Uploaded January 2022 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Using the PLCC to DIP adapter from my previous video and a cheap CPLD development board, I try a little clock switching hack to run my STE's CPU at twice normal speed when it's not accessing the memory.

I'll perform a few speed checks and *spoilers!* explain why it's not as dramatic an improvement as you'd hope.

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Previous video: youtu.be/YlWtGtG-Q5M
STE PLCC adapter board: exxoshost.co.uk/atari/store2/#0234
Exxos' blog on a similar topic: exxoshost.co.uk/atari/last/16mhz/index2.htm

0:00 Introduction
4:51 Setup
6:24 Theory
8:45 Results
10:25 Conclusions
12:09 FrontBench
14:20 Summing up