The information here was originally posted at both Apple Computer, Inc. and Bandai web sites.

Technical Details

Hardware

• 66MHz PowerPC 603 RISC Microprocessor
• Superscaler, 3 instructions per clock cycle
• 8 kByte data and 8 kByte instruction caches
• IEEE standard Single & Double Precision Floating Point Unit
• 6 MB combined System & Video Memory, advanced architecture
• 4X CDROM drive
• 64 kbyte SRAM Store/Restore Backup
• Aftermarket easy memory expansion cards 2, 4 and 8 MB increments

Video

• 8 bit and 16 bit video support
• Dual Frame Buffers for superior frame to frame animation
• Support for NTSC & PAL composite, S-Video and VGA (640x480) monitors
• Up to 16.7M colors

Audio

• Stereo 16 bit 44 kHz sampled output
• Stereo 16 bit 44 kHz sampled input

Telephony

• GeoPort ready

Controllers

• Supports up to 4 simultaneous players over Apple Desktop Bus (ADB)
• Will support standard ADB keyboards and mice with connector adapters

Data I/O

• 1 standard Serial Communications port

Aftermarket Expansion

• "PCI like" expansion for adding floppy drive, hard disk drive, graphics accelerators, codecs, etc. (Not available at introduction!)

Software

• Run time environment derived from MacOS
• Integrates QuickTime 2.0 and PPC native version of QuickDraw
• Reduced system memory footprint - (computer specific features removed)
• Disk resident system stamped on CD with title
• System boots off CD
• Pippin system software upgrades released through CD-ROM stamping operations
• Developers free to choose from menu of system software upgrades

ROMs

• 68k emulator
• Macintosh Tool Box intact
• Localized bit mapped fonts
• Reduced Macintosh System ROM footprint

CD Formats Supported

• Standard audio CD
• Other formats in market studies