Apple II sprite boards

From: Charles P. Hobbs <transit_at_lerctr.org>
Date: Sat Jul 8 05:59:01 2000

Around 1985 or so, a couple of manufacturers developed "sprite boards"
for the Apple II series (except the IIc, for obvious reasons)

These boards featured a video chip (probably a TMS 9918, same as used
in the TI home computer) that allowed for up to 32 sprites to be displayed
on the screen. One of these boards may have had a sound chip on it as
well. (A veritable TI 99/4 on an Apple card, almost!) Of course, the
sprites, and any other graphics from the 9918
could be superimposed over regular Apple graphics, due to the external
video input on the 9918.

Did anyone ever play with one of these? I recall them being rather
expensive, not well supported by third party software makers, and (of
course) different brands of sprite card were incompatible with each other.
Received on Sat Jul 08 2000 - 05:59:01 BST