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Re: Has anybody got an image of disk to upgrade from emax to emax se?

2008-07-17 by esynthesist

Well... this file is on this yahoo group, isn't it ?
John Silveria is referring to this yahoo group.
See files section (both for the SE upgrade diskimage and EmaxUtil).
Probably you can also use OmniFlop to make a floppy disk of the SE 
upgrade image, but I haven't tried yet...

///E-Synthesist

--- In emax@yahoogroups.com, "Phreak boy" <gertie01@...> wrote:
>
> according to this...
> http://www.silveriafamily.com/emax/emax_repair.html
> 
> SE: Upgrading an Emax or Emax HD to SE is not as simple as getting 
a 
> copy of the correct SE OS. Before the Emax can use a SE OS it must 
> first have the SE Upgrade disk ran on it. For a long time this was 
> thought to no longer be possible. The SE Upgrade disk is a self-
> corrupting installation disk that updates a special EEPROM inside 
the 
> Emax. After running it the Upgrade portion is corrupted, but the 
> banks are left intact. Unfortunately E-mu accidentally destroyed 
the 
> Mac that the information was stored in so not even they could 
create 
> more disks. 
> 
> Fortunately, in February 2004 a list member named Carsten Ender 
> notified us that he had managed to make an image of an unused SE 
> Upgrade Disk with the EmaxUtil program available in the lists Files 
> section, he uploaded the image there as well. It has been 
succesfully 
> used by a fellow list member, midi_patchbay, who posted his 
> instructions and gave me the permission reprint them here. I have 
> modified his post to be more generic.
> 
> Theres no file for download on above site and the email address 
does 
> not work
>

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