There must have been more then one version of the Gemini. The one I have has
three chips, the stock 6507, and 6532 and a 40 pin chip with Coleco's name
on it which must be thier TIA clone.
Dan
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> From: owner-stella@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-stella@xxxxxxxxxxx]On
> Behalf Of Mark De Smet
> Sent: Saturday, November 17, 2001 12:36 PM
> To: stella@xxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [stella] Midified VCS...
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>
> No. A Gemini is a 2 chip solution. Both are asics. I don't recall
> exactly what I figured when I was looking at it, but I think they
> integrated the graphics portion of the tia with the 6502 core
> in one chip,
> and the PIA and the I/O poriton of the tia in the other.
>
> Mark
>
> On Sat, 17 Nov 2001, Glenn Saunders wrote:
>
> > At 02:36 AM 11/17/2001 -0500, you wrote:
> > >Easy. They bought machines and took the chips from them.
> Same thing I did
> > >before I finally broke down and bought chips from Best. I
> mean...you have
> > >to engineer the entire system anyway.
> >
> >
> > You mean every Gemini is actually the result of a cannibalized 2600?
> >
> >
> >
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