Amiga News & Rumours

~~5NEW AMIGA PACKAGE IS DYNAMITE

The latest bundle of software to  be  included with an Amiga contains two
of the best productive packages  around,  as  well  as  two brand new AGA
specific games.

The software included is:

 * Deluxe Paint 4  AGA,  yes  the  latest  and  best  version of the most
popular Amiga art package around.

 * Wordworth  AGA,  the  latest  and  best  Amiga  wordpublisher  around,
unparalled text handling and full graphic importing facilities.

 * Print Manager, excellent utility to enhance printouts from a printer.

Plus two new games, Oscar,  and  Dennis  the  Menace, both are coming out
first for the AGA machine and so should take full advantage of the A1200.

The package, called  Desktop  Dynamite  is  hoped  to  be Commodores best
selling Amiga package yet which  will  hopefully  put  them back onto the
road to success.

~~5FULL MOTION VIDEO CARD IS UNVEILED FOR CD32

The Full Motion Video (FMV) card will  connect onto the CD32, and will be
released this October. The price is  set  at  £229,  which is a very good
price for such new technology. Also if  you  purchase the FMV card at the
same time as the CD32 you will  save  £30. This now means that the FMV
card will beat Philips CDI related FMV  card into the shops and will also
beat it on price too.

~~6A5000 RUMOURS ARE WRONG

This is one rumour which seems  to  have  not been exactly true. Motorola
still have to actually develop the  68060   chip which was rumoured to be
the main processor in the A5000. But  the 'new generation' of Amiga's are
only about a couple  of  years  away  at  the most, and will include RISC
chips, so if a more  powerful  Amiga  comes  out before then it will most
likely have a RISC chip as the main processor.

~~4Computer Show Dates

Spotlight Amiga Show, Novotel, London
Date: Sunday 17th October, Tickets: £1.50 in advance.
Hotline: 081 885 5098

The second Future Entertainment Show, Grand Hall, Olympia, London
Dates: Thursday 11th to Sunday 14th November.
Times: Thursday 10 till 8, Friday 10 till 5, Saturday & Sunday 9 till 5
Tickets: £6.95, or £24.95 for a family group. Hotline: 051 356 5085

Christmas International Computer Show, Wembley, London
Dates: Friday 19th to Sunday 21st November.
Hotline: 081 549 3444

Computer Shopper Show, Olympia, London
Dates: Thursday 2nd to Sunday 5th December.
Hotline: 071 373 8141

David Cowell

~~3Atari News

~~5JAGUAR SUCESS?

     Some of the major UK software houses have decided to start  producing
software  for  the new Atari Jaguar console.  Hopefully this  should  also
spark  off  interest  in the Falcon machine as  well..  Only  Thalion  and
Silmarils have agreed to date to produce software for the Falcon..
     Certain bigwigs in the software industry have regarded the Jaguar  as
"Technically very exciting" and "Certainly more powerful than the Mega  CD
or Amiga CD consoles".
     All that is needed to bring the Jaguar in to the games market is some
sort  of  big  game  such  as Street  Fighter  2/Sonic or Mortal  Kombat.
Hopefully this shouldn't be too long.....

~~6ST ZOOL

     After  some speculation to whether this game was going to  appear  at
all  on the ST, ZOOL finally appears.  It was released by Gremlin late  in
August.  It is just as fast as the Amiga version,  with the little  sprite
screaming  across the screen.  There are 3 difficulty levels and  2  speed
options,  so  this  game  should be a corker!  I can't wait  to  play  it,
personally, as I enjoyed the Amiga version enormously!

     That'll  do for now,  as GHOSTBUSTERS is on the telly,  and  I  have
other articles to write!

Steve Hill