Pause the game, pause the timers

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Bill Stanbrook

What I do is to use a relative game timer that's updated by the amount of time taken by the previous loop at the start of each new loop.

eg.

; Untested code.
; 'game_time' holds the time value which should be used with all pausable time_out routines.

Global game_time
Global old_time
Global millisecs_time
Global time_out

old_time = MilliSecs()

Repeat

millisecs_time = MilliSecs()
the_time_taken = millisecs_time - old_time
game_time = game_time + the_time_taken
old_time = millisecs_time

If game_time > time_out
time_out = time_out + 1000
EndIf

If KeyHit( pause_key )
; -- Process pause event --
old_time = MilliSecs() ; Re-initialize 'old_time' after the pause.
EndIf

Until KeyHit( 1 )