-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= |-=>CompuNotes<=-| -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Notes from The Cutting Edge of Personal Computing April 10, 1997 Issue 73 +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+= Managing Editor: Patrick Grote -- mailto:pgrote@inlink.com Assistant Editor: Writer Liaison: Doug Reed-- mailto:dr2web@sprynet.com Graphics Editor, Webmaster: Judy Litt mailto:jlitt@aol.com Archives: ftp://ftp.uu.net/published/compunotes/ LOOK *** NEW WEBSITE!!!!! Website: email: mailto:notes@inlink.com fax: (314) 909-1662 voice: (314) 909-1662 +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+= CONTENTS My Notes: 1=> Link to Us! 2=> This Week's Winner! 3=> New Writers Needed! Reviews: 4=> Product: Blood & Magic Reviewed By: Doug Reed, mailto:dr2web@sprynet.com 5=> Product: Internet FastFind Reviewed By: Doug Reed mailto:dr2web@sprynet.com 6=> Product: Snagit/32 Reviewed By: Judy Litt, mailto:jlitt@qualitty.com 7=> Product: Delorme Street Atlas USA Ver 4.0 Reviewed By: Michael Gallo, mailto:gallomike@aol.com +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+= CompuNotes is: Available weekly via email and on-line. We cover the PC computing world with comprehensive reviews, news, hot web sites, great columns and interviews. We also give away one software package a week to a lucky winner for just reading our fine publication! Never dull, sometimes tardy, we are here to bring you the computing world the way it is! Please tell every online friend you know about us! 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This week's winner is mailto:chris@ed-tech.com! Send them a congrats message mailto:chris@ed-tech.com! 3=> Would you like to write for us? Well the time has come again for us to find new writers. If you would like to write for CompuNotes, there are three ways to do so. First, you can send a message to me at mailto:dr2web@sprynet.com and I will add you to our list of potential new reviewers. When we get a list together that none of our current reviewers wants, you get the list and if you are lucky enough to be among the first to reply you may get something. One such list was sent out recently and another will probably be sent in the next week or so. Alternatively, you can write website reviews for us or review shareware & freeware that is available over the Net. To do either, contact me at mailto:dr2web@sprynet.com and put the area you would like to review in as the subject. If you can write two shareware/freeware or two website reviews, you can also become a software reviewer. 4=> Product: Blood & Magic Reviewed By: Doug Reed, mailto:dr2web@sprynet.com Requirements: DOS, 486/66, 2xCDROM, 8MB MSRP:$49.95 Thanks to the success of Warcraft and Command & Conquer the strategy genre of computer games has seen an explosion lately of real-time strategy games. Interplay has no less than two new entries into the arena, M.A.X. (a futuristic Dune-II style game) and Blood & Magic (BAM for short). BAM is part of Interplay's new license with TSR, the first of a series of new AD&D games set in the Forgotten Realms. If you are a long time AD&D player there is probably much here that is familiar to you, even though this is a strategy game and not an RPG. Scanning the newsgroups brings up very little mention of BAM - more attention has been focussed on MAX (and I'll tell you why when I review it). For those or inexperienced with real-time games BAM is a treat. Hardcore real-time fans should be forewarned, however, that BAM does not offer all the bells and whistles that other games in the same genre do. First and foremost I like the fact that in this day and age when everything coming out requires a Pentium, BAM still runs (and runs well) on a 486. The graphics are VGA, not SVGA, but are nice to look at and are reasonably smooth. Graphics don't have to be 24-bit, 256- color wonders to look good, and the graphics in BAM are very appealing. In fact, it looks a lot like the graphics from Master of Magic, only BAM's are a little smoother and better looking. Introductions and cutscenes are nothing more than slightly animated still pictures, a disappointment in this day of high-tech animated scenes. I did have a heck of time installing the game, mainly because the soundcard setup utility choked on my GUS PnP Pro during autodetect and crashed the computer. I had to reinstall BAM, then set the sound card manually (no big deal), and then everything worked just fine. The sound is good but not great. Sounds like swordfighting, opponents dying, all come across clear and distinct on my card, however the game is lacking in it's musical score. The game comes with a very short and useless manual, but luckily does include a tutorial that explains the basic game mechanics. I don't really hate the manual - all it really does, though, is give you the basic storyline and tell you how to set up the game. Nothing about how to build, create, fight, or any of the other knowledge required to actually play the game once you get it loaded. Enough with the problems, let's get down to gameplay. Essentially it goes like this. You are a wizard who controls a bloodforge, a mighty magical relic that enables you to create basal golems and collect mana, the source of magical power. Basal golems serve as the conduits for collecting that mana, but they also can be transformed into a wide variety of higher beings with strange and magical powers (30 in all). BAM allows for either single or multiplayer games (multiplayer is via hot-seat, direct link, or LAN). In single player mode the player can choose from one of five different campaigns, ranging in difficulty from beginner to expert. There are three battles in each campaign, with defined objectives for each side. In addition, "neutral" monsters and magical relics litter the landscape, adding some variety to the battles. Once the five campaigns are completed, the player can choose to go on a Legendary Campaign, a series of increasingly harder random battles. Legendary campaigns consist of an additional fifteen battles, with the goal being the conquest of the Forgotten Realms. In the initial five campaigns the player can choose to play one side or the other (generally one is good and the other evil); in a legendary campaign the player creates their own custom persona. A player begins a battle with a couple of golems and a Bloodforge, which both stores the players mana and creates basal golems to carry out the player's commands. Unknown portions of the map are blacked out, leaving the player to send a golem or two out to explore the surroundings and find any goodies or opponents. Goodies come in two flavors; magical items that confer powers upon the creature carrying the item or foundations for mystical sites. Players convert foundations into mystical sites by placing one golem on each of the four corners; this triggers a transformation in the foundation and the player can choose one of five different mystical sites. Unlike most fantasy games, the player is not limited to sites that are "good" or "evil", so you can choose to create both a temple to create virtuous followers and a crypt to create "dreadful minions" (to quote the book). This way the player is free to choose the creatures he/she prefers to fight with and develop a winning strategy around them. However, once a site is built it doesn't mean that the player can immediately choose the most powerful monsters! The game restricts the player by forcing them to research both spells and creatures before they can be used. Research is driven by both the player's experience and the amount of mana in the bloodforge. You get experience for almost everything (such as casting a 5 mana healing spell). While a neat idea, it does create an easy cheat: it is possible to prolong early battles almost indefinitely, allowing the player to collect enormous amounts of experience, mana, and research in the early going. So, the $50,000 dollar question is does BAM measure up to the rest of the real-time crowd? Not really. For one thing, BAM includes air and land combat, but not naval combat. Further, BAM lacks the "spawning" mode of other games like Warcraft II and Command & Conquer whereby only one copy of the game is needed to play a multi-player game over a network. BAM does offer, however, fun and engaging battles with a very wide variety of monsters to choose from and do battle with. If you are new to the real-time genre, however, I think that BAM might be a great game to start with. First, the game is relatively easy to grasp and straightforward in its method of creating your army and smashing your opponents. Further, the computer opponent is good but not great, giving you a chance to try out a "weak" opponent before moving onto other games with much tougher AI's. Interplay's first venture into the AD&D universe is not a great one, but it ain't bad either. Interplay Productions 16815 Von Karman Ave. Irvine, CA 92606 Internet E-mail: mailto:Info@Interplay.com Web Site: American On-Line: Keyword INTERPLAY or E-mail IPTECH CompuServe: GO GAMEPUB or E-mail 76702,1342 Genie: Type M805;1 or go to the Bulletin Board in Scorpia's area Prodigy: Use the Web browser to our Web Site or E-mail PLAY99B FTP Site: ftp.interplay.com Ratings: Installation/Ease of Use: Silver User-Friendliness: Silver Quality: Silver User: Novice strategy gamers 5=> Product: Internet FastFind Reviewed By: Doug Reed mailto:dr2web@sprynet.com Requirements: Windows 95/NT 4.0, Internet Explorer 3.0/Netscape Navigator 3.0 MSRP: $49.95 I have to tell you that when I first received Internet FastFind (IFF for short) to review, I was prepared not to like the product. Gail Marsella had originally received IFF to review but was unable to get it to work, primarily because IFF refuses to work with anything other than Microsoft’s 32-bit winsock. Anyone so shortsighted, in my book, could not have possibly designed a truly useful program. But beyond this glaring error, I found IFF to be not only easy to use but very useful for its intended purpose: finding what you need on the Internet, as quickly as possible. IFF is actually a great product, barring of course that one bug I just mentioned (give them the benefit of a doubt I say and hope they fix it soon). IFF consists of 7 different components designed to simplify your life on the Internet, all wrapped into one shell. Installation is the only real part of this software I didn’t like. First, like all Symantec utility software you are required to install all of the components - no options. Secondly, again like almost any other Symantec utility, IFF willfully feels free to change any and all file associations without bothering to ask first (it replaced WinZip with EasyZip for Zip files, much in the same way that Norton Navigator did exactly the same thing). Secondly it added two new icons to my desktop, which is beginning to look extraordinarily cluttered. Seriously, what is the deal with these companies that they feel like we MUST have their software’s icon on our desktop? Haven’t they learned that about the Start menu yet? Symantec makes this a major pain with IFF with the disclaimer on their website that removal of the EasyFTP icon will disable EasyFTP - now, if anyone can explain why EasyFTP requires a desktop icon to function and no other FTP program does, I’d love to here it. What arrogance! If you think I hate IFF, you’re wrong. EasyFTP and EasyZip I could do without - I already had programs to fill those roles, and I simply would have like the option to choose to not install them or at the very least they not alter the file associations. I also would like a less cluttered desktop! The most common component of IFF that you will use is WebFind. WebFind is very similar to other search tools you can find out there - it simply sends your query to all of the available search engines and compiles their responses. You can tailor this by adding or removing search engines and setting time limits for completion of the search. One nice touch I haven’t seen before is that WebFind does remove duplicate entries from the list before presenting it to you - saving you the hassle of looking at the same site twice in the list. WebFind can be started from the Start Menu but it also exists as a button at the top of your browser - just click on the button to bring up WebFind. The results are loaded directly into your browser, again making it easy and convenient to look through the results of your search. By default, the last 10 searches are saved in a folder for easy retrieval at a later date should you want to go back to a previous results. One really nice touch with WebFind is under the options menu - you can have WebFind verify that the links being reported are valid. Anyone who has spent serious time searching with the various web engines knows that it seems like nearly half the links reported by the search are invalid - this is a great option, and although it slows down the search somewhat is a great idea nonetheless. NetFileFind is another search tool included with IFF but is not that useful. Essentially it searches public FTP sites for files (or file types) that you interested in, allowing you to quickly and easily download the file once found with EasyFTP. While in principal the idea is not bad, the problem is that if you don’t know the file name you aren’t going to find it. NetFileFind can find files based on a portion of the name, but again you’ve got to know at least a portion of the name. And god forbid you try searching for all files of a particular type - can you imagine how many *.mid files there are out there? Of course, NetFileFind just finds the file - but nevertheless while its looking its eating processor time. Coupled with NetFileFind is my least favorite part of IFF, EasyFTP. EasyFTP is designed to be simple to use and operate, and it is - but it is very limited. EasyFTP works by treating FTP sites as if they were a directory on your hard drive - you can access them through Explorer. EasyFTP comes with a large number of hardware and software vendor sites as well as a collection of public FTP sites, so chances are you can find the site you are interested in already present. By treating FTP sites like a directory on your hard drive it is easy to quickly copy or move files from your computer to the FTP site or vice versa. So far, so good - it works great. But EasyFTP does not understand dynamic addressing - FTP files that tell where to find other files. For example, if you log onto ftp.uu.net and go the published directory looking for the archive directory for CompuNotes, what you find instead is a file called Compunotes.z - and EasyFTP cannot read this file, so it cannot find where the back issues of CompuNotes are. Aggravating, to say the least! PatchConnect is an extension of EasyFTP that actually does work quite well. IFF reads your system files to determine what hardware and software you have installed, then when PatchConnect is loaded it can quickly and easily scan the various vendors ftp sites to find the latest patches and drivers for your system. This greatly simplifies what has become a pressing need amongst computer users - quickly and easily staying up to date with the components that comprise your computer. Notify is a rather straightforward program. Like WebFind, it adds a button to the top of your browser, and when pressed you can add a particular page to a list. Notify scans the page at predetermined times that you set, and if it finds that the page has been changed it notifies you and can take you directly to the page. Similarly, WebLaunch allows you to launch Web pages directly from your desktop by clicking on the WebLaunch icon in the taskbar and selecting the bookmarked page of choice. This convenient tools makes it so that your favorite pages are only a click away, even on your desktop. Hardly a necessary utility, but still kind of fun to have around. EasyZip is exactly that, a Zip compression/extraction utility designed to be easy to use and operate. It earns the distinction of my least favorite IFF utility simply because when I installed IFF it altered the Zip file association so that EasyZip is loaded instead of WinZip. Like EasyFTP, EasyZip is designed to work as part of Explorer, allowing you to open and extract files from a compressed file as if it were a directory on your hard drive. EasyZip also includes the ability to create a compressed zip file as well as a self- extracting archive. All in all I do like IFF, although I would have preferred more options during the install and would have liked at least being asked before file associations were altered. Beyond that IFF is a very useful program - I find myself constantly going back to WebFind. WebFind is the really great portion of IFF; you can set it up, configure it the way you want it to search, then set it off and go do other things while it works. When its done you can pop back and find the info you really wanted. Notify is also a very useful utility since it checks your favorite sites for you instead of you personally having to go to a page and then remember what it looked like the last time you were here. Keep in mind, though, that you do have to running Microsoft’s 32- bit winsock in order to use IFF! Beyond that, I would not hesitate to recommend IFF to anyone who uses the Internet on a regular basis. Symantec, Inc. 10201 Torre Ave. Cupertino, CA 95014 (800) 441-7234 Web: http://www.symantec.com Ratings: Installation: Bronze User-Friendliness: Gold Quality: Gold User: All 6=> Product: Snagit/32 Reviewed By: Judy Litt, mailto:jlitt@qualitty.com Reviewed on: Pentium Pro 200, 64 MB RAM, Windows 95, 12x CD-ROM Requires: Microsoft Windows 95 or Windows NT version 3.51 or later, mouse or other pointing device MSRP: $39.95 How to capture what is showing on a monitor's low resolution (typically 72 dpi) screen and print it to a higher resolution printer (300 dpi or higher), while retaining quality has been the bane of designers, software companies, writers, etc. No more! Snagit/32 will capture virtually any screen you can throw at it, and reproduce it beautifully. There are numerous screen capture utilities on the market: freeware, shareware, and commercial. Some work well; some, not so much. I have tried out quite a few, but I think I've found the last one I need to try in Snagit/32. There is no manual for this program. There's only a jewel case insert and help file. Works for me. Snagit/32 can capture the following windows: Entire desktop Entire window Window client area (main body of the window inside its borders; does not include borders, title bar, menu bar, scroll bars/caption line) Last active window Region (you select the region by drawing a box around the portion of the window you'd like to capture) Clipboard Full-screen DOS Windowed DOS The only two I didn't try were the full-screen DOS and last active window. You can capture windows with the cursor, although this option is only available with the screen/last active window options. You capture screens by hitting the hot key (Cnrl+Shift+P by default, but you can change this). Do you need to capture an entire web page for output to a printer, but can't see the entire window on your monitor? With Snagit/32, it's no problem. Choose the Autoscroll feature (only available with entire window, window client area, last active window, and region options). Even though you can't see the entire window, Snagit/32 can capture it. You can output your captured windows directly to your printer, clipboard, file, or e-mail. You can also preview the capture before printing it or saving it. At that point you have a choice to print or finish the capture. However, you can't alter the file in any way (crop, change colors, etc.). You'll have to take the capture into your image editing program to edit it. You can save your screen captures in the following formats: bmp, pcx, tif, gif, or jpg (with the jpg option, you can choose the percentage of compression). You can also specify automatic file naming, so that the first capture is cap001.tif, the next is cap002.tif, and so on. Capturing software screens for use in printed materials can be a real challenge. I recently completed the design and layout of a software manual, with well over 100 screen captures. The writer took the screen captures, but we worked closely together on it. We had a good screen capture utility, but it wasn't as good as Snagit/32. In fact, when screen captures were required that included the cursor, she resorted to print screen. There is a noticeable difference. If I had had Snagit/32 at that point in time, all the screen captures could have looked beautiful. It's cheap, it's small, there's no manual, and it works like a charm. What more could you ask for? TechSmith Corporation 3001 Coolidge Road Suite 400 East Lansing, MI 48823-6320 800-517-3001 Voice 517-333-1888 FAX mailto:snagit@techsmith.com Ratings: Installation/Ease of Use: Gold User Friendliness: Gold Quality: Gold User: Designers, writers; anyone who needs to capture software windows 7=> Product: Delorme Street Atlas USA Ver 4.0 Reviewed By: Michael Gallo, mailto:gallomike@aol.com Reviewed On: Pentium 100, 16MB RAM, 1.2 GB HD, 4X-CD, S3 SVGA Requirements: 386(486 recommended), 8 MB RAM 9MB HD space, CD-ROM Drive, Windows 3.1, Super VGA (256 color) MSRP: $49.95 I love to look at maps. I'm constantly looking for a better route to get to work in order to avoid the dreaded Washington Beltway traffic! That's why I really enjoyed putting Street Atlas USA through its paces. Street Atlas USA combines a highway road-atlas with a street level city map into one superb product. I really mean street level. Street Atlas goes right down to neighborhood blocks and streets. The program has a very easy to use interface. Clicking the mouse on any point on the map will first center the map on that location, clicking the mouse and dragging out a rectangle tells Street Atlas to zoom in on the map area inside the drawn rectangle. The outermost magnification is Mag4 (It must be some sort of mapping standard or else I would have called it mag 1). At this level the user can see entire Continental United States as well as Alaska and Hawaii. As title of the software implies, users can only see roads and street for states affiliated with the United States, no territories or protectorates are included. At the maximum magnification, MAG16, the scale is down to one tenth of a mile. This level allows users to see all the streets. The program provides only information that is relevant for the scale that is being viewed. This helps avoid information overload for the user as well as processing overload for the computer so that it doesn't have to print every street name in the United States on a 15" monitor. As the user zooms in, more detail is provided, and there is plenty of it! At Mag4 (the entire US), the user can see selected major city name, major interstates, and state boundaries. As you zoom in you being to see some of the less major cities, county boundary lines, zip code boundary lines, less major routes, parks, rivers, and eventually streets. There is a lot of information to plot on the screen, I found some of Mag levels were slow to redraw. I have a decent machine and it still took 5 -10 seconds to redraw a screen. That's not a lot of time for one screen, but it adds up quickly when you're trying to roam a map. My suggestion would be to keep the details to the minimum necessary until you've found the right spot on the map, then load up on the details. Otherwise, you'll find the task of traversing the map to become tedious due to the wait times. Street Altas is not like a road direction program. There is no function that allows the user to type in a start and finish address and then have the computer calculate a trip( that would be a neat feature!). One advantage that I found with Street Atlas was that I could calculate a fairly precise distance between home and work. This was accomplished by using the Draw line feature. In multi-line mode, I clicked the mouse to trace out my daily commute path to work. This feature is what I would call line of sight. That means it calculates the distance a bird would fly ignoring the winds and bends in a road. I calculated a precise distance by tracing the routes and streets, it came pretty close to what I would have measured with my odometer. Street Atlas' search engine allows the user to type in an address, and the program will then attempt to find a match and then place the user at that location. Street Atlas can also provide weather, construction and special event information that could cause delays or congestion. To use this feature I called up www.streetatlasusa.com on my web browser. After selecting update database option, I downloaded a tailored DB file that contained up to date information. A menu option in Street Atlas will update file downloaded from StreetAtlas' web site automatically. The whole process took about five minutes and I didn't have any problems. Bravo! If you're a teckie, you may already own a Global Positioning System. You may be in luck! The Global Position System (GPS) is a set of military satellites that fly high above the Earth. With a GPS receiver, a user can determine their exact coordinates(well almost exact, it's not to within inches, the military doesn't want you building a home made missile capable of flying as good as the Pentagon's stuff!) anywhere on Earth. If the GPS receiver is compatible with PC and is authorized to be used with Street Atlas, you can plug your receiver into your PC and then tell Street Atlas to access the GPS receiver. Now things get really cool. You can tell the program to plot your current coordinate on the map and to track your progress! This would be really neat to have on a trip. A passenger could get real time updates on Street Atlas' map that shows the overall trip progress. What a feeling of confidence travelers could have when they are in an unfamiliar city. Isn't technology wonderful? There are a few things that this program doesn't have. It does not have an exhaustive list of places and businesses. Also, you cannot get summary information about cities, but Street Atlas does provide zip codes, and for each zip code, a right mouse click provides demographic information including population, median home price, percent of households owned versus percent rented, median year the houses were built, average household income, average per capita income and some other stuff. This is really neat information to have if you're house hunting. If you have an idea where you would like to live, you can use Street Atlas to check out the neighborhood streets. Or if you're like me you can get very depressed and find out that to live near the Potomac River in Montgomery County Maryland requires a median investment of $400,000 for a home, OUCH! Printing out your maps is a breeze, and with a color printer, they'll look just like the color pages of a regular road atlas. This program will be great for printing custom directions, since the program allows users to annotate maps with both text, text bubbles, and symbols. I like directions where the majority of a page is the picture of the neighborhood you're going to. I then like to see a smaller inset box that show a wider view of the area with the major routes highlighted. Street Atlas allows the user to copy the current map screen wherever it is to the clipboard. From there it can be pasted to your favorite graphics application for some custom work. For those business road warriors out there, you'll like this feature. Street Atlas can be installed so that the map databases reside on your hard drive instead of your CD-ROM. There are two advantages: 1. Hard disk searches will be faster than CD-ROM searches, and 2. You don't have to tie up your CD-ROM drive. You can use it to play your favorite Red Hot Chili Peppers album while working. The one major drawback is that this option will eat up your hard drive. I downloaded map information for Maryland, New York, Virginia, and Pennsylvania, it took up over 160 megs on the hard disk-- -YIKES! Nevertheless, I can't think of a better program for the business traveler to have on their notebook computer than this program. No more trying to find your hotel with those dinky little maps the car rental places give you! My one true disappointment came in the beginning. The first(obvious) task I performed after installing the product was to look up my address in Frederick Maryland. I'm located in a fairly new development that's been around since 1989. However, I could not find my street on the map--BOO! I'd like to see Delorme offer some sort of map database update so that users can keep their product current. I can understand that newer locations take time to get into geographic databases, but I think after being in existence for 8 years+ my development should finally make it onto some of the geographic maps. Overall, I give Street Atlas a high recommendation. You'll find it to be extremely helpful when planning trips, and if you're like me, you might even be able to shave an extra couple of minutes off your daily commute to work by finding better routes to take. Street Atlas doesn't have the search engine to plot out routes that minimize distance, time, fuel, etc. If you need those features you'll have to look elsewhere. Delorme 181 US Route 1 South P.O. Box 298 Freeport, ME 044032 To order from Delorme's Home Page: http://www.delorme.com Support email: mailto:support@delorme.com Support phone: (207) 865-7098 Support fax: (207) 865-9291 web: Ratings: Installation/Ease of Use: Gold User-Friendliness: Gold Quality: Gold User: All --END OF ISSUE