----------------- Nope. Trust me on this; I've got the docs. and the story of it's development from an Intel person responsible for it. Some parts of the silicon may be similar, but it was designed from the ground up as a video display chip for some sort of consumer electronics. My point was that it wound up being used is just this one application (the Maganvox Odyssey^2/Phillips G7000) and never made available through other channels. I was just pointing out that the 8244 has some capabilites that were not used in that application. What I find so attractive about it (and all the stuff that era), is that it respresents a window in time where the basic foundation blocks for todays stuff (which we take practically for granted) was developed; and the limitations they had to work under (i.e. not practical to have enough memory for a direct bit mapped display, the state of chip fabrication and design, etc) which were unique to that time. I comapre it _alot_ to the automobile industry between 1898 and 1914. Do you guys have any idea how many car compaines sprang up (and faded away)? -Matt Pritchard Graphics Engine and Optimization Specialist MS Age of Empires & Age of Empires ][