Re: Sweet16 Slowdown..

[Drew <GoggleDrew@gmail.com>]

On 26 June, 10:20, "Don" <numberfiveplus...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I don't have any first-hand knowledge of your problem, but you might want to
> check the Intel "Speed Step" settings.  I'm thinking that the emulators
> might be dependent on a fixed clock speed and a lot of the modern systems
> (*especially* portable systems) change the clock (and hence the instruction
> execution rate) dynamically to reduce power and extend battery life.
> There's usually a control somewhere in the OS (or the BIOS) to disable the
> function.
>
> --
> be seeing you ... Don
> Don Melton, Sr. Consultant, Vatic Technologies Limited
>
> "Drew" <GoggleD...@gmail.com> wrote in message
>
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> > Hi,
>
> > I recently been getting together a Netbook to run Windows and OSX so I
> > can run all the emulators i need for GS (even Bernie under
> > SheepShaver) as well as use it for checking email/surfing :)
>
> > I noticed something strange with Sweet 16 (1.7 and 2.0) that i was
> > wondering if anyone else had seen it and knew what possibly could be
> > causing it. It is noticable in games and the two that i have been
> > playing with recently is King's Quest II and Silpheed. It seems that
> > in the intros the sound and emu seem to slow down and then speed up a
> > number times, this is noticable more in the sound as you can hear the
> > gaps between notes increase and decrease. I would normally not really
> > care, but Sweet16 is my fav emu for modern OS and was the reason i put
> > OSX on my netbook (via retail OSX disc of course). KegsOSX seems fine,
> > Bernie even seems fine taking consideration the double emulation and
> > Kegs and ActiveGSApp on Windows plays fine. I booted up a friends
> > PowerPC G4 and also my Pismo laptop both running OSX 10.4 and saw the
> > same behaviour...so not something specific to my netbook (also tried
> > booting the games directly as well as via my HD image running GS/OS
> > 6.0.1).
>
> > Has anyone else noticed this? and know a fix :-)
>
> > Also does anyone know if you can remap the keys in Kegs for the keypad
> > support?
>
> > Cheers
> > Drew

Hi,

Yes i tried that last night, but didn't make any difference. The fact
i see same problem on G3 Pismo and G4 desktop which are PowerPCs make
me think its not architecture related.

Cheers
Andrew