Slowing down Mac II's

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From: Adam Talcott
Date: Tue, 20 Mar 1990 21:45

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Unfortunately this is a problem I am not having since I own a Mac Plus...

The one complaint I hear about the Mac II family is that some programs
(mainly games) are just too fast when run on a Mac II.  I know that in Falcon
there is a menu command called "Too Fast" that will slow down the game and make
it playable on the Mac II.  Why don't more authors do this?  How difficult is
it for a program to check for a Mac II and insert delays?  Could this be done
by an INIT perhaps?  Anybody got any free time to write one?

I figured now is a good time to bring this up.  Imagine playing some games on
the 40MHz Mac IIfx!

Adam Talcott

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From: talcott@nunki.usc.edu (Adam Talcott)
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Subject: Slowing down Mac II's
Summary: Anyway a Mac can be slowed down so some programs are usable
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