Subj : Re: ATARI and Spectrum are rubbish - The C64 is the king of home-comput
To   : Lloyd Hearsewave
From : bradleyjbell@comcast.net
Date : Thu May 10 2018 22:15:28

On Sunday, January 16, 2011 at 7:51:33 AM UTC-6, Lloyd Hearsewave wrote:
> I don't understand why people are still using crappy doorstoppers like the
> Sinclair Spectrum and ugly black and white heaps of trash like the ATARI 800
> XL.
>
> Both of these computers failed in the 80s and look at the graphics of the
> Spectrum - ugly, monochrome, no scrolling and no sprites.
>
> The ATARI has only 3 ugly colors, ugly sprites and bad scrolling. 99% of
> ATARI games are crap.
>
> All the games are MUCH superior on the C64 and the C64 truly is the king of
> home computers!
>
> So please throw away your ATARIs and Spectrums and buy a C64 on ebay!

The Atari 800 and C64 had sprites. Gee, I wonder where Commadore got the idea 
for sprites? Anyway, the C64 had many improvements over the Atari sprites give 
the 3+ years they had to develop them.

But tell us all about the C64 graphic modes. Can you easily mix them? Did you 
have re definable character sets?

How well did the C64's scrolling worked? I've seen many games where I would say 
"Not to good"

The 400/800's 6502B ran at 1.8mhs, the C64? Oh yeah 1.0

Did the C64 have display lists or display list interrupts. If you don't know 
what that means then the answer is no.

The C64 was a very good machine BUT the 400/800 was NOT a POS.

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