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Re: If you were to put a graphics chip on an apple II card...

On Wednesday, August 29, 2012 11:21:29 AM UTC-7, Steve Nickolas wrote:
> On Wed, 29 Aug 2012,  wrote:
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> > What would it be?
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> > I know about the Arcade board, etc.  Second Sight, TurboRez.  They never 
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> > caught on.  Way too late for anything to be popular today...
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> > I've been studying a NES (nintendo) ROM disassembly, and I think the 
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> > graphics chip is pretty freakin neat.
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> > Have you guys worked with any other graphics IC's?  What would be a good 
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> > one for a *hobby* project?
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> > Rich
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> I thought of the TMS-9918...
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> -uso.

TMS-9918:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_Instruments_TMS9918

NES PPU:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picture_Processing_Unit