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Yes. They could have had better software given the CS of the 80's too. My first computer was an Interact [1]. The best games for it came out after production st
by phkahler 2y ago
Yes. They could have had better software given the CS of the 80's too. My first computer was an Interact [1]. The best games for it came out after production stopped. Having fully dissected the ROM I can say filling the 2nd (empty) ROM socket would have allowed much faster implementations of the built-in functions and some additional ones. The machine was so short-lived nobody ever maximized its potential.
On the hardware side, the graphics were very low-res with each pixel being 3 scan lines high. Simply adding RAM (there was an upgrade available to go from 16K to 32K) to the base machine should have allowed higher resolution graphics by not re-using pixel data so much or at all (simple hardware changes). Higher horizontal resolution should have been possible but with more complex hardware changes.
I'm looking forward to the end of scaling. I'm hoping that leads to more efficient software at all levels over time.
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interact_Home_Computer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interact_Home_Computer