Apple II sprite boards

From: Charles P. Hobbs <transit_at_lerctr.org>
Date: Thu Jul 13 23:01:11 2000

On Thu, 13 Jul 2000, Michael Maginnis wrote:

>
>
> "Charles P. Hobbs (SoCalTip)" wrote:
> >
> > There's a little blurb about the SuperSprite and StarSprite boards over
> > at http://www.hypermall.com/History/ah12.html
> >
> > They were very expensive (about $400), so they really didn't catch
> > on with most users. Pity...
>
> The TMS9918A was the TI/994A graphics controller chip, IIRC.

The sprite board was almost a whole TI home computer on a board,
at least graphics wise. I never got to play around with one, but I
did read about it in magazines...seems like it would liven up the
otherwise somewhat limited Apple color graphics scheme...
Received on Thu Jul 13 2000 - 23:01:11 BST

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