Xref: utzoo comp.sys.mac.hypercard:1331 comp.sys.mac.programmer:3440 Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!bbn!apple!dan From: dan@Apple.COM (Dan Allen) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard,comp.sys.mac.programmer Subject: Re: Reaction Time stacks : can I do this? Message-ID: <21826@apple.Apple.COM> Date: 7 Dec 88 08:21:59 GMT References: <6012@mva.cs.liv.ac.uk> <21792@apple.Apple.COM> <294@internal.Apple.COM> Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, CA Lines: 18 Yes, use the Time Manager rather than write to the VIA directly, I suppose. I forgot about the Time Manager because I was around when they wrote the Time Manager and I remember all the problems that early versions had... and then they fixed them all and now it works great. But for some reason I still remembered its beginnings back in the "halcyon days" of the Mac Plus in late 1985 and thought "write to the VIA yourself". Actually, when I talk about writing directly to the VIA I do not mean hard code an address, which is what everyone gets all excited about when they talk about writing directly to hardware. That is just plain stupid. What I mean is, get the low-memory global pointer which points to where the VIA lives and then use the chip, which works fine on all of our computers. The only other problem, however, is that some machines use more of the VIA than do others, so the Time Manager really is the best way in the end. End of historic-melancholic look at the past. Dan Allen Apple