high quality graphics on TMS 9918. | MSX Resource Center (Page 1/3)

Champion (282)

11-10-2017, 06:33

And how could TMS 9918 produce such high quality and even smoth scroll both horizontally and vertically? There must be something missing in MSX machine compared to TexasInstrument machine. A hardware thing not a software maybe.
Anyway that is imazing.

By janghang

Master (129)

11-10-2017, 07:02

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0W8H2ujg_WU

Yes, its graphics looks definitely better than MSX! I am not sure what the difference between its TMS9918 and MSX's. The 16bit CPU can change the overall graphics quality?

By ToriHino

Paladin (828)

11-10-2017, 07:45

They use a TMS 9918 pin compatible replacement, providing (amongst other things) horizontal and vertical scroll registers:
http://codehackcreate.com/archives/30

By ARTRAG

Enlighted (6933)

11-10-2017, 07:50

The tms9918a is the same, there is no extra hw (and the msx is faster than the ti99/4a), it is only matter of coding.
The algorithms for peudo 3d roads are well studied, this one explained on atariage

By Stt1

Hero (616)

11-10-2017, 07:51

That's not a stock TI-99. It has this onboard:

F18A FPGA-board

By ARTRAG

Enlighted (6933)

11-10-2017, 07:54

ToriHino wrote:

They use a TMS 9918 pin compatible replacement, providing (amongst other things) horizontal and vertical scroll registers:
http://codehackcreate.com/archives/30

No you are wrong, the video in the first post is a plain tms9918a.

The version with the F18A is this
https://youtu.be/WQkSb4r4OJs

By ARTRAG

Enlighted (6933)

11-10-2017, 08:16

Algorithms and development of the two versions are explained here

http://atariage.com/forums/topic/251540-never-ending-discuss...

By PingPong

Enlighted (4098)

11-10-2017, 08:32

It is the old tms a proved by monochromatic sprites and border Less montains

By ARTRAG