Prophet2000TOOLS
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*  CONTENTS  *
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This package contains 3 free tools for the Sequential Prophet 2000/2002 Sampler.

They require Windows XP/Vista and an internal floppy drive (no USB drives !).
Moreover not all PC floppy controllers support the very specific characteristics of Prophet disks.

All tools are COMMANDLINE tools, so you'll have to open an MSDOS or COMMAND window in Windows :-)

The tools can read, write and format
- P2000 v2.x disks (single sided disks for the P2000 256K version)
- P2000/P2002 v3.x and v4.x disks (double sided disks for the P2000/P2002 512 and 1MB versions)

The tools require the INSTALLATION OF THE FDRAWCMD.SYS floppy driver.
You can download this driver from:      http://simonowen.com/fdrawcmd/

Prophet2000TOOLS are:
- P2KREAD:   reads   P2000/2002 3.5" floppy disks and creates a diskimage on your PC's harddisk.
- P2KWRITE:  writes  diskimages from your PC's harddisk to P2000/2002 3.5" floppy disks.
- P2KFORMAT: formats P2000/2002 3.5" floppy disks.

For information how to use these tools, simply run them without any parameter.
Help information will be provided by the tool.


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* IMPORTANT NOTES *
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- The Prophet 2000 uses (mixed) sectorsizes which are supported by most internal floppy drives.
  However some very specific additional parameters have been used by the Prophet 2000.
  Not all floppy controllers in PCs support these specific characteristics. 
- These tools have been created based on the reverse engineering of some Prophet 2000 floppy disks.
  They are not based on official specifications from Sequential/Yamaha. 
  You should check if the images and disks created by these tools are 100% working on your P2000/2002.
  I recommend to
  (a) P2KRead some of your original P2000/2002 disks, resulting in diskimages on your PC harddisk;
  (b) P2KFormat some empty DSDD disks on your PC;
  (c) P2KWrite the diskimages of (a) to the disks of (b)
  (d) Load the disks created in (c) on your P2000/2002 and carefully check all sounds
      (or perform a "Compare" on your P2000/2002)
  Only use these tools as your definite backup/restore solution if you are convinced about their proper working.
- Single sided disks written/formatted by Prophet2000Tools *could* result in an "iF" warning on older P2000s.
  Just ignore this Invalid Format warning and press Execute to load the disk. It should work fine.
- During the P2KRead process, the process could slow down a bit in the middle and at the end of the read process.
  This is normal behaviour and is due to the specific disk format of Prophet 2000/2002 floppy disks.


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* COPYRIGHT and DISCLAIMER *
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The Prophet2000TOOLS are copyrighted 2009 by Kris Van de Cappelle - Belgium.
The Prophet2000TOOLS are free of charge.
None of the tools may be sold or included in commercial software.
Using this software and the output produced by this software is at risk of the user. 
The author is not responsible nor accountable for any damage caused by using this software.

Sequential is a trademark of Yamaha Corporation.
Prophet 2000 and Prophet 2002 are trademarks of Yamaha Corporation (Sequential)

If you don't agree with this disclaimer, do not use this software.



Have fun !

Kris Van de Cappelle, December 2009, Belgium.
