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- From: rusbasan@expert.cc.purdue.edu (Bob Rusbasan)
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- Subject: Re: Rare Game (Atari I think)
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- Date: 21 Dec 92 22:03:21 GMT
- References: <92354.010600U28037@uicvm.uic.edu> <1992Dec20.235435.15714@cs.tu-berlin.de> <1992Dec21.141534.9292@zip.eecs.umich.edu>
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- In article <1992Dec21.141534.9292@zip.eecs.umich.edu> grover@emunix.emich.edu (Grover Thomas) writes:
- >>Jason Kratz <U28037@uicvm.uic.edu> writes:
- >>I was at a used game store tonight to pick up a few Atari and
- >>Colecovision games. I found a game called "Mogul Maniac" by Amiga Corp.
- >>I am assuming that this is the same Amiga company that is now owned by
- >>Commodore because I know they did a few things before they designed the
- >>Amiga to finance it. Has anyone heard of this game before and if so
- >>does it run on the Atari? Any help at all would be appreciated :-)
-
- >I don't think this has anything to do with Commodore. In fact, if memory
- >serves correctly, the original Amiga computer was designed by Atari (and
- >wasn't the ST a Commodore machine?) before all the big management changes
- >happened between both companies.
-
- No, it doesn't have much to do with Commodore, but what he asked is if
- it had anything to do with the Amiga company.
-
- I don't know much about this, but here is what I do know:
-
- Amiga started out doing things like that strange controller and
- that game. They eventually set out to create the ultimate game
- machine. They made sure it could do graphics really fast. Along
- the way, it got a keyboard, and eventually they decided to make
- it into a full-fledged computer. Commodore saw this computer and
- decided they had to have it, so they bought the Amiga company.
-
- So Atari had nothing to do with this from what I know. I would also
- be very surprised to find out that Amiga or Commodore had anything
- to do with the ST. Perhaps the source of your confusion is that
- the ST and the Amiga used the same processor, and I believe some
- other components of the compturs were alike or similar (maybe the
- graphics chips).
-
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