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EPS -- Ensoniq EPS16 disk reader for the Amiga
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by Timo Rossi
EPS is a program to read Ensoniq EPS16 sampling workstation disks on
the Amiga.
The command line options are very simple:
EPS dir
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.
EPS dir *inst
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.
EPS copy source destination
Copies a file from an Ensoniq disk to an AmigaDOS disk/device.
Source is the name of the Ensoniq file (case is not significant)
Destination can be a file or a directory name on the Amiga
(as in AmigaDOS copy-command).
Source can also be a wildcard pattern. In that case destination
must be a directory.
For example:
EPS copy "unnamed inst" ram:foo.bar
Copies the file `unnamed inst' from an Ensoniq disk to a file named 'foo.bar'
on the Amiga RAM disk.
EPS copy *inst ""
Copies all files on an Ensoniq disk with names ending with 'instr' to
the current directory.
The default disk unit is 0 (DF0:)
You can change the unit by using the -u -option
For example:
EPS -u1 dir
Shows the directory of the EPS16-disk in drive 1 (DF1:)
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)
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).
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.
EPS cannot be used from the Workbench.
This document file describes EPS version 0.5. EPS shows version
information if you run it without any command line arguments.
EPS is Copyright 1993 by Timo Rossi. It is freely distributable for
non-commercial purposes.
EPS uses public domain pattern matching code written by Dave Haynie
(slightly modified to add support for the '*'-wildcard).
You can reach me from the following addresses:
Timo Rossi
Mattilankatu 40 A 4
40600 Jyväskylä
FINLAND
email: trossi@jyu.fi