communicotions program being aimed ot high-end hobbyisfs ond fhe professionai bulletin boord market fhof hos usf been reieased for fhe AMIGA. The program is made up of a group of interreiofed modules ond commands rofher thon o single large application fo enabfe if fo have a iow memory overheod and fuii muffi-user, muifi-fosbng of ail functions and opérations. DEG Professionaf's features inciude maih-iine oopobitify, conferencing, compot'bifify with fidoNpf eiecfronic mai! and echomaii conferencing profocols and EiseMef, a nef-work used by reseorchers, software firms, universifies and govemments. The softwore is based on AmigaDOS, which enables standard CEl-bosed programs to be incorporofed into o DEC bulletin board sef-up. Standard fonctions of messaging and fiie transfer are inciuded SUCh OS message broodeasfing, fagging, bundiing and downfoading, off-fine reading ond sysop-eonfigorobie fiie-transferprotocols. A Eondon-based sysop, Tony Miller, who hos been fesfing fhe program toid Amiga Computing. "With fhe introduction of DE G Pro os fhe hosf software, fhe user base of my BBS hos neariy guadrupied in fhe year i hove been running if and i hove needed fo add over 600 megs of hard disk fo keep up with user demands. " Avaiiabie for CDM i 99 from Teiepro Technologies (Of 0 ? 306 665 3811). COMMODORE used the recent trade oniy Computer Entertainment Show to demonstrate severai new CDTV soft ware products but were quiet on any thing new for the Amiga. Faicon is a compact dise version of the Amiga shoot-'em-up fiight simuia tor which has you compieting severai missions at the controis of an F-16 fighter. The most noticeabie différence is the sound, with inciudes an impres* sive fiight briefing with reaiistic speech. Triviai Pursuit cornes from Domark and the main advantages of the CDTV technoiogy are seen in the questions, with each having a digitised picture retevant to the subject and sound. The Guinness CD hoid aii records found in the book but by making the most of the increased storage capacity manages to add iiiustrationS and Sound to the software The company were expected to unvei) their new CD-rom drive which wiii enabie A500; to use the CDTV's compact dises but because EMAP chose to make the show trade oniy, had to rethink their strategy for the différent audience. Experts beiieve that the A690 wiii now be shown for the first time at the Worid of Commodore Show to be heid in London on the 15-17 November 1991. Commodore's Andrew Baii daims that between 35 and 65 per cent of the existing A500 user base wants the drive for "wiid and waeky sit in the same famiiiar driver*s seat - you even get better miieage from your oid engine because the new engine has taken over much of the work." "By removing the Amiga's speed bottienecks the 40 4 Magnum makes the Amiga and its software base a viabie aiternative for video, graphies and animation professionais."