Re: Spinning Watch [and falling-sand] cursor

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From: Mike Morton
Date: Sat, 28 Nov 1987 21:57

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A couple of years ago, I wrote a spinning-watch subroutine in MDS assembler.
It used the vertical-retrace manager to ensure that the spin rate was
constant, which actually doesn't help the user the way animating from
SystemTask would.

Actually, the subroutine could animate a watch with one or two moving hands,
or an hourglass with falling sand (remember the Lisa hourglass?).

I have no idea if the routine works with recent ROMs, but the source is
public domain, so I'd be glad to mail it to anyone who's interested.

 -- Mike Morton // P.O. Box 11378, Honolulu, HI  96828, (808) 456-8455 HST
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From: cs313s19@uhccux.UUCP (Mike Morton)
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Subject: Re: Spinning Watch [and falling-sand] cursor
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Date: Sat, 28-Nov-87 16:57:14 EST
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Posted: Sat Nov 28 16:57:14 1987
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