Jay Miner was not only responsible for the
custom coprocessors in the
Amiga, but he was also the designer of the
Stella chip in the extremely popular
Atari 2600 home
video game system.
One thing that is amazing about the products that Jay Miner produced is that they were not only extremely advanced in their own right, but they also had the capability of being hacked by clever programmers to go far beyond their original intentions. For example, the Stella chip was only really designed to do a damn good recreation of Circus Atari or Space Invaders. The fact that you can find games with unbelievable graphics (for the platform) such as Solaris and California Games on the Atari is support of this idea.