[net.micro] ATARI_advantages

bryan (11/01/82)

Some Atari advantages.

The Atari computers (400/800) have some advantages of 
their own. For about 300 dollars the 400 comes with
upper and lower case, inverse video, built in screen
editor, horizontal and vertical scrolling, floating
point Basic, and 4 hardware timers. Also the Atari computers
have their own internal Operating System (allows for
some nifty features). The game ports on the front are
actually 2 parallel i/o ports. Also the  cartridge 
slot allows for convinece of plug in rom. Another advantage
is the use of a software charactor generator.  If you
don't like the keyboard on the 400 it is not hard
to hook up a good one to it. Also you do not half to
buy a video modulator, if you want to use a TV.

                                ihlpb!bryan
                                Bryan DeLaney
                                BTL

reid (11/02/82)

Another major advantage for the Atari is COLOR REGISTERS....

All screen colors are done indirectly through color registers, and merely
changing these registers results in changes of screen display.  This allows
for very fast animation, and all sorts of video magic.

See November, 1982 BYTE magazine for more details...

Glenn Reid