Atari/Commodore hybrid, was Re: General religious wars (was Re: Editor religious wars)

That's very interesting! I look forward to seeing the results of your investigations. ________________________________ From: "Curt @ Atari Museum" <curt at atarimuseum.com> To: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts <cctalk at classiccmp.org> Sent: Tue, January 26, 2010 2:05:02 PM Subject: Re: Atari/Commodore hybrid, was Re: General religious wars (was Re: Editor religious wars) Atari already had the Amiga, paid for and financed its development from March 3, 1984 through June 29, 1984 with $500,000 long before Tramiel was ever in the picture. I even have a photo of the Warner Comm. owned Atari check to Amiga that Dave Morse cashed. Atari was already well into development of project "Mickey" a high end game console that would use the Amiga chipset, I even have copies of the actual wirewrap board. In court, the judge asked Dave Morse to present the June 84 CES version of the Amiga, Dave Morse lied on the stand and said it was taken apart and used for other revisions... of course we all now know that is a complete lie, as Dale Luck brings that unit to the Vintage Computer Fest shows each year. I have most of the court documents right up to the sudden request to settle out of court. The settlement details are private and sealed. My suspicion is someone within Commodore, still loyal to Jack Tramiel, tipped him off about the CES unit still being in existence and that evidence was presented to the Amiga lawyers and then they immediately wanted to settle out of court. Essentially the June 84 CES proto would've proved that Amiga had made significant progress on the design from the Jan 84 CES model, that progress made the machine workable and of course sellable to Commodore... which meant all of that progress was due to Atari's investment into the machine from the $500,000 and therefor Atari now held a stake in the machine, despite the company paying back the money to Atari the day before the June 30th deadline whereby Atari, Inc (Not Tramiels Atari Corp) would then have access to all Amiga chip data and materials to use according to the terms outlined in the March 1984 contract agreement (which I also have) all of this occured just days before Atari was sold to Jack Tramiel. Jack knew nothing of the Amiga-Atari agreement, if it wasn't for his son finding the cashed check from Amiga in Atari's files, they may have never have known... ...this is all going to be revealed in full detail quite soon, its been over 500 pages of documents and has lead to a massive research project that myself and Marty Goldberg have been working on for over 6 months. Curt Dan Roganti wrote: