Mike,
Do you have an application that will read data off a Shugart track arrangement? Wonder what they used at E-mu when they designed this stuff? An Apple II? I know the Disk II and later Dou both use the Shugart 390?
--- On Fri, 7/18/08, Mike de Vries <mrjdevries@....au> wrote:
From: Mike de Vries <mrjdevries@...>
Subject: Re: [emulatorII-list] Possible Idea - Emulator I disk drive hack
To: emulatorII-list@yahoogroups.com
Date: Friday, July 18, 2008, 1:41 AM
Ideally, I'd be hoping to be able to boot (power up) from the flash.. I'm thinking that every "disk image" would be just that.. so it would be a save of the lower & upper samples + OS.
This would ultimately and eventually, make the floppy drive redundant.. (I hope)
This is still a pretty big project for me.. but something I'd like to get my teeth into..
I got me 400L off ebay too.. I think it was from a TI computer.
Regards
Mike
--- On Fri, 18/7/08, GG <umi4m@yahoo. com> wrote:
From: GG <umi4m@yahoo. com>
Subject: Re: [emulatorII- list] Possible Idea - Emulator I disk drive hack
To: emulatorII-list@ yahoogroups. com
Received: Friday, 18 July, 2008, 3:48 PM
Mike,
I don't have a source for Sugart drives other than E-bay, and the occasional Silicon Valley dumpster:) I've found 400L drives on all sorts of discarded electronics, TI computers, Digital, even one JL Cooper device.
I'm very interested in your project and if there is any way I can help out please let me know.
How will your proposed device interface to the E1? will the boot instructions on the 2708 or 2716 need to be modified to seek the OS from the flash RAM device and bypass the disk drive?
--- On Thu, 7/17/08, Mike de Vries <mrjdevries@ yahoo. com.au> wrote:
From: Mike de Vries <mrjdevries@ yahoo. com.au>
Subject: Re: [emulatorII- list] Possible Idea - Emulator I disk drive hack
To: emulatorII-list@ yahoogroups. com
Date: Thursday, July 17, 2008, 4:19 PM
Cheers, the offer is much appreciated. . But I've got a spare semi working 400L drive here..
(Just out of interest, where did you source yours from? And If I needed another , how much ? )
I've also got the service manual for the 400L and i'm thinking that it's gonna be a lot simpler than the EII or EIII.. mainly because there is only 2 samples per disk.. no archiving options to deal with.. As the drive is very primative, this should simplify things even more.
I have not really spent too much time investigating the viability.. but I want to put out feelers to see if there are others out there who would use something like this.. No more than 500 in the world.. prob only 200 working i'd imagine. => prob only about 20 people who would want this kit.
I'll post up any further advancements.
Regards
Mike
--- On Fri, 18/7/08, GG <umi4m@yahoo. com> wrote:
From: GG <umi4m@yahoo. com>
Subject: Re: [emulatorII- list] Possible Idea - Emulator I disk drive hack
To: emulatorII-list@ yahoogroups. com
Received: Friday, 18 July, 2008, 12:05 AM
Mike,
Same here in regards to the E1, love that beast of a sampler. I've got spare 400L drives if you need something to experiment with:)
Regards,
G
--- On Thu, 7/17/08, mrjdevries <mrjdevries@ yahoo. com.au> wrote:
From: mrjdevries <mrjdevries@ yahoo. com.au>
Subject: [emulatorII- list] Possible Idea - Emulator I disk drive hack
To: emulatorII-list@ yahoogroups. com
Date: Thursday, July 17, 2008, 12:27 AM
I've been thinking about hacking the emulator disk drive, and seeing
if it can be replaced by a flash drive. (Still keeping the original
drive)
Possibly with a small LCD screen to name patches & and encoder &
buttons to scroll through them all etc. A switch would change between
the original drive & the flash drive.
This way, I could slowly take images of my disks, and archive them on
the emulator for recall, possible with faster load & save time.. and
not have to worry about floppy disks for this old and lovely sampler.
This could also mean that all us Emu1 users could download patches
etc very easily.
This might take a long time to investigate & implement.. If I did
this.. who out there would be interested in doing this to their
Emulator I ? (Not the Emu-II)
How much would you be prepared to pay? Less than $300? It would be a
kit that should be easy to install.
I honestly get so much joy out of playing the Emulator I, and I've
replaced the drive on mine.. but am worried about the long term
survival of it.
Regards
Mike
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