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From: Ben Meyer
Date: Mon, 31 May 2004 17:43

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If DosBox didn't work for you, you could try Bochs Pentium Emulator
(another full system emulation tool, bochs.sf.net/), but you might have
to work with the developers to get it working fully.

You could also try VMware, but that's commercial so you'll have to pay
for it.

Later,

BRM

"Sebastian "Ice" Weigmann" <iceman@counterstrike.de> wrote in message
news:bvbulb$qv03a$1@ID-122427.news.uni-berlin.de...
> Meanwhile I found the original game: PERESTROIKA - written in 1990 in
Russia
> :-)
>
> One problem remains: I'm not able toslow down my PC to be able to play
the
> game - even moslo doesn't help. I used a Win98 console environment for
> testing.
>
> Does anybody have an idea about other _working_ slowdown tools?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Ice
>
>

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