Despite having the capability to support sound chips in cartridges, almost no 7800 cartridges feature POKEY hardware for enhanced sound.

Despite having no experience with women, their other signature traits are a shared obsession with sex, and their tendency to chuckle and giggle whenever they hear words or phrases that can even remotely be construed as sexual or scatological.

Despite having lost the test series to South Africa by game three, the Lions won the final test.

Despite his ferocious reputation though, there are no verified accounts of his ever having murdered or harmed those he held captive.

Despite having a simple architecture, Berkeley DB supports many advanced database features such as ACID transactions, fine-grained locking, hot backups and replication.

Despite its faintness, Capricornus has one of the oldest mythological associations, having been consistently represented as a hybrid of a goat and a fish since the Middle Bronze Age.

" Despite having the quote presented to a notable organisation, it has also appeared in books such as " The Most Stupid Words Ever Spoken " as it is deemed by some Westerners as a prime example of a lack of understanding of foreign culinary traditions in the Western world.

Despite both forces having similar numbers, the Japanese were easily defeated due to the Ming cannon.

Despite having a tremendous chronology, their use was not at all consistent or unchanging.

Despite opinion that such a voyage was impossible and his having retired, Slocum rebuilt a derelict sloop Spray and sailed her single-handed around the world.

Despite having the stronger army, Carinus held the weaker position.

Despite having no debris shields, the spacecraft survived the comet passage intact.

Despite having invented much of the technology of software, Dijkstra eschewed the use of computers in his own work for many decades.

Despite not having a civil ensign, the EU's Fishery Inspection teams display a blue and yellow pennant.

Despite the efficacy of epilepsy surgery, some patients decide not to undergo surgery owing to fear or the uncertainty of having a brain operation.

Despite popular lore, it seems unlikely that he reached Cape Horn or the eponymous Drake Passage, because his descriptions do not fit the first and his shipmates denied having seen an open sea.

Despite having " lost " its Soviet periphery, Russia has 9 time zones, stretching slightly over half the world's longitude.

Despite having direct access to Hitler, Heydrich's loyalty to Himmler remained firm.

Despite opposing the United States in favour of the Sandanistas on the country's northern border, stern warnings against the US Bay of Pigs invasion, along with repelling Nicaraguan dictator Somoza's invasion after turning to the Organization of American States, and border disputes with Nicaragua, Costa Rica has held firmly to its belief against ever having a military.

Despite having the go-ahead runs on base, Smith was able to escape the inning without any further damage.

Despite having just turned 21, Cronje was made captain of Orange Free State for the 1990-91 season.

Despite this, the office was not legally hereditary, and the heir could not title himself " Emperor " without having been personally elected.

Despite having defeated Prussia at the Battle of Langensalza, the city of Hanover became a Prussian provincial capital.

Despite having interest rates down near zero for a long period of time, the Quantitative easing strategy did not succeed in stopping price deflation.

Despite Valenti's two-year marriage to Johnson's personal secretary, the investigation focused on rumors that he was having a gay relationship with a commercial photographer friend.

Despite these limitations, food webs remain a valuable tool in understanding community ecosystems.

Despite numerous errors taken over from Eusebius, and some of his own, Jerome produced a valuable work, if only for the impulse which it gave to such later chroniclers as Prosper, Cassiodorus, and Victor of Tunnuna to continue his annals.

Despite this, it had proved a very valuable experiment.

Despite such criticisms, there is some educational quality to the group's activities and they have helped to foster a good deal of valuable research, especially in the area of medieval crafts.

Despite its use in the titles of most of the films of the series, " Pink Panther " is not the Clouseau character, but a large and valuable pink diamond which is first shown in the first film in the series.

Despite being released from the play after five weeks, Milland felt that he had gained valuable acting experience.

Despite this, CD is a valuable tool, especially for showing changes in conformation.

Despite its focus on the history of the church, this work also provides valuable information about the early Anglo-Saxon kingdoms.

Despite its focus on the history of the church, this work also provides valuable information about the early pagan kingdoms.

Despite having valuable data on the distribution of ice ages on Alps, climatologists and geologists could not discover the basic causes, that is, the different insolations of the Earth during past ages remained beyond the scope of these sciences.

Despite the fact that he had lost the city, Masséna had given Napoleon valuable time leading up to the Battle of Marengo on June 14.

Despite losing its prominence as an important town, the port itself continued to remain extremely active and economically valuable.

Despite the decline in burials from an already low level, rising land values in the post war years meant that the LNC was a valuable and successful company.

Despite his brief career, Gwinnett however does hold one claim to fame: his autograph is among the most valuable in the world, a fact used to good effect by science fiction writer Isaac Asimov in his short story " Button, Button.

Despite this, Stirling was able to make a valuable survey of Mobile Bay and the Spanish held Florida coastline and capture an American ship, which he took back to Jamaica as a prize on 20 November.

Despite the bad experience of some investors, viatical settlements remain an often valuable tool for the personal financial management of many ill people.

Despite its independent status, MOLA continues to have a partnership arrangement with the Museum of London which gives it the capability to provide commercial services whilst also offering clients valuable links to already-established programmes in community outreach and public education.

Despite its focus on the history of the church, this work provides valuable information about the early Anglo-Saxon kingdoms.

Despite losing the Hart, he was chosen by The Hockey News as the league's most valuable player that year.

Despite its focus on the history of the church, this work provides valuable information about the early Anglo-Saxon kingdoms.

Despite this, much of the atmosphere outside the tropics is close to geostrophic flow much of the time and it is a valuable first approximation.

Despite containing considerable amounts of indigestible tannins, mulga leaves are a valuable fodder source, particularly in times of drought, as it is palatable to stock and provides up to 12 % crude protein.

Despite playing for these star-studded teams, many claim that Ross was the most valuable to his teams.

Despite continuing to prove his usefulness, there is an ageist undertone that Mission Control assumes that he is no longer a valuable asset because of his age and long service.