Posted By
Bacon
on 2002-11-30
|  My view as an old C64 user and a newcomer to the Plus/4:
1. Of course it's good. It's a Commodore! 
2. It's rarer than the C64, but there were around 150,000 sold in Europe and about the same in the U.S. so it's not that hard to get hold of one. I picked up two of them from ebay Germany a couple of months ago.
3. It has a better BASIC than the C64 and you can use 60K of memory in BASIC, as opposed to the C64's 38K for BASIC programming. It also has built-in software (word processor, spreadsheet, file manager and graph generator). It has more colors than the C64 (121 versus 16). On the other hand, the C64 has sprites (makes game graphics easier to program and mostly better looking) and the fantastic SID sound chip, while the Plus/4 has no sprites and only two voices of square wave sound. But it is the best looking computer Commodore ever built.
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