WAITing for BASIC on the Commodore 64

How can we make Commodore 64 BASIC pause for a specific time? We take a look at three techniques, including their strengths and weaknesses: 1) FOR/NEXT loops which are simple but somewhat inaccurate and not very CPU-accelerator-friendly, 2) polling the TIME variable which might be the best general approach, and 3) Using the esoteric WAIT command to watch particular bits in the C64's jiffy counter. Thanks to patron grymmjack for the question, and to Dr. Craig S. Bruce, Emily Christ, and Jarno Mielikäinen for their insight and help with the answers. To support 8-Bit Show And Tell: Become a patron: https://patreon.com/8BitShowAndTell One-time donation: https://paypal.me/8BitShowAndTell 2nd channel: https://youtube.com/channel/UCAgWzEh5c8391eJnELDy9OA End credits song is "Park Patrol" by Bedford Level Experiment. Check out the music video here: https://youtu.be/pA1MR3PuHxU Index: 0:00 Question: how to sleep/pause/wait in BASIC? 0:23 1. FOR/NEXT loop 7:18 Why not linear? 11:55 2. Polling TI 16:04 A bug in the TI technique 20:50 3. WAIT 162,64 24:26 Why not WAIT 162,60? 29:50 Another WAIT approach 30:59 Conclusion and thanks!