Fairlight-CMI

As long as it´s a plug and play solution, there should be no problem for any 
CMI IIx user to upgrade to this. I would suggest even going so far as to 
include a preformatted card including the OS-disk and the complete 
soundlibrary.

WT

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "tama_rat" <britt@shapetable.com>
To: <Fairlight-CMI@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Sunday, September 23, 2012 7:51 PM
Subject: [Fairlight-CMI] Re: HxC and CMI IIx Floppydrive replacement


Yes, and I agree -- this would eliminate the problems many have getting a PC 
set up with an 8" drive and ImageDisk.


--- In Fairlight-CMI@yahoogroups.com, "dd_62622" <dd_626@...> wrote:
>
> would it be possible to copy our 8" disks direct to the cf card using the 
> drive select signal switches ?
>
> would be a great way to preserve our libraries if one could make the 
> transfer to img on the cmi itself.
>
> cheers,
> DD
>
> --- In Fairlight-CMI@yahoogroups.com, "tama_rat" <britt@> wrote:
> >
> > Right.  You don't need 2 HxC emulators -- each one can look like 2 
> > drives.
> >
> > I want to have a couple of switches to choose whether each drive select 
> > signal goes to the HxC or the old 8" drive.
> >
> > In my setup now I have both 8" drives disconnected and the HxC is 
> > emulating both the left and right drives.
> >
> > Joe
> >
> >
> > --- In Fairlight-CMI@yahoogroups.com, "Peter K." <synthserv@> wrote:
> > >
> > > The HxC emulates 2 drives. Doesn't that meen they act as 2 seperate 
> > > drives?
> > >
> > > Peter Kersten.
> > >
> > >
> > > From: WT
> > > Sent: Saturday, September 22, 2012 4:26 PM
> > > To: Fairlight-CMI@yahoogroups.com
> > > Subject: Re: [Fairlight-CMI] Re: HxC and CMI IIx Floppydrive 
> > > replacement
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Yeah, two cardreaders is what I´d go for.
> > >
> > > WT
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message ----- 
> > > From: "kirk_keyes" <Kirk@>
> > > To: <Fairlight-CMI@yahoogroups.com>
> > > Sent: Saturday, September 22, 2012 3:47 PM
> > > Subject: [Fairlight-CMI] Re: HxC and CMI IIx Floppydrive replacement
> > >
> > > The actual time to load off the HxC SD card should be the same time as
> > > loading off a floppy. At least that's how it is on my Emulator II with 
> > > the
> > > HxC.
> > >
> > > Wouldn't people want to have two HxC on a Fairlight - one with the OS 
> > > disk
> > > on it, and then the second with the sound library on it? Otherwise 
> > > you'll
> > > have to be navagating around on the HxC every time you need to access 
> > > the
> > > OS.
> > >
> > > Kirk
> > >
> > > --- In Fairlight-CMI@yahoogroups.com, "WT" <waveterm@> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > It wouldn´t be any different to using actual floppies except for the
> > > > loading
> > > > time.
> > > >
> > > > WT
> > > >
> > >
> >
>