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Re: FastTickerV rate

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In message <ant171358868pErr@client.cjemicros.co.uk>
          CJE/4D Sales <sales@cjemicros.co.uk> wrote:

>In article <mpro.pjvdgw005nq9y09w5.news@pittdj.co.uk>, David Pitt
><URL:mailto:news@pittdj.co.uk> wrote:
>> Martin, on 17 Dec, wrote:
>> 
>> > On 16 Dec in article <f1277e6757.DaveMeUK@my.inbox.com>,
>> >    David Higton <dave@davehigton.me.uk> wrote:
>> > > In message <fa557d6757.pnyoung@pnyoung.ormail.co.uk>
>> > >           Peter Young <pnyoung@ormail.co.uk> wrote:
>> > 
>> > > > On 16 Dec 2018  David Higton <dave@davehigton.me.uk> wrote:
>> > > >
>> > > > > FastTickerV is aa RISC OS Ltd invention that hasn't (yet?) found its
>> > > > > way into RO5.
>> > > >
>> > > > > Does anyone know how many ticks per second it generates?
>> > > >
>> > > > > Alternatively, is anyone running RO6 and is prepared to run this
>> > > > > BASIC prog, which should tell us the rate?
>> > > >
>> > > > > -------- ON ERROR PRINT REPORT$ + " at line " + STR$(ERL): END
>> > > >
>> > > > > SYS "OS_ReadSysInfo", 6, 0, 22 TO,, speed%
>> > >�> > PRINT "Number of ticks per second: " + STR$(speed%)
>> > >�> > --------
>
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>
>It returns zero on a RiscPC running 6.20 here.

Thanks, Andrew.  If anything were going to give a non-zero result,
that was it.

FastTickerV is completely new to me.  I understand that it's an ROL
invention; it is not implemented in RO5.  (Maybe it will be one day,
but not now.)  I'm trying to find out enough basic information about
it to know what we would have to copy.

Maybe there has to be a claimant, otherwise it's disabled?

Is it documented anywhere?

Dave

PS The above call should return the FastTickerV rate in RO6, but the
same call in RO5 returns the address of the sound workspace.  It
looks like compatibility will have some issues.

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FastTickerV rate David Higton <dave@davehigton.me.uk> - 2018-12-16 20:34 +0000
  Re: FastTickerV rate Peter Young <pnyoung@ormail.co.uk> - 2018-12-16 21:23 +0000
    Re: FastTickerV rate David Higton <dave@davehigton.me.uk> - 2018-12-16 21:32 +0000
      Re: FastTickerV rate Martin <News03@avisoft.f9.co.uk> - 2018-12-17 00:12 +0000
        Re: FastTickerV rate David Pitt <news@pittdj.co.uk> - 2018-12-17 07:14 +0000
          Re: FastTickerV rate CJE/4D Sales <sales@cjemicros.co.uk> - 2018-12-17 13:48 +0000
            Re: FastTickerV rate David Higton <dave@davehigton.me.uk> - 2018-12-17 21:05 +0000
          Re: FastTickerV rate David Higton <dave@davehigton.me.uk> - 2018-12-17 20:55 +0000

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