Isnt there something we can learn from them?

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Can it multi task?

Yay! It's like being back in 1991!

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But it has built-in midi

Yea but it has joystick ports UNDERNEATH it!!  :lol:

Aaaaah, this brings me back  

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I've got an identical boxed ST setup, it's all I can do to keep from leaving it out for the trash man.

The wedge makes for a good doorstep.

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I have recently checked them out to see what is going on as well actually. Funny thing is - I couldn't really find a popular hub/forum for Atari-land that seemed to have some excitement or at least interesting conversation. Am I blind???

Yea, I remember reading a few years ago that thew Atari scene was finally dead.

Not Amiga-like dead, but actually DEAD.

A quick glance at atari.org seems to confirm this.

Although I had no love for the ST, it is quite sad that the scene is finally over  

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C= had their share of retardation by releasing the 128 around the same time as Amiga and the rebranding of the C64c but at least they made far fewer model mistakes than Atari. Guess they always considered themselves competition, which was too bad. Competing against yourself NEVER works. Not in the 80's or 90's anyway. And we're not talking about auto's either. Perfect example of what I'm trying to convey is how GM and Chrysler dropped a few lines each. Why? Because they had too many brands that were ALL the same. Hardly any variance and people knew that.

Bottom line: no such thing as product loyalty anymore. Not since the floodgates of cheap ass disposable consumer electronics were made possible thanks to the administration of Silly Billy Clinton

Never mind that, CBM were selling bloddy PC's at the same time as they were "selling" the Amiga line.

Commodore didn't release Amigas - They escaped!!

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You guys live under rocks, obviously even I know more about the current Atari community, which is somewhat scary. The least you can do is to try out Aranym with AFROS to see what relatively modern Atari usage is about: http://aranym.sourceforge.net/

lol

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All joking aside, the ST was mighty stable and smooth as a powerful midi sequencer. I mean, seriously- it was solid enough to use on stage (it was up to you how to mount it in a rack out of sight) back then, something the PC still isnt reliable enough for.

It didnt do much else very well, but I have to give it props as a midi platform.

Yeah.  It's basically a glorified Sequencer.

An Alesis MMT-8, only with a sh1tty screen included.

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Yeah, thats the point imho...

At present days maybe atari have the worst games compares to the amiga but the hardware scene seems cool on the atari side, we (amigans) speak about future but future is not for the amiga computer, maybe is more fun 68k world with new hardware like this atari projects than amigaone x1000.

But there only are 3 Atari users in the whole wide world these days.

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3 atari users... then my congratulations, 3 users and 68060 up to 100mhz, coldfire...

PS: I dont have any atari machine and im not on the atari scene.

Good news!!  I have located the 3 Atari users!!

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=18624709872

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Atari Falcon chips has chunky mode, AGA has not.
Therefore, writing software for the Atari with the original chips, may still be a nice enjoyable hobby and give much joy.
When writing software for the Amiga with original chips done by Commodore  is humiliating hard boring work.

Does Akiko on the CD32 make it easier?