It also includes a new VIDEL graphics chip which greatly improves its graphics capabilities, offering even a 16-bit truecolor graphics mode. And like the Amstrad CRTC chip, the characteristics of the display can now be defined precisely.
It sports a 1.44MB HD floppy drive and an optional internal hard drive. And Atari adopted the IDE bus in addition to the SCSI bus for connecting hard drives and CD-ROM drives.
While the Atari ST was less powerful than an Amiga 500, the Atari Falcon was more powerful than an Amiga 1200.