Atari did not waste any time mourning its departed cousin...

There was this weird Coleco ADAM homebrew scene well into the mid '90s. I used to get this catalog/newsletter called "Adam's House" I think in the mail back then. (I guess they are still around, called EColeco!?!)

They had some crazy custom enhancements for it, including memory expansions that plugged into that internal bay etc.

With that said, I used to goof on my ADAM owning neighbor from my lofty C64 owning perch.

The story of the Atari ST and Commodore Amiga is fascinating on many levels. In fact, the Amiga nearly was the Atari ST for a while. For a good morning coffee read, try the link below.

http://www.amigahistory.co.uk/ahistory.html

After this, you can understand why people stuck to one platform for the next decade or so.

That article was pretty disorienting before I read the date at the top. "Man, I thought I knew most of the players in the industry... wait, joysticks as a standard peripheral?" Guess I missed the 80s mention in the first paragraph. :)