Emax

Hi 

Rob.... perhaps you didn't read my post carefully?


Ray

In a message dated Fri, 26 Oct 2001  4:20:45 PM Eastern Daylight Time, "Rob EmuArc" <rob@...> writes:

> Hi,
> Sorry to pour cold water on this idea !! We too have the SE diskette, the
> problem is that it can only be used to upgrade an Emax once. Once the Emax
> EEPROM is updated the diskette is written to and the diskette becomes the
> Development diskette not the Upgrade diskette. It has some nice samples on
> it that use TM. We havent had any luck with disk2file either....
> 
> You need to reverse engineer the small upgrade application from the OS
> diskette...and switch the bit back on that means its a new upgrade
> diskette..trouble is finding a PC or Mac program that reads and writes to
> ALL areas of the Emax formatted diskette. Thats why EMX is a bit
> tricky...Now if someone copied a virgin SE diskette with EMX we might be in
> business.....
> 
> E-mu don't have the ability to create more SE upgrade diskettes, and they
> have not offically sanctioned the Emax diskettes on our web site
> either....they just turn a blind eye.
> 
> We are liaising closely with the 1980's E-mu team and we hope to have a
> solution to the SE upgrade and many other E-nmu gotchas early next year once
> international travelling becomes less risky ....
> 
> Regards
> 
> Rob
> 
> The Emulator Archive
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> 
> 
>  -----Original Message-----
> From: mr julian. [mailto:jujulilianan@...]
> Sent: 26 October 2001 08:59
> To: emax@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: [emax] Re: SE or not SE, that is the question.
> 
> 
> 
>   > I'm new to this group and this posting caught my
>   > eye. I currently only
>   > still have my Emax II.  I got rid of my original
>   > Emax ages ago but...
>   > there is a chance I might have the "Emax SE
>   > Update/Development Disk"
> 
>   wow! excellent news, if you have it!!
> 
>   > data. Long story!  I'd have to really look for it.
> 
>   please do!
> 
>   Basically, if we can get hold of this disk, and find a
>   way to image the whole thing (disk2file) then we have
>   a way for everyone on the net to upgrade their emax
>   properly to an SE!!!! I'm sure E-mu wouldn't mind
>   people doing this, seeing as they have already given
>   away their old emax sample library....
> 
> 
>   julian
> 
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