Re: Sprite card?

[Exegete <millers@noneofyourbusiness.com>]

brad wrote:

> went for like $50 or a $1 less then $50 more/less
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> wonder how hard it would be to build one of those beasts.did not look like a
> lot of chips
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> brad

The row at the top are 16k x 1 chips

Roy
> "Willi Kusche" <a2@wilserv.com> wrote in message
> 5e7193b4.0312142132.40c2025b@posting.google.com">news:5e7193b4.0312142132.40c2025b@posting.google.com...
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> > Hi, y'all!
> >
> > salfter@salfter.dyndns.org (Scott Alfter) wrote in message
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> news:<pY5Db.6737$J77.6483@fed1read07>...
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> > > It would allow you to do bitmapped animation at faster speeds than what
>
> you
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> > > get with a simple framebuffer display...in addition to telling it where
>
> you
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> > > want it to draw a sprite, some of them will also do collision detection
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> and
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> > > other stuff that would've been useful in games.  The chip used in this
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> card
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> > > was the same one that handled the graphics in the TI-99/4A back in the
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> day.
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> >    Hmmm, spirited bidding for the card...
> >
> > Willi



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