Prodatron / SymbiosiS wrote:
The Amstrad CPC came later (1984) than the C64, was quite faster (2-3times)
The 6502 can do more per clock cycle than a Z80 though. Also the C64 did have tiled displays, hardware scrolling and sprites, which helped a lot.
> and had a much more modern architecture (FDC, Z80 etc...).It was a good example of a company putting a lot of off the shelf components together with a small amount of custom logic to make things work well and have a nice display, even if a lot of work was required to handle it because of its relatively large size (16KB).
> It
was a brilliant machine (screen resolution of up to 768x270, fastes floppy for 8bit machines etc) but not popular, because the C64 came earlier and had better capabilities for many type of games (SID sound and hardware sprites).
Graham