emusonacid!

when i do this the exe fails half way through, as if it cant write to the disk.also does a format in emu normally take 10 mins!! mine does

Aargh..
tried the download thing as described, files are too large to fit on a floppy.
i'll pay good money for a copy of Flash Prep and EOS 4.62.
I have 2 E synths (kybd & rack) running 3.2 and a E4k running 4.1.

Anybody???

hi

mine is on 3.00b ?? how would I upgrade from this version?

edit: sorry,forgot to mention, it is an e6400 classic.

MAJOR BUMMER---
Frustrated by the whole upgrade process, I loaded 4.1 off of my E4K onto a floppy. Pop the disc into
my E Synth rack, all it did was erase my flash. Now I have a 3 space brick sitting in my rack... If anyone has
FLASHPREP on a disc, PLEASE send a copy. I will reimburse you for your trouble... I really love these units
and can't afford new gear at the moment. Even if I had new gear, i'd like to keep using the Emu's. Just starting
to get into using them...

Go to
http://www.emu.com/support/files/downlo ... Platform=1
Download EOS 4.62 with flash prep

cheers
niklas

[quote="Musher"]MAJOR BUMMER---
Frustrated by the whole upgrade process, I loaded 4.1 off of my E4K onto a floppy. Pop the disc into
my E Synth rack, all it did was erase my flash. Now I have a 3 space brick sitting in my rack... If anyone has
FLASHPREP on a disc, PLEASE send a copy. I will reimburse you for your trouble... I really love these units
and can't afford new gear at the moment. Even if I had new gear, i'd like to keep using the Emu's. Just starting
to get into using them...[/quote]

I've been told that Techtone aka Andrei used to sell the CPU Flash Roms for the classic samplers such as my E-MU E6400. Does anyone know how to get a hold of him or what username he uses on Ebay (not sure if it is techtone on Ebay) where he used to sell his EOS Flash Roms? If not, please let me know if there is anyone willing to sell the E-MU 2MB CPU Flash ROM. I want to upgrade this sampler to EOS 4.62 but can't as I only have the 1MB CPU Flash ROM.

There are now EOS 4.70 floppy disks available on Ebay. After two weeks of finding the right floppy drives that work and making the discs I decided to make these available for everyone for a rather symbolic price.

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=150501077182&ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT

I'll buy a couple...
would you ship to U.S.?

ricanstruction71;

i'd like to know too, as I need to upgrade.

Hi everyone,

Just to let others know - I bought the disks on ebay for couple of pounds and they work perfectly, no problems. It could be easier for some to just buy the disks instead of all the hastle of making disks..

I wish mapping my samples in EMU were this easy..

SUCH brain damage over this upgrade nonsense past 2 days Upgrading an e4x to 4.x from 3.x..

Firstly, the only Flashprep files that seemed to work were those from the EMU website.. But, here's the scary part - i have 3 machines here, an e64 classic, an e4x and and e4xtultra, and 3 PCs - a modern XP machine that would only appear to write on 1 head (watching the output of the SFX disk imager as it worked) an old laptop that would fail every time right out, and a Dell GX1 i found in a skip that was happy once i fed it a nice new floppy..

To get any action at all on the e4x i had to use the floppy drive from the e64, as it's own one the light would not come on, and it took 20 mins to format a disk. With the e64 drive, it would recognise the FLASHPREP downloaded from EMU, but only if i made the disk in my oldschool Dell X1 in DOS. This disk would not work in my e4xtultra at all though, and NONE of the software disk images could be read by any of my EMUs, except for the 4.62 upgrade, which the e4xtultra could see.

So, i made a COPYSYS disk of 4.10b from the ultra, and used that no problem after FLASHPREP on the e4x.

I still have the option to use the 4.6 or 4.7beta on the ultra i suppose, but i'm OK as i am i think.

So, the bottom line - SUSPECT EVERYTHING.

Go for new-ish floppies, and format them in a MAC, Amiga, ST or the EMU first, then write to them in PC DOS or CMD mode. make disks from every image you can get hold of and label them, then if these fail, try a different floppy drive in the PC, or a different PC. If all of these fail, swap the drive in Your emu, and restart the process.

SOONER OR LATER you will get an image to work, but with the variance i am seeing, it's NOT just the PC O.S. that is a factor, it's also the image files and the floppy drives in both the PC and the Samplers!

What i think we need is for someone to make PROPER disk images from known working floppies, these SFX exe things are ropey..

There is a difference between the samplers of Classic line (e64, EIV, e6400, E4X, E4XT, e-Synth & E4K) and of the Ultra line (e5000 Ultra, e6400 Ultra, E-Synth Ultra, E4XT Ultra & E4 Platinum).

You cannot use EOS-versions of the Classic line (68k CPU) with the Ultra line (Coldfire CPU) and vice versa.
Therefore the FlashPrep-versions as well as the respective EOS-versions have to be used for the respective sampler lines.

Before upgrading a sampler of the Classic line you have to check the FLASH RAM size.
If it is equipped with 1MB the highest installable EOS version is 3.00.
If it is equipped with 2MB the highest installable EOS version is 4.62.
As all samplers of the Ultra line are equipped with 4MB FLASH RAM and came with EOS 4.01a, you can upgrade to 4.10, 4.61 or 4.70beta.

ikechukwu wrote:First of all, you'll need to download these two files

http://www.emu.com/support/files/downlo ... Platform=1

ALERT:

the link is no longer working.

It refers to a page which DOESN'T include legacy products.

Anybody has any idea how to get the files?

I am starting from 3.0 and I'd like to upgrade as high as possible

Try Here
LINK.....http://www.ezman.ukfsn.org/downloads.htm

JAHFUNK wrote:Try Here
LINK.....http://www.ezman.ukfsn.org/downloads.htm

thx a lot.