[comp.sys.atari.st] What's so good about an STE?

rehrauer@apollo.HP.COM (Steve Rehrauer) (02/01/90)

In article <1942@laura.UUCP> hh@trillian.informatik.uni-dortmund.de (Hasko Heinecke) writes:
>That's what I like most: Everybody keeps telling me about really cute
>features (68030 support, >4 MB memory, more colors, more sound) but nobody
>knows how to access them. This was a hint, people of Atari!

Presumably registered developers know how; they just aren't allowed to
tell you.

1/2 ;-)

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alex@hpgnd.HP.COM (Alexis MERMET-GRANDFILLES) (02/02/90)

Hi there,

I really get confused with all rumours I have heard about STE machines.

I have red that they do not work properly with a monochrome monitor.
Especially they would get lost if one try to use the new capabilities 
( Hardware scrolling , new blitter ) on a monochrome monitor.

It is a famous French ST magazine "ST-Mag" which wrote that...
It seems there are some big problems with STEs.

They have also written that external drives 3'5 and 5'1/4 could not be
accessed properly with STE machines .

Has anybody met these problems with STEs on monochrome monitors or 
with external floppies ? 

Is it a hardware problem or a TOS 1.6 problem ?
Is there the same problem on TOS 1.4 machines ?

Will STACY allow external 5'1/4 disks ?

Thanks a lot for your answers.