metro2005

All the respect you earned was just wasted by just deleting or taking down all the projects you had without allowing people to continue your work. People are always sad to see someone go and if they run projects that people like, offcourse you can expect backlash if you take down or just delete everything. Imagine if linus torvalds just said : Fuck it, i'm deleting all my code , goodbye. That would also not be very well received. Has nothing to do with you personally or others not respecting your change of priorities but the way you just throw this out there and deleting a part of the commodore scene is just anti social.

I own a Atari 1040STFM and a 1040STE and since a week i also own an Amiga 600HD. First impressions of the Amiga: god its slowwwwwwwwwwwww. Opening a window takes forever, it may have icons and more colors than TOS but where TOS shows the contens of a folder in about 2 seconds, it can take a good 10 to 15 seconds on the Amiga because it has to load every freakin' icon's thumbnail. And it doesn't cache. Everytime you reopen a drive, it has to reload everything again. Second impressions: Why the freak doesn't the amiga read PC formatted floppy's! The Atari has no problems with that at all. Makes it easy to transfer files from and to Pc's. With the amiga? forget it ! I've Used a nullmodem cable but guess what: I can't transfer binary files in workbech > 2.0 Now i have ordered a pcmcia flashcard reader to transfer files to the amiga but man, what a pain in the butt it is so far. On the plusside: The amiga has a pcmcia slot so you can add stuff easy like networkcards and flashcards, it can be expanded with harddisks (i have a harddisk in it already) and the hardware is on par with the atari STE (it should be, its 3 years newer) but better then the stock Atari ST. The Amiga can be expended more i guess but if i only could have 1 system it would be the ST. I also think the ST is better looking. And dont forget that the amiga was very expensive in comparison to the ST back in the days. The ST may have been less capable, it was better value for money. Just my 2 cents. edit: Just found the prices: Atari ST 520FM with monochrome monitor 799 dollars, with colour monitor 999 dollars. Commodore amiga 1000 with 256k : 1299 dollars without monitor. With monitor and 512KB mem a whopping 1950 dollars. Thats twice the price of the ST.

Are the serial port settings the same on both machines?

My atari and sega megadrive workplace: It's an STe with 2Megs of Ram, i also have a 1040STFM as spare, 2 x sega meadrive model 1 and a spare megadrive model 2, a dreamcast, a game gear and a PS2. I just love retro computers