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| 25 JUN 2003 at 8:09pm |
jujigatameSchattenjger
Posts : 1976
Joined: 14 FEB 2003
Status : Online | I don't totally understand it myself. Infogrames was/is a very well respected publisher. They produced the Independence War series, Civ 3, and Outcast if I'm not mistaken. Not sure why they'd want to use the Atari moniker, considering everything Atari has done over the last 20 years has failed miserably.
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| 26 JUN 2003 at 12:36am |
| Deleted User | I used to have an Atari computer- it wasn't bad. I played Magnetic Scrolls games on it.
I'll take your word for it that the Amiga was better.
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| 26 JUN 2003 at 6:22am |
SCiVPrivate Detective
Posts : 671
Joined: 22 OCT 2002
Status : Online | The Amiga (500 model was it's competition) was not better. The Atari had better a/v, but was just lacking support on the software end of things, not unlike the PC vs MAC race that happened a few years after that.
Playing: World of Warcraft / Monkey Island SE&&Reading: Worldwar: Upsetting the Balance - Harry Turtledove&&Watching: Repo! The Genetic Opera
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| 26 JUN 2003 at 11:46am |
Agustín CordesGuild Master
Posts : 5696
Joined: 23 OCT 2002
Location: AR, Buenos Aires
Status : Offline | Originally Posted By SCiV (26 JUN 2003 6:22am)
The Amiga (500 model was it's competition) was not better.
What?? Atari never stood a chance against the Amiga - any model!
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| 26 JUN 2003 at 12:02pm |
| Deleted User | I used to have an Atari too and I also played all the Magnetic Scrolls on it. Plus most Infocom text adventures. Plus some of Sierra's King's Quest, Police Quest, Space Quest series. Wonderful computer, silent (no fan) except for the whizzing external disk drive, best black-and-white monitor ever. It's the only computer that I regretted selling.
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| 28 JUN 2003 at 7:05pm |
Anastasia_RomanovSorcerer Apprentice
Posts : 245
Joined: 28 OCT 2002
Status : Online | Silly thing to do... (Unless they had a good reason....).
The Atari has brought the world crap like "Custer's Revenge", one of the reasons Amiga was better.
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| 1 JUL 2003 at 3:05am |
Bob_the_BuilderJourneyman
Posts : 956
Joined: 25 APR 2003
Status : Online | Atari is a very well known name, that's why. A lot of people don't remember them for causing the great video game crash of 1984 or the Jaguar, but they do remember things like the Atari 2600.
Custer's Revenge wasn't made by Atari
NO SOUP FOR YOU!
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| 1 JUL 2003 at 3:44am |
jujigatameSchattenjger
Posts : 1976
Joined: 14 FEB 2003
Status : Online | The Atari 2600 was an OK system, but the games were often suspect (ET, anyone). Nintendo blew them out of the water because they had actual software quality control, not because the hardware was better.
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| 1 JUL 2003 at 5:50am |
Count StexIntergalactic Janitor
Posts : 36
Joined: 3 APR 2003
Status : Online | Hard to compare the old Atari ST and the Amiga. The Amiga was very much games and graphics orientated, and could throw the old bitmaps around faster.. where as the ST was a more rounded general computer, a kind of PC before PCs! (IBM Compat I mean, obviously they where ALL Personal Computers!) Plus the ST literally rocked and was used widley in the music industry for years after the home user abandoned both the ST and Amiga.. both of them where taken over in the home by consoles.. the Super Nintendeo mainly taking the credit.. this was all before Sony arrived on the scene of course.. when a PlayStation was one of those activity centres you bought for your baby!
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| 1 JUL 2003 at 7:48am |
SCiVPrivate Detective
Posts : 671
Joined: 22 OCT 2002
Status : Online | Well I said that the Atari had better A and V, I was wrong there of course, it just had the better audio. Amiga had better video (where talking about the A500 period of time). But let's move on, it's not what this thread is about...
Playing: World of Warcraft / Monkey Island SE&&Reading: Worldwar: Upsetting the Balance - Harry Turtledove&&Watching: Repo! The Genetic Opera
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