Old Computer Appreciation Thread

Zering

@adambegood Indeed, that's excellent! I think I'll read through the thread this week or next and write up a recap of everything we've figured out. That way it's easy to find should anyone be interested in getting these machines working! ^^

Folly

@AdamBeGood @Zering

Well, I have to learn how this actually works.
But it seems it was succesfull.
It's already merged into the master branche of the retropie-docs
Now I'm curious how long it will take that we can actually see this change in the docs.
Did not add the .cmd extension yet. But next time I can do so.
I saw that they also altered the platform config accordingly.
So then we also can add the discription on how to make .cmd files.

AdamBeGood

@zering said in Old Japanese Computer Appreciation Thread:

@adambegood Galseed II is in the NEo Kobe collection, under Doujin.

Can you only download the X68000 Neo Kobe in totality? I can't seem to get individual games from it, and it's 14gb.

Folly

It is changed in the online docs.
This takes about 2 hours.

Zering

@adambegood You should be able to pick which files you want yo grab if you're using a torrent.

AdamBeGood

@zering said in Old Japanese Computer Appreciation Thread:

@adambegood You should be able to pick which files you want yo grab if you're using a torrent.

It seems to be in unmarked zips - no matter, I'll just get it all. I am sure there will be some other stuff there.

AdamBeGood

@adambegood said in Old Japanese Computer Appreciation Thread:

@zering said in Old Japanese Computer Appreciation Thread:

@adambegood You should be able to pick which files you want yo grab if you're using a torrent.

It seems to be in unmarked zips - no matter, I'll just get it all. I am sure there will be some other stuff there.

Galseed II is all good! Thanks for the heads-up, @Zering !

In the process, I got quite a few other games so it was a nice diversion anyway. I didn't have a working version of Fantastic Night Dreams Cotton, but that is working now.

I have another couple of questions for you guys.

@Folly - can I add an Autoexec.bat to a .xdf file? I have Blue Phoenix and it boots to a prompt. I did "dir" and found "blue.bat", typing in "blue" runs the game fine. I tried doing

ed autoexec.bat

but that didn't work. I tried editing other files just for my interest, but edit didn't seem to work generally.

Also, D-Return is running too fast, is there any way of slowing down the X68000 emulator? I couldn't see anything within the Options.

Zering

@adambegood @adambegood No worries at all. I just downloaded the collection myself - it's huge! I want to replace my old roms with the Neo Kobe ones but there's so much stuff to go through... I'm having the same problem with PC98.
In other news, I'm now back where I was! CHD files are awesome. I've got three times the amount of Saturn roms I used to have in .bin/.cue, but they take about the same amount of space. Just awesome. I'm thinking my next step is replacing all my PSX roms (which represent the bulk of my collection) with CHDs.

I've played a bit of FM Towns ; it seems like most of the games I'd want to spend significant time playing (ie. the Ultimas and LucasArts games) require the use of the mouse, and I've been too busy fiddling with other things to spend any time on that.

But I did find this awesome game :

So far Tatsujin Ou and Genocide Square are the best working games on the system.

AdamBeGood

@zering said in Old Japanese Computer Appreciation Thread:

@adambegood @adambegood No worries at all. I just downloaded the collection myself - it's huge! I want to replace my old roms with the Neo Kobe ones but there's so much stuff to go through... I'm having the same problem with PC98.
In other news, I'm now back where I was! CHD files are awesome. I've got three times the amount of Saturn roms I used to have in .bin/.cue, but they take about the same amount of space. Just awesome. I'm thinking my next step is replacing all my PSX roms (which represent the bulk of my collection) with CHDs.

I've played a bit of FM Towns ; it seems like most of the games I'd want to spend significant time playing (ie. the Ultimas and LucasArts games) require the use of the mouse, and I've been too busy fiddling with other things to spend any time on that.

But I did find this awesome game :

So far Tatsujin Ou and Genocide Square are the best working games on the system.

I've got Rayxanber II on PC Engine! It is quality.

Amazing news on all this .chd work, glad you are back in the game!

Zering

@adambegood So am I! What would life be without endless tinkering on games that I know I will never actually play? ^^

AdamBeGood

@zering said in Old Japanese Computer Appreciation Thread:

@adambegood So am I! What would life be without endless tinkering on games that I know I will never actually play? ^^

Amen!

Folly

@Zering
Your back in the game(s) !
These games look very nice.
Perhaps this evening I can try some.

@AdamBeGood
It should be possible to add an autoexec.bat
But I think you can also copy or move.
Not tested, but I think you can try two things here (choose one):

copy game.bat autoexec.bat
move game.bat autoexec.bat

If you don't have the commands try loading both human68k and the game.
Go to the directory with the commands (bin I think). Do something like this :
copy b:game.bat b:autoexec.bat

I think D-Return works reasonably good on 10Mhz.
In the game select "slow".

AdamBeGood

@folly said in Old Japanese Computer Appreciation Thread:

@Zering
Your back in the game(s) !
These games look very nice.
Perhaps this evening I can try some.

@AdamBeGood
It should be possible to add an autoexec.bat
But I think you can also copy or move.
Not tested, but I think you can try two things here (choose one):

copy game.bat autoexec.bat

move game.bat autoexec.bat

If you don't have the commands try loading both human68k and the game.
Go to the directory with the commands (bin I think). Do something like this :
copy b:game.bat b:autoexec.bat

I think D-Return works reasonably good on 10Mhz.
In the game select "slow".

I have added an autoexec.bat to the disk now, I took the bin/autoexec.bat from the Human disk and copied it over.

Then I simply added

CALL blue.bat

at the end, as the last line. But it still boots to the command prompt... Any idea? Having to type blue isn't the end of the World but it would be nice to fix this. I also tried just writing "blue" as the last line.

D-Return is better on Slow - but it is still really fast isn't it? Maybe it is my ROM.

Edit: Seems that playing the games I've collected leads to more problems. Do you guys have music on Otoko Dama? I tried going into the SOUND.CONF file to see if I could change MIDI to Internal, using my new skills Folly has given me. But I can't see where a change would be made (assuming it has Non-MIDI music).

Further Edit: I've tried a few Otoko Dama ROMs now, none seem to have music.

Folly

@AdamBeGood
I look into it, later on.

AdamBeGood

@folly said in Old Japanese Computer Appreciation Thread:

@AdamBeGood
I look into it, later on.

I've tried that, for some reason it doesn't seem to pick up at all. I can't see anything wrong at all, the file is called autoexec.bat and just includes that now. I tried it with CALL as well, I know that is needed for calling a file from within a batch file sometimes.

Edit: For the record, it doesn't matter too much to me, so please don't spend too much time on this. I am of course interested to know what I am doing wrong, but I always have a keyboard near so can type "blue" into the terminal if that is the way it has to be.

No music on Otoko Dama vexes me a lot more.

Zering

@adambegood I'm having the same issue with Otoko Dama. I'm still using my .dim file, out of my old rom set, so it has nothing to do with the ROMs.
It is quite vexing - the game looks awesome. Is it possible it only has MIDI music?

Folly

@AdamBeGood
Can't help you with that autoexec.bat. Don't have that file.
But what you tried should work, no idea why it doesn't.

@Zering @AdamBeGood
I think I have a different one.
I have sound OOB with Otaku Dama/Otoko Dama. (both .dim and .hdm work)

Zering

@folly You have sound but do you have music?

Folly

@zering said in Old Japanese Computer Appreciation Thread:

@folly You have sound but do you have music?

Didn't read correctly. Also no "music" here.

AdamBeGood

Okay, so it isn't something specific to my setup then, with Otoko Dama. I've tried .dim and .hdm and a couple of Alt versions. Going into the sound.config file was pretty confusing, it wasn't at all clear what I should be changing, assuming there is a non-MIDI option which I haven't been able to work out from Google as yet.

I tried another version of Blue Phoenix, that also goes to command prompt. It's cool, I'll just type blue. It isn't a big deal with the way my Pi is set up at the moment.