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Friends, I've been informed by Edu Arana that he has a new batch of pre-orders for the Etarikashikoshi open, as of 2024/07/25, same price, 110 Euros plus shipping.

https://www.arananet.net/pedidos/product/etarikashikoshi-x68000-8mb-ram-midi-board-preorder

They all come with the new firmware for 16MHz machines.

Since I covered Metajo last month, of course now I had to do the sequel: "Zai Metajo"!

I don't think there is any.
There is a 68k command line emulator called run68 with which you can run x68000 stuff on window. You may have a look on it.

Etarikashikoshi 8MB RAM+MIDI unlike the aje_fr model, is not compatible with systems that only have 1MB basic RAM, 2MB is required to install it.
Installation instructions are indicated on the site.

You only need to set the following value on switch.x:
MEMORY: 10240KB
Press enter.
Go to the last item at the bottom of the menu and press Y to save.
Press the reset button.

The USB port is only for direct connection to the PI-MIDI device.

PI-MIDI does not include the Raspberry PI, you will have to purchase it separately.
Supports Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W, Raspberry Pi 3 Model A+, B, and B+, Raspberry Pi 4 Model B, and CM4 series.

https://www.arananet.net/pedidos/product/pi-midi-1-3-a-baremetal-mt32-emulator-using-raspberry-pi

Just received my Etarikashikoshi but there is no manual.

1. Is there any way to set the amount of ram like on aje?

2. Any documentation in the pi midi connector requirements?

Have you tried one of the yahdi hdd images from the forums?

https://nfggames.com/forum2/index.php?topic=5463.40

I'm using either dos or PepAlacant (can't remember) and it had drivers for my internal IDE cd rom. You may have some luck there with your scsi drive.

For those wishing to purchase Etarikashikoshi for the first time, the MIDI card is black, there is a backplate for the tower models.
The backplate comes in two colours, black or light grey, but if you don't give your preference, the black one will be sent to you.

A tip for assembly:
It's not easy to mount an expansion card on the X68000, the expansion slots are damn hard.

Get two square felt for chairs, fold them in half, now you can use them to protect your thumbs when you put pressure on the corners of your MIDI card or other device.

When you screw in the backplate, do not overtighten the screws, because it will bend towards the inside of the slots.

I had my Etarikashikoshi 8MB RAM + MIDI Board updated and I can confirm that it works well with XVI at 16MHz.
Compatibility with X68030 not verified.

For those interested in updating their Etarikashikoshi, they will only have to pay the shipping costs (tracked shipping).

I am of the opinion that if the manufacturer had equipped the card with Micro-USB to update the device it would have been better.

https://www.arananet.net/pedidos/product/etarikashikoshi-x68000-8mb-ram-midi-board-preorder

@incrediblehark You can boot the HDD image by setting BOOT: STD on SASI computers, but you need to keep HD_MAX: 0 set.

The STD reading order is as follows:

1 Floppy disk (drive 0/drive 1/drive 2/drive 3)
2 SASI or SCSI (integrated interface)
3 ROM (including SCSI expansion card)
4 SRAM
After loading the SxSI driver, the ROM parameter $ED0100 will be in the list of addresses available in the read sequence.

However, it is not a certain rule, as the system in use makes a difference (OG/PRO are the most problematic), version and type of hardware of the emulator installed, and firmware version.

In the worst case you can always use forced startup with the OPT.1 button.

To anyone else who has this issue, just a heads up that some games batch files use SLEEP.X to display messages temporarily. I like that it doesn't require any user input. I really enjoy using rezb1t's app, and it sounds like the root cause may be more hardware related.