I had an Atari 1040ST and wrote little C programs for it, mostly lower-level, sometimes using line/poly drawings. Didn't make many GUI-like apps, perhaps some u

I had an Atari 1040ST and wrote little C programs for it, mostly lower-level, sometimes using line/poly drawings. Didn't make many GUI-like apps, perhaps some utility type programs. In all I didn't mind it but wasn't 'wow'ed by any of it either. It seemed moderately powerful and generic. The midi ports were probably the coolest thing on it but I wasn't into that at the time. Very different from the Atari 400 which was quite underpowered with quirky hardware that you had to know well to get it do anything interesting. The only other experience with GEM was on PC's where it would be bundled with desktop-publishing programs. I recall Ventura Publisher was quite popular. Aldus PageMaker was on Mac, don't think there was a GEM port though I imagine it should have made it onto PC/Windows at some point.