#atari 1040st

UK 1990

The first issue of this Atari ST quarterly was technical and programmer-oriented. James Capparell's editorial explained that instead of having to type in program listings ("we think you're beyond that"), they would be on a bound-in disk. One article identified a missing component of GEM that would have let the ST display "multiple, Macintosh-like fonts."

trying something new - teaching myself some midi sequencing in cubase 3.0 on my atari 1040ST this weekend... finally got it talking to the rest of my studio

My first music computer was an Atari 1040ST

Atari ST 1040 by Blouk

This issue continued to pack plenty of technical detail (with an article about a Reversi game explaining the ST's own "desk accessories"), although there was an examination of seven word processors. Amiga IFF graphics were displayed on the ST even as a new "bouncing" demo for the ST was explained, and David Small ("creator of the MacCartridge, and Atari hacker supreme") examined the computer's Floppy Disk Controller. Alex Leavins, author of an 8-bit Atari text adventure "Wombats," explained how to create an input parser in C. Alex Oren looked ahead to future developments in computing, supposing input devices would have to improve (as in, say, a computerized "glove"), while mentioning that Apple's prices did involve "high development costs require high margins" but with Atari "when aiming for low price you do not invent—you rent."

USA 1986

USA 1986