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RAndY's RumOR RaG
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July 1993
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COREL BONER
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Have you tried to install CorelDraw! 4 from the CD yet? Lotsa
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luck - it doesn't work. How could this have slipped by? Some
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report that the problem is caused by loading MSCDEX into upper
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memory. Loading it low didn't help in my case.
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Corel's fix is to use Windows' stock 16-color video driver and
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create as large a swap file as possible.
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I've tried this fix with both my old ATI VGA Wonder+ card and
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my new Diamond Stealth Pro VLB with both the vanilla Windows VGA
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driver and drivers supplied with the respective cards - and it
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still hasn't worked.
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Are these guys working with Central Point?
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NEWS IN YER FACE
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Sounds like the recent Spring Comdex was a hoot. Bill Gates
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promoted Windows NT to an overflow crowd. Following his keynote
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speech, IBM introduced OS/2 2.1 and sold T-shirts that read: NT-
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Nice Try, to which Microsoft responded, "that's the most money IBM
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will make in software this year".
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Intel has been getting hammered lately with reports that the
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Pentium-derivative P24T chip runs too hot for many systems claiming
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P24T upgradeability. Intel says that the heat of chips which ship
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will be cut in half to the approximate levels of current 486 chips.
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A spokesman says they've been working with OEMs, but noted that
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actual chips aren't shipping until next year.
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Microsoft has started alpha testing on a 32-bit version of
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Visual Basic less than a month after releasing the current version.
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They will also be releasing a 32-bit Visual C++ in August and
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another version of Visual Basic with 32-bit capability in December.
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By the end of 1994 you'll see a Mac version of Visual Basic.
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I hear that the folks at GEnie are working on Windows and Mac
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front software. No word on when either one will see the light of
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day.
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Surprise of surprises - Microsoft's internal deadline of
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shipping the NT client by the end of June has slipped, and some are
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wondering if it will ship by the end of July. I hear that the
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emphasis at Microsoft at this point is not when NT will ship, but
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how well it runs when it does.
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Quattro Pro 5.0 for Windows will contain Graphing Expert.
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This tool chooses the most appropriate representation for a task
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from a library of more than 50 chart types. The package is
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expected to ship this fall.
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Media Vision has announced two video graphics boards designed
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to enhance multimedia applications performance. Called the
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ProGraphics 1024 and 1028, they are the first graphics boards
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produced by Media Vision. Both will support 24-bit color. The
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1024 will be available in September for a suggested list price of
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$599.
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The 1028 supports 24-bit color at 1280x1024 and can process 16
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million pixels per second in bit block transfer mode (160 million
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pixels per second in flat fill mode). The price will be $995.
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Both boards will be available in PCI, VL, and ISA bus models.
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Those of you regular RaG readers know that I'm not into the
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greening of computers. But I must compliment Hewlett-Packard for
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their efforts in recycling toner cartridges.
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I recently acquired an HP IIP and had to change the toner
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cartridge. Included with the cartridge was a UPS pickup sticker
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for returning the cartridge to Hewlett-Packard for recycling. By
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providing the free shipping, users should be less inclined to just
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throw toner cartridges away.
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I hear about a new Apple screen saver where a man is clearing
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the screen. As the scaffold lowers him into view, it's Bill Gates
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- constantly pushing up his glasses as he starts to wash the
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screen/window.
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A new product called Tapedisk lets certain tape drives act as
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a hard drive. The software lets users create, view, open, save,
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and edit files on the tape. It supports the following formats: HP
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35480A and 35470, Archive Python, WangDAT 3200 SCSI DAT drives and
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Tandberg TDC 4100 QUI-1000 format tape drives. Support for
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additional SCSI DAT drives will be forthcoming. Suggested list
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price will be $199.
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HARDWARE CHANGES
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As you may have noticed by my disclaimer at the end of last
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month's RaG, I've recently made some hardware changes. It was time
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to get with the program and upgrade to a 486 processor.
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It was a tough decision to make between a 50 MHz and a 66 MHz
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motherboard. I decided on the 50 MHz since the 66 MHz models are
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basically 33 MHz motherboards with an Overdrive chip.
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Unfortunately I'm still stuck with some of the slow (80ns) memory
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from the 386, but that will be changed soon.
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If you're looking for a system or considering upgrading, be
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sure to get a VESA local bus system. The price difference from an
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ISA machine should be slight if any. My motherboard has two local
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bus slots and that should be plenty.
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OK, I've got a hot motherboard and now it was time to jack up
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the video performance. There are a lot of local bus video products
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out there and it was a tough decision. I could have bought a
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Cirrus Logic board pretty cheap but I decided to look around. I've
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liked my ATI card and they had one that was within my price range,
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but I've read about a lot of problems with the Mach 32 driver. I
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didn't want to spend a bundle, but didn't want the bargain basement
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either.
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I ended up going with the Diamond Stealth Pro VLB (1 MB).
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I've sold a number of Diamond Stealth Pro cards for the ISA bus and
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knew the S3 chip to be a good performer. Whoa, this sucker really
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moves. I recently ran my system against a similarly configured
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system which had the ISA video card and the results were amazing.
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The local bus card was a little more than 8 times as fast as the
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ISA bus. Windows really snaps too.
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Included with the Diamond Stealth Pro VLB are Windows drivers
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in a number of resolutions and colors. When installed, the Windows
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Control Panel gains a new icon where you can switch resolutions
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without using the Windows Setup. Not only does this card get up
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and move, but you can purchase additional VRAM to bring the card up
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to 2 megs.
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I've also installed an IDE local bus card. Although the
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transfer rate benchmarks out about 44% higher, there is little
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discernable difference (I think I need a faster hard drive).
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Check out local bus motherboards and systems and definitely
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take a look at local bus video cards. The performance difference
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is amazing.
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PRO AUDIO STUDIO
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As you faithful readers know, I really like the Pro Audio
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Spectrum 16 (as opposed to the SoundBlaster line). Media Vision
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has released a special version of the card called the Pro Audio
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Studio.
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It's basically the same card, but they include more advanced
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utilities and a microphone.
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ExecuVoice is a basic speech recognition package that
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understands 300 Windows voice commands. The 16-bit sampling is
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amazingly accurate. While this technology is fun to amaze your
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friends, I find it strange to use for everyday computing.
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Monologue will read back you documents for proofreading. A
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new Pocket Recorder now incorporates compression to save on disk
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space. Sound Impressions is a quality tool for mixing, recording,
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and editing CD, MIDI, and Wave components. This program has the
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look and feel of a rack-mounted stereo.
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The MIDISoft Recording Studio is a sophisticated sequencer
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with some nice mixing capabilities. The top of the screen shows
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your music in musical notation (as opposed to tracks). The display
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is quite good, but I haven't found a way to print the music - a
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serious shortcoming. (What's the point of showing notes on a staff
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if you can't print it?)
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Existing owners of Pro Audio Spectrum cards can get the
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package for just $59. It's not a bad deal if you have use for
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these things.
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Along the same lines as ExecuVoice is IN3 (In Cube). This is
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much more versatile and seems to do an even better job of voice
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recognition. Expect to pay in excess of $200 however.
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ACCESS FOR PHOTO CD
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Kodak has some software out for working with Photo CDs. Many
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applications are lagging in their support for this format, so these
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utilities are intended to make life a little easier when dealing
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with Photo CDs.
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Access for Photo CD is a DOS program (a Windows version is
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also available which I'll probably discuss next month) which lets
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you view Photo CD images and convert them to a useful format. The
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program sells for about $50 and that's about all it's worth.
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Most programs will ask you which resolution you want before
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loading an image. Access defaults to the last resolution used and
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you can't change it until you load an image. Also, when you load
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the highest resolution image, it only shows you part of the image
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and you have to scroll around to get pieces of the whole thing.
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There's a reason that this software doesn't cost much - it's
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not worth much.
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ARTSHOW3
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Each year, Corel sponsors a contest where users send in things
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they've created with CorelDraw. All entries are published on a CD
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which is accompanied by a nicely printed book showing all the
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entries. You can view a slide show of the entries which is
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combined with a variety of MIDI tracks.
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I just had to get this year's Corel Artshow CD - to see my
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submission published. I entered our band's logo in the Corel
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Design contest last year (Page 171, Number 17).
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Also on this year's CD is an updated version of Corel CD-
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Audio, a demo for CorelDraw and a demo for Voyetra's MIDISoft
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Studio.
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AMIDIAG 4
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I'm always looking for good diagnostic software. AMI recently
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had an offer where you could send the title page from any
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diagnostic software (along with $15) and get the current version of
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AMIDiag.
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The program checks all the usual stuff and seems to be quite
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thorough. I'm not sure that it's worth the $99 they usually ask
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though. I think that PC Probe is much more extensive and even
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CheckIt isn't bad.
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If you have a supported video card (ATI, Tseng, Paradise,
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Trident, and Video Seven) there are PCX files showing motherboard
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and memory configurations.
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CORELDRAW! 4
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I finally got my copy after trying to install from a friend's
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CD (anxiously awaiting the arrival of my own copy). The CD
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installation problems described in the lead article of the RaG were
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not there when I got my disks. The file dates seem the same
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between both CD's, but mine worked.
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It's difficult to list everything they've changed in this new
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version. Just when you thought it would be impossible to improve
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on the best graphics package, they did it.
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The first thing you'll notice is that there are two CD's. One
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has the programs, clipart, and fonts. The second one has some more
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graphics and a new QuickTour. Gone is the video tape they used to
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give you for learning the basics of the program. You install the
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QuickTour and get a Video for Windows presentation which gives you
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the same information as before and then some. It's very well done
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and an innovative use of technology.
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The Draw module now lets you have multiple pages with some
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pretty extensive desktop publishing features. It almost reminds me
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of how PageMaker works. Text files from leading word processors
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can be imported and wrapped around graphics (and you can easily do
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columns now).
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They've finally added the ability to import WPG files (before
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you could only export them). There are now thousands of textures
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to enhance your graphics. Color separations can be easily printed
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without having a PostScript printer installed.
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CorelMosaic is still the excellent file manager it's always
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been. It reads and displays files much faster than before. You
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still need to convert PhotoCD images with Mosaic before using them
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elsewhere (except PhotoPaint).
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The Paint module is much more extensive, along the lines of
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PhotoStyler and PhotoShop. The Trace module now does OCR as well
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as trace your bitmapped images.
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The Presentations module has been enhanced to work with a new
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included program called Move. Move is an animation package which
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comes with an extensive variety of props and actors. I find the
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module to be a little dumb, but if you're making on-screen
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presentations it does a nice job of smooth animation. And it's
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easy to use.
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CorelChart now works like a real spreadsheet and has over 80
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styles of charts.
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The two CD's have over 18,000 pieces of clipart along with
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over 5,000 symbols and shapes you can drag-and-drop. You also get
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over 750 fonts in Speedo, Type 1, and TrueType formats (I wouldn't
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suggest installing them all). My only real complaint is the way
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the clipart book is organized. Instead of using written words for
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the different classifications (such as aircraft, leisure, etc.)
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they use symbols. It's real difficult to decipher what the symbols
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mean which makes it harder to find the piece of clipart you're
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looking for. Often I know the artwork is in there, I just can't
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find it.
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Overall, they've done an outstanding job of improving an
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already excellent piece of software. It is still taking me a
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little while to get used to the enhancements. If you use CorelDraw
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often this upgrade is a must.
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UNDOCUMENTED FEATURE
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While we're on the subject of the new CorelDraw, I thought I'd
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let you in on another of those secret screens they don't tell you
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about.
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In Corel, go to Help-About. Press down SHIFT-CONTROL and
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double click the Corel hot air balloon in the upper left corner.
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You'll get a blue screen with a hot air balloon at the bottom
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center. The mouse cursor now looks like a hand on a lever.
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Pressing the left mouse button will turn on the fire in the
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balloon, making it rise. As the balloon rises it will pull up a
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banner listing all the people associated with CorelDraw. (Notice
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the little Canadian flag waving to the side of the balloon.) If
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you release the left button, the fire will go out and the balloon
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will slowly descend.
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Pressing the right mouse button will release a parachuting
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Elvis. NOTE: it appears you can only have two Elvis's (Elvi?) on
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the screen at a time.
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This is extremely important information for you to know and
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there will be a test later.
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QEMM 7
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Quarterdeck has released a new version of their already
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excellent QEMM memory management software. New features abound to
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help users maximize their memory.
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QEMM 7.0 introduces DOS-UP, which increases your available
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conventional memory even if you already have everything loaded
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high. It does this by moving portions of DOS that DOS=HIGH does
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not move.
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QEMM 7.0 now has the ability to reduce the memory requirements
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of MS-DOS 6's DoubleSpace driver from over 40k to less than 3K,
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allowing you to load it even if its memory requirements would
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otherwise prevent you from doing so.
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OPTIMIZE now accounts for programs that load themselves high;
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it is aware of DOS conditionals (such as IF and FOR); it has
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improved detection of Adapter RAM and other hard to detect areas
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above 640K; and it is now fully aware of MS-DOS 6's multiple
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configuration boot setup (something even Microsoft's own MemMaker
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can't handle).
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VIDRAM is now capable of working in a Microsoft Windows
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Enhanced Mode DOS Window as well as from normal DOS. This allows
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DOS text-mode programs to access an additional 96k of conventional
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memory, bringing your maximum available memory to almost 704K in a
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DOS partition of Windows.
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A new program called QSetup comes with QEMM 7. QSetup allows
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you to change the configuration of QEMM, DOS-UP, ST-DBL, QDPMI, and
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other QEMM programs without manually editing a single text file.
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All of the options are available on menus, and full online help
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explains what each does. In addition, troubleshooting support is
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built into QSetup, making it easier for QEMM to deal with rare or
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non-standard hardware.
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Major portions of QEMM have been rewritten using 32 bit code,
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resulting in faster operation and less conventional memory
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overhead. (Less than 1K of your conventional memory is now used by
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QEMM).
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QEMM 7 has been enhanced to ensure compatibility with more
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software packages than ever before. It now supports VESA and can
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save and restore the vectors as necessary. It knows about more
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types of Shadow RAM, Compaq models, and bus-mastering disk drive
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controllers. And on systems equipped with Intel's Pentium
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processor, QEMM 7's new features mean less memory overhead and
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faster performance.
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DOS-UP is a set of utility programs used by QEMM and Optimize
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to load more of your DOS kernel (the actual DOS program and its
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data) into upper memory. This gives you more conventional memory
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than ever before, even if you already have everything on your
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system loading high. DOS-UP consists of two drivers: DOSDATA.SYS
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and DOS-UP.SYS. Both are necessary for DOS-UP to work properly.
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DOSDATA.SYS must be the very first line in your CONFIG.SYS. Its job
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is to "prepare" DOS to be loaded into upper memory.
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DOS-UP.SYS is loaded after QEMM in the CONFIG.SYS and actually
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moves the pieces of DOS into High RAM, making sure that other
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programs know about its new location.
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DOS-UP gives DOS 5 and 6 users an additional 7 to 20k of
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conventional memory while giving DOS 3 and 4 users 50 to 60k more
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(depending on their prior configuration.) It lets you move DOS out
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of conventional memory even when you are not using DOS=HIGH. This
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allows DESQview or some other HMA-using program to take advantage
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of the full 64k of the HMA, instead of the 35K or so of it that DOS
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will use as a result of DOS=HIGH.
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QEMM 7.0 adds support for disk compression programs such as
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DoubleSpace, Stacker, and Superstor. QEMM and Optimize detect when
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these disk compression programs are in use, and both installation
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and Optimization are smooth and effortless. In addition, new
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Stealth DoubleSpace feature saves you even more memory.
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Stealth DoubleSpace reduces the memory overhead of DoubleSpace
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from over 40K to less than 3K, using a method similar to the
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Stealth ROM process that reclaims address space normally used by
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your system ROM and video ROM. Unlike other memory managers, QEMM
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7 does not just move the other 40K of DoubleSpace to your upper
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memory--it moves it completely out of your first megabyte of
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memory, freeing that space for other programs!
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Along with the Stealth ROM feature, Stealth DoubleSpace allows
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you, through the use of the expanded memory (EMS) page frame, to
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reclaim up to 136k of otherwise unusable upper memory address
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space.
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QEMM 7.0 comes with the newest version of Manifest: Version
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2.0. Manifest lets you take a look "under the hood" of your
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computer and is the best way to find out exactly what is going on
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inside your machine.
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Many new features and information screens are incorporated
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into Manifest 2.0. It now includes an editor for your system
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configuration files (CONFIG.SYS, AUTOEXEC.BAT, WIN.INI, and
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SYSTEM.INI) which is available at the touch of a hotkey. It
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displays information on your Windows configuration (including the
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version and drivers that Windows is using) as well as your DOS
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configuration. It includes enhanced network information, showing
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network type, servers, drive mapping, and login information. It
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provides more information on your video than ever before, including
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the make and model of your video card and the amount of memory
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installed on it. For laptop users whose systems are equipped with
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"Advanced Power Management" features, Manifest provides information
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on the status of your battery. Finally, it gives you complete
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information on every type of memory available for your computer
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today, including EMS, XMS, VCPI, and DPMI memory.
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The cost of upgrading from any version of QEMM to version 7.0
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is $35, plus $5 shipping and handling. For more information or to
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upgrade call (800) 354-3222.
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GOVERNMENT VIRUS BBS
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A little over a year ago, the Treasury Department started a
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security-oriented BBS. The Treasury's Bureau of Public Debt
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recently came under fire for having virus code available to anyone
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who called the board. As of June 21, 1,100 people had called.
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Due to pressure, the virus-access portion was shut down. An
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anonymous person complained about the use of tax dollars for
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distributing virus code to anybody with a modem.
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Said a Treasury Department spokesman, "We started the BBS for
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internal use at the bureau. Then it got to be Treasurywide.
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Pretty soon all sorts of people started calling in and we started
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getting hacker code." It was noted that so far no virus traceable
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to the BBS has been reported.
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Besides source code for viruses, the BBS had hacker tools such
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as password crackers and war dialers available for download.
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WINDOWS 4 BETA
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Microsoft will soon begin limited beta testing on a 32-bit
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version of Windows with general beta testing starting this fall.
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This major change in Windows is expected to ship before July 1994
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(but you know how that goes).
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The project, code-named Chicago, will more closely integrate
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DOS and Windows, combining the program and file managers (how this
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will be done has yet to be decided). This will be a true 32-bit
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environment. Included may be a built-in electronic-mail client, a
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single in-box for E-mail, fax, and voice, and smart folders that
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can be programmed to alert other users.
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UPGRADE FROM HELL
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I finally got my copy of PageMaker 5.0. They've only been
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advertising it for the past four months so it's about time the
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product hits the shelves.
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The installation went well enough and I perused the last-
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minute README files. Now it's time to load one of my old files and
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see how things work. The file loads fine and I can play with some
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of the new features.
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I find the Control Palette they're raving about to be more of
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a nuisance, but some will like it.
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All my old files load fine. So now it's time to print.
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Sorry, I get a General Printer Failure, some memory address, and
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that's it. OK, let's look in the book and see what this means.
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You guessed it - no mention of this error anywhere.
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Now it's time to call Tech Support (on my dime) and get some
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answers. One day I called, the phone was constantly busy. When I
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finally did get through I was in the queue for over 15 minutes and
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finally left a message for a technician to call me back. As I
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prepare to go to press with the Rag on July 2 I'm still waiting for
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the callback and the secret to printing my old files.
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WORDPERFECT 6 FOR DOS
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I recently attended the rollout for Wordperfect 6 for DOS
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along with InForms (now slightly delayed again) and Office.
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If you're comfortable with Version 5.1, you can have the same
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look but with the menus at the top. But the big deal here is that
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you now have a graphical interface.
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I don't really care for DOS programs that try to look like
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Windows. WordPerfect has done an excellent job in doing a major
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facelift on their flagship product. I just don't care for the way
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it looks: in fact, it's hard for me to get too excited about any
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DOS product.
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Anyway, they've added the QuickFinder from the Windows product
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for managing large numbers of documents. A major portion of
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DataPerfect is now an integral part of WordPerfect. For those who
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didn't pay attention in junior high English class, Grammatik is
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also bundled with the product.
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Incorporating graphics is much easier with the added ability
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to irregularly wrap text around graphics. Version 6 also has
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internal support for Speedo, Intellifont, Type 1, and TrueType
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fonts. Outline freaks will like the collapsible outliner.
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Similar to the Windows version, you can print envelopes and
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bar codes. If you have a compatible fax card, you can send and
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receive faxes directly from within WordPerfect.
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Overall, they've made lots of changes. The Coaches feature
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attempts to mimic Microsoft's Wizard technology, but doesn't come
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close.
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DISCLAIMER
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RAndY's RumOR RaG is published on a monthly basis by AINSWORTH
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COMPUTER SERVICES and is available on various local BBS's, GEnie,
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and America Online as well as in Modem News.
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In case anyone cares, RAndY's RumOR RaG is produced on a 486-
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50 with 8 megs of memory, Diamond Stealth Pro VESA VLB (1 MB),
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local bus IDE card, 105 MB Toshiba IDE hard drive, Teac 1.2 MB and
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1.44 MB floppies, Pro Audio Spectrum 16 running a Hitachi 3750 CD
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ROM drive, Sceptre SVGA display, Microsoft mouse, WordPerfect for
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Windows and transmitted through a US Robotics HST Dual Standard
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modem.
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Opinions expressed are those of the author. Comments should
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be addressed to Ainsworth Computer Services on GEnie, America
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Online, phone, analog mail, or whatever method makes you feel good.
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AINSWORTH COMPUTER SERVICES
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605 W. Wishkah
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Aberdeen, WA 98520-6031
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(206) 533-6647
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GEnie Address: RAG
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America Online: RumOR RaG |