Source: ST Format – Issue Number 13 – August 1990
ST Format was a magazine published in the U.K. that was dedicated to the Atari ST. It started life as part of Amiga/ST Format but they split into their own individual publications shortly after introduction. The August 1990 issue of ST Format includes:
- News – All you need to know about the month’s ST activity
- News from abroad – Releases and information from across Europe
- Game Previews – A first look at Mag Scrolls’ Wonderland and more
- Inside Story: magic fly – FORMAT Graphics Editor recalls two years’ work on the Electronic Arts extravaganza
- Cover Disk Plus – Carefully crafted, lovingly compiled – a real stonker!
- Games: screenplay – Damocles, Wipe Out, Flood, AMC, F-29, Midnight Resistance, Khalaan, Thunderstrike, Treasure Trap, Atomix, Rorke’s Drift, Skidz, Prophecy
- Gamebusters special – Coo! Not four, not five, not even seven but nine (count ’em) pages of top cheats for more than 100 ST games!
- Adventure gamebusters – The A-to-Z of adventure cheats, hints and solutions
- Special: The bullfrogs are back! – The team that brought the world Populous are back with a splash. Remember, you read it here first.
- Desktop – How, you ask, can we cram so much info into four and a half pages? Don’t know, we
- Exclusive: Proxima – Now you can afford to get into DTP – with a package that costs just a third of the price of Calamus!
- Subscriptions
- Educations – FORMAT goes European with a range of foreign language tutorial programs. Roll on 1992!
- Music tips – Welcome to a new section of help and problem-solving for all aspects of making
- Music buyers guide – It’s all very well of us telling you what your ST can do with MIDI. But what if you can’t afford brand new kit?
- Series: program in C – Master this powerful programming language
- Feedback – Complaints, compliments and curious observations
- Special Offers – Treat your ST – offers you can’t refuse!
- The back page – Devastatingly inaccurate guesses at what might
Cover Disk
- Battlemaster – Fully playable demo of the latest PSS extravaganza
- GFA Draft – realize your ST’s CAD potential with this high-quality exclusive demo – power extreme!
- FreeRAM – memory checker
- Puzzle – complete word game
- HRAMDisk – reset-proof RAMdisk
- GEMPlus – brilliant Desktop editor
- Command Line Interpreter – put your mouse of work with this feature-packed GEM alternative
- Mouse Ka Mania – wacky mouse customizer
…and more!
