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- The Clockspeed cdev is an offspring of the decelerator application
- I uploaded to Genie some time ago. It was an attempt to slow down
- faster macs so that some games that were not timed against the
- system clock could be slowed down to the point of being playable.
- When the cdev is opened, it calibrates the wait time against the
- system state. The ten buttons represent the speed control of the
- delay to be installed. The button at the left is the slowest speed
- and the far right button is normal speed.
- If you close the cdev with any setting other than normal, a delay
- will be installed in the system heap and hooked into the system.
- This delay will be active until you turn off your mac, or open it
- again and set it to normal.
-
- The cdev does not do any initialization at startup time. In other
- words the only time a delay is installed is after you turn it on
- from the control panel, and not when the mac starts up. If you
- turn it off (set it to normal), all memory allocated in the system
- heap is disposed and things are back to normal.
-
- I don't really know how this will affect all macs. I have tested it
- out on a mac + and found that it can slow it down by about 1/2. This
- isn't really so important since the mac + is too slow to begin with.
- On my mac + with a Radius accelerator 16, it slows it down by a factor
- of up to 6 times which is occasionally useful. If you have a faster
- machine, I would like to know how it works. You can contact me on
- Genie at J.SHEPARDSO1.
-
- John Shepardson
- May 10, 1990.
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