No entry for Argonaut's A.T.A.C.?

Aegis · 30 January 2016, 16:12

I was working at Argonaut when A.T.A.C. was canned and as I recall it was pretty much finished.

Adrian Browne · 31 January 2016, 00:29

Interesting. What are the chances of finding a playable build?
There's a mention of it on youtube [ Show youtube player ]

s2325 · 31 January 2016, 00:42

This slideshow is based on scans only, I have not something more.

alexh · 31 January 2016, 07:22

There was no sign of the Amiga or Atari ST versions on the company server when I was there in 1997. The DOS version got released?

Aegis · 31 January 2016, 14:09

I'm pretty sure it was done but when Microprose saw it they weren't happy with the performance (it was slow even on a A4000/040 - I tested it on mine) - it'd be a shame if it's lost because I imagine under WinUAE or on an 060/FPGA Amiga it'd run quite nicely.

Development was done on a pair of A3000's and I'm aware of 3 Argonaut programmers that worked on it - Jon, Adam and one whose name escapes me - artists on it (adapting the 256-colour artwork to Amiga/ST) were Scott and I think a chap called Matt.

kamelito · 01 February 2016, 13:06

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Originally Posted by alexh

There was no sign of the Amiga or Atari ST versions on the company server when I was there in 1997. The DOS version got released?

How about Argasm

Kamelito

alexh · 01 February 2016, 22:39

I took the one remaining A3000 when I left Argonaut. The PSU had blown (there was an interesting story about how but i don't remember it) and it had been removed. Now useless it ended up being used as a monitor stand by one of the artists. I was able to persuade her to swap it for an old PC. Replacement PSU and it fired up first time

I met the previous A3000 user, who no longer worked at Argonaut, at an employees (Bodge aka Jon Sanders) house party. I don't remember his name for sure maybe Krister Wombell?

No sign of a.t.a.c.

Don_Adan · 01 February 2016, 22:46

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Originally Posted by alexh

I took the one remaining A3000 when I left Argonaut. The PSU had blown (there was an interesting story about how but i don't remember it) and it had been removed ending up being used as a monitor stand by one of the artists. I was able to persuade her to swap it for an old PC.

I met the previous A3000 user, who no longer worked at Argonaut, at an employees (Bodge aka Jon Sanders) house party. I don't remember his name for sure maybe Krister Wombell?

No sign of a.t.a.c.

You can try undelete option for this A3000 HD. If ATAC files were deleted, you can recover something.

Aegis · 02 February 2016, 00:40

Hmm... the name Krister rings a bell but he wasn't working on Amiga stuff so far as I know (and A.T.A.C. was the last Amiga game Argonaut did). Did your A3000 have a small, square Boing Ball sticker on it by any chance? If so then that was definitely one of the dev machines.

alexh · 02 February 2016, 13:27

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Originally Posted by Don_Adan

You can try undelete option for this A3000 HD. If ATAC files were deleted, you can recover something.

I don't remember if it had a drive but if it did, the contents would have been backed up before doing anything. I have lots of archives from Argonaut days. Mainly SNES development including Starfox 2. That was because I was based at ATL (Argonaut Technologies LTD) which was the SuperFX (later renamed ARC) side of the business. Nothing with atac or a_t_a_c or anything like that is in any archive.

Not sure if undelete was available for AmigaOS out of the box. But for sure I wouldn't have thought to have tried it.

The A3000 was swapped for an A4000 in 1999 so I don't have the machine nor the actual drive anymore and lost touch with the person who does.

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Originally Posted by Aegis

Hmm... the name Krister rings a bell but he wasn't working on Amiga stuff so far as I know (and A.T.A.C. was the last Amiga game Argonaut did).

I know the A3000 user didn't work for Argonaut when I was there (1997-98). And I know I met him at a party. I just looked at the credits for a few Argonaut Amiga games and that was the first one that rang a bell. But... after a long hard think i believe the A3000 owner was actually someone called "Danny Emmett"

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Originally Posted by Aegis

Did your A3000 have a small, square Boing Ball sticker on it by any chance? If so then that was definitely one of the dev machines.

Not that I remember. As I said I don't have it now. There may be some photos of it at my house. I'll check.

alexh · 02 February 2016, 13:43

What is interesting the credits for A.T.A.C. have Sam Littlewood as lead coder. I sat between him and Pete Warnes when I joined ATL. Both very smart guys.

I remember Jez San always had the newest, fastest car. Lotus Elise, Nissan Skyline etc. I was 19 or 20 and just learned to drive but had no car. I remember Sam had just bought a very cool classic car, a Triumph Stag. Which got me into classic cars.

30 January 2016, 16:12	#1
Aegis Gentleman Join Date: Dec 2015 Location: The Fortesque Mansion Posts: 248	No entry for Argonaut's A.T.A.C.? I was working at Argonaut when A.T.A.C. was canned and as I recall it was pretty much finished.

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alexh Thalion Webshrine Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Oxford Posts: 14,337	I took the one remaining A3000 when I left Argonaut. The PSU had blown (there was an interesting story about how but i don't remember it) and it had been removed. Now useless it ended up being used as a monitor stand by one of the artists. I was able to persuade her to swap it for an old PC. Replacement PSU and it fired up first time I met the previous A3000 user, who no longer worked at Argonaut, at an employees (Bodge aka Jon Sanders) house party. I don't remember his name for sure maybe Krister Wombell? No sign of a.t.a.c. Last edited by alexh; 01 February 2016 at 22:45.

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alexh Thalion Webshrine Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Oxford Posts: 14,337	What is interesting the credits for A.T.A.C. have Sam Littlewood as lead coder. I sat between him and Pete Warnes when I joined ATL. Both very smart guys. I remember Jez San always had the newest, fastest car. Lotus Elise, Nissan Skyline etc. I was 19 or 20 and just learned to drive but had no car. I remember Sam had just bought a very cool classic car, a Triumph Stag. Which got me into classic cars. Last edited by alexh; 02 February 2016 at 13:49.

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