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Re:Atari 520ST Review in Creative Computing – By Paul Lefebvre by TacticalCoder on Saturday June 22, 2024 @08:11AM (#40758505)
Yes but they were nowhere near as successful as the Atari ST or Amiga. They arrived kinda late to the party compared to the Amiga 1000 (1985) or Atari ST.

You'd occasionally see one but the personal computers scene in Europe was clearly dominated by the Atari ST and the Amiga. You'd also see a few Macintosh. The Archimedes has always been a rare sighting.

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Re:Atari 520ST Review in Creative Computing – By Paul Lefebvre by richardw on Saturday June 22, 2024 @08:28AM (#40758619)
Yup, why I mentioned it. I first saw a mouse on an ST, triggering much desire compared to my Amstrad CPC-464. The Amiga arrived and that was gorgeous. I would try draw the Porsche pic pixel by pixel (https://imgur.com/gallery/jim-sachs-porsche-on-amiga-OMc99EB) on my own hand-crafted drawing program but the Amstrad has a tough time of it. Finally later got an Amiga 500. Never saw an Archimedes outside of magazines but the talk of RISC was intriguing.
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Re:Atari 520ST Review in Creative Computing – By Paul Lefebvre by rbanffy on Saturday June 22, 2024 @04:40PM (#40762004)
> Amstrad CPC-464.

This is another jewel few people in the Americas have experienced.

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Re:Atari 520ST Review in Creative Computing – By Paul Lefebvre by cycomanic on Saturday June 22, 2024 @05:03PM (#40762194)
Called Schneider in Germany. I never could afford the disk drive unfortunately. That used 3" CF2 disks a format that nobody knows about any longer (arguably superior to the 5 1/4 disks used by the C64 which was the main competitor).
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