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Hi Esynthesist,
1. It's the emulation of DPX1 floppy not EII. so that means I converted all E2 images to DPX format by your utility first )))
2. I know they are totally different but we can hope that Jeff will support our initiative!!! look here his latest post:
http://torlus.com/floppy/forum/viewtopic.php?t=393
Can you provide all format details you know there?
3. I replaced 5.25 drive by two reasons - I still need 3.5 (just if something goes wrong with floppy emu) and because bread board is too big for 3.5 size and I needed to find the place for LCD and buttons)))
4. I can't promise that I'll do additional research for EII. I spent half year on restoring my instrument - adding filter mods, burning eproms, servicing all buttons, painting everything and getting working solution with powerbook... I just want enjoy playing on it now )))))))))


Guys, sorry for out-of-topic question but does anybody have Digidrums eproms for Drumulator? I lost hope to find them. 

Andrei. 

--- In emulatorII-list@yahoogroups.com, "esynthesist" <esynthesist@...> wrote:
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> There is an interesting piece of information on the HXC website which took my attention with respect to the SD card version of the emulator:
> 
> (...)
> Track mode based floppy emulator (Full track pre-encoded in the HFE image file)
> > Read support: Most of existing formats (FM/MFM/Amiga track...) supported. Custom tracks supported.
> > Write support: ISO MFM 256/512/1024Bytes sector write supported. 
> (...)
> 
> The EII uses non-standard sectorsizes [no sectors in fact ?], so writing seems not to be an option, but that's not a big problem for most EII users.
> 
> But the more interesting part is that reading is *track mode* based with "full tracks pre-encoded in HFE image".
> The only information about the EII disks we have so far is that they have 2-sides, 80 tracks per side and 3584 bytes per track (no hard sectors). Would the "track mode" of the HXC be capable of dealing with these 3584 byte tracks ?
> 
> I really think that replacing one of those EII drives by an SD card drive, with tens/hundreds of EII files saved on that SD card (via PC) would be a magnificent feature for EII owners. Just like on the youtube movie with the DPX.
> 
> An alternative is to use the RS422 port and build a standalone RS422/USB device which would do almost the same thing as the HXC drive but then via RS422. The load time would be almost the same I guess (20-30 seconds). This device could be an evolution of the emucombox device, but the design has not started yet.
> The advantage of the HXC would be that the EII could even boot from the SD card (or not ???) and that it could contain full disk images (including OS) instead of 'just' the banks. So this would be the preferred option; also for non-RS422 EII owners as you said.
> 
> Again... interesting experiment, so I really encourage you to further investigate this :-)
>  
> Man, these old samplers are really getting upgraded to the 21st century !
> 
> ///E-Synthesist
> 
> --- In emulatorII-list@yahoogroups.com, "esynthesist" <esynthesist@> wrote:
> >
> > Wow, that's great.
> > You finished that project quite fast !
> > 
> > I'm wondering: you replaced the 5.25 "EII" drive on your DPX.
> > But as far as I understand the HxC emulator that you have built into the DPX uses the floppy disk format of the 3.5 "DPX" disks.
> > So did you disable the raw EII option on your DPX and can you only use emulated DPX disks now ? (e.g. by first transforming EII files to DPX format with DPXTOOLS and then saving them to your HxC disk) ?
> > 
> > I think we really would welcome this option on the EII itself too !
> > But note that the disk specifications of the EII are completely different from the DPX. That's why EII disks (either 3.5 or 5.25) can not be read or written on any PC or Mac, as opposed to DPX disks.
> > Do you think that the HxC can even overcome this problem ??
> > 
> > 
> > --- In emulatorII-list@yahoogroups.com, "andrei.kudryavtsev" <andrei.kudryavtsev@> wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi EII community!
> > > I think some of you who have DPX-1 and subscribed for dpx1 group have seen my post there. For others I show this video:
> > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5G9UBxyhbOU
> > > 
> > > My question to you - Do you need it for EII? 
> > > We have two ways for data transfer - Sound Designer and EMXP. 
> > > Do you really need the third?
> > > 
> > > I decided for my self to stay on Powerbook 180c with SD but it could be a solution for people with early serial numbers that don't have RS422 for communication. 
> > > Andrei.
> > >
> >
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