Hi,
I've lurked for a week or so now and I thought it about time to say hello.
I'm a long time Sam owner and I've just lately got back to using it for a
bit of retro Speccy gaming. I know its capable of much more than playing
Spectrum games but that was pretty much all I did with it when I was
younger.
Having gotten a bit older (25) I don't like the hassle involved in playing
the latest greatest 3D kitchen sink super dooper modern games! It takes my
old PC over 5 minutes to boot up to a state where I can start to do
anything, and even my Playstation seems to take an age from turning it on to
actually starting to play. Enter my Sam... I turn it on and before the
monitor has even warmed up I can insert a disk and press F9 and be staring
at a list of Speccy snapshots to play. I can be blasting Thargoids or
performing a qwerkafleeg before I have time to start thinking about the two
hundred things I should have done during the day if I hadn't been writing
emails! Then when the girlfriend arrives home, power off almost instantly
(without the disk in!) and we're done.
It's good to see people still using the Sam, I may even have met one or two
of you many years ago at the All Formats Fairs in London. Did anyone have
stands at the Royal Horticultural Halls back then? My one claim to fame in
the Sam community is that I went to Southampton University a couple of years
before Tim Paveley and once sold my Sound Sampler to him.
I'm in the process of getting an Atom disk interface at the moment and have
found a few bits of my old software and managed to pick up some pieces on
eBay.Is it still possible to get much in the way of software for the
Sam? I have Colin Piggot's catalogues but was hoping to get a copy of Sam
C. JohnnaPig, could you let me know if you have your copy of Sam C and the
extras still available? I've also always wanted to see what Driver was
capable of but never bought a copy.
Enough ramblings about me for now though. Talk to you later,
Steve
Steve Longhurst
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