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Atari did not waste any time mourning its departed cousin...
- acknickulous 16y agoThere was this weird Coleco ADAM homebrew scene well into the mid '90s. I used to get this catalog/newsletter called "Adam's House" I think in the mail back then. (I guess they are still around, called EColeco!?!) They had some crazy custom enhancements for it, including memory expansions that plugged into that internal bay etc. With that said, I used to goof on my ADAM owning neighbor from my lofty C64 owning perch.
- extension 16y agoAfter this, you can understand why people stuck to one platform for the next decade or so.
- benn 16y agoYou forget that Steve jobs was running his company when most of us were learning to code.
- iuguy 16y agoThe story of the Atari ST and Commodore Amiga is fascinating on many levels. In fact, the Amiga nearly was the Atari ST for a while. For a good morning coffee read, try the link below. http://www.amigahistory.co.uk/ahistory.html http://www.amigahistory.co.uk/ahistory.html
- wazoox 16y agoAlso worth a read, the Ars Technica Amiga history series: http://arstechnica.com/hardware/news/2007/07/a-history-of-the-amiga-part-1.ars http://arstechnica.com/hardware/news/2007/07/a-history-of-th... Also this interesting analysis : http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2010/06/shadow-of-the-16-bit-beast-an-amiga-gaming-retrospective.ars/ http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2010/06/shadow-of-the-16-...
- billybob 16y agoThat article was pretty disorienting before I read the date at the top. "Man, I thought I knew most of the players in the industry... wait, joysticks as a standard peripheral?" Guess I missed the 80s mention in the first paragraph. :)