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Bloodwych:- ST Format's first disk gets off to a flying start with the first level of Bloodwych. It's similar in style to Dungeon Master but with simultaneous two player action. Shove that disk in the drive and get hacking away.
GFA Basic:- It's faster, more structured and easier to use than ST BASIC and comes complete with a disk based manual. On the disk are some demo programs to show you the power of the language
Stingray:- Anything could happen in the next half hour. Well that's what the Stingray demo says just before it plays the tune from the ancient TV series
PostMortem:- Previously when you'd written a program and it bombed inexplicably then that was life, now thanks to PostMortem you can find out what those registers were up to before the bomb. Tracking down bugs will be much easier
Ramdisk:- RAM disks are very useful when copying files from one disk to another and this month's RAM disk has an advantage over many others, it sits in the GEM Desktop
Pentominoes:- Pentominoes is a mathematical game to keep your puzzled for many hours. Shapes made of five squares must be fitted into a grid. Reflect and rotate them to fit them in, provided you don't get a mental block of course.

Blood Money:- Another Format Gold makes it's way onto the cover. Blood Money is a fast a furious scrolling shoot-'em-up with hordes of poor defenceless well, nearly defenceless) aliens to blast. The version on the cover is level two out of the four level. One or two players can take part and play simultaneously to fight for money and glory
Fun Face:- Draw faces using a Photofit type system made up from eyes, nose, mouth, ears etc. and just muck around with them
GFA Demos:- This month's GFA BASIC programming tutorial deals with the subject of graphics and the demo programs mentioned in the article are sitting in the GFADEMOS folder
GFA Convert:- Converts ST BASIC programs to GFA BASIC
Format10:- Last month's disk formatter is repeated on the cover, only this time it works properly. Last month it would only format drive A, but now it's fixed. Sorry!
DC Clock:- Banish irritating left wrist movements. Just double click on the program and you'll have the clock displayed in the top right hand corner of the screen
PCommand:- One thing the ST lacks and the poor Amiga has is a CLI, or command line interface. No more messing about with the Desktop menus and file operations are much simpler thanks to wild cards
Aargh!:- Is there anyone out there that likes that irritating click that you get every time you press a key on the ST? If so then don't use this desk accessory which can switch off that very same click
Blaster:- The old arcade classic Defender gets renamed and zaps onto your ST screen. Nostalgia time as you remember your misspent youth feeding the arcade owner
Tinyview:- A slide show program that displays Tiny format pictures. This month part of the animation tutorial is shown
Tinystuf:- Pictures on the cover are often compressed to save space and so Tinystuf comes into its own in converting Tiny, Degas and Neochrome pictures from one format into another
VKiller:- Long ago there was a virus killer on the cover but we thought it was about time that we gave you another to help protect your programs from harm
ST Format Demo:- A demo with loads of colours, bouncing words and some free advertising for your favourite magazine.
Sine Text Demo:- Text crawls across a multicoloured screen following a sine wave pattern. Count the colours
Play It Demo:- Mixing digitised sound tracks and Neochrome of Degas pictures is made simple with Playit and there's a short demo on the cover to act as an appetiser.

Tracker:- This month's hardware project is a device that shows you which track and side the disk drive is reading. Tracker is a program that helps you test your newly constructed project
Crosswords:- Sun & Times Crosswords. Pit your wits against Akom's newspaper crosswords
Format 10:- Use it to back up the cover disk
Fractal Surf:- create fractal landscapes
Magic Eye:- Get hypnotised by this weird and wonderful fractal demo
Mandelshow:- Explore the Mandelbrot set
GFA Demos:- Make music with GFA BASIC
Colour Emulator:- A colour emulator for use with monochrome monitors
Mono Emulator:- A monochrome emulator for use with colour monitors
DSlide:- Slideshow program that not only displays pictures in all resolutions but also converts them from one resolution to another
Tinystuf:- Pictures on the cover are often compressed to save space and so Tinystuf comes into its own in converting Tiny, Degas and Neochrome pictures from one format into another
Xenon 2:- Sensational arcade-quality shoot-'em-up in playable demo form

Interphase:- Yet another Format Gold with a 3D spectacular: here's an exclusive, brilliant, fully playable demo
Firestorm:- An excellent PD game - play it, then crack it! Just follow our complete "How to crack" guide on page 93
Monst:- A monitor/debugger - essential for exploring machine code
Format 10:- Backup your cover disk
GFA Demos:- A further selection of demos
Animate 4:- A PD program to show Cybersculpt to best advantage
Genesis:- A remarkably fast fractal landscape generator that produces extraordinary 3D landscapes
Atoms:- A challenging and intriguing game for two to four players. Can you gain domination?
Cruncher:- Save valuable disk space with the Happy Computer Packer
Heroes:- Solve those Heroes of the Lance hassles with a neat cheat
DSlide:- A slide show program of reader's pictures
Tinystuf:- Convert Tiny, Degas and Neochrome pictures from one format to another

The Untouchables:- Thrill to this superb playable demo of Ocean's forthcoming hoods-v.-G-men pump-action shotgun wars! Your orders: apprehend Capone - failing that, blast him to bits
Quartet:- It's the sound sensation that's sweeping the nation! Sample the delights of Microdeal's stunning four-channel sound sequencing package. One day, games will sound like this...
Recover:- Ever had a disk go down on you? This handy program helps you recover files accidentally deleted or corrupted.
QMouse:- Put life into your mouse! Get rid of the sluggish ST mouse pointer! Replace it with a Speedy Gonzales-type rodent!
Word Count:- Desktop accessory which adds up the number of words in a text file
X-Utilities:- Desktop accessory which offers copying, formatting and setup utilities
Animations:- Two Cyber animations
Boot Maker:- Create autobooting programs. Normally only TOS-based programs can be run from the AUTO folder: now any GEM-based item can be made to run
CZ Sounds:- Transfer preset sound data between your Casio CZ101 keyboard and ST via MIDI
Flying Start:- The complete solution for all your comms connections
PC Format:- Format a disk (3.5 or 5.25 inch) to boring PC standard
RAMLoad :- All the utilities you need can be copied automatically on boot to a RAM disk. Now that's what I call useful!

Tower Of Babel:- Fully playable demo of Microprose's fabulous Format Gold-rated 3D strategy game
Replay Professional:- The most advanced 8/12-bit sampler for the ST
Star Struck:- Fun screen-saving accessory
Easy Text DTP:- Get into DTP with this great WYSIWYG package
Bellum Internecinum:- Swoop-like shoot-'em-up
Animations:- All the files you need to create stunning Cyber animations
No Border:- Stunning "impossible" demo!

Skate Tribe:- Fantastic freewheeling fun. This is not a demo: it's a complete game! Nine levels of skateboarding buttiness
Virus Die:- Prepare for a new concept: Sector 9's totally rad virus killer! Forget boring text displays, we're talking animated sequences showing viruses having their £$%&! chopped off
Playback:- An interrupt driven sound sample player. As Playback doesn't hog the ST's processor, other things can be done while the digitised data is played
C Program:- The first source file from Warwick Grigg's C tutorial
Desktop Tips: A demo showing horizontal and parallax scrolling using STOS
Animation:- two stunning Cyber animations
4pak:- An incredible new file compactor
Resore:- Return colours to default values
Art Gallery:- A brace of stonking Spectrum 512 images
Convert:- Change binary data into an ASCII file that can be imported into any assembler
F40 Demo:- 1 mere 35K, but a tremendous Ferrari F40 and more besides.

GFA Raytrace:- Tremendous useable demo of GFA Data Media's 512-colour raytracing and animation package
Ani ST:- A complete animation package offering unbelievable tweening facilities
Tower Of Babel Towers:- Three more testing towers to improve Micropose's ace game
C Series:- source files
Master Sound:- Rap to the monster beat of Pandaal's funky sound sampling package
Super Virus Killer:- Extraordinary utility that identifies 5 viruses, 7 antiviruses, and 133 other boot sectors
Saver:- Nifty memory resident screen saver
Fastcopy:- When it comes to copying and formatting nothing beats the devilishly quick utility

Conqueror:- Go to war with Rainbow Art's superb tank simulation. Prepare for battle in three different modes in Braben's latest compelling game
Canvas Demo:- Demonstrate your artistic ability with Microdeal's phenomenal 512-colour art package for all STs and STEs. (no save)
Pipe Mania:- Go with the flow in Empire's frustratingly addictive game of plumbing, pipes and puzzles. Guaranteed to have you addicted in seconds. (Playable demo with three levels)
Tempus 2:- The fastest text editor for the ST in the useable demo form courtesy of HiSoft
Turbo ST:- Slap some go-faster stripes on your ST and venture into the fast lane with HiSoft's ST speed up utility
C-Series:- Warick Grigg shows you hoe to create a pinball simulator in his latest C tutorial
Animation:- Mark Pickavance chops off a robot's legs and lets them run riot on your screen
Canvas Manual:- All you need to know

Wipe Out:- A hilarious intergalactic hoverboard challenge awaits you in Gonzo Games' incredibly addictive fully playabel demo
GFA Raytrace:- GFA's stunning 512-colour raytracing program. This is not a demo; this is the complete package
Hisoft's Devpac 2:- Used by programmers worldwide. You can produce power-packed code with assembler, editor and debugger
Personal Finance Manager:- Microdeal's fantastic home accounts package
Animation:- Mark "The Pix" Pickavance shows off his 3D human animation
C-Tutorial:- Source files for Warwick Grigg's facinating C-series
Game Busters:- Saved-game character editor for Mirrorsoft's ever-so-difficult Bloodwych
Medrez:- STE medium res utility. Use this patch to boot your STE into medium resolution
GFA Joystick Utility:- This program allows you to read the joystick port from GFA Basic 2

Resolution 101:- Everybody has its day in Millennium's fully playable vigilante sci-fi demo
Kid Publisher:- Get 'em while they're young! A brilliant DTP package for you computer users
Mikki Mouse Monitor:- The very latest version of our German correspondent Don Maple's superb machine language monitor (MMM)
Mouse Tools:- Utility that boosts you mouse pointer's acceleration to breakneck speed
Vanterm:- Invaluable comms package with support for everything from ASCII file transfer to ZModem
Ballzone:- Brilliant multi-level Arkanoid clone
Animation:- Winning entries from the ST Format / Cyber animation competition
C Tutorial:- All the source files an demos you need to follow the fifth installment of Warwick Grigg's fascinating C series

Starblade:- Don your space suite and get into this superb fully playable 3D space opera from Palace
Menusys:- Everything you could ever want in one handy program
MIDI Send:- Send MIDI data from your ST to any MIDI instrument with this brilliant Desktop accessory
Desktop Music:- Terrific foot-stomping tune
Text Filter:- Sort rogue characters from text files with this nifty text formatting utility
Composer:- Incredible MIDI drum sequencer
Deeplair:- Frantic two-player submarine shoot-'em-up from the author of Canvas
C Tutorial:- Warwick Grigg provides plenty of source for you to size up

Battlemaster:- Exclusive and fully playable demo of the latest PSS masterpiece: role-players and arcaders will fight to claim it
FreeRAM:- Lost your memory? If Doc can't help, this immensely useful Desktop accessory can!
Puzzle:- Word Square fans will go ape over this dangerously addictive game
HRAMdisk:- Of the warm-reset survivable kind
GFA Draft Plus:- Realise your ST's CAD potential with our exclusive demo of GFA's power-packed program
Gemplus:- Tired of your ST's Desktop? Now you can spruce it up with this brilliant editor
Mouse Ka Mania:- Customise your ST mouse beyond belief with this fantastic mouse pointer editor
Command Line Interpreter:- Get more power from your ST with this feature-packed CLI. Your mouse need never work again
C Series Files

Rick Dangerous:- The man with the hat is back in this fully playable thrilling platform demo
Yolanda:- Stunning platform game steeped in ancient mythology and compelling arcade action
Graffiti:- Spray your Desktop with messages!
Startup:- Brilliant utility that executes a sequence of programs or a string of instructions on boot up
No Bombs:- What those bombs really mean
Private Eye:- Find out what lurks inside your ST
Robotz:- Stunning 40-level shoot'em-up
C-Tutorial:- Useful source code
Star LC10:- Popular printer gets accessory utility
Harlekin Fonts:- Add fonts to your own set-up
Transport 90:- View and DOWNLOAD printer fonts
Diary:- No excuse for being late again
TOS Teller:- which TOS lurks in your ST?
Folder:- Brilliant time-saving utility
Speech:- Your ST answers back

Atomic Robokid:- Superb playable arcade action in this excerpt from Activision's forthcoming scrolling shoot'em-up. Not for kids!
TCB Tracker:- Demo of the Care Bear's incredible ST music and sample player.
Personal Database:- Get that info sorted with this fully usable utility
HAL9000:- Frighten the life out of your ST with Arthur C Clarke's nightmare computer
Gen-Lock:- Brighten up your Desktop
Accompanist:- Make music with Henry Cosh's amazing complete 16-voice sequencer. Uses MIDI or the ST's own voice
MegaForm:- Seriously useful utilities: copy, format, erase and test disks or create superfast disks with the Fastload format
StarStruck:- Save wear and tear on your TV tube with this brand new version of the popular screen saver utility.

Captive:- Exclusive! Fully playable demo of Mindscape's ST Format Gold winning sc-fi role-playing game
FSelect:- Transform your ST's filing capabilities and make directory and disk changing easy with FSelect
MugFormat:- Protect your disks with this amazing virus immuniser
Neofun:- Turn those tired old Neochrome pictures into something strange and wonderful - just add imagination (not included)
Genlock:- Personalise your desktop - and brighten up your whole day!
Vanterm v3.8:- Latest, ultra-improved version of popular comms package. Get on-line in style! All you need, in one handy program
Speedwrite - Speed up those disk saves with this excellent utility. No more falling asleep waiting for you drive to stop
TLC Suite:- Four fantastic programs to help you handle your ST: special formatter, directory changer,re-namer - and even a sample player for playing programs!
Puzzle:- Create your own customised sliding puzzle with this great fun program

Golden Axe:- Virgin's belting bash-'em-up
Puzznic:- Ocean's manic mindbender
Personal Finance Manager+:- Fully useable demo - guide inside.
Dot-2-Dot:- Complete educational program
Utils:- Document reader, Art gallery accessory, Startup customiser

Imageworks Interphase:- Full game! The game of your dreams - unleash this stunning ST Format Gold classic

Champion Of The Raj:- Rip-roaring playable demo of ImageWorks' brand new Indian action-strategy game
PMA:- The proportional mouse accelerator
McAipof Reader:- Reads text files out loud
GFA Basic 2:- Full version with manual, plus part on of STF's Tutorial
Guardian:- The hidden virus detector
Dbase One:- Full database program, with complete index to all STF issues
Plus five great accessories

Civilization:- Huge playable demo (1MByte only)
Super Card 3:- Brilliant card-based database
Punt:- Frantic platform chicanery
Mega Depack:- Unpack packed files
Puzword:- Devious word puzzler
Runes:- Consult the mysteries of the stones
Chord Dictionary:- Suss those guitar chords
Big Life:- The classic game of life

Quartet:- Exclusive! Full version of Microdeal's digital music machine. Worth £49.954 channel sample sequencer, 4 demo voice sets to play with 10 demo songs as examples35 high quality sound samples, MIDI keyboard compatible, Handy sample conversion program

Cannon Fodder:- Discover for yourself why war has never been so much fun with our playable demo from Sensible Software. (Works on all ST's except TOS 2.06)

Well 'Ard:- A platform leaping head-bouncing romper- stomper
Digit 1.1:- Working demo of this great high res tracker (1MByte only)
Wordquiz 4:- Create your own wordsearch puzzles
Atari View:- Powerful text file reader for your ST
Boss Drum:- 55 Rhythmic drum sounds for Quartet
Twinz:- Match up the pairs as fast as you can

Hollywood Hustler:- Demo. Can you out bluff your ST at poker. 1MByte required (NOTE all files in the folder are needed, the TOS file extracts "missing" files)
Sweet Sixteen:- Fully working Swedish MIDI sequencer
Falcon Quartet:- Quartet song player for Falcons
Quadrix:- 3D noughts and crosses game
Curtains 2:- Hide your screens from prying eyes
Rendezvous:- Exclusive images from Systeme

Breakthru:- Demo of Software Technology's flagship MIDI sequencer with sample support. All Ataris, 1MByte only
Traped 2:- Prepare to get seriously addicted to the ultimate light cycles game! All STs, 512K required. (Not Falcon)
Supercard 3.13:- We reckon this is the greatest shareware database ever, and here's the latest version for you to find out why.
Timetalk:- Demo of this musicians' tool gives you a fully working delay calculator. All Ataris, high rez only
MIDI Files:- MIDI Magic has provided no fewer than 15 commercial MIDI files for your personal delectation All Ataris, sequencer or FIMP required
HTML Files:- Make the most of last month's Internet Access Pack Cover Disk #with these example files and images
Cola Calc:- Discreet yet easily accessible, this programmers' calculator will suit everyone
Back Up:- Don't risk losing all that precious data - back up your disk!