TI Basic in Off Topic

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Feb 24 2006, 11:21 am
I was wondering, is there any form of a sleep() function in TI BASIC.
#1 Feb 24 2006, 11:51 am
Soccerguy13 wrote:
I was wondering, is there any form of a sleep() function in TI BASIC.

Not timed. PAUSE, I believe, does sleep, but the user needs to press enter to get it to continue.
#2 Feb 24 2006, 3:21 pm (Edited on Feb 24 2006, 3:44 pm)
In response to Ben G (#1)
You could try the timing hack that some older games used; go through an empty loop 100000 times or so and use that for a delay. =) It'll run at different speeds on different processors, but if you're just making it for one processor then there shouldn't be a problem.

(Edit: typo.)
#3 Feb 24 2006, 3:31 pm
In response to Crispy (#2)
Crispy wrote:
You could try the timing hack that some older games used; go through an empty loop 100000 times or so and use that for a delay. =) It'll run at different speeds on different processes, but if you're just making it for one processor then there shouldn't be a problem.

That is, actually, exactly what I do.
#4 Feb 24 2006, 3:33 pm
In response to Ben G (#3)
Ben G wrote:
Crispy wrote:
You could try the timing hack that some older games used; go through an empty loop 100000 times or so and use that for a delay. =) It'll run at different speeds on different processes, but if you're just making it for one processor then there shouldn't be a problem.

That is, actually, exactly what I do.

Yep, and the only way in assembly language :P