10 Amazing Atari ST Facts

As an Amiga owner back in the day, I was obviously in the anti-ST camp in playground debates at school, but have grown to really appreciate the machine! The main downfall was the sound chip imo. Amiga just blew it out the water in that area.

Great video! As someone from the USA who bought a Atari ST, I knew very few people here who had one. A couple friends bought one, but that was about it as most everyone was using dedicated game systems. Loved my ST

Good job. I live in Canada and my Dad bought us an Atari 520ST in the late 80's... I still have that machine and it produced endless hours of entertainment and memories I still hold dear to this day. I enjoyed watching your video!

I'm surprised you didn't mention another area where Atari ST/TT were really shining for quite some time - namely DTP and Calamus software. It was a significant milestone for this industry, similar to the influence of Atari in sound production that you covered.

Fantastic video which has now left me with an overwhelming urge to go and have a few games of Llamatron

I had an Atari SRFM and STE. I used them to compose music. The Atari monochrome monitor was the best I’ve ever used.

I loved the Atari ST, a wonderful machine back in the day, happy memories, thanks for the video.

I was a massive Atari ST enthusiast from about 1986-1995. By the end I had a 200mb ide hard drive, a double-speed mod, 19.2k serial port mod, HD floppy drive mod and a plug-in PC emulator. I created ads for two different companies on it, and of course... all those games!

Oh, the memories! In my mid teens in '86 or I sold the Commodore 64 system I had scrimped, saved and bartered to assemble - it was pretty extensive - to fund the purchase of an Atari 520ST. It was awesome! I had it for about a year when I sold it to fund the purchase of my first car. Later I switched to back Commodore and owned three Amigas at different times. Those were the days!

Ahh the memories of the 16bit home computer scene :-) Awesome video as always and thanks for all the work you put into them.

I want to thank you for these types of videos covering the home computer scene during the 80's. As an american it has sparked a new avenue to explore these systems and where they fit into the industry as a whole

Llamatron was one of the best games ever.

This is an excellent presentation.. probably the best I have ever seen for the ST series!

Love my STE and Falcon. The Falcon should have been from day one a Jaguar Hybrid though, so it could have been a much faster cheaper machine, and also a much cheaper and easier Jaguar development system.

Amiga guy here....minor in college was Computer Art and Animation. Prof was a huge ST guy and that was all we had. Spent hours and hours with Zoetrope creating anims. Had so much fun!

The thing about Power Pack is absolutely true. During the years I had Atari ST I only got two new games (Dungeon Master and Populous 2) because the Power Pack kept me so well entertained.

Middle of the night. Massive old telly. Load up Xenon and pump up the sound. Happy days.

I think one of the big things about the popularity of the Atari ST was MIDI and the good prices offered by Silica Shop/Evesham Micros back in the day. I remember being made unemployed and was still able to get the funds together over time to get the ST520 and hook it up to my JX8P, Emu Proteus and Roland W30. Had it for many years and it still holds a spot in my heart. For sure the Amiga was the better choice for games but was too rich for me... plus the lack of MIDI and software like Cubase made the choice clear for fledgling musicians like myself until PCs came along.

Long live the glorious ST. I had a nice, little 1040 STe in 1990. Lovely machine.

In North America, there was no Speccy/C64 war. It was Atari XL/XE and Commodore 64/128. Since I done mostly music on my C64, I upgraded to an Atari ST, but had a friend with an Amiga that I mostly played newer games on. While I did play Dungeon Master on the ST (I still have the poster that came with the game) I mostly used the ST for music connected to my MIDI setup. Ironically, my friend with the Amiga, when he worked on demos, he would use samples and loops recorded from my ST powered MIDI rack. It would yet be several years at the time before the Amiga gotten powerful enough to run software synths that produce professional sound. Yet, it is 8-bit samples, so it really was never in the pro arena for music.