Among those who left the company were Lauren Brown, who has long been one of Commodore Applications and Technical Support's (CATS) Amiga evangeüsts; Mike Sinz, the man responsible for récent upelâtes of Workbench and for Enforcer; and Brian Jackson, who had been working on networking software for the Amiga. Sinz has moved on to do development for SCALA Inc. Although many other programmer and engineers were given their walking papers, Commodore development hasn't shut down completely many other talented people are stil! left, including Dave Havnie, Martin Taileffer, Spencer Shansson, and Peter Thema. Still, when a company is having financia! troubles, cutting the people who help make your products some of the best on the market doesn't seem like the logical solution. Meanwhile, Commodore's stock value has plunged after their recent huge loss. The Denny Atkin reports from the States on Commodore's latest difficulties company is banking on a big turnaround after they announce the CDGS System (also called Amiga CD32). This could indeed happen Atari's stock value has risen greatly here in the States after they announced a $ 500 million deal with IBM to manufacture the 64-bit Jaguar games console. But the Jaguar is a cartridge System, and industry pundits are placing the future on CD-ROM, something CDGS has and Jaguar doesn't. Another dimensïtm Do you spend most of your time with your favourite 3D program not rendering. but trying to create basic objects? Why do al! that work when there are many great freety-distributable objects out there already? The Syndesis 3D-ROM ts a CD-ROM that contains more than 500 freely distubutabte 3D models stored in a number of différent formats for Amigas and other computers. Created using Syndesis' InterChange Plus program. the 3D-R0M contains versions of each object in NewTek LightWave 3D. Impulse Imagine. Wavefront. 3D Studio, and Autocad formats. If you own InterChange Plus, you can also port the objects over to Sculp! 3D. VideoScape. CAD-3D. PAGErender. and VistaPro DEM formats. These aren't cheesy, boxy objects either. Many are from well-known commercial modelling companies such as Viewpoint, VRS Media. Mira Imagtng. and Noumenon Labs. Also included on the disk are more than 400 tileabte. wrappabte texture maps and a tully-indexed. cross-referenced object catalogue. Because the disk is 1S09660 format, it can be read by an Amiga with a SCS) CD-ROM drive or A570. a CDTV unit, or a Mac or PC.