On Aug 1, 2012, at 5:36 AM, Christian Brunschen <cb@...> wrote:
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> On Jul 31, 2012, at 6:16 PM, Mark Wiens wrote:
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>> Keep in mind that Microsoft, in their great wisdom decided it was not necessary to low level floppy support, including 720k floppy creation in their operating systems after Windows 98.
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> Well, programs like OmniFlop and possibly TotalCommander manage work around that, since the actual floppy controllers used are still very much standard. Indeed, if you want to enable low-level access for your own programs, you can use something like the fdrawcmd driver, http://simonowen.com/fdrawcmd/ , which gives access to those floppy controllers even on modern Windows versions including the latest (Vista, 7 and 8) as long as your PC includes a floppy controller. You can even get a small program from the same developer that lets you create and manage floppy images in various forms, see http://simonowen.com/samdisk/ .
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> Either way, as long as you're using a floppy drive connected to a controller on the motherboard of your PC, the software mentioned should allow you to access things as you'd expect even though Windows itself doesn't include drivers.
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>> Mark
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> Best wishes,
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> // Christian
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>> On Jul 31, 2012, at 9:55 AM, Christian Brunschen <cb@...> wrote:
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>>> Sounds are encoded very simply in a .SYX fie; they contain a short header, then a nybble-encoded dump of the sound data as it is stored in memory and indeed as it is stored on floppy; and a brief trailer. So unpacking them should be doable. The details are in the VFX-SD Musicians Manual, http://soundprogramming.net/manuals/Ensoniq_VFX-SD_Manual.pdf in Appendix A.
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>>> Once the .SYX files have been unpacked to 'raw' sound program files, they need to be put on a floppy.
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>>> To access the floppies themselves, to read or write the bare contents of a floppy, there is OmniFlop:
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>>> http://www.shlock.co.uk/Utils/OmniFlop/OmniFlop.htm
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>>> And to access the contents of the filesystem on the floppy, there's the EnsoniqFS plugin for TotalCommander:
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>>> http://thoralt.ehecht.com/content-en/Projects/Eintrage/2007/7/30_ensoniqfs_-_a_filesystem_plugin_for_TotalCommander.html
>>> http://sourceforge.net/projects/ensoniqfs/
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>>> http://www.ghisler.com
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>>> Together these should allow full access to read and I think write to Ensoniq-formatted floppies, including VFX-SD ones. So all in all it should be possible to take the .SYX files and put them onto a floppy.
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>>> Best wishes,
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>>> // Christian Brunschen
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>>> On Jul 31, 2012, at 5:43 PM, Daniel Forró wrote:
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>>>> Jammie,
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>>>> SMF is used not only for songs, of course also for SysEx memory bulk dump... It differs from SYX format just in small details in header.
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>>>> Daniel
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>>>> On Aug 1, 2012, at 1:28 AM, jammie wrote:
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>>>>> it only does midi song data not sysex data
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>>>>> as i have the soft on a win98 pc and it needs to use the msdos
>>>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>>> From: Daniel Forró
>>>>> To: Ensoniq-VFX-SD@yahoogroups.com
>>>>> Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2012 3:57 PM
>>>>> Subject: Re: [Ensoniq-VFX-SD] .SYX on Floppy?
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>>>>> This software works with SMF, not SysEx format, and it's MS-DOS
>>>>> software.
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>>>>> Daniel Forro
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>>>>> On Jul 31, 2012, at 11:31 PM, <tomlinson6050@...> <tomlinson6050@...
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>>>>> > Hi. Go to www.giebler.com
>>>>> > He sells software that can write sysex data on disks with the
>>>>> > correct Ensoniq format.
>>>>> > Only problem is you will need an older computer running Windows 95
>>>>> > or 98.
>>>>> > Bill
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