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Re: my PC is too fast! help me slow it down!

#2491
From: Arto V. Viitanen
Date: Thu, 16 Aug 1990 06:55
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>>>>> On 15 Aug 90 19:26:23 GMT, rzi@philpav.UUCP (Roman Zielinski) said:


Roman> Some times it would be nice to run all the fancy games from 
Roman> the IBM PC/XT 4.77MHz era!

Roman> I wonder if someone has a Public Domain TSR that can load smootly a 
Roman> 16MHz...33MHz system so it behaves like an 4.77 MHz box???


At simtel20 there are following programs:

Directory : PD1:<MSDOS.AT>, file: AT-SLOW.ARC, Slow AT's down to 4.77 for
games and such

PD1:<MSDOS.AT>, AT-SLOW3.ARC, Use high-res timer to slow down 80286/80386

PD1:<MSDOS.SYSUTL>, WHOAPC.ARC, WHOA! slows down PC or AT, v1.0

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Arto V. Viitanen				         email: av@kielo.uta.fi
University Of Tampere,				   	    av@ohdake.cs.uta.fi
Finland
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From: av@kielo.uta.fi (Arto V. Viitanen)
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Subject: Re: my PC is too fast! help me slow it down!
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