Wasn't the Atari ST during his tenure as well? That was an excellent little mach...

OzzyB · on April 9, 2012

Well the ST definitely got alot of love from musicians due to the MIDI ports that it had.

Now that was forward thinking -- brought MIDI sequencing to the masses.

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The C64 is also getting alot of love today from musicians due to the wonderful soundchip it had.

There is a great company called "MidiBox" that provides kits for you make your own "8bit soundmachines".

http://www.ucapps.de/midibox_sid.html

dgallagher · on April 9, 2012

Yeah. The wiki article has a list of what they released: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_Corporation

One neat thing they were developing, but never came to light, was Jaguar VR. It was a virtual reality headset, using IR-tracking, which let you play VR games. Only a few working prototypes exists:

VR headset: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFZCgNBxkcM

Game shown: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJmnmRzWipo

Another of VR headset: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1NCQJrd-4rk

Tichy · on April 10, 2012

Must check the state of Oids simulators. I always was envious of my friend with his Atari ST, because Oids looked so cool...