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The Clockspeed cdev is an offspring of the decelerator application
I uploaded to Genie some time ago. It was an attempt to slow down
faster macs so that some games that were not timed against the
system clock could be slowed down to the point of being playable.
When the cdev is opened, it calibrates the wait time against the
system state. The ten buttons represent the speed control of the
delay to be installed. The button at the left is the slowest speed
and the far right button is normal speed.
If you close the cdev with any setting other than normal, a delay
will be installed in the system heap and hooked into the system.
This delay will be active until you turn off your mac, or open it
again and set it to normal.
The cdev does not do any initialization at startup time. In other
words the only time a delay is installed is after you turn it on
from the control panel, and not when the mac starts up. If you
turn it off (set it to normal), all memory allocated in the system
heap is disposed and things are back to normal.
I don't really know how this will affect all macs. I have tested it
out on a mac + and found that it can slow it down by about 1/2. This
isn't really so important since the mac + is too slow to begin with.
On my mac + with a Radius accelerator 16, it slows it down by a factor
of up to 6 times which is occasionally useful. If you have a faster
machine, I would like to know how it works. You can contact me on
Genie at J.SHEPARDSO1.
John Shepardson
May 10, 1990.