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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
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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.

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