Technical questions for the MPC2000xl and the MPC2000
By nkingbriggs Tue Nov 25, 2014 1:13 am
Hi guys. Back in September I bought my mpc 2000xl off of ebay. Until recently I haven't had the money to guy a hard drive for storage but I do now. I was told I need to upgrade my mpc (os ver. 1.11) with a 1.4 os upgrade. I bought one and received it in the mail and popped it in the machine and pressed shift + load. Nothing showed up in the file field. I talked to the person I bought it from and they send me another for free. I just received the disk today and put it in. The file field shows two files. Each with random characters for names. The "type:" field shows question marks. Did I do something wrong or is there something wrong with my mpc? I really hope it's not the latter. I just want this thing up and running asap!
By LADiego Tue Nov 25, 2014 2:12 am
Lampdog is pointing you in the right direction. Get a copy of the MPC2000xl Operators Manual and pg 169 is where you will find help for your issue. But do read the manual from beginning to end. This will help in getting to know the MPC2000Xl really well.

After you have upgraded the os, check there is version to confirm.

Peace.
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By Lampdog Tue Nov 25, 2014 7:08 pm
go here..

:arrow: http://www.mpc-tutor.com/mpc-operating-systems/

Redownload, format that floppy on pc using FAT, unzip the download and place ONLY that BIN file on the floppy. Load up that BIN (os 1.20) file according to the manual.

http://www.akaipro.com/product/mpc2000xl#downloads

1.14 and 1.20 are also here as well. DONT put the pdf's on the floppy.

SYS and EXE are mpc 2k classic OS files (I only see SYS and EXE in 2k classic downloads is why I think that).

BIN is a mpc 2kxl operating system file.