ST Magazine # 117/118


Reviews by Monsieur Colin Monro...


In the first part of this Gallic double-whammy, ST Magazine's June and July issues feature a detailed look at Calamus SL '96, and articles on web page design, C programming and working with Linux, the Unix clone for TOS computers. There's a hugely-detailed review of StarTrack, the awesome hard disk audio recorder seen in such high-end Atari clones as the Hades. There's also some shots from Crown of Creation 3D, a stunning-looking game for the Falcon.

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As usual, these magazines contain a lot of reading, most of which is unashamedly aimed at the advanced user. The detailed round-up of Atari magazines from around the globe includes a review of our very own Atari Computing!

STraTOS Issue No. 1


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This first issue of STraTOS was a big first for the Atari platform - a multimedia CD of our very own! Loosely billed as a magazine on CD, it contains video animations, articles, reviews and superb graphics throughout. With a slick interface designed to work on Falcons, or in ST high or low resolutions, let's hope this will be the first of a series. The rest of the CD is crammed full of software demos, including every flavour of MagiC available, Linux stuff, disk mags including AtariPhile issues 1 to 4, a folder containing virtually every Atari internet tool plus a raft of sites for you to browse offline, including the impressive PARX pages.

The conventional paper magazine is A5 format and contains articles ranging from a discussion about fractal compression through the BeBox computer to a new modeller based around the Persistence of Vision 3 raytracer. There are hardware articles on some French based Falcon accelerators such as Centurbo 2, and getting a Jaguar joypad to work on an ST along with an extensive reader survey form. At 40FF (around £4.50) it is expensive but taking into account the free CD and full colour cover it's a fair price.


WHERE TO GET STRATOS

STraTOS is published by:
No'Mad
62, Boulevard Aristide Briand
77000 Melun
France

Subscriptions rates for one year (six issues):
215 FF France
260 FF EU
330 FF Rest of World

Web pages: http://www.cnam.fr/Comp/Atari/Magazines/Stratos/



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