Hey Sheldon, The wonderful software tools you mentioned are NOT from DUG!! DUG is Yamaha founded (or "funded") and would never allow utilities that can copy PianoSoft disks, even for legitimate reasons. Credits should go to the right group, the Yahoo Disklavier Group founded by Todd Muncy, and the members who contribute to it. CCW At 09:41 AM 11/20/2003, you wrote: >Hallelauyah! > >The Holy Grail has finally been grasped. > >I have had several dd disks which werer recorded almost 10 years ago on a >diskalvier Mark II by a friend in Yamaha *.fil (eseq) format > >Years ago I converted the files via Giebler and backed up those converted >files to an earlier Hard Drive which is now dearly departed. > >So all I have left are these old dd disk > >Anyway, because of the vagaries of XP, I could never open these particular >disks...my OS kept saying the disks were unformatted. > >Even using the patched Giebler in DOS or Giebler under CPU killer, I simpy >could not get theses disks to open and reveal their contents! > >As a consequence, these "*.fil" files were "locked" on these disks...I >thought forever. > >Along come the magicians of the DUG and provide the 2 solutions to my problem: > >1. "Rootaripper" which magically reads these dd disks under XP and >captures the *.fil to a destination on my hard drive. > >2. The eseq to midi converter utility (I could have used Giebler under CPU >killer but I wanted to try the easier route) which converted the *.fil to >*.mid > >And guess what? IT WORKED!! > >I have now successfully retrieved all of the eseq files I had on all my of >my old dd disks...I went through all of them and I even found some files >on some old dd disks that I did not even know I still had!! > >Having upgraded my Mark II several months ago with a new XG controller >unit, I am now officially free of the unwieldy and user-unfriendly DOS, >Giebler, *.fil and *.esq system > >But, if I ever encounter one of those files again from an old dd disk, I >now have the tools to unlock the disk and retrieve the files. > >I have not tried the program on pianosoft diskettes, but I have no reason >to doubt that it would not work...I have yet to encounter a dd disk the >program could not open, and I tried several dozen! > >Thank you midi magic for making this happen. > >And thank you to the developer of eseq to midi...I want to thank you also >personally, even though I do not know your name > >Your programs are a godsend!! > >How lucky to have this DUG discussion group > >My 10 year old disklavier is now only 1 generation behind...while I cannot >make it a silent piano or get it to play the new CD's, it is as versatile >a player piano in 2003 as I hoped it could ever be!! > >Yamaha should seriously consider putting the XG upgrade kit back into >continuous production for the benefit of earlier Disklavier owners!! > >Thank you all for your time > >Sheldon Deluty > >-----Original Message----- >From: midi_magic2000 [mailto:magic_midi@...] >Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2003 12:25 PM >To: disklavier@yahoogroups.com >Subject: [disklavier] RootARipper & RipARoot > >Hi All > >They are HERE, at last. Well I've had them for a while now but now we >can pass them on. > >A very good friend of mine has just finished writing two small >utilities for "floppy disk recovery" that may be of interest to the >group. >Both of these are Freeware. Please send me your feedback as it is >nice to know how well they perform. > >Basically they will read a floppy that has a bad or missing boot >sector, taking the files from the root directory and saving them to >your HDD. >One is for NT, 2000 and XP and the other is for DOS. Sorry, but we do >not have it working for Win 95, 98 nor ME yet. > >DKVCOPY and Giebler will work but you must use 720K disks. They will >NOT read or work with 1.44M disks. These programs will work with 720K >and 1.44M disks. > >RootARipper works for NT, 2000 and XP >RipARoot Works for DOS > >NO MORE HAVING TO USE 720K Disks. > >I have posted them to the files section. > >Midi Magic > > > > > >To Post a message to the group, send it to: disklavier@... > >To Post a private message to Todd Muncy, the group's founder and >moderator, send it to: >disklavier-owner@... > >To reach our group's web site go to: ><http://Yahoogroups.com/group/disklavier>http://Yahoogroups.com/group/disklavier > >Todd's family web site was completely updated 01/15/03. It contains some >fun disklavier content and links to midi sites among many other things, >The url is: ><http://MuncyFamily.com>http://MuncyFamily.com > >THINKING OF LEAVING THE GROUP? >If you are thinking of unsubcribing because you are getting too much mail, >go the the web site and change your email delivery option instead. That >will fix the problem, while maintaining your access to the group. 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RE: [disklavier] RootARipper & RipARoot
2003-11-20 by Chine-Chine Wang