Re: Merhabalar;
On Fri, 14 Dec 2001 10:02:36 - Fri, 14 Dec 01 22:36:36 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: are we so quiet these days, that we need to respond to spam??? :) Yep. Merry Christmas everybody! Dave
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 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
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: Sam CPU timing
On Fri, 3 Aug 2001 00:00:08 +0100 Fri, 3 Aug 01 00:03:27 BST, David Ledbury [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No Apologies, I thought it might have. :-) Dave (have u got fed up with clara then?)
Re: Back... with assorted questions
On Sun, 13 May 2001 00:15:38 +0100 (GMT Daylight Time) Sun, 13 May 01 00:25:43 BST, Mark Sturdy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2. In connection with the above, I seem to remember years ago that Derek Morgan's SAM PD catalogue listed a program that converted files from various SAM word processors into PC-compatible files (Word etc). Is my memory deceiving me? If not, is there anywhere where I can still get it? Yes, there is a very handy program that converts Word docs (even up to XP Office). It is available at www.cloud.somedaftbird.land/fantasy.htm HTH Dave
Re: SimCoupé/Win32 updated to 0.81
On Tue, 27 Feb 2001 00:58:39 - Tue, 27 Feb 01 01:02:13 GMT, Simon Owen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes indeed, believe you eyes, from our grip, at last you prise... a new Win32 version of SimCoupé!!! Excellent - thank-you, thank-you, thank-you! One question - sorry if this seems ungrateful - what happened to RESET? Dave
Re: Where are YOU now?
On Thu, 18 Jan 2001 15:11:28 -0800 Thu, 18 Jan 01 23:30:18 GMT, Simon Cooke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (BTW: Generations 8.0 [which you'll see in stores in the UK] is MY baby ... and I accept no blame whatsoever for its bugs, given that I managed to fix over 200 of them for the latest release :)) My friend Geoffrey says I now have the latest V8 Generations, and I like it a lot. BUT it refuses to produce the word 'Baptised' in reports - I have to enter them all 'by hand'! :-) Dave
Re: A little bit of history...repeating
On Sat, 30 Dec 2000 19:17:49 -0800 Sun, 31 Dec 00 03:19:14 GMT, Simon Cooke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Frans van Egmond [EMAIL PROTECTED] Still one question left; what happened to (any) leftover stock from West Coast Computers ? Bob ate it. Si Bob told me once that there is a 'lock-up' garage or something somewhere, where he suspected there was quite a bit of interesting SAM gear. Nev might know something about that? PING Nev. Dave
Re: A little bit of history...repeating
On Sun, 31 Dec 2000 03:23:49 - Sun, 31 Dec 00 03:26:13 GMT, David L [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Another sad soul up at silly hours :) I'm not sad at all. I'm dying with a cold and I'm sparing the missus the joys of my sniffing, coughing and spluttering. That half litre of Whisky is doing the business though, so it shouldn't be too long b4 I collapse. :-) IRC anyone? undernet, channel #samusers ?? Bugger.. I haven't installed MIRC... Oh well. Another time maybe. Happy New Year (for tomorrow) everybody. Dave
Re: A little bit of history...repeating
On Sun, 31 Dec 2000 03:33:42 - Sun, 31 Dec 00 03:39:38 GMT, David L [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Good on you! At least you've got some great telly on at the mo :) What am I missing?! Jesus, I've been sat here trying to suss the intricacies of making VCDs all night and missing out on TV. That half litre of Whisky is doing the business though, so it shouldn't be too long b4 I collapse. :-) Best medicene! Probably, but as long as I can still spell, I'm not getting there. IRC anyone? undernet, channel #samusers ?? Bugger.. I haven't installed MIRC... Oh well. Another time maybe. Darn well, would have been nice eh? Aye, never mind. Happy New Year (for tomorrow) everybody. Dave And happy new centuary from me too...! Why is it that /some/ people insist that 2001 is the beginning of a new century. Please explain the logic behind this argument, and tell me why most of the world celebrated it last year? Probably getting there (pour another... please forgive this rubbish - sober people) - Dave
Re: A little bit of history...repeating
Easy - no year 0 - and 2000 + 1 = 2001 So the people said 'this is year 1', even though it didn't happen? I mean, I wasn't 1 until I'd lived a year. It still doesn't explain why everyone celebrated it last year. Maybe they're all cretins? Dave
Re: A little bit of history...repeating
On Sun, 31 Dec 2000 03:59:37 - Sun, 31 Dec 00 04:01:10 GMT, David L [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So the people said 'this is year 1', even though it didn't happen? I mean, I wasn't 1 until I'd lived a year. It still doesn't explain why everyone celebrated it last year. Maybe they're all cretins? Yes, they probably are. ;) Do you know what I think (hic)? I think that it's all of those Christians fault and those stupid hypocrit Romans. All this BC rubbish. What's the real year, I'd like to know? ;) Dave
Re: Progress
On Fri, 20 Oct 2000 00:07:04 +0100 Fri, 20 Oct 00 00:42:16 BST, Colin Macdonald [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think Mr Doore will be able to help with this, but while I'm remembering, I'm willing to allow the remainder of the copyrighted items I still own (Outlet, Enceladus, SCPDU, some games and utilities etc) go up for public domain only *after* some other old SAM companies have been persuaded to make their stuff PD. (I'm only doing this to try and give someone incentive to badger these people whose software is no longer available!) Who needs persuading? Tell me their names and I'll get the gun out. Dave
Re: Console Coupe
I'll elaborate on my original question. What I was trying to say was, would it be possible to alter a DSK image, to another filetype with a different extension that could be recognised by Windows (or another GUI O/S) to launch Sim Coupe, and in turn boot itself. In my mind, the emulator (and maybe the ROM) would need to be patched in some way to accept this, but wouldn't it be good - if for example if you could click on an image and it could bypass the SAM startup and go straight into a game or a SAM app. Dave
Console Coupe
What are the chances of making a DSK or SAD image (or altering an existing one) so that when clicked on in Windows, it'll launch the emulator and autoboot? Dave
Re: Games (Colony and F16)
On Sat, 1 Jul 2000 23:56:05 +0100, Gavin Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Excellent! Any chance of a copy of the tape, or better still can you get into a .dsk so I can make it available from the File Library and website? Gavin O stop it Gavs. You'll be wetting yourself.
Re: Big Trouble (in little SAM World)
On Sat, 1 Jul 2000 21:04:30 +0200, Edwin Blink [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: to boot anyway do a CALL 229385 for a 256K SAM or a CALL 491529 to continue booting DOS Don't you also need the older version of SAMDOS to be able to do that? No it works for any dos. you just boot a disk and when the no dos error occures you do the call. Sorry, I wasn't aware of that. I just remembered the letter I got with the replacement ROM that said yuo shouldn't use the new DOS with the old ROM. BTW, I love the new Disk Editor. Excellent stuff! Dave
Re: Web Sites
On Sat, 24 Jun 2000 22:26:50 +0100, David L [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yarr, Taycombe-Fallop. Hannend. Heath, E... right? !!! Whatever :-)
Re: CD mag
On Sun, 11 Jun 2000 09:22:37 +0100, Stoned Design [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The Cd mag will be a bit later than I said. Hopefully it will come out be early July. So there is more time to send me any work to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Is there any chance of a brief idea about the contents? Dave
Re: contact
On Mon, 29 May 2000 18:50:04 EDT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've just bought a new PC and was about to sign up with ICQ, but maybe I won't after all Hiya Phil - long time no see. No, I wouldn't let that put you off. I get the impression that he doesn't want to bother with any of us anymore. Dave
RE: contact
On Tue, 30 May 2000 16:37:49 +0100, Justin Skists [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What gives you that impression, anyway Just a guess. He isn't subbed to this group for example, and I can't see any evidence tha the has an interest in the SAM scene anymore; seeing how he failed to control us, and seeing how much everyone despised his despot attitude. :-) Dave
RE: contact
On Tue, 30 May 2000 18:59:55 +0100, John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I dont remember a bob brenchley - who was/is he? John. He was the proprietor and editor of Format magazine - the home of all things Spectum and SAM, and if you didn't subscribe to it, there was no way on earth you could ever be deemed a REAL SAM USER. Dave
contact
Someone just pointed this out to me: Bob Brenchley's ICQ is 21064485 Just in case anyone is desperete to contact him. :-) Dave
Re: Spotted on c.s.s - Sam for sale
All this about £100 for a SAM being a rip-off is a bit daft IMO. Fully working SAMs are becoming more rare, and I'm beginning to see them in a similar way to how people might look at vintage cars. I'd say people who sell them cheap aren't really doing themselves any favours. Just my opinion. Dave
Re: SAM pic converter ?
On Sat, 25 Mar 2000 20:41:58 +0100, Frans van Egmond [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone have a program for Amiga or PC to convert IFF or BMP or whatever pictures to SAM Coupe and back? Simon Cooke had (probably doesn't anymore) a program for making SAM pictures into BMPs. It's probably in the NVG archive. Ian Slavin (our very own 'Axe' - where the hell is he these days?) did a pretty good IFF (ILBM) to SAM routine, but I don't know if it, or anything like it, is up as a stand-alone program on NVG. However, I think I put it on one of the last of the SAM Adventure Club disks (probably disk B of issue 13), and that is on NVG in the mags section somewhere... I think. HTH Regards Dave Whitmore
Re: The Millenium Poll
Any results worth posting yet, Johnna? Dave
Re: Christmas Greetings, etc.
On Tue, 21 Dec 1999 18:49:17 +, Tim P [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: James R Curry wrote: Seconded, thirded, forthded... Etc!! ;-) Sign me up for some of those Season's Greetings, too. While we're at it, me too. By the way everyone, Merry Christmas! Infact, I'll wish Sam a happy 10th birthday as well. It must be around now. Yep, I got my first SAM on the 19th of December '89. He's somewhere in Scotland now, but SAM number 2 is still in a drawer upstairs. :-) Dave
Re: Sam Keyboard Membrane wanted
On Sun, 5 Dec 1999 19:00:57 - Sun, 5 Dec 99 19:19:38 GMT, Trevor Ashby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Your name certainly rings a bell. Hmmm.. now where do I remember you from? Dave
Re:
On Fri, 26 Nov 1999 14:41:38 -0400 Sat, 27 Nov 99 00:36:01 GMT, James R Curry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Nov 26, 1999 at 12:32:48AM +, Andrew Collier wrote: Indeed. You seem to have forgotten to put a quotation of the entire previous message including sig at the end of your mail. imc Oh my... I've had a headache this last week and that made me laugh hard enough to cheer me up no end. Thank you, Ian. Got to agree there. I nearly covered the monitor and keyboard in beer. :-)) Dave
Re: [OFF] Re: Money For Nothing...(but the chicks aren't free...)
On Sun, 21 Nov 1999 23:55:48 + Sun, 21 Nov 99 23:57:53 GMT, Gavin Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's not permanent 0800 access, though, is it? ie 24/7? If so, then I might consider using AOL. If I can find a way to dial up using Linux. If it wasn't, I certainly wouldn't be using it ;) It is, 24/7, permanent connection - but, as I said, it was a trial they were running, whilst the trial proved unviable for them (i.e. I probably stayed connected day and night pissing them off!), they decided not to introduce it publicly - so only 100 people have got it. Sorry! Damnit... my Clara freetime weekend funs out in less that 2 minutes! You lucky git! :-) Dave (make that 1 minute)
Re: Let's get our act together...
On Mon, 22 Nov 1999 08:30:10 EST Mon, 22 Nov 99 18:10:01 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Indeed. Sounds good to me. I still have loose plans that one day I'll resurrect FRED, but I'd need to sort out a few personal things, as well as get enough support drummed up to ensure it lasted! In the meantime though, I don't see any problem with giving permission for say, the first fifty (50) issues of FRED to be available for download from the FTP site. I should add that copyright would still remain with original persons, blah blah blah. You're a star Colin! I'll take back all the nasty and horrible things I ever said about you grinz. Dave
Re: Let's get our act together...
On Mon, 22 Nov 99 18:58:56 GMT Mon, 22 Nov 99 19:00:23 GMT, David Ledbury [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You're a star Colin! I'll take back all the nasty and horrible things I ever said about you grinz. What? All of them? Including that comment about the squirty cream, the banana and the nun? Crikey! Yep, even those. :-) I'd like to be cheeky though and ask if it's not pushing it for all the Enceladus and SAM Outlet issues to go up as well, so I'd better take back all the treacherous and diabolical things as well. :-) Dave
Re: Money For Nothing...(but the chicks aren't free...)
On Fri, 19 Nov 1999 17:46:57 EST Sat, 20 Nov 99 00:19:11 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You bunch of stupid demo coders. So you were Bob all along! :) Seriously Johnna, AOL!? Oops - sorry Phil. :- Dave
Re:
On Sun, 14 Nov 1999 20:34:00 - Sun, 14 Nov 99 20:52:06 GMT, David L [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Any sign of Bob? No - thank god! :)
Re: Wincoupe
On Sun, 14 Nov 1999 20:58:32 - Sun, 14 Nov 99 22:49:19 GMT, Maria Rookyard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And we didn't have fancy stuff like calculators either, we had to count things up on our fingers... if we wanted to do subtractions we had to have fingers amputated. wen we wuz likkle we ad to lern ow to do fings rite and we'd get prazed by the teecher.
Re: New WinCoupe alpha test version (Was: Re: Defender)
On Thu, 11 Nov 1999 02:00:55 - Thu, 11 Nov 99 02:09:36 GMT, Si Owen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Simon Cooke wrote: Mr. Owen... pretty please... release a new beta? alpha? anything? Aw, go on then, as long as you promise the GPL goblins won't come and get me! I've uploaded a new alpha test version to: http://www.obobo.demon.co.uk/WinCoupe.zip Fantastic! :-)) It's fast, it's cool and it works on my machine. Dave
Re: Greetz
On Mon, 08 Nov 1999 20:17:35 +0100 Mon, 8 Nov 99 22:34:33 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi evereyone, it`s me Martijn Groen. Hello Martijn, great to see you here! Regards Dave
Re: SAM Community Newsletter Issue 2
On Mon, 18 Oct 1999 13:10:20 +0100 Mon, 18 Oct 99 18:37:03 BST, Gavin Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What makes it exclusive? The simple fact that it excludes anyone who doesn't subscribe. Eh?! But surely that makes this list equally as exclusive, in that you have to subscribe. I'm not trying to be smart, I just don't follow you here - you don't get it unless you ask - is that what you are saying?! My irrational problem is that I find it incredibly frustrating to contemplate sending or receiving information through snail-mail (farting about with stamps and envelopes, etc. It seems a bit luddite), when the people who I'm communicating with are on the net. For people whose only means of written communication is via traditional post, fine, no worries. you'll be giving them a good service. I'm obviously a fool for thinking this way because so many others around here think it's such a good idea. Dave
Re: SAM Community Newsletter Issue 2
Gavin, I'm having difficulty trying to understand the motivation behind a printed newsletter. There obviously isn't any money to be made (from what you are charging), and the only thing I can figure is that you're aiming to start an exclusive club of sorts. This isn't a swipe, btw, I just don't understand why people should bother with stamps and read stuff on paper these days. Dave
Re: SAM Community Newsletter Issue 2
On Sun, 17 Oct 1999 14:37:25 +0100 Sun, 17 Oct 99 14:44:48 BST, Gavin Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What makes it exclusive? The simple fact that it excludes anyone who doesn't subscribe. Anyone can get it for next to nothing so I'm not sure how it's exclusive. That's true, but it isn't really my point. Why do it? Originally it was to give news coverage to people like Persona and Quazar who I felt Format wasn't covering adequately (or at all in Persona's case) but of course we've only really got Quazar left. I dunno, I still enjoy farting about with the SAM, and I've found 30 like minded people so it isn't much hassle to stick a little newsletter together every couple of months. Nothing earth shattering in it, but there's always a few things available for the SAM every couple of months. Granted there are people who don't have net access, but why not do an email version for people online. You've already seen an example of the difficulty faced by potential overseas subscribers. I still enjoy 'farting about' with things concerning SAM to a certain extent, and I'd even go as far as to say I'd like to see a newsletter done along the lines of the speccy one by Andy Davies (an occasional disczine in DSK format?). People like Persona and Quazar could put all the advertising they wanted into something like that. That would probably be a bit extreme though, so an occasional email attachment to interested parties would probably suffice. This isn't a swipe either, btw, but there are a few people on this list who seem to just hang about to criticise other people and say why do this?, why do that? Well why not? Of course it's a stupidly obscure This was a genuine concern rather than a criticism. I can see how you'd think otherwise though, and I'm sorry if you took it that way. computer, with stupidly little support, but I still enjoy it. I get a lot of letters from people happy with what I'm doing. *shrug* It's no big deal :) Anyway, I hate reading stuff from a computer screen, I'd much prefer to read it from paper. Let's just put it this way then: you are here, and I am here, reading each other. So what could you possibly tell me on a piece of paper that I can't read onscreen? That's all I'm saying... carry on and have fun! :-) Dave
Re: SAM Community
On Tue, 5 Oct 1999 22:26:12 +0100 Wed, 6 Oct 99 18:15:46 BST, David L [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well with the greatest respect, this is the first I've heard about it... I suppose it also reffers to the number of people who actually *bothered* to subscribe to SAM magazines... WHILE THEY STILL EXISTED! Like most other people, I gave up buying or reading SAM related mags when it became evident that there wasn't anything really left for anyone to write about. You could probably fit everything that's happened in the last five years into one disc-mag. So don't talk fucking stupid.
Re: oops
On Sat, 9 Oct 1999 00:57:37 +0100 Sat, 9 Oct 99 01:01:13 BST, Andrew Collier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What's going on?! Is it just me, or has everybody got about 15 copies of this message so far? And the Recieved: headers are getting longer... Then again, I just got two copies of this one. Some people are gonna be unpleased when they get all this crap. :-/ Dave
Re: unsubscribe
On Fri, 8 Oct 1999 23:34:08 +0100 Sat, 9 Oct 99 00:37:26 BST, David L [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now that wasn't a sensible way to unsub now - was it? /Some people/ Tsk. Dave
Re: unsubscribe
On Fri, 8 Oct 1999 23:37:25 +0100 Sat, 9 Oct 99 00:48:21 BST, David L [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: He wrote nothing really Just chill, you idiot. Flooding everyone's mailbox with shite isn't gonna get you anywhere! Okay, what would you like me to say then - SORRY? You were shouting in an authoritive tone so I reacted Now do it properly and send your unsub to the right place.
Re: Erk!
On Sat, 9 Oct 1999 03:32:54 + Sat, 9 Oct 99 11:13:00 BST, James R Curry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, that was.. erm.. fun. Yeah, I thought it'd never stop. Is everyone still with us? Good question. Dave
Re: Sam's worst ever game
On Wed, 22 Sep 1999 18:48:02 +0100 Wed, 22 Sep 99 19:34:18 BST, Maria Rookyard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's nice to be back; anything exciting happened since the beginning of last month? Yeah, another woman came in and stole your crown. :-) Dave
Re: 5 1/4inch drives (was RE: MY MAGS)
On Sun, 19 Sep 1999 00:44:53 +0100 Sun, 19 Sep 99 10:38:28 BST, Will Easson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is Kev Cooper on this list?! If he isn't (he dips in and out of here), he can be mailed at [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dave
Re: MY MAGS
Adie, I think Kev Cooper's got all your old disk mags - but he can't convert them and probably wont part with them - unless you can be bothered asking him? :-) BTW - you deliberately spelt my name wrong mutter mutter. I'd email you direct but I don't want to get caught in your kill filter. :) TTFN Dave
Re: The SCART socket
There used to be loads of info about things like SCART in ye olde Sam Supplement. I wonder if Dave Tonks would have any objections to the lot going up on nvg? Is anyone in contact with him these days? Dave
Re:
On Sun, 22 Aug 1999 20:01:30 +0100 Sun, 22 Aug 99 20:36:48 BST, Martin Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Email to the above address only for 1 week - after that I'm off line for good. Offline for good?! Jesus are you in the last stages of a terminal disease or something? Is the internet really that bad? I don't think anyone would be that bothered about selling things and money if that were the case. :-) He'll probably say it's none of our business, but it'd be interesting to know why. Dave
Re: Re : SUUG
On Thu, 12 Aug 1999 01:03:03 +0100 Fri, 13 Aug 99 11:28:44 BST, michael sleight [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Derek Morgan - That name rings a bell with me too - say more!! Derek used to run 'SAM PD' and 'F9 Software' (the latter title cunningly invented by me!). He was an agent for SAMCo and was (I should say 'is' because as far as I know he's still alive!) a very helpful chap regarding all things SAM. We regularly used to attend the shows in Gloucester together (and before that at the AFF at Birmingham and Haydock), but I haven't heard anything from him for ages. I should really pick up the phone and see how he's doing, but he works funny shifts. ISTR Derek saying that he was involved in the afore mentioned 'Unemployed Spectrum User Group' once or twice. Quite a hilarious title, isn't it!? Can you imagine anything like that these days. :-) Dave (Founding member of the unemployed CD Burners club)
Re: Re : SUUG
On Wed, 11 Aug 1999 19:34:33 -0700 Wed, 11 Aug 99 23:35:44 BST, Robert Wilkinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Spectrum Unemployed User Group... Didn't Derek Morgan have something to do with that too? Dave
ooer
Did anyone see Martin Maria dancing naked in the moon shadow at Marazion on the telly this (oh hang on) yesterday morning? RFC Dave
Re: Hello
On Sun, 1 Aug 1999 20:33:35 -0700 Sun, 1 Aug 99 21:29:33 BST, Robert Wilkinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi to all Sam users. From Bob Wilkinson (Peterborough England) Please send emails here as plain text or the others will start moaning at you. Welcome anyway. :) Bye for now, Dave
Re: SimCoupe : wide spread? (was New: SimCoupe 0.783a...)
On the subject of autoboot, yep, I'm very much in favour so long as it's optional. Ideally with a virtual hard drive if no disk is in fd1. I don't think there's anything wrong in making improvments to an emulated SAM in this way, so long as there are options to make it behave authentically when needed. Okay, someone yell at me. :-) Bye for now, Dave
Re: Sam -year 2000-The Secretary
On Tue, 6 Jul 1999 20:51:23 +0100 Wed, 7 Jul 99 20:02:34 BST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | I think it is MasterDOS that needs a patch. | | Waste of time anyway. Who the hell would want to use that crap in this | day and age? Are we talking MasterDos or Secretary? The Secretary. Do you think it's wonderful then? :) Bye for now, Dave
Re: Sam -year 2000-The Secretary
On Sat, 3 Jul 1999 16:30:22 +0100 Sat, 3 Jul 99 17:04:50 BST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Has anyone got a fix for the Secretary wordprocessor to make understand the | year 2000 I think it is MasterDOS that needs a patch. Waste of time anyway. Who the hell would want to use that crap in this day and age?
Re: Format
On Sat, 3 Jul 1999 16:28:29 +0100 Sat, 3 Jul 99 17:04:49 BST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | | What's the story with Format these days. Any news - anybody? | | Dave | If you have read my past messages you will know that Bob hopes to restart Format very soon. Try sending him a direct email at [EMAIL PROTECTED] And feelings of euphoria swept through the SAM universe. Bye for now, Dave
Format
What's the story with Format these days. Any news - anybody? Dave
Re: Derek Morgan
On Thu, 10 Jun 1999 18:35:51 EDT Fri, 11 Jun 99 19:36:00 BST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know if Derek Morgan is still active on the SAM scene, or if he's joined the ranks of PC users? Good question. The last time I spoke to Derek (seems like years ago) he said he /might/ get a PC someday, but he seemed to be losing interest in computers at the time. If nobody knows, I may have to (gulp) write him a letter to find out. Give him a phone call. If you want his number let me know. Bye for now, Dave
Re: Based on an idea
On Tue, 8 Jun 1999 20:25:24 -0700 Wed, 9 Jun 99 18:04:29 BST, jadams1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone have a spare copy of the above magazine I could buy as I would like to have a read of one. j adams A good case of sporadic enthusiasm, if ever I saw one! Bye for now, Dave
Re: Anybody Know Dave W`s mail addr
On Fri, 04 Jun 1999 18:17:28 +0100 Fri, 4 Jun 99 21:35:48 BST, Martin Fitzpatrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hullo Hallieow its [EMAIL PROTECTED] ^ I'm afraid it isn't. :) ...though he probably got your message on the list!! That's true though. [EMAIL PROTECTED] for now, but I might go to one of the free ones. It seems daft throwing 11 quid a month away these days. Then again, I've heard that there are trials running ATM by an ISP in Brum where you pay a flat tenner a month and you can dial up free and stay on (downloading MP3s and naughty pictures) for as long as you like. Sounds good to me! :-) Bye Dave
Re: Manual
On Mon, 24 May 1999 21:20:50 +0100 Tue, 25 May 99 18:47:01 BST, Thomas Harte [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've got a spare manual here that I could rip up, but if you insist... If you've got a spare manual, I don't suppose you feel like sending it to me? Unfortunately, no. :) BTW, if anyone feels like sending me a nice new 21 inch monitor... Dave
Re: Manual
On Sun, 23 May 1999 23:10:14 +0100 Mon, 24 May 99 20:31:26 BST, Ian Dalziel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just wondering. Did anyone ever bother to OCR the standard SAM manual (the one that Bob said he'd allow)? Er, well, in principle I'm doing it - there's a Sam manual sitting next to my scanner, and I've thrown the spiral binder away - I've been busy lately, and the hamster isn't looking well - Look, I'm going to do it, get off my back, OK? ... *OK!* I've got a spare manual here that I could rip up, but if you insist... And make sure you do all the funky liddle cartoons as well. OK! :) Dave
Manual
Just wondering. Did anyone ever bother to OCR the standard SAM manual (the one that Bob said he'd allow)? Dave
Re: Leaving on a jet plane
On Mon, 10 May 1999 17:35:57 +0100 Mon, 10 May 99 18:58:29 BST, Andrew Collier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thank you to one and all, and keep the faith with SAM in some form, especially SIM Coupe, because if it wasn't worth it we wouldn't still be here after ten baron years. TTFN to Johnna. Is it back to the Isle of Man then? (I don't suppose you'll see this anyway) Hey, just make sure you stay around long enough for the tenth birthday, yes? It'd be fun to have a bit of a 'deathbed vigil' like the people at Commodore did with the Amiga. I can't see myself staying around after December. It's funny but those ten years seem like a very long time in terms of my interest in SAM, while everything else seems to have gone so fast. Was I really only 30 back then?! :-) Dave (sticking around for a little bit longer)
Re: comp.sys.sinclair... jesus...
On Fri, 7 May 1999 19:15:59 -0700 Sat, 8 May 99 12:31:18 BST, Simon Cooke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hehe - if you work at Microsoft, say 'Hi' to the Mindcraft people for me! Yeah, right. Like I'd know them. You may well have done. :) There's 30,000 people at Microsoft in Seattle alone - not seven. 30,000.. Jesus... how often does the lightbulb need changing then? ... and the Mindcraft people came here to use the test lab - nothing more. If they visit again, you will make a point of walking up and saying 'Hi', though, won't you? :) Dave
Re: New Argument about COPYING (WAS CLOSING ARGUEEMENT ON - SimCoupe protected disks Copyright )
On Wed, 21 Apr 1999 09:27:02 +0100 Wed, 21 Apr 99 20:00:12 BST, Si Owen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: SAM software disks could always be personalised with the details of the owner before being sent out, as people will be a lot less likely to distribute disks if their name and address is part of them. The Spectrum emulator Z80 does (or at least _did_) this, and sections of code are decrypted using those details to stop a simple patching job from getting around it. It wouldn't help the software already out there, but it'd be a start. Selling the software on to someone else would be interesting tho! That sounds like a good idea. In theory an installer program that could only work with a personalised key; showing the purchaser's name and address at the start of the game, etc. I guess that's where the PIIIs ID number might be handy in future. However, I don't think Chris would be interested in doing retrospective protection work for his old games. :) Dave
Re: Putting the whole boring argumet simply
On Wed, 21 Apr 1999 12:19:39 GMT+0 Wed, 21 Apr 99 20:00:18 BST, Psycho Billy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's a choice as simple as that - support SIM Coupe, or kill off the last connection many people will have to SAM, and effectively kill off this little community of which we are all so fond. I agree with a lot of that Johnna. The bugbear lies with people who think they can still make a pot of money out of it. Chris was willing to give his old stuff away for free - which might have lead to someone fixing the games to run on SIM Coupe. I don't necessarily think they should be 'free' when most of us bought the original games, but... ah stuffit. It isn't worth the grief. :-) Dave
Re: CLOSING ARGUEEMENT ON - SimCoupe protected disks C
On Wed, 21 Apr 1999 13:43:44 +0100 Wed, 21 Apr 99 20:00:23 BST, Si Owen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The SAM world can only survive if we start to pool our resources and help to advance SIM Coupe ie. getting it running in WIn32 properly. My thoughts exactly, but one or more people on this list still see the emulator as a threat. Only one person, as far as I can see. I used to think Bob was a meglomaniac, but they're two of a kind really (ouch, I felt that myself!:)) Dave
Re: Bob is missing
On Wed, 21 Apr 1999 10:44:43 +0100 Wed, 21 Apr 99 20:00:15 BST, Justin Skists [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Surely, someone on here is his friend, what about Samsboss and Bill Ritman? Won't they tell him? ISTR from a post he made recently that he wasn't feeling too well. I can vouch for the fact that the stress of a crumbling empire can bring on ill health. I've been there, and for what it's worth, and if that's the case, then he has my genuine sympathy. No matter how we've argued in the past. I wonder... can a duplicity condition be stress related? :) Dave
Re: COMPUTERMARKET Shows was The State of things
On Mon, 19 Apr 1999 00:15:45 +0100 Mon, 19 Apr 99 23:30:52 BST, Richard Jowett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Be careful with some of the HD's on sale. Especialy the ones marked untested as I got 2 at about £8 each and only one works and that has a lot of sector errors. I reformated it but that only got rid of some errors and I don't trust the drive enough to use it. Richad Don't fall for it. A mate of mine was daft enough to buy five and all of them were crap. This is a bad reflection on the fair organisers and how they don't care - so long as they get the dosh. Just be careful. Dave
Re: CLOSING ARGUEEMENT ON - SimCoupe protected disks Copyright
On Mon, 19 Apr 1999 22:28:35 +0100 Mon, 19 Apr 99 23:31:01 BST, Martin Fitzpatrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on with the PSX thread. Well, no one is complaining yet maybe its like some walkie-talkies(1), i.e., its not illegal to own them, sell them, make them or whatever just use them is it actually illegal to do it? i mean what law are you breaking by simply producing a bit of circuitry? using it would be illegal though, cos then the purpose for which the thing was build is pretty explicit... maybe martin fitzpatrick The SAM was built on the success of a wonderful backup (read pirate) device called the Plus D (based on the earlier DisCiple - did I get the funky spelling/case right Bob?). Because the speccy was near the end of its life as a money making games platform (due to the Amigas and Ataris, and because unc Clive sold out) nobody really cared. MGT used to advocate backing up tapes to disk (or disc - for Bob) and certain publications would give out information on how to hack awkward programs so that they would work from disk. But there appears to be an unforgivable difference in us wanting to run floppy software from a hard drive. The Hypocrisy sometimes aired in this mailing list is killing me; but it's a fun way to die. :-) Dave
Re: CLOSING ARGUEEMENT ON - SimCoupe protected disks Copyright
On Tue, 20 Apr 1999 01:07:09 +0100 Tue, 20 Apr 99 18:04:15 BST, Chris White [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As for advocating Copying Tape to Disk , this was not the case as it stated that it was for BACKING UP you current Tape software to Disk. And should not be used as a COPYING DEVICE Okay then, I see where you're coming from. However, if that's alright, what's wrong with BACKING UP your current floppy software to a hard disk? Why is it so taboo for us to contemplate playing your SAM conversions of POP or Lemmings from a hard disk on an emulated SAM? It seems like a natural progression on what everyone's been doing with speccy games for years. What Hypocrisy is that, did i miss anything :) Dunno. I must've missed it too! No, seriously Chris, just ease off on the paranioa a bit! No one wants to do you any harm. Some of us just want to be lazy and run everything from one box. :) Dave
Re: New Argument about COPYING (WAS CLOSING ARGUEEMENT ON - SimCoupe protected disks Copyright )
On Tue, 20 Apr 1999 18:20:37 +0100 Tue, 20 Apr 99 20:17:50 BST, Paul Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why DO you keep PUSHing this thREAD, when the law DEFines that you are wrong and I am right? Why do I get the feeling you're using a programmers editor? I don't know what's happening (durrr)... there's a few new ones happening too. I've never seen an editor that tokenises LAW, for example. :-) Dave
Re: CLOSING ARGUEEMENT ON - SimCoupe protected disks Copyright
On Sun, 18 Apr 1999 02:39:43 +0100 Sun, 18 Apr 99 11:42:51 BST, Richard Jowett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: According to a TV program It is illegal to chip and maybe even to own a chipped PSX (not sure if they said own). Yet loads of shops/people are offering this service, but nothing is really being done about them. If a company as big as Sony cannot stop this then Smaller companies don't stand much chance. (sorry, I know this isn't 'PSX Users':)) Not only that. Have you seen those 'chip' cartridges available at the shows for £8 upwards? Plugs in the stations parallel port and you don't need to have the station chipped. They were selling them by the bucketload(1) in at a show in Manchester yesterday. I think Sony are burying their heads in the sand over all this, or something more sinister. I mean, I always thought that the strategy was to make the money on the software and sell the machines as cheap as possible. However, like the Amiga, it seems to be the availability of pirate stuff that drives people to buy the machine in the first place. So they're selling more stations than ever, and the only people who really suffer are the developers. The thing is, if these chips are illegal, then most of the PSX owning populace of the North West of England are criminals. Dunno about other places. Dave (1) Well, not literally. Just a handy excuse for a footnote.
Re: Sam Juggler (Re: SimCoupe protected disks)
On Fri, 16 Apr 1999 20:42:26 +0100 Sat, 17 Apr 99 00:54:05 BST, David [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there any other stuff that doesn't work with SimCoupe? (disk protection excluded, for now) Defender - thank goodness! pedant He said disk protection excluded for christsakes! \pedant Dave
Re: SAM floppy disk storage
On Thu, 15 Apr 1999 16:38:57 EDT Sat, 17 Apr 99 00:53:54 BST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: centre. Among the crap CDs and discontinued cookery books was a display of cassette, video and disk storage items. One that caught my eye was a well-made unit holding up to 240 floppy disks. It takes the form of a rigid box holding a draw with two rows of 120 spaces for disks. The overall look is compact and tidy, but spacious. The beauty of this storage system is that other units can be added on top of it, and secured by clips. They'll prove to be very useful for me, as I can store hundreds of my disks neatly, at long last. Yes, I know about those kind of boxes. I got a couple a few years back. What I'd like to do though is dump all my old disks (along with squillions of tapes) in a skip and say 'hallelujah, bollox(1) and good riddance!. :-) Dave (1) I'd say that just for the hell of it.
Re:
On Sat, 17 Apr 1999 19:17:08 +0100 Sat, 17 Apr 99 20:05:27 BST, Andrew Collier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 7:05 pm +0100 17/4/99, David Ledbury wrote: Knickers! Yeah, whatever. At least you've turned the HTML off this time... Shall we kill him anyway? :) Dave
Re: Using Sam on a SVGA Monitor
On Mon, 12 Apr 1999 21:00:11 +0100 (BST) Tue, 13 Apr 99 20:00:09 BST, Andrew Gale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hmm... Sam users are not alone in this how-do-I-connect-a-monitor problem. Atari ST and Amiga users have the same problem (well, older Amigas certainly do - don't know about newer ones), and so my guess is that a good place to start would be to look in an Amiga magazine. Every time I pick up an Amiga mag there seem to be a plethora of adapters to connect PC equipment and I guess there are PAL-to-VGA adapters advertised there. The problem might be if they are somehow Amiga specific. I could be wrong about this, but I don't remember any adapters that'd let you run PAL on a SVGA monitor with an Amiga. There are adapters that let you use PC monitors to run hi-res screen modes, but for most PAL games/apps you'd have to revert to a TV or one of those C= lo-res monitors ( I think Phillips made similar ones too). To get the best of both worlds, Amigans had to use expensive multisync monitors. I have one made by MicroVitec, which I still use on one of my PCs, but it suffers at the high end - not allowing more than 800*600. Dave
Re: Copyright
My view is that it is now impossible for anyone to control piracy. It's so wide-spread now with CDR (people copying playstation games, CD-ROM, music, etc), web and ftp sites (offering cracks, etc.), that it's only a matter of time before the laws will need to be looked at again - and changed in relation to how ineffective they are. Stealing music or program/data, where the product isn't tangible, isn't viewed by the average person as being the same as someone nicking a touchy/feely object like a loaf of bread. If people have their own media/storage - blank tape/CD, then they get the feeling that they can put anything they want on it. They're very unlikely to get caught and.. shrug.. you know the rest. Look at the sales of blank CD recordable discs now. They're selling millions at computer fairs every week. When I first started attending them (about ten years ago), the punters were generally the archetypal nerdy anorak/intellectual sort. Nowadays, I see gangs of lads who would look more at home fighting outside a football ground - haggling with traders to see how much discount they can get for a few thousand blank CDs. And I see boxes upon boxes of CD recorders for sale, often made by the same people who sell software and music. I didn't realise that there was *so* much copyright-free music/data around! The question is this: where's it all going to end, eh? Dave (neither moralising or cocking a snoot at the people who 'suffer')
Re: CLOSING ARGUEEMENT ON - SimCoupe protected disks Copyright
On Sat, 10 Apr 1999 12:30:22 +0100 Sat, 10 Apr 99 13:02:03 BST, Chris White [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As a developer of software , which a present is costing over £250,000 to write a product for 18months on PSX , and will have to sell over 80,000 Sharp intake of breath Look for a safer platform to write for Chris! Every kid around here has a 'chipped' station. @ the end of the day proceeds of cash you buy software go as follows 40% - Shop 10-20% - First Party (Nintendo,Sega,Sony etc.) 5% - Distrubutor (From Publihser to Shop) 2% - Developer Sad, isnit? Dave
Re: Real Sam Users List 30th March 1999
On Fri, 9 Apr 1999 01:52:14 +0100 Fri, 9 Apr 99 18:15:42 BST, Paul Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Any objections to me putting this as part of my Sam pages on the Net? Yes. If you put the list online, remove my email address beforehand. Mine as well please.
Re: SimCoupe protected disks
On Thu, 8 Apr 1999 18:13:08 +0100 Thu, 8 Apr 99 18:59:51 BST, Chris Pile [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Before Malcolm's untimely death he informed me that E-Copy (version 3 I think) failed to copy the protection I created for Defender... I tried *all* the PC copiers I could find and they failed too. Have you tried Cyclone (using the cart) on an Amiga then? :-) Dave
Re: sim-coupe
On Sat, 20 Mar 1999 20:44:26 - Sat, 20 Mar 99 11:32:26 GMT, Peter Harkess [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Manic Miner. I've got that as a Dsk. Prince of Persia Samtape4(lerm).(by the way who has the copyright to lerm software?) Wop Gamma Not those though. The original of the first used non-standard sectors so it won't copy (then again, the cracked version won't run on Sim Coupe either). I don't know about the others, but they probably used similar methods of protection. Didn't Persona end up with the Lerm stuff? Dave
