(1994) Designed by Swiss hardware wizard Fredi Aschwanden and originally manufactured by a German company MW Electronics, later by Lexicor in USA.
under
construction--pictures will soon be added (last updated 3/99
Summer of '94, Atari officially announces they have no further immediate plans to release any new computers and will instead support the Jaguar technology. However, the Atari tradition continued with it's European support
MEDUSA T40
(1994) Designed by Swiss hardware wizard Fredi
Aschwanden and originally manufactured by a German company MW
Electronics, later by Lexicor in USA.
The Medusa
actually comprised of two components, a Mainboard and a ST/IO
card. The Mainboard is a six-layer motherboard containing the
processor, RAM, ROM, a support for six expansion cards, one of
which is the ST/IO cards containing the ST chips. A typical
Medusa T40 comprised the following details.
>CPU : a Motorola 68040, the first for an Atari compatible,
running at 64MHz.
>RAM : 8 Mbytes on two PS/2 SIMMS, also 16Mb and 32Mb systems.
>ET4000 Colormaster 12+ ISA graphics card
>1.44Mb floppy drive and IDE hard drive.
optional cards included a VME-Bus card with ROM and DMA
connector, and a SCSI card with TT-compatible SCSI-I.
EAGLE
(1994) The Eagle was designed by Gero
Anschuetz, who created both the custom chips and the motherboard.
He formerly worked for Atari and eventually joined GeSoft. He
also designed the SCSI adaptor for ST computers.
GeSoft started by creating a motherboard which was processor and
bus independent, upgrading would then be a matter or replacing
individual cards instead of buying a whole new system.
Standard Eagle configurations included...
>The processor card. Some early German releases had 68030 CPUs
but most had a 68040.
>The RAM card could take up to 256Mbytes TT-RAM and up to
14Mbytes ST-RAM, using typical SIMMs.
>A VME card (graphics card) which was actually a SuperNova
card; 16.7M colors.
The Eagle's motherboard could contain two sets of ROMs, the TOS
3.06 ROMS and 32-bit wide open sockets for an additional OS.
SONOVISTA
( 1995) Marketed by BCS of Macclesfield UK, The
Sonovista is a full-video processing system based on the Falcon.
The Sonovista can generate over 5 trillion different effect combinations, which can be overlaid on to pre-recorded or live PAL video systems. With 10,000 locations for storing pre-defined sequences of effects and messages. Additional video capabilities such as genlocking, YC capabilities, and a host of others were available.
__ C-LAB FALCON
MK·II
(1995) At present, I haven't located my info
on this computer. The C-LAB version of the Falcon is designed in
the same STe-style case as the abandoned Atari model, with the
name plate changed. The audio performance of the new Falcons was improved and they upgraded the internal hard drive to a
540Mb SCSI...but all else is the same. Tools and software for
professional sound mixing were included in the MK-2 package. **click image-**
