Good Afternoon Everyone.
I recently acquired a beautiful Emulator II that was not loading the OS from Disk.
The previous owner purchased a new PSU from Synthchaser as all LED's were lighting up at once but the machine still asks to Insert Diskette.
I got it home and all lights were on as originally described by the owner. Carefully I pushed down on all accessible IC's which seemed to solve that problem, however after a few tries with the original floppy disk I noticed corrosion spores on the disk surface.
Since then I purchased: new Rom/Scan chips and replaced IC 28 chip after reading up on a previous posts relating to the sliders shorting the IC.
I ordered an HXC emulator Rev F and switched it out with the prospective cables and the upper disk drive.
Next I copied the HXC image files to a MSDOS formateed 1gb SD card and renamed the index file as suggested in the accompanying read me text.
and this brings me up to date on my progress but still no luck.
When selecting the EII 3.0 OS on the HXC drive noting happens and and the display on the EII looks a bit garbled.
I have never used either of these machines so am I bit befuddled
Do i need to change anything inside the HXC settings i.e Emu Shugart/HFE?bit rate and gather that the middle red button is enter/yes on the HXC?
Sorry for the diatribe but hoping someone may have some intel for me
Many thanks in advance
HXC Emulator Woes Please help
Re: HXC Emulator Woes Please help
please share a picture of the E II screen.
Re: HXC Emulator Woes Please help
Hi Jeff,
Many thanks for your reply I really appreciate it.
I have attached one of the images. I think this may be fixed now due to the correct indexing however I am still unable to load the files from the HXC
Many thanks for your reply I really appreciate it.
I have attached one of the images. I think this may be fixed now due to the correct indexing however I am still unable to load the files from the HXC
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and here is the other one
Do you knwo which IC's are related to the Disk drive operation?
Do you knwo which IC's are related to the Disk drive operation?
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Any follow up thoughts on this?
Appreciate it
Appreciate it
Re: HXC Emulator Woes Please help
I suspect a general power supply / capacitor issue on this machine.
Do you get similar lcd issue when the hxc is not connected ?
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The whole psu has been replaced by one made by synthchaser.
I don't think the display was like this before the hxc except I was not able to load the os as the original disk was corrupted.
I don't think the display was like this before the hxc except I was not able to load the os as the original disk was corrupted.