nx00699@dsac.dla.mil (Gene McManus) (12/26/90)
I just put up 'Stargoose', and as Bill noted in the distribution, this is an arcade-quality game. My system is a Zenith Z-248, and I've noticed an interesting thing: when the game is exited, the clock speed is about 3 times faster than normal. Norton's SI shows system performance at about 1/3 normal (6.6 vs 2.0). Is anyone else seeing this? Another question; what format is the documentation file? Thanx... Gene
cpp@cci632.UUCP (Carl P. Petito) (12/28/90)
In article <2297@dsac.dla.mil>, nx00699@dsac.dla.mil (Gene McManus) writes: > I just put up 'Stargoose', and as Bill noted in the distribution, this > is an arcade-quality game. ... > ... the clock speed > is about 3 times faster than normal. > > Another question; what format is the documentation file? > > Thanx... > Gene I disassembled enough of my BIOS to figure out how to reinit the clock timer that gets changed by stargoose. The following is the code; it works for my XT class clone - your mileage my vary: cli mov al, 0x36 out 0x43, al mov al, 0x00 out 0x40, al out 0x40, al sti The code puts timer 0 of the 8253 chip back into a divide by 0xffff; I assume that stargoose needs a faster interrupt rate and hence the divisor factor was changed for timer 0. And yes, I know the code could be made more compact, etc; why bother? And I also ask - what is the documentation format? Carl Petito
bruce@bmhalh.UUCP (Bruce M. Himebaugh) (12/28/90)
In article <2297@dsac.dla.mil> nx00699@dsac.dla.mil (Gene McManus) writes: >I just put up 'Stargoose', and as Bill noted in the distribution, this >is an arcade-quality game. My system is a Zenith Z-248, and I've >noticed an interesting thing: when the game is exited, the clock speed >is about 3 times faster than normal. Norton's SI shows system >performance at about 1/3 normal (6.6 vs 2.0). Is anyone else seeing >this? Yep. I noticed this when I went to play Frac after playing Stargoose. It makes the blocks drop much much quicker. >Another question; what format is the documentation file? I would also like to know this. Thanks, Bruce -- Bruce M. Himebaugh bruce@bmhalh.UUCP Voice: 216-484-3528 PATHS: uunet!{ncoast,aablue}!fmsystm!mrsmouse!bmhalh!bruce (NOTE: the system name "fmsystm" is with no "e", NOT "fmsystem")
dieter@dischw.toppoint.de (dieter fritzsche) (01/03/91)
nx00699@dsac.dla.mil (Gene McManus) writes: > I just put up 'Stargoose', and as Bill noted in the distribution, this > is an arcade-quality game. My system is a Zenith Z-248, and I've > noticed an interesting thing: when the game is exited, the clock speed > is about 3 times faster than normal. Norton's SI shows system > performance at about 1/3 normal (6.6 vs 2.0). Is anyone else seeing > this? I am wondering on running time, after ending that game, i lost 2 hours of the day, but now i know, where i lost them. But an other crazy feature was, that my serial port got out of order and I need to reboot, to get my modem to work after playing that game, it seemed to work very hard in the system of my machine, but thats the price for fancy games or not ? ======================================================================== = Dieter Fritzsche | dieter@dischw.toppoint.de = = Freeheit 11 | BANG: ...!exhh!tpki!dieter = = 2318 Schwartbuck | Z-Net: HACKETAL@KBBS = = +49 4385 763 | R.s.H.: HACKETAL 2400 8,n,1 +49 431 522952 = ========================================================================