Re: [stella] Some Background Questions That Occur To Me

[Bill Heineman <burger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tuesday, July 29, 2003, at 07:40 PM, Pete Holland wrote:

> Hey, everybody!
>
> After much meditating, how the Atari 2600 "thinks" is
> becoming clearer.  But I would like to ask a couple
> more questions first.
>
> 1)  How did they come up with the color clocks/machine
> cycles?  I don't mean how did they measure them, but
> rather, what reasoning did they use to come up with
> having the TIA count color clocks and that three of
> them equaled one machine cycle?  Was that simply the
> limits of what was available at the time

It was three clocks from a 3.58 Mhz that equated to a single machine 
cycle. The TIA used the signal at 3.58 Mhz because that was the color 
burst frequency.

Burger

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