to the
best of my limited understanding, giebler does not work under windows xp because
the processor runs too fast
but
there is a shareware program available called CPU KILLER
the website is: http://www.cpukiller.com/products/cpukiller/
this program allows you
to manually and controllably slow your CPU speed down to whatever speed you
desire, which appears to allow Giebler and other DOS based programs and old
games to run on new machines, even those with xp
installed as the OS
it is trial and error as
to how slow you have to make the processor run, but i can tell you that giebler
works at 200 mhz (i did not try faster,
yet)
when you are done, you
simply close the CPU killer program and your computer ramps back up to
"expressway speed" or reboot the
computer
unlike the patch program
kindly offered to me by jason stein, this program does not need to change the
actual exe files for them to work
unfortunately, the
problem remains that double density diskettes in a 1.4 HD xp floppy drive
are somewhat quixotic in their
performance
some diskettes can be
read and some cannot, even with the slowing of the
processor
i do not know if there
is a program out their to make the performance of dd diskettes more predictable
in modern machines
it would be nice of
yamaha to provide a file reader program for their eseq formatted diskettes which
can be used inside of xp or dos to read
any
yamaha formatted diskettes, but i doubt that will
happen any time soon
i hope this CPU killer
programs helps some of the xp crowd out there who still want to use the giebler
program
as giebler allows for
yamaha formatting of dd diskettes outside of the disklavier, i believe it still
has some utility to some users
thank you for your
time
sheldon deluty