Atari 520 ST Commercial

This is a British commercial for the Atari 520 ST computer, first aired in January of 1985.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Atari
• 520ST
• 520
• ST
• computer
• British

[mozzy76]

Imho, having used atari emulation many times on 1040st, and my cousin having it for music composition, it was the best computer of it's era, way beyond commodore, apple, pc, for creativity tasks

[ballplus12]

"it weighs less then 300pd. Lol

[doritostheking]

@slugnbozo Haha PC or Mac Vs atari ST. No way. Unless you have to use it for weird industrial hardware with the ISA slots the PC offers precisely fuck all over an atari mega 4 + hd + Laser printer bundle. Hell, even PC laser printers alone cost more than that entire atari setup did, with both less fonts and lower resolution.

[KubaPSP]

Isn't that keyboard at 0:02 from Atari XL/800? Doesn't look like it's from ST.

[slugnbozo]

@Jacksiin1 And at that point in time, the IBM PC (and clones) were garbage as games machines - something that was important at the time in the home. IMO, the ST and Amiga were both better all rounders. But if it was pure business use you were after (in an office for example) then without doubt you'd be better off with a PC or Mac.

[Electronicdays]

I had one of these and yes it wasnt as powerful as an Amiga but it was probably the best if its era. These also were not glorified games machines. I used to use mine for capturing and messing around with audio and video (Video ST and Mastersound). Also the ST running cubase software was THE midi sequencer of choice right up to the mid 90's, the majority of electronic dance music of the late 80's into mid 90's was done using an ST...and yes the games were fun too!

[JasperAbraxxious]

@meowmmmmm - as a fan of both machines I should point out the following:

The Atari St can be considered an Amiga without all the fancy custom hardware.

The Atari STe (1989) was Atari's attempt at playing catch up to the Amiga technology (1985), but its Blitter was not as powerful as the Amiga's, it had no copper chip, a smaller colour palette, lower resolutions and less flexible DMA sound. Nice machine though.

The Amiga was TECHNICALLY much more powerful than the ST/STe.

[tonicunrest]

THAT THING LOOKED FOOKIN FAST FOR ATARI DAMN SON

nyse STR8 UP NICCA

[richardmaudsley77]

@meowmmmmm You still think HAM is pallet switching?

Pallet switching does not increase the number of on screen colours, it is a limited form of animation technique where on screen colours are changed on a frame by frame basis. HAM works by calculating pixel colour relative to the one immediately next to it, in one frame.

The amiga's highest non laced resolution was 1024x1024. Like your 640x400 mode it required a different monitor.

What good is 0.74 Mhz when you have nothing else? lol.

[richardmaudsley77]

@Jacksiin1 Fuck off mate, the PC Couldn't even multitask while Commodore considered it so old hat they didn't even bother advertising the amiga's ability to do so after the first couple of years.