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Thread about porting X68000 games to the Atari Falcon: http://www.atari-forum.com/viewtopic.php?t=24111 (bullet hell shoot-em-up video on page 19)

(Atari Falcon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_Falcon - it's quite a lot better than the original ST, but still doesn't have sprites or multiple playfields)

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Falcon is great. I have two ;-) And an X68000, though I'm not sure why I spent the money to have the latter. It's a hassle to work with (5 1/4" floppies with soft eject, hard to get parts/boards, non-standard SCSI, no decent floppy emulators, Japanese OS, hard to get software, 15khz frame rate video output on some games) and the PSU will self-destruct any day now given the crappy caps in them.

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