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From: erkyrath@netcom.com (Andrew Plotkin)
Subject: Re: ending speed
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Dan Dalton (rimfire@shadetree.com) wrote:
> ending speed
> I run on a pc using windows 95 (166 mhz)
> and its a little fast and most ending texts
> for some games zip by too fast to read before
> it returns to dos (dos is the best IF environment)
> does anyone know how to slow the games down a bit
> or get them to pause a few seconds at the end?

Go bother the interpreter authors, I think. An interpreter really should 
do a "hit any key to exit" pause before exiting, for exactly this reason.

Can't give any shorter-term fix, I'm afraid, since I feel that MacOS is 
the best IF environment. :)

--Z

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