David VanHorn wrote:

>>2/ In a realtime environment, say spacewars, a faster response system,
>>such as vertical counters can detect the end of the bouncing and give
>>the faster response.
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>>
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>
>Ok, I must admit  I've read the vertical counter thing, but I just don't see
>the light yet.
>Can you rephrase it maybe?
>
>Always willing to see another way.
>  
>
Instead of having the bits of a counter in a byte, you spread them over 
several bytes.  The first byte contains the most insignificant bit of a 
number of counters, the next byte the next significant bits of the 
counters.  Now you can count all the counters at once using logic 
operations.  It is useful where you only need 2-3 bits for a counter.  
So, in this application, you can have 8 2-bit counters in two bytes. 

That help? 

David


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