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1. comes out more extensions files etc are added to your system folder You add the i product of the week a new printer a new modem the newest upgrade of your system i software or finally that one piece of software hardware you ve been lusting for since the day you got your machine and BANG the system i freezes crashes doesn t work What happened Briefly what happens is this Your system THE LIMAC FORUM OCTOBER 1996 I almost made this a non review by simply writing Conflict Catcher 3 Get it End of review But that would not be very fair either to Casady amp Greene who would like to see a i review nor to you the reader who would want to know why Solving Problems With Your HP DeskJet or Desk Writer 500 Remove the print cartridge Use a soft cloth slightly damp ened with water to clean accumulated paper dust and ink i from the metal platen cartridge guide and paper feed rollers Check your user manual if you re uncertain which is i which Look at the print cartridge to make sure the protective tape shipped on it has been removed from the nozzle and vent Use a damp cloth to clean the print cartridge cradle and the contacts on the print cartridge Place the cartridge back into the printer making sure you install it correctly Now press the Clean i button If the above steps2. move it one pixel at a time by using the Arrow key Did you know that if you hold down Command and use the Arrow key you will move the selected object five pixels at a i time T Send your favorite tips for working in i any Macintosh i program to Mo Lebowitz 2599 Phyllis Drive North Bellmore E NY11710 i Fax i 516 221 8376 i via e mail MoLebeaol com i Elor bring them to the next meeting Elections Elections for LIMac Directors will be held at our November meeting The Nominating Committee will present a slate and conduct the election at the meeting Nominations will also be taken from the floor We will elect a president vice president secretary treasurer and five Directors If you wish to nominate another member or yourself for any position please contact any member of the Election Committee Alan Gordon 516 538 7013 or agmac aol com Shelley Gross 212 799 5655 or shell yorick ny cybemex net Bob McAteer 516 587 8750 or boblimac aol com Don t Jeopardize Your Image with Ilustrator s Rasterize The Rasterize com mand in Adobe Illustrator 6 0 should be used with caution processes Netscape and Microsoft s Internet Browser recognize Stuffit as a helper application Object menu converts that allows you to uncompress files as soon as the Browser is done downloading them y i America On line uses Stuffit to auto
3. extension conflicts are inevitable Some can be i resolved easily just switch the reload order others may be harder to determine due to damage multiple extensions trying to load simultaneously bad programming code or other incompatibilities It really does not matter since you still have to find out what is giving you the problem That s the beauty of Conflict Catcher 3 For instance when you start the Conflict Catcher process it gives you a chance to help it by targeting files you think may be the culprits with its Intuition feature This can save lots of time in your conflict search Then the program turns off the last control panels and extensions selected soundfileat_ that you installed and scans for damaged resources in your start up files You can also display your start up files in several different list views including Date i Installed whether or not the file is Enabled Folder Kind Load Order my personal favorite amount of Memory Used or Name and you can display just about everything in the CC3 window in addition to your extensions and control panels including your fonts start up i items and shut down items as well as your i Apple Menu CC3 also keeps a log of your tests so that By clicking on the individual file s name color codes so that you can see exactly what you are looking at with a glance using one color for fonts another for exte
4. haven t taken care of your printing prob lems it may be time to replace the print cartridge i from The Circle Laser Update keeps the game moving no matter what To make a great game even better Terminal Velocity can be played over the World Wide Web against other pilots to see who really is the best pilot Also you can use Remote Ridicule to send taunts and comments to your opponents and teammates With no limits to the number of fighters there are the game can go crazy ina matter of minutes had a great time with this game have included a few codes for your convenience while playing the game Just type in the following codes while in the game TRIFIRO Temporary invincibility TRFRAME FPS ticker TRIBURN Speeds after burner up TRIFIR1 PAC ammo MANIACS 1000 After burner ammo RIFIR2 ION ammo TRIHOVR Hover while firing TRIFIR3 RTLammo TRIGODS Invincibility TRIFIR4 MAM ammo 3DREALM Power up all weapons TRIFIRS SAD ammo TRINEXT Skip to next level TRIFIR6 SWT ammo TRISHLD Shield restore TRIFIR7 DAM ammo TRSCOPE Oscilloscope TRWARP Warp to level TRIFIR8 200 After burner ammo TRIFIR9 temporary invisibility Only from v1 1 and upwards Please e mail any comments to shell yorick ny cybernex net E Fal What s in your System Folder Software FPU This Control Panel attempts to replace the missing math coprocessor with a software emu
5. system in other words you intend to keep it just like when you purchased it then you do not need Conflict Catcher However for the rest of us especially those of us who run extension heavy machines Conflict Catcher 3 is the number one piece of software I would personally recommend that you get and add to i your system Why After all System 7 5 comes with Extensions Manager True but if you run into an extension conflict it can take hours or days to find With Conflict Catcher 3 CC3 the time i spent solving the problem is much less I ran a i test with the System 7 5 1 upgrade using both Conflict Catcher 3 and Extensions Manager With Conflict Catcher 3 it took 25 minutes to find the conflict with Extensions Manger I stopped after one hour and I still had not i found it I had Conflict Catcher 2 and it was a wonderful program It did everything you expected of it and then some Casady amp Greene could have left it alone continued to market it and sold the improvements as a secondary program for Conflict Catcher 2 Instead they did a very honorable thing They decided to sell i it as an upgrade and unlike most upgrades these days it is truly worthy of the term i Conflict Catcher 3 makes its predecessor look like a porker It is faster and runs in a more logical manner making it much more efficient As more and more hardware and software
6. A new feature allows a specified set of fonts to be opened automatically when a certain application is run For instance you might have a minimal set of basic fonts active at startup but have a more interesting set become i active when you run QuarkXPress This auto matic activation is a good idea but it doesn t i go nearly far enough as we ll see shortly A better choice Adobe Type Manager has become Deluxe with version 4 adding a number of brand new and welcome features This is not just an upgrade it is a whole new program First the i program continues to do what it has always done what has made it one of the most standard additions on Macs it cleanly renders PostScript and Type 1 fonts both on screen and on printers even non PostScript printers ATM assisted type looks great on screen at any i type size making it much easier to fine tune Continued on Page 5 THE LIMAC FORUM OCTOBER 1996 Photoshop 4 0 New features in Photoshop 4 0 895 are aimed at control and productivity An i Actions palette lets users record a sequence of editing i steps and then apply i them interactively or in batch mode to any i number of other images while Guides and Grids offer page layout type precision i A Navigator palette and speedier scrolling and zooming mean quicker movement to i various portions of an image And new i Adjustment
7. R aes el Long Island Macintosh Users Group Post Office Box 518 Seaford New York 11783 THE MANY PARTS OF FRACTAL DESIGN DONT MISS IT FRIDAY OCTOBER 11AT 7PM Helen and Sheldon Gross SHEL1 yorick ny cybernex net LIMac 1001 MoreUtilities including Newswatcher 212 for net surfers msw to html 1 5 updates to 4 08 for Sam users amp PPPop1 32 to make your online openings easier LIMac 1002 ALMSharewareSH with Alex s Encrypt 1 0 1EAT CoffeeTimer 1 0 LEAT DragAnyWindow 3 2 1FAT IconArchiver 1 0 2EAT KeyQuencer 1 2 2a List Files 2 5 4FAT Name Finder 1 1EAT No Desktop Cleanup 1 2 1 PowerPCheck 3 0 2FAT PowerXplorer 1 0 5FAR Shutdown Delay 2 3 1 i amp SimpleText Color Menu 2 1 4 LIMac 1003 ToolsSH has Laserwriter 8 3 4 TechTool 1 1 1 RAMCheck 2 1 amp SimpleDate 1 3 1 and LIMac 1004 PowerScan2 1 amp MacError Codes our favorite updated version and LIMac 106 TattleTech 2 50 amp Columns 1 1 has my favorite game along with a real utility LIMac 1000 Marathon speaks for itself LIMac 999 SnailRace amp Games Small Game i Folder Sim MonteCarlo SnailRace Kitand Acrobat Reader essential for reading the kit s documentation Check the August Off The Shelf column in the FORUM for additional details See you all on line E Off The Shelf Goodies available this month include LIMac 1005 Mouseworks5 0SH is an Tak
8. i hard drive by 40 to 50 The second control panel loaded is the Finder Integration control panel The newest version of Stuffit relies and works with the Mac s Finder at a system level i This results in considerable savings in both RAM and processor overhead which in turn speeds up whatever you are doing Using i Stuffit Deluxe 3 5 1 it took 4 minutes to com press a 119 megabyte Director movie 4 0 i handled the same task in a little over 3 minutes Uncompressing the same file took Stuffit Expander 3 5 a little over 5 minutes Stuffit Expander 4 0 1 uncompressed the same file in i just over 2 minutes Stuffit Deluxe 4 0 is a must have for any Macintosh user E into ustrator PRE magazine September 1996 Stuffit Deluxe 4 0 Suitcase 3 0 vs Adobe Type Manager Deluxe 4 0 So what about it Raymond Lau wrote Stuffit over 10 years ago Te had the need to take a large file and split it into i separate parts or just to make it smaller Stuffit Deluxe 4 0 the latest in the series is a fantastic tool It unzips PC files unbinhexs files it opens It has appeared as a freeware shareware and commercial product every since Who hasn t Compactor Pro files Now Utilities compressed files and even files that have been compressed by Disk Doubler Using AppleScript or User land s Frontier you can even automate the This allows you to increase the size of your Suitcase
9. of this writing the program is less than a month from shipping More Suitcase vs ATM Deluxe P 4 spacing and kerning ATM4 takes this a step forward by providing optional anti aliased type TI superior results when fonts need to be rendered A on screen a feature that will help multimedia designers get The biggest news though is that ATM4 Furthermore it checks the fonts to make Verify and Report commands give specific Perhaps the most exciting new feature is Finally when used with the new Adobe Type Reunion Deluxe 2 0 users will be able to activate ATM4 font sets from within this i i applications Font menus ATR also hassome i Adobe Type Manager 40 C0 clever new features It will display the font list using the actual fonts it groups font faily mem bers into pop out menus it will group the fonts which are used in the current document at the top of the Font menu and it will let you view subsets of fonts in order to further simplify your Font menu Despite being a long time Suitcase user Pm now using ATM4 and ATR2 to handle and organize my fonts and I m recom mending this solution to others Adobe Type Manager Deluxe 4 0 lets you automatically add an entire hard drive s worth of fonts in just a few minutes Sets can be created and fonts can be dragged from the font list on the right into the Sets on the left A single click
10. on a font suitcase or a set activates the fonts contained in it A black dot indicates a suitcase or set that is currently active a circle show that some fonts within a set are active and a gray dot shows fonts that are in your System folder Double clicking a font in an ATM4 window i results in a big sample sheet which shows the face at different sizes These can be printed to i create a useful type catalog of your fonts Goodbye to theTypeBook Suitcase 3 0 street price 79 95 Adobe Type Manager Deluxe 4 0 introduc tory price 49 95 with 30 Adobe typefaces Adobe Type Reunion Deluxe 2 0 introduc tory price 29 95 Introductory bundle both ATM4 and ATR2 69 95 i Jim Alley E la le a ee Oo Se hare THE LIMAC FORUM OCTOBER 1996 va a abcdefgh a i ABCDE S gt b 1234567 maenna rarena Rosina TM ffod y ae es gt Your Views Control i Panel Turn off Calculate Folder Sizes in the i Views control panel This can annoyingly slow down your Mac l Also try selecting the middle sized icon to i see a miniature of the i actual icon when viewing folders by name This gets rid of i the generic icons you see when the smallest icon is i selected l New Members We welcome the i following members who have joined LIMacin the past i month Ellen Pollak Judy Zeitlin i Pat Barker 4 Sy xo fr snow E Caa a
11. vs ATM Deluxe For anyone with more than a handful of i typefaces font utilities are a way of life Suitcase i and Adobe Type Manager have been staples of Mac users for many years Both programs aid in the management and printing of fonts and until now the two programs have been com i plementary Not any more Suitcase is used to manage font suitcases allowing different sets of fonts to be used for different purposes and allowing font suitcases to be kept anywhere on your hard drive not just within the Fonts folder in your System folder Suitcase has not been upgraded for a very long time several years so the new version should be greeted with both high expectations and a critical atti tude On the whole Suitcase 3s new features and interface are satisfying if not exciting The utility now uses PowerMac code meaning that i it runs agreeably fast Drag and drop is sup ported drag a suitcase file to either the Suitcase icon or the main Suitcase window in order to make fonts available Fonts are viewed in a i hierarchical folder view Sets can be a combina tion of different suitcases that can be organized i according to the user s needs a set of fonts for a particular job or perhaps a set devoted to decorative headline fonts These sets can be turned on or off at will and Temporary sets can be created which go away when you restart your Mac
12. will need to know about desktop pub lishing computer graphics digital imaging i graphics multimedia CD ROMs and the Internet In six hours each November we try to pack in every relevant innovation product process and perspective so that the educators can give their students the skills they ll need when they graduate in the next century Tt s a completely free conference open to any junior high school and high school teacher i in the New York metropolitan area Volunteers from the industry put together the program organize the event and present the seminars The folks at Pantone always help out and New York area experts like GATF consultant Howie Fenton and AGC president Bill Dirzulaitis donate their time and talent What should the teachers be teaching Keeping in mind that this month s new ninth graders will graduate high school in June of 2000 and finish college in 2004 what skills will they need what technologies should they learn to find careers in the publishing and printing fields Look back at the changes that have happened since 1989 and you can see how hard it is to visualize the future For more information about the Graphic Conflict Catcher 3 There are very few pieces of software that I would say need to be an integral part of your system If you have a Performa and do not i intend to upgrade or add any software to your
13. Layers allow any number of i color corrections to be applied as a group minimizing image degradation Custom multicolor gradients new Web image file i support and digital i watermarking round i out Photoshop 4 0 i which is slated to ship this fall i COLOR PUBLISHING October 1996 PageMaker 6 5 PageMaker 6 5 895 now takes over the chores for which we used to depend on Suitcase and it does a better job too ATM4 now allows you to organize and access fonts and font sets wherever they may be i located Where Suitcase 3 forces the user to locate available fonts ATM4 can search an analogous to thosein 2 entire hard drive or CD and automatically it possible for a single create a list of Known Fonts incorporates several features that are unprecedented in page layout pro grams Document wide layers Photoshop 3 0 make document file to include multiple versions such as different languages or regional varia tions Layers can also be used for produc tions notes In addi tion an automatic reformatting feature helps users who are repurposing existing documents by adjusting graphics and reflowing text to new specifications PageMaker 6 5 also includes native import of Adobe Illustrator files a new user interface that resembles Photoshop s and Illustrator s a Save for Service Provider plug in optional text and graphics frames a la Q
14. The NEWSLETTER OF THE LONG ISLAND MACINTOS gt OCTOBER 1996 RS GROUP LIMac has been serving Macintosh users on Long Island since 1984 when the Mac was introduced Annual dues for membership is 24 First meeting is free For information you can contact any of the following Membership Alan Gordon 516 538 7013 AGMaceaol com Public Domain Software Helen and Sheldon Gross 212 799 5655 SHEL 1 yorick ny cybernex net Technical Advice Bradley Dichter 516 874 4363 bdichterecdr net Program Coordinator Rick Matteson 516 379 0174 RickGMeaol com Beginners SIG Sy Bram 516 378 9076 SyBMFilmeaol com DTP SIG Balan Nagraj 516 427 0952 Balan448eaol com ED SIG Rick Matteson 516 379 0174 RickGMeaol com Internet SIG Al Choy AL0026e aol com Internet Address September s Meeting Olympic Olympus The prices of CD Recorders and other magneto optical drives have become very attractive How good are they and what are the benefits of these devices To cover this subject LIMac s featured speaker was Michael Rubin CD Recorders Product Manager of Olympus Image Systems Starting with a brief background about his company whose U S headquarters are in Melville Michael discussed their line of storage products and the recently introduced digital cameras He demonstrated their CD R2x4 with the Corel CD Creator application package He m
15. Year Several years later Mac Soft created Diamonds 3D a sequel to the original Its 3rd dimension depth brings a new feel to the Diamonds family Depth allows you more freedom and surprises around Many corners To complete each level you must hit bricksin Arts Teachers Technology Conference contact i Jack Powers at 718 499 1884 e mail i Jpowers nol com or visit the Web page at www electric pages com GATCC E the distance down a square tunnel with your ball Unfortu nately this master piece does not come with a level editor Todd Medlow A few days after the presidential elections we hold LIMac s elections for our officers and directors as outlined elsewhere Since most schools are closed on election day a free session i in the Big Apple provides an excellent opportu nity for teachers to learn about the latest devel opments in publishing and media technologies President s Remarks There will be free conference at the Fashion i Institute of Technology in New York City on this day November 11 1996 Following is an i excerpt from an article written by Jack Powers a recognized authority on publishing that i appears in the MICRO PUBLISHING NEWS of i September 1996 Executives working in the printing and publishing industry spend a substantial part of their time keeping up to date but the teachers only get one day a year to find out what their i kids
16. are check out Apple s Web page at i http cyberdog apple com For an interesting Website address visit http myhome apple com and sign up for your own Personalized Internet Launcher an easy way to cruise the Web In November UGTV will have a special satellite broadcast The show line up will include Apple Adobe Claris and several other vendors Apple will also attempt to Webcast this show over the net The tentative dates for the broadcast are Thursday November 7 or Thursday November 12 When at the general meeting don t forget to check out the UGC binder at our back table for interesting offers from Voyager Prio Toray StartingLine Adobe and many others E THE LIMAC FORUM OCTOBER 1996 Max Rechtman i MaxlIMaceaol com Sign Up Today i Any member who is interested in joining i a future LIMac i Briarcliff instruction course in any Mac program should i contact Bill Medlow 516 681 7143 or i e mail him at ArchBilleaol com w Sr Y Write a Review The Forum is always looking for reviews of new programs shareware hardware i CD ROMs or other products Make it i short 250 words or i less and use ASCII format Submit your i reviews via e mail i c o Molebeaol com or bring them to the next meeting on disk
17. e another look at last months specials Don t forget our LIMac Internet Starter User Group Connection Happy Halloween and all that jazz Speaking of i jazz we are really enjoying our new Zip drive with all the simplicity and conveniences it brings But that s another story This month s new disks are brought to you mainly by the E courtesy of Steve Hechler He has been net surfing and these disks are the result of his explorations At our September general meeting Macworld Club applications were distributed to interested members If you were not able to attend the i meeting or did not get an application but would like one please contact me via e mail or i at 516 864 4130 between 6 and 9PM More information regarding Macworld Club is avail able on their Website http www club macworld com or in the September issue of the FORUM Our User Group will receive 1000 points for each member who joins At Macworld Boston Apple demonstrated Cyberdog 1 1 Use this utility to browse the World Wide Web read and write e mail follow Usenet Newsgroup discussions utilize file i transfer services to share files explore gopher space and remotely log into computers via Telnet Cyberdag also incorporates the ability to view text movies sounds pictures and quick time VR files on the Internet Cyberdag is available in our PD Library To download the softw
18. entioned that Olympus has opted to go with the Corel product over the more popular Toast Pro because of better technical support He covered the requirements for creating a CD like a good software package a non fragmented large hard drive etc The data has to flow continuously without interruption He mentioned that the SCSI chain on some of the older Macs are not fast enough to handle the i speed required for recording a CD Olympus made quite a hit at the Boston MacWorld with their SYS 230 a portable 230MB magneto optical drive Michael How good are they and what are the benefits of these devices discussed the features of this product There was an with members on how this device compares with the Syquest and Zip drives Olympus has priced the 10 which is very attractive Michael s presentation was informative and well received He also had some special prices for LIMac members A refurbished CD R2 MAC for 500 and a new CD R2x4 recorder for 775 These prices are valid for a short time Please call him at 800 347 4027 extension 5312 if you are interested i Editors Graphics i Mo Lebowitz Loretta Lebowitz i Molebeaol com gt On this night we also had our first meeting of the Internet SIG Al Choy our coordinator for this SIG did a commendable job of explaining the basics of surfing the web LIMac is actively looking at a couple of
19. lation of one The low cost Quadra and LC models and others did not have one and some software required the Floating Point Unit The Power Mac s current soft ware emulation does not include an emu lated FPU so this Control Panel can help there too Sound Master A frivolous Control Panel that can play a the desired event such as a disk insertion or the trash can being emptied Magic Menu This Control Panel is an extension to Aladdin s Stuffit Deluxe which adds a new menu to the Finder It makes it easier to compress and decompress files right in the Finder without having to use the application directly Stuffit SpaceSaver This Control Panel system to automati cally compress all the l you can get a CC3 version of the Get Info window You can also give your files individual old files on your hard drive to better con serve space You can change a file s name and have it automati cally compress or decompress Bradley More Conflict Catcher 3 runs on software Unfortunately so does all other hardware All the hardware and software that you use relies on extensions and or other start up files That is where an extension Management program comes in While System 7 5 comes with Extension Manager it is only i good as long as everything behaves Hey let s get real This is a computer we re talking about Because of that unfortunate little fact
20. ll call if tech support is busy they will call you back And they do Wow you can review them The System Report feature i gives you System Information Hardware Information Driver Information Start Up File i Information Conflict Catcher Preferences and Patched System Traps so those of us who are curious can actually get under the skin of the uses the Stuffit Deluxe Mac O S It is rare enough when a program comes out with little room for improvement that most of us can think of Conflict Catcher 2 was one of those programs and yet Conflict Catcher 3 managed to blow it away I can t wait to see what C amp G does with Conflict Catcher 4 1996 Peter A Weissenstein All Rights Reserved This article originally appeared in APPLESEEDS The Newsletter i of AppleCore Berkshire County Weissenstein editor of i APPLESEEDS can be contacted at ApplePete aol com M THE LIMAC FORUM OCTOBER 1996 Es PageMaker 6 0 i Save As gt To enter the Story Editor you can always press Command E but try triple clicking the actual story This will take you to the Story Editor much faster gt Ifyou have several objects layered hold down the Command key and click to select the object below the top object Each time you click you will i select the next object i down gt You probably already know that you can select an object and
21. mate the while also converting filed t hen vou download file decompression system when you a Macintosh file from AOL Stuffit is the standard upon which desk top compression has i been built So what can v4 0 offer The first thing is a tighter integration with the Macin tosh Finder and more PowerMacintosh code i So they did with this new version After a simple installation type in your serial number and you are off and running You will have to restart your Macintosh as Stuffit s installer adds two new control panels and some extensions to your system The extension is actually the i Stuffit engine which allows you to access components of Stuffit Deluxe without launching the application The two control i panels are the compression utility which func tions very much like Symantec s Disk Doubler i in that it compresses applications and decom presses them on the fly This command accessed from the a vector image into a rasterized image into RGB CMYK Grayscale or Bitmap The CMYK con version algorithm is Not adjustable in Illustrator and does not allow any specification of how the CMYK separation will be created For example a 50 black object in the RGB mode will convert to a four color black in CMYK To control and specify the CMYK conversion process use Adobe Photoshop for the CMYK conversion Once this is done you can place the EPS or TIFF image
22. meeting places where we can go online for this SIG meeting gt Raffle winners Bill Sympson Adobe s Sitemill and IDG Books Macworld Home Office Companion Frank Silverman ASDG s Elastic Reality Jim Tornatore CB Software s Web Arranger Balan Nagraj E October s Meetings General Meeting Friday Oct 11 7 00 P M Fractal Design s Detailer a 3D painting program and Poser a human figure design i program DTP SIG i Fractal Design s Painter 4 and Expressions a natural media vector drawing program mht i Ed SIG Friday October 11 9 00 P M PANMIMES T Educational CD ROM demonstrations Come gather round Geoff s Performa 5300 and Rick s borrowed LC 580 on loan from the Copiague Middle School and get real world demo of some of the best educational software available on CD ROM Beginners SIG Friday Oct 18 7 00 P M i Review Macintosh basics discuss hard disk i organization and most importantly take 3 months worth of beginners questions LIMac Meetings unless otherwise noted are held at the NY Institute of Technology Building 500 at Northern Blvd Old Westbury To see if school is open in bad weather call 516 686 7789 The next LIMac board meeting will be held at the Plainedge Library on Monday October 21 1996 Dues collection for 1997 begin this month Our dues remain at the reaso
23. nable 24 level because of the support that you have shown to LIMac Bring your checks to the next meeting or mail them to Alan Gordon LIMac Membership 472 Linda Drive East Meadow NY 11554 i LIMacInc i P 0 Box 518 Seaford NY 11783 interesting exchange of views President l Balan Nagraj l Balan448eaol com l Vice President Bill Medlow media on this device at about ArchBilleaol com i Treasurer i Donald Hennessy DonLIMaceaol com Secretary Wallace Lepkin i Wallace171 aol com l The LIMac Forum Distribution Wallace Lepkin Donald Hennessy Printing Willow Graphics i 516 785 5378 Imagesetting A amp B Graphics 516 433 8228 i The FORUM is published monthly by LIMac All contents except where noted i are copyright 1996 by LIMac Opinions expressed are the views of the authors and do not neces i sarily reflect those of i LIMac Contents may be reprinted for non commercial use with due acknowledgment i toLIMac Game Corner Terminal Velocity Areview by Dan Gross Age 14 101 has led to more pilots deaths than any other plane you feel very lucky to be alive That s probably about to change since it s you against A high flying fast the defense system of the entire universe that is action packed game out to destroy humanity You have been training You re flying aTV 202 a all of your life to fly this
24. nsions etc The Link feature is very helpful letting you create linked groups of extensions in various configurations including incompatible groups that will only let you load one or the other and a forced order group which helps in ensuring that certain files load before or after other files You can have CC3 guarantee your start up system heap and it will also manage your shared i libraries Another option that is really great is the one that lets you display the names of your extensions along with the icons during the famous Dance of the Mac Start Up Screen the long tedious boring piece of performance art by Mr Apple Seriously it is a wonderful way to identify those files whose icons you just don t know And oh yes C amp G has not forgotten the kid in us There is an Easter Egg in every copy of Conflict Catcher 3 After all if you are going to spend all that time finding and fixing conflicts you do deserve a reward Open up your Apple Menu and go to Control Panels Choose Conflict Catcher and when it opens up reopen i the Apple Menu and choose About Conflict Catcher When you have the picture of the Butterfly Hunter type play Use your left and right arrows to move the bottom icon and the space bar to shoot the other icons Enjoy Tech Support The manual covers everything But there is a number the C amp G main number and although it s a to
25. ship but are you ready fighter that only a few for a challenge as big as this You re out elite pilots can handle gunned out manned and strapped into a flying Considering that the coffin But just think how good Saved the previous model the TV Known Galaxy will look on a resume Taking control of your TV 202 is fairly easy and can be mastered using the keyboard the mouse or a joystick The ship handles easily and makes quick sharp and deadly turns The radar is a very simple device but necessary to find and destroy enemy bases The cockpit controls make traveling in your ship much simpler because you always know where to go and what condition your ship is You start out with only a plasma gun but quickly build up an arsenal of seven different weapons each one bigger and stronger than the last Also you can find power ups to boost your shields and increase your speed and weaponry The music is of very high quality and fits right in with the action Sound effects are great from the explosion of the enemy aircraft against the surface to the rapid fire of your laser cannon The graphics are very detailed with fast scrolling action Its very great response rate Balan Nagraj President Balan448 aol com Diamonds 2 02 A Review by Todd Medlow Diamonds 2 02 is a wonderful game for the creative mind It turned many heads as it made its way to the top to become Macworld s 1993 Arcade Game of the
26. uarkXPress and more Mac and Power Mac programs ship in November COLOR PUBLISHING October 1996 sure they are not corrupted and that all of the i necessary parts are together If the fonts get moved at a later time ATM4 will notify you information on possible font problems In fact ATM4 discovered a number of corrupted fonts on my hard drives a problem which might have i i been contributing to random crashes that ATM4 will automatically locate and activate a font when a document that uses it is opened This is the Mac way do what is neces i sary and desirable without conscious action by i the user Surely this will be the most applauded feature in the program Furthermore ATM4 can use technology previously provided by Super ATM4 to simulate fonts which are unavailable Note to designers this feature can be turned off And if all of this weren t i enough ATM4 even displays and prints sample sheets of fonts Bottom line it used to be that you needed both ATM4 and Suitcase Now the i new version of Adobe Type Manager does it all i and more ATM4 makes it simple to locate and keep track of your fonts and easy or even automatic to activate them when they are needed To keep the record straight it should be noted that I am reviewing a beta copy of i ATM4 Despite this I found no problems with the program of any sort and Adobe tells me i that as
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