Looks like we have ANOTHER ex atari staffer amongst the AA usership

[carmel_andrews]

Like it says on the tin, it looks like we have another ex atari staffer amongst the AA usership

 

Welcome Les Player (unless you just happen to have the same name as the ex Atari UK technical director)

 

I seem to remember you went to work for an ST/Amiga software publisher (or was it Peter Walker) called Data Becker (or was it glentop press), after you left the big A

 

Any interesting titbits you want to lay on the usership here of your time at atari uk

[lp060]

He also did some work at GFA. I found him on the internet a while back and wrote him about GFA and he was kind enough to write back answers to my questions.

[Les Player]

Like it says on the tin, it looks like we have another ex atari staffer amongst the AA usership

 

Welcome Les Player (unless you just happen to have the same name as the ex Atari UK technical director)

 

I seem to remember you went to work for an ST/Amiga software publisher (or was it Peter Walker) called Data Becker (or was it glentop press), after you left the big A

 

Any interesting titbits you want to lay on the usership here of your time at atari uk

 

Hi, Yes it is me. I left Atari (1990) to set up GFA in UK and USA and eventually took on responsibility for the German GFA company, working in Germany. The GFA parent company Integral Hydraulic then hit big financial problems and was unable to support GFA development- we had just completed GFA Basic for Windows, but needed more development- (Windows was a moving target). I then returned to the UK to establish Data Becker UK. (1994 - 2001). - where I discovered Arcon (3D Home Design). I then spent from 2001 - 2009 developing the Arcon software products via 3D Architect Ltd / Online Warehouse and eventually Eleco Plc.

 

However I still think the Atari days (1982-1990) (both the Warner Atari and the Tramiel Atari) were the most exciting.

 

Reading all this info re Atari and GFA brings back many memories- but it seems many here have better (and some times alternative) memories than me. I still do have my original Atari 400- purchased just before joining Atari.

Peter Walker was an external marketing consultant- was not an employee of Atari.

Glentop Press was the original UK distributor og GFA Basic.

 

I have loads of my Atari colleagues in my LinkedIn connections- so if you want to bring back some more Atari names into your memory find me in LinkedIn. Happy to connect via LinkedIn with anyone that I met in the Atari/GFA days.

 

All the best

 

Les