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10. Epilogue
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Without a doubt, the 1040 STE and the Mega STE are nice pieces
of hardware. In 1989, the 1040 STE offered quite a lot a home
computer could offer and you got a computer with excellent
sound capabilities for the price of a sound-card for your PC
alone. In 1991, the professional STE was released with the
introduction of the Mega STE. 16 MHz clockspeed, 16 KB cache,
VMU interface and internal harddisk at a price for which other
companies gave you an update of their operating system and a
new harddisk.
But the STE didn't make it. The 1040 STE's features stayed
widely unused until the release of games such as Obsession or
Stardust, of Demos such as Brain Damage by Aggression or
Omega's Grotesque or of tools such as the ProTracker STE.
The Mega STE did not increase the sales of STE computers a lot
either, being limited to STE graphics and sound.
This documentation is for people that, like me, like the STE
for what it is: A fun machine with quite impressive specs.
I assembled this documentation in case you want to program
the STE's features such as the Blitter, the hardware scroll
or DMA sound and would like to avoid stumbling over the
little traps in the STE design. So i hope you find this
documentation useful and keep on programming the STE to
push this little machine to the maximum.
Best wishes,
The Paranoid
Paranoia -- Lunatic Asylum
Think you can handle it ?!
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