From:       Janne Siren siren@mikrobitti.fi
Reply-To:   siren@mikrobitti.fi
Subject:    Press release: Finnish Saku 99 Event This Saturday
Date:       Wed, 1 Sep 1999 17:18:34 +0300


FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Finnish Saku 99 Event This Saturday

Webcam and IRC Channel Available

ESPOO, FINLAND - September 1, 1999 - Saku 99, the biggest Amiga event in
Finland this year, will be on this Saturday in Vantaa. The show starts at
12 o'clock and will feature Amiga related competitions, demonstrations,
retailers and video films. Amiga's Petro Tyschtschenko and AmigaOS 3.5
previews will be there as well. Attendance is free of charge.

For those who can't attend, the Finnish Amiga Users Group will be hosting a
webcam and an IRC channel (#saku99 at IRCnet) with live comments from the
exhibition place. Please note the Finnish timezone (EET, GMT+2). You should
also check out the Saku 99 invitation intro in Aminet for pictures and
other highlights (demo/intro/saku99.lha).

Please visit http://batman.jytol.fi/~saku/english/ or our mirror site
http://tzimmola.tky.hut.fi/saku/english/, for further information. E-mail
inquiries may be sent to Janne Sirén (siren@mikrobitti.fi).

About Saku 99

Saku 99 will be the biggest Amiga event in Finland this year. Following the
success of Saku 98, which was visited by some 500 Amiga enthusiasts, Saku
99 is aimed to be bigger and better than the previous events. Mr. Petro
Tyschtschenko of Amiga has already confirmed his presence and other great
highlights are planned. Saku 99 will be held on Saturday September 4th 1999
at the Science Centre Heureka in Vantaa, near Helsinki.

About Finnish Amiga Users Group

Finnish Amiga Users Group (Suomen Amiga-käyttäjät ry.) is a non-profit
organization for promoting Amiga computing and helping Amiga users in
Finland. Also known as Saku, after it's disk magazine, the group is trying
to accomplish it's goals by organizing meetings and by publishing a disk
magazine. Since 1993 the Finnish Amiga Users Group and it's predecessors
have released over thirty issues of the disk magazine and held several
public gatherings. Other accomplishments include the Web site and Sakunet,
a national Fidonet style network of Amiga related bulletin board systems.