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From: harald@ccicpg.UUCP ( Harald Milne)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: MIDIMAZE/other uses..was RE: Amiga and MIDI
Message-ID: <6946@ccicpg.UUCP>
Date: 10 Dec 87 13:15:01 GMT
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Keywords: MIDI Amiga Atari ST

In article <275@stag.UUCP>, trb@stag.UUCP ( Todd Burkey ) writes:
> On another tack...First, I doubt the cost of adding midi to the ST is
> more than $2.00 or so in parts to Atari. Second, there are more uses
> of midi ports than using them as connections to musical instruments. I
> do happen to have a Casio keyboard attached to mine (nice since more
> and more games coming out automatically play music TO the midi port just in
> case a keyboard is attached...as well as through the normal speakers.)

	Sound through the MIDI for games would not be done if the ATARI had any
sound channels worth talking about. Gee, all of a sudden that $2 MIDI interface
costs as much as a Casio! Were talking dirt cheap here.

> And about 20% of the people I know have keyboards

	And 50% of the people I hang around with smoke dope with the pope.

> The Midimaze craze, if you haven't heard,
> is where you get up to 15 other people to haul their ST's over to your
> house, 

	Well thats really stupid. The UNIX original is called HUNT. The limit
is 3 persons per machine connected via Ethernet. The game becomes more of
what unloaded machine your on. Dragging 15 computers into one locality sounds
really stupid. Whats the % of people are doing that, .00000000001?

> Also, all this arguments over which computer is better is kind of
> silly.

	You got one point straight. With the Amiga and the Atari costing
the same amount for the least common denominator, the Atari is just silly,
and a waste of money. But we all know that.

> I had an Amiga for a while (and still have a Mac and an IBM
> PClone), and it was/is a nice machine. The Amiga was about 6 months behind
> the ST on certain features that I found useful (Compilers, utilities,
> etc) and was ahead of the ST in other areas (HAM pictures, psuedo
> multitasking, sound applications).

	Great. Jack of all trades, a master of none. I can write utilities
in my sleep. The Amiga wasn't behind anything, just Atari's attempt to kill
what Atari knew was comming to market. Atari had the Amiga almost, but it
slipped through their fingers, being bought by Commodore. 

	What I can't write is hardware. I guess Atari can't either. Got a
blitter? Looks like Atari is learning what a silicon foundry is all about. Not
to mention yield factors.

	Psuedo multitasking is a specialty of Apple, in the form of the
Multifinder, I suggest you move on to comp.sys.mac to talk about this
nonsense. Psuedo not spoken here. Speaking of multitasking, name ONE
Atari anything that runs on ANY Atari multitasking environments currently in
progress. Just one.

> For some reason, I just found programming on the ST more straightforward 

	I would too if the machine and OS did nothing. I always wanted ZERO
colors in high resolution mode. Oh wait, thats black and white, right?

> It was probably just my background and my desire to be able
> to move things back and forth between Unix that made it hard. 

	So why on earth do you have an Atari?

>  -Todd Burkey
>  trb@stag.UUCP
>  or ...ihnp4!meccts!stag!trb
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