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I owned a C64. Remember how buttery smooth the interfaces of those '80s computers were?
by npsomaratna 8mo ago
I owned a C64. Remember how buttery smooth the interfaces of those '80s computers were?
- ekianjo 8mo agofewer layers between software and hardware...
- cryptonector 8mo agoNot Apples. But Amigas, omg those were smooth.
- guenthert 8mo agoI was green with envy, when I saw how fast and smooth a C64 scrolled some text (iirc it was some machine code monitor). My Amstrad CPC464 had no text mode and the Z80A CPU was clearly overwhelmed with shifting the whopping 16KiB RAM of the graphics buffer or even just rendering a line of text.
- sedatk 8mo agoCPC allows some level of smooth scrolling, albeit not as good as C64. Lack of a text mode is a problem too as you said.