Re: killing time in 6502 assembly

[cr@interlog.com (Patrick/RPG)]

Andre Fachat <fachat@vandyke.physik.tu-chemnitz.de> wrote:

> And again, what others mentioned, in some parts of the world you'd 
> even get (N+0.5)/50th of a second, which is about 17% off.
> 

Whoops!  I thought I had mentioned that, sorry!

> The most correct way would be to determine the clock frequency
> of the machine (by testing whether it is an NTSC or PAL machine)
> and then compute the exact number of cycles for the amount of time
> to wait and set a CIA timer with it.

Agreed.  Totally forgot about the CIA timers as well.

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