AN OPTiCAL drive giving 128 megabytes of storage capacity heads a iine-up of new Amiga products due from Power Computing (0234 843388) during the next few months. Deveioped for the A2000, it cornes as an internai or extemai drive and enabtes data to be stored on futiy rewriteabie 3.5in optica) cartridges. Manufactured by computer giânt )BM it has a seek rate of 60 miitiseconds. The internai version which fits into the 3.25 drive bay costs f999 and the exter nat mode! with tts own power suppiy is f 1199. Each cartridge costs C36. GVP SCS! interfaces can atso be bought for f 199. The second product from the Bedfordshire firm wüi be the first hand scanner to be priced at under Cl 00. With an auto-setting resoiution of up to 400 dots per inch, Power Scanner wii) support true greyscate and wiii be buitt to enabie a printer to abo be connected to the Amiga. With software, it wiii cost C99 and goes on saie shortiy. Deveiopers have just started work on a "reaiiy cheap" eight megabyte extemai RAM board with a thru port. The Power RAM Board shoutd be on saie at the beginning of November and whiie its price stü) need: to be fixed, indications are that it wiü set) for C249. A two megabyte version is expected to cost C99. By january the compan s 1.44 megabyte fioppy disk drive shùutd be ready for iaunch. The extemai device wii) be switchabie between 880K and 1 44 megabytes and its price stit! needs to be finatised. And with the retease of AmigaDOS 2, Power pian to deveiop a piece of equip ment to enabie Amiga users to swap between its operating Systems. Owners of Amigas fitted with Kickstart 1.2 and 1.3 wiii be abie to switch to v2 and tatks are stii! being heid on whether Workbench 2 wiii be inciuded on disk. The product remains untitied aithough it is pencitied in for an end of November reiease. "We are working hard at deveioping new Amiga products," said head of Power Computing Tony ianiri, "and we've got many more ideas for next year." Muftfmedfa made easicr AMiGA muttimedia user: are to get the quaiity care they need to make muttimedia décisions, say Commodore, it's ai) due to a new deai making the UK's iargest independent computer suppiier the exciusive top-end Amiga distributor. As Commodore try to grab the growing muttimedia market the iink with P & P wiii be backed with an advertising campaign and a training pro gramme for guaiifying deaiers. "! am absoiutety deiighted at this major opportunity for our two compa nies to poo) our experience and work together to ensure that muitimedia becomes the reaiity it deserves to be," said P & P's générai manager Patricia Way. "The Commodore Amiga 3000 with AmigaVision and the CDTV are a cost-effective combination that can make major contributions to any com pany s effectiveness and productivity." Do you know something we don t? Aithough Amtpo Compufmg has scores of contacts in the Amiga worid we need you. if you have some hot news ring John Butters on the news-desk now on 0625 878888. A!! information suppiied wi!) be treated in the strictest of confidence.