Atari st or Amiga?

Crowman

Hi
After reading a recent article in Retro Gamer about the ST It brought back all the fond gaming memories I have of owning a 520ST (Carrier Command being a favourite). So I was thinking of reliving those times and getting hold of one, but as I remember the Amiga machines ( 500/600/1200) also played host to a lot of ST tiltes and were more powerfull (I could be wrong here) so I was wondering if you had the choice of the ST or one of the Amiga's which one would you go for and why?
Oh yeah forget emulation, I dont like it!

hottstuff

Amiga 1200.

0ubliette

ATARI ST FTW.

I still have my 520 STfm, would never part with it

Crowman

Any examples of games being better on the one system (atari st) than the other (Amiga 1200)? or vice versa?

0ubliette

Crowman wrote: »

Any examples of games being better on the one system (atari st) than the other (Amiga 1200)? or vice versa?

The amiga was the better system, hands down to be fair. But back then was the blindest of the blind rabid fanboyism, and it still has me to this day! Id never take an amiga over my beloved ST. The only game i remember being better on ST than Amiga was Pang, in that it was a more faithful arcade conversion and had a little bit extra in the ST version.

Bluehair

Crowman wrote: »

Any examples of games being better on the one system (atari st) than the other (Amiga 1200)? or vice versa?

Don't open that can of worms!

ST fanboys would usually claim that the games ran faster/smoother due to slightly faster cpu. Amiga fanboys would claim their graphics were superior due to the dedicated chipset.

Truth be told in the early days since the Atari ST had a slight lead the Amiga ports often under utilised the (hard to programe) hardware. As the years went by there's little doubt the Amiga 500 had the much prettier version of every game going.

Don't forget though the Amiga 1200 came much later and was had comparitively little support for games (though there were quite a few that used the system) much like the Atari ST-E (anyone remember that?).

120_Minutes

Amiga was always better.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9mg6wrYCT9Q

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x in the city

the amiga 1200 in its day is now like a quad core extreme dell xps watercooled monster ..!

myself could only afford an amiga 600, the quaver edition....:rolleyes:

0ubliette

watch a few atari st game videos on youtube, look at the comments and youll see the bitter rivalry between atari and amiga fanboys still rages til this very day. ****ing amiga fanboys... :mad:

97i9y3941

if you decide on A1200,upgrade the ram,and get a compact flash card reader too,so you can download games and read them on the real amiga with the compact flash card,floppys i kept over the years deteoriated because of age and just carelessness