Re: Why doesn't the Apple II have a gaming community like C64, Atari, DOS, etc

["Bill Garber" <willy46pa@comcast.net>]

"Steve Nickolas" <lyricalnanoha@usotsuki.hoshinet.org> wrote in 
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> On Sat, 10 Mar 2012, Tony Cianfaglione wrote: 
> 
>> The Apple II was promoted (locally anyway) by Apple to be 
>> a better educational tool and less as a game system - the 
>> II's 80 column display was superb - clean and very legible 
>> - next to the blotchy C64 and Atari displays. Schools embraced 
>> the II and students seemed to associate the II with education 
>> and the C64 and Atari with gaming.  I think the sprites available 
>> in those systems, made programming games easier and with a lot 
>> more colours etc.  The 8 bit Apple games seemed to be mostly 
>> blue and orange. 
>> 
>> There are definitely Apple II gamers, myself being one, but 
>> I always seemed outnumbered by my friends, who were almost 
>> solidly C64 and, to a lesser extent, Atari. 
> 
> That's why I see myself as an Apple user with the mind of a 
> C64 user...because I always used the Apple as a game machine. 

I tend to enjoy the Apple II for development and experimentation. 

For game play, I prefer the old Atari game systems, 2600/7800. 
The quality of the games on the Atari systems tend to be closer 
to the arcade level, both in video and audio. 

For computing other than the Apple II, I'll break out the old 
Atari 800xl, which also has lots of good quality games, which 
nowadays can be downloaded and burned to EPROM and inserted 
into boards that are readily still available, I believe. It's 
been some time since I purchased anything from Best Electronics. 

As far as C64/Vic20, I have them, but haven't had the opportunity 
to break them out to see what they can or cannot do. I guess that 
would be something I should do soon. 

And I have others which I consider the lesser platforms, TI99/4A, 
a Color Computer 2 or 3, not sure, and a couple others. 

You see, they all have their place in the vintage computer world. 

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Bill Garber