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For whoever,

the reason the AMIGA games were better when the coders started using the hardware was a few reasons.

1) Bit shifter Copper _Led to very smooth gaming, no screen jumping. Also realy realy clever and simple way to make smooth transition and text scrolling. Even today PCs still have a hard time without expensive rendering software that does frame by frame.

2) More colours. It just had more colours able to be displayed all at once.

3) Sound - 4 channel 8 bit sound with extra 6 bit volume control. Later it was found you could actully use those bits to produce 14 bit sound form the channels.

4) multitude of hardware upgrade and expandability. Zorro side slot on 500 and trapdoor expansion led to easy path for upgrade.

5) a MIDI interface cost you $5 in parts to build and plug in and use on your AMIGA. And before some of you start complaining, I built mine in 1983 for $12

Do I think AMIGA is better than ATARI, in an over all opinion, yes. I think it was a better PC for what it had. ATARI is still a wonderful PC too. I think it's a shame neither one of them survived. One of them should have stood a chance. Now, hopefully, one WILL!!!

GO A1  )wooot wooot!!

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@yogisumo

>>I'm not trying to trash the Atari. I could care less. It just seems to be a little ridiculous to deem a computer to be "designed" for midi because of an extra connector or two on the back of the machine.

Actually, I think Doomy may have to have some credit here. It is well known that because of these extra ports(midi)in the back and year this was all released, made the ATARI the music choice for the time.

Infact, any serious musician with key had one. Cubase was written for and origionally developed for the ATARI and this little computer was considered to be the "Standard" at that time for any serious sequencing and control of midi devices. It's either that or big $$$$$ and I mean big! remeber it's not 2004

Cubase is now written and still WIDLY used but now on PC as MIDI is very common and MIDI 2 is strating to take off as MIDI is too slow and restrictive.

SO really, your just snobbing off the ATARI for having those extra ports is a little short sighted and un informed. But hey!! now you know.