> At 10:31 PM 8/24/98 -0400, you wrote:
>>Yeah, I know a number of musicians using STs in preference to more
>>modern PC VESA/PCI sound cards -- there is some program out of
>>Germany (dongle protected) that apparently has yet to be equalled on
>>Wintel platforms.
> Probably Cubase -- which I would be using if a) I had and money, b) I had
> any talent, and c) I had any time. Cubase Audio for the Falcon (68030)
> offered (iirc) 8 or 16 track digital recording straight out of the box.
> Serious digital recording & MIDI for around a grand. (Used Falcon, Cubase,
> and a big hard drive.)
> Also, there are ST clones available from (iirc) Canada and/or Germany with
> fast 68060 processors, tower cases, IDE and SCSI support, true
> multi-tasking, etc. The Medusa, if I recall correctly.
In fact there are 3 major NEW designs ST compatible computers in
Europe: Hades, Medusa and Milan (1 French and 2 German), and several
small size efforts based on refitet Falcon Boards.
The Milan for examlpe, the newest ST successor is available since
3 month. A 68040/33 MHz (060/80MHz within the next 3 Month), up to
512 MB RAM, 4 PCI, 3 ISA slots, 2 IDE ports, etc. Of course GEM
and TOS in ROM (or to be exact FLASH) - The Milan Computersysteme
GmbH ownes now all legal rights for the TOS/GEM ROMs - now in
version 4.5 (an enhanced 3.x like on the Falcon). Eventualy they
licenced the new PCI-BIOS to all other ST compatible manufacturers
virtualy for free. A multitasking OS is also includest
And the best of all: A basic configuration (Milan 040, 1 GB HD,
16 MB RAM, 2 MB Trio V64+ Video, Midi tower, PC-Keyboard, Mouse
and some SW) is just DM 1499,- (including tax) thats something
like USD 750,- (without tax). Incredible cheap - A Mac Performa
630 (040/33Mhz) is used still something like USD 400.
There an enormus power alive in the european ST family.
(oops, again off topic, but I still like ATARI :)
> And, while we're on the subject, anyone get to the World of Atari in Las
> Vegas last weekend?
Any URL for a report _with_ info ?
--
Ich denke, also bin ich, also gut
HRK
Received on Tue Sep 01 1998 - 10:19:20 BST