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  10. From: "John Glanville" <John.Glanville@btinternet.com>
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  12. Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1998 10:26:33 +0100
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  24. Subject: [amos-list] Re: Hey! Ne1 Like Joysticks?
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  27.  
  28. From: "John Glanville" <John.Glanville@btinternet.com>
  29.  
  30.  
  31. -----Original Message-----
  32. From: Andrew Crowe <andrewcrowe@enterprise.net>
  33. To: amos-list@onelist.com <amos-list@onelist.com>
  34. Date: 02 September 1998 01:19
  35. Subject: [amos-list] Re: Hey! Ne1 Like Joysticks?
  36.  
  37.  
  38. >From: Andrew Crowe <andrewcrowe@enterprise.net>
  39. >
  40. >Hi Everybody,
  41. >
  42. >> Hey! Look! At this Ne1 want a piece of code that turns the joystick
  43. >input 2 + or -..
  44. >
  45. >Hmm, this seemed a bit too complicated, so I decided to check it out
  46. >(and I managed to kill 5mins at the same time ;)
  47. >
  48. >I built a timing loop to test the 2 versions :
  49. >
  50. >'different way
  51. >Timer=0
  52. >For A=0 To 100000
  53. >   J=Joy(1)
  54. >   K=J-2
  55. >   P#=J/4.0
  56. >   P=P#
  57. >   I=Sgn(J)
  58. >   If P#=P
  59. >      X=Sgn(J-6)*I
  60. >   End If
  61. >   If P=0
  62. >      Y=I*(K+K+1)
  63. >   End If
  64. >Next
  65. >Print Timer
  66. >
  67. >
  68. >' Old way
  69. >Timer=0
  70. >For A=0 To 100000
  71. >   X=0 : Y=0
  72. >   If Jup(1)
  73. >      Y=-1
  74. >   End If
  75. >   If Jdown(1)
  76. >      Y=1
  77. >   End If
  78. >   If Jleft(1)
  79. >      X=-1
  80. >   End If
  81. >   If Jright(1)
  82. >      X=1
  83. >   End If
  84. >Next
  85. >Print Timer
  86. >
  87. >before compiling the Old way was a lot faster, but after compiling it
  88. >was a lot closer:
  89. >
  90. >no joystick movement
  91. >
  92. >Old:155
  93. >New:143
  94. >
  95. >Holding down on joystick
  96. >Old:154
  97. >New:193
  98. >
  99. >Although new is quicker when there's no joy activ. it slows down when
  100. >the joystick is pressed.
  101. >
  102. >But, 50vbl out of 100000 loops isn't going to make a lot of difference
  103. >anyway so you may as well just use whichever you prefer.
  104. >
  105. >
  106. >--
  107. >                                <PRE>
  108. >  - --------------------- Quote of the day: ---------------------- -
  109. >It is better to have tried and failed than to have failed to try, but
  110. >the result's the same.
  111. >-- Mike Dennison
  112. >
  113. >+--------------------------------------------------------------------+
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  124. >|      Andrew Crowe             Q          jJF  mP p""9w,NL NwmP 0mw |
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  131. >|                           NNN@"      Web Designing and          // |
  132. >| Visit our Web Site:       ""               Amiga Programming \\//  |
  133. >|                                                                    |
  134. >|     HTTP://www.geocities.com/Eureka/Gold/1713/                     |
  135. >|                                                                    |
  136. >+----------------------------+      This signature was created using |
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  138. >+----------------------------+---------------------------------------+
  139. >                                </PRE>
  140. >
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  147.  
  148. Hey! I never said it would be fast... I only said it got rid of annoyingly
  149. slow if statements
  150. but hey! I dodn't care i was bored so i set myself a problem and i solved
  151. it... also if U R going for a Small program The new version is alot
  152. smaller.... especially if u r trying 2 program the smallest good Tron
  153. ever!!!! thats me!
  154.  
  155. Bye Thanx 4 de Speed test!
  156.  
  157.  
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