FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Eyetech Group Ltd will be exhibiting at AmiWest 2000! On June 6, Amiga Inc. and Eyetech Group Ltd entered into a strategic relationship for Eyetech to manufacture the first release of the Next Generation Amiga Development Machine. Eyetech will be coming to Sacramento, California for AmiWest 2000 and will be showing off the Next Generation Amiga Development Machine coupled with a Classic A1200 at the show. Eyetech is the leading UK developers and Worldwide mail order retailers of Amiga technology products for the home and for industry. They are the manufacturers and distributors of the EZDev-Plus and EZDev-Tower Dev Boxes in the UK and Ireland under a partnership agreement with Amiga Inc. and parent company of the Eye-Play (www.eye-play.com) games publishing and distribution for the Classic and Amiga OE platforms Products at the show will include: EZRack 2U x 380mm 19" rack system containing a full EZDev and Classic A1200 platform networked in the same case; EZBoot silicon floppy disk allowing direct booting from CDROM on all WB3+ Amigas; the AMON low distortion automatic monitor switcher for the Cybervision64-3D and scandoubled AGA outputs; the EZLink AREXX-controlled infrared controller 'learning' receiver/transmitter for all WB2+ Amigas; the EZ-Net 5-click Linux-Amiga, Win-Amiga & Amiga-Amiga networking software and installer; the EZ-VGA range of scan doublers and flickerfixers and much more. A rolling presentation under SCALA MM400 will show some of the products that we physically couldn't bring with us, but regularly send to the US by mail order. These include: the full range of EZDev configuration options, the EZTower-Z4 A1200 tower system with Z4 expansion board (3 x Z2, 2 x hi-speed Z2, 2 x 19MB/s Z4, 4 x clock port slots) and many more products. Special dealer and User Group pricing will be available at the show. Eyetech can be reached on the web at http://welcome.to/amiga.world Remember, AmiWest 2000 is being held on Friday through Sunday, July 29-30, 2000 at the Holiday Inn, Sacramento NorthEast, in Sacramento, CA. Classes and seminars will be held throughout the day on both Saturday and Sunday with the exhibit hall being open on Saturday, July 29th from 10 A.M. - 5 P.M and Sunday, July 30th 10 A.M. - 4 P.M. Specially priced tickets for AmiWest 2000 are available in advance by mail. Prices are: two day admission tickets, $12 and one day admission ticket, $8. If you elect to purchase tickets at the door, the prices are: two day ticket at the door, $15 and One day ticket at the door, $10. If you are ordering a one day ticket by mail, please specify which day (Saturday or Sunday) you are attending. There will be a buffet banquet on Saturday evening, July 29th, with Bill McEwen, President of Amiga Inc., as the guest speaker discussing the progress made to date on the new Amigas. Price is $35 per plate. Banquet tickets must be purchased in advance. They will NOT be sold on Friday nor Saturday due to the hotel needing attendance figures for planning the banquet. You can mail your requests for advanced admission and banquet tickets to: AmiWest 2000 c/o John Zacharias 10004 Vanguard Drive Sacramento, CA 95827 Make checks payable to "AmiWest". A form for ordering tickets can be found on the AmiWest web page at http://www.sacc.org/amiwest/ where you can learn more about AmiWest 2000. Petro Tyschtschenko, Managing Director, Amiga Deutschland Inc., will be joining Mr McEwen in attendance at AmiWest 2000. Special hotel room rates are available at the Holiday Inn for those attending AmiWest 2000. Room rates are $ 79 (Single) and $ 89 (double) if reservations are made by July 7. You must mention that you are attending AmiWest to get the special rate. You can phone the Holiday Inn at 1-916-338-5800 or 1-800-388-9284 (Tool Free - Hotel directly) to make hotel reservations. You will also be able to purchase the recently announced Software Development Kit (SDK) for the new Amigas at AmiWest 2000. The SDK is being sold by several of the exhibitors at the show. This weekend event will again showcase the progress that IS the Amiga Community. Hope to see you at AmiWest 2000 on July 29-30, 2000. John Zacharias, chairperson AmiWest 2000 jzachar@calweb.com http://www.sacc.org/amiwest/