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That is one of the interesting questions for that period.

My guess is, that a large amount of this failure to move up to the Falcon was the initial expensive price and rarity of the machine. But also in the early nineties, a lot of the old Atari scene was in a tired and quitting frame of mind as well.

It is revealing that the new Falcon scene which emerged in 93-94 effectively started again from scratch ;-)

CiH: quite true and I have always wondered why.

Too many sprite contests? Too many cuddly remakes? Too many fullscreen big-scrolls? Too many main menus?

My guess is that we could somehow "blame" Tex and TCB for being kickass pioneers who initiated a mainmenu-synscroll-fullscreen-spritecontest trend that just never stopped on Atari ST ;)

the DSP port at the back of the Falcon can be used for various things:

1) a different clock for the DAC/ADC. For instance a nice 44.1 kHz one.. this saves some resampling.. but it's the simplest expansion

2) optical audio in/out..

3) 8 channel audio in/out (additional dac's and adc's)

4) crazy shit like a video DAC done by Bitmaster (yes, the DSP becomes a monochrome video chip and can be used for debugging purposes while you run your programs on the normal screen ;))

and ehm.. that's about it..

Hmm, A500 sucked like hell while Atari ST was the shit? ;-)

@earx can you give some URL for 4. - " the DSP becomes a monochrome video chip"?

earx,

Why use that when there's bugaboo? ;)

calimero: there's no info about that one the web, but here's bitmaster's page:

http://www.syncscroller.net/

http://www.syncscroller.net/ - error 404
is it my service provider oder ...?

calimero: It's working fine over here... alternatively you can try bitmaster.atari.org

bartman: nice screenshot :) ...but what do you want to tell us? :D

You must be new here :)

well i'm not, and i don't get it either! nice nipples btw.

bartman: I'm not new at all, check my profile ;)

me too, me too :) - not new but don't get it!

okay, my joke was bad. i was trying to tell you that you seem to be new because you still believe that my posts have some serious meaning :)

axa, then it's ok :) anyway nice tits

bartman: ... und ich dachte es geht um Titten :D

Doch, schon...

Hey Bartman that desktop is -XI-'s nice manga right...

By the way check this out:
68060 by Freescale product of 2006! ->
http://www.freescale.com/webapp/sps/site/prod_summary.jsp?code=MC68060&nodeId=018rH3YTLC4622

and DSP:
http://www.freescale.com/files/abstract/help_page/NEWSLTRSAMPLE.html

I think with FPGA + those chips will be possible /haubbjob rules... if will be possible... /
made ATX or BTX FALCON CLONE...
Maybeeeeeeeeeeeee...

This link is for DSP ->
http://www.freescale.com/webapp/sps/site/homepage.jsp?nodeId=012795&tid=FSH

4GHZ DSP imagine that + 68060 +SD/MMC for OS + ST/FALCON compatible+FPGA 2xYM+96khz AD/DAC...bla bla bla

I think no fucking PC GPU is 4GHZ...

Quad-CORE Baby no DulaCORE HEEHH check that DSP link...