Re: Jack Tramiel failed to save Atari.

In article <1193838629.277475.300780@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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 larry@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 wrote:

> The 64 blew the atari out of the water with the sound and graphics,
> sure the Atari had four voices, which were OK and the graphics had
> more colors but you could not use to many of them in one place all at
> once

Actually, if you got down into the assy. level programming and mastered 
horizontal interrupts, you could easily mix graphic modes and put all 
256 colors on the screen each pass.  And with the 4 voices, music could 
be much more elaborate.

ALSO, there is an program floating around out there that was a digitized 
audio clip of Van Halen's Girl You Really Got Me Now.  It had to disable 
the video to ensure the sound played fluidly, but it did sound very 
good.  I never saw that sound trick executed on the C=64.  I don't think 
you could manipulate the SID fast enough to pull it off.

jt