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HELP - how can i slow this down?!?

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First post, by guest

Posted on 2003-12-31, 02:33

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i would like to run earl weaver baseball (1987 electronic arts). i can get into the game from dos, see it, and hear it, but the icons move way too fast to play it.

i downloaded dosbox v4.5. i started the game using dosbox, but it is still too fast. i changed the cycles down from 4000 to 3000 to 1000 to 100, then to 0. the game speed never slowed down. i know nothing about computer commands, so i dont know what else should be done.

i am running win98, amd-k6, 192 ram. any help would be greatly appreciated.

Reply 1 of 5, by Kain

Posted on 2003-12-31, 07:11

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Pretty slow computer to be running so fast...

Try MOSLO (more slow) its a program that slows your games down, however more than often it is that the game is too slow not too fast!

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Reply 2 of 5, by eL_PuSHeR

Posted on 2003-12-31, 08:07

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What is DOSBOX v.4.5? Are you sure you tinkered with cycles properly? 😕

Reply 3 of 5, by guest

Posted on 2003-12-31, 12:15

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i dont know what to tinker with. when i first ran dosbox, the cycles were at 4000. i reran the program several times, each time lowering the number of cycles.

is there something else i need to adjust along with the cycles to slow the program down?

Reply 4 of 5, by Snover

Posted on 2004-01-01, 03:43

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I'd be interested to see DOSBox 4.5, seeing as how it's probably about 12 years in the future.

Yes, it’s my fault.

Reply 5 of 5, by Darkfalz

Posted on 2004-01-01, 06:28

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It's probably an internal timing thing in the game, using some timer/instruction that's not emulated properly inside DOSBox. That's the basic nightmare when it comes to emulating a whole system, is that programmers often exploited silly bugs or behaviours that exist in the real hardware, but aren't documented.

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