> > Under Win98, the 2.9a VM seems extremely slow!

I finally found the reason for this - there is an ugly side effect of the
new event stuff and the attempt of the VM to reduce CPU usage. It's
relatively easy to fix but if you experience the slowdown please make sure
you have turned off the 'reduce CPU usage' preference (from the F2 menu).

Thanks to Kevin and Nathanael for pointing me to the problem!

  - Andreas