Subj : Re: Atari 400; meh.
To   : paulie420
From : hollowone
Date : Mon Jul 24 2023 12:35:09

 pa> I really wish I'd of known of Amiga [and Atari] in the 90s... I was a
 pa> PC-DOS kid, but IMO Amiga was the better platform!!! Wow; bold
 pa> statement, eh??

Considering all the knowledge we have today.. I don't know.

I love Amiga and I had it back in the 90s and now I can tell you this was
one of the most over hyped computer in the history of computing.

Yes, sure it had great additional chipsets (GPU, Audio, you name it) bundled in, but that was great for 1986, not the 90s. 

Sure it had great OS experience but it matured up enough in the times you already had MacOS 8/9 with a lot better support and availability of modern software and by the time Amiga was getting bankrupt with the whole Commodore, Project "Chicago" was turning into 1995 a year after.
And to be honest.. 8bit/16bit Apple II(GS) already offered something that Amiga OS could be inspired by not inspiring...

ATARI....? yeah.. the consoles were great but only if you liked the 70s aesthetics in the 80s... Atari was dead in the 90s.. big time! OS that looks like GeOS poor brother.. no extra chipsets.. all relying on weak CPU to handle everything... and that design that looks like if somebody scooped some metal buttons on top of cheap plastic and the ass was put diagonal on the box, so the buttons are skewed....

Great these times had a lot of competition.... but aside of sentiments... are we really sure we can make objective comparisons?

I believe there is a reason why Pentium and Playstation dominated the 90s experience and the early 90s is just extended 80s until above two Ps emerged from the fog of the computer wars.

-h1

.... Xerox Alto was the thing. Anything after we use is just a mere copy.

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