This is fabulous !!!! A huge thanks to HxC guys for taking this project a step forward, this is a huge contribution to the world of music. The EII are ones of the best sounding samplers ever !!!
--- In emulatorII-list@yahoogroups.com, "esynthesist" <esynthesist@...> wrote:
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> Fantastic !
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> And the dump is perfect: the OS and the sound bank are nicely sitting together on - wintermute just sent me this first revolutionary file for analysis and it was a piece of cake to extract the SDforEII file from it and load it via RS422 into my EII for test purposes.
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> This is really great.
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> Who would have expected this only a year ago :-) ?
> Our Emulators fully loaded with bootable OS and hundreds of banks on the SD "EII hard drive", and connectable to a Windows PC with USB.
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> The EII beast is more than ever alive and kicking !
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> I'm wondering now how you will be able to "adapt" the board so that it fits nicely in a user friendly way in a 5.25 bay.
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> ///E-Synthesist
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> --- In emulatorII-list@yahoogroups.com, "winterhuette" <wintermute303@> wrote:
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> > I am pleased to announce that the first EII disk has been dumped successfully by the KryoFlux team! Finally EII can be brought back to this millenium!
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> > --- In emulatorII-list@yahoogroups.com, "winterhuette" <wintermute303@> wrote:
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> > > I will definitely take care about the enclosure as soon as everything is ready and we did some testing :)
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> > > --- In emulatorII-list@yahoogroups.com, "esynthesist" <esynthesist@> wrote:
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> > > > I think they will succeed.
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> > > > Here's the latest quote from Jeff, the guy behind the HxC (see HxC forum):
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> > > > "EII support is on the way. The encoding scheme used by the EII is FM.
> > > > Almost all the track format is now know thanks to the KryoFlux team Wink (sync, sector id , data ,crc...)"
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> > > > KryoFlux reverse engineered the disk format by disassembling and investigating the Debug ROM of the EII (which contains code to format, read and write EII disk tracks). A member of this Yahoo group and eiiiforum triggered the HxC team to start up this EII work (thanks wintermute!).
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> > > > After the HxC team has succeeded in upgrading their device for the EII, I also hope someone will succeed in adapting the device in a way that it fits nicely in a 5.25 replacement bay, with the LCD display and buttons on the front panel. A bit like the custom built one in the DPX shown on youtube:
> > > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5G9UBxyhbOU
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> > > > ///E-Synthesist
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> > > > --- In emulatorII-list@yahoogroups.com, "Gil" <gilwe@> wrote:
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> > > > > Just a message to that company guys - WE ARE VERY INTERESTED !!! PLEASE KEEP ON :))
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> > > > > --- In emulatorII-list@yahoogroups.com, "elmbeatz" <elmbeatz@> wrote:
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> > > > > > I'm sweating....
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