On: Long Live Grim Fandango

[72deluxe]

How strange. Why didn't they use a timer? That is, on any machine you know how long 1 second is. From a developer perspective that doesn't change if you bump up the CPU clock speed, else "clocks" wouldn't work.

[raverbashing → 72deluxe]

Loop counting is usually done for fast (and not so time dependent) timers

Yeah, an OS timer is the "official" solution, but that might not have been practical for a multitude of reasons