Emax

excellent! i haven't got myself a scsi cd drive yet & my zip's holding
out fine so far, but that's a damned handy thing!

thanks again for all your hard work & generosity in sharing it with us
all e,
you rock!


--- In emax@yahoogroups.com, "esynthesist" <esynthesist@...> wrote:
>
> 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
>