On 14/12/2010 16:14, Dilwyn Jones wrote:
Does anyone know of an extension to BASIC similar to PAUSE n which
does not return if a key is pressed. That is, a fixed pause.
Or anyone know how or ideas on how best to go about writing one? I
guess a suitable keyword name might be WAIT (just to get this started
- it wasn't listed in Rich Mellor's BASIC reference manual anyway!)
I considered using job suspensions, but wasn't sure if this would work
the same on all systems - I want to introduce short timings which are
consistent on all systems and aren't affected by keypresses, so the
game can run at a vaguely consistent speed on all systems.
Dilwyn Jones
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SUSPEND_TASK (turbo toolkit), SJOB -1,x (Tiny Toolkit) or SUSJOB -1,x
(Btool) will all suspend a task for a given number of frames - although
beware that these commands, as with PAUSE and INKEY$ vary between 50Hz
european machines and 60Hz US machines!
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