Xref: utzoo comp.sys.atari.st:34720 comp.sys.amiga.advocacy:475 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!wuarchive!rex!uflorida!beach.cis.ufl.edu!cr1 From: cr1@beach.cis.ufl.edu (Anubis) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: advice please - Atari-ST or Amiga Message-ID: <26769@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU> Date: 7 Feb 91 15:57:11 GMT References: <1084@tetrauk.UUCP> <858@cbmger.UUCP> <1991Feb6.163205.6683@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> <1991Feb6.205829.2142@daffy.cs.wisc.edu> Sender: news@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU Reply-To: cr1@beach.cis.ufl.edu () Organization: University of Florida CIS Department Lines: 67 In article <1991Feb6.205829.2142@daffy.cs.wisc.edu> carter@cat27.cs.wisc.edu (Gregory Carter) writes: >Notice the third word in the paragraph...OPINION. Obviously this man >never EVER owned an ST. I would contend, that after the equavalent ad ons >such as a color board/graphics card, in Europe which there are many, >the ST would look just as nice as an AMIGA machine. First of all, the add ons you are talking about are hard to impossible to get in the US. Second of all, the add ons that you are talking about are either specialty items for people who want to work in graphics (and thus have very limited support) or are not as great as you are making them out to be. I have an Atari ST with a JRI 4096 color board. Big deal, I have 4096 color pallette. I can't display all of them at once like I can on my Amiga 3000. >As for sales, thats funny, a German friend on my floor says thats all there >are in Germany is Atari's with a few Amiga's sprinkled here and there??? > Amiga is doing quite well overseas. Atari is doing well from what I hear, but I've also heard that they are failing in support and are being sold mostly as game machines. Atari in the US has almost no support at all. >Atari has very healthy markets abroad and just like commodore, Atari has >yet to take advantage of the USA market. > Atari take advantage of the US market?! HAHAHAHAHA! Don't be so absurd! You know full well that it will never happen. Atari has lost their chance. Software companies are stopping their support, dealers are switching computers or going out of business...How many Atari owners live near an Atari dealer? >If you want to do word processing, I hardly think you would have time to >play a game at the same time. As for multi tasking, Atari multitasks >REALISTICALLY. That is, if you want to print something out, or download >something or do something else like play music that doesn't require >your constant interaction there are plenty of options available to help you >do these things in the background so you don't waste time so you can do >something else..like play games. > >Really, multitasking is WAY overplayed by AMIGA people. They are not >the only people who have multi tasking machines, its just that workbench >supports this option automatically. While on the ST its an add on. > Here again is the words of someone who has never had a multitasking machine. First of all, the Amiga OS multitasks, but that is probably what you meant. You can't 'add on' multitasking to the ST, so stop decieving this poor guy who is trying to find out information. You can use things like Revolver to stop one memory partition and switch to another. this is not multitasking because you are doing one thing. YOu can use things like Masterlink (hahaha...if they ever come out with another version) to download in the backround, but that is pretty much the extent of it. You are alwasy very limited. And don't breath to hard while you are doing this, you might crash it! I suggest anyone who is thinking of buying an ST look at the support available for both machines and DO use both machines. Take it from someone who owns both...You DON'T want to buy an Atari. >---Gregory -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=That is not dead which may eternal lie-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= * Christoper Roth * The Pyramid BBS (904)373-3989 * InterNet : cr1@beach.cis.ufl.edu * Amiga 3000, TAG Software. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=Yet with strange eons even death may die-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=