The tiny ST with the external disk drive had the joystick ports at the side - a far superior design. I quite liked the STe. The mono monitor was great, RAM upg

The tiny ST with the external disk drive had the joystick ports at the side - a far superior design. I quite liked the STe. The mono monitor was great, RAM upgrades were easy, and they'd improved some of the display hardware's worst limitations. Even though TOS was never especially good, they'd fixed all the worst bits by that point. Still could have benefited from some other extra hardware and OS tweaks though I think. - 800 KB disk format supported directly by the OS - blitter is not as useful as it could be, due to sharing bus time with the CPU. It should be able to use ACSI bandwidth if not in use/Shifter bandwidth during non-display periods, so it can run in parallel with the CPU - 256 px 5 bitplane mode (so still 40 words per line), probably an EHB kind of affair if 32 palette entries would be too much - something to improve endless scrolling? No carry out of bit 15 when computing Shifter address? You'd end up wrapping before the display period was finished if increasing the display stride, but you can work around that in software... - put the 9 pin joystick ports on the side - write signal for that stupid cartridge port that is almost (but not quite) useful for general purpose expansion