PRESS INFORMATION FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

April 1st 1996

AMIGA Technologies GmbH

New AMIGA Prototype Information with important changes

In an attempt to satisfy a larger portion of the existing Amiga market,
and in preperation for the PowerAmiga's, AMIGA Technologies are proud
to announce a new AMIGA.

A prototype of the new AMIGA will be shown for the first time worldwide at
a trade fair to be hold in late April this year. AMIGA Technologies GmBH
will hereby expand the AMIGA product line for the advanced home user and
the semi-professional market even more than it did until this day. What
will differ this from the AMIGA Technologies Walker project is that its
graphics abilities will be a vast improvement over existing Amiga graphics
architecture. This product will have modularity, a professional design,
and expansion capability to satisfy even the most demanding AMIGA user.

This new AMIGA will have many similaritys to the Walker project machine.
The motherboard features two SIMM sockets, on which the memory can be
increased up to 128 MB. This AMIGA comes standard with a quad-speed
CD-ROM drive. But unlike the walker the main processor used will be the
68060/50Mhz. It will come with 4 of the new 64bit ZorroIV slots, and 8
ZorroIII slots, of which 3 of those slots can also be used as video slots.
Like all of the AMIGA's current range a PowerPC upgrade will be easily
installable when it becomes available.

The ZorroIV slot will allow for the use of real-time video to be sent
to and from any ZorroIV device instantly. Providing this AMIGA as an
ideal MPEG Video Player. It will also be able to handle the usual
variety of multi-serial cards, sound cards, etc. This design concept will
be the base of the coming AMIGA Generation.

Like all Next Generation AMIGA's including Project Walker, the new AMIGA
will be shipped with a new version of AMIGA-OS. But unlike the Project
Walker's AMIGA-OS 3.2, it will have AMIGA-OS 3.5. New features and many
enhancements will give the system more power and flexibility. This OS
will also support most of the new additional hardware the system is
getting added.

A new and welcome addition to the new AMIGA will be the scrapping of the
AGA Chipset and the replacement of it with the much-rumoured AAA chipset.
Amiga Technologies GmBH developers have been quietly working on this
chipset to complete it since it first aquired the rights to the AMIGA.
Features include 24bit Screens, Quad Density Disk Drives, Faster Blitter,
full RTG Support, to name a few of its features.

The PowerPC project is continuing to move forward. Thanks to the close
cooperation with Motorola and Phase 5, the porting of the AMIGA-OS 3.5 will
be achieved within the announced schedule. The first Power AMIGA will be
available early in 1997, as planned. Until then, it is also foreseeable
that Phase 5 will release the first PowerPC cards for existing AMIGAs.
The development of the OS is led by former top AMIGA engineers.



Info: Gilles Bourdin / Public Relations
AMIGA Technologies - Berliner Ring 89 - D-64625 Bensheim
Tel +49 6252 709 195 - Fax +49 6252 709 520
Email: gbo@amiga.de

Copyright 1996 by AMIGA Technologies GmbH