{"id":22069,"date":"2019-01-09T15:52:02","date_gmt":"2019-01-09T20:52:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/?p=22069"},"modified":"2019-01-17T11:46:24","modified_gmt":"2019-01-17T16:46:24","slug":"atari-1040st-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2019\/01\/09\/atari-1040st-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Atari 1040ST"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/darth-azrael.tumblr.com\/post\/181635404196\/gameraboy1-atari-1040st-and-atari-sm124-hi-res\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/tumblr_pe4yseWnDI1wzvt9qo1_500.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Atari ST was the successor the the Atari 8-bit line the same way that the Amiga was the successor to the Commodore 64. While incompatible with it&#8217;s 8-bit baby brother, it was a far more powerful 16-bit system. the Atari ST was not quite as technically capable as the Amiga but it was still a major step forward and was particularly popular among musicians who wanted MIDI capability. It was also quite a bit cheaper than the Amiga, especially before the Amiga 500 was released.<\/p>\n<p>The original Atari 520ST was released in 1985. A slightly upgraded 1040ST was released two years later. While mostly a minor upgrade, the 1040ST was notable for being the first computer to come with 1 MB of RAM for under $1000. The 512ST as the model number would indicate only came with 512K of RAM.<\/p>\n<p>The Atari 1040ST includes the following features:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<ul>\n<li>CPU: Motorola 68000 @ 8 MHz<\/li>\n<li>RAM: 1 MB<\/li>\n<li>Graphics: 640 x 400 mono, 640 x 200 with 4 colors, 320 x 200 with 16 colors<\/li>\n<li>Sound: Yamaha YM2149<\/li>\n<li>Disk Drive: 3.5&#8243; 720kb<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Atari ST line used Digital Research&#8217;s GEM GUI which ran on top of Atari TOS which was basically an updated version of CP\/M. This was also not as sophisticated as Amiga&#8217;s multitasking OS but again, the Atari ST was much cheaper and still quite powerful for its time. While I have owned a Commodore 64, Amiga, and Atari 8-bit computers, I have yet to own an Atari ST.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/darth-azrael.tumblr.com\/post\/181635404196\/gameraboy1-atari-1040st-and-atari-sm124-hi-res\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/tumblr_pe4yseWnDI1wzvt9qo2_500.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There were several more powerful successor systems to the 1040ST but it was really only the 520ST and 1040ST that gained any significant popularity in the U.S. The Atari 16-bit line of computers was far more popular in Europe where Atari made something like 75% of it sales.<\/p>\n<p>The story of how the Amiga and Atari ST came to be is a pretty interesting one. Check out their respective articles on Wikipedia for a start.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>Atari 1040ST\u00a0and\u00a0Atari SM124 Hi-Res monochrome monitor<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/darth-azrael.tumblr.com\/post\/181635404196\/gameraboy1-atari-1040st-and-atari-sm124-hi-res\">http:\/\/darth-azrael.tumblr.com\/post\/181635404196\/gameraboy1-atari-1040st-and-atari-sm124-hi-res<\/a><\/p>\n<p><center><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/ebay\/AtariST.html\" width=\"580\" height=\"420\"><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The Atari ST was the successor the the Atari 8-bit line the same way that the Amiga was the successor to the Commodore 64. While incompatible with it&#8217;s 8-bit baby brother, it was a far more powerful 16-bit system. the Atari ST was not quite as technically capable as the Amiga but it was still a major step forward and was particularly popular among musicians who wanted MIDI capability. It was also quite a bit cheaper than the Amiga, especially before the Amiga 500 was released. The original Atari 520ST was released in 1985. A slightly upgraded 1040ST was released two years later. While mostly a minor upgrade, the 1040ST was notable for being the first computer to come with 1 MB of RAM for under $1000. The 512ST as the model number would indicate only came with 512K of RAM. The Atari 1040ST includes the following features: CPU: Motorola 68000 @ 8 MHz RAM: 1 MB Graphics: 640 x 400 mono, 640 x 200 with 4 colors, 320 x 200 with 16 colors Sound: Yamaha YM2149 Disk Drive: 3.5&#8243; 720kb The Atari ST line used Digital Research&#8217;s GEM GUI which ran on top of Atari TOS which was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,4],"tags":[225,2473,242,2362],"class_list":["post-22069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-atari-st","category-computer-arcana","tag-atari","tag-atari-1040st","tag-atari-st","tag-retrocomputing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22069\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}