SHOCK NEWS! THE AMIGA 500P IS DEAD With the adveat el the new AtOO model. Commodore's short-lived A500Plut Is to be discontinued Pont worry though, lor those who would rather buy the old model, stocks arc expected to last until late this year. II was only launched about six months ago. but now the A500 Plus proves itself to be very much an inienm machine, wiih Commodore planning to phase it out In time tor Christmas in favour of the new A600 models The A500 Plus is still on sate of course - and will be for some time - but sourses close to the company tell us lhat manufacture has already ceased, presumably treeing production lines to work exclusively the new basic machine. The Commodore AMIGA ol the future, then, t$ without doubt the A600 This currently comes m two models, (he baste one meg one at £399 and the version with a 20 Mb hard drive fitted inlemafly tor £100 more at £499 However, you should by no means dismiss the idea of buying an A5O0 even now - there re likely to be some great discount opportunities to be had in the months ahead.