Platform comparison

Platform	CPU	Size efficiency (rough)	Graphics	Sound	Memory	Special hardware	Special features
Commodore Amiga OCS/ECS	Motorola 68000@7.14MHz	medium	320x256 - 640x512 up to 32 colors in 1-5 bitplanes (OCS) up to 64 colors in 6 bitplanes (ECS)	4 PCM channels	512 kB (OCS) 1024 kB (ECS)	Blitter with line drawing and fill Copper	OS Libs
Commodore Amiga AGA	68020@14MHz - 68060@66+MHz FPU on higher models	medium	320x256 - 1280x512 up to 256 colors in 1-8 bitplanes	4 PCM channels	2048 kB	Blitter with line drawing and fill Copper	OS Libs
Atari ST/STE	Motorola 68000@8MHz	TBD	TBD	TBD	TBD	TBD	TBD
Atari Falcon 030	CPU 68030@16MHz FPU 68882@16MHz DSP56001@32MHz	TBD	TBD	TBD	TBD	TBD	TBD
Atari Jaguar	Motorola 68000@13.3MHz	TBD	TBD	TBD	TBD	TBD	Gaming Console RISC graphics coprocessor
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TIC-80	- (Lua interpreter on host system CPU)	high	240x136, 16 colors	4ch wavetables	80 kB "chip" 64 kB Lua code unlimited amount of allocateable memory	-	fast graphics primitives
PICO-8	32b fictional@8MHz (modified Lua interpreter on host system CPU with made-up cycle counts for Lua opcodes)	high	128x128, 16 colors	4ch synth + 5.5 kHz PCM	64 kB "chip" min(64 kB Lua code, 15kB compressed size, 8k tokens) 2 MB Lua memory	-	fast graphics primitives powerful print()
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ZX Spectrum	Z80@3.5MHz	high	256×192 with color attributes per 8x8 block	1b sound or 3ch AY-3-8912 soundchip	16-128 kB	-	Helpful ROM routines incl. FP calculator engine

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