rcnelson@icaen.uiowa.edu (Ryan Christian Nelson) (01/18/91)
In article <1991Jan17.160044.1136@csn.org> heuring@fred.colorado.edu (Vince Heuring) writes: > >Are there any utilities that would allow me to slow down my Mac IIsi? >My wife is trying to play Fool's Errand, and apparently it was written >for a much slower mac, because one of the games goes so incredibly fast >that it is completely impossible to solve. > Vincent Heuring Dep't of Electrical & Computer Engineering > University of Colorado - Boulder heuring@boulder.Colorado.EDU In the archives at sumex, there is a Pretty Neat CDEV called 'Speed Chopper'. Although it sounds like a helicopter game, it's really a device that allows you to specify a 1-100 percent of normal speed performance drop for your mac. I've specifically used this on Star Wars, and a few other games. It works particularly well on the old classic games written for the Mac plus that run just a little fast on even the SE's. On IIcx's, these are useless without something just like this. One particularly handy feature is the ability to 'upshift' and 'downshift' with a shift-command-return as needed. It even makes a noise that varies in pitch; when upshifting, it goes up, and when downshifting, it goes down. It's kind of like going in and out of warp drive... anyway, the author is a great human interface programmer. It's on Sumex as info-mac/cdev/speed-chopper.hqx I highly recommend it. I do, however, keep it on a separate 'Slowdown' startup disk that I only boot with when I'm playing extra-fast games, or debugging screen drawing software. I'm not sure what other programs would think of it. I, by the way, have no connection with the program, except that I'm a happy user.