First post, by Elia1995
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I recently wanted to play a game of my childhood (Warcraft 2) and a game of which I only had a demo version since I was a kid (Dark Legions), but BOTH of them have the same issue, hence why I discuss about both of them in the same thread.
Basically, no matter wether I play them on DOSBox, on a real retrocomputer (my Celeron build) or whatever, but everywhere I play them, they scroll excessively fast !!! I mean, they are strategic games, with the board and stuff, when I want to move to look around either with the arrow keys or bringing the cursor at the edges, they need a liiiiittle tiny touch and the screen literally FLIES to the other side of the battleground !!!
In Warcraft 2 if I remember correctly, you can adjust "speed", but it's not the speed of the scrolling apparently, just speed of how much time orcs and humans take to do things, while for Dark Legions I find no option at all (it doesn't even have sounds, if you ask me...)
in DOSBox I even tried to reduce cycles to minimum, but that makes them then UNPLAYABLE due to the huge lag 🤣 in the "real" computers although there's nothing I can do about cycles.
I am posting here and not in Marvin, because I've not tried them exclusively on real hardware, but also in my modernish computers, I'm just experiencing this issue in BOTH modern and vintage hardware, any idea ?
Currently assembled vintage computers I own: 11
Most important ones:
A "modded" Olivetti M4 434 S (currently broken).
An Epson El Plus 386DX running MS-DOS 6.22 (currently broken).
Celeron Coppermine 1.10GHz on an M754LMRTP motherboard