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From: tmwhitehead@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: questions about GFA basic and REPLAY 4
Message-ID: <3374.27938072@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu>
Date: 16 Jan 91 03:21:38 GMT
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I have REPLAY 4 (awesome sound digitizer)
I also have GFA Basic 3.(something)
I have a 1040 ST with a color monitor.

My question is this:
REPLAY 4 comes with sample GFA source to play digitized sounds, however, this
is slow. it even causes the mouse to stop...I'm trying to write a game and I
need something faster than what I'm using.  The source I'm using loads a
program called bascode.exe.  Does anybody have or know where I could get a more
efficient module I could call from GFA basic to play digitized sounds?

My second question is this:
The game I'm writing is, essentially, one large loop.  Currently, I have a
variable that I increment each time through the loop and use as a counter to
determine the timing of certain events.  however, since the program falls
through different segments of code depending on the players actions and the
timer value, the speed changes.  I've been able to control it somewhat by
putting in small pauses in the right places, but if I could get access to an
internal timer, I could use that to time my rpogram.  I need pretty small
increments (probably at LEAST 1/100 of a second...)

THANKS for any help/suggestions....

Todd Whitehead

tmwhitehead@miavx1