Hi folks,
I thought this might interest some of you. I have a few musical instruments, among those a Yamaha PSR-6300 keyboard and I recently bought a disk on e-bay that poked my interest. It's a demonstration disk for this keyboard. I've imaged it and uploaded it here:
https://archive.org/details/yamaha_portatone_psr-6300_demons...
At first I was unsure what kind of computer it was for (it was readable in DOS) but together with a friend I figured out that it was likely for a Yamaha-computer of the same era (1986~ish) as the keyboard, and I was able to get the software going by running it in OpenMSX, emulating a YAMAHA YIS-805/128R2 with a YAMAHA SFG-05 FM Sound Synthesizer Unit (without it, the program complains about missing FM unit).
I've also tried hooking my PC up to the PSR-6300 keyboard via a MIDI-interface and connecting it in the emulator and it sorta works. Some of the arrangements that it transfers over works fine and starts playing by themselves, but some of the others, like the cover of Miami Sound Machine's Conga sounds kind of broken in the bassline and doesn't start playing by itself. Not sure why that is, maybe it's the emulator or the MIDI-timing, I will investigate this more at some point. I could also record a video so others can see how it's supposed to be experienced, but it would be nice if the issues were solved first.
Another interesting discovery was when I looked at the disk image in a hexeditor, I could see some screen dumps of Z80-code. I'm not very acquainted with MSX-computers so you guys could probably present more findings about it than I can.
Hope you enjoy taking a look at it. :)