Atari Falcon vs Amiga 1200


Atari Falcon 030 Amiga 1200
ProcessorMotorola MC68030Motorola MC68EC020
Clock16MHz14MHz
Bus width16 bit32 bit
FPUOptional MC68881 or MC68882 co processorNone (Available with several 3rd party upgrades)
Battery backed clockYesNo (Available as 3rd party upgrade)
Standard RAMAvailable with 1MB, 4MB or 14MB but most machines shipped with 4MB2MB
Colour palette262,14416,777,216
Sound8 channel 16bit stereo with 3 channel programmable sound generator4 channel 8bit stereo
Floppy Drive1.44MB High Density880KB Double Density
Hard DriveOptional 2.5 inch IDE driveOptional 2.5 inch IDE drive
External ConnectorsVideo (Different monitor ports available with adapters, eg VGA)
Mouse/joystick
Enhanced analogue joystick
Serial
Parallel
RF Connector for TV
RS432 LAN
MIDI
Cartridge
Microphone
Headphones
DSP connector
SCSI II
Video (RGB)
Mouse
Joystick
Serial
Parallel
Audio Left
Audio Right
RF Connector for TV
Composite
External Floppy
PCMCIA
Internal ExpansionRAM socket
Internal Processor bus connector
Trapdoor expansion
Clock Port
Operating SystemTOS 4.0X in ROM, MultiTOS on diskKickstart on ROM, Workbench on disk
ChipsetCustom Atari chipsetCustom Amiga AGA chipset
Support ProcessorsMC56001 DSP
BLiTTER
Custom AGA processors, including BLiTTER

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