Re: A look at the C-One (Commodore One) reconfigurable computer

["Kryten" <kryten_droid_obfusticator@ntlworld.com>]

"Prodatron / SymbiosiS" <mika@falkag.com> wrote

> do you have one, too?

No, got too much to do right now.
Find new work, new home, shed a load of possessions to ease moving, etc.
Plus I got my own FPGA project to do.

> BTW, you really should buy one

I'm fighting to minimise my stuff.

> The Amstrad CPC came later (1984) than the C64,
> was quite faster (2-3 times)

My mate wrote a Z80 to 6502 translation and he said the resulting code ran 
several times faster on the 6502 although had larger code.

It is possible to slow systems through poor coding.
Maybe the C64 had a slow BASIC interpreter.
If they just chucked the source through a compiler,
then I would not be surprised if it were slow.

The Atom and BBC BASIC interpreters were hand optimised and were pretty 
fast, even though CPU clock rate was nothing unusual.

> CPC was a brilliant machine
> but not popular

It doesn't seem to have as big a cult as Atari/Apple/Commodore.
Amstrad is usually associated with low-quality products.