Emax

Its not exactly cheap, but USB flash drives are.... If this could boot the Emax and work with the 
floppy controller and 800kB disk format then it would be a great solution! The 100 floppy images 
are stored on the USB drive as files that can be easily archived when the USB drive is plugged into 
a PC or Mac :)

http://www.ipcas.com/products/usb-floppy-emulator-fdd-to-udd.html

On Fri, Aug 7th, 2009 at 3:11 PM, tu@... wrote:

> What about something like this to replace the floppy drive with a USB
> flash drive?
> 
> http://unofficial.waldorf-wave.de/USB-Drive2.pdf
> 
> 
> On Fri, Aug 7th, 2009 at 3:02 PM, Ted Summers <djtbs1@...>
> wrote:
> 
> > Colin-
> > 
> > While in theory, booting from some other method is possible someone
> 
> > 
> > has to develop this new method, and that takes time, and $$$.
> > 
> > I have searched for days on the Web trying to find tools to pull  
> > apart / debug / trace the NS32008 code.
> > I have not found any of the Assembler language tools or reference 
> 
> > documents for this CPU anywhere.
> > That includes searching websites in foreign languages and
> translating
> >  
> > them where possible.
> > 
> > obsolete CPU and documentation is out of print are the replies I
> have
> >  
> > gotten from potential sources.
> > 
> > Do you know how to successfully load a foreign format (not PC  
> > compatible) OS image for a different CPU machine code into the
> EEPROM
> >  
> > or PIC so that it can be read correctly by the Emax native NS32008
> > CPU?
> > If you have the tools and reference documents for the NS32008,
> please
> >  
> > share!!!!!!
> > 
> > I wanted to increase the # of available sample banks and size of
> hard
> >  
> > drive, and increase the possible available Emax memory by tearing 
> 
> > apart the firmware and OS used in the Emax.
> > 
> > Please note, the floppy or "other methods" you speak of are
> necessary
> >  
> > to load sound sample banks into the Emax.
> > Emax has no built in sounds.
> > 
> > The facts are that MIDI is slow to load samples. :-(
> > Emax doesn't support SCSI dump standard. :-(
> > 
> > That leaves RS422 sample input (not as slow), and the analog input 
> 
> > (realtime sampling).
> > Then you have to save off your work if you change the samples in
> the 
> > 
> > Emax.....
> > 
> > The methods work, but are not nearly as fast as having a hard
> drive, 
> > 
> > CF, or Zip to load many banks from, when desired.
> > 
> > While it does cost some $$ for a SCSI update (where desired), and 
> 
> > available floppy options (either my slim floppy, or original  
> > replacement from Route66, or if you know how to modify a standard 
> 
> > drive to Floppy ID 0)---
> > These are proven options. They work.
> > 
> > If the idea for a new boot process does not incorporate some form
> of 
> > 
> > technology that is current using removable media to interact with 
> 
> > multiple sound banks, and is inexpensive to implement, I just don't
> 
> > 
> > see it being a viable solution.
> > 
> > My 2 cents.
> > 
> > Ted
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > On Aug 6, 2009, at 7:27 PM, Colin Peiris wrote:
> > 
> > Dear Friends!
> > 
> > I would like to sudjest that a programmed Pic micro controller or
> an 
> > 
> > EEPROM can be adopted to boot up the emax key board instead of
> Floppy
> >  
> > or other methods.
> > 
> > In this regard you have to modify the interface so that u can read
> > the  
> > eprom or controller to boot the emax. So any abel body can
> experiment
> >  
> > in this method.
> > 
> > Any ideas about this very much appritiated.
> > 
> > Thanks
> > amacolp
> > 
> > 
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