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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.
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!
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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
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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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