ANTIC - Features

Features

ANTIC's inherent hardware capabilities:

  • 14 different Playfield graphics modes
  • 6 character modes
    • 4 types of font/glyph rendering
  • 8 map modes
  • Output a variable number of blank scan lines
  • Display modes can be mixed onscreen
  • Vertical Overscan
  • Horizontal Overscan
  • Vertical coarse scrolling
  • Vertical fine scrolling
  • Horizontal coarse scrolling
  • Horizontal fine scrolling
  • Soft, redefinable character set.
  • Performs the DMA for CTIA/GTIA to produce Player/Missile graphics
  • Trigger a CPU-serviced interrupt routine at specific scan lines
  • Non-fixed RAM. This allows RAM for graphics features to be located almost anywhere in the 16-bit memory address range. This applies to:
  • Display lists.
  • Playfield Graphics data
  • Character set fonts
  • Player/Missile Graphics data

Read more about this topic:  ANTIC

Famous quotes containing the word features:

    ““It looks as if
    Some pallid thing had squashed its features flat
    And its eyes shut with overeagerness
    To see what people found so interesting
    In one another, and had gone to sleep
    Of its own stupid lack of understanding,
    Or broken its white neck of mushroom stuff
    Short off, and died against the windowpane.””
    —Robert Frost (1874–1963)

    “The features of our face are hardly more than gestures which force of habit made permanent. Nature, like the destruction of Pompeii, like the metamorphosis of a nymph into a tree, has arrested us in an accustomed movement.”
    —Marcel Proust (1871–1922)