Re: [stella] An Efficient Waste Of Time

Subject: Re: [stella] An Efficient Waste Of Time
From: Thomas Jentzsch <tjentzsch@xxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2002 11:14:42 +0200
Christopher Tumber wrote:
>  jmp ($ZeroPage)
>  nop
>  nop
>  nop
>  (Whole bunch of NOPs)

That's exactly what I used in my TomInv demo (see "***** delay 
ernel start *****"). 


>(The "resolution" of the loop pause is 4 cycles, the jmp () 
>pause is 2 cycles...)

Maybe you should use NOP zp (or DOP as you call it) instead of 
NOP here, then you can waste *single* cycles too. Instead you 
could also you use a taken branch to waste that single cycle.

Have fun!	
Thomas


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