Wing commander I: too fast!
Matteo Vaccari
I just bought a budget (~9$) edition of Wing Commander, the original game.
But it is way too fast on my 486/66 . Can you point me to a way of slowing
down the computer?
Thanks a lot,
Matteo
Vhold
: Hi all,
: I just bought a budget (~9$) edition of Wing Commander, the original game.
: But it is way too fast on my 486/66 . Can you point me to a way of slowing
: down the computer?
Gezz, this game should be free now, it's so old.. I played it on my 286/10
Anyways, doesn't your computer have a turbo button or something? if
not.. look around on the dos ftp archives, there are lots of programs
written to slow down your computer..
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In article <3eqvot$a...@ghost.sm.dsi.unimi.it>,
ftp to ftp.ea.com, get moslo from the patches directory. It can be used to
adjust the speed of your machine.
Rick
David Hardison
>adjust the speed of your machine.
>
>Rick
I had the same problem (WC1 too fast on 486/66), I tried moslo but it
would lock up my system everytime I tried to use it.
I may have gotten a bad copy but there is a better solution...
ftp to creative.creaf.com, get the file called 486slo.exe (this is a
self extracting file, I think its in the patches directory).
This program disables the internal cache on the cpu and brings the
66 into a really good speed for WCI. Run it once and forget it, it
doesn't hang around as a TSR.
Enjoy,
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Franz Dworschak
> : : down the computer?
Switch off internal and external cache, that slows even an 486/66 down to
a fast 386. I played WCI with that setup and it was fast but playable.
Normally you can switch off the cache via the BIOS.
Have fun
DWO
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Werner Oluts
Subject: Re: Wing commander I: too fast!
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action
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David Hardison (hard...@vlsi35.gsfc.nasa.gov) wrote:
: >ftp to ftp.ea.com, get moslo from the patches directory. It can be used to
: Enjoy,
Well, I guess that you got moslo.exe from the ea ftp-site?
I have tried to use it as well and encountered the same experience:
All that happened seemed to be a black screen.
But after I had a closer look on the file with diskedit I recognized that it
was self extracting zip file.
Well, to be more exact: a corrupt self extracting zip file.
No wonder that your computer will lock up after you have tried to execute
the program.
Next thing I tried was to fix the file with PKFIXZIP but this didn't help.
So if anyone knows where one can get a valid copy of moslo please tell me.
So long,
Werner
William John M. Christie
> Are there any slow down programs for a Pentium-90, like the one you
>mentioned. I would like to go buy the WC1 and WC2 CD Origin has but would
>also like to be able to play the games on my CPU. I tried WC2 but it keeps
>crashing and it runs too fast otherwise. When I get it I can try running it
>under Windoze, should be pretty funny...
All of the WC2 series and WC1, SM2 (own executable) have the ability to
alter the time between frames. Use <ALT +> and <ALT -> to adjust (or was
it <CNTL>?). WC1 and SM1 (which use the same .exe) are the only parts of
the series that need to be slowed down if you're using anything over a
386DX33.
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