Re: A82: Re: Why Turbo Sucks. (also reply to dines)

To: assembly-82@lists.ticalc.org
Subject: Re: A82: Re: Why Turbo Sucks. (also reply to dines)
From: Barubary <darkstar_usa@pipeline.com>
Date: Tue, 23 Dec 1997 16:12:03 -0500 (EST)
Reply-To: assembly-82@lists.ticalc.org


>                I have heard from the masters, A.K.A Bill Nagel and 
>others, that TURBO doesn't do anything except speed the keypad's 
>response. It actually took more away from FFX4 than it added to. Also, 
>I tried running some basic programs with turbo on...all I got was a 
>very hard wayof controlling the menu cursors, and buttons that 
>responded too fast (but didnt actually speed the processing of the 
>game). I can DEFINITELY live without TURBO on my calc.
>                                                ~Kurai

And if you WANTED this fast keypress in an assembly program, there is an
easier method to use than turbo interrupts - after calling GET_KEY, set the
key repeat counter manually if the key is a key that you want to have repeat.

-- Barubary

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