Step 2: Wait for me!

We can make the game more playable by setting the frame rate. That's when we intentionally limit the speed of the game so that it runs at a more consistent speed instead of as fast as it feels like at the moment (a nice thing to have!).

LameLCD has a command just for this: lcd.SetFrameLimit. It comes in three speeds.

• FULLSPEED (~35 frames/second): Like you're watching TV!

• HALFSPEED (~18 frames/second): Starting to look choppy.

• QUARTERSPEED (~9 frames/second): Pretty freaking slow.

You can try different values to see how they look; which one you use really depends on your game.

I'm going to go with HALFSPEED. You can call it whenever you like to change the frame rate, but I like to set it once at the beginning to keep it simple.

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PUB Main
    lcd.Start(gfx.Start)
    lcd.SetFrameLimit (lcd#HALFSPEED)
    ctrl.Start