Date: Sat, 11 Jun 2005 08:59:32 +1000 (EST) From: Neo-Vortex <root@Neo-Vortex.net> To: Mike Hunter <mhunter@ack.berkeley.edu> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Slowing down an old program to run on a fast CPU? Message-ID: <20050611085830.N98712@Neo-Vortex.net> In-Reply-To: <20050610224415.GB11336@malcolm.berkeley.edu> References: <20050610224415.GB11336@malcolm.berkeley.edu>
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On Fri, 10 Jun 2005, Mike Hunter wrote: > Hey everybody, > > I was playing around in ports and came across xroach. Cool program :) > The only problem is that it runs too fast; you can't see the roaches > because they scurry under your windows too quickly. > > Is there a general-purpose approach to this kind of problem in the FBSD > world? I can see myself writing a C program called `slow` that would take > argv[1] as the factor ( > 1) by which argv[2] should be slowed down by. > > Anybody else ever come up against this? > > Thanks and happy Friday! You could try installing vmware and running however many copies of windows it takes to make the game playable... (i would say some other form of *BSD, but it probobly wouldn't hog as much cpu :P) ~NVX
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