Emax

Thanks for the quick reply. I do have a 100mb ZIP Drive but it is a Parallel Port model. :(

I'll try and source a SCSI model, with regards to using a Hard Disk I assume making a partition would work on the same HD?

--- In emax@yahoogroups.com, "esynthesist" <esynthesist@...> wrote:
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> As I have explained in my e-mail, this software can only run if you copy the full HFS image to either a Mac hard disk or to a ZIP disk.
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> Copying the HFS image to a CDROM does not work, since Sound Designer must be installed on a writeable disk.
> Copying the software .BIN from the HFS image to a HD or floppy does not work neither, because of the copy protection mechanism.
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> You can only use it if you copy the full HFS image to a hard disk with read/write capabilities and with a capacity of minimum 100MB. A ZIP 100MB disk is the most obvious solution.
> To copy the HFS image to a ZIP disk, you can use the small .exe file which can be found in the SDEmax package
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> ///E-Synthesist
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> --- In emax@yahoogroups.com, "rjmm1900" <rjmacarthur@> wrote:
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> > Just thought I'd share my results with this software.
> > 
> > I first mounted the SDEmax.HFS file with Toast Deluxe 4.1.3 so it would appear as a CD Rom 
> > to the Mac OS 8.1, but the program failed upon execution.
> > 
> > This resulted in a "Sound Designer Emax 1.12 has unexpectedly quit, because an error of type 1 occurred".
> > 
> > Interestingly it will throw random type errors between 1-10.
> > 
> > I also tried copying it from the disk image and running it from the hard disk but this gave the same error.
> > 
> > Sometimes the application would get past the error message and show Sound Designer Emax 1.12 in the menu bar, but locked up the Mac straight after.
> > 
> > Perhaps there is a better tool for mounting an HFS file? is this HFS file a CD Rom image?
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