[Pc_Support] MS-DOS - Win3.11

[Bryan J. Smith]

On Tue, 2005-10-18 at 08:04 -0400, Wise Ubuntu User Patrick wrote:
> ONE IMPORTANT CAVEAT, is that those old DOS games and utilities
> sometimes ran against the system clock, so unless you re-write them,
> they will execute at the speed of the system, and you will only see a
> 'blip' and not be able to play them, unless you run them in an emulator,
> which has some mechanism in it's program to provide software
> clocking... 

Excellent point.

MS-DOS 6.x/7.x's DPMI timing has issues with >350MHz systems.  There
were patches for Windows 95+, but not sure about Windows 3.11.


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