So did you ever have an atari computer?

[brownb2]

he was always going on about how the Atari had better sound than the Amiga, bit of a strange kid really, but that's the closest I've got to an Atari.

That's the Amiga envy. I briefly owned an Atari 520 STe (Turbo Pack - Outrun was ace) which was returned within 2 months due to an intermittently faulty mouse port. In that time the main "benefits" over an Amiga 500 were that it was faster (by 0.12 mhz or something ridiculous), it had a built in MIDI port (not a better sound chip!) and had a built in transformer (no foot warmer - but I consider that to be detrimental in the British winter). Even the STe couldn't better the Amiga 500, it had nothing like a HAM mode or hardware scrolling.

[brownb2]

@ Brownb2

Hmm... you weren't that strange kid by any chance were you ? :roflmao:

I'm only strange in that I think a little bit differently (like most people on here do...). My teenage friends all owned Atari 520/1040 ST(FMs) and later SNES and Jaguars. One even had 4MB upgrade on his ST for beginner C programming. I told him he'd NEVER use all of it (£200 IIRC) - ironically I was right . I was in fact the odd one out by getting an Amiga 500 Plus.

[brownb2]

I thought the ST was nice, but the Amiga was obviously (to me) much nicer, so I stretched for my first A500...  

I actually got an ST a bit ago from somewhere, but it's an Atari 520 STF..  No M.
Which I found out means I can't hook it to a TV, so it hasn't been hooked up.
desiv

IIRC Amiga owners looked down on STE owners, who in turn looked down on the STFM owners, who looked down on the STF owners who didn't give a rats as long as it wasn't an 8 bit since this was a serious machine requiring a monitor.