Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!mips!pacbell.com!tandem!zorch!amiga0!mykes From: mykes@amiga0.SF-Bay.ORG (Mike Schwartz) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: Amiga is better then [sic] what??? Message-ID: Date: 30 Jun 91 21:05:41 GMT References: <1991Jun28.110906.13772@agora.rain.com><1991Jun29.134743.10364@Sugar.NeoSoft.com> Organization: Amiga makes it possible Lines: 45 In article rkushner@sycom.UUCP (Ronald Kushner) writes: >peter@Sugar.NeoSoft.com (Peter da Silva) writes: >>In an article Rod.Fulk@f24.n228.z1.FidoNet.Org (Rod Fulk) writes: >>> Compare OS's... The St is built with a much more complete OS then ANY of >>> the amiga OS's.. >> >>I didn't realise Atari had come out with an O/S for the ST. Last time I >>looked it just had a program loader and graphics library. > >Wasn't it a developers joke: > >"Why do they call it TOS? > Because it is the first thing that you do with the OS. TOSs it!" > It was MY joke :) >Not like game types don't do the same on the Amiga tho :-( > The Amiga DOES do all the things that the Amiga can do AND all the things the ST can do, too. >What does the Atari ST come with? I thought the Apple lawyers went after them >once upon a time. I have not kept up with the STs, except seeing the Megas in >the DFP, but those ads are now harder to find than Commodores. Everyplace that >sold the ST's here bailed, at least the places I go to on any irregular >basis...I read comp.sys.atari.st from time to time but don't see much good >stuff going on there, except HD discussions and maybe people asking how to >know if they had a blitter...and "Where can I find a TT in the states." >To be fair, for awhile I though there wasn't anything good to read in >c.s.a.programmer when they had that giant flame war over to kill or not to >kill the OS to program your favorate game(mainly Lemmings I believe). > To be fair, the ST does provide many things in ROM that would be nice to have on the Amiga (in the event you are taking over the machine). Things like Floppy disk access, hard disk access, etc. This is the only sense that I can determine where the Atari OS is more complete than the Amiga's. -- **************************************************** * I want games that look like Shadow of the Beast * * but play like Leisure Suit Larry. * ****************************************************