Steve Mynott Posted July 19, 2016 Share Posted July 19, 2016 Does anyone have any pics or tech details about the Channel Plus Character Generator mentioned by John Harris in the recent ANTIC podcast? Did I miss hear or did it really have a 16 bit processor with the ANTIC etc graphic chips? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+bcombee Posted July 19, 2016 Share Posted July 19, 2016 Yeah, it sounded like the Character Generator was using the 6502's 16-bit derivative, the 65C816 (which was also used in the Apple IIgs and Super Nintendo). I'd love to see some pictures of that hardware too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xotmatrix Posted October 24, 2017 Share Posted October 24, 2017 John Harris talks about this machine in the following video interview and even demonstrates it. This is from the 1997 documentary "Stella at 20". https://youtu.be/whhQ71_SrU8?t=7m53s You can glean a few more tidbits and see more of its operation in the unedited interview footage found here: https://archive.org/details/StellaAt20 Sorry to resurrect such an old topic but this is a super interesting device to the correct type of nerd. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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