This is kind of misleading though. It was common at the time for games to run as fast as possible and then break as CPUs got faster.
One famous example is Wing Commander which is unplayable on a Pentium-class machine because it runs too fast.
This is also why DOSBox has a speed setting and a keyboard shortcut to adjust it at runtime.
My understanding is that the turbo button in old PCs wasn’t to make the computer go faster, but to underclock it to match what games expected. A physical compatibility mode button, essentially.
Yes precisely. It typically made the PC run at 4.77MHz to match the original IBM PC. Back then Turbo meant 8 or 12 MHz, not much more…
A bunch of games have framerates locked now to prevent these issues
https://youtube.com/watch?v=7PpTiK1jYPw
Fps differences in cod 4
Fantasy Empires was the one for me. Regular game played fine, but 5 minute battles that I could play at realtime on a 486DX-66 were over in 1/10th of a second on a PC 10 years later.
I guess I could be a writer for PC Gamer since I already watch Dave’s youtube videos.
PSA: Space Cadet Pinball has been reverse engineered and you can now run it on most popular platforms and even consoles. (flatpak version)
Well I don’t watch it, I don’t watch anyone’s, as they take 4-10 times longer to explain something than I can read it. I would’ve never learned this otherwise, so I’m glad he wrote it up, and linked to his source:
Speaking on his YouTube channel (emphasis mine).
I mean really, what more can you ask for than clearly giving credit?
I mean really, what more can you ask for than clearly giving credit?
You're absolutely right. My problem with some websites due to the aggressive adblocking I do is bricking some sites like pcgamer, probably why I was miffed, and as a result I couldn't see PC Gamer giving him credit in the article. It wasn't until I switched to reader mode I could see it.
Has anyone re-released the other pinball machines?
Edit: Memory is fleeting, I am actually liking for Enigma from This game
if you’re asking about epic pinball, it’s on gog: https://www.gog.com/en/game/epic_pinball_the_complete_collection
Wow! Thank you!
“If you had a bug that actually made it into the product and required work in a Service Pack, that was never a laughing matter. That was kind of a shameful thing.”
Well this is no longer true, W11 is a mess
