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From: daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: Mac and Amiga (Games--Macintosh vs A500)
Message-ID: <19874@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 14 Mar 91 21:45:01 GMT
References: <3$P-B6-@irie.ais.org> <1991Mar4.013846.26519@gsm001.uucp> <1991Mar4.030134.7183@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> <00668212609@elgamy.RAIDERNET.COM> <00668668801@elgamy.RAIDERNET.COM>
Reply-To: daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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In article <00668668801@elgamy.RAIDERNET.COM> elg@elgamy.RAIDERNET.COM (Eric Lee Green) writes:
>From article <3$P-B6-@irie.ais.org>, by jph@ais.org (Joseph Hillenburg):
>> In article <00668212609@elgamy.RAIDERNET.COM> elg@elgamy.RAIDERNET.COM (Eric Lee Green) writes:
>>>From article <19467@cbmvax.commodore.com>, by raible@cbmvax.commodore.com
>> (Bob Raible - LSI Design):
>>>> In fact Jay Miner (former Atari guru) ...
>>>Wrongo.
>> Check who you're following up on next time.

>I *KNOW* who I'm following up to :-). Actually, it's not Bob's fault. Most
>of Commodore's present engineers came on board long after the original
>Amiga team had been laid off/dispersed/quit/whatever. 

Well, a few of us, like me and Bob, have been at C= since before the Amiga.
Some of us were among the first to get "into" the Amiga, but it started out
on the user or hobby level first.  For instance, I started using and 
programming an Amiga in 1985, but I didn't get to work on the hardware until
the very end of 1986.  Some of the IC folks now working on Amiga stuff got
into it even later.  Even old timers get their stories a little mixed up,
and of course, we here on the Right Coast got a totally different picture of
the goings on at Amiga than those who started the whole thing over there on
the Left.  Bob's chip designs are far more accurate than his story telling.
And it wasn't that far off, anyway.  The _stated_ goal, orginally, of the
Amiga design team was to make an ultimate game machine, and that's how they
started attracting money.  That they wanted to, and actually managed to do more 
was certainly apparent by the time C= got involved.  And the term "game 
machine" really shouldn't be a degradation, anyway.  Basically, video games 
need to do many of the same kinds of things that personal computers need to do, 
only faster.  The guts of many commercial video games, especially back in '85
when the Amiga was introduced, are far more sophisticated than your typical PC.  



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