From: Paul Richards <Paul AT dunvegan1 DOT demon DOT co DOT uk>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: timer functions 2
Date: Fri, 16 Apr 1999 16:01:49 +0100
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Eli Zaretskii writes,
>
>On Thu, 8 Apr 1999, Luiz Fernando wrote:
>
>>     i want to have my game running at same speed in computer of diferent
>> speeds (slowers and faster).
>>     how can i do it ?
>
>I think `setitimer' or `alarm' should help you; please read their
>documentation.  You should be able to set up a timer for a certain
>period of time, and calibrarate the CPU speed by counting the number
>of some loop iterations done during that time.

I didn't get the original post but if you go to my website and download
the IFS program because it has a small toolkit that I have.  In the
toolkit (toolkit.*) it has a small timer function.  If you email me I'll
explain more in-depth.
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