Cromemco Dazzler

Cromemco's Dazzler (or TV DAZZLER) was a graphics card for S-100 bus computers. Released in 1976, it is the first commercial color bit-mapped graphics card available for microcomputers. Multiple Dazzler cards could be installed in a single machine and synced together, a feature which could, with minor modification, be used to genlock. Genlocked Dazzler cards drove ColorGraphics Weather Systems displays that generated most of the weather imagery seen on US television in the early 1980s. Excerpted from Wikipedia.

The Cromemco TV Dazzler introductory advertisement, April 1976.

Cromemco Dazzler S-100 board images

(coming RSN)

Resources

• Wikipedia article.
• Dazzler article at S100 computer
• Popular Electronics construction article February 1976 Build the "TV DAZZLER" American Radio History archive
• z80pack emulation including Cromemco Dazzler graphics

History

• 6 May 2016 purchased board. (It's going to be a long week waiting for it.)