Path: csiph.com!news.bbs.nz!.POSTED.agency.bbs.nz!not-for-mail From: phigan@f137.n4.z21.fsxnet (phigan) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit Subject: Re: The ATARI 800 is crap! Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2024 13:15:24 +1300 Organization: fsxNet Usenet Gateway Message-ID: <1005690728@f137.n4.z21.fsxnet> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Info: news.bbs.nz; posting-host="8IWYKlztXHa0+IViEdY46zrq8kpk7dC9fTbT74JiSDQ"; logging-data="19629"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@news.bbs.nz" User-Agent: VSoup v1.2.9.47Beta [95/NT] X-Comment-To: Kalevi Kolttonen X-MailConverter: SoupGate-Win32 v1.05 Xref: csiph.com comp.sys.atari.8bit:1827 KK> mission. The Atari, being the Porsche of home computers, is KK> capable of running Dropzone 2.5 times faster than the 64 Did you happen to see a while back a guy named Nick Bensama got C64 BASIC to run on the Atari 8bit? And it ran C64 BASIC programs faster than the C64 did. While not super useful, pretty neat :). ... Origin of Life? Just check my refrigerator...