Idle thoughts: Old Akai and Atari disks...

[mztk]

don't know if this is strictly 'hardware', but i'd like some recent info
on getting data off AKAI sample disks, and ATARI disks onto a PC, for...
storage, whatever..

Now, i know i might hear 'AkaiDisk', but i never got it to work. it wouldn't
read the disks, S3000xl. so something else, or some other method, perhaps?

Next, ATARI disks, for an old ST1040FM. these are all sorts, programs, mixer maps, etc.
and i'd like to be able to back them up, archive, zip, share, whatever (still some
atari fans out there)

is there anyway of interfacing RS232 with USB or COM?, (without expense)and could i link up the two computers somehow?

have also read that if you format a floppy on a PC first it will read, but never had any luck with that either.

any ideas? ( this is not a massive big deal, but i'd like to 'resolve' some of my junk!)

[jones-y]

You can always do a raw disk image. You won't be able to access or manipulate the data on the disks, but backed up (and transferrable, and restorable of course) they will indeed be...

[DuX]

If AkaiDisk doesn't work for you, then best you can do is to store them as raw floppy images, yes. As for Atari disks, you can use an emulator for that. I use STEem Atari emulator for PC. This is a nice informational website: http://tamw.atari-users.net/steem.htm and this is the original STEem website: http://steem.atari.st/

I backed up my Atari floppies with it and I still use some programs... Cheers!

[Jim Y]

I'ce used v-sampler to load Akai samples and then saved them in soundfont SF2 format (rather than use it's native format). This was 1000 format though.
IIRC, to read the Akai format CD my PC needed winaspi32 installed, this is a system driver needed to read the CD that was left out of Windows from XP onwards.

Jim

[Fractal Potato]

When I switched from an Atari ST to PC ten years ago, I was able to stick the ST floppies into the PC and it just read them OK as is. Not sure exactly why it worked, but perhaps you could try it.

[Meffy]

Registered Reason users can get the Reload Akai-to-Reason conversion tool free.

http://www.propellerheads.se/products/r ... ote]Simply start the program, insert an AKAI formatted CD-ROM or Zip, MO, Jaz or Syquest disk, and let the conversion begin. The AKAI data is converted either into separate NN-XT files, or into single spacesaving Reason ReFills.[/quote]

is there anyway of interfacing RS232 with [...] COM?

They're the same thing -- COM ports on PCs (those that still have them) use the RS232 protocol. Software and a "null-modem" transfer cable like LapLink will help move things across. http://www.laplink.com/