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OT: A sad day for the computing world

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Jack founded Commodore but not Atari like that newsclip mention. He bought it after the great video game collapse in 1984.

The founder of Atari are Nolan Bushnell and Ted Tabney.

Although, he still is a key figure in the history of micro omputers and someone who helped to bring computers to every home.

 

May he rest in peace.

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He also trashed Commodore just before he left it to go lead Atari, where he pushed out the Atari 520 and 1040 ST which were most noted for their built in midi port. Commodore fought back with their Amiga 1000 which had a custom chipset designed by, ironically, Jay Miner, who was the lead designer for the chipset of the Atari 400 / 800 series computers. I remember the Atari / Amiga "wars" back in 1985 - 1990. The Amiga won for graphics and preemptive multitasking but music fans who didn't buy Macs tended to go to the Atari 520 ST, at least here in America. I believe in europe, especially Germany, the Atari was the preferred machine. Correct me if I am wrong on that.

 

Those were the days. Upgrading your machine was just putting some new RAM in it or maybe a second floppy disk drive. Everything else was pretty much set in stone. Of course a 2MB RAM expander for an Amiga 500 was around $500.

 

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He also trashed Commodore just before he left it to go lead Atari, where he pushed out the Atari 520 and 1040 ST which were most noted for their built in midi port. Commodore fought back with their Amiga 1000 which had a custom chipset designed by, ironically, Jay Miner, who was the lead designer for the chipset of the Atari 400 / 800 series computers. I remember the Atari / Amiga "wars" back in 1985 - 1990. The Amiga won for graphics and preemptive multitasking but music fans who didn't buy Macs tended to go to the Atari 520 ST, at least here in America. I believe in europe, especially Germany, the Atari was the preferred machine. Correct me if I am wrong on that.

I'm positive that there were more Amiga than ST in Europe. And in Germany Commodore has always been strong. In my country I don't have any doubt that ST was only for people who wanted to play with sound, thanks to the midi port.

Don't know about France and England, but I'm almost sure that since the 1989 the Amiga was clearly the winner everywhere.

Those were very exciting times for computer the gaming. New game concepts born every month. For a lot of reasons, I missed those times.

 

And while we're speaking about it, let us remember Dungeon Master, which was a complete success in both machines. ST and Amiga. Next Wednesday, Legend of Grimrock will be released, a true dungeon crawler like DM, but with today visuals. Don't loose it people.

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And while we're speaking about it, let us remember Dungeon Master, which was a complete success in both machines. ST and Amiga. Next Wednesday, Legend of Grimrock will be released, a true dungeon crawler like DM, but with today visuals. Don't loose it people.

 

Dungeon Master was simply amazing. I didn't know any self respecting Amiga or ST user that didn't own a copy. As for Legend of Grimrock, it looks like it's going to do a wonderful job of meshing the original '3d' type dungeon crawlers with todays technology. IGN already has a review up on it in case you haven't heard of it yet.

 

http://pc.ign.com/articles/122/1222602p1.html

 

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Dungeon Master was simply amazing. I didn't know any self respecting Amiga or ST user that didn't own a copy. As for Legend of Grimrock, it looks like it's going to do a wonderful job of meshing the original '3d' type dungeon crawlers with todays technology. IGN already has a review up on it in case you haven't heard of it yet.

 

http://pc.ign.com/ar.../1222602p1.html

 

Hellshade

Nothing like a review with a bit of a gameplay: :grin:

 

Sorry for the OT, but we're remembering nice things that are connected with which Jack become known.

To Jack and thanks for all.

Edited by Von Paulus

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Of course a 2MB RAM expander for an Amiga 500 was around $500.

Ah, those ancient golden days of computing when an extra 2Mb of RAM was the end of the rainbow.

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