Amiga History Tape (+bonus Computer Chronicals Amiga episode)

[Curt at Atari Museum]

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.
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>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.
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>--Chuck
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