ST Format Issue 2

ST Format issue 2 is dated September 1989 and cost £2.95.

INCOMPLETE

On the Disk
3 pages (33-34,36)
 * Blood Money Demo; Fun Face Demo - (33)
 * GFA Demos, GFA Convert, DC_Clock, PCommand, Format 10, Blaster, Aargh! - (34)
 * Vkiller, Tinyview, Tinystuf, Autoplay - (36)

News
News Headlines - 4 pages (7-10) All the Way from America - 1 page (22)
 * Fighting talk from Atari: Sam Tramiel's aim: 'to kill off Nintendo'; PC Power: PC Speed (Cavendish); Atari soften up: Tempest, Star Breaker, Star Raiders, Enterprise, Borodino, Armada, HyperDraw, LDW Power, HyperPaint, HyperChart (Atari) - (7)
 * Springs in summer: Regent Word II, HotWire, Springs, G+Plus, Code Utilities (Codehead); Scan and deliver: DaataScan Plus (Kempston) - (8)
 * Norwegian blue: Monty Python's Flying Circus (Core Design); Some like it Hotz: Hotz Translator - (9)
 * Law promises piracy action - Steve Carey; Quickies - (10)
 * Colour in your hand: Atari Lynx announced; Atari sell off US shops; Nintendo blamed for profit drop; Scanner here soon; ST wins an Oscar; Portfolio update

Features
Contents - 2 pages (4-5)

Futures: Looking for Design - 3 pages (12-14)
 * Designing a computer's easy - sling some electronics in a grey box, add a keyboard and monitor, done! Perhaps not, as Chris Drake discovers.

Joysticks: Sticky Fingers - 3 pages (17-19)
 * Mark Higham went to the Powerplay factory in Oldham to find out how a joystick is made and speculate on the future.

Comms: Telephone Lines - 1 page (24)
 * The Black Baron is here again, this time with details of a new low-cost modem from Hi-Tec and Microdeal's sexy BBS software.

Cover Feature: Facing Facts - 4 pages (27-30)
 * It's a fair cop, guv, I'll come quiet: Steve Carey investigates how the Police can fit you up for a crime with the amazing new E-FIT system, and on page 28 reviews That's Fun Face, a unique new kind of ST program that works in the same way.

Basic Tutorial: The Plot Thickens - 2 pages (39-40)
 * GFA Basic is a powerful graphics tool. Barry Capel explains where to draw the line.

Graphics: Think Sync - 3 pages (42-44)
 * One of the trickiest parts of animation is portraying speech. Mark Pickavace is your elocution tutor.

Games: Bloody Great - 1 page (56)


 * After the stunning graphics of Amiga Blood Money, Psygnosis are bringing out the ST conversion. Mark Higham went to Liverpool to meet the programmer.

Previews
Coming Soon - 1 page (85)

Software
Games

Gra=Graphics, Sou=Soundtrack, Sho=Short Term Interest, Lon=Long Term Interest, Ove=Overall

PD

Public Speaking - Stuart Anderton - 2 pages (20-21)
 * Learning the Desktop - ***
 * Play it Again Sam - ****
 * The Works - *****
 * Play Time - ****
 * Texing Time - ****

Other

Tips
Game Busters - 2 pages (81,83)

Other Credits
Art Editor
 * Gordon Druce

Games Editor
 * Mark Higham

Production Editor
 * Stuart Anderton

Disk Editor
 * Gary Barrett

Design Assistant
 * Kevin Hibbert

Publisher
 * Greg Ingham

Contributors
 * Mel Croucher, Jerry Glenwright, Dave Packer, Steve Cogan