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Want to check out current Australasian Amiga activities, news, User Groups or dealers?
Or find out what ADUG's purpose and objects are?

Just take your pick from the list below!

But before you do that, you might like to learn something about ADUG's background by reading the brief historical records that follow.

Are you an Amiga developer? Then you might like to join ADDSIG - the Special Interest Group for Amiga Developers "Downunder."

And if you'd like to help ADUG in any way, or be informed of what's happening "downunder" by joining the adug-open ML, just check out the "Would You Like to Help?" section.

Your enquiries are always welcome.

Basil Flinter
Secretary, ADUG
Email: flinter@taen.org

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As President/CEO of Amiga Inc. and Patron of Amiga Downunder UG Inc. (ADUG) I am pleased to affirm that Amiga Inc. officially recognizes ADUG, and in doing so, acknowledges the valuable work it does in living up to its slogan "bringing the Australasian Amiga community together."

It is indeed "the Amiga User Group for All Australasians," so whether you live in isolation from other Amiga users or are fortunate enough to belong to a local Amiga User Group, I urge all members of the Australian and New Zealand (Australasian) Amiga community to show their support for the Amiga and that community by joining ADUG.

Bill McEwen
President CEO, Amiga Inc.
Patron of ADUG
Monday, 8 September 2003

ADUG establishes a Special Interest Group for Amiga Developers "Downunder"(read more).

On Saturday, August 21 1999, at the Amiga Downunder 1999 Amiga Show in Canberra (Australia), Amiga Downunder UG Inc. (ADUG), an Amiga User Group catering for all Amiga users in Australasia (Australia and New Zealand) was officially launched.

Launch speeches were delivered by ADUG's President, Vice-President (in absentia) and Secretary, and these were followed by a presentation of a Certificate of Patronage and a Q&A session.

At the time of the launch the future of the Amiga, Amiga User Groups, and the dormant Amiga community in this part of the world, looked rosy; it was only a matter of waiting for the promised New Generation (NG) Amigas to appear. However, only three days after ADUG's launch, Gateway pulled the plug on its Amiga subsidiary.

This dramatic turn of events had an unsettling effect on the entire Amiga community, worldwide. It was a situation which ADUG had to face. Despite the Amiga's uncertain future, ADUG's committee believed that ADUG still had a role to play; perhaps an even more important role than before...
...that of keeping the Australasian Amiga community, and the spirit of Amiga within that community, alive and informed.

And of giving that community an opportunity to be involved with any future developments that might eventuate.

At the beginning of this year the Amiga community was greeted with the news that the dream had not died; that, under the direction of a group of Amiga visionaries, headed by President and CEO Bill McEwen, the Amiga dream would continue.

This meant that, like the Amiga communities in the rest of the world, the Australasian Amiga community had a future, and that ADUG would have a continuing role in that future.

You can read a bit more of ADUG's history in the following article - ADUG - A 'VIRTUAL' USER GROUP - originally published in the Club Amiga Magazine (CAM) and reproduced here with their kind permission.

Are You a Resident?

Membership of ADUG is restricted to residents of Australia and New Zealand (Australasia).

If you are a resident of Australasia, your support, in the form of Membership, is vitally important to us.

Your Membership fee (AU$25 and NZ$30 for Australian and New Zealand residents respectively) can, by giving ADUG the financial strength it needs to help the Australasian Amiga community, be your way of supporting that community.

And as a Member, you will be subscribed to the adug-open ML, with direct access to members of Amiga Inc., including its President, Bill McEwen.

So, even if you are already a member of a local User Group,
we urge you:

Are You a Non-Resident?

If you are a non-resident of Australasia, and you have an interest in the Australasian Amiga scene, you may like to join the adug-open ML and/or assist ADUG financially.

In either case, please email the Secretary.

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ADUG invites you to participate in this website (as this website is constantly evolving some of the links may not work). If you have any news that is relevant, feel like chatting, want to be placed on the dealer list, want ADUG to host a web page for your User Group, have your User Group website listed, or want to be part of any of the pages on ADUG's website, we would like to hear from you.

Basil Flinter
Secretary, ADUG
Email: flinter@taen.org

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