The Amiga market has itself in a stranglehold. No-one else is kiüing our machine but the users, companies, and publishers that are supposed to be supporting it. We a!) think the software bundle that accompanies every Amiga these days is the best yet, a smashing set of products, but the oniy problem with giving away ait this nice software is that it reduces the chances that anyone wiü bother to buy anything else. if you supply a machine with everything its owner is iikeiy to need, where's their incentive to go and spend some more money? Sony themselves said that they purposely didn't bundle any software with their PiayStation console for the spécifie reason of getting people to fork out more cash for something to piay on it. And everyone knows that in the console game, software is where the money is made. Perhaps future bundles should concentrate more on shareware products or ones that definitely don't fuifiü the potentia! of the machine. This might also cost a lot less for AT than market leaders would, thus saving some cash for R&D or perhaps adding in a targer hard drive. Magazine publishers are as much at fault with a seemingly endless stream of fui! product coverdisks that wiü soon dry up as publishers realise they wiü get no further revenue from sales to end users. This approach also alienates the end users who have paid good money for a product, oniy to find it for free on the front of a magazine six months down the ime. Now! don't subscribe to the theory that these people have been ripped off the ve had six months of usage out of that program, they have proper documentation and (possibly) support and a firm upgrade path but there are those that do. We at Am go Compuf ng have pretty much (oniy pretty much) given up on the idea of seüing our souls for a quick buck as we have realised that the demise of the Amiga market can oniy be accelerated by such behaviour, and we are concentrating on offering our readers the best demos of new products or registered shareware which actuaüy helps the Amiga community