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Certain Yamaha samplers (such as the [[http://www.dompselaar.org/Yamaha/TX16W/MP/][TX16W]]) used floppy disk drives to store
their data. The disk
format ("MSX-DOS") was almost DOS/TOS-like, but a few minor differences gave TOS a
really hard time to understand the format:
   * Filenames with blanks
   * FAT backup copy missing

This small program patches those problems away, making the disks TOS-compatible.

Hmmm... after all these years, it occurs to me that "MSX-DOS" might actually
be the same DOS format as it was used for 
[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MSX][MSX computers]]. Not too unlikely, in fact,
since Yamaha was one of the promoters of that homecomputer standard. Also,
Microsoft played a key role in this initiative, and it's reasonable to assume
that they would use a DOS-compatible disk format. Can anybody
confirm this hypothesis?

   * <a href="/download/atari/msxpatch.zoo">Download <nop>MsxPatch</a>
   * [[http://www.t0.or.at/~mpakesch/tx16w/tx/tx16w.html][TX16W FAQ]]
   * [[http://www.t0.or.at/~mpakesch/tx16w/tx/tx16w.tec][TX16W sampler system internals]]
   * [[http://www2.yamaha.co.jp/manual/pdf/emi/english/synth/TX16WE.PDF][TX16W user manual]]

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Those Yamaha sampler disks also had an interesting protection scheme on them.
If I remember correctly, only protected disks were accepted by the Yamaha
sampler, so you couldn't simply format a floppy disk using a DOS or TOS
box and just use it on the sampler.

Yamaha Protector installs the protection scheme on unprotected floppy disks,
and it can remove the protection from protected media.

I once wrote this tool for a specific customer, and if I remember correctly, he probably
paid for the code, which is why I am not posting it here. If you are that customer,
please make yourself known, as I would like to release the tool here as well.

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