Amiga vs Atari - was there any real competition?

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Amiga vs Atari - was there any real competition?

No! :-)

I had and STE for a very short time, it just never grabbed me, personal preference i guess.
Once the Amiga started to get less game ports from the ST,  the Amiga really started to shine.

As for the music side, an extremely cheap midi connector and various great music apps, it was well catered for.

All in all, yeah it was fun times :-)

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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.

There may have been a very slight mhz difference on the A500 vs the ST and it may have showed ever so slightly on 1 r 2 games but that would have been all lost once the ST used sampled sounds as it seemed to eat at the CPU cycles.
Paula and the rest of the chipset was indeed unmatched.
IIRC also, hardware scrolling was not available on the ST, unlike the Amiga and C64!