Old Computer Appreciation Thread

[Zering]

@Folly Maybe I'm the one who's confused. It doesn't help that I can't currently see my 2000+ fdds in ES.

[Folly]

@Zering said in Old Japanese Computer Appreciation Thread:

@Folly Maybe I'm the one who's confused. It doesn't help that I can't currently see my 2000+ fdds in ES.

I think it's just too many.
Had that problem with C64.
You can make for example directory's :
A
B
etc..

Place all the A games in the dir A. Etc.
Think this will work.

[AdamBeGood]

@Folly said in Old Japanese Computer Appreciation Thread:

@Zering said in Old Japanese Computer Appreciation Thread:

@Folly Maybe I'm the one who's confused. It doesn't help that I can't currently see my 2000+ fdds in ES.

I think it's just too many.
Had that problem with C64.
You can make for example directory's :
A
B
etc..

Place all the A games in the dir A. Etc.
Think this will work.

I just download the ones I want, but I like your dedication to having the collection. I need to work on my c64 library, I started that when I first got my Pi and found ROMs a bit hit and miss. I need to revisit it.

Have you had .hdis working on PC98, @Folly ?

[Folly]

@AdamBeGood said in Old Japanese Computer Appreciation Thread:

@Folly said in Old Japanese Computer Appreciation Thread:

@Zering said in Old Japanese Computer Appreciation Thread:

@Folly Maybe I'm the one who's confused. It doesn't help that I can't currently see my 2000+ fdds in ES.

I think it's just too many.
Had that problem with C64.
You can make for example directory's :
A
B
etc..

Place all the A games in the dir A. Etc.
Think this will work.

I just download the ones I want, but I like your dedication to having the collection. I need to work on my c64 library, I started that when I first got my Pi and found ROMs a bit hit and miss. I need to revisit it.

Have you had .hdis working on PC98, @Folly ?

Yume no Sei.hdi (13cm) works.

[AdamBeGood]

@Folly said in Old Japanese Computer Appreciation Thread:

@AdamBeGood said in Old Japanese Computer Appreciation Thread:

@Folly said in Old Japanese Computer Appreciation Thread:

@Zering said in Old Japanese Computer Appreciation Thread:

@Folly Maybe I'm the one who's confused. It doesn't help that I can't currently see my 2000+ fdds in ES.

I think it's just too many.
Had that problem with C64.
You can make for example directory's :
A
B
etc..

Place all the A games in the dir A. Etc.
Think this will work.

I just download the ones I want, but I like your dedication to having the collection. I need to work on my c64 library, I started that when I first got my Pi and found ROMs a bit hit and miss. I need to revisit it.

Have you had .hdis working on PC98, @Folly ?

Yume no Sei.hdi (13cm) works.

Interesting, I'll try it.

[Zering]

@AdamBeGood Did you have any luck with the suggestions I've made?

[AdamBeGood]

@Zering said in Old Japanese Computer Appreciation Thread:

@AdamBeGood Did you have any luck with the suggestions I've made?

Queue at barbers was brutal, looking now!

[AdamBeGood]

@AdamBeGood said in Old Japanese Computer Appreciation Thread:

@Zering said in Old Japanese Computer Appreciation Thread:

@AdamBeGood Did you have any luck with the suggestions I've made?

Queue at barbers was brutal, looking now!

Okay, results are the same if I mount using the emulator interface. With .hdi, I get the How Many Files? question. On some disk files I'm okay, but on Night Slave (Disk A) I get "no system files".

I still think it might be BIOS. @Folly can run Yume no Sei, and I am using the same ROM as him. I can't see that there would be much difference between our systems aside from BIOS.

I tried the HDD Mount option also. Shame that there are the rules around BIOS sharing, although I do understand why. Would be good to rule it out though.

Edit: and thank you both for your help on this so far.

[Zering]

@AdamBeGood Yeah I think you're right, it has to be Bios related.
Have you checked one of those retropie bios packs that's always lying around? You may get lucky.

[AdamBeGood]

@Zering said in Old Japanese Computer Appreciation Thread:

@AdamBeGood Yeah I think you're right, it has to be Bios related.
Have you checked one of those retropie bios packs that's always lying around? You may get lucky.

Didn't know there was such a thing... I'll get my magnifying glass out.

Edit: I've found these packs of which you speak, but still no matching checksum with you guys. If I see "How Many Files?" one more time, something is getting thrown! :p

I want to play PC98!

Tomorrow is another day (I'll probably start trying again in a moment).

[Zering]

@Folly Any chance you could see if you can get Thexder, Fire Hawk and Final Crisis to run on the PC88? I can't get them to start.

[Folly]

@Zering said in Old Japanese Computer Appreciation Thread:

@Folly Any chance you could see if you can get Thexder, Fire Hawk and Final Crisis to run on the PC88? I can't get them to start.

Only Final Crisis works. (3 disks, m3u file) (V2 Mode)(8Mhz)

Some of these games seem to require "V1H Mode", selected that, but still doesn't work.

[Zering]

@Folly I got final crisis to work in the end. There's two big problems. The health bar doesn't show up and some bullets aren't visible.

It seems like PC88 emulation might be more miss than hit.
I think I'll look into setting it up on my PC.

[Folly]

@Zering said in Old Japanese Computer Appreciation Thread:

@Folly I got final crisis to work in the end. There's two big problems. The health bar doesn't show up and some bullets aren't visible.

It seems like PC88 emulation might be more miss than hit.
I think I'll look into setting it up on my PC.

indeed, will you let me know how it works on your pc?

[Zering]

@Folly Sure, but I wouldn't take my feedback too seriously, my PC is about as old as an actual PC88 ^^

[Folly]

@Zering

Saw a few issues and commits on github.
So installed lr-quasi88 from source.
It adds a sub_cpu_mode . this has to be set to always use both CPU. in core option q88_sub_cpu_mode = "2"

Fire Hawk will also start now !

NICE!

[Zering]

@Folly Why does installing it from source change anything??

[Folly]

@Zering said in Old Japanese Computer Appreciation Thread:

@Folly Why does installing it from source change anything??

It updates it with new features that are not yet in the binary.

[Zering]

@Folly Brilliant! Does it correct the invisible bullets on Final Crisis?

Edit : Those screenshots make me jealous. I love the look of PC88 games!

[Folly]

@Zering said in Old Japanese Computer Appreciation Thread:

@Folly Brilliant! Does it correct the invisible bullets on Final Crisis?

Edit : Those screenshots make me jealous. I love the look of PC88 games!

Do you meen the RED >>>> ? Then it does.haha