At 14:53 4/19/00 -0400, you wrote:
> As for the special chip, you may be thinking of the never-released
>Hellraiser (based on the movie, if you can dig that). Some of the rumors
>about it are collected on <http://nesworld.vintagegaming.com/colordre.htm>
>and <http://nesworld.vintagegaming.com/hellrais.htm>
Well, I studied the "Hellraiser" board fairly closely. There was a high-res
pic of it on the literature I had from an old early 90's E3 :-)
I hate to say it, but it appears to have been all hot air. The cart would never
work. It sure had a Z80 on there and some RAM and 3 EPROMs, but that was it!
There was no "glue" or other form of controlling logic to speak of. So, I
hate to say that it was nothing more than a pipe-dream. (Not to mention,
why would you have a CHR ROM if all the graphics were "bitmapped" ;-)
>bitmapped out the screen to memory first (the processor on the game could
>draw with more colors, and handle more sprites at one time than the NES)."
>Sort of a Nintendo XL system. :)
This is false since the PPU controls all graphics accesses. The PPU itself
contains internally all palettes and sprite attributes. So, adding more
would require replacement of the PPU.
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