How can ATARI even compare?

How can ATARI even compare?

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>re badge the Amiga 1200 hardware into a console
>forget to add any save ram
What did Commodore mean by this?

Like this.

I've got to hand it to the Amiga, however: looking back it was absolutely remarkable for its time. Preemptive multitasking, and a motley collection of creatively-designed custom chips that mesh together into a reasonable whole. Neat usage of DMA, hardware scrolling, stuff like the Copper that's able to update other components' registers synced to a clock. If I were to design a computer of that time, knowing what I know how, it'd probably look much like an Amiga crossed with an Acorn Archimedes, and the CPU would be faster and probably RISC.

It's a pity that, just like Atari, Commodore couldn't business their way out of a paper bag, and also that the rights to the Amiga OS and name are tangled up in a complete rights nightmare.

Also, why did all the furries have Amigas?

(SYMBOLICS) > Amiga

Pay Respects

That kraut design philosophy

The Amiga was too good, and too linked to the 68000 to be easily upgraded.

So what software does it run, let me see...

>having a fucking PSG sound chip in a 16-bit machine
what the fuck was atari thinking with that shit

>The Amiga was too good, and too linked to the 68000 to be easily upgraded.

>Also, why did all the furries have Amigas?
art

c64 demo scene right now is kicking the a500's ass.

ergo a500 has a lot of untapped potential.

By being significantly cheaper and having a midi interface.
Amiga may have that fancy audio chip, but the big boys in music use Atari.

>c64 demo scene right now is kicking the a500's ass.
Source?

Didn't their 8bit machines actually have better sound?

what's with those old computer threads recently?

the POKEY is superior to the PSG, yes

RISC didn't make sense at the time. 68k got you a friendly ISA at a time when hand rolled assembler was the most common language for serious programming, and some degree of compatibility with Macs, Ataris, Sun workstations (before SPARC existed), and many other systems. It was a fine choice for the era. RISC didn't come into its own until the 90s, when you got Alpha, PPC, ARM, MIPS, SPARC, and even the internals of x86 chips.

>Also, why did all the furries have Amigas?
Same reason why every artist did.
Deluxe Paint.

>too linked to the 68000 to be easily upgraded.
So... that's why it had so many easy upgrades to other 68k CPUs and even PowerPC chips?

Their 8-bit machines where the predecessors of Amiga.
The ST isn't related to the 8-bit Ataris, but to the C64.

> be amiga user
> create disk with custom startup
> take it to Myers
> locate Amiga on demonstration table
> slip disk in, reboot
> disk creates bootable ramdisk
> copies script and bunch of audio samples to it
> remove disk, restart, retreat
> computer randomly screams every few minutes or so

i'm probably the reason the Amiga never took off.

deluxepaint IV. i made this using deluxepaint. it was originally a cycling palette ILBM.