Sorry for the blatent rip off of a thread I seen on WoS but what do you guys reckon` is the biggest risk for SAMs longterm survival/rememberance?
To me it`s userbase... There`s possibly a smaller user base than any machine, yet actual more web presence than some of the older VERY early 80`s computers, there`s mebeez (and probably) more people with those machines that remember and might come into the `scene`, even as casual users for those but with us there is such a small community that despite all exciting stuff I feel worried sometimes :) I know you guys do your things still with the machine, give it the time it deserves and hardware wise and some of the software in past 3 years has been immense but is there anybody even here who isn`t a developer? It makes me sad but I simply can`t believe that a machine with all the character and appeal of the SAM is essentially `ignored` by soo soo many Spectrum owners that I know would be excited/amazed (especially the Basic Programmers of them *_+ ) by it... Have a linux nut friend who`s totally C64/Risc/PC oriented and yet loves the machine and thinks of it as (his words) - a kinda alterbntive/flavoured PC, he thinks the Spectrum is lame, being a C64 nut but for him having been `forced` to view SAM stuff by me he gives it respect, and even Personal Computer World called it once the 8-bit Archimedes, even if we all begrudge the fact that we undrstand the speed/ahem/issues with SAM (Mayehem accelorator, woohoo , :)) I remember in the early dying days of Amiga Format 94-96 , or rather perhaps Amiga Computing there were some quite intensive 6-8 page conference like `meetings` between those in the magazine writer stable and the `names` of the coding scene about the future and direction of the Amiga, I keep thinking that the Spectrum scene needs something like this and yet we all know the Spectrum will be around in fourty-fifty years, can the same be said of the SAM? Sorry for ramble :( Just interested in what everybody perceives to be SAM / `our` fate regarding the SAM Coupe :) Cal *_+ ___________________________________________________________ Yahoo! Messenger - NEW crystal clear PC to PC calling worldwide with voicemail http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com