Emax

Well, I have no Mac with a built in floppy drive.  I am using a Mac mini
for everything so USB and FireWire are my only options.  Perhaps an older
g4 with a built in floppy and OS 10.5 running parallels might work but, I
am not certain.  I think that might be the only combination where there
could even be a possibility of the floppy working since g5's and Mac pros
have no floppy slot and g3's can only run up to 10.3 i believe but, even
that seems fairly unlikely seeing how temperamental floppy drives can be.
 I really just use the PC to rip floppies, flash pcd-50b's and run the
occasional program that needs a parallel port (i.e. a s950 sample dump
software).  Most of what I need can be done in OS X or parallels.

-Scott

On 2013-01-07, at 8:43 PM, Ted Summers <djtbs1@...> wrote:



OK- but a Floppy doesn't work through EMXP on MacOSX , am I understanding
that correctly?

Thx,
Ted

On Jan 7, 2013, at 5:35 PM, Scott Stanley wrote:

Sorry for the delay.

Yes, I can write floppy/HD images to solid state media, Zip disk or via
emuser (although the emuser only works with my emax's so far. It is not
working at all with my EII). Obviously I cannot write to floppies so, I
keep a windows PC around just in case.
I mainly use parallels with a windows XP image. I built the image that I
use by doing a physical to virtual conversion of the PC that I know works
with emxp, omniflop, etc... over the network. Not that you have to do it
that way but, if you have a windows machine that you know works, it's
pretty simple to clone it as a backup/virtual machine in parallels. Then
just let the virtual machine take charge of the emuser or USB card
reader/writer or USB Zip drive and go!

Esynthesist can verify that I have been using it this way for some time
as he's given me much support over the years.

-Scott

On 2013-01-06, at 7:48 PM, Ted Summers djtbs1@gmail.com> wrote:

So you are saying you were able to successfully write media (floppy and HD
images)?

Thx,
Ted

On Jan 6, 2013, at 11:32 AM, Krikor Kouchian wrote:

Thanks, that's a very good info!

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Le 6 janv. 2013 à 20:30, Scott Stanley scartattack@...> a écrit :

> Yes, I've tried both. They both work for me. I find parallels works best,
> especially with the emuser.
>
> -Scott
>
> On 2013-01-06, at 2:24 PM, Krikor Kouchian krikorola@...> wrote:
>
> I tried with codeweaver crossover, it doesn't launch.
> Anybody tried with parallels or VMware fusion?
>
> http://www.krikor.fr
> +33632199413
>
> Le 6 janv. 2013 à 19:14, Ted Summers djtbs1@...> a écrit :
>
> > Oracle (Sun) VirtualBox which is FREE.
> >
> > On Jan 6, 2013, at 2:58 AM, krikor kouchian wrote:
> >
> > which virtualisation app did you try EMXP on your mac?
> >
> > Le samedi 5 janvier 2013, Ted Summers djtbs1@...> a écrit :
> > > I was doing a little testing.
> > >
> > > I couldn't get EMXP to work using Virtual Box.
> > > it would run, and appeared to read an SD CARD ok.
> > >
> > > But - Writing an image to a SD card didn't work.
> > > Now, with that said- I do have a PC and had copied an image from SD
> > using EMXP on the PC.
> > > I copied this file to USB, then to my mac desktop.
> > >
> > > Where you have a Hard drive image created by EMXP you can use the unix
> > "dd" command to write it to the flash!!!!!
> > > "dd" is direct to the device and doesn't do formatting,
interpretation,
> > or anything- it takes whatever "input" and writes it to whatever output
> you
> > specify, as a raw stream.
> > >
> > > To clarify the process-
> > >
> > > I had a 32MB SD card in a SD to USB adapter on my Mac Pro.
> > >
> > > 1) In disk utility, I highlight the PC formatted flash in the adapter
> and
> > click the "Info" button.
> > > It reveals the disk is "disk3" in my case (yours could be different
as I
> > have 3 other Hard disks, it could be disk1 or disk 2- this WILL vary).
> > > The disk identifier could even be changed by having CD / DVDs in the
> > optical drive∑.
> > >
> > > 2) I UNMOUNT the volume (not EJECT) - if you eject you have to remove,
> > reinsert and start over∑.
> > >
> > > 3) Open Terminal
> > >
> > > 4) The file is on my desktop, so I go there:
> > > cd Desktop
> > >
> > > 5) Now I run a dd command-
> > >
> > > **********WARNING- improper usage of the "dd" command to your existing
> > drives can destroy the data / bootability of your drives.
> > > Use the command with caution, and clearly understand what the
parameters
> > are and their effect !!!!! ********
> > >
> > > If you aren't sure- DON'T DO IT!
> > > I am not responsible if you improperly use the command and make your
Mac
> > no longer boot!!!
> > >
> > > (where my EMXP EMAX HD image is named "EMAX1-1.EZ1")
> > >
> > > dd if=EMAX1-1.EZ1 of=/dev/disk3
> > >
> > > It took 90 seconds to complete.
> > > It writes the file as a stream until the write is complete∑.
> > >
> > > To clarify-
> > > if = INPUT FILE
> > > of = OUTPUT FILE / DEVICE
> > >
> > > For any Unix gurus out there- specifying block size did not speed up
the
> > operation, as I did test that parameter in conjunction with "count"
> > >
> > > Took the flash to my Emax and it booted from it fine and loaded the
> bank.
> > >
> > > Anyways- just thought I would share what I had found out∑.
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > > Ted
> > >
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> > >
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> > >
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> > >
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