On Wed, May 24, 2017 at 9:12 AM, W2HX via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
Some languages have a function called 'sleep()' or similar where you can tell it to pause for a period of time. don't recall if basic has something like that or not
I think for Evan's case, which is a 6502 processor using BASIC you have to work within that boundary to answer his question efficiently. Also, there are many ways to do the same thing in BASIC. If you put an on-screen display like this 100 input t "hit space bar and stopwatch simultaneously to start" 150 if spacebar pressed then 200 process starts 300 ...... 400 ...... 449 print "GET READY...." 450 process ends 500 print "HIT STOP ON STOPWATCH!" 600 clear screen and goto 100