SCB-55 Roland daughterboard - what's on those floppy disks? \ VOGONS

SCB-55 Roland daughterboard - what's on those floppy disks?

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First post, by retro games 100

Posted on 2009-05-23, 17:28

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When I got a SCB-55 DB card, I threw away the floppy disks thinking I wouldn't need them. All I want is to stick the thing on a sound card, and listen to DOS game music. Why keep the disks, I thought.

Well, I'm curious now I've thrown away the disks. What's on them? Just software for musicians?

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Reply 1 of 7, by aleksej

Posted on 2009-05-24, 05:34

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ftp://78.153.157.21/iso/roland_scd15[ima].rar

Reply 2 of 7, by elfuego

Posted on 2009-05-24, 15:31

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Aleksej is our retro-archivist 😀 Good job man!

Reply 3 of 7, by Paralel

Posted on 2018-10-08, 18:57

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Anyone have images of those disks? I can't get the link above to work.

Reply 4 of 7, by bjwil1991

Posted on 2018-10-08, 19:25

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Have you tried copying and pasting the whole link?

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Reply 5 of 7, by cyclone3d

Posted on 2018-10-08, 19:34

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Found another source:

http://cwcyrix.duckdns.org/dl-files/roland-gs/

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Reply 6 of 7, by Paralel

Posted on 2018-10-08, 19:55

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Thank You!

Reply 7 of 7, by Paralel

Posted on 2018-10-10, 00:56

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Two interesting things I found on those disks, a different GS_Reset MIDI file, & another mode changing MIDI file named "GM_ON", which I'm guessing shuts down the GS part of the card and has it run in just pure GM mode. I can't say for sure, I don't know much about MIDI beyond its use for DOS gaming music. I've attached the files if someone here can give us a better idea of what is different about this GS_Reset, and what the GM_ON actually does.

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