Emax

The emax.os is the Emax OS file itself, but Emax doesn’t use a standard formatted floppy.
I’ve never written an Emax OS disk on a Mac ever. Always have used a PC (EMX in DOS 6.22, EMXP in Windows XP - Win7 (32-bit) using the Omniflop driver).

-T

PS- You cannot use Boot camp and hook an USB floppy to your Mac either. The omniflop driver is accessing floppy electronics - USB doesn’t allow the low level sector read / write control of the floppy needed by the proprietary formats supported by EMXP.



On Mar 9, 2016, at 4:03 PM, fm_xtk@... [emax] <emax@...m> wrote:

Hello,

I am new to the group and new to the EMAX. I have been given an EMAX II without anything else, no system disk, no sound disks, etc.

Being a Mac user I have downloaded the file "macemaxos.zip" in the Files Section which is the Emax OS 2.14 in a Mac compatible format, apparently.

Alas, I can't get it to work. The instructions are a bit vague saying it is a "stuffed DART disk image". I have an old Mac downloaded DART and it is working great with another image file. However, the OS image file in the archive is called "emax.os" and my Mac won't recognise it as neither a stuffed archive nor a DART image.

I remember vaguley playing around with Resedit, etc. back in the day to change file types and creators but in order to do that I'd have to know what time of file emax.os actually is.

I realise that nobody might know the answer to this as the file is from 1996. However, I appreciate any help and am very keen to start my EMAX journey soon!

Cheers

Max





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