MacFormat 08 (January 1994) Magazine & Disk
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Here is the January, 1994 edition of the English Mac magazine, MacFormat. It is still in its garish style and hasn't settled down to the more elegant design that would follow soon.
MacFormat gives a good impression of how times were for Mac users in the mid-nineties. Apple seemed to be doing well, it was the world's no. 2 computer manufacturer and one computer in 8 on a desktop was a Macintosh. Still, trouble was on the horizon. «Chicago» (a.k.a. Windows '94) was still in development and would have to be pushed forward another year. Although Intel's Pentium had been launched a few months' previously, it had not made a big indent into PC sales.
Apple had realised that SCSI was a problem — either because it was too expensive (but still my favourite bus of all time on account of its flexibility and relative speed — it was all things to all men and fast to boot) or because their implementation was too slow. There is a small article inside on a new bus called 'FireWire', which would be faster than SCSI and a lower cost implementation. Drivers wouldn't be available from Apple until Mac OS 7.6 (some three years' later).
Remember, btw, that the prices in the ads are pounds sterling and appreciate how expensive everything was back then.
- DL #1: MacFormat magazine, issue 8, January 1994 as scanned PDF with searchable text.
- DL #2: MacFormat magazine, issue 8, January 1994. The raw scanned Hi-Rez images as JPEGs.
- DL #3: Disk 1 of this 2 disk issue (MF8A_img.sit) as a StuffIt 3.5 archive containing a 1.4MB Disk Copy 4.2 disk image of the magazine's 1st cover floppy disk.
- DL #4: Disk 2 of this 2 disk issue (MF8-DiskB-image.sit) as a StuffIt 2.x archive containing an 800K Disk Copy 4.2 disk image of the magazine's 2nd cover floppy disk.
- Contents of Disk 1: - See screenshots above for more info
- Read Me (text file)
- MacFormat January #1 (a self-extracting Compact Pro archive) containing:
- Adder 1.1
- ApplWindows 2.0.2 (Control Panel)
- DiskPrint 1.0 (shareware print to file, printer driver)
- Maelstrom 1.3.2 (shareware game)
- Mariner 1.1c (shareware spreadsheet application)
- NIH Image 1.52 (free public domain graphics application)
- SmartKeys 2.1 (Control Panel)
- Contents of Disk 2: - See screenshots above for more info
- Read Me (text file)
- MacFormat January #2.sea (a self-extracting Compact Pro archive) containing:
- AutoRoute (demo application)
- Comment Keeper v1.0 (Control Panel)
- Graphic Converter v1.6.2 (shareware graphics application)
- Helium v2.1.1 (Control Panel)
- Mount Alias v1.0b1 (Control Panel)
The top download is a PDF copy of the magazine. I scanned it in on a Kyocera copier, reduced the cropped pages to 1600x1200 (ish) at 72 dpi and made a PDF in Acrobat Pro v8. I ran OCR on the new PDF and lowered the PDF version down to Acrobat 4. The site won't allow direct uploads of 78MB PDFs, so I put in an ISO-image and uploaded that.
CompatibilityArchitecture: 68k
Software on these disks will be suitable mainly for System 6 and 7 Mac OS's.
Comments
Thanks for getting into creating PDFs of your MacFormat mags, soudesune. MF issue 8 was the very 1st Mac magazine I had purchased. It brings back a lot of good memories.
PDF copy uploaded. See the paragraph about the third download for details. It is 78MB big. It might run on a classic Mac (Anyone want to try it on a Quadra 950 with 128MB RAM and Acrobat Reader 4?), probably on a beefy G4 but my guess is that an Intel/AMD machine is needed for it.
The PDF is by no means perfect. The scans need a little more care and I'm still learning Acrobat and Photoshop, so hopefully later issues will be better and smaller.
The magazine's second "Bonus" cover floppy disk that I have is corrupted and won't mount on the Desktop. That happened from time to time due to problems in production or shipping.
Since many companies simply exchange the US price's $ symbol for a £ symbol, things are still more expensive in England than in America.