The AMIGA is much better than the ATARI ST!
Lloyd Hearsewave
crappy soundchip.
The AMIGA is much superior.
So better throw away your ATARI and get a Commodore AMIGA!
NOW!
Ronald J. Hall
If I'm not badly mistaken, you're the same jerk who started a
similar idiotic thread over at comp.sys.atari.8bit...
Don't feed the troll folks... :)
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Thorsten Günther
Why throw away the Atari when you can have both?
Thorsten
Clocky
I sold my ST after I bought my Amiga and never looked back but that was
years ago. I still have a few Amiga's, and if I ever came across an Atari 8
bitter I would snap it up. They're pretty rare around here though.
If I ever saw another STfm it would be too soon...
Noel
> The ATARI St has only 16 colors, no sprites, no scrolling and a really
> crappy soundchip.
>
> The AMIGA is much superior.
Substitute *is* with *was* and you might be getting somewhere.
Noel
Clocky
It still is, by a longshot.
milt
...and both are outdated antiques.
Clocky
That goes without saying. I'm not suggesting either have been a viable
alternative in the last decade or more, but in relation to eachother the
Amiga is well ahead.
milt
I'll have to agree with that, the Amiga far outdid the Atari ST. In
fact, none of Atari's computers were all that great.
Noel
> I'll have to agree with that, the Amiga far outdid the Atari ST. In
> fact, none of Atari's computers were all that great.
True. The Atari was good for one thing and one thing only. MIDI. At the
time I first started fooling about with sequenced music, there simply
was nothing that could compare with Cubase on the Atari.
Noel
>> Substitute *is* with *was* and you might be getting somewhere.
>>
>> Noel
>
> It still is, by a longshot.
Of course, when comparing the two, yes, the Amiga was ahead. The Atari
had one advantage only, and that was the built-in MIDI ports and the
best sequencing software around at that time. Other than that, it
couldn't hold a candle to the Amiga.
milt
True, the Atari ST was THE computer for sequencing for a long time, in
fact I think some musicians might still use them. I know it was being
used in electronic music for years after it was no longer made. They
made for cheap, powerful sequencers.
Clocky
"milt" <theatre_n...@miltsweb.com> wrote in message
news:j1rpf8$dq7$1...@dont-email.me...
Sequencing is just one aspect of making music, anyone could create actual
proper music on the Amiga using samplers and trackers thanks to the much
superior Paula soundchip. Though Atari fans like to play it down, the MOD
format and the Amigas editing software has been quite an influence on
electronic music creation too.
Noel
> proper music on the Amiga using samplers and trackers thanks to the much
> superior Paula soundchip. Though Atari fans like to play it down, the MOD
> format and the Amigas editing software has been quite an influence on
> electronic music creation too.
Given the capabilities of the tracker format, the Amiga was
ground-breaking, just as the C=64 was for synthesis. However, as I used
external samplers and synths (and still do, but to a lesser extent), I
had no need for onboard sampling and sound generation.
Clocky
For that, the ST was a cheap and very capable solution indeed, and where
it's simplicity worked in it's favour.