Things to do in summer in Pagonia:
🎣Catch your daily fish
🐸Watch cute frogs at the lake
🍴Eat a delicious meal outside
🌊Take a dip in the ocean
#screenshotsaturday
In Memory of Jay Miner, the Father of the Amiga
Today, June 20, marks 32 years since we lost Jay Miner — the brilliant engineer and visionary who gave the world the Amiga.
Born on May 31, 1932, Miner’s passion for pushing hardware to its creative limits changed computing forever. His legacy still inspires retro enthusiasts, game developers, and tinkerers decades later.
Jay is best remembered as the driving force behind the AMIGA, launched in 1985 by Commodore. The Amiga 1000 was revolutionary: stunning graphics (up to 4096 colors), rich 4-channel stereo sound, and true preemptive multitasking years before it became standard on other platforms. Powered by a Motorola 68000 CPU and Miner’s custom chips — Agnus, Denise, and Paula — it became the ultimate machine for gamers, artists, musicians, and video creators.
From Defender of the Crown and Deluxe Paint to the Video Toaster, the Amiga didn’t just run software — it unleashed creativity like nothing before it. "Only Amiga Makes it Possible" was how Amiga was known!
Before the Amiga, Miner helped define home gaming and computing at Atari. He co-designed the groundbreaking TIA chip for the Atari 2600 (the heart of classics like Space Invaders and Pong) and led the graphics architecture for the Atari 400/800 computers.
Jay didn’t just build machines — he built dreams. He believed computers should empower people to create, play, and imagine. On June 20, 1994, we lost a true pioneer and every modern system owes a debt to his forward-thinking designs.
What did Jay Miner’s work mean to you?
RIP Jay Miner. Thank you for the Amiga
Die Fotos vom ATN Media Day sind da! @f4nz000 hat so einen tollen Blick entwickelt für die richtigen Momente. Freue mich immer sehr, mit ihm zu arbeiten.
Ich bin grad bei der Nachbearbeitung und Freistellung, das "wuselige Haare freistellen"-Game habe ich perfektioniert.