[Coco] [Color Computer] Re: [CoCo] Atari and Amiga comparison

Dan Olson dano at agora.rdrop.com
Wed Mar 14 15:22:36 EDT 2007


>
> The sound chip they had in the works for the next ones was amazing but
> it got scrapped when the ST came along.  They had axed the engineers
> than designed it and nobody left could make it work.  At least that
> seams to be the story.

I don't know the history too well, but I think the 1400XL series were 
going to have the Amy (?) sound chip, but Trammel took over Atari and got 
rid of all the new computer projects at the time.  I honestly don't know 
if an upgraded 8-bit would have actually sold well, but it seems like the 
design could have used a few improvements over it's 10+ year live span.

 	Dan



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