Date   : Mon, 25 Jul 1994 12:57:06 +0100
From   : jfid@... (James Fidell)
Subject: Re: Timing.... (was Re: Anyone out there?)

Tim Morley wrote:

> James Fidell writes ("Re: Anyone out there?"):
> > Stephen Quan wrote:
> > 
> > > Has anyone thought about how you will go about timing the delays in
> > > the vertical sync?
> > 
> > I'm not sure why you'd want to do this.  Can you explain a little
> > further ?
> > 
> > James.
> > 
> 
> So you can do silly things like let elite change mode half way down
> the screen, so it can use mode 4 for the space ships and mode 5 for
> the console....

I'd do this all by calculation though.  We know what the scan-speeds
are for televisions and it's easy to find the average number of cycles
per instruction, so why not do it that way ?

James.

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