Re: [stella] Color clocks

Subject: Re: [stella] Color clocks
From: emooney@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Erik Mooney)
Date: Sun, 11 Jul 1999 20:58:12 GMT
>Like I said...you guys explain things clearer than the Stella
>manual....
>     I'm having some difficulty understanding the concept of "color
>clocks."  As near as I can figure, a color clock is the segment of the
>line the Atari draws out.  It takes each line and draws it in sections,
>starting left and going right.  It reads a certain number of bits from
>memory and draws it out, then reads the next set, and so on, and each
>of these is called "clock counts."  This doesn't seem right to me,
>though.  Can anyone help explain this to me?

A color clock is a pixel.  That's it. :)  There are three color clocks
(pixels) per 6507 CPU cycle, 228 color clocks (pixels) per line.

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