Amiga Inc doesn't own rights to Amiga custom chips?

[redrumloa]

First I heard of this! Maybe someone should dial up Jack Tramiel?

Commodore responded by launching the even better Amiga, which was the ultimate games machine, but eventually, both companies ended up producing IBM PC clones (there was a very nasty dispute about who owned the Amiga chips, because Jack did a deal with the designers, but they took the view he'd been wearing his Commodore hat when they signed).

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Interesting... :-o

[Tahoe]

There is an interesting documentary on this on (I think) the bonus disk from Amiga Forever.
As we all know the Amiga was not designed by C= at all, at least not the A1000 which started it all. Jay Miner and his team, designing the Amiga, came in financial troubles and signed a contract with Atari loaning them money.
If they didn't repay their debt by a certain date the company would fall in Atari's hands. (including the Amiga, ofcourse). The company BTW was worth a lot more then what Atari had paid. Last minute Jay signed a contract with C= who paid the money jay owned Atari, getting the (c) for the Amiga....

So, to make a long story short: Tramiel almost owned the (c)...

[Thomas]

Amiga Inc doesn't own rights to Amiga custom chips?

AFAIK Amiga Inc. does not *own* anything Amiga related. All patents are still owned by Gateway. Amiga Inc. licensed only the name Amiga and the software (AmigaOS), nothing hardware related.

Bye,
Thomas

[uncharted]

redrumloa wrote:
First I heard of this!

Really? The Amiga-Atari thing is very well known

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Interesting... :-o

Don't rely on The Reg for solid facts.

[redrumloa]

uncharted wrote:
Really? The Amiga-Atari thing is very well known

I know the Atari-Amiga history, but this is Tramiel specific. I never heard in the Atari story about a battle over custom chip rights.