To all Amigans, past, present, and future, I bid you a hearty welcome to
Saku, 2001, the premier Amiga event in Scandanavia.

Here you will witness not only the camaraderie and community that makes
Amiga a unique computer and concept, but also the ingenuity and dedication
of some of the most talented hardware and software developers in the
world.

Amiga led the world in multimedia in the 1980s and now we at Amiga Inc
intend to put the passion and fun back into computing as we move forwards
into the new millenium.

Working with our partners at Eyetech (www.eyetech.co.uk), we are moving
into the final stages of development work on the AmigaOne, the first,
designed from scratch Amiga computer to reach the market in over ten
years. Featuring state of the art components and systems, Amiga owners
will be able to enjoy all the benefits of the most modern of technology
that their PC counterparts enjoy without having to endure the concrete
block that is Windows slowing that technology down.

At the same time, Amiga is moving forwards with the AmigaDE (Digital
Environment), a brand new technology that is intended to set the digital
world alight. Offering a hardware agnostic, content centric architecture,
it finally embraces the 'logical' in 'technological', and empowers the new
slogan of Amiga, the next WWW - Whatever, Wherever, Whenever.

Content producers can create a single application and see it run
transparently on devices from cell phones to servers irrespective of the
underlying hardware. Content consumers can purchase and develop their own
content and move it onto any of their digital devices without having to
worry about compatability or support. Content brokers can collect this
content and offer it for sale anywhere to any device owner. Digital Living
(tm) is about to move from science fiction to science fact.

I am sorry I cannot be there with you. Such is the interest in Amiga that
corporations and organisations small and large are contacting us to
arrange meetings almost daily. Four weeks ago I was looking forwards to my
first visit to Finland with no hint of a meeting in sight and then a large
consumer electronics company 'insisted' that we meet with them at their
earliest convenience. Unfortunately that means that I will have to wait
until Saku 2002 before I can get to meet you all.

However, the wonder of the Amiga is that no one is so important in its
community that the community falters if they are missing. Saku 2001 is as
much a celebration of people as it is of technology, and all of you there
are proof of the relevance of the Amiga, and the inextinguishable truth of
what it stands for - something done the right way.

Cheers.

fleecy moss (CTO Amiga Inc) on behalf of the Amiga Inc team.

August 30th 2001