dave-
while we're clarifying-
-I'm still preparing the banks to put onto zip to send to you, & I sincerely thank you for undertaking to crack this issue for me, but I have had to divert time & effort away as I have a trip to the US coming up & needed to make other keyboard arrangements in the absence of flash-simm-success. so I'll be sending the bits soon. I may even box up the e5k & let you have a look at that too. don't need it except for this op, as I also have e4x, esi4k & two esi32s.
(my favourite sampler, though, is my prophet 2002. 12-bit & analogue processing )
-I have been dealing directly with emu support in the US because I bought the parts directly from them, & the support guys were on hand when I first raised the issue with lynne in sales. I've been in the habit of buying direct like this because a) UK & european dealer markups on roms &c are ridiculous & b) because things like the audity extreme rom simply weren't available from anywhere else.
to give an example- the only dealer that even listed the blank roms (the ones I've had all the trouble with) had the 16Mb version listed at ?300.
-I have had, shall we say, some difficulties getting questions dealt with by the scottish office in the past. as a broadcast engineer, I am in the habit of going direct to the source for answers whenever possible. it seems on this occasion that I overestimated the capabilities of the US support team, who seemed slow to grasp the nature of my issue, whilst at the same time underestimating the strength of the non-US support. I do remember, however, that mike barnes was very helpful when I got my first esi32.
-I may seem disgruntled when posting to this forum on this topic, but that's because I've spent a lot of money & effort on this project & have been frustrated every step of the way. especially, I'm concerned that I haven't seen or heard of any evidence of this technique actually working; I sort of half-expected emu-US to have pre-populated at least one of the replacement simms with /proteus/ data, just to reassure me. instead, they told me they'd performed the operation successfully & then (for reasons unknown) replaced the data with a cloned rom bank, readable on my e5k but not visible to a proteus box.
can you see why I'd get a little cynical? & for all the expertise gathered here & elsewhere in cyberspace, I can find no account of this technique being used successfully.
anyway. tomorrow's friday, & then it's the weekend.
duncan/r.m.i.