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In article <OWHITE.89Nov19135047@haywire.nmsu.edu> (Owen White) writes:
>I have a program that I've written that displays on the current screen
>a insect (sprite-driven) that I usualy run in the backround, much like
>the infamous oing-series written by leo schwab.  I am looking for
>suggestions on how I can interupt this program during disk
>accesses/compiling/other expensive cpu accesses.  

Easy one Owen, since the Amiga has a preemptive scheduler you can just
set the priority of your insect to a value that is lower than the trackdisk
task and "standard" tasks. Then when ever *you* need the CPU to do something
you get it, no questions asked, but if no one needs it, your sprite task
gets it.

>I guess the buzzing insect has so many WaitTOF()s that the little guy really 
>slows up the system, especially text scrolling.

WaitTOF() is friendly because it does a real wait, it's WaitBOVP() that does
the busywait.

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