Re: Arcade board

[mjmahon@aol.com (Michael J. Mahon)]

Steven N. Hirsch wrote:

>Michael J. Mahon wrote:
>
>> I had my eye on it for almost a week.  An interesting combo
>> of 9918 sprite card and AY-3-8910 sound chip.
>> 
>> Also interesting that they didn't find a way to route the video
>> output on the PC board.  ;-)
>
>I missed the run-up to this.  A friend of mine who I have not seen in 
>years designed a board called the "Sprite-n-Stereo" card. Is that what 
>you have?  If so, quite a rarity.

It's pretty close!  There is one AY-3-8910, so it's a "Sprite-n-Mono"
card.  ;-)  I note from the picture, though, that there's some 2-channel
funny business at the audio end, so maybe it _is_ stereo...that would
mean that the video is available only at the RF modulator connector.

I've never seen this combo before, and am looking forward to seeing
how the 9918A and the '8910 are interfaced, since there's nothing
but "glue" logic on the card.

-michael

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