[Coco] VCC CPU Speedup Notes

[Stephen H. Fischer]

Hi,

Check the VCC DOC's and my CoCo Forums post:

http://www.tandycoco.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=132#p132

> I found the VCC pages:

> http://www.coco4.com/vcc/index.shtml

SHF

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----- Original Message ----- 

From: "John Orwen" <jorwen at neb.rr.com>
To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Wednesday, February 29, 2012 4:38 PM
Subject: Re: [Coco] Off Topic but neato "Tiny $35 Raspberry Pi computer 
causes big stir on launch day"


> Steve,
>
> I run VCC v1.42 on my PC running Win 7 Ult 64bit, 8 core AMD proc 3 Ghz 
> per core and 16 GB ram and DECB
> code executes at .895 Mhz the same as a standard stock COCO3. I go into 
> config and change the slide to 50 Mhz
> and click apply and it has no effect on basic code execution. How do you 
> get code in VCC emulator to execute
> at a 50 Mhz equivalent. Is that only under OS9 or NOS9 L2 that it 
> performs that way. I'm confused.
>
> John
>
> On 2/29/2012 4:45 PM, Steve Bjork wrote:
>> By your definition that a CoCo 4 is any enhanced version of the CoCo3 
>> then the VCC emulator beat the FPGA by years!
>>
>> The VCC enhancements include 2 MB of RAM, 6309 and 50+ MHz on my PC.
>>
>> Steve
>>
>> On 2/29/2012 1:42 PM, Aaron Wolfe wrote:
>>> On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 4:21 PM, Boisy G. Pitre<boisy at tee-boy.com> 
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> This is the crux of it for me. The FPGA "Coco 4" exists right now,
>>> and I can turn it on and play right now.
>>> Every other coco4 idea is only theoretical, therefore FPGA wins by 
>>> default :)
>>>
>>> -Aaron