16 January 2002, 08:19 | #1 |
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*DOS* Fellow problems with my Athlon TB box
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Just to test a game similar to the one Galahad discovered as a dirty hack using hardwired JMPs, I fired up good ol' Fellow DOS 0.3.2a on my Win2k box, Athlon TB 1.333 GHz, because this emulator version has always been invaluable for games with " broken" code. But what did I see? SPEED FASTER THAN A ROCKET ... I tried with every setting imaginable but absolutely neither any intro nor demo were playable. Everything ran as if you had switched to WARP mode in VICE [C64 emulator]... I set sound to "Emulated, no sound output" because I cannot get sound yet with Win2k. Seems I have to install another Windows (9x) to get a reasonably SLOW speed again... BTW: Does DOS Fellow work on XP, actually? |
16 January 2002, 10:25 | #2 |
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Is your Win2k on NTFS ??? Cause I noticed the same issue on Win NT4 and NTFS, so I guess it´s a filesystem thing ! My friend got Win 2k installed on Fat32 and Fellow (DOS) runs at normal Speed on a 1,7GHz. P4 !!
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16 January 2002, 12:04 | #3 |
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I also recommand to everyone to jump back to FAT32 for speed performance. (if you did'nt use security folders or files > 2Go)
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16 January 2002, 12:51 | #4 |
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Why not jump then back to win9x if performance is everything ?
Seriously, I like NTFS because it is journaled. No need for loooong chkdsk if system crashes because of too big overclocking attempts or something similar |
16 January 2002, 19:53 | #5 |
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@RetroMan:
Everything but NTFS. C:\ is FAT (not FAT32 in order to access the C: partition using any boot disk if something screws up completely), the F: Disk (where my DOS Fellow resides) is FAT32. No NTFS...but still lunatic speed. |
16 January 2002, 21:08 | #6 |
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HA !! I found a way around it !
Go here : http://www.hpaa.com/moslo/ and download the MOSLO util !! With that one you can clock down your system with software untill 4,77Mhz No joke ..... I just tested it on a Win2k computer and it works really well, you just need to find the optimal settings for your system to run fellow (DOS) smoothly
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17 January 2002, 00:28 | #7 |
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Yes that app has been around for a while, of course it was mainly used to get older MS-DOS apps to run on faster 386/486 boxes at the time these were written to run on an old XT box.
Also maybe somebody knows this for sure, but isn't this app basically a NO-OP type of program? One that adds a bunch of no-op's to delay the CPU cycles. Just wondering is all |
17 January 2002, 00:31 | #8 |
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I guess it´s working like that, mainly because only the game (or emu) itself is affected, if you switch to Win with Alt-Tab for example, it´s the normal CPU speed ....
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17 January 2002, 00:40 | #9 |
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I tried Mo'slo before. It's mostly ok but sometimes it cannot keep the same speed and get too fast for a few moments.
This page has some similar programs: http://www.geocities.com/kulhain/ I prefer turbo because it a windows application. |
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Re: *DOS* Fellow problems with my Athlon TB box
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17 January 2002, 13:46 | #11 |
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Not always.
"Disabled but emulated" and "Disabled" isn't the same thing (I hope). |
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