Atari ST versus Commodore Amiga in pictures

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monami wrote:
i'm sure the amiga was the same. surface mounting and all...

Not at all, the original Atari ST was essentially built around the same design ideas as Atari's old 8bit machines... except that it used a very powerful and modern CPU and a lot of RAM... for the time.

The Amiga brought a whole new set of rules to the table...

Stereo PMC Audio
CoProcessors
Dedicated hardware acceleration
DMA
etc...
the list is endless...

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monami wrote:
thanks bloodline you proved my point! earlier in the thread you will see why i said the amiga 500 should not be compaired to the st. as it was 2 years later. the amiga 1000 is the only fair comparison. goodnight folks. :-)

The ST can be compared with the A500 for three reasons:

The ST was built in response to the Amiga (later renamed the A1000).
The ST was actively marketed against the A500.
The ST was upgraded (though not significantly) over the course of it's life cycle during it's competition with the A500.

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persia wrote:
Ok, So if you took all the products of all the dead computer companies, Amiga would be the best.  The video is lame.

That's a rather nice summary...


I thought the video was quite good hopefully it will inspire someone to make a version with split-screen game Amiga/ST gameplay :-)

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monami wrote:
i've just found a midi interface for amiga. where can i find a legal copy of cubase? thanks.

I always hated cubase, still do (all here know I'm a Logic Pro guy now)... For the Amiga, I always loved OctaMED for MIDI and sampling.