Diamond Multimedia now ships Mac Suprasonic 336V+ and SupraExpress 336 Sp modem with enhanced voicemail features.

VANCOUVER, Wash.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 18, 1997--

- Diamond Multimedia's Supra VoiceMail 2.3 Software Delivers

Improved VoiceMail Features For Macintosh Users -

Diamond Multimedia Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: DIMD), a leader in the Internet multimedia market, today announced that its high performance SupraSonic(TM) 336V+ and SupraExpress 336e Sp Macintosh modems have newly-enhanced voice mail features, offering customized preferences to meet each customer's voice messaging needs.

Diamond Multimedia's new Supra VoiceMail(TM) software, version 2.3, provides users with a variety of new, easy-to-use benefits including: Fax-on-Demand, Voice/Pager Notification, Mailbox Password Protection, and Caller ID Support. Supra VoiceMail software, built exclusively for Macintosh operating systems by Diamond Multimedia, is included free with the SupraSonic 336V+ and SupraExpress 336e Sp modems.

"Supra VoiceMail helps users to avoid missing messages," said James Cutburth, vice president of marketing for Diamond Multimedia's communications division. "Macintosh owners particularly like the fact that it can support incoming fax messages as well as multiple voice mailboxes, allowing everyone in a household to have his own message center. It is a useful application that we believe Macintosh users will rapidly find indispensable."

By running in background mode, Supra VoiceMail ensures that calls are answered and recorded even if the user is working in another application. The messages include a date/time stamp, length of message, phone number for Caller ID, and a memo field. Mailboxes can be set-up for distinct pager numbers so users will instantly be paged with Caller ID identification on the messages. Individual set-up of different mailboxes allows more than one person to take advantage of this notification feature.

Additional features included with Diamond Multimedia's Supra VoiceMail 2.3 software are:

-- Multiple Mailboxes (up to 10)

-- RapidPhone(TM) Speakerphone Dialer

-- Toll Saver Remote Message Retrieval

-- Distinction Between Voice and Fax Calls

-- Record from Headset/Microphone and Telephone Handset

-- Drag and Drop Phonebook Entries to RapidPhone

Speakerphone Dialer (speakerphone application)

-- Drag and Drop Messages From Mailbox to Mailbox

-- Resizeable columns

-- Manual Fax Send and Receive

-- Fast Forward of Messages

-- Single-Call and Two-Call Fax-On-Demand

Current SupraSonic 336V+ and SupraExpress 336e Sp Macintosh customers can download the new voice mail software free of charge directly from Diamond Multimedia's Web site (http://www.diamondmm.com).

Diamond Multimedia

Diamond Multimedia is driving the Internet multimedia market by providing interactivity and connectivity solutions for home, business and professional desktop computer users, enabling them to create, access and experience compelling new media content from their desktops and through the Internet. Diamond accelerates multimedia from the Internet to the hard drive with products that include the Stealth and Monster series of media accelerators, the Fire series of professional 3D graphics and SCSI I/O data accelerators, and the Supra(R) series of modems and ISDN adapters. Diamond also markets multimedia and video phone upgrade kits.

Headquartered in San Jose, CA, Diamond has sales, marketing and technical support facilities in Vancouver (Wash.), Singapore, Hong Kong, Seoul, Tokyo, Starnberg (Germany), Paris and Winnersh (U.K.). Diamond's products are sold through local and international distributors as well as directly to major retailers, VARs and OEMs worldwide. Diamond's common stock is traded on the Nasdaq Stock Market under the symbol DIMD.

How to Contact Diamond Multimedia

There are many ways to reach Diamond for sales support, technical assistance, driver updates and general information:

-- Internet Web Site: http://www.diamondmm.com -- Diamond Multimedia's Headquarters and Visual Systems Division:

408/325-7000; Fax: [phone] -- Communications Division (Supra brand modems) Main Phone Number:

360/604-1400; Fax: [phone] -- European Division (Germany): [phone];(UK): [phone];

(France) [phone] -- Korean Office (Seoul): [phone]; Fax: [phone] -- Japanese Office (Tokyo): [phone]; Fax: [phone] -- ASEAN Office (Singapore): [phone]; Fax: [phone] -- Hong Kong Office: [phone]; Fax: [phone] -- Support Information Line for Communications: 1-800-774-4965 -- Product Support (Voice), Visual Systems: 408/325-7100;

Communications: 541/967-2450; Europe (Germany) +49-

8151-266-330; Europe (UK) [phone]; ISDN Support

Center 408/325-7110; Fire GL Support Center 408/325-7120 -- Product Support (Fax), Visual Systems: 408/325-7171;

Communications: 541/967-2401; Europe (Germany) +49-

8151-266-331; Europe (UK): [phone]; (France) [phone] -- Pre-sales Information, Visual Systems: 1-800-468-5846;

Communications: 1-800-727-8772 -- Investor Relations: 408/325-7476; Fax-On-Demand: 1-800-346-3329;

International Fax-On-Demand: 201/433-1778 -- 24-Hour Fax-On-Demand Service, Visual Systems: 1-800-380-0030;

Communications: 541/967-0072 -- FTP sites: ftp.diamondmm.com; or Supra: ftp.supra.com -- BBS for Visual Systems 408/325-7080 (to 14.4 Kbps) or 408/325-7175

(to 28.8 Kbps) or 408/383-0551 (ISDN); Communications

BBS: 541/967-2444; Europe (Germany) BBS at [phone]

(to 28.8 Kbps) or [phone] (ISDN); Europe (UK) at

[phone]-

Monster 3D and Supra are either trademarks or registered trademarks of Diamond Multimedia Systems, Inc. All other trademarks referenced are the service mark, trademark or registered trademark of their respective manufacturers. This announcement relates to products whose launch are in the United States of America. The product names contents, prices and availability may differ elsewhere in the world according to local factors and requirements.

Except for historical information contained herein, the matters set forth in this press release, such as statements relating to the Company's ability to successfully exploit technological and market developments, the timing and success of new product introductions by the Company and its competitors, and the Company's ability to invest in new technologies and to enhance its existing systems are forward-looking statements that are subject to risks and uncertainties, including the impact of competitive products and pricing and alternative technological advances, the timely and successful development and market acceptance of new products and upgrades to existing products, and other risks as detailed from time to time in Diamond Multimedia's SEC filings, including its most recent Forms 10-K and 10-Q.

CONTACT: Diamond Multimedia, Communications Division

Tamara Hanna, 360/604-1469 or [e-mail]

Sarah Rades, 360/604-1515 or [e-mail]