But I still love it. Without the ST I wouldn't have discovered programming and all the highs (and lows) that it brings. Looking back now, I'm surprised people were able to get as much out of it as they did.
Also memory was much better organized than Amiga - without the speed penalty.
And the simplicity of Shifter (the "GPU") allowed for really awsome 'beyond the dream' hacks, which were unavaliable on Amiga due to much more capable - but limited in 'hacking' video chip.
And then the first upgrade - Atari STE - amazes today with full control 8-channel 50kHz MODs... While mc68k CPU stayed at 8MHz!
I will follow you down the ages, through age extension tech, uploading of consciousness, to the eventual universe spanning one mind!
Always I will appear, always I will prevent your foolish, unjust and untrue claims from spreading unchecked.
Amiga is better ; she is the best. Your Atari smells of milk!! Amigas rule!
(what part of early computing culture did not have inane fan wars?)
It was the Falcon who had incredible sound capacity with its matrix channel mixer and DSP.
When we talk software mixing, STE maxed out CPU at 8 channels 50kHz, here's an example: http://yerzmyey.i-demo.pl/YERZMYEY-Octopush_ATARI_STe.mp3
Even plain 520 ST can do a lot on this YM chip.
Amiga 500 on the other had could a bit of this but only with 12kHz samples, and no volume control per channel, also those pesky filters.
Amiga 1200/4000 could do same - as per much faster CPU, but... they still left the old audio 8-bit chip in it :/
Other packages (DBE tracker?) allow the STE to play 32channel mods albeit not at 50Khz
All Amigas except the A1000 could turn the high-pass filter off, and pretty much everything tended to do this.
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Compare:
http://www.atarimania.com/st/screens/star_trek_the_rebel_uni...
https://www.myabandonware.com/media/screenshots/s/star-trek-...
Although to be fair CGA wasn't intended to be used on monitors. It was intended to be used on smeary composite video sources where you could expand the palette using artifact colors. Even then the graphics were terrible, but you could at least get a green.
It definitely required you to have lost many times before you could complete it though; the galaxy was too large for you to explore fully in the time granted by the mechanics.