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Cinemaware interview and briefly touching on the Amiga
« on: March 16, 2011, 01:51:36 PM »
A friend put me onto this guy (Matt Chat) and I found him quite entertaining so thought Id share it with y'all. He has some pretty good things to say about the Amiga himself, but Jim Sachs (if that's his name, I cant recall for sure) doesnt seem quite as enthusiastic. Nonetheless its a decent watch if anyone cares to have a look. This "episode" focuses on Cinemaware.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5yYO4hrZ-A
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Near as I can tell this is where I write something under the guise of being innocuous, but really its a pot shot at another persons/peoples choice of Amiga based systems. Unfortunately only I cant see how transparent and petty it makes me look.
 

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Re: Cinemaware interview and briefly touching on the Amiga
« Reply #1 on: March 16, 2011, 02:39:40 PM »
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Jim Sachs (if that's his name, I cant recall for sure) doesnt seem quite as enthusiastic.


Bob Jacob, presumably. The founder of Cinemaware. I think it's not so much Amiga he isn't enthusiastic about, as it's Commodore's numerous bad decisions combined with rampant piracy that combined to help drive Cinemaware out of business.

This interview gives a pretty different feel. He cites them being late to move into the PC market combined with their deal with NEC (NEC bought 20% of Cinemaware when they needed  cash, in order to get them to develop for TurboGrafx-16, while "everyone" else developed for Sega Genesis or Super Nintendo instead)

Jim Sachs is a developer / graphics artist. He did the graphics for Defender of the Crown, and did the CD32 version of Defender of the Crown (development and new graphics), as well as graphics for Ports of Call and a few other games.
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Re: Cinemaware interview and briefly touching on the Amiga
« Reply #2 on: March 16, 2011, 02:48:16 PM »
Ah, thanks. I knew it sounded wrong (Jim Sachs) when I said it, but I was too lazy to go back and check  :)
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Re: Cinemaware interview and briefly touching on the Amiga
« Reply #3 on: March 16, 2011, 03:05:49 PM »
I'm a big fan of Matt Chat..
He's an old school gamer, RPG fan, AND an old Amiga user...
To quote a great American, "Duh, Winning!!"  :-)

A lot of his reviews cover non-Amiga games/versions, but he'll mention games/versions he played on his Amiga..  

He also has a few good books out as well..
(Dungeons and Desktops is a great book)

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Re: Cinemaware interview and briefly touching on the Amiga
« Reply #4 on: March 16, 2011, 04:01:34 PM »
Very nice. Thanks :)
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