What is some FM synth video game music you like?

Posted on 2019-02-08, 02:53

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Hello. I'd be interested in hearing what you all think is good FM video game music. I and others may want to discover something cool that we may have never heard before. I'll start off with two songs. Both are from T&E Soft Megadrive golf games. They made four of them for the Megadrive and I think …

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Re: Does anyone have this weird Mona Lisa DOS program?

Posted on 2019-01-22, 16:16

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Incredible. Thanks. This is now my favorite software of all time.

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Re: Does anyone have this weird Mona Lisa DOS program?

Posted on 2019-01-22, 12:46

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leileilol wrote: That color screen laptop is sure "the first windows laptop" all right.... Yeah, that's totally accurate. I can also tell the video was originally 16:9 but squished to 4:3...

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Does anyone have this weird Mona Lisa DOS program?

Posted on 2019-01-22, 11:18

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This is a video I saw probably over 10 years ago, and now I'm suddenly interested in finding the program shown at the part I linked. https://youtu.be/A6utiVc9cbo?t=6m6s DOS Nostalgic made a tweet about it. I don't know if I'm just stupid and missing something, but I don't see any download for it. …

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Re: Making an image of a PC-98 hard drive?

Posted on 2019-01-21, 14:50

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Okay, I finally got around to having another go and I actually did it! I hooked it up directly to the IDE on my Win98 PC's motherboard and that time Linux dd actually worked. Here's some details: The drive has two partitions: https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4902/45912178215_48502cbe1d.jpg Partition …

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Re: Making an image of a PC-98 hard drive?

Posted on 2019-01-08, 22:49

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I'll probably try hooking the drive directly into the IDE on my Win98 PC and hopefully something like System Rescue CD (which is a Linux live CD) will run on it. If I can't get anything like that to run on it, I'll try my WinXP PC. It's a Core 2 Duo, so it might be better for this, but it literally …

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Re: Making an image of a PC-98 hard drive?

Posted on 2019-01-08, 02:38

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Well, that still won't work. I get an Input/Output error when trying to access it... And just as a reminder, the drive is working (at least at the moment). I can use it perfectly fine with my NEC PC-9821 Cs2 and read files from there, but obviously I have no way of actually backing up the files onto …

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Re: Making an image of a PC-98 hard drive?

Posted on 2019-01-08, 01:47

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Yeah, I'm pretty sure the thumb drive I have is big enough to store the entire drive. Fyi, I'm attempting all this on my ThinkPad T60 with an IDE to USB adapter. I'll try that System Rescue CD and follow your instructions once it's done downloading and say how it went. The contents of this drive do …

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Re: Making an image of a PC-98 hard drive?

Posted on 2019-01-08, 00:50

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Unfortunately, that didn't work. It just gives me a no input device error. Like I said, the PC-98 uses a non-standard drive layout compared to a normal IBM PC.

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[SOLVED] Making an image of a PC-98 hard drive?

Posted on 2019-01-07, 22:32

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Recently I tried out the original IDE HDD that came with my PC-98. It's an NEC D3766 from March 1994. It does seem to be working and it actually has a number of things installed on it. It's running DOS 5.0/Windows 3.1. The software already installed on it includes a Japanese copy of ZSoft PC …

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Re: NEC MultiSync XV14 CRT not actually a multisync monitor?

Posted on 2019-01-04, 22:26

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Alright, thanks.

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NEC MultiSync XV14 CRT not actually a multisync monitor?

Posted on 2019-01-04, 22:17

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This is a bit confusing. I have an NEC MultiSync XV14 CRT monitor manufactured in 1995, and I've been lead to believe that this series of monitors is supposed to work with the PC-98 (which for the most part uses 640x400 25kHZ). When I hook my PC-98 up to it with an adapter, however, it doesn't show …

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Re: Any good CD Player and MOD player programs for Win3.1?

Posted on 2019-01-04, 04:09

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MOD4WIN perhaps? Shareware though... Actually, it turns out the author released it for free on his site. I tested it on Win3.1 in Neko Project II and it works great, so I assume the same could be said for real hardware when I get around to copying it over. Thanks for answering that part of my …

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Any good CD Player and MOD player programs for Win3.1?

Posted on 2019-01-03, 20:49

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I got myself an NEC PC-9821 Cs2 quite recently and it's mostly working fine. I haven't been able to find any music CD or MOD file playing applications for the PC-98's specific variant of MS-DOS, so would anybody know of good programs for playing CDs and MOD files through Windows 3.1? Keep in mind …

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Re: OPL3LPT : OPL3 FM Synthesis on parallel port

Posted on 2018-11-21, 03:57

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Something I thought of... I could be completely wrong, but would it technically be possible for this device to be used on other non-IBM PCs if someone cared enough to write software for it? For example, there's a few games for the NEC PC-98 such as Doom and Flashback that support OPL audio through …

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Re: Is this even surprising any more? Gaming industry vs. gamers' convenience

Posted on 2018-11-13, 16:39

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dr_st wrote: (I wonder if your choice of username is related...) My username is related to unlicensed/pirate Famicom games. When I came up with the name nearly 8 years ago, I had a much bigger interest in that stuff than I do now. Oh well.

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Re: Is this even surprising any more? Gaming industry vs. gamers' convenience

Posted on 2018-11-13, 07:57

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dr_st wrote: That's part of the plan. The publishers obviously don't want people to do that. They want everyone to buy a new license. It's understandable. And that's also fucking retarded.

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Re: Is this even surprising any more? Gaming industry vs. gamers' convenience

Posted on 2018-11-13, 07:57

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I don't see what's so inconvenient about pulling a PC game down from the shelf, installing it, and playing. The only thing that slightly annoys me is when the game is basically entirely installed to the HDD but you still need to put in the disc to play. When the game streams CD audio, FMVs, etc. …

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Re: FYI: Steam drops XP/Vista in 2019

Posted on 2018-11-07, 08:10

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If I can't buy it and download a DRM free installer from GOG, or as a physical copy . I don't want it. It really bothers me that games such as Sonic Mania Plus and Skullgirls get really nice physical releases on consoles, but PC doesn't get shit. It sucks that for the most part the only psychical …

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Re: Power Issue with Socket 7 Motherboard in an AT case

Posted on 2018-11-07, 07:51

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But anyways, for now I've basically given up any hope of getting this board running. I just want to be able to use my NEC Ready again. Oh well. It was still worth the 5 dollar purchase for the CPU, cards, case, etc. One more quick question before I basically end this thread. I want to try out the …

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