enough to hold the bitmap image and the raster IRQ program to plot the pixels. Oh I should mention it takes an active running machine code program to keep the image on the screen, because the VIC II can only have 4 colors in an 8x8 square and it has to alternate colors between frames to mix them. The Atari GTIA works a little differently with 4 bits per pixel, but you have to set up what 16 colors to use in other registers. Which takes more work for an active program. Atari 8-bit's 6502 runs almost twice as fast as the Commodore 64's 6510, but the GTIA needs more help from the CPU to operate. So all I'd really like to see with the VIC II is the Atari's pallette, but what's done is done. It would take redesigning the VIC II from the very start. Oh, there's a such thing as a VIC III, it's an extremely rare chip, only a couple hundred of them were evver made. It has graphics that rival the Amiga's graphics chipset, which also happns to be why it never went into regular production and the Commodore 65 was cancelled. They thought it would hurt the sale of the Amiga. They were probably right. One of the reasons many Commodore 64 users didn't upgrade to the Amiga, and why the Commodore 64 still sold in record number while the Amigas were still being made, was people wanted to keep their software library. Even today, the Commodore 64 still has more games and apps than the Amiga. Though, very few of them are better than the Amiga versions.