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Hi Mal, If you're worried about a Japanese company taking over the Amiga well, maybe I can ease your worries a little bit. No, I don't have any answers, just more rumours. However, considering your UK connections (I live in the UK) you might be interested to know that the big rumours here surround (as you say) Philips: a CBM exec was supposed to have been at Philips to 2 weeks before the Big Bang. Then there's an Asian (notice I said ASIAN) rumour. Not so much Nintendo as a Taiwanese company. That is, the real dark horses throughout this whole episode, Acer. They ARE, to my knowledge, the Taiwan games industry (they license software from the USA), big PC suppliers, of course, too. As a by-the -by, all of the software houses in the UK are very up-beat about the Amiga's future. Lotsa confidence over here, folks. It looks like Commodore Germany will be taking care of most of Europe's closed offices. We might see a power struggle between the UK and Germany or some duel agreement. The jury's still out on that one. Finally, I myself have lots of confidence in the Amiga. So much so that I am editing two new Amiga mags. First issue out this week! (timing, eh?) A serious mag, called Amiga Pro, plus a CD32/A1200 games mag called, simply, 32. This duo has a print run of 100,000. I, my writers, my publisher, the companies who supply stories and advertising, have nothing but optimism on the Amiga score. Paul