E-mu Emulator Sampler User Forum for the EIII EII EI and EIII XP - Recent Posts

Just got it out of storage. Sorry for the extremely long delay. Its still for sale. Make me an offer for it. Buyer pays shipping.

Has anyone replaced their LCD display? It looks like EMU used a generic LCD Board.

I'm in the process of installing one but do not have the PIN configuration on what the PCM board is expecting. It looks like the pins are:

1 Vss Display power ground Molex ground
2 Vdd Display power +5V Molex +5v
3 Vo Contrast Adjust. Altered by adjusting the voltage to this pin, grounding it sets it to maximum contrast. * Molex ground 
4 RS Register select Parallel pin 16
5 R/W Data read/write selector. Its
6 E Enable strobe Parallel pin 1
7 DB0 Data Bus 0 Parallel pin 2
8 DB1 Data Bus 1 Parallel pin 3
9 DB2 Data Bus 2 Parallel pin 4
10 DB3 Data Bus 3 Parallel pin 5
11 DB4 Data Bus 4 Parallel pin 6
12 DB5 Data Bus 5 Parallel pin 7
13 DB6 Data Bus 6 Parallel pin 8
14 DB7 Data Bus 7 Parallel pin 9
15 A LED backlight power +5v Molex +5v 
16 K LED backlight power ground Molex ground

http://www.icehw.net/article.php?id=104&page=1/.html

I posted a thread on the EII General discussion about the possibility of using a
Datex DTX200 floppy drive emulator - designed as a direct CF card replacement to a Shugart-style drive or the ipacs emulator with a USB port for a stick which can carry virtual floppy images.
Theoretically, as long as you had a dual floppy EII and the top drive was a 5.25" or 3.5" floppy drive with the OS disk, couldn't the EII then format and use an floppy emulator in the lower drive? - as long as the emulator mimics a Shugart interface and sets up a virtual folder that fools the EII OS into thinking it's a floppy disk?

Hi,

I am unable to create new presets as it states 'different software' when I select the preset definition button. I have been able to do so in the past.
btw...I seem to have a buggy e3.

cheers

Well... this is the famous HxC floppy emulator, for which the firmware has been updated to support the DPX1.
Which is quite easy, because the DPX1 floppy disks have a known disk format layout.
BTW: this HxC also supports the Emax.

But... concerning the Emulator II: the HxC could only support the original EII disk format, if the disk format specifications would be known. If not, the HxC firmware can not be adapted.
Unfortunately we don't know all details about this disk format. 2 times 80 tracks, 540KB in total. That's all we know. And it probably doesn't use the 'usual' sector sizes, which for the HxC would mean that the EII would not be able to write to the SD card.
Probably the few specs we have are not sufficient for the guy who is working on the HxC.
But I was going to contact him about it.... I didn't do it yet.

I have been considering to try finding out the EII disk layout by connecting a Commodore 5.25 drive to my Vista PC through a custom serial adapter, and then use the low level programming interface of the Commodore drive to find out the disk layout. But that's not my biggest priority 
 

http://www.mmj.pl/~lotharek/atari/www/sd%20floppy.html

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/5G9UBxyhbOU&rel=1" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/5G9UBxyhbOU&rel=1</a>

anybody know more about this??

Doctor,

If you don't know, nobody does.

 

There MUST be some compatible PSU, even noy forceably by the pinouts, but by voltages and current !

ok guys i found this displays on EVILBAY ....

they are no more than 4 Euro each with shipping !!!!

http://cgi.ebay.de/HD44780-1602-LCD-Modul-Display-Anzeigen-2X16-Zeichen-/290470694546?pt=Bauteile&hash=item43a1670e92

price is killer

so i would like to know are they compatible with EMU products EII, Emax and SP12???

as far as i know HD44780 driver is standard and im looking around for emax schematics to see if this can fit.....
SP12 Turbo ... (i opened 2 couse i have 2 hehehehe) are HD44780 on PCB!!!!
need info for Emax and EMUII .. lazy to open  

NICE looking displays up to 10 times cheaper than BACK LIGHT for EMU products!!!!

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anybody with knowlage on this field ??

Change it with what?