ST Format 27 - October 1991

Top ST Artists reveal trade secrets!

Make it your Business! Everything you need to know about serious software

We review and rate all 15 top ST hard drives

"I'll have a TEE, please, Bob…" It's a golf game with Balls!

EXCLUSIVE: Atari boss Sam Tramiel reveals his plans for the ST
Don't Miss - 15 packed pages of top games, graphics and technical tips inside this issue


Contents


Cover Disk

  • Showmem Version 4:-  Finds out where your memory's gone
  • Utils Set up your clock, Intercept your ST, Watch it's secret instructions
  • ST Tools Control your files with this box of directory tricks
  • Spiro Put your pens and plastic wheels away! Try this pattern generator
  • ST Writer Elite Version 4:-  The best Public Domain word processor there is
  • Rolling Ronny Non-stop roller-skating madness in this absorbing and fully-playable demo from Virgin Games
  • Gemview The all-encompassing ST picture viewer for all monitors

News Items

Atari reveal big plans for the ST Atari's Managing Director Sam Tramiel has announced some revolutionary updates to the ST range of machines.
Circuitous Designs Expressworks, the company who have the dubious hnour of producing one of the most expensive packages for the ST (step forward, DynaCAD)…
True colour digital retouching on the ST Imagines this: you scan a photograph and a perfeect reproduction appears on your ST's monitor in exaclt the same colours as the original
Stick with your ST Launched at the Dusseldorf show this year were two novel uses for an ST, both linked to the massive interest in DTP in Germany.
Accelerator board could make your ST run faster Gadgets by Small, the company that produced the acclaimed Spectre GCR Macintosh emulator for the ST.
Future goes Public Future Publishing, the most successful publisher of specialist computer magazines in the UK and the company that bring you ST FORMAT every month, are to launch a new magazine aimed at buyers of Public Domain software
Multi-tasking on ST a reality ST owners needent be envious of TT owners getting multi-tasking TOS (see main story page 7), because a new program has been released…
UK2, Rest of the world 0

Games Reviewed

Challenge Golf On-Line £24.99 52%  
Cloud Kingdoms GBH £7.99 68%  
Flight of the Intruder Mirrorsoft £34.99 92%
Footballer of the Year 2 GBH £7.99 67%  
Jimmy White`s Whirlwind Snooker Virgin £24.99 94%
Kid Gloves GBH £7.99 44%  
Magic Pockets Renegade £24.99 90%
Mega Lo Mania Mirrorsoft £25.99 94%
Microprose Golf Microprose £34.99 95%
RBI 2 Domark £24.99 76%  
Supercars GBH £7.99 74%  
Virtual Worlds Domark £29.99 78%  
Wreckers Audiologic £24.99 68%  

Features

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Software and Hardware Reviews

Reference 40 Evesham 73%  
My Letters. Numbers & Words Ablac 67%  
Memory Lane Ablac 64%  
CH001/E C Hack's PDL 67%  
Gravis Switch Joystick RC Simulations 85%  
Vortex 40MByte Silica 68%  
Third Coast 32MByte Third Coast 69%  
Supradrive 40MByte Surface UK 75%  
Harlekin 2 Hisoft 92%
52MByte Ladbroke 81%  
Protar 40DC Protar 90%
Power 40MByte Slimline Power 74%  
Power 40MByte Power 77%  
PC 32MByte drive ST Adapter Kit Third Coast 76%  
Hunter 70MByte Hunter Business Systems 52%  
Gasteiner 85MByte Gasteiner 77%  
Gasteiner 44R Removeable Gasteiner 73%  
Atari Megafile 30 Silica 60%  
Protar 44R Removeable Protar 79%  

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