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First post, by RetroMaster137

Posted on 2023-12-23, 02:29

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Hello.

I'm a noob, so at best I only know of SBEMU, which adds Sound Blaster support for AC97. There also are a couple programs to slowdown the CPU, to get the very older games to work properly, but I don't know their names. What else should I get for a 2013's PC? For example, what about MC6845 registers?

That's it for DOS. I'm willing to install WinXP to another partition as well. Is anything else necessary, besides VDMSound?

Thanks for your time.

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Reply 1 of 2, by leileilol

Posted on 2023-12-23, 04:08

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RetroMaster137 wrote on 2023-12-23, 02:29:
There also are a couple programs to slowdown the CPU, to get the very older games to work properly, but I don't know their names.

List of Slowdown Utilities

long live PCem

Reply 2 of 2, by zyzzle

Posted on 2023-12-25, 23:15

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The best slow down utilities are those which work at the BIOS level, by reprogramming CPU clock mutiplier registers on the motherboard. Such as Throttle, and CpuSpd:
CpuSpd - A Hardware Based CPU Speed Control Utility for DOS/Win9X Retro Gaming

These are hardware slowdowns, take no memory, and do not rely on HLT instructions or other software methods.

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