28 Oct
2007
28 Oct
'07
8:12 p.m.
ASCI was a nice implementation of drive connect, what was really nice
was the devices would automatically be assigned a device# on the bus, no
jumpers, switches or SCSI address settings...
The ST and the XE keyboards were horrific!!! Mushy, crappy feel -
horrible. Best Electronics has an upgrade kit for the keyboards with
stronger springs for better tactile feel - www.best-electronics-ca.com
They and B&C Atari Sales - www.myatari.com are two original companies
that still to this day sell exclusively Atari items, many NOS items.
The Atari 1200XL had THE BEST keyboard for look, feel and layout of all
of the Atari computers IMHO
Curt
Ensor wrote:
Hi,
Oh, there was a lot of WTF on the ST....
Well, most things can be excused by the fact that it was a "rush job"
and it's quite surprising what they achieved in such a short time
(what was it, 6 months from start to shop shelf?).
This is why I was so surprised by them inventing their own dialect of
SCSI, surely it would have been far easier/quicker to implement
"normal" SCSI....
....For example, why did the 400 and 800 have
pretty decent
keyboards, yet the more-expensive-and-powerful ST have such an
abomination for a keyboard?
Actually, the 400 keyboard was pretty good for a touch
keyboard....certainly massively better than the Sinclair touch
keyboards I'd been used to at the time.
That said, my first upgrade to that machine was a real keyboard! :-)
IKWYM about the ST keyboard, it was horrible.
Back then I was developing software for the ST, *ON* the ST, so I
quickly grew to loath that keyboard. The MegaST's keyboard was no
different.
The software was pretty good. Did you ever use
Magic Sac to
emulate a Mac? That was a pretty neat idea.
Errrrrm, I did use a Mac emulator from time to time, but I forget
which one it was....
I don't think it was "Magic Sac", didn't that one come with a
cartridge into which you fitted a set of Mac ROMs? I'm pretty sure the
one I ran loaded the ROMs from disc.
Pretty good as I recall.
TTFN - Pete.