Re: Does anybody still remember CHIP-8?

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From: z... Michael Saleeba
Date: Thu, 30 Aug 1990 11:10

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In <1990Aug29.0...@icad.com> l...@icad.com (Larry Stone) writes:

>I never heard of CHIP-8 being ported to any Elf or any other kind of CPU.

>>I don't have any of the s/ware now but I used CHIP-8 about 1980 on a
>>DREAM (don't ask me what that stood for).  It used a motorola 6802
>>processor and used cheap video.                               ^^^^

>Are you sure this wasn't an 1802? 

The original DREAM used a 6800, but when the 6800 clock-oscillator chip was in
short supply lots of people made a 6802 version. In fact I made one myself.
And yes, it definitely ran CHIP-8.

						-|-   Zik   -|-

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From: z...@bruce.cs.monash.OZ.AU (Michael Saleeba)
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Subject: Re: Does anybody still remember CHIP-8?
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Date: 30 Aug 90 11:10:19 GMT
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