The Atari Glossary: "A"

ANTIC

Microprocessor dedicated to the television display. It retrieves the diplay list and displays data from RAM using DMA (direct memory access). It processes the higher level instructions in the display list and translates these instructions into a real-time stream of simple instructions to "CTIA" / "GTIA". >>ctia >>gtia

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