Talk:CTIA and GTIA

message: I merged Color Television Interface Adapter into this article, since as GTIA was essentially an enhanced CTIA there was much overlap and more to gain by keeping the related material together than separate.
If anyone disagrees, please comment here. Thanks!
Fourohfour 16:59, 22 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: This article needs a more neutral name however, since it covers both the the CTIA and GTIA now that its been merged. TIA is out of course, since that's the name of the interface adapter on the Atari 2600.  Anyone have any other thoughts for a unified name?  I'm leaning towards "Atari 8-bit TIA". --Marty Goldberg (talk) 06:16, 16 February 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I highly recommend moving this to GTIA. The CTIA was produced only briefly and can be mentioned in-line without issue. Maury (talk) 21:49, 13 August 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Disagreed.  Regardless of which had a longer run, the fact is both were produced (CTIA for 3 years alone) and exist in Atari computers.  Its not Wikipedia's job to give undue weight to one over the other through the title, the longer production run can simply be noted in the article as it already is.  Both the CTIA and GTIA are TIA's, hence the single category (that describes all the contents of the page rather than a specific subset). --Marty Goldberg (talk) 22:18, 13 August 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: That's beside the point; the point is that no one EVER referred to this device, of any version, as "Atari 8-bit TIA". The wiki needs to name its articles in ways that the user can find them. No one will ever look for "Atari 8-bit TIA", they will look for "GTIA" and maybe "CTIA". A redir of the latter to the former is all that is needed. The Wikipedia:Search engine test is quite clear on this, and returns exactly zero hits that are not originally scraped from this article. "GTIA", on the other hand, returns hundreds of hits. That's a good enough argument right there. Furthermore, the title is extremely confusing because it stresses "TIA", which is a different system entirely. Maury (talk) 21:11, 18 August 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: That's hardly "besides the point".  Disagreed again.  TIA is a series of Television Interface Adapters designed at Atari, Maury, starting with the the TIA on the 2600.  In fact, as is clearly known, GTIA stands for "George's" Television Interface Adaptor - or George's TIA.  The CTIA and GTIA were simply next generation TIA's.  Both were in manufactured, produced, and on the market in Atari computers, referred to separately in documentation, etc. etc. etc.  One should not be given precedence over the other in an ENCYCLOPEDIC article.  Likewise, as you your self pointed out, there was a previous 2600 TIA - hence the need to differentiate between the TIA's in the 2600 line vs. the 8-bit computer line. --Marty Goldberg (talk) 21:56, 18 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Merge

message: The first sentence makes no sense. What series? CTIA and GTIA form the series? They are respective to what? Total bullshit! --88.192.12.234 (talk) 12:19, 23 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Idiocy 

message: Wikipedia is an encyclopaedia not a datasheet. The article should be a broad explanation of what the chip does and where it was used. There doesn't need to be twenty pages describing the function of every single register bit.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2.124.245.91 (talk) 20:10, 5 March 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: Agreed, it's very, very verbose. AtomCrusher (talk) 16:29, 23 September 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wikipedia is not a programming manual