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**DOSBox Staging v0.83.0 has been released!** 🎉 😎 🤘🏻

there's lots of exciting new stuff in this release, including built in NukedSC55 support for 100% authentic SoundCanvas emulation! 🥳

we also have a comprehensive user manual now; check it out on our website or open the bundled copy with the `MANUAL` command (the `GUIDE` command opens the Getting Started guide which is recommended reading for beginners)

see the release notes for all the details:
https://www.dosbox-staging.org/releases/release-notes/0.83.0/

lastly, if you enjoy Staging and can spare the price of a coffee a month, consider becoming a financial contributor -- all donations, either big or small, are much appreciated (even one-off ones 😎 )
https://www.dosbox-staging.org/get-involved/#make-a-donation

#DOSGaming #MS-DOS #Emulation #RetroGaming #LinuxGaming #MacGaming #FOSS #DOSBox #Roland #SC-55 #SC55 #SoundCanvas #MIDI

I. Garden of Merchants

https://makertube.net/w/xcgW7JJNsZmmMjKv1kG7Zi

Welcome to my MIDI family...

The Roland Sound Canvas SC-88 Pro. I'm surprised how many vocal samples it has. Very distinct instrumentations really enjoying it.

Sadly the SC-55 mode isn't 100%, so I'll certainly keep that around but for what it is, I'm really happy with it.

#retrogaming #soundcanvas #roland

I looked up the display controller used by the SC-55’s display, and I suspected it follows the extremely common pinout and protocol used by most text LCDs of the era. I realized I have a display that will work, although the layout of the LCD elements is naturally totally wrong. So I wired it up, and it displays perfectly, confirming that the problem is indeed the SC-55’s display.

Unfortunately those are getting rarer and rarer to come by. There’s a small chance I can repair the existing display *if* I can identify the problem, find replacement ICs, and manage the very fiddly fine SMT desoldering/soldering that would be needed… but I may be better off just keeping an eye on eBay. #electronics #roland #soundcanvas #vintageelectronics #synth

Made progress on getting the broken Roland SoundCanvas SC-55mkII that I got for cheap on eBay to work! I was fairly sure a clock signal (or rather the absence of one) was the culprit, and after poking around the board tracing clock signals I found a spot where one abruptly stopped.

Turns out a 40MHz low-pass filter was missing entirely from the board! After bodging it with a wire (since it’s just a filter, so the worst that happens is noise causes occasional problems), the unit came up! 🎉 But the display has issues. Half of it is dead, and the first letter of the instrument name is garbled. This appears unrelated to the first problem, and suggests an issue with the display board itself; all lines going to the display look good.

Given that another filter on the board was already bodge-wired, and a 455MHz crystal (only needed for the remote) was cut out, *and* given this display problem, I think this may have been a parts unit for someone.

#electronics #roland #soundcanvas #vintageelectronics #synth

Today is a big day for DOS emulation, now we have 100% authentic Sound Canvas (Roland SC-55) emulation in Staging via Nuked SC-55 🥳 🎉 🍻 🎊

Grab the latest dev build from here:
https://www.dosbox-staging.org/releases/development-builds/

Then follow the installation instructions from the PR below:
Search "manual testing" and follow the steps under "usage" (this will be more streamlined in the final; the plugin (without the ROM files) will be included in the distribution package)

https://github.com/dosbox-staging/dosbox-staging/pull/4090

#DOSGaming #MS-DOS #Emulation #RetroGaming #LinuxGaming #MacGaming #FOSS #Roland #SoundCanvas #SC-55 #MIDI #GeneralMIDI

Game MIDI music in the early to mid 1990s, the Roland Sound Canvas SC-55 and Yamaha MU80 were fantastic offerings and now great for a retro gaming PC setup.

MIDI files are extremely small as they contain only instructions of what to play, it's the Roland & Yamaha modules that contain the audio samples of hundreds of instruments. It did mean your game music could sound very different depending on your sound card's built-in MIDI capabilities or dedicated hardware.

#soundcanvas #mu80 #sc55 #midi

DOSBox Staging Basics

Today: Nuked-SC55
True Roland SC-55 Emulation is here!

http://nerdlypleasures.blogspot.com/2024/06/true-roland-sc-55-emulation-is-here.html

https://github.com/nukeykt/Nuked-SC55

You might find the necessary ROM files on Archive.org.

#DOSBox-Staging #DOSBox #DOSGaming #MS-DOS #Emulation #RetroGaming #LinuxGaming #MacGaming #FOSS #Roland #General-MIDI #MIDI #SC-55 #SoundCanvas

@hikari My dad had one of those and it was bloody awesome. We made so much great music with the #Edirol #SoundBlaster and #SoundCanvas !

Drive Belt Fix - Roland Quick Disk PR-100 MIDI Sequencer

https://makertube.net/w/sLxT4mh1jHiNAwpzBA9Gws

I never owned one as a kid, but something about the sounds of the old #Roland #MIDI devices like the #MT-32 and the #SoundCanvas with #DOS games always have a warm place in my memory.

It takes me back to wandering into my local #RadioShack in #Canada and hearing (on the store demo machine) a whole new level to the bleeps and bloops that I was used to playing games in the school computer lab or at home.

@mos_8502

Can you build me my dream #MusicComputer ?

I will pay you a million billion quids, promise!

HERE'S ME WISHLIST:

* Got to have hardwired MIDI like the #AtariST Four DIN sockets in, eight out.

* 6 x SIDchip (INFINITE POWER!)

* Whatever chips were on a #YamahaSW60XG

* Okay, maybe a #SoundCanvas too.

* FPGA so it can be a mighty morphing doobrie.

* RGB everything. OLED keycaps. The PC BEIGE OF THE '80s.

How about it?

#RetroComputing #FutureComputing