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09-16-2005 at 03:32:09 AM

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How is this for a twist? I am playing a computer game on a pc running
Windows XP and has an AMD Athlon 64 3400+ CPU. The game was written
when computers were slower and some of the timed puzzles are proving
difficult. Is there a easier way to slow a system down? I have tried
setting a lower priority and running programs in the background. Any
other ideas?

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noname87@hotmail.com wrote:
> How is this for a twist? I am playing a computer game on a pc running
> Windows XP and has an AMD Athlon 64 3400+ CPU. The game was written
> when computers were slower and some of the timed puzzles are proving
> difficult. Is there a easier way to slow a system down? I have tried
> setting a lower priority and running programs in the background. Any
> other ideas?

You want Mo'Slo: "Mo'Slo slows fast PCs to run chronologically-impaired
software".

www.textmodegames.com/download/zips/moslo.zip

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09-17-2005 at 05:35:18 AM

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In article <1126858113.069121.101700@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>,
chrisc@dbass.demon.co.uk says...
> noname87@hotmail.com wrote:
> > How is this for a twist? I am playing a computer game on a pc running
> > Windows XP and has an AMD Athlon 64 3400+ CPU. The game was written
> > when computers were slower and some of the timed puzzles are proving
> > difficult. Is there a easier way to slow a system down? I have tried
> > setting a lower priority and running programs in the background. Any
> > other ideas?
>
> You want Mo'Slo: "Mo'Slo slows fast PCs to run chronologically-impaired
> software".
>
> www.textmodegames.com/download/zips/moslo.zip
>
> CC

There's another app called cpukiller. I can't actually remember the
context (been a year or two) but I had trouble the last time I tried to
use moslo and cpukiller did the job for me on that occasion.

-Peter

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09-16-2005 at 02:21:04 PM

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If this is a dos program use DosBox to run it, which allows you to set
the speed.

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09-16-2005 at 02:39:10 PM

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Thanks.

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09-17-2005 at 07:52:31 AM

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On Fri, 16 Sep 2005 23:35:18 +1200, Peter Huebner wrote:

> In article <1126858113.069121.101700@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>,
> chrisc@dbass.demon.co.uk says...
>> noname87@hotmail.com wrote:
>>> How is this for a twist? I am playing a computer game on a pc running
>>> Windows XP and has an AMD Athlon 64 3400+ CPU. The game was written
>>> when computers were slower and some of the timed puzzles are proving
>>> difficult. Is there a easier way to slow a system down? I have tried
>>> setting a lower priority and running programs in the background. Any
>>> other ideas?
>>
>> You want Mo'Slo: "Mo'Slo slows fast PCs to run chronologically-impaired
>> software".
>>
>> www.textmodegames.com/download/zips/moslo.zip
>>
>> CC
>
> There's another app called cpukiller. I can't actually remember the
> context (been a year or two) but I had trouble the last time I tried to
> use moslo and cpukiller did the job for me on that occasion.
>
> -Peter

also, if the games are dos based, trying using a dos emulator like
dosbox
http://dosbox.sourceforge.net/

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09-17-2005 at 05:22:02 PM

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noname87 typed:
> How is this for a twist? I am playing a computer game on
> a pc running Windows XP and has an AMD Athlon 64 3400+
> CPU. The game was written when computers were slower and
> some of the timed puzzles are proving difficult. Is there
> a easier way to slow a system down? I have tried setting
> a lower priority and running programs in the background.
> Any other ideas?

Funny, just the other day I tried playing Commandos 1 on a
similiar spec'd computer, and the germans were running around
so fast as if there were no tomorrow! ;D

My advice is forget about CPU-Killer (as in limited-time trial/
shareware? bah!), and instead go to this page:
http://www.geocities.com/kulhain/index.html

And download the tiny CPU-Grabber app, it works great! Just
has a simple slider and start button. I turned it up to about
75% (on 3GHz system), leaving 25% CPU for the game- slowed
down Commandos to around my old P2-350Mhz! ;) (LOL)


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