Emax

1 question have you enabled the floppy controller in the bios of the 
motherboard as most are shut of

also have you not got scsi on your machine
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "el macaco" <elmacaco@...>
To: <emax@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Monday, August 29, 2011 10:14 PM
Subject: RE: [emax] Re: Can't install Omnniflop Driver on Windows 7 ?


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> Thanks Kris,
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> My motherboard had a floppy connector and I grabbed the floppy from my old 
> PC.  I only use EMXP with my Emax, so that's all the functionality I need, 
> however, if it is considerable time, I don't blame you if you don't get 
> right on it.
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> I've spenty way to long trying the solution on the omniflop website over 
> and over and it never worked.  I'll have a look at some other tests.
>
> I'd say lets see if Mr. Omniflop has anything to offer before you start 
> any wasted effort.  But if there is no solution, then I would be very 
> happy to use your old driver.
>
> Thanks so much man,
>
> Ed
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> To: emax@yahoogroups.com
> From: esynthesist@...
> Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2011 20:26:06 +0000
> Subject: [emax] Re: Can't install Omnniflop Driver on Windows 7 ?
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> Hi Ed,
>
> I'm not really aware of people using Windows 7 64bit with EMXP and 
> OmniFlop - I can not say for sure that it works, I don't have a Windows 7 
> system to test it myself.
> Most Windows 7 systems are installed on new PC's which don't have any 
> internal floppy drive anymore, so people using EMXP on such machine are 
> typically not using the floppy disk functions of EMXP...
>
> OmniFlop is the only driver that currently can be used by EMXP. I'm 
> thinking about adding another one (which is also faster), but it needs 
> some additional programming and testing which will take some time...and 
> I'm currently in the middle of building version 2.11 with Emulator-I 
> support.
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> As a temporary quick win, I could consider to re-release the very first 
> 0.9 version of EMXP based on another floppy driver. That could be done 
> much faster I guess, because the code base was very compact and simple. 
> Version 0.9 was only capable of reading, writing and formatting Emax 
> floppy disks, but that's sufficient for you I guess. And the files 
> created/read by version 0.9 are the EMX files (.EM1, .EMX) which are also 
> used by the current EMXP version.
>
> But if someone else has successfully used OmniFlop with Windows 7 64bit, 
> there's little chance I will do the effort :-)
>
> ///E-Synthesist
>
> --- In emax@yahoogroups.com, el macaco <elmacaco@...> wrote:
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>> Thanks Jammie,
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>> But I am installing logged in as administrator, at least it lets me go 
>> through with it and I have other admin access.
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>> There are instructions on the omniflop site that talk about how 64 bit 
>> windows OS's have some new drivier signing system, and it shows two ways 
>> to override them. A temporary and a permanent.
>> See here:
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>> http://www.shlock.co.uk/Utils/OmniFlop/OmniFlop64.htm#Installation
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>> I have tried both, and I never get a usable omniflop driver. I have 
>> access to the basic disk systems (emu EOS and Emu ESI) but not emax file 
>> systems. I can't use it with Omniflop or with EMXP. In fact, on that same 
>> page it says that the 64 bit omniflop is not guaranteed and untested.
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>> I also tried installing the 32 bit driver, but that gives me an error 
>> before installing saying that it is not designed for this platform.
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>> Is anyone using the 64 bit Omniflop driver successfully? I really just 
>> need it for EMXP, for my emax, that's it, so if there is another floppy 
>> driver that will support EMXP and Emax format disks please let me know.
>>
>> This is somewhat curious, when I install the Omniflop driver and reboot, 
>> the display in device manager says floppy disk drive with an !, but when 
>> I look at the details it has the OmniFlop driver info, when I roll back 
>> the driver to the microsoft one, the display in device manager says 
>> Omniflop Enhanced Floppy disk drive, even when I reboot, and when I look 
>> at the driver details it says the microsoft details. I wonder why it has 
>> the information for the drivers reversed? Maybe that can help solve it/ I 
>> am going to email the Omniflop guy now too.
>>
>> Hey Kris,
>>
>> you must have other 64 bit EMXP users right, do they have omniflop 
>> installed?
>>
>> If anyone has success stories or any suggestions I am all earts, I don;t 
>> really want to use a second computer for EMXP or mess with other 
>> operating systems etc.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Ed
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>> To: emax@yahoogroups.com
>> From: jammie.emma@...
>> Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2011 18:12:40 +0100
>> Subject: Re: [emax] Can't install Omnniflop Driver on Windows 7 ?
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>> you need to install it as administrator
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: elmacaco@...
>> To: emax@yahoogroups.com
>> Sent: Sunday, August 28, 2011 5:40 PM
>> Subject: [emax] Can't install Omnniflop Driver on Windows 7 ?
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>> Hey Guys, I have a new windows 7 Home premium 64 bit machine, my 
>> motherboard has a floppy drive connector and it works with the standard 
>> Windows driver.
>>
>> When I try to install the omniflop driver (Ive tried both the 64 bit 
>> version and the 32 bit driver, which is newer) it goes through the 
>> motions, but when I start Omniflop ( to make an EIII OS disk for a 
>> friend) I get an error that the driver isnt installed correctly.
>>
>> I get the warning
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>> "No OmniFlop Driver"
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>> The Omniflop driver is not installed correctly.
>>
>> When I look in the device manager at the Floppy Disk Driver details, I 
>> see the following error.
>>
>> Windows cannot verify the digital signature for the drivers required for 
>> this device. A recent hardware or software change might have installed a 
>> file that is signed incorrectly or damaged, or that might be malicious 
>> software from an unknown source. (Code 52)
>>
>> I am trying some solutions now but not having any luck, has anyone 
>> encountered this or perhaps know of a solution? Is anyone using EMXP with 
>> the omniflop driver on Windows 7 Home Premium?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Ed
>>
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