Williams Motorola 6809
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| Williams Motorola 6809 | |
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| Manufacturer: | Williams |
| Alternate Names: | Defender, Stargate and many others based on the game supported |
| 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
Made famous by Defender, the Williams Motorola 6809-based system went through a couple of revisions during its lifecycle.
Hardware Specifications
Defender and Stargate used the original hardware.
- CPU: Motorola 6809 @ 1 MHz
- CPU: Motorola 6808 @ 0.89475 MHz
- Sound: Digital-Audio Converter (DAC)
Hardware Revisions
Later games used a chip commonly referred to as the Special Chip (SC-01) for the video output. A revised version of the Special Chip (SC-02) was made due to the first having a bug. Games known to use the revised version of the Special Chip were Splat!, Blaster, Mystic Marathon and Joust 2.
Games
- Alien Arena
- Blaster
- Bubbles
- Colony 7
- Defence Command
- Defender
- Inferno
- Jin
- Joust
- Joust 2 - Survival of the Fittest
- Lotto Fun
- Mayday
- Mystic Marathon
- PlayBall!
- Robotron
- Sinistar
- Speed Ball
- Splat!
- Star Trek
- Stargate
- Tornado
- Turkey Shoot
- Zero
