On Tue, Jan 30, 2018 at 2:22 AM, Hagstrom, Paul via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
Sorry, getting to this thread late, but Bob Bishop created the Apple II part of the Tic Tac Dough game board.
He talked about it in his 2011 KansasFest talk.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FlsHGmijFP0&t=35m39s
It was done with 9 Apple IIs coordinated by either an IMSAI or an Altair, Bob was responsible for the Apple side, someone else did the 8080 side.
-Paul
interesting, One of the things I neglected is that a disadvantage of the Dazzler is the requirement of 2 slots per video card since it was a 2 board set. With the amount of extra space within that pcb layout of this board, you think they owned the ranch, as compared to other video cards.. And the max slots slots in a Altair or Imsai is 18 slots, so there's no room left even for a CPU card, with 9 video cards. Even the competing products required additional slots to add more bitplanes to get color. It was until a couple years later did they have single board video card with color, the Microsprite with the TMS9918. You could easily accomplish this with 9 video cards and still have enough slots for CPU, Memory, Floppy Controller for a CP/M system Apparently that missed the time-frame window for this Tic Tac Dough project. Dan -- _ ____ / \__/ Scotty, We Need More Power !! \_/ _\__ Aye, Cap'n, but we've only got 80 columns !!