News of the first Macintosh clones and Apple's set-top CD-ROM player appears in this issue, as does an article about Connectix's cute QuickCam video camera. Geoff Duncan looks at the GIF fiasco spawned by Unisys and CompuServe in more depth, and we review SimTower from Maxis. Finally for you addicts out there, Bungie now has an official Marathon Web site.

Topics:

• MailBITS/16-Jan-95
• The Clone Zone
• The End of the GIF-Giving Season
• Pippin Pops Up
• SimTower: The Fun of Trump Without the Bankruptcy
• Video for Everyone
• Reviews/16-Jan-95

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