Re: [cc65] Machines with switchable clock

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From: Groepaz (groepaz_at_gmx.net)
Date: 2003-02-20 15:50:48 

On Thursday 20 February 2003 15:24, Steve Nicklin wrote:
> The Atari 8 bit with a
>
> poke 559,0
>
> will speed the processor up by 30% by switching the screen off

the question is, does the cpu actually run faster (== different clock, which 
was the original question) or does just the videochip steal less cycles from 
the cpu (like its happening on a c64 aswell when screen is blanked) ?
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