Tools for data exchange between a Linux PC and AKAI samplers

Links

Links specific to Akai hard- and software

http://www.akaipro.com is Akai Professional's homepage with a product listing and technical details.
http://www.cs.ruu.nl/~jules/Akai is a private page of Jules Vleugels which has a lot of good links and, most important maybe, his FAQ. The pages are a bit dated by now, though.
http://www.abel.co.uk/~maxim/akai/akaiinfo.htm contains detailed documentation of the floppy disk format of Akai-formatted floppies, along with some other references.
http://burnit.co.uk/AKPspec has the specification of the S5000/S6000 .akp file format.
http://www.rpgfan.demon.co.uk/y2k.htm is the homepage of the Windows-based sampler editor "Millenium" by Jan van Valburg.
http://members.planet.it/freewww/icecool/akaifaq.htm is a page by IceCool dedicated to answering questions about frequently asked AKAI/SCSI problems.
http://www.cdxtract.com/ is another program for extracting sample data from Akai (and other format) CDs.
http://www.nal.ics.es.osaka-u.ac.jp/~oosaki/akaitools/index.html has an archive named AkaiTools which allows to extract single .wav files from an Akai sampling CD or -floppy. Written in Perl. This link was "lost" for a while - it's good to see that this data is online again now.
KJMoses (alias Norbert Lümmen) has a couple of .td0's and lots of Akai links as well.
SZero has also got a couple of .td0's.

By the way: I regard the .td0 format to be evil! I understand it was very useful a few years ago to easily transport disk images through mail or other means, but today there are better ways to handle such stuff, and the company that designed Teledisk (Sybex) would not give out any specs on the storage or compression scheme used, so it's hard to write a replacement tool e.g. under Linux. Even the company now owning the rights to Teledisk, TelePort, would not give me any information. Folks, this is a dead end! Avoid it!

The best thing now would be to find out how exactly they store the data in these .td0 files, then convert all existing .td0's on the net into something less closed, like a .zip archive of all samples, programs, multis, effects etc. contained in one .td0 volume.

(this page is going to grow a lot in the future..)