Amiga Technologies
The Amiga Technologies GmbH was a wholly owned subsidiary of Escom , which temporarily the rights to the Amiga computer system, initially described by Commodore International was developed possessed.
Amiga Technologies was founded by Escom in mid-1995 and took over some employees from Commodore, including Petro Tyschtschenko as managing director. The subsidiary put the Amiga 1200 back into production, shortly afterwards also the Amiga 4000T . They also wanted to develop a new generation of computers that would make the step from MC680x0 to PowerPC . A collaboration with the company phase 5 digital products was discussed. But that didn't happen until Escom ended.
Despite the large sales of the old Amiga models, Escom did not have the money to advance the development. The Walker prototype presented at CeBIT 1996 , still with old MC680x0 technology, was a big disappointment.
In mid-1996 Escom went bankrupt and VisCorp , an American manufacturer of set-top boxes , signed a purchase agreement for Amiga Technologies. However, it turned out that the company was unable to raise the purchase price of $ 40 million.
Surprisingly, the PC manufacturer Gateway 2000 acquired all rights and patents from Amiga. Amiga Technologies - still under the direction of Petro Tyschtschenko - became Amiga International , and Amiga, Inc. was also founded in the USA as a development department.
On August 31, 2010, Amiga Inc. announced on its website that Commodore USA had taken over the exclusive rights for the introduction of a new generation of keyboard computers under the brand name Amiga . After Barry Altman died in early December 2012 at the age of 63, the company Commodore USA was also discontinued.
Web links
- Amiga.com website ( Memento from October 1, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) (October 2017)
- Interview with Petro Tyschtschenko from Amiga Technologies
- Petro Tyschtschenko's autobiography