Flare Technology

Flare Technology

Flare Technology was a computer hardware company based in Cambridge, United Kingdom. It was founded in 1986 by Martin Brennan, Ben Cheese, and John Mathieson, former engineers at Sinclair Research.

Flare Technology first worked for Amstrad before developing a technology-demonstrator system called "Flare One" ["Flare", "Personal Computer World", August 1988.] . The Flare One was intended as a home computer or games console with extensive audio and video capabilities. It was related to the "Loki" project they had worked on previously at Sinclair Research, which in turn was derived from the ZX Spectrum home computer.

The Flare One was used in some arcade game cabinets ["Advanced Computer Entertainment", issue 11, August 1988.] and further developed into the Konix Multisystem "Slipstream" prototype. Flare later developed the unreleased Atari Panther.

Martin Brennan and John Mathieson went on to design the Flare II, which was purchased by Atari and became Atari Jaguar.

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