The folloeing was excerpted from a statement delivered by Peter
Tyschtschenko at the Amiga International press conference in London,
May 16, 1997.

6 responses total.

  Now that AMIGA is owned by a successful company - Gateway 2000 - there
is a bright future.

  -Gateway 2000 is a solid and well established company in the
   computer industry

  -Gateway 2000 has consistently been honored with awards for products
   and service

  -Gateway 2000 is the right partnership to give AMIGA new life and
   energy for the future.

  AMIGA International was formed as a U.S. based company in March 1997
to acquire the asstes of AMIGA Technologies GmbH.  AMIGA International
will operate as a wholly owned subsidiary of Gateway 2000.

  Over the past month, we have been busy finalizing the acquisition,
performing due diligence, setting up operations in Germany and
communicating with the AMIGA community.  We have new offices in Langen,
next to Frankfurt airport and I am happy to report that we are
operational again.  What are we going to concentrate on?

  Implementing our strategy.

  1.  Supporting the exisitng AMIGA community

  2.  Leveraging the existing AMIGA technology through broad licensing

  3.  Assisting in developing new products based on open standards to the
home computer and video/graphics market.

  How will we support the community that has kept AMIGA alive?

  Through conventions, press conferences, via the Internet, meetings and
useful initiatives coming from the Amiga community...

  Continuing to sell to the distribution network that has supported
the AMIGA.

  Working with developers through concepts such as the "Open AMIGA
Initiative" that is being formed with the support of many of the prominent
names in the AMIGA community...

  For us to keep the market alive it is necessary to assist many companies
in developing products through broad licensing.

  Our licensing policy will be very open, broad and focus licensing and
standard O/S, chipsets and the trademarks.

  Also, licensing will allow the AMIGA to be spread to many different
embedded applications in fields such as medical solutions, simulator
applications, fitness equipment, irrigation systems and kiosk terminals...

  Through licensing and focused R&D managed by AMIGA International, we
plan to assist the market in developing new products for the AMIGA.

  We are currently exploring many of the possible new products that have
been suggested including such things as operating systems upgrade and
new hardware platforms.

  It is also important that we explore an open AMIGA platform, use
industry standard components to make it cheaper to produce, faster to
develop and easier to upgrade.  These things need to happen quickly but
in a very managed fashion.

  With this strategy and the support of the AMIGA community and
Gateway 2000, we are convinced there is a bright future for the AMIGA...

  For much more information concerning the Gateway 2000 acquisition of
the Amiga, check out the following web sites:

    www.gateway2000.com  (the Gateway web site, of course)

    www.amiga.de  (the Amiga International web site)

Hello Larr, I hear about plan for AMIGA DOS 4.0 in Nov'97

All I wanna know is when the new Amigas will be available.  I want one!!!

ditto above :) I want a RISC Amiga :) Amiga has to be the most fun computer
to just play around with writing graphics hacks, or whatever else (at least,
the most fun computer that us mere humans can actually afford)...
Plus: The Toaster. What more can I say? =]

There is some comapny ( I'm afraid I don't rememebr which one ) which has come
out with an Amiga emulator for the PC. According to a friend, who's a heavy
duty amiga fan, it looks very promising so far in terms of speed and software
compatability.

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