Mickey

Mickey was Atari’s planned version of the Amiga computer, developed March-July 1984. It would have been sold as a game console for the first year with computer upgrades available after that point. The project leader was Tom Hogg, who had previously worked in the coin-op division. Tom named Mickey after his wife, just as Lorraine was named after Dave Morse's wife.

One key employee who was part of the Mickey project was Jerry Jessop. In late 1983, he visited Amiga's offices in Santa Clara and saw an early version of the Boing demo running on the Lorraine wire wraps. Technical documents were shared with Atari, including an early draft of the Hardware Manual.

The boards were made with the anticipation of the Amiga chipset being delivered. Three 48-pin sockets were labeled with the original part numbers for Agnus, Daphne and Portia.

Work on Mickey stopped following the sale of Atari's consumer division assets to Jack Tramiel. Nearly all Atari employees who had worked on the project opted to leave instead of being hired over to Jack's new Atari Corporation. Tom Hogg returned to coin-op, which was spun off into its own company: Atari Games.