RE: Slowing down an old program to run on a fast CPU?

2005-06-13 Thread Norbert Koch
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 Or try qemu. I yesterday booted installed NetBSD in a qemu box running under

Re: Slowing down an old program to run on a fast CPU?

2005-06-13 Thread Joerg Sonnenberger
On Fri, Jun 10, 2005 at 04:57:50PM -0700, Matthew Dillon wrote: You think that is bad, try running 'rain' on an xterm! HAHA. Not only xterm, normal console is good enough :) Joerg ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Slowing down an old program to run on a fast CPU?

2005-06-11 Thread Kamal R. Prasad
--- Neo-Vortex [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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

Slowing down an old program to run on a fast CPU?

2005-06-10 Thread Mike Hunter
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

Re: Slowing down an old program to run on a fast CPU?

2005-06-10 Thread Neo-Vortex
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

Re: Slowing down an old program to run on a fast CPU?

2005-06-10 Thread Matthew Dillon
You think that is bad, try running 'rain' on an xterm! -Matt Matthew Dillon [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org

Re: Slowing down an old program to run on a fast CPU?

2005-06-10 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2005-06-10 15:44, Mike Hunter [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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. A port patch would fix this

Re: Slowing down an old program to run on a fast CPU?

2005-06-10 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Fri, Jun 10, 2005 at 03:44:15PM -0700 I heard the voice of Mike Hunter, and lo! it spake thus: 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]