Yamaha V9938 Programmer's Manual page 3

This important technical book – including preface, dated back to 1985, had been
reworked and modified appropriately in order to give more detailed explanation of how
V9938 chip works and how to effectively program the system based on it.
While MSX gave up to the IBM PC standard as a computing platform in early 1990s, it
is still one of the powerful specimens in the field of 8-bit home entertainment and hobbyist
platforms. It is argued that modern PC architecture origins at the MSX standard; and it is
clear that initiative, taken by Microsoft and ASCII by institutionalizing software and
hardware compatibility was taken in further developments on the IT market.
V9938 is one of the most popular video-processors in the family of Texas Instruments
original chips, improved by a group of companies from Japan and US. Its follower, V9958,
was a VDP chip for limited release of MSX2+ and MSX Turbo-R machines, and the last VDP
in the family, V9990, can only be found in add-on cartridges.
The book is provided in PDF format and is searchable to allow internet search engines
indexing it so that potential readers would easily find it.
Rev. 1.00 (Jan 06, 2011): Initial release
Rev. 1.01 (Jan 27, 2011): corrections per Daemos et al.
Rev. 1.01a (Mar 06, 2011): corrections per ARTRAG et al.
Rev. 1.01b (June 02, 2015): corrections per yzi and ARTRAG
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NOTE FROM THE EDITOR
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December, 2010
Eugeny Brychkov
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