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Re: [emax] Re: Sound Designer for EMAX has anyone got a disk image?

2011-12-09 by Ted Summers

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On Dec 8, 2011, at 5:53 PM, Francis Cote wrote:

Hi,

I don't wanna sound stupid by I can't find any link to download this. Can
someone point me in the right direction please?

Thanks a bunch

Francis


On Sat, Nov 26, 2011 at 3:52 PM, rjmm1900 <rjmacarthur@...> wrote:

> **
> 
> 
> 
> 
> I did some more testing using Basilisk II with mounting the SDEmax.hfs and
> was able to get it to work.
> 
> The caveat is that it won't work when there is more than 19mb of System
> Ram.
> 
> I don't know if this is a program limitation or because the original Mac
> this disk was used on was configured for a Mac with less ram.
> 
> <Working with 16mb Ram>
> http://img72.imageshack.us/img72/9522/sdemaxos8116mb.png
> 
> <Not working with 32mb Ram>
> http://img689.imageshack.us/img689/7564/sdemaxos8132mb.png
> 
> 
> --- In emax@yahoogroups.com, "jack" <jammie.emma@...> wrote:
>> 
>> dont know if it works with os8 i use os7.6.1 as i use the whole
> sounddesigner2 with soundtools accelerater card and external adc dac and it
> only works with os7
>> 
>> as the version 2.5 and higher stopped support for hardware samplers
> which worked with os8
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: rjmm1900
>> To: emax@yahoogroups.com
>> Sent: Friday, November 25, 2011 8:32 PM
>> Subject: [emax] Re: Sound Designer for EMAX has anyone got a disk image?
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 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:
>>> 
>>> it vworks here you have to use the exe image file so that it writes
> the image to the file as it was made
>>> 
>>> 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?
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> So I tried something a little bit different to try and run Sound
> Designer Emax,
>>> 
>>> I used the enclosed application for writing the SDEmax.hfs to a
> Compact Flash card on a PCMCIA adapter on a Windows laptop.
>>> 
>>> I tried it in my PowerBook 190cs and it wouldn't mount. :(
>>> 
>>> 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.
>>> 
>>> Just for record the PCMCIA Adapter with Compact Flash does work on the
> PowerBook and will format, it is 4gb in size.
>>> 
>>> 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.
>>> 
>>> Although the application kept throwing the same error messages, I
> guess writing a driver to the volume damages the integrity.
>>> 
>>> 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.
>>> 
>>> So far it looks like I'll have to acquire a costly SCSI Zip Drive with
> SCSI DB25 to HDI-30 Adapter.
>>> 
>>> But before I do that can you guarantee that the software that has been
> shared does actually work?
>>> 
>>> --- In emax@yahoogroups.com, "esynthesist" <esynthesist@> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> 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.
>>>> 
>>>> 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
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> --- In emax@yahoogroups.com, "rjmm1900" <rjmacarthur@> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 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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