My brother and I got a 1040ST in 1987 while we were still developing 8-bit games, because the PDS, a z80 game development tool, had been developed for PC and for ST, but not Amiga, and the PCs were/felt sort of clunky and expensive. It was a beautiful machine that could do music, desktop publishing and solid tools, and gave us a much wider understanding of what computers could do besides games.
A couple years later we bought an extension board for it with a NEC V20 that allowed it to function as a CGA-equipped MSDOS PC, and that's how we got started developing for the PC.
It's odd that two game developers and demosceners from late 80s to mid-90s never owned an Amiga. :)
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My brother and I got a 1040ST in 1987 while we were still developing 8-bit games, because the PDS, a z80 game development tool, had been developed for PC and for ST, but not Amiga, and the PCs were/felt sort of clunky and expensive. It was a beautiful machine that could do music, desktop publishing and solid tools, and gave us a much wider understanding of what computers could do besides games.
A couple years later we bought an extension board for it with a NEC V20 that allowed it to function as a CGA-equipped MSDOS PC, and that's how we got started developing for the PC.
It's odd that two game developers and demosceners from late 80s to mid-90s never owned an Amiga. :)
PDS in itself is quite interesting, I was familiar with the Apricot PC version but had no idea it ran on an ST.
https://retro-hardware.com/2019/05/29/programmers-developmen...
https://www.cpcwiki.eu/index.php/PDS_development_system