Yeah, but you know, looking back... I think it was a bit of a pipedream.
Would have been better to focus on coming up with a new system - or a new
ASIC.

*sigh* I hate getting older. It makes you much more cynical.

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-sam-us...@nvg.ntnu.no [mailto:owner-sam-us...@nvg.ntnu.no] On
Behalf Of da...@properbastard.co.uk
Sent: Friday, August 07, 2009 1:32 PM
To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no; LCD
Subject: Re: SAM's 20th Birthday

Quoting LCD <retr...@gmail.com>:

> da...@properbastard.co.uk schrieb:
>> Quoting Roger Jowett <rogerjow...@gmail.com>:
>>
>>> velesoft reckon they have a spectrum edge connector adapter but ive been
to
>>> prague twice and they sure as hell aint very friendly - pity the dma and
>>> accelerator with 128 kompatiblity might have been useful if they worked
-
>>> joystick port on a mouse interface - mind you ps2 rollerball mouse
support
>>
>> Shame the SAMVOX2 never appeared .. :(
>>
>> 8056 co-processort, DMA audio, and a few other odds and sods if I   
>> remember right :(
>>
> Shame about MIDGET too. Nowdays it woud be shipped with a 3D Processor. :(

If only Martin Rookyard and Cookie had more time back then... people  
didn't know the half of what that system could have been capable of ...

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