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  • Re: The ATARI 800 is crap!

    From Kalevi Kolttonen@21:1/5 to Jacques De Molay on Sun Feb 18 15:42:36 2024
    Jacques De Molay wrote:
    The ATARI 800 is a piece of crap with only 4 colors,
    4 monochrome sprites and a lousy soundchip.

    The C64 is much better!

    Discuss!

    Have you ever heard of Dropzone?

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dropzone

    Archer Maclean says:

    The [Commodore] 64 Dropzone is about 46k [kilobytes]
    long and consists of 15,000 lines of sparsely commented code
    with around 350 subroutines and around 3000 labels. Those
    who can reach Megastar status on the 64 should have had
    enough practice to attempt an Atari supervised Dropzone
    mission. The Atari, being the Porsche of home computers, is
    capable of running Dropzone 2.5 times faster than the 64
    and can handle any amount of blobs on screen, even when
    you release a Strata Bomb. It is visually, sonically etc.,
    identical and about 12K shorter. However, the 64 is
    still a respectable BMW316.

    I love both machines, Atari 800 is so well made...

    br,
    KK

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  • From phigan@21:4/137 to Kalevi Kolttonen on Mon Jun 10 13:15:24 2024
    mission. The Atari, being the Porsche of home computers, is
    capable of running Dropzone 2.5 times faster than the 64

    Did you happen to see a while back a guy named Nick Bensama got C64 BASIC to run on the Atari 8bit? And it ran C64 BASIC programs faster than the C64 did.
    While not super useful, pretty neat :).

    ... Origin of Life? Just check my refrigerator...

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  • From David L. P. Solimano@21:1/5 to phigan@f137.n4.z21.fsxnet on Mon Jun 10 22:11:06 2024
    On 6/9/24 8:15 PM, phigan@f137.n4.z21.fsxnet wrote:
    mission. The Atari, being the Porsche of home computers, is
    capable of running Dropzone 2.5 times faster than the 64

    Did you happen to see a while back a guy named Nick Bensama got C64 BASIC to >run on the Atari 8bit? And it ran C64 BASIC programs faster than the C64 did. >While not super useful, pretty neat :).

    ... Origin of Life? Just check my refrigerator...


    Huh that's super neat, I haven't seen that before. Human creativity keeps
    on chugging along.

    --
    David Solimano
    david@solimano.org

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