[Coco] Light pen stuff was:Re: Software testing for FDC emulator

Steve Bjork 6809er at srbsoftware.com
Tue Apr 26 13:18:51 EDT 2011


Last time I checked,  1/10 of a second is 100 milliseconds, not 10 
milliseconds.

This is how I get in trouble.  They misquoted me!

Steve (often misquoted) Bjork


On 4/26/2011 9:37 AM, gene heskett wrote:
>
> To do the same thing on an lcd screen, one would have to blink one pixel 2
> or 3 times, then if the gun doesn't detect that, go on and blink the next
> pixel until you finally get a response from the gun.  One could I suppose
> accelerate the search by blinking 1/4th of the screen at a time to detect
> which quadrant, then sub divide the block detected into quarters, wash,
> rinse, repeat till you have the exact pixel,  but I don't see how that
> could be done in Steve's quoted 10 milliseconds since one 60 frame cycle is
> 16.something milliseconds.
>
>




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