blackmasked wrote:

Diggers by Millennium Interactive happens to be one of my favourite DOS games ever. [...]

🤣 🤣 yeah there is a hint on the left side 🤣

On a real pentium1 machine I have found that ICACHE is the best way to slow it down, on-the-fly in command line and you can enable/disable to your heart's content:
ICACHE D - disables L2 cache and you get ~386DX speeds
ICACHE E - enables L2 cache

try it and report back if it does the trick for you 😀

I spent countless hours playing Diggers on Amiga CD32 in the early 90s, but playing it with a controller and no keyboard was a chore. When I played it on the PC for the first time I wondered how could I even endure controls from CD32 version. ;] I absolutely love the ambient music in this game, and overall atmosphere. RIP Richard Joseph. It’s a highly underrated game in my opinion.

I'll give ICACHE a go and report back. Thanks Keropi. ;]

Note in the future that you should ask questions pertaining to old hardware that you should ask in Marvin. Marvin, the Paranoid Android

This forum is for newer systems.

Moved to Marvin -> Software.

icache made no difference, which really suprised me. Then I tried disabling internal and external cache in BIOS and it was still too fast. Then I've had a bit of a 'Doh!' moment and realized that the reason why nothing worked is simple, this game is not speed sensitive and it seems to be a lot more fast paced compared to Diggers. It's a real shame as it makes it more arcade-y and because of that it feels a bit less enjoyable in my opinion.