and
Associates, 6401 Odana Road,
Madison, Wisconsin 53719-1158;
(800) 233-9767 or (608) 273-4300,
38. How to Buy and Price a Used
Computer: A reference book showing
where to find equipment and how
much you should expect to pay for it.
Provides thousands of product list-
ings, as well as names and phone
numbers of used-computer dealers, a
directory of hardware and software
manufacturers with customer service
numbers, and a list of major applica-
tions with prices. $39. Orion Re-
search, 14555 North Scottsdale Road,
Scottsdale, Arizona 85260; (800) 748-
1984.
39. Hexabacus: A handcrafted hexa-
decimal abacus in natural wood finish
that helps you add and subtract hex
numbers up to eight digits or 32 bits.
$39.95. Amziod, 40 Samuel Prescott
Drive, Stow, Massachusetts 01775;
JiS^liLllHi
Continuing our fifteen-year evoiution
of the best-seliing flight simulation
software, the voice of Air Traffic Control
now comes alive for SoundBlaster
users! Flight Assignment: ATP (Airline
Transport Pilot) lets all computer users
experience the wonders of flight. Watch
the ingenious autofiight mode fly a
Boeing 737, 747, 767, Airbus A-320 jet
airliner or Shorts 360 turboprop across a
scenery-filled United States. When
you're ready to earn your wings as an
Airline Transport Pilot, take the controls
and fly any of hundreds of predefined
flight assignments with onscreen text
(and optional spoken) Air Traffic control
instructions and feedback. Or go explor-
ing on your own in free flight mode.
As a fifteen year anniversary promotion,
new ATP buyers will receive a free
SoundBlaster-compatible Air Traffic
Control voice module that will launch
you Into an entirely new level of flight
realism. Other leading edge features
(full autofiight, structured assignments
with grading, much more) have been
newly refined to make ATP the standard
in traditional flight simulation software.
For IBIVI and compatibles. Suggested
retail price $59.95.
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See vour dealer or cal i subLOCiC to order.
Circle trie reader service number or call
SubLOCic to be placed on our mafimg list
or Rir infonnatlon about our scenery and
support software for Microsoft Fllgtit
Simulator and Flight Assignment: ATP.
Flight Assignment and Scenery CollKtIon are trademark of SubLOCIC.
All ottier products and Srsnds are trademarks or reaistered trademarks
of their respective owners.
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TEIEPHOME IJ1TBSM4M
OnDEn LINE (0001637 .49U
(508) 897-5560 (voice) or (508) 897-
7332 (fax).
40. KidDesk: A DOS utility for children
ages 3 to 8. Graphicaf menuing pro-
gram gives kids their own desktop.
Kids can launcti programs with
access to only those parts of the hard
disk that you specify. $39.95. See 1
for order information.
41. Destiny I: Numerology program
that prints out a 20-page numerology
chart, including a 12-month forecast.
Compatibility mode shows strengths
and weaknesses in relationships. List
price, $49.95. PM Ware, 346 State
Place, Escondido, California 92029-
1365; (800) 845-4843,
42. Spreadsheets: Bed linens printed
like computer paper, complete with
tractor-feed holes. Twin size, $45.95;
queen size, $59.95; two standard pil-
lowcases, $19.95. See 2 for order
information.
4:5. Just Grandma and Me (CD-ROM):
The first in a series of Braderbund
Living Books, animated storybooks
filled with talking characters and inter-
active play. Based on Mercer Mayers
children's book of the same name. List
price, $49.95. Braderbund Software,
500 Redwood Boulevard, P.O, Box
6121, Novato, California 94948-6121:
(415)382-4400.
Wave of the Future poster combines
ttie old and the new.
44. Millie's Math House: Program that
teaches early math skills to children
ages 2 to 6 through animated charac-
ters, colorful graphics, music, and di-
gitized voices. Reading not required.
List price, $49.95. See 1 for order
information.
4.5-50. Online service subscriptions;
PowerVision: $79.95 for membership
kit. $18.95 per month. Two hours of
free connect time every month, with a
connect charge of $0.09 per minute
after the first two hours. PowerVision,
324 West Wendover Avenue, Suite
200, Greensboro, North Carolina
27408: (919) 275-9809.
Amenca Online: Free membership kit
and no sign-on fee. $7.95 per month.
Five free hours the first month, then
two free hours for subsequent months,
with a connect charge of $6.00 per
hour after the free hours are used.
America Online, 8619 Westwood
Center Drive, Vienna, Virginia 22182;
(800) 827-6364,
CompuServe; $49.95 for membership
kit that includes a $25.00 usage credit.
$7.95 per month for unlimited access
to about 30 basic services. Other ser-
vices are available on an hourly basis.
CompuServe, 5000 Arlington Centre
Boulevard, Columbus, Ohio 43220;
(800)848-8199.
GEnie; No membership kit or sign-on
fee. $4.95 per month for unlimited,
non-prime-time access to basic ser-
vices. GEnie, 401 North Washington
Street, Rockville, Maryland 20850;
(800) 638-9636.
PRODIGY: $49.95 for membership kit
that includes the software. $12.95 per
nnonth for unlimited access, day or
night. PRODIGY, 445 Hamilton
Avenue, White Plains, New York
10601; (800) 822-6922.
DELPHI: No membership kit or sign-
on fee. $10.00 per month with four
free hours per month. $4.00 per hour
thereafter. An alternative plan costs
$20.00 per month with 20 free hours
($1.80 per hour thereafter). DELPHI,
1030 Massachusetts Avenue, Cam-
bridge, Massachusetts 02138; (800)
This all new LINKS 386 Pro version of our award-winning
LINKS golf game offers many dramatic improvements that
make playing LINKS 386 Pro more enjoyable - and gives you
exciting new golfing possibilities!
Super VGA Graphics and 386 Power!
The new LINKS JS6 Pro, featuring Harbour Town Golf Links, is
the first golf game specifically designed for the graphic capabiliies
and compuiing power of your persoiml 386/486 computer system.
SUPER VGA 256-color graphics at 640x400 resolution display
breathtaking views of LINKS Championship Courses. Your friends
won't believe that your computer looks so good!
A lot of listening went into LINKS 386 Pro.
Many of the new features and improvements were added in
response lo direct requests from LINKS users like you! An
exciting new feature is our Unique Computer Opponent. Play a
round of golf and save your game. The new LINliS 386 Pm
recorded every shot you made. Send your game off to your buddy
and he can play against you right on the screen, shot for shot, as if
you were right there uext to him! We've also included pre-recorded
games from worthy opponents, statistics, a variety of game play
modes and much, much more.
Over 345 combinations of Viewing Windows.
With the new LINKS .^86 Pm you're not stuck with just one standard viewing window. With a few
clicks of your mouse you can split the screen giving you a real-time reverse view of your shot lo
the green or add a scaleable top-view that displays the
flight of your ball. Scorecard, club distance chart,
terrain profile and other panels give you the flexibility
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fain'.-ays, rough,
sa/id. and other ~
.iiiifaci'.': adds an
extra level of
realism.
Mule urul female
golfers.
Ymi can use any
of the 7 e.xisting
LINKS eoiirxes or
upgrade your
favorite course lo
the Super VGA
version.
*Actual Links 386 Pro Super VGA Screens
695-4005. To sign on, dial (800) 695-
4002 with your modem.
51. The Sleeping Beauty: Divided into
pages, ttiis multimedia storybook is
linked to illustrations, a recorded voice
thiat reads to a child, and a dictionary
that explains difficult words. List price
for the CD-ROM, $49.95. Several other
classic children's books are available
in multimedia format. Ebook, 32970
Aivarado-Niles Road, Suite 704, Union
City, California 94587; (510) 429-1331
(voice) or (510) 429-1394 (fax).
52. Sprout: Virtual vegetables? Not
quite. Sprout helps you plan your veg-
etable garden, providing graphical
tools, a database of gardening wis-
dom, and lots more. Just the thing for
the midwinter blues — and just ahead
of the seed catalogs! House and rail-
road planners also available for the
same price. $59.95. Abracadata, P.O.
Box 2440. Eugene, Oregon 97402;
(503) 343-2324,
~i'.\. Sports Adventure: Covers the histo-
ry of sports from the invention of base-
ball in 1869 to present using multimedia
techniques. Includes Sports Illustrated
photography and text contributed by
sports journalists and authors. List
price, $59,95. Knowledge Adventure,
4502 Dyer Street, La Crescenta,
California 91214; (800) 542-4200.
Your child will love to learn with Follow
the Reader.
54. Custom Greetings Kit: Lets you
make holiday greeting cards for
friends, customers, and business
prospects. Includes 15 predesigned,
laser-compatible Christmas and
Hanukkah cards with matching
envelopes, CoiorFoil transfer sheets,
envelope seals, Avery label produc-
tion software, two sheets of clear laser
labels, and red, green, and gold enve-
lope seals. $65.95. See 32 for order
information.
55. The History of the Grammy
Awards (multimedia CD-ROM): A full
database of winners and nominees,
as well as more than 250 pictures
and 45 minutes of sound. List price,
$69.95. Compton's NewMedia. 2320
Camino Vida Roble, Carlsbad,
California 92009; (800) 532-3766.
56. Jungle Safari: Focuses on African
habitats: plains, tall grass, rain forest,
and riverfront. Illustrates how animals
interact with the environment. Uses
text, sound, and animation. List prices
are $79 for multimedia CD version and
359 for floppy disk version. Orange
Cherry New Media, P.O. Box 390,
Pound Ridge, New York 10576; (800)
672-6002,
57. Poetry Processor: Perfect for rap-
pers, songwriters, poets, or teachers.
Contains everything you need to write
formal poetry, from sonnets to vil-
lanelles. Includes form editor, rhyming
dictionary, and much more. $89,95
($69.95 until January 1. 1993, for
COMPUTE readers). NewManWare.
141 Sheffield Avenue, #2-C, New
Haven, Connecticut 06511; (212) 439-
4777.
58. AUTOWORKS: Get to know your
car better. Automotive engineering
made fun. List phce, S79.95. Software
Marketing, 9830 South 51st Street,
Building A-131, Phoenix, Arizona
85044; (602) 893-2400,
5y. BODYWORKS. An Adventure in
Anatomy; Explores the systems, struc-
tures, and functions of the human
body with detailed full-color graphics
and a database of facts, deschptions,
and explanations. List price, $79.95.
See 58 for order information.
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The Experience Continues,..
The challenge doesn't end wilh Harbour Town. You can play each
of the original LINKS Champion.ship Courses (sold separately)
wilh LINKS 386 Pro. Seven inienialionally-acclaimcd golf courses
on your desktop! Torrey Pines, Firestone South Course, Bay Hill
Club, Pinehurst #2, Troon North. Dorado Beach, and Barton Creek
with additional courses being released as fast as ihey arc completed.
If you're a LINKS owner, you can purchase UNKS386 Pm at a
special iniroductorj' price. Call us toda\' for more information.
1-800-800-4880
CaH ioli-fivt\ 24-himrs a tiiiy, MoihSai in the U.S.
and Ctiititilii or visit your iocai xofiwcrre dealer.
LlNKSf386
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New Features for Links JS6 Pro!
•Seven iliffcrent viewing wintiows. wilh nver 345 different cnmbinations.
Impmved club selectiim j'eaiure. • Wide, panoramic viVu'.v givin,^ voii a
iietler feel for the vinir.ye. • Slatislics recorded for each player, lame imd
couru; wiili (iplinmd prim tnit. 'A "Saved Siuii"feuliire. ' Scaleable "Top
He'll-", '"Pnifile View" which shu»s chunges in elevation between the ball
and lite pin. • /l/( new sounds! Supports SoundBlasler. SoundBlaster Pro.
Adlib and other compatible sound cards & RealSoimd. • Improved swing
indicator for more realislic ptuting. • Male or female pilfers, wilh W
different .shirt colors to choose from. • Spectacular texturing of fairways,
miifih, sand, water not offered in other golf^ames.
What Reviewers Are Saving about LINKS 386 Pro:
Strategy Plus:
"...wilh LINKS 386 Pro, Access hits not so much pushed back ihe 'envelope' a.s redefined the term
■simulation.' Rjoht from the opening screen it's clcyr that .something .special is happening here,"
"...represents a new generation of computer game. Just play it and love it."
PC Entertaiiimeiit:
"...for sheer, unadulierated reali.sm, no golf simulation equals the perfonnance of LINKS 386 Pro."
"...if you're serious about golf simulations, treat yourself to LINKS 386 Pro. .'\nd if you don't own
a 386 to run it on. youi'vc finally got a real good rea.son to lay out the tiioney for an upgrade,"
Computer Gaming World:
"...if you have a fa.st 386 or 486, think of LINKS 386 Pro as a Femiri or a Corvette,"
"...the ground texturing is dramatically reali.stie," circle Reader service Number 299
DECEMBER 1992 COMPUTE 77
Arcade-sfyle octionl European critics roved, and you will,
too. Test your coordinofion — and your managerial skills —
as you play for the European-championships. More than
170 octua clubs ore included. VGA and EGA, Arcade,
management ond full simulation modes. Real life oction:
corner kicks, free kicks, trick shots. Much nnore! It's the best
game yet for the soccer buff — and o perfect way for the
novice to learn the gome.
teams, past and present. With multimedia, digitized sound,
256-co or, 3-D VGA Grophics. You control the players and
all the action. More stats than ever! Plus: programmable
computer manoger, detailed Stadium Graphics. You can
set up your schedule. .."Quickplay" a season in minutes.
Print out complete post-gome summaries... much morel
GM/Owner Disk available (separate purchase).
FOR NEW EXCITEAvAEMT, T
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60. Roger Eberfs Movie Home
Companion (CD-ROM): Contains the
cumulative works of movie critic Roger
Ebert from 1986 to 1992, with more
than 1300 movie reviews and 80 inter-
views with stars and directors, List
price, $79.95. Quanta Press, 1313
Fifth Street SE, Suite 223A, Min^
neapolis, Minnesota 55414; (612) 379-
3956 (voice) or (612) 623-4570 (fax).
61. PANTONE Process Color Imaging
Guide 1000: A fan-format guide of
1000 PANTONE colors. Gives a visual
comparison of how a color appears
onscreen and how it will lool< when
printed, Helpful for desktop publishers
who use service bureaus for color
printing. List price, $85. PANTONE, 55
Knickerbocl<er Road, Moonachie, New
Jersey 07074; (800) 222-1149 (for
nearest dealer).
62. SpinRite II: A utility that keeps your
hard disk heaithy. Checks the disk,
repairs and/or flags bad sectors,
recovers data, and increases disk
speed. List price, $89. Gibson
Research, 35 Journey, Aliso Viejo,
California 92656; (714) 362-8800.
6:J. Talking Classic Tales: Five illus-
trated fairy tales with digitized narra-
tion. The Frog Prince, Rumpelstiitsken,
The Elves and the Shoemaker, The
Queen Bee, and Puss in Boots. List
78 COMPUTE DECEMBER 1992
phces are $89 for multimedia CD ver-
sion and $59 for floppy disk version.
See 56 for order information.
64. Software Carousel: Load up to a
dozen programs or files into memory
at once and switch among them with a
keystroke. List price, $89.95.
SoftLogic Solutions, One Perimeter
Road, Manchester, New Hampshire
03103; (800)272-9900,
fi.'j. Shareware Grab Bag: Contains
6500 shareware and public domain
software programs at a little over half
a cent per program. List price, $99.
ISLOTECH. 6520 Edenvale Boulevard,
Suite 110, Eden Prairie, Minnesota
55346: (612) 934-4239.
66. Lappac 5 Deluxe Case: Oxford
nylon case for small to mid-size lap-
tops. Combines a carrying case, brief-
case, and portfolio into a single
portable system. List price, $99.
Targus, 6190 Valley View, Buena Park,
Califomia 90620; (714) 523-5429.
67. Universal Notebook Case: Carrying
case for notebooks. The computer
compartment has Velcro straps and
an extra layer of foam padding, The
other compartment has adjust-
able/removable dividers to fit other
equipment. List price, $119. See 66
for order information.
68. AUTOMAP: Helps plan road trips
for the fastest, most scenic, or most
convenient route with hundreds of up-
to-date color maps. List price, $99.95.
See 58 for order information.
6*>. First Electronic Jewish Bookshelf:
An electronic version of general-inter-
est Judaica featuring two volumes of
The Jewish Book of Why and an ency-
clopedia of Jewish knowledge among
many other titles on history and
Jewish contributions to music, art, and
culture. List price for the CD-ROM,
$99.95. ScanRom Publications, 555
Chestnut Street, Cedarhurst, New
York 11516; (516) 295-2266 (voice),
(516) 295-2240 (fax), or (516) 295-
2409 (BBS).
70. Portable Power Plug: Plugs into
your cigarette lighter to give you 140
watts of AC power on the road. Great
for laptop and camcorder owners.
$99.95. Home Automation Labora-
tories, 5500 Highlands Parkway, Suite
450. Atlanta, Georgia 30082; (404)
319-6000.
71-7-2. The Writer's Toolkit for
Windows and The Writer's Toolkit for
DOS: Seven writing aids, including The
American Heritage Electronic Dic-
tionary and Roget's II Electronic The-
saurus. List price, $129. Systems
Compatibility, 401 North Wabash Ave-
nue, Suite 600, Chicago, Illinois 6061 1 ;
[■lTia;»,;,j:,.|^.ll
30. ,
Coach your own team, using real NFL players. 28 current
teams, plus all-time greats! As close as you can get to the
real thing: all the stats, real action, real strategy. 3D VGA
Graphics. Digitized Video and Sound. Quickpfoy Option
for a gome or an entire season with playoffs }.You can
srogrom different coaching pro iles. Print out post-game
30X scores and summaries. Input new stats. And more!
Free GM/Owner disk. See box at right.
$10 COUPON
on any auxiliary MicroLecgue
product purchase when you
buy any MicroLeague game at
...most major
Software Retailers.
Send proof of purchase (o MicroLeague .
We'll send you your $10 coupon.
COMING
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Officially Licensed by the National
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Oflicially Licensed by Ihe Major
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circle Reader Service Nun^ber 142
2201 Drummond Plazo, Newark, DE 1971 1 [302) 368-9990
FREE WITH MICROLEAGUE F00T6ALL2
FREE GM/Owner disk ($29.95 value). Input slats, make
trades between teams, even between eras. VVheel and deal.
Season disks available, too. (Separate purchase.) Coming
soon: Auxiliary Disk to convert pro game into college
game.. -featuring the great college bowls!
E NAME OF THE GAME IS
(800) 333-1395 or (312) 329-0700.
73. Disney Animation Studio: Full-fea-
tured animation program that utilizes
state-of-ttie-art techniques. Adding
audio is a snap if you have The Sound
Source, Sound Blaster, or Tandy
Sound. List price, $129.95. Walt
Disney Computer Software, 500 South
Buena Vista Street, Burbank, Califor-
nia 91521; (800) 688-1520.
74. Follow the Reader: Lets young-
sters create, record, replay, and print
their own stories while sharpening
reading and computer skills. See 73
for order information.
75. Stunt Island: Hollywood stunt
directors helped Disney create this
combination flight simulator/movie-
making program. Fly, film, edit, and
show stunts with 40 aircraft and over
600 set-styling objects to choose
from. See 73 for order information.
7(>. Lotus 1-2-3 for Home: A personal
financial analysis spreadsheet.
Includes a set of 50 customized appli-
cation templates to help manage
household financial matters such as
college costs and refinancing a mort-
gage. List price, $149. Lotus Devel-
opment, 440 Lincoln Street, P.O. Box
100, Worcester, fvlassachusetts
01653; (800) 343-5414.
77. WORD FOR WORD Professional
5.1: Automatically converts files from
one format to another without losing
the original document's special for-
matting. Works with over 90 different
word processor, spreadsheet, and
data formats. List price, $149,
Mastersoft, 6991 Camelback Road,
Suite A-320, Scottsdale, Arizona
85251; (800) 624-6107.
78. Gigabyte Gold: More than a giga-
byte of virus-free shareware and pub-
lic domain software on CD-ROM.
Contains more than 120,000 recent
files organized into 100 subjects,
including CD-ROM utilities, and an
index to 49 other CD-ROMs of share-
ware and public domain software con-
taining almost 2 million entries, List
price, $169. CD-ROM Users Group,
P.O. Box 2400, Santa Barbara,
California 93120; (805) 965-0265.
79. Crosspoint Autoswitcher; This
automated secretary answers the
phone on the first ring and routes calls
to fax, modem, answering machine, or
you as appropriate. $199. See 15 for
order information.
80. Presentation Task Force: 3500
pieces of clip art designed to work
with over 60 DOS, Windows, and OS/2
applications. List price, $199. New
Vision Technologies, 38 Auriga Drive,
Unit 13, Nepean, Ontario, Canada
K2EBA5; (613)727-8184.
81. Premier Leather Case: Combines
a leather briefcase and a laptop carry-
ing case with four fully lined document
sections, a zippered portfolio section,
and a padded computer compart-
ment. List price, $299. See 66 for
order information.
82-84. Stacker 2.0: A data compres-
sion product that instantly and safely
doubles hard disk capacity. Ideal for
those who are constantly in danger of
running out of disk space. List prices
are $149 for Stacker 2.0, $249 for
Stacker AT/16, and $299 for Stacker
MC/16. STAC Electronics, 5993
Avenida Encinas, Carlsbad, California
92008; (800) 522-7822 or (619) 431-
7474.
85. Jumbo 120: Backs up 120MB with
data compression onto one data car-
tridge. Can back up 80MB in about 20
minutes if you also purchase a TC15
dedicated controller card for $129.95.
List price for the tape drive, $250.00.
Colorado Memory Systems, 800 South
Taft Avenue, Loveland. Colorado
80537; (800) 845-7905.
8(). Ready-to-assemble computer furni-
ture: Costs 25 to 50 percent less than
preassembled furniture. A variety of
pieces at various prices. Sauder
Woodworking, 502 Middle Street,
DECEMBER 1992 COMPUTE 79
Archbofd, Ohio 43502; (800) 523-3987,
87. BigmOuth PC voice mail system:
Centralized message retrieval system
allows you to send and receive mes-
sages, Features call processing, auto-
dialing, and a phione book/database.
List price, $295, Talking Technology,
1125 Atlantic Avenue, Suite 101,
Alameda, California 94501; (800) 934-
4884.
88-8<). Amiga 500 51 2K system: Plays
better videogames than a Genesis but
has hundreds of senous applications
available, too, Buy the 520 modulator
and hook it to your TV, and the kids
and spouse won't fight you for your
PC, Pick up a copy of Kids and the
Amiga {S16.95; see 12 for order infor-
mation) to go along vt/ith your pur-
chase, $499.00 (though widely avail-
able for $299,00) with mouse, disk
drive, and windowed multitasking
operating system. Commodore
Business fvlachines, 1200 Wilson
Drive, West Chester, Pennsylvania
19380; (800) 662-6442.
90. FileSafe minicartridge series: A
line of tape backup subsystems
based on the DC2000 minicartridge
technology. Data compression for up
to 304fVIB of storage per cartridge.
Priced from $315 to $935, Mountain
Network Solutions, 240 East Hacienda
Avenue, Campbell. California 95008:
(800) 458-0300,
91. Panasonic's KX-P2123 dot-matrix
printer: Ideal for budget-conscious
small business and home office users
who desire the benefits of quiet tech-
nology, high-quality output, and color
capability at a low price. List price,
$419,95, (800) 742-8086 (for nearest
dealer).
92. The Complete Communicator; A
voice/data communications board that
turns your PC into a voice mail ser-
vice, a fax, and a modem, List price,
$499, The Complete Communicator
Gold, packed with additional fax and
scanning features, is available for
$699, The Complete PC, 1983
Concourse Drive, San Jose, California
95131; (800) 229-1753,
93-94. CD Express: Everything you
need to get started with CD-ROIvIs,
Includes an NEC CDR-25 CD-ROfvl
drive, complete interface, speakers,
and ten CD-ROfv! software titles for
$499, fvSultimedia Gallery: Everything
you need to get started in multime-
dia^an NEC CDR-74 CD-ROfvl drive,
complete interface, NEC audio board,
speakers, headphones, and six top
multimedia titles for $999, NEC Tech-
nologies, 1255 Michael Drive, Wood
Dale, Illinois 60191; (800) 826-2255,
95. ScanMan Color: Powerful 24-bit
color hand-held scanner that provides
80 COMPUTE DECEMBER 1992
virtual page scanning, automatic scan
stitching, color image-editing software,
and much, much more. List price,
$699. Logitech, 6505 Kaiser Drive,
Fremont, California 94555; (800) 231-
7717.
96. The Microsoft Office for Windows:
Four business applications in one
Ten lliings to Know
Before You Buy
Whether you're buying for a com-
puter-loving friend, spouse,
teenager, or youngster, you need
certain information to make an
intelligent choice. The following list
specifies ten information bits you
may need handy to purchase soft-
ware or hardware compatible with
the individual's computer system.
Call a local dealer for guidance on
which of these ten to investigate
and to help answer these ques-
tions if you'd rather not ask the
person directly.
1. What kind of computer is it?
2. Is the processor a 286, 386,
386SX, 486, or 486SX?
3. How many megabytes of RAM
does the system have?
4. How much hard drive space
does the system have, and how
much is unused?
.3. Does the system have XT, AT, or
MCA bus architecture (or 8-bit, 16-
btt, or 32-bit bus cards)?
6. Are there any bays available for
an internal backup system, SVj- or
SV'nch floppy drive, or CD-ROM
drive?
7. If you're buying a tape backup
system, how many megabytes of
data does the person need to back
up?
«. What kind of software does the
person like (productivity, games,
education)?
9. If you're buying software, does
the person need a package that
suits a DOS or Windows environ-
ment?
10. Does the software provide
mouse support, and does it require
a sound card, modem, or CD-ROM
drive?
—TRACY MYGRANT
package, Microsoft Word for Windows
(word processing), Microsoft Excel for
Windows (spreadsheet), Microsoft
PowerPoint for Windows {presentation
graphics), and Microsoft Mail Windows
Workstation (electronic mail for PC net-
works). List price, $799. Microsoft,
One Microsoft Way Redmond.
Washington 98052; (800) 426-9400.
97. Logitech Fotoman; A portable, auto-
matic-fiash, digital camera that down-
loads photos to your PC, Comes with a
host of image-editing tools. List price,
$799. See 95 for order information.
98. Media Vision Pro 16 Multimedia
System: Contains everything you need
to convert a 286, 386, or 486 PC into a
multimedia PC system. Includes a
complete NEC CD-ROM drive kit; mul-
timedia tutorials, applications, and
demonstrations; Compton's Multi-
media Encyclopedia; and more.
$1,195.00. Media Vision, 47221
Fremont Boulevard, Fremont,
California 94538; (510) 770-8600. Also
available is the Sound Blaster
Multimedia Upgrade Kit from Creative
Labs, featuring the Sound Blaster Pro
sound card. CD-ROM drive, MIDI kit
with sequencer software, Windows
3,1, Microsoft Bookshelf, Microsoft
Works for Windows, and more,
$799,95, Creative Labs, 1901
McCarthy Boulevard, Milpitas,
California 95035; (800) 998-5227,
99. Okidata OL400 LED Page Printer:
Highly recommended if you're in the
market for a basic, entry-ievel laser
printer that can be upgraded as your
printing needs increase. List price,
$1,099, Okidata, 532 Fellowship
Road, Mt, Laurel, New Jersey 08054;
(800) 654-3282,
100. SNAPplus: Lets you capture, edit,
and record video from your VCR,
camcorder, or any other video source.
A video capture board and VGA card
all in one — something that desktop
publishers can really appreciate. List
price, $1,295, Cardinal Technologies,
1827 Freedom Road, Lancaster,
Pennsylvania 17601; (800) 233-0187.
101. The Notepad 386SX-20 leather
notebook computer: Designed with
the discriminating executive in mind.
Comes with a matching portfolio case;
a 9600-/2400-bps fax/modem; a 40-,
60-, or 80MB internal hard drive; and
more. List price (with a 40MB hard
drive), $2,499, Lighthorse Technolo-
gies, 4105 Tolowa Street, San Diego,
Caiifornia 92117; (800) 443-3446 or
(619) 270-7399.
More Stuff
If you want to see more gift ideas in
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QEdit
QEdit really stands out In the
category of text editors for the
82 COMPUTE DECEMBER 1992
IBM PC and compatible com-
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QEdit's main functions are cre-
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Text Font is a neat little pro-
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PRODUCTIVITY CHOICE
This state-of-the-art DOS spreadsheet
provides some of the latest
features pioneered by Windows products.
Stephen Levy
QUATTRO PRO 4.0
Once, you couldn't think
about spreadsheets without
thinking about Lotus. Then
Borland introduced Quattro
Pro with an aggressive pric-
ing and upgrade strategy,
But pricing and upgrades do
not, by themselves, make a
spreadsheet popular. To com-
pete with the likes of Lotus, a
spreadsheet must give cur-
rent Lotus users a reason to
switch and new users a rea-
son to forgo buying the prod-
uct long considered the indus-
try standard. Quattro Pro 4.0
succeeds here by taking an al-
ready powerful and easy-to-
use application to new
heights. Pull-down menus, a
mouse option, a WYSIWYG dis-
play, and powerful graphing
capabilities combine with oth-
er special features to make
Quattro stand as tall as — or tall-
er than — the competition.
Borland followed the lead
of the Windows spread-
sheets: Quattro now sports
SpeedBar, an enhanced
point-and-click selection bar
for frequently used com-
mands. So if you have a
mouse, you can use the
SpeedBar to avoid having to
move through the menus to
complete common tasks. All
the most often used spread-
sheet tasks appear on the
SpeedBar, but you can cus-
tomize the bar if you need to
change or add a command.
Quattro actually comes
with two SpeedBars. The gen-
eral-purpose SpeedBar, avail-
able in Ready mode, allows
you to copy, erase, move, or
format a cell and to do a num-
ber of other tasks such as de-
leting or inserting a row or col-
umn. The inclusion of the
@SUM function on the Speed-
Bar is quite handy. To add a
84 COMPUTE DECEMBER 1992
column of numbers, all you
need to do is place the cursor
in the cell where you want the
©SUM function and then
click on the SUM button. Quat-
tro adds all the numbers imme-
diately above the cell you've
selected — and it works the
same way if you want to add
a row of numbers.
The second SpeedBar is
available only in Edit mode
and is designed to assist in ed-
iting formulas. Although it's
not as useful as the Speed-
Bar found in Ready mode,
many users will find the Edit
mode SpeedBar a welcome
addition.
Essentially, each SpeedBar
sports a series of 15 macros.
You can define 2 macros in
Ready mode and 3 in Edit
mode; the remaining macros
in each mode are predefined.
However, if you'd like, you
can rewrite any of the prede-
fined macros. Making modifi-
cations to the SpeedBars is
easy, as long as you're famil-
iar with Quattro's macro lan-
guage. Fortunately, the pack-
age includes a manual that
exclusively deals with func-
tion and macro commands.
If you're unfamiliar with
spreadsheet macros, you'll
find the whole macro process
a bit intimidating. But if you're
willing to take some time to re-
view the commands of the pre-
defined macros and make
use of the tables included in
the manual, you'll overcome
your apprehension and begin
to appreciate the conven-
ience of creating your own. Re-
member to use the Update
menu option to save your
changes whenever you cus-
tomize something within Quat-
tro, for Quattro doesn't remind
you to save changes to your
default setting.
In addition to its Speed-
Bars, Quattro now has pull-
down menus and all their con-
veniences. Just as in Lotus 1-
2-3, you simply press the
slash key to activate Quattro's
menus, Many of the most fre-
quently used tasks are intui-
live if you're familiar with ba-
sic spreadsheet operations.
li^ost experienced users will
i5f)t, though, for keyboard con-
trol of the menus.
Quattro has no trouble sens-
ing the presence of a mouse.
If no mouse is present, the
SpeedBar is absent. If you
connect a mouse, you can
use the keyboard or the
mouse to make selections. All
users, though — with or with-
out a mouse — will have to
wade through multiple menus
and submenus to complete
many important tasks not in-
cluded on the SpeedBar. For
example, although the op-
tions are easy to understand,
you must make a minimum of
four selections to define a sin-
gle cell as currency.
If your system includes EGA
or VGA. you'll be able to take
advantage of Quattro's nicely
styled WYSIWYG display. This
option lets you see exactly
what will print — even the fonts,
boxes, lines, graphs, and oth-
er features you may have add-
ed to your spreadsheet. Whiie
it's a valuable feature, the WY-
SIWYG display slows the
spreadsheet screen updates
and the movement of the cur-
sor; it also is hard to read on a
VGA gray-scale notebook com-
puter. Borland realized these
inconveniences and made the
WYSIWYG display an option,
not a standard feature. Most us-
ers will find it best to do their
spreadsheet work in a stan-
dard text mode and move to
WYSIWYG only when needed.
Creating attractive spread-
sheets is easy, since Quattro
comes With eight type styles
predefined. Equally impor-
tant, though, is the ability to de-
fine your most-used styles.
Two heading styles come pre-
defined in the program, but
you'll probably want to define
your own — another task that's
easily accomplished.
One of the reasons so
many spreadsheet users
chose Lotus 1-2-3 in the past
was to be assured of compat-
ibility with other spreadshieet
users. Borland long ago ad-
dressed that concern. As
with all its predecessors, Quat-
tro Pro 4.0 can easily load
files from a variety of other pro-
grams. You simply retrieve or
open a file, and Quattro trans-
lates it for you. Saving files in
another format is as easy as
using the appropriate file ex-
tension.
Quattro's graphing capabili-
ties have always been compet-
itive, but now they are out-
standing. Quattro now boasts
what Borland calls intelligent
graphs. Essentially, these
graphs give you the ability to
perform specific statistical
analysis on a series of data
and then graph the results.
Plus. Borland has replaced
some Quattro menus with dia-
log boxes to make it easier
for you to set multiple options.
If soiving complex what-ifs is
your bag, you'll find the new
Optimizer menu useful. The
Optimizer lets you preselect
the results of a formula; Quat-
tro then will change the appro-
priate cell values to achieve
the desired results. Other new
features include special copy,
custom @ functions, formula
protection, and improved net-
work support.
If you've never used or
been exposed to a spread-
sheet, you'll need to take
some time to learn to use the
power of any spreadsheet
you choose, First-time users
will find there's more here
than seems imaginable and
will be discovering new ways
to access Quattro's power to
do more all the time.
Experienced users will find
that Borland has included
many features they'd only ex-
pect to find in a Windows prod-
uct. If you've been consider-
ing moving to Windows just
so you can move up to the
next generation of spread-
sheets, you'll be pleasantly sur-
prised with Quattro Pro 4.0.
The original Quattro Pro
was well worth its $495 price.
This new DOS version is
much more robust and fea-
ture rich, yet it will still run
with just 512K RAM and a
hard drive. It has all the op-
tions and abilities we've
come to expect from a spread-
sheet, While Lotus 1-2-3 is no
slouch, given a choice, I'd
choose Quattro Pro as
DOS spreadsheet.
Circle Reader Service Number 302
IBM PC or
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Iree— $495
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my
DECEMBER 1992 COMPUTE 85
PERSONAL PRODUCTIVITY
David Abels
Using a statistical
software pacltage
can lead to strategic
planning and a
lietter bottom line for
your business.
STATISTICALLY
SIGNIFICANT
Most people would probably
say that statistics has no
place in the real world of inven-
tories, sales, and bottom
lines. But what if the numbers
derived from data you already
have on hand could help you
get more return on your invest-
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Some degree of computer adept-
ness is also essential, adds Compu-
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Perhaps. But these days, some online
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$8 more per month, you can get stock
and bond updates plus historical pric-
ing charts and graphs.
• Fidelity On-line Xpress ($89.95), an-
other new software product, was
created by Fidelity Brokerage
Services, the giant Boston brokerage
house, in conjunction with MECA
Software, the publisher of the popular
Managing Your Money program. With
Fidelity On-iine, you can place orders
direct to the exchanges, access real-
time quotes, track the market with
research, news updates, and screen-
ing services from Dow Jones
News/Retrieval, Telescan, and Stan-
dard & Poor's MarketScope. and
download your investment, income,
and tax data into Managing Your
Money for further analysis. To make
trading easier, the program also offers
pu!l-down menus, a Windows-like
interface, mouse support, and help
screens. As with the Schwab service,
there's also a 10-percent discount on
Fideiity's already discounted commis-
sions. There are no hourly access fees
or monthly charges.
Which One's for You?
Which online brokerage option you
choose will probably depend on how
often you trade and how comfortable
you are with making your own invest-
ment decisions. If you're market savvy
and already subscribe to an online
service, it's probably a good idea to
use the broker offered by that service
rather than pay extra fees to save a
few dollars elsewhere. Investors who
want soup-to-nuts portfolio manage-
ment may be better off with one of the
new software programs or simply stay-
ing with a full-service broker, while
heavy traders who know their way
around a computer ought to consider
CompuServe's E-Trade.
Another advantage to online trading
is the weaith of information you cart
get just by logging on. If you've got a
modem hooked up to your personal
computer, there's a treasure trove of
financial help and information as close
as a phone call away — stock quotes,
company balance sheets, financial
analysts' reports and predictions,
Depending on what you're looking for
and how much you're willing to spend
to get it, you can download data that's
the envy of any Wall Street pro. And,
like the financial professionals, you
can use this information to spot a hot
stock, plan for your retirement or just
keep track of how your money's doing.
If, on the other hand, you trade only
rarely and feel more comfortable talk-
ing to a human being, it's probably
less trouble just to call your broker on
the phone. Personal attention is your
broker's stock in trade. That's why you
pay the big bucks.
Remember, the risks you take trad-
ing online are your own. Never invest
money you can't afford to lose. And if
you need expert advice, you need a
professional portfolio manager. Still,
with all the user-friendly options out
there, now may just be the time to tap
in, log on, and kiss those full-service
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Fonts: Now you
can enjoy working
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create effective
designs, and
avoid the headaches
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FONTS ARE FUN
Thanks to TrueType and a
handful of software products,
fonts are finally becoming as
much fun as other aspects of
desktop publishing. How can
you get in on the action? Take
a look at these products:
Bitstream TrueType Font
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(also from Bitstream).
The story I've heard is that
Microsoft approached Adobe
about bundling a type manag-
er and a collection of PostScript
fonts with Windows. Adobe re-
fused. Then Microsoft and Ap-
ple got together to create a com-
peting fonts standard that was
easy to use. TrueType was the
result. All you have to do is tell
the Fonts program under the
Control Panel to install the
fonts, As soon as the installa-
tion program works its magic,
your fonts are pure enjoyment.
So where do you get your
fonts? You could buy a font
package. Fonts can cost be-
tween $10 and S100 each, but
if you're in a hurry to get a col-
lection of handsome display
and body faces, get the Bit-
stream TrueType Font Pack. It
features several families of
fonts such as Imperial (which
resembles Times Roman). Re-
vival (Palatino), and Geomet-
ric and Humanist sans-serif
fonts. In all , there are 40 fonts,
but don't be confused by this.
In type designer parlance, the
roman style of a typeface is
one font, the italic style is an-
other, and so on. There are 5
families of body faces and 16
families of display faces. The
price of the collection is $79 (a
collection of 20 more fonts is
also available for S39), or less
than $2 per font. If you install
all 40 fonts, they take up
about 1.5MB, but you can in-
stall them as you need them.
There's no reason to install
them all unless you intend to
use them all.
What if you already have a
collection of fonts but they
aren't TrueType? For example,
you might have purchased
GeoWorks or one of the inex-
pensive font packs that is com-
patible with GeoWorks. You
can convert typefaces easily
from one format to another
with AIIType from Atech, Ail-
Type is a DOS program that
converts fonts easily among
the following formats; Adobe
PostScript Type 1 or Type 3.
CorelDRAW! WFN format.
Nimbus Q. GeoWorks, Intelli-
font, an Atech standard
called FastFont, and True-
Type. You can convert
Bitstream Fontware (not the
same as TrueType) into any
of the other formats, but you
can't convert other formats
into Fontware. Remember
that Fontware is different from
TrueType. That means you
can convert the TrueType
fonts discussed in the previ-
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formats.
Not only can AIIType con-
vert your fonts from format to
format, but it can also create
variations on fonts, making
them bold, italic, hollow, con-
densed, expanded, and so
forth. It's a powerful utility for
the desktop publisher, and it
only costs $79.95.
Atech also sells FastFont
fonts in collections of two for
$29.95. If you buy FastFonts,
however, you'll need to pur-
chase either Atech's Publish-
er's PowerPak or AIIType in or-
der to use the fonts with most
applications.
One of the things you can
do with fonts in a drawing pro-
gram is to manipulate the indi-
vidual letters as graphic ele-
ments. Most drawing pro-
grams have this capability
now, along with warping and
extruding options that allow
you to manipulate groups of ob-
jects in systematic ways. This
is a little hard to imagine un-
less you've tried it yourself, but
the closest analogy I can
think of is pressing a glob of
Silly Putty against a newspa-
per headline. The ink used by
newspapers comes off on the
putty. You can then stretch the
putty to distort the text. These
are the kinds of tricks you can
perform with a new group of
dedicated text manipulation
programs. And you don't even
have to put the putty back in
the egg afterward.
Using MakeUp ($149), you
can make your fonts do gym-
nastics and appear with shad-
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fects. You can match colors,
export to 20 graphics file for-
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even comes with five fonts to
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Let your curiosity be your guide as
you investigate tlie iiistory of science in tiiis
superb expioration software.
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ISAAC ASIMOV'S
SCIENCE
ADVENTURE
Isaac Asimov was, to use
Carl Sagan's phrase, "the
great explainer" of our age. In
close to 500 books of nonfic-
tion and fiction, he undertook
a survey of virtually all of the
world's knowledge, particular-
ly the history of science and
technology, and the impact
of those pursuits upon our
planet and our species.
There has never been a writ-
ing career remotely like his in
terms of breadth, quality, and
influence. He was one of the
great writers of the twentieth
century.
Also the great anticipator,
Asimov used science fiction
and, frequently, nonfiction to
explore the ramifications of sci-
entific and technological
advances. He laid the ground-
work for much modern think-
ing about robotics, among oth-
er topics. Naturally, as a sci-
ence-fiction writer and an
educator, he speculated
about the role of computers in
education.
Much to our loss, Asimov
died this past April. Fortunate-
ly, though, one of his final pro-
jects married his talents for ex-
planation with those of an
equally talented group of soft-
ware designers, artists, and
programmers. The result,
Isaac Asimov's Science Adven-
ture, is a delight.
It's an odd delight in some
ways: Asimov wasn't the
most visual of writers, and his
books tend to consist of
page after page of lively text
with minimal illustration. Illustra-
tion in Science Adventure,
though, carries a great deal
of weight. Indeed, illustrative
DECEMBER W92
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material occupies the majority
of the default screen, with Asi-
mov's text boxed beside it.
Such placement does not di-
minish the role of Asimov's
text: This is one program de-
signed for reading as well as
viewing. The program's inter-
face is thoughtful and effi-
cient; even young users
should be able to find their
way around the program quick-
ly. A result of careful design,
the documentation is kept to
a pleasing minimum, much of
it consisting of reminders that
there's no "right" or "wrong"
way to use the program.
This is an important point.
As the designers stress, this
is an adventure, almost an ed-
ucational software toy. While
there are some clever games
and quizzes included in the
program, it otherwise carries
no curricular agenda. Rather,
Science Adventure serves as
a sort of intellectual play-
ground, a place where you
can allow your curiosity full
rein to explore the history of
science, darting here and
there at will.
The program offers several
ways to dart. It proclaims it-
self "multimedia without CD-
ROfvl," and it comes close to
living up to its billing. While
there is no animation or video
in the program, there is a
large database of illustrations,
and there are interactive
maps and time lines. Click on
a country, time, or picture,
and the program jumps to the
appropriate section of Asi-
mov's text to explain what
you're looking at or what was
going on in a particular disci-
pline at a particular time. The
text sections can be printed.
All of the major scientific dis-
oiplines are covered here:
physics, chemistry, biology,
mathematics, space and
earth sciences, ecology, and
technology. The program's in-
terface allows for the explora-
tion of a single discipline over
the course of its develop-
ment, or you can mingle the
disciplines and watch them
evolve side by side through-
out the world. Thus, we can
see the Industrial Revolution
getting under way in England,
while we're simultaneously ex-
amining the development of
science and technology in oth-
er parts of the world.
The program offers several
methods of navigation. In ad-
dition to the geographical
and time-line approaches,
there's a lovely image of an
old-fashioned card catalog
for those v/ho prefer an alpha-
betical approach. Click on a
letter, and you receive a break-
down of all the categories of in-
formation available under
that letter.
This is very much a chro-
nological program — and
that's very much an Asimovi-
an touch. We arrive at a sur-
vey of present knov^fledge on-
ly after thoroughly establish-
ing and examining its back-
ground. Thus, an Asimov
book ostensibly about qua-
sars might begin thousands
of years ago when humans
first began looking at the sky.
The dilemma, if you can
call it that, of the interactive ap-
proach to Asimov's material is
that there's no single begin-
ning place. While the material
is linked and cross-refer-
enced, those links could be
made more overt. I'd like to
see another windovif added to
the screen, one that shows
clearly the links, into past and
future, of each advancement.
In his books and essays, Asi-
mov controlled both form and
function: You read from begin-
ning to end. Reading from soft-
ware is more like reading by
way of an index, making it
easy to miss important points
and congruences.
Asimov's text sections are
superb. His prose is as clear
and straightforward as ever,
The miniessays in Science
Adventure pack a great deal
of information into the fewest
possible words, always with
an emphasis on clarity and
insight. You could take any
of the text sections as a mod-
el of how science writing
should be done.
Technically, Science Adven-
ture is well produced and im-
pressive. It occupies seven or
so megabytes of hard disk
space, yet it installs on a 386
in under ten minutes, I
wouldn't want to run Science
Adventure on anything less
than a fast 386 system with
VGA graphics, and even on
such systems the program oc-
casionally slows down.
Much of the storage space
is used for an enormous and
impressive database of illustra-
tions and pictures. These are
judiciously chosen, combin-
ing historical Illustration, tech-
nical illustration, and superb
scientific photography. Here,
VGA pays off handsomely
Sound support is well man-
aged, accommodating all of
the major boards. For the
most part, the sounds, music,
and spoken words enhance
the program, although you
have to wonder how Asimov
would feel about the opening
music. The overture for Sci-
ence Adventure is, ironically
"Also Sprach Zarathustra,"
that anthem so closely associ-
ated with 2001: A Space Od-
yssey, the masterwork of Asi-
mov's beloved friend and
friendly rival, Arthur C,
Clarke.
The program can be oper-
ated from the keyboard, but
I'd say that a mouse is essen-
tial. Keyboard control is slow
and difficult, but navigating
with a mouse is easy.
The program's documenta-
tion offers instructions for
launching Science Adventure
from Windows, but I found
that an uneasy fit at best. Sci-
ence Adventure is best run as
a stand-alone program from
the DOS prompt'.
It's also best run as an ad-
junct to more traditional meth-
ods of learning about sci-
ence, Asimov once wrote a
marvelous little story, called
"The Fun They Had," about
the future of electronic educa-
tion and the abandonment of
older tools. You might look
that story up as you play with
Science Adventure.
While no home with a com-
puter should be without Isaac
Asimov's Science Adventure,
no home should be without Asi-
mov's New Guide to Science,
Asimov's Biographicai History
of Science and Technology,
Tile Human Brain, The Hu-
man Body, Understanding
Physics, and as many more
of the master's books as your
shelves can support. Use the
computer program as a spring-
board to launch you into the
unequaled pleasures of read-
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No more
primaries, debates,
conventions.
campaigns, or any
of ttiat old.
time-consuming,
expensive.
boring political
rigamarote.
DIGITAL
DEMOCPA'^v
"Don't forget. Voting is on after
'Simpsons: The Next Gener-
ation,'" remarked my wife as
I recycied tine dishes.
"Who's running tonight?"
my daughter asked.
"Oh, it's for the presidency
again, dear," said my wife.
"You know that the first Tues-
day of every month is presi-
dent's night."
"Did they teach you in
school yet about the 29th
Amendment?" 1 asked, hoping
to squeeze in a little American
history lesson in the kitchen
while the kids recharged the
dog's batteries. "You l<;now,
the Declaration of Digital Inde-
pendence, the Voters' Rebel-
lion, and all that? When the
American Patriotic Conglomer-
ate— the Perot Data Party,
Newvideo, Turner/Whittle, Mc-
Doulpia-Busch, and LottoNet —
got together to create the
world's first instant electronic
voting network?"
My son chuckled. "Dad,
please. They don't teach
AmHist in schooi anymore."
After dinner we all trooped
into the vidroom. We don't
have much of a setup, just the
standard 5- x 10-foot high-
definition screen with a dozen
ISDN feeds and an AppleCray
controller. Bart's grandchil-
dren were up to their usual an-
tics on center screen, but no
one paid much attention. My
daughter got on the right-
hand screen with a few of her
friends to play the latest
Newvideo game, the one
where Super Zeppo decides
whether to run for the presiden-
cy while hungry PACs try to
gobble him up. Along the way
the kids answer questions
about the weekly family expen-
ditures; if your mom or dad
has bought Newvideo prod-
ucts, you earn extra games.
My son took the left-hand
screen to browse through to-
night's preteen voting roster.
He seemed to be especially in-
terested in the details of the Na-
tional Skateboard and Sneak-
er Rights Act. My wife, mean-
while, was playing the Instant
Law Lotto numbers according
to a system she'd worked out
involving our PIN numbers.
Since the Cray could generate
a billion or so PIN variations
every second, she felt we
stood a reasonable chance of
winning at least a small prize.
The winners don't get cash,
like in the old days; they get
votes instead. I could see that
the jackpot was up to nearly
200 million votes, enough to
determine the fate of every leg-
islative action pending tonight.
I remembered one night two
years back, when a grand-
prize winner forced through a
law banning sex. Luckily the
next week's winner
— .._., overturned that one.
At9:00 sharp, cen-
ter screen flashed
a waving American
flag. "Welcome to
America's Elec-
tronic Town Meet-
ing," said the
simulated voice
of Don Pardo,
"brought to you
by APC. the
folks that say,
'It's up to you!"'
That corny Rea-
gan simulation gave the open-
ing monologue again. Every-
one groaned, but it was all
part of the ritual, and we really
wouldn't have it any other way.
After that came the text of all
nine party platforms; the
words scrolled by so fast that
I simply captured them for
later, knowing no one was like-
ly to have the time to read any
of it. Then the kids joysticked
in their votes for video of the
week, junk food of the week,
and so on; as each vote was
cast, eager product managers
in stores from sea to shining
sea rushed to fill their waiting
shelves with cases of the win-
ning products.
Finally, it was time for the
main event. The nine presiden-
tial candidates flashed on the
screen all at once, giving their
15-second spiels about what
they would do for the country
in the coming month. At the
same moment, the phones be-
gan ringing with calls from poll-
sters, and all four fax ma-
chines began to spew reams
of position papers, press re-
leases, vote sweepstakes tick-
ets, and direct mail asking us
to open accounts in each par-
ty's name.
"Daddy!" the kids yelled.
"You forgot to turn off the fax-
es again!"
"Sorry," I said. "I'll clean up
later. Here comes the vote."
We all stood in anticipation
with our infrared Vote Re-
motes at the ready With one
press of the button, we and
300 million other red-blooded
Americans would determine
the fate (and marketing plans)
of the free world — for the next
month, at least. No more Con-
gress, Supreme Court, prima-
ries, debates, conventions,
campaigns, or any of that old,
time-consuming, expensive,
boring political rigmarole. As
the choices again flashed on
the screen, our thumbs did
their patriotic duty
Democracy in action. □
100 COMPUTE DECEMBER 1992
Impressions
MULTIMEDIA PC
David English
CD-ROM
TOGO
KEC's portable
GO-ROM drive is
hilly MPC-
compatible, but
weighs
aniy 2.2 pounds.
CD-ROM is finally catching
on. Early returns from our
most recent readership survey
indicate tfiat about 20 percent
of our readers have CD-ROIVl
drives. That's up from about 3
percent just a year ago.
That means a lot of you al-
ready know about the limita-
tions of the technology Fore-
most is the inability to use your
new CD-ROM software on a
PC without a CD-ROM drive. If
your PC at work has a CD-
ROM drive but your PC at
home doesn't, you can't use
your CD-ROMs at home. Also,
it's nearly impossible to use
your CD-ROMs with a laptop or
portable computer. Wouldn't it
be great if you could use your
CD-ROMs on any PC?
There is an option for lap-
tops and other slotless PCs.
SCSI adapters plug into your
parallel port and give you
both a SCSI port and a pass-
through parallel port. Since
most CD-ROM drives use a
SCSI interface, you can plug
most external or portable CD-
ROM drives into a SCSI adapt-
er. Unfortunately if you have
a standard parallel port, you'll
only be able to read data at
about two-thirds the standard
data-transfer rate (about lOOK
per second, rather than 150K
per second}.
If you have a bidirectional
parallel port, like the ones
found on many Toshiba lap-
tops, you can pick up some ex-
tra speed with two new SCSI
adapters: the T348 MiniSCSI
Pius (Trantor Systems, 5415
Randall Place, Fremont, Cali-
fornia 94538-3151; 510-770-
1400; $229) and the AL-1000
(Always Technology, 31336
Via Colinas, Suite 101, Wes-
tlake Village, California 91362;
818-597-1400; $199). The
same two models perform
even better — in fact, about
as fast as a card-
based SCSI adapt-
er— if you have a
computer with the
new EPP (Enhanced
Parallel Port).
The best answer
for laptops would
be a built-in SCSI
interface. Then you
could easily add as
many as seven SCSI
devices to your lap-
top, including CD-
ROM drives and ad-
ditional hard drives.
Currently only NEC
offers a laptop with
a SCSI connector.
Now that you have a way to
add a CD-ROM drive to your
laptop, what about sound?
There's the rub — you can't use
the parallel port to do both at
the same time. Media Vision of-
fers the excellent Audioport,
which plugs into the parallel
port — in effect adding a
sound card to any laptop. But
it doesn't get along with the par-
allel-port SCSI adapters. If you
could use both, you could con-
vert your laptop into a multime-
dia PC (MPC). As it stands
now, you'll have to choose
one or the other— CD-ROM or
sound — or resort to a bulky ex-
pansion unit.
You can still use the many
CD-ROM applications that
don't need sound, or you can
use your SCSI adapter as a
quick way to move a CD-ROM
drive from one desktop PC to
another, If you have a sound
card in your computer both at
work and at home, you could
buy a portable CD-ROM drive
with a parallel-port SCSI adapt-
er and set up both machines
as MFCs.
One of the best designed
and most versatile of the new
portable CD-ROM drives is
NEC's CDR-37 (NEC Technol-
ogies, 1255 Michael Drive,
Wood Dale, Illinois 60191 : 708-
860-9500; S449). It's fully MPC
compliant with an average 450-
millisecond access time, a
150K-per-second data-transfer
rate, and 64K of cache memo-
ry Best of all, it weighs only 2.2
pounds (or 3 pounds with the
optional battery pack), It's
small and can easily fit into
many laptop cases along with
the laptop, You can buy the
drive with any of four interface
kits (XT/AT card— $539, PS/2
card— $598, parallel-to-SCSI
adapter — $559, or Macintosh
connector — $485), or you can
buy the drive and interface kits
separately. You can equip all
your computers with interface
kits and move the drive from
computer to computer.
I've spent several weeks car-
rying the CDR-37 between my
home and office. While not as
fast as NEC's new MultiSpin
CD-ROM drives (these speed
demons have a 2B0-millisec-
ond access time and 300K-
per-second data-transfer
rate), the NEC portable han-
dled well all but the most de-
manding data (we're talking
full-motion video, which can
choke even the fastest
drives}. I'd recommend it to
anyone who needs a reliable
and portable CD-ROM drive.
For now it's a real effort to
bring multimedia to slotless com-
puters. Maybe someday all com-
puters will have the necessary
SCSI and audio circuitry built
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ENTERTAINMENT CHOICE
Gain immortality by battling your way througli
mazes and returning control of tiie City of
Legends to the gods in this action-adventure hybrid.
Alfred C. Giovetti
GODS
Beads of sweat glisten on
your bronzed, corded mus-
cles as you make your way
through the ancient City of
Legends, once the play-
ground of the gods. Now in de-
cay, the city is overgrown by
weeds and inhabited by the
denizens of evil. You recall
the challenge laid down by
the gods for a champion to
free their city from the grip of
evil, A massive warrior, you fa-
vor quick wits and flashing
weapons over the protective
covering of armor. You know
the price of failure is death.
But you are no ordinary hero —
your name is Hercules. And
your mission is no ordinary
quest: to attain godhood and
immortality.
Gods, by Bitmap Brothers,
is a game which combines
many of the best aspects of
adventure games in an ar-
cade-game environment, in-
cluding puzzles, shortcuts,
secret rooms, treasure
chests, and keys not seen in
most other arcade games. All
these plus communication,
character interaction, hints,
and a limited save-game utili-
ty combine to make Gods a
very effective and enjoyable
hybrid adventure-arcade
game that must be played to
be appreciated.
The side- and top-scrolling
display of the City of Legends
has a third-person perspec-
tive that shows your muscle-
bound Hercules and the mon-
sters within the stone Greco-
Roman maze. At the bottom
of the display are several win-
dows which show the number
of lives you have remaining,
guardian and character ener-
gy levels, the item inventory,
the point score, a message
scroll box, and the amount
of gold you've collected.
The amount of energy remain-
ing in your current life is
shown as the fullness of a
beaker.
The city is divided into four
sections: the city proper, the
temple, the labyrinth, and the
undenworld. Each section is di-
vided into three worlds, and
each world may be com-
posed of multiple levels. Suc-
cess in traversing the levels in-
volves a combination of throw-
ing the correct switches and
levers, collecting the correct ar-
tifacts, and killing off all of the
monsters — all within the time
allotted and with the least dam-
age to your character. Extra
lives, more powerful protec-
tion, and more powerful weap-
onry are the rewards of the cor-
rect sequence of play.
Within the city you must de-
feat many enemies, which
can appear out of thin air, ac-
companied by a flash of light.
The basic monster types
come in many interesting and
varied somatotypes and weap-
ons capabilities, making com-
bat an interesting, ever-chang-
ing occupation. They are of
four basic types: killers, fliers,
thieves, and guardians.
Gods is a game of plan-
ning, not just a game of knee-
jerk reflexes. You must locate
switches and determine their
functions via experimentation.
The game's limited save-
game resources require you
to repeat portions of the
maze over and over again, un-
til you find the ultimate path
through each city section.
Like an adventure game,
Gods has progression and re-
ward puzzles. Progression puz-
zles aid or hinder your ad-
vancement to the next level;
reward puzzles provide you
with better weapons, protec-
tion, and life power. To solve
the puzzles, you'll have to get
the right keys for the right
doors and be able to select
the correct path through the
mazes.
A message scroll box at
the bottom of the display an-
nounces the ultimate goal of
a set of puzzles and offers
hints to solving puzzles or ex-
plains the effects of artifacts.
Determining the meaning of
these messages is the
source of another puzzle.
Gods has an inventory, an-
other adventure-game fea-
ture, The three-item Inventory
holds items such as keys and
other artifacts. Items in Gods
104 COMPUTE DECEMBER 1992
have an existence of their
own. When they're dropped,
they appear on the city floor.
If a thief picks them up, they
can be retrieved later when
the thief is killed.
Over 30 distinct types of ar-
tifacts, including six different
types of keys, are hidden in
Gods. There are also many
types of weapons, artifacts of
protection, magic potions, and
weapons' arcs, which control
the trajectory of the thrown
weapons. As with characters
in other adventure games, Her-
cules needs to know what to
discard and what to keep.
Many items disappear when
used and so don't take up
room in the small three-item in-
ventory. IVIost gems add to the
gold counter. Food replaces
lost energy.
A shop appears at the half-
way point and the end of
each level. Some weapons, ar-
mor, food, weapon arcs, and
other artifacts will perform spe-
cific tasks better than others.
Some weapons kill monsters
effectively but do little dam-
age to the breakable blocks.
Your choice of weapons will ul-
timately affect your ability to
successfully traverse the dan-
gers that lie ahead,
Potions have many effects,
such as increase in health,
weapon potency, and de-
fense effectiveness. Those ac-
quired in shops act different-
ly than ones found in the city,
providing an additional set of
strategic choices. Shop po-
tions can be saved as inven-
tory items that are dropped
from the inventory when
used; city potions take effect
on contact with Hercules.
Gods incorporates a new
system called the Player Mon-
itor mode. This mode keeps
track of your skill level, mak-
ing the game easier for the un-
initiated and more difficult for
the skillful. Clever solutions
and skillful maneuvers reap
higher rewards, while the inex-
perienced player is encour-
aged to improve in a less le-
thal environment. Player fvlon-
itor mode ensures that every
game is different, since most
of us don't perform with the
precision of a computer.
Upon your successful com-
pletion of a world, the pro-
gram constructs a personal-
ized code for you. By input-
ting the code later, you can re-
turn to the beginning of the
next world with the Player f\/lon-
itor mode reactivated at exact-
ly the same level as when you
left the game. Gods is differ-
ent from other code-based
save games in that it remem-
bers and lists the codes on
the startup screen, thus elimi-
nating the need for you to
keep notes.
The interface can be most
effectively controiled by a joys-
tick, but it's also supported by
a keyboard option. Joystick
control is somewhat awkward
and takes time to get used to.
Keys allow you to pause or es-
cape to the operating system.
For selecting items in the
shop or inputting alphabetical
characters, the mouse and
keyboard would've been a
more effective combination,
but the developers chose not
to sup'port it. Tine numeric key-
pad is active for inputting the
copy-protection code, a four-
digit number recovered from
a nearly illegible red code
card.
The graphics in Gods are
crisp and tight, dazzling the
eye and somehow seeming to
squeeze out more than 16 col-
ors from its 16-color VGA pal-
ette. Animation is incredibly
smooth, with the monsters glid-
ing along the screen without a
hitch. The theme music was
composed by Nation Xll's
John Fox, a former member of
the popular European band Ul-
travox. Renegade, which pro-
duced the game with Bitmap
Brothers, is a founding partner
with Rhythm King Records,
which produced the music in
its studios. Sound effects
show the same professional or-
igins and are used sparingly to
great effect.
Gods is much more than
just another arcade game. By
combining some of the best el-
ements of adventure games
in an attractive arcade-game
format, it transcends the fast-
reflex arena and becomes a
game of intellect. It joins oth-
er Bitmap Brothers award-win-
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that goes beyond earlier hits.
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UP AGAINST
THE WALL
It's 3:00 a.m., and you've just
rammed full speed into the
brick wall that designers work
so hard to build into their
games: the unstoppable oppo-
nent or the unsolvable puzzle.
After committing hours to the
game, you've reached an ob-
struction that seems impossi-
ble to overcome.
Computer games are tough
(they have to be to justify the
cost), and as we get better
and better at anticipating
Computer games are
lough. Game
BUblislters work hard
buifdiflg traps
and obstacles to stop
you in your tracks.
But every game has a
solution. There
are ways to hurdle
that wall.
what's coming, the game pub-
lishers work harder at creating
more challenging puzzles and
burlier opponents. And in this
spiraling climb of difficulty,
there has to be some friction.
Don't hate the game. You
wouldn't have bought it if you
thought it was going to be
easy. Every game has a solu-
tion (at least, I'd like to think
so), no matter how cryptic or
convoluted, and there are
ways to hurdle that wall.
The first thing you should
ask yourself when you hit the
wall is, "Am I on track, or is
this a dead end?"
If the game is a linear shoot-
"em-up, then you know you
have to overcome that obsta-
cle to get any further. If it's an
adventure game, the answer
is trickier; you might have wan-
dered into a blind alley If so,
all you need to do is back up
106 COMPUTE DECEMBER 1992
and take another route. And if
it's a simulation, you know it's
just a matter of patience and
learning the right skills before
you put that F-16 down on the
runway without crashing.
The best way to get past
the wall is to arm yourself with
as much information as possi-
ble. If you're playing a savable
game, then play right up to
your wall and save the game.
Make a few copies of your
saved game and settle down
to experiment.
Search for resources be-
yond the game itself. Often, the
game's manual contains a
wealth of infor-
mation. It's a
great place to
start looking for
your solution.
Some manuals
have their own
hint sections,
while others
will give infor-
mation in the
narrative intro-
duction or in
the fictional
background
material. It's worth a try
Sometimes, the game itself
will allow you to modify the par-
ameters. Don't think of this as
cheating, but as fact-finding.
You're simply looking for the so-
lution to a puzzle. If you
change the parameters and
solve your dilemma, you can
set them back and recall for
"honest" play a game you
saved previously.
Often, the game is in real-
time, and you only have a few
precious seconds. So take a
snapshot. A screen capture util-
ity is also great for this. You
can tell a lot from a screen
shot, especially if the screen
is crowded like the one in Fal-
con 3.0.
If your video card has an out-
put jack, hook up your VCR
and record the last minutes be-
fore you crumble. Think of your-
self as a coach, evaluating the
gameplay (Digital Vision and
others make interfaces that
convert VGA to composite vid-
eo for videotaping.)
Another good tactic is to
get the game up and running
and then have a friend run
through the difficult part while
you watch. fVlaybe you'll see
something new. But watch
out, If your friend breezes
past your wall, your ego may
be hurting for a long time.
Often, if a game is popular
enough, you can buy hint
books that solve nearly all of
your problems. Generally, the
books are written with the frus-
trated gamer in mind and or-
ganized so that you can get
the information you need with-
out spoiling the game.
Check out online resourc-
es, too. Often, a local BBS will
have a library of text file hints
that you can download. Also,
large networks such as GEnie
and CompuServe have gam-
ers' forums that provide the op-
portunity to ask for specific
help from people who have
been there. CompuServe will
also provide its members with
contact numbers for the major
game publishers. GEnie has a
general RoundTable for com-
puter game enthusiasts.
Nowadays, it seems as if
everybody's installing 900-
number help lines. Electronic
Arts has a 900 hint line which
allows you to access any level
of any game through a menu
and your touch-tone phone.
But don't forget that these
help sessions can cost as
much as a hint book. And at
times the hints may be as cryp-
tic as the puzzles themselves.
Remember that these
games have solutions. Some-
times the answer is practice,
and sometimes it's a little
more complicated. If you
need help, the resources are
out there. Someone some-
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Winter — a time for glowing
hearths and lieirioom quilts
and, for some of us, long eve-
nings spent with mugs of cider and a
cherished PC. This is most certainly
the best time of year to play, tvlaybe
you'll try a few games of Populous or
Star Control, but if you're like most
gamers, you look forward to Christmas
and the frenetic activity of entertain-
ment software houses, the must-have
RPGs of summer and the hottest simu-
lators of spring fade from memory
now, lost in the swirl of new product
announcements and the buzz of sea-
sonal industry hype. But doubt
remains. Did you miss something
important this year?
Probably. Over the last 12 months,
digital entertainment took some tentative
steps forward. In spite of the dual threat
and promise of CD-ROM products, disk-
based games continued to grow, both in
megabytes and range of play.
We stormed the stars and walked
alternate earths; in most cases our
journeys were limited only by the size
of our hard drives. \A/e played in tree
forts, and we solved mysteries worthy
of Sherlock Holmes himself. Simula-
tions made a strong showing against
the more traditional hack-and-slash
dungeon exploitation ventures; the
philosophers in us all secretly re-
joiced. And then, the lemmings came
back. For computer owners with a little
time to kill, here's a look at the high-
lights of the last 12 months. With luck.
some of these replayable beauties —
though forgotten for the moment — still
wait for you on the shelves of local
software boutiques.
Dune
Better than the movie and somewhat
shorter than the novel. Dune {from
Virgin Games) proves that adaptations
aren't always inferior to originals. As
Paul Atreides, players mine life-pro-
ionging spice, ride the wild sandworm,
and reclaim the desert planet Arakis. A
no-problem interface puts you instantly
at the heart of play; haunting melodies
and visionary images courtesy of the
European design team Cryo put Dune
near the top of a long list of ecoman-
agement world-conquest games.
Falcon 3.0
Flying a more realistic F-16 flight simu-
lator could prove hazardous to your
health. Once Spectrum HoloByte
worked the kinks out of this military-
inspired wonder, armchair pilots
everywhere held their breath as they
pulled multiple G's and fought the
good fight in the days after Desert
Storm, Thanks to Spectrum HoloByte
for the reminder of how dangerous
110 COMPUTE DECEMBER 1992
modern warfare can be and for mak-
ing a trip to the Middle East safer than
the drive to work.
GODS
Sometimes the gods make a mistake,
and this time, they've given you a shot
at equality. Just defeat four nasty
guardians and hordes of monsters,
plus reclaim ah inhospitable, unnamed
city, and the big boys on fvlt. Olympus
will issue you a membership card,
complete with requisite immortality.
The Bitmap Brothers did another out-
standing job for Konami.
DARK SEED
H. R. Giger makes his small-screen
debut with DARK SEED, and players
learn that smaller is no less fearsome.
The designer for the movie Alien
opened his disturbing portfolio for
CYBERDREAMS, and together, they
remade the world into a very menacing
place. As Mike Dawson, you attempt to
pierce the veil between light and shad-
ow and uncover the threat of alien
invasion. Poor Mike — you're victim
number one. A moody soundtrack and
simply gorgeous backgrounds unite in
DARK SEED for a combination that's
tough to beat and difficult to put away.
Wolfenstein 3-D
Didn't this one appear first on the 8-bit
machines of the last decade? Maybe
so, but the leap from simple sprites to
dizzying, high-speed 3-D texture map-
ping more than updates this 1980s
classic for the impending turn of the
century. Trapped behind enemy lines,
you possess the secrets the Allies so
desperately need to win the war. Your
duty? Escape! More than a bit on the
violent side, Wolfenstein 3-D surprises
not only with its bloody combat but
with the idea that a game this good
can be shareware. Apogee Software
outdoes itself again.
A<es of the Pacifk
Do the names Zuikaku, Hiryu, and
Akagi mean anything to you? If not, you
haven't flown for World War II Japan in
Aces of the Pacific, Dynamix's realistic
flight simulator. Anyone interested in
alternative history can watch it unfold
from the cockpit of a Zero: the more
pathotic will fly American planes. Either
way, you're out to earn commendations
and come home in one piece. With
plenty of history behind it. a nostalgic
manual, and exhilarating bombing
runs. Aces earns its wings among the
very best flight simulators.
Star Trek: 25th Anniversary
Capturing the essence of the original
series, down to the almost brotherly
antagonism between Mr. Spock and
Dr. McCoy, Interplay's Star Trek; 25th
Anniversary finally gives us the chance
to take the helm of an Enterprise we
can believe in, Jim's still overly dra-
matic; both the Klingons and the
Romulans demand satisfaction; Harry
Mudd's making trouble. Each episode
presents the away team with stringent
puzzles and a dose of humor that will
only leave Trekkers ready for more.
Out of This World
Ripped from this planet by an atomic
accelerator gone bad, you find your-
self in a coof blue world. Polygon-
based graphics lend surprising real-
ism to this cinematic masterpiece, and
as you fight your way through what
seems a very believable continuum,
you'll wonder what all the fuss over the
disappearing lone-wolf designer was
about. Based in France, programmer,
artist, and designer Eric Chahi went
against the grain to present us with a
one-man show rivaling the megabud-
get wonders of California. Of course.
Interplay did produce and distribute it.
Oh No, More Lemmings
Perhaps better described as a game
extension rather than a new game. Oh
No, More Lemmings seemed much
like its predecessor, so the new levels
caught us flatfooted. The sadists at
Psygnosis thought up fresh, devious
ways to grind, mince, and otherwise
eradicate our favorite pack of rodents,
with levels ranging in difficulty from
tame to wicked. Each new ml-
croadventure requires more both from
players and from our cute little brolly-
toting, bridge-building friends — and
saving vermin from certain death
never before held such charm.
Hardball III
Even if you don't like baseball, you'll
probably enjoy Hardball III. The clos-
est thing to actually sliding for home
plate, complete with the digitized
announcing of noted commentator Al
Michaels, Accolade's newest ringer
can make you feel like it's the top of
the ninth with bases loaded every
time. From batting practice to league
championships, this game has every-
thing a sports fan could want except
the peanuts and Cracker Jack.
SimAnt
Least serious of all the software toys
from Maxis — and therefore probably
the most fun— this simulation nonethe-
less shows us the darker side of life in
the backyard. Alternately queen, work-
er, and soldier, you lead your arthropo-
dal colony to victory or extinction. Unlike
in SimCity, you actually try to run the
You get so much out of it
because we put so much into it.
ERIE
T fi 0 N '"'^
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ihe superb graphics we put
into Falcon 3.0'". And the
incredibly real F-16 feel.
\nd the sensational scope
that delivers everything
from Instant Action arcade
sxcitement to plotting your
3wn Red Flag training missions
to engaging in a different
:ampaign every time you play.
But we couldn't say it half as
well as the critics have said
it. Look at the high marks
they've given Falcon 3.0.
"The visuals during flight are
awesome. " jim douglas, ace
"If you aren't in tlie armed
iervices-and maybe even
if you are-ibis is as close
as you can come to flying
the falcon."
=ETER OLAFSON, COMPUTE
"Tbe graphics are stunning
We sound is incredible and
tbe game play is a rush. "
DAVID ETHEL. VIDEO GAMES &
COMPUTER ENTERTAINMENT
' '// 's not so much a game
system as it is a way of life. "
EVAN BROOKS,
COMPUTER GAMING WORLD
"Realistic, contoured terrain.
Vour view from the cockpit is
'he best in the flight simulator
world. And Falcon's user
interface is slick and easy
to use." PC GAMES EDITORS
Spectrum
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"Be excited. Falcon j.l
makes other efforts in this
genre seem like test runs
for tbe real thing."
STRATEGY PLUS EDITORS
"The most complete and
accurate jet flgbter
simulation to be found
this side of a security
clearance Feriod.''
RICHARD SHEFFIELD,
COMPUTE
"The most appealing
aspect is the realism.
This is as true to life as
I've seen on a computer."
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takes you on action-packed
mission.s in three new .Asian
campaigns. Fly your F-i6 to Korea,
10 the Pakistanyindia border,
to Japan and the disputed KurUe
Islands, where you can also fly the
advanced FSX, Japan's newly modified F-16.
Operation: I'ighiing Tiger requires Falcon 3.0
€trum HtfloByte
I r r 2490 Mariner Square Loop, Alameda, CA 94501
- . ,nd SpOd'umHoiijfiylo li a T»9:it;r>v9 IrnlBmark ot S,[K)«rum Hotfiaylfl. he
humans out of their house rather than
make their lives more comfortable.
Crisis in the Kremlin
Who knew Gorbachev would need to
hit the classifieds even before
Gorbachev himself? Spectrum
HoloByte and the programmers of
Crisis in the Kremlin, that's who.
Another one for the deep thinkers in
the crowd, this simulation lets you
play hard-liner, reformist, or nation-
alist, each with the best intentions for
what was once the U.S.S.R. Who
knows what will happen next? Take
matters in your own hands, monitor
the digitized newscasts, and hope
you can feed your people this winter.
The Lost Files of Sherlock Holmes
A grisly London murder might mean a
new modus operandi for Jack the
Ripper, or it may bear the mark of an
altogether new killer. Either way, Sher-
lock Holmes must eliminate a long list
of the impossible to solve the case in
this Electronic Arts interactive mys-
tery. More than mere extraneous
characters. Dr. Watson and the Baker
Street Irregulars help bring a trea-
sured literary figure to life, even if they
can't resuscitate the hapless victims.
Gateway
Humanity never found evidence of !ife
in our solar system — other than native
earth flora and fauna, that is. Then it
stumbled upon the abandoned
Heechee Gateway, a platform to the
stars. Someone else is out there, and
there must certainly be something out
there worth taking. Sign on for a
potentially fatal mission, and you
might return a wealthy explorer. Or
maybe you'd rather remain planet-
bound after all. Legend Enter-
tainment's hybrid of parser and point-
and-cliok interface turns out to be an
asset to gameplay, and the hi-res
color graphics seem fitting accom-
paniment to this adaptation of
Frederick Pohl's popular science fic-
tion work. Distributed by Accolade.
Eye of the Beholder II
An adventure inspired by D & D, Eye
of the Beholder II: The Legend of
Darkmoon didn't show much innova-
tion plotwise, but SSI couldn't hope to
improve on the interface. Distributed
by Electronic Arts.
Tetris Classic
Spectrum HoloByte lifted the bandages
to reveal a spiffier Tetris. Either this
Links Pro 386— $69.95
Access Software
4910 W. Amelia Earhart Dr.
Salt Lake City, UT
84116-2837
(800) 800-4880
Gateway— $59.95
Hardball III— $59.95
Accolade
c/o Slarpak
237 22nd St.
Greeley, CO 80631
(800) 245-7744
Wolfenstein 3-D— $50.00
Apogee
P.O. Box 476389
Garland, TX 75047
(800)428-3123
DARK SEED— $69.95
CYBERDREAMS
Dislfibuted by Merit
Software
13635 Gamma Rd.
Dallas, TX 75244
(800) 238-4277
Aces of the Pacific —
$69.95
The Adventures of Willy
Beamisti— $69.95
Dynamlx
99W. 10th, Sle. 224
Eugene, OR 97401
(800) 326-6654
GREAT GAMES
Eye of the Beholder !1—
$59.95
Global Effect— $49.95
The Lost Files of Sherlock
Holmes— $69.95
Rules of Engagement —
$59.95
Electronic Arts
1450 Fashion Island Blvd.
San Mateo, CA 94404
(415)571-7171
Castles II— $69.95
Out of This World-
$59.95
Star Trek: 25th
Ann i versary — $59.95
Interplay Productions
3710S. Susan, Ste. 100
Santa Ana, CA 92704
(714)545-9001
GODS— $39.95
Konami
900 Deerfieid Pkwy.
Buffalo Grove. IL 60089
(708)215-5111
SimAnt— $59.95
Maxis
Two Theatre Square,
Ste. 230
Orinda, CA 94563-3346
(510)254-9700
(800) 336-2947
Civilization-- $69.95
MicroProse
laOLakefronl Dr.
Hunt Valley, MD 21030
(410)771-0440
Ultima VII— $79.95
Ultima Underworld —
$79.95
Origin Systems
206 Wild Basin Rd.,
Ste. 107
Austin, TX 78746
(512) 328-0282
Oh No, More
Lemming s~$49.99
Psygnosis
29 St. Mary's Ct.
Brookline, MA 02146
(617)731-3553
Crisis in the Kremlin—
$69.95
Falcon 3,0— $79.95
Super Tetris— $49.95
Tetris Classic— $44.95
Spectrum HoloByte
2061 Challenger Dr.
Alameda. CA 94501
(510) 522-3584
Dune— $59.99
Shuttle— $49.99
Virgin Games
18061 Fitch Ave.
Irvine, CA 92714
(714)833-8710
attractive update or its beautiful cousin
Super Tetris would make a fine gift.
The Adventures of Willy Beamish
To feel like a kid again, try Dynamix's
The Adventures of Willy Beamish and
thwart the despicable Leona Hump-
ford's wicked plans.
Shuttle
Ever wonder what spaceflight in the
1980s was like? Strap yourself into
Virgin Games' shuttle simulator, and
discover ail the joy and all the difficul-
ty of leaving the earth behind.
Rules of Engagement
If you hanker for galactic conquest,
there's no better space-combat simula-
tor than Rules of Engagement from
Mindcraft. Distributed by Electronic Arts.
Castles II
Perhaps you'd prefer to use catapults
instead of energy weapons. The newest
release of Interplay's Castles II lets you
do just that, as well as build your own
fortress of stone. Now politically correct.
Castles even offers you the chance to
play queen rather than king.
Ultima Underworld
Go back to the dungeons with
Origin's Ultima Underworld, superior
visually to all other spelunking hack-
fests; texture mapping seems to be
the hottest thing these days.
Global Effect
Global Effect makes clear how diffi-
cult world management can be if the
other guy won't cooperate. This
simulation from Electronic Arts makes
you think twice about the future.
Links Pro 386
Anyone with a 386 or better can hit
the greens with Links Pro 386 from
Access. When it comes to golf,
nobody does it better.
Ultima VII
For days of adventure, the belated
but worth-the-wait Ultima VII brings
back the Avatar for another tour of
Britannia. Ohgin scores another hit.
Civilization
Nurture cultures or burn them; either
way, mankind marches to your beat
in Civilization from MicroProse.
Everything You Want
No matter where you look, you'll find
excellent games for every taste. The
lucky person who gets a great game
gift wiil be ready to take on the new
year with ambitions unleashed, skills
whetted, and imagination stoked. □
112 COMPUTE DECEMBER 1992
After You Create The Most
Powerful, Cost-Effective
Multimedia Computers Ever,
What Do You Do For
An Encore?
a-
BOY years, ihc Amiga' name has been
synonymous wUh multimedia. WeVe
jirox'en to the world ihat when you combine
ihe brilliance of video, audio, and animation
with a computer, incredible
things can happen.
Well, now
thai the world has
finally caught on
to the concept,
Commodore takes
die medium to an
entirely new
level: With
the all-new
■Amiga 40tX">.
The
A4000 frees
\'0U lo tlo
more mulii-
media computin
for less than any
other personal
computer. It
empowers )'ou
to create exciting
professional tele-
vision elTecls,
stimulating interactive trainmg j^rograms, and
more powerful presentations like never before.*
That's because the Amiga is the only
computer designed as a multimedia machine
from the ground u]t. Which means the A4000
doesn't suffer the handicaps other so-called
multimedia machines endure. There is no
need for costly, cumbersome add-ons, no
need to kludge together potentially incom-
Thc Arnica 4000 gives yon rlic <il)i/ilv In
cusily irctitc rctil-limc, lotorjtil (iiiirn(i(i(irr.s.
patiblc components. So it gi\'cs you spectacular
multimedia performance right out of the
bo.K, at a price ihai keeps the cost of imag-
ination \-ery realistic.
Sit in front of the A4000
and instandy \'0U
enter a world
filled with
high-resolu-
tion graphics simul-
taneously displa)'ed in up
10 256,000 colors from a
palette of over 16.8 million
hues. You gain a heightened abilii)'
to create exciting graphics with full \'ideo
overscan. And you attain
the freedom to create complex
animations at a full 30 Frames
Per Second, not at 15 FPS.
You even have the
option of choosing from a j,,, ,\,„i„„ ^qoo
spectram of high resolution /™'"7, ''Y"7^'M
modes while stil
main-
imcroiJtoccs^ar.
laining NTSC scan rale capability.
All this multimedia muscle, of course,
comes through true design elegance. At the
heart of every A4000 lies our new, unique,
custom coprocessors, the Advanced
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Graphics
Archiieclure''-' chip sel,
and ihe lalesl muUi-
tasking operating sysiem. Amiga
DOS'" 3.0. Add to this Motorola's thundering
cxpandabiiily, compatibil-
ity, and the capability for
hundreds of business
applications.
In fact, the A4000 even
Ris seamlessl)' into whatever
operating system you're
currenilv using by coex- , ,
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or MS-DOS computers in a Novell'' network.*
htroducine The
68040 Cliip (which other computer
companies consider to be enough on lis
own) and not onl\- is the A4000 blind-
ingl)' quick, ii literally gives you true
workstation power.
or course, there's much more lo
the A4000 than just being the ultimate
tool for creativity It also comes with a
large capacit)' hard dri\'e, and a ^^ __^^
1 .76 MB Liual speed high ^ •^'-''^''^-^'ffi
density floppy
clri\'e which, when combined
with Cross-DOS, allows you
iJ^S 10 read and write MS-DOS'" files.
And a design that allows for
And we back all this tcchnolog)'
up with a potent service package
ihat is second to none: Including a
24 hour hotline and optional on-site
semce.**
To find out more about
Commodore Multimedia and
the all-new Amiga 4000, call
1-800-66-AMlGA. (In Canada,
call 1-800-661-AMlGA.)
Well show you an outstanding
performance that will certainly bring you
lo vour feet.
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C' Commodore
AMIGA
64/128 VIEW
The 64 has always been kind of a
barnstorming computer^ust plug it in and
fly by the seat of your pants.
Tom Netsel
A few months ago in
this column, I was la-
imenting the fact that
I the number of new re-
leases for the 64 had
slowed to a pitiful trickle.
Gone are the days when doz-
ens of new titles from major
developers vied for space
on our review shelf.
In that column I suggest-
ed that smaller companies
Itiight take advantage of
this calm to submit copies
of their programs for review.
Now that the big houses
have moved into the IBfvl
camp, smaller operations
with one or two 64 products
have a better chance for cov-
erage in Gazette.
I have contacted a num-
ber of programmers and
small publishers, and sever-
al of them have taken me up
on my offer. I'm happy to an-
nounce that we now have a
number of products on their
way to our independent re-
viewers for evaluation. So
keep your eye on our review
pages next year. We ha-
ven't run out of good pro-
grams after all.
One small company to re-
spond was Creative Pixels
Limited of Library, Pennsylva-
nia. It's a small firm headed
by Jim Hilty, who sent a re-
view copy of a new game
called The Adventures of
Eric Hawthorne, P.I. Hilty
has done work in the past
for Ahoy!, Commodore mag-
azine, and Loadstar, so he
knows his way around a 64.
In fact, he's been around
long enough to have some in-
sight into the way 64 soft-
ware has evolved.
"It seems the software de-
velopment for the 64 has
gone full circle," he writes,
"from the small independent
developer to the big corpo-
rate image and now back to
individuals. f\/laybe this is
good. The 64 fias always
been kind of a barnstorming
computer anyway — just
plug it in and fly by the seat
of your pants. It's a fun com-
puter, a truly personal com-
puter, a computer that an in-
dividual can enjoy program-
ming, a welcome friend '
Hilty makes some good
points. In a way, I suppose
the 64 is something like a
barnstormer's airplane of yes-
teryear. It's not too fast, not
too fancy— but it's a solid lit-
tle machine that can still
coax an "Ooh!" or an "Ah!"
out of onlookers. You can
throw a couple of switches,
hit a few keys, and dazzle
your friends with what it can
do. Oh, you may move on to
something snazzier, fancier,
and faster, but you'll always
have fond memories of your
first machine.
Creative Pixels is not the
only company that still sup-
ports the 64. To help our
readers track down Commo-
dore products and service,
Lisa Hayes, a 64 fan in Chi-
cago, has compiled a buy-
er's guide of more than 100
such companies. This list-
ing, which has been aug-
mented by the Gazette
staff, should prove to be a
valuable resource for finding
software, hardware, and serv-
ice for your 64 or 128. You'll
find the list on page G-3.
Naturally, in a listing such
as this, we're bound to omit
some valid companies. I'll
apologize in advance if
your favorite firm is missing.
So if you know of some com-
panies that we've missed or
if your firm handles 64 prod-
ucts, contact me. We'll pre-
pare an updated supple-
ment in a future issue. O
GAZETTE
64/128 VIEW
Software development for the 64 comes full circl
By Tom Netsel.
G-1
e.
A BUYER'S GUIDE TO COMMODORE SOFTWARE,
HARDWARE, AND SERVICES G-3
Here's a convenient list of mail-order companies that
handle Commodore hardware and software.
Edited by Lisa Hayes.
REVIEWS
Videofox and Invoice Writer II.
G-1 2
WORLD VIEW
The Commodore scene in Hungary,
By Geza Lucz.
G-1 6
BEGINNER BASIC G-18
Examine ways users can enter data into your programs.
By Larry Cotton.
MACHINE LANGUAGE G-19
Try animation on a small scale by moving the pixels
within a single character.
By Jim Butterfield.
FEEDBACK
Questions and answers.
G-20
GEOS
Now that we've selected the ultimate in GEOS
hardware, let's run some outstanding software.
By Steve Vander Ark.
G-22
PROGRAMMER'S PAGE G-24
Watch a character design itself — if you have the time.
By Randy Thompson.
PROGRAMS
DeMON
GEOS Text Scrap Maker
Tack Truck
Ham Antennas
Battleship 128
Speed ram-64
G-25
G-32
G-34
G-35
G-38
G-39
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H eUVER'S GUIDE TO COHMODORE
SOFTUflRE, HHRDURRE, AND SERVICES
Since finding items for a Commodore 64 or 128 is not as easy as it
once was, we've compiled tfiis listing of manufacturers
and of dealers, distributors, and service companies that handle
the Commodore line. While this list is by no means
definitive, it should make your shopping easier and help you
locate some hard-to-find products.
Edited bij Liso Haijes
Sofluiere and Hordiuere Disiribufors
COMMODORE
1200 Wilson Ave.
Westchester, PA 19380
(215)431-9100
Customer Support
(800) 448-9987
This is a 24-hour support line.
TENEX
P.O.Box 1813
South Bend, IN 46660-6578
(800) 352-2225
Hardware and software. Free catalog.
BRiWALL
P.O.Box 129
Kutztown, PA 19530
(800) 766-5757
Hardware and software. Free catalog.
SOFTWARE SUPPORT INTERNATIONAL
2700 NE Andresen Rd., Ste.A-10
Vancouver, WA 98661
(800)356-1179
Hardware and software. Free catalog.
MONTGOMERY-GRANT
P.O. Box 50
Brooklyn, NY 11230
(BOO) 759-6565
Hardware.
COMPSULT
P.O. Box 3233
San Luis Obispo, CA 93403-3233
(800)676-6616
Discontinued software at bargain prices.
Free catalog.
SOFTWARE DISCOUNTERS
INTERNATIONAL
5607 Baum Blvd.
Pittsburgh, PA 15206
(800) 966-7734
New software. Free catalog.
TITUS SOFTWARE
20432 Corisco St.
Chatsworth,CA 91311
(818)709-3692
New software, mainly European imports.
COSMI
431 N. FgueroaSt.
Wilmington, CA 90744
(800) 765-5455
Top 20 Software Tools, Top 20 Solid
Gold Games— $14.95 each.
CREATIVE MICRO DESIGNS
50 Industrial Dr.
P.O. Box 646
E. Longmeadow, MA 01028
(800) 638-3263
Hard drives, Jiffy DOS, gateWay,
RAMLink, RAMDOS, Swiftlink 232, SID
Symphony Stereo Cartridge, and more.
G-4 COMPUTE DECEMBER 1992
JASON-RANHEIM
3105Gayle Ln.
Auburn, CA 95603
{800)421-7731
{916)878-0785
EPROMs, cartridges, and other spe-
cialized hardware.
THE GRAPEVINE GROUP
3 Chestnut St.
Suffern, NY 10901
(800) 292-7445
Chips, power supplies, some books
and VCR tapes. Free catalog.
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Portland, ME 04103
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5316 S. Ninth St.
St, Joseph, MO 64504
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7610 W, Fifth Ave., Ste, 200
Lakewood, CO 80226
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North 27310 Short Rd.
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Cincinnati, OH 45231
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Cambridge, MA 02142
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124 Crescent Rd.
Needham, MA 02194
(617)455-1454
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P.O. 80x49135
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P.O. Box 571
W, Long Branch, NJ 07764
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115Bellmont Rd,
Decatur, IN 46733
(219)724-3900
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3366 S 2300 E
Salt Lake City, UT 84109
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4355 Kinney Rd.
Ludington, Ml 49431
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Ballwin, MO 63022
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Seattle, WA 98198
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Charlotte, VT 05445
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Berwin, IL 60402
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REVIEWS
VIDEOFOX
We're living in a video age. Nearly
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as well. Moving into this new electron-
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world around us is the personal home
computer.
High-tech products such as
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for use with multimedia presentations.
This creative processing of a video
source with a computer is called desk-
top video.
Of course, all this fancy desktop vid-
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right? Well, yes and no. There are no
genlocks or frame grabbers available
for the 64, that's true. All of those high-
tech gadgets require a great deal
more memory and speed than you'll
find on a 64 or 128, but that doesn't
mean your 8-bit wonder can't contrib-
ute to your video work. You can use
the graphics capabilities of your 64 or
128 to create screens that can be cop-
ied onto videotape. The hookup is fair-
ly simple, and the results can be every
bit as impressive as graphics created
on more sophisticated computers.
There are a number of fine pro-
grams that provide tools and effects to
make your Commodore graphics fade
and wipe with the best of them. Each
of these packages is designed to take
graphic images from your Commodore
and run them in sequence while record-
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course, you could create simple animat-
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type with a word processor or as your
graphics program displays a screen or
two. These software packages auto-
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screen effects, too.
Videofox, imported from Germany
and distributed by RIO Computers, is
a newcomer to the field of Commodore
video software. Videofox is part of the
Fox line of Commodore products,
which includes the Pagefox cartridge.
As a result, Videofox is designed to op-
erate like other products in that line, us-
ing a similar point-and-click interface
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and fonts and clip art files that are in-
terchangeable between programs. The
package also includes a full-featured
drawing program that lets you design
your own bitmap Images to import into
Videofox.
With Videofox you can create a se-
ries of screens that are called boards.
The program then displays these
boards in sequential order, switching
from one to the next using various transi-
tion methods. You can adjust variables
such as how long each of the boards
is displayed and how fast they scroll.
The timing of the sequences can be
fine-tuned to fit the space you have
available on your video.
When satisfied with the effect on the
screen, you can connect your comput-
er's output to your VCR and record the
results. In this way you can create titles
for a videotape. You could also create
introductory screens or short animation
sequences. Since you can set a se-
quence to repeat, you could use a se-
ries of images as an animated display
for a shop window or at a user group
computer show. You can have it play
from videotape or straight from the com-,
puter itself.
Videofox includes a variety of transi-
tion options. Including some that use
the border in unexpected ways. The ef-
fects are smooth, professional, and of-
ten surprising. You can place text any-
where on the screen and import
bitmap images to dress up a display
Any video-titling program offers a se-
lection of fades and wipes between
graphic screens, but Videofox does it
better, and it gives you more. Transi-
tions are quick and clean — quick
enough for some honest-to-goodness
page-flipping animation.
Videofox does have a few problems,
however. The icons on the screen are
somewhat confusing, and they give no
indication, either by highlighting or flash-
ing, when they are selected. It's too
easy to forget which of the tools is se-
lected, especially when you're not al-
ways sure what they're supposed to
do. On top of that, some icons are let-
ters of the alphabet. That would be
fine if they didn't stand for German
words. I had to look them up.
As soon as I did, I encountered an-
other problem. The documentation,
haphazardly arranged, is vague and
confusing. It also references illustra-
tions and diagrams that apparently are
missing from the English version. This
situation is made all the worse be-
cause the translator obviously knew a
lot more about German than about Eng-
lish. The resulting prose ranges from
baffling to hilarious.
I have finally figured out what most
of the icons do, although I still can't get
used to pressing J for Yes at prompts.
Fortunately there is a list of keyboard
commands that helps. I can't help but
wish for a nice tutorial — in real Eng-
ish — that would nurse me through
things like importing and placing a
bitmap or turning on text mode.
The process of transferring your se-
quence to videotape is explained as
murkily as everything else. This is un-
fortunate, since that's the whole point
of the program. RIO Computers is work-
ing on an upgrade to the manual; I
hope my registration card entitles me
to a new copy
Despite the documentation's short-
comings, I do like the program. There
are plenty of great features here, al-
though they're a bit hard to find at
times. I like the continually updated
readout of cursor position and the var-
ious text effects available. I appreciate
the ability to set tab positions on the
screen so I can place images in exact-
ly the same spot on each board for
smooth, fast animation. Videofox
doesn't have the scripting capabilities
that Screen F,'X has, but its effects are
unmatched. Seeing my titles hop,
skip, and jump across the screen
makes wandering through the foggy
documentation worthwhile.
Videofox is amazingly fast. Boards
can be displayed so quickly because
they're not full-screen bitmaps. In-
stead, the editor limits you to a certain
percentage of the screen, up to 255
cells (8 X 8 pixels each), You can high-
light the cells that you've used as you
place text and graphics, adjusting
when necessary to keep your designs
from taking more than the allowable
area. This process restricts your crea-
tivity to some extent, but the resulting
speed makes it worth the effort.
There are a lot of great programs
coming from Europe these days. The
Fox series is a good example, and Vid-
eofox is a decent addition to that col-
lection. Companies like RIO Comput-
ers should be commended and support-
ed for importing and distributing these
products tor the United States market.
The problem with translating the docu-
mentation is a major stumbling block,
however, one which must be overcome
before packages like Videofox will ap-
peal to everyone.
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WORLD VIEW
Geza Lucz
During the transition
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Hungaiv liave
liecome widely
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mucli more affordable.
VIEW FROM
HUNGARY
Even if you don't know exactly
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million people. About 20 per-
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Being in the Carpathian Ba-
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rope, even though it can feel
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a capitalist economy.
During the transition to a
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ers have become widely avail-
able and much more afforda-
ble, in spite of a still-low in-
come level. A Commodore 64,
for instance, now costs about
14,000 forints ($180), and the
price of a 1541 drive is about
the same. For a little more
than twice an average month-
ly salary (39,000 forints or
$500), you can purchase an
Amiga 500 or an IBfvl-compat-
ible computer.
Until the late 1980s, comput-
ers entering Hungary came pri-
marily through private sales.
There were shops in Austria,
right across the border, that
specialized in Hungahan cus-
tomers. The big computer
boom occurred about seven
years ago when the first Hun-
garian company started sell-
ing Commodores, albeit at ir-
rationally high prices.
Thanks to a special govern-
ment program, elementary
and high schools are now on-
line, equipped mostly with
Commodores. These comput-
ers have proven to be perfect
for teaching children how to ap-
ply computers to useful purpos-
es. In colleges and universi-
ties, IBMs are the standard.
There are many in-school net-
works {Novell}, but a linkup be-
tween schools is still missing.
Commodore software is usu-
ally not available in stores. In
spite of this, there are several
options by which to update
your game pool. There are
magazines describing the lat-
est games and utilities. All you
have to do is pick out the pro-
grams you're interested in and
order them. Prices usually
range between 200 forints
and 400 forints (S3-$6).
You can also go to club
meetings and swap pro-
grams. The best-known club
is Commodore Egyesulet (Com-
modore Association). It has
had its own monthly magazine
since 1985. In it, you can find
programming tips and soft-
ware and hardware reviews.
This club also collects short
programs that are created by
members. These help other
members learn programming.
There are also workshops
where you can have your old
computer supercharged. For
about 4000 forints ($50), you
can have a little electric circuit
board added that can in-
crease the speed of your 1541
at least fivefold. You can also
get software and hardware
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Now you can buy four floppy
disks for about the phce of a
good-quality audiotape, and
they can store close to the
same amount of data, as well.
Available hardware ele-
ments range from music dig-
itizers and light pens to the
Commodore mouse. In case
you're not satisfied with your
power supply, you can also
buy certain kinds of kits. From
these kits and with expertise,
you can assemble any equip-
ment in a couple of hours. Fi-
nally, for about the price of an
IBM AT, you can purchase a
bridge card that makes your
Amiga 500 compatible with
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Sen/icing a computer in Hun-
gary may be a difficult task if
you don't live close to a major
city, but there are many work-
shops all over the country.
Still, sometimes when an ex-
pensive integrated circuit
breaks down and needs to be
exchanged, it's possible that
the repair will cost more than
a brand-new 64. When you're
buying a new computer,
some stores may give credit
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erational computer. In this way
they solve their component sup*
ply shortage, and you get a cer-
tain amount of money for a
computer that you probably
couldn't have sold otherwise.
Hungarians seem to love
their Commodores, as their
numbers still increase. It's al-
so true, however, that 64s and
128s have been slowly losing
ground to Amigas,
The 64 and 128 have al-
ways had the most diverse pro-
gram pool, with the most
games, at the lowest prices. Be-
cause of this, they've been the
most popular game machines.
Since the 64's introduction, chil-
dren have always wanted it.
Nowlfiese same children are
in college or high school, and
many are upgrading and enter-
ing the world of IBM,
Another challenge seems
to be on the Commodore hori-
zon. The new 10- to 15-year-
old generation seems to be
buying more Amigas. Flashy
graphics, perfect music, and
realtime motion seem to be
the key words of the nineties.
These features, combined
with a huge quantity of good-
quality programs, make the
Amiga 500 a dream machine
for Hungarian teenagers.
Basically, the situation in
Hungary is a healthy one for
Commodore and the business
that goes with it. Being a
small country with big comput-
er needs, Hungary will proba-
bly be staying online with Com-
modore for years. O
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BEGINNER BASIC
Larry Cotton
Let's look
at ways users
can enter
Mormation into
your program.
GATHERING
INFORMATION
Suppose you're writing a BA-
SIC program that requires the
user to enter something.
There are three BASIC com-
mands that accept information
from a program's user: GET,
WAIT and INPUT So which
one or ones should you use?
Let's look at all three.
GET is probably the easiest
and most flexible command to
program. Its main disadvantag-
es are that it lacks a blinking
cursor and requires extra pro-
gramming to accept more
than one character. Here's
GET at its simplest.
100GETA$:IFA$=""THEN100
GET (unlike INPUT) doesn't
wait for something to be
typed unless immediately fol-
lowed by an IF-THEN state-
ment similar to the above. A$
is an empty (null) string varia-
ble until the user presses a
key. In this simple execution,
A$ will be only one character:
a letter, number, or even punc-
tuation mark.
Enter the above line and
run it. The computer seems to
be frozen in its tracks. Actual-
ly it's in a loop within line 100,
waiting for the user to press a
key. If A$ is empty (the user
hasn't hit a key yet), the IF-
THEN repeatedly sends con-
trol back to the beginning of
the line at the rate of at least
100 attempts per second. (To
find out how many times GET
loops, add a counter in front
of the GET C=C+1 will do it.
Run the program; then divide
C by the number of seconds
the program runs. This slows
GET down, so the actual num-
ber of GETs is higher.)
GET commands are often
followed by more IF-THEN
statements which evaluate
the entered characters.
Here's one way to use GET to
G-18 COMPUTE DECEMBER 1992
form longer strings.
100GETA$:1FA$=""THEN100
110 [FA$="*''THEN140
120 B$=B$+A$
130 GOTO100
140 PRINTBS
Run the program: then hit a
few keys. When finished,
press the asterisk key. What-
ever you typed — almost any-
thing except the asterisk, in-
cluding spaces and carriage
returns — should be printed on
the screen.
To rule out everything but
one character, say. 7^ do
something like this.
100GETA$: IFAS <> 'T'THENIDO
The symbols < > mean "is not
equal to." fyiultiple IF-THENs of-
ten follow GET
90 PRINT "DO YOU WANT TO
CONTINUE (Y=YES N=NO)?"
100 GETA$; IFAS <> "Y'THEN
IFASo "N'THENIOO
The above routine waits for
the user to type either Kfor
yes or Wfor no. It won't move
on with any other response. Af-
ter you present a menu of sev-
eral numbered choices, you
can use GET like this.
100 GETAS: IFA$ <> "1"ANDAS<>
"2"ANDA$<> "3"THEN100
110 IFA$="1 "THEN . . .
120 IFA$=*'2 'THEN . . .
130 .. .
Notice that IF-THEN isn't need-
ed in line 130. If 3 is typed,
control falls through to that
line, and another check isn't
necessary. As used above,
AND takes the place of THEN
IF in the preceding example.
An alternative to the above
approach is to take the value
of A$ (using VAL) and use
ON-GOTO.
100 GETA$: IW$<> "1"ANDAS<>
"2"ANDAS<>"3"THEN100
110 ONVAL(AS)GOTO120, 130,140
120 PRINT"YOU PRESSED 11":
END
130 PRINT"YOU PRESSED 2t":
END
140 PRINT"YOU PRESSED 3!"
In this particular case, one
can use AS itself to shorten
the program.
100 GETAS: IFA$<>*'1"AND
A$<>"2"AN0
A$<>"3"THEN10a
110PR1NT"YDU PRESSED "A?"!"
Suppose you just wanted the
user to enter numbers.
What's wrong with using a nu-
meric variable like this?
100 GETA: IFA=0THEN100
110 PRINTA
Nothing — or is it? Enter these
lines; then try pressing any
number key. No problem! But
try typing a letter. Zing!
You're rewarded with a error!
To minimize problems with nu-
merals, always use GET for a
string variable; then use VAL
to change the input to a num-
ber. If you need numbers larg-
er than a single digit, concat-
enate the string, as you did in
the second example above,
and then use VAL.
To finish up, here's a neat
trick to eliminate everything
but numbers or letters. First,
here's the one for numbers.
100 GETA$: IFftS< "0" OR
AS>"9"THEN100
110 PRINTVAL(AS)
Yes, greater-than and less-
than symbols can be used
with A$. They evaluate the
ASCII value of the character.
Now, let's work with letters.
100 GETAS: IFA$<"A" OR
A$>"Z"THEN100
110 PRINTAS
Next month, we'll take a look
at the INPUT command. D
MACHINE LANGUAGE
Jim Butterfield
ANIMATED
CHARACTERS
Animation is always fun, and
you can achieve it in a number
of ways on your Commodore.
You can create image move-
ment by using sprites, turning
pixels on and off on a high-
resolution screen, or even us-
ing graphics characters to
write new information to the
screen. There's one more meth-
od that we'll investigate this
month — animating the charac-
ters themsefves.
Thai's what we'll do with
Charzoom, a program for the
64 or the 128 in 64 mode.
Charzoom has a conventional
character screen, but it uses
a custom character set rather
than the standard ROfvl char-
acter base. To do our simple
animation, we'll leave the
screen data unchanged; in-
stead, we'll modify the appear-
ance of the letter O in the char-
acter set.
To define custom charac-
ters, we must place the whole
character set somewhere in
memory. I've chosen address-
es 49152-51199 ($C000-
$C7FF) for the character de-
scriptions. We'll copy these
characters from ROtvl, so you
won't notice any difference un-
til we animate one of them, the
letter 0.
All video — screen memory,
characters, and sprites —
must come from the same
quadrant of memory in the
64, For screen memory, I se-
lected 51200-52223 ($0800-
SCBFF), You'll see the POKEs
to set all this up in the BASIC
program; when the program
ends, it puts everything back.
The program copies the
character set found in ROM at
$D000 to our chosen spot in
RAIVl at $C000. Since we must
copy 2048 bytes, Ihat's a nat-
ural job for machine language.
And ML also makes it easy to
do another trick — make the
character ROM visible.
Here's the problem that we
face: Addresses SDOOO-
SD800, where the character
ROIvJ resides, are normally the
ones used by the I/O chips,
CIAs, V!C-2, and SID. To see
the characters, v/e must make
the I/O chips disappear.
That's fairly easy. We do it by
turning off bit 2 of address 1.
But there's another catch. If
the I/O chips disappear, even
for a moment, we must not al-
low the IRQ interrupt to strike!
This interrupt normally occurs
every Veo second and does
such jobs as checking the key-
board and updating the
clock. It couldn't do its work if
the I/O chips were gone; in
fact, it wouid cause a system
crash. So we lock out the in-
terrupt with an SEI (Set Inter-
rupt Disable), kick out the I/O
chips, copy the ROM, and
then put everything back and
release the interrupt, Nothing
to it, once you know how.
You'll find the code to do
this in memory at addresses
$CC00-$CC28. If you're used
to the indirect, indexed ad-
dressing mode, there should
be no surprises there.
Now let's have some fun. In
screen PEEK and POKE
terms, the letter Ois represent-
ed by value 15. To find the
character drawing, we multi-
ply 15 by 8 (there are eight
bytes for each character}. Add-
ing the result to our character
base starting address, we
find that the letter Ois drawn
in the bytes at $C078-$C07F.
The first byte contains the pix-
els for the top of the charac-
ter; the last byte, the pixels for
the bottom.
Our objective, then, is to
roll the letter O so that it ap-
pears to be moving upward.
Each pixel line will replace the
pixel line above it, except for
the top one, which will flip to
the bottom. In memory terms,
that means each byte of the
character description moves
down one position, with the bot-
tom one moving to the top.
Machine language is too
fast, however. Pixel moves
need to be slowed to a rate of,
say, ten per second. We
achieve this slowdown by
counting video raster scans
and acting on every sixth
scan. This reduction produces
a very smooth scrolling effect
on the screen.
If you wish to use your dis-
assembler to view the code,
you'll find it at $CC29-$CC59.
The outermost loop repeats un-
til it detects that a key has
been pressed. The middle
loop does eight pixel rolls on
the O character. Two inner-
most loops are used, with one
waiting six raster scans and
the second moving the pixels.
There's an extra bonus in us-
ing the raster position as a tim-
ing control. It ensures that the
character won't be modified at
the same instant that it's being
displayed. That way, we avoid
screen jitter or teanng.
CHARZOOM
KX lafl DATA 169,208,162,192,16
3,0,132,34,132,36,133,3
5,134,37,12a
CO 110 DATA 169,51,133,1,177,3
4, 145, 36, 200,233, 249, 23
B,35, 166,37,232
DATA 224,203,208,233,16
9,55, 133,1,88,96
DATA 162,0,168,6,173,17
,208,205, 0,205, 141, a, 20
5,176,245,136
DATA 208,242,173,120,19
2,72,135,121,192,153,12
0,192,200,192,8
DATA 208,245,104,141,12
7,192,232,224,8,208,216
DATA 32,228,255,168,24 8
,21)8,96
FOR J=52224 TO 52313
BEAD X:T=T+X
POKE J,>I
NEXT J
IF T012735 THEK STOP
SSS 52224
POKE 56576,4
POKE 53272,32
POKF, 648,203
PRINT CHRS(147)
PRINT "COMPUTE MAGAZINE
FK 420 PRINT "(5 SPACES)FOR"
QK 438 PRINT "COMMOOOBE MAGICI
w
MD 448 PRINT
FP 459 PRINT "PRESS ANi KEY TO
STOPl"
SA 160 SYS 52265
FF 500 POKE 56576,7
CG 510 POKE 53272,20
MP 520 POKE 648,4 □
SO
120
OH
130
PX
140
HK
150
DK
1611
MF
209
EJ
213
BP
220
AE
230
DC
240
XC
3B0
Q[!
310
RX
320
EX
330
GH
430
AJ
410
Aitimate on
a small scale by
moving pixels
within a single
character.
DECEMBER 1992 COMPUTE G-19
FEBBACK
Questions and
answers
about justified
printing, and
an enhancement to
File Logger
Not Justified
I recently ordered the Speed-
Script disk, and I am liaving
trouble witti the right-justifica-
tion function.
I type a letter and print it to
disk with Shift-hCtrl+P, as stat-
ed in the directions. I run SS
Justified and enter the file-
name of my letter. Having as-
signed a left margin of 10 and
a right margin of 70 on the
original letter with||=10 and
11=70, I enter 10,70 at the
margin prompt as directed
and press Return. All I get on
my printout is one column of
text running down the page.
What's wrong?
LYLE PRUETT
HOLTON, KS
Your problem is with your mar-
gin settings. It's fortunate ttiat
you included a sample of
how you set them instead of
simply stating that you set the
margins to 10 and 70.
The I and r are in reverse
type since they were entered
after you pressed Ctri+3 or
Ctr!+£. You're malting a mls-
talte by including equal signs
when setting SpeedScript mar-
gins. Do not use the equal
signs when setting margins.
What you have done by using
an equal sign is to make the
L t<ey equal CHR$(10) and
the R key equal CHR$(70).
You haven't changed the mar-
gins at all, and your
SpeedScript default margins
of 5 and 75 remain in effect^
So when you tell SS Justified
that your margins are W and
70, you get the garbled out-
put.
SpeedScript Justified does
require you to set the 7 key to
CHR$(1) and the 2 key to
CHR$(2). To do that, you do
need the equal sign. To set
the margins, however omit
the equal sign. At the top of a
SpeedScript file that you plan
to print justified with a left mar-
gin of 10 and a right margin
of 70, you should have some-
thing like the following.
a=i
Dl 01170
Then be sure to put the 0
where you want yourjustifica-
tion to begin and E where
you want it to end.
File Logger Revisited
I've just finished loading and
testing Roger Bachelder's
File Logger program (June
1992) and have come up
with an enhancement that will
allow the program to handle
locked files, those that are pro-
tected from being scratctied.
They normally appear as XXX
files, and the starting address-
es are omitted. Try entering
the following line.
425IFASC(K$)>191 THEM
K=ASC(KS+CHR$(0))-
192: GOTO 440
This line may cause the pro-
gram to crash, however, if it
encounters a splat file.
Scratched files also appear
as XXX files in the original ver-
sion. If you don't want deleted
files to appear in the listing, en-
ter the following line.
375 IF K$="" THEN 520
DAVID KLICH
Mt PFiOSPECT. IL
Saving Data
How can I save data or varia-
bles to disk? BASIC'S SAVE
command doesn't work.
J. S, SAMPLE
FT PIERCE. PL
It might seem that the logical
thing to do when saving vari-
ables to disk is to use a com-
mand like SAVE •'AS".8, but
that would only save whatev-
er program was in memory un-
der the filename A$. Unfortu-
nately, variable storage is a
bit more complicated than
that, but it's very useful when
you know how to do it. For ex-
ample, if you're building a cus-
tom database, it often makes
sense to have a program for
handling the database and a
separate disk file for the actu-
al data or information itself
BASIC commands for ma-
nipulating programs don't
work with variables. For exam-
ple, once a program is In mem-
ory you can put it onto the
screen with LIST. But you
can't list a variable: you must
print it.
The SAVE command
sends a program to tape or
disk: LOAD recalls a saved
program. But SAVE and
LOAD, like LIST don't work
with variables. They're com-
mands that apply to pro-
grams only. Take a look at
this example.
10 A$ = "John Smith"
20 SAVE A$,S
When this program executes,
it saves itself to disk under
the filename John Smith! If
you load and list John Smith,
you'll see the above two lines
of code.
To save a variable, you
must open a file; print the var-
iable, number, or string to the
file with PRINT*; and then
close the file. Here are a cou-
ple of ways to do it.
10 A$="THIS IS A TEST"
20OPEN1,8,2,"TESTFlLE,S,W"
30PR!NT#1,A$
40PRINT#1,"END OF TEST"
50 CL0SE1
The first number after
OPEN in line 20 Is the logical
file number, which can be
any number from 0 to 127.
This number Is used later in
the PRINT# and CLOSE state-
ments. It's followed by a com-
ma and the device number (a
disk drive is device 8). The
third number Is the secondary
address. For disk files, the sec-
ondary address specifies the
G-20 COMPUTE DECEMBER 1992
disk channel which will be
used and which must be in
the range 2-14. The filename
is followed by ,S,W which
means it is a sequential file
and we are writing to it.
When a disk file is opened,
the drive light turns on and
stays on until the file is
closed. Be sure to close a file
when you've finished with it.
Line 30 uses PRINTff to
print the A$ variable to the
disk, and line 40 illustrates an-
other way to print a string.
Line 50 closes the file.
To reverse the process, de-
lete line 10. in line 20 change
the S, W to S.f^ because now
we want to read the sequen-
tial file rather than write to it.
Since we now want to take in-
formation (A$) from the disk, in-
stead of PRINT#1, A$ in line
30, we use INPUT#1,A$. That
loads A$ into memory, and
PRINT A$ prints it onscreen.
Since we have two strings on
disk, we have to repeat this
line to read the second one.
Here's a simple routine that
will do the job. You can make
it more sophisticated, depend-
ing on your needs.
20 OPEN1,8,2,"TESTFIL£,S,W"
30INPUT#1,AS:PRINTAS
40 INPUT#1,A$: PRINT A$
50 CL0SE1
Using INPUTS on strings
longer than 80 characters will
return a STRING TOO LONG
error. In such a case, use
GET# instead, it lets you
read sequential files a charac-
ter at a time. Use a FOR-
NEXT loop or GOTO state-
ment to read the entire file.
File Types
Can you explain the different
file types I see whenever I list
a disk directory?
TOM GAYNOR
HYDE PARK. NY
The 64's Disk Operating Sys-
tem (DOS) provides for five
types of disk files: program
files, sequential files, user
files, relative files, and delet-
ed files. On a directory they
usually appear as PRG, SEQ,
USR, and REL DEL is a delet-
ed file, but it does not appear
on a normal directory listing.
When you save a program,
your computer has to read
through program memory
and send information through
the cable to the disk drive.
The drive could put the pro-
gram anywhere on the disk,
but you wouldn't want it to
overwrite other programs or
files. So DOS has to keep
track of where the programs
or other files are. it puts the
name of the file into the disk di-
rectory, marks it as a pro-
gram, looks at the Block Allo-
cation Map (BAIVI) to find
some free space on the disk,
and then saves the program.
A program file (PRG) is
Just what the name implies.
It's information that was
saved as a program. In most
cases it contains a BASIC or
machine language program.
It might contain a section of
memory that's been trans-
ferred to disk using BASIC'S
SAVE routine. SpeedScript,
for example, saves its text to
disk as PRG flies. To get the
program back into the comput-
er, you use the LOAD com-
mand. LOAD works only on
PRG files.
A sequential file (SEQ) is
most often used for storing in-
formation such as mailing
lists, inventories, etc. Instead
of SAVE, you use OPEN.
PRINTS, and CLOSE to write
to the file. To read it, use
OPEN, INPUT# or GET#, and
CLOSE. Information in such
files is accessed sequentially
starting from the first entry in
the file. So to get to item num-
ber 319 in a sequential file,
you must read through the
318 prior entries.
Relative files (REL) are also
used to store information.
They're trickier to work with,
but they can save a lot of
lime when you're working
with many files. Such files are
accessed with the OPEN com-
mand, but the data records
are numbered. So before you
read in the data, you have to
position a pointer. This lets
you home in on the desired re-
cord. To reach record num-
ber 319, for example, you
just set the pointer to 319,
and the disk drive goes
straight to that record, rather
than searching though all of
the previous records. Relative
files are faster than sequential
files for individual records and
don't require much of the com-
puter's memory because the
entire file isn 't read in.
USR files have a special-
ized purpose, and you'll rare-
ly see them used outside of
GEOS disks. You can open
and write to them as if they
were sequential files (replac-
ing the S for sequential with a
U for user). Since the VALI-
DATE command scratches ran-
dom files, some programmers
will create dummy USR files
to protect data written to
disk. There's also a machine
language technique for writ-
ing PRG files to USR flies.
A deleted file (DEL) is one
which no longer exists in the di-
rectory and has no blocks re-
served for it in BAM. When
you scratch a program or file
from the disk, it's not actually
erased. The directory entry is
marked as a deleted file, and
the 6/\M is updated, freeing
the space allocated by the pro-
gram. The file still exists on the
disk until you save or write
new information to the blocks
occupied by that file. By using
a disk editor, you can change
the byte in the directory which
indicates a deleted file to its
original value. Now validate the
disk with OPEN 15,8, 15:
PRINT§15. "VO": CL0SE15 to
update the BAM and restore
the deleted file. O
Problems with
saving variables to
disk, and an
explanation of
file types
DECEMBER 1992 COMPUTE G-21
GEOS
Steve Vander Ark
The uttimate GEOS
hardware that I
selected last month
now needs the
ultimate in GEOS
software.
ULTIMATE GEOS
(PART 2)
In last month's colunnn I put to-
gether what I consider to be
the ultimate GEOS hardware
configuration. If you'll recall, it
consisted of a flat 128 with the
following: a 1571, a CMD FD-
4000 high-density 3y2-inch
drive, a RAfvlLink loaded with
a brain-numbing 16 megs of
memory, a CMD 200-meg
hard drive, two monitors, and
a mouse. I figured 1 wouldn't
need the 64K video RAM that
you get with the 128[D, since
no GEOS program that I knew
of made use of it. At the time
I made that list, I wasn't sure
how I was going to access
four drives from GEOS.
Since then. New Horizon
Software has released its Land-
mark Series disk. As a result,
I've had to add the extra vid-
eo RAM since several excel-
lent programs on that disk re-
quire it. Landmark Series also
presents a possible solution to
my four-drive problem with Du-
alTop. a file manager program
to replace the deskTop.
Great as this may be, that so-
lution only compounds the dif-
ficulties in selecting software
for my ultimate GEOS system,
which is what I'll do this
month. Before I get into that,
however, I'll state the obvious
and note that we'll be using
the 128 GEOS version 2.0.
That part is easy. Now
comes the hard part: selecting
the fiie manager software.
Why not stick with the desk-
Top'' After all, it's probably the
best-known file manager.
With the GEOS utilities now
available from Creative Micro
Designs, the deskTop can han-
dle the various CMD devices
that we want to plug into our
system. I am sorely tempted to
stick with the deskTop, since
I'm so familiar with it. But the
deskTop can only access
CMD devices like RAMLink in
1581-si2ed chunks, and I'm
planning to set up a larger na-
tive mode partition rather than
chop up tfiat 16 megs. (When
I create a bunch of partitions,
I always end up placing a lot
of duplicate files in each parti-
tion, which really wastes
space.) On top of that, the
deskTop drivers can only ac-
cess the FD-4000 super drive
as 1581 partitions. No, for all
its ease of use and cute little
icons, the deskTop simply isn't
powerful enough to handle the
high-tech equipment in our ul-
timate GEOS system.
So what about DualTop
3.0? It can certainly handle
CMD RAM devices, and as I
mentioned, it lets you access
up to four disk drives. The
unique display, showing the
directories of two drives simul-
taneously, is a nice touch, and
no file manager software for
GEOS can match its speed,
especially as it scrolls through
a directory.
I realize that icon fans de-
cry the trend away from pic-
tures toward simple lists of file-
names, but frani<ly, you waste
a lot of time waiting for the desk-
Top to draw its little pictures.
With DualTop. you can scroll
through the alphabetical list of
names almost faster than you
can read them. DualTop also
features a RAM dhve priority
system. This means that when-
ever you double-click on a file
or document to open it, the sys-
tem first checks the RAM
drives or drives for the appli-
cation, regardless of where
the document is stored, since
applications run much faster
from the RAM drive.
As to its look and feel, Du-
alTop loses a little ground
when we compare it to the
deskTop or to Gateway,
which we'll talk about in a mo-
ment. The screen is a bit busy
with the two directories show-
ing (a nice feature, but one I
seldom need), and operation
isn't as intuitive as it is with the
deskTop, even with the file op-
eration buttons constantly dis-
played. And DualTop, like the
deskTop, sees RAM devices
as drive-emulating partitions
only. Even so. DualTop's four-
drive support and its RAM
drive priority system make it a
very strong contender.
Gateway fully supports
CMD RAM devices in either
drive-emulating or native
mode, Drivers written for Gate-
way allow it to access the FD-
4000 drive the way it's sup-
posed to be accessed, as a
3.2-meg wonder, not as two or
more 1581 drives. Until recent-
ly, however, I wouldn't have
iDeen able to recommend Gate-
way because of the number of
bugs still plaguing it, but the
program has been reworked
by Jim Collette, and it's now
bug-free. Gateway has always
been intuitive and a joy to
use — except when one of
those notorious bugs jumped
out at you. Now that it's safe,
Gateway might just be the
way to go. Unfortunately, Gate-
way won't support four drives,
a very big minus for my ulti-
mate system.
Another contender is
geoShell, the DOS-style com-
mand line interface for GEOS.
GeoShell will access four
drives, but again only as 1581
partitions. And when it comes
to look and feel, well, what can
1 say? GeoShell isn't a graph-
ics interface at ail, and this is
GEOS, after all.
Do you start to see the prob-
lems I had picking this soft-
ware? I figured I'd just rattle off
a few names and be done
with it. So where do I turn? I
suppose the only way to go is
Gateway, since handling
three drives completely is bet-
ter than incompletely handling
four. That leaves us with a few
more decisions to make, but
I've run out of room this
month, I guess this ultimate
GEOS series will skip along for
yet another issue. □
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2 MEG model has capacity of TEN 1541's
Includes GEOS application to select one of
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Reboots GEOS from BBG Ram quickly and quietly
Supplied with waii mount power supply and
battery cable and holder
Automatically detects power out and switches
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Activity light indicates access
Battery used only when wail mount AC power
supply off
Battery Back-up
Interface
Module for
Commodore
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Battery low voltage indicator
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GEOS compatible, allows reboot to GEOS
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BBU supplies power to 17xx REU's and GEORAM.
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PROGRAMMER'S PAGE
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TO FILL A CELL
Warning!
The sun may bum
out before
this program comes
to an end.
G-24
Consider the character — a sim-
ple 8 x 8 cell. It's the basic
building block of almost any
64 or 128 screen.
Being somewhat unoccu-
pied, I, while pondering the gra-
phical magnitude of the unas-
suming character, wrote the
following 64 program. Believe
it or not, this program gener-
ates every possible character
that can be created in an 8 x
8 cell, and it does so without
any human assistance.
The inner workings of this
program are really quite sim-
ple. Considering that a charac-
ter is defined by the values
stored in eight consecutive
bytes, a character definition
can be treated as one large 64-
bit (eight-byte) number. So to
generate every possible char-
acter, you simply start at
$0000000000000000 and
count up by 1 . By the time you
reach SFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF,
the 64 will have calculated
and displayed every possible
character.
With a program such as
this, you don't need to be ar-
tistic. Whenever you want an
impressive Gothic font or cool
alien shape, just run this pro-
gram and sit around until you
see the image you like best.
Let the computer do the work.
Simple, right?
Wrong!
To be honest, this program
is absolutely ludicrous. While
SFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF may
look like a fairly manageable
number in hexadecimal, con-
sider its phenomenal base-
ten representation. It equals
18.446,744,073,709,551,616.
(I don't even know how to pro-
nounce this number.) Don't try
converting this number on
your home calculator, folks. It
won't work. In fact, I had to
hand-calculate this number,
so please forgive me if you dis-
cover any misplaced digits.
Silly as it is, I found my char-
COMPUTE DECEMBER 1992
acter-generating program to
be quite intriguing. It makes
one think: Shouldn't a comput-
er be able to effortlessly com-
pute and display every possi-
ble Commodore 64 charac-
ter— a small graphic blob con-
fined within a simple 8x8
grid? The fact is that it can't.
Computers are fast, but
they're simply not up to the
task of computing every pos-
sible character, no matter how
small and insignificant a char-
acter cell might appear. First
of all, the maximum speed at
which the computer can
switch between displaying
one character and another is
approximately Veo of a sec-
ond. That's the scan rate of
your TV and most computer
monitors, unless you live in the
U.K., where scan rates are on-
ly 50 frames per second, Even
if your monitor could handle
faster screen updates, your
eyes couldn't. So due to both
human and computer limita-
tions, the best your 64 or 128
(or any other computer, for
that matter) can hope to dis-
play is 60 different characters
in a second.
So how long would it take?
Since an eight-byte number is
practically unfathomable, let's
cut the size of the character in
half for illustration purposes.
For example, let's make the
character half as tall (8 x 4) so
that the character definition is
only four bytes in size. (This
much more than halves the
number of possible charac-
ters since a four-byte number
can hold a value only
V'i.294.967.296 as large as an
eight-byte number.
A four-byte number can
hold a value between
$00000000 and SFFFFFFFF.
This works out to be
4,294,967,296 different charac-
ter patterns. At 60 characters
per second, it would take over
two years for the computer to
finish displaying all possible 8
X 4 characters. That means
that with an 8 X 8 character,
it would take over two years be-
fore any pixels in the top half
of the cfiaracter would even be-
gin to change.
If you understand binary
numbering, it's easier to under-
stand the order in which my
program cycles through each
character definition. Each pix-
el is being treated as a sepa-
rate bit in an ever-increasing
binary number. Observe the
program in progress, and
you'll see the pattern. The low-
est byte affects the charac-
ter's lowest line of pixels while
the least significant bit of
each byte affects the charac-
ter's rightmost pixels. As a re-
sult, pixels are twiddled (for
lack of a better word) in right-
to-ieft, bottom-to-top order.
While the program runs,
see if you can locate the pixel
situated in the character's
third row, second column.
Gloomy as it may sound, you
will die before this pixel
comes to life. See the first pix-
el sitting on the top line? The
sun will burn out about the
time this sucker lights up.
Mind-boggling, isn't it?
So what's the final result?
To complete the entire set of
8x8 characters, it would
take 9,749,040,289 years. In
words, that's nine billion, sev-
en hundred forty-nine million,
forty thousand, two hundred
eighty-nine years. That's give
or take 90 days or so.
Now, consider the sprite ... I
EB 108 POKE 53280, BrPOKE 532B1
,B:PRINT "icLRl"
BR 119 FOR I-1228a TO 12295:P0
KE I,0:POKE I+40,0:NEXT
KG 12fl FOR 1-828 TO 854:READ □
:POKE I,n:C=C+D:NEXT
DX 130 IF C<>3ma THEN PRINT "
ERROR IN DATA STATEMENT
S":END
CD 14B POKE 53272, (PEEK(53272)
AND 240) OR 12:P0KE 15
23,B:POKE 55795, 13:SYS
{SPACE(82a
BE 150 DATA 162,7,173,17,208,4
8,251,173
BH 160 DATA 17,208,16,251,189,
0,48,024
RX 170 DATA 105,1,157,0,048,20
8,233,202
DE 180 DATA 16,24 2,96 pi
PROGRAMS
DEMON
By Vaughan Bardell
Just as you were ready to pull your hair
out in frustration, here is the ultimate in
disk monitors to ease the pain. If ever
there was a tool for delving into files, this
is it.
Def\/10N is an enhanced disk monitor
for the 64 that fills the gap between a
memory resident and a cartridge-based
monitor. It enables the user to view and
edit files on disk using powerful com-
mands, without directly loading the file in-
to memory.
The main advantage of a disk monitor
is its ability to view a large file on disk with-
out the need to load it into memory This
overcomes the problem encountered
when the file takes up most of the mem-
ory, leaving little, if any, for the monitor
To get the most out of DeMON, an un-
derstanding of Commodore 64 assembly
language and experience with machine
language monitors is necessary Novic-
es can use it to view text in a file, among
other features.
Typmg in DeMOH
DeMON is a large program written en-
tirely in machine language. To enter it,
use MLX, our machine language entry
program. See "Typing Aids" elsewhere
in this section. When fvlLX prompts, re-
spond with the following.
Starting address: BODQ
Ending address: 9967
When you've finished typing, save sev-
eral copies to disk before leaving MLX.
Using DeMON
Load DeMON with ,8,1 and then press
the Restore key. The screen will turn
dark blue, and a startup message will
appear, After exiting DeMON the Re-
store key can be used to restart the pro-
gram as long as it hasn't been overwrit-
ten by another program.
Restore also returns you to the com-
mand entry mode. This can be used in
the event of a crash or to stop the
Load or Hunt operations. Many of the
commands are exited simply by using
the Run/Stop key.
Use the space bar to pause listings.
Press it again to let the listing continue.
On some commands other features
can be accessed while the listing is
paused.
All addresses in DeMON are hexa-
decimal. No dollar sign is required be-
fore hex values. If one is included, an
error will result. Track and sector num-
bers, however, are in decimal and are
expected to be entered in decimal.
The ending address of a file using De-
MON is the last byte of a file, not the
ending address plus 1 as is common
with many monitors. This is important
since some commands list the ending
address of a file.
If you call a file that isn't on the cur-
rent disk, you'll get an error message.
Insert the correct disk and press Re-
turn again to continue.
The Commands
When DeMON is in command entry
mode, you'll see a line prompt (>) and
a flashing cursor The commands are
represented by a one- or two-letter ab-
breviation, followed by appropriate par-
ameters. Below is a description fol-
lowed by a summary of all the 13 main
DeMON commands.
Load (L). To set up a file for use with De-
MON, you must first load it. The load
command constructs a table of the
link track and sectors in memory. A
file in the directory can be loaded, or
the starting track and sector of a file
can be entered. DeMON will load the
file starting at that track and sector.
Please note that if the latter option is
used, then the first two bytes of the sec-
tor are expected to be the link track
and sector, and the next two, the start-
ing address of the file.
To load a file, type L with the file-
name in quotes (/."filename"). As with
a normal load from the disk drive, all
forms of pattern matching are accept-
able. The .8 isn't required,
To load a file using the starting
track and sector, type the load com-
mand followed by a comma, the track,
another comma, and then the sector.
For example, L,19,5 will load a file start-
ing at track 19, sector 5.
After loading, the file's starting and
ending addresses will be displayed.
Find address (FA). This command is
very handy for finding the position of a
specified address from the current file
on the disk. The command will list the
track, sector, and position in the sector
of an address in the file. The command
is followed with an address that is be-
tween the starting and ending address-
es of the current file, inclusive — for ex-
ample, FA 6F01.
Relocate (RL). If the load address of
the current file needs to be changed,
use the relocate command. Follow the
command with the new starting ad-
dress. This command also clears the
current offset. More about that later.
Offset (OF). The offset command is sim-
ilar to relocate but allows more flexibil-
ity with the changing of addresses. It al-
lows an offset to be set which is added
to the addresses in the file. This is par-
ticularly helpful when the file moves
part of itself once in memory After us-
ing offset, any JMPs or JSRs to the
transferred portion can be viewed.
The offset command is followed by
the new address, an equal sign, and
then the old address. The new address
now equals the old address — for exam-
ple, OF 2000=0900.
The command Is like a soft relocate
since the offset can be cleared by en-
tering OF without the addresses.
List address (LA). The list address com-
mand is used for listing the starting
and ending addresses of the current
file. It can also calculate new starting
and ending addresses from an input
starting or ending address for the file.
It doesn't change addresses.
Type the command without parame-
ters to list the starting and ending ad-
dresses of the current file. If an ad-
dress is included after the command,
then the ending address of the current
file, if it were to be loaded at this ad-
dress, would be calculated and print-
ed along with the starting address.
If a comma precedes the input ad-
dress, then this address will be interpret-
ed as the ending address. The starting
address, if the file ends at this ad-
dress, will be calculated and phnted.
Exit DeMON (X). Use this command to
exit DeMON back to BASIC. A BASIC
program can be typed in without fear
of its oven/vriting DeMON since the end
of the BASIC storage area is moved
DECEMBER 1992 COMPUTE G-25
PROGRAMS
down in memory. Be sure to type NEW
before entering a BASIC program.
Disassemble (D). Disassemble is one
of the major commands and is thie
crux of DefVlON, It is different from
most monitors but fias features tfiat al-
low flexible disassembly of machitne lan-
guage programs.
Two modes are accessible in disas-
semble. Thiese are interrupted and con-
tinuous modes. In continuous mode,
tfie file is listed on tfie screen, like list-
ing a BASIC program. Thie screen
scrolls up as more data is printed.
Press the space bar to halt the listing.
In interrupted mode, the file listing is
printed page by page. At the end of
each page DeMON waits for keyboard
input from the user. The space bar will
continue disassemble with the next
page. Other keys can be pressed at
this stage to access other advanced
features.
One advantage of interrupted mode
is that at the end of the file, the mes-
sage THE END will be printed. Other
features can then be used to jump else-
where in the file instead of ending dis-
assemble by pressing the space bar.
f\/lore features will be detailed later.
The disassemble mode can be tog-
gled while the listing is paused, either
in interrupted or continuous mode, by
pressing fS.
If only D is entered, disassemble
commences at the beginning of the
file. If an address follows the com-
mand, then disassemble starts at that
address, fvlodes can be preset by in-
cluding the suffix ,C for continuous
mode or ,1 for interrupted mode. When
started, DeMON is in interrupted
mode.
The screen display in disassemble
consists of the memory address, the as-
sembly language code (followed by
the bytes of that command), the ASCII,
and then the screen code representa-
tions of these bytes. The screen
codes are the characters that would ap-
pear if these bytes were placed direct-
ly into screen memory.
To exit disassemble, press Run/
Stop. This returns you to command en-
try mode. Before examining the other
features available with disassemble,
let's take a iook at the rest of DefvlON's
primary commands.
G-26 COMPUTE DECEMBER 1992
Interrogate (I). Interrogate is used to
view simultaneously the hex bytes in
the file and their ASCII/screen code rep-
resentations. The display scrolls up-
ward as data is printed. On the far left
is the address of the first byte on that
line. Eight hex bytes follow and then
their representations are shown.
These are preceded by an apostro-
phe. Place ,S after the address to
view screen codes; omit the suffix for
normal ASCil display. During viewing,
the mode can be toggled by using the
f3 key once the listing is paused.
The f4 key toggles between interro-
gate and disassemble. It can be used
with text list, interrogate, or disassem-
ble in interrupted or continuous mode
while the listing is paused. Like the dis-
assemble command, the interrogate
command can be used with the default
address function if no address is en-
tered—for example, I; I 5000; I 5000,S;
or 1,3.
Text list (XL). This command rapidly
scans a file for any text or messages.
It will simultaneously print the ASCII
and screen code of the bytes in the
file in two columns, with ASCII on the
left and screen codes on the right. A
black hyphen separates the two col-
umns. To use the command, either en-
ter an address after the command or
leave it blank for the default starting ad-
dress.
To toggle between text list and inter-
rogate, press f1 while the listing is
paused. Run/Stop will exit the text list.
Change (0). Use this command to al-
ter bytes in a file. It allows character
strings, byte strings, and assembly
code to be entered anywhere in a file,
The entry must, however, fit in the file.
It cannot extend beyond the end of the
file.
The entry is performed line by line. A
period (.) at the start of the line indi-
cates that DeMON expects the next
change-line entry. At the beginning of
a line is the address at which the
bytes in that line will be stored. This ad-
dress can be anywhere in the file, and
entries don't have to be in ascending
address order.
After the address comes the actual
data that is to be stored in the file, On-
ly one type of entry can be on any sin-
gle line. The first character distinguish-
es what type of entry it is: assembly,
string, byte, or no entry.
To enter assembly language, no
such character is required. Just simply
type in a valid assembly statement, mak-
ing sure any branches are in range,
and press Return. When entering LSR,
ASL, ROL or ROR commands that use
the accumulator addressing mode, no
A needs to follow the command. All
hex numbers must be preceded by a
dollar sign when typing in an assembly
line. No other number base can be
used to enter numbers. No spaces be-
tween the command and the address-
ing mode code are needed.
Here are some examples.
.5000 LDA$7OO0,X
.1209 BNE$1250
.31 FF LDY#$91
.49F0 "Mary had a little lamb."
To enter a character string on a line, en-
close the string in double quotes. Spac-
es inside quotes will be recognized.
A byte string may be entered by pre-
ceding the 8-bit hex numbers with a co-
lon. Spaces between the bytes are not
necessary, but they make the entry eas-
ier to read.
.FOOD :01 FF 41 ZO 50 49 47
To finish the entry, press Return on a
blank line. DeMON will then ask you to
confirm that you want the changes
sent to disk. If you do, press Y and Re-
turn. If not, press N or just Return.
When you press Return at the end of a
data entry line, DeMON checks the
line, enters it into memory, and then
prints the address that follows the last
byte in the previous line. You can edit
this address if you like.
DeMON stores the entered changes
in RAM under BASIC ROM at SAOOO. It
doesn't limit the number of bytes to
change, but it does limit the number of
lines to be changed at one time to 255.
Hunt (H). This command enables you
to search the file for a character or
byte string. Follow the hunt command
with a character string enclosed in dou-
ble quotes or a byte sthng. Follow this
with the optional parameters for setting
the search block. To hunt from a spe-
cific address to the end of a tile, in-
clude a comma and the address after
the string. To hunt from the beginning
of a file to a certain address, include
two commas and the address after the
string. Finally, to hunt between two ad-
dresses in a file, follow the string with
a comma, the hunt starting address,
another comma, and the hunt ending
address. At the end of the hunt, De-
MON will output all the addresses at
which the string was found.
The hunt command is reasonably
fast, hunting through a 200-block file in
less than 25 seconds. DeMON will
stop after it locates the first 127 finds.
If this happens, BUFFER FULL will ap-
pear on the screen. To search the rest
of the file, simply specify the last ad-
dress found as the starting address for
the next hunt.
Here are some examples.
H "food"
H 01 02 03 20
H "great", 2300 (Search from $2300 to
end of file.)
H FF DO 00, ,1000 (Search from start of
file to $1000.)
H "bafi", 2000, 4000 {Search between
$2000 and $4000.)
Directory ($). Entering this character
and pressing Return loads the directo-
ry of the disk in the drive. The listing
can be paused, as with other listings,
by pressing the space bar. Run/Stop ex-
its the listing.
Pattern matching is supported with
the directory listing so only files match-
ing the pattern entered will be dis-
played. Follow the dollar sign with a co-
lon and the pattern, such as $:FAD*.
Disk drive status (@). This command
allows you to read the disk drive error
channel for an error that may have
occurred.
Disk command (@). To send a disk
command, precede it with the at sym-
bol (@). No quotes are needed — for ex-
ample, @ R:RAISIN=SULTANA.
Command Summary
Here is a summary of DeMon's 13
main commands.
Load (L). Load a file.
Find address (FA). List track, sector,
and position of an address in a file.
Relocate (RL). Set new starting ad-
dress for a file.
Offset (OF). Set an offset which is add-
ed to absolute addresses output.
List address (LA). List starting and end-
ing addresses of a file.
Exit (X). Exit DefvlON.
Disassemble (D). Disassemble code
from a file.
Interrogate (I). Examine bytes in a file.
Text list (TL). List text found in a fiie.
Change (C) Change data in a file.
Hunt (H). Hunt through a file for a spec-
ified character or byte string.
Directory ($). Display disk directory.
Drive status or disk command (@).
Other Disassemble Features
When the disassemble display is
paused in the interrupted mode, f5 and
f1 can be used to access two ad-
vanced commands that expand the ver-
satility of DervSON. Jump investigation
enables a JSR or Jf\/1P command or
any manually entered address to be in-
vestigated.
When f5 is pressed, Def\/ION
checks to see if there are any jumps
on the screen that are in range of the
file. If so, DefvlON highlights the first of
these valid jumps on the screen. The
cursor up/down key can be used to
move the highlight line onto another
jump. To jump to the highlighted
jump, press the space bar.
If there are no jumps, or none in
range on the screen, then DeMON re-
places the top line of the screen with
an address entry line where an ad-
dress can be entered manually. If the
address entered is not in range, then
DefvlON will continue disassemble on
the following page.
If there are any valid jumps on the
screen, subsequent presses of f5 will
toggle between manual entry and
jump selection. If you press Run/Stop
to exit jump investigation mode, De-
MON will continue with the next page
of disassemble.
When investigating a jump, other
jumps can be accessed by the same
method. To return to where the jump
originated, press the Return key. With
nested jumps, each press of the Re-
turn key will return you to the previous
jump command until the first jump is
reached.
To clear the return addresses for
jumps that have taken place, press f6.
The screen will flash yellow, indicating
that the table has been cleared. This
command will also clear the Backward-
Jump table. (See below.)
Pressing Shift/Return returns you to
either the start of disassemble, the
last place where f6 was pressed, or
where the disassemble mode was
changed from continuous to interrupt-
ed mode.
Back Screen. When in the interrupted
mode, disassemble can either proceed
or move backward. Press f1 to move
backward at the end of the page, and
DeMON will display the previous
page. The listing will stop at the begin-
ning of disassemble, at the point
where the disassemble mode was
changed from continuous to interrupt-
ed, at the beginning of a jump investi-
gation section, or at the point where f6
was pressed.
Back Screen ailows easy access to
previous screens, enabling the user to
go back and check the disassembly af-
ter looking forward in the file.
Special Key Summary
Here is a summary of DeMon's various
key commands.
f1. In disassemble, used to jump back
in the listing. In interrogate or text list,
f1 toggles between these two displays.
f3. In interrogate, used to toggle be-
tween ASCII and screen code represen-
tation of data.
f4. In disassemble, text list, or interro-
gate, used to toggle between interro-
gate and disassemble display.
f5. In interrupted mode disassemble,
DECEMBER 1992 COMPUTE G-27
PROGRAMS
used to enier a jump investigation ad-
dress {manually or automatically) and
look at the code referred to by a JMP,
JSR, or any other code in the file.
f6. In interrupted mode disassemble,
used to clear ttie current Back Screen
table and thie Jump Investigation table,
making the current screen the first
screen. This is as if disassemble start-
ed at tfiis address. Using f1 displays
back screens only up to this screen.
f8. In disassemble tfiis is used to tog-
gle the current disassemble mode be-
tween interrupted and continuous.
Space. Used to pause listings to the
screen. In the jump investigation, auto-
matic-jump selection, it is used to
jump to a JSR or JMP. In interrupted dis-
assemble mode, it will display the next
screen of the listing.
Return. Used to return from a jump in-
vestigation to the previous address.
Shift/Return. Returns to the first ad-
dress in the Jump Investigation table
when disassemble is in the interrupted
mode.
Run/Stop. Exits most commands and
functions.
Restore. When in DelVlON, tfiis will re-
turn you to command entry mode. It is
particularly handy when you're hunting
or loading if you need to exit partway
through. Exiting from a Scad, however,
will leave the File table and variables
corrupted. Use the load command to
load another file.
Mastering DeMON
As you continue to use DelVION, you
will get better at using the commands
and viewing and changing files, and
you will be able to get tfie most out of
it and realize its true potential. Howev-
er, this may take a while, but practice
makes perfect! fvlany happy hours of
hunting through files.
DEMON
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8003:30 A9 06 8D 20 D0 8D 21 A5
8010:D0 A2 18 86 D6 20 D7 AA IF
8018:CA 10 FA A9 D5 8D 18 03 94
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Vaughan Bardell said he had other fea-
tures planned for DeMON, but space
limitations prevented their inclusion. He
lives in Hastings, New Zealand.
GEOS TEXT SCRAP
MAKER
By Charles Kunz
Have you ever wanted to convert a
SpeedScript document to geoWrite for-
mat? I can't tetl you how many times I've
wanted to do this. Gazette published
geoWrite Converter (April 1990), but it on-
ly converts geoWrite documents to
SpeedScript or ASCII. I needed some-
thing that would convert the other way
around. Enter GEOS Text Scrap Maker.
I am the proud owner of geoWrite 1.1
and GEOS 1 .2. (That's no typo folks; I've
owned it since [December 1986.) Proba-
bly many of you also have this early ver-
sion of GEOS and are aware that it pro-
vides no utility for such conversions.
G-32 COMPUTE DECEMBER 1992
GEOS Text Scrap Maker runs like (and
has many of its routines modified from)
the Print Shop To GEOS converter (April
1987 Gazette).
Entering the Program
GEOS Text Scrap fvlaker is written en-
tirely in BASIC. To help avoid typing er-
rors, enter it with The Automatic Proof-
reader; see "Typing Aids" elsewhere in
this section. Before exiting Proofreader,
be sure to save a copy of the program
to disk. I like to keep Scrap Maker on
my GEOS work disk with geoWrite and
my geoWrite documents.
Scrap Maker writes to disk, so
make sure it has been entered proper-
ly before you use it with important
files. A syntax error could be fatal to
your precious files. Caution: Scrap Mak-
er creates a temporary file called S on
your GEOS work disk. So if you already
have a file on the disk with that name,
be sure to rename it.
Converting
Before using Scrap Maker, make sure
there's a Text Scrap fite on your work
disk; otherwise the conversion will not
be complete. Create a Text Scrap if
you don't have one. To do this, double-
click the geoWrite icon and then cut or
copy any text from a geoWrite file.
Once you have a Text Scrap on disk,
you can use Scrap Maker.
Load and run Scrap Maker as you
would any BASIC program. If you are
within the GEOS environment, just dou-
ble-click on the Scrap Maker icon.
Scrap Maker first asks you to insert
the disk that contains the file that you
want to convert and then asks for the
conversion type you want to execute.
You have three conversion options:
SpeedScript to GEOS, Commodore AS-
CII to GEOS, and true ASCII to GEOS.
Next, Scrap Maker requests the name
of the file to be converted. If the file is
too large — the maximum size is about
6K — you1l get an overflow error, and
Scrap Maker will restart.
After the file loads, Scrap Maker
translates the file in memory, reporting
on the status as it converts and on how
large the text will be. Scrap Maker
then asks for a GEOS work disk (the
one with the Text Scrap already on it),
and it writes the new Text Scrap on it.
Finally, Scrap Maker requests the
GEOS master or boot disk. After
GEOS boots up, you can paste the
new Text Scrap into a Text Album or
geoWrite file. The text you just pasted
will be in the BSW font, so if you want
a different font, make the change with-
in geoWrite.
Helpful Hints
Since Scrap Maker can convert only
6K at a time, large documents will
have to be broken down and saved as
smaller ones. Convert each of these
small documents one at a time, and af-
ter each conversion, paste the docu-
ment into a geoWrite file. After all the
conversions have been done, the end
product will be in one geoWhte file.
Scrap Maker is written entirely in BA-
SIC, so it is quite easy to modify. I
have assumed that Commodore ASCII
files and true ASCII files will be SEQ
files, which covers most cases. You
can change this to suit your needs if
you have true ASCII files saved as
PRG files. You can also add conver-
sion options if you like, such as convert-
ing PaperClip III files,
Compatibility
I have tested this program with GEOS
1.2 and geoWrite 1.1. This is the only
version of geoWrite available to me. Ex-
periment with whatever version you
have, but be sure to back up your
disk just in case something goes awry.
SCRAP MAKER
EE 5 REM COPYRIGHT 1992 COHPUT
E PUBLICATIONS INTL LTD -
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
PG 10 POKE52,32:POKE56,32:CLR:
PRINT" (CLR}<7KN){H)"; :P
OKE532ei,6:P0KE5328a,I4:
AD=8192
KJ 20 HDS="{CLR}{RVS} GEOS TEX
T SCRAP MAKER (FILE CONV
ERTER) ":MC=6000
QJ 30 PRINTHDS
DR 40 GOTO200
bh 50 rem search dir for
{space}track and sector
SD 60 FF=0:print#15,"U1:2 0"+S
tr$(t)+str5(S)
SS 70 GET*2,A$:TN=ASC(A$+CHR$ (
0) ) :GET#2,AS:Sa=ASC(AS+C
HRS(0))
DC 80 FORN=0TO7:PRINT#15,"B-P:
2," + STRS (32*N + 2)
RQ 90 GET#2,AS:IFA$<>CHR$(131)
THEN160
RP 100 GET#2,A$:TP=ASC(A$+CHR$
GB
110
SD
120
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MQ
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ER
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160
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EP 330
QK 390
BJ 400
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HG 420
PF 430
5R 440
FM 450
(0)) :GET#2,A$:SP=ftSC(AS
+CHR$ (0)) :HS=""
GET#2,AS:IFA$<>CHRS (160
)THENH$=HS+A$:GOTO110
IFH$<>DlSTHEm60
FF=1:KP=N:N=7
PRINT#15,"B-P:2,"+STR$(
32*KP+30)
GET#2 , A? : SL=ASC {A$+CHR$
(0) ) :GET#2,A$:SH=ASC(A$
+CHR5 (0) )
NEXT:IFTN=0THENRETURS
IFFF=1THENRETUR«
T=TN:S=SN:GOTO60
REM REQUEST FOR CO
NVERSION TYPE
PRINT"{DOWN}l_NSERT DISK
WITH FILE TO BE CONVER
TED."
PRINT" CD0WN}SELECT CONV
ERSION: {DOWNT"
PRINT" 1) SPEEDSCRIPT T
0 GEOS"
PRINT" 2) COMMODORE flSC
II_ TO GEOS"
PRINT" 3) TRUE ASCII TO
GEOS {4 UpT"
GETZS: IF2S<"l"ORZ5>"3"T
HEN250
IFZ$="1"THENX$=",P,R"
IFZ$="2"THENX$=",S,R"
IFZ$="3"THENX5=",S,R"
F0RN=1T0VAL(Z$) :PRINT:N
EXT:PRINT"*"; :FORN=1T04
-VAL{ZS) :PRINT:NEXT
REM READ FILE INTO
MEMORY
N$="" : INPCIT"{D0WN}FILEN
AHE";N$:IFNS=""THEN310
OPEN15,8,15:OPEN8,8,0,N
S+X5:INPUT#15,EN,EB$,ET
,E5
IFEN<>0THENCLOSE8:CLOSE
15 : PRINT" {DOWN} ";EB5:N$
="":GOTO210
PRINTHDS: PRINT" {DOWNlLO
ADING {CYN}";NS
POKE185,0:POKE780,0:POK
E781,0:POKE78 2,32:SYS65
493:CLOSE8:CLaSE15:SI=0
EA=PEEK(7ai)+PEEK(782)*
256 : IF (EA-AD) >MCTHEN970
PRINT"{D0WN}{7}£LEASE W
AIT, TRANSLATING": PRINT
"{CYN)";N$;"<7> ...
(DOWN)"
PRINT" 0%[3 SPACES }COMP
LETE { UP ) " : F0RN=ADT0EA-1
:C=PEEK{N) :ONVAL{Z$)GOT
0390,470,520
IFC=0THENC=64:GOTO520
IFC>=lANDC<=26THENC=C+9
6:GOTO520
IFC=27THENC=91:GOTO520
IFC=29THENC=93:GOTO520
IFC = 30THENC = 94: GOTO 520
IFC = 31THENC = 13: GOTO 52 0
IF (C>=32ANDC<=63)OR (C>=
65ANDC<=90)THEN520
QA 460 GOTO530:REM SPEEDSCRIPT
CONTROL CODES CAN'T TR
ANSLATE
AQ 470 IFC=130R{C>=32ANDC<=64)
OR {C>=91ANDC< = 95)THEN52
0
CS 480 IFC>=65ANDC<=90THENC=C+
32:GOTO520
RD 490 IFC>=97ANDC<=122THENC=C
-32:GOTO520
HJ 500 IFC>=193ANDC<=213THENC=
C-128:GOTO520
RD 510 GOTO530:REH WEIRD COMMO
DORE ASCir CAN'T TRRNSL
ATE
AP 520 P0KEAD+SI,C:SI=SI+1
KJ 530 PRINTINT (CN-AD)/(EA-1-A
D)*100) "{LEFT} I {UP}" :NE
XT:SI=SI+4
FJ 540 PRINT" (DOWN} {CYN} TEXT
(SPACE) SCRAP WILL BE"IN
T (51/1024+. 5) "(LEFT) K"
AH 550 REM REQUEST FOR GE
OS WORK DISK WITH TEXT
(SPACE) SCRAP FILE
BB 560 PRINT" {D0WN}{7HNSERT G
EOS WORK DISK IN DRIVE,
HIT"
CE 570 PRINT "(RVS) RETURN {OFF}
{SPACE} WHEN READY."
QG 580 GETA$:IFAS<>CHR$ (I3)THE
N580
CG 590 PRINT"{DOWN}SAVING
{CYN}TEXT SCRAP{7} FILE
. . . {D0WN}":PRINT" 0%
(3 SPACE3}C0MPLETE{UP)"
DS 600 REM WRITE FILE CAL
LED 'S'
JJ 610 OPEN15,8,15,"I0":INPUT#
15,EN,EBS,ET,ES: IFENO0
THEN940
FG 620 0PEN2,8,2,"S,U,W":INPUT
#15,EN,EBS,ET,ES:IFEN<>
0THEN940
BE 630 HS=INT(SI/256) :LS=SI-HS
*256:SF=HS
SP 640 PRINT*2,CHR5CLS)CHR$ (HS
)CHR$ (23)CHRS{9)CHR${0)
CHR$(0);
KR 650 FORN=aTOSI-5:PRINT#2,CH
R$(PEEK(AD+N)) ;:PRINTIN
T(N/(SI-5)*100)"{LEFT}%
{UP}"
DE 660 NEXT: CLOSE 2
BQ 670 DATAe4, 101, 120,116, 32, 3
2,83,99,114,97,112
CD 680 P$="";FORN=0TO10:READX:
P$=P$+CHR$.(X) :NEXT
FF 690 OPEN2,8,2,"»":T=18:S=l:
DIS=P5:GOSUB60
RR 700 IFFF=0THENPRINT"{DOWN3
(RVS}NO TEXT SCRAP FILE
":GOTOa7 0
BE 710 T1-T:S1=S:FS=256*SH+SL-
1:T2=TP:S2=SP:K1=KP
JD 720 REM SWAP T/S POINT
ERS AND DELETE 'S' FILE
QS 730 T=18:S=1:DIS="S":G0SUB6
0
DK 740 PRINT#15,"B-P:2," + STR$ (
32*KP+3)
CX 750 PRINT#2,CHRS(T2>CHR${S2
) ;
CD 760 PRINT#15,"B-P:2,"+STR5(
32*KP+30)
EF 770 FH=INT(FS/256) ;FL=FS-2S
6*FH
XQ 780 PRINT#2,CHR$(FL)CHRS(FH
);
GC 790 PRINT#15,"U2:2 0"+STRS(
T)+STR5 (S)
QX 800 PRINT#15,"U1:2 0"+STR$(
Tl)+STRS(Si)
HB 810 PRINT#15,"B-P:2,"+STR$(
32*Kl+3)
DH 820 PRINT#2,CHR$(TP)CHR5(SP
);
XP 830 PRINT#15,"B-P:2,"+STR${
32*Kl+30)
JC 840 PRINT#2,CHR$(SF+1)CHR$(
0);
KA 850 PaiNT#15,"U2:2 0"+STR$(
Tl)+STRS (SI)
AR 860 PRINT#15,"S0:S"
EC 870 CLOSE2:CLOSE15
QK 880 PRINT"{2 DOWN) {7>D0NE . .
. I_NSERT GEOS MASTER DI
SK IN"
FS 890 PRINT"DRIVE THEN HIT
{RVS} RETURN {OFF} TO BOO
T."
AR 900 GETAS:IFA$<>CHR${13}THE
N900
HE 910 PRINT" (CLR}"CHR$ (142) ;L
0AD"GE0S",8,1
XX 920 END
QK 930 REM IN CASE OF DIS
K ERROR. . . .
KQ 940 PRINT" (CLR}";SPC(20-LEN
(EB5)/2) "{DOWN} {YEL}"+E
B$
GG 950 PRINT" {DOWN} {GRN}
(11 SPACES }RESETTING DR
IVE...{7}"
MC 960 PRINT#15,"UJ":F0HN=1T01
500:NEXT:CLOSE15:CLOSE2
:GOTO590
AQ 970 PRINT" {D0WN}"SPC(8)'*
{YEL}** OVERFLOW ERROR
{ S PACE } **{7>{D0WN}"
SD 980 PRINT"THE REQUESTED FIL
E EXCEEDS THE"MC
KD 990 PRINT"CHARACTER MAXIMUM
.{2 SPACES}PRESS {RVS}R
ETURN{OFF) TO": PR I NT "RE
TRY."
CC 1000 GETA$:IFA$<>CHR$(13)TH
EN1000
DK 1010 GOT036
Charles Kunz, 23, has a B,S. in comput-
er science. He enjoys rocl<-'n'-roll, writ-
ing to pen pals, and comedy. He lives
in Holbrook, New York.
DECEMBER 1992 COMPUTE G-33
PROGRAMS
TACK TRUCK
By Scot) Gilford
In the year 2000, the economy is in
worse shape than it is now. Competition
in the thumbtack delivery business is es-
pecially fierce. Drivers go to any length to
be the first to deliver their tacks.
In this two-player arcade-style game
for the 64, drivers duel to be the first out
of the parking lot of an office supply
store, In an attempt to gain an advan-
tage, the drivers open the rear doors of
their trucks, allowing a steady stream of
thumbtacks to pour onto the pavement.
Watch where you steer your truck; even
the best tires can't sun/ive passing over
these tacks.
Typing It In
Tack Truck is written entirely in ma-
chine language. To enter it, you'll
have to use MLX, our machine lan-
guage entry program; see "Typing
Aids" elsewhere in this section. When
MLX prompts, respond with the follow-
ing values.
Starting address: CQQO
Ending address: C9F7
Be sure to save a copy of the program
before you exit MLX.
Start Your Engines
Load Tack Truck with the ,8,1 exten-
sion, and then type SYS 49152. Before
the game begins, you'll have a
chance to change various options. You
can select the number of games that
must be won before a winner is de-
clared. You can select the speed of
the trucks (1 is very fast), and you can
decide on the number of obstacles.
These latter items are the remnants of
previous duels.
Both players can use their joysticks
to select truck colors. Both must press
their fire buttons simultaneously to
start the game.
At the beginning of each round, play-
er Ts truck appears in the upper left
corner; player 2's truck appears in the
lower right. Trucks are moving as
soon as the game starts, so be ready.
Avoid the border of the parking lot,
avoid your opponent's truck, and avoid
the trails of tacks that litter the parking
lot, The player who survives the long-
G-34 COM>UTE DECEMBER 1992
est wins the round and collects points.
If both drivers crash at the same time,
no points are awarded. Press both fire
buttons to restart a game.
TACK TRUCK
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Entering the Program
Ham Antennas is a menu-driven pro-
aram for six riifferent antfinna Hptsinnc
PROGRAMS
It is written entirely in BASIC. To help
avoid typing errors, use The Automat-
ic Proofreader; see "Typing Aids" else-
where in this section.
Note that lines 3032 and 3034 con-
tain more than 80 characters. To enter
these lines, use the BASIC shorthand
?TAB instead of PRINTTAB and omit
spaces following the line number. List
the line, place your cursor anywhere
on the line, and then press Return to
get the correct Proofreader checksum.
Be sure to save a copy of the program
before exiting Proofreader.
A Few Terms
Before we get into the program itself,
let's clarify a few abbreviations that are
used in Ham Antennas,
REF = Reflector. The longest ele-
ment on quads or Yagis.
DE = Driven Element. The element
where coax is attached.
DR# = Directors 1-4, DR#1 is the ele-
ment directly ahead of the driven ele-
ment.
Z = Impedance. Refers to the imped-
ance at the feed point.
RF = Radio Frequency. The power out
of the final network.
F:MH2= Frequency in megahertz.
The Menu
When you load and run Ham Anten-
nas, you'll be presented with the follow-
ing menu. Press the number next to
the type that you want to construct.
1. Quad
2. Yagi
3. Spacing
4. Dipole
5. Folded Dipole
6. Long Wire
A. Number of 1/2 wavelengths in
antenna.
B, Length of 1/2 wave coax at de-
sign frequency.
After you select any antenna type,
you'll be asked for the desired operat-
ing frequency (FMHZ). Enter the fre-
quency in megahertz and press Re-
turn. Ham Antennas will take the calcu-
lations from there and print the results.
Antenna Tips
Here's a brief rundown of each anten-
na. For more detailed information, con-
G-36 COMPUTE DECEMBER 1992
suit the American Radio Relay League
(ARRL) Antenna Handbook. !t is avail-
able through the ARRL at 225 Main
Street, Newington. Connecticut 06111.
The driven element for a quad anten-
na can be used for loop calculations.
The impedance (Z) of a loop is about
100 ohms, so you could use 75-ohm
coax for feedline and have a transfer of
1,5 : 1 — not bad. The antenna can be
mounted either vertically or horizontal-
ly. Feed at the side is vertical polariza-
tion; feed at the bottom fs horizontal.
Use at least 13-gauge wire or larger to
compensate for skin effect. Larger
wire also broad-bands the antenna.
When designing quads or Yagis,
use the Spacing selection for all your el-
ement spacing needs. The program
handles only one input calculation at a
time. Here are some figures to use as
a reference.
From the reflector to the driven ele-
ment (REF to DE), the spacing should
be .15 to .25 wavelengths. From the
driven element to the first director (DE
to DR#1), correct spacing is .1 wave-
lengths. From the second director to
the fourth director (DR#2 to DR#4),
spacing should be .2 wavelengths,
with .4 for every additional director.
These values appear onscreen when
you run the program. For reference
purposes, Ham Antennas uses 984
times the wavelength divided by the
frequency.
The dipole is the easiest and most
simple antenna to build, Using 468 di-
vided by the frequency gives us a half
wavelength. Gut that figure in half and
attach coax; now jump to selection 6
(use the B section) to figure the half-
wave of coax feedline for your dipole.
Use even numbers of half-wavelengths
to connect to your radio. It's conven-
ient to insert coils on each side and
mai<e a dipole a dual-bander. I recom-
mend Gazette's CoilGalc (June 1991)
as an excellent program for making
coils. I've used it to extend my 75-me-
ter loop for the 160-meter band.
Folded dipoles are full-wavelength
antennas. These are monoband anten-
nas only, usually cut from 300-ohm tel-
evision iead or 75- or 50-ohm coax for
impedance matching.
For the long wire antenna selection,
two inputs are required. The first is the
odd half-waves followed by the frequen-
cy. Enter them and press Return. Ham
Antennas will also give you the half-
wavelengths in phase at the design
frequency.
In closing, keep in mind that what
looks good on paper isn't always what
works exactly best in the real world.
Ham Antennas calculations will be
close, but you should then fine-tune
your actual lengths with a standing
wave ratio bridge. Have fun and 73
(best regards).
HAM ANTENNAS
HE 0 REM COPYRIGHT 1992 COHPUT
E PUBLICATIDNSINTL LTD -
{SPACE} ALL RIGHTS RESERVE
D
BB 1 GOSUB2075:GOTO900
MM 2 PRINT"{CLR}" :GOSUB2070:GO
SUB4091
JQ 3 PRINTTAB (14) "(3 DOWN}<<-Q
UAD->>"
GG 4 PRINT: PRINT: PRINT: PRINT :P
RINT:PRINT
RB 10 INPUT'MRVS}-t6KEHTER PRE
Q. DE";F
DA 20 W=1005/F
QH 2 5 PR I NT "f DOWN} ONE WAVELENG
TH DE":GOSUB4092
hS 30 X=W/4
ED 40 GOSUB4094:GOSUB4093
XF 45 GOSUB4095:GOSUB4096
AK 75 INPUT" {2 DOHN)CENTER FRE
Q. REF.";F
KH 85 W=1035/F
QS 90 PRINT" {DOWN}ONE WAVELENG
TH REF.":GOSUB4092
AA 100 X=W/4
DJ 110 GOSUB4094:GOSUB4093
JC 120 GOSUB4095:GOSUB409G
XJ 200 INPUT" {4 DOWN}CENTER FR
EQ. DR#1";F
SH 210 W=995/F
XJ 215 PRINT" {DOWN}ONE WAVELEN
GTH DR#1":GOSUB4092
XJ 220 X=W/4
FA 230 GOSUB4094:GOSUB4093
PH 240 GOSUB4095:GOSOB4096
gb 300 input"{2 down}center fr
eq.dr#2";f
XR 310 W=895/F
KA 315 PRINT" {DOWN}ONE WAVELEN
GTH DR#2":GOSUB4092
CS 320 X=W/4
AH 330 GOSUB4094:GOSUB4093
GQ 340 GOSUB409S:GOSLIB4096
AB 364 INPUT:PRINT"{CLR}"
GR 380 GOSUB4098:PRINT"
{5 DOWN} CHOOSE 1,2"
DQ 381 GETa3:IFA$=""THEN381
FM 382 Q=VAL(AS) :IFQ<10RQ>2THE
N381
XH 383 ONQGOTO2,900
AF 386 IFQ=2THEN ONVGOTO900
XC 600 REM ELM SPACING
. YAGI REF
OR ,25";
.DE-DR#1
PH 601 PRINT"{CLR}":PRINTTAB{1
1)"{D0WN)<- ANT. ELM SP
ACING ->"
QB 632 PRINT "{D0WN}1
TO DE USE .15
PRINT "{D0WN}2
{SPACE}USE .1"
AP 603 PRINT "{D0WN)3.DR'S 2,3
,4, USE .2":PRINT "
(D0WN}4.EA ADD DR ' S , US
S .4"
HQ 604 PRINT " { DOWN } 5 . EA ADD D
R'S 1% LESS THAN PRECEE
DING DIRECTOR"
SG 610 INPUT"{3 DOWN}CHOICE OF
SPACING";A
RB 620 INPUT"{DOWN}DESIGN FREQ
MHZ.=";F
HH 630 K=984
KJ 640 W=(K/F)*A
SX 650 PRINT W'FSET": PRINT W* 1
2"INCHES"
MR 655 FORT=1TO1000:NEXT
JG 660 GOSUB4097
HF 665 INPUT
AJ 670 GOSUB 4098
AH 675 GOSUB4099
HK 680 GETA$: IFA$=""THEN680
QA 68S X=VAL(AS)
GA 690 ONXGOTO600,900
JQ 790 GOSUB 2010
AJ 705 PR1NT"{CLR)":GOSUB04091
DP 710 PRINTTABtll)"{l>
{3 DOWN}<- YAGI ELEMENT
S ->"
EJ 715 INPUT"(3 DOWN}CENTER FR
EQ REF:";F
XA 720 W=510/F
BQ 725 PRINT"{2 DOWN}LENGTH OF
REF ELM: ":PRINTW"FEET"
:PRINTW*12"INCHES"
GD 730 PRINT" {2 DOWN} FROM CENT
ER OF BOOM: ":PRINTW"FEE
T":PRINTW*12/2"1NCHES"
SP 735 X=W
Afl 740 INPUT"{3 DOWN}CENTER FR
EQ DE:";F
HG 745 W=473/F
DP 750 PRINT"{2 DOWN}LENGTH OF
DE: ":PRINTW"FEET":PRIN
TW*12"INCHES"
AD 752 PRINT" {2 DOWN}FROM CENT
ER OF B00H:":PRINTW/2"F
EET ": PR I NTW* 12/2 "INCHES
■ I
GQ 755 X=W
PQ 765 INPUT" (3 DOWN}CENTER FR
EQ DR#1:";F
QH 770 W=445/F
HH 771 PRINT"{DOWNlLENGTH OF D
R#l : " : PRINTW'FEET" : PRIN
TW*12"INCHES"
KK 772 PRINT" {DOWN}FROM CENTER
OF BOOM;":PRINTW"FEET"
:PRI NTW* 12/2" INCHES"
PS 774 GOSUB4097
FQ 775 INPUT
BH 777 GOSUB4098:GOSUB4099
QA 780
KG 785
GP 790
AQ 800
OB 820
AK 824
KR 325
HH 830
FA 835
HS 340
GX 845
CD 860
MG 875
MR 880
XC 88 5
HQ 900
SB 905
CK 910
HP 915
KP 917
GG 918
MJ 919
BK 920
FA 921
MH 925
RF 926
DH 927
PQ 928
BF 930
KC 93 5
JR 940
RK 945
J J 9 50
PB 955
HF 2011
GETAS:IFAS=""THEN780
X=VAL(AS)
ONXGOTO700,900
GOSUB2015: PRINT" {CLR) " :
GOSUB4091
PRINTTAB(13) "{3 DOWN)<-
DIPOLE ->"
INPUT"(5 D0WN}CENTER FR
EQ MHZ:";F
W=468/F
PRINT" {D0WN}0NE HALF WA
VE DIPOLE: ":GOSIIB4092
PRINT" {D0WN}l/4 WAVE EA
SIDE: " : PRINTW/2"FEET" :
PRINTW*12"INCHES"
X = W/2
GOSUB40 97: INPUT: PRINT"
{CLR}"
GOSUB4098:GOSUB4099
GETA$!IFAS=""THEN875
X=VAL(A$)
ONXGOTO800,900
GOSUB 2050
print"{clr}":printtab(1
2) "{blk){down}< main me
nu > ":printtabc10) "
(down) antenna builder
(2 SPACES}"
PRINTTAB(ll) "{DOWN} PROG
RAM CHOICES" :PRINTTA8 (5
) " {8> { DOWN }1. QUAD": PRIN
TTAB(5) "2. YAGI"
PRINTTAB(5) "3. SPACING":
PRINTTAB(5) "4.DIP0LE";P
RINTTAB{5) "5.F0LDED DIP
OLE"
PRINTTAB(5) "6.L0NG WIRE
ir
PRINTTAB (6)"A.# 1/2 WAV
ES IN PHASE"
PRINTTAB {6} "B. LENGTH OF
1/2 WAVE COAX"
PRINTTAB(6) "{DOWN}USE #
3 FOR ALL ANT"
PRINTTAB(6) "SPACING CAL
ULATIONS"
PRINT"{3 DOWN}CHOOSE 1,
2,3,4,5,6"
GETAS: IFA5=""THEN926
X=VAL (AS) : IFX<10RX>6THE
N926
ONXGOTO 2 ,700,600,800,30
00,4000
IFX=1 GOTO 2{3 SPACES}:
REM QUAD
IFX=2 GOTO 700 :REM YAG
GOTO 600 :REM SPA
GOTO 800 :RBM DIP
IFX = 3
CING
IFX = 4
OLE
IFX=5 GOTO 3000:REM FOL
D DIPOLE
IFX=6 GOTO 4000: REM LON
G WIRE
I POKE 53281, PEEK(53281)
AND248 OR 233: PRINT"
{BLK}":RETURN
SC 2015 POKE 53281, PEEK(53281)
OR 7:PRINT"{BLK}":RETU
RN
DB 2040 POKE 53281, PEEK(53281)
AND 328 OR 233: PRINT"
(WHT}": RETURN
FR 2050 POKE 53280, 14:POKE5328
1,14:PRINT"{CLR}{WHT}"
: RETURN
FJ 2070 POKE53280,PEEK(S3281)A
ND2480R23 3;PRINT"<6>":
RETURN
CF 2075 POKE 5328 1 , PEEK ( 5328 1 )
AND402 OR 160:RETURN
SP 3000 GOSUB2040:GOSUB4091
XP 3005 PRINT"[CLR}":PRINTTAB (
11) "{2 D0WN}<<<:-WIRE A
NTENNAS->>>"
GR 3006 PRINTTAB (9) "{3 D0WN}<-
FOLDED DIPOLE ->"
MS 3009 INPUT" (5 D0WN}CENTER F
REQ MHZ:";F
DP 3010 W=1005/F
HK 3015 PRINT" (D0WN}0NE WAVE L
ENGTH OVER ALL":G0SUB4
092
KK 3020 PRINT"{00WN)l/4 WAVE E
A SIDE:":PRINTW/2"FEET
":PRlNTW/2* 12 "INCHES"
RG 3021 X=W/2
FX 3024 GOSUB 4097
HP 3030 INPUT-PRINT"{CLR}"
FD 3032 PRINTTAB (2) "{D0WN}1.WI
RE ANT WORK WELL AT 30
FT. BEST AT {4 SPACES}
THEIR RESONANT FREQ.
PK 3033 PRINTTAB (4) "1/2 WAVE A
BOVE GROUND."
PQ 3034 PRINTTAB(2) "(D0WN)2. M
ULTIBAND ANT'S 1/2 WAV
E AT LOWEST {4 SPACES }F
REQ. OPEN WIRE FEED"
GR 3036 GOSUB4a97:INPUT:PRINT"
(CLR}"
EQ 3040 GOSUB4093:GOSOa4099
SA 3055 GETAS: IFAS=""THEN3055
RB 3060 X=VAL(AS)
FA 3065 ONXGOTO3000,900
RG 4000 GOSUB 2075 : GOSUB409 1
DH 4005 V=2:PRINT"{CLR}":PRINT
TAB(10) "{DOWN} - WIRE
(SPACE} ANTENNAS -"
EE 4006 PRINTTAB(ll) "{DOWN}
{3 SPACES}- LONG WIRE
{SPACE}-{3 SPACES}"
QA 4007 PRINTTAB (7) "(DOWN}
{2 SPACES}- HARMONIC A
NTENNAS -{2 SPACES}"
HG 4010 PRINT "(DOWN)l.CUT WIR
E ODD 1/2 WAVES AT LOW
EST (8 SPACES}FREQ YOU
{SPACE}WILL WORK"
EC 4013 PRINT "{D0WN}2.HAVE GO
OD EARTH GND AND A 4:1
BALUH(5 SPACES} IN TUN
ER"
KS 4015 PRINT "{D0WN}3.ELECTRI
AL LENGTH OF HARMONIC
DECEMBER 1992 COMPUTE G-37
PROGRAMS
{SPACElANTENNAS"
EK 4020 PRINT" (DOWN} 1/2 WAVELE
NGTH COAX"
QD 4023 PRINT"{D0WN}1.ALL BAND
INVERTED VEE'S.":PRIN
T"{D0WN}2.L0NG WIRES,
{SPACE} HAVE VERY HI Z.
If
JQ 4024 PRINT" (D0WN}WHERE Z IS
IN REFERENCE TO IMPED
ANCE"
GM 4025 PRINT"THE LOAD GIVES T
0 THE FEEDLINE AT A FR
EQ"
PA 4027 GOSUB4097:INPUT:PRINT"
iCLR}"
KP 4028 INPUT" {RVS} {CYN}
J 3 DOWN}NUHBER OF ODD
{SPACE} 1/2 WAVELENGTH=
{2 SPACES} ";N
PB 4029 INPUT"{RVS) [CRN} (DOWN}
LOWEST FREQ IN MHZ.
(2 SPACES} ";F
XK 4030 K=492
GC 4035 W=(K/F)*N-.05
XQ 4037 PRINT"{RVS3 CYEL}{D0WN}
LENGTH OF LONG WIRE":G
OSUB4092
KE 4045 PRINT"{REDKRVS}{D0WN}
FREQ IN MHZ. " F
MX 4047 K=984
QD 4048 L=W
PJ 4049 X=F*(L)+.025
AC 4050 PRINT"{RVS){1HD0WN}LE
NGTH OF WIRE IN FEET"
{SPACE}W
FX 4058 PRINTX/936"NUMBER OF W
AVELENGTHS " : PRI NTX/4 6 8
"NUMBER OF 1/2 WAVELEN
GTHS"
BG 4059 INPUT" (RVSHejCOAX VEL
OCITY FACTOR"; V
EC 4060 PRINT" {DOWN} "492/F*V/l
2"{10 LEFT} CdOWN}=1/2
{SPACE} WAVE COAX AT DE
SIGN FREQ IN FEET"
GC 4062 GOSUB4097:INPOT:PRINT"
{CLR}"
ES 4065 GOSUB4a98:GOSUB4099
HG 4080 GETA?: IFAS=""THEN40B0
PG 4085 V=VAL(AS)
HH 4090 ONVGOTO4000,900:END
SE 4091 PRINT"{CLR}":RETURN
JE 4'092 PRINTW"FEET":PRINTW*12
" INCHES": RETURN
XR 4093 PRINT"{D0WN}l/4 WAVE E
A SIDE": PRINT W/4"FEET
":PRINT W*12/4"INCHES"
: RETURN
ES 4094 L=SQR((X*X)+(X*X)/X*X)
: RETURN
DQ 4095 PRINT" (DOWN}TOTAL WIDT
H ACROSS SPREADERS" :PR
INTL"FEET": PRINTL*12"I
NCHES": RETURN
HF 4096 PRINT"{DOWN}DRILL HOLE
FRM CNTR BOOM":PRINTL
/2"FEET":PRINTL*12/2"I
G-38 COMPUTE DECEMBER 1992
NCHES":RETURN
RF 4097 PRINT" {D0WN}(RVS} {SJ
PRESS RETURN ":RETURN
XA 4098 PRINT" {CLR} ":PRINTTAB(
8) "(D0WN}1,CALC AGAIN?
":PRINTTAB{8) "{DOWN} 2.
MAIN MENU":RETURN
FX 4099 PRINT"{4 DOWN}CHOOSE 1
OS 2": RETURN
KK 5010 END
Clifford Hudson, KG6PD, is a ham ra-
dio operator in Hesperia, California.
BATTLESHIP 128
By Donald G. Klich
Probably every schoolchild has played
the game Battleship using grids drawn
on a piece of paper. The object of the
game is to place four ships secretly on
your grid while your opponent does the
same. Then by alternately calling out sal-
vos of three grid locations, you try to
sink your opponent's navy.
Problems with the paper version can
occur when an opponent sneaks a look
at the other's grid, Another problem
comes when an opponent scores a hit
and the other person winces, uninten-
tionally giving away a ship's location. Bat-
tleship 128 is a computerized version for
the 128 that updates the old pencil-and-
paper favorite.
Typing It In
Battleship 128 is written entirely in
BASIC 7.0. To help avoid typing errors,
enter the program with The Automatic
Proofreader; see "Typing Aids" else-
where in this section. REM instructions
starting with line 180 are included for
those readers who enjoy program anal-
ysis. These remarks can be omitted if
desired.
Battleship 128 remembers where
the players locate their ships and pro-
duces separate screens depicting
each player's progress. When a hit is
scored, the program doesn't reveal ex-
actly where it occurred, but displays
the entire salvo as possible hits. This
makes the game more interesting.
When a ship is sun)<, it is identified and
displayed in red.
Some simple sounds and colors
have been added to make the comput-
er version more appealing. As an aid
to your gunnery, listen carefully to the
sounds of your hits and use them with
some basic reasoning to gain a slight
advantage over your opponent.
BATTLESHIP 128
FK 10 REM COPYRIGHT 1992 - COM
PUT PUBLICATIONS INTL LT
D - ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
AQ 20 REM BY DONALD G. KLICH
SP 30 GRAPHIC0,1:PRINTSPC (12) "
(5 DOWN] SETTING UP"
BS 40 DIM Bl{2, 2) ,82(2,2,2) ,B3
(2,3,2) ,B4(2,4,2) ,SS(2,4
5,2),SH(3),G{2,4),T(45,4
) :ENVELOPE9,0,4,4,10,3:V
0L9
QS 50 F0RI=1T02:F0RJ=1T045:S9{
I,J,1)=" ":SS(I,J,2)=" "
: NEXT: NEXT
PA 60 FORI=0TO4:FORJ=1TO9:T (I*
9+J,l)=l+4*J:T (I*9+J,2)=
4*I+4:T(I*9+J,3)=6+ie*J:
T (I*9+J, 4) =32*1 + 36: NEXT:
NEXT
DP 70 GRAPHIC0,1:PLAY"V1O2T0HC
QEG . AIEQAR03HCQD02G03HCR
" :VOL0:VOL10:FORP=1TO2
KS 80 GRaPHIC0,l:COLOR0,l:COLO
Rl , 2 ;COL0R2 , 4 :C0L0R3 , 3 :C
0L0R4,1
CA 90 PRINT" {DOWN} {GRN}
{13 SPACES}BATTLESHIP 12
8{2 DOWN]"
FK 100 PRINT"{WHT}PLA¥ER{YEL}"
P"{WHT} ENTER YOUR BOAT
{SPACE) POSITIONS, ":PRIN
T"{2 DOWN}EXAMPLES:":PR
INTSPC{9) "BOAT 1 = D,4
{5 SPACES}OR":PRINTSPC{
9) "BOAT 3 = C,3,D,4,E,5
MA 110 PRINT" (DOWN}USE RETURN
fSPACEjAFTER ENTERING E
ACH BOAT":PRINT"EVEN TH
OUGH ENTRIES ARE BLANKE
D OUT": PR I NT "{DOWN} BOAT
S ARE LENGTHS i TO 4 AN
D CAN BE"
mx 120 print"vertical, horizon
tal, or diagonal":print
:print"shots are made s
imilar to b0at3 above."
qc 130 print"those that all mi
ss are shown as {rvs}wh
ite{off}":print"if any
{space}are hits, all AR
e shown as {rvs}(cyn}bl
UE{0FF5 {WHT}"
FR 140 PRINT"SUNK boats ARE SH
OWN IN {RVS} {REd5rED
{WHT} {OFF}"
RG 150 PRINT"(3 down}
{3 spaces}hit any key W
hen ready to start"
XG 160 GBTAS: IFAS=""TKEN160
QS 170 GOSUB599
SF 180 REM LOAD BOAT LOCATIONS
FOR EACH PLAYER
ftK 190
HJ 200
GC 210
MP 220
HJ 230
MF 240
s.-n
250
CP
260
MQ
270
FF
280
RX
290
CC
300
SH
310
FB
320
XF
330
QQ 340
MS 350
MR 360
INPUT"fWHT)ENTER LOCATI
ON OF BOAT 1{BLK3";H9,V
;GOSUB500: IFE=lTHEN190:
ELSEB1{P,1)=L
PRINTSPC (18) " {WHT3B0AT
( S PACE ) 2 { B LK } " : I NPUTH $ ,
V,B$,B:GOSUB500:IFE=1TH
EN2 00:ELSEB2 CP,1,1) =L:H
S=BS:V=B:GOSUB500:IFE=1
THEN200:ELSEB2 (P,2,1)=L
PRINTSPC (18) " {WHTlBOAT
(SPACE) 3 (BLK) ": I-NPUTHS,
V,B$,B,CS,C:GOSUB500:IF
E=1THEN210:ELSEB3 (P,l,l
)-L:HS=BS:V=B
COSUB500: IFE=iTHEN210:E
LSEB3 (P,2,1)=L:HS = CS:V=
C:GOSUB500:IFE=1THEN210
:ELSEB3 (P,3,l)-L
PRINTSPC (18) "[WHT3B0AT
fSPACE5 4{BLK)":INPUTH5,
V,B$,B,CS,C,DS,D:G0SUB5
00: IFE = 1THE;J2 30:ELSE:B4
CP,1,1) =L:HS=BS:V=B:G0S
UB503
IFE=iTHEN230:ELSEB4(P,2
,1) =L:H5=CS:V=C:GOSUB50
0: IFE = 1THEN2 30:ELSEB4 (P
,3, 1}=L:HS'»DS:V = D:G0SUB
50'^:IFE = lTHEN23a
B4 (P,4, 1)=L:NEXTP:P=1:Q
=2:PRINT"{WHT)"
REM ACCEPT 3 SHOTS AND
{SPACE) STORE IN TEHP AR
EA "SH(3)"
GOSUB5 90:GOSUB5 30:CHRR1
,14,0,CHR$(48+P)
PRINT"PLAYEH "+CHRS(48+
P)+", TAKE 3 SHOTS"; : IN
"PUTHS,V,B$,3,CS,CjG0SUB
530:IFE=1THEN280:ELSESH
(1) =L:HS=BS:V=B:GOSUB50
0:IFE=1TKEN280
SH(2)=L:HS=CS:V=C:G0SUB
500: IFE=1THEN230:ELSESH
(3)=L
REM CHECK BOATS FOR HIT
S
HT = 0:FORI=1TO3:IFSH (I) =
B1(Q,1)THENB1 (Q,2)=1:HT
=1:PLAY"T9G"
NEXT:F0RI=1T0 3:F0RJ=1T0
2:IFSH(I)=B2(Q,J,1)THEN
B2 CQ,J,2)=1:HT = 1:PLAY"T
9G"
NEXT : NEXT: FORI =1T03: FOR
J=1T03:IFSH (I)=B3 (Q,J,1
)THENB3(Q,J,2) =1:HT=1:P
LAY"T9G"
NEXT : NEXT: FORI =1T03: FOR
J=1T04:IFSH (I) =B4 (C!,J,1
)THENB4 (Q,J,2)=1:HT=1:P
LAY"T9G"
REM CHANGE SHOTS TO PCS
SIBLE HIT COLOR IFA HIT
RECORDED
NEXT:NEXT:IFHT=1THENF0R
I=1T03:S$(P,SH{I) ,1) ="2
GJ
430
HP
440
KX
450
":SS(P,SH(I) ,2)="?":NEX
T
XB 370 IFHT=0THENFORI=1TO3:S5{
P,SH(I),1)="1":SS(P,SH(
I) ,2)="-": NEXT
KD 38 0 REM CHECK IF ANY BOAT C
OMPLETELY SUNK, TURN BO
AT SQUARES RED
AJ 390 IFB1(Q,2)=1THENSS{P,B1(
Q,l) ,1)="3":SS(P,B1(Q,1
),2)="1":G(Q,1)=1
MB 400 IFB2 (Q,1,2)=1ANDB2{Q,2,
2)=1THENF0RI=1T02;S5 (P,
B2(Q,I,1),1)="3":S5{P,B
2(Q,I,1) ,2)="2":NEXT:G(
Q,2)=l
DG 410 IFB3 (Q,1,2)=1ANDB3 (Q,2,
2)=1ANDB3(Q,3,2) =1THENF
ORI=1T0 3:SS (P,B3 (Q,I,1)
,1)="3":SS(P,B3(Q,I,1) ,
2)="3";NEXT:G(Q,3)=1
CE 420 IFB4(Q,1,2)=1ANDB4 (Q,2,
2)=1RNDB4 (Q,3,2) =1ANDB4
(Q,4,2)=1THENF0RI=1T04:
S5(P,B4 (Q,I,1) ,1)="3":S
S(P,B4{Q,I,1) ,2)='M":NE
XT:G(Q,4)=1
REM CHECK IF ALL BOATS
{SPACEjSUNK
GOSUBS30:IFG(Q,1)+G(Q,2
)+G(Q,3)+G{Q,4)<>4THEN4
60
PLAY"V103T8ICCCDCQDWE":
PRINT"PLAYER "+CHRS(48+
P)+" HAS WON THE WAR! . .
..AGAIN?":GETKEYAS:IFA$
="Y"THENRUN:ELSEEND
MQ 460 PRINT"{6 SPACES)PRESS A
NY KEY TO CONTINUE"
GETAS: IFAS=""THEN470
IFP=1THENP=2:Q=1:G0T0 27
0:ELSEP=1:Q=2:GOTO270
REM CONVERT HOR AND VER
T TO SQUARE #
E=0:IFHS>"I"ORHS<"A"ORV
<10RV>5THENE=1:S0UND1,4
000,10:RETURN
L=( (V-l)*9)+ASC(H$)-6 4:
RETURN ■
REM PRINT GAME RECORD I
N GRID
FORI=1T045
IFS$(P,I,1)=" "THEN570
CHARl,T(I,l) ,T(I,2),S5(
P,I,2)
CIRCLEVAL(S$(P,I,1) > ,T {
I,3),T(I,4) ,5,,,, ,90
NEXT; RETURN
REM DRAW GRID
GRA PHIC4, 1,23: FORI =0TO8
:CHAR1,5+(I*4) ,1,CHRS (6
5 + 1) :NEXT:BOX1,14,20,15
8,180:FORI=0TO4:CHAR1,1
,4+(I*4) ,CHRS(49+I) :NEX
T
HG 600 F0RI=52T0148STEP32:DRAW
l,14,IT0158,I:NEXT:FORI
=30TO142STEP16:DRAW1, I,
sx
470
FQ
430
AJ
490
QQ
500
KG
510
JC
520
DC
530
DD
540
KF
550
DF
560
FS
5 70
FH
580
HD
590
20TOI,180:NEXT:CHAR1,6,
0, "PLAYER #"+CHR$ (48+P)
+"'S SCREEN": RETURN
Donald G. Klich, the author of Railroad
Solitaire (Gazette Disk bonus, July
1992) lives in Mt. Prospect, Illinois.
$PEEDRAM-64
By Frank Gordon
Wouldn't ft be convenient if you could use
SpeedScript with the 1764 RAM expan-
sion unit (RED) or two drives? Well, you
can with Speedram-64.
This BASIC utility converts COM-
PUTE'S word processor into Speedram-
64, allowing you to change the drive num-
ber from within the program to either 8 or
9. You can also customize the program
to run SpeedScript with your favorite back-
ground and text colors already loaded.
Typing It In
To help avoid typing errors, enter the
BASIC loader with The Automatic Proof-
reader; see "Typing Aids" elsewhere in
this section. Numerous REM state-
ments help explain the program, but
they may be omitted if you prefer. Be
sure to save a copy of the converter
(Speedram.cvt) before you exit Proof-
reader.
Creating Speedrain-64
In order to modify your version
SpeedScript, follow these steps.
of
1. Load and run SpeedScript.
2. Select your favorite background and
text colors with Ctrl+B and Ctrl+L
3. Exit SpeedScript by tapping the Re-
store key and responding to the
prompt by pressing Y.
4. Type POKE44,40: POKE10240,0:
NEW and press Return, This will pro-
tect SpeedScript's BASIC area.
5. Load but don't run Speedram.cvt
with a ,8 extension.
6. Insert a work disk onto which you
want to store Speedram-64. Enter RUN
and press Return.
The converter will run and save the mod-
ified version of SpeedScript to disk
with the filename Speedram-64, When
the utility finishes saving the program,
turn your computer off and then back
on before using Speedram.
DECEMBER 1992 COMPUTE G-39
PROGRAMS
Using Speedram-64
If you have a 1764 REU, install it and
initialize it as drive 9. At this point you
may also wish to copy any
SpeedScript programs to the 1764. If
not, return to the 1764 menu and quit.
Now load and run Speedram-64 like
any BASIC program. Your familiar
SpeedScript screen should appear in
the colors that you selected.
You can test Speedram-64 by press-
ing Ctrl+N (for drive 9) and then
Ctrl+4 for a directory. You should get a
rapid listing of any files stored in the
REU (or on drive 9, if you have two
drives). Press Ctrl+Y (for drive 8), and
Ctrl+4 will list programs from that
drive. Also, when you press Ctrl+N or
Ctrl+Y. the drive number appears on
the command line. Shift from one
drive to the other in this rapid manner
to load or save SpeedScript files.
How Speedram-64 Works
You may be interested in knowing how
Speedram-64 works. I used the list of
pokes that change the drive number in
"Modifying SpeedScript" (July 1992)
and followed Jonathan Bell's machine
language notes in his Word Count pro-
gram on COMPUTE'S SpeedScript
disk.
Bell describes how to create new
SpeedScript utilities that rely on unim-
plemented Cir\+key combinations.
POKE2854,114: POKE 2855,36 will
shift control to 9330 ($2472) for unused
Clrl+keycombinations, and here the AS-
CI I value of the accumulator can be
compared to the nev^ Ctrl+tey.
For example, 14 and 25 in line 60
are the ASCII values of Ctrl+N and
Ctrl+Y. You can replace these with
your ov/n CW+key combinations if
these are not used by SpeedScript.
It is important thai any section of a
new routine end with JMP 2665
($0A69) to return control to
SpeedScript. To keep the drive num-
ber on the command line, however, I in-
serted another wedge from 2665 to
2670 (JMP 9395:NOP:NOP) into
SpeedScript's main loop and ended
each new section with a JMP back to
2670 (S0A6E).
SPEEDRAM.CVT
EQ 10 REM COPYRIGHT 1992 - COM
PUTE PUBLICATIONS INTL L
G-40 COMPUTE DECEMBER 1992
BS
15
PA
20
DQ
25
AK
30
BX
35
CE
40
AJ 4 5
AS 50
CP 55
EF
60
AQ
65
DP
70
RR
75
QC 80
TD - ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
FOR 1=9330 TO 9411:READA
:POKEI ,A:B=B+A:NEXTI
IFB07836 THEN PRINT"ERR
OR IN DATA STATEMENTS" :S
TOP
REM - INSERT JMP 9330 ($
2472) -
POKE2854 , 114 : POKE2855 , 36
:POKE9a70,0
REH - INSERT WEDGE AT 26
65-2670 ($0A69-S0A6E) -
POKE 2665, 76 :POKE2666, 179
:POKE2667,36:POKE2668,23
4:POKE2669,234
REH - RETURN TO BASIC AB
EA AND SAVE MODIFIED SPE
EDCRIPT -
POKE43,1:POKE4 4,8:POKE4 5
,i96:POKE46,36:SAVE"SPEE
DRAM-64",8
REM - COMPARE ACC TO CTR
L-KEY VALUES AND BRANCH
{SPACE)TO EIGHT OR NINE
DATA 201,25,240,7,201,14
,240,16
REM - IF NO MATCH JUMP T
0 WEDGE
DATA 76,187,36
REM - IF EIGHT, LDA #8 A
ND JSR TO STORE, PRINT 8
THEN JUMP TO WEDGE -■
DATA 169,8,32,151,36,169
,56
DATA 141,39,4,76,187,36
REM - IF NINE, LDA #9 AN
D JSR TO STORE, PRINT 9
(SPACE 3 THEN JUMP TO WEDG
E -
DATA 169,9,32,151,36,169
0 DATA 57,141,39,4,76,187
,36
5 REM - STORE VALUES OF E
IGHT OR NINE -
0 DATA 141,235,18,141,44
5 DATA 19,141,154,20,141,
241
0 DATA 22,141,79,23,141,2
23
5 DATA 24,141,227,26,141,
91
0 DATA 27,141,161,27,96
5 REM - GET LAST DEVICE A
ND PUT ON COMMAND LINE
f SPACE } ~-
0 DATA 165,186,24,105,48,
141,39,4
5 REM - WEDGE, INSERT COM
HANDS REPLACED AT 2665-
2670 AND RETURN TO 2670
FC 150 DATA 160,0,140,113,36
PJ 155 DATA 76,110,10,0
Frank Gordon is the author of Graphos
(April 1992), He used MetaBASIC to
help develop Speedram-64, and he
lives in Orono, fi/laine. □
DR
85
AF
90
MS
95
EF
10
EG
10
JB
11
GM
11
CP
12
JC
12
CG
13
FK
13
PE
14
EH
14
ONLY ON DISK
Here are the bonus programs that you'll
find on this month's Gazette Disk.
Lodraw
By Robert Quinn
Wagga Wagga, NSW
Australia
Lodraw is a full-featured low-resolution
drawing and painting program that uses
all of the 64's alphanumeric and graph-
ic keyboard characters. Much more.
SpeedCalc Help
By Randy Clemmons
San Diego, CA
Have you ever run SpeedCalc, Gazette's
spreadsheet, only to realize that you've
focgotten several of Its important com-
mands? SpeedCalc Help displays those
commands on the spreadsheet screen.
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Order it by writing to Gazette Disk, COM-
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NOTEBOOK
If I were asked to describe
the Tandy 4860HD Note-
book computer in only two
words, I would call it a
mighty mite. That really
sums up what this nifty little
machine is all about: lots of
power in an incredibly small
package.
Featuring an Intel
80486DX CPU running at a
crisp 33 MHz as its heart
and soul, the 4860HD gives
up nothing in the way of
performance to similarly
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machine is only 8% inches
deep by 11 inches wide by
I'/a inches thick when
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when the battery's in place
and it's ready for work — tru-
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Viewing text or graphics
on the 4860HD's hi-res back-
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thanks to a 10-inch nonglare
display which delivers 9'/?
inches of viewable area
{measured diagonally). The
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display is 640 x 480, and
slider controls for adjusting
contrast and brightness are
conveniently located just un-
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left side of the unit.
The hinge that connects
the main body of the comput-
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play also provides a nestling
place for the illuminated indi-
cators which monitor the sys-
tem status. Illuminated icons
are used to signify Caps
Lock, Num Lock, Scroll
Lock, hard and floppy drive
activity, power on, and other
system conditions. The pow-
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114 COt^PUTE DECEMBER 1992
on the body of the comput-
er itself, just below the
hinge, and its design and
placement make it virtually
impossible to turn the sys-
tem off accidentally. While
this might seem like a minor
point, it's surprising how
many other notebook com-
puters put the power switch
MS-DOS 5.0 and Windows
3.1 preinstalled (the floppy
disks are also included,
along with the manuals). A
high-density 1.44fvlB 31/2-
inch floppy drive is mounted
at the right side of the ma-
chine toward the front of the
unit. Twin panel doors at the
rear of the machine conceal
The Tandy 4860HD Notebook offers tine graphics, blazing speed,
and excellent battery Hie in a very small package.
in a jeopardizing position for
such accidents, so it's re-
freshing to see it so well pro-
tected in the 4860HD.
The machine's standard
configuration Is 4fvlB of
RAM. This can be boosted
to either 8MB or 20MB de-
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the VGA LCD, makes this
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A 60MB hard dhve is the
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port, a single 9-pin serial
port, and a 15-pin D connec-
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the AC power adapter and
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panels.
Battery life is excellent,
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three to four hours on the av-
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The battery recharge time is
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the 4B6aHD can be used
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An optional minitrackball
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The Tandy 4860HD Note-
book computer is an excel-
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in a case that's smaller than
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that good things can indeed
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TOM BENFORD
Tandy 4860HD Notebook— $2,999
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A-TRAIN
When you hear the lonesome whistle of
a freight train, do you (a) start hum-
ming "New River Train" or (b) specu-
late on how long railroad freight carri-
ers will be able to compete econom-
ically with their counterparts in the truck-
ing industry?
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118 COMPUTE DECEMBER 1992
ly the second sequel to an "award-
winning, number-one selling game in Ja-
pan," according to a blurb on its box.
(The only previous U.S. release was a
version of A-Train II called Railroad Em-
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pan consistently wipes the floor with
America economically. This is a highly
complex, intensely challenging game
that requires you to be railroad CEO, ur-
ban planner, stock speculator, and ma-
jor contractor all at once.
At this point, gamers familiar with
Sid Meier's Railroad Tycoon may be
wondering whether there's any differ-
ence between that game and A-Train.
On a fundamental level, there are
many similarities. Both games employ
railroads as a means to economic ex-
pansion, allowing you to rake in (or
bleed out) large sums of money as you
build an empire. A-Train lacks both the
broad geographical and historical
scope of Railroad Tycoon and the com-
puter-generated competition, however,
making it more focused.
Instead of taking your railroad and
its environs cross-country over the
course of decades, A-Train moves
along a day at a time, staying focused
on a predetermined geographical area
set by selecting one of the game's six
scenarios. You can start off with a sin-
gle rail line running through a rural ar-
ea or multiple lines already encircJing
a large city.
On a more superficial levei, A-Train
simply looks better than Railroad Ty-
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ea from an oblique angle rather than
from the side or directly overhead, giv-
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Take the A-Train to corporate success — if
you can keep your empire on tracli.
has easily accessible pull-down menus
in a frame around the playing field, al-
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about buying stock, build an amuse-
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survey other areas of your burgeoning
empire.
There are plenty of nice graphic
touches, from the darkness-to-daylight
change that washes over the screen
every few minutes as a new day
comes and goes, to the figure of San-
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The sound effects are pleasant but noth-
ing special,
The ribbon rails and crossties were
awash in red ink about a month into my
game of A-Train, which goes a long
way toward explaining why I'm a
freelance writer instead of a railroad
CEO. I found A-Train's hardcore eco-
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honest; I suspect CEO wannabes or di-
version-seeking business devotees
will enjoy it a lot more than I did. And
while there are some elements of A-
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better engines, for instance — you'll
spend more lime dealing with cold eco-
nomic reality, such as determining
whether to risk borrowing a few hun-
dred thousand dollars for a new facto-
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track.
Ironically, there's more for raiifans in
the user manual than in the game it-
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examples of railroad slang, but it also
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NEC SILENTWRITER
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PostScript Level II and HP LaserJet III
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Many features which are options on
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graphics and PostScript work. Addition-
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Internal fonts are abundant in the
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tridge fonts, as well.
The Silentwriter weighs about 37.5
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The Silentwriter can output up to six
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There's an oJd pro on the fairway, flaunt-
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The growing high-end market, as
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phenomenal. Created expressly for
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full sound board support. The package
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also includes the first 256-color
course designer, and the course de-
signer itself has been redesigned for
even greater flexibility. For many fans,
this feature alone is worth the price of
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Graphic improvements are immedi-
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the screen, and they're set against col-
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This clean, sharp quality of the images
extends throughout the program.
Human players must first register as
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stocked roster of computer players,
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swing, distance, and accuracy.
Up to four club members — human
or computer-controlled — can compete
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Skins game has been enhanced to al-
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money and cash amounts for individual
holes. Stroke play now features a one-
to-five-game tournament option. Up to
72 golfers, including a maximum of
four club members, may participate. Al-
though the program maintains detailed
scorecards and statistics, there's still
no provision for hardcopy printouts,
(vlaybe next time.
The package includes two 18-hole
courses based on real-life Nicklaus de-
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Of special note are the fully animated
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Despite all this attention to detail, the
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As an avid BBS-er, I find that one of
the most-used applications on my sys-
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I've used the same one for the last
four years, but when I started using f^i-
crosoft Windows, it didn't feel like it be-
longed anymore.
My first instinct was to try Windows'
Terminal. It works well as a phone di-
aler, but it's sorely lacking in many of
the features to which I've grown accus-
tomed— namely, good scripting lan-
guage, host mode, terminal emula-
tions, and, most important, my favorite
file transfer protocols.
So I began to look for a new commu-
nications program. As usual, I started
looking on BBSs for a good shareware
program. To my surprise, I found very
few, but in these few I found a gem: Uni-
com 3.0g.
Unicom is a full-featured, Windows-
based terminal and communications
program. It supports ten different trans-
fer protocols, including ZMODEfvt and
CompuServe Quick B. It has a well-
developed, easy-to-use script lan-
guage. It allows you to change all col-
ors and font sizes. It also has a speed
bar menu and a function key menu. It
has batch dialing, timed redialing, and
call-waiting protection. It will fully mul-
titask in the spirit of Windows, and it
has a configurable utility feature that
can launch any Windows application,
I installed and set up the program in
about ten minutes. I then installed the
phone numbers of ail my favorite
BBSs. The only problem I had was on
one particular BBS, where reading mes-
sages produced overrun and framing er-
rors. I turned off reporting of these errors
and had no more problems whatsoever.
Unicom comes with sorrse script
files that are really great starting
points for writing some of your own. I
just replaced the name and password
in the CompuServe script and was
able to log on. The manual devotes 57
pages to the script language. This lan-
guage is packed with Windows power
beyond your wildest imagination. It will
manipulate Windows and even access
the GDI.
[t has full implementations of
WHILE, IF, GOTO, GOSUB, and
SWITCH constructs. A full set of arithme-
tic and logical operators are provided,
as well, making it a true scripting lan-
guage! Of course, it will also wait for
an expected string and send a re-
sponse, which is most of what my
script writing does.
Unicom supports the following proto-
cols: XMODEM Checksum, XMODEM
CRC, XMODEM 1K, YMODEM Batch,
YMODEM G, ZMODEM, ZMODEM Re-
sume, CompuServe B, CompuServe
Quick B, Kermit, and ASCII, Although
officially they're "not recommended or
guaranteed," Unicom can also be script-
ed to use external protocols.
ZMODEM and CompuServe Ouick B
transfer protocols will do automatic
downloading. ZMODEM Resume pro-
vides for recovery after an interrupted
download.
Speaking of interruptions: One of the
neatest features on the dialing options
is call-waiting protection. It protects the
session from being interrupted. The ter-
minal itself is fully configurable. It pro-
vides for changing both foreground and
background colors, and it offers destruc-
tive backspace and carriage return line-
feed controls, it will emulate VT-102, AN-
SI-BBS, VT-52, or TTY terminals.
One of the problems that should be
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the ANSI graphics done on BBSs will be
missing certain characters. This is not a
fault specifically of Unicom, but rather a
124 COMPUTE DECEMBER 1992
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shortcoming of working with-
in tfie Windows environment.
In addition to the termi-
nal, the function key menu is
also configurable. You can
change the labels on the
keys, assign them to any
function, or assign them to
run scripts. They can even
be used as hot keys for Win-
dows programs listed in
your utility menu.
The utility menu can be
set up to contain any pro-
grams that you have or
your hard drive. It shoulc
be noted that running any
other applications during
downloads or uploads will
slow down the process and
may cause errors. But I've
had no problem whatsoever
using Windows' File Manag-
er to locate a file that I want-
ed to ASCII upload into a
message.
On the downside, the un-
registered version has a very
irritating, timed random pop-
up registration screen. This,
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by registering the package.
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Grand Prix Unlimited is another fine simulation from Accolade— if
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ball. Winter Challenge, and
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As with most of Acco-
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Grand Prix Unlimited offers
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over the sporting experi-
ence, which in this case is
Formula One racing. On the
macro scale, you can
choose a practice session
or a single race, or you can
take to the road in a battle
for the World Champion-
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discover a plethora of op-
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the track's weather condi-
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There's even a built-in track ar-
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joining the circuit for the World Cham-
pionship. In these modes, you start by
selecting your car and track, and then
move to the starting line for your first-
person-perspective race. For each
race, you can set the number of laps,
the weather conditions, and the num-
ber of opponents.
During a race, the game controls
are sensitive and quick to react. It
takes skill on the joystick or keyboard
to keep your car screaming down the
blacktop. Luckily, novice drivers have
a number of helpful options from
which to choose, including automatic
shifting and steering. You can also set
the skill level to one of five levels,
which determine the speed and aggres-
siveness of the other drivers. On the Nov-
ice level, just keeping your car on the
road IS all that's required to take first
place, whereas at the Pro level only awe-
some joystick wizards have a chance of
making it to the World Championship.
After you get the hang of driving,
you'll want to experiment with your
car's attributes. By accessing the Car
Adjustments screen, you can change
the height of your view, the sensitivity
of your brakes and steering, tire
types, and more. These options allow
you to fine-tune your car's performance
to a specific track, a skill that must be
mastered by any Grand Prix champion.
If Grand Prix Unlimited has a failing,
it's the program's cheesy sound ef-
fects. Even on a Sound Blaster card,
the car's engine sounds more like some-
one tuning a shortwave radio than it
does the roar of screaming steel,
Worse, the screeching-tire sound ef-
fect is not unlike the squealing of a dis-
tressed hamster. The music, too, is so
intrusive that you'll turn it off before you
even finish your first race.
Bad sound effects aside, Grand
Prix Unlimited is a solid — albeit not
groundbreaking — racing simulation.
With its fully configurable cars, tracks,
and racing circuits, it certainly has
more features than can be described
in a short review. (I didn't even mention
the wonderful, VCR-like instant-replay
feature.) If nothing else, all those op-
tions will keep race fans happily burn-
ing up the track.
CLAYTON WALNUM
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hard disk: joystick fecommendeci; supports Ad
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WINDOW PHONE
Call me a gadget freak, but I just love
caller ID. As soon as my local phone
company offered the caller ID service,
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too: A psycho ex-girlfriend started mak-
ing rmiddle-of-the-night hang-up calls,
but my caller ID box told me who had
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when my friend Rob calls me, I see his
number on the caller ID box before I
pick up the phone. I answer, "Hi, Rob,"
and he wonders how I know. "You just
have a distinctive ring," I tell him.
For a while, I fiddled around with my
caller ID box, trying to figure out how to
get the information from the box into
some kind of format that my PC could
use — a serial port or something like
that. My idea was that when the
phone would ring, a little box would ap-
pear on my Windows screen saying
Joe Smith is calling. I never got far
with the project.
Imagine my delight, then, when AG
Communications Systems came out
with Window Phone, the answer to my
prayers. This $495 package is a com-
bination circuit board and software
that basically does all that I wanted —
and more. You pop the board into
your PC, connect it to your phone, and
install the software.
When you run Window Phone, it
shows you a screen with a speed dial-
er and a Who Has Called window. The
speed dialer looks like the one that's
on many phones; you have a bunch of
buttons with names next to them, and
you just click on one of the buttons to
make Window Phone dial that number
from your telephone (it works on any
touch-tone phone). The window on the
right side of the screen shows the
phone numbers from which you've re-
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bers are in your on-disk phone directo-
ry, the names of the incoming callers.
For example, you might see Susan
Stathoplos — unanswered call or Andy
Kydes — 20 minutes. Window Phone
can tell you not only which calls were
not answered but also how long you
talked. This is, then, a database that
consultants could use for billing clients.
Window Phone will also pop up a
box in front of any Windows application
when the phone rings, telling you
who's calling. It supports a database of
information about callers, so I might
see Gerry Manginetli is calling. I could
then open up the Gerry Manginelli re-
cord on my database, where I would
see Gerry's birthday topics of last con-
versation, hobbies, or whatever I'd put
in the database. If I had a scanned
picture of Gerry, I could even put
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Window Phone is nearly
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THE COMPLETE
COMMUNICATOR
If I didn't have a PC, I'd buy
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ports built into the mother-
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they called from our second
phone, left each other mes-
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If you run a small business or a home office, you'll probably find
that The Complete Communicator lives up to its name.
which ports are taken. That
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There are two versions of
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dows. In my opinion, they're
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have all the same stuff; even
the structure of menus and
program flow are the same.
But the DOS version uses
function and cursor key men-
us and dialogs. That kind of
interface went out five years
ago. It beeps at you and
flashes messages when you
do something wrong.
The Windows version of
the software is slick and
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Al! you do is pull down a
menu or click on a button
for almost every selection.
I loved setting up voice
mail. It's about a million
computer and listened.
You can set up as many
mailboxes as you need.
They're configurable for a va-
riety of situations. They can
have password protection
and can be limited to a
fixed number of messages
and greetings so that you
don't run out of storage
space if you've got a lot of
mailboxes.
Beyond all of the basics,
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Any of the mailboxes can for-
ward messages to another
number. The mailboxes can
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mote locations — not just to lis-
ten to messages, but to up-
date greetings, too.
If your company board
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UTOPIA
When you first see Utopia's
main screen, you're likely to
say, "Look! It's a combina-
tion of SimCity and Popu-
lous!" You won't be far
wrong.
Add SimCity's creative
city-building charm to the
challenge of manufacturing
and deploying weapons for
an unavoidable war. Then
present it onscreen in the
Populous-style, one-square-
at-a-time elevated view, and
you have Utopia. Using prov-
en principles from those two
132 COMPUTE DECEMBER 1992
games, Utopia then carries
the simulation several steps
further.
As the administrator of a
new planetary colony, you
make all decisions and sin-
gle-handedly create the col-
ony. Select from two dozen
types of buildings and
place them on the map, one
units. Food levels are low;
build hydroponics domes.
Morale is low. Build hospi-
tals and hire medics, put in
a sports complex and hold
a few sporting events, and
be sure to have enough liv-
ing quarters for everyone.
(They hate doubling up in
their apartments.) And
Controlling a planet in Utopia can be an administrative niglitrnare,
but it's a rewarding administrative niglitmare.
by one. It's already more
complex than SimCity— on a
new planet, you need life-
support systems, hydropon-
ics labs, mines, and refiner-
ies, as well as weapon em-
placements and tank and
spaceship factories.
Once the buildings are
up, you staff them by setting
employment quotas for the
mines, labs, and factories. If
you put too many into tech-
nical work, general construc-
tion slows. Throughout the
game, you're balancing re-
sources and needs.
If you lose the balance,
all kinds of things go wrong.
Your objective is twofold:
Avoid destruction by the en-
emy and sustain a Quality of
Life (QOL) of 80 percent or
better. You need defense
spending to avoid annihila-
tion, but without social
spending your QOL hits the
skids, crime skyrockets,
and, if things get bad
enough, you may even face
assassination.
Oops, the oxygen level is
low, and citizens are dying.
Build more life-support
through it all, keep the tax
rate down.
You get the idea. You
must skillfufly balance these
and many other factors. As
the colony grows, the citi-
zen's demands come faster
and faster. Eventually,
you're doing nothing but re-
sponding to emergencies,
building apartments willy-nil-
ly on the nearest plot of emp-
ty land, and losing control in
the rush to keep things from
falling irretrievably apart.
Imagine your consterna-
tion when, in the midst of all
this, the enemy attacks. If
you've prepared well, you
can handle it.
The number of factors to
control seems overwhelm-
ing. (Did I mention setting re-
search grant levels, trading
commodities in interstellar
markets, spying on the ene-
my, and keeping your mo-
bile defenses in constant mo-
tion?) Surprisingly, it doesn't
take long to achieve a satis-
fying degree of control,
Once you gain control, it's ex-
hilarating to master the plan-
etary administrator's job.
This well-balanced chal-
lenge takes only about 1MB
of hard disk space, a wel-
come change in a field dom-
inated by 10- to 15MB mon-
sters. Konami did this by
resisting the temptation to
provide unnecessary state-
of-the-art graphics and
sound. Instead, graphics
and sound are simple but
effective.
You won't build a true Uto-
pia— a place of ideal perfec-
tion in law, government, and
social conditions — the first
time out, but you may even-
tually get tantalizingly close.
If so. move up to the next of
the ten increasingly difficult
scenarios. Utopia's chal-
lenge will bring you back
again and again, seeking to
make each new colony a lit-
tle better than the last one.
raCHARD 0 MANN
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more comprehensive in
some ways but less nimble
in others, and a solid if con-
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servative choice by any-
one's standards.
Installing dBASE IV 1.5 is
easy and swift. It runs in a
lean 450K of RAM and
weighs in at a svelte 4.5MB
of disk space with all exam-
ple files loaded. It begins by
showing you the Control Cen-
ter, a deceptively simple
screen from which you can
create or modify any of the
following: database files, que-
ries, data entry forms, re-
ports, labels, or applications
(which manage combina-
tions of the aforementioned
objects).
Borland's manuals stress
the use of the applications
generator, and it's no won-
der. Not very sexy but writ-
ten in an accessible and
well-documented template
language, it's an extremely
powerful applications gener-
ator and able to do a tremen-
dous amount of work for
you. FoxPro's is a glittering
bauble by comparison — pret-
tier but far less capable.
The report writer that
comes with dBASE IV 1.5
doesn't appear to have
changed since 1.1, but it
didn't need to. The 1.1 re-
port writer was immediately
justly famous, and the tradi-
tion continues. (If you have
version 1.0 but not 1.1 and
are thinking of upgrading,
note that PostScript support
is finally here.)
If you're a dBASE III Plus
user who has avoided up-
grading to version IV until
Borland got hold of the prod-
uct, row's the time to move
up. Indeed, dBASE IV is
rock-solid and a huge im-
provement from version III.
You've probably guessed al-
ready that the Control Cen-
ter is an industrial-strength re-
placement for the wimpy As-
sist. Other giant-step im-
provements include (but are
by no means limited to) mul-
tiple-tag index files that
134 COMPUTE DECEMBER 1992
speed file I/O by orders of
magnitude, much better sup-
port for arrays, 254 fields
per record (but still only
4000 bytes total), support of
more than one printer, data
encryption, keyboard mac-
ros, international currency
and date support, and — at
long last — a full set of user-
interface controls.
along but were just too em-
barrassed to ask.
The other new routines
give you the size, date, and
time of a file. Although
these have always been fair-
ly easy to implement in bin
files, it required knowledge
of 8088 assembly and MS-
DOS system internals that
most dBASE programmers
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dBASE IV 1.5 is the Volvo sedan of databases, combining lean,
solid, and practical aspects with innovative new features.
The dBASE IV language
has menu and window con-
trol in spades, implemented
in a very dSASE-like fash-
ion. It's very easy to pick up
and really fun to use in your
applications.
Language improvements
since version 1.1 are rather
few in number, but they'l
warm the cockles of any 0
programmer's heart. Eleven
functions for low-level file ac-
cess let you do what
dBASE should have done
five years ago and were add-
ed only perhaps because
Clipper has already done it.
Functions that mimic the file
I/O routines provided with
ANSI C include FCREATE(),
FOPENO. FREADO,
FV^RITEO, and others.
This means that for the first
time, you can create text
files from a dBASE applica-
tion! It's one of those things
that's so obvious, you as-
sumed it was possible ail
would rather not have to
know. Another relief is the in-
clusion of procedure librar-
ies— you can now have
more than one procedure in
a file. A Set Library com-
mand supplements Set Pro-
cedure, which can now be re-
served for local operations.
And if you were worried
about how the language
would deal with multiuser en-
vironments after fiddiing
with network kiudges in III
Plus, you can breathe a
sigh of relief: Everything is
well designed and well doc-
umented: this is one of the
few database products with
documentation that doesn't
seem to assume you've
been a network administra-
tor for years and know exact-
ly what to look for in the ref-
erence section.
However, the Getting Start-
ed manual just doesn't go
far enough. The dBASE lan-
guage tutorial could've
been written for III Plus and
ignores such fundamental is-
sues as user interface. You
should expect to spend sev-
eral weeks on Using dBASE
IV, which has extensive tuto-
rials on the Control Center's
applications. You can save
a tremendous amount of
time using the Control Cen-
ter, and many job descrip-
tions for dBASE program-
mers require that they know
it — for good reason. I'm not
convinced that generating
dBASE applications without
resorting to coding is as
easy as it should be to
learn, but once you know
how, you can crank out im-
pressive turnkey applica-
tions with almost no handcod-
ing at all. One manual I miss
dearly from 1 . 1 was a tutori-
al that took you step by
step through the creation of
a substantial application us-
ing relational databases, the
applications generator, and
a touch of handcoding. i'm
not sure why it was left out,
but I'd like to see it reap-
pear in a later version.
If you're sure you want to
stay with dBASE, upgrading
from II or III Plus is a mere
S175. The choice between
dBASE IV and FoxPro, how-
ever, might be a bit tougher.
There are certain applica-
tions for dBASE IV that the
celebrated FoxPro simply
cannot handle, and if your
needs lie in this area,
there's no contest. First,
dBASE supports Commit
and Roolback. These are
mainframe-style commands
that ensure you can save or
restore the state of the data-
base at will. While disk-inten-
sive and not to be used cas-
ually, they are the only way
you can guarantee data in-
tegrity— and FoxPro doesn't
support them. Second,
dBASE IV's applications gen-
erator is less attractive than
FoxPro's, but it can create
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it's worth your time and mon-
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that. Finally, it's guaranteed
dBASE compatible — and in
these days of fragmenting
language standards, that's
not a bad thing at all.
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SOLITAIRE'S
JOURNEY
Some 1 enjoy; some I don't.
Some are easy to learn; oth-
ers more difficult. Some are
challenging; others are near-
ly impossible. But with 105
different versions of solitaire,
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Solitaire's Journey is a
straightforward approach to
electronic solitaire. If you
play a variety of traditional
solitaire games, you'll prob-
ably find an electronic ver-
sion of each of them includ-
ed. And if you enjoy explor-
ing and mastehng new and
different games of solitaire,
you'll find hours of enjoy-
ment here.
Solitaire's Journey in-
cludes not only 105 games
but also instructions for
each built right into the pro-
gram. Simply select the
game you want to play and
136 COMPUTE DECEMBER 1992
pick Rules from the pull-
down menu or hit the R key.
and you'll see a summary of
rules on an easy-to-follow lay-
out of the game board, if
you need more detailed in-
struction for any of the
games (and beginners to Sol-
itaire's Journey will almost
certainly need more details),
Quest alternatives are mere
attempts to unnecessarily
add new dimensions to an al-
ready complete package.
In Journey, the player
must move across a map of
North America between pre-
determined starting and end-
ing cities. As the player
moves from city to city, he
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Journey, although the journey itself can be tedious.
they're available also.
Don't like the backs of
your cards and want a differ-
ent style? Or maybe the
screen background color is
not to your liking? Changing
either is simple enough, be-
cause Solitaire's Journey of-
fers ten different decks and
240 backgrounds.
Another interesting fea-
ture of Solitaire's Journey is
its history function. Here the
program keeps track of
your average score for
each specific game you've
played, graphs your scores
so you can see your improve-
ment, and tells you the stan-
dard average score, which
serves as a benchmark for
comparison.
Although solitaire players
will enjoy the plethora of
games and find the simple,
friendly interface easy to
use, the built-in Journey and
or she must select which of
three solitaire games to
play. An amount of money is
received or given up depend-
ing on the score achieved,
Quest is similar, except that
the player moves from room
to room in a house. These at-
tempts at adding a new ob-
jective strike me as tedious
at best, since they require
that I play solitaire games I
don't particularly enjoy, Soli-
taire's Journey also includes
a tournament scenario that
suffers from the same monot-
onous problem.
The strength of Solitaire's
Journey is its variety of
games and its clear and con-
cise instructions. If you've ev-
er tried to learn new solitaire
games from a book, you'll
be impressed with the abili-
ty of Solitaire's Journey to ex-
plain the rules of each
game. What Solitaire's Jour-
ney doesn't do is explain
the strategy needed for any
of the games, although
there are some general tips
in the manual. You'll just
have to master each game
by experience — a challenge
that enhances the value and
appeal of this collection of
games.
Although the manual is
complete, you'll find the on-
screen instructions more
functional. The manual
does contain an overview of
each game. But what's
most helpful is the list of
games by category — a good
way to find out which games
are easiest to win! You'll also
need the manual for the off-
disk copy protection.
Although many players
will want to turn off the
sound. Solitaire's Journey
does support the Ad Lib
and Sound Blaster sound
cards. For me, the music is
more of a distraction than
an enhancement.
One improvement I'd like
to see in future releases is
the ability to use either key-
board or mouse at any time.
As it stands, if you have a
mouse driver installed, you
must use a mouse to play
any of the games. Although
the games are quicker if you
have a mouse, keyboard
players will have no trouble
controlling play.
If you like solitaire and en-
joy a variety of games, you'll
find Solitaire's Journey to be
a well-designed game pack
that will fill your needs and of-
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NEWPOINT
Boy, you just can't beat com-
petition. Microsoft releases
tine Ballpoint mouse (which
is actually a trackball, but
let's not get picky) for lap-
tops, and I think it's the great-
est thing since sliced
bread. Sure, it has prob-
lems; I can't close the lap-
top's cover with it attached,
and the cord is so long that
it often gets in my way. It
sure beats using the arrow
and Tab keys, though. I'm
happy, righf
I thought so, until I saw
Mouse Systems' NewPoint
trackball, which turns out to
be the greatest thing since
hot cinnamon rolls. If you're
looking for a pointing device
for your portable computer,
you'd be hard-pressed to
find a better choice.
Shaped like a '/i-pie
wedge, this little trackball
has one wraparound button
on the outer edge and a sec-
ond button on top, next to
the ball itself. The control
panel software, included in
both DOS and Windows ver-
sions, lets you select which
button will be used as the pri-
mary button, equivalent to
the left button of a two-but-
ton mouse. It also offers ad-
justable sensitivity and four
acceleration speeds: Dock-
ing, Cruising, Warp Speed,
and Hyperspace. Lefties
will be happy to know that
you can adjust the orienta-
tion— which way is up — so
the Newpoint can be used
on either side of the laptop.
You can hold the New-
Point in your hand or clamp
It to your keyboard. The
clamp is a work of genius.
You simply slide back a
small section, place the lip
over the edge of your key-
board, and let the sliding sec-
tion go. There are no little
screws to adjust. Also, the
lip that secures the clamp to
138 COMPUTE DECEMBER 1992
the keyboard is flat, so you
can close your laptop's cov-
er without removing the
clamp. This feature alone
was enough to make me
switch permanently to the
NewPoint, The trackball
slides easily on and off the
clamp; however, unlike with
the Ballpoint, you can't ad-
even more troublesome
than the BallPoint's coiled
cord.
The NewPoint I tested
was fuliy compatible with a
Microsoft serial mouse.
Mouse Systems doesn't in-
clude a bus mouse adapter,
so you can't attach it to a PS/
2-style bus mouse port. It
Home Alone (the game) bring Home Alone (the movie) to the small
monitor, offering many ways tor Kevin to foil ttie bad guys.
just the angle of the track-
ball. (I never used this fea-
ture anyway — why would an-
yone want a trackball sitting
at a 90-degree angle to the
keyboard?)
The NewPoint only miss-
es in one area: The cord is
too short. I thought I'd like
the shorter cord, as the Ball-
Point's longer one constant-
ly got in my way. The built-
in cord is only about 9 inch-
es long, however, and most
laptop computers are about
11 inches wide. You'll be
able to use the built-in cord
with laptops that have their
serial ports on the back. It
wasn't long enough,
though, to use with the Gate-
way Nomad or my Texas In-
struments TravelMate 2000,
which have their serial ports
on the left side. If Mouse Sys-
tems had only made the
cord 2 or 3 inches longer, it
would've been perfect. Now
I'm forced to use its three-
foot extension cord, which is
does come with a nice wal-
let-style carrying case.
Even with my few com-
plaints, I still think the New-
Point is a winner. Probably
the best evidence of this is
the fact that my BallPoint
and Thumbelina trackballs
haven't left my desk drawer
since the day I unpacked
the NewPoint.
DENNY ATKIN
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HOME ALONE
Your name is Kevin. You're
eight years old. Your family
went on a trip, and you got
left behind. To top it all off,
there are two bumbling bur-
glars named Harry and Marv
hovering outside of the
house . . . and you're home
alone. You've probably seen
the movie by now, but let's
go over this just one more
time.
Your mission is to keep
yourself and your house
safe — by any means neces-
sary— until the family gets
back to protect you.
Although the designers
probably had children in
mind when they turned
Home Alone into a video-
game, adults can get a kick
or two out of it, as well. The
concept is fairly simple: You
know that Harry and Marv
plan to break in at nine
o'clock. In an imaginary
hour, you, as little Kevin, run
around the house setting
traps which, you hope, will
foil the robbery stop the rob-
bers from catching you, and
keep you safe until the fami-
ly comes home.
After Kevin's traps are
complete or when he runs
out of time (whichever
comes first), in come Marv
and Harry. You then guide
the burglars throughout the
house, making sure that
they fall into the traps. The
more Harry and Marv tnp on
marbles, slip on banana
peels, and fall over bags of
flour, the more points you
earn. And if you're wise
enough to add Kevin's BB
gun to his arsenal, you can
release traps that can only
be set off by BB gun shots.
The game is easy to play
once you learn your way
around the house, but it's
not so easy that it becomes
boring. I had a heck of a
time trying to find Kevin's
room, where he hid his BB
gun. After a day or two, I
found the gun, but I still ha-
ven't figured out how to
shoot the traps. As a result,
my games always end with
Harry and Marv saying, "We
gotcha, ya little squirt!!!"
Home Alone sports graph-
ics and sound effects that
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definitely add to the game's
playability. The graphics are
more cute than anything
else, which I'm sure will
have kids eyeballing the
screen with enjoyment.
They'll especially like the ta-
rantula, because as soon as
it's set down, it starts crawl-
ing across the floor. The
sound effects aren't extrava-
gant, but they get the job
done. You can hear Kevin
picking up and setting
down objects, and you get
an earful when Harry and
Marv encounter his traps.
Regardless of the game's
technological capabilities,
the bottom line is that if you
liked the movie, you'll prob-
ably like the game, too. It's
a good family-oriented
game that everyone from
Grandma to Junior can en-
joy. It might take a little
while to learn your way
around, but after you do you
won't have a hard time play-
ing Home Alone.
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expandable to 6MB or
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adapter unit (up from 1MB
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hard disk, depending on
your style number, expanda-
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IBM designed the PS/1 as
therapy for the computerpho-
bic. Two years later, PS/1
purchasers talk like comput-
er scientists on Prodigy's PS/
1 User's Club bulletin
boards. With their increased
knowledge, many are ventur-
ing into areas the PS/1
wasn't designed to handle.
Many want faster speeds
and more memory. So IBM in-
troduced a new PS/1: a
386SX 16 MHz (up from a
140 COMPUTE DECEMBER 1992
some and limited. Unfortu-
nately, the PS/1 doesn't
come with a DOS manual,
making it even more difficult
to do anything outside of
the shell if you don't know
the commands or even the
options you have.
In fact, my biggest com-
plaint about the machine Is
The IBM PS/1 represents a step up from its predecessor, but don 't
expect it to be more than a good starter machine.
grow). Other original PS/1
features remain the same.
A muscular child could
probably set up the com-
pact system faster than he
could build a Lego house,
with about as much instruc-
tion required.
The colorful Startup Sys-
tem menu shows off one of
the machine's best fea-
tures— its crisp, bright video
screen. Beneath the system
menu sits an introductory
world of computing; preload-
ed software programs, includ-
ing Microsoft Works (word-
processing, spreadsheet,
database, and communica-
tions software all in one),
DOS 4.1 (5.0 with some ma-
chines), the Prodigy and
Promenade online networks,
and. with my model B82, Win-
dows 3.0.
The DOS Shell program,
while less frightening than
the C prompt, is very cumber-
its lack of documentation. At
first, you may not want to
wade through technical mum-
bo jumbo. But after you
know the basics, it's hard to
go further.
Apparently, the slightly
sluggish mouse can't have
settings changed to better
operate games and applica-
tions, because there's no
mention of it anywhere,
The modem section of
the technical reference
guide (only 138 pages for
the entire system, software
and adding hardware!) took
up barely five pages. That
makes it difficult to fully use
the modem with any other
communication software or
to connect to anything other
than IBM's prepackaged
Prodigy or Promenade,
The tightness of the key-
board makes you feel like
you're doing something, but
the Caps Lock key sits dan-
gerously close to the left
Shift key. With my long finger-
nails, I typed in all caps half
the time and muttered
about time wasted retyping
the other half of the time.
The new basic 2MB RAM
gives enough room for most
home and small business
programs, as well as Win-
dows applications. Once
your needs exceed the ma-
chine's initial capabilities,
it's best to graduate to a
build-your-own system, be-
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After all, it's meant to be
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All in all, IBM delivers
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Mordread, is demanding revenge. You, as Dirk the Daring, must test your
skills as you are thrust Into a frantic quest through time to save Daphne
and the children before they are trapped forever in the Vortex of Eternity.
Dragon's Lair III: The Curse of Mordread brings the classical animation
style of Don Bluth to your computer featuring full-screen animation,
digitized sound and new animations not included in the original laser disc
arcade game.
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LABELS
UNLIMITED
This program's title might
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riety of professional-looking
disk labels, name tags, tick-
ets, coupons, product or in-
ventory labels, binder covers,
and labels for audio- and vid-
eocassettes, as wall as plain
or fancy mailing labels.
Instead of being linnited
to the few fonts provided by
typical printers, you can
choose from two different
typefaces, point sizes from
4 to 144, and regular, bold,
italic, and bold-italic styles.
Further variety can be add-
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Labels Unlimited lets you
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and more than 40 such imag-
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Hercules) display. The print-
ing can be up to 300 dots
per inch on laser, ink-jet, and
most dot-matrix printers.
You can create product
tags and sequentially num-
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clude boxes, borders, shad-
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Labels Unlimited is a desk-
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lar layout and copy.
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To make things simple,
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their most popular stock la-
bels are provided in the pro-
gram. If you choose, you
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takes you through creating
and printing a videocassette
label with two fonts and a
graphic. A handy two-sided
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most important commands.
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kinds of labels enhanced by plenty of fonts and graptiics^
13 inches. If you select a
standard label, the dimen-
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page are defined.
Each label can be divid-
ed into up to six printing ar-
eas called zones, with 18
zone layouts provided within
the program. You really
don't need imagination as
much as the ability to make
a choice and follow pro-
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Labels Unlimited lets you
create templates to import
data from ASCII text files, as
well as delimited or fixed
file structures. Similarly, you
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The program's 150+-
page manual is very de-
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need after a couple of
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Labels Unlimited is very
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It would challenge Mr.
Spock. It could test Mother
Teresa's patience. It could
be the leading cause of
mouse abuse.
It is Logical, an arcade
game with a deceptively sim-
ple premise. The action
takes place in a mechanical
ant farm that contains tun-
nels with four-pod wheels
blocking every intersection.
You coax and force little col-
ored balls into matching
groups to explode the
pods. If you blow up all the
pods before the hourglass
drains, you receive a pass-
word to the next level.
While you methodically
sort balls. Logical fiendishly
floods more balls into the bot-
tleneck entries, fatally clog-
ging initial pods. Color-stop-
pers block conflicting hues.
Color-changers tint others in-
to conformity. Direction-
Switchers repel everything.
Spock's favorites — the tele-
porters — transport balls into
the nether regions.
One minute mistake or
brief pause for panic has le-
thal results. Logical can be
quite unforgiving. Close
doesn't count, even if one fail-
ure uses more energy than
ten wins.
If you don't have a darn
good mouse, don't bother
with the frustration. Beyond
the rudimentary levels, win-
ning is improbable for the
mouseless. The crisp, vi-
brant graphics with four
choices of marbled back-
grounds encourage staring
at the screen for hours, I
couldn't get the mono-
chrome option to work on
the mono screen I tried, al-
though it did work on color
screens. Odd. Sound cards
are supported but not essen-
tial. Logical creates wonder-
fully interesting sound ef-
fects and tunes for the PC
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Speaker, including a little
"Nyeah, nyeah, nyeah" ditty
to accompany the frequent
YOU FAILED screens.
Masters of all 99 hair-tear-
ing designs crafted by Logi-
cal's German programming
wizards are rewarded with
the final password. It pro-
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development tools allowing
victims to design their own
torture chambers. Logical is
the perfect game for maso-
chists. in more ways than
one.
Infinite possibilities await
the easily addicted. When
my mouse hand became a
cramped contortion, I still
found myself playing Logi-
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The new Windows version of PGA Tour Golf includes several
challenging courses, functional graphics, and clean simulation.
PGA TOUR GOLF
FOR WINDOWS
As if there weren't enough
distractions from the daily
grind. Electronic Arts fans
the flames of procrastination
with the best-selling PGA
Tour Golf, newly revised for
Windows. Productivity might
never be the same.
The game opens into a
window of fixed proportions,
slightly smaller than a full
screen. Allowed memory to
spare, the program multi-
tasks with ease. The game
window's reduced size
helps deliver the program's
seven-second screen up-
date, the fastest of any 256-
coior golf simulation.
Visit the Pro Shop to en-
list golfers from the user-de-
fined member list. Each play-
er can choose his or her fa-
vorite club configuration
and animated onscreen al-
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technique on the driving
range and putting green
and then play through a sin-
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up to four golfers — human
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board modeled after 60 na-
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Finish in the top 48 to ad-
vance to the second round
and in the top 32 for the
third and fourth rounds. As
a member of the PGA entou-
rage, your vital statistics —
performance, standings,
and winnings — are continual-
ly tracl<ed, updated, and
saved to disk. Major chang-
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ported with optional on-
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The basic package offers
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ters. Veteran players coined the term tar-
get golf [o describe the pinpoint accura-
cy needed to survive this exquisite array
of narrow fairways, wide bunkers, and
merciless water hazards. PGA West Sta-
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enough challenging terrain — valleys,
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fill a dozen minor courses. The gently roll-
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play host to the Kemper Open, the coun-
try's longest-running corporate-spon-
sored sporting event. A fourth fantasy
course. Sterling Shores, was designed
especially for the program.
Also available, and highly recom-
mended, is the supplement course
disk, featuring three additional TPG lo-
cales: Southwind (Pederal Express St.
Jude Open), Eagle Trace {Honda Clas-
sic), and Scottsdale (Phoenix Open).
Artist and animator Cynthia Hamil-
ton's outstanding biend of polygon and
bitmapped graphics lends the game
its distinct personality. While other prod-
ucts sacrifice speed and gameplay for
increasingly garish photorealism, Hamil-
ton's high-resolution images are func-
tional to a fault — almost architectural in
design. On the downside, the solid-fill
fairways lack the depth and character
of textured terrain.
The simulation plays as clean as it
looks, accurately portraying the cumula-
tive effects on your performance of wind,
ball lie, and swing. Several shot styles are
available to rescue you from horrible lies:
chip shots, punches, and blasts. Each
club's distance potential can also be ad-
justed to fine-tune your swing.
The game's few shortcomings have
no impact on gameplay, such as the
inability to print golfer's stats or tourna-
ment outcomes. Another disappoint-
ment is the absence of the originals fly-
by hole preview, replaced by the slow,
virtually useless Hole Browser. There's
also no course designer, although
most users will hardly notice.
Electronic Arts picked a winner for
its first foray into Windows entertain-
ment. Let's hope it isn't the last.
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MAYNARD
ARCHIVEXL 80
For computer users with large hard
drives, a tape backup system has be-
come the next must-have peripheral pur-
chase. The Maynard ArchiveXL 80 is a
tape backup unit that pulls its weight in
making sure your data files are safely
backed up.
The ArchiveXL 80 is designed as a
low-cost backup device for personal
use. It can pack up to 120MB of data
(up to 250fv1B if you use compression)
on a single extended-length tape. Sev-
eral backups can be stored on the
same tape, and when necessary, it's
possible for your backups to span mul-
tiple tapes.
The ArchiveXL system uses what's
become the industry standard: the quar-
ter-inch cartridge (QIC). The device
can read both QIC-8Q and QIC-40
tapes.
I tried an external unit, dubbed the
5580e. Other drives in the series in-
clude the 5540e, a lower-capacity ex-
ternal unit, and the 55801 and 55401,
comparable internal drives. These
drives are designed for AT or compati-
ble computers. ArchiveXL models
52401 and 52406 are available for XT-
class machines,
The 55B0e measures 8V? inches
long, 4'/s inches wide, and 2% inches
high. It can sit flat, or if desktop real es-
tate is at a premium, it can be turned
on its side like a tower case PC and in-
serted into a pedestal base provided
for that purpose.
The system includes an interface
card, which is placed in an empty slot
in the computer, and all the cables
necessary to hook the unit up to your
computer.
The system comes packed with a
copy of QlCstream backup software,
which is an adequate, but not flashy,
performer. Although QlCstream is com-
patible with DOS 5.0, it's not compati-
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It can back up and restore full
disks, changed files, or selected files.
QlCstream includes a macro capabili-
ty and a scheduler to permit automat-
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easy to figure out how to use these ad-
vanced features.
Both the written documentation and
online help are cryptic and difficult to
follow. Thankfully, though, the Ar-
chiveXL 80 works well with other soft-
ware, such as Central Point Backup,
which scores much higher in the ease-
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biy for backups and re-
stores. The ArchiveXL 80
drive also backed up and re-
stored flawlessly using Cen-
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tape format, but tapes
stored in that formal lose
their compatibility with the
QlCstream software.
By default, QlCstream per-
forms a backup with a veri-
fy, in more than 600fvlB of
backups, only one file failed
to verify.
The verification performed
by QlCstream checks the
tape to make sure the data re-
corded there is readable. On
the other hand, CP Backup
and other specialized back-
up programs can perform a
full file-by-file comparison of
the files on tape and on
disk.
Whether you verify a back-
up or do a full comparison,
it adds significantly to the
time required for the back-
up. But since you're not feed-
ing floppies during the
whole process, it doesn't re-
ally matter. The ArchiveXL
80 can do its work while
you're out to lunch or after
you've finished working for
the day.
Backup speed varies
from about 500K per minute
to about 3fv1B per minute, de-
pending on the speed of the
machine being used and
the type of data being
backed up. Backup times al-
so can be affected by the
presence of another de-
vice— such as a scanner —
on the same DfViA channel
as the ArchiveXL 80.
Although the manual pro-
vides no information about
which DfvIA channel is used
by the tape drive, experimen-
tation showed that backups
ran much more quickly
once DMA conflicts were
eliminated.
With a top tape capacity
of 250MB, the ArchiveXL 80
has proved to be a solid con-
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tributor to data safety for
both individual workstations
and small networks. Backups
across a network worked
just as well, though a iittie
more slowly, than backups
of local drives.
In cases where a network
is not available, the Ar-
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PAPERBOY 2
Admit it. When you were a
kid, you dreamed of that no-
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challenge ... the thrill of be-
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Didn't you? I did. I
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through the neighborhood,
With Paperboy 2. you get points not only for delivering papers
successfully but also for breaking windows.
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launching papers with tacti-
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front porch. Now and then
(heh-heh-heh!) I'd target a
mud puddle or a roof — or
(dare I say it?) maybe fvlr.
McGillicuddie's window!
But I never realized the
dream. Just didn't have the
right stuff, I guess. And I cer-
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launch one through fvlr. tvl's
front panes, whether he de-
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Till this morning,
Yes! This morning I cracl<-
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did. I splashed papers into
Mr. Smithers' pool! And I
blasted the news through
McGillicuddie's window over
and over again!
And thanks to Paperboy
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Paperboy 2, unlike its
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and goes left, right, and
straight ahead. That's fortu-
nate, since the neighbor-
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cles that must be jumped,
dodged, or otherwise avoid-
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Your basic score is tied
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that give this game its whole-
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fair bhngs 250. You can al-
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for a paltry 50 points each.
The biggest thrill comes
when you go for the break-
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You can break windows, of
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you can earn still more
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knows? Your initials might
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eye as her papergirl roared
through the neighborhood. In-
terestingly, though, some of
the paperboy's all-in-fun
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old — and I found it hard to
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Child-rearing questions
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To restore the fleet to op-
erational status, you must
find and replace the Energy
Flux Decoupler, locate the In-
hibit Lock and place it on
the bridge, and finally, in-
crease all on-board systems
to 80-percent efficiency or
greater. These repairs take
enough time without freshly
thawed and vicious xenomor-
phs roaming free, but you
must rush to beat the
steady climb of radiation, as
well. To add to the complex-
ity, Spacewrecked doesn't
much improve the standard
"lost in a maze" perspective
common to subterranean fan-
tasy games: as with dun-
geon walls, the often nonde-
script corridors of a dam-
aged ship can befuddle
even careful players. No
one wants to waste valuable
time stalking down look-
alike pathways.
As systems fail, expect
even more aggravating prob-
lems. The lights may shut
down, necessitating flares
or flashlights. Fortunately,
the crew left a great deal of
valuable hardware scattered
about; you need only live
long enough to collect it.
Half the fun of this game in-
volves picking up technolog-
ical trinkets and attempting to
wedge them into the always
restrictive inventory slots.
The most valuable knick-
knack? A flamethrower. This
weapon may not have
worked well for the crew of
the Nostromo, but it works
fine here; the larger targeting
sigtit counteracts the game's
simulated jitters. Sights for
blasters and handguns
twitch constantly making a di-
rect hit on an enemy difficult.
Plenty hard to complete with-
out artificially induced nervous-
ness, Spacewrecked would
not miss this annoyance in
the least.
You might think that a so-
156 COMPUTE DECEMBER 1992
phisticated team of robots
on your side would even the
overwhelming odds, They
will, but first you have to find
them, program them to do
your bidding, and sometimes
recharge Ihem. With the prop-
er cartridges installed, these
helpful droids will scan for
life forms, fight for you, and
Blue and glowing, the
Spacewrecked introduction
sequence seems to promise
great visuals to come, but on-
ly cartoonish aliens and sim-
ple objects follow. Suspense-
ful theme music plays just
after the game loads; unori-
ginal sound effects accompa-
ny the game itself.
Whether it's used to calculate complicated problems or convert
data for research, Mathematics occupies a category all its own.
heal you besides. A program
could send them to the far
end of a ship to carry out a
specific function or to simply
shut down.
While the programming
screens will make perfect
sense to a long-time comput-
er hobbyist, they might give
pause to a layman. On the
other hand, successfully
teaching the robots their les-
sons might illustrate some
programming essentials —
not a bad tradeoff for the in-
itial confusion — and, with
practice, the daunting assort-
ment of programming and in-
ventory interaction options
becomes second nature.
Together, however, these
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book left plenty of room for
personal exploration. But I
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and I hope you're as im-
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The easiest and possibly
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Type in a question, and out
pops an answer. Sure, you
can get answers to prob-
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files to simple outlines of ttie
major facial features.
Of special interest for analyzing fa-
cial expressions are the eyebrows.
Wtien they're reduced to simple out-
lines, they're easy to quantify Once
this is done, tables of data for different
pictures allow the people doing the anal-
ysis to have nice, convenient sets of da-
ta for comparison,
If you run a business and want
more numeric help than your spread-
sheet can provide, think about using
Mathematica. It'll let you easily create
special functions for anything you can
image, Financiers can design special
amortization schedules. Ail that's nec-
essary is entering the formula, typing in
the numbers to process or reading
them from an ASCII file on disk, and
then letting the program work its mag-
ic. Before you know it, you'll have your
table,
1 ran Microsoft Works and loaded in
my personal budget spreadsheet. I
then saved it to disk as an ASCII file. Af-
ter running Mathematica, I used the
function that loads a list of numbers
from an ASCII file into a variable list.
Then, the BarChartSD function gave
me a graphical display of my budget.
You can also view pie charts, 2-D bar
charts, and line graphs.
These graphs are great for business
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If you're in the education field, I'd al-
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I taught geometry for six years. During
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then typed in sets of numbers during
class. There would've been no down
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examples on the board.
Before you rush out and buy the
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Second, even though the documen-
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OK. let's be honest; If you're not into
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Are We There Yet? is a challenging, ed-
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The f\/lallard family wins fourth place
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from the box. Leaving the white picket
fence behind, they travel the nation
with their award, a handy coupon
book for U.S. tourist traps. They can
move from one state to another only af-
ter solving some problems. Making
this trip is what the manual calls the typ-
ical American family. The hardworking
Drake Mallard isn't home much. The
mom thinks she may be turning into
her own mother (how fitting that the on-
ly name listed is Mom), while the daugh-
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rubber vermin vastly fascinating. We
don't see much of these folks, howev-
er, since solving the two puzzles in
each state forms the bulk of the game.
After choosing a state, the Mallards
are given such basic information as
state nickname, capital, and points of
interest. Then they select one of the
two tasks, each pertaining to an actu-
al event or place. Players encounter 23
l<inds of puzzles ranging from cross-
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coming the obstacle. In Vir-
ginia, the Mallards venture
the Great Peanut Tour (a
winding bicycle route) and
collide with the Kaleido-
scope Festival in Lyn-
chburg. The manual sug-
gests how each puzzle fits
with its event or place. For
the Rattlesnake Hunt in Penn-
sylvania, the Sentence
Search answer reveals why
it's a good idea for partici-
pants to check their lunch
bags (hint, hint). You're al-
lowed to choose from sever-
al highlighted states in any
order you want, but you
can'l move on to another
group of states until connplet-
ing the first.
As the family moves
along, it collects souvenirs
that appear during the final
challenge when the back of
each piece reveals part of an-
other jigsaw. Any souvenirs
it hasn't collected don't ap-
pear on the screen, thus
making the game harder to
solve. Luckily, the clue
book provides answers to
all puzzles and lists the sou-
venirs, in case you miss
them on your own.
While the more than 200
puzzles are educational,
they also require patience
and a considerable amount
of "brainergy." In fact, be-
fore actually starting the
game, the player must
piece together a map of the
United States. Warning:
These tasks move rather
slowly without a mouse.
Both -the game's creators
and I recommend using
one, though it's possible
{but somewhat frustrating)
to play with a keyboard. Al-
so, saving puzzles as you
solve them prevents having
to start over later, although
you have to load the fin-
ished puzzles one by one to
move on.
This may not be an action-
packed game, but the
162 COMPUTE DECEMBER 1992
sound effects and colorful
graphics liven up still
screens, providing a more in-
teresting atmosphere for solv-
ing crossword puzzles than
you'll ever find in the news-
paper. For anyone who en-
joys the challenge of think-
ing games. Are We There
Yet? offers enough to fill
DOS," I cheerfully took the
software . . . and then let
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Admittedly, I was a per-
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Next to the people at COM-
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can boot the machine, get in-
The family taking the lour in Are We There Yet? contributes Utile, but
the program has good crosswords and jigsav/ puzzles.
hours and some interesting
tidbits that may someday
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Before doing the tutorials, I
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file use, and hard disk man-
agement. The other, Automa-
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cause it looks less intimidat-
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and contains minirefreshers
from tine tutorial.
So liow do PC Instructor
and Professor DOS do all of
this wonderful teaching?
Just like a book would. The
only difference is that the
pages appear on a comput-
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orful, and a few graphics
and sounds are thrown in to
make reading more interest-
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mation easier to deal with,
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sections, and each section
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up to you.
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as I made my way through
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having to reread everything
else. The screens usually
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when new information was
displayed, but there were
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no nQticeable changes oc-
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bit nerve-wracking after a
while.
Then there was the monot-
ony. I'd have to say that PC
Instructor and Professor
DOS don't exactly "capti-
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through creative use of
graphics, sound and color,"
as their makers claim.
There Is a chance that you
may get a little bored, and
boredom doesn't make for
learning. The only sugges-
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You can build a town with Stickybear Town Builder, but you sure
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less to your yawns.
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Page Reatier Service Number/Advertiser
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Page
162 8-Bil
G-7
145
140 Abracadata
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167
299 Access Software
. . . . 76 77
202 Accolade
107
201
265 All My Slory Books, Inc
82
234
118 Amish Outia* Shareware Co
186
239
244 Anligrav Tojlkii
G-15
168
155 Allanlfed Ltd
152
111
191 Bare Bones Soltwafe . .
. . A-31
274
134 Belsoft - ,
186
Berkeley Systems -
120
260 BesI Personalized Books
39
263
213 BIX
87
251
173 Blue Valley Sotlwre
136
206
Brookslone Production Co
177
157
iai Caloke Industries
G-14
127
241 CanCor Innovations, Inc
A-ig
118
124 Cedar Sollware
186
198
156 CH Products
41
119
149 Chips & Br.s
180
296
166 Citizen American Corp
13
Clip Art Cijpt)oar(J . .
G-15
262
146 Commodore Insert
196
220 Compsull
G-17
19,'i
150 Compsull
]B9
180
137 CompuServe
. 16,17
142
Computet Business Services ....
89
197
141 Computer Productions
183
205
125 Creative Labs
. . . . 3
222
105 Creative Labs
. . . . 5
224
270 Creative Pijels Ltd
G-14
176
151 CyberDreams
149
200
135 Cypress Software
182
227
154 C-B4 Alive
G-15
125
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144 Davidson . , , .
189 Davidson
117
161 Oelpm
29
?6q
131 OemoSource
185
199
174 DeskTop Scltware
183
232
136 DigiPrinI Inc
A-13
?43
253 Disks O'Plenly
3-15
242
208 Disk-Count Sollware
174,175
120
110 Disney Soltrare
59
160 Disney Soil ware
115
192
112 Dr. T's Uluslc Sollware
116
250
292 Duslin Sollware
47
104
230 Duslin SolUvare
155
152
175 D&K Entertainment
BB
164
272 DC, True, Lid
135
106
133 Electronic Arts
103
?11
14B Electro-lech Electronics
G-14
235
214 Elite Software
185
177
219 Empire SoftA^re
123
153
178 Empire Sottware
161
169
Epson ..,,..,.
IFC 1
194
298 Epy«
128
185
215 ESI
.. . .A-19,A-29
240
FGM Connection
G-9
207 Fineiaslic Computer
A-13
233
271 Free Spirit Software
G-15
132
271 Free Spirit SoltAare
187
245 Friendly Solrare
1B3
Friendly So-tw,are
182
229
Genriral Rent-A-Car
167
238
290 GEnie
93
107
1B4 GeoVi/orks
25
212
Grapevine Group. The G-9
Grolier Multimedia 11
Hi-Tech Management Systems 89
Holosoft Teciinologies A-25
Horse Feathers Graphics G-/
H/permedia Concepts A-13
Impressions 101
Interplay 108
Jack Daniels 53
Jim Reno 136
JP PBM Products by Mai! G-H
Kids Secure ol Arrerica 32
Konami 159
Lance Hallner Games 185
LaserTsch 18?
Loltoware 182
Lucas Arts 97
Mallard 43
Mallard 45
MaxKimum Company 95
MECA Software , . . , 35
Merit Software 147
Micro Designs 136
Micro BSD A-11
MictoGralx 57
MicroLeague Sports 78,79
MicroMagic Productions 186
MicroProse 131
MicroProse 129
MicroProse 133
Microsphere A-3
Mission Control .' . , 179
MMC Development 37
Mooni ghter Software A-7
,National Discount Computer 185
National VidcoTex 166
NEC Technologies 6,7
Needhams Electronics 185
Wew World Computing 157
fJew Woild Computing 151
Nordic Track 170
Nova Logic 119
NRl/McGraw Hill 81
Origin 51
Origin 137
Panasonic 21
Pankhurst Programming G-14
Parsons Technology 23
Parlh Galen A-30
Passport Designs 15
PC Comix 122
PC CompoNet Inc 171
PertormancB Peripherals Inc G-23
Pixel Perfect 126
Point-ol-View computing .182
Poor Person Software , . A-29
PowerDisk 167
Presto Flint Books 89
Prolit Group, The 184
Psygnosis 139
Pulse-Meter 168
Pure Entertainment 173
Quantcm Qualily Productions Inc 143
Quantcm Quality Productions Inc 121
ReadySoll 141
SaleSolt Systems 188
116
264
266
226
266
217
216
267
109
121
138
182
248
126
210
236
252
108
297
158
295
129
203
130
143
179
221
254
223
170
147
273
256
188
258
255
257
291
123
159
289
172
237
114
228
SeXXy Software 184
Shareware Unlimited 900 , . , , A-9
Signature Analysis 82
Sierra On-Line 63
Sierra On-Line BC
Sierra On-Line 67
Sierra On-Line , 61
Sierra On-Line , .59
Sierra On-Line 65
Smart Luck Software 186
SVIC Software Publishers 187
SMC Software Publishers A-30
SoflLogic Solutions 31
SoflLogic Solutions 118
SoftStioppe Inc 188
Software Support InVI 188
SOGWAP Software G-9
SOGWAP Software A-25
Sole Source Systems 1B9
Ssarks Electronics G-13
Spectrum HoloByte 111
Saectrum Holobyte IS
Soiril of Discovery 153
SSI 127
S:ar Graphics 124
Star fi^icronics 39
Slarrore Publishing 184
Strategy Plus 181
SubLogic 75
Superior Micro Systems G-13
Syracuse Language Systems 182
Technical Tools A-ZO
Tenex G-5
Thfuslmastet 183
Turtle Beach Systems 144
US Robotics IBC
Vidia A-20
Villa Crespo Software 27
Virgin , , , 50
Virgin 52
Virgin 48
VMC Software A-19
VMC Software A-29
Walnut Creek CO ROM 188
Wedgwood Computer 187
Whiz Kid Productions 187
Zero's & Ones 173
Zippefware A-2fl
Income Opportunity Mart 88,39
Product (vlart ...,,--, 182,183,164,185,186,137,188,189
Classfieds 190,191
COMPUTE Books 152,154.168,160,172
COMPUTE/NET PowetVision 71
COMPUTE Subscription 113
COMPUTE Subscription 145
Gazette Disk Index G-13
Gazette Disk Sutjscription G-7
Gazette Productivity J^anager G-11
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sumer is a Texas inventor's
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Pennsylvania, is holding the
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Sound Byte
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Controlling the Infectious
The Virus Research Center of
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5435 Connecticut Avenue
NW, Washington, DC 20015;
202-364-8252) is calling for
legislation to quash virus-au-
thoring software and books.
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leased version 1,00 of Virus
Construction Laboratory, a
slick, professional product in-
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tended to write a variety of vi-
ruses that resist debuggers
and can contain up to 10 of
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kit, David Stang, Director of Re-
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products are destined to
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look like "the good ol' days."
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with a virus can be either a
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pending on the severity of the
crime and the state in which
it's committed, the U.S. current-
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known artists because of the
prohibitive fees and complex
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ings with their software. The
landmark turnabout in this tra-
ditionally tightfisted industry
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wood Way. Burbank, Califor-
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