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okay so this is badass

one of my most cherished and irreplaceable retrocomputing devices is my peerless Roland SC-55.

while the MT-32 has been emulated quite well, the SC-55 always lagged behind in emulation - most attempts at it sounded pretty terrible, even using good soundfonts.

(and hauling around my SC-55 + midi & 3.5mm & usb cables just to play games in dosbox was painful)

in comes Nuked-SC55: it is a chip-level emulation project that just *nails* it.

it took about 30 seconds to build with cmake. i'm now going to try integrating it with dosbox, so i can finally play 90s DOS general midi games! (ultima viii pagan, here i come)

demo songs with the LCD screen (which is also accurately emulated!)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4Z5y2

nuked-sc55 source:
github.com/nukeykt/Nuked-SC55

windows binaries:
github.com/nukeykt/Nuked-SC55/

fwiw to compile (requires cmake):
mkdir build
cd build
cmake ..
make

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