Author: Ventzislav Tzvetkov (ppp119.interbgc.com)
Date: 09-10-2001 07:17
As for me being hardcore Amiga user, the reason looking at some Atari sites is the possibility to find some sources, or eventally usefull programs, and to ask the autors about porting them for the Amiga.
The answers were just like normal, yours community is just okay like every other computer user community. I got some warm, some cold responses, and no responses at all. Won't mention from where and when.
I wish to thank all the people who cared to answer to me.
Some poster here said that the Amiga is made by Atari. That's particulary true.
Back in the early eighties Jay Miner left Atari and started developing the ultimate game console (Loraine, Amiga), so the Amiga is Atari as much the Z80 is Intel.
When he ran out of money the Commodore and the Atari were at the stage for buying the patents of this unbelivable machine for this time.
The Atari hadn't so much money as the Commodore had (Big earn by the C64, also they were making some of the chips by themselves), so Commodore took over the Amiga.
Then the Atari/Amiga cold war started. Atari were fighting to release better stuff and more faster, when the Commodore scraped the machine - making it cheap for mass production.
The Atari ST MIDI port was big plus at this time - Raving scene, buying computers for musical needs. Atari released first the PC emulator board, and so on, and so on.
For a damn reason CBM were doing crap, and even didn't know what to do with so much power, also they supported with big development the 8 bits.
If Atari had bought the Amiga might be the Amiga now would have much more presence (Not concurency at the eighties - thus gaining stronger user base). But this is history now, and nobody can changes it. Atari/Amiga still have much in common, but fight or cold responses to the users for the 'Outside' platform won't be a help for both of us.
So again I wish to thank to the people who responded warmly, and for the others - I am taking my shit with me, sorry I was bothering you.
I will still visit some Atari forums and sites, even I would check some second hand computer stores for Atari ST - for easier port of the software I am pointing for port :)
That's it.
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