There are a few gaps in the Amiga's software library at the moment. Even though our favourite computer is touted as the ultimate multimedia machine there's little software or hardware available to fill that niche. Another area where things haven't been looking too good is educational software. Fortunately, Mystique Software are in the unprecedented position of being sponsored by Amiga Inc and having a directory on Aminet dedicated to their software. You can find some of it on our CD this month in the -Seriously_Amiga-/Commercial drawer. While it's nothing new (the Fairbrothers Japanese Audio Gallery is probably ten years old!), it's only a start, and Mystique promises to offer custom-made, eductaional software for a more modern market that counts on whizzy noises and nice graphics.

The interesting things is that if Conor Kerr's company can make a living from creating educational software for the Amiga masses, there's no reason why other niches that the Amiga seems to have abandoned such as music can't be revived. We've heard from Ray Burt Frost, the distributor in this country of Octamed that there is a new version in the works. Newtek seem to be humming and hahing about doing a new version of Lightwave for the Amiga, but there are other signs of life in previously dormant companies that we know about. Notwithstanding the general gloom that seems to be pervaying the Amiga market at this moment in time, there is good news on the horizon. I promise.