[Coco] Coco Digest, Vol 48, Issue 54

[Paul Fitch]

> >> Joel Ewy wrote:
> >>     
> I think the emulator just emulates the clock circuitry of the 
> CoCo such
> that if you POKE &HFFD9,0 the emulated hardware will respond the way a
> real CoCo does and executes instructions at twice the speed 
> it otherwise
> would.  I think the reason you see the ".89 mhz" is just that that is
> the speed the CoCo (both real and emulated) runs at when you switch on
> the power.  MESS may even have an option to run it at 1.78 
> from emulated
> power on.  It's been a while since I played with MESS.  But that could
> be the reason for the speed report on startup.


The high speed POKE does make the DECB cursor blink faster.