26 Jan
2010
26 Jan
'10
11:53 a.m.
Thats actually been messed around with over on Atariage.com where some
guys were wiring a SID into an Atari XL/XE system...
Dave McGuire wrote:
On Jan 26, 2010, at 12:40 PM, Cameron Kaiser wrote:
The consensus opinion is that the Speccy has more
meat in its CPU, but
is hobbled by poor video and a merely adequate sound chip (the AY is
fine,
but no SID), while the C64, while having a lower speed clock and
requiring
zero page for register dependent operations, has a much better graphics
"co-processor" which hardware-assists things like sprites, and a much
better sound chip. Naturally we all know what the market chose.
When I was a kid, I had an Atari 800, and my best friend Rob had a
Commodore 64. We'd fight back and forth all the time, but we both
loved showing off our systems to each other. He was always in awe of
the Atari's graphics, and I was always in awe of his C64's audio.
I often wondered what it'd be like to build a small computing with
Atari graphics hardware and Commodore audio hardware. That'd be neat,
eh?
-Dave