Understanding PC - Mac elkar Mac - PC

1998/09/01 Waliño, Josu - Elhuyar Fundazioa Iturria: Elhuyar aldizkaria

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Let's step by step. First we will see how to overcome communication problems that arise between PC and Mac through diskette and network. By means of conventional floppy disks we move the information from one platform to another, who does not tell your computer that you never understand the format of the floppy? It is known that a Mac offers more compatibility possibilities when reading PC files.

To do this, Macintosh OS incorporates a control panel called PC Exchange that allows you to view and format PC formatted floppy disks on your Mac. However, the versions of MacOS 8.1 do not correctly display the icons of the files on this floppy, since they cut the names. To overcome it DOS Mounter 95 (www. You should use the app called softarch.com).

But if the problem arises when using Mac floppy disks on your PC, don't worry, because that also has a solution: Any disk (floppy disk, zip, etc.) Mac format (www.dataviz.com/ macopener) will help you open and understand it.

Mixed Home Network

It can happen that for different reasons you have a PC and a Mac at home. Think you want to organize a small network now and copy files from one to the other to the printer. For this you will not enter at the level of servers, protocols, etc. by other ways. Taking advantage of what you have next, we help you organize a good and economical network: if your Mac has an Ethernet card (the latest PowerPC are already integrated), the most economical and economical thing is that the PC is also installed an Ethernet card and that computers connect through it. Of course, you will have to buy the soft that will channel the connection: The application called PC MacLAN (www.miramarsys.com) will do this work and 20,000 pts. Environmental value.

If you don't have Ethernet, you can use the AppleTalk network. Although slower, it is good and cheap. At the exit of your Mac printer you will connect a PhoneNet (about 2,000 pts.) and then using the associated telephone cable, you can directly connect any other Mac, also putting a PhoneNet to it. And to the PC, in the printer port, we'll connect a converter called PCTalk (www.sgimarketing.com/pctalk2.htm) and then connect the PhoneNet to This system, of course, you'll need soft help from Maclan PC to work.

Making Mac PC

What happens when we want to run some PC application on our Macintosh? It is also possible, although the solutions are quite worse. There are several options, both for Software and Hardware. By software you can find the ones we know as Windows 95 emulators. These have an obvious drawback: speed. The best emulators available on the market are slower than a conventional 90 MHz Pentium. These apps simulate Windows 95 on Macintosh and offer you the possibility to run applications for Windows. In addition, they create a virtual hard drive corresponding to the PC.

We will mention two emulators: SoftWindows 95 (www. insignia.com) and Canal PC (www.connectix.com) from Connectix. |PC allows you to copy folders from one platform to another by drag and drop, not again by SoftWindows, but the latter is somewhat faster than the Virtual PC version. These are the characteristics to consider when choosing between these two options, and the price is also important, although the difference is not very significant: SoftWindows has an approximate cost of 30,000 ptas. and, Url 20,000 ptas. environment. However, it should be noted that such applications are mainly oriented to the use of PC games on Macintosh.

The hardware solution would be to add a PC compatibility card to your Macintosh. Here we will find more suitable solutions in terms of speed. For example, the Orange Micro’s Orange PC card (www.orangemicro.com) offers a speed of 233 MHz. But it is more expensive than soft solutions: 75,000 sts. environment. While this option is highly criticized, many of the users are really satisfied with them. Anyway, and without a doubt, if you have space and money at home, it is best to buy a clonic PC and place it next to Macintosha.

Converting the PC to Mac

With respect to Windows 95 it is often said to be a bad copy of the MacOS, both in its operation and in its appearance. We, however, can favor the look of Windows, making it more similar to MacOS, not to be halfway!

I'm not going to lengthen it because we can choose different shapes. Only if the change refers to form, just create the shortcut of all the units that are in that window called PC and place it to the right of the desktop. Other icons that appear on the desktop can also be taken to the right, including the trash can. We can also place the taskbar at the top of the screen, shaping the menu bar.

On the other hand, some shareware apps help you set up an authentic menu bar, others give icons the look of Mac icons and there is a splash screen that turns the MacOS welcome screen on screen. Some addresses are:

http://mac95.home.ml.org – here you will find the Mac95 shareware application and others.

http://home.kstar.com/~ritchie/winmac.html - WinMac is a freeware application that fulfills most of the functions of Mac95.

www.microsoft.com/windows95/info/ powertoys.htm – here is the Microsoft Tweak UI program. You can change the look of the welcome screen. For this you will also need Mac95.

BRIEF

Integrated in XUXEN Office 97

The corrector in Basque Xuxen, developed by the Ixa group of the Faculty of Computer Science of Donostia (http://ixa.si.ehu.es), has just joined the Office 97 package. This new version includes a spell checker in Basque and a syllable distributor for all package programs (Word, Excel, Outlook...) and is sold on a separate CD along with proofreaders of other languages (Catalan, Albanian, etc. ). ). This CD has a sale price of
20,000 pts.

New graphic format for WEB: PNG

At the end of last year the new graphic format known as PNG was created. This format collects the benefits of GIFs and JPs that have so far been standard on the Internet, but it seems they will soon benefit. The PNG offers lossless compression, just like the GIFs, adding the indexed color but with a 24-bit color level offered by the PTR.

Netscape 4.04 already accepts images in PNG format in its Mac and Windows versions, but Microsoft has added this option only in the Windows version of Explorer 4.0.

Child Mouse

It is clear that the computer market is increasingly taking care of children. The last invention has been the mouse specially made for children. This mouse, developed by the company Boeder (www.boeder.es), has taken into account, on the one hand, the shape and size of the hand of the children and, on the other, its striking appearance, which has seemed like a real mouse. Mice 2,315 ptas. Valid.

Internet traffic

If you want to surf the internet without problems, this website offers you a good opportunity: www.internettrafficreport.com. In it we are informed of the level of collapse and cyber traffic existing in several municipalities. Interesting.