You're
going to have to 'splain that one to me, Lucy. There were
plenty of bitmapped graphics machines for the home market.
Name is not lucy. The LISA and MAC I consider BITMAPPED.
C64's and others had sprite graphics. Amiga and Atari(sp)
were maketed as games machines. The APPLE II split screen
I liked for text on the bottom (FAST) , graphics on the top
slow. Only the development of fast 2D graphics cards even
make modern software usable.
You have an odd taxonomy here. The Amigas and Atari (STs and otherwise)
computers were not marketed strictly as game machines (or else you should
include the C64 in that category). And they are most definitely bitmapped.
The C64 has sprite graphics, but it definitely has a bitmapped graphics
mode. It's somewhat more inconvenient to work in because of its cell-
oriented arrangement, but it's bitmapped.
So, I'm not sure where you're drawing the line here, but all of the machines
you mention have bitmapped graphics and were home computers, except perhaps
the Lisa, but only due to cost.
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