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It's far from the best method, but if you don't care about being exact, you can update a counter of how many frames have gone by in the current second. When the counter hits 60, just loop until the value returned by time(NULL) has changed.

That should slow things down plenty syscall and all.

Version 1.000 arrived today. Incredibly frustrating, but fun. It will probably take me a long time to beat. :oops: Thanks, Sivak! Ditto. I've taken to playing on easy mode, mainly because most of the difficulty (for me, so far, anyway) seems to be navigational hazards rather than enemies that *need...

The latest game for Wii scrolls for any character; players on the other side are pushed either pushed forward, or left behind in vertical segments. This often results in either crush or falling death. But then again, on Wii, 4 people can play at once, and you usually can go backwards in a level.

There's also various operating systems ( JavaOS in particular) and various processors ( picojava for one) that use Java for either the base of the operating system or as the basic instruction set architecture of the processor. In the last few years, Java has become a lot faster. I don't know when yo...

I think I have that. It let's you pick the rom using the file chooser, configure video and (which doesn't seem to function) controllers, and then hit Execute to get that same plain window with no functionality to it (besides the game itself with whatever controls it decided to use). I admit I have n...

I've yet to come across a good emulator for Linux. At the moment I'm reduced to using the free version of iNES. All the emulators for Linux (the ones that I've seen anyhow) use raw X for UI. Nobody likes GTK? And before anyone says "well why don't you write one?", I am writing one, but I h...

There should be some standards so that information can be easily understood. I'm not sure if I used the correct word "standards", but what I mean is, for example: - are we talking NTSC or PAL? - if a specific scanline is mentioned, is that with vblank thought of as before or after the visi...