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	I'm attempting to put together a "generic" foundation/o.s./utility ROM
for Motorola 680x0 based game hardware. The idea is to get something that is
more-or-less standard from the programmer's (and operator's) point of view, and
relatively easily "ported" to new hardware. In doing this, I have become aware
of the following different hardware configurations for which games are being
actively developed. I would very much like to hear from anyone who knows about
the others that I know exist, with a description like that below:

Hardware name	Contact			Description
System I	Ly/Albaugh		The original Stamp/MO 68K hardware
					Comes in at least three flavors
Gauntlet	McCarthy/Flanagan	Single-board/More M.O.s
Catacombs	Snyder/Flanagan		Cost reduced, Single board "System I"
Rasteroids	Stempler/Rotberg	Cost reduced/Interlaced/"med res"
System II/68	??/Harper?		System II (med res) with 68010 CPU
Tank...???	??/Turner/Avellar	Looks like Gauntlet so far?
???		??/Kwinn/Salwitz?	Dueling 68000's?
System IV	??/Morris		May not be applicable

	The most important info I need is the contact person for the hardware
and software.

				Thanks in advance,
				Mike

680x0

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System 4 exists but there are no plans to produce it.

Instead, we will be using:

	GSP TURBO

which is a 68010 based design that uses a Texas Instruments

34010 GSP for Graphics. The "TURBO" is because of a clever 

trick to get it to do Polygon Fills at 48 Mega-Pixels/sec.

The hardware has an Analog Devices ADSP-2100 to do math.


	Jed
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May 06, 1987