THE COMPLETE PACKAGE FOR ATARI
ST AND COMMODORE AMIGA OWNERS
| Issue No: 3 |
Month: September 1988 |
| Release Date: August 18th 1988 |
Price: £2.50 |
| Editor: Ben Taylor & Simon Williams |
Page Count: 100 |
MAIN FEATURE
Robots
Widely used in industry, and now under the control of your friendly
ST and Amiga.
COVER DISK (DUAL-FORMAT)
ST/Amiga Format used a unique dual format filing
system that could be read by Amiga and ST. To run the software, the user
was required to copy all data to a blank formatted disk.
Atari ST
Powerdrome demo (Electronic Arts)
ChessNut (G. Franklin)
Sprite Editor (Stephen Kendrick)
DC Clock (PD)
Cheats (D.Singer) |
Amiga
Kind World demo (Disk Company/HB Marketing)
3D Arm (PD)
FPic (PD)
Drop Shadow (PD)
Cheats (A.Grifo) |
NEWS
ITEMS
Price war leads Autumn 16-bit push
'STOS - The Games Creator' announced
Demonstration of Newtek's Video Toaster is promised at Ami-Expo '88
FEATURE
Public Knowledge
Public domain software for the Atari ST.
Master of Light
Nigel Brownjohn - creator of the Metrocross and Verminator graphics
- explains how he put his masterpieces together.
TUTORIALS
Learn Basic (Part 2)
A continuation of the tutorial.
REGULARS
News
Screen Play
Gamebuster
Letters
Gold Dust (rumours section)
Disk Extra
Desktop (tips and technical guide for the ST)
Workbench (tips and technical guide for the Amiga)
Techies Corner
Escape Sequence (last page)
COMMENTS
ST/Amiga Format was evolving at a fast rate, gradually improving the
layout and separating features into ST or Amiga-only. This issue featured
reviews of the Atari CD-ROM, ST Space Harrier, and Amiga Photon Paint.
Amiga graphics looked better than the ST, but the market still favoured
the latter.
A SNIPPET
FROM THE ISSUE
French-based magazine, A-News were have problems with Commodore France.
The head of the French subsidiary, Franke Lanne, decided that the market
was 'too young' for a dedicated Amiga magazine. He attempted to prevent
the launch by withholding press releases, openly supporting a competitor,
and forbidding the use of 'Amiga', 'Kickstart', and 'Workbench' on the
front cover.
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