THE MS DOS market in the US has grown to such gargantuan pro portions that many entertainment software companies are strongly considering dropping ai! Amiga and Mac deveiopment and concentrating on software for PC ciones. Because people are snapping up so many cheap PCs, the US software companies are deciding that there's so much money to be made in the PC market, it's not worth creating products for the Amiga. The few entertainment comps hies that are stiü supporting the computer are developing more and more of their products in Europe. Most Amigans are pretty pes simistic about the future of the US Amiga market right now the généra! feeling is that hot new machines with enhanced graphies and other PC beating features must be introduced before Christmas, or the Amiga market in the US wiü begin to disappear, as the Atari ST market did a couple of years ago. The good news, though, is that sources dose to Commodore say that the current ptan is to unvei! new Amiga models at the World of Amiga Show in Pasadena, California, which wit! be held Septemberll-13. The magazine ads for the show promise "hands-on new hard ware," so hopefuüy we'ü see the second génération of Amigas unveiled there. We don t count the A600, which isn't available here, and is generaüy perceived by US Amiga dealers as nothing but a stripped down, crip-pied A500. Watch this space in two months for a fut! report on what hopefuüy wiü be an exciting show. TTR Shut down, Sierra reconsider Amiga Hope for the World of Amigait hasn't been a month of good news for US Amiga companies. TTR Deveiopment, marketers of MRBackup Professions), Workbench Management System, RXToois, and the TTR Pioptica! Disk Drive, announced that they were dosing their doors in jury. They cited the US économie recession, a slumping domestic Amiga market, and interns) personne! problems as contributing to the shutdown. Meanwhile, a Sierra support représentative on the Genie oniine network reports that Sierra are currentiy re-eva)uating their future Amiga product pians. The current Sierra interpréter, used for almost ai! their programs, is pokey and jittery on 68000-based Amigas, and the company is considering whether it wiü be financiaüy viable to revamp the interpréter to run better on stock Amigas. However, Sierra's recent financia! statements haven't been promising, and sources dose to the company fear that future Amiga product ime may be eliminated as part of company-wide cutbacks the compar s Amiga sales may not be high enough to justify completely revamping the program interpréter. Amiga Computing Sepfember 1992