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Re: Crosspost: Did the cpu influence the display?



Mike Wynne wrote:

In the case of the C16/+4 a custom TED Chip, the C64 uses the custom VIC-II, the Atari it's custom Antic chip. Try designing a video circuit in discrete logic (Like the Apple II) then tell me how much more hardware is required to obtain a linear 40 or 80 column mode.

Just take a look at the schematics of the first Commodore PET 2001. There are probably more examples, but this is first one I could think of.