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Surprised nobody picked the Atari 400/800 and Amiga 500 computers (which are the 8-bit and 16-bit spiritual parent/child machines by the same people). On the o
by bane 7y ago
Surprised nobody picked the Atari 400/800 and Amiga 500 computers (which are the 8-bit and 16-bit spiritual parent/child machines by the same people).
On the other end, pure CPU only machines are kind of interesting as a study in economy, like the ZX Spectrum, a horrible, limited architecture that managed to hit the market at an unreasonably cheap price, make money, and end up with tens of thousands of games.
- k_sze 7y agoYeah, I'm surprised that 6502 makes the list but Z80 and Motorola 68000 don't.
- cubano 7y agoOMG did I love my Atari 800 back in 1985 when it was clearly one of the best price/performance machines available at that time. Overlooked by many (but not all) was its built-in MIDI ports and its abilty to control all those early model beatboxs and synths...unfortunately I forget the name of the rather crappy software that I used to get things talking and synced up, but it did work and the bitmapped color graphics were way ahead of its time. Too bad Atari self destructed with the cartrage business, and who knows what other poor business decisions it made, but that computer was one of my favorite things of my late teens.
- rjsw 7y agoAre you mixing up the Atari 800 and ST, the 800 didn't have MIDI ports.
- agumonkey 7y agoI read recently that Calvin Harris (music celebrity) made his first album on an Amiga.