Re: Sprite card?

["brad" <mrbrad@ll.net>]

went for like $50 or a $1 less then $50 more/less

wonder how hard it would be to build one of those beasts.did not look like a
lot of chips

brad




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