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| | 1.11) What are the 6502, ANTIC, CTIA/GTIA, POKEY, and FREDDIE chips? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21) |
 | | These chips were designed by Atari engineers primarily to take much of the burden of housekeeping off of the 6502, thereby freeing the 6502 to concentrate on computations. |
 | | Each of these chips is almost as big (in terms of silicon area) as a 6502, so the three of them together provide a tremendous amount of power. |
 | | The ANTIC/6502 select bits in combination with the 6502 halt line, control the switching of the PIA bank number bits to A14/A15 and which bank of memory RAS goes to. |
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