A ROMANIAN engineer just set up an enthusiasts club with the aim of helping the few Amiga users in his country to get the most from their hobby. The man behind Amiga-Ctub. Bitca Bogdan. says Romania s tow saiaries he earns just E40 a month make computing expensive, with many products keeping their Western prices. But Bitca says his Bucharest-based ciub. running A500 and A1000s. has found Amiga Compufing's editoria! pages a heipfu! source of information and its CoverOisks invaluable. And now he is looking to the West for heip. especiaüy in building a cottection of public domain software which can bedistributedfreeiy among his sma!) club. Unfortunately in our country there isn t a shop with magazines, software and hardware for the Amiga. he said. "Amiga-Ctub Romania is a nonprofit organisation whose purpose is to popularise Amiga computers in Romania. Our need is disks either pubüc domain or those from the covers of magaiines. They wit! heip us be suc-cessfut in our activity." t! you would tike to join Amiga-Ctub. the address to write to ts: Bitca Bogdan. Street Cometia. Mo 8, Appt. 1, Sect. 4. Bucharest. Romania. HN E WS News Briefs ing a computer game, for which Chrysta! Haze Graphics designed a suitable animation. "Our primé Objective was tù emuiate a game, so there was no caü for advanced 3D mod-eüing techniques because this would stray from a child's perception of a computer game," said Simon. "The key to the success of the design was that it had to be convincing to the viewer and yet stm appeal to chiidren. The designers were already familiar with the Amiga. For over a year they have been trying to provide a iOW-COSt computer graphies service. 'We chose the Amiga computer because it was a stable basis for producing a high standard of graphic images while maintaining a reiativeiy iow ievei of financial support.