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

2011-12-09 by jammie

its in the files section there is a rapishare link copy it and paste in 
internet program

its on my account
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Francis Cote" <francis.cote@...>
To: <emax@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Friday, December 09, 2011 1:53 AM
Subject: Re: [emax] Re: Sound Designer for EMAX has anyone got a disk image?


> 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?
>> > > > >
>> > > >
>> > >
>> > >
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > No virus found in this message.
>> > > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com
>> > > Version: 2012.0.1873 / Virus Database: 2101/4638 - Release Date:
>> 11/25/11
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>> >
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