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Article #21419Re: What micro in Intellivision video games?
From: Jim Cathey
Date: Thu, 18 May 1989 03:01
Date: Thu, 18 May 1989 03:01
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In article <987@snjsn1.SJ.ATE.SLB.COM> greg@sj.ate.slb.com (Greg Wageman) writes: >In article <847@m3.mfci.UUCP> colwell@mfci.UUCP (Robert Colwell) writes: >>I'm looking at an Intellivision video game for a friend, ca. 1979, which >>seems to only remember how to put out vertical and horizontal sync, but >>nothing else. I suspect the micro, but the manufacturer glued metal >>heat sinks to the tops of the chips in question and I can't tell what >>they are. Does anybody out there know? >As I recall, the Intellivision used a Z80 processor driving a Texas >Instruments TMS9918-A display controller. This is the same graphics I thought the Intellivision used the General Instruments 1600 (??) series micro, a 10-bit PDP-11-oid. I don't know if it used the 9918 or not. +----------------+ ! II CCCCCC ! Jim Cathey ! II SSSSCC ! ISC Systems Corp. ! II CC ! TAF-C8; Spokane, WA 99220 ! IISSSS CC ! UUCP: uunet!iscuva!jimc (jimc@iscuva.iscs.com) ! II CCCCCC ! (509) 927-5757 +----------------+ "With excitement like this, who is needing enemas?"
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!iscuva!jimc From: jimc@iscuva.ISCS.COM (Jim Cathey) Newsgroups: sci.electronics Subject: Re: What micro in Intellivision video games? Message-ID: <2493@iscuva.ISCS.COM> Date: 18 May 89 03:01:20 GMT References: <847@m3.mfci.UUCP> <987@snjsn1.SJ.ATE.SLB.COM> Organization: ISC Systems Corporation, Spokane WA Lines: 22