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  1. http://www.ipcas.com/support/usb-floppy-emulation-download.html
  2. Updates for the operating system ended ages ago, if you wanted to you could put the update at disk 00 and the drive will read it when it starts.
  3. Hi, did you poke the red LED through the hole so you can see it? I think this LED is just like the motor on a FDD - I don't do any changes whilst this is lit. I tried to replicate your problem on my Bullfrog but didn't really get anywhere, when I read the showfiles on an empty partition it reported none, when I returned to partition 0 with showfiles in it read them, I can't remember now but it may have taken two attempts but I didn't have to reboot.
  4. I bought a couple of these USB memory sticks too: http://www.sandisk.co.uk/products/usb/drives/cruzer-fit/ as it fits snuggly into the unit and unlike a full sized one won't get knocked and break the same.
  5. See PM Hi Paul - we have the emulator waiting for our season to end as planned. Any update from your end? Regards -- Peter I installed one into a Bullfrog, seems fine. Only had one minor blip where it didn't read the fixture file (at block 01) but read it OK on the second attempt. It may have been me not waiting long enough after selecting block 01 before telling the frog to read it. Apart from that has been fine. One thing I did notice is that the red LED is folded back inside the unit, I just bent it over and poked the LED through the hole, this flashes as the unit is reading or writing whereas the green LED lights almost like what you'd expect when a FDD motor is running.
  6. That is the problem I had, finding the right one! The software (downloaded from the Internet) doesn't format it into 100 PC drives with independent letters, if you try to access the stick normally all you get is block 0. You need to use the software to access the other 99 blocks, just open the block, drag n drop to the window, right click the block no and save. It is as easy as that - just don't forget to save the block! Accessing from the floppy emulator is a case of plugging the stick in and selecting the block. You could of course buy two emulators and stick one into a PC but as I have found my most recent PC doesn't have a 34 way FDD socket on the motherboard and finding a USB to floppy IDC socket is nigh on impossible.
  7. Changing the drive is about as difficult as changing the battery - it is right next to the battery and above the work involved replacing the battery just means undoing 4 screws on the underside of the frog, unplugging the supply to the FDD, unplugging ribbon and plugging it into the FDD emulator. Personally I tried the FDD emulator in an old PC first to convince myself it wouldn't blow my frog up! Firstly I needed to format a USB stick into 100 off 1.44MB "blocks" using some software on a PC first, once that is done I put the stick into the frog and formatted block 0, then selected block 1 and formatted it, then block 2 (and so on - I did 5 in total). Then put it back into the PC, using the software wrote the up to date fixture files to block 1, intend to use block 0 for saving files for now. Will see how I get on over the next few weeks and will report back.
  8. I have just installed a floppy emulator into my fat frog. It is relatively painless to do, bought one of these: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/3-5-1-44MB-USB-SSD-FLOPPY-DRIVE-EMULATOR-E100-black-color-Version-/290811571725 and only took a few days to arrive from Hong Kong. I had one or two teething problems but were PC based, my USB stick is now formatted into 100 floppy disks but, as the frog desks are a bit renowned for, the individual disks then needed to be formatted on the frog before use. First time I tried to upload a fixture file using a USB it wouldn't read but after formatting on the frog it read it no problem. Saving the show files worked OK too. Also swopped out the CR2032 battery whilst I was in there.
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