Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!spool.mu.edu!mips!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!linac!att!ucbvax!UTCVM.BITNET!MQUINN From: MQUINN@UTCVM.BITNET Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2 Subject: Re: Once again, questions concerning the ensoniq chip... Message-ID: <9105020034.AA14949@apple.com> Date: 2 May 91 00:27:25 GMT References: Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 42 On Mon, 29 Apr 91 21:01:51 GMT SCOTT ALFTER said: >In article <5069.281c1c71@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu> > >Yeah, but where's all the software? Hell, even the Apple II is a more >prominent name in the modern computing scene than the ST. If you're ever in the L.A. area, go to the Guitar Shop (or Store?) in the back, upstairs, where they have all their MIDI keyboards. They're all hooked up to Atari STs. >At least >the II has a past (and some future) and the IBM clones and (ugh) Macs >have a future. You're stuck with neither if you have an ST. Besides, >the ST's graphics aren't all that impressive--only 512 colors? Even >the IIGS does better! (You probably wouldn't have a 3200-color mode >even if you did have the 4K colors, either.) Processors? Atari is The Ataris' 512 color mode is done using the same technique the GS uses to get 3200 colors. The ST can only display 16 per line and has to use CPU cycles to get 512 colors... then, you're stuck and can't do anything else. >still toying with the 68000 when Apple and Commodore have moved to the >68030. Expandability? Where are the slots? Slots have kept the >Apple II alive for 14 years! Atari just came out with a new computer. It uses the 68030. I think it has a 4,096 color pallete too, but I'm not sure. It STILL doesn't have slots though. It's also about 2 or 3 thousand dollars. >I don't think the Atari ST is an option for serious computer users. It might be soon. They're really starting to put some power in those machines. You can also get a Mac emulator board for it. >Scott Alfter-----------------------------_/_---------------------------- >Call the Skunk Works BBS (702) 896-2676 / v \ 6 PM-6 AM 300/1200/2400 >Internet: alfter@uns-helios.nevada.edu ( ( Apple II: > GEnie: S.ALFTER \_^_/ the power to be your best! ---------------------------------------- BITNET-- mquinn@utcvm <------------send files here pro-line-- mquinn@pro-gsplus.cts.com