jcb@frisbee.Sun.COM (Jim Becker) (01/20/90)
hgm@ccvr1.ncsu.edu (Hal G. Meeks) writes: ifarqhar@mqccsunc.mq.oz (Ian Farquhar) writes: >I am very impressed with the way Atari is handling the Lynx. > >So Atari is back at what it does best: games, and I am not saying this in >any derogatory manner. Atari are the best in the world at this. > Make a distinction here: There are _two_ Atari companies. [ clipped ] --hal I believe that most all of the work for the Lynx was done by Epyx, including both hardware and software. Atari got involved when Epyx ran low/out of money to get the product out the door. So the success of Atari with the Lynx is really success of Epyx to do the work creating it and Atari to carry the ball through to completion of production. RJ, Dave Needle and the rest of Epyx are the ones that should get the bulk of praise for the Lynx. RJ and Dave had the vision to create the Lynx, hopefully they will also get some of the profit! -Jim Becker -- Jim Becker / jcb%frisbee@sun.com / Sun Microsystems `DRAM -- the ball bearings of the Commerce War'
riley@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (Daniel S. Riley) (01/20/90)
In article <130500@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> jcb@frisbee.Sun.COM (Jim Becker) writes: >I believe that most all of the work for the Lynx was done by Epyx, >including both hardware and software. Atari got involved when Epyx ran >low/out of money to get the product out the door. Yep. Sort of like Amiga and Commodore. Wonder if it's something about =RJ=? -Dan Riley (riley@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu, cornell!batcomputer!riley) -Wilson Lab, Cornell University
farren@well.UUCP (Mike Farren) (01/23/90)
jcb@frisbee.Sun.COM (Jim Becker) writes: >I believe that most all of the work for the Lynx was done by Epyx, >including both hardware and software. Atari got involved when Epyx ran >low/out of money to get the product out the door. As an ex-Epyx employee (I was doing ports for Epyx when they were still Automated Simulations, three people working out of a garage), I tend to believe the statement of a friend who worked for Epyx up till the time they shut the doors (in effect - I think they're still hanging in there). Atari got involved long before Epyx ran out of money. What my friend said was that one of the big reasons Epyx closed was because of Atari's failure to make the payments on the Lynx, causing Epyx's cash flow to go negative. I tend to believe this one, simply because as of a year ago or so, before the Lynx business, Epyx was a going concern, to all appearances. Certainly nothing was mentioned to me (and I'm an Epyx stockholder) to indicate any severe financial difficulties as of the last stockholder's notice. Note - I'm not saying that this is, in fact, the case - this is only my opinion, based on what I know, and my general opinion of Atari in it's Tramielized state. -- Mike Farren farren@well.sf.ca.usa