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EOS OS Disks

Postby divot » Thu Dec 16, 2010 12:16 pm

Hi folks - Christmas surprise.

I've got a pile of EOS disks I'd like to make available to everyone for download. I need to get rid of them, the bin is beckoning, but I'd like them to go to use for the greater E-MU hardware community. These are the original operating systems for EOS from way back in the original EIV days, up to Ultras.

Here's the thing - I'd like someone to take these, who can make floppy disk images of them, and make them publicly available for free, where everyone else can download them for free and easily make bootable OS disks from them. I.e. I don't want anyone profiteering. If everyone on the board has a suggestion for a well-known reliable member who has the means and is trustworthy to do it, come to a conclusion, and I can get the disks to said person.

Here's what is in the pile:
EIV v1.1
EIV/E64 v1.20d
EOS v1.50f (labelled E4K, I'm guessing this probably added support for the keyboard E4K models)
EOS v2.50f
EOS v2.51a (I don't think I've *ever* seen this version crash, fact-fans)
EOS v2.80 (added sysex)
EOS v3.00b (added sequencer)
EOS v3.20e
Flash Prep v1.0 (my recollection was this is a prerequisite pre-install for v3.20, rearranged the Flash memory to accommodate the larger OS)
EOS v4.0 Ultra
EOS v4.10 Ultra
EOS v4.5 Ultra

This is not a definitive every-EOS ever pile, there were 4.* classic versions as well, I haven't stumbled on any of those though. If I find any more, I'll shout here.

Is there anyone out there who wants the job? Again, not to sit on someone's shelf, or to make an EOS mobile out of (I thought of that one myself!) - or for profit. Someone who can do a little work in the interests of the greater EOS community...

Always a bit of time for this forum...

:grin:
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Re: EOS OS Disks

Postby russ » Sat Dec 18, 2010 6:29 pm

I thought earlier versions of eos were on chips and not disks like eos 3.02 for example?
Does this mean with these disks you could re write/improve the operating system?
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Re: EOS OS Disks

Postby mosrob » Sat Dec 18, 2010 11:35 pm

@ russ:
The OS 3.02 on a chip you are talking about was for the ESi-Series.
The E4-Series got all EOS upgrades via floppy disc.

Regarding the sense of the EOS collection:
You cannot rewrite or improve EOS with this discs. Besides reverse engineering of the Operating System you need a documentation about the hardware.
Except for upgrading or fallback to an earlier EOS version there is no need for these discs.
Earlier versions of EOS have less features and maybe have more bugs or are maybe less stable.

If someone is interested in creating disc images of divots collection you can use the sdisc.exe that came with EOS 3.0b.

It would be more interesting what were the changes (bug fixes, improvements, new features) from every new version to the predecessor EOS.
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