On 29/01/2020 17:28, Gerrit Heitsch wrote: > For the beginning of the 80s, it wasn't bad either. > Compared to what? Up against the ZX80 it was able to maintain a video display while running basic, but with only 22 columns compared to the ZX80's 32 columns. Compared to the Atari 400/800 and arguably the Apple 2, the vic 20 was terrible. It was bad but it was cheap and it was compromised in different ways to the other bad and cheap computers available at the time. The only thing really going for it was that at least it wasn't the TED series, which had 40 column text but no sprites and not enough cpu power to do them in software.Received on 2020-05-30 00:33:54
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