Slowing down an old program to run on a fast CPU?

Giorgos Keramidas keramida at freebsd.org
Sat Jun 11 00:06:30 GMT 2005


On 2005-06-10 15:44, Mike Hunter <mhunter at ack.berkeley.edu> wrote:
> Hey everybody,
> I was playing around in ports and came across xroach.  Cool program :)
> The only problem is that it runs too fast; you can't see the roaches
> because they scurry under your windows too quickly.

A port patch would fix this nicely, I guess :-)

But it's not a general solution that would work by something like:

	% slowdown -f 0.025 ./a.out


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