which is best for music Atari or Amiga

[Speelgoedmannetje]

It has a lot to do with the huge amount of craptastic OPL2/3 music from the days of DOS gaming, I think. 90% of games with AdLib/SB support just picked random fart noises from the Visual Composer instrument library or used some third-party sound library with equally wretched patches for GM sounds, and that unfairly colored a lot of people's perception of FM as a whole (when even the OPL2 was quite a capable sound chip for the few who bothered to make any good use of it.)

Granted, there was a fair amount of bad SID music, too, but far less in overall proportion - and bad subtractive synthesis just sounds tinny and dull; bad FM sounds like a gastrointestinal apocalypse.

There were quite some atmospheric usages of the OPL chips, like
dune 2:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WKBjmJCBHw
Doom:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwxR8kho_-c
Veil of Darkness:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSBHH2gZ9vE
Ascendancy:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-11W4NP1hM
Ultima Underworld:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bX4sPSXm3R0


To name a few.

[Speelgoedmannetje]

There were indeed; they were just unfortunately vastly outweighed by the crap...

But they were, to me, so memorable that I have forgotten the rest I guess.

Like there were a lot of crap games on the Miggy and the C64 (or any system), but everyone remembers the best few.

[Speelgoedmannetje]

All true Amiga lovers should probably own an ST anyway

JUST for saying when firing it up next to a Miggy: "ah this is by far not as good as the Amiga"