Sega Gigas hardware
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Manufacturer: Sega | ||||||||
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Sega Gigas hardware is an arcade system released by Sega (possibly in cooperation with Nihon System) in 1986 alongside the arcade game Gigas. It was used in a small handful of arcade games between 1986 and 1988.
Technical specifications
- CPU : Zilog Z80 @ 6 MHz
- Performance: 8/16-bit instructions @ 0.87 MIPS
- Bus width: 8-bit
- Sound chips : 4× SN76496 @ 3 MHz
- Channels: 16 (12 square wave tone generators, 4 white noise generators)
- Display resolution: 256×224[1]
- Overscan resolution: 256×256
- Refresh rate: 60 Hz[1]
- Frame rate: 60 frames/sec
- Color depth: 4096 (12-bit)[1]
- Colors on screen: 512
List of games
- Gigas (1986)
- Gigas Mark II (1986)
- Free Kick (1987)
- Perfect Billiard (1987)
- Counter Run (1988)
References
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