Emax

I've also tried to write disks with EMX, using different setups. I've
managed to copy banks up to the Z749 disk and disk no 59,60,62 and 63. On
several of those I got a CRC error when trying to load them into the EMAX
(1). I got around that problem in all cases by rewriting the disk and trying
again (and then doing a save all on the emax immediately when the disk
loaded, otherwise I always got a CRC error the second time I loaded the
disk).

On all banks above number 749 (except the ones mentioned above) I manage to
get the disks to load, but the presets and samples are broken. Often the
preset names look OK in the first and last couple of presets, but the ones
in the middle don't even show the PXX. Trying to select one of the broken
presets almost always reboots the EMAX. The strange thing is that on a given
bank, the errors always look exactly the same. The preset names are broken
in the same way, the samples sound the same regardles of what setup I used
to write the disk, HD/DD, "pure" DOS or win98 in dos mode etc.

So I wonder if it isn't the disks that are incorrectly copied in to .emx
format in the first place. I'd like to know if anyone has been able to make
a (working) copy of the ZD778 FM Synth #1 bank or any other bank that I've
had no luck with.

/Max


----- Original Message -----
From: "Ben & Mana Model" <manaben@...>
To: <emax@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2001 11:30 PM
Subject: [emax] still dealing with DOS...


> I've been struggling with emax I sound banks downloaded from the
emuarchive
> site.  I've finally gotten my hands on an old IBM thinkpad running Win 3.1
> which has the version of DOS which the EMX app (supposedly) behaves with.
>
> I've used EMX with this equipment using new DS/DD floppies to write sound
> banks to disks.  When I put the disks in my emax I keyboard or emax HD,
most
> of them do not work: they contain no presets, and one keeps freezing the
> emax.  The one or two banks that did work have a couple of presets that
are
> dead.
>
> Is it simply a matter of writing the bank several times and hoping one of
> the "writes" is good?  Or is there yet another PC or DOS factor I'm
missing?
> With the HD (rev 1.1) should I be using the emax I or emax II banks?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Ben
>
>
>
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