RE: keyboard membrane replacement
Hi, I'm sorry to hear that you have some problems with them. I've held back on getting two, hoping to hear how good they are. I'm keep on using Colin's PC Keyboard interface http://www.samcoupe.com/hardkey.htm It looks like I might be getting another PC interface for my second SAM. Thanks for letting us know about your experience. Steve(spt) -Original Message- From: owner-sam-us...@nvg.ntnu.no [mailto:owner-sam-us...@nvg.ntnu.no] On Behalf Of ellvis Sent: 22 March 2011 18:55 To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no Subject: keyboard membrane replacement Hi all, I just wanted to ask if anyone have bought new membrane for Sam from Rwap. If yes, what is your experience? I bought two of them. But none is working properly. I have to press keys hard and few times to get them work. Keys F and J doesn't work at all. I took care there are not any waves as the holes for plastic pins are tight, I tried to assemble it few times - always did it very carefully. But the results are still the same. I will try ore or two times more, but right now I am pretty dissapointed by it's quality. e. -- ellvis/ZeroTeam ell...@zeroteam.sk http://zeroteam.sk ZX Spectrum support since 1996
RE: SAM Revival 24?
What's all this got to do with Revival 24! Which, BTY, I paid for before Christmas, when Colin put it on ebay. No word from Colin yet. Steve(spt) - IRC EFnet join #jupiterace -Original Message- From: owner-sam-us...@nvg.ntnu.no [mailto:owner-sam-us...@nvg.ntnu.no] On Behalf Of war...@wdlee.co.uk Sent: 11 March 2011 15:37 To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no Subject: Re: SAM Revival 24? Thanks for the offer, David!! I'll have to take you up on that some time soon! ;-) I'm working in GamesMaster still, so I doubt I'll have in-game music, due to the speed issues, but I'll be after something for a main title, and perhaps an intro and finale, and a couple of short things for 'game over' moments, and such. I'm also looking at having a number of cut-scenes, so might be after stuff for those too. :-) I'm hoping to get my first level or two semi-complete in the next couple of weeks, so if you want, I can send you something to check out. I'm keeping the game generally under wraps for the moment, just for the fun 'anticipation' factor lol! And so that it can be mentioned/revealed first in SAM Revival (It'll be issue 25, as I know that despite the delays, Colin has a lot of 24 pretty much wrapped up, I think). Even put up a teaser image a while back. http://twitpic.com/2ypl4f I think we should all try and keep in touch here fairly regularly, with the progress on our games and such. Just to keep the momentum going, and get them finished. There's too many 'almost' great games out there for the SAM, that never quite got finished. Let's make sure we do! :-D Quoting David Sanders dsuzukisand...@gmail.com: I think I may be the only regular E-Tracker user left on the planet, so I'd be happy to help. Colin usually nicks all the new stuff I write. Cheers David On 10 March 2011 11:50, war...@wdlee.co.uk wrote: I think Colin's probably been bogged down with that dreaded virus many of us suffer with... WORK!! lol! ;-) I'm sure we'll see it soon enough. He's also got a few other things up his sleeve by the sounds of it, so we'll probably go from zero to ninety with cool SAM stuff once things get moving again. :-) I'm trying to get back into my own new SAM game project at the moment... It's always a pain trying to work the time out, between what you HAVE to do, and what you really WANT to do. ;-) Which reminds me... it's a while off before anything would need doing, but does anyone still dabble in writing SAM music? I've done something for my own games in the past, but obviously not as polished/skilled as others. So it'd be great if somewhere down the line, anyone was willing to work on a new game project? Full prominent credit, and all that, of course! :-) Quoting Geoff Winkless sam-us...@geoff.dj: On 9 March 2011 13:43, Wayne Weedon wa...@fdos-design.com wrote: On 09/03/2011 00:21, Steve wrote: Any news on SAM Revival 24. .. out soon... 7th October 2010 ? Gawd there is some life in the mailing list still! I was about to delete it because it was so dead. It does feel a little like the Black Knight. Come back here, you yellow **! I'll... bite yer legs off! It's just a flesh wound! Geoff
Quest Pro-DOS Adventure Compilation
Does anyone have a copy of 'Quest Pro-DOS Adventure Compilation'? Disc 1 includes:- Corya The Warrior Sage - Parts 1 2. Desmond Gertrude. Teacher's Pet. Velma's Coming to tea. Disc 2 includes:- Treasure Island - Parts 1 2. Davey Jones's Locker. Miser. found The Taxman Cometh. Base - Parts 1 2. Legacy Cook Island - Parts 1 2. Test - Parts 1 2. Island 22. I've been after these for years, anyone? Any information about how they came about? Cheers. Steve(spt) - IRC - EFnet join #jupiterace
RE: Quest Pro-DOS Adventure Compilation
Sure, I would love very much to archive any Pro-Dos bits. All material would be available to all at no cost, in the interest of saving the information for all. Thanks, Steve -Original Message- From: owner-sam-us...@nvg.ntnu.no [mailto:owner-sam-us...@nvg.ntnu.no] On Behalf Of Wayne Weedon Sent: 11 March 2011 22:17 To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no Subject: Re: Quest Pro-DOS Adventure Compilation On 11/03/2011 17:48, Steve wrote: Does anyone have a copy of 'Quest Pro-DOS Adventure Compilation'? Can't help with that Steve. But I need to clear the attic out soon, so asking if I find anything like any Pro-DOS production stuff are you interested? I'm sure there should be the original manual artworks and packaging masters there somewhere. I don't recall throwing them out anyway. I have been threatening to get the Sam out again oneday as well as the other old computers to let my daughter try them out. Wayne
SAM Revival 24?
Any news on SAM Revival 24. .. out soon... 7th October 2010 ? __ Steve(spt)
Quest Pro-DOS Adventure Compilation disks
Hello everyone, I'm trying to find a copies of the following to archive on the Pro-dos site before they are lost. I'm willing to buy, beg or borrow.. can anyone help? Quest Pro-DOS Adventure Compilation - Discs 1 2 Disc 1 includes:- Corya The Warrior Sage - Parts 1 2. Desmond Gertrude. Teacher's Pet. Velma's Coming to tea. And Disc 2 includes:- Base - Parts 1 2. Legacy Cook Island - Parts 1 2. Island 22. Many thanks in advance, Steve. postmasterATsamcoupe-pro-dos.co.uk [Replacing the AT with @] http://www.samcoupe-pro-dos.co.uk/wanted.html
RE: OT CP/M + Locoscript
How did your mate get on Nev? Did he get his data/disk images ? -Original Message- From: owner-sam-us...@nvg.ntnu.no [mailto:owner-sam-us...@nvg.ntnu.no] On Behalf Of Steve Parry-Thomas Sent: 31 July 2010 13:23 To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no Subject: RE: OT CP/M + Locoscript SIM coupe can read the 720kb disks running Pro-dos. They could saved out a CF record or dsk image using Atom Lite Pro-dos. See http://www.samcoupe-pro-dos.co.uk/whatis_alpd.html Steve. -Original Message- From: owner-sam-us...@nvg.ntnu.no [mailto:owner-sam-us...@nvg.ntnu.no] On Behalf Of nev young Sent: 31 July 2010 10:04 To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no Subject: OT CP/M + Locoscript Somewhat off topic I know. A mate of mine has a number of 3 disks containing documents created by Locoscript on a CP/M machine. He can copy these to CP/M 3.5 (720K) floppies but then needs (wants) to transfer them to a PC. Probably running Linux but widows is not out of the question. As the last CP/M machine I used was an ICL Quattro in the 1980s I'm a bit out of touch with what's out there. So he's looking for something that will: a) read a CP/M disk on PC hardware. b) convert the Locoscript document into something usable. I've found a few things on the web but a personal recommendation would be welcomed. Are there any suggestions from the group? Thanks. nev
RE: OT CP/M + Locoscript
SIM coupe can read the 720kb disks running Pro-dos. They could saved out a CF record or dsk image using Atom Lite Pro-dos. See http://www.samcoupe-pro-dos.co.uk/whatis_alpd.html Steve. -Original Message- From: owner-sam-us...@nvg.ntnu.no [mailto:owner-sam-us...@nvg.ntnu.no] On Behalf Of nev young Sent: 31 July 2010 10:04 To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no Subject: OT CP/M + Locoscript Somewhat off topic I know. A mate of mine has a number of 3 disks containing documents created by Locoscript on a CP/M machine. He can copy these to CP/M 3.5 (720K) floppies but then needs (wants) to transfer them to a PC. Probably running Linux but widows is not out of the question. As the last CP/M machine I used was an ICL Quattro in the 1980s I'm a bit out of touch with what's out there. So he's looking for something that will: a) read a CP/M disk on PC hardware. b) convert the Locoscript document into something usable. I've found a few things on the web but a personal recommendation would be welcomed. Are there any suggestions from the group? Thanks. nev
Missing Manuals - update
I took Nev's 74.2 Meg of the Games Master manual and OCRed a new searchable pdf which is around 960 kb. I also OCRed 192 pages of the SCADS manual 2.4 Meg both can be found in the link below, if you find any OCR errors Please let me know and I will fix them. http://www.samcoupe-pro-dos.co.uk/othersammanuals.html Steve(spt)
RE: Good to see some activity
@ Chris, I'll sure I speak for others, who would love the SAM Chess released in some form. Steve(spt) CHESS - As the title says! Gordon Wallis (HEXdidn't...) drew some fantastic graphics for this, which really should see the light of day. Engine was all but complete, but I wasn't satisfied with the playing strength. Needs plenty of tuning I feel, to stop it making the occasional stupid move! Chris...
RE: Hi - just checking
I guess when the clocks go back in October SAM users will hibernate over the winter until next August! From: owner-sam-us...@nvg.ntnu.no [mailto:owner-sam-us...@nvg.ntnu.no] On Behalf Of Ian Spencer Sent: 04 August 2009 08:04 To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no Subject: Re: Hi - just checking Wow, I just sent the checking mail to see whether something was wrong with my subscription to the group and it seems it was like poking a stick into a hornets nest (in a positive sort of way) - over 40 mails in the last few days on the group. It's just great to see everyone is alive and kicking out there. Ian - Original Message - From: Ian Spencer mailto:ian.spen...@freenet.de To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no Sent: Friday, July 31, 2009 4:10 PM Subject: Hi - just checking Not heard anything on the group for quite a while so just thought I would send a 'test' to check it's not me that's got a problem and say hi to everyone. I know you've all taken your Sam's to the beach and so no activity on the group. Ian
RE: Hello to the Sam community!
Welcome, ;-) So it was you who out bib me! I was only after the disc for the missing cp/m games! Steve(spt) -Original Message- From: owner-sam-us...@nvg.ntnu.no [mailto:owner-sam-us...@nvg.ntnu.no] On Behalf Of the_wub ! Sent: 03 August 2009 18:56 To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no Subject: Hello to the Sam community! Hi all, I'm a new member to the mailing list and since there's been some activity over the last few days I thought now was a good time to stop lurking and say, hey! to everyone. My name is Rob, I'm 32 and live in the south of England. I'm currently working as a panel wirer/wire man for a sub-contracting electrical firm. I was a speccy user back in the day and desperately wanted the Sam when it came out. Long story short, it was too expensive and I ended up with a second hand Sega Master system instead. I still have a Sam scrapbook I put together from magazine cuttings in the loft somewhere, and I could (but won't) tell you about a highly embarrassing letter I wrote to Bruce Gorden when I was twelve that, to this day, I still cringe thinking about :) Last year I won a nice boxed Sam Coupe on ebay with one floppy drive and a pile of disks and I can honestly say that life's much better now. I have lots to say about what I missed out on by not having the Sam in '89-'90 but I'll save all that. The important thing is that I've been learning to program z80 since it arrived and am just finishing my first, actually playable, game! I'm sorry that it's tetris but as a consolation prize it's a two player tetris on one Sam, loosely based on the vs mode from the old Gameboy tetris. I hope that's enough for an introduction. I feel a bit like I'm turning up to a party 20 years late with only a bottle of Blue Nun to show for myself, but I'm looking forward to finally getting involved in the community and catching up on all those lost years!
RE: SAM's 20th Birthday
I remember getting my SAM form a show in Blackpool, Miles bought it to the show. was it at The Norbreck Castle Hotel in Blackpool seems to ring a bell. Just before Christmas I think it was. Steve(spt) -Original Message- From: owner-sam-us...@nvg.ntnu.no [mailto:owner-sam-us...@nvg.ntnu.no] On Behalf Of Chris Pile Sent: 02 August 2009 16:08 To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no Subject: Re: SAM's 20th Birthday Hi Wayne! Yep - seems like it was early if it was around December time... Memory isn't too good these days! ;-)) I have a couple of projects I started 10+ years ago, but never finished. It would be nice to complete one of these in time for the SAM's birthday. I've just been made redundant - so I've probably got the time. Now I just need to get the enthusiasm to actually make a start... Oh, and to try and remember how to write Z80 too!!! It's been a while! ;-)) Chris... - Original Message - From: Wayne Weedon wa...@fdos-design.com To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no Sent: Sunday, August 02, 2009 12:10 PM Subject: Re: SAM's 20th Birthday Hiya Chris If it was December then we certainly got ours fairly early? I do recall having to collect mine from the couriers Southampton depot on a very rainy Christmas Eve as I was still at work when they'd tried to deliver. There was no way I was going to leave it there over the holiday was there! Hope you're well anyway! Wayne
RE: ATT : Roger Jowett
BTY : - SAM Tasword's manual is here http://www.samcoupe-pro-dos.co.uk/othersammanuals.html Steve(spt) -Original Message- From: owner-sam-us...@nvg.ntnu.no [mailto:owner-sam-us...@nvg.ntnu.no] On Behalf Of Geoff Winkless Sent: 02 August 2009 20:19 To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no Subject: Re: ATT : Roger Jowett Roger Jowett wrote: tasword+2 with tascon+d from format was much more my cup of tea im amazed no one has bothered to convert it for sam is it incredibly difficult to convert a 128k porgram I'm confused. I'm 99.9% sure I have Tasword for the Sam, no? Geoff
Quest Pro-DOS Adventure Compilation - Discs 1 2
Has anyone got a copies of the above? Which can be archived on the Pro-Dos site See here :- http://www.samcoupe-pro-dos.co.uk/wanted.html Thanks in advance, Steve(spt)
ATT : Roger Jowett
Roger, I may be able to help you with CP/M and SAM's Pro-DOS. you need to email thought the Jupiter Ace Archive. Kind regards, Steve(spt) PS I don't respond to any social network invitations
RE: Hi - just checking
Yep it's been very quite. I'm still after any some Pro-Dos CP/M games if anyone can help? Steve(spt) From: owner-sam-us...@nvg.ntnu.no [mailto:owner-sam-us...@nvg.ntnu.no] On Behalf Of Ian Spencer Sent: 31 July 2009 15:11 To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no Subject: Hi - just checking Not heard anything on the group for quite a while so just thought I would send a 'test' to check it's not me that's got a problem and say hi to everyone. I know you've all taken your Sam's to the beach and so no activity on the group. Ian
RE: SAM Revival issue 22 out now!
I use this as my default SAM setup, that's how the Atom Lite Pro-Dos (ALPD) came about. ( Thanks Edwin for the time spent on the ALPD hacks). It's a real treat to just swap the CF cards between Atom Lite and SIM Coupe. But remember the Atom Lite is not a hot swap system. Steve(spt). I have an Atom [Lite] card in the drive 2 slot, and use Edwin's modified ROM to boot directly from it. As a bonus, you can use the CF card with SimCoupe on your desktop machine to share all the same programs and data (well, once I've done a release with Lite support!). It's sometimes still be handy to have drive 1 as a working floppy, though not essential if you have access to a desktop PC for disk imaging. I'll see if I've got a spare SAM drive kicking around, as I rarely have 2 fitted anymore. Otherwise Colin can probably help with repair or replacement. Si
RE: SAM Revival issue 22 out now!
Well, all you need is the Atom Lite Boot ROM 2.2 its on the pro-dos site, and a way to burn it to EPROM. I don't have all my software install on this machine yet, if I did I could burn it for you, Edwin could as well. My be others ?? Colin? Si? And the BDOS .. Which is also on the Pro-Dos site. I don't know about Trinity, I don't have one. One for Colin to answer? -Original Message- From: owner-sam-us...@nvg.ntnu.no [mailto:owner-sam-us...@nvg.ntnu.no] On Behalf Of Thomas Harte Sent: 08 January 2009 15:34 To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no Subject: Re: SAM Revival issue 22 out now! How hard is it to obtain a copy of the modified ROM in the correct physical format and subsequently to install it? I'm a complete electronics dunce. Also, any thoughts on how hard it would be to put together a similar ROM for the Trinity?
RE: A little bit of news....
Great! And congrats.. Boy? Girl ? Any names? How's mum doing? Steve(spt) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Adrian Brown Sent: 01 December 2008 23:29 To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no Subject: A little bit of news First off sorry ive been a little quiet on the uIP front, my first child was born in April and its been a little hectic around here. But finally I got an evening or two to sit down and type in a few more lines of z80 for the uIP TCP/IP stack for the Trinity board from Colin Piggot. As some of you may recall I had a simple ICMP echo ping replying so you could ping the Sam from a pc and it would reply. I added in ARP so it would correctly resolve IP to MAC etc for talking across the internet. Well at 23:01 this evening the Sam successfully made its first DNS lookup of a domain. I compiled it up with the string www.apbcomputerservices.co.uk and it happily posted off the request and got the reply back, after processing it it displayed www.apbcomputerservices.co.uk=58.d0.f7.4f - which is indeed the IP of my hosting server written in hex :D Today DNS... Tomorrow... THE WORLD :D
RE: New projects Byte-Back 2009
I agree with Geoff, I'm holding back as I know the venue and how hard it is to park your car in that area of Stoke. Its not in the best part of Stoke, £5.00 would have been ok, a £10 or more? You will not be getting very much for your £10. I have offered to some the Jupiter Ace Archive and my SAMs which I would do for free, But they also want me to buy a ticket before I can show the machines. (I would have to hire a car to get to the venue, I dont have a car any more, plus car parking, plus ticket, food and beer its looking like a bit more than a tenner) Steve(spt) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Geoff Winkless Sent: 08 October 2008 10:05 To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no Subject: Re: New projects Byte-Back 2009 On Wed, 8 Oct 2008 09:54:31 +0100, Thomas Harte [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Stoke-on-Trent, on the 7th and 8th of March 2009. The website is here: http://www.byte-back.info/ Tickets are currently £10, but the website implies they'll become more expensive at some later date. Seriously? _more_ than a tenner? Come and see a 25 year old Outrun cabinet (which you wouldn't even pay to play in the arcade any more) and watch as a middle-aged baldy tries to pretend he's Eric Clapton. A tenner would be the _upper_ end of what I'd expect to pay, unless the website isn't doing justice to the event. Geoff
RE: New projects Byte-Back 2009
Interesting that's on my door step! There has been one or two of these in the stoke area that's never quite happened. If this one goes ahead, then yes, I could be there with my SAMs and Jupiter Ace Archive Steve(spt). -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Thomas Harte Sent: 23 September 2008 21:40 To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no Subject: New projects Byte-Back 2009 Through an uninteresting, indirect route, it seems likely that I'll be attending and supplying a Sam for the homebrew area of Byte-Back 2009 (http://byte-back.info/ ), one of those classic gaming convention thingies, which will occur in Stoke-on-Trent on March the 7th and 8th next year. Consequential questions: 1) Will anybody else be in attendance? 2) Is anybody willing and able to transfer some of my Sam programs to actual Sam floppy in preparation for the event? I guess I'll want to take all of my current 3d stuff and maybe another thing that I've just started messing around with. 3) Does anybody else have anything I can take along? Obviously the tag 'homebrew' doesn't mean that much in the Sam world, but in the context of all the information available I'm interpreting it just to mean new stuff for old hardware
RE: Grabbing floppy images
Steve Parry-Thomas has been using a Spectrum emulator to convert CPC CP/M images to a format that Pro-Dos can read. Edwin has also been working on storing CP/M images in Atom records, so no floppies needed there either. Yep! I have tried to restore a number of HiSoft Packages that were for the cp/m 2.2 system. Some files were missing from some of the images in the Amstrad archives. Missing files were found in the cp/m MSX archives! The files were moved to MS-DOS with a MSX disk image manager, then moved to a Pro-DOS floppy with 22Disk - dos program. Other files were in the wrong disk format, so loading the image into Spectaculator 7, then I can open the B drive as a 720 image and copy the files over into the new image, which SIM Coupe with Pro-DOS can read. There is around 60 new disk images on the Pro-DOS site, including a number of Infocom IF games , with HiSofts CP/M FTL Modula-2 coming later. Steve.
RE: USA move SAM stuff up for grabs
I don't have a SAM one, but do have a kids Kaleidoscope from 'Toys R US' which is more useful! Sorry, I could resist not to reply! Steve(spt) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul Brooks Sent: 31 January 2008 12:56 To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no Subject: RE: USA move SAM stuff up for grabs Is there anyone out there who has a spare Kaleidoscope for grabs (I know its useless but I want 1)... Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your homepage.
RE: ZAT - Magazine
Thanks, just found Issue 18! So 19 - 26 are still MIA. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 23 November 2007 19:48 To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no Subject: Re: ZAT - Magazine Quoting Steve Parry-Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Can any one tell me how many it ran to? Thanks, Steve(spt) About 25-26 ... and if anyone can find the missing issues from those on WOS - I'll kiss their feet (but not if they're smelly!)
ZAT - Magazine
Can any one tell me how many it ran to? Thanks, Steve(spt)
RE: iChat/AIM users
My contact is [EMAIL PROTECTED] MSN. The IM I use is Miranda. - Steve(spt) _ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Calvin Allett Sent: 19 September 2007 22:00 To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no Subject: Re: iChat/AIM users Cheer's, it was Trillian I'd been told about :) Everybody seems to have MSN (if that's the hotmail one), it does seem to be very popular. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quoting Calvin Allett : What's the best one to use nowadays? I used to love ICQ about 8 years ago, but not tried out any of the other's. Is there anything that logs onto them all, someone mentioned something a while back about some prog. MSN's probably the more standard - but not nesc the best. Trillian, GAIM (now renamed - not sure what) - are good alternatives. They all have logging - but MSNPlus (an addon for MSN) has better logging :-) _ Yahoo! Answers - Get better answers from someone who knows. Try http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/;_ylc=X3oDMTEydmViNG02BF9TAzIxMTQ3MTcxOTAEc2VjA 21haWwEc2xrA3RhZ2xpbmU it now.
RE:
When? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Adrian Brown Sent: 18 September 2007 20:47 To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no Subject: RE: why -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gavin Smith Sent: 18 September 2007 20:46 To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no Subject: who APB Computer Services Ltd. Registered Address: 3 Springfield, Trevadlock, Congdons Shop, Launceston, Cornwall, PL15 7PW. Registration Number: 4942193. V.A.T. No: 826 0005 70 This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify the system manager. This message contains confidential information and is intended only for the individual named. If you are not the named addressee you should not disseminate, distribute or copy this e-mail. Please notify the sender immediately by e-mail if you have received this e-mail by mistake and delete this e-mail from your system. If you are not the intended recipient you are notified that disclosing, copying, distributing or taking any action in reliance on the contents of this information is strictly prohibited.
RE: source of a music track
Sounds like bits from Andy Pickford's music or Bekkie Williams.
Spt.
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To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no
Subject: source of a music track
Hi all,
The music on Fred 34, E-Tunes, 4th track (Andy Monk - Untitled) ...
does anybody know if that's an original composition, or based off
something else?
Because I'm pretty sure I heard it being played at the start of the
recent Top Gear North Pole special...
Andrew
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RE: Which assembler?
I tend to use TASM 3.2 ,[ for PC ] there are better ones out there as every one will now recommend the one they like and Edwin's Comet for Sam. TASM can be found here: - http://www.ticalc.org/archives/files/fileinfo/250/25051.html Steve(spt) _ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Calvin Allett Sent: 04 July 2007 18:05 To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no Subject: Which assembler? What Assembler would anybody reccomend me having a go with, i.e. preferably the most easy to use :) Feature`s don`t neccesarily top my needs, as I won`t be doing any games in MC, just wanting to learn the language, and be able to try a few small routines. _ Yahoo! Answers - Get better answers from someone who knows. Try http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/;_ylc=X3oDMTEydmViNG02BF9TAzIxMTQ3MTcxOTAEc2VjA 21haWwEc2xrA3RhZ2xpbmU it now.
RE: Keyboard
Yep that's what I also ended up doing. Steve(spt) _ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Adrian Brown Sent: 05 June 2007 19:59 To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Keyboard Ahh - the old sam keyboard membrane problems hit another poor person. Colin Piggot might have one, check out his website http://www.samcoupe.com/ he generally has spares, otherwise you can purchase a ps2 kit so you can use a standard keyboard on the sam, that's what I had to do in the end. Adrian From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andrew Park Sent: 05 June 2007 19:46 To: Adrian Subject: Keyboard Hi, This may not be the right place but has anyone got a Sam Keyboard/Membrane to sell Andy _ APB Computer Services Ltd. Registered Address: 3 Springfield, Trevadlock, Congdons Shop, Launceston, Cornwall, PL15 7PW. Registration Number: 4942193. V.A.T. No: 826 0005 70 _ This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify the system manager. This message contains confidential information and is intended only for the individual named. If you are not the named addressee you should not disseminate, distribute or copy this e-mail. Please notify the sender immediately by e-mail if you have received this e-mail by mistake and delete this e-mail from your system. If you are not the intended recipient you are notified that disclosing, copying, distributing or taking any action in reliance on the contents of this information is strictly prohibited.
John Avis
Hi John, If you are still on the list cannot please contact me - thanks Regards Steve. Steve Parry-Thomas stevenATjupiter-ace.co.uk
RE: Wish List - Software
The Pro-dos RAM code just soaks up any spare RAM and sets it up as a RAMdisk, - Drive C on a two disk Sam. No MasterDos or MasterBasic is used , in fact they were not about when Chris was writing Pro-Dos. CP/M disks have a different format than SamDos / MasterDos. I'm hoping Chris will read this.? @ Calvin you never talk cr*p - this is where ideas come from and you just might give someone else the idea and try something new! :-) Steve(spt) steve [AT] parry-thomas.co.uk _ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Calvin Allett Sent: 02 June 2007 16:09 To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no Subject: Re: Wish List - Software That`s a pity, I thought at least something extra would be able with RAM Disk :( I knew I was talking crap again :) Colin Piggot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Steve is the Prodos expert, and of course Chris who wrote it, but from what I can see Prodos uses it's own Ram disk system (i.e. not via MasterDOS) and also the discs are in cp/m format. Colin. == Quazar : Hardware, Software, Spares and Repairs for the Sam Coupe 1995-2007 - Celebrating 12 Years of developing for the Sam Coupe Website: http://www.samcoupe.com/ - Original Message - From: Calvin Allett To: Sent: Saturday, June 02, 2007 3:49 PM Subject: Re: Wish List - Software I had a few brief dabbles when you first started up your archive, got a few simple games running, wouldn`t mind having a good look at it properly, if you can run the software that Id`ve used on PCW`s at school. Good luck getting something sorted regarding Atom support :) For now, would it be possible/helpful to knock up in MasterBasic a front end and file requester, to allow you to select certain files, or images and put them in RAM Drive. This might help going through them, browsing? Are Prodos disks on normal SAMDos format? or in a CP/M format, as you could even build up virtual disks (from many) then bang em in the RAM, before launching Prodos, which could be beneficial? Let me know if I`m talking bollocks again :) _ Copy addresses and emails from any email account to Yahoo! Mail - quick, easy and free. Do http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail/uk/taglines/default/trueswitch/*http:/uk.docs.y ahoo.com/trueswitch2.html it now...
Wish List - Software
Hi All, My wish list would be that Pro-Dos 1.9 could be patched to work with Atom/ Atom Lite. At the moment Pro-Dos works fine with Atom and Atom Lite with an A drive as Floppy and RAM as RAM Drive B. But it would be great if the CP/M emulation in Pro-Dos could see the Atom as another drive and access Atom Records. I do not have the skills to do this, someone out there might have is there any chance of this? Or if some is will to *point me* in the right direction I might try over the next year! I'm I the only person that uses Pro-Dos? ;-) Steve(spt)
RE: SAM Defender - Updated and Improved!
Many thanks Chris! spt -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chris Pile Sent: 20 March 2007 19:47 To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no Subject: SAM Defender - Updated and Improved! Hi SAMsters, I've updated SAM Defender! Why? Well, basically I did all of the things I *should* have done back in '98. Things that have been annoying me for years! Below are a list of the things changed, plus any new features and also a link to where you can get this - finally (probably!) final - version! = List of things changed to match the arcade coin-op: * Hyperspace is now a 25% chance of death on re-entry - was 50% before. * Homing enemies do not home to the hyperspace re-entry position - they did before! * Landers appear in groups of five, as they always have. When you shoot the last Lander in the current world state, the next available group is warped in immediately. Before, you could have an empty world while the counters for the next group timed-out. So, now its never an empty world! :-) * Climbing Landers that once carried a humanoid (which you've now shot!) that reach the top of the screen will now warp in at a random world X position. Before, they would warp in at the same world X position they disappeared at. * Hunting Landers will now pick a new humanoid target if their current target gets captured or destroyed. Before, if their target vanished they would hunt blindly over potential victims and *never* pick them up... Total pants! * Humanoids are now scattered randomly over the planet surface. Before, they were put at a uniformed distance apart - depending on the number of humanoids in the world. * Enemy shots now have a little randomness to their ultimate destination. Before, every shot was deadly accurate to the player's ship. * Swarmers - their logic has received a major overhaul. Before, they fired in any direction using the same shot-logic as the rest of the enemies. They also flew around the player like a swarm of bees. This was bollocks - nowhere near the same as the coin-op original, and something that's annoyed me for years! The coin-op Swarmers will *only* fire when they are flying *toward* the player - they also use a different shot style and sound. This means you can let Swarmers fly past you, quickly turn and chase them in the knowledge that they won't fire at you - providing you keep close to them. They only change direction when they go beyond a certain distance from the player. In SAM Defender it wasn't possible to use this chasing trick... But it is now - as Swarmers now mimic the coin-op. :-) * Upon player death all screen contents are preserved - including any warping enemies and explosion fragments. Before, all fragments and warpers were erased due to the way their engines worked. Not good - and not like the coin-op! Fixed! :-) * Baiters and Mutants now mimic the coin-op more closely - slight changes to their logic. * Background stars now twinkle faster - a closer match to the coin-op's twinkle speed. * Some sound priorities rearranged, to closer match the coin-op. Even though the sound is still shite! ;-) = List of (internal) things changed from the last version: * Faster and more random random number generator. * Faster processing of the linked-list used to handle the world entities. * Optimisations of the sprite engines and scanner dots engine. * Cleaner final stage to the merging Defender logo on the attract mode. No empty block! * Coin-op timing for the appearance/disappearance of the 500 sprite during attract mode. * General removal of redundant code - such as... * Removal of light-pen detection code. I doubt this was needed - how many had a light pen! * High-score table is now 8-slots, and contains the same initials and scores as the coin-op. = List of things removed from the last version: * Initial Persona logo. * Rotating Digital Reality logo As both of these were seen once only - at initial game boot-up - their code and data have been removed, saving around 8k on the final program size! = List of things added to this version: * Coin-op style rug test-pattern during initial game boot-up! As per coin-op power on! * Coin-op style INITIAL TESTS INDICATE UNIT OK message! As per coin-op power on! * An ALL TIME GREATEST high-score table! As per coin-op. * Saving of the ALL TIME GREATEST scores to non-volatile RAM if you have Edwin Blink's Dallas real-time clock interface. The coin-op saved the ALL TIME scores to NVRAM. * Saving of your control key choices to NVRAM too. See the readme.txt file in the Defender .ZIP for information about SAM Defender's NVRAM saving capabilities. = So, there you go! Some improvements and changes I've been meaning to do for years! If you carry an image of SAM Defender on your
GM Base
Has any one got a disk image of this program? if you do could you please send me a copy? , cheers Steve(spt)
WoS PDF Magazine - ZX-Shed Sam Page.
Hi all,Does anyone have anything, they would like to go into the next issue of the ZX-Shed`s Sam page?(If you have not seen the ZX-Shed its a pdf download only magazine made by the members of WoS.)if so..please make contact off list.kind regards, Steve(spt)[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Biggest Risk to SAM?
There will be a Sam page in the WoS mag, The ZXshed. if any one wants the add the the Sam page in the Mag, please contact me. [ and you clav ]Small user base, - well the Jupiter Ace has a smaller one! see ; www.jupiter-ace.co.uk ! Steve(spt)The biggest risk would be this small user base dwindling and no-one left to talk about Sam, apart from the old web-pages. It would be nice to get an article on the Sam in Retro Gamer Magazine, maybe they could even interview Bruce and Alan... That would get it some exposure and maybe attract new people.Frans By the way, I'm not a developer, just a user ;-)
Re: Who`s missing?
May be folks now use MSN ? Any body want to post their MSN id ?
Re: samcoupe.org
It does'nt look like it, just abandoned. Has any one had any contact with Gavin Smith? I gave him loads of thepdfs I did, (you still get them from the Pro-Dos site) . I've no contact with him so I think the site has come to a standstill or abandoned.regards to allSteve(spt)---Original Message--- From: DAVID LEDBURY Date: 08/01/05 13:38:28 To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no Subject: samcoupe.orgHas the site been hacked?
Introducing Myself
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 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
