Re: Timing in JZIP


23 Nov 95 14:41:24 GMT

In article <48ieg3$9q5@rigel.pixi.com>, John Menichelli <menichel@pixi.com> writes:
> I modified the source code to JZIP to better handle timing functions. I
> then ran freefall and timed (the test program from the new
> specification). Those two programs ran at the correct speed. However,
> Border Zone runs 10 times too fast.
>
> Any ideas? Could it be (gasp) the spec is wrong?
>
> Help!
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> John
> menichel@pixi.com
>

I suspect what may be happening is that you're calling the timeout
function with a parameter. We used to think that was correct, but
now know that it isn't... it just so happened that our two mistakes
about how timed input works cancelled each other out in the case of
Border Zone. So I suggest that you've fixed one but not the other!

Graham Nelson