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#1 2011-05-12 17:35:29
What is turbo mode??
Hi Scratchers!
I have a question to people who have been here for a while.
What is turbo mode? Some people in there comments say " Try it in turbo mode!"
So what is turbo mode?? Or what does it do?
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#2 2011-05-12 18:14:51
- MoreGamesNow
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Re: What is turbo mode??
Turbo mode can mean two things:
a) Shift-Click the green flag in the Flash Player
b) Download the project, then Edit>Set Single Stepping>Turbo Mode
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#3 2011-05-12 18:18:26
- Jonathanpb
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Re: What is turbo mode??
Scratch is designed to be a bit slow - there's an intentional 10 millisecond (I think) delay between blocks. This way, making a sprite forever move 1 step will look like it says, instead of immediately zooming to the edge of the screen.
Turbo Speed gets rid of the 10 millisecond delays - this can be very useful in large processing scripts.
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#4 2011-05-12 19:13:37
- Kileymeister
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Re: What is turbo mode??
Jonathanpb wrote:
Scratch is designed to be a bit slow - there's an intentional 10 millisecond (I think) delay between blocks. This way, making a sprite forever move 1 step will look like it says, instead of immediately zooming to the edge of the screen.
Turbo Speed gets rid of the 10 millisecond delays - this can be very useful in large processing scripts.
I believe it's a 10 millisecond delay between loops, not every block. Or some number like that. I'm pretty sure there's no intentional delay between blocks though.
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#5 2011-05-12 21:23:00
- MoreGamesNow
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Re: What is turbo mode??
Doesn't there have to be an intentional delay between blocks for Turbo speed to work? And I agree, I think it is just in the loops.
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#6 2011-05-12 23:37:37
- scimonster
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Re: What is turbo mode??
Kileymeister wrote:
Jonathanpb wrote:
Scratch is designed to be a bit slow - there's an intentional 10 millisecond (I think) delay between blocks. This way, making a sprite forever move 1 step will look like it says, instead of immediately zooming to the edge of the screen.
Turbo Speed gets rid of the 10 millisecond delays - this can be very useful in large processing scripts.I believe it's a 10 millisecond delay between loops, not every block. Or some number like that. I'm pretty sure there's no intentional delay between blocks though.
If not, why does [wait 0 secs] take time???
Jonanthanpb summed it up very nicely, but he forgot one thing: the link to the Wiki! 
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