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Re:20 Years Ago, Microsoft introduced its optical mouse by rypskar on Wednesday May 08, 2019 @01:58AM (#19856230)
>> Why anyone would ever willingly do so is still beyond me

Some games had animations based on frames, not time between frames. So they where unplayable without reducing frequency

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Re:20 Years Ago, Microsoft introduced its optical mouse by p_l on Wednesday May 08, 2019 @02:52AM (#19856472)
One day I switched off turbo while playing Test Drive 3.

Suddenly, I didn't need superhuman reflexes to play, and could drive on curves at speed :-D

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Re:20 Years Ago, Microsoft introduced its optical mouse by haser_au on Wednesday May 08, 2019 @02:19AM (#19856323)
From my very vague memory, Reader Rabbit was one such game that was unplayable at a higher CPU frequency.
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