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In January 1992, version 2.3 of the program was licensed to Atari Corp., who released Dutch and French translations. In 1994, version 3 of 3D-Calc (renamed 3D-Calc+) was licensed to the UK magazine ST Applications. Today, 3D-Calc software is Freeware ("Public domain without source code") and can be downloaded freely. [1]
ST Format was a computer magazine in the UK covering the Atari ST during the late 1980s and early 1990s. Like other members of the Future plc Format stable - PC Format and Amiga Format , for instance, it combined software and hardware reviews with columnists, letters pages and a cover disk .
DEGAS (D.E.G.A.S., Design & Entertainment Graphic Arts System) is a bitmap graphics editor created by Tom Hudson for the Atari ST and published by Batteries Included in 1985. [1] Hudson created some of the sample paintings that shipped with DEGAS. [2]
Calamus is a desktop publishing application, originally built for the Atari ST computer. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The first version was released on July 1, 1987, by the former German software company DMC GmbH. Calamus is a software RIP application which generates high-quality output in any resolution.
Protracker allows the user to create sequences of notes called "patterns", which are chained together to form a complete song. Music created in Protracker uses the MOD file format. It was initially developed for the Amiga line of computers, but was later made available for other platforms such as the Atari ST. [2]
GFA is an acronym for "Gesellschaft für Automatisierung" ("Company for Automation"), which gave name to the software. The first GFA BASIC version was released in 1986. In the mid and late 1980s it became very popular for the Atari ST home computer range, since the Atari ST BASIC shipped with them was more primitive
Stevie was written by Tim Thompson for the Atari ST in 1987. It later became the basis for Vim, which was released in 1988. [3] [4]Thompson posted his original C source code as free software to the comp.sys.atari.st newsgroup on 28 June 1987.
Atari's own magazine, Atari Explorer, reviewed the 1.06 version in early 1987. They note that its wide distribution made the .DOC format a de facto standard, saying "you almost have to have 1st Word because it is the program you are most likely to have in common."