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Huglord
that's cool and all but back in the nineties I was in a very famous TV show
JosephMcCovery
The first PC I ever built had an AMD Am4x86 DX4-120. Ran it at 33x3 instead of 40x3 because of the VL-Bus IDE controller I had.
UpvoteBuddyJesus
Has anyone else notice they STILL haven't peeled the protective plastic off the ZOOMMAX logo???!!!!
ummcolbis
Warp speed!
ahazuarus
I miss the whine and clickly click of the old 500mb hdd's
Aerolus
modern computers have turbo buttons too that overclock to preset settings
stupidassjack
I thought it was an old A/C unit?!?
DeliciousMeatCurtains
With a name like ZoomMax, it’s gotta be good.
reluctantlycrouchedatthestartinglineenginespumpingandthumpingin
The fan would spin faster and sound louder and you felt like legit Hackerman!
CoryGrimm
I thought it was an air conditioning unit, until I saw the title... I feel dumb.
misanthropicbob
Still not fast enough to play Diablo 1.
RicardoVanDijke
the Turbo button was pressed in by default, and pressing it thus slowed the processor down, This made it compatible with older games.
TheRealFireFrenzy
@OP my 386 went from 8MHz to 33MHz
barnwolf
Oh my brilliant idea was add a crankshaft to computers that you can manually turn and which would signal the CPU to got a bit faster.
barnwolf
See it's not about making the computer faster, it's about giving the user an outlet for their frustration.
Pulger
Luxury! When I were a lad...
ObliqueRay
90s kids won't have the same feelings we had towards our 80286 PCs and their 8/12MHz CPU switch.
darthrayray89
" ITS TURBO TIME!!! "
hairtriggercunt
https://imgur.com/62c9ZxR
MadmanApex
the things that netscape was witness to...
iGivePoorAdvice
From the thumbnail I thought that was a thermostat.
PileOfWalthers
Might as well have been.
metamax
Plaid. You went plaid.
JackMama
They must've overshot us by about a week!
Zerglng
Set ludicrous speed.
TheDeepDarkGiraffe
Turbo button actually slowed it down....https://www.howtogeek.com/trivia/what-effect-did-the-turbo-button-have-on-early-personal-computers/
Tanwolf
That depends on the way it's looks at. Turbo on was default clock speed, turn it off and it underclocked the CPU. It could be wired in >>
Tanwolf
reverse though so it did what you say. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbo_button
HapilyDamaged
fasten your helmet and slam that TURBO button!!!!
ChloeRed
...and go from say, 66Mhz to a blistering ~8.33Mhz?
LeadPaintChip
I would hit that button just to see the screen saver speed up or slow down.. Yep I am old...
lionsilverwolf
Degaussing my screen to watch it go all wibbly <3
AiurGuideMe
Actually it made it go slower, Google turbo button
SquidJesus
It speeds it up if you use it twice.
Danrulz98
I had a computer with a "High Speed" button, literally the opposite of Turbo
mwrd
Y
DietCokeIsTheBest
Google doesn't have a turbo button
manslut
Google Ultron does
ScumbagRob
Underrated
crimsondog
locking game time to clock speed. always a good idea to link game speed to some other arbitrary speed, like fps. amirite, NFS Rivals?!
wzzt
Mine does. I press a button and the GPU goes from 4.2 to 4.6ghz, GPU overclocks, pump speed increases & all fans get faster
BentOut
Whelp I know what my next project is.
diontheunstable
Yeah, but that's with modern parts and high-test DIY that could potentially fry your hardware like a pop-tart if it leaks.
IrishBarBalm
And I remember a few years later using special programs to slow down my computer so that it could play old games at "normal" speeds lol.
kohrah
moslo?
bachterman
the dreaded runtime error 200.
fuckyouimguryoufuckingfuck
80286 dx!
rezpawner
I had a 286 too - can't for the life of me remember the full name of it, but it could run Wolfenstein3D...poorly.
SephiRothIRA
I had an IBM PS/1 486DX2 66MHz, 1MB VESA GPU, 8MB RAM and I still had to run Doom and XWing on low graphics. 1990s games were the best!
rezpawner
I had one of the better 286's, think the clock was that of a 386, but it only had 640k RAM, so it was somewhere in between.
rezpawner
Like, the bars at the start didn't go all the way up on anything, poorly.
rezpawner
http://freedos.gds.tuwien.ac.at/news/games/wolf3d/startup.png This shit.
FlappinBurgers
And yet, the "turbo" button actually made the computer slower to run even older games. Wrap your head around that logic.
RudeRobby
Yep thats true
amhisnice
Had a few really cool games on my 286 that became unplayable when I upgraded to 386 (and later 486). Damn games used processor for timing.
Smufflan
https://youtu.be/p2q02Bxtqds LGR talks about it here.
Venusflytripp
I thought turbo referred to the temperature my machine was going to run at, never had to run the heater, just hit turbo.
ActuallyAPirate
Should have called it the obrut button
PrincessAris
The turbo button ruined the Carmen Sandiego games, since time elapse was related to CPU speed. You couldn't win in time.
AmArschdieRaeuber
Some turbo buttons do that, some actually make it run better. That's the worst part.
TanstaaflTovarisch
I had a game (Zork Nemesis 1996) that ran on a 400mhz (I think) computer. Years later I installed it on a P2 and found out that 1/2
BigJewishHulk
Same with need for speed 2. Sucked when I got a new pc :(
iamnotamerryman
I remember when you could get a good idea about how fast a pc was by watching the waterfall when you beat a game of solitaire.
Molvanian
Someone else had Zork Nemesis?
TanstaaflTovarisch
There are dozens of us!
FlatPlutoSociety
I had the same problem when I got Starflight 2 (1989, I think?) running on an early 2000s laptop. DOSBox is great.
masterofallhesurveys
I played hundreds of hours of both that game and Starflight. Nothing like the code wheel to make sure the game wasn't pirated.
tantallous
yeah i remember Outpost 2 I tried to play on a new computer and everything was going crazy fast and i couldn't slow it down.
candythesquirrel
Structure kit manufactured !
SpunkyMcFunPants
Upvote purely for the awesome game reference +1
masterofallhesurveys
Whoa... Haven't thought about that game is forever!
tantallous
i know right. its 20 years old now! pretty sure i still have the cd somewhere around here...
masterofallhesurveys
http://www.agamesroom.com/game/op2 Just a little bit of searching and most old games can be found for free. Dunno if it will work now tho.
Havok707
Mechwarrior 3 had the same idea, except only physics sped up. launch an apc into the mesosphere? check.
TanstaaflTovarisch
the game was built without processor buffering (it played at the speed of the processor). I would move the mouse a micro-fraction and 2/3
TanstaaflTovarisch
my character would spin around like a tornado. The game was impossible to control. Found out later I could use DosBox because it had a 3/4
Spookyactionman
I used to use a program called Moslow to fix that. You would set the speed then run the game and see if it was still too fast.
TresusIbor
There was a graphical Zork game? The fuck?
stratus41298
Get with the times man!
TanstaaflTovarisch
A few actually. Adventure games like Myst. Pretty good ones.
SnarkyScience
Zork Nemesis was ok but Zork Grand Inquisitor was the funniest game I’ve ever played.
TanstaaflTovarisch
built in processor buffer. So I was happy again. 4/4
Kayayayaya
Not uncommon for older games. There are Mega Man games Capcom licensed for DOS that behave similarly.
TrumpsMouth
A whirlwind story. Go on, tell us more!
Optimixto
What a fucking ride!
Tanwolf
That basically clogged the CPU with useless instructions to slow it down.