Ensoniqfs not working anymore

[Cisco]

Hi everybody,

I dunno it there are many Ensoniq users down here who could help me out, anyways I've been using Ensoniqfs (with administator privileges) for a while and it's been a very great and helpful tool for my ensoniq EPS16+ :

Adress of the plugin addon:
https://totalcmd.net/plugring/ensoniqfs.html

How to use it website (i did carefully follow the procedure as stated in website adress below):
ENSONIQ BANKS FROM CD/ZIP/HDD TO FLOPPY (3.5″ or HFE/HXC)
http://zine.r-massive.com/ensoniq-eps-eps16-asr-floppy-creation/


Lately, for an unknown reason, it didn't work anymore on TotalCommander 11.50 Beta (32 Bits version):
"Error loading plugin file! The plugin probably needs some DLLs missing on your system"
Image: https://i.ibb.co/KjSKrRjF/Capture-d-cran-2025-02-25-205446.jpg

I tried to update it with very last TC 11.51 version and i had the same issue.
I completely removed TC and Microsoft Visual C++ and reinstall all the C++ packages since 2005 to 2022 and then TC again but without any sucess...

I tried to contact the author but the email adress is not working anymore (ensoniqfs@thoralt.de) as the plugin was created in 2010...


I use Ensoniqfs in conjuction with "EnsoniqUnpacker 1.23" but i do have the same issue as well:
"This is not a valid plugin! You can find valid plugins on www.ghisler.com under section "Addons":
Image: https://i.ibb.co/xczkGfB/Capture-d-cran-2025-02-25-205803.jpg

I dunno why it is not working neither anymore.

I was wondering if anybody has any hint/idea of what i could do to be able to still beeing able to use Ensoniqfs with my EPS ???

Thanx for your help and best regards from France !

[Dalai]

I can install the plugin without any issues in TC 11.51 and also older TC versions. It appears as expected in the Network Neighboorhood and can be entered. For me it shows this error message

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EnsoniqFS · Warning
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The OmniFlop driver could not be found.
If you want to use floppy disk access, you need
to install OmniFlop (see the readme file for how
to do this.

Alternatively, you can disable floppy disk access
in the options dialog to suppress this warning.
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OK   
---------------------------

But that's to be expected. And I did not test it any further.

Make sure to install and use the plugin in TC 32-bit. The running instance must not include "(x64)" in its title bar!

BTW, the plugin doesn't require any external libraries like Visual C++. All necessary DLLs are shipped with Windows, including msvcrt.dll.

[Cisco]

Well, it still does not work 4 me at least like it previously used to, i have installed the latest TC 32 Bits version but same issues ans same errors.I really I really dunno what i could do more...
Image: https://i.ibb.co/KjSKrRjF/Capture-d-cran-2025-02-25-205446.jpg
Image: https://i.ibb.co/xczkGfB/Capture-d-cran-2025-02-25-205803.jpg

[Dalai]

Try using a fresh wincmd.ini

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totalcmd.exe /i="%TEMP%\fresh.ini"

The existing wincmd.ini will be left untouched.

If it still doesn't work, it's likely that the OS plays a role here. I can see from your screenshots that you're using Win11. I made my tests on Win7. Maybe MS changed something in the msvcrt.dll. DLL dependencies can be shown in a variety of programs and TC plugins, e.g. FileInfo, PE Viewer, PE Viewer 3. In FileInfo it's on the "Dll Dependency" tab, in PE Viewer it's on the "Import, Export" page, and I don't know where the latest PE Viewer 3 shows this (Import page maybe?). If some import or dependent DLL is marked red or with a warning symbol, it's probably the culprit.

The EnsoniqFS.wfx imports functions from 4 DLLs: comdlg32.dll, kernel32.dll, msvcrt.dll and user32.dll. All of them are shown in green in PE Viewer for me: Image.