Also the 40th anniversary of the Amiga (year at least, not sure on month)! Happy anniversary to all.
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Atari ST 40th Anniversary
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#12I'm a Commodore guy, but there is one thing I've always envied about Atari ST owners. No, not the MIDI interface. The ST just looks so damn good. To me, it's still a high point in industrial design.
Aside from the function keys, which were angled to make it as easy as possible to hit the wrong one!
I loved my monochrome 520ST. First C programming (Megamax C, IIRC), first online communications (BBS). How did I afford it when I was an engineering student living on about $7,000 a year, including $1,700 tuition?
Re: Atari ST 40th Anniversary
#13I'm a Commodore guy, but there is one thing I've always envied about Atari ST owners. No, not the MIDI interface. The ST just looks so damn good. To me, it's still a high point in industrial design.
One of the images in TFA shows the Atari being called a "Supercomputer". Interestingly, NVIDIA announced a few days ago they were releasing an "AI Supercomputer". One thing I will say... The Supercomputers of old were a lot prettier (and let's not even mention actual Supercomputers such as the Cray and the Connection Machine)!
Re: Atari ST 40th Anniversary
#14Also the 40th anniversary of the Amiga (year at least, not sure on month)! Happy anniversary to all.
The Amiga's 40th anniversary will be in July.
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#15While I had a 8088 based PC, the hours spent on a friend's 1040ST playing games were in the 500+ Really grateful to the friend and to Atari of course :)
This is no longer a common personal dynamic for kids. I grew up going to my buddy's place to play CoCo and MSX, to my uncle's to play Atari 800 and Mac, and friends came over to play Apple 2 and ZX Spectrum. My kid plays with friends, but it's all online through Discord.
Whilst games were loading we used to go outside and play football or whatever. Taking turns to run indoors to check loading hadn’t crashed. I got to enjoy the rugged real world, and offline technology; for that I’m very grateful.
Re: Atari ST 40th Anniversary
#16I'm a Commodore guy, but there is one thing I've always envied about Atari ST owners. No, not the MIDI interface. The ST just looks so damn good. To me, it's still a high point in industrial design.
I really appreciate the ST's simplicity. The Amiga is insanely powerful, and the various specialized accelerators do a great job in making it a unique machine, but the ST, in comparison, does a lot with almost nothing - RAM, a CPU, a frame buffer (in that same RAM), a couple peripherals for things like sound, floppy, and hard disks (and MIDI, of course) and that's about it.
Re: Atari ST 40th Anniversary
#17While I had a 8088 based PC, the hours spent on a friend's 1040ST playing games were in the 500+ Really grateful to the friend and to Atari of course :)
This is no longer a common personal dynamic for kids. I grew up going to my buddy's place to play CoCo and MSX, to my uncle's to play Atari 800 and Mac, and friends came over to play Apple 2 and ZX Spectrum. My kid plays with friends, but it's all online through Discord.
They sometimes go to each other's houses to play platform-specific games - the kid with the PS5 will go to the kid with the Nintendo and will play Mario something with the other kid who has an Xbox.