Waiting routine in assembly

[Programmer]

I am stuck with a problem. In my game, which I write in assembler, I have to slow down the speed, which is also flexible. However, this routine sometimes interferes with the joystick query. How can I solve this without interrupt?

[J.E.E.K.]

I am stuck with a problem. In my game, which I write in assembler, I have to slow down the speed, which is also flexible. However, this routine sometimes interferes with the joystick query. How can I solve this without interrupt?

In case you are using a delay routine which only burns cpu cycles it might be better to put the joytick query into the loop, optional with a condition to temporarily leave the loop as soon as a joystick action is recognized (at least to store the joystick state for later movements) ... Simply to prevent some reaction lag for joystick movements during delay loops. Just an idea ...

[Noizer]

yes J.E.E.K, show the source code

[groepaz]

the most common way to do this is to set up an interrupt (synced to the screen refresh might be a good idea), and then have a frame counter. once you have that, you can use the frame counter to make things happen every Nth frame