thanks for all the help. I took the first replier's advice and simply dropped the cycles down to somewhere between 500 to 700.... everything seems to run just fine now, like it used to... 😀

thanks for the reply, i'll give that a go and see what happens...

Hi, I've been trying out Dosbox and it looks very good, but a lot of programs that I wrote in the late 80s and early 90s for my Amstrad PC1512 (a 7mhz 8086 ibm-clone) run too fast on Dosbox. I know that Dosbox emulates various CPUs but is there any way I can get it to 'dumb down' to an 8086 7mhz pc? …