Re:Why does the Commodore C128 perform poorly when running C...
by cmrdporcupine on Friday December 09, 2022 @07:04PM
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Sort-of. Jay Miner (Amiga chipset) did work on the chipset in the Atari 8-bits. And Shiraz Shivji (Atari ST designer) did work on the C64. But the sets don't intersect with all the other people, just some of them.
There's not a lot in common between the ST and the C64 other than "rock bottom price" and "multiplex the memory BUS between the CPU and the VDP" (VICII/Shifter). The C64 laid in heavily on accelerating video via a custom chip (a bit like the Amiga and Atari 8 bits) but the ST's video was really just "spew a bitmap out of RAM."
There's not a lot in common between the ST and the C64 other than "rock bottom price" and "multiplex the memory BUS between the CPU and the VDP" (VICII/Shifter). The C64 laid in heavily on accelerating video via a custom chip (a bit like the Amiga and Atari 8 bits) but the ST's video was really just "spew a bitmap out of RAM."
Don't get me wrong, I loved my ST.