Just recently purchased an old copy of the Might and Magic 6-9 anthology collection, and upon installing it on my AMD Dualcore 2.4ghz 3gb Ram beast machine, the games all suffer from hyperactivity. The gfx animations all cycle at blinding speeds and trying to turn slightly left or right makes me spin around like a top. I should have expected this though, when I installed it the config program had it's required/detected list...
CPU: reqs 50mhz 486x/has 2.4ghz dualcore
Memory: Reqs 16mb/has 3GB
and the funniest popup error I ever read was displayed.
"We're sorry but you seem to have too little memory (since 3 is a smaller number than 16 and it doesnt seem to understand the difference between mb and gb, lol). Your gameplay may be sluggish, would you like to install anyway?"
Now I need to find some kind of ancient PC emulator to slow down my processes. I tried CPUkiller, but rather dont like it since it's method appears to be forcing the rest of the cpu to use itself up, lagging itself and could possibly be overworking the machine. What I want is an emulator or limiter, not an overprocessor. Dosbox might work alright for 6 and 7, but 8 and 9 were mostly designed to run on Windows 95 type systems.
Anybody have any good recommendations for an emulator style program that will let me play games through it slowed down to the calibre of around 50-133mhz and 8-64 mb of ram? Also looking to play a little bit of Alone in the Dark 1, 7th Guest, Day of the Tentacle and Return to Zork. The kind of emulator that remembers those olde days when setting up sound options was just a choice between Adlib and Soundblaster, heheh.
