Amiga World gets down to business . . . Amongst other things. By Guy Wright BUSINKvSS IS THE theme, more or less. If’ you are looking for 100 tips on running your business with an Amiga, 42 ways to do double-entry bookkeeping on an Amiga and Hi sure-fire ways to improve productivity with your Amiga, then you are just not going to find all that in this issue. If you are curious about some of the ways that other people have integrated Ami gas into their businesses, then we have a few offerings. It is hard to pin clown anything beyond the obvious when it comes to Amigas and business. By that 1 mean when someone is using an Amiga to keep their books, or print their pavroll checks, or handle their word processing, then if is fairly clear what the connection is. However, it isn't great magazine material. (I can’t imagine thousands of people getting all worked up about an article outlining the pros and cons of loan amortization programs in real* estate offices,) The interesting material comes out when you ask someone if they use their Amiga at work and they answer “No, but. . .well, I put together a video for a presentation a white back" or “I digitized everyone’s faces for T-shirts" or "1 do color graphs for reports,” etc. Those are the kinds of stories about Amigas in business that are interesting to hear about, even if you just use your Amiga at home to play Earl Weaver Baseball. And speaking of baseball, the Red Sox finally won the 1986 World Series last week. As you will see in this issue, some of the staff spent more time cursing umpires, running out to the mound and changing lineups than they did slaving over their word processors (1 was on vacation for a few clays and they made the most of it while I was gone). “It was a scientific research thingie" claims our review edi* tor. “We had to, like, build the Amiga World Stadium, draft teams and really give the program a workout to sec if it met all the, uh. . .requirements." There is a lot of baseball in this issue. Status report. The AmigaWorld Public Domain Library is shaping up and should he ready for launch pretty soon. We could still use any and all contribu- tions. We are getting lots of hints and tips for the Hors d’oeuvres column. . .keep them coming. We could use a few more letters to the Repartee column, just to let us know how we arc doing. Is AmigaWorld getting better?