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by GekkePrutser 1667 days ago
I had an 800XL myself <3. Because my parents couldn't afford the more popular commodore 64 here. The commodore had a 6510 by the way but it was almost the same.

The display list interrupt was indeed really cool, combining different strips of video modes. The one thing I did miss was combining different text colours on the same line. The commodore could do this, the Atari couldn't.
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rbanffy 1667 days ago
Better graphics and a faster CPU in exchange for worse sound. Not a bad bargain, IMHO.

My daily driver back then was a II+ clone.

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timbit42 1666 days ago
The sound wasn't as good as the SID, but it was still better than any other sound chip at the time. It had four voices when most chips had three and two of the 8-bit channels could be combined into a 16-bit channel, giving one 16-bit channel and two 8-bit channels, or two 16-bit channels, giving much better sound quality.
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