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Releasing CPU to Desqview/Windows
There was some software on the site that should do just fine! DVPtame allows modification of the DVP files to limit the number of times the program may poll the keyboard before DV forcibly releases the CPU from that program. Perfect! Thank you! :) -
Releasing CPU to Desqview/Windows
I'm writing some QBasic (actually VB 1.0 for ms-dos, its nearly the same as Qbasic) software, which polls a directory for a file every 10 seconds for processing. Currently, the program eats up too much CPU power when it's running in it's timer loop, and I'm wondering if there's some sort of...
