Re: The best way to upgrade your IIGS

[spec@vax2.concordia.ca (Mitchell Spector)]

In article supertimer@aol.com (Supertimer) writes...

>spec@vax2.concordia.ca (Mitchell Spector) wrote:
> 
>>>SO?  DuelTris is unplayable on a 15Mhz ZipGS!
>>
>>    Is it? I find it plays no differently whether my accelerator
>>is disabled or active (fortunately it's a game where you wouldn't
>>benefit from acceleration, it plays smoothly regardless).
> 
>I think...if you disable all the delays...it will make a difference.

    As far as I know, disabling the delays only affects 8-bit
software running in emulation mode (some games drop back down
to 2.6 MHz when the speaker is toggled). Just for the sake of 
it however, I tried doing that, and it made no difference.

>DuelTris depends on something inherent on the system to count
>how fast to go.  Getting rid of this will unleash the speed up...
> 
>UNLESS...I have not really run the program at slow speed...it
>just seems so fast when playing against the computer.  Could
>be that I am a retarded Tetris player.  ;-)

    The game runs at 60 FPS even on a 2.6 MHz machine the way
it was programmed. Perhaps you changed the speed setting in
the game found in the player menus? It ranges from "Slowest" 
to "Insane", did you play with that? If you have the computer
play itself, with both sides set to "Insane" for speed, it
would appear unplayable no doubt. :)

Mitchell Spector
spec@vax2.concordia.ca