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hi all...
for years, now, i have been using a tiny program for to slow down old
dos games for my 2400 athlon processor. It is a windows program
that does its magic in the pif file: no more fiddling around with
those awfull command lines in moslow...etc...and other dos-based
slowdown programs!
http://www.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/u/rridge/
I finally found the homepage for it, here....
======================================================
README
By Ross Ridge
Public Domain
@(#) MySLOW README 1.1 01/06/24 22:59:54
MySLOW is a public domain utility for slowing down MS-DOS programmes
run
under Window 95, Windows 98 or Window ME. MySLOW is currently in the
early
stages of beta testing. This utility is only recommended for Pentium
or
faster CPUs. It consists of two main components, a Windows Virtual
Device
Driver (VxD) that implements the slowing down of programmes, and a DLL
that
provides a new PIF property sheet page through which the the user can
configure the slow down settings on a per application basis. The
MySLOW VxD
implements basic and advanced slow down techniques which allow it have
a
great range of effective CPU speeds (from 100% to 0.01%) without making
the
game or application choppy or unresponsive. Settings can be an
accessed in
a familiar and non-intrusive manner using MySLOW's PIF property sheet
extension. This allows settings to be stored in the MS-DOS
application's
PIF file and automatically used whenever the application is run.
BASIC SETTINGS
MySLOW has a fair number of settings that can be changed to both change
the
ammount of slow down that MySLOW provides as well controlling advanced
features that can be used to eliminate jerkiness if necessary.
Currently
the PIF controls provide direct control over the parameters that MySLOW
uses
to slow down progammess. While this gives the user as complete control
as
possible, it means the interface isn't as simple or easy to use as it
could
be. In normal operation MySLOW simply adjusts how Windows schedules
the
MS-DOS application. Windows normally will give the application nearly
100%
of available CPU if it's the foreground task. MySLOW can change this
behaviour and instead will schedule alternating "run" and "sleep"
periods
for the application. To use this mode of operation, select "Run" as
the Run
Mode and "Sleep" as ..........................
ADVANCED SETTINGS
The "Virtualize Timer" checkbox allows MySLOW to virtualize the
hardware
timer if the application tries to use it. Normally Windows will give
full
control of the ..................
Ross Ridge
freestone
hi all...
for years, now, i have been using a tiny program for to slow down old
dos games for my 2400 athlon processor. It is a windows program
that does its magic in the pif file: no more fiddling around with
those awfull command lines in moslow...etc...and other dos-based
slowdown programs!
http://www.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/u/rridge/
I finally found the homepage for it, here....
======================================================
README
By Ross Ridge
Public Domain
@(#) MySLOW README 1.1 01/06/24 22:59:54
MySLOW is a public domain utility for slowing down MS-DOS programmes
run
under Window 95, Windows 98 or Window ME. MySLOW is currently in the
early
stages of beta testing. This utility is only recommended for Pentium
or
faster CPUs. It consists of two main components, a Windows Virtual
Device
Driver (VxD) that implements the slowing down of programmes, and a DLL
that
provides a new PIF property sheet page through which the the user can
configure the slow down settings on a per application basis. The
MySLOW VxD
implements basic and advanced slow down techniques which allow it have
a
great range of effective CPU speeds (from 100% to 0.01%) without making
the
game or application choppy or unresponsive. Settings can be an
accessed in
a familiar and non-intrusive manner using MySLOW's PIF property sheet
extension. This allows settings to be stored in the MS-DOS
application's
PIF file and automatically used whenever the application is run.
BASIC SETTINGS
MySLOW has a fair number of settings that can be changed to both change
the
ammount of slow down that MySLOW provides as well controlling advanced
features that can be used to eliminate jerkiness if necessary.
Currently
the PIF controls provide direct control over the parameters that MySLOW
uses
to slow down progammess. While this gives the user as complete control
as
possible, it means the interface isn't as simple or easy to use as it
could
be. In normal operation MySLOW simply adjusts how Windows schedules
the
MS-DOS application. Windows normally will give the application nearly
100%
of available CPU if it's the foreground task. MySLOW can change this
behaviour and instead will schedule alternating "run" and "sleep"
periods
for the application. To use this mode of operation, select "Run" as
the Run
Mode and "Sleep" as ..........................
ADVANCED SETTINGS
The "Virtualize Timer" checkbox allows MySLOW to virtualize the
hardware
timer if the application tries to use it. Normally Windows will give
full
control of the ..................
Ross Ridge
freestone
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