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From: brandonl@amadeus.WR.TEK.COM (Brandon G. Lovested)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: RJ Mical
Summary: Lynx
Message-ID: <1315@wrgate.WR.TEK.COM>
Date: 11 Jan 90 01:48:38 GMT
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In article <699@tau.sm.luth.se>, d87-khd@sm.luth.se (Karl-Gunnar Hultland) writes:
> I've heard some rumors that RJ Mical(the man who wrote intuition)
> has been designing a machine for A*ari called the Lynx.
> I've never heard about that machine and thus I wonder if there's some
> truth behind that rumor.


I don't know about RJ Mical, but:

The Atari Lynx is a portable game machine about the size of a VHS videotape.
Is features an approximately 4 inch diagonal COLOR LCD screen of decent
resolution.  It also has the ability, depending on the game being played, to
hook up as many as 7 or 8 *other* Lynx machines via cable in order to have
multiple player interaction.  Software (games) arrive in the form of cards
that easily plug in.  

Designed to wipe out the comparatively anemic Nintendo Gameboy, the release
of the Lynx is "real soon now."  It is too late, for 40%-60% of electronic
and games sales in the personal market is during the Christmas shopping season.
I have heard of no technical problems, though that should be the only valid
reason to delay it thus.  Otherwise, Atari would have to be one of the top
five most incompetently run companies ever, perhaps even displacing
General Motors.


I do not work for Atari, nor do I drive a GM car.
I do own a supported computer, and I do manage to get to work daily.
;-)


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