Quedgeley Village Hall
Saw this in the news today and thought it might make some of you nostalgic. http://www.gloucestercitizen.co.uk/Warning-Quedgeley-Village-Hall-subsistence/story-20375492-detail/story.html Tim
Re: buggy KEYIN; MasterBASIC's tokenized format; buggy RENUM
My guess is that the final label might be at some kind of page boundary, which trips up the code building the table. I haven't tried to look into it -- any volunteers...? So this may or may not be related but I've memories of long basic programs getting corrupted, and the corruption would happen around a page boundary. I'd end up putting long REM statements around the area affected. I've found an example in the fortress code on the sad snail collection. There are a bunch of REMS around line 40250. I'm pretty certain if I could remember how to check this will be at a page boundary. HTH, Tim
Re: Coming back to haunt
On 15/02/2012 13:48, Dave wrote: Here's a fun clip from the first show at Gloucester. So long ago I don't remember what year it was, but it must've been something like '93/94. Cool - I didn't make the first either, but quite a few of the later ones, so lots of familiar faces and lots of memories. I ended up living about 10 minutes down the road from Quedgley, so occasionally I'll drive past (and even use the supermarket next door). Never gone back in the pub next door though! Tim
Re: Golden ASIC's
Colin Macdonald wrote: I've stuck one I still have up on eBay in case anyone else is interested : http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=8808694464 So what did it go for in the end? (Not that I'm after a quick buck) Tim
Re: Golden ASIC's
Dan Dooré wrote: Who received these fabled items the only one I know of getting one was Stefan. I've got one, although admittedly I got mine through MacD rather than Bruce. I've never dared try to fit it into my Sam, but it is proudly on my study wall. Tim
Re: samcoupe.org update
Gavin Smith wrote: Next stage of the journey is to get a couple of wiki pages on the site - I thought we could try and compile a list of every known SAM title, with details. I've just added most of the stuff from the scrapbook games list however... 1) I'm getting wrist ache - that page, and several others are all generated from a flat table - anyone want copies of said tables and write a converter for them? 2) If we're going for as a complete list as possible, then it'll need more details. It'd good if as well as publisher it included details such as the design team etc. would also want links into the ftp site, and be able to do nice cross linking without thinking about it. I think before too much effort gets put into a wiki list it might be worth thinking about a proper database and web front end. It might be worth speaking with the WoS chap about what he uses? If I'm looking at EGGBuM say, and see it was written by Sad Snail Productions I should be able to click on that group name to find out who was in it and what else they wrote, and to do that youwant to use a database rather than have to edit several different places when a new program or bit of info gets added. Sorry if that sound negative, good stuff so far. Tim
Re: samcoupe.org update
The intention of the Wiki is to get together a list of software to get permission to release freely, but the final product will be much, much more detailed and in a proper linked database. Cool - apologies if that was already stated somewhere, I don't have as much time as I used to, so tend to just scan this list these days. Cheers, Tim
Re: samcoupe.org update
The intention of the Wiki is to get together a list of software to get permission to release freely, but the final product will be much, much more detailed and in a proper linked database. Cool - apologies if that was already stated somewhere, I don't have as much time as I used to, so tend to just scan this list these days. Cheers, Tim
Re: MasterDos Manual pdf Version 1
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.sadsnail.freeserve.co.uk/Coupe/Tech/mdhook.html HTH, Tim Q. Can I include them at the end of the pdf ? [this would be version 1a] Yes/no ? I've no objection :-) I think frode originally sent them to me. I presume they match the sheet that came with the masterdos manual. No-one has complained at my publication of them so far... Tim - (who had grand plans about 6 months ago to stick a database backend behind samcoupescrapbook.co.uk and make it into the Sam version of WoS. I guess I never noticed how little free time I have now days. I'm glad someone else has had a similar idea and is actually getting somewhere with it.)
Re: MasterDos Manual pdf Version 1
Edwin Blink wrote: The only difference is that mine came with snother a 4 paged photocopied set of masterdos hookcodes. Anyone have them too ? http://www.sadsnail.freeserve.co.uk/Coupe/Tech/mdhook.html HTH, Tim
Re: Port discriptions at the rear
Mine is blank, but I've seen both (my brother's might have been printed).. Mine has blue feet, and was bought around Feb 1990, no idea what the serial number is though.
Re: ORSAM Show...
Am looking into options for getting down to the show at the weekend, but given it'd be a 900-odd mile round trip for me, wanted to verify that it'll be a decent turn out - who all's going? Not me either I'm afraid. If I could do there and back in a day by train then I'd have gone, and even had permission from 'er indoors. The earliest I could get there was something like 2 in the afternoon (or I could have sat on a train station for around 8 hours between midnight and 8am - I think not!) Annoyingly had it been a weekday, the trains would have started earlier I could have. Bit of a cop-out I'm afraid. Had it been in Quedgley mind you.. ;-) Tim
Sam Revival 4 - MM Walkthrough
Because I forgot to post cheque to Colin till early this week, I didn't receive SAM Revival 4 till just now. Flicking through, I happened to an article called Manic Miner Walkthrough - Part 2. Half way down there's the title of The Sugar Factory (or really, it's Eugene's Lair). C'mon, you should know the story behind behind Eugene's Lair?! It was in a couple of magazines, at least - Sinclair User / Your Spectrum / Your Sinclair (I know, I'm showing my age). Quickly googling, I found this these: Probably the most famous level of Manic Miner is 'Eugene's Lair', a level named after fellow Bug-Byte programmer Eugene Evans, who had told Matthew Smith that he didn't think Manic Miner would work. (Eugene Evans went to become their star programmer in Imagine) Tsk, Tsk - I thought everyone of about Eugene! :-) Tim -- Tim Wells Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED]
FAQ (Was: Sam Coupe Scrapbook - new location)
You're not kidding when you say the FAQ is old in those pages... Well Graham G used to do it, and then stopped (can't remember why) - since all the information was already elsewhere, didn't seem worth adding to it. Are there any frequently asked questions these days though? Tim
Sam Coupe Scrapbook - new location
Given mono.org's personal home pages have been gone so long that google denies all knowledge of my pages, I thought time had come to get a domain name I could use until the end of time. Hence the Sam Coupé Scrapbook can now be found at http://www.samcoupescrapbook.co.uk/ which should redirect to wherever I'm keeping the pages that month (I resisted the urge to go for www.samcoupe.info, or www.sam-coupe.info though). I've given them a very light clean at the same time, odd snippets of new hardware and Colin MacD's description of serial number generation. Could people update any links they might have please. (Now I just need to work out how to update the webring) Cheers, Tim
Re: passworts
Well, it's not coming through the list... otherwise we'd all have received it. I was thinking more of emails pulled from list archives / lists of members on the web. But looks like I'll have to scratch my head a bit longer It's quite amazing how easily email spam gets to people - I briefly had a BT Anytime account for fixed rate dialup before moving to ADSL, and I *NEVER* used that email address - yet it got spam, spam and more spam. I have resorted to using Mailwasher (www.mailwasher.net) which can block and bounce back all the spam - to deal with about 25+ spams a day I receive on my main email address. I've generally done quite well. I've had this freeserve something like 4 years, and this is the first time I'm aware I've had any direct to me (ignoring the stuff freeserve sends me!) I've had [EMAIL PROTECTED] for more like 7, and get something like 1 a month on average. Oh well. Cheers, Tim
passworts
Has anyone else been getting this a load of passworts spam recently? The headers say it's coming direct to me, rather than via the list, but I'm pretty careful about giving out my email address, and can't think where else it might have come from. Cheers, Tim
Re: Freds wanted
RETRO DON'T POST BINARIES /RETRO retro sigs shouldn't be more than 4 lines long/retro ;-) I'm proud to say I have every fred, and the first 20 (the ones before I subbed) where, urm, individually mastered for my personal collection (i.e. At some point I gave Colin 20 blank disks, and got fresh copies of them all as part of some bigger deal). Of course, they where HD disks, so my Sam didn't like half of them. Hurrah for DSK. Tim (who knows there was never a GamesMASTER game to beat EGGBuM)
Re: Moment of truth
There seem to be two groups, those who want the same and keep using it, and those who have one sitting in a loft somewhere. For those in the latter group, are you willing to sell on some bits and pieces to those who are still using theirs? Sell them to a good home so to speak? Or are you keeping it for nostalgia reasons. Mine isn't for sale - I'm waiting it being worth thousands. Or alternativally, I'm awaiting the mythical future house with study large enough to contain my (not over big) collection of computers, when I might fiddle again. It got boxed when I moved house, and never unboxed again I do live in the still play with SimCoupé camp though. Tim
Re: Moment of truth
1) Do you have an actual Sam Coupe: Yes 2) Does it work? Last time I tried - Yes. 3) Do you still use it? No 4) How many bits of sam software have you got? Half a dozen games, a couple of bits of utility, lots of Fred 5) Do you still actively seek new sam bits and pieces? No 6) Would you buy a new game for the sam coupe if the price was right? No 7) What price would be right if you would? N/A 8) Would you develop a title for the sam still? Probably not 9) Would you help develop a title for the sam? Probably not (though more likely than 8) 10) Do you think that all the work put in to keep the sam alive is a waste of time? No Tim
Linux Format
For those who don't read it, this months Linux Format includes SimCoupe in the feature on Emulators, giving it almost a full page and some good press. Huzzah! Tim
Re: OT: Arch emulators (was RE: Linux Format)
- Original Message - From: Simon Owen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thomas Harte wrote: I don't suppose if someone with the magazine could check quickly whether my small emulator, ElectrEm (it does the Acorn Electron) is in there? The emulator articles (by Simon N Goodwin) have been running for around year I think, with the latest (and last?) covering more Z80-based machines. I'd imagine ElectrEm will be in one of the previous issues, along with BBC emulators, though I don't know exactly which issue (Tim?). Acorns were covered in the March 2002 issue. ElectrEm got a mention, about a 1/6th ogf a page worht, although I can't spot it on the cover disk (unless it has a non-obvious name). The home page for it was included in the links sections at the end of the article though. Tim
Re: error 404
found that http://www.argonet.co.uk/users/sskardon is no longer valid. Guessing that means Stewart Skardon, I've currently linked to: http://www.sskardon.fsnet.co.uk/ (which is probably the real location of www.sam-coupe.co.uk, not to be confused with www.samcoupe.co.uk or www.samcoupe.com). HTH, Tim
Sam PSUs
Wandering down the Lower High Street in Cheltenham, I bobbed into 'Hardings', an Electrical Shop. There, before my eyes, were two Sam Power Supply Units. They were 8 pounds each, and got the SAM PSU sticker on top, and MGT sticker on the bottom. I didn't buy them, so they were still in the shop, yesterday... Tim W.
Re: Goodsam
-Original Message- do you think the people who rename the dumps are telepathic, if you've got bloody problems or want to bitch about thats not what you would have called it, then EMAIL the address IN THE README, Urm, I was going to. My whole point was to see if anyone knew who to contact without me downloading the program and looking. I'm kind of lazy you see, and thought it might have been one of those nice community type things where it was someone Sam related helping out with the lists. Plus the only email I still have lying around that mentions a site goes to one in Polish(?), which I failed to learn at school. I'm perfectly capable of finding these things out the long way, I was just trying for the short way first. Geez. What is it with all the people on this list who just blow up out of all proportion at the simplest request. If you'd even bothered to read what I originally wrote it would have been perfectly clear that my whole purpose was to mail the guy and see if i could get him to change it. What the hell is wrong with that? Sometimes I wonder why I still bother to read the complete crap that comes out of this list. How do you unsubscribe again ;-) Tim
Re: Goodsam
stuff about GoodSam including in an attachment Fashoom! (1997) (Sad Snail Productions) /stuff News to me :-) Actually it is mine, but not what I'd have called it. Anyone know who compiles the list without me having to work to find it out? Tim
Re: Games
From: Dean Woodyatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] so why not embrace that not bitch about it, chances are EVERYONE on the group has sam related software that they shouldnt have, so stop being so bloody hypocritical. I don't. Hmm although I may have bought some software off a certain company who it has been since been suggested may not have been in a position to legally sell it. Which possibly means I'm in receipt of stolen goods. Perhaps I should just turn myself in now ;-) I do wish a History of the Sam would come out one day. Does MacD still follow this list? Tim
Re: F16 Combat Pilot download
From: Simon Owen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Was a bit of a bugger to convert too - took almost an hour! Yah! Hurrah for Simon! Tim
Re: A few things.
web : http://www.sam-coupe.co.uk Nothing happens for me when I stick my pointer over navigate - any chance of less fancy navigation? Win98/Mozilla0.94 Java/Javascript enabled. Tim
Sniff
Amongst the joyous possibilities of SpeccyBob, I just thought I'd share my sad news with you all. 6 months after moving house, I've finally admitted defeat and put my post-move-still-boxedSam in the Loft. I do hope I'll find the room to let him come out again. :-( Tim
Re: Memory Lane
Today, Howard Price did write about Re: Memory Lane: Nobody seems to have voted for COLONY (Persona release), written by I bought Colony from Fred, just before it become FredSoft, or something... D.Koselo, which could just as easily mean that I simply didn't understand it. Whatever this strategy game (written in BASIC) was about, I always died for some unexplained reason in about 2 minutes! Was I doing something wrong? Better than me. I never followed enough to bother trying to play it :-(
Re: IRC
Today, Gavin Smith did write about Re: IRC: We do wander into #samcommunity now and then. Perhaps we should have a meeting once a week - say Monday night? :) Most IRC servers are very hard to connect to at the moment. Search theregister.co.uk or similar sites for the reason (those damn Russians!) - diemen.nl.eu.undernet.org seems to be the best bet at the moment, followed by london.uk.eul.undernet.org. Well I'm there now, (on london), but would possibly try to make a regular one (if I was about). @/
IRC
IIRC someone always suggests being on an IRC channel at a certain time, on a certain day. I can't find the details and wondered if someone would remind me incase I get the urge to come join in one night. Cheers, Tim
Re: [OT] Pass it on, spread it around
Today, Aley Keprt did write about Re: [OT] Pass it on, spread it around: What would you do if you would find a suspicious bottle and there is hand-written dear Johnna, drink this liquid, it's great.? You would drink it at once??? I bet you don't. Keeping with cars. If you drove into a petrol station, and the pump said unleaded petrol that is exactly what you'd expect it to be, you wouldn't expect it to be diesel, or liquid gas (what a daft name that is!). So why shouldn't people expect that if the email they have has an attachment called 'readme.txt' then that attachment is infact a text file which will do no harm when they read it. Personally I'm over paranoid, I could happy argue all day about reading mail with a mail reader and not a HTML/javascript/vbscript interpreter, about the pros and cons of using filenames to determine file types, and far more. At the end of the day people have a right to expect their software not to do anything malicious without their consent. (Unfortunately at the end of the day, far to many people are fussed about style over content oh well) Tim
Re: [OT] Pass it on, spread it around - my summary
Today, Aley Keprt did write about Re: [OT] Pass it on, spread it around...: As far as I know, ILOVEYOU can't be activated by previewing received e-mail. If you read this somewhere, please let me know and I'll look too. I heard that there exist a 'virus' which is activated without clicking an attachment, but that 'virus' resides in e-mail, not in an attachment. KAK worm? I believe is a bit of javascript which will infect your computer if your eamil reader displays the HTML version of the email and runs the javascript. Presumably a 'preview' pane is enough to run this. This is one good reason why HTML formatted email should just be directed to /dev/null at the mail server ;-) I had an email the other day with KAK worm at the end. Tim
Re: SAM on eBay
On Mon, 4 Dec 2000, Aley Keprt wrote: (imho. Messenger is a stupid piece of hardware which does only what could be done by a very simple software.) I think the idea was that the problem most people had with the sam was actually getting the games to load in the first place, running them after that point was fine. Therefore you loaded it on a spectrum, which was more tolerant to old tapes, and then whizzed it down the wire to your Sam, where it worked happily ever after. I can't believe it's gone for 407quid. Perhaps I should be making mine a named item when I renew my insurance! Tim
Re: Fred Magazine Web Pages
On Tue, 24 Oct 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The Fred Web Pages are now completed with contents, screenshots and download links for issues 1-82. Not sure what else to do with them at the moment, any suggestions welcome. http://www.podboy.demon.co.uk/coupe/fred Can I mutter again about wouldn't it be nice if people made all old software PD, so we can have a single CD with *every* sam disk as a .DSK (or similar) on it? @/
Re: Fred Magazine Web Pages
On Tue, 24 Oct 2000, David L wrote: 82? Is that including the one I compiled (yes, it was me!) for George Boyle? If anyones got a copy...??? I got a copy. However given my sub ran out on issue 80, and I'd just resubscribed only to see the whole thing disappear, I was needless to say hesitant about resubbing *again*. All I remember of that disc was that it had an early version of Bulgulators (which I already had from Lemmings being s late!), and that the editorial seemed to be one long rant about how he'd had no support in putting the disk out, had problems trying to get hold of a members list, didn't have any of the contribution disks, etc, etc. and pleaing for submissions. I'd have been happy to buy an #83 if it had come out, but was planning to only buy one at a time. And least anyone claim I helped bring the downfall of Fred, there were at least 2 copies of a disk, with several submissions on, which I suspect went missing in the all the confusion. @/
Re: SAM 2000?
On Tue, 24 Oct 2000, Aley Keprt wrote: Okay, it's 1:1. Who's next.? 2 Against. Also, C is not so compatible too, since Watcom C - one of the best compilers - doesn't follow the standard of (all) other compilers. Then it's not the best compiler. Any decent C compiler should be ANSI compilant. That's the whole point of having an ANSI standard. (Apart from the fact I don't think there are any compilers compilant with the '99 Spec) I wonder, how much Sam C is compatible. It isn't. It's a cut down version (based on small C for CP/M?). It's memory management sucks, it doesn't do floats, it doesn't have a lot of the standard libraries, and probably lots more. (But I liked it anyway, it was fun to play with). Tim
Re: Console Coupe
On Tue, 26 Sep 2000, Dave Whitmore wrote: 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? Good I'd hope. It was certainly possible to associate a .DSK image with the DOS SimCoupe and have the it run with the disk image specified on the commandline. Does Si's windows version have a similar commandline? If so you just need to get it to autoboot. I remember imc posting a patch to the ROM image that would make it do just that. I appear to have lost the email now though. So it was certianally possible at one point, and ought to be possible now. (I'd fire up simcoupe and see, but that would require me to reboot!) Tim
happy Birthday....
So, after the spectacular 10th Birthday celebrations, anyone got any plans to do something this year? (I was driven past the wickerman a few weeks ago, was almost tempted to go there for lunch...) Tim
Re: Sam Coupe wake up call
On Mon, 11 Sep 2000, Edwin Blink wrote: I occasionally get this for no reason with my Sam. I find pop the disk out the drive, and press reset a few times. Normally I get a nice crunch sound come from the drive with one of the resets, plop the disk back in and works no problem. Of course, that's dark magic that may only work with my Sam Yes if you don't use a DPU then dark magic is really what you need ... laughs I always meant to get one of them, but always worried I might scar my Sam for life if I risked taking a soldering iron to him. (That's aimed at my soldering skills, not at the DPU...) Tim
Re: Sam Coupe wake up call
Hi, Doing some belated spring cleaning, I and my son felt eager to set up the Sam Coupe and have a play around. It hasn't been used for a few years and when a software disk is put in and F9 is pressed I got error code 53 NO DOS. Tried several disks and got the same, does that mean that the internal disk drive has died (never woke up)? I occasionally get this for no reason with my Sam. I find pop the disk out the drive, and press reset a few times. Normally I get a nice crunch sound come from the drive with one of the resets, plop the disk back in and works no problem. Of course, that's dark magic that may only work with my Sam HTH, Tim
mono.org / sam coupe scrapbook
Incase anyone misses it mono.org is physically moving home this weekend, so the web service is likely to disappear. It'll have reduced bandwidth/service for a while afterwards, so that may mean the web server is lower down the list of things to be restored. Tim
Re: scads
On Mon, 3 Jul 2000, Andrew Gale wrote: Wow... looking back, it's hard to believe how much optimism people had in the Sam market, isn't it?! I remember that Graham Burtenshaw used to sell something like 200 of each issue of Enceladus and made a tidy packet (well, enough to make an A' level student feel rich). Am I the only Sam user that didn't make any cash?! I made about 4 quid out of EGGBuM, urm, until you offset costs ;-)
Re: Games (Colony and F16)
On Fri, 30 Jun 2000, James R Curry wrote: By judicious use of monkeys and typewriters, Gavin Smith came up with: 2) We were talking a while back about the F16 Combat Pilot demo that was on Crash - didn't someone say they had a copy of it or am I misremembering? I'd love to see it - I know it turned out to be slow in the end, but still! I have the tape, but it's back in England so not much good. I'd ask Graham to pay a visit to my parents and locate it, but he is regrettably now living in Manchester, so there's not very much I can do... :( WOS appears to have a TZX of it, although how to load that into a Sam I have no idea (at least a TZX was on the WoS extras CD I got this morning) HTH, Tim
Re: Floppy
On Sat, 24 Jun 2000, D.A. Fulton wrote: I Got another question, a friend of mine has a sam without diskdrive , where can he get one or adapt a pcfloppy to the sam ? An original sam drive will be hard to find I would imagine. It used to be possible to get a kit that let you adapt a pc floppy, but that was from Bob Brenchley / Format who seem to have disappeared (although a friend of mine who lives in Gloucester says the shop is still trading). Urm, If you mean the one down from KFC, I suspect it's unrelated ;-) (There is one in Chelt too, it sells a mix of PC games, jigsaws, a few board games, packs of cards, trading cards, and hand puzzles. I've never noticed anytihng sam related, or Bob, in them!) I did see Bob at Picnic in the Park one year (It's a chelt thang), the next one is next w/e I think so I'll keep an eye out for him. @/
Re: Shows etc
On Sun, 18 Jun 2000, David L wrote: How many people on this list would actually be bothered to go to another SAM Show, if there was such a thing...? Depended how accessable a location it was for someone who'd have to rely on public transport ;-) Did anything happen for the 10th birthday?
Re: Web Sites
On Wed, 14 Jun 2000, Stoned Design wrote: I'm thinking of buying a program to do web sites. What do people use on this list? I just use my favourite text editor. I find with a little effort to learn the tags, (the basics easy to pick up, it's worth looking at page source to see how they do things), you can do some wonderful stuff. Doing it by hand means your more likely to produce something that degrades well, and doesn't try to force the page to look exactly how you want it. (The Sam Coupe Scrapbook was all done by hand, except a few lists which were produced using a script, but the template was hand done) One of my friends had a lot of trouble with some design program. I sent him an email with some basic help in, and since then he's been a by hand convert as well, just using a designer to work out things like tables. I wouldn't pay for a product either, You see to get a lot dished out for free with various magazines, (and presumably download). HTH, Tim
Re: Following on from Sam forsale
On Wed, 29 Mar 2000, Stephen Longhurst wrote: Anyone got a gold chip jobbie? I have a frames gold ASIC. I've not dared try to fit it to my machine though. The text below my ASIC claims it's from a limited edition of 40, and has Bruces signature as well. Is a gold ASIC really worth that much? If so I got it for a bargain price and will be contacting my insurers shortly! Tim
Re: Spotted on c.s.s - Sam for sale
On Mon, 27 Mar 2000, Dave Whitmore wrote: 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. Or us. The more people sell there Sams for, the more ours are worth when we come to sell^H^H^H^Hinsure them. ;-) @/
Re: Introducing Myself
On Tue, 14 Mar 2000, Steve Longhurst wrote: 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. Wow! I do believe it was you who possibly introduced me to nvg and the mailing list. :-) Cor, doesn't time fly eh? Tim
Re: Computer Shopper Feb 2000
Martin Fitzpatrick wrote: What on earth for? The robot that is, not the computer or your old school friend. It's in a collage(sp?) as part of some sort of millennium article. oooh-oooh I wonder who owns the copyright, and if they gave permission? Is it out now? (Why do mags come out a month early??) If so I'll pop down the newsagent and leaf through it annoying the newsagent as normal. Which page? Still on the shelves locally - Page 563 - and he's drunk ;-) @/
Computer Shopper Feb 2000
has a picture of Sam in it. The robot that is, not the computer or my old school friend. Tim
Re: Christmas Greetings, etc.
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. Infact, I'll wish Sam a happy 10th birthday as well. It must be around now.
Re: b-dos docs
Martijn Groen wrote: I'll try to make a B-DOS 1.6d doc file as soon as possible and send it to Andrew Collier, ready for downloading. Any chance of putting it on ftp.nvg as well if it isn't already? Cheers, Tim
Lost Games
A thought I had just now, while reading through some old files... What ever happened to the F16 Simulator. Obviously it never got released, but it did get to the demo stage (does anyone have this on a DSK?). The quote from the SamCo newsletter was something like the programmer got off to a good start, but then started to some off the rails. Who was the programmer? How close was it to being finished? Was it just a number of bugs that needed ironing out? Did it actually get further than the demo? Did it turn out to just be unplayable? Does it still exist in an uncompleted state, in a box somewhere, or was all work on it lost? Are there any other gems out there that never got finished, but were close, do people still have these? They'd be a wonderful thing to see. I'll resist mentioning a certain mega-demo, but did Kaboom! every get finally released? - I seem to recall one posting to this list saying it was finished and since Fred was non-existant at the time someone else was willing to sell it at a low price. Enigma had the license for Xybots, but I think I'm right in saying it never appeared (at least it disappeared off there price list, and I never saw a mention of it again.) Was any work actually taken on this? I sense lots of history, and possibly interesting tales, but does anyone actually know them? Tim
Re: Sam's worst ever game
From: Aley Keprt [EMAIL PROTECTED] What is the really worst ever game? Some weeks ago somebody said Parallax, Vegetable Vacation, or FutureBall. What is the worst one? EGGBuM ;-) Or possibly just picked to the post by Colony. I bought it coz I thought it might be a reasonable Sim* type game. Played it once, never again. Didn't find the documentation much use, and just didn't have the patience to work out what was going on. (I do hope the author isn't on this list and offended now.) There was some right tosh on Fred, but then there were gems as well so it evened out. Highlights: Soul Magician (damn sexy, one of the few games I played to the end), and One Man and His Frog. Tim @/
Re: Magazine copyrights etc.
From: Nick Humphries [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Sat, 4 Sep 1999 00:24:49 +0100 Sat, 4 Sep 99 01:28:04 BST, you wrote: track down the original writers as copyright is quite possibly owned by them anyway. A lot of YS writers only gave Dennis/Future Publishing first serial rights, which means that Dennis/Future can print the article once, but not again, and the copyright is owned by the original writer. [And other useful stuff] Things to be thinking about, thanks. unfortunately after having a look, a lot of my cuttings are from the news pages, and are uncredited :-( , now all I have to do is remember who published what. The publishers seem a good start though. YS was future? Crash (once newsfield) was taken over by SU which was EMAP? Cheers again, Tim
Magazine copyrights etc.
Having borrowed my gf's scanner, I feel like OCR'ing a lot of the articles that I've got in my scrapbook (the real one, not the web one). Anyone know who the best people to approach would be with regards getting permission to use a lot of it. It's presumably possible for YS stuff, but what about Crash/SU/NCE ? Hmmm. What about MGT/SamCo mailshots? If anyone has any sensible suggestions they'd be muchly appreciated. Tim
Re: Sam C
- Original Message - Some years ago I bought Sam C from Fred publishing. I remember that subsequent issues of Fred, published pokes to correct some bugs in the program. I've lost these pokes... ( including the issues of Fred ) I don't recall any such pokes or patches on FRED, however at one point I seem to recall Colin offering people a free upgrade to the fixed version if you sent your disk off or something. Who would do this these days I've no idea. (I seem to recall the new version wasn't perfect, and at one point I had a program which only sucessfully compiled with the buggy version of the compiler. It was probably an anti-bug in my code!) Tim
Sam's Birthday
My suggestion would just be to all meet up in the pub opposite Quedgely village hall, making sure we all wear a black arm band to keep Graham happy. Admittedly I'm biased due to living in Cheltenham, but since it's been the traditional home of the shows it seems an apt place to hold it. Or else Swansea. Hmmm. Of course, someone else could try and hire the hall out for the day. @/
Re: SAM COUPE PRINTER.
From: Martin Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Why did'nt MGT put the bl***y thing inside instead of a whacking great lump out the back. I recon things like this put other maybe Sam users off. Yeah I agree totally. I've always said this. Personally I think not having a standard printer interface of any kind parallel or serial made the Coupe a rather eccentric design. I mean since the Spectrum 128 there has been serial and from the plus 3 onwards there was parallel but the Coupe made it an option yet fitted other less important connections. The Coupe is probably the last home computer not to have serial/parallel until the imac came along. Wasn't it something like that the Sam was partially funded with a development grant, and the people who gave out the grant pushed for things like the Midi sockets to be included? That could be completely wrong, dodgy memory and all that. @/
Re: Announce - Outwrite
From: Andrew Collier [EMAIL PROTECTED] Outwrite 2.0 by Robert Wilkinson is now available to be downloaded from: has it been uploaded to nvg as well? @/
Re: Sam's Birthday
- Original Message - From: Dan Dooré [EMAIL PROTECTED] My suggestion would just be to all meet up in the pub opposite Quedgely village hall, making sure we all wear a black arm band to keep Graham happy. Is that the Basket Weaver or the evil Wacky Warehouse? I guess the weaver is more traditional, although wasn't it going to shut? Or was that a rumour. The wacky warehouse is bigger, does black pudding, and has the kids bit (although we may be a bit big to overrun it). As long as everyone knows which that'll be fine. Hold on. Everyone will just argue and we'll end up with 2 parties one in each pub ;-) Hmmm. Of course, someone else could try and hire the hall out for the day. Why bother - we'd only do what we usually do and spend twice as much time in the pub ;-) True, although it'd be ince to see same sams. What the hell, everyone can come back to mine(*) for afters and I'll boot up EGGBuM ;-) * for reasons of space ROAR @/
Re: Bondi Blue?
From: Andrew Collier [EMAIL PROTECTED] For other files, I have a program (quickly hacked together in C, most of which should be totally cross-platform except calling the Open and Save dialogue boxes) which can transfer files to and from a .dsk image. I guess I should upload it to mnemotech.ucam.org or somewhere... How about ftp.nvg.ntnu.no? Tim
Re:
From: Jonathan Bristow [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hmmm, strange... my settings say that i am sending it out as Plain Text! Also, although i have set any replies to be indented with , none are!!! Damned annoying, maybe somehow Outlook Express has got corrupted along the way! Mine often seems to get confused if I'm replying to a reply (ie it already has a load of text indented with 's) I suspect it's to stop mass runs ofwhen people keep forwarding things on. Unfortunately it doesn't see a difference between forwarding and replying as some email programs do. Tim @/
Re: Re[4]: Home made 256kb SAM expansion
Colin Piggot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Then it might have been on the early SAM Information Server Colin used to run. Colin? I can't seem to find it elsewhere -Frode Crieky! That's going back 4 to 5 years since I had that information server running for telnet! Tell me more! I never knew there was a telnet info server. I think I got on this list in the middle of 1994, can't ever remember a mention. (was it ever mentioned in any mags?) @/
Plugs for webpages (was: Re: )
From: Andrew Collier [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or alternatively again, take a look at http://mnemotech.ucam.org/samusers.html which was supposed to be a veritable Who's Who of sam-users subscribers. But not very many people have bothered to opt in... A not surprising apathy I got a reasonable amount of people to give me permission to put their addresses on my more general contacts page ages ago, though I suspect quite a few of those are broken.(Cue possible spam-like email to check which addresses are still valid if I keep such a contacts page going). It was a nice idea at the time, names and emails of people who were happy be contacted by other sam owners. Can't remember the last time someone sent me a name to add though (actually I can, it's Stephen McGreal, back in May. He's been added to my local copy, but since I've been working on them all, haven't uploaded it to mono.org. Can't remeber the one before that though.) Actually I don't have your details up either, I'll do yours if you do mine ;-) @/
Re: Home made 256kb SAM expansion
From: Frode Tenneboe [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thomas Harte [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Where can I get the necessary wiring information, and would it be any cheaper than the £12 Persona would charge? I posted (I think) a recipie for this some years back. I can't find the original post, though. I will take another look. I also seem to remeber it being on the scrapbook It isn't, but I'd happily add it. Is it somewhere on nvg perhaps? @/ [ As an aside, anyone have any ideas why Outlook express 5 repeatedly ignores the setting that says to indent replies using if the message you are replying to is a reply in itself - I'm guessing to stop getting: blah lines when people repeatedly forward things, but when you reply it's nice to keep the flow. It doesn't seem to be covered in the help at all. ]
Re: Amstrad Printer
On Sun, 1 Aug 1999, Robert Wilkinson wrote: Does anyone have the dip switch settings for the amstrad DMP3000. I used to (may still do...) have a DMP3000, and had a photocopy of the manual. Will try dig it out for you. Unfortunately, it is likely to be in my parents' loft, and so it may well be the end of the month before I can get to it. Sorry I can't be of immediate help, Tim Wells
Re: Opinions on old programs, and locality of former dealers?
- Original Message - From: Thomas Harte [EMAIL PROTECTED] How common were shops carrying SAM equipment? I seem to remember some sort of A4 list of SAM shops I acquired from somewhere (YS or Crash!?), does that ring any bells? There was one in Bournemouth (columbia computers), which is where I bought my sam, and DOE. It had the disk drive, but by the time it got around to the mouse and the like, I think the bloke may have given up. Everything since then I got mail order. SamCo did have a load of people trying to sell them in other countries as well, still got the details somewhere. Adding these to the inlays I also have for Hexxagonia (which I still have and works) and Splat!, would anybody be interested in me getting the energy up to do some scanning? Just thought someone might have the sudden want to have the coverart reproduced somewhere. Surprised no one has suggested that the cover inlays are probably still copyright and you'd be doing someone out of some money somehow ;-) @/
Re: Opinions on old programs, and locality of former dealers?
Each player has their own queue of pieces, and control their own cursor to place them. You're supposed to work together top make a longer pipe, but it generally doesn't work that way - a competitive player will try to make sure that the Flooz goes through his own pieces and not his opponent's pieces, that way his opponent loses all his points at the end of the round. Since it's so easy to sabotage your opponent's pipeline, the game tends to get old fast... A lot of game reviews in the Sam Coupe Scrapbook (http://www.mono.org/~unc/Coupe/games/ probably, can't check the blooming server is down atm). Just ignore the bit about where you can get them from, I suspect those fields will just get deleted when by the time the revamp goes on-line. @/
Re: Eeeek!
- Original Message - From: Dan Dooré [EMAIL PROTECTED] There is a pin-out for the joystick splitter in the Technical Manuel [1], or at least a diagram showing the strobe lines. There are also details of how to do this in the technical section of the Sam Coupe Scrapbook. (I'd give the exact URL but the server seems to be down atm.) http://www.mono.org/~unc/Coupe/ I've not tried it myself, all at own risk etc ;-) @/
Re: website nwe address
So who's around here over the summer then? The usual lot? Me! @/
Re: GamesMaster games
I downloaded some games to try on my real SAM, but on trying some of the GamesMaster games, I was reminded of an interesting phenomenon - on my MGT 256kb SAM, all GamesMaster displayed games consist of nothing but grey rectangles presumably where the sprites are meant to be. Is this a common problem, and is there anything I can do to fix it? All the games seem to work well in SIM. It's a memory location thing. From the GamesMASTER manual: The TOTAL GAME SIZE is the amount of computer memory used by the game, and it is always a certain number of 16K pages, plus half a page. This includes a WORKSPACE, which is used for storing copies of sprites and areas of background. (...) If it is needlessly large, you may make it impossible to run a game developed on a 512K machine on a 256K machine, (...) It's possible the game would run on 256K sam had this been thought about. Have you tried reseting SimCoupe in 256K mode (hold shift, hit reset, don't take your finger off shift until the (c) message appears. I seem to recall this may not help, as although the sam thinks it only has 256K, the top half of the memory is still actually available. Could be worth a try though. I can't remember if we tested EGGBuM on a 256k machine. (Aside: A few years back I bought a 1meg expansion for my sam for roughly twice the cost that I recently bought 64Meg for my PC) @/
Re: SimCoupe : wide spread? (was New: SimCoupe 0.783a...)
3. start from non-SimCoupe directory 4. faster disk emulation (DOS is poor, Win32 is faster) It would be nice to be able to double-click on a dsk image, and have SimCoupe load with that image in drive 1. You could then just press F9 to load the game. urm you can - At least in Windows 98. (I assume '95 is just the same) Just associate .DSK with Sam Disk Image or something, and make the default option to open using ?:/path/to/Simcoupe.pif -fd1 (for some reason it didn't like me using Simcoupe directly, but was fine when I then changed it to use the pif instead - I think it may have been that it needed the pif to get the correct working directory) HTH, Tim
Re: Call for votes! (and other things)
A new user downloads a copy of SimCoupe. If he's not impressed, he'll throw away SimCoupe after about half an hour and we'll never see him again? So what programs do you show him? What are the essential programs that anyone with a passing interest must see once? Another scenario: A user downlaods Simcoupe and runs a demo, then his mate comes around with some cover CD and he has a play with a demo of some software on that which takes full advantage of the hardware [ okay, okay, I'm falling in to the everyone runs on a PC trap here ;-) ] which impresses him most. What are the essential programs - to be honest I don't think there are any, at least not for anyone who is running SimCoupe. Demos look pretty but not as pretty as something written for the host platform. Utilities have no point, they are either Sam Specific (MasterDOS), or something a lot more powerful is already available for the machine (ie SamC). That leaves games - most 8bit emulators have the advantage of a very large collection of games, and a lot of people run them because they remember them from their youth. (The games also don't rely on people just going ooh-pretty which seems to sell too much games these days - but my mind wanders). The Sam unfortunately doesn't have this base. Which means I'm going to play devils advocate and say there isn't any. The people I see using SimCoupe are those who own a Sam, the hobbyist type people who should have owned a Sam, and the odd people wondering what all the fuss is about. People who are interested in the emulator becaues they are interested in the machine. I don't think it has that much opportunity to gain the attention of people off the street. One CD will hold what, 0.6Gb, that's over 600 DSK files. I'd like to see a CD with every Sam Disk every released as a DSK image on it (in standard formats before protection and fancy disk formats were added if possible). You sell that, and include SimCoupe on it, and you have a large slice of history and a potential market. Of course, it'll never happen. Too much personality conflict for a start. Most users, I guess, would be most interested in games. But we haven't got many of those available for download... I doubt that utilities, even good ones, are likely to hold his attention for long either. Quite/ I think you underestimate the influence of m/c demos on the Sam's environment... No, I'm happy to be outside the Coders Horseshow rather than within it. I appreciate that Demos helped the development of real software for the sam. I just don't think they are interesting. @/
Re: Call for votes! (and other things)
No apologies if I offend anyone - if sam-users is descending back into 200+ heated emails a day, I may as well show my hand as well. -=-=-=-=- Essential Sam programs... Demos, games, even utilities or anything else are okay I don't think you could justify any demo as being an essential bit of software (what's it essential for?) - infact I think the throwaway even utilies are the most likely to be considered essential. Perhaps I have my priorities wrong -=-=-=-=- OOI - does anyone have an outdated copy of sam-users subscribers on there web page? A while back my mono.org account received a spam, and I spotted quite a few others from this list in the Distro. -=-=-=-=- Linux SimCoupe - why the assumption that the only non-MSWindows/DOS platform anyone would want to run Simcoupe on is Linux? As well as the MacOS version, simcoupe (or at least in the XCoupe guise) was compiled for a complete range of OS's and Platforms including I believe a DecAlpha running OSF, an SGI box running IRIX. For i386 there are lots of other OSs such as OS/2, *BSD - not just linux, and not everyone out there uses machines capable of running MSDOS/Windows, so getting hold of DOS isn't always that easy ;-) -=-=-=-=- Simcoupe and this list in general: Adding platform specific enchancements is good, but any changes to the core code that rely on a specific platform or available software is bad. Why take an already portable product and make it less so? Nethack is a popular game, continually being developed and improved. No-one charges for it, no-one makes any money out of it, yet it is probably one of the most highly ported bits of code out there (okay, so there is a fair bit of code in platform specific directorys under the source tree). People are keeping this code up-to-date on all platforms - where is their incentive? Some people write portable code because it's the nice thing to do. soapbox I was always proud to be associated with the Sam Community - it seems to me it's becoming a set of neighbouring communities based on religion. Perhaps it's time to box up my sam and move elsewhere. I don't intend to blame anyone in particular - it's good if people improve things like Simcoupe, but it's turning far to much into little factions as people bitch and gripe about anything they get the chance to. I guess this is always happened on this list (Son of Sam anyone?), but perhaps I've finally grown up to realise what a waste it is. I don't see the point anymore. But what does it matter if I get out. Who am I but someone who's owned a sam for 9 years, been on sam-users for 5 (with the odd break), who thought it was something special. Just one more disillusioned user walking off into the sunset, until the only people who bother with the Sam are a bunch of people who spend all there time arguing, until they finally realise that even they have nothing to do with the sam anymore. /soapbox @/
Re: Using my SAM to copy non-SAM format disks
The really spooky thing is, Wal-Mart sell DD disks at under $5 a box.. Not really, I've seen quite a few places here that sell them at 1.99 a box... Just not saying where ;-) @/
Re: A dumb and ill considered idea
Hmm, that's true. I ain't played anything like EGGBuM on the PC. Are you using Allegro to program it? VB - I think - though I have a feeling he's doing a lot of the screen access directly for speed. No idea really, I just provide the odd creative input (like reminding him to make the ball a spinning beach-ball) @/
Re: A dumb and ill considered idea
From: Graham Goring [EMAIL PROTECTED] Okay, I imagined it, then I thought about the tons of PC software that's either cheaper or free, and that's far better than Matt Round's game. I don't think there's anything that's available on the SAM that hasn't been done better on the PC. (The only exception being the sublime Waterworks) What about EGGBuM? (admittedly it's still in the process of being written for the PC, and I might even give in to the notation it will be better...)
Re: Keyboard membranes
Mine still does that black white thing, and I had it replaced once, back in the day. Should this worry me greatly? No idea if it should. If you don't mind pretending to be a hardware guru then you might be interested in the following: This information was given to me when I was having problems with mine, and as such is around 9 years old, and my memory may be incorrect. I take no responsibilty for any damage to your sam or anything else resulting from trying it ;-) Just behind the connector for the left hand disk drive is a yellow brass variable capacitor. If you adjust this with an ickle phillips screwdriver, it may fix your problem. That's copied out of my notebook from the time (told to me over the phone by someone at PBT). This occasionally worked for me (but since it was an IC problem, sometimes didn't). HTH, Tim
Re: Keyboard membranes
Other than the membrane, what other part's failure would herald the end of SAMs working life? I bought my Sam in Feb 1990 - very early on one of the chips went funny so the picture occasionally went black and white. I got this replaced shortly after SamCo appeared and I'd got my v3 Rom. Since then I've had no trouble whatsoever. Hmm, a slight lie, my disk drive was playing up for a while, but taking it out and plugging it back in again eventually seemed to solve that problem, it's right as rain again now. Perhaps I've just been extremely lucky. @/
Re: Real Sam Users List 30th March 1999
Please remove my name too! (besides, it's already changed ;-) As an aside, I wouldn't have noticed this had I not wondered why there were so many follow-ups :-) Why the compulsion to keep putting a list of addresses up anyway? None of the other lists I'm on ever outs people like this one does! Who knows Invasion of privicy perhaps ;-)
Sam Coupe Scrapbook - whats missing?
All, (before anyone else says it... Quite a lot) I've just got a PC at home, and plan to try and update my Sam web pages to the state they used to be (ie upto date). If anyone has any obvious information that's missing that I can add, would like to do a review, or anything else it'd be muchly appreciated. I'll even accept hard copy blurb if anyone has any up to date product lists I could use as reference (Since I only ever subscribed to FRED, and there haven't been many stalls at the last few Glos shows, most of my junk is out of date.) Cheers muchly, Tim @/
Gloucester April
Being that time of year again, is anything happening at Quedgely, and if so which date. Trying to sort out my schedule ;-) .@/ Unc - Tim Paveley - Moderator of The Games Room Ascii Animations http://www.mono.org/~unc/
Re: Severe Lameness...
On Fri, 5 Mar 1999, Simon Cooke wrote: There's nary a *.dsk file in sight. I can't find anywhere to download The Lyra 3 from in a format I can use. So that's my excuse - what's yours? I went to put something on before Xmas, and it wouldn't let me write to incoming. @/ .@/ Unc - Tim Paveley - Moderator of The Games Room Ascii Animations http://www.mono.org/~unc/
Re: SIMCoupe question
On Thu, 25 Feb 1999, The Mad Goose wrote: In SIMCoupe (which I've finally got up and running - it's excellent) when I type in the following program... ...it produces anything but a random image. The same thing on the sam produces random dots all voer the place, but in SIMCoupe it gives ordered diagnal strips down the page. On my real Sam it produces diagonal strips given a while. (Not tried in on SimCoupe, so don't know if I'm thinking of the same effect - vague diagonal bands of each colour. eoe Tim .@/ Unc - Tim Paveley - Moderator of The Games Room Ascii Animations http://www.mono.org/~unc/
Re: SAM FAQ Version 2
On Fri, 19 Feb 1999, Ian Collier wrote: On Fri, Feb 19, 1999 at 03:20:23PM +, The Mad Goose wrote: Tim Paveley (Unc) : The person who's Web page this is sitting on. So is that... And it isn't (well, not directly) ;-) But I'll link it back in if you've no objections! .@/ Unc - Tim Paveley - Moderator of The Games Room Ascii Animations http://www.mono.org/~unc/
SamC - SamDOS
Before I re-invent the wheel... Has anyone written a library for SamC that will do some basic disk access (I'm thinking just load/save code files) I want this functionality! And while I think it shouldn't take too much playing around, thought I'd see if anyone had already done so. Cheers, Tim @/ .@/ Unc - Tim Paveley - Moderator of The Games Room Ascii Animations http://www.mono.org/~unc/
Fred and all that.
So fred is back :) 1) Am I right in thinking the last issue Darren did was #81 2) Am I right in thinking there was only one freddisk #82 3) Malcom - Did Colin M pass you the disk I gave him? There are a couple of games on there I originally wrote for fred (but have since released on the SadSnail Collection) - feel free to [download and] use them if you want. 4) Did I spell Malcom right then? It looks too short and I've just deleted all the relevant emails @/ .@/ Unc - Tim Paveley - Moderator of The Games Room Ascii Animations http://www.mono.org/~unc/
Re: Gavin Smith Questions, the story so far
On Tue, 12 Jan 1999, Andrew Collier wrote: Yes, I know. We read it too. I didn't. Your point? A nice, amusing summary for those of us who can't be bothered to read the amount of crap that gets sent to this list. Oh for the days of high SNR. Malcolm - sorry I got your name wrong in my last email! Tim @/ .@/ Unc - Tim Paveley - Moderator of The Games Room Ascii Animations http://www.mono.org/~unc/
Re: TEST, PLEASE IGNORE...
On Fri, 8 Jan 1999, Chris Pile wrote: This is a test to see if I've entered the SAM group address in my address book correctly... Looks like it. (someone had too!) @/ .@/ Unc - Tim Paveley - Moderator of The Games Room Ascii Animations http://www.mono.org/~unc/
IDSA/SimCoupe
So then, anyone wanna have a nice big thread on how simcoupe will be affected by ISDA? /troll .@/ Unc - Tim Paveley - Moderator of The Games Room Ascii Animations http://www.mono.org/~unc/
Christmas Present from Sad Snail Productions
It's here, at last! The Sad Snail Collection A Simcoupe compatiable disk image of all the significant software produced by Sad Snail Productions, including the unspeakable Starshot!, 3 unseen games 3D Maze, Whirlpool Black Box, and that all time classic EGGBuM. All on a single, must have, disk image for your ease of use. Available from: http://www.mono.org/~unc/Snail/ ( but not the nvg as when I tried to upload it, it complained about not having any disk space or something... ) I hope it gives you something enjoyable to play on your sam this Xmas! (Comments welcome!) Unc of Sad Snail Productions @/ .@/ Unc - Tim Paveley - Moderator of The Games Room Ascii Animations http://www.mono.org/~unc/
ETracker Players
Does anyone have a small, relocatable, interupt driven ETracker play I could use? tech Just realised that the normal one I use isn't very heap friendly (it just writes itself straight at 16384, doesn't alter the stack end pointer, and isn't relocatable - not very useful when you've already got the mouse driver loaded) /tech Cheers, Tim .@/ Unc - Tim Paveley - Moderator of The Games Room Ascii Animations http://www.mono.org/~unc/
Re: Sam C kbhit()
On Thu, 19 Nov 1998, Dave Hooper wrote: I was having a lod of problems compiling a menu last night that used kbhit(), it didn't work. This was dispite the fact it was just a recompilation of the slidey menu I did for fred, which obviously did work ;-) [...] i have absolutely no idea what this is about. A bug in Sam C. An older version doesn't seem to have that bug, so was suggesting other people try the older version (if they have it) if they have problems. Tim @/ .@/ Unc - Tim Paveley - Moderator of The Games Room Ascii Animations http://www.mono.org/~unc/
Re: SamDOS copyright.
On Wed, 18 Nov 1998, Simon Cooke wrote: Tim (who is putting QDOS on his forthcoming disk image) Ummm.. Tim... QDOS is actually SAMDOS 2.2 with a front-end added onto it which cleans up your system and tells you what hardware you have. That's all - so it's the same copyright issue. Oh, didn't realise that :) Thought there were various bug fixes and things as well... However, disks have been sold with SAMDOS on them since time began, so I personally wouldn't worry about it one iota. Ah well, was more of a troll than anything. Didn't work though Tim @/ .@/ Unc - Tim Paveley - Moderator of The Games Room Ascii Animations http://www.mono.org/~unc/
Sam C kbhit()
I was having a lod of problems compiling a menu last night that used kbhit(), it didn't work. This was dispite the fact it was just a recompilation of the slidey menu I did for fred, which obviously did work ;-) Eventually, I dug out the master disk for the earlier version of SamC I had, and tried that. Compiled and worked first time. Not sure if this has anything to do with the use ofthe zues assembler rather than the one that sam C originally used. Not sure if this is related to the sam problem in Sam Vision, but might be worth trying the old version if you have that problem (I believe the original Sam C still had the option to use the SamVision libs) Tim @/ .@/ Unc - Tim Paveley - Moderator of The Games Room Ascii Animations http://www.mono.org/~unc/
