Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!csd4.milw.wisc.edu!lll-winken!uunet!jarthur!cdouty From: cdouty@jarthur.Claremont.EDU (Christopher Douty) Newsgroups: rec.games.video,comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Amiga origins (was Re: Stargate and other rare 2600 games) Summary: GURU & Amiga Inc. Message-ID: <697@jarthur.Claremont.EDU> Date: 4 Apr 89 21:06:48 GMT References: <2113@iitmax.IIT.EDU> <9930@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> <474@ultb.UUCP> <478@ultb.UUCP> <2483@puff.cs.wisc.edu> <3312@nunki.usc.edu> <96978@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> Reply-To: cdouty@jarthur.UUCP (Christopher Douty) Organization: Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA Lines: 40 Xref: utzoo rec.games.video:2367 comp.sys.amiga:31681 In article <96978@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> raz@sun.UUCP (Steve -Raz- Berry) writes: >In article <3312@nunki.usc.edu> rjung@castor.usc.edu (Robert allen Jung) writes: >>In article <2483@puff.cs.wisc.edu> russell@uhura.CS.WISC.EDU (Russ Perry) writes: >>> [Much stuff deleted about old Atari 2600 games] > >That's too bad. I thought they were excellent controllers, much like the >EPYX joystick. They also did a controller called the joyboard which was >somthing you STOOD on! Suzy Chaffee had the unique opportunity to show the >world how to use this device to SHOOSH the slopes playing some skiing game. >If you have one of these Amiga joysticks you would like to part with, please >email me... I am very interested. > >>I'm not sure, but I think the money they made from those 'sticks went to the >>development of the Amiga computer (no wonder it acts like a cheap piece of >>plastic B-) )... >> --R.J. >Steve -Raz- Berry Disclaimer: I didn't do nutin! At one FAUG meeting R.J. Mical showed some slides of the early Amiga development. He also showed and videotape of some morning program where Suzy Chaffee demonstrated a Joyboard in a tight spandex ski outfit. It was most triumphent. #8^) Then R.J. told a little story about where the name "GURU Meditation" came from. Apparently whenever he or the team came on some tough problem or set-back they would go play a little game to think about the problem. The game consisted of sitting in lotus position on a Joyboard and, well, meditating. The object was to be perfectly still so that the Joyboard would not give out detect any motion. Anyway, when they were thinking about system errors, the GURU game popped into someone's mind, and the rest is histroy. I appologize to R.J. if I got any of the details wrong, or he wanted to post the story himself. #8^) -- Christopher Douty cdouty@jarthur.claremont.edu with STANDARD_DISCLAIMER; use STANDARD_DISCLAIMER; "Gun control is being with SILLY_QUOTE; use SILLY_QUOTE; able to hit your target"