MPC System updates

Two thingies.

I wonder if anybody has tried to update the MPC 1000 with the 2000 XL software yet. I am not quite sure, but i think
the lazy developers of akai built all the machines on the same platform. I think it should work, but before i try this stuff,
i´d like to know if somebody has experience with this.

Second thing, do the harddrives work allready, or do we have to wait for the next system update???

Greets.

I doubt, that it'll work...!!!!!!! the 2000xl is a different machine...
hd should already work with a adapter...have a look at this thread:
http://www.mpc-forums.com/viewtopic.php?p=311219

thanks shukone for passing that info along. i was about to lead orbit there until i realized that's where you just lead him.

orbitale wrote:Two thingies.

I wonder if anybody has tried to update the MPC 1000 with the 2000 XL software yet. I am not quite sure, but i think
the lazy developers of akai built all the machines on the same platform. I think it should work, but before i try this stuff,
i´d like to know if somebody has experience with this.

Second thing, do the harddrives work allready, or do we have to wait for the next system update???

Greets.

Try it!!! tryyyy! but try the 2500 os. If you port it to the 1000 you will be our god and we will pray to you every night.

shet, i mean Hackers have ported LINUX to the freaking Nintendo DS. This should not be a problem... well it will problably be super hard, but worth it!

soyo wrote:shet, i mean Hackers have ported LINUX to the freaking Nintendo DS. This should not be a problem... well it will problably be super hard, but worth it!

i didn't know that. how did that work out? were they able to play NDS on a linux machine or did they run linux on the NDS?

orbitale wrote:Two thingies.

I wonder if anybody has tried to update the MPC 1000 with the 2000 XL software yet. I am not quite sure, but i think
the lazy developers of akai built all the machines on the same platform. I think it should work, but before i try this stuff,
i´d like to know if somebody has experience with this.

Second thing, do the harddrives work allready, or do we have to wait for the next system update???

Greets.

u want someone to try cause if there mpc gets phucked up urs dosent and if does work u get to use it too lol i see the trick lol j/p

didnt work. im no hacker or anything. all i did was rename the file from MPC2KXL to mpc1000 and it didnt load it. oh well. 3 minutes wasted ha. ha

sparq wrote:

soyo wrote:shet, i mean Hackers have ported LINUX to the freaking Nintendo DS. This should not be a problem... well it will problably be super hard, but worth it!

i didn't know that. how did that work out? were they able to play NDS on a linux machine or did they run linux on the NDS?

I didn't know that about the Nintendo DS either, but I recall hackers running Linux on the X-Box.

distortedtekno wrote:

sparq wrote:

soyo wrote:shet, i mean Hackers have ported LINUX to the freaking Nintendo DS. This should not be a problem... well it will problably be super hard, but worth it!

i didn't know that. how did that work out? were they able to play NDS on a linux machine or did they run linux on the NDS?

I didn't know that about the Nintendo DS either, but I recall hackers running Linux on the X-Box.

yes its true!

Look here! Windows 95 and mac os7 on psp

http://www.engadget.com/entry/1234000480054324/

all this psp/ds stuff is true, but these are ports. how should you port an os, if you neither got a source, nor a development kit...?!

Thanks fpr trying djobserv! I was not sure how to handle that. By the way does somebody know in which language the mpc system is programmed. It the akai boys **** us up i will give it to some programming freaks i know and they set up some new stuff for the system.

orbitale wrote:Thanks fpr trying djobserv! I was not sure how to handle that. By the way does somebody know in which language the mpc system is programmed. It the akai boys **** us up i will give it to some programming freaks i know and they set up some new stuff for the system.

how about opening them both in a hex editor and then compare? just to start o mean. Do u have any hacker/programming experience orbital?

yeah all the principles are the same, however no one has bothered to look into that with MPC's, why? cause were a minority thats why. look at the ratio of game owners to mpc owners..making sense now..??

If you HEX edit (VIEW) then you will find some very interesting stuff, however you would need to understand the hardware side of the mpc to better understand how to hack it. which......NO ONE KNOWS

Remember reading about Autechre having a custom OS written for their Ensoniq EPS in an old SOS issue. Having owned both the 2KXL and 1K, there's no way on earth I'd want to downgrade to the older, less stable 2KXL OS though!

G4s

I wanted to have a look at the OS code so i downloaded the OS 1.07 zip file from Akai US but it doesn't unzip.
I can open all the older OS versions. Same on the German site.
Then i downloaded 1.07 from the Japanese site and this one does open....
I guess it's a Apple related thing, any other Mac users noticed the same? i use a Mac 10.4.