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to: bradle...{at}comcast.net
from: Shaun Bebbington
date: 2018-05-11 05:32:38
subject: Re: ATARI and Spectrum are rubbish - The C64 is the king of home-comput

On Friday, 11 May 2018 06:15:30 UTC+1, bradle...{at}comcast.net  wrote:
> 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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