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Re: Atari ST versus Commodore Amiga in pictures
« on: January 06, 2008, 07:13:44 AM »
>No you won't enjoy most of the games on the Atari which you like on the Amiga. Will you play The Great Giana Sisters on Atari ST without scroll? Come on - it scrolls even on 8 bit C64 but not on 16 Atari ST. And that's only a single example from many.

Probably works better on Atari 8-bit than on Atari ST as I have noticed with some software that does not require hi-res.  

I don't think a video clip does justice to either computer.  You can easily trick the Atari 8-bit hardware to show 32 apparent shades of a color and make a video which shows the Amiga with it's 16-shades and Atari ST with it's 8 shades per color, but that would not prove the Atari 8-bit was better than both Atari ST and Amiga.  Atari ST makers should have relied more on coprocessors rather than trying to mimic the Mac which was overburdening the 68000 CPU with the tasks the Atari 8-bit and Amiga did with coprocessors.

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