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Never owned or used a C64 though, so there is no nostalgia in hardware for me.Ĥ.
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The software is kind of janky and maybe it's just me and the sound is a bit off compared to Mac. Now I'm on Windows and it just is not the same listening to these tunes.
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A huge fan os HVSC used to listen to it all the time on random when I worked 9-5 on a Mac which has an amazing C64 player with a built in support for HVSC. It's from a demoscene, but I prefer running the tune standalone in a tracker, because in my opinion the demo didn't age well, but the playback status updates in tracker software still look pretty cool.ģ. Always was a fan of early 90s electronic music and software, so this looks and sounds great to me: Another thing I love doing with this old computer is to run this tracker tune written for OPL chips (Sound Blaster etc). Add to that a collection of books about the Space Race and history of Science on a shelf above, a Walkman and some late-80s comic books and you have a small time machine area.Ģ. All the noises this machine makes when booting, the way you clickity clack launch the software, the green of the LCD display when you boot the MT-32 up. It is a pure nostalgic bliss and quite a party trick too. The novelty of the setup will never wear off for me. Both are kind of generic 80s music, but I LOVE it. I only use it to watch Space Quest III intro from time to time and enter the bar in Mech Warrior 1989 to listen to that one tune.
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I'm a happy owner of a full 386 MT-32 setup complete with a CRT and a Model M.
Hit up YouTube for "X68000 MT-32", and you'll find some really interesting stuff like these titles that were all FM synth everywhere else (arcade, MegaDrive, etc) except for the X68K with the appropriate add-on cards and modules:ġ. Music wise it came by default with a Yamaha YM2151 FM synth, but you could get add-in cards to take advantage of the Roland SC-55 or MT-32, giving you that wavetable sound out of games that had no such thing on arcade or home console (most of which had FM synth themselves). Most of the games for it came on floppy, but were arcade ports that ran perfectly thanks to the CPU it shared with so many arcade games. So it was a really interesting console/arcade/PC hybrid. The Sharp "X68K" ran an operating system similar to DOS-J (a Japanese DOS) called "Human68K", giving a familiar MS-DOS look and feel (GUIs were added later).
#X68000 EMULATOR MIDI PC#
The Sharp X68000 was a Japanese home PC powered by the Motorola 68000 CPU, popular in a lot of arcade systems, the Sega Megadrive/Genesis console and the Amiga personal computer. There were a few Japanese systems that could do wavetable midi, and in particular MT-32 output. The one thing I really feel is missing from my setup is a Gravis Ultrasound. I just think it would look perfect on top of a beige tower. There are so many other MIDI modules I'd like to have, but you're not really bringing anything extra to the table if you already have the above.
Descent 1's intro and first level may be my favourite showcase of the SC-55. With the SC-55 being the next generation of MIDI module, it works out nicely to drive that one from my Pentium for the early 3D era. Examples include Prince of Persia and X-Wing. Soundtracks that were beautifully scored but only leveraged the default Roland instruments often packed more punch through a Soundblaster (IMO). Not every supported game is best heard through an MT-32 though. A couple of my favourites outside of those dev houses are Dune, and Lotus III. (And don't forget to look beyond Sierra's adventure catalogue to games like Silpheed - another great MT-32 soundtrack). Sierra and Lucasarts were definitely the MT-32 kings, really extracting the potential out of the hardware. This triggered alot of excitement which resulted in the purchase of an SC-55 as well. Boom - noise problem solved, and didn't I feel like an idiot. Dusting it off last year, I decided to try a new plug pack with it.
I'd had my MT-32 for ten years, with an annoying ground hum issue, and had only ever used it in DOSBox. My recent builds only happened because of Roland gear.