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Re:Bootable NASA 'SPOC' Software on Your PC by robertely on Sunday September 04, 2016 @11:54AM (#12424960)
Try mine: https://github.com/robertely/SPOC-VirtualBox

It's basically a stock VM with very low memory,minimal peripherals, and a CPU priority of 1% (even at 1% it's blazingly fast compared to the 80s)

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Re:Bootable NASA 'SPOC' Software on Your PC by exDM69 on Sunday September 04, 2016 @12:00PM (#12424999)
I was using your .vbox file from GitHub. I have no idea why the ALT key isn't working. I tried changing to US keyboard layout but to no avail. I'm under Linux / x11 and I don't have any hotkeys on ALT.

The speed is perhaps 1/100th of what QEMU was putting out. May be related to not having correctly set up the virtualbox modules or something?

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Re:Bootable NASA 'SPOC' Software on Your PC by robertely on Sunday September 04, 2016 @12:05PM (#12425036)
For speed try increasing the cpu execution cap here: https://github.com/robertely/SPOC-VirtualBox/blob/master/SPO... (out of 100) incromentally till you have a reasonable speed.

Sadly I can't explain the alt problem. I suppose I could rebind that to something like the space bar and upload a modified floppy image. I will poke at that later.

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