21 Feb
2006
21 Feb
'06
11:10 a.m.
Bryan Pope wrote:
Mo'Slo, and programs like it, create busywait loops in software and are
extremely poor at slowing machines down gracefully enough to run finicky
time-sensitive software (read: games).
A better solution is slowing down the clock of the machine itself, or
disabling caches, or lowering the bus speed, or all three. Check
http://www.oldskool.org/pc/throttle for one such program.
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Jim Leonard (trixter at oldskool.org) http://www.oldskool.org/
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I figured you people had a stash of ISA Soundblasters, Gravis Ultrasound,
Yamaha dxb50, Roland, and Ensoniq Soundscape cards laying around just for
retro gaming. ISA slots survived into the Pentium 3 era atleast (which tend
to be way too fast for DOS gaming anyway).
There is the Mo'Slo program, but I haven't tried it with games yet.