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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Petro Tyschtschenko Spoke To Saku 99 Audience Via Telephone

ESPOO, FINLAND - September 5, 1999 - The biggest Amiga event in Finland,
Saku 99, was held yesterday and turned out to be success, even though Petro
Tyschtschenko of Amiga had cancelled his visit a couple of days earlier.
The show was visited by approximately 400-600 people during the day.

Although Mr. Tyschtschenko couldn't attend in person, he spoke briefly at
the show via telephone. He apologized for not coming and asked the audience
not to panic. Mr. Tyschtschenko also said that he is not going to be fired
and that he will meet with the new President shortly. AmigaOS 3.5 will be
released by the end of September and the MCC is still on track, although it
could be delayed a bit. He also mentioned the up-coming Cologne show and
hoped too see some of the audience there. The speech will soon be available
in MP3 format.

Saku 99 was organized and sponsored by the Finnish Amiga Users Group. The
show was also generously supported by Amiga, who donated two Amiga A1200's
for a raffle and gave away literally dozens of AmiColas, Amiga Theme CDs,
card games, mouses, mouse pads, socks, pens and other promotional items.
Haage & Partner, in co-operation with Amiga, provided an AmigaOS 3.5 pre
release for demonstration.

Warm thanks also to the Finnish exhibitors Amigator, Gentle Eye Ky, Elysée
Arena and Petsoff LP for making Saku 99 a truly memorable event. In
addition to the companies mentioned above, special thanks to Broadline Oy,
ClickBOOM, Digital Dreams Entertainment, Toysoft and Tsunami Trading for
supporting the user group with prize donations and product samples, some of
which were given away at the Saku 99.

Above all, the Finnish Amiga Users Group would like to thank the hard
working Amiga users who have volunteered their time, passion, talent and
even financial support for making this spectacular event happen. A list of
these individuals will be published in the next Saku e-zine. There could
never have been an event like Saku 99 without the tremendeous support of
the Finnish Amiga community.

Please visit http://batman.jytol.fi/~saku/english/ or our mirror site
http://tzimmola.tky.hut.fi/saku/english/, for further information. E-mail
inquiries may be sent to Janne Sirén (siren@mikrobitti.fi).

About Finnish Amiga Users Group

Finnish Amiga Users Group (Suomen Amiga-käyttäjät ry.) is a non-profit
organization for promoting Amiga computing and helping Amiga users in
Finland. Also known as Saku, after it's disk magazine, the group is trying
to accomplish it's goals by organizing meetings and by publishing a disk
magazine. Since 1993 the Finnish Amiga Users Group and it's predecessors
have released over thirty issues of the disk magazine and held several
public gatherings. Other accomplishments include the Web site and Sakunet,
a national Fidonet style network of Amiga related bulletin board systems.