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Re:What made the NES so interesting? by dylan604 on Sunday March 27, 2022 @05:14PM (#30824219)
Are you thinking of the Turbo button on PCs?

I've personally never seen the ability to switch from mains frequency. That's a switch on the back of the PSU that typical goes from 240v or 120v.

The turbo button and mains frequency are 2 totally different things.

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Re:What made the NES so interesting? by Moru on Monday March 28, 2022 @12:36AM (#30827188)
No, not the turbo button, it was the 50/60 Hz software switch that made the computer faster. Hm, might just have been that the gfx chip was working less in 50 Hz come to think of it...
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