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The 6809 was used in a production gadget, the Vectrex, the only vector-graphic consumer videogame console. It came with a screen that worked like an oscilloscop
by ncmncm 4y ago
The 6809 was used in a production gadget, the Vectrex, the only vector-graphic consumer videogame console. It came with a screen that worked like an oscilloscope -- no raster, just an electron beam sweeping along the line. So, no jaggies.
As it was necessarily monotone, games came with clear plastic color overlays for the screen.
6809 was notable as the first 8-bit microprocessor with a multiply instruction: 8x8->16 bits.
- ddingus 4y agoIt was also in some Williams games, including my favorite: DEFENDER. Crazy what could be done just pushing pixels at 1Mhz!