My labels are blue, circa 1986 or so. That's the incomplete set. The complete set came with the IIx I bought and the labels are irrelevant. As I don't have the list of both, I couldn't say what colour that one is.
> It's been suggested before, but it would be great if there was a formal method of imaging disks for
> users to copy.
There is indeed a recognized format for floppy images, 8" and otherwise. I have used it and with suitable hardware it works fine. You need a spare 8" drive (these are certainly available) a custom cable (34 way floppy to 50 way floppy, instructions on url below) and to write all FM/MFM formats of floppy, a good retro ISA diskette controller like the Adaptec AHA1520A (includes bonus SCSI controller!)
Imagedisk. http://www.classiccmp.org/dunfield/img/
Also works to read, write, and copy all flavours of PPG floppies, 8" and 5.25".
Slightly different methods apply for imaging retro SCSI drives, but equally easy and effective.
Having said all that, it would be good if a complete superset of both libraries was available. Unless you play 'em on an 8 bit CMI they still won't sound identical for various reasons. Has anybody on here got both? Or a list of the contents of both?
Joe
On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 6:47 PM, tomulcahy <tomulcahy@yahoo.com> wrote:
This is a list of the disks on Rob Brady's CD, which he said is "mostly" from the pink library:
http://www.pro-rec.com/samplecds.html
Incidentally, it seems that a lot of CMIs do not have a complete library. It's been suggested before, but it would be great if there was a formal method of imaging disks for users to copy.
--- In Fairlight-CMI@yahoogroups.com, "WT"; wrote:
>
> Is there a list of the Pink Library ?
>
> I have the Blue library ( almost complete ).
>
> What is the story behin the different colours ?
>
> WT
>;
> ----- Original Message -----> From: "tomulcahy"
> To: <Fairlight-CMI@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, March 30, 2010 12:28 PM
> Subject: [Fairlight-CMI] Re: CMI IIX "Old Strings" factory sound?
>
>
> Thanks Rob,
>
> Peter's pdf appears to be of the blue library, because it is not the same as
> the pink library.
>
> As far as I can make out, neither library contains this "Old Strings" sound.
>
> So how did it come to be so widely used? It's almost as ubiquitous as
> Sararr/ Arr1. Incidentally, why does that one have two names?
>
> --- In Fairlight-CMI@yahoogroups.com, Robert Brady wrote:
> >
> > There are TWO versions of the IIx factory library: Blue & Pink ( so named
> > because of the color of the labels ). They're mostly the same, but there
> > are some differences too.
> >
> > When I made the sample CD of the library it was mostly from the pink one.
> >
> > Sorry can't help you more.
>