I still have in my closet an Atari 1040ST, Mega STe and TT030.
The thing is that the STe line was too little too late. Basically it came out at the time the Amiga community were drooling over the soon to be released AGA chipset, and the STe just finally added enough to the ST line to compete with the OCS/ECS. Blitter, larger palette (512 on the ST, 4096 on the STe) and Stereo sound.
The issue I have with that, is they didn't add any new video modes. Spectrum 512, which allowed all 512 colors on the screen (kind of like HAM on the Amiga) didn't work all that well on the STe, and at that when I'd clock my Mega STe up to 16Mhz, it wouldn't work at all. It was very much tied to the timing of the processor.
The ugliness is GEM by the way, TOS is the text based underside. It's actually almost Unix like, but not quite. Not much besides a few command line programs used it. Like LHA, zip, etc. GEM was the graphical interface that most everyone used.
I was always jealous back in the day, of my friend with an Amiga, and it's color icons. But then I finally bought me an A4000 (have a second on the way), and I love it!
I have considered pulling out my Ataris and doing some MIDI on them, from what I've seen / read, the software for doing it on the Atari is still a bit above what the Amiga had. But I could be wrong on that. I tend to think that's because the Atari ST has always had MIDI ports. Which is why MIDI maze was so epic!
It would be fun to have a huge group of atari freaks to play MIDI maze with... but then I think it'd be hard to find 16 players to max it out....
Wonder if they ever made a port of something similar for the Amiga?
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