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In that vein, the 25 greatest ev4r computers as voted by some dudes.
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thibodeaux
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Yeah, the list was biased or the writer had blinders on.
I was scanning the comments and everybody seems to agree that not only should the C64 have made the list, but it should have been #1.
I was scanning the comments and everybody seems to agree that not only should the C64 have made the list, but it should have been #1.
"Happy slaves are the worst enemies of freedom." - Marie Von Ebner
"It was always the women, and above all the young ones, who were the most bigoted adherents of the Party, the swallowers of slogans, the amateur spies..." - Orwell
"It was always the women, and above all the young ones, who were the most bigoted adherents of the Party, the swallowers of slogans, the amateur spies..." - Orwell
My guess is that they are ignorant about that which they are trying to write. Like how Kid Rock won the "Best New Artist" grammy that one year, when in fact he already had (like) 7 albums and 10 years in the industry.Yeah, the list was biased or the writer had blinders on.
Peeps don't know the past but pretend like they do.
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I was never impressed w/ the C64. I ended up owning an Atari 800 (which was listed). To be honest, I went with the Atari because it had better video and sound capabilities.
I also liked how open the thinking was on the architecture. If I recall it had a sort of "Basic/DOS" as its native operating system, but I bought an assember cartridge for it and learned a lot about low level logic writing simple programs with assembler.
That took forever. Lots of code to do very little, but by God it did it really fast
Also, they had set up their peripheral devices in a way that I would think of in years to come when dealing with SCSI. Each peripheral type (printer, cassette, floppy) had a built in fixed address depending on what type they were and they'd all plug in one to the next in a daisy chain, all talking on the same bus. I think the floppy drives allowed you to set their "address" so you could have more than one. I know the cassette I/O didn't let you set it and always had to be on the end (which led me to believe in years to come that it was somehow "terminated")
I also liked how open the thinking was on the architecture. If I recall it had a sort of "Basic/DOS" as its native operating system, but I bought an assember cartridge for it and learned a lot about low level logic writing simple programs with assembler.
That took forever. Lots of code to do very little, but by God it did it really fast
Also, they had set up their peripheral devices in a way that I would think of in years to come when dealing with SCSI. Each peripheral type (printer, cassette, floppy) had a built in fixed address depending on what type they were and they'd all plug in one to the next in a daisy chain, all talking on the same bus. I think the floppy drives allowed you to set their "address" so you could have more than one. I know the cassette I/O didn't let you set it and always had to be on the end (which led me to believe in years to come that it was somehow "terminated")
"... and then I was forced to walk the Trail of Tears." - Elizabeth Warren
I beg to differ. I honestly don't know which had more games as there were too many for either system to count. But if you KNOW there were more games for the C64, then I want to know your source.But... like the PC over the Mac debate... the C64 had more games.
And even if the C64 had more, there was NO shortage of games (good ones even) for the Apple II series. So, that's not a valid arguement in my opinion.However, the graphics and sound (especially sound) were MUCH better on the C64.
The Apple's disk drives were something like a billion times faster than the C64's too. Well, maybe not a billion, but they were deffinately WAY faster.