Color Television Interface Adapter
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The Color Television Interface Adapter is the graphics chip used in the Atari 400/800 home computers. The chip is the successor to the TIA chip used in the Atari 2600. The chip was later replaced with the GTIA in later revisions of the 400 and 800, and in all other member's of the Atari 8-bit family.
According to Joe Decuir, George McLeod designed the CTIA (Colleen TIA) in 1977. McLeod also designed the GTIA.
See also: ANTIC
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External links
- De Re Atari – By Chris Crawford
- Mapping the Atari, Revised Edition – By Ian Chadwick
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