The ST was better...
... at least you could code to the metal with it.
(dxg, Sun 2 Nov 2008, 15:12, 1 reply)

You could on Amiga.
Dont get me going with the Amiga vs the ST wars. We all know the Amiga was a lot better, and the only thing that the ST had going for it, is that it had a built in MIDI interface. Everything else about the ST was a pile of cack, and infact the ST wouldnt even have existed if it didnt have the influence of the Amiga. It was just a poorer inferior version. Simple as :)
(Miggyman, Sun 2 Nov 2008, 16:40, closed)

Ok, ok
Ease up there. Let it go now. It's been 20 years.

Your last sentance there is just wrong though. Wasn't the Amiga chipset supposed to go in the Atari originally? So the Amiga wouldn't have existed if the Atari management weren't such dickholes.

So, 360 or ps3?

/had an STE
//had a 130XE before that.
///Some things never change.
(Prof. Moriarty put his foot in it on, Sun 2 Nov 2008, 17:27, closed)

Let it go? LET IT GO?? LET IT F**KIN GO??????
Surely if people are still under the dillusion than an antiquated system which had no multitasking capabilities what so ever was better than the Amiga chipset then we need to set this right otherwise our grandsons will grow up living a lie!!!!

(Im merely being eccentric here and takin the wee wee now ) :D
(Miggyman, Sun 2 Nov 2008, 17:48, closed)

No multitasking?
Well, maybe not easily on the STe and Mega ST, but that was because they used the Motorola 68000, which couldn't keep other threads going if one crashed. Same as the Amiga, of course.

Then MultiTOS came along, which made a pretty fair stab at mulitasking, but was soon overtaken by the TT which had a 68030, fully capable of multitasking.

But then, Amigas were only ever used to play games with their rather crude graphics system. As the RM380Zs faded away from labs round the country and before the Amstrad PC640HDs arrived, you'd find lots of STs doing serious computing. No Amigas, though.
(ubergeekian, Sun 2 Nov 2008, 19:04, closed)

Amiga
That was the games machine, wasn't it, with a rather funny user interface and chips called things like Fat Agnes.

The Mega ST 4 we had in the lab would run DOS/Windows in an emulator box and MacOS through the wonderful Spectre GCR (faster than a contemporary Mac and a bigger screen and would read Mac disks) and, when we felt like it, Minix.

So while we were vaguely aware that Commodore had something on the market, it never seemed worth getting worked up about. Sweet to hear that some of you cared.
(ubergeekian, Sun 2 Nov 2008, 18:59, closed)

10 years ago.
I'd have blown your statements out of the water easilly.

Now i've squirted far too much tostesterone, smoked too much weed and had too much alcohol and really dont care anymore :)
(Miggyman, Mon 3 Nov 2008, 11:55, closed)

jay who??
that`ll be jay miner then, `father of the amiga`?
good job you`re only giving the kid the first name, it`s spelt correctly! :p
//massive amiga geek, tho my heart belonged to the speccy
(hiddenshallows, Tue 4 Nov 2008, 0:25, closed)