[projectx] Mike's assignment

[Ben C. <cro...@ne...>]

Comrades,

Being of a rather forgetful mind, I also forgot to give Mike Reynolds an
assignment.  So here it is, Mike: game timing.  Here's the lowdown on it:
you usually want the game logic to run at, say, 60 frames per second on
*any* computer (386 to Cray supercomputer).  That way weird things don't
happen.  The *graphics* logic -- drawing everything -- doesn't have to run
at that speed, however (and on slower computers it simply can't).  So it
just draws as often as it can, which might be 15 fps on a 486 or the full
60 on a Pentium III.  So the assignment is this: to find out how to do
this frame rate regulation.  We'll need to use Allegro timers, of course.
If you have any questions, Mike, feel free to ask me.

Later,
Ben

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and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy." 
  -- Martin Luther King, Jr.