* The video hardware is given priority so that the display is not disrupted
The Gate-Array generates the "READY" signal which is connected to the "/WAIT" input signal of the CPU. This signal is used to stop the CPU accessing RAM while the video-hardware is accessing it.
As a result, all instruction timings are stretched so that they are all multiples of a microsecond (1µs), and this gives an effective CPU clock of 3.3Mhz.