ScuzzBlog: Diaries April 2018
Entry 27th April 2018: Post: 1
Atari Falcon 030 - Green across the screen
Rain stopped play today as I was again halted from doing the old
garden. Seems we just get wet weather in the UK now. Anyhoooo..
gave me time to switch on a couple more machines to check their
working status.
First up was the Atari Falcon 030. Kinda sad now when I think
about it, how I kinda neglected the Atari. Even when I started
collecting other platforms I never really got enthusiastic
about the Atari. They are a bit like the Mac to me... boring.
Sorry for that but if I wanted a computer just to compute I
would get myself a calculator, or worse a Windows machine.
When you have been brought up on the fun side of the line, in
pretty much everything I have done my whole life, I don't
want to get bogged down in 'un-jolly' stuff. Sadly the Atari
falls into that bracket when it comes to the ST side of things.
The OS is just so dull and uninteresting. Reminds me of the
GEM desktop on the Amstrad 1512. Not quite as bad as the Mac
but sadly in the same bracket when it comes to 'un-funness'.
And so I switched on the Falcon and it does the memory and
system test and then we get this line of drives that simply
open anonymous looking folders. Hardly worth calling a
graphical interface. At least the Mac and Win3.1 had icons
to represent their dull programs. I click these things on
the Atari and I seem to get endless streams of other
windows opening and nothing much else.
The computer was working which I have to give credit to the
STs as a range cus they generally work. They just lack a little
...oooooomph to jolly them along.... By the way, I am from the
Amiga side of the tracks so you really wouldn't expect me to be
very complimentary, now would you.
Atari Falcon 030 made by Atari in 1992
Uses the Motorola MC68030 running at 16MHz
RAM is 4MB up to 14MB and ROM is 512KB
.... and so forth.
OS is load of old TOS + GEM
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