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REVIEWS | ATARI ST
Fourth generation | 1985-1993 | floppy disk
Games: 1,000+ | Units sold: 5-6m
Named Sixteen/Thirty-two for its 16-bit external bus and 32-bit computing, the ST would prove an enduring success throughout the second half of the eighties. Competing in the emerging desktop computer market against Commodore’s Amiga, the ST played host to more than 1,000 official software releases, with its affordable price point sighted as one of the reasons for its success. Atari would release three significant hardware revisions in the form of the TT030 in 1990, the Mega STE in 1991 and finally Falcon in 1992. The range would abruptly come to end in 1993, as Atari quit the home computer arena. They planned to counter shaky finances by gambling all on a return to the console market with the Jaguar.
Games: 1,000+ | Units sold: 5-6m
Named Sixteen/Thirty-two for its 16-bit external bus and 32-bit computing, the ST would prove an enduring success throughout the second half of the eighties. Competing in the emerging desktop computer market against Commodore’s Amiga, the ST played host to more than 1,000 official software releases, with its affordable price point sighted as one of the reasons for its success. Atari would release three significant hardware revisions in the form of the TT030 in 1990, the Mega STE in 1991 and finally Falcon in 1992. The range would abruptly come to end in 1993, as Atari quit the home computer arena. They planned to counter shaky finances by gambling all on a return to the console market with the Jaguar.
Super Sprint
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Carrier Command
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Turbo Outrun
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