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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 31, 1985
Filed:
Jan. 06, 1983
James W Redfield, Pottstown, PA (US);
Albert J Charpentier, Hatfield, PA (US);
Commodore Business Machines, Inc., West Chester, PA (US);
Abstract
A display control circuit provides the logical determination of display information for each dot point of a color television or other display device used in connection with an electronic game for displaying up to eight 'targets', as well as background information, according to a preassigned software defined priority whereby hardware circuitry encodes background-to-target software information and then decodes all game display circuit information to generate a color display code to the color television-type display device, this hardware utilizing a reduced space on a large scale integrated (LSI) circuit.