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Why Does It Seems Like Japanese Ports of US Made Games From Late 80's/Early 90's Are More Advanced Than The US Versions?

I've run into this several times lately and I was wondering if anyone that knows Japanese hardware or software expectations from that time period knows why, in a number of cases, their games were made to a higher spec than the US versions, when the games were made by US companies. For example, …

Re: What are the best Sound Canvas games?

in Milliways
If a game has an option for "General Midi" but also has a specific option for "Sound Canvas", If one is running the Sound Canvas VA, what is the best choice for music playback? Is the Sound Canvas option likely to provide something that "General Midi" doesn't? In this case the game I am specifically …

Re: Yamaha Sequence Object Linking (SOL) 2

Yesterday I found this old thread (you might have seen it already) .... I suspect that the S-YGX soft synths weren't actually discontinued, but that the technology was transferred to a company that Yamaha bought back in 2005: Steinberg . .... in any way, there are no S-YGX synths made after S-YGX50 …

Re: Has Anyone Ever Seen/Heard of a DigiSpeech Plus?

The company died not too long after the Digispeech Plus came out, so it's been ~22 years since they were in business. So, unfortunately, any source for the ASIC is probably long gone, and likely any information on the customizations to the TI. I do know who inside Digispeech wrote the documentation …

Re: Has Anyone Ever Seen/Heard of a DigiSpeech Plus?

If I had time, I would be working on it. Before that happens, one of my other projects will be getting sounds cards working through DOSBox using a usb to isa adapter. Some of the code is already there and the company provides a custom DOSBox version as well as the source code but it won't work as- …

Re: Welcome to the updated VOGONS

in Milliways
Well, there isn't in Linux with KDE. Also, if you don't have a font that supports the emojis, all you see is boxes. Forums usually have a fixed set of common emoticons (not emojis, just emoticon images that work everywhere) that people can add easily. Then if people want more than that, they can …

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