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It's even more interesting. Commodore hired a bunch of ex-Atari people for the Amiga while Tramiel was building his cadre for what became the ST. They basically
by geoelectric 5y ago
It's even more interesting. Commodore hired a bunch of ex-Atari people for the Amiga while Tramiel was building his cadre for what became the ST. They basically swapped talent.
https://dfarq.homeip.net/atari-st-vs-amiga/ https://dfarq.homeip.net/atari-st-vs-amiga/
- 0xcde4c3db 5y agoIf you squint enough, there's a chain that looks something like this: Atari 2600 => Atari 400/800 => Amiga => Atari Lynx => 3DO. It's not that there's a specific set of people or technological concepts running through all of them, but each one has a strong connection to the next.
- pkaye 5y agoThere is a lot of similarity between the Atari 400/800 display list and the Amiga copper list given they were developed by the same team.
- HNSucksAss 5y ago
- geoelectric 5y agoThink 5200 is in the middle of your first two, since I believe architecturally it was a 400 without a keyboard (or more accurately, the 400 was basically a 5200 with a keyboard). But yeah, that's super interesting too. I skipped Lynx in my console journey so wasn't as familiar with that, but I didn't realize the 3DO (which I did have) was loosely part of the talent family too. But yeah, now that I think about it, I guess Hawkins must have ended up tapping the talent pools freeing up from the ST/Amiga/GS generations since those died out right around the time 3DO was being developed.