Love the smack talk bout the Amiga.
Inside the 1040ST
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#22As for "there seem to be quite a few different Atari 1040ST board designs" noted in the article. There is actually a huge number of different board layouts. Look at the entries for "STF" or "STFM" in this overview: https://temlib.org/AtariForumWiki/index.php/Atari_ST_motherb....
As for why Atari redesigned the board so many times: no idea.
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#23Nothing but happy memories about this machine. My dad wrote books about programming microcomputers throughout the 80s so we were very lucky to grow up around a menagerie of machines, but somehow this one has the warmest place in my heart. I suppose I was even aware that it was inferior to the Amiga, but that did nothing to cheapen the hours I spent playing Rock Star Ate My Hamster, Player Manager and Xenon II (which…
>That said, have their ever been less satisfying keys in all computing history than those mushy function keys?
Have you tried the Sinclair offerings?
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#24Made music with this one as late as 2002... rock solid timing with Cubase, Akaï sampler for the sounds... And of course best feature was no internet so no distraction.
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#25We had an 1040ST, which was later upgraded to 4MB.
It also received a DOS chip later on, which allowed us to run DOS software after a reboot. It was equivalent to a 286 I think.
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#26An Atari 1040ST i combination with a sampler, like Akai S-900 or Roland W-30, and a synth with keybs, was a gret combo back then. As the first computer with built in midi-interface, it became very popular with musicians.
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#27I used one for a while. And for a while, it was the fastest Mac I used, too :)
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#28Good memories. This was my first computer. It was pretty good for games - Kings Quest, Space Quest, Golf, etc. I learned Basic on it and it even ran a very early Word Perfect - across 5 floppies that you had to swap for different functionality. I even had a 1200 baud external Hayes modem to connect to the few local BBS's that existed.
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#29Nothing but happy memories about this machine. My dad wrote books about programming microcomputers throughout the 80s so we were very lucky to grow up around a menagerie of machines, but somehow this one has the warmest place in my heart. I suppose I was even aware that it was inferior to the Amiga, but that did nothing to cheapen the hours I spent playing Rock Star Ate My Hamster, Player Manager and Xenon II (which…
>That said, have their ever been less satisfying keys in all computing history than those mushy function keys? Have you tried the Sinclair offerings?
The ZX Spectrum keyboard was a thing of wonder, and probably single-handedly responsible for me getting into programming just because of the keyword labels. I'm sure if I revisited it today I'd find it annoying but I don't remember it that way.
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#30A fantastic machine, could have been so much more though: TBH I think bigger impacts would have come from a few tweaks to the ST hardware: Autocad started life on the ST with the Cyber series of products - including a full expansion port as the cartridge port would allow for high-colour videocards, which the lack of forced them to migrate to other platforms. Similarly for DTP which was huge on the ST at launch. The A…
I know you meant Autodesk 3D Studio Max (not AutoCad) but just pointing it out in case you want to edit your good post.