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Old Jul 28, 2003 | 03:56 PM
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Will my 486 run romulator well enough?

Want to buy romulator but not sure if my 66mghz will run it ok?

Thanks for any info.
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Old Jul 28, 2003 | 05:25 PM
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Cant answer u for sure there on the speed , but do make sure u have 128k memeory or it wont run :-)

Im running on a borrowed pentium2 for right now and my diacom is on a 486/75 or 90
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Old Jul 28, 2003 | 08:00 PM
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LOL, OK THANKS.

16k memory here
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Old Jul 29, 2003 | 02:58 AM
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I run the TC romulator on my 300MHz and 128 MRam and having some trouble with the graphics. I talked to TC and I will test some stuff later to se if it helps............

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Old Jul 29, 2003 | 05:52 AM
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I'd very much doubt it if you plan to run the TunerCat frontend. There's no way it'll run well on my 486-75 /w/ 24MB even, and frankly it won't run for much good on my P-166 either.

While TunerCat is a nice pretty program, it is a resource HOG just like most modern software. So you will probably need at least a P3-450 /w/ 128+MB if you want to run it comfortably.
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Old Jul 29, 2003 | 09:52 AM
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Guess its time to give the old girl up huh...
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Old Jul 29, 2003 | 04:06 PM
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I wouldn't go that far. It's not as though TunerCat R/T will be the only game in town forever...
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Old Jul 30, 2003 | 02:13 PM
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O.K. I'll bite...

What are you NOT telling us (yet), Craig?
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Old Jul 30, 2003 | 03:39 PM
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That would be great
Thats why I'm scared to get another laptop cause i'm afraid my moates scanware will not work well with.
and im not ready to give that up ..
I have used others but come right back to your craig.

Thanks
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Old Jul 30, 2003 | 04:35 PM
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LOL, OK THANKS.

16k memory here

you probly have 16MB of memory.

you only need 128k free..

1024k = 1MB

depending on how much overhead the OS and whatever else is running takes, you probly do have 128k free
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Old Jul 31, 2003 | 04:54 AM
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you probly have 16MB of memory.
Yeah my bad..
But Craig just said that his won't run it, and he has 24mb.
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Old Jul 31, 2003 | 06:01 AM
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I think it's mostly the Windows bloatload that drags it down. When I try to do TunerCat stuff (not even R/T) like moving 3D plots around or incrementing sections of a table, it dang near brings it to the knees. Even the P166 I use gets pretty grumpy.
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