Hmm I had Atari 2600 and the quality on this looks better. This reminds me very much of the Commodore 65 quality...
AHUM ! NO cursing in the church my friend !
I was (and still am) Atari nuts back in the 80's, Commodore was the enemy.
But you are right. The XE GS = 65XE = 800XE which were about the same as the 800XL and almost the same as the original 800.
These Atari 8 bit computers have been one of the competitors of the C64. They were MILES better than the Atari 2600.
However, the 400 and 800 were released in 1979 !
Compare that to the C64 which was released in 1983, FOUR years later, and the hardware was about equal in power.
Remember how much technology improved in that era in 4 years....take f.i. Space Invaders and compare it to Atari's Star Wars !
Only the sprites were mere powerful on the C64. Everything else was less IMHO.
The keyboard sucked, the floppy disk drive was as slow as the Atari's cassette system, the BASIC was stolen from the PET machines and thus did not support any graphics or sound, there was no proper DOS, you could cook an egg on the PSU....the list is endless
