OpenEuphoria

Re: OidZone and Crash Course update

• Posted by Robert Craig <72614.1667 at COMPUSERVE.COM> Dec 28, 1996
• 1756 views

Michael Packard writes:

> great, will I be able to bind the alpha 1.5 stuff with OidZone, since it
> is scheduled for release jan 15?  What will be the tick resolution on a
> 486-33?  I need to speed oz up on those systems at least.  I think 1/100
> would be optimal, but anything is better than 1/20.

Sure, you can bind with alpha 1.5. It should be pretty stable.

I just tried Peter Blue's Space Invaders at 5000 ticks/sec on a 486 DX-50,
and things ran fine under DOS 6.2 or Win 3.1.
Then I changed it to 50000/sec and the program ran correctly, but at an
*extremely* slow speed.

On a Pentium-150 running in a Windows 95 MS-DOS window a
warning popped up from the operating system when I tried 1200/sec.
The warning box suggested that this program would run better from
the "pure MS-DOS" mode and offered to make a special desktop icon for me,
although I hadn't noticed any performance problems.
When I clicked "No", it let the program go ahead at 1200/sec,
and didn't bother me anymore while I was using that MS-DOS window --
even when I cranked it up to 5000/sec. At 5000 the performance was kind of
sluggish. At 1000/sec I've never seen this warning and the performance is fine.

So the short answer is: 100/sec on a 486, and presumably even a 386,
should be just fine.

Regards,
   Rob Craig
   Rapid Deployment Software