Midway Manufacturing Co.

SIGGRAPH 1979

Midway Mfg. Co. (a division of Bally Mfg. Corp.) will be showing: An OEM graphics/audio system utilizing a custom chip set to provide a programmable 320 x 204 x 2 or 160 x 102 x 2 display format, pallette AMA (32 colors, 8 intensities), audio synthesizer with 3 voices, master oscillator, vibrato, noise generator and amplitude control, and four 8-bit A/ D’s. A video graphics development system based on the Z-80 with 64K RAM, dual floppy disks, and separate assembler and editor. ZGRASS, a sophisticated, highly interactive, fun oriented language for beginners with parallel and priority processing structures and advanced CAI features. A micro-programmable 16 bit processor with 165 nanosecond instruction execution time generating 30 graphics in real-time, running in conjunction with TERSE.