You definitely raise some good points, and I want to clear something up. I have been under the impression, and I strongly believe this should be the case, that the 3 setups are provided purely for convenience so that it's much easier for people to jump right into a working DOS machine, rather than requiring people to use one of these setups in order to have their TAS accepted. I've even made
instructions on how to make your own configuration. The 3 packages should be viewed as more of a guideline than a rule.
As for suitable CPU settings, personally I think the current way it's handled with JPC-rr is fine. I guess this discussion has
already been done before, so I don't want to get into it too much here, but I don't think running a game on unintended specs is "more superhuman" (at least it doesn't impress me that much), and if RTA runners want to run games on silly settings, then that shouldn't affect our decisions. I think limiting it to in-game speed settings is probably a good place to draw the line if we want the games to be run
authentically.