Dave Haynie

David Bruce Haynie (* May 23, 1961 in Summit, New Jersey) was one of the main developers of the C128, Amiga 4000 and Amiga 1200 and is still very active in the Amiga community. Particularly well known he was due to his documentary The Deathbed Vigil over the last few days when the bankrupt computer manufacturer Commodore.

Commodore and Amiga

After completing his studies in electrical engineering and mathematics at Carnegie Mellon University Dave Haynie began in 1983 as Commodore headed by Bil Herd at the completion of the home computers of the TED series ( Commodore 264 series, for example plus / 4 or C16) to participate. Following the acquisition of Amiga by Commodore Haynie was mainly responsible for the development of the Amiga 2000. Together with Bob Welland, he worked on the CPU modules A2620 and A2630, which came in the computer models Amiga 2500/20 and Amiga 2500/30 1989 on the market.

In 1989 he also began with the development of the Zorro III bus architecture and the work on the Amiga 3000, together with Greg Berlin, Hedley Davis, Jeff Boyer and Scott Hood.

After the completion of the Amiga 3000 Dave Haynie was responsible for the AA system (codename Pandora ) together with Bob Raible, the first Commodore computer system with 24 -bit color technology. The AA system led to the A3000 prototype and was eventually sold as the Amiga 4000 and Amiga 1200.

Then he started on a system for the Amiga Advanced Architecture chipset (AAA, 64 -bit graphics) to work. He designed nor a new system architecture, the Acutiator Project before Commodore due to the financial difficulties ceased almost all projects in late 1993.

Dave Haynie left Commodore in June 1994, one month after the bankruptcy of the company. Shortly thereafter he released a documentary about the last days at Commodore, The Deathbed Vigil and other tales of digital angst.

After the demise of Commodore

After the time at Commodore Haynie worked for Scala, Inc., and 1995, together with Andy Finkel, for Amiga Technologies, the company that originated from the purchase of the remains of Commodore by Escom. Haynie and Finkel designed a new generation of Amiga platform, based on the PowerPC and a new version of AmigaOS. Due to the financial problems at Escom this development, however, was canceled after a short time.

In 1996, Dave Haynie, together with former employees of the Amiga Technologies start -up companies DIOS computer, which was later renamed Metabox. After the demise of the company 2001/2002 he joined Andy Finkel and two other former Commodore employees, Robert Russell and Neil Harris, at. Together, they formed Fortele, Inc., a company that specialized in home networks. But this company could not survive in the market.

Currently Haynie for Nomadio, Inc. is working on robot projects. By the way he runs his own multimedia consulting firm Frog Pond Media, in order to follow his interest in digital video and audio technology.