>Speaking of Speed, is there a way to do an automatic calculation on how
>fast the host processor is, and automatically adjust your "time-waster"
>loops accordingly? Ie, you'll notice that some games coded for a 25Mhz
>Quadra are pretty unplayable on a G3 because they are too fast.

basically there are 3 ways of doing this, one of which aint good:

1 (no good) - put in a for i = 1 to _yourNumber type do nothing loop
this'll slow things down on the target machine, but that's all

2 use on timer n
this means that the fn will only be called at the moment you want and do 
otherthings in that time

3 personnally i use

DO
 HANDLEVENTS : FN myFastIdle
UNTIL gTheCowsComeHome

and in the FN myFastIdle
i verify that the number of ticks that i want has passed

LOCAL FN myFastIdle
 LONG IF (gTimer& + _theBlessedTicks) > FN TICKCOUNT
 'do that thing
gTimer& = FN TICKCOUNT
XELSE
 'do dat udder thing
END IF
END FN


jonathan

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