29 Jan
2010
29 Jan
'10
8:17 p.m.
I think one thing in particular that the Atari ST had an advantage with was the addition
of the hard disk/dma port. It made adding a hard disk a lot cheaper. Hard disk controllers
on the Amiga were astronomical.
On Jan 29, 2010, at 10:27 AM, Cameron Kaiser wrote:
It was
Shiraz's design, and it was following the same "power without
the price" methodology they did back at Commodore with the vic20 and
C64. At least according to them. Although the ST's main competitor
wound up being the Amiga, it was actually promoted as a cheaper full
color Macintosh (hence the Jackintosh).
The Atari ST is no match for the Amiga, but the ST is still a very nice
system. I'm rather fond of them myself.
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