Re: Apple II vs Atari 800

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Thomas Richter <thor@math.tu-berlin.de> wrote in news:
 
> I afraid so. The c64 had no graphic support in its rather limited basic.

That's because it used a BASIC originally written for the PET, a machine 
with no sound or actual graphics. To draw an orange line (like in your 
example) on the C64, you'd have to do this:

5 ba=8192:poke53272,peek(53272)or8
10 poke53265,peek(53265)or32
20 fori=batoba+7999:pokei,0:next
30 fori=1024to2023:pokei,128:next
40 pokeba,128:pokeba+1,64
50 pokeba+2,32:pokeba+3,16
60 end

This just draws a few pixels in the upper left corner of the screen, but 
should give you an idea of what's involved.