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Notes from The Cutting Edge of Personal Computing
July 6, 1997 
Issue 86

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CONTENTS
My Notes:
1=> Landing on Mars and the Internet, mailto:pgrote@i1.net
2=> This Issue's Winner!

Reviews:
3=> Product: Visual Cafe Pro - development/Java
Reviewed By: Doug Reed, mailto:dr2web@sprynet.com
4=> Product: ArcSoft PhotoStudio - utility/graphics
Reviewed By: Paul Baker, mailto:pbaker@facstaff.wisc.edu
5=> Product: Leisure Suit Larry - Love for Sail - games/adult
Reviewed By: Jerry Eichelberger, mailto:ike@mslawyer.com
6=> Product: Windows Sources Microsoft Office97 for Windows Super 
Guide - book/tutorial
Reviewed By: Doug Reed, mailto:dr2web@sprynet.com
7=> Product: Hunter Hunted - game/action
Reviewed By: Doug Reed, mailto:dr2web@sprynet.com

8=> Clicakbales!

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1=> Mars and the Internet, mailto:pgrote@i1.net

Quick show of hands of everyone who tried to view NASA TV over the 
weekend and couldn't . . . . I finally got through Saturday night at 
9:00pm CST. I kept my machine up watching it all happen! Of course, 
I have a 128K ISDN line and the Real Video was still very jerky. 

I felt proud to be a human when the rover rolled off the petal. I 
cheered and then I wondered who would be the first on the web to 
break the news? 

As I popped over to my browser MSNBC <http:\\www.msnbc.com> was 
first to report the rover moving only six minutes after it happened. 
INCREDIBLE. ABCNews <http://www.abcnews.com> was next nearly 90 
minutes later. CNN <http://www.cnn.com> weighed in almost 120 
minutes later. Poor USAToday <http://www.usatoday.com> still hasn't 
updated their page. 

What does this show? CNN, the ones we think of as breaking news, got 
beat. What is ironic about this is that the JPL news conference at 
1:30AM CST was shown live on CNN, but the web site languished for 
another hour. 

MSNBC was frighteningly fast on this. I considered them as has 
beens, but maybe not. ABCNews was a strong contender. 

Will I switch my primary news source from CNN to MSNBC? Probably 
not. But I will guarantee I will watch the times of breaking news 
again and it will weigh heavy on my mind.

2=> Winner!
No winner.

3=> Product: Visual Cafe Pro
Reviewed By: Doug Reed, mailto:dr2web@sprynet.com
Requirements: Windows 95/NT, 16 MB RAM, Pentium, 2x CDROM

When I first got Visual Cafe Pro to review I wasn't really sure what 
I was going to be able say about it. I had already reviewed Visual 
Cafe, and had heard that the only difference between the standard 
and pro editions was that the pro edition included the controls to 
use db Anywhere, Symantec's Java based server for accessing 
databases using Java applets over the Internet. The problem was that 
db Anywhere was listed as retailing for $1,495 (that's not a typo). 
Seemed a bit steep to me - and then what use would Visual Cafe Pro 
be to the average developer? But I went ahead and asked to review 
Visual Cafe Pro because Symantec has built an excellent reputation 
with its Java development applications and I couldn't believe they 
would drop the ball. As I found out, they didn't!

For those who don't know, Visual Cafe (standard or Pro) is 
Symantec's Rapid Application Development tool for Java applets and 
applications. Unlike Symantec Cafe, Visual Cafe was designed to be 
used by developers with little or no expertise with programming in 
Java. The focus is on using the graphical environment, dragging and 
dropping the necessary elements onto the "form" and then asking 
Visual Cafe to create the source code and final program. In my 
review of the standard edition, I mentioned that I loved the 
interface and the ease with which one could create a relatively 
simple applet.

The Pro edition uses exactly the same interface, in fact is exactly 
the same program except that includes a few more components for 
plugging into your applet. Most notable among the new components are 
the controls for the db Anywhere server. Now, to clarify the mess 
with db Anywhere. On the CD with Visual Cafe Pro is a copy of the db 
Anywhere Workgroup Server - which includes controls for use with 
Sybase SQL Anywhere Professional and Microsoft Access. From what I 
can gather, the primary difference between the db Anywhere Workgroup 
Server and the db Anywhere Server is the number of database controls 
that are included - the full version simply has more of them, 
covering a wider range of databases. In other words, smaller 
developers can simply use db Anywhere Workgroup Server and that 
should be sufficient. With the inclusion of the db Anywhere 
Workgroup Server, Visual Cafe Pro becomes a much more valuable Java 
development tool than any other that is currently out there. How db 
Anywhere works is in principle rather simple. A user running a Java 
applet designed with Visual Cafe Pro uses the db Anywhere components 
to send a request for data out of a corporate database. The db 
Anywhere server interprets the request, then interacts with the 
database to extract the requested data. It is completely up to db 
Anywhere to interact with the database - no additional programming 
is required.

Serious Java developers will be salivating to get their hands on 
Visual Cafe Pro, I assure you! In addition to Symantec's own 
software on the CD, they have also included Netscape's Fast Track 
Server and Navigator Gold 3.01. These four software programs 
together make about as complete as set of tools that any website 
programmer will need. Beyond the inclusion of db Anywhere very 
little else is changed about Visual Cafe Pro. There are a few more 
components than in the standard edition - multimedia effects such as 
Emblaze stick out. Beyond that it is simply the Visual Cafe that I 
love; simple, easy to use, and powerful. The same tutorial is used 
to get you started with Visual Cafe, although it is expanded 
somewhat to give you some basics on using db Anywhere.

When installing I noted that the Visual Cafe uses Sun's Java 
Development Kit 1.02 (although Symantec uses their own, much faster 
compiler); Symantec has already announced that they will be 
supporting the recently released JDK 1.1 and will release patches 
when they are ready. Should you need help or technical support, be 
sure to check out Symantec's Java Central website at 
http://cafe.symantec.com, where you can download patches, find 
updated information, or even download the entire software package 
(should you purchase it on-line). In addition, Symantec's Java 
development crew maintains a very high profile on all of the Java 
newsgroups. Post a message on even one of the Java newsgroups and 
you can be certain to get a quick reply. Beyond the great interface 
and design of Visual Cafe, the technical support for all of 
Symantec's Java offerings is tremendous. Many, many other software 
companies would do well to learn from their example!

About the only flaw I could discover is this: Visual Cafe-built 
applets make use of libraries and classes that are part of Visual 
Cafe. For the applet to work on the Internet, then, the programmer 
must make sure that his server supports Symantec's classes. To quote 
from the Visual Cafe readme file: "When placing the applet on a WWW 
server, contact your Webmaster and verify that the Symantec classes 
are available. If the classes are not available on your server, the 
Webmaster will need to add them or tell you how to add them. If you 
are the Webmaster, the classes in the symclass.zip file need to be 
in the server's classpath.

A solution that works locally, or from a server, is to copy the 
\VisualCafe\Java\Lib\symantec directory and all of its contents to 
the directory containing the applet. (The subdirectories of the 
"symantec" directory contain the Visual Cafe PRO Java runtime 
classes.)"

A quick check of Symantec's website lists lots of accolades and 
awards for Visual Cafe Pro, so it seems almost superfluous to add 
mine to it. Nevertheless, I think that Visual Cafe Pro is a terrific 
Java development tool, especially when combined with the db Anywhere 
Workgroup Server. Now if I can only get my website server to support 
Symantec's Java extensions! Symantec deserves real credit; Visual 
Cafe Pro will be THE Java development tool for the foreseeable 
future.

Symantec, Inc.
10201 Torre Ave.
Cupertino, CA 95014
(800) 441-7234
Web: 	http://www.symantec.com
	http://cafe.symantec.com (for all of Symantec's Java-related 
offerings)

Ratings:
Installation: Gold
User-Friendliness: Gold
Quality: Gold
User: Programmers

4=> Product: ArcSoft PhotoStudio - utility/graphics
Reviewed By: Paul Baker, mailto:pbaker@facstaff.wisc.edu
Recommended: Pentium, Windows 95/NT, 16 MB RAM 16- or 24-bit SVGA, 
Mouse

Last week my supervisor came into my office and announced, "We need 
to update this brochure. I want the new one to be hard-hitting, and 
it has to communicate to a wide variety of audiences. I don't care 
how you do it--just make it GOOD!" The brochure describes research 
into science, math, and technology education. I had some ideas for a 
design that suggested "hi-tech" design, so I fired up my PhotoStudio 
software and started working with high-magnification images of 
processor chips boards to use as a background. PhotoStudio is a 32-
bit digital photo image editing system program that runs on 
Microsoft Windows 3.1, 95, and NT. You can acquire, manage, and 
output full-color images for publications, presentations, or 
animations. I knew PhotoStudio was a good package for me several 
months ago when I downloaded the trial version. (Want to see for 
yourself? Go to ArcSoft's Web site at http://www.arcsoft.com.) Now 
that I have the registered version I can refer to the printed manual 
and play with the accompanying software, Kai's PowerGoo. (You've 
probably seen the ads. PowerGoo lets you distort photos of friends' 
faces, etc., and it's fun. But PowerGoo is very resource intensive, 
and on my 486 SX 33, it r-e-a-l-l-y c-r-a-w-l-s.

I found PhotoStudio easy to get into and enjoyable to use, but it's 
not a toy. Its sophisticated tools let me do the pixel-by-pixel 
editing I sometimes want to do. And in terms of range and depth of 
features it compares favorably with other mid-level photo editing 
software such as MGI's PhotoSuite and JASC's Paint Shop Pro. Photo 
Suite lets you work with many different types of images (BMP, GIF, 
PCD, PCX, TGA, TIFF, and JPEG). You can import black-and-white line 
art, 8-bit grayscale, and color (4-, 8-, or 24-bit) images. You can 
export PhotoStudio images to other applications, and Photo Studio 
supports third-party Adobe Photoshop plug-ins.

Naturally, the more you know about art and design, the more you'll 
be able to take advantage of Photo Studio's many tools. But even 
amateurs like myself can create, retouch, or paint images using the 
electronic pen, pencil, various paintbrushes, and an airbrush tool. 
A text tool lets you add labels and captions. Like Microsoft's 
Paintbrush, you get rectangle, ellipse, and freehand select tools. 
But you get some really sophisticated ones, too, like you see in 
Corel Draw. For example: The "magic wand" tool selects a contiguous 
area based on color similarity. You can then modify this area to 
your heart's content, without affecting other areas. The gradient 
fill tool fills a selected area or an entire image with colors that 
are gradually mixed together from the active color to an alternative 
color. The smudge tool smears the "paint" in an image, blending 
neighboring colors together (good for removing facial blemishes and 
wrinkles!). The clone tool copies parts of an image to another area 
within the same image, or between images, or paints with a pattern 
contained in the clipboard. (Good for erasing unwanted trees or 
people!) The smooth/sharpen tool smooths an image by decreasing 
contrast, or clarifies an image by enhancing the contrast between 
pixels. The "revert" tool blends the changes you have made to the 
currently masked area together with the original underlying image. 
You can adjust an image's brightness and contrast as well as adjust 
shadows, midtones, or highlights. You can edit colors using either 
the red/green/blue tone (RGB) mapping system or 
hue/saturation/brightness (HSV) values. With special effect filters 
you can alter an image to resemble a tracing, an oil painting, or a 
sketch. You can add a "film grain" effect of various intensities, 
create a "splash" effect, or make an image appear to be melting. You 
can add ripples or wrinkles to an image, or make it appear to be 
embossed in metal (Yes, Cindy Crawford looks good embossed!). Or how 
about a funny fish-eye-lens effect on your boss's face?

When it's time to organize all your work, Photo Studio's Album 
Manager guides you through the process of arranging your images into 
customized working groups. For example, you could create one album 
for all your JPEGs, another for your GIFs. Or, you could put people 
photos in one album, garden photos in another, science photos in 
another. Once you've created an album, you can display the images in 
timed presentation sequences, or "slide shows." A real estate agent 
could use this feature to create a slide show of houses currently on 
the market. An astronomy club could produce a slide show of members' 
photos of celestial bodies.

To sum up, PhotoStudio offers lots of tools and sophisticated 
features--certainly more than I need for my little brochure project. 
But my design ideas have gotten some approving reviews, thanks to 
Photo Studio. Now for the hard part--revising all the text!

ArcSoft PhotoStudio
ArcSoft, Inc.
http://www.arcsoft.com
4015 Clipper Court
Fremont, CA 94538
(510) 440-9901
Fax: (510) 440-1270
E-mail: ps_support@arcsoft.com

5=> Product: Leisure Suit Larry - Love for Sail - games/adult
Reviewed By:   Jerry Eichelberger, mailto:ike@mslawyer.com
Review on: Pentium 166, 32 MB RAM, Windows 95b, 12X CDROM
Requires: 486/66, SVGA, 2X CDROM, 16MB
MSRP: $50

Cast of the lines matey, were setting sail on another Leisure Suit 
Adventure with our hapless, love starved hero of the 80s.

Al Lowe and the team at Sierra have done a nice job with this 
release of Larry. The most obvious change from earlier games is the 
new "latex" interface. The old style mouse cursor has been replaced 
by a new 'smart' condom that changes appearance as it passes across 
the screen. Initially, the condom is less than enthusiastic about 
it's function, however, when placed on an object that Larry can 
interact with, the cursor soon rises to the occasion. Clicking on an 
interactive object brings up a menu of specific commands that can be 
performed on the object as well as a pull-down menu of inventory 
items that can be used or mis-used with the particular object.

In addition, there is the ability to type in a topic to be discussed 
or an action to be performed by Larry, above and beyond those 
provided by the cursor menu. In some cases puzzles can only be 
solved by expanding Larry's options with this feature. The new 
feature does away with the constant icon swapping of the previous 
Larry game and allows for faster, less clumsy playability.

Leisure Suit Larry - Love for Sail, picks up where LSL 6 left off, 
and Larry is finally enjoying a night of passionate sex with 
Shanara. Poor Larry thinks that all is well and prepares to take 
their relationship to a new level ... handcuffs! Unknowing to Larry, 
Shanara has come to her own ideas about their relationship, and poor 
Larry ends up in quite a predicament. Handcuffed, bed on fire, and 
bewildered, we begin our latest adventure.

Once you figure out how to escape the singe of the fire you will 
find a ticket on a cruise line on the balcony. After surviving a 
rather nasty fall from the 40th floor of a building, you will be on 
your way to the PMS Bouncy.

I wish there were Captains that looked like Captain Thygh when I was 
in the U.S. Navy ... I would still be there. Steered by the sexy and 
free spirited Captain Thygh, the PMS Bouncy is one strange ship. 
However, the crew of gorgeous ladies will give our hero much to 
"shoot" for.

This game is chock full of puns, and the shipboard announcer will 
keep you rolling in laughter with his competition updates and daily 
announcements. If you like celebrity innuendo, then Dewmi Moor, 
Jamie Lee Coitus, Drew Baringmore, Nailmi and Wydoncha Jugg will 
"please" you, if you figure out the puzzles and find the Easter 
Eggs. There is no full frontal closeup nudity unless you find the 
Easter Eggs hidden in the game. But none the less, the graphics and 
voice-overs are well done and a delight to see.

When you get aboard the PMS Bouncy, you will join in the Thygh Man 
Competition, and vie for the chance for a free week long cruise in 
the Captain's quarters. You will have to find ways to win. In order 
to cheat, Larry will have to use imagination, strategy and of 
course, LUCK.

While on your journey throughout the PMS Bouncy, keep your eyes 
peeled for the 32 "Where's Dildo" dildos. These red and white dildos 
are hidden everywhere, and if you find all 32, you will get a 
special treat.

In my opinion, this is the best Leisure Suit yet. Try it, and I 
think you will like it.

Sierra On-Line
Bellvue, WA 98007
(800) 000-0000
www:  http://www.sierra.com

Ratings:
Installation/Ease of Use:          Silver
User-Friendliness:                 Gold
Quality:                           Gold

6=> Product: Windows Sources Microsoft Office97 for Windows Super 
Guide - book/tutorial
Reviewed By: Doug Reed, mailto:dr2web@sprynet.com
MSRP: $39.99

These days there's a book to cover any subject - yesterday I was at 
the bookstore and came across Sex for Dummies and thought to myself 
that there is ample evidence in the world that Dummies have already 
figured that one out. <g> Some of these books can be useful, 
however, like Windows Sources Office97 Super Guide. As befits the 
king of Office suites, the book is a huge tome of nearly 800 pages. 
Virtually everything is covered in this book, including the kitchen 
sink (just kidding). Seriously, the Windows Source Office97 Super 
Guide is a great reference and tutorial for using Office97.

The Office97 Super Guide is not for everyone - the back cover lists 
the audience as intermediate to expert. I'd say that this is about 
right; the book makes some assumptions as far as the reader's 
knowledge of computers and Windows 95 in general. Still, though, the 
book is well written and clear enough that I think that even a 
novice could learn useful information about using Office97.

The book is divided into 8 parts based on the various applications 
included with Office97 (Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Outlook, and 
Access) and using Office97 to create documents for the Internet. 
Each part is comprised of several chapters and in general goes from 
very basic information too more complicated information. Lots of 
little tidbits and fun items are thrown in as well, like how to 
change the look of the Office Assistant. The Office Assistant is the 
most noticeable change to Office97 other than the replacement of 
Schedule+ with Outlook. When first installed, the Office Assistant 
is a very strange looking cartoon paperclip with eyes. Several 
different looks are available, including (my favorite) a claymation 
Einstein. I'm still not sure if I find the Office Assistant to be 
all that useful, but at least I don't think he looks all that ugly 
anymore. Surprisingly, although the focus of Office97 ads has been 
its integration with publishing for the World Wide Web, only 2 
chapters are devoted to creating web pages with the various 
applications.

Chapter 1 of the book covers what's new in Office97 and is the most 
dispensable portion of the book. It's nice to know what's new in 
Office97, but I prefer getting to the meat of how to use it. Luckily 
the remaining chapters in Part 1 deal with the Office97 interface, 
the toolbars, and the Office Assistant. Part 2 of the book deals 
with using Word, from creating a basic document to designing custom 
templates and publishing to the web. Part 3 deals with Excel, while 
Part 4 deals with Powerpoint and Part 5 covers Access (important if 
you are using Office97 Professional edition). Part 6 covers Outlook, 
the appointment and contact manager application for Office97. 
Actually the portion covering Excel gives a fairly good, detailing 
explanation of how to use Excel and how to create something useful 
out of your spreadsheet data. Further, the section on Powerpoint was 
very useful for creating dramatic presentations of the data and text 
you just created with Word and Excel. In my chosen vocation good 
presentation is the key to success, something that a good knowledge 
of Powerpoint can really help with. Perhaps one of the neatest new 
features in Office97 is the extensive clipart and WordArt effects 
that are included and can be incorporated into any Word or 
Powerpoint document. In Powerpoint, wizards abound to help you with 
finding artwork that will help to get your message across. I was 
also impressed with the coverage of Outlook, a very useful tool for 
maintaining your schedule and contact information, as well as 
providing an email tool that is integrated into Office97.

In short, the Windows Source Office97 Super Guide is a terrific 
tutorial and resource for using Office97. Although the size of the 
book is somewhat daunting at first, the amount and quality of the 
information provided is very impressive. Definitely worth checking 
out if you need a "little" something to help you learn how to use 
Office97.

Ziff-Davis Press, an imprint of
Macmillan Computer Publishing USA
5903 Christie Avenue
Emeryville, CA 94608
http://www.mcp.com

Installation: N/A
User-friendliness: Gold
Quality: Gold
User: Casual to advanced computer users looking to learn more about 
Office97

7=> Product: Hunter Hunted - game/action
Reviewed By: Doug Reed, mailto:dr2web@sprynet.com
Requirements: Windows 95, Pentium, 16 MB RAM, 2x CDROM
MSRP: $54.95

With all the focus in action games on 1st person shooters like 
Quake, it seems almost amazing that someone has dared to come up 
with a traditional side-scrolling action/arcade game. But in mid-'96 
crack.com came out with Abuse, an interesting and fairly difficult 
side-scroller and the revival was on. Now Sierra is serving up 
Hunter Hunted, a side-scroller with some new twists to the genre. 
You have your choice of playing either a human or a beast, serving 
the will of the Masters until you can effect an escape. The Masters 
are a race of superior beings that have conquered both humans and 
beasts (Kullrathe) and now use them for their amusement in a game 
called The Hunt. In The Hunt you are placed in an arena, a specially 
made game area filled with traps and monsters, with the primary goal 
being to escape alive. Beyond surviving, you will need to find the 
components necessary to assemble a car in order to escape the Arena 
and win your freedom.

Hunter/Hunted can be played as a single player or multi-player game, 
although obviously with the dual choice of beast or human the game 
emphasizes multi-player games. In multi-player mode you have the 
choice of playing head-to-head or cooperatively. In cooperative mode 
you work together to achieve the mission objectives; in head-to-head 
you compete. All told, there are some one hundred total missions in 
Hunter/Hunted (8 tutorial, 22 introductory, 35 single player, 15 
cooperative, and 20 head to head). In addition, the Hunter/Hunted 
page on Sierra's website lists a mission builder available for 
download. Just the right recipe for a hit, right? Unfortunately, no.

The biggest problem with this game is the multi-player mode. It's 
only two players, and its only on the same computer. That's right - 
no LAN, no modem, nada. What was Sierra thinking? Sure, most games 
in the arcade are played at the same console, but this is a PC game 
we're talking about. All the rage is playing over a LAN, or the 
Internet. It seems to me that a game like Hunter/Hunted with custom-
built missions and running over the Internet with 8 or so players 
would be a killer game. It's not quite as 3D as Quake or even 
Diablo, but that's okay - I think it would still have been a 
moderately successful game. But instead what we get is the same-old, 
same-old. Oh well.

But the single-player missions are fun, right? They're not bad, 
actually, although I do have major problems with the interface. You 
have to use the keyboard or a joystick - the mouse isn't allowed. 
The problem is that it becomes very difficult to aim accurately, 
especially when trying to shoot at an angle and when close isn't 
good enough. This gives the monsters a decided advantage. Sierra 
should have followed crack.com's lead and used the mouse - which is 
by far the best interface I've seen for a side-scroller. There is 
also a decided problem with the game constantly zooming in or out 
depending on the size of the room. Sometimes you have to aim 
precisely for shooting or jumping, a task that can be damn near 
impossible when you enter a large room and suddenly the room gets 
three sizes smaller.

There are some novel elements to game play. For example, Jake (the 
human) and Garathe Den (the Kullrathe beast) have different fighting 
styles and weapons available. Jake gets to use guns and rocket 
launchers, while Garathe uses clubs, knives, and the whip. The game 
features Z-planar travel, which means that when you go through a 
door the hall can stretch into the Z axis rather than just the X or 
Y. This semi-3D map makes for a more interesting arena to play in. 
The graphics are arcade-quality, the typical dungeon-esque 
atmosphere, replete with mold (that you can climb), crumbling walls, 
and other nice touches. The more I think about it though the more I 
am hard-pressed to find anything truly new or intriguing about 
Hunter/Hunted. If you're an arcade-fan junkie that's just gotta play 
everything that comes down the pike, Hunter/Hunted will fit your 
bill. But for the rest of us, I would recommend that you pass.

Sierra On-Line
Direct Sales
P.O. Box 3404
Salinas, CA 93912
http://www.sierra.com/

Installation: Gold
User-Friendliness: Bronze
Quality: Bronze
User: Side-scrolling arcade game junkies

8=> Clickables!

None this issue.

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