ST Amiga Format 1 - July 1988
Why the ST and Amiga are changing the face of computing
Virus - A world first - Exclusive review of Firebird's infectious ST Zarch
Win a Laser Printer - Owt for nowt? Pick up a supurb Epson GQ3500 in our competition
More screen colours - Photon Paint and Spectrum 512 reviewed
Word Processors - Pick of the pack
| • | OIDS Demo | |
| • | Virus Killer | |
| • | RAM disk | |
| • | Game Pokes | |
| • | Monoware | |
| • | Invaders | |
| • | Disk Formatter | |
| • | Art Goodies | |
| • | Desktop Accessories |
| Laptop ST looks definite | As Winston Churchill might have said, "Never in the field of human endeavour have so many been owed to so few machines." |
| Games price to drop? | The iniquitous pricing of 16 bit games could be a thing of the past. |
| Multiface for ST and Amiga | Romantic Robot, based in the backstreets of Cricklewood, are shortly to release an ST version of their successful hacking-cum-backup device, the Multiface. |
| Light years ahead | Elmtech Research are at the moment finalising developments on their ParSec graphics system, which sounds as though it could be astonoshing both technically and pricewaise |
| Amiga price cut | Despite the widespread complaints in the computer manufacturing industry about the price of RAMs, Commodore are expected to cut the price of the Amiga 500 to match the Atari 520ST |
| STs at the Cafe Royal | Atari held a trade and press show on May 26th as aplatform for their UK second-half-of-1988 activities. |
| Oscillating ST | If you're a closet soldering iron wielder, and you own an ST, then there's good new from Kuma |
| Format in the U.S.A. | In the UK, whatever the technical merits of the twomachines it is generally accepted that the ST has sold about three times as many units as the Amiga. |
| Raring to go | Andy "zap-em" Storer eyes up the news and games that arrived too late for review. |
| Firepower | Microillusions/Activision | £19.99 | 58% | |
| Interceptor | Electronic Arts | £24.95 | 91% |  |
| Leathernecks | Microdeal | £19.95 | 76% | |
| Outrun | US Gold | £19.99 | 71% | |
| Sundog: Frozen Legacy | FTL/Software Heaven | £14.99 | 64% | |
| Thexder | Sierra | £19.99 | 61% | |
| Virus | Firebird | £19.95 | 86% |
| The Choice is yours | Which Machine? ST or Amiga? Richard Monteiro wades through the waffle to highlight the differences and similarities between the two micros and recommends the best choice for particular applications. |
| Transputers do it all in Parallel | What's all this fuss about transputers? |
