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==VIC-II features== {{quote|Some of the graphics modes on the 64 are really strange, and they have no analogs to the Atari or Apple, like the ability to change color of the character basis across the screen. That gave us a lot of color capability that had not been exploited.|Craig Nelson of Epyx, 1986<ref name="Yakal198606">{{Cite magazine |last=Yakal |first=Kathy |date=June 1986 |title=The Evolution of Commodore Graphics |url=https://archive.org/details/1986-06-computegazette/page/n35 |magazine=Compute!'s Gazette |pages=34β42 |access-date=2019-06-18}}</ref>}} * 16 [[Kilobyte|kB]] [[address space]] for screen, character and sprite memory * 320 Γ 200 pixels video resolution (160 Γ 200 in multi-color mode) * 40 Γ 25 characters text resolution * Three character display modes and two bitmap modes * 16 colors * Concurrent handling of 8 [[sprite (computer science)|sprite]]s per [[scanline]], each of 24 Γ 21 pixels (12 Γ 21 multicolor) * [[Raster interrupt]] (see details, below) * Smooth [[scrolling]] * Independent dynamic [[Memory refresh|RAM refresh]] * [[Bus mastering]] for a 6502-style [[computer bus|system bus]]; CPU and VIC-II accessing the bus during alternating half-[[clock cycle]]s (the VIC-II will halt the CPU when it needs extra cycles)
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