Posted By
MMS
on 2016-09-17
08:10:48
 |  Re: Is the Plus/4 more advanced then the 64?
Actually I was surprised, that VIC-II was kept almost in the same form in C128, while they implemented an EXTRA expensive VDC chip without real use of it (except the 80 char mode for CP/M), not to mention the still very-very limited 16 color palatte. It had a potentials to get closer to Amiga, but as C16 limited the games developped for the 264 series due to low RAM, the initial 16K version VDC killed the more serious applications. What a shame, that C128 could have 64K RAM from the beginning, and the result is only half as good as could have been.
(the VGA 320x200 chunky mode with selectable 256 color palette (from 16M) takes exactly 64K RAM, and see how beautiful games were made with that low resolution and color palette, just to mention few, Eye of Beholder, Lion King, Alladin, Lands of Lore, Day of the Tentacle, Wolfstein 3D, Indy, Monkey Island, etc)
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