Atari Falcon is it what the A1200 should have been?

[swoslover]

I know it wasn't a success but looking at the processing power and how it was packaged into a similar case, should the a1200 have been more like the falcon?

[bloodline]

From a technical point a of view, yes the Falcon was everything the A1200 should have been...

[Plaz]

Going back to when both companies were struggling, maybe they could have joined forces and developed a combined machine together instead of going bankrupt separately....


Intruducing the CommAtari 12000!

I'll leave it to others to fill out the specs. :-)


Plaz

[redrumloa]

Troll!! :whack:

[djbase]

Well, the Falcon might have nice specs but the design isn't that good as it could be.

[Speelgoedmannetje]

Plaz wrote:
Intruducing the CommAtari 12000!

Or the Amitari..

I'll leave it to others to fill out the specs. :-)
 

:lol:


Anyhoo, there were Amiga h/w engineers part of the development team of the Atari Falcon, weren't there?

[HopperJF]

DJBase wrote:
Well, the Falcon might have nice specs but the design isn't that good as it could be.

Very true, I agree that the Atari specs are much better overall, but the Amiga 1200 is a lot nicer to look at  :-)

[bloodline]

Speelgoedmannetje wrote:

Anyhoo, there were Amiga h/w engineers part of the development team of the Atari Falcon, weren't there?

No. :-)

[Speelgoedmannetje]

bloodline wrote:

Speelgoedmannetje wrote:

Anyhoo, there were Amiga h/w engineers part of the development team of the Atari Falcon, weren't there?

No. :-)

ok ok ex- Amiga h/w engineers...

[bloodline]

Speelgoedmannetje wrote:

bloodline wrote:

Speelgoedmannetje wrote:

Anyhoo, there were Amiga h/w engineers part of the development team of the Atari Falcon, weren't there?

No. :-)

ok ok ex- Amiga h/w engineers...

Still no... :-)

[redrumloa]

Speelgoedmannetje wrote:
No. :-)

ok ok ex- Amiga h/w engineers...[/quote]

No, you are thinking of the Atari Lynx.

[Speelgoedmannetje]

redrumloa wrote:

Speelgoedmannetje wrote:
No. :-)

ok ok ex- Amiga h/w engineers...

No, you are thinking of the Atari Lynx.

Yes I thought that ex-Amiga engineers were part of the development teams of the Atari Lynx, Falcon and Jaguar.

[bloodline]

Speelgoedmannetje wrote:

redrumloa wrote:

Speelgoedmannetje wrote:
No. :-)

ok ok ex- Amiga h/w engineers...

No, you are thinking of the Atari Lynx.

Yes I thought that ex-Amiga engineers were part of the development teams of the Atari Lynx, Falcon and Jaguar.

RJ Mical and Dave Needle from the original Amiga design team worked on the Lynx... the Lynx dev platform was an Amiga too... the Falcon and Jaguar were not Amiga related.

[A1260]

it had svga 640x480 256 color. :-o

http://www.atarimuseum.com/computers/16bits/specifications-sheet.jpg

[NovaCoder]

I was an STFM owner when the Falcon was announced and it looked like a geat machine for the time.  Unfortunatly Atari were going a bit crazy then and kept changing the specs and the colour of the case.  I seem to remember that they downgraded the CPU interfaces from 32bit to 16bit just before release (cost cutting exercise).

Did it also do native chunky..I can't remember?

face off

 :-)