[Coco] Rre: Motorola RMS Manual (GIME)

[Joel Rees]

I'll try that again, if this tablet doesn't misinterpret misinterpret my
gestures again.

I think I may have a copy of that, far away across the ocean. But it may be
only the datasheet. And scanning it would require quite a bit of
back-and-forth with my sister. Why is it of interest now? (Yes, I missed
the podcast.)

2017/08/13 8:21 "Carlos Camacho" <idevgames at gmail.com>:

I was listening to an older CoCo Crew episode that mentioned the Coco3
prototypes that were found at Microware.

A few seconds ago, by complete chance, I was reading an old CoCo list
message that talked about these prototypes. Crazy coincidence!

Anyways, someone on the list talked about the rejected Motorola RMS. They
said there was a manual for the RMS. Does anyone have a copy that can be
scanned?

The mail message stated...

Some of the features were:

1Mb RAM
horizontal resolution of 64 to 640 pixels
Vertical resolution of 64 to 500 pixels
32 colours from a palette of 4096
Virtual screen that is larger than the visible screen with smooth scrolling
8 sprites

R.M.S. stood for Raster Memory System

The chipset could also emulate the CoCo2 6883-6847 chipset.

There was a 146 page manual available from Motorola that described the
chipset.


Carlos

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