Emax

Did you write it to a Zip Disk? Also do you know if it is compatible with Mac OS 8.1?

--- In emax@yahoogroups.com, "jack" <jammie.emma@...> wrote:
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> it vworks here you have to use the exe image  file so that it writes the image to the file as it was made
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> its a raw image and needs to be written as that that is why the exe file was created to read the raw file and create actual copy of the original hd drive
>   ----- Original Message ----- 
>   From: rjmm1900 
>   To: emax@yahoogroups.com 
>   Sent: Friday, November 25, 2011 5:46 PM
>   Subject: [emax] Re: Sound Designer for EMAX has anyone got a disk image?
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>   So I tried something a little bit different to try and run Sound Designer Emax,
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>   I used the enclosed application for writing the SDEmax.hfs to a Compact Flash card on a PCMCIA adapter on a Windows laptop.
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>   I tried it in my PowerBook 190cs and it wouldn't mount. :(
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>   I then prepared the Compact Flash card before hand on the PowerBook formatting it in HFS Normal and Extended and repeated the process and it still wouldn't mount.
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>   Just for record the PCMCIA Adapter with Compact Flash does work on the PowerBook and will format, it is 4gb in size.
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>   What I did do was use the Drive Steup program on Mac OS 8.1 to write a driver to the SDEmax compact flash volume that wouldn't mount and this made it mount.
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>   Although the application kept throwing the same error messages, I guess writing a driver to the volume damages the integrity.
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>   I've now been trying to get it to work in Basilisk II the 68K Mac Emulator by mounting the HFS file as a device and it still gives the same error message.
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>   So far it looks like I'll have to acquire a costly SCSI Zip Drive with SCSI DB25 to HDI-30 Adapter.
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>   But before I do that can you guarantee that the software that has been shared does actually work?
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>   --- 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.
>   > 
>   > 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
>   > 
>   > ///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.
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>   > > 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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