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OMPUT ■
NOVEMBER 1992
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COMPUTE
VOLUME 14, NO. 10, ISSUE 146
NOVEMBER 1992
FEATURES
6
EASY DATABASES
By Tom Campbell
Drowning in data? Try a
database.
NEWS BITS
By Jill Champion
Top stories at press time.
152
Edited by Mike Hudnall
11 cutting-edge notebooks.
KEEPING IN CONTACT
TEST LAB
18
ENTERTAINMENT
By Steven Anzovin
PATHWAYS
90
Science Adventure.
DISCOVERY CHOICE
By Peter Scisco
Marketing.
70
92
By Daniel S. Janal
Don't be forgotten.
PRODUCTIVITY CHOICE
Orbits from Software
78
By Jan Altman
Microsoft's Excei 4.0.
96
ENTERHNMENT CHOICE
By Scott A. May
Aces of the Pacific.
By Rosalind Resnick
Are palmtop computers
toofs or toys?
83
PALMTOP STRATEGIES
GAMEPLAY
By David Sears
Polygon animation.
98
COLUMNS
EDITORIAL LICENSE
By Clifton Karnes
FUD factors.
4
By David Sears
1OO
DARK SEED
Where horror sleeps.
Edited by Jill Champion
44
NEWS & NOTES
REVIEWS
Cover photo by Michel Tcherevkoff
Adobe Illustrator Version 4.0,
113
Top computer news.
FEEDBACK
Answers to
tough questions.
Force Technology F33,
Klonimus Notebook AT,
48
By Tom Campbell
Charting with BASIC 7.1.
HARDWARE CUNIC
6O
PROGRAMMING POWER
SHAREPAK
By Steve Draper
76
New Wave 4.0,
Epson Action Laser II,
Might & Magic III,
Addtech Research
Shareware treasures.
80
PERSONAL PRODUCTIVITY
By Rosalind Resnick
Business letters for results.
ART WORKS
By Robert Bixby
CorelDRAW! and Ami Pro
turn 3.0.
MULTIMEDIA PC
By David English
WINDOWS WORKSHOP
By Clifton Karnes
screen savers.
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Three Grammar Checkers,
Way You Work:
Personal Office,
Pixie,
Thinx 2.0,
Media Vision Audioport,
By Mark Minasi
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ON DISK
Magic tricks with 3.1's
Care and feeding of laptop
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TIPS & TOOLS
Edited by
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Stop fragmentation!
INTRODOS
By Tony Roberts
Survival tips for DOS haters.
By Tony Roberts
High-productivity
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Winter Challenge,
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By Troy Tucker
What's new online.
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ADVERTISERS INDEX
See page 137.
COMPUTE (ISSN Q194-357X) is published monihly in the United Stales and Canada by COMPUTE Publications International Ltd . 1965 Broadway, New York. NY 10023-5965. Volume 14,
Number 10. Issue 146. Copyright © 1992 by COMPUTE Publications International Ltd. Al! rights reserved. COMPUTE is a registered trademark of COMPUTE Publications International Ltd.
Printed in the USA by R. R. Donnelley & Sons Inc. and distributed worldwide (except Australia and the UK) by Curtis Circulation Comoany, P.O. Box 9102, Pennsauken. NJ 08109. Distributed
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paid at New York, NY. ana at additional mailing offices POSTMASTER: Send address changes to COMPUTE Magazlna, P.O Box 3245. Harlan. IA 51537-3041. Tel. (800} 727-6937. Entire
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prop-arty of COMPUTE Publications International Ltd. Letters sent to COMPUTE or its editors become the property ot the magazine. Editorial offices are located at 324 W. Wendover Ave.,
Ste. 200. Greensboro, NC 27408. Tel. (919) 275-9809.
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NOVEMBER 1992
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