Emu XL-7 & MP-7 User's Group

If you can do it then do it !!! Im shure, many people interested in new sounds in emu.

--- In xl7@yahoogroups.com, Bruno <brunorc@...> wrote:
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> From: woodsworth1 <woodsworth1@...>
> Date: 2013/7/10
> Subject: [p2k] Any interest remaining in a self-programming FLASH SIMM?
> To: p2k@yahoogroups.com
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> Hi.
> 
> Couple years back I started a project to build a FLASH based SIMM for
> proteus 2000 systems that acted like mulitple SIMMs at the same time.
> Basically you could put this one SIMM in one socket with the others empty
> and it could look like you had SIMMs in all 4 sockets. I got pretty far
> along the path of making it (even getting some PCBs made) when I discovered
> that I had the pin outs of the microcontroller (that allowed you to program
> the FLASH devices via a usb connection) wrong and the at the boards were
> just scrap. I posted a picture of the boards in the group. I was annoyed at
> myself so I dropped the bundle.
> 
> Well... I was thinking that the idea is still sound (though I wasted a lot
> of $$) and I could finish it off if there was sufficient interest in the
> thing.
> 
> What good is it? Well you could have any four ROM SIMMs in you system that
> you choose. You could reprogram it as you want. And in theory (if we can
> decode the format of the contents - shouldn't be too hard) you could author
> your own ROM images and download them , then create your own presets and
> hard code them onto the device as well. It would be a bit of messing about
> to achieve the results but if people are prepared to put in the effort...
> 
> so is anyone interested?
>