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Roland also still has the Sound Canvas VA software synth - https://www.roland.com/us/products/rc_sound_canvas_va/ - which can emulate the SC-55. There are apparently ways to hook it up to DOSbox and other MIDI devices.

Is it full movies or just trailers advertising the movies are coming to home video?

The problem with long development times is that you end up re-doing a lot of the work over and over and over again. Things like the game engine changes - the one you start with gets obsoleted and now you have to waste a couple of years switching to a newer engine (this one has impacted games far...

Darn. I was so looking forward to this, but I can't support Indiegogo...

Likely long out of print and no one's selling it anymore so it disappears off Amazon. If you have the ISBN it can probably be looked up in libraries and used book stores like abebooks.

Well, they weren't really needed even in the 90s - to burn in an image would take months of displaying the same image constantly and people were generally good at turning off their monitors at the end of the day. The only burned in monitor I ever saw was one where someone was basically working...

Is it from this book? https://archive.org/details/Basic_Computer_Games_Microcomputer_Edition_1978_Creative_Computing

I was browsing eBay and came across "Rares Market" who seems to be selling a lot of Origin stuff they claim is from the Origin Museum. They don't appear in many eBay searches so if it's legit, it may be a chance to get stuff at a discount. https://www.ebay.ca/sch/i.html?ssPageName=&_ssn=raresmarket

Windows 95 was a strange era - the PC was transitioning from APM (Advanced Power Management) to ACPI (Advanced Configuration and Power Interface) as part of the whole Plug and Play (PnP) thing - Windows 95 was one of the first PnP aware OSes out there and a proper PnP stack requires support from...

Eh, Gravis was pretty good back in the day. Thrustmaster was the one to get if you could afford it, but if you couldn't and ended up with a Gravis, you weren't doing too bad either.

Wow. I remember the first PC I had was an 8088 clone back in the 80s, which was replaced with a 286 system in 1990 or so. Somehow around 92 or so I managed to convince my parents to invest in something a bit newer and we had a fully built out 486. My dad decided to splurge and add in not just a...

Ah, I see. Well, I know I have that on CD and on high res recording around here somewhere. The wonder, of course, is if it's just a vinyl pressing of that album, or if they're going to do something else with it.

I think the problem is you need more details, there are a lot of flying games in that era. Was it a real jet, or fictional jets? Set on Earth or space or some other planet? was it a flight simulator primary or was it some campaign game where flight is an aspect, etc?

Hopefully it'll be available on CD or at least digitally as FLAC. Vinyl is nice, but far too often it's the only option - no CD, no digital download as FLAC (if you're lucky, you'll get MP3).

My only question is what do these investors expect? Half a billion dollars put in - how much money are they expecting to get back? Double their investment (not an unreasonable amount)? If we assume it does decently well and has 10,000,000 players, that's about $100 per player each they need to...