Re: Pro-DOS v2.0 (CP/M 2.2) released
On 29/05/2014 13:26, Chris Pile wrote: Cheers Wayne, I wouldn't have given a Pro-DOS rewrite a second thought if you hadn't managed to reclaim my original source disks - so thanks for that... I think! ;-) On 28/05/2014 23:15, Wayne Weedon wrote: Well done Chris. Will take a look when I get some time this weekend. Chris Well frankly it's a little miracle that we were able to extract non corrupted data off those old floppies. How old they were I have no idea. Over 20 years I would imagine. Wayne..
Re: Pro-DOS v2.0 (CP/M 2.2) released
On 28/05/2014 21:29, Chris Pile wrote: Hi Folks, Some of you may remember last year I mentioned I was rewriting Pro-DOS? Well done Chris. Will take a look when I get some time this weekend. Wayne...
Re: missing ProDos games
On 10/11/2013 22:58, da...@properbastard.co.uk wrote: CP/M was certainly something I seem to remember being discussed a few times in Swansea. Hmmm - I'll have to get a Pi sorted out soon, so I can get a SAM running again. My PC is far from stable, so I've not been able to run SimCoupe on it for more than a few mins at a time :( Lot's of things seem to have been discussed and never saw the light of day. I was even discouraged to continue with my HD interface because they were sure they could pull it off. History tells us different however. Wayne...
Re: missing ProDos games
On 09/11/2013 17:39, Chris Pile wrote: P.S. - New version of Pro-DOS (v2.0) coming soon... ;-) Quite lucky we managed to save the source code then Chris, could of quite easily got into someone elses hands! Looking forward to seeing the new version. Wayne.
Re: Second Hand Sam Coupe Wanted
On 03/08/2012 15:50, Rich Mellor wrote: Good afternoon all, One of my customers in Brazil has asked about getting hold of a Sam Coupe - does anyone have a working one ready for sale? Here's one! http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/VERY-RARE-VINTAGE-MILES-GORDON-TECHNOLOGY-SAM-COUPE-VGC-BOXED-/290699881242?pt=UK_VintageComputing_RLhash=item43af102b1a; LMFAO!No Disk drive? I got a boxed one in the attic just like that, not for sale though YET! Wayne..
Re: One for Simon Owen re : Simcoupi
On 31/07/2012 00:34, Simon Owen wrote: On 30/07/2012 17:39, wayne wrote: Tried to build Simcoupi on my recently aquired RPI. There was a missing component in the SourceForge path, fixed now! The newer distro also simplifies things slightly, so I'll post updated instructions when I get a chance. In the meantime, try this updated binary built on Rasbian: http://simcoupe.org/files/simcoupi-r1439.zip You might get the odd sound underrun reported in the console when entering and leaving the GUI, especially if you're running it from within X. I've never seen the error you reported, though I misread your message and didn't try the old binary. OpenGL SE support is still a work in progress, but should hopefully give a bit more speed, and options for 50Hz sync (with audio resample). Si Simon.. Yep that one works, Thanks! Sound works out the box too. Will keep my daughter happy playing the Manic Miner demo anyway. Wonder how many more ported emulators will crop other the next few months. Also being a QL fan I'd like to see uQLx on there, though I suspect it will be rather sluggish. Wayne...
Re: One for Simon Owen re : Simcoupi
Managed to find a link to the sqeeze distro hidden away on the rpi site and Simcoupi runs fine on that. So seems some vital libraries have changed between squeeze and wheezy. Wayne...
Re: MasterDOS Improvements
On 03/07/2012 13:47, Rich Mellor wrote: Now before anyone says anything... I know that this is one of a certain Irish gentleman's pet topics, but I can see where he is coming from on this, and rather than one of his overlong and complicated emails to get to the point, I though it worth asking directly... Is it possible to amend MasterDOS to add support for the Atom Lite (as it would seem worth it - presuming the sources to MasterDOS are available)... I believe the person you refer to is no longer here! He's currently babbling all to tears over at comp.sys.sinclair. I would imagine the binary for masterdos is not so large that it could not be disassembled fairly easily? Wayne...
Re: SimCoupi
On 16/04/2012 11:29, Simon Owen wrote: Seems like a promising start: http://simonowen.com/raspberrypi Speed is fine with the normal SDL build, even with demanding titles like MNEMOdemo1 part 2. It ran at about 450% with the emulator turbo button held (max speed but video capped at 5fps). The OpenGL version ran very slowly in X, as though it was missing hardware acceleration. That will be needed for the 5:4 aspect ratio feature, to make it look more like the original display. There wasn't any sound from the 3.5mm jack, and I did see some warnings about not being able to find a sound device. My monitor doesn't have speakers so I haven't checked whether there's anything over HDMI, but I doubt it. I'm using the latest Debian build from 13th April, so I'll need to look into drivers etc. I had to head off to work so it's just a brief look for now... Si I just get a 403 error following that link.. Do you have some .htaccess rule in there somewhere?
Re: Junk mail
On 14/04/2012 13:46, Chris Pile wrote: If it's any consolation he didn't make a joke this time either! He's just being an arse as usual... So don't be scared!!! ;-) He's probably more pissed of we don't want him or his drivel. It's self inflicted, but he's obviousy so dense he cant see it.
Re: Junk mail
On 11/04/2012 22:30, Leszek Chmielewski wrote: Yes, RJ did it again. Citation: I use Boxbe to fight email overload. Boxbe prioritizes messages from people on my contact lists. SIGNUP Don't he got it? He did the eMail overload! I do not want to prioritize HIS mails. Oh, and he said: christ almight what a bunch of gaylords. Funny little man he is! What he does not seem to realise is, if he acted like a normal human being we'd accept him. I think its no coincidence that we all seem to get agitated by his approach. Like a few here I'm a very infrequent poster and dont constantly monitor the list. BUT spamming my inbox with nonsence is out of order.
Re: Junk mail
On 12/04/2012 10:23, Geoff Winkless wrote: On 12 April 2012 10:08, Wayne Weedonwa...@fdos-design.com wrote: [snip valid points] Please, can we just drop this? Not while he's deliberately and probably maliciously targeting members of this list I wont. Jowett is a freak, If you want to be his pal then fine. I wont just put up with the crap. As some have said he's been more than a thorn in the side to them. Read Nev's post below. I hope it works, though I'm doubtful.
Re: Yet more junk mail
On 12/04/2012 10:31, nev young wrote: Sometimes it feels like it's already gone on forever. I got the WAYN invite and also 4 invites to boxbe to different addresses that he has for me. I am thoroughly sick to death of this guy and as a result I have contacted solicitors to start proceedings for harassment against him. Now I have the tedious task of receiving and storing all of his crap to produce as evidence in court. I really would rather not have to do this. Good Luck, I hope you can find him!
Re: Junk mail
On 12/04/2012 11:04, Geoff Winkless wrote: Good luck with your fight against the evil spamtator, I guess just hitting delete is too hard for some people. I'm not fighting. Why dont you just hit delete Geoff. I have this list filtered and set to auto expire messages after 7 days so what gets posted here is not a problem to me. BUT You seem to see no harm in Jowett using this group to Harvest our email addresses to then spam us directly. Thats the whole reason for our angst. Fact is this is EXACTLY what he did. Wayne...
Re: Junk mail
On 05/04/2012 06:57, nev young wrote: On 04/04/12 23:39, da...@properbastard.co.uk wrote: Was it just me who was sent a huge number of un-requested files? I've added the sender to my email blacklist. * WOOT * My R* J* spam filter works! Two attempts at indirect contact via 3rd party sites to me today. Might have to rework my filters.
Re: Junk mail
On 07/04/2012 06:51, nev young wrote: Do you want to hear my 4 year tale of woe of being harassed and stalked across the internet by this crazy person? Cant say he's stalked me or anything near it, but attempts of direct contact via social networking had been fairly regular. Still it seems we have mostly collectively blocked the nutter til the next time.
Re: Junk mail
On 06/04/2012 16:14, Frode Tennebø wrote: On 6 April 2012 14:10, Roger Jowettrogerjow...@gmail.com wrote: [snipp] Sorry about that, folks. I shall try to be more vigilant. I have yet again forcibly unsubscribed him and will do so until I find a more permanent solution. -Frode did he reply with a tirade of insults? Didn't see it so obviously my filter worked!
Re: Alan (Alain) Miles?
On 06/04/2012 18:59, wayne wrote: See this? http://www.alainmiles.com/ Got to be the same Alan surely? Answered it myself. Yes it is, he has some audio readings of his work on the web and that voice I remember very well for some reason.
Re: Junk mail
On 06/04/2012 21:16, Tommo H wrote: I received five emails this morning, at least two of them to the same long list of people as those that started this conversation. For the record, I've never considered him to be a troll because he doesn't seem deliberately to be trying to annoy anyone, and his messages aren't deliberately provocative so much as just a little confusing. He seemed to had gone off on one! http://blog.gmane.org/gmane.comp.systems.sam-coupe fascists??
Re: Alan (Alain) Miles?
On 06/04/2012 22:39, da...@properbastard.co.uk wrote: Quoting da...@properbastard.co.uk: Quoting Wayne Weedon wa...@fdos-design.com: Answered it myself. Yes it is, he has some audio readings of his work on the web and that voice I remember very well for some reason. Yes indeed the same one As far as I can tell i mean :) (really hate hitting send too soon!) :) It is. That mellow voice is distinctive.
Re:
On 04/04/2012 14:15, Roger Jowett wrote: WHO SAM-USERS Roger, please don't send multiple spam to my email address again. Once more and I'll have to put your address on block.
Re:
On 05/04/2012 09:26, Andy Chandler wrote: I emailed Roger the same thing in reply - I got a huge email back ranting about getting 30KB/s for £400 or something. Roger is now in my Junk filter! Well as his does appear to be a deliberate attempt to piss people off, he's in the sin bin at server level here now.
Re: Junk mail
On 05/04/2012 15:37, David Sanders wrote: I'm still unconvinced that he's not a bot. Well he makes human mistakes so I guess not. Attention seeker I think, a boring one at that.
Re: Junk mail
On 05/04/2012 00:08, Simon Owen wrote: On 4 Apr 2012, at 23:54, Andrew Collier wrote: I fear it might be some kind of attempt at reprisal for me blocking his worldofsam account due to his spamming and abusing other users, so apologies to anyone who is getting affected by the crossfire. I've received the same e-mail with 157 attachments at least 7 times over the last year or so. He's got a growing list of victims too, and I counted 90 addresses in the latest assault. I've tried reasoning with him, GMail abuse reports, and simply ignoring him. Nothing works, and the junk keeps coming. Si Well seems a lot of us have blocked his madness now. Hopefully he'll get pissed off with not getting any attention if hardly anyone see's the crap. It used to be facebook and Linkedin requests only. Got caught with his pants down this time with the harvesting attempt we saw in the list! Wayne...
Re: SAM Revival 24?
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. Wayne
Re: SAM's 20th Birthday
Chris Pile wrote: 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 Sorry to hear that! Times are indeed tough for many (inc me) at the moment. I've bitten the bullet and been ebaying my past away! You'll know first hand what a terrible hoarder I am, so it's going to take a while to get rid of it all! Might actually retain the Sam though. Suppose it still works. It's actually stilled packed in it's original box somewhere in the attic. A lot of my prototype interfaces were dumped though and the QL ones too, just didn't see the point in keeping them and probably worthless objects with no remaining documentation. Only one I think I still have is the VTX5000Sam i/f which you altered a version of the Sam Terminal s/w for.Still brings back a few memories! Wayne
Re: SAM's 20th Birthday
Chris Pile wrote: Hi folks... There was a thread a while ago mentioning the SAM's 20th birthday. When exactly is the 20th anniversary of the machine? 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:
Chris Pile wrote: who Indeed! -- --- Wayne M Weedon Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fdos Design Poole UK Tel +44-1202-677025Fax +44-1202-770515 Mobile: 07774 439915 Specialists in small batch Production Mechanical/Electrical Engineering ---
Re: SAM Dallas module
Chris Pile wrote: Hi Folks, I tried emailing Edwin about this, but all email addresses I found for him simply bounced. So I'm posting here instead... Does anyone have programming information for Edwin's SAM Dallas clock module? Particularly the port addresses and how to read/write to the Dallas 114-bytes of scratch-ram? Also, does Simcoupé save the Dallas module's RAM contents on exit - thus emulating the persistent qualities of the Dallas scratch-ram? Chris.. Hope you are all well. Steve Parry-Thomas is more likely than most to know how to contact Edwin. Regards Wayne... -- --- Wayne M Weedon Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fdos Design Poole UK Tel +44-1202-677025Fax +44-1202-770515 Mobile: 07774 439915 Specialists in small batch Production Mechanical/Electrical Engineering ---
Re: Mayhem Accelerator - Prototype Complete
Colin Piggot wrote: Mayhem @ 20MHz: 1.513 BogoMIPS (420% speedup) The final stage now is to complete the designs for the PCB for the production version and build one up to go through testing, then the Accelerator will be ready. All going well it will be available in 8 weeks time at the start of August. Well done Colin.8 Weeks? Thats just in time to require RoHS compliance ;-) Damn Eurocrats and their spanners in the works. One of the reasons I got out of the scene! About the time CE marking and EMC compliance came into force. Funny you should be doing this now, I was working on something very similar in the early Sam days, along with quite a few other things that were also abandoned. I think somewhere in the Attic all the prototypes are still buried in boxes from our last move 7 years ago! Steve P-T knows all very well how long it takes me to find old crap in that Tardis like attic! -- --- Wayne M Weedon Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fdos Design Poole UK Tel +44-1202-677025Fax +44-1202-770515 Mobile: 07774 439915 Specialists in small batch Production Mechanical/Electrical Engineering ---
knock knock any one home?
Is this list still active?? Wayne... -- --- Wayne M Weedon Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fdos Design Poole UK Tel +44-1202-677025Fax +44-1202-770515 Mobile: 07774 439915 Specialists in small batch Production Mechanical/Electrical Engineering ---
Re: MIA Fdos disks found
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks to Wayne at Fdos for finding the missing disks. all 12 are now on the pro-dos site! Steve You're very welcome of course. As I said I may have more. certainly I have found the work disk which I used to prepare all the packages with. This was kind of my CP/M hacking toolkit, most packages required some hacking, especially if they used any Terminal ESCape codes other than VT52. I recall some of them were a nightmare when no patch docs were available. I might be persuaded to write something on my take on the whole thing. The reason Chris had the Sam was not originally to write a CP/M ;-) Let me know if you are interested. Wayne.. -- --- Wayne M Weedon Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fdos Design Poole UK Tel +44-1202-677025Fax +44-1202-770515 Mobile: 07774 439915 Specialists in small batch Production Mechanical/Electrical Engineering ---
hi
Hi. Looking here for purely nostalgic reasons... Still have a Sam but I doubt it's been powered since the mid 90's. How many here are actually still using the Sam? I've recently tried SimCoupe and it's certainly a wonderful emulator. I also see that MESS is also now supporting the Sam Rom. Anyway best wishes for the new year to all.. Wayne -- --- Wayne M Weedon Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fdos Design Poole UK Tel +44-1202-677025Fax +44-1202-770515 Mobile: 07774 439915 Specialists in small batch Production Mechanical/Electrical Engineering ---
