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Re: Ancient DOS Games Webshow

Posted on 2016-03-12, 09:14

Thanks for the video. I actually bought this game around 1989 for my XT. It was published by Martech in europe and was called Phantom Fighter. I don't remember playing it much as it was very difficult due to finicky controls and bad gameplay. At the time all my friends had Atari ST or Amiga machines …

Re: ghostbusters II

Posted on 2016-01-26, 21:45

in Milliways
I too bought this game when it came out and played it on my EGA XT at the time. I remember it being way too difficult though... I didn't really understand what needed to be done, and I had a hard time aiming the laser to destroy the ghosts... I ended up dying all the time. By the way... the cool …

Re: Heads Up: Roland Sound Canvas VA VSTi Plugin!

Posted on 2016-01-20, 11:18

And their target market is probably not DOS gamers. I agree... I think this software was mainly developped for the japanese market. From what I've seen online, it seems they have a bigger community interested in legacy midi equipment than anywhere else. Here is a very detailed review of the Sound …

Re: Heads Up: Roland Sound Canvas VA VSTi Plugin!

Posted on 2016-01-11, 10:11

JamesF, thanks for the helpful info. Sadly my trial has expired so I can't try the SaviHost trick. Maybe if I decide to buy the full version someday... I was interested in the capital tone fallback feature not for midifile listening, but specifically for these two games - World of Xeen and Lands of …

Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2016-01-10, 17:03

in Milliways
In 2016 I'm making an effort to actually finish some games! Over Christmas I tackled Maniac Mansion... http://i.imgur.com/b0Vw6kjl.jpg Thanks for posting these pics! I got Maniac Mansion as a Christmas gift in '89 and I remember it as being one of the best christmases as a kid. I loved this game …

Re: Heads Up: Roland Sound Canvas VA VSTi Plugin!

Posted on 2016-01-10, 09:31

James-F, thanks for all the research you're doing on this! If anyone has any idea about this, I wonder if it would be possible to further tweak the software to use it with the games affected by the "capital tone fallback" error - i.e. Might & Magic World of Xeen and Lands of Lore (there may be …

Re: Heads Up: Roland Sound Canvas VA VSTi Plugin!

Posted on 2015-12-29, 09:59

MMaximus, That is because in your SC55VA recording the SC-VA using the 8820 sound map, not the sc-55. It's a bug in this v1.000 release version.. like all freshly released Roland software. ... Many thanks for pointing that out. I've listened to your recordings and the SC-55 mode seems much closer …

Re: Heads Up: Roland Sound Canvas VA VSTi Plugin!

Posted on 2015-12-28, 16:30

I've played a bit with the trial version - this thing sounds great, in a totally different class than the old Virtual Sound Canvas Softsynth. However it does not sound exactly like a SC-55. I no longer have my SC-88Pro so I can't tell for sure, but I guess it might use the SC-55 map from the SC- …

Re: Heads Up: Roland Sound Canvas VA VSTi Plugin!

Posted on 2015-12-27, 15:03

Kudos to Roland for developing this VST... when they made the Ipad Sound Canvas app I thought they would just stop there but they actually went the extra mile. Maybe in the future we will see other legacy synths like the D-50 in a VST version? However, I agree that the price is a bit crazy... $75 …

Re: Roland SC-55/88 32khz limitation

Posted on 2015-12-14, 21:28

Well, I go by logic: The D-50 was cutting-edge in 1987. The Sound Canvas was released as a budget sound module 4 years later. Full wavetable synthesis wasn't common yet, certainly not in the budget market (problem with full wavetable is that it requires a lot of memory, which was expensive). So, …

Re: Roland SC-55/88 32khz limitation

Posted on 2015-12-14, 17:07

Correct me if I'm wrong but Sound Canvas modules like SC-55 and SC-88 are PCM modules, they don't use LA Synthesis (LA was used in older synths like MT-32, D-50, etc.) It's what Wikipedia says: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roland_SC-55 And well, SC does sound like LA, don't you think? Very D-50- …

Re: Roland SC-55/88 32khz limitation

Posted on 2015-12-14, 15:51

It is LA Synthesis ... Correct me if I'm wrong but Sound Canvas modules like SC-55 and SC-88 are PCM modules, they don't use LA Synthesis (LA was used in older synths like MT-32, D-50, etc.) To answer the OP, I don't think you should be worried about this 32khz stuff. You don't get this kind of …

Re: Post your retro rig collection!

Posted on 2015-12-12, 13:05

Here is a pic I took a few months back. From left to right: P233MMX - ASUS VX97 - S3 Trio64 + Voodoo2 - 64Mb ram P4 3.2ghz - ASUS P4C800-E - 6800Ultra - 2Gb ram Core2Q9550 - ASUS P5K-E - HD4850 - 8GB ram (I wouldn't go as far as saying LGA775 is "retro", but since I've replaced that machine by a …

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