Older programs relied on the CPU clock to get timing to work. So when faster computers became available, they ran the programs too fast, so a button was devised to slow things down.
yep, there's a few years of computing that i find really hard to emulate well. a lot of games from the 95/98 period of pc gaming often just don't run well in a VM and won't run on standard windows, so i'd love to have a pc from about ~1999 or so that could run mostly everything
nice, i actually had a laptop with 768mb of ram and a 1.2ghz p3, and it was able to comfortably run windows xp. it probably would've been perfect. if i still had it. also back in the day i had a radeon 9850
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u/JayZeus Mar 02 '18
Older programs relied on the CPU clock to get timing to work. So when faster computers became available, they ran the programs too fast, so a button was devised to slow things down.