Patches and discussion for Ensoniq VFX family

On Wed, Apr 07, 2004 at 10:26:40PM -0700, rich grey wrote:
> 
> I think there is only 2.1/2.0 o.s....now i needed a win 98 box to
> make the disks....

If you, or anyone who's trying to use EDE with a newer OS that doesn't
support direct access to the floppy (i.e. Windows XP), and you have a
computer you can boot from floppy, I have a solution for you.  You
have to trust that I'm a good guy and not spreading viruses, of
course.  I recommend you virus-scan it thorougly, because although I
know you can trust me, you don't!

(You need two floppies: a 1.44M High density one to hold freedos,
EDE.EXE, and the disk image you're trying to extract; and a 720K low
density one to extract the disk image to.)

Here's a portion of what I wrote on Thu, 9 Oct 2003 13:11:37 -0500:

> OK, here's how it can be done:  I put together a version of freedos
> for anyone who needs it.  http://www2.pro-ns.net/~steve/fdvfx.zip.
> It makes a floppy-bootable version of freedos that starts up with a
> ramdisk.  After extracting the archive, make a floppy with it
> (install.bat does this for you), then copy EDE.EXE and whatever vfx
> disk image you want to use on the floppy.  Boot from the floppy, pause
> and reflect how slow floppies feel in the modern day, and when you get
> the Z:\> prompt, run ede.  (I pretty much successfully tested this
> process myself).
> 
> Anybody providing disk images is welcome to make a copy of this for
> their own distribution.  Heck, anybody NOT providing disk images is
> welcome as well...
> 
> And, by the way, I don't use DOS or Freedos or anything like that on a
> regular basis.  I don't prefer or recommend freedos over any other
> options, except that I could create this and distribute it to the rest
> of you without any license problems.

--> Steve