Priest of the Order of the Butterfly
Posts: 874 from 2003/3/4
From: #AmigaZeux, Gu...
Quote:Andreas_Wolf wrote:
It was Alan Redhouse (Eyetech) who had the idea to directly use the Teron boards as designed by Bill Mueller in Fremont, California
Wasn't so much an idea as an act of desperation. Both Eyetech and Hyperion had been looking to Escena to produce the AmigaONE. We'll never know how Eyetech found the Teron instead - perhaps looking through a catalogue of PPC evaluation boards until something came up that was similar to Escena's planned board. Except in price, of course. It turned out to be a LOT more expensive than Hyperion had been telling people (no more expensive than PPC accelerator boards, I believe Ben said.)
A lot of previous marketing suddenly went quiet, most of which has been lost to time and is no longer on the internet. Tales of Alan distributing A4 printouts at Amiga shows warning people of the buggy Articia - before he adopted a board with it. AmigaONEs being able to plug in A1200s so you could still play your games. And lots of other nonsense.
In short, both Eyetech and Hyperion painted themselves into a corner and only got out by punching a hole in the wall, through which most of the market escaped.
