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kryptonomisttoday at 7:16 AM4 repliesview on HN

Though the Atari ST was a superior machine.


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dosiskingtoday at 11:02 AM

In hindsight, I think it was. The built in MIDI is extremely useful. The high resoution B&W monitor with high refresh rate as well. My main complaint is that it should have came with the YM2203 sound chip, or at least had an optional card slot for it.

It turns out that the Amiga chipset design did not age well, once CPU's became faster than RAM. The Amiga had a design flaw where it could not be used reliably for MIDI, because every so often an interrupt would get masked, resulting in dropped bytes from the serial port.

flohofwoetoday at 10:44 AM

Ok I had to upvote you for old times sake and to honor the eternal Amiga-vs-Atari flamewars. But of course you are obviously and objectively very wrong.

Amiga 4 Ever! :D

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Annatartoday at 7:32 AM

We all have our delusions.

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