Williams
Williams was an arcade game manufacturer from Chicago. They made many popular pinball machines and video games.
Sound
At Williams, the sound system did not use a hardware synth as virtually all other game companies used, but rather a dedicated 1 MHz 6800 micprocessor tied to an 8-bit DAC. Randy Pfeiffer pioneered this design and showed its power in the Steve Ritchie 1978 pin Flash. You could in principle make any sound possible, you just had to program it and fit all the data into 2 Kbytes of ROM, and 128 bytes of RAM, along with all the other sounds and program.
— Eugene Jarvis, 2007[1]
References
- "Interview With Eugene Jarvis" Phil Butcher, Richard Harvey, Firepower, Mar 2007
Pinball machine manufacturers: Williams
US companies: ARP | Commodore | Digital Research | Texas Instruments | Williams
