On 8/30/07, Chuck Guzis <cclist at sydex.com> wrote:
Got one here. Is it worth anything or is it landfill?
Like other people have said -- they're interesting, but really were badly
executed and marketed. On the upside, it's faster than the C64 and has more
colors, but on the major downside, it's got no sprite support and doesn't
have the SID chip, which meant that software support was marginal. In a lot
of respects, it's more of a scaled up VIC-20 than a C-64. The built-in
applications are mostly a curiosity. (And why on earth did someone think
that the arrow-*shaped* arrow keys would be a good idea?)
In terms of "worth", my impression is that they sell on eBay for just a
little more than the average C64-with-1541 combination.
(This is my long overdue de-lurking, by the way. Pleased to meet you all.)