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

[Michael J. Mahon <mjmahon@aol.com>]

<aiiadict@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
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> TMS-9918:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_Instruments_TMS9918
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> NES PPU:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picture_Processing_Unit

And the 9918 is on the Arcade Board. 

-michael - NadaNet 3.1 and AppleCrate II: http://home.comcast.net/~mjmahon