This is the April 1994 issue of MacFormat. Power Macs are just about
to burst on to the scene and one can already see (with the benefit of
hindsight), the beginning of the end of the Macintosh 68k platform.
What will become Windows 95 was still in development (having being
pushed forward to 1995). Windows users have Windows 3.1, OS/2 or
possibly the first versions of NT. Roughly 1 in 8 computers being sold
are Macintosh's. Apple was the second largest computer manufacturer in
the world, if my memory serves me correctly.
Things look good for the Mac but the quality of machine build is
suffering under the reign of Michael Spindler and System 7 is already
3 years' old. There is word of System 7.5 coming soon and System 8
(Copland) - not what we know as System 8 - is still talked about.
This issue describes the contents of the Macintosh System Folder and
how to optimize it.
The ads are, as ever, very enlightening. Do remember that the prices
are in Sterling.
Top DL: MF11_img.sit, is a StuffIt 3.5 archive containing a Disk Copy
4.2 disk image of the magazine's cover floppy disk.
2nd DL: MacFormat Issue 11 as PDF, reconstructed from above scans,
zipped. Use [MacZip][1] to extract, if using a classic Mac OS.
3rd DL: MacFormat Issue 11 as PDF, reconstructed from 1600x1200 scans
at 72dpi. The pages have been rotated to a finer degree. It has been
OCR'd and bookmarks have been created. It has been saved as an ISO-
image, so that it could be uploaded.
The cover disk contains:
* Read Me
* Self-extracting StuffIt archive containing:
* AllDay 3.0
* FindStuff 1.0.2
* Firefall 1.0 (demo)
* Gnu Chess 3.0.2
* lastDitch (HyperCard stack)
* Quark XTensions:
* PuzzleMaker XT 1.1 (demo)
* TypesettingMarks 2.01
* Quit It 1.1
* ResEdit 2.1.1
* SpeedyFinder7 1.5.9
This issue of the magazine also came with a free 64-page paperback
book called "A ResEdit Primer" by Herb Goodman.
While this isn't the scan of the book, it is the same text. I found it
at Info-mac.org (<
https://www.info-
mac.org/viewtopic.php?t=5952#p5953>).
Compatibility
Architecture: PPC (Carbonized) x86 (Intel:Mac) x86 (Windows)
The various programs included on the disk will run on most Macintosh
emulators but likely not all. YMMV.
[1]:
http://macintoshgarden.org/apps/maczip-106