On Thu, Sep 29, 2005 at 04:32:54PM -0500, John Robbins wrote: > >Older ones (like you'd likely find cheap at surplus) have a weird thing > >in the software that doesn't allow it to run on anything faster than a > >486 with turbo mode OFF. > > There should be another program you can use to fix that... a lot of the > old DOS games out there depended on the CPU timing being something or > other and when CPUs got so much faster people came out with programs to > have an environment or swamp the main CPU so that the performance was > the same. Did something like that long ago to play Oregon Trail or > something.... don't remember specifics just know that its possible.
I know what you're talking about. Last time one of my friends tried that on a pentium, and it locked up when he tried programming a maxtrac. I don't know why the software insists on being that stupid, the programming software for commercial kenwoods of that era are rather forgiving with how fast of a machine they are run on. This is the main reason I spent the little extra and got the kenwoods instead of getting motorolas. Since the older motorolas don't do narrow band, their resale price has dropped like a rock. And yes, I use the kenwoods in the 300D ;) K
