GPL running twice as fast

I've just found a way to get GPL to run twice as fast as normal and I'm wondering if anyone else has also done this. The end result is that everything happens on screen at twice the normal speed, but the frame rate still reads the same (36 fps in my case), and the lap times are still also the same. The way it happens is, I go to an ms-dos prompt from within win98se. Then I run a game, (in my case, its the old "It Came From The Desert" game...I dont know yet if all dos based games will have this same affect on gpl, but I'm assuming they would). Once in the game, I ctrl-alt-del to bring up the "end task" box, and then close out the dos window. Now I just click on GPL as usual from the desktop, and everything goes by me with twice the speed. My usual laptimes for monza are 1 min 30 somethings. The pitboard still shows these times, but In real time, I'm actually completing laps in about 45 seconds. It actually gives a much better feel for cornering and trail braking. Has anyone else tried this before ? Weird.

Hmmm . . . I wonder what affect this would have with VROC? Would synchronization go to hell and result in a disconnect, or would you you remain connected while turning laps twice as fast as everyone else? -- JB In article <N6aY5.5214$[email hidden]>, "Incubus" <[email hidden]> wrote: > I've just found a way to get GPL to run twice as fast as normal andI'm > wondering if anyone else has also done this. > > The end result is that everything happens on screen at twice thenormal > speed, but the frame rate still reads the same (36 fps in my case),and the > lap times are still also the same. > > The way it happens is, I go to an ms-dos prompt from within win98se.Then I > run a game, (in my case, its the old "It Came From The Desert"game...I dont > know yet if all dos based games will have this same affect on gpl,but I'm > assuming they would). > > Once in the game, I ctrl-alt-del to bring up the "end task" box, andthen > close out the dos window. > > Now I just click on GPL as usual from the desktop, and everythinggoes by me > with twice the speed. > > My usual laptimes for monza are 1 min 30 somethings. The pitboardstill > shows these times, but In real time, I'm actually completing laps inabout

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> 45 seconds. > > It actually gives a much better feel for cornering and trail braking. > > Has anyone else tried this before ? > > Weird. > >

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IT CAME FROM THE DESERT! One of my fave Amiga games. I ran it from floppy's. Everytime you changed location you had to swap floppys and wait two or three minutes for the new scene to load. BTW ICFTD was the grandfather of all the RTS games like Command and Conquer and Age of Kings. It had a series of Ant attacks near the end that was reproduced in the first Addon for Red Alert. (probably some of the guys from the Desert team moved to Westwood when the Amiga died.){Either the old Sierra series or John Madden Football for the PC uses NOTE for NOTE the music from the old Amiga football game, TV SPORTS Football.} "Incubus" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:N6aY5.5214$[email hidden]... > I've just found a way to get GPL to run twice as fast as normal and I'm > wondering if anyone else has also done this. > > The end result is that everything happens on screen at twice the normal > speed, but the frame rate still reads the same (36 fps in my case), andthe > lap times are still also the same. > > The way it happens is, I go to an ms-dos prompt from within win98se. ThenI > run a game, (in my case, its the old "It Came From The Desert" game...Idont

On Fri, 08 Dec 2000 21:45:44 GMT, "Dave Henrie" <[email hidden]> wrote:

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> IT CAME FROM THE DESERT! One of my fave Amiga games. >I ran it from floppy's. Everytime you changed location you had to swap >floppys and wait two or three minutes for the new scene to load. > BTW ICFTD was the grandfather of all the RTS games like Command and >Conquer and Age of Kings. It had a series of Ant attacks near the end that >was reproduced in the first Addon for Red Alert. (probably some of the guys >from the Desert team moved to Westwood when the Amiga died.){Either the old >Sierra series or John Madden Football for the PC uses NOTE for NOTE the >music from the old Amiga football game, TV SPORTS Football.}

It came from the desert, Wings, Three Stooges, TV Sports series, Defender of the Crown... each of them are classics. Unfortunately, Cinemaware went bankrupt. Fortunately, they're back! www.cinemaware.com Andre

On Fri, 08 Dec 2000 20:02:11 GMT, [email hidden] wrote: >Hmmm . . . I wonder what affect this would have with VROC? Would >synchronization go to hell and result in a disconnect, or would you you >remain connected while turning laps twice as fast as everyone else? I had it some time ago and it screwed up the VROC race considerably; everyone going twice as fast, with double the laptimes, eh, half that is ;-) Ruud van Gaal, GPL Rank +53.25 MarketGraph : http://www.marketgraph.nl Pencil art : http://www.marketgraph.nl/gallery/ Car simulation: http://www.marketgraph.nl/gallery/racer/

Great game eh !!! I just picked up a magazine with the full version on the coverdisc and thats why I was playing it. Used to play it all the time on the Amiga 500, and later the 1200. They've also included the Amiga version on this disc so that if you have an Amiga emulator on the PC, it will run that as well. Gonna go try this now.....mmmm.......ants.......aarrrarggggghhharrhhhhh "Andre Warringa" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]...

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> On Fri, 08 Dec 2000 21:45:44 GMT, "Dave Henrie" <[email hidden]> > wrote: > > > IT CAME FROM THE DESERT! One of my fave Amiga games. > >I ran it from floppy's. Everytime you changed location you had to swap > >floppys and wait two or three minutes for the new scene to load. > > BTW ICFTD was the grandfather of all the RTS games like Command and > >Conquer and Age of Kings. It had a series of Ant attacks near the end

that > >was reproduced in the first Addon for Red Alert. (probably some of theguys > >from the Desert team moved to Westwood when the Amiga died.){Either theold

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> >Sierra series or John Madden Football for the PC uses NOTE for NOTE the > >music from the old Amiga football game, TV SPORTS Football.} > > It came from the desert, Wings, Three Stooges, TV Sports series, > Defender of the Crown... each of them are classics. > Unfortunately, Cinemaware went bankrupt. > Fortunately, they're back! www.cinemaware.com > > Andre