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Timeline 99 -- 2012
JAN 2012: FEB 2012: On February 9th, 2012 Matthew Haggerty announces the pre-order availability of his F18A Video card for use with the TMS9918A Video chip. The price is $98.00 U.S. According to the Haggerty website, "F18A stands for “FPGA TMS9918A” (hence the project’s title) and will be 100% hardware and pin compatible replacement for a TMS9918A VDP (video display processor)." The TMS9918A is the Video Display Processor in the Texas Instruments TI-99/4A Home Computer. In addition to being the VDP for the TI-99/4A, the TMS9918A was used by ColecoVision, MSX1, Tomy Tutor, SpectraVision and SpectraVision 128. MAR 2012: Michael Zapf releases
TIImageTool version
1.1 which now supports reading and writing CHD v5 hard disk images.
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