Post #2148578
2026-05-06 21:23 UTC
There is an extremely funny anti-Goldilocks zone where my Pentium MMX 233 MHz 90's computer has a CPU too fast for Sam and Max Hit the Road to run correctly because the MIDI output will crash above a certain speed, but is too slow to run ScummVM well. :ac_laughter:
(There is a fan patch for this issue here that came out in the last year, surprisingly. Not much demand with ScummVM around, understandably.)
#retrocomputing
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@nazokiyoubinbou@urusai.social 2026-05-06 21:25
@gourd@indiepocalypse.social I used to run into issues with this on things like Warcraft 2 that would crash on a too fast system. It was quite annoying. As I recall, I actually underclocked my P2-233 down to 166 for DOS games like those to avoid crashing. (It could have been 133, but I think it wouldn't boot below 166 off the top of my head.) Come to think of it, I wonder if ScummVM might run well enough on a P2-233 anyway?