Dave Haynie

David Bruce Haynie (born May 23, 1961 in Summit , New Jersey ) was one of the main developers of the C128 , Amiga 4000 and Amiga 1200 and is still very active in the Amiga community. He became particularly well known for his documentary The Deathbed Vigil about the last few days at the bankrupt computer manufacturer Commodore .

Commodore and Amiga

After completing his degree in electrical engineering and mathematics at Carnegie Mellon University , Dave Haynie started at Commodore in 1983 under the direction of Bil Herd on the completion of the home computers of the TED series ( Commodore 264 series , e.g. Plus / 4 or C16 ) to participate. After the takeover of Amiga by Commodore, Haynie was mainly responsible for the development of the Amiga 2000 . Together with Bob Welland, he worked on the CPU modules A2620 and A2630, which in 1989 in the computer models Amiga 2500 2500/30 came / 20 and Amiga to the market.

In 1989 he also began developing the Zorro III bus architecture and working on the Amiga 3000 , together with Greg Berlin, Hedley Davis, Jeff Boyer and Scott Hood.

After the Amiga 3000 was completed, Dave Haynie and Bob Raible were responsible for the AA system (code name Pandora ), the first Commodore computer system with 24-bit color technology. The AA system led to the A3000 + prototype and was eventually sold as the Amiga 4000 and Amiga 1200.

Then he began to work on a system for the Advanced Amiga Architecture chipset ( AAA , with 64-bit graphics). He also designed a new system architecture, the Acutiator Project , before Commodore stopped almost all projects at the end of 1993 due to financial difficulties.

Dave Haynie left Commodore in June 1994, one month after the company went bankrupt. Shortly thereafter, he released a documentary about the past few days on Commodore, The Deathbed Vigil and other tales of digital angst .

After the fall of Commodore

After his time at Commodore, Haynie worked for Scala, Inc., and in 1995, together with Andy Finkel, for Amiga Technologies , the company that emerged from Escom's purchase of the remains of Commodore . Haynie and Finkel designed a new generation of the Amiga platform, based on the PowerPC and a new version of the AmigaOS . Due to the financial problems at Escom, however, this development was stopped after a short time.

In 1996, Dave Haynie founded the start-up company PIOS Computer together with former employees of Amiga Technologies , which was later renamed Metabox . After the company's demise in 2001/2002, he joined Andy Finkel and two other former Commodore employees, Robert Russell and Neil Harris. Together they founded Fortele, Inc., a company that specialized in home networks. But this company could not survive in the market either.

Haynie is currently working on robot projects for Nomadio, Inc. He also runs his own multimedia consulting firm Frog Pond Media to pursue his interest in digital video and audio technology.

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SURNAME	Haynie, Dave
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Haynie, David Bruce (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American chip designer, is considered the father of the Amiga
DATE OF BIRTH	May 23, 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH	Summit , New Jersey