A short history

Cortex Design was originally formed in 1989 to develop the highly-successful Reflex Graphic Card, which proved an inexpensive method to produce extra-high resolutions for the Atari Mega ST (up to 1024x1024) in monochrome. Not only was support given to 21" monitors, but it was even possible to realise 1024x800 on standard SM124 monitors!

Spurred on by this, we then developed the Exposé video digitizer for the Atari Falcon. Once again, this proved to be a sure-fire success and, with Douglas Little, this benefited the Falcon, particularly with the introduction of APEX Media in December 1994.

Following this, many other products were developed: Thought! Ideas Processor, a powerful software package, and the Eclipse PCI Adaptor being the most popular.

But with Atari sales sadly in decline the situation was reappraised and Cortex diversified into other fields, namely: Art & Graphics, Freelance journalism, Web design and Publishing.