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Commercial comparison 8bit computers.

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  • @Draconis888

    Graphics are a trade-off to me...better resolution with more colors on C64....but very limited pallet

    Sound I too prefer Atari...the Commodore sound chip was better...but I liked the sound quality of the Atari better...the Commodore often sounded to me like an oboe band....

  • Better sound!? Fuck off!

  • I kind of like the sound from both the Atari and c64.. While nobody can dispute the awesome power of the SID chip, Ataris sound had a nice warm and robust sound to it that the commodore didn't. Graphics wise...yeah..Atari was better.

  • "The XE ... has better sound" is an outright lie, and the engineers at Atari (who, by this time, were former Commodore employees Jack Tramiel brought over) knew this.

  • The funny thing is, that old C64 I found on the side of the road and saved still crashes nowhere near as often as my Windows 7. I wonder if the same applies with the Atari XE.

  • @meowmmmmm look at atari demos. they are better on atari. c64 was restrained to 16 colors (atari 256), cpu 1mhz vs atari 1.7mhz. c64 had better sound and more sprites.

  • at that time, most kids didn't care which one they get... getting one was priceless!

  • @macdeath69 The CPC came out 5 years after the general Atari 8 bit design. For the time the CPC was much better than the 8 bit, but a year later the Atari ST came out and that was way better than the CPC.

  • @Lutanamo The processor in the Atari is about 80% faster, but the Atari has a more efficient DMA and Graphics Chip. The Atari can process CPU and Graphics at the same time, the C64 Graphics chip pauses the CPU when it is in use. As a programmer you want to have high DMA use as it off loads work from the CPU. In the end, the C64 even though slower, had better graphics and sound.

  • Kinda puts the whole commercial into perspective..

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