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Harry Potter  wrote:
> On Friday, April 15, 2016 at 7:09:24 PM UTC-4, Markus Menschenfresser wrote:
> >
> > The ATARI has
> >
> > - only 3 colors in most resolutions, the games look crappy
> > - a ridiculous amount of sprites
> > - a crappy soundchip
> > - only 48K of RAM, additional 16K are nearly impossible to use
> >
> > So better throw away your ATARI and buy a C64!!!
>
> I kind of agree.  When I was first into emulation, I tried emulators of many
> systems and found that only CBM 8-bit computers were pretty good.  The Apple2
> was okay.  :)

That's because Apple and Commodore (and perhaps the BBC) were the best
computers of that era, and also the following era with the Mac and
Amiga. The rest ranged from rather rubbishy through to completely
useless crap - there are many bandwagon-jumping brands from that time
that died quickly (Pencil II, Disk Smith Wizard, etc.).

Apple of course is the only one still making Mac computers. All the
rest died of mis-management or sheer hopelessness of their computers.
Even Apple only barely survived mis-management by a "sugar water
salesman" by bringing back Steve Jobs ... unfortunately Tim Cook looks
like he's heading Apple down the same path as that near-collapse time
with far too many marginally different models (MacBook, MacBook Air,
MacBook Pro) and sticking his nose into personal political battles (gay
rights, equality, ethnic diversion, encryption / privacy, etc.) rather
than simply running the company properly.  :-(

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