8Bit things your didn't know (or just forgot and then remembered)

[+kheller2]

I few random things I remembered today, that I had forgotten...

 

FREDDIE has pin 36 marked as " 16KCAS' "  "In Atari 600 with 16K RAM, this line connects to RAM chips; CAS' connects to PBI."

Not a single 600(XL) ever shipped with FREDDIE, AFAIK.

 

The "XL COMPUTER WITH MUFFY & KERRI" (circa 8/28/84) came in 64K and 128K varieties, both with a WD1770 & 8049.  This was to be the 800XLD (800XLF + Keri and DISK), a low cost 1450XLD.

The intent was to eventually have XL's with built in floppy controllers and then sell low cost disk drives (just like the ST).

 

MUFFY=FREDDIE(s?)+MMU 68PIN Package. "Dynamic Memory Management Unit" #65105  (This also had AMY chip select lines, along with the 8049 and WD1770)

 

KERI= CGIA (ANTIC+GTIA) + POKEY  -- this was also supposed to be used on the SUPER XE GAME MACHINE (65C816) along with a new(?) "FREDY" -- June 88.

 

The XLCR = FREDDIE, SALLY, PIA + KERI

 

FRED was the original FREDDIE design for the original 600.  FREDDIE was for the XL line.

 

PORKEY (circa 3/9/83 for the LIZ NY board) was Pokey + 4050s (no POTS), supposedly later renamed "MEG" and in CMOS.

 

 

 

 

[abbotkinneydude]

Thank you Karl.

 

While it is not sure that, if ATARI Inc. had not been sold / split and James Morgan had stayed in function, these chips would have shipped to market.

 

They probably still would have fared better under a Warner umbrella than under the Tramiel's zero 8-bit development era (XF551 only happened because Nintendo threatened to sue / or did sue for false advertising).

 

Did the SUPER XE go beyond the PDF drafted by Shiraz Shivji and published by Curt all these years ago? Because that's all we have right now and we also know that the MIRAI case was just a case (so not related to Super XE).

 

So many unexploited avenues, that stuff just breaks your heart.