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- A piece of old news and a competition thrown in for good measure!
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- Yes, upon discovering a pile of old ST magazines and glancing through the news
- sections, I thought I'd share this piece of news with you!
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- STOS BOOST FOR ST
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- A new basic langauge for the ST is currently riding high on the most wanted list
- for both professional and amateur programmers alike.
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- They have all halied STOS - The Games Creator as a revolutionary breakthrough in
- entertainment software writing. From the crack French programming team Jawx
- International, STOS is published by Mandarin Software ((0625) 878888)
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- Leading French software house, UBI SOFT blazed the trail for STOS. The company
- endorsed the breakthrough basic as a winner by using the innovative langauge to
- develop it's latest mega title - Skate Ball - and has two further STOS based
- games in the pipeline.
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- Now British software houses are lining up to jump on the bandwagon, with several
- UK companies having already acquired the the package as a development tool.
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- "We are about to see a whole new generation of STOS-inspired mega games from
- well known software houses", says Mandarin's Chris Payne.
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- But the interest in the new langauge is certainly not confined to professional
- programmers.
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- Demand from amateur games writers for the product is reported to be unusually
- high even though it dosn't go on sale until the beginning of September. (one
- month away).
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- "When we first anounced STOS, we said it would set the ST market alight", added
- Payne, "but even we have been suprised by the response."
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- STOS has 320 commands designed to simplify the creation of fast, action packed
- mega-games with sound, and provides writers with a vast range of facilities.
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- The three disk package includes three games, an icon editor, sprite editor and a
- room designer. Price £29.95
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- (Atari ST User - August 1988)
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- Well, where are all these professionally written games then? Do you know of any
- commercial STOS written games? Have you written a STOS game? Do you want to
- enter a neat competition?
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- Yes? Then send your creations to the Fusion address, we'll review each one in
- the 'zene and the winner will recieve Fusion for a whole year, for free. Yes,
- we'll pay for the disks and postage etc and you'll recieve your copy as soon as
- it is released and sent to the PDL's!
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- All games must be written in STOS, you can use as many extensions and machine
- code routines as you like. The games will be judged on music, sound fx,
- gameplay, graphics and addictiveness. So what are you waiting for STOS coders,
- get in contact with us to stand a chance of winning! You have three months until
- the competition closes, so I make that the 1st of May 1994. Get coding!
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