PRESS RELEASE Alive Mediasoft 15th June 2000 As from today, the following changes are effective: 1. Alive mediasoft is closing it's Amiga retail company with no future plans to sell software or hardware in the Amiga market. 2. Alive mediasoft will no longer publish games for the Amiga market either. Current copyright ownerships are being discussed with individual developers to arrange possible transfer of publishing rights so that the games can continue to made available to the Amiga public via a third party if the developer so wishes. News about individual titles will be announced as we have it. 3. Ongoing development of games like Elite 3 and Phantasmagoria are again being worked out with the authors/owners so hopefully we can arrange continuation of these exciting projects so they do not get dropped out of sight. We have had a phenomenal response about our ventures and give our word to everyone who was anxiously waiting for the release of these games that we are doing everything in our power to ensure that we find someone to continue our work. 4. As issue 13 of The Pulse has only been out a few weeks, orders are still pouring in and we'd like to assure everybody that we're not going anywhere immediately as there's a lot of work to be done in fulfilling current orders and pre-orders for our customers, and see that everyone including customers and developers working for us on royalty basis are sorted out prior to the final closure of the retail company. Anyone with outstanding orders will receive their goods during the next few weeks. Any items out of stock or that were pre-orders for games due out shortly will be contacted individually. As there is obviously much work to be done our phone lines are often busy or on answer machine. We can still be contacted as normal via post or email. But the news is not all bad.... With the assistance from a third party, Alive's flagship publication THE PULSE is to be become it's own entity and be published as a fully commercial magazine. We have so many great things lined up for the future issues including the games we have exclusives on and the other Amiga companies involved in backing The Pulse that I would love to ramble on about, but I should tell you in detail in another mail. A further press release will be issued separately by The Pulse very shortly providing full details of the exciting plans lined up for the launch of issue 14. We would like to thank everyone who bought games from the Alive retail company for their support and dedication over the years, and say to you not to worry as you're not going to lose out on your games chioce as we've secured some great deals within the trade to ensure that you don't lose the variety we offered. Watch this space for details.... THANKYOU Steven Flowers Alive mediasoft. TEL: +44 (0)1623 467 579 Email: steve@alive-mediasoft.co.uk http://www.alive-mediasoft.co.uk -----------------------------------------