For Release: Immediate Contact: Commodore Business Machines, Inc. 1200 Wilson Drive West Chester, PA 19380 Mona Astra Liss or Amanda K. Griffies (215) 431-9354 COMMODORE INTRODUCES THE AMIGA 4000 AT WORLD OF COMMODORE SHOW (Pasadena, CA --- September 11, 1992) --- Commodore Business Machines, Inc. today introduced the Amiga (R) 4000, the company's revolutionary new premier multimedia computer. The Amiga 4000 marks the company's most significant new technology advancement in its Amiga line since the product's introduction in 1985. In addition to the Amiga 4000, Commodore announced several other significant product introductions including the Amiga 600 and 600HD, AmigaDOS TM Release 3 Operating System, A570 CD-ROM Drive, and AmigaVision TM Professional Authoring System. James Dionne, President and General Manager of Commodore Business Machines, Inc., commented, "These product announcements exemplify Commodore's continued commitment to offer computers with probably the best price/performance ratios in the computer industry today. We are confident that these products, particularly the Amiga 4000, will keep Commodore at the forefront of multimedia technology and enable us to continue our aggressive push in the multimedia marketplace." Amiga 4000 This powerful new machine features Commodore's Advanced Graphics Architecture TM custom co-processor chip set that enables users to display and animate graphics in multiple resolutions at up to 256,000 colors from a palette of 16.8 million. The new hardware features are driven by AmigaDOS Release 3, the newest version of Commodore's multitasking operating system, in combination with the machine's main processor, the Motorola (R) 68040. While this new version of the operating system takes advantage of the latest hardware features, it also maintains backwards compatibility with Amiga software not written specifically for the Amiga 4000. The Amiga 4000 will come standard with a 120MB hard drive, 6MB of memory, a dual speed high-density floppy drive, and CrossDOS which enables users to read and write to MS-DOS (R) formatted floppy and hard drives. Other key multimedia features include: a dedicated slot for video devices; selectable NTSC scan rate compatibility; four voice dual-channel digital audio;o up to 8 sprites, enabling high speed animations; and full hardware video overscan. The Manufacturer's Suggested List Price for the Amiga 4000-040/120 is $3699.00. AmigaDOS Release 3 The newest version of the Amiga operating system adds several software enhancements to the previous 2.04 operating system. Among the new features are: CrossDOS, allowing access to MS-DOS formatted floppy and hard drives; a new Installer utility; and a Postscript printer driver. Adoditionally, AmigaDOS Release 3.0 offers full support for the new Advanced Graphics Architecture chip set featured in the Amiga 4000. Amiga 600 The Amiga 600 is a powerful entry-level computer with a small footprint and low profile shape, making it very attractive to the home computer buyer. The Amiga 600 and 600HD will come with AmigaDOS 2.XX and a selection of software packages. A570 CD-ROM Drive The A570 is a high capacity read-only storage device for the Amiga 500 series. The A570 accepts standard 5" compact discs in a CD caddy and plays all CDTV (R), audio CD, CD+G, and CD+MIDI discs. It can also read industry-standard ISO-9660 CD-ROM discs. AmigaVision Professional AmigaVision Professional builds and expands on the visual programming environment used in earlier versions of AmigaVision. The new features include support for the CDTV player, speed and memory improvements, and enhancements to the authoring environment. In addition, a freely redistributable runtime module has been included, enabling flows created in AmigaVision to be played back without loading AmigaVision. Commodore Business Machines, Inc., based in West Chester, PA, is the U.S. subsidiary of Commodore International. The company manufactures and markets a complete line of Amiga computers and peripherals for the business, consumer, education and government markets. Commodore (R) and CDTV (R) are trademarks of Commodore Electronics Limited. Amiga (R), AmigaDOS, AmigaVision, Bridgeboard and Advanced Graphics Architecture are trademarks of Commodore-Amiga, Inc. MS-DOS (R)