Re: A86: Interrupt questions
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Re: A86: Interrupt questions
Couldn't he have just disabled the interrupt? Or did he need to use an interrupt in
Penguins?
Kirk Meyer wrote:
> also, you can control whether or not the calc's interrupt routine is
> called. i think penguins uses this tactic because if you hold down LEFT
> & DOWN it doesn't freeze the calc.
>
> > This is called just like the normal one.. About 200 time a second. The only
> > advantage I know of now is that it happens before the real interrupt(which
> > includes user routines) and that you can use the user interrupt routine along
> > with this. So if you run a program that uses the user interrupt, it will have no
> > affect on it. Another thing is that you don't have to push and pop registers..
> > Other than that, it's just another way of doing things.
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