ST Format 3 - October 1989

What's wrong with VIOLENCE?

A special investigation into what makes violent ST games so addctive

Exclusive THE NEW STs

INSIDE: New Graphics section / DIY Project / MUSIC / CHAOS Theory


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Cover Disk

  • Magic Eye Get hypnotised by this weird and wonderful fractal demo
  • Xenon 2 Sensational arcade-quality shoot-'em-up in  playable demo form
  • Tinystuf Pictures on the cover are often compressed to save space and so Tinystuf comes into its own in converting Tiny, Degas and Neochrome pictures from one format into another
  • DSlide Slideshow program that not only displays pictures in all resolutions but also converts them from one resolution to another
  • Mono Emulator A monochrome emulator for use with colour monitors
  • Colour Emulator A colour emulator for use with  monochrome monitors
  • Mandelshow Explore the Mandelbrot set
  • Fractal Surf create fractal landscapes
  • Format 10 Use it to back up the cover disk
  • Crosswords Sun & Times Crosswords. Pit your wits against Akom's newspaper crosswords
  • Tracker This month's hardware project is a device that shows you which track and side the disk drive is reading. Tracker is a program that helps you test your newly constructed project
  • GFA Demos Make music with GFA BASIC

News Items

Super STs to star at PC show Atari's ST compatible machines, launched at the Atari Messe in Dusseldorf in Germany, are to be displayed at the PC show.
Off your trolley One lucky ST format reader will have the opportunity of filling a shopping trolley with software and hardware for the ST at the multi-format Computer Shopper Show in late November
Fantastic Day Many ST applications rely on screen and printer fonts for display and output.
Fast Worker Turbo 16 from FAST Technology is the latest in a long list of accelerator boards to appear for the ST.
Microdeal on show Microdeal organised a recent press bash at the Novotel center in London to show off their latest line of products
Page the Oracle Microtext, creator of the Teletext receivers for the Commodore 64 and Amstrad CPC, has come up with a sytem enabling ST users to display and download Teletext frames on the Atari ST

Games Reviewed

Castle Warrior Delphine / Palace £19.99 43%  
Conflict Europe PSS / Mirrorsoft £24.99 84%  
Eye of Horus Logotron £24.95 84%  
Games Summer Edition Epyx / US Gold £19.95 82%  
New Zealand Story Ocean £19.99 78%  
Passing Shot Image Works / Mirrorsoft £19.95 71%  
Rocket Ranger Cinemaware / Mirrorsoft £24.95 73%  
Slayer Hewson £19.95 54%  
Strider US Gold £19.99 92%
Xenon 2 Mirrorsoft £24.99 90%

Features

The STE‘s Technical Details  

Software and Hardware Reviews

Eprom Blower J E Sinclare 80%  
That's Write Compo 82%  
Tempus 2 Hisoft 78%  
Regent Word 2 ISM 89%  
Virtuoso Digital Muse  
Fun School 2 Database  
Hypercache Third Coast 79%  
GFA Raytrace GFA 78%  

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