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New Amiga Partner, Edivision
« on: July 16, 2001, 08:48:31 PM »
Edivision in co-operation with Amiga will be producing several kinds of content for AmigaDE, including games.  Many of You will know the main founder of Edivision, Patrick Roberts. He was one of the first peopple to start coding for AmigaDE. The Edivision press release exclusive to Amiga.org is attached below.

Los Angeles, CA - July 16, 2001


Edivision LLC announced today that it has signed a distribution agreement
with Amiga, Inc.  Amiga, Inc. will have world-wide distribution rights on
software titles Edivision will produce  using the AmigaDE operating environment.
Also under the agreement Edivision will make technology it develops for its
AmigaDE titles available to Amiga, Inc.


Edivision LLC will create 3 development labels over the next year that run
on the AmigaDE platform. Two labels will be exclusively devoted to
entertainment titles, while the third will provide utilities, drivers, and
extended functionality.   Edivision will focus on original titles for its first
set of releases, but the company is also negotiating with other developers to
bring their titles to the AmigaDE platform.


"This relationship with Edivision will offer consumers some exciting content
and an enjoyable experience that they will want to share with others," said
Bill McEwen, President and CEO of Amiga, Inc. "With their expertise in
gaming and the entertainment industry, we look forward to some revolutionary
games for the PDA market."


"Titles created for the AmigaDE are capable of running unmodified on a
number of platforms including PocketPC, Zaurus, Windows, and Linux.  This
gives us a tremendous advantage in bringing a title to market." remarked
Steven Haun, CFO of Edivision.  "It allows us to focus development on the
title itself and not the limitations of cross-platform least common
denominator intrinsics."


About Edivision LLC


Edivision LLC was formed in May 2001 in Los Angeles, CA. Its founders,
Patrick Roberts, Jeremy Engelman, and Steven Haun are veterans of the
entertainment and computer gaming industry. They have received numerous
awards and accolades for their cutting-edge work in computer graphics and
animation. For more details about Edivision, visit HREF="http://www.e-d-i-v-i-s-i-o-n.com/">http://www.e-d-i-v-i-s-i-o-n.com/


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. The Amiga OS 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.


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YOu can also read the Amiga Inc press release here.