ST Format (August 1990)

ST Format (August 1990)


ST Format was a magazine published in the U.K. that was dedicated to the Atari ST. It started life as part of Amiga/ST Format but they split into their own individual publications shortly after introduction. The August 1990 issue of ST Format includes:

• News - All you need to know about the month's ST activity
• News from abroad - Releases and information from across Europe
• Game Previews - A first look at Mag Scrolls' Wonderland and more
• Inside Story: magic fly - FORMAT Graphics Editor recalls two years' work on the Electronic Arts extravaganza
• Cover Disk Plus - Carefully crafted, lovingly compiled - a real stonker!
• Games: screenplay - Damocles, Wipe Out, Flood, AMC, F-29, Midnight Resistance, Khalaan, Thunderstrike, Treasure Trap, Atomix, Rorke's Drift, Skidz, Prophecy
• Gamebusters special - Coo! Not four, not five, not even seven but nine (count 'em) pages of top cheats for more than 100 ST games!
• Adventure gamebusters - The A-to-Z of adventure cheats, hints and solutions
• Special: The bullfrogs are back! - The team that brought the world Populous are back with a splash. Remember, you read it here first.
• Desktop - How, you ask, can we cram so much info into four and a half pages? Don't know, we
• Exclusive: Proxima - Now you can afford to get into DTP - with a package that costs just a third of the price of Calamus!
• Subscriptions
• Educations - FORMAT goes European with a range of foreign language tutorial programs. Roll on 1992!
• Music tips - Welcome to a new section of help and problem-solving for all aspects of making
• Music buyers guide - It's all very well of us telling you what your ST can do with MIDI. But what if you can't afford brand new kit?
• Series: program in C - Master this powerful programming language
• Feedback - Complaints, compliments and curious observations
• Special Offers - Treat your ST - offers you can't refuse!
• The back page - Devastatingly inaccurate guesses at what might

Cover Disk

• Battlemaster - Fully playable demo of the latest PSS extravaganza
• GFA Draft - realize your ST's CAD potential with this high-quality exclusive demo - power extreme!
• FreeRAM - memory checker
• Puzzle - complete word game
• HRAMDisk - reset-proof RAMdisk
• GEMPlus - brilliant Desktop editor
• Command Line Interpreter - put your mouse of work with this feature-packed GEM alternative
• Mouse Ka Mania - wacky mouse customizer

...and more!