WolfieW95
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WolfieW95
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ahazuarus
I miss the whine and clickly click of the old 500mb hdd's
Aerolus
modern computers have turbo buttons too that overclock to preset settings
UpvoteBuddyJesus
Has anyone else notice they STILL haven't peeled the protective plastic off the ZOOMMAX logo???!!!!
metamax
Plaid. You went plaid.
Zerglng
Set ludicrous speed.
JackMama
They must've overshot us by about a week!
JosephMcCovery
The first PC I ever built had an AMD Am4x86 DX4-120. Ran it at 33x3 instead of 40x3 because of the VL-Bus IDE controller I had.
misanthropicbob
Still not fast enough to play Diablo 1.
LeadPaintChip
I would hit that button just to see the screen saver speed up or slow down.. Yep I am old...
lionsilverwolf
Degaussing my screen to watch it go all wibbly <3
DeliciousMeatCurtains
With a name like ZoomMax, it’s gotta be good.
TCGView
Ah, the ol' turbo button...that actually slowed down the CPU.
AiurGuideMe
Actually it made it go slower, Google turbo button
SquidJesus
It speeds it up if you use it twice.
Danrulz98
I had a computer with a "High Speed" button, literally the opposite of Turbo
mwrd
Y
DietCokeIsTheBest
Google doesn't have a turbo button
ScumbagRob
Underrated
manslut
Google Ultron does
crimsondog
locking game time to clock speed. always a good idea to link game speed to some other arbitrary speed, like fps. amirite, NFS Rivals?!
FlappinBurgers
And yet, the "turbo" button actually made the computer slower to run even older games. Wrap your head around that logic.
amhisnice
Had a few really cool games on my 286 that became unplayable when I upgraded to 386 (and later 486). Damn games used processor for timing.
Venusflytripp
I thought turbo referred to the temperature my machine was going to run at, never had to run the heater, just hit turbo.
RudeRobby
Yep thats true
AmArschdieRaeuber
Some turbo buttons do that, some actually make it run better. That's the worst part.
Smufflan
https://youtu.be/p2q02Bxtqds LGR talks about it here.
PrincessAris
The turbo button ruined the Carmen Sandiego games, since time elapse was related to CPU speed. You couldn't win in time.
ActuallyAPirate
Should have called it the obrut button
TanstaaflTovarisch
I had a game (Zork Nemesis 1996) that ran on a 400mhz (I think) computer. Years later I installed it on a P2 and found out that 1/2
iamnotamerryman
I remember when you could get a good idea about how fast a pc was by watching the waterfall when you beat a game of solitaire.
TanstaaflTovarisch
the game was built without processor buffering (it played at the speed of the processor). I would move the mouse a micro-fraction and 2/3
TanstaaflTovarisch
my character would spin around like a tornado. The game was impossible to control. Found out later I could use DosBox because it had a 3/4
Spookyactionman
I used to use a program called Moslow to fix that. You would set the speed then run the game and see if it was still too fast.
TanstaaflTovarisch
built in processor buffer. So I was happy again. 4/4
Tanwolf
That basically clogged the CPU with useless instructions to slow it down.
Kayayayaya
Not uncommon for older games. There are Mega Man games Capcom licensed for DOS that behave similarly.
TrumpsMouth
A whirlwind story. Go on, tell us more!
Optimixto
What a fucking ride!
TresusIbor
There was a graphical Zork game? The fuck?
SnarkyScience
Zork Nemesis was ok but Zork Grand Inquisitor was the funniest game I’ve ever played.
stratus41298
Get with the times man!
TanstaaflTovarisch
A few actually. Adventure games like Myst. Pretty good ones.
Molvanian
Someone else had Zork Nemesis?
TanstaaflTovarisch
There are dozens of us!
FlatPlutoSociety
I had the same problem when I got Starflight 2 (1989, I think?) running on an early 2000s laptop. DOSBox is great.
masterofallhesurveys
I played hundreds of hours of both that game and Starflight. Nothing like the code wheel to make sure the game wasn't pirated.
BigJewishHulk
Same with need for speed 2. Sucked when I got a new pc :(
tantallous
yeah i remember Outpost 2 I tried to play on a new computer and everything was going crazy fast and i couldn't slow it down.
candythesquirrel
Structure kit manufactured !
SpunkyMcFunPants
Upvote purely for the awesome game reference +1
Havok707
Mechwarrior 3 had the same idea, except only physics sped up. launch an apc into the mesosphere? check.
masterofallhesurveys
Whoa... Haven't thought about that game is forever!
tantallous
i know right. its 20 years old now! pretty sure i still have the cd somewhere around here...
masterofallhesurveys
http://www.agamesroom.com/game/op2 Just a little bit of searching and most old games can be found for free. Dunno if it will work now tho.
fuckyouimguryoufuckingfuck
80286 dx!
rezpawner
I had a 286 too - can't for the life of me remember the full name of it, but it could run Wolfenstein3D...poorly.
SephiRothIRA
I had an IBM PS/1 486DX2 66MHz, 1MB VESA GPU, 8MB RAM and I still had to run Doom and XWing on low graphics. 1990s games were the best!
rezpawner
I had one of the better 286's, think the clock was that of a 386, but it only had 640k RAM, so it was somewhere in between.
rezpawner
Like, the bars at the start didn't go all the way up on anything, poorly.
rezpawner
http://freedos.gds.tuwien.ac.at/news/games/wolf3d/startup.png This shit.