Re: SAM's 20th Birthday

[Geoff Winkless]

Colin Piggot wrote:
Quite a few things lined up for SAM Revival and I'm toying with the 
idea of a complete colour issue for a special 20th birthday issue - if 
I can find somewhere to do affordable magazine printing I'd really 
like to do a one-off glossy mag for the birthday - as Sam has never 
had a 'proper' glossy mag during it's life...!
I've used these guys for printing before and been happy enough. I'm not 
sure if they would fit the bill but they've always been very 
competitively priced - I think they get the printing done in Eastern 
Europe and ship it over here.


http://www.printmeit.com/view_product_Y.php?product=11

Geoff

Re: SAM's 20th Birthday

[Colin Piggot]

we should push ‘Retro Gamer’


I had approached Retro Gamer before about writing about the SAM and have 
signed a freelance contract for writing for them, time hasn't been on my 
side lately but it's on my to-do list to get an article completed as it is 
approaching the 20th Birthday... I'll persue this one again!




I still believe that people have missed the greatness of the SAM due
to 16 bit machines becoming dominate at the time of it’s release.


Seconded!



So to all of us who have got unfinished projects “Let’s get on with it”


I fall into that catagory too time to get Comet out, and to get SAM 
Revival 23 finished off and printed asap.


Quite a few things lined up for SAM Revival and I'm toying with the idea of 
a complete colour issue for a special 20th birthday issue - if I can find 
somewhere to do affordable magazine printing I'd really like to do a one-off 
glossy mag for the birthday - as Sam has never had a 'proper' glossy mag 
during it's life...!


Colin
=
Quazar : Hardware, Software, Spares and Repairs for the SAM Coupe
1995-2009 - Celebrating 15 Years of developing for the SAM Coupe
Website: http://www.samcoupe.com/

RE: SAM's 20th Birthday

[Andrew Park]

I like the idea of increasing the SAM library and I think as the SAM is 20 
years old this year we should push ‘Retro Gamer’ into making a long awaited few 
page spread on our beloved SAM at least this would raise the profile of the SAM 
and get people wondering what it’s about and maybe get more people attempting 
to program it.  

 

A competition would be a great idea and I would try and finish some of my 
projects off (Been busy with being a dad again)

 

I still believe that people have missed the greatness of the SAM due to 16 bit 
machines becoming dominate at the time of it’s release.

 

So to all of us who have got unfinished projects “Let’s get on with it” 

 

Andy (Taff)

 

 

 

 

From: owner-sam-us...@nvg.ntnu.no [mailto:owner-sam-us...@nvg.ntnu.no] On 
Behalf Of Calvin Allett
Sent: 31 May 2009 03:56
To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no
Subject: SAM's 20th Birthday

 


Hey guys :) sorry I've not been around lately with my useless thoughts but just 
been thinking again about how SAM's gonna be 20 this year and wondering if 
anyone has plans for what we should do to celebrate and also worrying that for 
projects we only really got 6 months or so...

Personally I've wondered for a few years now if a coding/game competition might 
lure some of the Spectrum crew over and increase the SAM's library, even going 
so far in my mind ramblings of offering a first prize of a couple hundred quid 
or my Golden ASIC as incentives (I'm aware that monetary incentives can come 
across as vulgar, but there's a lot of people without jobs that perhaps this 
could intice that otherwise might not?, so thoughts on this would be welcome :) 
) and would like to know if anyone thinks this might be a good idea, and also 
for your blessing or objections (if even one person doesn't think this would be 
a sensible idea then I wouldn't do it out of respect or someone with a working 
brain could perhaps run a competition?) .

anyway, hope you are all well, and I realise that I've always been somewhat on 
the periphery of the SAM scene, so just take this as me drunk and wondering 
about stuff ;)

Cal