Re: Playing Vector Games on the Big Screen - Neil eats crow

From: Neil Bradley <nb_at_synthcom.com>
Date: Fri May 31 2002 - 13:11:06 EDT

> > what are u talking about the dac's on arcades are 1mhz!!! thats all
> No, they aren't. Look at Zonn's description:
> ">and 6mhz? is that the main Processor or the State Machine Processor?
> This is the speed the DAC is stepped, or more precisely the sample rate of
> the
> DAC."
> Not sure where you are getting the idea that the DACs are stepped at 1Mhz,
> but that's 6 times slower than it actually is!

Well, I need to eat a nice, big, black, crispy crow on this one.

The S/H circuit is stepped at 3Mhz and the DACs are clocked at 1.5Mhz.
6Mhz Is what it would take to do all vector games across the board.

Apologies for the error and confusion/noise.

-->Neil

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