OctaMED Professional Version Five.
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	Anyone who read CU Amiga's piece on OctaMED Pro V5 will be 
	very disappointed to find out that it shouldn't really have 
	been published.

	 OCTAMED PRO V5 WILL NOT BE RELEASED UNTIL WAY INTO THE 
     LATTER STAGES OF 1993. A FIXED RELEASE DATE HAS NOT YET BEEN SET.

	The code for V5 has been completely rewritten and many 1.3 
	Amiga owners will be very disappointed to find out that it 
	will only work on operating systems of 2 and above (i.e. 
	A5OO+, A6OO, A12OO, A4OOO/3O, A4OOO etc.)

	Ray Burt-Frost has assured me that as soon as a definate 
	price and release date has been fixed for OctaMED Pro V5, 
	he'll pass on full details to the club. Anything you hear 
	before this COULD be absolute rubbish.

	The version which CU Amiga got their hands on was the Alpha 
	version of OctaMED Pro 5. This is a sort of " Preview " to 
	show interested parties the ideas for the new version and 
	give them a general idea what it is going to look like. 
	It's distribution is strictly monitered and each copy has 
	the owner's name written into the programmes code, so if 
	copies are spread about, the guilty parties can be 
	reprimanded!!!!

	In the meantime, here are my PERSONAL opinions on the alpha 
	version. PLEASE bear in mind that these are only my opinions 
	and as these are such early days, anything could change 
	between now and the release date.

	The main screen of OctaMED has been compleatly redesigned. 
	Options like Play Song and Stop are on screen at all times 
	and the inclusion of project menus (such as those on Deluxe 
	Paint and Workbench) leave more room on screen for other 
	options.

	When you call up things like the sample editor, they appear 
	as windows over the main screen and can be moved about 
	accordingly with the main screen always visible (and usable) 
	behind them at all times.

	At the moment, the programme takes the colours of your 
	workbench so if this option stays, it will stop people with 
	the annoying habit of changing the screen colours to 
	horrible greens and purples when they save their mods!!!

	Obviously (as the programme takes up less than 10% of a 
	disk) most features don't actually work yet but all the old 
	features seem to be there. The main problem will be actually 
	finding them. To allow for the addition of new features, 
	nearly everything has been moved about and I suspect it will 
	take a while for most users to get used to the new system. 
	Apart from that, everything looks extremely promising and as 
	soon as new information becomes available, it's certain 
	you'll find it first through TI!