Re: SuperSprite Board?

[Roy and/or Janet Miller <millers@inetnebr.com>]

I believe that this is the video board that used the TI 9918a/9928 video
coprocessor chip (which was used in the TI 99/4a and Coleco ADAM), one
variation had a sound board built in (the Echo card?) On the ADAM one got
256x192 with 16 colors and 32 sprites. In addition, the video chip had 32
"layers" so that sprites were stacked and you could do "3-D" background so
a tree would lay over a building or whatever. The chip had it's own 16k of
video RAM that was outside the CPU's memory space. This is why the ADAM
was advertised as having 80K of RAM (64 + 16), and the really sad thing
about the TI 99/4a was that it's 16K of RAM was the video RAM, that was
stolen to run your BASIC programs if you didn't have a memory expansion
module added. To my knowledge, other than a really cool LOGO, there wasn't
much software that used this board on Apple II's.

Roy

scraft@nothinbut.net wrote:

> Does anyone remember this piece of hardware?  Does anyone have one for
> sell?
>
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