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