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- FAQ / App notes v3.0:
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- Timing on the PC under DOS
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- This archive contains a technical document
- useful to PC programmers, with many sample
- programs. The document covers timing and
- related subjects on the IBM PC family under
- DOS. Subjects include BIOS and DOS functions,
- the BIOS tick count, hardware interrupts,
- timer tick interrupts, Port B, the 8253/8254
- timer, speeding up the timer tick, dynamic
- tick periods, simulated vertical retrace
- interrupt, double and triple buffering,
- absolute timestamping, the RTC, other timing
- methods, reading the joystick, PWM sound
- generation.
- Freeware. 13400 lines, PC ASCII, 340K ZIP file.
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