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Emu Emax HxC setup

2015-07-29 by shawnjward@...

if anyone has experience setting up an HxC rev F floppy emulator in an Emax 1000 Keyboard would be great to get some tips or guidance in the procedure.

I'm pretty sure the Emaxos.emx file i have is not compatible with my version

i have a thread on it here

cheers!

HxC Floppy Drive Emulator • View topic - problems setting up my HxC drive

HxC Floppy Drive Emulator • View topic - problems settin...

ok so after reformatting the SD I was able to boot the Emax Bios Disc file as seen in the pic it loaded the OS and also the bank of sounds which all played fine and...

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Re: [emax] Emu Emax HxC setup

2015-07-29 by Ted Summers

OK- so I now understand what is happening here.

The 3.2 OS booted the Emax.
but when you switch floppy image, every single disk “image” section on the SD must have this SAME OS.

That is what is wrong.

To be clear.
You booted an OS.
Then by switching hfe image file, you are now swapping out this WORKING virtual floppy disk with working OS to a diffferent VIRTUAL floppy disk that has different version OS.

Now next time you go to operate a function, the OS module will attempt to load to perform that function.
But the OS function is different / has changed - checksum failure. OS module load failure.

Your mentality is that once you have loaded the OS, it’s done… but Emax doesnt’ work that way due to it’s limited available operating memory.
Every time you use a different function, Emax has to access the OS module specific to that function on disc.

Now, this is the difference between HXC and SCSI HD.
On an actual SCSI drive (CF media, or real HD, Zip, etc.) You have 1 OS that is loaded on the hard drive.
All the 35 banks access and use this same single copy of the OS for the module access, thus preventing what you encounter here.

But on HXC, each floppy virtual image MUST contain the same (correct working) OS.
So you will have to rebuild all the other hfe images using the working one as your starting point.

Hope that is helpful for your understanding.

-T

On Jul 28, 2015, at 7:21 PM, shawnjward@... [emax] <emax@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

if anyone has experience setting up an HxC rev F floppy emulator in an Emax 1000 Keyboard would be great to get some tips or guidance in the procedure.

I'm pretty sure the Emaxos.emx file i have is not compatible with my version

i have a thread on it here

cheers!

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ok so after reformatting the SD I was able to boot the Emax Bios Disc file as seen in the pic it loaded the OS and also the bank of sounds which all played fine and...
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RE: [emax] Emu Emax HxC setup

2015-07-29 by Shawn Ward

yes what you say makes perfect sense. the emaxos.emx file i have that I'm batch converting the images to isn't the same OS as the boot image files that i was given

I think the admin/tech Jeff should be able to get me the right OS file to use to convert those images properly

I saw a thread where he helped someone else with the identical problem and getting the correct file solved it

wish me luck

To: emax@yahoogroups.com
From: emax@yahoogroups.com
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2015 21:12:12 -0700
Subject: Re: [emax] Emu Emax HxC setup

OK- so I now understand what is happening here.

The 3.2 OS booted the Emax.

but when you switch floppy image, every single disk “image” section on the SD must have this SAME OS.

That is what is wrong.

To be clear.

You booted an OS.

Then by switching hfe image file, you are now swapping out this WORKING virtual floppy disk with working OS to a diffferent VIRTUAL floppy disk that has different version OS.

Now next time you go to operate a function, the OS module will attempt to load to perform that function.

But the OS function is different / has changed - checksum failure. OS module load failure.

Your mentality is that once you have loaded the OS, it’s done… but Emax doesnt’ work that way due to it’s limited available operating memory.

Every time you use a different function, Emax has to access the OS module specific to that function on disc.

Now, this is the difference between HXC and SCSI HD.

On an actual SCSI drive (CF media, or real HD, Zip, etc.) You have 1 OS that is loaded on the hard drive.

All the 35 banks access and use this same single copy of the OS for the module access, thus preventing what you encounter here.

But on HXC, each floppy virtual image MUST contain the same (correct working) OS.

So you will have to rebuild all the other hfe images using the working one as your starting point.

Hope that is helpful for your understanding.

-T

On Jul 28, 2015, at 7:21 PM, shawnjward@... [emax] <emax@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

if anyone has experience setting up an HxC rev F floppy emulator in an Emax 1000 Keyboard would be great to get some tips or guidance in the procedure.

I'm pretty sure the Emaxos.emx file i have is not compatible with my version

i have a thread on it here

cheers!

HxC Floppy Drive Emulator • View topic - problems setting up my HxC drive

HxC Floppy Drive Emulator • View topic - problems settin...

ok so after reformatting the SD I was able to boot the Emax Bios Disc file as seen in the pic it loaded the OS and also the bank of sounds which all played fine and...

View on torlus.com

Preview by Yahoo