Amiga 1200 versus Atari Falcon?

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The sad thing about the Falcon was that Atari again did something stupid and tried to make it cheap and sell it for too much.

The TT030 had a faster CPU, was actually 32bit through and through, but was just missing the DSP and extra video modes of the Falcon.

The TT030 came out before it did as well.  

I would still like to own a Falcon, but other posters were correct, there really weren't that many pieces of software that were Falcon specific.  Whereas there were a LOT of AGA software made.

Actually there are probably a comparable amount of software that is RTG Only for the Amiga as there are Falcon Only software that used the higher color depth.  Even less software that actually took advantage of the TT030.

I personally love both, but was raised more of an Atari person.

I currently own an Atari 800XL, 130XE, 1040ST, Mega STe, TT030 and an Amiga 4000.  I used to have an Amiga 500, but I'm not 100% sure what happened to it.  I know it died long ago, just not sure where it is now though.

I was always rather jealous of the AmigaOS, Atari TOS/Gem sucked as stock.

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So during this discussion I was looking up some technical specs, and ran into this;

http://www.atarimuseum.com/computers/16bits/stpad.html

It's sad how Atari actually had so many awesome ideas, but much like Commodore, was mismanaged and especially toward the end, were just plain stupid.

Dumping all of their computer related research to push the Atari Jaguar was a huge mistake.  While the Jaguar was cool, they didn't even do that right.  They needed better developer documentation and more actual developers.  

Sadly, the way everything has gone, the only arena where we really see competition is in the smart phone business.  There will most likely never be arguments on the technical merits of hardware like there used to be.  The closest I've seen is between Xbox 360 and Playstation 3.  But it's not like the good ol' days of telling your buddy that just paid $250 bucks for a sound card so he could have stero sound in his IBM that you already have stereo sound in your Amiga.

Guess that's what 'they' call 'progress'.

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