Lol no I remember the Amiga winning (I'm 27) at the time but it's good to get the outside view on this. Just trying to get the Atari owners out in the open. Before a blast of Operation Thunderbolt hehheh no only jkin
I brought mine into school at the time to show off multitasking Octamed with Deluxe Paint on an A500 in front of everyone, all from floppies.
Eventually i got a kickstart 2.04 ROM and switcher then Super Denise and modded for 1Mb chip RAM. Also had a 1084SD1 monitor and a friend was always teasing me as his cm8833 didn't have burn-in unlike mine which had it on the top right corner (went light green in green screen mode)
Finally I got an A1200 with 80Mb hard disk, midi interface, sampler, blizzard 1230 030 with mmu 50MHz and 8Mb RAM. Alas I remember selling it at the time to get a PC - sold it for £115 I believe. Sold all my music composition floppies with it (grr) as I didn't think the PC would ever read the disks. However only now am I wishing I kept the floppies.
Alas I'm trying to obtain one again though the one I bought on ebay never arrived, so I just have a CM8833 monitor on it's own waiting to be used.
So I remember it well.
However it's easy to think you won when you love the Amiga. Bring back some of the Atari owners.
Also remember on the A1200 using VistaPro creating flypasts of landscapes - using the MMU in the 030 meant it was possible to produce an endless animation as big as the hard disk and rendering time would permit, with overscan. This was done by joining up all the frames into an iff anim file, then playing it back from the workbench screen. This was just neat, and so far I couldn't actually do the same on the PC because the tv-out produces a black border.
I mean I just laughed once when I played a med module at home, went over an Atari ST owners place and he fired up a tracker. Every time he clicked on something the tracker paused slightly, and my hunch was that it was indeed as naff for multitasking as people made out.
However I never saw an STE or Falcon in action so I can't comment on those. So it would be interesting to see if these were any better.
