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Originally Posted by Thomas Richter
Not enough information. What means "spawn a console"? If you open a console window with stream=Open("CON:...",MODE_NEWFILE), you close the window with Close(stream).
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Any program that doesn't attempt to open an Intuition window, will spawn a console when ran in Workbench. That's my understanding of it, at least. I don't spawn a console manually.
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Originally Posted by Thomas Richter
Besides, if you want to wait for a key pressed, why don't you open a RAW: window and wait for a key by a Read() on the stream? Poking the hardware is considered very bad practise.
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Because it's the simplest way, I'm new to Amiga programming, and I still need the main loop to be up and functioning.
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Originally Posted by Thomas Richter
WaitTOF() is not your "generic delay function". For that, please use dos/Delay() instead. WaitTOF() may do something different on graphics cards.
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I'm fully aware, I'm using it to wait until all vblank interrupts are done so that I'm in "idle time" in the frame.
http://amiga.nvg.org/amiga/reference.../node048B.html