Despite my love of Atari 8-bits. Still code one for fun. I never owned an ST. But a twist of fate my university and its hatred of IBM put me on a Macintosh XL running AU/X.
I should have had an Amiga since Jay Miner and the team that made the Atari b-bit great went into the Amiga.
I had an 8-bit (Oric-1) for my first computer, and I definitely lusted after a bigger machine - the Atari ST - for a few years in my teens, but circumstances happened (I got a modem wired up to the Oric) and I got access to much bigger metal, and professionally ended up with a MIPS Magnum pizzabox, a couple hazeltines, and a brand new PC on my desk by 1988, so I quite skipped the Atari habit.,,
But I sure would like to have one now! I once found one for 50eu in a second-hand shop in The Hague, complete with disks and monitor, which I drunkenly convinced a colleague to get, on a whim/dare, thinking we'd just have fun with it for a weekend .. but he managed to get quite hooked with its MIDI port in particular, so I'm on the hunt for another ..
In any case, I have most of the other 8-bit machines in my collection these days (its big), including an Enterprise 128, which I really should hack on a litlte more often, since I seriously lusted for this system too, Back In The Day™ ..
There's some additional issues with the piece this article quotes, in addition to the ones he mentions:
- When mentioning the 128, they don't even consider VDC mode, which did (on the flat 128, anyway) have a 640x200 monochrome mode. It didn't get used much and Commodore didn't really acknowledge it, but it was there.
- The 1.8MHz clock rate for the Atari 8-bits depended on how much it got interrupted by the video hardware.
(Ouch! Kidding!)
I should have had an Amiga since Jay Miner and the team that made the Atari b-bit great went into the Amiga.
But I sure would like to have one now! I once found one for 50eu in a second-hand shop in The Hague, complete with disks and monitor, which I drunkenly convinced a colleague to get, on a whim/dare, thinking we'd just have fun with it for a weekend .. but he managed to get quite hooked with its MIDI port in particular, so I'm on the hunt for another ..
In any case, I have most of the other 8-bit machines in my collection these days (its big), including an Enterprise 128, which I really should hack on a litlte more often, since I seriously lusted for this system too, Back In The Day™ ..
- When mentioning the 128, they don't even consider VDC mode, which did (on the flat 128, anyway) have a 640x200 monochrome mode. It didn't get used much and Commodore didn't really acknowledge it, but it was there.
- The 1.8MHz clock rate for the Atari 8-bits depended on how much it got interrupted by the video hardware.
- The color comparison doesn't include Amiga HAM.