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From: dnewton@carroll1.UUCP (Dave Newton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: ST Future
Message-ID: <408@carroll1.UUCP>
Date: 5 May 89 02:10:03 GMT
Reply-To: dnewton@carroll1.UUCP (Dave Newton)
Organization: Carroll College-Waukesha, WI
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In article <23888@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> you write:
>In article <602@greens.UUCP> allegro@sunpix.UUCP ( SunNCAA) writes:
>> atari will soon drop the ST line in favor of a 'GAME MACHINE'!
>Yeah, what is this game machine?!?!  Atari won't drop the ST line.  They 
>can't be THAT stupid:-)  Besides, as hot as video games are, neither the

They CAN be that stupid, but that's besides the point.

From what I've heard, they ARE dropping the ST line, but NOT the Mega.
The game machine will be a basic ST without the keyboard (but maybe as
an option?) with the same old stuff on it and a dedicated ROM port for
games.  This system is intended to compete with the new 16-bit video games
being put out by Sega and Nintendo and one other company I can't remember.

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         "If I cannot create it, I do not understand it"
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