Emax

There is a much simpler way of doing it,all you need is a Windows 98
startup disk, check out my emx page at
http://www.dragonslair.ca/emaxfiles3.htm

Dave

--- In emax@yahoogroups.com, "hartmaan2003" <peter@c...> wrote:
> Update on progess of testing;
> The file when uploaded (soon I promise)will be a self extracting 
> file "EMX BOOT DISK.exe". It is a winimage program which you will 
> need to run in order to create a bootable 1.44 FD (more detailed 
> instructions later). When PC is booted from this created boot floppy 
> it will and create a ramdisk and load DOS into it.You will get a 
> prompt x:/EMX
> 
> You then just type EMX to launch EMX program.
> 
> Now the kind of tricky part. In order to get .em* files into this 
> ramdisk you will need to have a cdrom drive and a cd with the samples 
> in emx format. You then type cdrom at the x:/EMX prompt and it will 
> load DOS cd drivers and then you will see which drive letter has been 
> allocated to the CDrom drive. Usually c:. Change to this directory c: 
> and type the DOS copy command eg; "copy 55-disk1.em2 x:"
> 
> This will copy the sample file to the emx directory. Change back to 
> x:\EMX and type EMX to launch the EMX program. From here it is plain 
> sailing [W] write file etc ....
> 
> I have run into a slight problem - I allocated 4megs to the ram drive 
> and this should not be too much of a hassle unless you want to dump 
> more than 4 megs worth of samples into the X:/EMX directory. I may 
> increase the size as I was doing some 4 meg em2 files last night.
> 
> Please give me any feedback if you see any thing I should change.