Emax

With all the man power here in the info age isn't there someone that 
can write such a util?

From: "davidnoller" <davidnoller@...>


> With all the man power here in the info age isn't there someone that
> can write such a util?
>
it would be great, wouldn't it??

the major stumbling block, is the emax disks aren't even REMOTELY windows
compatible, so to make a program to grab the files off the disk with modern
versions of windows, you would need to write a special floppy disk driver
for windows.... I don't know about you, but that's way out of the bounds of
what I know how to program...
:-)

Disk extraction already exists for DOS, as a program called EMX, but most of
us have troubles running it because DOS computers are old, and a pain....
EMX creates images that could be worked on, in fact I think the rubber
chicken software guy has a plan in place to import/export samples from EMX
files, but since thats a commercial venture, he's obviously not seeing that
much reason to hurry up with it, because it's been in process for years
now..... I mean you need to think, how many people would buy his software
just to dump wave files to their emax?

Apart from that, there's always the serial connection and an old mac with
alchemy..... you could possibly get someone to write a program to do this in
windows too, but it would require an RS422 interface on the PC (not a
standard PC serial port)



julian

It is possible to open an emax II disc-image in Soundforge.
(with disc-image ,i mean an em2 file-ext. made with EMX)
Do this.
I use Soundforge 5:
Open the em2 image as a .raw file in soundforge,
format=signed
byte-order=motorola
sample-type=16 bit pcm
emax2-samplerates are:11.025Hz/22.050Hz/27.778Hz/31.025Hz/39.063Hz

When you have loaded the em2-file ,you can cut out the emax-samples
You cannot load emax-1 (em1)disks because of the 12 bit compression

This is just an experiment,but it works,you CAN extract emax2 samples 
to your PC
Ron  http://members.home.nl/fibers/



--- In emax@yahoogroups.com, "mr julian" <jujulilianan@w...> wrote:
> From: "davidnoller" <davidnoller@y...>
> 
> 
> > With all the man power here in the info age isn't there someone 
that
> > can write such a util?
> >
> it would be great, wouldn't it??
> 
> the major stumbling block, is the emax disks aren't even REMOTELY 
windows
> compatible, so to make a program to grab the files off the disk with 
modern
> versions of windows, you would need to write a special floppy disk 
driver
> for windows.... I don't know about you, but that's way out of the 
bounds of
> what I know how to program...
> :-)
> 
> Disk extraction already exists for DOS, as a program called EMX, but 
most of
> us have troubles running it because DOS computers are old, and a 
pain....
> EMX creates images that could be worked on, in fact I think the 
rubber
> chicken software guy has a plan in place to import/export samples 
from EMX
> files, but since thats a commercial venture, he's obviously not 
seeing that
> much reason to hurry up with it, because it's been in process for 
years
> now..... I mean you need to think, how many people would buy his 
software
> just to dump wave files to their emax?
> 
> Apart from that, there's always the serial connection and an old mac 
with
> alchemy..... you could possibly get someone to write a program to do 
this in
> windows too, but it would require an RS422 interface on the PC (not 
a

> standard PC serial port)
> 
> 
> 
> julian