File:Atari Rainbow Overview (30 November 1983).pdf
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[edit | edit source]Atari, Inc.'s internal overview of Rainbow, the "video graphics interpreter" chip set (the Gold and Silver chips) designed for Atari's next personal computer, the Sierra project, dated 30 November 1983 and marked "Atari Company Confidential. Do Not Duplicate." 40 PDF pages with a text layer: introduction and key features, the object-based display model, parameter blocks, data formats, interrupts and registers, the hardware implementation with the Gold and Silver chip block diagrams, pinouts and timing diagrams, and performance.
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[edit | edit source]Internet Archive item AtariRainbow ("Atari Rainbow chipset documentation"), file "Rainbow Overview 1983-11-30.pdf", retrieved 2026-10-06. The item description says the documents were provided by Bob Alkire in March 2020.
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[edit | edit source]Atari, Inc.
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[edit | edit source]Copyright Atari, Inc. Hosted for preservation and reference, with the source cited.
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