Ah ha! here it is. It was a couple of weeks ago, but i've only just found out the turbo buttons you used to get on pc's actually made them UNDERclock, so they would run software/games designed to run at lower clockspeeds.
It's 'cos back in the day you had one speed of processor, and that was your lot. What's the easiest way to do timing-related stuff? Tie it directly to the processor clock. Need to wait X amount of time? Just throw in a loop with Y number of NOPs, job done. Then we ended up with multiple speeds of processor, and that didn't work any more. Developers moved to actually timing things - though "measure how long it takes to do X then use that to count the number of NOPs we need" was still a thing - but older software rarely got updated. The Turbo Button was the solution: you could either run the CPU in compatibility mode at a slower clock speed, or at its full native speed. "Slow Button" isn't a great marketing tool, though - although "Compatibility Button" would have worked - and thus the "Turbo Button" was born.
We have active threads on here which date back 13 years: https://forums.bit-tech.net/index.php?threads/what-are-you-listening-to.80188/. Reviving a thread after a year is pretty much par for the course!
I'll be honest I was waiting for a tirade of 'Necro...', but it seems only the context of the thread is the decider for that - maybe sometimes the poster (but that would be discrimination, iirc).
TIL that Autodesk Sketchbook now has the complete Copic marker colour index installed in it as standard, all present, numbered and grouped the same as the marker sets. This made me so much happier than is probably healthy.
Is that available to the free offering or is it one of the pro/paid add-ons? IIRC Sketchbook was pretty decent and not to price gouge-y... by autodesk standards at least.
If you had worked every day since columbus set sale for India, at a rate of £5000/day, you would still not be a billionaire. Set sail 03/08/1492 - 192,548 days to date 192548X£5000= £962,740,000
(TIL) That Windows 10 doesn't fully support older GPUs. Put an ATi 4670 into a win 10 PC and found that there is no driver support other than the basics. I plugged 2 monitors in, and couldn't find any multi monitor options other than them showing the same content. I'm now looking for something newer and inexpensive that will do the job of providing an extended desktop.
Just had a look at how old the HD 6670 is in my wife's PC... 2011 -- was Win10 even thought of back then...?
