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Atari and Amiga were equally popular in Germany and much more common than PCs when I grew up. The major difference was that Amigas were much more common for gam
by cycomanic 2y ago
Atari and Amiga were equally popular in Germany and much more common than PCs when I grew up. The major difference was that Amigas were much more common for gaming and Ataris were largely work machines (music and DTP). In my experience both were actually much more common in Europe than in the US where Macs and IBM PCs were more common (I did an exchange year and didn't see one Amiga or Atari)
- LargoLasskhyfv 2y agoConfirm. Got myself an AtariST 520STM with 124SM, that small BW 11inch thingy. Upgraded the RAM by self soldering. The PCs at the time were either much more expensive, or cheap clone trash with many compromises. And in general rather 'unsexy'. That thing lasted until somewhere in the mid-nineties, when I got weak and got a 486DX 25Mhz with 4MB RAM, some HDD, and a 15" Multisync when VOBIS advertised them for only 5000,- Deutschmarks. Which seemed indeed cheap, because anything comparable from the likes of IBM, Compaq, Zenith was between 15.000 to 20.000 at the time. Seemed because 4MB wasn't good enough for early BSD and Linux, so upgrade to 8MB. Oh, the sockets for L2-Cache on the mainboard and Tag-Ram were empty, another 'upgrade', at least no soldering necessary. Came with some cheap Trident SVGA with only 256KB Video Ram. Diamond Speedstar24 with Tseng ET4000 and 2MB please! And a 17" NEC Multisync while I'm at it. Sigh! That still felt like a downgrade from that Atari ST in many aspects. Usability? DOS? Early Windows? Unix clones? UGH! Sure, it had some oomph, but the ride wasn't smooth.