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Is your username "brass monkey" by chance? Do you remember talking to a "defender" via CB radio in the 80"s?

If not, no worries. Was something in your words reminded me of those times.

I wanted one too! Nice machine, fast disk, built in goodies!

Even though it would not see a graphics system upgrade, the special chips allowing ANTIC to work on RAM apart from the CPU would allow the full exploitation of the graphics system, and give the machine a nice speed boost with a 6502 freed of the screen DMA.

The demoscene shows us what throwing lots of RAM at the graphics could do!

bmonkey325 354 days ago
Alas no. Where I grew up in Canada, CB Radio wasn't as big as it was in the states. Would have been really cool to meet up with someone I knew in the 80s like this.
What I see in the Atari, C-64 and even the 8086 demoscene today is amazing. Better tools to help you edit/compile/run/debug code faster leaves so much more room for creativity
- ddingus 349 days ago
  Agreed.
  The CB chatter was great. At one point, more than a dozen of us would gather on channel 21 to just talk. Phone time was hard to get and person to person. Adults for miles around would listen.
  Re: scene
  I love the scene and yes! We do have great tooling.