ST Format
Future's Atari ST monthly, and the other half of a split
Future Publishing's Atari ST magazine ran from July 1989 to September 1996. It and Amiga Format are the two halves of ST/Amiga Format, which separated in mid-1989 — and its colophon places Future in Bath by then.
ST Format ran from July 1989 to September 1996, published by Future Publishing from 4 Queen Street, Bath.
The other half
ST Format and Amiga Format are the two halves of one earlier magazine. Future published ST/Amiga Format — a single title covering both 16-bit machines — for eighteen issues from July 1988, and split it in mid-1989. ST Format begins in July 1989; Amiga Format in August.
So the two are not rivals that grew apart. They are a deliberate division of one readership at the moment each machine could support a magazine of its own.
An address worth noting
The Bath address in issue 1 dates Future’s move. Its first title, Amstrad Action, was published from Somerton, Somerset in 1985 and still gave Somerton in early 1986. By July 1989 the colophon says 4 Queen Street, Bath — the city Future is usually associated with, and which it had not yet reached when it started.
See also
- Amiga Format — the other half of the split
- Future Publishing — the publisher, by then in Bath
- Atari ST User — the Europress rival, three years earlier
- Atari ST