4 Mar
2005
4 Mar
'05
12:07 p.m.
The only problem I have with RJ Michaels talk is he completely rewrites
history on Amiga's dealing with Atari, omits the fact that Amiga was
desperate for cash in late 1983 and through one of the unspoken chip
designers - Joe Decuir, who also was on Jays team at Atari who did the
final production version of the Atari 2600 and the Atari 800 Amiga met
with Atari and signed into an agreement with Atari for $500,000 to help
Amiga complete its chipset and on June 30th 84 they were supposed to
deliver working silicon to Atari's offices under a contract that Atari
would produce its own line of Lorraine chipset products. Instead of
delivering the chips, the gave a check to Atari for $500,000 (from
Commodore) and went into breach of contract. If it wasn't for Atari
coming in late 83' with cash the chipset might not have seen the light
of day.
Curt
cswiger wrote:
Ok - I have the Amiga vhs tape digitized as a 2gb mpg
file. It's
mostly the original developers, Jay, RJ, et al at some kind of
reunion telling stories - with brief breaks for a few photos and
home movie of RJ on stage telling stories. I can send it on a
dvd in a mailer and will throw in an mpg4 episode of Computer
Chronicals that focused on the Amiga - altho you can just download that
from archive.org. Video quality is good, with just a little color
problem at the beginning from my new wal-mart cheapie player. I
think it's about 40 minutes or so. Photos include the original
hardware with board stacks in place of the custom chips.
Anyway, paypal $5 and your mail address to cswiger at widomaker.com
and I'll get them in the post office Monday. Email me off list
if you need to use a check or money order.
--Chuck