Rj is well known but lets not forget dave needle who passed away last year. They also created the 3do from scratch.
Re:The Amiga Boing Ball Explained
by justinsaccount on Sunday August 21, 2016 @12:22PM
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Also, about a minute into the video is a clip of the ball bouncing, which is a lot more impressive than the static ball in the linked article.
The bouncing sound: took a platic bat (used for working out 'disagreements') and hit an alumimum garage door while digitizing the interior sound of the garage with an apple II, and masaging the digital data to play on the Amiga.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJcO628yCcU
For readers following along at home, R.J. Mical [1] was a co-inventor of the Atari Lynx [2]:
"Under the auspices of a game company called Epyx I was co-inventor of the first color hand-held game system, the Lynx, which finally was acquired by Atari.
I was co-designer of the Lynx hardware system, and I implemented an entire software development suite including a run-time library of hardware interface routines and a celebrated set of debugging, art and audio tools. We received many patents for the Lynx.
In addition, we developed 6 games to be available at the launch of the system. I produced these 6 titles, was co-designer of several of them, and managed the programmers, artists and audio/music designers." [3]
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_J._Mical
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_Lynx
[3] http://www.mical.org/workhistory