Atari STE VS AMIGA - Boing Demo.

All time classic in all platforms!

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Atari
• ST
• DEMO
• boing
• STE

[JasperAbraxxious]

I think its time for some facts now. :)

Colour palette Amiga 500 - 4096, Atari STe - 4096

Max Colours on screen A500 - 64 (EHB) or 4096 (HAM), STe - 16

No of DMA Sound channels A500 - 4, STe - 2

Gfx Copper Processor A500 - yes, STe - no

Blitter A500 - yes, STe - yes

Blitter line functions etc A500 - yes, STe - no

Variable DMA playback A500 - yes, STe - no (only set frequencies)

Thats probably enough. The STe (released in '90) was not even a match for the original Amiga ('85).

[porcorosso81]

Lol, this is one of the most pathetic comparisons I have ever seen. :D ST fans need every straw they can cling to to sustain the illusion that the ST is in any way better than the Amiga. This is easily helped by showing them games like Jim Power, which never ever could be reproduced on a stock 68000 plus 16 colour framebuffer like the atari ST.

[domrep1984]

You could run the ST demo on an Atari 400. No joke.

[domrep1984]

really? Really? REALLY? A troll says what? Or are you really that delusional? Try this next time, pull your Desktop up WHILE the demo is running. Good luck ST guy.

[metro2002]

@JasperAbraxxious You forget one important thing:

Price Amiga 1800 dollars , Atari ST 999 dollars

Sure the amiga was a more capable machine but the Atari ST was a real nice machine and for the price it was selling for it was the best thing out there.

[combcomclrlsr]

@mavlok Not only did the Tramiels ruin Atari, they also ruined the industry by trying to undercut the Amiga with rushed and inferior machine.

[AzumiRM]

Amiga ball = 3D, ST ball = 2D ... so this video just displays the fact that the ST has to resort to tricks just to emulate something a computer, 5 years older than it's self can do.

[happyblackness]

With a wonderful 30 seconds of the title. You don't need to do that, it's written at the top

[Kg277]

Fuck this. I wanna see it on the Timex/Sinclair!

[Robertdub2006]

amiga 500 was better than the ste, look at state of the art demo, it was on a little floppy disk, the ste wouldnt be able to that using a hardrive

[LoveMeLoveMyDog80]

@mavlok Agreed. It's not that Atari didn't have decent engineers, they had pretty much the best in the industry outside of Xerox. But, management ignored them. The Lorraine graphics chip, which formed the heart of original Amiga system was designed by an Atari engineer, Jay Miner. He originally promoted the Lorraine idea to the management at Atari but they had no interest in using it, so he left. Atari made good systems though, despite, not because of, their executives.

[slugnbozo]

I'm a bit confused. Which one is this video claiming is the more impressive demo?