Speaking as both a Atari and Amiga user now, well, the Atari name was never really owned by one person anyway (much like Amiga as I understand it).
Went something like this... Bushell... Time Warner, Jack Tremiel, JTS, Hasbro, and then Infrograms.
So we haven't had original ownership since like 1976! And I assure you, Jack Tremiel's era did not produce pong units from Bushnells time. So to say the current "Atari" is any more or less than the previous Atari's in my opinion is mute.
Infrograms wisely changed to the Atari name, and have done well with it in my opinion. Naturally, all hardware platforms continue on without the aid of the "Atari" named company. Which in my opinion is just fine. In some ways, the Atari platforms do better now on their own than back when they were being "aided" by Atari.
(that last remark mirrors a few people feelings about Amiga and it's relation with Commodore.)
The Atari ST survives with various clones based off the Falcon and TT. The Milan (40/60) machine was sold till recently. Recently Falcon users gained another production run of 060 boards for the Falcon. As it stands, MagicOS is still being sold and improved, as well as various apps. TOS is owned, last I heard by a company somewhere in Germany. And in truth, most production for the ST/TT/Falcon happens in Europe.
Atari still has a few sellers and resellers in the United States, and like the Amiga, a lot of various tinkering going on, and plans for future hardware and hardware hacks by the fan base.
The Atari Jaguar is a community in and of itself, owned by no one but it's community since Atari (under Hasbro) released the gaming platform to the public domain.
Did Atari, or Amiga, dominate the world? No. Who would want to? I remember when all these people who have no love for computers started pouring in. Let them have the windows environement and it's billion viruses. Let Windows computers be at work. It is nice to have nichte at home .. weither Atari or Amiga, or whatever, that you have a good idea that those involved really care about what they are doing. At least you can be sure about 95% of the time right?
So why am I am Amiga user? Well, there is a user group in the area, so I thought I'd join the fun.
Though I don't know the story of Amiga to the detail of my account of Atari above, hearing Amiga's story seems like a mirror image to the Atari story. Think of it.
Doctor Clu
Amiga 3000 / Atari TT030 User
(As well as Macintosh Duo & Newton 2000)
