Casio CZ/ VZ/ FZ - Pro Series

--- In CZsynth@yahoogroups.com, "steve_the_composer" <smw-mail@...> wrote:
>we could ask the guy who designed omniflop as he has made it possible to format and write and read various sampler and synth images to disk i use it for my korg dss1 eps/asr10 he does driver adaptions

the program is freeware you just have to be registered

> Some follow-up thoughts based on the FZ disk format listed at: http://www.buchty.net/casio/fz1-diskformat.html
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> Years ago I wrote asembly language code on a pre-Windows system that used MS-DOS interrupt services to read and pull files from non-MS-DOS disks (an Epson C/PM OS).
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> Based on what I remember of the project and based on what I saw at the above link, I think someone >>might<< be able to develop code to format, read, and write FZ disks on a PC. To access MS-DOS, you'd need a pre-Windows XP OS. (XP can't boot to MS-DOS. Also, either SP2 or SP3 changed things so to protect the computer.) It might be possible to do in Linux if Linux lets you have control over floppy disk read/write/format services.
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> With my project, I mined the format from scratch. It is especially nice that the FZ disk format has already been mined.  BTW, I noticed that credit is given to Jeff McClintock for contributing a couple of pieces to the puzzle. If that's the same person who developed Synthedit, you may want to e-mail him in case he can be of any help. 
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> Let us know what you find out.
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> --Steve 
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> --- In CZsynth@yahoogroups.com, "jdcx64" <jdcx64@> wrote:
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> > Anyone knows if it is possible to write FZ-1 disks (from the archive) with a PC?
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