> My solution was to just open the disk drive door at the right time. Count the beeps, open door, let errors happen close door, play game. I found a "funny" li

> My solution was to just open the disk drive door at the right time. Count the beeps, open door, let errors happen close door, play game. I found a "funny" like that with an Ensoniq Mirage that had been fitted with a PC floppy drive. "Modern" PC floppy drives use a /DISKCHANGE pin that goes low when a disk is in and "chucked" on the motor spindle but the head hasn't moved off the end stop. As soon as the head moves, /DISKCHANGE goes high. "Old fashioned" Shugart drives use the same pin for /READY, which is low when there's a disk in the drive and the motor is at speed. The Mirage software checks for /READY at the start of any disk read or write, but once it's running it doesn't bother. It just keeps going until every sector is read, whether the disk is ready or not. If you pop the disk out halfway through a read, eventually it'll fail because it can't find the sector, not because the disk is no longer ready. If you use a PC floppy, it'll start to read the first time you put a disk in, but any subsequent ones will fail because the head has moved so /READY is no longer low. So what was happening was it would boot, <CLUNK TUNK TUNK TUNK TUNK TUNK TUNK TUNK TUNK TUNK TUNK> as it zeroed the head and read in ten tracks, then sit there flashing ".n.d" meaning "No Disk" when it tried to load the first sample, because it loads the OS, does some internal tasks, then loads a sample off the disk. The head has moved, the disk is no longer ready, it thinks you've got no disk in. Worse, because the software expects a bunch of things to be loaded into RAM, pressing more or less anything except "LOAD" will crash it as it reads garbage where it should read jump tables. So, for quite a while now, I let it load the OS, then in the half a second it's clearing RAM and tuning the filters, I hit the eject button and pop the disk back in. One day I'll either get the right drive, make an adaptor for the drive, or patch the OS to solve the problem ;-)