[Coco] GIME Chip

[Ober Bower]

It has been a while but if I am not mistaken, the '86 version had issues
with graphics and the '87 was the fixed version. All of my machines have
'87 chips in them so I never really worried about it.

Ober

On Thu, 2005-03-03 at 21:14, Robert Gault wrote:

> The '86 GIME was a source for sparkling dots on the screen and had 
> problems with the horizontal scroll, as I remember it. I'm not aware of 
> the '87 GIME malfunctioning but it does have different timing from the 
> '86 version.
> 
> Some types of graphics programs must have their timing adjusted when you 
> switch from an '86 to '87 GIME.
> 
> Jim Cox wrote:
> > Art:
> > 
> > I thoguth there were an issue with one of the GIME's having artifacts 
> > appear on the screen.  Maybe it was Charlie or Roy that commented on that?
> > 
> > -Jim
> > 
> > On Thu, 3 Mar 2005 16:31:08 -0500 (EST)
> >  Arthur Flexser <flexser at fiu.edu> wrote:
> > 
> >> Is your friend having some sort of trouble on account of his GIME 
> >> being a 1986
> >> vintage?  As far as I know, the differences between it and the 1987 
> >> version are
> >> pretty subtle and inconsequential.
> >>
> >> Art
> >>
> >>
> >> On Thu, 3 Mar 2005, Ober Bower wrote:
> >>
> >>> Hello All,
> >>>
> >>>         Does anyone know where I can get a replacement GIME chip. A
> >>> friend of mine has a CoCo with the 1986 GIME and I would like to find a
> >>> 1987 chip for him. All help is appreciated.
> >>>
> >>> Thanks,
> >>> Ober
> >>>
> >>>
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