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I had a Commodore 64 because the Atari 2600 promised a keyboard option to turn it into a computer. It never came to market. So I switched to Commodore who had a

I had a Commodore 64 because the Atari 2600 promised a keyboard option to turn it into a computer. It never came to market. So I switched to Commodore who had a video game console with a keyboard and BASIC. The Atari 800 was nice I heard, but there was a war between Commodore and Atari users on the BBSES. The Atari 800 had more colors than the Commodore 64, but the SID chip on the Commodore 64 had better sounds, which attracted musicians to it. Oddly enough management of Atari and Commodore switched and the Atari ST was the successor of the Commodore 64, but I had the Commodore Amiga 1000 that was designed by Jay Miner and other Atari engineers.

krige 7y ago
The story of how Jay Miner and the rest of very talented engineer crew actually ended up under Commodore is a whole essay and a half - needless to say, that wasn't what they had in mind when they started out at all! There's a fantastic series of articles on the subject: https://arstechnica.com/series/history-of-the-amiga/ https://arstechnica.com/series/history-of-the-amiga/
burfog 7y ago
You could get good sound out of the Atari, as Alternate Reality did, with vibrato and note bending and more. https://youtu.be/dABvjB_0o0w?t=140 https://youtu.be/dABvjB_0o0w?t=140 (skipping past the first 140 seconds, because I think the emulator is not doing it justice, for either audio or video, until about 150 seconds in -- the game needed a real NTSC TV) Gameplay with some weird sounds: https://youtu.be/9KmPOb4PGBQ?t=36 https://youtu.be/9KmPOb4PGBQ?t=36