boinger

Updated the Macross Documentaries Collection with a few more commericals, trailers and DVD/BD video extras.

If you have already downloaded the last version, then you can just connect again to BT Sync as before without changing anything or

downloading anything more and the Bittorrent Sync software will download all the updates and extras.

Enjoy!

Wow!

An M3 cartoon would be awesome with these CGI renders!

I like it!

One possible source for the David Newman's Macross international movie script would be Leslie Newman, wife and

co-writer. I'm not sure if she would be willing to sell the Macross script or share it publicly.

Maybe, Gubaba can track her down and do an interview podcast with her to see if she remembers anything about this

obscure Macross script?

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Any singing contenders for the Macross Delta series?

Posted on the Macrosshare blog!

Macross Documentaries Collection

via Bittorrent Sync

I put together all of the Macross documentaries I have in this one!

But, some videos are incomplete or in not the best video or audio quality.

If you have access to any missing or better quality Macross documentaries

and would like to share, then send me a MW message, so we can update

this collection.

I think we need a videography listing for these Macross documentaries and

any other Macross documentaries that have been done.

Here's a possible description list for the documentaries:

Name of documentary:

Date of first broadcast:

Broadcaster / Producer:

Guest Speakers / Commentators:

Short Description:

Video Source: (VHS/DVD/BD/TV)

Video format:

Audio format:

Other Characteristics: ?

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I tested out sharing this huge 50 GB collection from my desktop to my laptop

and it works great!

Bittorrent Sync is just like the usual bittorrent, but without a centralized torrent server

, but is currently not able to pick and choose files You have to make some

space on your hard drive for this one!

And the more people online for sharing this then the quicker the download!

Are you having a happy new year, yet?

Thanks!

It's just the one weblink for Document 2 part 1 that needed fixing.

Macrosshare blog still needs a lot of updating, but I sneaked in one last post for 2014!

Happy New Year!

That's good news to start off 2015!

Happy New Year to you, too!

I just noticed that myspleen(dot) org has open registration until this Christmas!

I am mentioning it now since I am likely to post some Macross fan projects on that site

for next year.

Macrosshare has been updated to the new web address Macrosshare.blogspot.ca !

Macrosshare.blogspot.com works, too!

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Bittorrent Sync Beta software had to be re-installed and all upload keys have been lost.

Contact me via MW pm if you are still in need of any Macross documentary files.

Is it me or is the Macrosshare blog no longer working?

Earlier this year, I asked MechTech if he would be interested in allowing me

to put edit together a multimedia ebook based on his forum posts and

participate in interview series to celebrate his work on the 1/200

Daedalus model. So, he said "okay".

The first volume of the 1/200 Daedalus project ebook

and edited version of the interview we did together earlier this year

is now posted on the front page of Macross World!

If you see any need for corrections or re-writes to the ebook, then you can

contact me for updates.

yeah, baby, yeah! That's the Star Wars I want to see!

oooh aaah!

How do you do that graphic image upgrade?

Would you be willing / able to post semi-regularly on MW

forum about what you learned about Unity 3D

or what you have learned to get this project done?

Project Diary?

It looks like we'll need a PC98 / Windows 95 computer with a 5.25" floppy drive

to get the Skull Leader Collection to work.

Here's the email back from Deviceside.com to confirm the lack of MSDOS support.

"It sounds like those (games) are in PC98 1232k format, which the FC5025 is not currently able to read. I've added it to the

requested formats list and I can notify you if we add support. However, there are no plans for any additional format

support before the end of the year. As for the 3.5" floppies, you might be able to read them with a USB 3.5" drive.

The following software might be suitable for that: http://hp.vector.co.jp/authors/VA013937/editdisk/index_e.html

However, this software will not work with a 5.25" drive attached to the FC5025, and I can't provide any assistance

on using it with a 3.5" drive."

-- Adam Goldman | Device Side Data

i like it.

I vote smooth.

But, whichever you think would be best for the updated game.

I haven't received an email response from Deviceside.com yet.

Here's the webpage where I found the idea for getting these

5.25" game floppies copied.

http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/2503

This guy says he had no problems in setting up the floppy drive

and extracting MS-DOS. Hopefully, Adam of Deviceside.com can

clarify the problem with the USB flopppy adapter.

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And I found a couple of more websites that had positive things to

say about the deviceside.com USB floppy adapter.

http://www.spellboundblog.com/2011/07/25/rescuing-5-25-floppy-disks-from-oblivion/

http://mith.umd.edu/vintage-computers/fc5025-operation-instructions

If you can get an external 5.25" floppy drive that works with your

laptop, then it's a go!

.

I currently don't have a 5.25" floppy drive or a floppy cable or

or floppy drive I/O adapter (such as the deviceside USB adapter was

supposed to be) or a Windows 95 computer.

I would be happy to send you the Macross 5.25" floppy game files, if

we could figure out how a 5.25" floppy drive could connect

to your laptop. I don't know how that works.

So far, all I can think of to get these games is to get

an older Windows desktop computer that has a floppy drive

port on the motherboard.

I'll do some google searches and some Macross game booklet scanning.

I was reading the FAQ for the deviceside USB Floppy adapter and the adapter only

works for Mac OS and Linux floppy diskettes. Adam did mention that PC98 DOS support

would eventually be added to the USB Floppy adapter.

To get these 5.25" floppy game files, I would need an old desktop Windows 95 / 98 pc that I can

plug in a 5.25" floppy drive to copy the game contents onto the hard drive and then put the 3.25"

floppy drive in this desktop to make copies I can transfer onto my Windows 7 desktop.

Laptops don't usually come with 5.25" floppy drives.

I threw out my old Windows 98 computers years ago.

I could check out some pawn shops or Salvation Army for an old computer rather

than ebay.

Macross: Remember Me Disk 01 files copied over to Windows 8.1 somewhat successful.

The same number of files are copied over, but the reported file size in Windows 8.1 is smaller

than the files size on the MS-DOS floppy diskette.

Maybe, Windows 8.1 is more efficient in storing MS-DOS files?

MS-DOS floppy diskette:

217 files, 4 folders

Size: 956 kb

Size on Disk: 1.04 MB

Windows 8.1 copies:

217 files, 4 folders

Size: 956 kb

Size on Disk: 968 kb

I'll continue copying over the rest of the disks to my desktop.

Disk2FDI software looks like it will work to convert the floppy diskettes to .FDI,

but the software only works in DOS and not Windows 8.1. I might need some

sort of amiga emulator or maybe I can run this software through the Windows command

prompt.

So, if Macross: Remember Me in NEC MS-DOS 3.1 files can be recognized
by Windows 8.1, then I might be able to use that USB floppy adapter.

I'll email Adam of Deviceside again.

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Disk 02:

268 files, 4 folders

886 kb

852 kb

Disk 03

15 files, 1 folder

196 kb

228 kb

Disk 04:

9 files, 0 folder

845 kb

852 kb

Disk 3 and 4 might be corrupt.

Disk 3 contents look like a small continuation of Disk 2.

Disk 4 contents looks like a DOS boot disk.

I just received an email from Deviceside. Adam, from Deviceside, was asking me to

confirm the disk format because the USB floppy adapter does not currently recognize

PC98 floppies.

Apparently, Windows MS-DOS is different than NEC PC-98 MS-DOS and is not

currently recognized by the deviceside USB floppy adapter.

He also said that WinImage software would be unable to create

.FDI image files of the game floppies, I emailed him back with the game diskette

file format information found on the back of the PC98 games,

I'll see what he suggests.

1. Macross: Skull Leader Complete Pack

(Skull Leader & Love Stories with bonus levels)

NEC PC-9801 / PC-98-21, NEC MS-DOS ver. 5.0

(7) 5.25" floppy diskettes

2. Macross: Remember Me

NEC PC-98-01 VM2, NEC MS-DOS ver. 3.1, 3.3, A/B/C/D. 5.0

(4) 3.25" floppy diskettes

An alternative for game back-up might be sending the game diskettes

to Floppydisk.com, but I can't find a good review for that website. The last

resort would be to acquire an Epson PC486 from ebay, Then I don't know

how to get the floppy files to transfer over to my Windows 8.1 computer.

I do have a USB 3.5" floppy disk drive, so I can test to see if Windows 8.1

can recognize the game format as it is on the 3.5" floppy games.

I'll have to look around the internet to see how .FDI are made and with what software.

For now, I can scan the game booklets and covers. I'll get the scans done

next week for sharing.

I hope your mouse clicking fingers have not worn out just yet with all those

PNG game screen captures.

I sent off an email to deviceside.com to see if I can purchase a USB / floppy drive adapter and

I have a Teac 5.25" floppy drive bookmarked in my ebay watchlist.

WinImage was recommended on the deviceside.com website for making floppy drive images, so

I'm likely to buy that, too.

Then we can see what those bonus levels for Macross: Skull Leader or Love Stories are like.

Hi 1/1 LowViz Lurker:

I see you raise many interesting and tangential points about why or how the Macross

series has been developed and how it might continue. But, I disagree about some

of your historical, fictional parallels and biblical interpretation of the plots or

themes found in the Macross series.

Any ideas or themes found within the Macross franchise are more likely to be based within the Japanese

cultural context considering all of the Macross creators residing solely in Japan.

For example, crucifixion as a form of Roman capital punishment has been around much longer

than Christianity. Crucifixion does not necessarily mean the same thing to someone in Japan than it does for

someone in Europe or North America. Then there's the fact that Myung is not Christ-like and did not get killed

in this fashion or at all.

Alternatively, Shinto and Buddhist themes might be in Macross, but not so much

biblical interpretations. Shoji Kawamori has been clearly influenced by his past visit to India

which resulted in the anime, Earth Girl Arjuna.

I don't see how J.R.R. Tolkien's fictional works can be relevant to past

Macross series, but there might be cool thematic ideas for future Macross works.

Somebody could send Shoji Kawamori a copy of the Japanese version of Lord of the Rings and

see if he likes it.

From what I've briefly read on Wikipedia about Jack Parsons and a whole life time

of studying pseudo-science. I think scientists are human beings who can have opinions that

are wholly false outside of their professional specialty. (sentence re-written)

Jack Parsons, the rocket scientist turned occultist, makes a claim about lost ancient technologies

being re-discovered in current times. He spent most of his life in developing rockets

without any archeological studies. He's right about rockets, but not so much about anything else.

In terms of Macross and ancient technologies influencing human society,

I suppose you could say that many of the Macross series plots are driven by the

use or mis-use of the ancient Protoculture technology.

Maybe, I don't quite get what you are saying?

Political terrorism (freedom fighting?) and government corruption around the world have occurred both before and after the

September 2011 terrorist activities that occurred in the USA. So, I disagree about the strong

connection to what has happened in the USA as to what has happened within the Macross universe.

But at the same time before 2011 in the PSX game : VF-X2, terrorism and government corruption

have been issues within the Macross franchise.

I see Macross as more science-fiction based than fantasy/magic based story telling without

any clear black / white or good / evil morality issues.

Then again,

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. Arthur C. Clarke, "Profiles of The Future", 1961 (Clarke's third law)

It's good thing we're just talking about Macross and not Evangelion.

PS

Would you be able to write shorter sentences or re-write your ideas into bullet points?

I find your writing to be very imaginative, but unfocused.