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Re:Dunfield 6809 Portable by ddingus on Friday February 05, 2021 @03:07PM (#26040590)
I just got one of these on a flash sale Color Computer upgrade kit. Should be fun to bang around on one of these days.
Re:Dunfield 6809 Portable by HeyLaughingBoy on Friday February 05, 2021 @03:23PM (#26040732)
Then you need to know POKE 65495,0 :-)
Re:Dunfield 6809 Portable by Zuider on Friday February 05, 2021 @06:09PM (#26042382)
If I recall correctly, that instruction doubled the clock speed of the M6809, usually at the expense of making it go out of sync with the woeful 6847 video chip, putting colorful garbage on the screen.
Re:Dunfield 6809 Portable by ddingus on Friday February 05, 2021 @08:16PM (#26043213)
When that happened, I think it was on the CoCo 1 and maybe 2. The three can do it with no worries.

And the 3 didn't use the 6847, but a custom ASIC.

Re:Dunfield 6809 Portable by HeyLaughingBoy on Saturday February 06, 2021 @02:21PM (#26049063)
It was OK on the CoCo2. ISTR doing it for some games I wrote in BASIC.
Re:Dunfield 6809 Portable by ddingus on Sunday February 07, 2021 @01:30PM (#26056933)
Good to know, LOL. We are so late on this chat.

Fun stuff.

Re:Dunfield 6809 Portable by ddingus on Friday February 05, 2021 @03:26PM (#26040755)
Indeed.

I just got a nice, old CRT for use with my retro machines. A CoCo upgrade and jam session is in my future.