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

I would be interested, though I'm not sure what you mean by a "self-programming FLASH SIMM."  To clarify, what you're talking about...

"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."

...would be like having one super SIMM that could hold all the different sounds, or some of them, that were on the various EMU ROMS (so would you download the patches and store them on the SIMM...?);

...and different than manufacturing the SIMMS that people could put their own samples on--which was possible using one of the EMU samplers (I don't know which one).  The SIMM could then be used in the Command Stations to play back home-made samples, but this seems to have been a rare undertaking.

Or am I wrong...?  




--- 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?
>