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Brerlappins little hat wrote:ATARI ST.


strawberry float the Amiga

Actually, the two machines are inextricably interwined. The Amiga was designed by ex Atai engineers, and the ST designed by ex Commodore engineers.

Historically, the ST really marks the beginning of the 16 bit era and during the while the Amiga marks it's end. You'll notice that a lot of games in the ST's heyday were upgraded versions of 8-bit games, and significantly improved arcade ports, and during that same period, the Amiga tended to recieve more or less direct ports of the ST games, with miniscule improvements. However, the Amiga persisted in the marketplace much longer than the ST and particuarly with the introduction of the (actually 32bit) Amiga 1200, started to really carve a niche of it's own.

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TheTurnipKing wrote:

Brerlappins little hat wrote:ATARI ST.


strawberry float the Amiga

Actually, the two machines are inextricably interwined. The Amiga was designed by ex Atai engineers, and the ST designed by ex Commodore engineers.

Historically, the ST really marks the beginning of the 16 bit era and during the while the Amiga marks it's end. You'll notice that a lot of games in the ST's heyday were upgraded versions of 8-bit games, and significantly improved arcade ports, and during that same period, the Amiga tended to recieve more or less direct ports of the ST games, with miniscule improvements. However, the Amiga persisted in the marketplace much longer than the ST and particuarly with the introduction of the (actually 32bit) Amiga 1200, started to really carve a niche of it's own.

The rivalry between amiga and atari owners was fierce. And while the amiga was the better machine, id never actually admit that
The ST did get the better ports at first, but the Amiga eventually cought up, and bettered the ST. I was still playing my ST long into 96 or so. I only got a mega drive with street fighter 2 in summer 96, played that until i got a PS1 in summer 1998. So my ST stood me in good stead. I genuinely loved that machine.

My cousin had the ST. Normally, I'd have got whatever he got, but I remember him complaining that Amiga games always got one or two more per cent in reviews and thought "strawberry float it". I'd wanted an Amiga ever since I first played Lemmings in a local computer store

Of course, I had to get the A600, almost directly before the A1200 came out. Don't get me wrong, I loved that little machine, but it was probably the single worst "normal" Amiga Commodore ever produced

You see, it had this "intermediary" chip set, called ECS that was a stopgate between the 1200 and the 500+. Anything that was sensibly programmed was OK, but a lot of the older ports weren't. Which meant that older Amiga games (the ones that were largely ST ports) often wouldn't work, and of course, it couldn't run the shiny new AGA chipset games either.