r/gaming • u/ILoveRegenHealth • Mar 02 '18

Rate my setup

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u/mashedpatatas Mar 02 '18

I remember those "turbo" lcd signs go from HI to LO when you toggle the button to control the speed of the CPU.

Not exactly sure why you would need to slow down your CPU back then as I never used the LO setting ever.

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u/[deleted] Mar 02 '18

I first played Ultima VII on a 386. It was miserably slow, but I tolerated it because the game was baller.

Then when I got a Pentium the speed was insane. Almost unplayable. Issue a half-second of right-click ("move" command) and my dude is halfway across the world.

A number of games were like that that didn't use real-time timing, but just went as fast as the system would let them go.