3DO
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 3DO
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| Manufacturer: | Philips, Sanyo and Goldstar |
| Alternate Names: | 3DO Interactive Multiplayer |
| Announced: | date the console was announced |
| Release date: | JP: date/month in text/year NA: date/month in text/year EU: date/month in text/year AU: date/month in text/year |
| Initial Price: | JP: ? NA: ? EU: ? AU: ? |
| Discontinued: | date discontinued |
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Description of Hardware
This is a Work-in-Progress template for System Information. Feel free to revise it. Description of system goes here.
Hardware Specifications
- CPU: Advanced RISC Machines 32-bit 12.5Mhz RISC CPU (ARM60)
- Resolution: 640 pixels x 480 pixels, 16.7 million colours
- Video Co-processors: 2 x Accelerated Video Co-Processors @ 25MHz producing 9-16 million REAL pixels per second (36-64 Mpix/sec interpolated), distortion, scalion, rotating and texture mapping, ability to map rectangular bitmaps onto any arbitrary 4-point polygon, texturemap source bitmaps can be 1, 2, 4, 6, 8, or 16 bits per pixel and are RLE compressed for optimised resolution and storage space. Supports transparency, translucency, and colour-shading effects.
- Sound: 16-bit Stereo Sound with 44.1KHz Sound Sampling Rate. Fully Supports Dolby™ Surround Sound.
- CD-ROM Drive: 320ms access time, 32 Kbyte RAM buffer, Doublespeed 300kbps Data Transfer
- DSP: Custom 16-bit Digital Signal Processor @ 25MHz specifically designed for mixing, manipulating, and synthesizing CD quality sound with the ability to decompress sound 2:1 or 4:1 on the fly, Pipelined CISC architecture, 16-bit register size, 17 separate 16-bit DMA channels to and from system memory, On chip instruction SRAM and register memory, 20-bit internal processing, Special filtering for effects.
- BUS: 50 Megabytes per second
- Separate BUS for video refresh updates (VRAM is dual ported)
- Math Co-Processor custom designed by NTG for accelerating fixed-point matrix operations
- DRAM: 2MB
- VRAM: 1MB, capable of holding and executing code and data
- SRAM: 32Kb battery backed up SRAM
- ROM: 1MB
- DMA Channels: 36
- Multitasking 32-bit Operating System
- Expansion ports: 1 x High-speed 68 pin x 1 AV I/O port (for FMV cartridge) + 1 x High-speed 30 pin x 1 I/O expansion port
- 1 Control port, with "daisy chaining" ability capable of linking up to 8 peripherals
- Upgradeable
Hardware Revisions
Games
A full list of 3DO games documented on GamerWiki can be found at the 3DO category.
Alternatively, a manually created list is also available - this is to be deprecated, so please add any further games to the games to be added page.
(Anything below here in the games section needs to be removed if the game is in blue or moved over to the List of 3DO Games list if it's in red.)
