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Re: [emax] Re: Wav to Emax I Apple II emulator

2005-05-14 by elmacaco

Hey that would be great, I really appreciate the effort.

Thanks
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: ted Summers 
  To: emax@yahoogroups.com 
  Sent: Friday, May 13, 2005 9:40 PM
  Subject: Re: [emax] Re: Wav to Emax I Apple II emulator


  Doesn't disk image utility do that??? Cuz that is one thing we tried. I  
  dunno if we tried shrinkwrap or not....

  I will test and see this weekend, ok?

  Wish me luck...
  Ted

  On May 13, 2005, at 10:40 AM, elmacaco wrote:

  > Maybe a disk image program that takes a whole disk image?  I think  
  > that should do it.
  >   ----- Original Message -----
  >   From: ted Summers
  >   To: emax@yahoogroups.com
  >   Sent: Friday, May 13, 2005 11:56 AM
  >   Subject: Re: [emax] Re: Wav to Emax I Apple II emulator
  >
  >
  >   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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