Amiga vs ST

[Harrison]

This thread is a continuation of one created by Bloodwych a couple of years ago, Atari ST games that outshone the Amiga

That original thread was mixed discussion of the ST vs Amiga debate, exploring ST games that were better than their Amiga versions, but also touching on ST game exclusives that were never released on the Amiga. The later is now being explored separately in the thread Exclusive Atari ST games that were never ported to the Amiga.

I want to use this thread to explore the games that were released on both the ST and Amiga, but for whatever reason the ST versions ended up being better.

We all know that the Amiga was a long way ahead of the ST in terms of its hardware architecture. This game the Amiga a big advantage for gaming, with the graphics and audio generally being superior on the Amiga compared to the same games released on the ST. But due to some games developed on the ST first and then badly ported over to the Amiga, some games did end up being better on the ST compared to the Amiga versions.

The main reason for this was direct porting from an ST game to the Amiga. The one thing the ST did have over the Amiga was a slightly faster 68000 CPU, clocked 0.8MHz faster than the Amiga's one. Normally this wasn't important because the Amiga handled all graphics, audio and other operations using it's custom chipset, whereas the ST had to do everything via the one main CPU. However games directly ported from the ST to the Amiga, without any recoded to take advantage of the Amiga's custom chip set meant the Amiga's main CPU had to do more of the work itself and that slight speed difference between the ST and Amiga's CPUs showed up.

What games can you remember where this was true? And what were the key differences that made the ST version better?

So far, taken from the old thread, we have the following ST games that are either confirmed to be better on the ST, or for which some members think were better than their Amiga equivalents.

• Captain Blood
• Captive
• Dungeon Master *
• Falcon
• Midwinter
• Nitro
• Operation Stealth
• Super Wonderboy
• Tiger Road
• Xenon *

Red = confirmed to be better on the ST
* = Direct port, so ran faster on the ST.

Lets use this thread to compare the ST and Amiga versions of games and see if we can find any more, and confirm if any of those already on the list really were better on the ST.