When the Amiga first came out, the now- famous bouncing ball was a graphic image that no one had ever seen done on a microcomputer. Everybody was impressed By Guy Wright the first time they saw it. Since then, other computer manufacturers have been showing bouncing red-checked balls on their machines, “proving” that their computers arc as powerful as the Amiga (although I defy any of them to display a bouncing ball on the screen, slide the screen down, open a few windows and run another program or three, all while the ball keeps bouncing along echoing its sampled sounds in stereo), I have seen bouncing balls on Radio Shack Color Computers, C-64s, Apples, and even Ataris (can you imagine that?). Let’s just see how long it takes them all to get 3-D, hold-and-modify Figures and revolving mirrored spheres running on their machines. By the time the other computers catch up, the Amiga is two steps ahead. And when you see some of the stuff that Aegis has done with their soon-to-be-released animation package, Videoscape 3D. You will be blown away. Check What's New? For more on that. In this issue we are stepping up the pace a bit. We have expanded the Reviews section for two reasons. First, it is one of the most popular columns in the magazine and second, because the software has been piling up around here faster than we can play...er, uh. . .review it all. So we decided to clear the shelves and pack as many reviews of software, old and new, into a giant section that 1 know you will find useful. Unfortunately, there were two problems with this idea. It turned out that even with an expanded section we couldn’t get everything in, so I guess we will just have to keep doing more pages of reviews until we have caught up. The other problem was that since everyone on the staff was assigned a bunch of games., . Er, uh. . .software packages to review, things got a little weird around the office for a while. (I can hear you all muttering with more than a hint of sarcasm in vour voices “Weird? The A in iga World offices weird? How could that be? Aren’t they all 50 years old? Don’t they wear ties and brown shoes and look like Perry White, Editor of the Daily Planet?") So, a lot of aliens, dragons and heroes lost their lives (and Linda Barrett, our Review Editor, nearly lost her mind) bringing you this section. Hope you like it. Another thing that we are starting up in this issue is a special column dedicated to the Amiga Community (that’s you) written by Peggy Herrington, our special Amiga lifestyles reporter in Albuquerque.