What Is The Spiritual ancester To The First Amiga?
The Amigas spiritual ancesters originate at Atari with the involvement
of Jay Miner. During his time at Atari he played a key role in the development
of the Atari VCS (2600), 400 and 800 systems. The Amigas custom chips in
particular, owe a debt to the work he did on the ANTIC (Alpha Numeric Television
Interface Controller) chip. These chips were reused in most of Ataris projects
from 1979 to 1985 and took the load of the main processor. The ANTIC coprocessor
controls allows a range of video modes, even allowing new ones to be created.
Atari fanatics have even been able to get 256 colour output using the Atari
XL models. His dog Mitchy participated in all of his projects. He was allowed
to sit during the work on a couch and observe everything. Mitchy even had
his own name plate on the door and carried a document of identification
in his collar, showing they were authorized personnel.
What Is The Spiritual Ancester To The Amiga OE
The next generation Amiga concept is a development on the Destination
system from Gateway. When it was launched in 1996 it was described as the
first digital convergence computer. The new Amiga is set to follow in these
footsteps with a range of patents that indicate the Amiga OE will be closely
tied to TV-style functions.
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