I might be seeing Wayne this summer. I'll ask if he still has it (I doubt it). I like all the emulators and being able to bring back that nostalgia for a brief moment, but the one I keep gravitating to again and again is Stella...
Very cool, I hope my memory was right and it was him. And he still has it...
There's something to be said about emulation. When I was able to do homework on the ST that was emulating a PC that saved me from having to live at the computer lab...
I almost forgot that it had a PC emulator. So of course I had to try it again - and I remember the headache trying to get a disk to boot and the emulator brought back that repressed memory. I still couldn't get it to boot a DOS floppy and I tried a bunch...
My task to get it booted was probably a little easier. I was just taking some developer classes and just needed to boot into DOS. From there it was a bunch of editing source code then compiling and testing. Though (I seem to remember) the Modula-2 course used an IDE, but I don't seem to remember that being overly difficult to get running.
Now
here's something that I found that's interesting...
I think playing with PC-DOS on the ST was more of a novelty. When I did get it to work I managed to run a few games, but it was a bit sluggish if I remember correctly. But that find of yours is awesome. Way to bring back the early 90's. I have to see if I can find my ST disks and any of my Calamus work I did...
How did I know that you would be trying it under Linux. And I am not at all surprised that it runs well on that platform...
One of FTLs other games was another favorite of mine as well.
It played perfectly on my system. The only thing I haven't figured out is the volume control because it's a lot louder than I'd like it to be. But for some reason I could have sworn FTL had more games than that. That reminded of a game called FTL that I've played...
Maybe using external speakers with volume control would help?
I do, but adjusting the volume for the ST means I don't hear any system sounds or anything playing on the music player...
I remember having a little Casio attached to the ST's MIDI, that was pretty cool at times...
I remember that little keyboard and always playing the Peanuts theme song on it...
If I remember there were some games that did utilize the MIDI ports, but for the most part I was having fun with MIDI files and that little keyboard...
I was a bit surprised to see that MIDI is still alive and kicking today. And just recently they introduced a 2.0 standard for it. I kind of wish I was more musically inclined because there's a lot of tech that seems cool...
Taking into consideration the advancement of everything else, I am surprised as well. But I guess if you design something that then becomes the standard, it's easier to modify that into a new version and keep the hardware the same...