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has anyone played around with GEMS yet?
http://www.hidden-palace.org/?releases/44

drx wrote:

GEMS is the sound driver used in a ton of megadrive games. now you can create your own music or edit what already exists with ease.

system.............sega megadrive
dumped by........drx
format...............source code / executables
size..................324.42 kB

e n j o y !

herr_prof
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Didnt gems require a developer kit?

Battle Lava
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From the readme (apparently, this is copied and pasted from a comment on the linked site)

"Enjoy another great Hidden Palace release. Included is the full GEMS development kit for developing music on the Megadrive.

Contains all the necessary source code and the main GEMS application.

herr_prof
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I meant hardware! But looks cool!

SAMWAVE
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I'm guessing this program does not run on Vista? (Already looked through documentation but no info about OS's)

Shiru
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It is MS-DOS app from 1991. It requires special hardware to interface with SMD, and external MIDI sequencer.

Theta_Frost
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I have heard that GEMS sucks too haha

Battle Lava
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herr_prof wrote:

I meant hardware! But looks cool!

Oh! my mistake

TmEE
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I got GEMS :3

Its not very easy to use nor you hear any MD sound if you got no GEMS board and Sega Loader board + LPT cable. You also need a MD1 with EXT connctor next to RF connector.

It was really cool to have sounds come from MD while I pressed keys on PC side big_smile