> ...but its a very old game on that used to play fine on my old
> 486/66, now I'm on the Casio E-125, at 150mhz, and it's maybe 3/4 speed with
> sound.

Comparing a 80486 CPU to a MIPS VR41xx CPU is not apples to apples, so just because your MIPS' clockspeed (150MHz) is over twice that of your old 486 (66MHz) does NOT mean it is 'twice as powerful' or 'twice as fast'. MIPS CPUs (and all CPUs in CE devices, AFAIK) are 'RISC' (Reduced Instruction Set...) type CPUs, whereas most CPUs for computers (80486, Pentiums etc) are 'CISC' (Complicated Instruction Set...) type. Even comparing MHz-for-MHz among different RISC processors isn't quite a fair comparison. And on top of all that: in many cases, factors other than the CPU speed have more effect on the speed of particular applications, i.e. graphics hardware, memory speed etc. etc.

All of the above is why people in the know use benchmarks to measure net performance in a variaty of computing areas to compare devices; not simply MHz.

Darren