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- EPS -- Ensoniq EPS16 disk reader for the Amiga
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- by Timo Rossi
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- EPS is a program to read Ensoniq EPS16 sampling workstation disks on
- the Amiga.
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- The command line options are very simple:
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- EPS dir
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- Shows the directory of an Ensoniq disk. The file type, name and length
- in blocks is shown for each file. File type of instrument files is 3,
- other numbers are used for song/sequence/effect/macro/etc. files.
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- EPS dir *inst
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- Shows a directory listing of all files matching the wildcard pattern.
- Wildcards can be normal Amiga 1.3-compatible '#', '?', '(', '|', ')', '%'
- and also '*' in place of '#?'. 2.0-compatible '[', ']' can not be used.
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- EPS copy source destination
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- Copies a file from an Ensoniq disk to an AmigaDOS disk/device.
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- Source is the name of the Ensoniq file (case is not significant)
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- Destination can be a file or a directory name on the Amiga
- (as in AmigaDOS copy-command).
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- Source can also be a wildcard pattern. In that case destination
- must be a directory.
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- For example:
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- EPS copy "unnamed inst" ram:foo.bar
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- Copies the file `unnamed inst' from an Ensoniq disk to a file named 'foo.bar'
- on the Amiga RAM disk.
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- EPS copy *inst ""
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- Copies all files on an Ensoniq disk with names ending with 'instr' to
- the current directory.
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- The default disk unit is 0 (DF0:)
- You can change the unit by using the -u -option
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- For example:
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- EPS -u1 dir
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- Shows the directory of the EPS16-disk in drive 1 (DF1:)
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- EPS does not do anything to the contents of EPS16 files, it just copies
- them directly. You need other tools to convert EPS16 instruments to
- Amiga 8svx-sounds (EPS16 samples are 16 bit signed numbers, so the
- conversion can be done with 'sox', use parameters -t raw -w -s. This
- still leaves some extra data (Ensoniq instrument/effect parameters etc.)
- in the beginning of the file)
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- Subdirectories on Ensoniq disks are not supported. Also, the
- FAT/directory checksums on the EPS disks are not checked (however,
- the low-level disk block/header CRC:s are computed and checked).
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- EPS should work with Amiga operating system versions 1.2 and newer.
- However, there is a bug in trackdisk.device TD_RAWREAD/RAWWRITE-commands
- in 1.2/1.3 that may cause unreliable operation.
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- EPS cannot be used from the Workbench.
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- This document file describes EPS version 0.5. EPS shows version
- information if you run it without any command line arguments.
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- EPS is Copyright 1993 by Timo Rossi. It is freely distributable for
- non-commercial purposes.
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- EPS uses public domain pattern matching code written by Dave Haynie
- (slightly modified to add support for the '*'-wildcard).
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- You can reach me from the following addresses:
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- Timo Rossi
- Mattilankatu 40 A 4
- 40600 Jyväskylä
- FINLAND
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- email: trossi@jyu.fi
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