On: Atari took on Apple in the 1980s home PC wars

[rbanffy]

The common CPU helps, but considering how different the machines were, I doubt it’d help that much.

[memsom → rbanffy]

That reminded me of this:

https://github.com/unbibium/atari64

He ported the C64 KERNAL and BASIC to Atari

[rbanffy → memsom]

Must be about twice as fast ;-)

[timbit42 → rbanffy]

It is faster but the ANTIC/GTIA steals cycles from the 6502 while the VIC-II cycles are interleaved with the 6502 to greatly reduce cycle stealing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxi5_VhxkJQ