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GIME

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GIME

MISSING PHOTO

Name GIME
Year 1986
Interface INTERFACE NEEDED
Notes NOTES NEEDED
Info Source INFO SOURCE NEEDED
About the Hardware Info Box

GIME is/was a custom ASIC chip used in the Color Computer 3. It was designed by VLSI.

Known Versions

  • PCB Prototypes - Implemented in discreet logic on the large PCB prototype units. Microware was known to have had at least two of these units, which today are in the collection of User:AllenHuffman.
  • Pre-Production - Launch-title developers received early production run CoCo 3s that had pre-production GIME chips. At least two variations are known to exist. We need to catalog and document them here.
  • 1986 - Code named "Tequila". This was the original production GIME. It contained some bugs that were fixed in a second revision.
  • 1087 - Code named "Tortilla".

Emulations

  • Software - The GIME is emulated in software in the various CoCo 3 emulators.
  • FPGA - The GIME is recreated in virtual hardware in the FPGA systems.

Expansions

  • GIME-X

Photos

  • Photo of the 1986 GIME chip code name. From the collection of Roger Taylor.
    Photo of the 1986 GIME chip code name. From the collection of Roger Taylor.
  • Photo of the 1987 GIME chip code name. From the collection of Roger Taylor.
    Photo of the 1987 GIME chip code name. From the collection of Roger Taylor.
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