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{{More citations needed|date=March 2023}} {{short description|Video microchip in the Commodore 64 and C128 home computers}} [[Image:MOS6569R3 chtaube061229.jpg|right|thumb|MOS 6569R3 (PAL version) on a C64 main board]] The '''VIC-II''' ('''Video Interface Chip II'''), specifically known as the [[MOS Technology]] 6567/6566/8562/8564 ([[NTSC]] versions), 6569/8565/8566 ([[PAL]]), is the [[integrated circuit|microchip]] tasked with generating [[S-Video|Y/C]] video signals (combined to [[composite video]] in the [[RF modulator]]) and [[dynamic random access memory|DRAM]] [[memory refresh|refresh]] signals in the [[Commodore 64]] and [[Commodore 128]] [[home computer]]s. Succeeding the original [[MOS Technology VIC]] used in the [[VIC-20]], the VIC-II was one of the key custom chips in the Commodore 64 (the other being the [[MOS Technology 6581]] sound chip).
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