Comic-book hero Buck Rogers returns in another epic adventure from SSI very soon. Matrix Cubed is the sci-fi role-playing follow-up to the original Buck game Countdown to Doomsday, and is expected from I S Gold for I Mb Amiga owners next month 3 millionth Amiga is sold There are now more than three million people using Amigas worldwide, with the UK user base fast approaching the one million mark. The three millionth machine was sold during November 1991. But it s the continuing acceleration in Amiga sales which is causing a real celebration in the Amiga community. From its release in September 1985. The Amiga took threc-and-a-half years to reach the magic one million. Just a year-and-a-half later that figure was doubled. And the last million have sold in only a year. Britain is beginning to establish its place as the largest Amiga-owning nation in the world, with the number of Amigas in the UK rising rapidly from around half-a-million before Christmas last year, and Commodore UK confidently predicting that there will be over a million Amiga owners in the UK inside the next month or two. In America the Amiga is seen primarily as a creative tool for video, multimedia and graphics work and in Germany, which has around 700.000 Amiga owners, it's also taken very seriously. The vibrancy of Ihe UK Amiga market is probably accounted for by the fact that it's seen primarily as a games machine over here.with Amiga 500s making up a much higher proportion of the machines sold. Pre-Christmas computer buying guides in Which? Magazine and The Guardian both stereotyped the Amiga as a game-playing machine. This is typical of a view which potentially holds dangers for the Amiga: it’s a commonly-held opinion in the UK software industry that the Amiga is very vulnerable to competition from the games consoles. Here at Amiga Formal, we believe that the continued success of this magazine - which is still the best-selling Amiga magazine in the world, and more than twice as popular as any of the games-only Amiga magazines - show s just how w rang this stereotyping of the Amiga as a games machine is.