Re: A82: Porting (85)

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Subject: Re: A82: Porting (85)
From: "Cory Crooks" <badman@velocity.net>
Date: Sun, 25 Jan 1998 15:22:54 -0800
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Zetris 1.12 reads direct from mem to get the key (this may be why i've heard
it crashes with CrAsh), increasing your block drop speed. But would port
reads be even faster?

-- Cory R. Crooks
badman@velocity.net

-----Original Message-----
From: GeradS711 <GeradS711@aol.com>
To: assembly-82@lists.ticalc.org <assembly-82@lists.ticalc.org>
Date: Sunday, January 25, 1998 11:21 AM
Subject: Re: A82: Porting (85)


>
>In a message dated 98-01-24 12:48:31 EST, you write:
>
>> Wouldn't a direct input routine make Solytare a heck of a lot faster?
>>  -Ahmed
>and a direct output routine...
>Yes a direct input routine is three or four times as fast as a call getkey
>routine. Zetris could be faster too, and then the block wouldn't have to
drop
>all of the way when you pressed down, it would just drop a little very
fast,
>which is better

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