danb20@pro-graphics.cts.com (Dan Bachmann) (06/06/90)
I finnally saw, close up, the Atari ST. The guy had an Atari 1040ST 1Meg
and an accellerated Atari Mega-4st.
It looks like a great machine, but what I dislike about it(compared to
Amiga), is it's not built around multitasking, it has even less U.S. support
than Commodore(but that doesn't make a difference), it only has 16 colors(I
don't care that much), and it's sound is only 3 mono voices. So the only bad
things I see really are its poor sound, non-multitasking centered, and
necessary proprietary monitors.
What I really like about it compared to a stock Amiga: It was much faster
and managed memory a little better(Than again, he was running a 68000 at
16MHz, while my Amiga only runs a 68000 at 8MHz, he had 4 Meg RAM, I only have
2.5 Meg), and it has a program that seems to blow away all Amiga 3d graphics
programs for speed and user interface: CYBER PAINT.
All in all, it was nice to see another minority in the majority IBM world
and I was glad to see that the Atari ST really is a serious machine and not
just a 'game machine.'
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