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[The following is Escom's German press release as translated by Johannes
Nymburg - Jason]

short translation of press release escom heppenheim:
sentences in brackets are personal addons of me (jonny)!

escom ag got all rights of commodore group transaction includes all rights
of technology, trademarks and patents of commodore and amiga

escom wants to continue the sucsessful productlines of commodore and amiga
under the same trademarks.  commodore-pc will be traded over distributors
and warehouses worldwide.

the legendary c64 will be reinwoked for the markets of eastern europe
(means china i think)

production of amiga 4000, 1200 and 600 will be restartet immediatly

in parallel escom works on the integration of amiga and the classic
pc-technology.  for endusers escom plans to release pc-slot cards, wich
will make the multimedial functions of amiga, graphics and sound, available
on normal pc.

(on 1989 there was a german firm, which realized this project.  they got
the custom chips of an a500 and soldered them on an pc-slot card, which
then was an `amiga card` like the `pc card` for amiga.  this project was
forbidden of commodore)

with special `amiga-tv-settop-boxes` escom wants to set a milestone of the
future of interactive television.

a license for production and trading of amiga based computers was given to
`tianjin family-used multimedia co.  ltd.` in china.  tianjin is one of the
biggest producers of 16-bit game mashines with 1million selled units in
1994.  the market space of `tianjin family-used multimedia co.  ltd.` in
china is 80%!

license offers to leading distributors in fareast and usa are set, to open
the commodore/amiga technology for the wold-market.

(that`s the translation of the most significant items of the german press
release.  questions and remarks to jony0000@stud.uni-sb.de)