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What was the chip called that Danny Hillis made that Nintendo bought? Is it this one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_Instruments_TMS9918 https://en.wikipe
by bullen 4y ago
What was the chip called that Danny Hillis made that Nintendo bought?
Is it this one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_Instruments_TMS9918 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_Instruments_TMS9918
So did that (and if so how) become the NES Picture Processing Unit?
- masswerk 4y agoThe cited source reads: > Though TI never made a successful product based on this chip, it became the basis for the "family entertainment system" sold by a previously-unknown Japanese game maker called Nintendo… https://books.google.at/books?id=UsWRDjcuao8C&lpg=PA108&vq=daniel%20hillis%20sprites&hl=de&pg=PA108#v=onepage&q&f=false https://books.google.at/books?id=UsWRDjcuao8C&lpg=PA108&vq=d...