Emax

yes anything that can keep these machines going for futur use is great

dd/sd disk are becoming very rare and they cost almost £1 for each disk

so 10-0 floppy disks is £100

thats nearly the cost of the drive 

ontop of that you need to back up the floppy disk at least every 5 years as the tape fails so to keep the library alive it costs lots of money and disk

they also take up lots of room
an sd card are tiny and fit 100 floppy images on

i have 3000 floppy disk with samples on for various machines

and this sd card drive is the ultimate as we can image our disks and keep on sa hard drive for futur use

if through my tests with the sy99 and sy85 are successful then ill be changing those
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Carl Lofgren 
  To: emax@yahoogroups.com 
  Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2012 9:20 AM
  Subject: Re: [emax] Anyone tried the HxC Floppy Emulator?


    
  Very interesting. Must feel real good to been a part of it I imagine? :)

  /C

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  > From: jammie <jammie.emma@blueyonder.co.uk>
  >To: emax@yahoogroups.com 
  >Sent: Tuesday, June 5, 2012 5:58 PM
  >Subject: Re: [emax] Anyone tried the HxC Floppy Emulator?
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  >i have fitted 10 cf drives with slim floppys and they dont look bad at all apart from being white they add value to te machine and for bank changes and loading there fast
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  >the floppy emulator was a very bad diy
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  >so i made a 3.5" version and told about it on the floppy emulator forum
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  >and that i was using a new smal 16x2 display 
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  >and asked if they could change the layout of the pcb as i had to on mine make additional boards with connectors to get them to be positioned on the front panel 
  >
  >from my discussions the rev f was design and put into production
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  >becuase i told them that when a 1 for 1 replacement 3.5" floppy size drive would make more people commit to buying and installing as it looked awful the way it was
  >
  >if you go to the floppy emulator forum you will see ythe discusions about it and how the rev f came to be 
  >----- Original Message ----- 
  >From: Carl Lofgren 
  >To: emax@yahoogroups.com 
  >Sent: Tuesday, June 05, 2012 3:29 PM
  >Subject: Re: [emax] Anyone tried the HxC Floppy Emulator?
  >
  >Really! Wow! The thing why I would prefer the floppy emulator is because I think the cf kits for the Emax looks so bad. I am most interested in how it will perform with the Casio FZ1 as well - got one of those too and I would love to use the emulator for that one as well.
  >
  >/C
  >
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  >> From: jammie <jammie.emma@...>
  >>To: emax@yahoogroups.com 
  >>Sent: Tuesday, June 5, 2012 1:53 PM
  >>Subject: Re: [emax] Anyone tried the HxC Floppy Emulator?
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  >>yes it does work and the new 3.5 drive is perfect have one here that im testing on synths with floppy drives
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  >>my list for testing at the moment is sy85 sy99 with a special conversion board flat cable to 34pin floppy idc connection
  >>
  >>korg m1 t1 01w
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  >>gem s2turbo
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  >>ensoniq eps classic
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  >>sd1 ts10/12
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  >>tx16w
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  >>fz1/fz10
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  >>if you can do scsi conversion on your board then i would go for that as the costs of the emulator and the scsi upgrade with the scsi cf drives are comparable
  >>
  >>but if you are unlucky enough to own a rev2 or 1 board that cant be upgraded not many of those about then the floppy emulator is up your street
  >>----- Original Message ----- 
  >>From: Carl Lofgren 
  >>To: emax@yahoogroups.com 
  >>Sent: Tuesday, June 05, 2012 12:05 PM
  >>Subject: [emax] Anyone tried the HxC Floppy Emulator?
  >>
  >>Hi - it seems the people behind the HxC floppy emulator is coming out with a new - much better designed - floppy emulator: http://www.lotharek.pl/product.php?pid=42
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  >>According to the info it should be 100 percent compatible with the older versions - which would mean support for the Emax. I think it looks pretty good and I am on the edge of ordering one.
  >>
  >>Anyone with experience with the HxC emulators?
  >>
  >>http://hxc2001.free.fr/floppy_drive_emulator/
  >>
  >>/C
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