Emax

It is possible to open an emax II disc-image in Soundforge.
(with disc-image ,i mean an em2 file-ext. made with EMX)
Do this.
I use Soundforge 5:
Open the em2 image as a .raw file in soundforge,
format=signed
byte-order=motorola
sample-type=16 bit pcm
emax2-samplerates are:11.025Hz/22.050Hz/27.778Hz/31.025Hz/39.063Hz

When you have loaded the em2-file ,you can cut out the emax-samples
You cannot load emax-1 (em1)disks because of the 12 bit compression

This is just an experiment,but it works,you CAN extract emax2 samples 
to your PC
Ron  http://members.home.nl/fibers/



--- In emax@yahoogroups.com, "mr julian" <jujulilianan@w...> wrote:
> From: "davidnoller" <davidnoller@y...>
> 
> 
> > 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