Heresy! I've just bought an Atari STFM. AMA.

[brownb2]

I purchased an Atari STFM yesterday, as many years ago I briefly owned an Atari 520 STE (Turbo Pack) before my A500 Plus I felt the need to go back to a lesser computer and give it a a second chance.

If you're wondering why I switched to the Amiga - I had to return it to Kay's catalogue, the awkward mouse port underneath the STE was intermittent and would switch off - something my friend's STEs and STFM didn't do. I didn't give it a second chance as the 500 Plus had just been released in a Cartoons Classic pack and was a visibly better machine (albeit with an annoying foot warmer).

I'm now going to have to cope with just 512 colours, awkward joystick ports, worse graphics, and unforgivablely no cheap mass storage option or separate audio outputs. I love retro stuff. I'll use my old foot warmer in Winter however.

[golem]

Many a misspent teenage moment flicking through the lingerie pages of Kay's catalogue!
I hope you enjoy your purchase. )

[brownb2]

Many a misspent teenage moment flicking through the lingerie pages of Kay's catalogue!
I hope you enjoy your purchase. )

Oh yes. The days before photoshopping the (removal of) see-through parts

[JimS]

You want to talk about heresy... I was president of an Atari user group when I bought my (then new) Amiga 1000. ;-)

[Tripitaka]

I worked at the Atari warehouse in Slough back in '87 whilst temping. Ended up staying for about 6 months. What a great place to work that was, as long as you did your job and didn't piss anyone off, no one cared about sod all else.
I'm damn sure the forklift driver kept a bottle of cider under his seat too. It could be it was just his maniac driving, I never got close enough to ask.

[save2600]

You want to talk about heresy... I was president of an Atari user group when I bought my (then new) Amiga 1000. ;-)

A true convert!  :lol:

[Hattig]

Ah, I remember a mate had one. We would go around and play Major Motion. Quaint. Then I bought Netherworld for my old 8-bit Amstrad CPC, and it was good, he bought it for the ST - the CPC version was better!

To be honest the ST was a computer in the form of the CPC, just more powerful. Everything relied on the CPU to get anything done. When you take that into consideration, it's not a bad little computer, especially when you consider when it was released.

[CritAnime]

We all had our weak moments. We had a CPC at the same time as having an Amiga 500.

[smerf]

Hi,

You guys are no fun at all, how can I cut down his purchase on the atari, if he does such a good job at it.

We need to start this scene all over again, and try if you can to say just good things about the atari, so I can tear it apart.

TAKE TWO

smerf

[brownb2]

TAKE TWO

smerf

It's got an integrated PSU and modulator, faster stock processor, can read PC disks without extra drivers, has integrated midi ports, and being grey means it's meant for business and is not a toy. The STE model even uses industry standard SIMMs. Clearly the ST > Amiga.

Did I miss anything?

[alexh]

Get a tonne of demo's downloaded from Pouet running on it. The Demo scene on the ST was awesome.

http://pouet.net/prodlist.php?platform[]=Atari%20ST&order=views

Write back the disk images on Win7/XP using Pera Putnik's disk tool "floimg"

http://atari.8bitchip.info/floimgd.php