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From: Paul T
Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2004 21:12

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On Fri, 30 Jan 2004 13:25:17 +0100, "Sebastian \"Ice\" Weigmann"
<iceman@counterstrike.de> wrote:

>By the way, I managed to slow down my machine (T-Bird B 1.3GHz) accordingly
>using some really bad tricks: Forst, disable L1 & L2 cache via BIOS, second,
>have "throttle.exe" and set it to 25%, then use moslo with 40%. The side
>effect is that some keystrokes don't come through to the game... I'd prefer
>a less expenditury way, will try DOS Box, but don't have any idea from where
>to get it legally.

Uh, dosbox is available from http://dosbox.sourceforge.net

It's free and the source is open. I can't remember if you need a copy
of DOS or not.

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From: Paul T <dev-null@tipping.ca>
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Subject: Re: Unknown old DOS game
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