Computer Chronicles November 1994

I'm stopping on this kiosk here looking for computer stuff to get some presents for some hacker friends of mine. Trouble is, there's so many interesting things here, I'm really not sure what to buy. You having the same problem? If so, then this is your day, because we're going to bring together our group of resident Computer Chronicles experts to find out what their picks are for the best high-tech toys of the year, as we bring you our annual consumer's buying guide show on this edition of the Computer Chronicles.

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Welcome to the Computer Chronicles. I'm Stewart Cheifet, and with me today is Paul Schindler, Northern California Bureau Editor for Windows Magazine. Paul, we've got lots of neat toys to look at today. Let's start off with this thing.

All right, Stewart, this is one way of getting at a service called Radiomail. Now that's $89 a month for unlimited Incoming and outgoing electronic mail. And the key is this MobiDem portable cellular modem. That's $800 from GE Ericsson. This is the smallest unit you can hook it to to get email. This is an HP 95LX. But this same modem will hook to the serial port of any portable computer. You can get your electronic mail anywhere, anytime, on a boat, on a plane, in a car. It's, it's the neatest way to get electronic mail. No phones, wireless email.

Pretty cool. All right, if we're talking about mobile computing, I always use my notebook over here, right? You never have enough room on your hard drive, no matter how big your hard drive is. This is the solution: a portable, in fact pocketable, little portable hard drive. Runs on 4 rechargeable batteries. This is an 80 megabyte one for about $400. You can get up to 200 megabytes in this little thing. Just plugs right into your parallel port, takes me about 30 seconds to install it. There you go, take it home. All right. Paul and I will be joined today by Tim Bajarin and Gina Smith for a look at the neatest new computer goodies on the market. We'll look mainly at software and peripherals for IBM PC compatibles and the Macintosh, but there are people out there who don't use either a Mac or a PC, so we'll begin by checking out what's available for the other kinds of computers.

Millions of people shop for software and add-ons that are not for the PC, not for the Mac, but for the Amiga. It's the platform of choice for many who work with video and computer-generated animation, but a popular gift for any Amiga user The Amiga is the number 2 game machine in all of Europe.

We get a lot of titles from the European community, Amiga community, so there's a lot of arcade-type games like Hired Guns, mainstream products like Kid Pix from Broderbund is available, SimLife, a lot of titles you recognize on other platforms are all available on the Amiga.

Some of the best deals can be found in multimedia productivity and authoring tools for the Amiga. Scala Multimedia Software costs about $300 and lets you create professional-looking presentations using all aspects of media.

We can take animations and graphics and backgrounds and texts and fonts and add wipes and flips and tumbles and transitions to them.

We can add music, backgrounds, and voice overlays and control how those work together, put them all together into a real dynamic presentation.

Movie Maker is a nonlinear desktop video and audio editing package that lets you combine full-motion video off your hard drive with computer animation. The resulting movie can then be transferred to videotape. Movie Maker costs $900 and runs on the Amiga 3000 and 4000 models.

It also needs a very fast SCSI disk controller and a SCSI hard drive. It can animate through native Amiga display modes, or it can use DCTV from Digital Creations, and that's really about it. It's primarily a software-based system, so there's no expensive hardware add-ons that are required.

For the Computer Chronicles, I'm Janelle Patterson.

We have all our guest experts gathered here in the studio right now to show us some neat Macintosh products, including again Paul Schindler of Windows Magazine, Tim Baharan of Creative Strategies, and Gina Smith of Electronic Entertainment Magazine. Paul, let's start with you, and what do you have for the Mac?

Uh, a bunch of Mac stuff. Wanted to just mention Richard Dalton of Keep Track gave me a hand picking this software out, and the first one I have have is the new Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia from Grolier Electronic Publishing in Stamford, Connecticut. It's $400, and the 1994 edition adds animated maps.

The first to secede on December 20th, 1860, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama.

It's a combination of sound and color in maps to demonstrate historical movements. This is the Civil War. They have another one that shows the westward expansion of the United States. Signed articles, bibliographies. It's the finest CD-ROM encyclopedia, and I don't see any reason that anybody should use a paper encyclopedia anymore.

All right, load your next toy, and I'm going to show something right now. This is a program called Color It from a company called Micro Frontier. It's image editing and a paint program for the Macintosh. It doesn't come in a very fancy box, and for a good reason. It is free, basically. It sells for $150 normally. They are giving away 1 million copies of these during the rest of this year. So if you get in touch with Micro Frontier and you're one of the first million, For about $8.50 shipping and handling, you can get Paint It, a great color painting program for the Mac. What do you have next?

I have Crystal Crazy, $50 from Cassidy and Green in Salinas, California, the worthy successor to Crystal Quest. It has many of the same elements. It has the little ship, it has crystals you can gather, it has the cool sound effects. That was me dying. And what I want to do is get up here and show you the second level, because instead of just gathering crystals, at the second level You, uh, smash objects into the wall.

Sounds like fun.

It's a terrific game. It's always been a terrific game. It's good in color, and I just can't recommend this highly enough.

Yeah, you get to get all those hostilities out.

Yeah, knock that statue down there. And if they don't hit the wall hard enough, they don't break. So that's Crystal—

All right, Crystal Crazy.

Crystal Crazy.

Yeah, what do you got next?

You're gonna—

I will play with something while you show that.

Play with something while I show this. This is $500. It's the Stikka from the Roland Digital Group in Irvine, California. You see this now. What's a Stikka? Unbelievable is what a Stik-A is. It makes vinyl signs. Now, I'm confidently told it would cost you $20 to have this vinyl sign done. You, you put in raw vinyl into this device, you hook it to your Macintosh, you, you use some software, and you can do custom in any typeface you want. I did the Computer Chronicles. With a little more experience, the letters would have come out straight. That's great.

All right, one more thing.

Uh, this is the Disney screensaver, $50 from Berkeley Systems. You know, they say everything has been done in screensavers. This is incredible. They licensed the Disney characters, they grabbed the bitmaps from actual Disney animation, and, uh, it's hours of fun.

Goofy just steals your files, huh?

Goofy just grabs your folders and shoves them off your screen. Funniest thing I've ever seen.

It's really cute. All right, Paul, thank you very much. I want to go over here and join Tim. And Tim, what do you have up on the Mac?

Hi, Stewart. This is a new product from Microsoft called Creative Writer, and it's really a word processor for kids, but you wouldn't know it. What you do is you see they've got an Idea Workshop, Project Workshop, Writing Studio, and Library. We're going to go up here to the Idea Workshop, and it brings It brings us to a kind of— looks like a slot machine in reality, but it's actually a little device that we can use to give us story ideas. So it's going to bring up a bigger version of it, and we pull the fish down and it gives us a couple of things, right? Until we get maybe the terminology we want to get the creative juices flowing. So this is the squirrel sprinted underneath the deserted island.

Okay.

It may sound crazy, but we'll go over to a sheet now where we can actually start playing with the sentence. And the sentence comes up, and you already see the squirrel and everything. So now we can start playing with it. We can actually take that and add color to it, and perhaps we could even make it bigger by hitting this. And then we can go to another segment and add a Oh, ClickArt item of some type. We're gonna go ahead and add a giraffe and put him in here. And now you can see we've got this kind of a crazy little story idea coming around, but it's a great little product.

It's really cute.

Absolutely, and I think that parents will love to have this for kids to get them— their creative juices flowing and learning about writing.

Creative Writer.

Right.

Alright, while you load up your next thing, let me show one thing very similar to what you were talking about. KidStudio, another creative program, a little more graphically oriented, less text oriented, from a company called Cyber Puppy Software. It's really neat for kids. As you can see, lots of pictures, lots of things for kids to play with and become creative, similar to Creative Writer. What else do you have, Tim?

This new product is the newest version of SimCity. And SimCity has been something that's been really exciting. You can build your own cities and try to figure it out, but they've got a new version called SimCity 2000.

The future.

Right. And we're loading up right now a new version of one of the demo cities. This happens to be called Bob City, and we're going to zoom in here real quick and take a good look at the bigger picture. And the idea behind this, of course, is to try to get as much of a city built that is either making money or at least doing well on its own. And so first thing I might want to do is— here's a building that actually is uninhabited, and if it's uninhabited, it's costing me money, so I'm going to blow it up. Something I've always wanted to do.

Okay.

But then we can go on the other side and actually start building some new futuristic things. For example, in SimCity 2000, we've got these beautiful new buildings building ideas that are much more futuristic. And we're going to happen to choose this, what they call the Forest Arco, take it over here and build it up. And as you can see, now we have a whole new version of a much more futuristic world. SimCity 2000 is going to be available by the Christmas time. I don't know what it's going to be sold for, but it's going to be a nice product.

Tim, thank you very much. Let's go over here to join Gina Smith. And Gina, what do you have on your Mac?

Hi, Stuart. I have the most addicting thing you've ever seen in your life, and it's not even a game.

All right, show me.

This is a multimedia title. It's for PCs and Macs with CD-ROM drives. It's called Rock, Rap, and Roll. What this does is actually lets you mix your own music. It has hundreds of pre-recorded tracks in blues, rock, reggae, African, almost any kind of musical genre you can think of. This is the blues screen.

Show me.

If you look, these along this line here are the tracks that we have to choose from. You can hear some of them here. There's like 4 to 8 bars like that. We drag these in order to our Songalyzer. It doesn't have to be in any particular order.

I'll do a 1, 3, So you're really composing your song by dragging these little riffs and putting them in sequence?

Sure, you want like a turnaround right toward the end.

Okay.

And then you want to take it home. Okay, so this is your song in order. Then you can adjust what your lead instruments are. As you see here, it says a harp.

Okay.

That's it. Maybe we don't want 2 harps, so we'll change that to say, how about a sax?

Okay, sax too.

Better?

I like the sound of that.

All right.

All right, and here's the another harp. Maybe we'll leave that one as it is.

Okay.

Here are our vocalists. Female vocalist. Our male vocalist. Down here is the key map, and if you look here, you can see what the various keys here. So if you look, you can actually play along with your keyboard. Do it. X is guitar, as you see from the screen.

C, D, E. Okay.

So now we can start our song. Oh, we want to adjust this too because the screen is a little grating on me. Okay. So we'll change that. How about to a whoa? Okay.

Sure.

Whoa!

Nice.

Much better. So we start our song. How about sax here?

So you're playing this, right?

This is it. We're playing everything. We're playing the voices here.

How about a whoa?

Too much?

It's pretty neat.

All right.

And that's about it.

I want to show you one thing, Gina. If we can get out of this a second.

Let me grab the mouse for a second.

I want to show you something. There's a little moral question involved in this, perhaps. See it?

Okay.

Yeah.

This is something new. It's over here. It's called the Game Cheater, okay? And it's a little guy named Axis, and it actually lets you cheat on most of the computer games. Now, you know, this is maybe not the right thing to do, but it's a lot of fun. You get frustrated playing these games and you cannot get anywhere. These are all the games you can cheat on with Game Cheater. We see 4D Boxing, A-Train, Beyond Dark Castle, Crystal Crazy. Paul was playing that before. We could have gotten him an extra ship or a smart bomb. A whole bunch of other games here. You want to cheat on Lemmings, and you can get all kinds of extra climbers and floaters and bombers, etc. Really neat game cheater. You can do better at Prince of Persia and all those other things. There's a couple other things you wanted to show real quick.

A couple other things really quick. What I have here is the 4th in the Living Books series from Broderbund. This is called The Tortoise and the Hare. It's an interactive Aesop's fable. It's fantastic. It also comes with a storybook for your kids. And if you've always wanted to play Captain Kirk and pilot the Enterprise, you can. This is Star Trek 25th Anniversary. It's from MacBooks. It's like a flight simulator, only instead of an airplane, you fly the Enterprise.

All right, Gina, thank you very much. Coming up next, a whole host of neat goodies for DOS and Windows, so don't go away. And we have our fearless threesome back here in the studio, this time to look at neat toys for the DOS and Windows world. And we're gonna start off with Paul Schindler. And what do you have, Paul?

Uh, well, first thing I've got is Twain's World. It's $40 from the Bureau of Electronic Publishing in Parsippany, New Jersey, and it's everything you ever wanted to know about Mark Twain, his life, and his writing. Uh, it's a multimedia product, as all the Bureau of Electronic Publishing products are. And for example, we have tinkly music and the only known video shot of Mark Twain by no less than Thomas Edison in 1909. And what we have is really dim, gray video of Mark Twain, but you can actually see what he looked like, uh, when he walked around. It's also got full text of all his speeches and his difficult-to-find short stories. It's got video, it's got narration, and it's got pictures of all the characters in all of his novels. So that's Twain's World on CD-ROM, by the way.

While you load up your next thing, I want to show something neat over here. This is called Teddy's Big Day. Is this packaging for software? Okay, a little warm fuzzy teddy bear. Look at this, software for kids 6 months And older. To run this program, you just have to keep on clicking on the mouse key. Very easy, great for kids, their first experience with a computer. Teddy's Big Day, it's a wonderful thing. What do you have?

Speaking of kids' software, from a great kids' software company called Davidson's in Torrance, California, this is $40 and it's called KidCAD, which is a 3D CAD program for kids. Now we're going to switch over to the city view, and on this vacant lot here in the middle, it's going to build a house. Once it's done that, we can go to the design studio, we can add 3D objects. It helps to have a lot of computer power behind this. We're showing it on a 66 MHz machine. This drawing is kind of slow if you're on a slower machine. My 12-year-old Marlo and my 9-year-old Ray really love this. You can add dinosaurs, and very quickly I'll just show you that if you want to erase that building, you grab the squasher and these giant fists come in and destroy the building. Now I have one more.

Yeah, you show that. I'm going to take over here in a minute.

Card Grabber is $400 from Pacific Crest Technologies in Newport Beach, California. Now What this is, is it is a special-purpose scanner that scans— you put a business card in here, it scans it, saves the optical image, and uses optical character recognition to pull the data out of the fields, turns them into ASCII, and allows you to put it into a database. It connects to the parallel port on your portable computer, so it's light, it's relatively inexpensive, and if you're like me and you're compulsive about putting all of your business cards into your database, it's going to save you about 10 million keystrokes a year. I am really excited. I'm really excited about this product, Card Grabber from Pacific Crest Technologies.

And real quick, I'm excited about this game. This is called Morphman. It finally takes morphing and puts it into a game environment. Watch this stuff for a second. This is sort of an automatic demo here. What you do is you get into trouble if you're a person, so you turn yourself into a snake. And if you get into trouble as a snake, you turn yourself into a tank or whatever it happens to be. It's really cool. Let's just see one of the quick morphs that takes place right here. Let's see, it's a— actually, these little windows don't do much now, but when you grab things, these little windows light up with the things you grab. And show me a morph. Come on, we're running out of time here, guys. There he is, and he becomes Morph Man. And now he's going to morph into a jet plane because he wants to go fly. Pretty cool, huh?

Absolutely.

Okay, I'm going to leave you and go over here to Tim Baharan. And maybe you can turn the sound down there, Paul. Tim, what are you going to show us?

This is another interesting new product from a company called Visioneer in Palo Alto. It's a personal scanner called the PaperMax. And you might have a piece of paper on your desk right next to you that you want to bring in, and all of a sudden And you have it now in a digital form on your desktop.

That's fast.

Very fast, very nice device.

That's a tiny little scanner.

Yeah, $500, just about to come out. And what makes it interesting is that now I have this new scanned device and I can take a really good look at it. I can actually annotate it if I want.

Very clean.

Put colors on it or whatever, send it back. But more importantly, I can now take this and stack it with other things, other pieces of paper, as well as with maybe a spreadsheet or something I want to send. Then I just drag it down to the printer.

Send the whole stack to the printer.

Right, or a fax. Fax it out, immediately it's gone. It's a great little product, $500, just about to come out.

Real quick, let me show you something. This is News of the Past, a neat little software product out there. You know, you go into these gift card shops, for $7 or $8 you have to spend money to get one of these little things. You know, what happened on the day of your kid's birthday. You can print all, all these things out. It has the history for the last 100 years. So find the day you want for somebody's birthday or anniversary, print out a little neat framed thing like that, and you got it. It's called News of the Past. Really neat little toy.

That's neat.

What else?

This is another interesting little product. It's from Air Communications Company in Sunnyvale, and it's actually— what it looks like is just a regular cellular phone, but it's deceiving because it's actually got a regular RJ-11 connection in here, so it can be a regular modem, or it could actually be a full cellular modem. So I can just take this particular little device and plug it into this, plug this into my portable computer, And now I have a full wireless cellular modem, so I can now just, without any connections, connect to my MCI, CompuServer, anything.

So it's a cell phone with a modem built in?

Right, cellular modem and a regular modem built in.

That is really cool. Okay, what else?

This other thing is kind of interesting. In my pocket, I've got a full 16-bit stereo sound card, a full SCSI adapter card, and a 105-meg hard drive. Oh, come on. Absolutely. These first 2 cards are from a company called New Media in Irvine, California. This first one is a full SCSI adapter card, and I can stick this in any machine that has a PCMCIA, connect it to the SCSI adapter, and now have a CD-ROM or any other SCSI peripheral. The other thing is interesting. It's a 16-bit stereo sound card called WaveJammer, also from New Media, that I can stick in, and then when I connect it to this particular device, I can now put my speakers in it.

Wow.

Amazing. But perhaps this last one is the more amazing of all of them, in that this is a 105-meg hard drive, 2 platters, from Maxtor in San Jose, California. This will be out after the first of the year in a full Type 3 PCMCIA format.

Amazing.

And it's amazing because it's 2 platters, and they tell me that within probably 18 months, they'll get as much as 400 megabytes on this little device.

Incredible.

Tim, thank you very much. Let me go join Gina. And what are you playing with, Gina?

Hi, Stewart. I've got something really neat, and it's something called Movie Select. It is absolutely ideal for the person who can never decide what to get at the video store.

That's like me, right?

Well, you've got 44,000 movies here listed, and like a lot of CD-based movie guides, you can look at plot summaries. But this does something really unique. It will actually recommend movies based on your preferences of movies you've already seen. Here I'm up on the H's, and I can say that I really like The Highlander, which was a great movie, High Noon, an excellent Western, and let's say High Anxiety. We hit the continue button.

So it's sort of gonna guess the characteristics of those movies and say, if you like those, you'll like these.

Exactly. Here it's told me that I should see True Grit and Glory and Unforgiven.

Okay.

It also has something that's really very unusual, and that is it will do movie previews.

Real clips?

Real clips. Full-motion video clips, and not those little tiny jerky video clips either. Here we're gonna look at a preview of the Coneheads. And we're going to hit play, and it should start here any second now.

Wow.

They come from the cold reaches of space.

That was really cool.

Yes.

Okay, maybe stop that and then show me what these little toys are you have here.

Well, this is ideal for the young or teenage boy in your house. This is the ideal joystick for him. This is a full throttle joystick. It's called the FX-2000. It's from Suncom.

Oh, that is great.

Uh, what's really unique about this is It's V-design. Yeah, if you don't understand that, ask a kid. It just means the fire buttons are on the top and the trigger buttons in the front.

That's cool.

I also have, for the sports fan, a football mouse. This is also available in basketball and soccer ball versions. It came with this nifty little mousepad.

All right, if we were talking about kids, I have a couple things I want to show you. This is Turbo Touch 360. Usually you see this kind of input just for Nintendo games and Sega games. This is for a PC. Okay, so you get all the full control you might normally get in a in a Nintendo controller. And also, this is sort of touch-sensitive thing, so you don't get what they call numb thumb from banging around forever. That's really cool. TurboTouch 360 for little kids. For big kids, look at this input device. This is actually an input and an output device. If you're doing lots of video presentations but you don't want to go back and look at the screen the whole time, you want to look at your audience, this is your controller. Full mouse and keyboard, numeric keypad control, plus a little monitor over here so you can not only see your presentation, pull up your notes, pull up a preview what's, what's coming up on the screen, It's the Video Show Presenter, a really great toy— not toy, it's a really great tool if you really do lots of presentations. Anything else you want to tell me?

I do.

I have one other thing. It won't do anything for numb thumb, but it will help you fix up your house a lot. This is called the Home Survival Toolkit. It's from Books That Work. It will not only tell you, but it will show you how to solve common household problems: fixing the plumbing, repainting a room.

CD-ROM again, so it's got videos on there?

CD-ROM. It's beautiful. It's available also in floppy disk.

Home Survival Toolkit.

Great.

Gina, thank you very much. That is our Consumer's Buying Guide show for this year. Stay tuned now for this week's computer news on Random Access.

In the Random Access file this week, multimedia emerged as a main theme of this year's COMDEX. Exhibitors at the multimedia showcase say sales of multimedia PCs is expected to triple in the next 2 years due to hardware price reductions and more and better CD-ROM software titles. Other big issues at COMDEX: wireless communications paired with laptops and PDAs, and the PowerPC versus the Pentium. We'll bring you a full report on the issues, products, and people at this year's COMDEX in a few weeks. Sales of Windows hit the 40 million mark this past week. There are now 16,000 companies developing Windows-based software applications, and Microsoft says Windows is responsible for the creation of more than 17,000 jobs outside of Microsoft. Digital Equipment has introduced the new DEC PC XL series of high-performance upgradable 486 and Pentium PCs, which it calls the most expandable PC in the industry. A new modular Mother card, daughter card approach will let users upgrade within the Intel Pentium line or convert to the Alpha AXP later on. The new digital Pentium model is priced just under $4,000. Dell says its new Pentium-based XPS P60 computer will sell for $3,000, including a Super VGA color monitor. Dell also announced that it now offers factory installation of OS/2 on its PCs. WordPerfect has suspended development on its 32-bit word processor for OS/2. The company says instead it will release the 16-bit WordPerfect 5.2 for OS/2 with support for the Rex programming language. Math Ace looks and feels like an arcade-style game, but it's really an educational program to teach kids about math. The digital math navigator BitBot leads kids on a journey that covers over 3,000 math problems covering fundamental concepts from basic arithmetic through algebra. That's it for this week's Computer Chronicles. I'm Janelle Stelson.

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