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This is super impressive! Although I must say I used to own an XT with a V20 CPU back in the day for all intents and purposes for me all software and games I wanted to play ‘just worked’. Yes it is faster than the 8088 but that is no problem right? And sure, apparently some games are depending on 4.77Mhz apparently but I never found such a title I guess

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My first IBM compatible was a 10 MHz 8088.

Never had a compatibility problem but if I had I would’ve just needed to hit the ol’ Turbi button to bring it down to 4.77 MHz.

Janitor Joe was one of the games I know of that had this issue: https://archive.org/details/msdos_Janitor_Joe_1984 when I tried to run it on a faster machine, you would run out of oxygen and lose almost immediately. Fun game at the right speed, though!

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