MelonBread.dev

Since this account has been idle for the past few months and I've also been stuck in the wagecage (and since outpoa.st and boks.moe are dead), I'm going to share some of what I've picked up/gotten working over the past year (in between blurs in my memory from this terrible job, home stress and boomer whining, and whatnot).

NEC APC III, a rare localized for the west variation of the PC-9801F.

An EPSON PC-486GF, a PC-98 clone from Epson with onboard FM and a high-res chip.

Obtained and dumped a version of the PC-9801 port of Netware, previously not dumped anywhere.

Obtained (and dumped the ROMs for) the PC-9801-14 sound card, a rare sound card featuring a forgotten TI sound chip.

Somehow I recapped the sound section on a PC-9821An.

Also burned money on an FM Towns and a parts FM Towns for the CD drive, along with an x68000 I'm still trying to get a PSU setup going on. This has been hard because of how jank the X68k is.

I still have a scanner I need to set up for the PC-98 that some drawing programs worked with as well, along with a window accelerator on the way.
apc3.jpg
IMG_20221201_042601.jpg
pc98 netware.jpg
tower of power.jpg
IMG_20230315_032035.jpg
eject time.mp4
980114.jpg
980114.mp4
IMG_20221204_000903.jpg

I'll just post one more video I forgot to post; a PC-98 loading eroge games over IPX (hosted on another PC-98).
pc98ipx.mp4

Sorry for the lack of posts in the past year, on top of dealing with fedi instances that kept going down and stupid drama (IRL in the wagecage and sometimes at home) I kept using instances people told me to use that kept going down (and learned my lesson, SJW runs a better instance). The good news is, I'm gonna be posting more hopefully and I'm going to be leaving my wagecage soon.

@Pawlicker I wonder why this post fed'd just now

@dcc FEDI MOMENT

@Pawlicker Did those computers come with eroge?

@eisai they might as well have
most normal pc98 game.jpg
other normal pc98 game.jpg

@Pawlicker By the way, not long ago I stumbled upon some PC98 collections on archive.org, are you interested?

@eisai go on but I'm sure I know about them

@Pawlicker The smugness radiates from the screen, I guess I shall withhold my offer.

@eisai no like I'm not joking I'm really deep in the PC-98 scene, I know about Neo Kobe and the /v/ archive.

@Pawlicker I don’t know, what the /v/ archive may be, the things I have found are Redump archive, and a couple of others, which I presume related to it.

@eisai https://archive.org/details/pc-98_20230120
related
https://archive.org/details/nec-pc-9801-translations