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....
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.
@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.
@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....
datacipher 4 days ago
Better sound!? Fuck off!
inphanta 2 months ago
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.
Draconis888 1 year ago
"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.
joecassara 1 year ago
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.
MattTheSaiyan 1 year ago
@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.
thorgallpl 1 year ago
at that time, most kids didn't care which one they get... getting one was priceless!
fcycles 1 year ago
@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.
meowmmmmm 1 year ago
@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.
meowmmmmm 1 year ago
Kinda puts the whole commercial into perspective..
Lutanamo 2 years ago