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- gi@gj-cent.demon.co.uk (Gi) wrote:
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- ->One of the major comparisons made in the 80's was between the 8Mhz
- ->68000 in the Atari ST and the 7.14Mhz 68000 in the A500, the ST users
- ->always claimed their machine was faster, the benchmark test probably
- ->would of said the processor was faster but the ST didn't have the Amiga
- ->custom chips, which gave the A500 the advantage.
-
- Looking at the (early) games on both machines, Atari ST was indeed faster.
- Take for instance the original Starglider (a vector game), it was
- considerably faster on the Atari ST (but the Amiga version had better
- music and sound effects ;-)). This applied to many other games as well.
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