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Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2012 18:38:13 -0700 (PDT)
Local: Sun, Apr 22 2012 9:38 pm
Subject: Re: Dual VIC-II's
On Saturday, April 21, 2012 6:30:49 PM UTC-4, cts3000 wrote:
The TMS9918A had a SYNC line, and a "transparent" color that allowed you to cascade chips (or external sources) and the external video showed through the transparent areas.
> Would Dual VIC-II's be of any use in a Commodore 64? Could screen > resolution be doubled? But it would require its own RAM. And from all I've ever read, SYNCing didn't work very well, leading to washed-out colors or artifacts or other such issues.
So, it looked good on paper...
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