Atari ST versus Commodore Amiga in pictures

[TjLaZer]

Check out this cool video!

[Invisix]

Amiga wins!  :banana:

[Damion]

SWEET video... though when I tried to show my g/f, she rolled her eyes, walked away and said it was "lame"... WTF?? :lol:

[ferrellsl]

Your girlfriend must be an Atari fan.  Time to get a new girlfriend!  

[gdanko]

ferrellsl wrote:
Your girlfriend must be an Atari fan.  Time to get a new girlfriend!  

At least she's not a Windows fan!

[Lemmink]

Windows has no fans, it only has hostages :lol:

[alexh]

Very lame, all still pictures of games with well known differences.

Lets see in-game and see if you still notice the differences?

Most of the Thalion title screens use Spectrum512 images, as did the later games by good ST coders.

Count the colours in the title screen of Leavin'Teramis on the ST.

We all know technically the Amiga was better, but the fact that ST games can be coded to be comparable, (those that were not ST->Amiga ports) is a testament to the ingenuity of their programmers.

[monami]

what was the atari amiga connection? i know little of the history...

i personnaly felt it was atari who did all the ground work and the amiga came out later and tried to userp them by adding later just slightly better hardware? anyway when they didn't have atari to compete with the amiga dwindled. but i can see my user experience causing the flames of hell down the telephone lines!!! better get me some marshmallows! :crazy:

was that video uploaded by an amiga user? on the other hand of user experience i never met a nice atari st user... and even got sold a dodgy modem by an atari user group. :roll:

[mdivancic]

Ignore the ST -v- Amiga stuff. The amazing thing is how good the programers did with the limited hardware. Very cool to see...

[cv643d]

Ignore Atari vs ST games. Turrican 2 in color on ZX-Spectrums pwns all wars.

[DigitalQ]

Neat video, but it misses other aspects that made the Amiga clearly superior: The sound and the animation capabilities.  The title screens are a very tiny aspect of the game.  The Amiga also had a much more sophisticated and superior operating system.

We need to bear in mind that, when the Atari 520ST first came out, Commodore only had the Amiga 1000.  An Amiga 1000 system would cost almost three times what a similar Atari ST system would cost in 1985!  It wasn't until two years later did we see a price-competitive Amiga 500, and it still cost more than a comparable ST system (though not by a whole lot; maybe $100 or so).

The Amiga and the Atari ST came out at almost the same time; the ST may have beat the Amiga by a month or two.  Don't forget that the Amiga used to be the Lorraine owned by Hi-Torro, and was almost bought by Atari!  I wonder how much of the Amiga's design concepts Atari "Stole" to complete their ST?

[adonay]

Music is crap...

[Ken86Stang]

Nice video!  Never used an Atari ST, but it looks pretty good!  I still think the Amiga wins though.

[Tomas]

i personnaly felt it was atari who did all the ground work and the amiga came out later and tried to userp them by adding later just slightly better hardware?

Then you have your history completely wrong. The atari was not even interested in jumping up to the 16bit platform back when the original amiga was being developed. When the a1000 was nearly finished the atari team quickly started woring on tha Atari ST. So no, it was completely opposite to what you said.

[jlariv8957]

AFAIK Atari never used anything present on the Amiga exept the processor.

When Commodore bought Amiga, Atari had to faced 2 problems: they lost the successor to their 8bit line of computer and they couldn't compete with one of their main competitor.
So they had to go fast, very fast: bringing a completely new computer in months, this is one of the reason why Atari used off-the shelf compoment for the ST. When the A1000 came out, the Amiga team was working for 2-3 years on the project.

As you: the demo is neat but misses many other things that made the Amiga the best computer of it's time.