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Shoonay 10:57 15th June 2009
No idea, never had one
But it was incredibly funny seeing constant complaints from Atari users at all those paper mags where they kept on nagging about "why the @#@#$ don't you review Atari games!"
And that was since I got me very own precious A600 in 1993.
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Built in midi ports, and a vast array of synth editor / sequencer software makes it a WIN. Limited sound and video abilities make it a fail. I suppose it depends what you want from the system
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woody.cool 08:09 2nd July 2009
In my opinion, the ST was an 'epic fail' .... the STE should have been the machine to arrive at that stage, in which case, the Amiga would have had some healthy competition.
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toomanymikes 21:18 4th July 2009
v85rawdeal 23:14 4th July 2009
The Atari STE...
...One step up from an STD!!!
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Cortona 19:47 5th July 2009
Originally Posted by woody.cool:
In my opinion, the ST was an 'epic fail' .... the STE should have been the machine to arrive at that stage, in which case, the Amiga would have had some healthy competition.
Wasn't the ST rushed out in typical Jack Tramiel style? I'm sure he was desperate to beat the Amiga to market. Like other tyrants (yes, you, Steve Jobs) he would enforce impossible deadlines on his workforce and end up with a product first to market but not quite as good as it could have been.
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Harrison 10:24 6th July 2009
Yep. Atari lost their attempt to obtain the Amiga to Commodore, so they had to quickly design their own 16-bit computer to compete with Commodore.
The shortcomings of the ST were due to components needing to be off the shelf to save development time, and to get the system out quickly they didn't have the time to develop their own OS so they purchased the rather dire GEM desktop, which already existed as an OS for the PC.
In contrast the Amiga as we know was well designed from the ground up with custom hardware chips, and the OS was well designed specifically to take advantage of the custom chipset and hardware design. Making it a long way ahead of the ST.
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Thunderhawk 15:36 10th July 2009
i got an c64 then i got amiga 600 because i wanted monkey island 2 lechucks revenge, i never got atari st i liked the advert for it tho it had the song sun shine on the rain again, does anyone remember it
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Harrison 15:53 10th July 2009
I don't remember any ST adverts. Maybe you could find the advert on youtube?
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v85rawdeal 17:24 11th July 2009
The ad I remember had lost of computery looking icons whizzing around the screen and then flying into the disk drive slot on the ST... (
Or maybe I just dreamed it...)
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