Re: A83: Direct Input/Delay

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Subject: Re: A83: Direct Input/Delay
From: Stefan Lennartsson <stefan@infinity.hemmet.s-hem.chalmers.se>
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1998 18:47:00 +0200 (CEST)
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On Sun, 27 Sep 1998 Jkhum98@aol.com wrote:

> 
> Ok, (to add on to my mail a little bit) I just decided to experiment with some
> delays, but it either froze my calc or is taking a helluva long time... :\
> Tell me how much this delay sucks, and give me a new one please, anyone...? Im
> not calling this in my Direct Input loop though. Its right after I switch the
> text video of that word (like i was talking about before), and then calling
> the Delay, and then jumping to my Direct Input loop. Whats the problem...?
> 																	--Jason K.
> Delay:
> 	ld b, $FF
> DelayLoop:
> 	push af
> 	dec b
> 	pop af
> 	nop
> 	djnz DelayLoop
> 	ret
> 

Isn't that going to be an endless loop since you're making a double
decrement with that extra dec b, now it goes down to 3, 1, -1, never 0
pick away that dec b and it will probably work

/Stefan

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