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----- Original Message -----

From: Windrum Scoggin

To: emax@yahoogroups.com

Sent: Sunday, October 27, 2013 2:52 AM

Subject: Re: [emax] Emax I HD Plus OS

So theoretically then

OmniFlop should be able to

Take an .ez1 image file created in EMXP and write it to floppy disk?

Anytime I use omniflop it ends up looking for a.IMG file and can tell me if it's recognized

But is unable to write the Emax OS disk image, even when I direct OmniFlop to the EMX file. Instead I have to use EMXP or the Emax itself to write an Image file that can be bootable into Emax. and so far due to a bad Emax floppy disk drive I can't even do that's

i've tried several times and to this very day

I've never gotten EMXP, let alone OmniFlop to do so and I've been working with BOTH programs for almost a almost week now, so that should definitely make me an expert (ha ha)

;)

Question: can OmniFlop directly copy/clone an Emax Floppy disk created either on an Emax or EMXP/EMX?

so that you could give it to another person and they could load it on their Emax?

On Saturday, October 26, 2013, jammie wrote:

you cant use omniflop to write the os

you need to write the os in emxp

emxp uses the omn iflop driver to format and write to emax floppy

but its done inside emxp

you use omiflop to write images made

and why you write the se upgrade disk in the omniflop software direct and not emxp

your confusing the 2 programs

emxp = format emax disks write to emax floppy disks

omniflop = reading and writing to and from img format raw floppy image files

be it emax/ensoniq/korgdss1/korg t 1/2/3/ex and any other format it can create raw images from

tyhey are 2 seperate programs

emxp just uses the omniflop driver to createw its disks but does not use the omniflop software to write images

thats where you are getting confused

----- Original Message -----

From: Windrum Scoggin

To: emax@yahoogroups.com

Sent: Sunday, October 27, 2013 12:03 AM

Subject: Re: [emax] Emax I HD Plus OS

Jammie

Omni flop is a little confusing I will admit.

The problem is Omni looks for an image or .IMG file when it goes to write the OS and as we know Emax OS images are .EMX extensions.

I think this is where he is getting confused.

Ted has said before and I would have a tendency to agree that the best software disks for an upgrade are the ones written by other Emax Machines already containing the upgrade operating system rather than trying to write one off of omniflop or EMX P or EMX for that matter because if the heads off of alignment in the PC floppy disk drive then The Emax won't be able to use that floppy. That's the very same problem I'm going through right now with mine. I am trying to upgrade to the plus OS SE HD Rev 1.1
I can't do it because my PC disk drives will not write disks that my Emax can read

So even if on the flop or EMX P or EMX writing good disks my Emacs this drive which is a little kludgy over the years can't read them.

Terrified this I poop bag send me some discs of the plus operating system that he wrote on his machine and I'm going to test them to see if they will load and upgrade mine. If they will I know that my machine has a bad floppy disk drive because it will read this it's written on the end it will read this written by another Emacs machine. It will only read disks it creates for itself. This is why I have a tendency to believe my machine has a bad FDD. it can only read what it can write. Your BMX P and on the flop cannot read disks that my Emax creates.

My suggestion is that he take his FDD and create a software floppy off his own Emax.

If any MXP or on the flop read that disk chances are he to like me haas a bad FDD

In his Emax

Just some troubleshooting tips

I had to learn the hard way

For the longest time I thought my problems were all due to eat and XP and an incompatibility with my Windows PC

Fact is it was not a problem with EMXP and my PC it was a problem might Emax floppy disk drive creating disks that EMX P and OmniFlop could not read

Has he tried to create a disk on his own Emax then take that disk and see if EMX P or OmniFlop can read it? fif they won't read it chances are he has a misaligned floppy disk drive in his Emax too

On Saturday, October 26, 2013, jammieI haven't got the words to tell you anything

You want to hear

so I just won't try to say anything

Anymore wrote:

like i said you need the omniflop img of the se upgrade disk

its under esynthesis name

emxp cant use or create this disk you need to use either dos like ted does
or use omniflop

its the only way

the reason you are getting wrong software is because you have not upgraded
to se

those later os use the code blocks written into the eprom to work anbd why
you get wrong software message
----- Original Message -----
From: "userlists" <userlists@...>
To: <emax@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Saturday, October 26, 2013 9:20 PM
Subject: [emax] Re: Emax I HD Plus OS


> Is it necessary to use Omniflop?
>
> I have EMXP installed and it works - no error messages. But if the files
> are OK, then I might be to stupid :-(
>
> I put to Floppy:
>
> - Emax OS SE 1.1
> - Emax OS SE HD 1.1
> - Emax OS Plus OS 1.0
>
> I booted up with every of them but only get the message "Wrong Software"
>; or "Wrong Software Rev."
>
> I also booted with the regular OS HD 1.1, copied the newer OS to this
> disc and loaded the bank again - also "Wrong Software".
>

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