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Getting ready to test my mod board for the #pc98. This should modify the common PC-9801-55U #SCSI card to provide an internal header, and also a built in ArdSCSIno. My goal is to reduce how much I have to beat on my poor PC-9801RA2's floppy drives. #retrocomputing #kicad

A red board carrying a SCSI controller IC, SD card slot, and internal SCSI header is sandwiched onto the top of a PC-98 SCSI card.

With the header installed, the board is slightly too tall to fit into the PC-98 without removing the adjacent slot cover.

Once installed, the board adds a lovely splash of colour that is blocked by the stupid and inexplicable razor-sharp structural brace holding the card cage in square.

Tatiana / Carita de Ángel (versión #PC9821 con #OtomachiUna)【#VOCALO98 Project】
Escrita por María Teresa Bojalil
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkQINZ08Qsk
https://on.soundcloud.com/AYWGhdBCqP0nIIFQTI
Arte por KannaKake y Sunnyloquacity

#SynthesizerV #SynthV #音街ウナ #FM音源 #YM2608 #OPNA #86音源 #PCM61P #86PCM #PMD98 #PPZ8 #PC_9821 #PC98 #PC_98 #16bit #16_bit #MML #チップチューン #FMsynthesis #FM_synthesis #MusicMacroLanguage #Music_Macro_Language #Chiptune #MusicOnMastodon #FediMusician

原タイトル：Carita de Ángel (スペイン語)
日本語訳：小さい天使の顔
#PC-9821 バージョン feat.:una_synthv_excite:#音街ウナ【#VOCALO98 Project】
作詞・作曲：María Teresa Bojalil
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkQINZ08Qsk
https://on.soundcloud.com/AYWGhdBCqP0nIIFQTI
#ドット絵: KannaKake・Sunny
:synthesizer_v_icon: #SynthesizerV #SynthV #OtomachiUna
#FM音源 #YM2608 #OPNA #86音源 #PCM61P #86PCM #PMD98 #PPZ8 #PC9821 #PC_9821 #PC-98 #PC98 #PC_98 #16-bit #16bit #16_bit #MML #チップチューン #海外TVドラマOPカバー #FM-synthesis #FMsynthesis #FM_synthesis #MusicMacroLanguage #Music_Macro_Language #Chiptune #FediMusician

#Selena / I Could Fall In Love (#PC9821 Version, covered by #HanakumaChifuyu)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrAdYkBODUA via @Youtube
https://soundcloud.com/silent-sinner-in-scarlet/selena-i-could-fall-in-love-pc-9821-version-covered-by-hanakuma-chifuyu
#30thAnniversary #SelenaQuintanilla
#SynthesizerV #花隈千冬
 #FM音源 #YM2608 #OPNA #86音源 #PCM61P #86PCM #PMD98 #PPZ8 #PC_9821 #PC98 #PC_98 #16bit #16_bit #MML #チップチューン #FMsynthesis #FM_synthesis #MusicMacroLanguage #Music_Macro_Language #Chiptune #MusicOnMastodon #FediMusician

@wyatt Also glancing from the #PC98 architecture and specific quirks that #Linux accounts for in menuconfig it's most likely not gonna be enough to "just boot the #i486 version of @OS1337"...
https://github.com/OS-1337/OS1337/blob/main/OS1337-core-prerelease.img

Tho given the fact this is just a #toybox + #musl / Linux Distro that is barely booting using #syslinux and able to spit out a 80x25 MDA console, it is in an early infancy.

As for the specifics of the #PC9821+ and their detailed hardware I'm clueless beyond the Wikipedia Article and can only Assume anything before a (RAM-upgraded) #9821Ap & #9801BA is off the table and a #9821Af or better is desireable as the 14,6MB RAM limit will really become a problem quickly, as I'm pretty shure it's impossible to get linux-6.6.6 run on anything below 8MB at all and most recommendations hint that 16MB is more often than not a practical limit (tho that may be becaise 10/12/14 and other "asymetric" configurations were already avoided back then)...

The #9821Ce should be workable in theory tho again that's just me reading a specsheet.

On the flipside I did manage to install #WindowsXP on machines with 32MB RAM and actually get them to display a desktop (abeit with seconds per frame instead of frames per second) so this is more likely a question of chipping down things.

Worst-Case one could see to build a bootable CD-ROM or dd something on a #BlueSCSI or similar...

@wyatt since that is an #i486-based #PC98 would you consider giving @OS1337 a shot?

If the machine has 16MB RAM and a 1440kB 3,5" FDD (or FlashFloppy/GOTEK) it should run on it.

It may just take ages to load & decompress the kernel & initramfs...

@wyatt maybe I should target the #i486-based #PC98's with @OS1337 ?

I just don't have hardware to test against...
https://github.com/OS-1337/OS1337/blob/4a70112a8b403953abe8a68714626f4bdad8b08a/docu/ideas/architectures.tsv#L40

Got the Normal 1cc (6 initial lives) with Yuuka tonight as well! Surprisingly she's easier to clear with than Marisa for me... :gyate_yuuka_rember: That should be all 4 characters in Mystic Square cleared and their Extra stages unlocked. Can confirm the Mima Extra replay/demo being unlocked (can be seen by holding left and right arrow keys on the title screen while waiting for demo) as well :mimahappy:

#Touhou #PC98Touhou #PC98 #TH05 #MysticSquare #1cc #shmup

RE: https://makai.chaotic.ninja/notes/a8k0e8a7mx

Character select screen showing all four girls marked as cleared

Touhou 5 Normal 1cc (6 initial lives) with Marisa. Just Yuuka left and I can unlock and view the Mima extra stage replay within the game! (yeah that's my motivation for clearing all four characters lol) :aethr_yukkuri_marisa:

#Touhou #PC98Touhou #PC98 #TH05 #MysticSquare #1cc #shmup

Schwarzschild II: Teikoku no Haishin (PC-98) (1989)
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#PC98 #space #planet #stars #videogames #gaming #games #retrogaming #retrogames #arcade #aesthetic #backgrounds #gamebackground #pixelart #pixelaesthetic #VGArt #80sgames

Just did a Normal 1cc (6 initial lives) with Reimu in Mystic Square. Two more characters to go (already did Mima) :pc98_reimu_smug:

#Touhou #PC98Touhou #PC98 #TH05 #MysticSquare #1cc

C's Ware's Gloria, #PC98 quasi-sequel to Kindan no Ketsuzoku, is now playable and more or less completable in SuperSakura's dev-branch!

Screenshot from Gloria: Pixel art image of a rich mansion corridor, with a character portrait and dialogue box below it. The portrait shows a smiling girl with tanned skin and blonde hair with a bit of stylish curl. In this scene, our protagonist is meeting the young girl Charme for the first time, and she likes his name, at least.

[[ Against Black Shadow ]] Mugen Senshi Valis II – Original Soundtrack (1989) (PC-98)

#ost #valis2 #pc98 #videogame #retrogaming #games #gaming #originalsoundtrack #soundtrack #videogamemusic #gamemusic #music #vgm #lasersoft #renovationgame

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbwdIoCascI

Správné retro #pc98 #touhou #animefest #animefest25

[[ Main Theme ]] Xenon - Mugen no Shitai – Original Soundtrack (1994) (PC-98)

#ost #xenon #pc98 #ryuumemoto #videogame #retrogaming #games #gaming #originalsoundtrack #soundtrack #videogamemusic #gamemusic #music #vgm #csware #1994

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbEB7BQW3tU

Here's something different: Gate of Souls, based on Dante's Divine Comedy. It's a 1992 #PC98 action adventure by #Koei that plays a bit like Castlevania. You might describe it as "Dante goes looking for love among the circles of Hell"...

SuperSakura dev-branch can now extract many graphics from this game. In fact, with the right encoder script, you might even edit the graphics and re-insert them in the game, if there happened to be some reason for it!