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From: farren@well.UUCP (Mike Farren)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: RJ Mical [now -- Epyx not Atari made Lynx]
Keywords: Lynx, Atari, CBM
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Date: 23 Jan 90 12:44:04 GMT
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jcb@frisbee.Sun.COM (Jim Becker) writes:

>I  believe  that  most  all of the work for the Lynx was done by Epyx,
>including both hardware and software. Atari got involved when Epyx ran
>low/out of money to get the product out the door.

As an ex-Epyx employee (I was doing ports for Epyx when they were still
Automated Simulations, three people working out of a garage), I tend to
believe the statement of a friend who worked for Epyx up till the time
they shut the doors (in effect - I think they're still hanging in there).
Atari got involved long before Epyx ran out of money.  What my friend
said was that one of the big reasons Epyx closed was because of Atari's
failure to make the payments on the Lynx, causing Epyx's cash flow to
go negative.  I tend to believe this one, simply because as of a year
ago or so, before the Lynx business, Epyx was a going concern, to all
appearances.  Certainly nothing was mentioned to me (and I'm an Epyx
stockholder) to indicate any severe financial difficulties as of the last
stockholder's notice.

Note - I'm not saying that this is, in fact, the case - this is only
my opinion, based on what I know, and my general opinion of Atari in
it's Tramielized state.
-- 
Mike Farren 				     farren@well.sf.ca.usa