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[[File:{{Infobox console|title = Atari ST|logo = Atari 1040STf.jpg|thumbdeveloper = [[:Atari|An Atari ST showcasing the trademark GEM interface with solid green background]] |type = [[:Category:Computers|Home computer]]|release = 1985|discontinued = 1993|predecessor = [[:Atari 8-bit]]|successor = Atari Falcon|emulated = {{✓}}}}The '''[[wikipedia:Atari ST|Atari ST is ]]''' was a microcomputer developed by Atari Corporation in the mid 1980's. It was announced in January of 1985, and released in June of that year. It runs on the Motorola 68000 CPU. The "ST" stands for sixteen/thirty-two, in reference to the 16-bit external bus and 32-bit internals of the 68000 chip. It ran Digital Research's GEM (Graphical Environment Manager) on Atari's proprietary TOS (The Operating System).

The computer primarily competed with the Macintosh and the Amiga in most markets. Because of itAt the time, Macs were solely monochrome, and Amigas were solely color. The ST straddled the two worlds, offering separate color and monochrome screens, auto-detected by the computer's fast CPU display circuitry. The monochrome screen was excellent and high-resolution display (when displaying in monochrome) it for the era, providing credible competition for the Macintosh at a much lower price point. It gained a strong foothold in the business and CAD fields.  It was (and still is) also a popular computer in the music industry as it was one of the first affordable only home computers to ever include MIDI in/out ports as standard equipment, which prompted the development of a MIDI port. A wide variety of music composition programs also came to be written for it. As a result of STs became very popular in the ease of use music industry, and large software library, the ST is some are still occasionally being used in music production today. In addition to its uses <ref>[http://www.synthtopia.com/content/2010/03/10/atari-ste/ "The Atari STe – Still The World’s Tightest Music Computer?" — Synthtopia]</ref> One popular game, MIDI Maze, used the ports as an early networking device, allowing multi-machine multiplayer in business and CAD as well as musica simplistic, it is also but a vaguely Doom-like game. ST owners had "LAN parties" long before Ethernet became ubiquitous. It was a reasonably competent gaming computer for playing games on; the color graphics weren't exciting, but the simple architecture and relatively quick CPU gave it a fair bit of muscle. Its graphical capabilities are roughly comparable It came nowhere near the overall power of the Amiga, but was perfectly straightforward to program, where dealing with the other computers Amiga's multiple independent co-processors was famously difficult.  Some of the timemost notable Atari ST games were Dungeon Master, Oids, Sundog, and Star Glider, although slightly lower. The fast CPU somewhat off-sets as well as the limited graphical capabilitiesaforementioned MIDI Maze.

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