The Atari Glossary: "M"

MARIA

The chipset's name for the Atari "7800". The "Maria"-chipset was developed for Atari by "GCC" (General Computer Corporation). "Maria" also was the nickname for the Atari "7800" in its development-stage (besides Atari "3600"). >>7800

MATHIESON, JOHN

Back in 1986, John Mathieson, together with Martin Brennan, founded a company called "Flare". They started development for a new-generation video-game console: the "Jaguar". Later Atari, together with Brennan and Mathieson, founded "Flare II" to finish the project. >>jaguar >>flare >>brennan

MIDWAY