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Reading this reminded me quite a bit of ANTIC[1], the display processor that gave the Atari 8-bit computers much of their appeal, though it deferred the more ge
by spacedcowboy 4y ago
Reading this reminded me quite a bit of ANTIC[1], the display processor that gave the Atari 8-bit computers much of their appeal, though it deferred the more general computing to the CPU with its display-list interrupts.
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANTIC https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANTIC
- nerpderp82 4y agoThis is super cool. This is like a bare minimum framebuffer coprocessor. I remember pouring over the Amiga Hardware Reference Manual and figuring out how to position sprites in hardware. https://retro-commodore.eu/files/downloads/amigamanuals-xiik.net/Other/Amiga%20Hardware%20Reference%20Manual-ENG.pdf https://retro-commodore.eu/files/downloads/amigamanuals-xiik...