First post, by vladr
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The successor of PITSET is here!
SPEEDSET allows both speeding-up and slowing-down of DOS applications. It also works with pretty much all DOS applications (as opposed to PITSET, which only worked with a limited number of games).
Attached is the first version of SPEEDSET. To install, simply unzip in any directory and use it as follows:
SPEEDSET <speed> <dos-program.exe/.com> [<dos-program-arguments> ...]
A negative value for <speed> means that the game should be sped up, whereas a positive value means that it should be slowed down. Typical values would include -3 for moderate speed-up (e.g. Monkey Island), -60 for massive speed-up (e.g. Star Control, Another World), +90 for slow-down. As usual, experiment a bit until you find the right value.
You cannot pass .BAT files as arguments to SPEEDSET! Edit the .BAT file instead and insert the call to SPEEDSET, inside the .BAT, just before the .EXE is called.
To use SPEEDSET with LaunchPad simply create a .BAT file that passes to SPEEDSET the game/program you want to run, the "Run with VDMS" the .BAT file in question.
Sample .BAT files that uses SPEEDSET:
SPEEDSET -3 MONKEY.EXE S
or
C:
CD C:\GAMES\SC2
D:\UTIL\SPEEDSET.EXE -60 .\STARCON2.EXE /s:LPT1
Cheers,
Vlad.