ÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛ ÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛ ÛÛÛÛÛÛÛ ÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛ ÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛ ÛÛÛÛÛÛÛ ÛÛÛ ÛÛ ÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛ ÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛ ÛÛÛÛÛÛÛ ÛÛÛÛ ÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛ ÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛ ÛÛÛÛ ÛÛÛÛÛÛ ÛÛÛ ÛÛ ÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛ ÛÛÛ ÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛ ÛÛÛÛÛÛÛ ÛÛÛÛ ÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛ ÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛ ÛÛÛÛÛÛ ÛÛÛÛÛÛ ÛÛÛ ÛÛ ÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛ ÛÛÛÛ ÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛ ÛÛÛÛÛÛÛ ÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛ ÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛ ÛÛÛÛÛÛ ÛÛÛÛÛÛ ÛÛÛÛÛÛÛ ÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛ ÛÛÛÛ ÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛ ÛÛÛÛÛÛÛ ÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛ ÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛ ÛÛÛÛÛ ÛÛÛÛÛÛ ÛÛÛÛÛÛÛ ÛÛÛÛÛÛÛ ÛÛÛÛ ÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛ ÛÛÛÛÛÛÛ ÛÛÛÛÛÛ ÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛ ÛÛÛÛ ÛÛÛÛÛÛ ÛÛÛÛÛÛÛ ÛÛÛÛÛÛ ÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛ ÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛ ÛÛÛÛÛÛ ÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛ ÛÛÛÛ ÛÛÛÛÛÛ ÛÛÛÛÛÛÛ ÛÛÛÛÛÛ ÛÛÛÛ ÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛ ÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛ ÛÛÛÛÛÛ ÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛ ÛÛÛÛ ÛÛÛÛÛÛ ÛÛÛ ÛÛ ÛÛÛÛÛÛ ÛÛÛÛ ÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛ ÛÛÛÛÛÛÛ ÛÛÛÛ ÛÛÛÛÛÛ ÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛ ÛÛÛÛ ÛÛÛÛÛÛ ÛÛÛ ÛÛ ÛÛÛÛÛÛ ÛÛÛÛ ÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛ ÛÛÛÛÛÛÛ ÛÛÛÛ ÛÛÛÛÛÛ ÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛ ÛÛ ÛÛÛÛÛÛ ÛÛ Û Û ÛÛÛÛÛÛ ÛÛÛÛ ÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛ ÛÛÛÛÛÛÛ ÛÛÛÛÛÛ ÛÛÛÛÛ ÛÛÛÛÛÛÛ ÛÛÛ ÛÛÛÛÛÛ ÛÛÛÛ ÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛ ÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛ ÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛ ÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛ Slows down applications on 25-40 MHz machinesÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛ ÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛ ÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛ Getting the picture ­ §§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§ Hard to imagine, that a change from a slower machine to a faster one can have it's disadvantages, too. You may find out for example, that certain graphic programs and games, noises and tunes will suddenly stampede your screen and speaker giving you rather a vicious headache than visual pleasure. Ironically enough, you may have a whole bunch of utilities to speed up your system's functions, while you are desperately looking for one to calibrate the speed down. So it goes... Of course, the úTurboú button is supposed to decrease your CPU's speed. It slows down the system, alright, but in most cases not sufficiently. Some AT-SLOW utilities for 386/486 computers, which I've tried, came up with poor results as well. So I reworked SLOWA16 for 16 MHz machines, based on Brad Crandall's oldie WHOA!. The result is this scalable SLOWA40, which slows down the speed of my machine (468DX 40 MHz) drastically (refer to benchmark results in archive BENCHES). You are welcome to try it - without a warranty of any kind. Getting to it ­ §§§§§§§§§§§§§§§ Usage: SLOWA {L or C} [optional starting value 1000-2000] ? /? H H = Help L = Load SLOWA C = Calibrate SLOWA manually 1000 is the fastest and 2800 slowest value, default = 1500 Examples: SLOWA L [Enter] - Load with starting value 1500 (default) SLOWA L 2000 [Enter] - Load with starting value 2000 SLOWA C [Enter] - Load and Calibrate starting with 1500 sub option: D = Disable E = Enable SLOWA SLOWA C 2200 [Enter] - Load and Calibrate starting with 2200 When SLOWA is loaded into memory its manually calibration feature can be invoked from WITHIN applications by its hotkey CTRL-6. That is the only way to disable and reenable SLOWA without uninstalling the program. This doesn't work directly from the command line - use the úCú option instead. I chose CTRL-6 because most applications haven't assigned a function to this key. However, before loading anything or running SLOAD.BAT, SCALI.BAT and ACOUSLOW.BAT read the following lines... Getting rid of it ­ §§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§ SLOWA is a TSR consuming about 20 Kb of memory, which doesn't uninstall itself from memory. To get rid of it you can of course reboot - or use TurboPower's excellent utilities MAPMEM.EXE, MARK.COM and RELEASE.EXE provided in archive RELE35. They are easy to use, effective memory management tools, which may come handy for uninstalling other TSRs (uninstallables too). Copy them to a directory in your command path and run always MARK before loading SLOWA. When done, run RELEASE to uninstall SLOWA without rebooting. This should be automatized using batch files like SLOAD.BAT and SCALI.BAT and ACOUSLOW.BAT. They check for a MARK setting in the environment and load MARK.COM if it is not found. Thereafter SLOWA is been loaded. This way SLOWA can always be uninstalled with RELEASE. For more information about these utilities see RELE.INF in archive RELE35. SLOWA detects its presence once loaded to memory and will not install a second copy of itself. Thus it can be successively reinvoked with different starting values. SLOAD.BAT loads SLOWA with an optional starting value. If no value given default 1500 is taken instead. Example: SLOAD 1800 SCALI.BAT loads SLOWA with an optional starting value for manual calibration. If no value given default 1500 is taken instead. This option allows you to úDú disable and úEú reenable SLOWA temporarily. Example: SCALI 1100 The computer speed has not only an impact on screen motions, it also alters the duration of some tunes and noises through the speaker. As an example for this run ACOUSLOW.BAT (requires FROM.COM). The duration of the short tune in SLOWAs úHúelp option can be altered the same way. Getting certainty ­ §§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§ When in doubt about SLOWAs effectiveness on your machine use a benchmark program for comparisons. Or MIPS13.EXE in archive BENCHES. An easy way to find out whether or not SLOWA works on your system is to run first MIPS13 without SLOWA, thereafter with SLOWA loaded. If it works you may expect as drastic speed decreases as I experienced on my machine, documented in file BENCH.RST. The short test series of MIPSLOWA.BAT will show how effective SLOWA slows down your system. Getting to the point ­ §§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§ SLOWA40 is meant to be shared and therefore NO shareware. 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