Emax

From: "davidnoller" <davidnoller@...>


> With all the man power here in the info age isn't there someone that
> can write such a util?
>
it would be great, wouldn't it??

the major stumbling block, is the emax disks aren't even REMOTELY windows
compatible, so to make a program to grab the files off the disk with modern
versions of windows, you would need to write a special floppy disk driver
for windows.... I don't know about you, but that's way out of the bounds of
what I know how to program...
:-)

Disk extraction already exists for DOS, as a program called EMX, but most of
us have troubles running it because DOS computers are old, and a pain....
EMX creates images that could be worked on, in fact I think the rubber
chicken software guy has a plan in place to import/export samples from EMX
files, but since thats a commercial venture, he's obviously not seeing that
much reason to hurry up with it, because it's been in process for years
now..... I mean you need to think, how many people would buy his software
just to dump wave files to their emax?

Apart from that, there's always the serial connection and an old mac with
alchemy..... you could possibly get someone to write a program to do this in
windows too, but it would require an RS422 interface on the PC (not a
standard PC serial port)



julian