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Re: ATARI is crap!

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In article <8470f86c-1c7f-480a-b06d-64f4c9e459ae@googlegroups.com>,
Harry Potter <rose.joseph12@yahoo.com> wrote:
> On Friday, January 29, 2016 at 4:24:22 PM UTC-5, Adelbert Affenstaat wrote:
> > 
> > The ATARI 800 only has crappy games, because the ATARI has crappy sprites, 
> > crappy colours and a mediocre sound chip.
> > 
> > The C64 is MUCH better!
> > 
> > The SID is great, the VIC is great, the C64 is great!
> 
> I kind of agree.  I tried Atari emulators, and, well, they were like
> toys--hard-to-use toys.  Of course, I think the Vic20 was mostly a toy also,
> but programming on a Vic20 I think is more worth it.  :)

Yep, the good ol' days of programming, when you had a whopping 1K of
RAM to play with, so had to program efficiently ... unlike these days
of lazy, over-bloated, inefficient code.  :-(

Write the "Hellow World" program on a VIC 20 BASIC and it takes up a
few bytes. Write it on a modern computer in something RealBASIC, build
the application, and it takes up a megabyte or more, thanks mostly to
all the pointlessly included libraries that aren't even needed.

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Re: ATARI is crap! "Adelbert Affenstaat" <a@ff.e> - 2016-01-29 22:24 +0100
  Re: ATARI is crap! Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2016-01-30 12:36 +1300
    Re: ATARI is crap! Ken Springer <wordworks@greeleynet.com> - 2016-01-30 08:08 -0700
      Re: ATARI is crap! Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2016-01-31 10:02 +1300
        Re: ATARI is crap! Ken Springer <wordworks@greeleynet.com> - 2016-01-30 15:26 -0700
          Re: ATARI is crap! Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2016-01-31 13:39 +1300
            Re: ATARI is crap! Ken Springer <wordworks@greeleynet.com> - 2016-01-30 18:06 -0700
              Re: ATARI is crap! Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2016-01-31 17:49 +1300
              Re: ATARI is crap! Ken Springer <wordworks@greeleynet.com> - 2016-01-30 22:17 -0700
                Re: ATARI is crap! Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2016-01-31 19:38 +1300
                Re: ATARI is crap! Ken Springer <wordworks@greeleynet.com> - 2016-01-31 07:35 -0700
                Re: ATARI is crap! Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2016-02-01 13:24 +1300
                Re: ATARI is crap! Ken Springer <wordworks@greeleynet.com> - 2016-01-31 19:45 -0700
                Re: ATARI is crap! Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2016-02-01 16:31 +1300
                Re: ATARI is crap! Clu <drclu@swbell.net> - 2016-02-05 10:49 -0600
                Re: ATARI is crap! Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2016-02-06 09:57 +1300
  Re: ATARI is crap! Harry Potter <rose.joseph12@yahoo.com> - 2016-01-30 10:56 -0800
    Re: ATARI is crap! Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2016-01-31 10:06 +1300
      Re: ATARI is crap! Harry Potter <rose.joseph12@yahoo.com> - 2016-01-30 15:26 -0800
        Re: ATARI is crap! Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2016-01-31 13:37 +1300
        Re: ATARI is crap! Andreas Kohlbach <janrat.9.ankman@spamgourmet.net> - 2016-01-31 17:49 -0500
          Re: ATARI is crap! Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2016-02-01 13:29 +1300
            Re: ATARI is crap! NOSPAM.Kurt.Weiske@f1.n770.z1199.fidonet.org (Kurt Weiske) - 2016-02-02 06:58 +1200
              Re: ATARI is crap! Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2016-02-03 09:31 +1300
  Re: ATARI is crap! Dombo <dombo@disposable.invalid> - 2016-01-31 21:56 +0100

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