Archive of the former Yahoo!Groups mailing list: Korg Poly800/EX800 Users

A little update.

I've been swamped at work so progress has slowed a little but progress
is still occurring. In order to send firmware via sysex to the two new
EEPROM's I had to write a little executable program that would convert
a binary file generated by the assembler into a sysex file that
MIDI-OX could send to the EX800. I succeeded in writing it in Visual
Basic but just could not get it to run on any machine other than the
machine that had VB installed. So I went looking for the VB install
disks in my storage room and just couldn't find them (you should see
the stacks of old Intel chip reference books mixed in with kitchen
pots and pans). So I dragged out my old trusty copy of Borland Turbo
C++ and rewrote the code in C. It's 99% complete. I just have one
niggling problem with creating the file. I should sort that out this
weekend.

Then, I'll be in a position to start splitting the code out into the
EEPROM's. It should speed up the development process quite a bit
because I'll be able to send code straight from the assembler to the
EX800. As it stands now, my old EPROM programmer only works in DOS so
I edit my code changes in WinXP and once completed, reboot the machine
into DOS to program the EPROM. Then reboot back into WinXP to run
MIDI-OX to test the sysex functions etc. All that rebooting is a real
pain. With the EEPROM sysex firmware functions I'll be able to send
new code straight into the EX800 via sysex.

Anyway, talk to you all again soon.

Mike.