Re: Who's Ken Elston?
You know, when I think back, Bob was one evil c*nt at times. (etc...) Oh, shut up. Yes he was utterly infuriating at times, and probably living in a complete fantasy world - all in all, a pretty silly man - but I've never seen why that makes him so worth getting wound up about. My feeling on people STILL gnashing their teeth about the fact that he pissed various people about in the mid-90s, failed to make West Coast Computers bigger than Apple, and then made various things up in attempts to explain this, is the same as it was last time I left this list 3 years ago - vis, that they could possibly do to get out a bit more. Get a grip, Gavin. Mark PS I agree, The Weekly is very good. _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp
Re: Who's Ken Elston?
On Wed, 15 Aug 2001 21:40:13 +0100, Mark Sturdy [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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? Either Bob's mum or sis sister-in-law. Bob is originally from Exeter. Not sure but I think s-i-l's maiden name or 2nd married name was Broughton. She was / is a babe though. -- 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 21:21:26 +0100, Dave Whitmore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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? :-) Or was it his dad's forename + mum's maiden name. Does it matter ? 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. I can neither admit or deny this. A bad memory can be useful at times :-) -- 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 18:47:59 +0100, Gavin Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gavin PS Community service Nev?! What did you do? ;) I broke some little toerag's leg in a few places. Long story you don't want to know and I don't want to remember. Just don't make me angry, you won't like me if I'm angry. -- 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 21:47:14 +0100, Gavin Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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 ;) I thought you lot shot each other (sorry !!!) 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). Well one thing I soon sorted out with S D Software was a no quibble full momey refund. Apart from a major bug in unidos that nearly broke me when I had to pay back a few hundred quid. But that work out ok cos when the bug was fixed those people all bought the new one cos I was such a nice chap. Of course, it also explains why I'm not rich :-) -- Nev - no longer at [EMAIL PROTECTED] and getting no spam at all (yet) Webpage under construction at www,nfy53,demon,co,uk
RE: ASCD 0.91 WIP 2
Aley Keprt wrote: Since *some* people still sending me annoying messages, I simple must release a new version including source code. Heh! Well you did say you'd release it with your next final version, so it was only a casual enquiry about your previous offer ;-) Thanks for posting it anyway! Si
RE: ASCD 0.90 W.I.P. (and anyone interested in MIDI)
Aley Keprt wrote: 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. Thanks for giving it a go... It sounds like you are not loading an e-tracker file (there a one or two on the disk). The Midi-tracker file is just a bunch of settings specifying how each instrument in the e-tracker file should be played (program number, velocity, etc.). So to hear anything you have to load both an e-tracker file *and* its corresponding Midi-tracker file before pressing play. 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. Yes, I remember MIDI Sequencer being quite slow! A lot of the user interface is in BASIC IIRC (as is my program!) 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. Btw.. SimCoupé does no internal sequencing at the moment to give correct MIDI _output_ timing (it tries to get the timing as SAM sees it correctly of course!) - it just writes the data straight out to Windows when it gets it. An implementation would be a lot easier than managing the SAA output, but has not been done yet... 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? I can put mine up soon... I might just, err, sort out the scrolly text first.. :-) I'll reply again when it's sorted. I'm not sure if anyone else thought about using MIDI for timing... Note: PAL speed is 1/64MHz. MIDI speed is 1/32MHz. It means that 2 bits are transmitted per line. Am I right? Yep, that's 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? Two extra bits are sent, yes. The interrupts are not linked to screen lines though. When an output is made to a MIDI port the transmission starts more-or-less straight away... although the MIDI hardware seems to have a resolution of 32 T-States (apparently at offsets of 12, 44, 76, etc from the beginning of the frame). The interrupt occurs one half-bit (96 T-States) before the transmission completes, and lasts for those last 96 T-States (so, shorter than other interrupts). The TXFMST bit in LPEN is set throughout the transmission, and outputting to the MIDI port is ignored if a byte is already in the process of being sent. Dave. Aley
Re: Who's Ken Elston?
On Wednesday, August 15, 2001, at 10:09 pm, Mark Sturdy wrote: You know, when I think back, Bob was one evil c*nt at times. (etc...) Oh, shut up. Yes he was utterly infuriating at times, and probably living in a complete fantasy world - all in all, a pretty silly man - but I've never seen why that makes him so worth getting wound up about. My feeling on people STILL gnashing their teeth about the fact that he pissed various people about in the mid-90s, failed to make West Coast Computers bigger than Apple, and then made various things up in attempts to explain this, is the same as it was last time I left this list 3 years ago - vis, that they could possibly do to get out a bit more. Get a grip, Gavin. Er I've got a grip, I was simply pointing out that for once we have confirmation and all the times he f*cked people over, ripped them off, owed them money and denied it, slagged them off in public, lied about them...and now we know we were in the right (at least on this issue). I mean can you remember just how long all this crap went on for? I'm entitled to two sentences to say how I feel about him now. Gavin
Re: Who's Ken Elston?
On Thursday, August 16, 2001, at 12:18 am, Paul Walker wrote: On Thu, Aug 16, 2001 at 12:04:00AM +0100, Gavin Smith wrote: mean can you remember just how long all this crap went on for? I'm entitled to two sentences to say how I feel about him now. Actually, I'm with Mark on this; I'm surprised you feel anything about him now. It's a long time ago this happened; Bob, Format, the Sam, etc. aren't relevant to anything any longer. Let him go, forget him, otherwise you're just wasting energy thinking about him. God, I only said two sentences! :) It's not like I lie awake thinking about him! *shudder* And this is a SAM mailing list and as he was one of the biggest figures in the scene, people are bound to talk about him. Oh and the SAM, irrelevant as you might think it is. So stop worrying about me, I'm alright ;) Gavin
Re: Who's Ken Elston?
- Original Message - From: Paul Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2001 12:18 AM Subject: Re: Who's Ken Elston? On Thu, Aug 16, 2001 at 12:04:00AM +0100, Gavin Smith wrote: mean can you remember just how long all this crap went on for? I'm entitled to two sentences to say how I feel about him now. Actually, I'm with Mark on this; I'm surprised you feel anything about him now. It's a long time ago this happened; Bob, Format, the Sam, etc. aren't relevant to anything any longer. Let him go, forget him, otherwise you're just wasting energy thinking about him. Slander I can't forgive. Don't wish him harm - particularly if he's ill - but I cant forgive him though.
Re: Who's Ken Elston?
On Wednesday, August 15, 2001, at 10:44 pm, Nev Young wrote: 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 ;) I thought you lot shot each other (sorry !!!) Haven't you heard about the ceasefire? *coughs* Well one thing I soon sorted out with S D Software was a no quibble full momey refund. Apart from a major bug in unidos that nearly broke me when I had to pay back a few hundred quid. But that work out ok cos when the bug was fixed those people all bought the new one cos I was such a nice chap. No quibble apart from a broken leg? :) I sent an IDE interface back to you one time cos I couldn't get it to work and you were good to your word and helped me best you could. You examined it and said there was nothing wrong with it and as I changed the cable etc, I thought the fault was with my SAMmy. Turns out it was the power supply you supplied - looks like it's working, spins up the hard drive etc, just fails to provide enough power to read the data off the disk reliably :) Only found this out last year when I tried using the supply for the Atom interface. Gavin
Re: Who's Ken Elston?
From: Nev Young [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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. The CHEEK of it! Once upon a time, I wrote (and published) a short piece of code to switch the SAM into Spectrum mode. Bob published an (identical) piece of code in Format under the name Ken Elston. And claimed that I'd ripped Ken off. There's not that many ways to write that switch code (it's only 15 bytes or so)... but really Si
Re: Who's Ken Elston?
On Thursday, August 16, 2001, at 03:31 am, Simon Cooke wrote: Once upon a time, I wrote (and published) a short piece of code to switch the SAM into Spectrum mode. Bob published an (identical) piece of code in Format under the name Ken Elston. And claimed that I'd ripped Ken off. Now come on Simon! How do we know that Ken *didn't* write it? ;) Gavin (Planning on going to bed some time night - maybe)
Re: Who's Ken Elston?
On Thursday, August 16, 2001, at 04:15 am, Simon Cooke wrote: From: Gavin Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Thursday, August 16, 2001, at 03:31 am, Simon Cooke wrote: Once upon a time, I wrote (and published) a short piece of code to switch the SAM into Spectrum mode. Bob published an (identical) piece of code in Format under the name Ken Elston. And claimed that I'd ripped Ken off. Now come on Simon! How do we know that Ken *didn't* write it? ;) It's perfectly possible. Although what I'd like to know is why he said that *I* plagiarised him. I'd always assumed that it was because it was such a short piece of code that it was easy to duplicate by accident. Now, maybe, I have to consider that he ripped it off from me - otherwise why would Bob arrogantly start bitching about me ripping it off from a *fictitious* person? Simon, I was only joking mate! :) I'm sure you did write it, and if Bob had written it too, I'm sure he would have been more than glad to publish it under his own name, rather than using a pseudonym (after all, we were always pushing him to back up his claims of his coding abilities, which he never did to my knowledge). I was being sarcastic Si :) Gavin (REALLY thinking about bed now)
Re: Who's Ken Elston?
From: Gavin Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Simon, I was only joking mate! :) I'm sure you did write it, and if Bob
had written it too, I'm sure he would have been more than glad to
publish it under his own name, rather than using a pseudonym (after all,
we were always pushing him to back up his claims of his coding
abilities, which he never did to my knowledge). I was being sarcastic
Si :)
Gavin
(REALLY thinking about bed now)
*grins* I know you were joking :) I was supposed to be replying in a half
serious, half joking fashion, but it may have come across wrong. (I've had 9
hours of sleep or so in the last two days thanks to the Sierra layoffs...
sheesh... and I always get a bit... weird if I don't get enough sleep these
days. Call it nervous exhaustion. Call it bad comic timing. Call it...
well... erm... something!)
Speaking of which... *phew* I've still got a job. Thank god. I wish I could
say the same for 245 other people. :( This is the second time in less than a
year... I hope the economy stops stalling soon and levels out a bit.
... and on that note... what's everyone up to these days? I'm writing photo
editing software for Sierra, having just finished working on Generations
back in December (woohoo! we're the top Sierra/Vivendi productivity title in
the UK!!!). Currently I'm trying to work out if I can use DirectDraw to do a
photoeditor. Might be fun - and very very snappy :) Beat that, oh Apple
Benchmarketers :)
Other than that... although the site's not up yet (but the domain is), I'm
working on some other stuff - namely filming :)
http://www.popcornfilms.com is where the action will be eventually. We've
already done one thing ('The Sensual Art of Poledancing', believe it or not,
which me a friend edited up and aired on Public Access [think Wayne's
World, but real life] on Monday), but that's under a different name - we
don't want to give the wrong impression if we make it big :)
Until then though... desperately trying to come up with an idea for a 5
minute short to get on the Sci-Fi channel.
Slight problem though... our producer[1] *did* get laid off, and may be
moving to Texas. Quite how a guy like Chris survives in Texas, I don't know.
I would have thought that the last place you'd want to go if you were (a)
loudmouthed and (b) black would be the highly racist/stuck-in-a-timewarp
Deep South. But hey... I wish him well.
Si
[1] I'm director/editor/screenwriter/lighting/grip, my partner in this
wonderful venture Steve is
cinematographer/lighting/sound/screenwriter/executive producer (which I
guess, strictly, we all are...), and Chris is
cinematographer/screenwriter/editor/producer. And he's a damn good producer.
By the way, for the uninitiated amongst you, a grip is someone who (amongst
other things) holds 1/2stone microphone on the end of a 12 foot fishing pole
over their head for several hours at a time while everyone else does fun
stuff.
OT: Sci-Fi (Was: Who's Ken Elston?)
On Wed, 15 Aug 2001 22:17:43 -0700 Simon Cooke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Until then though... desperately trying to come up with an idea for a 5 minute short to get on the Sci-Fi channel. OK! That's it. How can I get Sci-Fi channel here in Norway? -Frode
Re: Sci-Fi (Was: Who's Ken Elston?)
Not a clue... they appear to be sort of a franchise; certainly, the UK SciFi channel (at least in the past) is a lot different to the US one. Digital Satellite is probably your best bet. - Original Message - From: Frode Tenneboe [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2001 12:06 AM Subject: OT: Sci-Fi (Was: Who's Ken Elston?) On Wed, 15 Aug 2001 22:17:43 -0700 Simon Cooke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Until then though... desperately trying to come up with an idea for a 5 minute short to get on the Sci-Fi channel. OK! That's it. How can I get Sci-Fi channel here in Norway? -Frode
Re: Re: Sci-Fi (Was: Who's Ken Elston?)
On Thu, 16 Aug 2001 01:14:23 -0700 Simon Cooke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not a clue... they appear to be sort of a franchise; certainly, the UK SciFi channel (at least in the past) is a lot different to the US one. They are different companies. Digital Satellite is probably your best bet. Yes, but Sky/SciFi used to use a peculiar decoder. Is Sky Digital still doing that? -Frode
Re: Who's Ken Elston?
On Wed, 15 Aug 2001 19:31:29 -0700, Simon Cooke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Nev Young [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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. The CHEEK of it! Once upon a time, I wrote (and published) a short piece of code to switch the SAM into Spectrum mode. Bob published an (identical) piece of code in Format under the name Ken Elston. And claimed that I'd ripped Ken off. There's not that many ways to write that switch code (it's only 15 bytes or so)... but really Actually that was a bit of code I wrote during one of my visits to MGT in Swansea during the machine's development and he published it under KE's name. IIRC it was later used by Ian Spencer in the Specmaker emulator he wrote for SAM. But as you rightly say it's only a few bytes and thus easily duplicated by accident. As for me, I don't care. What's a dozen or so instructions weighed against the millions of lines of code I've done in my lifetime. -- 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 Thu, 16 Aug 2001 00:26:04 +0100, Gavin Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday, August 15, 2001, at 10:44 pm, Nev Young wrote: 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 ;) I thought you lot shot each other (sorry !!!) Haven't you heard about the ceasefire? *coughs* Well one thing I soon sorted out with S D Software was a no quibble full momey refund. Apart from a major bug in unidos that nearly broke me when I had to pay back a few hundred quid. But that work out ok cos when the bug was fixed those people all bought the new one cos I was such a nice chap. No quibble apart from a broken leg? :) I sent an IDE interface back to you one time cos I couldn't get it to work and you were good to your word and helped me best you could. You examined it and said there was nothing wrong with it and as I changed the cable etc, I thought the fault was with my SAMmy. Turns out it was the power supply you supplied - looks like it's working, spins up the hard drive etc, just fails to provide enough power to read the data off the disk reliably :) Only found this out last year when I tried using the supply for the Atom interface. Send it back and I'll refund your money. -- Nev - no longer at [EMAIL PROTECTED] and getting no spam at all (yet) Webpage under construction at www,nfy53,demon,co,uk
