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Help Me Slow Down My Mac!
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Fresh-Faced Recruit
Join Date: Feb 2001
Location: Columbia MO USA
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Hey,
I've posted this before, but wanted to see if there are any new ideas out there...
I have a Pismo 500mhz powerbook (384RAM, OS9.1) and am trying to run some old games (specifically Pirates! Gold), but my PB is TOO fast! The games are unplayable because of it. I am looking for suggestions on how to slow down (yes, that's right, slow down) my Mac.
I have tried BOTH vMAC and basilisk (via VPC4.0) but they don't work that great... Either no sound/color/etc...
Any thoughts?? And YES, I've heard the joke about installing OSX!! 
Thanks in advance!
Jas
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Grizzled Veteran
Join Date: Dec 2000
Location: Finland
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Don't know if it works, but there's a shareware control panel that can slow down your Mac. I think it's called MacSnail, try searching for it on download-sites such as macupdate or versiontracker.
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Jun 2000
Location: Highland Park, IL / Santa Monica, CA
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Just...
...insert a floppy disk
listen to some mp3s
copy every file on your hard drive
run VPC
run Photoshop
run a computer-hogging game
insert a floppy disk
turn on processor cycling
play several QT movies
turn your monitor to the highest res @ the most colors...
...all in the Classic environment of OS X...
...all simultaneously...
...and run the game.
Your Mac should be sufficiently slow. 
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Be Happy.
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Be happy.
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Grizzled Veteran
Join Date: Dec 2000
Location: Finland
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Originally posted by mac freak:
Just...
...insert a floppy disk
listen to some mp3s
copy every file on your hard drive
run VPC
run Photoshop
run a computer-hogging game
insert a floppy disk
turn on processor cycling
play several QT movies
turn your monitor to the highest res @ the most colors...
...all in the Classic environment of OS X...
...all simultaneously...
...and run the game.
Your Mac should be sufficiently slow.
Man, I didn't know the PB had TWO floppy drives!
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Fresh-Faced Recruit
Join Date: Feb 2001
Location: Columbia MO USA
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Well, actually guys, since it's a Pismo, there's NO floppy drive!! 
Thx for the tip about MacSnail Jacke... But, I D/l it and it won't run on newer mac systems!
J
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Clinically Insane
Join Date: Apr 2000
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Uh... there are two other threads out there about this, no need to make ANOTHER thread about it. Just repost to an old one.
Didn't the other ideas work?
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AIM: Cipher1387
ICQ: 48111606
mail: cipher13@mac.com
[This message has been edited by Cipher13 (edited 05-23-2001).]
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Jun 2000
Location: Highland Park, IL / Santa Monica, CA
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Originally posted by Jacke:
Man, I didn't know the PB had TWO floppy drives!
Cut me some slack here. It was a sort of spur-of-the-moment response!
Although Pismos didn't come with floppy drives, everyone I know that has a Pismo bought one to go with it.
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Mar 2000
Location: Edmonds, WA, USA
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I have a Pismo and I have no floppy drive for it! But you don't know me
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