ST Format Issue 3

ST Format issue 3 is cover-dated October 1989 and cost £2.95.

INCOMPLETE

On the Disk
Xenon 2, Sun Crossword, Times Crossword - 1 page (17)

Tracker, Fractal Surf, Mandelshow, Dslide, Tinystuf, GFA Demos, Magic Eye, GFAColour and GFAMono - 1 page (17)

News
News Headlines - 3 pages (7-9)
 * Super STs to star at PC show; Off your trolley competition - (7)
 * Fontastic day: Calamus, Font Designer, Headline; Fast worker: Turbo 16; Bird food: Worm drive; Microdeal on show: Goldrunner 3D, Replay Professional, Midiplay - (8)
 * Page the Oracle: Teletext adapter; Quickies, Next Month - (9)

All the Way from America - 1 page (12)
 * Atari's autumn attack; The emulation game; ST steals MIDI market; Atari is five!; TOS 1.4 - sort of

Features
Contents - 2 pages (4-5)

Power Packed - 2 pages (14-15)


 * Two new ST-compatible machines launched in Germany. Richard Monteiro was there. (Atari TT & 1040STE)

Chaos from Order - 3 pages (20-22)


 * Mathematicians believe that fractal graphics mirror the randomness of the real world. Hugo Allen explains how to explain chaos on your ST

Graphics: Screen Update - 1 page (25)


 * Mark Pickavace dips into his paintbox and draws out the latest releases in the art world.

Graphics: Into the limelight - 1½ pages (26-27)


 * 512 colour raytracing - beating the Amiga at its own game courtesy of GFA Raytrace

Graphics: Digital Scene Simulation - ½ page (27)


 * To complement the GFA Raytrace preview we look at heavy duty computations - The Last Starfighter.

Graphics: Lets's Talk Sprites - 1 page (28)


 * Some advice from Mark Picavace to get you started in sprite design.

DIY Project: Making Tracks - 3 pages (35-36,40)


 * Keep a tight rein on your disk drive's head with Peter Spragg's £25 tracker device.

What's Wrong with Violence? - 3 pages (58-60)


 * Do they really corrupt the young, or is it load of hogwash? Mild-mannered Mark Higham tells it how it is...

Games Special: Power Games - 2 pages (70-71)


 * With the rush for Christmas hotting up, Mark Higham begins a look at how two contenders operate by following Moonwalker and Team Yankee as they go from the drawing board to the dealer.

Previews
Coming Soon - 1 page (74)

Reviews
Games

Gra=Graphics, Sou=Soundtrack, Int=Intelligence, Ins=Instant Appeal, Lon=Long Term Interest, Ove=Overall

PD

Public Speaking - Rod Lawton - 2 pages (45-46) Software
 * KidiDTP - *****
 * Money Spinner - ***
 * Star Battle - ****
 * The Histroy File - ***
 * Sherlock - ***
 * Once in a Blue Moon - ***
 * Spectral Sorcery - ****
 * ST Writer Elite - ****

Write This Way - Mark Higham - 3 pages (48,50,53) GFA Compiler (GFA) - 91% - Mark Higham - 1 page (54)
 * That's Write (Gasteiner Technologies) - 72% - (48,50,53)
 * Regent Word II (ISM) - 89% - (50)
 * Tempus II (HiSoft) - 78% - (53)

Hardware

Hypercache (Third Coast Technologies) - 79% - Gary Barrett - 1 page (42)

EPROM Blower (Lakmeyer) - 80% - Mark Higham - 1 page (56)

Tips
Game Busters - 2 pages (81,83)

Other Credits
Art Editor
 * Gordon Druce

Games Editor
 * Mark Higham

Production Editor
 * Rod Lawton

Disk Editor
 * Gary Barrett

Design Assistant
 * Kevin Hibbert

Publisher
 * Greg Ingham