Buying advice

Be careful when ordering goods from back issues of Amiga Format. Be especially suspicious if the advertiser doesn't offer any credit card facilities.

Hobbyte Computers have ceased trading. Computer Express Services have taken over the Hobbyte premises. This company is not Hobbyte. 




New Generation Consoles to 
cost more.

Due to the instability of the Yen, new generation consoles, such as the Sony Play Station and Sega Saturn will, inevitably, cost punters more.


	Grey imports (imported machines without an official distributor) of both machines can cost anything up to £800. Both machines were initially supposed to retail at around £300.			




Octamed Upgrade

Computer Software Publishers have announced the release of V6.0 of OctaMED. Registered UK owners of V5.0 can upgrade at a price of £25 or £20 without the manual. EC users
 
will pay a smidgeon more at £28 or £23 without the manual. Rest of the world users will have to pay £30 or £25 without the manual.
	

Amiga Format Coverdisk owners can upgrade as follows. UK - £28, EC £31, rest of world, £33. For more details, contact Computer Software Publishers on 01703 511325.


Off Planet 
Take Dr T's
 
Nottingham-based, Off Planet Media, have taken over distribution of the 
Dr T's Music Software product line. Existing Dr T users can contact them for Technical Support and upgrades.
	

They also announced that they have a new music package called M that generates musical phrases based upon numeric or midi information. This product will cost £49.95. For more information, contact Off Planet Media on 0115 955 2200.




3M Disks Getting Tougher

3M have announced the release of a 
3.5-inch 2Mb "Go anywhere" diskette. The disks are hailed as reducing static build up by 40 per cent over conventional disks, and are claimed to be 95 per cent more resistant to fungus and mould, and they use a lower torque design which, 3M claim, leads to greater disk drive efficiency. You can contact 3M on 0171 430 2276.




One to Remember

ProCD of Danvers Massachusetts is challenging British Telecom's right to copyright its listings of British telephone numbers.

	BT's lawyers are relying on the 1988 Copyright, Designs And Patents Act to block ProCD from selling a scanned CD-ROM of the numbers. 

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