scott wrote:

> Also ditto here, I had just got one of the new Acorns where they bumped 
> up the clock to 12 MHz from 8 MHz, but everything else was the same.  I 
> wonder why timing was so hard back then - I mean surely they could have 
> had something a little more sophisticated to make sure that things 
> remained synced.

Sloppy programming.

The music stays synchronised because it uses one of the hardware timers. 
The graphcs don't because it relies on the CPU drawing them at a 
specific speed.

Flashback also made the disk drive spin continuously to detect when a 
disk was inserted - completely unecessary and probably deterimental to 
the drive mechanisms.

> On the last level, I don't remember how far I got through it, but I 
> vaguely remember several doors that were blocking my progress and I just 
> couldn't find anything to give me any clues what to do next.  I spent 
> *days* going back to it and literally covering every part of the walls 
> and floors I had access to, still nothing so I gave up.  IIRC somebody 
> here (maybe you) told me what I was missing a while back...

Heh. I wonder if I could get an emulator working and play Flashback? ;-)

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