ST Format 2 - September 1989
Make facial Fantasies on your ST. Fun Face review inside, playable demo on Disk
Superb new music section
Parsec graphics board reviewed
| • | ST Format Demo | A demo with loads of colours, bouncing words and some free advertising for your favourite magazine. |
| • | Sine Text Demo | Text crawls across a multicoloured screen following a sine wave pattern. Count the colours |
| • | VKiller | Long ago there was a virus killer on the cover but we thought it was about time that we gave you another to help protect your programs from harm |
| • | Tinystuff | 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 |
| • | Tinyview | A slide show program that displays Tiny format pictures. This month part of the animation tutorial is shown |
| • | Blaster | The old arcade classic Defender gets renamed and zaps onto your ST screen. Nostalgia time as you remember your misspent youth feeding the arcade owner |
| • | Aargh! | Is there anyone out there that likes that irritating click that you get every time you press a key on the ST? If so then don't use this desk accessory which can switch off that very same click |
| • | DC Clock | Banish irritating left wrist movements. Just double click on the program and you'll have the clock displayed in the top right hand corner of the screen |
| • | Blood Money | Another Format Gold makes it's way onto the cover. Blood Money is a fast a furious scrolling shoot-'em-up with hordes of poor defenceless (well, nearly defenceless) aliens to blast. The version on the cover is level two out of the four level. One or two p |
| • | Format10 | Last month's disk formatter is repeated on the cover, only this time it works properly Last month it would only format drive A, but now it's fixed. Sorry! |
| • | GFA Convert | ST BASIC programs to GFA BASIC |
| • | Fun Face | Draw faces using a Photofit type system made up from eyes, nose, mouth, etc. and just muck around with them |
| • | GFA Demos | This month's GFA BASIC programming tutorial deals with the subject of graphics and the demo programs mentioned in the article are sitting in the GFADEMOS folder |
| • | PCommand | One thing the ST lacks and the poor Amiga has is a CLI, or command line interface. No more messing about with the Desktop menus and file operations are much simpler thanks to wild cards |
| • | Play It Demo | Mixing digitised sound tracks and Neochrome of Degas pictures is made simple with Playit and there's a short demo on the cover to act as an appetiser. |
| PC Power | PC Speed opens up the range of software that can be run on the PC |
| Fighting talk from Atari | Sam Tramiel's aim: 'To kill off Nintendo' |
| Atari Soften Up | Atari are re-entering the software market with a range of games and applications for the 16-bit market |
| Springs in Summer | US company Codehead is to have its entire product range distributed in this country by ISM. |
| Scan and deliver | DaataScan Plus is an upgrade to Kempston's scanning package |
| Norwegian Blue | Mastertronic have aquired the licence from the Monty Python team to produce a computer game |
| Some like it Hotz | Professional and amateur musicians alike in America are buzzing with excitement after a device called Hotz Translator surfaced at a music show in the States |
| Law promises piracy action | A new law intended to prevent ST software piracy has come into force amid conflicting claims about its scope and interpretation |
| Colour in your hand | Atari announced the world's first color hand-held game system at the June Consumer Electronics Show in Chicago. |
| Blood Money | Psygnosis | £24.95 | 90% |  |
| Buffalo Bills Wild West Rodeo Games | Tynesoft | £24.95 | 83% | |
| Chariots of Wrath | Impressions | £24.99 | 59% | |
| Kick Off | Anco | £19.95 | 88% | |
| Leonardo | Starbyte / Entertainment International | £19.95 | 62% | |
| Quartz | Firebird | £24.99 | 75% | |
| Red Heat | Ocean | £19.99 | 52% | |
| Robocop | Ocean | £19.99 | 56% | |
| The Last Crusade | US Gold | £19.99 | 90% | |
| The Quest for the time bird | Infogames | £24.95 | 78% | |
| Verminator | Rainbird | £29.95 | 83% |
| Looking for design | Designing a computer's easy - sling some electronics in a grey box, add a keyboard and monitor, done! Perhaps not, as CHRIS DRAKE discovers. |
| Sticky Fingers | MARK HIGHAM went to the Powerplay factory in Oldham to find out how a joystick is made and speculate on the future |
| Facing Facts | It's a fair cop, guv, I'll come quiet: STEVE CAREY investigates how the police can fit you up for a crime with the amazing new E-FIT system, and on page 28 reviews That's Fun Face, a unique new kind of ST program that works in the same way. |
| Parsec 4768 board | Research | |||
| Tweety Board | Bath Computer Shack | |||
| Studiomaster MA36 | Studiomaster | |||
| That's Fun Face | Cavendish | |||
| Music Maker | Hybrid Arts | |||
| Steinberg Cubase | Evenlode | |||
| Super Librarian | MCMXCIX | |||
| GFA 3 Compiler | GFA | 91% | |
| Atari | Page 76 |
