Good seeing you online Dave!
>
> Yes - Martijn - I forgot about the great work he did
> on the PAW conversions as well.. but of course your
> own work was the important step! You did a brilliant
> job with these indeed!
>
>
> --- Dave <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > On Sat, 12 Nov 2005 15:15:28 +0000 (GMT), david
> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > wrote:
> >
> > >
> > >--- Calvin Allett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >> I think that`s the name, I know he managed to
> get
> > >> either GAC or PAW onto SAM, or at least to get
> > >> permission from author around 93/94
> > >>
> > >
> > >I think that was in part down to Dave Whitmore
> ...
> > (in
> > >fact - I think the principle for the PAW
> conversion
> > >was based on a chat I had with him during an
> > >All-Formats show when I was getting very carried
> > away
> > >with ideas.... that happens sometimes :))
> >
> > That's true and I remember that conversation in
> > Birmingham. It was to
> > do with PAW, and eventually Nigel Kettlewell made
> a
> > Quill converter.
> > The PAW ones were routines to drop into speccy
> BASIC
> > (extern), and
> > then into SAM BASIC (with Steve Nutting's altered
> > Speccy ROM) to do
> > stuff like game saves or full screen graphics
> > between locations, etc.
> > The best ever PAW conversion by Martijn came out a
> > while later.
> >
> > I think there must be a few crossed wires about
> > Derek Morgan. He lives
> > in Skelmersdale, Lancs, and he had a PD library
> and
> > F9 Software. I've
> > yet to see Derek on the net. If he did eventually
> > get connected then
> > he mustn't be able to find us. That's surprising
> > really because he was
> > quite keen on using Cookie's comms program on SAM
> > with his modem for
> > BBSs in the mid 1990s. I got the old Dalmation BBS
> > running a few weeks
> > ago under Amiga emulation (I'd kept it on a CD).
> It
> > was like finding a
> > time capsule. :)
> >
> > Dave W
> >
>
>
