Path: utzoo!utgpu!cunews!cognos!alzabo!tris From: tris@alzabo.uucp (Tris Orendorff) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer Subject: Re: timer-help needed Message-ID: <1990Nov4.185113.13366@alzabo.uucp> Date: 4 Nov 90 18:51:13 GMT References: Distribution: comp.os.msdos.programmer Lines: 25 efa@iesd.auc.dk (Erik F. Andersen) writes: > I'm currently writing a program, for which I need some very accurately timed sound routines. I am thinking of speeding up the oscillator, by programming port 0 of the timer chip, and then write a new INT08 interrupt handler, that say only calls th e original INT08 every fourth time (just like some Basic versions does). > However I have never tampered with port 0 of the timer chip, so I was wondering if anyone out there could help me out with my problem. >THANKS!! I recommend the following book: Programmer's Problem Solver for the IBM PC, XT and AT, Robert Jourdain Brady Books isbn: 0-89303-787-7 -- Sincerely Yours Tris Orendorff tris@alzabo.uucp ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ALGERNON: The doctors found out that Bunbury could not live ... so Bunbury died. LADY BRACKNELL: He seems to have had great confidence in the opinion of his physicians.