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NEWS ITEMS

End of an Era
ST Format closes its doors for the last time.

Titan on-line
Titan Designs unveil new web site.

Go faster
FaSt Club announces beta versions of the ImageCopy art package will be made available to registered users.

Floppyship Savings
FloppyShop announce discounts on their PD range.

A kind of MagiC
MagiC 5, MagiCMac 2, and Ease 5 are announced for release towards the end of 1996.

That's Neat
System Solutions distribute CD-ROM label printing kit.

Snippets
Internet rumours state that Atari is poised to make a statement about the end of the Jaguar.
Wessex Atari Group set up in the south of England.
DMC, owners of the Atari Calamus series, sell rights to Canadian company MGI.

FEATURE
Atari Force: The Next Generation
One-page feature on the DC Comic that bore the official Atari name (circa 1984)

Atari's downfall
Cavan Scott examines the rise, fall and rapid plummet of Atari. One-page article on the machines' history.

All Good things...
Former writers give a final commentary on their experiences working for the magazine.

REVIEWS
ST Format had reversed the order of coverage, placing game reviews behind the serious coverage.
 

Application Reviews
Title	Distributor	Rating
Positive Image	FloppyShop	80%
Arabesque Professional	Titan Designs	75%
Convector Pro	Titan Designs	91%
NeoDesk/Geneva package	Titan Designs	91%
Mission 1 CD-ROM	16/32 Systems	43%
ScreenPlay (ST, Falcon, and towards the end, Jaguar reviews)
Spice (Falcon)	CyberSTrider	62%
Bio Hazard 2 (ST)	L.J. Greenhalgh	78%
Conquest of Elysium (Falcon)	InterActive	70%
NBA Jam TE (Jaguar)	JTS Atari	70%

TUTORIALS

Absolute beginners
Single-sided, double-sided, high density, what does it all mean? Peter Crush explains how to format floppy disks.

RAM disks: the return
MaxiDisk maestro Peter Crush presents his seven top time-saving RAM disk tips.

The Score
Richard Manley-Reeve tackles the tricky Cubase IPS screen.

LAYOUT

COMMENTS
I've never been a fan of ST Format, it was flat and boring in comparison to the other Atari titles available (ST Review, Atari World). The final issue is no exception - it is obvious that the title had been starved of staff and funding for some time. The reversal of their previous decision to ignore Jaguar games highlights their desperation for ST/Falcon titles.However, they missed an opportunity for making an impact upon the ST scene by ignoring users' thirst for history. It would have been easy to pad the Atari history feature a bit, to give a background on the ST's development and where it started to go wrong.

...And the Star Trek: TNG references were never funny.

Has anyone else noticed that the ST Format issue 82 cover was exactly the same as ST/Amiga Format issue 10?