RE: Tech Manual
Not Mr J F , it was done by Martin if i remeber ,i have the tif images here i just need to run them thought the ocr , i also got half way though scanning User manual , but been busy with work :( And if i remeber there was all sorts of legal stuff going about if it was scanned in etc :) C -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Gavin Smith Sent: 14 August 2001 19:20 To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no Subject: Re: Tech Manual On Tuesday, August 14, 2001, at 07:20 pm, Simon Owen wrote: Not sure about Tech Manual, tho I do remember it being done not too long ago. Does anyone have the SAM User Guide too? Not sure about the User Guide, but I know the tech manual was PDF'd and is (or at least was) available on some website or other. Which I can no longer find the bookmark for. It was a Johnny Foreigner website if that narrows it down :) Gavin
Re: Tech Manual
- Original Message - From: Chris White [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no Sent: Tuesday, August 14, 2001 10:14 PM Subject: RE: Tech Manual Not Mr J F , it was done by Martin if i remeber ,i have the tif images here i just need to run them thought the ocr , i also got half way though scanning User manual , but been busy with work :( And if i remeber there was all sorts of legal stuff going about if it was scanned in etc :) From a gentleman who's not exactly kept to the letter of the law in all cases :( No names mentioned! Upload away
Re: Sam Prime
On Tue, 14 Aug 2001 20:58:58 +0100 Tue, 14 Aug 01 20:58:06 BST, David Ledbury [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: *I* created the SAM Newsdisk - with Alan Miles *I* created PRIME when SAMCo went down... SAM Premier was the working name for the Newsdisk you see ;) BTW - I still own all copyright on SAM Prime - and ONLY SAM Community has permission to distribute the issues! (For that matter, as SAMCo never paid me for all the work on the Newsdisk - it could be argued that I still own the SAM Newsdisk - and Brenchley owes me loads of royalties!!!) Sorry if I sound a bit arrogant ... but I was always proud of my work with the Newsdisk and Prime ... Christ, I could almost hear strains of Sir Edward Elgar during that little rant! :-) Dave
RE: Sam CPU timing quick quezzie
Howard Price wrote: Do you know how many T-states you get a frame, then? There are always 384 t-states per line for the 312 screen lines = 119808 t-states. Pref. with memory contention in Mode 4 Just writing a timing program in IM2 Unfortunately it's not that simple to work out! :-/ The delays from contention depends on the instructions you're using, and where the ASIC is drawing at the time your code is running. You'll certainly see the extra delays when writing to ports 248 and above, or when the ASIC is drawing the main screen area. I'm confident that the current SimCoupé is already accurate enough for you to be able to develop your Mode 4 IM2 routines on it and have it run the same on a real SAM. In the last few days I've worked out the mode 1 contention delays, and Dave Laundon is nearly done with a unified implementation for all timings, which now gives correct ROM timings too. It already passes all the CPU Speed tests, and there's just a tiny bit more to do. So, the next public SimCoupé should have flawless timing for _anything_ you throw at it in any mode. :-) Si
UPloaded Tech Manual to NVG
Re: Sam Prime
- Original Message - From: Dave Whitmore [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no Sent: Tuesday, August 14, 2001 10:19 PM Subject: Re: Sam Prime On Tue, 14 Aug 2001 20:58:58 +0100 Tue, 14 Aug 01 20:58:06 BST, David Ledbury [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: *I* created the SAM Newsdisk - with Alan Miles *I* created PRIME when SAMCo went down... SAM Premier was the working name for the Newsdisk you see ;) BTW - I still own all copyright on SAM Prime - and ONLY SAM Community has permission to distribute the issues! (For that matter, as SAMCo never paid me for all the work on the Newsdisk - it could be argued that I still own the SAM Newsdisk - and Brenchley owes me loads of royalties!!!) Sorry if I sound a bit arrogant ... but I was always proud of my work with the Newsdisk and Prime ... Christ, I could almost hear strains of Sir Edward Elgar during that little rant! Please elucidate?
RE: UPloaded Tech Manual to NVG
Infact it was allready there :) C -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Chris White Sent: 14 August 2001 22:34 To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no Subject: UPloaded Tech Manual to NVG
Re: No Subject
Incidentally, it may interest some readers to know that the 'friend' mentioned used to be Company Secretary for West Coast Computers! I believe that friend died. This is another one. Unless Trev was also a WCC Co. Sec. You see, even I don't know it all ! Yep, Trevor Askew - he was company sec, and Spencer Poole was director. Me and Allan Clarkson and George Boyle spent a ridiculous amount of time looking into all this business in the summer of '95... still got the results of our 'investigations' somewhere! Mark _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp
Re: Sam Prime
Christ, I could almost hear strains of Sir Edward Elgar during that little rant! Speaking of which, did I ever mention that I got my SAM second-hand off Enigma, and that I therefore strongly suspect (due to the sticker on the power supply bearing a message from someone called Rob) that it was one of the ones used to write Defenders of the Earth? Yes. I did. Mark _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp
Re: Sam Prime
On Tue, 14 Aug 2001 22:27:03 +0100 Tue, 14 Aug 01 23:58:02 BST, David Ledbury [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Christ, I could almost hear strains of Sir Edward Elgar during that little rant! Please elucidate? Pomp and Circumstance. Or 'Land of Hope and Glory'. Clear enough? :-) Dave
Who's Ken Elston?
Any idea who Ken Elston is? Just wondering as he seemed to share an email address with Samsboss? David
Re: Sam Prime
- Original Message - From: Dave Whitmore [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2001 12:00 AM Subject: Re: Sam Prime On Tue, 14 Aug 2001 22:27:03 +0100 Tue, 14 Aug 01 23:58:02 BST, David Ledbury [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Christ, I could almost hear strains of Sir Edward Elgar during that little rant! Please elucidate? Pomp and Circumstance. Or 'Land of Hope and Glory'. Clear enough? :-) Wibble
Re: Sam Prime
Exactly as I expected. I have known Sam News, I though it was no.1 Sam diskmag. I downloaded Sam Prine #3 from NVG just in the short time Chris uploaded it and you told him to remove it. ;-) It's great as well, in the fact it is very similar. I don't expect it is freely available from somewhere, is it? Aley I have two questions. How many issues of Sam Prime exist? What has it to do with Sam News? The author(s) seem(s) to be the same. IIR - 6 on disk - 2 on paper. *I* created the SAM Newsdisk - with Alan Miles *I* created PRIME when SAMCo went down... SAM Premier was the working name for the Newsdisk you see ;) BTW - I still own all copyright on SAM Prime - and ONLY SAM Community has permission to distribute the issues! (For that matter, as SAMCo never paid me for all the work on the Newsdisk - it could be argued that I still own the SAM Newsdisk - and Brenchley owes me loads of royalties!!!) Sorry if I sound a bit arrogant ... but I was always proud of my work with the Newsdisk and Prime ... :)
RE: UPloaded Tech Manual to NVG
On Tue, 14 Aug 2001 22:37:40 +0100 Chris White [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Infact it was allready there :) Indeed: ftp://ftp.nvg.ntnu.no/pub/sam-coupe/doc/SamTechManual.zip I don't think it has been proof read. Anyone willing and able? There is also: ftp://ftp.nvg.ntnu.no/pub/sam-coupe/doc/coupe.zip which contains a draft of a new technical manual written by Simon Cooke. -Frode -- ^ Frode Tennebø | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ^ | Ericsson Radar AS. | Isebakkeveien 49 | | N-1788 Halden | Phone: +47 69 21 41 47 | | with Standard.Disclaimer; use Standard.Disclaimer; |
Re: Who's Ken Elston?
On Wednesday, August 15, 2001, at 12:05 am, David Ledbury wrote: Any idea who Ken Elston is? Just wondering as he seemed to share an email address with Samsboss? David I *THINK* he turned up in the middle of a fight about Bob's clones and a few of us decided he was yet another clone and blasted him for it - I'm sure we had good reason though ;) Think he went quiet after a few posts. Gavin
RE: Who's Ken Elston?
wasn't that Bill Ritman? -Original Message- From: Gavin Smith [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2001 3:00 PM To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no Subject: Re: Who's Ken Elston? On Wednesday, August 15, 2001, at 12:05 am, David Ledbury wrote: Any idea who Ken Elston is? Just wondering as he seemed to share an email address with Samsboss? David I *THINK* he turned up in the middle of a fight about Bob's clones and a few of us decided he was yet another clone and blasted him for it - I'm sure we had good reason though ;) Think he went quiet after a few posts. Gavin
Re: Who's Ken Elston?
No, he definitely was a clone :) Ken Elston came next. (You know that Bill Ritman had a letter published in Format one time, don't you? :) Gavin On Wednesday, August 15, 2001, at 03:33 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: wasn't that Bill Ritman? -Original Message- From: Gavin Smith [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2001 3:00 PM To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no Subject:Re: Who's Ken Elston? On Wednesday, August 15, 2001, at 12:05 am, David Ledbury wrote: Any idea who Ken Elston is? Just wondering as he seemed to share an email address with Samsboss? David I *THINK* he turned up in the middle of a fight about Bob's clones and a few of us decided he was yet another clone and blasted him for it - I'm sure we had good reason though ;) Think he went quiet after a few posts. Gavin
SCM replacement editor
I think I worded the replacement editor part of the press release thingy at www.samcommunity.org rather badly - a few people have emailed me about it. I'm not asking for a replacement editor for one issue nor am I asking for a co-editor. It's simply to reassure subbers that, if the going gets tough for me again and the mag starts to get delayed, then there is a list of people waiting who might take the mag on (with certain conditions). I'm absolutely no plans to dump the mag, it's simply to build confidence. You fools. Gavin
Re: No Subject
On Tue, 14 Aug 2001 23:01:32 +0100, Mark Sturdy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Incidentally, it may interest some readers to know that the 'friend' mentioned used to be Company Secretary for West Coast Computers! I believe that friend died. This is another one. Unless Trev was also a WCC Co. Sec. You see, even I don't know it all ! Yep, Trevor Askew - he was company sec, and Spencer Poole was director. Me Cripes ! Makes me feel glad I didn't take up the offer to be co sec then :-) but I didn't feel comfortable about the way things were run, but then again I don't think many of us did ! and Allan Clarkson and George Boyle spent a ridiculous amount of time looking into all this business in the summer of '95... still got the results of our 'investigations' somewhere! ARRRG don't remind me of 95 ! driving ban lost job divorce comunity service mental breakdown not a good year :-( -- Nev - no longer at [EMAIL PROTECTED] and getting no spam at all (yet) Webpage under construction at www,nfy53,demon,co,uk
Re: Who's Ken Elston?
On Wed, 15 Aug 2001 00:05:37 +0100, David Ledbury [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Any idea who Ken Elston is? Just wondering as he seemed to share an email address with Samsboss? IIRC Mr R P Brenchley's father. Bob used the name as a pseudonym in format, he even published some of my stuff under that name, and later as an alias on here. Bob and I fell out a few times over his use of multiple personas which I did, and still do, feel is wrong. I tried to treat it as a game but with hindsight I see that many here did not think it was a good game. Now that so much time has passed I don't have any qualms about saying what I believe to be the truth, but as I said elsewhere, even I don't know the whole story. When I first started on-line Bob let me use the samsboss account on pipeline as the news feed from my own isp was crap, hence many people thought I was samsboss. I believe that he was also Bill Ritman but I never got him to admit that to me. Again IIRC Ritman is his uncle or some such aquaintance. I never said any of that. You've not seen me, you never heard it from me. OK :-) -- Nev - no longer at [EMAIL PROTECTED] and getting no spam at all (yet) Webpage under construction at www,nfy53,demon,co,uk
Re: Who's Ken Elston?
Just as we all suspected but it's a good thing you didn't confirm it for us before now, it kept us all feeling like busy little SAM detectives :) I must dig up some of Bob's old posts and read again his indignant denials of the whole thing! Gavin PS Community service Nev?! What did you do? ;) On Wednesday, August 15, 2001, at 06:47 pm, Nev Young wrote: On Wed, 15 Aug 2001 00:05:37 +0100, David Ledbury [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Any idea who Ken Elston is? Just wondering as he seemed to share an email address with Samsboss? IIRC Mr R P Brenchley's father. Bob used the name as a pseudonym in format, he even published some of my stuff under that name, and later as an alias on here. Bob and I fell out a few times over his use of multiple personas which I did, and still do, feel is wrong. I tried to treat it as a game but with hindsight I see that many here did not think it was a good game. Now that so much time has passed I don't have any qualms about saying what I believe to be the truth, but as I said elsewhere, even I don't know the whole story. When I first started on-line Bob let me use the samsboss account on pipeline as the news feed from my own isp was crap, hence many people thought I was samsboss. I believe that he was also Bill Ritman but I never got him to admit that to me. Again IIRC Ritman is his uncle or some such aquaintance. I never said any of that. You've not seen me, you never heard it from me. OK :-) -- Nev - no longer at [EMAIL PROTECTED] and getting no spam at all (yet) Webpage under construction at www,nfy53,demon,co,uk
Re: Who's Ken Elston?
The increasingly fascinating Nev Young wrote: Any idea who Ken Elston is? Just wondering as he seemed to share an email address with Samsboss? IIRC Mr R P Brenchley's father. Bob used the name as a pseudonym in format, he even published some of my stuff under that name, and later as an alias on here. That's it! God, I've been racking my brain trying to think where I know that name from. But yes, there were a few Elston pieces in Format, weren't there? The SAM Elite review springs to mind... When I first started on-line Bob let me use the samsboss account on pipeline as the news feed from my own isp was crap, hence many people thought I was samsboss. I believe that he was also Bill Ritman but I never got him to admit that to me. Again IIRC Ritman is his uncle or some such aquaintance. Ah! And Frank Broughton...? Mark _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp
Re: Sam Prime
Christ, I could almost hear strains of Sir Edward Elgar during that little rant! Please elucidate? Oh! Sorry, I thought that was an oblique Enigma Variations reference... Mark _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp
Re: Who's Ken Elston?
On Wednesday, August 15, 2001, at 08:09 pm, Mark Sturdy wrote: And Frank Broughton...? Mark We did find this one out. A Welsh relation, possibly a cousin IIRC. A couple of us even tried to track him down, I think we worked out he was a farmer or something. Gavin
Re: Who's Ken Elston?
On Wed, 15 Aug 2001 20:52:17 +0100 Wed, 15 Aug 01 21:14:18 BST, Gavin Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday, August 15, 2001, at 08:09 pm, Mark Sturdy wrote: And Frank Broughton...? Mark We did find this one out. A Welsh relation, possibly a cousin IIRC. A couple of us even tried to track him down, I think we worked out he was a farmer or something. Gavin I think he's his brother-in-law in Exeter, or so Derek Morgan once told me. Dave
Re: Who's Ken Elston?
On Wed, 15 Aug 2001 18:47:51 +0100 Wed, 15 Aug 01 19:18:40 BST, Nev Young [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 15 Aug 2001 00:05:37 +0100, David Ledbury [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Any idea who Ken Elston is? Just wondering as he seemed to share an email address with Samsboss? IIRC Mr R P Brenchley's father. Is Bob's real name Elston then? Or is he a real you-know-what-I-mean, instead of someone who just acts like one? :-) And was it you, or Bob who wrote to me telling me Samsboss' name was 'Brian'... haha.. almost had me fooled that did. It didn't sound like Bob at all, unless he was exercising multiple personalities as well. Regards Dave
Re: Who's Ken Elston?
And Frank Broughton...? We did find this one out. A Welsh relation, possibly a cousin IIRC. A couple of us even tried to track him down, I think we worked out he was a farmer or something. Right... So if he was in Wales, who was at 44 Buddle Lane Exeter or whatever? Mark _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp
ASCD 0.91 WIP 2
Since *some* people still sending me annoying messages, I simple must release a new version including source code. Due to new download counters, no really direct download is supported. Just go to http://aley.borec.cz and click on ASCD 0.90. Then you can download all supported new and old versions. Enjoy! -- Bc.Aley [eili] Keprt - student, programmer ICQ: 82357182 (evenings) *** phone: +420-68-5387035 (weekends) e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** http://get.to/aley Sam Coupe ZX Spectrum Emulation: http://get.to/samcoupe --
Re: ASCD 0.90 W.I.P. (and anyone interested in MIDI)
Thanks. I tried it but can't manage to get it work in WinCoupe (I need to test i there). Whenever I start playback, the message press symbol to exit shortly appears and then it immediately closes (going back to main menu), like I presses symbol shift. But I don't press anything. Other MIDI program MIDI Sequencer works in WinCoupe, but there are some other problems with it. I'd like to know whether the emulation isn't correct, or the original program is ehmm... not-very-good. It takes over 10 seconds to redraw whole screen in edit mode, and whenever I start playback a very loud home-less tone is generated before starting the actual playback. Also, I think it wouldn't be very clever to use MIDI simulator in DOS, because it would degrade digital-audio playback quality. Of course, this doesn't affect using real MIDI devices like MPU401. Adding MIDI interrupts for demos gives more sense. I'd like to see it. Please could you tell me where can I get those demos? Note: PAL speed is 1/64MHz. MIDI speed is 1/32MHz. It means that 2 bits are transmitted per line. Am I right? How many bits are transmitted to complete one byte? If you say interrupt is generated 5 lines after issuing MIDI out, it means that one or two (start/)stop bits are added to each byte. I assume MIDI out interrupts are generated on line basis, exactly as the line and frame interrupts. Am I right? (Simon?) Aley - Original Message - From: Dave Laundon [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no Sent: Sunday, August 12, 2001 11:09 AM Subject: RE: ASCD 0.90 W.I.P. (and anyone interested in MIDI) Aley Keprt wrote: btw. I will add MIDI to DOS version, if somebody is interested. But is it worthy? What software does use it? I need to find one to test my emulation ;-))) http://homepage.ntlworld.com/dave.laundon/mtracker.zip I was always planning to do something more with it, but I suppose I'll never get around to it now :-/ In a couple of other things I've done I've also used outputs to MIDI purely for the interrupt that comes approx. 5 lines later. I used the effect in a Quazar sample player that created its own interrupts during top/bottom border display so that it could release some CPU time to the foreground program. Dave Laundon.
Re: Who's Ken Elston?
On Wednesday, August 15, 2001, at 09:40 pm, Mark Sturdy wrote: And Frank Broughton...? We did find this one out. A Welsh relation, possibly a cousin IIRC. A couple of us even tried to track him down, I think we worked out he was a farmer or something. Right... So if he was in Wales, who was at 44 Buddle Lane Exeter or whatever? Mark Er, woops, erm my memory and geography fails me, I always thought Exeter was in Wales *grins* (Don't shoot me, I'm Northern Irish ;) You know, when I think back, Bob was one evil c*nt at times. I (and I know others) had many heated arguments with him off this list (a few on the list too), and the things he came out with to defend his lies still make me angry. He was frankly full of crap (and this in no way says anything bad about you Nev as the once or twice I've bought something from you or spoken to you and from your posts on this list, I've always thought you were a nice chap). Gavin
