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Former MS engineer Dave Plummer admits he accidentally coded Pinball to run 'at like, 5,000 frames per second' on Windows NT (www.pcgamer.com)
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[-] greybeard@feddit.online 6 points 4 months ago

My understanding is that the turbo button in old PCs wasn't to make the computer go faster, but to underclock it to match what games expected. A physical compatibility mode button, essentially.

[-] fulg@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Yes precisely. It typically made the PC run at 4.77MHz to match the original IBM PC. Back then Turbo meant 8 or 12 MHz, not much more…

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