"Humans have always hated dwarves and elves", as Witcher has it, while in the real world Amiga and Atari ST users have always hated each other. I myself was always Amiga fan, even though I didn't even have one (aww...), but I have actually played Starblade on Atari ST once.
Amiga fanboys accused Atari ST of having inferior graphical and sound capacity, Atari ST folks were bashing Amiga users. I never actually did in-depth comparison (I am too lazy), but I have accidentally found a video on YouTube that compares different games' title screens, detailing number of colours and resolution.
It is a very interesting comparison (its author promises similar one for gameplay as well). After seeing this I admit that Atari ST had less colours a its disposal, but on the other hand programmers made really good job dithering them to obtain very similar results.
Amiga fanboys accused Atari ST of having inferior graphical and sound capacity, Atari ST folks were bashing Amiga users. I never actually did in-depth comparison (I am too lazy), but I have accidentally found a video on YouTube that compares different games' title screens, detailing number of colours and resolution.
It is a very interesting comparison (its author promises similar one for gameplay as well). After seeing this I admit that Atari ST had less colours a its disposal, but on the other hand programmers made really good job dithering them to obtain very similar results.
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I had an Atari, but STE, with 1 Mo of RAM (though I was 6, I knew 640ko wouldn't be enough ^^).
Indeed, Amiga was better for rendering. Remember of those Amiga demos ? Those things in 3D (?) with pseudo techno music ? Kicked asses, definitely :)
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