Atari ST versus Amiga

[Tom]

the great ST versus Amiga battle..

 

[Fritzo]

????? Who cares anymore? Why not start a C-64 VS. Apple II discusion?

 

[Tom]

Originally posted by: Fritzo
????? Who cares anymore? Why not start a C-64 VS. Apple II discusion?

because that would be foolish.

Maybe a C64 versus Atari 800xl thread though.

 

[aircooled]

Anything Commodore was better than anything Atari during the same generation.

 

[altonb1]

Originally posted by: aircooled
Anything Commodore was better than anything Atari during the same generation.

Back away from the crack pipe...slowly...

ST all the way. I had the 1024. I rocked.

 

[DaveSimmons]

The C=64 had a dumb frame buffer for video, while the Atari 8-bit had a display list processor that let you change the video mode scanline by scanline, and pull frame buffer information from several locations.

The atari 8-bit engineers were the ones who went to Commodore to design the Amiga, while the old CEO of Commodore went to Atari to build the ST as a 16-bit C=64.

So:
Atari 8 bit > Commodore 8 bit
Commodore 16-bit (with Atari engineers) > Atari 16 bit (with Jack Trameil from Commodore running Atari)

(From a programming and technical standpoint, though in terms of sales I believe the C=64 and ST won.)