Amiga Ranger Prototype Found!

[psxphill]

Whats interesting is that a few weeks ago I was standing with Dave Needle, Bob Burns and Dale Luck and I mentioned "lorraine", Dave said "ok what is that, I cant remember?" Bob Burns remark was "well the internet says it was ....".

Supposedly it was a code name to hide exactly what it was they were working on. As such you can't blame the internet as what it says was reported in the press before the world wide web even existed. As the press could only know what they were told they should probably look closer to home for any inaccuracies. I'd love to know what it was actually used for, as well as when the "Amiga PC" name came and went.

[Nebulon]

As an update to this. Brian's book actually quotes part of Jay Miner's June 1988 Amiga User International interview re. the follow-up chipset to OCS from 1986/1987. So that puts it's design/development prior to the Amiga 500 and 2000 being launched and it doesn't sound like it has anything to do with what became ECS either.

To quote Jay, "Commodore now has a high resolution chip set of Amiga chips that I worked on when we were with Amiga in Los Gatos. These chips use video RAM and can produce a very high resolution ten twenty four display..."

The chips may not be in that case featured in the photo, but it sounds like they do indeed exist -- somewhere. At very least, the designs.