Emax

The original Alchemy works like older ProTools in that there is an  
authorization on the disk that it puts onto your hard drive. I am  
unaware of a way to copy the disk with the "authorization" intact. I  
tried it with a ProTools disk once (before I had bought ProTools) and  
never was able to do it- or a couple of my friends either :-(.
Anyone on the group know how to make a "backup" of this type of  
protected disk? If so, I can try it. If successful, I could then get  
the image uploaded and we could try it....

Too bad the company that bought the rights to Alchemy won't re-release  
it- I know, I asked before I was able to finally find an original....

Thanks,
Ted

On May 13, 2005, at 7:50 AM, elmacaco wrote:

> Is there a way to get a copy of your original to the group?  Or would  
> that still be a crack?  It would just be a floppy image correct?  or  
> does it have a dongle?
>
> I am using the one we have in the files section and I don't think  
> anyone else has gotten it to work with the emax either (correct me if  
> I am wrong).
>
>
>   ----- Original Message -----
>   From: ted Summers
>   To: emax@yahoogroups.com
>   Sent: Friday, May 13, 2005 2:09 AM
>   Subject: Re: [emax] Re: Wav to Emax I Apple II emulator
>
>
>   I am running Alchemy 3.0 on Performa 6214 with OS 8.1 You are not
>   supposed to hook the midi and serial cable up at the same time as  
> both
>   ports run off the same chip in the emax. the midi alone does work,  
> but
>   is slower. the whole reason for the serial cable is it is WAY  
> faster. I
>   built my cable myself, and it works great. So it should work. You may
>   have problems with Alchemy if it is a "cracked" copy. I believe the
>   cracked copy never worked for me (I remember the Keymap errors), and
>   crashed several times. I got lucky and found an original copy, which
>   has never crashed on me....although I haven't used it "tons"....
>
>   Hope that info helps,
>   Ted
>
>   On May 12, 2005, at 6:22 PM, homershines wrote:
>
>> Damn.
>> I have to go back in time.
>> I think it's an Alchemy and appropriate OS issue though.
>>
>> Do you have or can you use Mac OS 8.6?
>>
>> Also, is the midi cable connected via whatever source at the same  
>> time?
>> That may be fine too.
>>
>> I'm looking thru my ole Alchemy manual for leads.
>> I'm sure it can be solved.
>> It's been some time though.
>>
>> Wow.
>>
>> Peace.
>>
>> homershines
>>
>>
>>
>> --- In emax@yahoogroups.com, "elmacaco" <elmacaco@h...> wrote:
>>> Hey Homershines,
>>>
>>> I have a powerbook 160 I found in the garbage with OS 7.5.1 and I was
>>> able to install
>> alchemy, but I always got that couldn't find keymap or something like
>> that error.  SO I
>> need to have a midi interface hooked up to the mac as well as the RS
>> cable?  I thought the
>> RS cable handled all of that.
>>>
>>> Mind you this powerbook has seen better days, but it still works, the
>>> contrast of the
>> screen fluctuates and the track ball doesn't track so well, but if I
>> can get it to work I could
>> get used to it, all I'd do is load wavs to transfer through a floppy.
>>>
>>> Thanks for looking at this, there are a few more people having this
>>> trouble on list and a
>> solution would be great.
>>>
>>> But ideally something on the PC that could spit out em1 files would
>>> be best.  I'd even
>> use EMX to write the disk if I could just feed my emax wavs.
>>>
>>>
>>>   ----- Original Message -----
>>>   From: homershines
>>>   To: emax@yahoogroups.com
>>>   Sent: Thursday, May 12, 2005 3:45 PM
>>>   Subject: [emax] Re: Wav to Emax I Apple II emulator
>>>
>>>
>>>   Don't think you can get Alchemy to work with Apple II.
>>>   I'd really be surprised. Alchemy is a much later invention.
>>>
>>>   As for your Mac problem, you should give it a lil more time.
>>>
>>>   Do you have a midi cable and RS422 attached?
>>>   Which Mac, OS & version of Alchemy?
>>>
>>>   I used to live off of Alchemy. It made my Emax II even more  
>>> awesome.
>>>
>>>   Let me know what you've got going on.
>>>
>>>   Peace.
>>>
>>>   homershines
>>>
>>>   --- In emax@yahoogroups.com, "elmacaco" <elmacaco@h...> wrote:
>>>> Has anyone been able to run alchemy on the Apple II emulator in
>>>   the archives?  I am still on the quest to convert wave files into
>>>   em1 files to load into my emax.  Either through floppy or Zip
>>>   drive.  I tried alchemy on an old mac with the cable from emulator
>>>   archive, but I always got the same error that other's recently
>>>   reported.  So basically I just want to be able to pass audio from
>>>   the PC to the Emax,  dont need any particular settings to be
>>>   adjustable, even if they loaded with a default key assignment of  
>>> one
>>>   key per sample I could change that in the emax.
>>>>
>>>> Just curious if anyone else has got this working.  I still use my
>>>   emax all the time, and I could always just sample from the PC to  
>>> the
>>>   emax, but it is a bit less elegant that sampling from a turntable  
>>> or
>>>   just converting the sounds.
>>>>
>>>> Wasn't chickensystems gonna add emax support?
>>>>
>>>>
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