Re: Commodore 64 kills APPLE II

[Yves McDonald <""yves.mcdonald\"@NO SPAM sympatico.ca>]

They were... C-64 have superior sound & graphic hardware but poor OS 
software and slow I/O (and horrible joysticks).  The Apple ][s were 
business machines created from the late 70's. They were eventually 
outclassed by Big Blue's PC in the eighties.  The C-64 was introduced 
much after the first Apple ][.  Applesoft BASIC and DOS 3.3 were far 
more powerful than Commodore's, again a proof that Apples were 
business-oriented.  I played games on my Apple thanks to an army of 
clever 6502 programers who produced high-speed graphics routines and 
precise timing loops.

Where there any hard disks or successful business apps made for the 
C-64?  Never heard of.  Younger friends had C-64's to play games, not to 
type letters, do spreadsheets or manage databases.

Cheers,

Yves

Stede Troisi wrote:
> Is it me or does the APPLE II's graphic and sounds stink compared to the
> lower priced C64? I was playing around with the AppleWin emulator and the
> graphics and sounds are terrible.
>
> Stede