WAIT Statement...

[Silent-Death]

I'm sick of useing the crappyish Pause = TIMER stuff to slow my game down.

Can anyone explain to me how the WAIT Statement works (I read the QBasic Help but that kindof confused me).

Thanks

[xhantt]

Perhaps wait is not the solutions to your problem, anyway wait what does is await the change of a bits from a given port, the vertical retrace wait can be done with two waits.

Take a look at "on timer gosub", etc.

[Zack]

I'm sick of useing the crappyish Pause = TIMER stuff to slow my game down.

Can anyone explain to me how the WAIT Statement works (I read the QBasic Help but that kindof confused me).

Thanks

For a nice set delay to the hundredths or thousandths of a second, the method you've been using works beautifully.
WAIT doesn't do delays - well, it sort of does. Xhantt explained.
Vertical Retrace, if that's what you're thinking of, reduces flicker and also adds a nice delay that locks you at about 60FPS.

Code:

WAIT &H3DA,8
WAIT &H3DA,8,8

[Silent-Death]

Hmmm..... well ok.

The only thing is I think the Timer thing i'm doing only goes into the hunderiths...

Code:

Pause = TIMER
DO
LOOP UNTIL Pause + .01 = TIMER

So is that pretty much the best delay type thing I can get?

If so how do I make it so it won't screw up at midnight?

[Zack]

Rellib has an excellent little delay function that goes up to milliseconds.
The midnight thing: just use the absolute value of the subtraction of TIMER, with the other method...

Code:

IF ABS(TIMER) - T! >= Delay! THEN
   'Do the stuff that you only want done once every Delay! seconds
   T!=TIMER
END IF

And btw! Haven't seen ya in a while, SD, how're ya?

[Silent-Death]

Zack, doing pretty good... I have been somewhat active here... just not doing to much in qbasic. Actally I have been working on that tank game I posted a while ago (so far made it alot less flickery).
How have you been?