Re: A82: Re: Game Speed

To: assembly-82@lists.ticalc.org
Subject: Re: A82: Re: Game Speed
From: evil.sam@mailexcite.com
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1998 18:29:40 PST
Delivered-To: assembly-82-outgoing@towerguard.unix.edu.sollentuna.se
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> Normally setting the interrupts to its fastest wont increase the speed of
> your game, since this increses th enumber of clock cycles spend on
> interrupts, but if you need faster interrupts this is definately a way to
do
> it.

  From what I tried, certain ROM_CALL's are sped up significantly. The most
noticeable one being "GET_KEY". I'm using Turbo mode in Ztetris to speed up
key press detection, then removing it when the game is over. No apparent
side effects have occured when tested under ROM 18 and 19.




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