Mail Archives: djgpp/2000/02/19/19:54:59
Damian Yerrick <DONT DOT YOU DOT DAREd_yerrick AT hotmail DOT comSEND DOT SPAM> wrote:
>On Sat, 19 Feb 2000 06:57:05 +0500 (MVT), Prashant TR
><prashant_tr AT yahoo DOT com> wrote:
>
>>On Fri, 18 Feb 2000, Manni Heumann wrote:
>>
>>> It won't work under windows, you should not try to access a floppy drive
> with
>>> the timer ticking faster, and your system time will be wrong afterwards.
>>
>>Shouldn't try using any disk drive with a modified timer.
>
>Then what about Allegro? If you install_timer() and then
>fopen("A:/foo.txt", "wb"), what blows up?
>
>
Nothing, I hope. Allegro uses a different method, some call it the Abrash
method. To be honest, I never understood how that worked. All I know is that
the timer is not ticking faster with this method.
--
Manni
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