yup - infact with MAME you can play the original arcade game! crazy! This whole argument was ALMOST relevant about five years ago when things in the SAM scene were still going, but even the biggest optimist would have to admit that the thing is dead dead dead now. Maybe Colin Piggot makes a few pennies out of it, but I'm more convinced he does it for the love of the scene (and more power to him!).
But old games on an old machine have NO commercial value and trying to restrict their use only kills off what is already a dead dido dodo of a scene already. If somebody new came to me today and wanted to find out more about the SAM, what could I 'legally' show them? Jack spratt all. The entire SAM scene was badly managed by a few people who were made into 'mini celebrities' because they were able to cobble together crappy games and make a couple of hundred quid out of them and they are still trying to scrape the last few pence out of it. Give it up. All the good SAM coders have gone on to bigger and better things and still work in the industry and all the crap ones who tagged on 16 colour splodges of mess onto a Spectrum Basic program and tried to sell it to us (whilst all our friends had Amiga's) for £15 are still there trying to play 'Mr Big' still. The best game ever made for the SAM was Defender, and Chris gave that away, on the internet, for NOTHING. Now THAT is what I call promoting the SAM scene, not hanging on to the rights for bodged spectrum games and wierd puzzle games from Eastern Europe with irritating soundtracks. And now, I shall rest! see you around Johnna -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Fred Bloggs Sent: 07 March 2002 22:47 To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no Subject: RE: Games The only reason you're getting animated is because it's stupid. You can download Robot Monsters for the spectrum (and a few others I'll wager) for nothing, but when you try to do the same for the SAM version you're told you'll have to pay! And when you try to contact Gav, the website www.samcommunity.org is down!!! >From: "Johnna Teare" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no >To: <sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no> >Subject: RE: Games >Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2002 22:44:25 -0000 > >I appreciate that you said Gav could do something with the games you have a >hold over, but as you rightly say that was one year ago. > >Time for a rethink maybe? > >(why am I getting so animated about all this - I don't even CARE about the >SAM anymore!) > >-----Original Message----- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Behalf Of David Ledbury >Sent: 07 March 2002 21:52 >To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no >Subject: Re: Games > > >Well tell Gavin to pull his finger out. > >He was granted permission around 8 - 12 months ago... > >David > > > > _________________________________________________________________ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com
