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Retroarch windows configuresound6/22/2023 ![]() Other sound options such as PC-9801-14 exist, but are not commonly used. Q-Vision WaveStar is yet another PnP card for Windows but is fully backward compatible.Īlternatively, games originating from IBM PC such as Doom may have the option to make use of Sound Blaster 16. Most of the DOS games make use PC-9801-26(K) which provides 3 channels of FM, 3 channels of PSG, or PC-9801-86 which provides 6 channels of FM, 3 channels of PSG, and PCM recording & playback.įor Windows, PC-9801-118 provides support for both FM and PCM playback as a PnP & Windows Sound System compatible card, but not fully backward compatible with PC-9801-86 under MS-DOS. Notice that an emulator supporting a graphic subsystem doesn't necessarily mean such an emulator is mature enough for programs that make use of it to work properly. ![]() Specifically, it's possible to install a totally out-of-spec graphic card, such as Nvidia GeForce FX 5700LE on later PC-98 models with PCI bus, but such scenarios are quite obscure and no emulators support such cases. may make use of PEGC due to its similarities with VGA graphics. However, some games do make use of more advanced graphics subsystems, such as some AliceSoft's adult games which support 256 color mode of IO-DATA's GA-1024A, and games originating from IBM PC such as Doom, Warcraft: Orcs & Humans, etc. Most of the games won't require graphics subsystems that are more advanced than EGC, and basically, all emulators have achieved full emulation of EGC, so whether an emulator could emulate more advanced graphic systems doesn't really bug. Capabilities Comparisons Graphics įor more information about the graphics subsystem of PC-98, Reference to this documentation. Able to boot MS-DOS, Windows 98 and Windows 2000, but software compatibility is hit or miss. QEMU/9821 A fork of QEMU that supports PC-9800 architecture. Accuracy seems still a lot to be improved. Emulation for each model is released as individual exes which are designed to emulate that specific model, which disallows adjusting options such as RAM size and mix-and-matching peripherals. Requires extra ROM files for BIOS and other subsystems (sound card, IDE controller, etc.) of the hardware. The only emulator that supports 1120x750 high-resolution mode presented in some models. ![]() ePC-9801 Emulator focusing on PC-9801 series. Floppy disks and HDD images have to be converted to either proprietary *.slf/*.slh files or *.bin raw images. SL9821 Yet another PC-98 emulator that has quite high accuracy. Support for the first batch or so of PC-98 games have started to be added to MAME in 0.201 (Aug 2018). MAME It has drivers for various revisions but as of version 0.189, all of them are reported as Not Working. While it's very easy to set up, its PC-98 system is not yet complete. DOSBox-X A very active fork of DOSBox that, among other things, adds support for the PC-98 as a target system. Some programs may have trouble running on this emulator due to so-called "EPSON protection" that prevents them from running on EPSON clones. Anex86 Another decent PC-98 emulator, which emulates EPSON PC-286/386/486 series which is a series of PC-98 clone computers made by EPSON Corporation rather than PC-98 series made by NEC. Neko Project II kai A more libretro-focused fork, which has also merged several improvements from 21/W. ![]() Neko Project 21/W Based on Neko Project II but with a focus on PC-9821 series with enhanced options (CPUs, memory sizes, sound sources) as well as support for LAN board, PCI bus, CD-DA, windows accelerators, fmgen and so on. Its major drawback is the non-remappable controls. ↑ np2kai fork and np2kai_libretro are still active.Ĭomparisons Neko Project II The best PC-98 emulator out there but went inactive since March 2016.↑ np2kai, np2kai_libretro and Neko Project 21/W forks are still active.↑ 1.0 1.1 np2kai_libretro and Neko Project II are only available options outside of Windows.
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