A20OO and A3000 are registered Trademarks of Commodorc-Amiga, Inc UNIX is a registered trademark ol AT&T. Inc GREAT VALLEY PRODUCTS INC. New Address: 600 Clark Ave„ King of Prussia, PA 19406 For more information, or for nearest dealer, call today. Dealer inquiries welcome. Tel. (215) 337-8770 • FAX (215) 337-9922 Chief Concerns Amiga is alive and well and flourishing in Britain, and so is CDTV. IN SEPTEMBER I went to jolly old England London, to be exact in search of CDTV applications in progress. I found a whole bunch, but more importantly, I found a country where the Amiga is respected and enjoyed. It's a strange situation, really. Over here the Amiga is often shunned as a "game” machine. People are ashamed ol its great games. Every month we get letters from readers pleading with us to dump game coverage. I hey say it doesn’t belong in a "professional” magazine. Fact is, we get just as many letters begging for more games, and for quicker turnaround on the reviews we do. If people like games, we'll cover them. And if games help sell the Amiga, I’m all for it. While we’re relatively open-minded, Commodore continues to stress the machine’s professional uses, over its pure entertainment value. It's not a bad strategy, but it hasn’t totally worked. Maybe the new U.S. mass-market push will open some eyes to the machine’s purely fun side and give the pro side a boost in the process. Across the Atlantic, the machine is actually revered as a "game” machine. Many users buy Amiga 500s to play The Killing Game Show, and then graduate to video and animation applications. This strategy works. By year’s end, there are expected to be half a million Amigas in the U.K. Ride the "tube,” the London subway svstem. You'll see people reading Amiga magazines. Eavesdrop on your fellow diners in a fancy restaurant. You’ll catch some of them talking about their Amigas. Or drop by a local computer store. Amiga s are in the window. In the U.K., people take their games very seriously. Nintendo is not the force it is in the U.S., because the English don't lake kindly to wimpy, proprietary game machines. They have taste. They have Amigas. Developers in the U.K. are no slouches, either, working to push the game envelope wherever possible. It is therefore no sur prise that the U.K. houses some of the most committed, energetic, and slightly crazed CDTV developers in the wor ld. All of them may not he games, but the applications I saw were a real blast. The U.K. believes in CDTV. Users are ready. Vendors are ready. The only thing that isn’t quite ready is the software. And. As of press time, the box. Ii didn't take long to find this stuif. As soon as the plane slapped the tarmac (at six in the morning) I was off. Blearily visiting CDTV software authors. These cats are cranking, and expect to make big pounds in the Amiga and CDTV markets.