[Coco] Instruction cycles per 60Hz frame.

[James Ross]

Thanks for the answers, Ed, Evan & Will --> I believe those answers clear it up and give me the most precise / accurate #'s possible.  

Bottom line then: we have 

14,929 cycles in normal speed (15 more than I had calculated) and
29,859 cycles in double speed (30 more than I had calculated).

So, for a game attempting to update the screen at 60hz this is what you have to play with – which isn’t all that much specially when you consider we have no blitter, no sprites.  and no sound chip for that matter… (the CoCo was truly handicapped, but I never thought it that way back in the day!) 

Also an emulator needs to take into account the 59.94Hz vs 60hz discrepancy for the best accuracy. 

James