Talk:MOS Technology VIC-II

Proposed article move

This article should be moved to MOS Technology 6567 for greater orthogonality with other MOS Technology integrated circuit articles, such as MOS Technology 6522 and MOS Technology 6532. Note that these are named by their numeric designations and not their titles (VIA and RIOT, respectively). This should be made consistent. Crotalus horridus 19:31, 11 December 2005 (UTC)

I have pondered this for some time but so far have elected not to suggest it, due to the different numberings for the NTSC/PAL variants of the VIC and VIC-II, as well as the many updated versions with separate numbers. IIRC the latter point also goes for the SID. The 'policy' isn't 'set in stone', I guess, but we probably shouldn't do anything 'rash' about this. --Wernher 19:52, 11 December 2005 (UTC)

If moving the VIC-II and SID articles would be disruptive, how about going in the opposite direction, and renaming MOS Technology 6522 to MOS Technology VIA and so forth?

A possible compromise would be to create a redirector for each of the chip part numbers that point to a table inside the VIC-II article. Such a table could then describe the differences of the technical differences of each chip (process type, number of pins, power requirements, etc...)

What about the VIC-III chip?

There are specs floating around about the VIC-III, which was never put into production. Although there are a handful of various prototypes, the chip was never made available commercially.

The main article could be improved if there were a link to an article about the VIC-III chip. 198.177.27.18 (talk) 23:29, 28 December 2008 (UTC)

Removed statement in Raster interrupts

The section Raster interrupts contained the following statement:

Games normally disable this and instead set up the VIC-II to generate interrupts when a specific scanline is reached (this should always be an even multiple of 8, which is the size of one tile)

Emphasis is mine. I thought an "even multiple of 8" is an exceedingly silly way of saying "a multiple of 16", so I tried to find some information on this statement. I couldn't find anyone mentioning this requirement; I did find places where numbers are used that are not even a multiple of 8, let alone an even multiple of 8 ;). So instead of rewriting the requirement, I deleted it altogether. I do mention it here so someone who disagrees notices and can properly source the statement if it indeed has some value. I would then propose a phrasing like "a multiple of 16, which is the size of two tiles" instead of defining even and odd multiples, which is definitely an odd thing to do. Digital Brains (talk) 18:32, 26 January 2014 (UTC)

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