[Coco] Re: Speed up and slow down POKE

[Theodore Evans (Alex)]

On Aug 3, 2004, at 9:03 AM, Arthur Flexser wrote:

> My recollection was that the "trick" was that the memory would be
> refreshed if you accessed it, so you just needed to make sure that the
> memory you were using was frequently accessed.  No need to return to 
> the
> slow speed mode.

If you are running a BASIC program the interpreter will pass through 
the 256 byte band necessary to refresh all of memory often enough so it 
wasn't an issue.  If you were running machine code, particularly with 
tight loops it could be a problem.

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Theodore (Alex) Evans | 2B v ~2B = ?