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

[Steve Nickolas <usotsuki@buric.co>]

On Wed, 29 Aug 2012, Michael J. Mahon wrote:

> <aiiadict@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Wednesday, August 29, 2012 11:21:29 AM UTC-7, Steve Nickolas wrote:
> > > I thought of the TMS-9918...
> > >
> > > -uso.
> >
> > TMS-9918:
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_Instruments_TMS9918
> >
> > 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

Makes sense.

The 9918 was used in the Colecovision and the original MSX, and 
descendents were used in various Sega systems.

-uso.