Mega STe Throttle Cable
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(c)1992 NecroWare Development
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    Yeah, I hate it too....

    All my PC owning friends (the scurvy dogs) can change the speed of their
machines by running a small program, or (the REALLY low dirt bags) with a
hot-key press.  On my MegaSTe, it's a little different -- In fact it isn't
even possible unless the General Setup CPX is present.  Alas, the CPX is
at LEAST 6 mouse clicks, and, unless you have RAM to burn with resident CPX's,
also a disk access --- YUK!  Another hitch is if you run a different OS, 
such as TOS 1.0, for the occasional unruly program, you are stuck at 8 Mhz.

What a bummer eh?

While to solve the vile problem (and to prevent those PC worms from having
even the tiniest thing to dig me about), I present the two included programs:

    8_MHZ.PRG
    16_MHZ.PRG

As you may have guessed, 8_mhz.prg sets the MSTE to 8 Mhz, and 16_mhz.prg
drops in the turbo.  Usage is simple, run the appropriate program.

At my last check, they were a mere 738 bytes long, Not bad for being written
in Laser C.  If I'm not mistaken, it should be possible to set up HotWire
to run these babies off a hot key. (I don't own it -- yet, so I can't be
sure.)

Since I haven't dished out for the dev. kit yet, the speed settings were
obtained by tracing the General Setup CPX (Oooooh, LOTSA FUN!!!!!), So
these programs should function properly, however, as usual, I can't be 
held liable for any problems you may have.

These programs are *ShareWare*, which means, if you find them useful, you
are morally obligated to pay for them, otherwise, the guilt you suffer could
haunt you forever, possibly preventing you from spending more time in front
of your ST, where you would have developed the solution to world peace.
But, because you didn't, anarchy instead resulted, and civilization as we
know it ceased to exist.  I sure wouldn't want to have that on my conscience.

On the positive side, the shareware fee is light -- As always, I'll accept
cash, but for these programs, I'd be happy with a postcard or a couple bucks,
GEnie Gift-Of-Time.  YOU decide what they are worth, but remember if you
use them, they are worth something!

Don't be fooled by their small size -- Tracing a CPX is no small feat, and
keeping a C program under 1k does require some contortions.  In short, a fair
amount of work went into them, please remember that!!


Enjoy!!

-Ken Schafer               1-10-92

 NecroWare Development
 Box 688
 Clark Mills, New York, 13321-0688

 GEnie: [KSCHAFER.4]
 Delphi: KSchafer