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Article #521Re: Atari 800XL superior to c64?
From: David Angier
Date: Thu, 17 Jan 1985 04:31
Date: Thu, 17 Jan 1985 04:31
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A few points I missed:- Commodore use their own video controller. Interrupts are a major feature in the video (raster,collision etc.) There is collision checking,(background and foreground plus a possible foreground colour that is transparent for collisions). The sound chip (SID) has a (maybe more) 4 bit D to A output also. It also has an input that gets filtered if you desire (i.e. tape). I have had 48 24*21 sprites on the screen at the same time. The c64 has three Forth compilers available at my last count, plus one full Pascal implementation. Dave.
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83 (MC830713); site snow.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!cbdkc1!desoto!packard!edsel!bentley!hoxna!houxm!whuxlm!akgua!mcnc!decvax!genrad!mit-eddie!godot!harvard!seismo!mcvax!ukc!qtlon!flame!ubu!snow!dpa From: dpa@snow.UUCP (David Angier) Newsgroups: net.micro.atari Subject: Re: Atari 800XL superior to c64? Message-ID: <330@snow.UUCP> Date: Wed, 16-Jan-85 23:31:40 EST Article-I.D.: snow.330 Posted: Wed Jan 16 23:31:40 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 23-Jan-85 08:30:44 EST References: <212@eneevax.UUCP> <340@cadovax.UUCP> Organization: Computer Science Department, Warwick University, UK Lines: 13