Amiga architecture
Atari 2600 TIA chip Atari 8-bit graphics chips
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Caroline Miner (1952–1994)
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Jay Glenn Miner (May 31, 1932 – June 20, 1994) was an American integrated circuit designer, known primarily for developing graphics and audio chips for the Atari 2600 and Atari 8-bit computers and as the "father of the Amiga".[1]
^Nick Montfort (October 1996). "Spawn of Atari". Wired Magazine.
Jay Glenn Miner (May 31, 1932 – June 20, 1994) was an American integrated circuit designer, known primarily for developing graphics and audio chips for...
developed the Amiga computer, code named Lorraine. In the early 1980s JayMiner, along with other Atari staffers, had become fed up with management and...
upon. A second prototype was completed by March 1976 with the help of JayMiner, who created a chip called the Television Interface Adaptor (TIA) to send...
by JayMiner who continued at Atari expanding on the design of the TIA for the Atari 8-bit computers with the ANTIC and CTIA/GTIA chips. JayMiner later...
by the original Los Gatos Amiga team including JayMiner. After the release of the Amiga 1000, JayMiner began to design its intended successor, between...
signatures of the Amiga designers (similar to the Macintosh); including JayMiner and the paw print of his dog Mitchy. The A1000's case was designed by...
Commodore's chip manufacturing subsidiary, MOS Technology. According to JayMiner, the OCS chipset was fabricated in 5 μm manufacturing process while AGA...
1981, Amiga had exhausted venture capital and needed more financing. JayMiner and his company had approached their former employer, the Warner-owned...
– the last system made by Commodore for the original Amiga Computers. JayMiner joined Atari, Inc. in the 1970s to develop custom integrated circuits...
and co-chief architect in the creation of the Amiga 1000 computer with JayMiner, Dave Morse, and RJ Mical. He was one of the main designers and developers...
Video DMA driver for liquid-crystal display Custom built and designed by JayMiner and Dave Morse 160×102 pixels resolution 4,096 color (12-bit) palette...
4096-color palette. The video hardware was custom built and designed by JayMiner and Dave Morse It used two chips, named Mikey and Suzy. Resolution was...
1988 by Jay Rubin. Critically panned at the time of publication, The Miner has since been reassessed for its literary innovation. In The Miner, the 19-year-old...
During a period where Atari had fewer hardware design needs, supervisor JayMiner allowed Neubauer to work on software that eventually developed into Star...
between home computer makers Atari, Inc. and Commodore International. JayMiner, one of the designers of the custom chips in the Atari 2600 and Atari...
chip for the Atari 8-bit home computer range and then later recruited JayMiner who had also worked on the graphics chip for the same machines. They formed...
objects known as player/missile graphics (sprites). Under the direction of JayMiner, the CTIA/GTIA chips were designed by George McLeod with technical assistance...
shown on a television screen or computer display. Under the direction of JayMiner, the chip was designed in 1977–1978 by Joe Decuir, Francois Michel, and...
thousand Skyline systems were operating the world over. Amiga inventor JayMiner himself ran a Skyline system for a time. With the terminal program JR-Comm...
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