MOS Technology TED
The 7360/8360 TExt Display (TED) was an integrated circuit made by MOS Technology, Inc. It was a video chip that also contained sound generation hardware, DRAM refresh circuitry, interval timers, and keyboard input handling. It was designed for the Commodore Plus/4 and 16. Packaging consisted of a JEDEC-standard 48-pin DIP. The only difference between models 7360 and 8360 is the manufacturing technology used; model 8360 is more common. Video capabilities The video capabilities provided by the TED were largely a subset of those in the VIC-II. The TED supported five video modes: Text mode of 40 × 25 characters with 8 × 8 pixels Multicolor text (4 × 8 pixels per character, double pixel width in the x-direction) Extended background color mode (8 × 8 pixels per character) Multicolor Graphics 160 × 200 pixels Hi-Res Graphics 320 × 200 pixels of the long visible part of the scan lines is filled with pixels These modes were largely unchanged from the corresponding VIC-II modes aside from different register and memory mappings (see the article on the VIC-II for information on graphics modes). However, the TED lacked the sprite capabilities of the VIC-II, and so game animation had to be done exclusively