----- Original Message ----- From: "Eric Christopherson" <[email protected]> To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, January 02, 2016 1:35 AM Subject: Re: Remember the old "Choose your own adventure books" By D & D! ! !
> On Tue, Dec 22, 2015, Mike wrote: > > IN Qbasic there is a SLEEP command as in... > > > > 10 PRINT " HELLO WHAT IS YOUR NAME? " PNAME$ > > 20 CLS > > 20 SLEEP=10 <----PAUSE FOR 10 SECONDS > > 30 PRINT "HELLO" PNAME$ "yOUR STARTING A ADVENTURE THAT WILL TAKE YOU > > THROUGH THE" > > 40 PRINT "MISTY MOUNTAINS " > > ============================================================= > > > > How would the sleep function work in basic I have tryed 10 sleeo=10, 10 > > "sleep=5" its not working... > > You have to make a loop that will last a certain amount of time. A > common thing was to say something like > > 20 FOR I=0 TO 100:NEXT > I'm not sure which version of Basic Mike is trying to use, but Spectrum Basic (atleast the 128K variety) had a Wait instruction, for example: 200 Wait 50 : Rem wait 1 second 210 Rem do something here... Where the number following the Wait instruction indicated the number of 50ths of a second to wait (I suspect that would have been 60ths of a second for the Timex Sinclair models, if they had BASIC). Regards, Andrew Burton [email protected] www.aliensrcooluk.com
