Should have bought that fancy desktop a couple of weeks ago!

[altenbach]

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@Hooovahh wrote:

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wiebe@CARYA wrote:

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My 4.something MHz could switch to 8.something MHz with a Turbo button... I think it was a good old 8088.

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Are you sure you don't have that backwards?  I never owned one but I was told the turbo button actually would underclock the CPU, so software that relied on the clock precision would run normally.

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Yes the turbo button was typically left on (either in or out, because that was not standardized but there was typically a frequency display for visual feedback), but it's not due to "clock precision" (whatever that means, both speeds were precise 😉 )), but software that only had timing based on clock cycles (instead of a real clock), would run twice as fast as the programmer intended.

Quote from here: "Games in particular were often rendered unplayable".

[wiebe@CARYA]

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@Hooovahh wrote:

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wiebe@CARYA wrote:

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I didn't have any malware problems on Windows 10, except M$'s own crap.

I will never own an XBox or play candy crush saga. Stop bothering me with it.

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Oh I totally get this.  ShutUp10 is software I've used in the past for controlling privacy settings, which also disables automatically downloading stuff. 

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ShutUp10, Gold Microsoft Partner 😂.

<Enter some smart comment about multinationals and their partners here. Too many options...>

I might give it a try.

[Hooovahh]

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@altenbach wrote:

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but it's not due to "clock precision" (whatever that means, both speeds were precise 😉 )), but software that only had timing based on clock cycles (instead of a real clock), would run twice as fast as the programmer intended.

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Yeah sorry that's what I meant.  Clock precision wasn't the correct term.  It had to be precisely 4MHz, and by that I mean not double that, otherwise your character, music, and enemy speed would be too fast.

[wiebe@CARYA]

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@Hooovahh wrote:

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@altenbach wrote:

but it's not due to "clock precision" (whatever that means, both speeds were precise 😉 )), but software that only had timing based on clock cycles (instead of a real clock), would run twice as fast as the programmer intended.

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Yeah sorry that's what I meant.  Clock precision wasn't the correct term.  It had to be precisely 4MHz, and by that I mean not double that, otherwise your character, music, and enemy speed would be too fast.

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Music?

All I had was a speaker that did 'bleep'. Of course we could PWM it to get some 'melody' 🙂.

We could do the same with the 'A' disk drive.

All I did was program, so I usually had the turbo off.