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Issue 24
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Editor Mark Higham


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The ST Format Shrine
ST Format 24
  July 1991
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Shoot to thrill!! Your ST, a video recorder and imagination - all that you need to create video masterpieces: page 30

Introduce your ST to the real world! We pick the best digitiser around: page 104

You can do this: MidWinter 2 artist Andy Elkerton shows you how - see page 90

85 more good reasons to step inside - 29 manic games cheated, 23 games under the proverbial microscope, 16 PD programs reviewed, 12 handy technical tips, 5 step-by-step guides to making your own pictures

Bonkers old hippy Jeff Minter names his top twenty games: Page 74 PS. Llamatron's on the Disk (page 38)

SCOOP! Atari's cheif designer tells all about the "miracle" ST that reads your handwritting: Page 25


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•  News
•  Game reviews
•  Features
•  Software and Hardware reviews
•  Adverts



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•  Atomino Particle puzzles galore in Psygnosis' molecule-mixing game. Get up and atom!
•  Llamatron Exclusive! Special ST Format versions of Jeff Minter's stunning new shoot-em-up, for both 520 and 1040 owners. They're baaaaa-d!
•  Revenge Tired of your tatty TOS text? Get your revenge and do documents dynamically with this incredibly fabbo file-viewer
•  DIY Assembly Part Three of the Bullfrogs' esy-to-follow assembly guide really brings out the violence in you. Shoot to thrill! (hey, nice phrase...)
•  FLU What can a virus do to you? Find out the hard facts that safe and easy way
•  Little Green Selector File-handling need never be the same again. LGS does all the hunting work for you, while you take it easy
•  Word Processing Toolkit Put extra power into 1st Word with this sweet Accessory

 

 

News Items

  STE breaks £300 barrier   Atari have slashed the price of the 520 STE by £50 to a remarkable £299
  ST dominates MIDI Music Fair   The ST proved its domination of the computer music market at the 1991 MIDI Music Fair held at the Novatel, Hammersmith, in London.
  ST Transputer available by the end of the year   Atari have confirmed that they have a team of technical bods based in a Cambridge think-tank working on what Atari's boss Bob Gleadow calls "a cost-reduced version" of the ATW transputer workstation.
  Light speed ST   Three American ways to speed up your ST right now
  Freestyle sounds come out   New from Zone Distribution is a MIDI improvisation packaged called Freestyle.
  A nice line in art   As DTP packages become increasingly sophisticated, so do the support programs for them
  Duster-up at Realtime   If you're one of the loyal nad of long-time ST FORMAT readers, you may remember a preview in issue 15 of a game called Duster...
  Need help with Finance?   If you're one of those people who actually fill in the stubs in their chequebooks, even after the third cheque, then this program should appeal to you

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Games Reviewed

  Builderland   Infogrames £19.99 71%  
  Cohort   Impressions £24.99 69%  
  Disc   Infogrames £24.99 89%  
  Encounter   Novagen £20.42 58%  
  Flood   Electronic Arts £10.99 87%  
  Hero Quest   Gremlin £25.99 78%  
  Hill Street Blues   Krisalis £25.53 83%  
  Hydra   Domark £24.99 55%  
  Jahangir Khan's world championship squash   Krisalis £24.99 73%  
  Lemmings ** Review ** Psygnosis £24.99 94%
  Lords of Chaos   Software business £24.99 82%  
  Mega Traveller 1   Empire £30.64 67%  
  Othello Killer   UBI Soft £19.99 65%  
  Pro Tennis Tour 2   UBI Soft £25.99 73%  
  Projectyle   Electronic Arts £10.99 91%
  Sim City Terrain Editor   Infogrames £16.99 51%  
  Skull and Crossbones   Domark £24.99 59%  
  Stormball   Millennium £24.99 71%  
  Super Skweek   Infogrames £24.99 81%  
  Supercars 2   Gremlin £25.53 74%  
  Tetris   Infogrames £19.99 69%  
  The Winning Team   Domark £29.99 56%  
  Wonderland   Virgin / Mastertronic £30.64 85%  

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