basic sleep

[daddyd]

it's been ages since i used basic on the cpc, just tried it again to make something simple to show to kids how easy it is/was.
can't remember how to do a 'sleep' in basic, for example in a loop changing the color of the border and waiting 2 seconds between each color change.
i know it can be done because i did it waaaay back in the 80ties i'm starting to think i just used an empty for-loop or something.

anybody?

[andycadley]

Oddly Locomotive Basic didn't have a PAUSE command like other versions of Basic, but you could do roughly the same with:

t = TIME: WHILE TIME < t + (300 * 2):WEND

adjusting 2 for the number of seconds you wanted to wait for.

[ralferoo]

You could do something like:

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for i=1 to 50*2:call &bd19:next
for a 2 second pause.

[Sykobee (Briggsy)]

could you use EVERY?


EVERY 600 GOSUB #(routine to change colour)