For immediate release
Eyetech - recently chosen by Amiga as their partner for the
manufacture and distribution of the new DevBox in the UK and
Ireland - have launched
Eye-Play, a division dedicated to the
publication, promotion and distribution of top-end games for the
Classic Amiga architecture and, more significantly, for those
currently in development which are designed to run under the
new Amiga OE.
In launching Eye-Play Group Managing Director, Alan Redhouse,
said: "We are very excited about the opportunities that the
new Amiga OE offers both to the existing Amiga Community and
to the converts it will quickly make from the wider leisure
computing world. As with every significant leisure computing
platform to date - the Sinclair spectrum of the early 80's,
the Classic Amiga of the late 80's/mid 90's and the multimedia
PC of the late 90's - great gaming software is what will drive
the growth and general acceptance of the Amiga OE as the
defacto standard in this market. We therefore strongly believe
that good gaming software is going to be essential to the
success of the Amiga OE in the end-user market We therefore
decided to launch Eye-Play now, well in advance of the end
user version of the Amiga OE becoming available."
"As well as teaming up with the best of todays Amiga games
developers, we are also keen to help any new games writers make
their fortune by using the new Amiga SDK to write for the
platform-independant Amiga OE. . "
"However no matter how keen we all are to see new Amiga titles,
we will apply the same rigourous standards of selection and
quality assurance to the Eye-Play titles that has been our
hallmark in hardware and serious software distribution. We
only intend to distribute software which is both upmarket and,
in our opinion, worth the money in terms of delivered quality
and gameplay. As this is an area of quality assurance that can
really only be evaluated by a dedicated gamer we have taken on
a seasoned PC (NVidea2-DDR etc) games player who also has very
good Amiga knowledge to run the Eye-Play division"
As well as publishing their works Eyetech have also commited
to help out individual developers who are new to the platform
by making their Amiga-endorsed EZDev-Plus and EZDev-Tower
developer systems available on concessionary terms.
Eyetech are also catering for the lower-spec'd Classic Amiga
by making a number of 68x00 classic Amiga games titles and
compilations available - mostly for purchase via download only.
There will also be also be some freely downloadable Classic
games, and download demos of new and 'work-in-progress' titles
for both Classic and Amiga OE titles. The Eye-Play websites
(eye-play.com, .co.uk, .eu.com) will be open for business from
the Eye-Play launch date - 1st July 2000.
Gary Peake who heads up Amigas own Amigatainment support team
said "We are delighted that Eyetech - one of Amiga Inc's first
partners from the Classic Amiga Community - has decided to
endorse the Amiga OE with such enthusiasm. The new Amiga OE
will bring tremendous benefits to games developers - both new
and established - by delivering truly amazing levels of
multimedia performance and binary compatiblity across a wide
range of hardware and operating systems. We know Eyetech will
bring a great deal of integrity and professionalism to the
serious gaming market and their dedicated Eye-Play division
will, I know, help spread the word about the Amiga OE and its
talented developers to dedicated gamers everywhere and take
us a significantly nearer our ultimate goal of the
implementation of the total Amiverse vision."
ENDS
For further details please contact:
Randall P Hughes
VP Sales and Strategic Business Development
AMIGA INC. randy@amiga.com
Alan M Redhouse
Chairman, Eyetech Group Ltd
The Old Bank
12 West Green
Stokesley
North Yorks
TS9 5BB, UK
Phone: +44 164 271 3185
Fax: +44 164 271 3634
Email: info@eyetech.co.uk
Alan M Redhouse
Managing Director,
Eyetech Group Ltd