Emax

Maybe this could be useful for some of you...
And maybe some of you already discovered this...

If you create backups of your Emax zipdisks (100M or 250M), e.g. with 
EMXP, and you change the extension of the backupfile to .ISO, you can 
burn this image directly to a CD and use it in your Emax.
Indeed: if you put this CD into the SCSI CD-drive connected to your 
Emax, the Emax will recognize the disk. So the CD is immediately ready-
for-use !
(I tested it only with an EMAX-II).

This could be a nice way to backup your (unreliable) zipdisks :-)


Of course only 100MB or 250MB of the CD capacity is being used... so I 
think I will add a feature to EMXP that will allow to create 512 
MB .ISO CD images (besides reading CD-roms of course).
I don't know when this will be available. The next release of the EMXP-
freeware is in January, this one will support conversion from EmaxI/II 
to Akai S1000 files and reading/writing/formatting Akai S1000 floppy 
disks. Also the annoying samplerate conversion issues when converting 
WAV to Emax will be removed - EMXP will do the job for you 
automatically.

By the way: I'm also adding Emulator-III support. I think some of the 
Emulator-III features will already be available in february (probably 
reading/writing Emu-III zipdisks, reading Emu-III cdroms and converting 
Emu-III samples to WAV-files).

Have fun in vintage emuland !

///E-Synthesist