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From: dcl@ncsc1.ATT.COM (Dave Love)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Assembler Programming - Costs versus Benefits
Message-ID: <710@ncsc1.ATT.COM>
Date: 5 Dec 90 19:12:55 GMT
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mt87692@tut.fi (Mikko Tsokkinen) writes:

> 90% of all games I have ever seen for amiga doesn't run with faster
>processors because the disk loader and other waiting is badly written. 
>They use wait loops like this:

>wait	move.l	#2000,d0
>	dbra.s	d0,wait

That's probably the only loop guaranteed to take the same amount of time
on ANY processor.  Forever... :)


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