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AMIGA, Inc. (http://www.amiga.com) informiert:

»e.p.i.c. signs up to produce AmigaDE content

Snoqualmie, WA - August 6, 2001

e.p.i.c. interactive entertainment, a well-known name in the Amiga gaming community, today signed on to create additional games for the AmigaDE. These games will initially target PDA's and handheld devices such as the Sharp Zaurus.

e.p.i.c. has been active in the Amiga gaming market since 1996. Some of their titles include "sixth sense investigations" (1998) and "virtual gp" (1999). One of their biggest hits on the Amiga platform was "foundation directors cut" (1999). Apart from their own titles, e.pi.c. also creates ports of titles on other platforms such as the classic adventure game "simon the sorcerer II" and the realtime strategy hit "earth 2140".

The first three titles that e.p.i.c. will create for the AmigaDE are "Boxikon", "Piles O' Tiles", and "Pegger". All three are puzzle games with superb graphics and presentation layout. In its upcoming releases, e.p.i.c. will create other kinds of games such as card games, action shooters, puzzlers and sport games.

"The Amiga in its classic form was a dream come true for developers and users alike", said Thomas Steiding, General Manager and one of the founders of e.p.i.c. "Most of our employees started their careers with Amiga and remain diehard fans. We look forward to creating the same kind of excitement on the PDA platform."

"e.p.i.c. has been an excellent partner and has created some premier content for Amiga" said Bill McEwen, President and CEO of Amiga, Inc. "We look forward to their active participation as they translate their gaming expertise from the desktop to the handheld market."

The market for video games in the United States, which includes arcade, PC, console, and online gaming, is currently estimated to be worth $11 billion. The AmigaDE platform allows developers to create game applications that target this market. The binary portable nature of AmigaDE content allows applications to migrate seamlessly from cell phones and handheld devices to set-top boxes and up to desktop machines and servers.

About Amiga Inc.

Amiga Inc. provides technology to developers for writing and porting applications to a new multi-media operating systems which is hardware agnostic. AmigaDE is a joint development effort between the Tao Group of Reading England, and Amiga Incorporated. AmigaDE based applications can run unchanged on x86, PowerPC, M Core, ARM, StrongARM, MIPS R3000, R4000, R5000, SH3, SH4, and NEC V850 processors. AmigaDE can run hosted on Linux, Embedded Linux, Windows 95, 98, 2000, NT, CE and QNX4. Amiga is based in Snoqualmie, WA, 28 miles east of Seattle and has offices worldwide. Amiga can be reached at (425) 396-5660 or visit Amiga on the web at http://www.amiga.com.

About e.p.i.c. interactive entertainment, gmbh

e.p.i.c. interactive entertainment is porting games to the Amiga and other computer desktop platforms since 1996. e.p.i.c. interactive entertainment gmbh is based at Hirschauer Strasse 9 in beautiful Tuebingen, Germany. e.p.i.c.«s developing studios headed by Paul Burkey are located in Liverpool, Great Britain. For more information, visit e.p.i.c. at http://www.epic-interactive.com or contact Thomas Steiding at thomas@epic-interactive.com