Atari 2600 demo

[DiskDoctor]

I'm sorry to come up here with the Atari enemy but couldn't resist, really.
Check out this:

Doctor by Trilobit

This demo is a f*n' madhouse, man, it destroyed my sanity for days.
What I'm trying to say is...  This was made using 128B of RAM plus 256B on an external cartridge.  And two sound channels...

That kind of stuff in our today's Terabyte World of PC Regime shows really that this all sorts of effort and resources is nothing but a tremendous waste.  Todays computers are not about computing whatsoever anymore.  It's all about selling more RAM as the price decreases.

And one more thing to remember: but for all Ataris (e.g. 520ST) Amiga wouldn't have become what it did.

Respect.

[jj]

The 520St had nothing to do with making amiga what it was.  if you think that you are seriously deluded.

[save2600]

I'd further that by saying there were many, many ports to ST<>Amiga that were dumbed down for the sake of programming. Yeah, right. Pure and utter laziness to be sure. Competition is one thing, but the mediocre ST did nothing to advance the Amiga. If anything, the ST hurt computing and set it back several years.

Maybe what diskdoctor meant was that Miner's work on the 8-bit Atari's lead to the development of the Amiga. That would be a true statement. ST had nothing to do with Amiga 'cept cripple some of its software at the time.

And yes, lots of cool demo's for the 2600. The homebrews and talent behind them are amazing. Even in 2009, the Atari 2600 is that much more impressive than an ST  :-)  

[Speelgoedmannetje]

Some pretty amazing videos from the jaguar
demo 1
demo 2

[DiskDoctor]

save2600 wrote:
Maybe what diskdoctor meant was that Miner's work on the 8-bit Atari's lead to the development of the Amiga. That would be a true statement. ST had nothing to do with Amiga 'cept cripple some of its software at the time.

This is exactly what I meant.  Shouldn't have mentioned ST since I hardly know it and the story about it except that it was a main Amiga opponent.  All I remember is that it sucked bigtime and had MIDI interface built in which did nothing special.

No need to call me nuts really, mistakes aren't delusions, sometimes stupid  though.  Shouldn't just post something I wasn't sure of.  Me sorry.

[Speelgoedmannetje]

DiskDoctor wrote:
This is exactly what I meant.  Shouldn't have mentioned ST since I hardly know it and the story about it except that it was a main Amiga opponent.  All I remember is that it sucked bigtime and had MIDI interface built in which did nothing special.

The ST didn't suck big time, it just wasn't as good as the Amiga, and thereby it was cheaper.
The PC, now that scrapheap sucked big time.

[DiskDoctor]

Speelgoedmannetje wrote:
The ST didn't suck big time, it just wasn't as good as the Amiga, and thereby it was cheaper.
The PC, now that scrapheap sucked big time.

PS was not classified to me back then.  I with my mates fought PCs, that is people showing us some ridiculous Warlords or getting an orgasm as Prince of Persia showed up.

But ST games were far from Amiga ones.  I would say it didn't suck but for all the ST people claiming it is better.