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Title: Atari Falcon is it what the A1200 should have been?
Post by: swoslover on April 17, 2008, 11:29:54 PM
I know it wasn't a success but looking at the processing power and how it was packaged into a similar case, should the a1200 have been more like the falcon?
Title: Re: Atari Falcon is it what the A1200 should have been?
Post by: bloodline on April 17, 2008, 11:31:17 PM
From a technical point a of view, yes the Falcon was everything the A1200 should have been...
Title: Re: Atari Falcon is it what the A1200 should have been?
Post by: Plaz on April 17, 2008, 11:34:01 PM
Going back to when both companies were struggling, maybe they could have joined forces and developed a combined machine together instead of going bankrupt separately....


Intruducing the CommAtari 12000!

I'll leave it to others to fill out the specs. :-)


Plaz
Title: Re: Atari Falcon is it what the A1200 should have been?
Post by: redrumloa on April 17, 2008, 11:35:45 PM
Troll!! :whack:
Title: Re: Atari Falcon is it what the A1200 should have been?
Post by: djbase on April 17, 2008, 11:35:51 PM
Well, the Falcon might have nice specs but the design isn't that good as it could be.
Title: Re: Atari Falcon is it what the A1200 should have been?
Post by: Speelgoedmannetje on April 17, 2008, 11:53:26 PM
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Plaz wrote:
Intruducing the CommAtari 12000!

Or the Amitari..
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I'll leave it to others to fill out the specs. :-)
 
:lol:


Anyhoo, there were Amiga h/w engineers part of the development team of the Atari Falcon, weren't there?
Title: Re: Atari Falcon is it what the A1200 should have been?
Post by: HopperJF on April 17, 2008, 11:53:59 PM
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DJBase wrote:
Well, the Falcon might have nice specs but the design isn't that good as it could be.


Very true, I agree that the Atari specs are much better overall, but the Amiga 1200 is a lot nicer to look at  :-)
Title: Re: Atari Falcon is it what the A1200 should have been?
Post by: bloodline on April 17, 2008, 11:54:16 PM
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Speelgoedmannetje wrote:

Anyhoo, there were Amiga h/w engineers part of the development team of the Atari Falcon, weren't there?


No. :-)
Title: Re: Atari Falcon is it what the A1200 should have been?
Post by: Speelgoedmannetje on April 18, 2008, 12:03:47 AM
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bloodline wrote:
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Speelgoedmannetje wrote:

Anyhoo, there were Amiga h/w engineers part of the development team of the Atari Falcon, weren't there?


No. :-)
ok ok ex- Amiga h/w engineers...
Title: Re: Atari Falcon is it what the A1200 should have been?
Post by: bloodline on April 18, 2008, 12:05:21 AM
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Speelgoedmannetje wrote:
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bloodline wrote:
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Speelgoedmannetje wrote:

Anyhoo, there were Amiga h/w engineers part of the development team of the Atari Falcon, weren't there?


No. :-)
ok ok ex- Amiga h/w engineers...


Still no... :-)
Title: Re: Atari Falcon is it what the A1200 should have been?
Post by: redrumloa on April 18, 2008, 12:08:11 AM
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Speelgoedmannetje wrote:
No. :-)
ok ok ex- Amiga h/w engineers...[/quote]

No, you are thinking of the Atari Lynx.
Title: Re: Atari Falcon is it what the A1200 should have been?
Post by: Speelgoedmannetje on April 18, 2008, 12:34:48 AM
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Speelgoedmannetje wrote:
No. :-)
ok ok ex- Amiga h/w engineers...


No, you are thinking of the Atari Lynx.
Yes I thought that ex-Amiga engineers were part of the development teams of the Atari Lynx, Falcon and Jaguar.
Title: Re: Atari Falcon is it what the A1200 should have been?
Post by: bloodline on April 18, 2008, 12:43:23 AM
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Speelgoedmannetje wrote:
No. :-)
ok ok ex- Amiga h/w engineers...


No, you are thinking of the Atari Lynx.
Yes I thought that ex-Amiga engineers were part of the development teams of the Atari Lynx, Falcon and Jaguar.


RJ Mical and Dave Needle from the original Amiga design team worked on the Lynx... the Lynx dev platform was an Amiga too... the Falcon and Jaguar were not Amiga related.
Title: Re: Atari Falcon is it what the A1200 should have been?
Post by: A1260 on April 18, 2008, 12:52:28 AM
it had svga 640x480 256 color. :-o

http://www.atarimuseum.com/computers/16bits/specifications-sheet.jpg
Title: Re: Atari Falcon is it what the A1200 should have been?
Post by: NovaCoder on April 18, 2008, 01:41:06 AM
I was an STFM owner when the Falcon was announced and it looked like a geat machine for the time.  Unfortunatly Atari were going a bit crazy then and kept changing the specs and the colour of the case.  I seem to remember that they downgraded the CPU interfaces from 32bit to 16bit just before release (cost cutting exercise).

Did it also do native chunky..I can't remember?

face off (http://groups.google.com/group/comp.sys.atari.st/msg/e498ac6ac3b5ec35?hl=en&)

 :-)
Title: Re: Atari Falcon is it what the A1200 should have been?
Post by: TjLaZer on April 18, 2008, 02:12:30 AM
It's an impressive machine. I own two!

It as a 68030/16MHz
16-bit color RGB and VGA capable!
IDE port (like 1200)
SCSI 2 external!
14MB internal RAM upgrade, (3rd party upgrades up to a 100MHz 060 avail!)
ST and TT RAM capable (Kinda like Chip/Fast)
compatible with earlier ST games but the 030 killed good compat.  (There are degrade utils to help though)

The OS sucks though!  TOS 4 was horrible compared to Amiga OS.