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- From: David.Empson@bbs.actrix.gen.nz
- Subject: Re: Program idea?
- Organization: Actrix Information Exchange
- Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 09:11:52 GMT
- Message-ID: <1993Jan12.091152.23166@actrix.gen.nz>
- References: <uerics.726359386@mcl> <1993Jan7.062317.11268@nuscc.nus.sg>
- Sender: David.Empson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson)
- Lines: 38
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- In article <1993Jan7.062317.11268@nuscc.nus.sg> isc10327@nusunix1.nus.sg (ONG TAT-WEE) writes:
- > Eric D. Shepherd (uerics@mcl.ucsb.edu) wrote:
- > : system tick counter increments once each 1/60th of a second. You can read
- > : the current value of the tick counter by using the Miscellaneous Tools
- > : call GetTick.
- > :
- > Eric, is there any other way of reading the HeartBeat tick
- > counter like accessing a special location instead of calling GetTick?
-
- Yes. Use the GetAddr call to get the address of the tick counter, and
- refer to it directly. Note: the tick counter won't start counting
- until the first HeartBeat task is installed. The easiest way to force
- this is to install a task and immediately remove it again.
-
- You must leave interrupts enabled if you want the tick count to be
- incremented. This uses up some CPU time every VBL, but if you've
- booted GS/OS, various INITs will probably have heartbeat tasks
- installed anyway.
-
- > I know it's good to use tools and stick to the standard way of accessing
- > things on the IIGS, but my program currently only uses the Tool Locator
- > and Memory Manager; nothing else. I don't wish to startup the MiscTools
- > 'coz it'll add overhead to the program.
-
- Overhead? Fourteen bytes for the Startup and Shutdown calls??? The
- Miscellaneous toolset is in ROM, so you don't need to load it from disk.
-
- If you are only interested in synchronizing with the vertical
- blanking, just wait for the I/O location ($C019) to indicate the VBL
- period.
-
- You can also use the video counters ($C02E and $C02F) to aid in timing
- your animation.
- --
- David Empson
-
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