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OK, doesn't matter anymore. Instead of programming, from now on I will only play video games.

Yeah, but do you know what? I don't need a forum to tell me "Go and learn low level stuff." If that's the answer to my problem, I could have easily done without all of you. I'm here to get some help...

Yeah, and that's exactly the problem: I don't want to become an advanced low level programmer, I only have one tiny bit in my program that needs such stuff. That's why I need tutorials that show me...

OK, thanks. But how do I know what commands to use? As I said, I don't really know how to use that whole low level commands. Where can I get to know how to use the stuff relevant for the delay?

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Alright, that might help me. Unfortunately, I know almost nothing about Assembler, therefore, what do I have to do to understand how to implement a timer without studying a huge reference of overall...

But the DOS function sleep still works from within Windows.

Well, we have the sleep function from Turbo C++ which works quite well, also when the DOS program is run in Windows. (The only drawback is the fact that it only waits seconds, not milliseconds).

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Did you really think that I posted the code to "impress" anybody? I showed it so that you believe me that I'm really writing a DOS program and that I'm not just too stupid to confuse DOS with Win32...

No, there isn't a communication problem, at least not from my site. I know the difference between a Win32 console application and 16 bit DOS programs. And yes, my program is really a DOS program....

It's not about the multitasking stuff. It's about the simple fact that I don't want my program to run on full power in an infinity loop even though it doesn't need to. Did you ever own a PC with a...

Of course I don't want my program to screw up Windows. I doubt that this is even possible in Windows XP. All I was saying is: If a solution only works on a real DOS machine while it still poses the...

I just let the program run in Windows XP, so no, I didn't test it on a real DOS machine. But the thing is: If the method only works in a real DOS environment, but not when I use the 16 bit DOS...

At first, thanks for your help. But it still doesn't work. The processor load still goes up to maximum. Is there maybe a way to call the hlt command with a parameter that says how long the program is...

Hi,
I'd like to write a delay function for DOS (real DOS, not Win32 console). But the important thing is: The function shall not increase the processor load to 100 %. So anything like that:
void...