Re: ZAT - Magazine
Steve Parry-Thomas schrieb: Can any one tell me how many it ran to? Thanks, Steve(spt) Dear Steve... and all the others who have interest in it. ZAT issues from number 2 to number 17 are scanned and can be downloaded under: ftp://ftp.worldofspectrum.org/pub/sinclair/magazines/ZAT/ Cheers, Wolfgang
Re: SAM Coupé - software request!
Chris Pile schrieb: Hi Ron, Many thanks for that - Wolfgang sent a link to your software - thanks Wolfgang! Your game Quix is a very different beast to the arcade game Qix - in fact, only the name is similar! Apparently the arcade version is pronounced kicks - but I always pronounce it quicks ;-) Your game is quite a challenge to play - in some ways it feels like a beefed-up Tetris! It's pretty amazing to see what you can do in standard Sam BASIC. The SAM really was too much too late... Sad really, as it really was a lovely machine to write code for... :-( Cheers, Chris. Hi Chris. It was me a pleasure. BTW: Thank you for the latest DEFENDER version, done by you. It´s the only SAM game, which my son (13) is interested in! And he is good, so I saw more levels (Waves completed) then I had ever seen when played by myself ;-) Cheers, Wolfgang
Re: SAM Coupé - software request!
Cheers Chris and all other SAM users. Le Box, Manic Mazes, Math, Quix and Quix 2 by Ron Stirling can be downloaded at: http://spc.gmc-clan.de/downloads2/SAM_Coupe/sam_coupe.html as Ron gave me the permission to contribute. Also you find here Review 2 and I am sorry, that I had only this issue. So if anyone has other issues of Rons Review mag, Ron and I would be glad to get them and make them publish for all. Have fun. Wolfgang Chris Pile schrieb: Hi Ron, Sorry I can't help you in your search, but I'd be interested in seeing your Quix remakes - but can't find them on NVG. I started writing a version of QIX back around 1998 - the plan was to make it as arcade perfect as I could. Sadly, the combination of me being a lazy git - and having one or two other projects on the go, meant I never got around to finishing it! Come to think of it - I never finished any of the other projects either! I'm pretty sure I don't even have the sourcecode any more. :-( Knowing now that there was a version of QIX for the SAM I'd love to see what my competition would have been!! ;-) Cheers, Chris.
Re: www.worldofsam.org is open for business!
Fine, fine... will have a closer look after christmas. Any side concerned to the SAM is always welcome! BTW: Christmas. I wish all SAM users all over the world a merry christmas and may your wishes come true. Seasonal greetings. Wolfgang Andrew Collier schrieb: Hello everybody, Merry Christmas! It is my pleasure to announce that a new community-based Sam Coupe web site has been launched. http://www.worldofsam.org/ It's rather light on content at the moment, but that's where you all come in! If you've ever seen or used a wiki site before, you'll be familiar with how this works: anyone who visits worldofsam, can also edit it, add comments, or add whole new pages. So I look forward to us all making this the best site for information on the Sam and all its related products! See you on-line, Andrew
Re: Sophistry
Hi Andrew (and all other SAMmers)
Seems, as if christmas would be interesting. because I also have a
structure layout of a new site and some content, but it´s all a matter
of time. As I run a club for Spectrum and SAM, this side will be for
Spectrum and SAM users. For those who are curious, here the very raw bit:
http://spc.gmc-clan.de/downloads2/
I hope to have more for download before christmas...
Cheers, Wolfgang
Andrew Collier schrieb:
Oh David, why do you have to take everything so damn personally?
Sorry. Let me rephrase my last post.
I'm happy to take on responsibility for getting a community site up
and running. With all the other things you've got on your plate, the
Sam site can be one less thing for you to worry about. I'd be
interested to see what you'd got so far, though I have some ideas of
my own and a basic site structure laid out.
Please don't feel it's all a waste of time; when this site is open
for contributions, I think everybody will find your input very
valuable. It will take a short while, but I think I can have a
prototype ready for content by Christmas.
Andrew
On 13 Dec 2005, at 01:23, david wrote:
You're probably right.
It was a waste of my time anyway.
Project abandoned.
--- Andrew Collier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 10 Dec 2005, at 19:31, david wrote:
(Blah - sounds like a load of excuses doesnt it?
Happens to be true, but still sounds like it :()
Anyway - I hope to get something sorted soon ...
No offence, but the way you say that makes me even
more convinced
that I should start doing it myself...
Andrew
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Re: 10th Anniversary!
Colin Piggot schrieb: Well yesterday was a special day the 10th Anniversary of Quazar! Cheer up Colin. Congrats to your anniversary and further 10 years to go. When I read about new games, an old one came to my mind. So I had a look at this: http://www.quazar.clara.net/sam/news2001.htm and found out, there is another anniversary exactly today since this entry: 4 1/2 years of development with "Chrome". Is there any chance, to see it finished? Greetings Wolfgang
Re: Sam Coupe Hot-Line
Hello Ian. Rare? At the time these Hot lines exixsts I never had heard about. So it would be a fine thing to give this to the public as a view to the past. If you can do it I would be very pleased and I am sure a lot of other ones are interested in it. If you want I come along to help you to sort the tons of your stuff out ;-) Wolfgang Ian Spencer schrieb: Colin included a recording from one weeks news on the latest Sam Revival CD. Are these recording really rare? I'm sure I have almost all of the Hot line recording on tape somewhere ? Is it worth me trying to find them in amongst my several tons of junk. or do they already exist somewhere in the Sam world? Ian
Re: Some newer emulator needed [Re: Let's discuss ZX Spectrum games]
Hi Aley. I sent it you off list :-) Wolfgang Aley Keprt wrote: - Original Message - From: Wolfgang Haller [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, January 09, 2005 12:50 PM Use Martijn Groens emulator for 48K ones, it works with TAP, Z80, and PLUS D format. I set a manual to the community list, but I can send this as PDF to anyone who is interested. Where can I get this emulator (and manual)? Are there any other emulators which natively support TAP/TZX and/or Z80/SNA files? (Besides my one.) I mean natively, i.e. without any conversion. /--- Aley
Re: Spectrum on Sam games at NVG
We had a good talk about it and everyboday can have a look at http://www.mail-archive.com/sam-users%40nvg.ntnu.no/ Theme: Let's discuss ZX Spectrum games Wolfgang Gavin Smith wrote: This is probably a good time to ask people's opinions on including Speccy games that have been made to run on a SAM, on samcoupe.org - my opinion is that they are still Speccy games and they should initially be left out. What do others think? Gavin Quoting Aley Keprt [EMAIL PROTECTED]: There is "Explosion" emulator at NVG (it does Spectrum on Sam). There are also lots of games for this emulator. Does anybody checked that there aren't any of the Codemsters, US Gold, Ultimate and other explicitly forbidden titles? -- Mgr.(MSc.) Ale Keprt (also known as Aley) [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** www.keprt.cz *** ICQ: 82357182 Dept. of Computer Science, VB Technical University Ostrava, CZ - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - www.cs.vsb.cz --
Re: Format Vol 10 No 10 [1-32].pdf sample pdf issue
Is it because of my Reader vs 6 or generell? There are some faults in the listing on page 13. However, a very well done job, Steve. Wolfgang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, Format Vol 10 No 10 [1-32].pdf sample pdf issue has been upload to ftp://ftp.nvg.ntnu.no/pub/sam-coupe/ Frode will move it to the Docs as its in the incoming at the moment I think. The [1-32] = number of pages. best to get A-Reader version 7 to read it, you can search the text, copy paste. Some of the headings are as a graphic scan . The new software I have been testing looks at its up to the job So What do you think? Do you want more? Steve(spt)
Re: Let's discuss ZX Spectrum games
I've implemented a quick test version that does a temporary disk image switch when attempting to boot from a non-bootable disk. It loads only DOS from the switched disk, returning to the original disk for the AUTO* file search (if required). In the options you just specify the path of the disk image or .SBT file containing DOS. Does that fit your requirements? Excellent. Excellent!!! It might even be nice if SimCoupe had a built-in DOS image so the option could be enabled by default, to help out new users... Good Idea and I think it would nice for experienced users too. That would be fine for all sorts of users. Keep us in touch! Wolfgang
Re: Let's discuss ZX Spectrum games
Edwin Blink wrote: I think that in the real world a DOS is on each disk (or at least 98% or so). Most of them probably But I rember a lot of disks by individuals that didn't, to save on those precious 10K I am such an individual, because I use a harddisk and with it autoboot ROM. So each Record 10K more for programs.. :-) Having 32KB ROM full of rarely used stuff instead of DOS is one of the biggest mistakes of Sam designers. Don't forget that SAM was (technically) lauched as a Tape machine. But if they put a a compressed basic (and maybe a dos) into the ROM and it was just there to unpack it to RAM and execute it then things could have been a lot easier for MGT then they didn't need to send out all those rom packets and maybe didn't need to call in the recievers. Hmmm I thought the lack of diskdrives in the beginning was because they werent available at this time? I never had loaded from tapes with the real SAM. But I like the TAP format for Spectrum emulators as for multiload programs it contains all you need in a very small size. Another advantage is less entries in the directory if it would be for the SAM. I think that booting from a virtual disk would be very good. Wow, who will implement it? :-) Maybe if we ask Simon nicely. He will ;-) Hello Simon. I would ask you nicely if you see a chance to create such a virtual disk. And I think I am not the only one Edwin Wolfgang
Re: Comet-ASCII
Hi Edwin. Thanx for that hint. I got it now. Clever utility from you!! :-) Wolfgang Edwin Blink wrote: For those who downloaded it already, make sure it is version 1.1 otherwise download it again to get the proper version. http://home.wanadoo.nl/edwin.blink/samcoupe/software/comet/comcon.zip Edwin
Re: Let's discuss ZX Spectrum games
Aley Keprt wrote: Here is a fast copy of my 128K list for the SAM: 128K + Muliloader Emulation __ Record 5000: 128K Soft A Action Fighter ? Action Force 2 ? Altered Beast ? APB ? Arkanoid 2 ? Army Moves ? Atom Ant ? Auf Wiedersehen Monty ? Amageddon Record 5001: 128K Soft A2 Amaurote ? Ancient Fighters Record 5010: 128K Soft B Barbarian ? Batman ? Bionic Command ? Blastroids ? Bloodwych ? Boulder Dash ? Bubble Bobble ? Buggy Boy ? Battle for Midway Record 5020: 128K Soft C Cabal ? California Games ? Chase HQ ? CJ Elephant Antics ? Continental Circus ? Captain Blood Record 5021: 128K Soft C2 Captain Dynamo ? Combat School ? Commando ? Crack Down! ? Cybernoid ? Captain Fizz ? Chubby Cristle Record 5030: 128K Soft D Daley Thompsons Olympic ? Dizzy - Down the rapids ? Dizzy and the Yolkfolk ? Dragon Ninja ? Dragon Spirit ? Dan Dare 3 ? Dynasty Wars Record 5031: 128K Soft D2 Deathstalker ? Dizzy 2 (Dizzy On Treasure Island) ? Dizzy 3 (Fantasy World Dizzy) ? Dominator ? Dizzy 4 (Magicland Dizzy) Record 5040: 128K Soft E Enduro Race ? E-Motion ? Escape from Singe´s Castle ? Exolon Record 5050: 128K Soft F Fairlight ? Football Director 2 ? Foxx fights back ? Frightmare ? Fast Food ? Finders Keeper ? Future Knight ? Fire Record 5060: 128K Soft G Gauntlet 2 ? Ghostbusters 2 ? Ghosts´ n´Goblins ? Golden Axe ? Guerilla War Record 5070: 128K Soft H Head Over Heels ? Highsteel ? Hostages ? Hudson Hawk ? Hammerboy 1 ? Hammerboy 2 ? Hero Quest Record 5080: 128K Soft I Ice Palace ? Indiana Jones 3 ? Impossamole ? IK+ ? Iron Lord ? Ironman Record 5090: 128K Soft J Jaws Record 5100: 128K Soft K Kendo ? Killed to Death ? Knight Thyme Record 5110: 128K Soft L Laser Squad ? Led Storm ? Licence to Kill ? Light Corridor ? Line Of Fire ? Logic ? Logo ? Lords of Chaos Record 5111: 128K Soft L2 Loderunner Record 5120: 128K Soft M Magic Moon pt.1 ? Magic Moon pt.2 ? Magic Moon pt.3 ? Marauder ? Mask I ? Mean Streaker ? Midnight Resistence ? Mystical Record 5121: 128K Soft M2 Motos ? Myth ? Monaco Grand Prix ? Monte Carlo Record 5130: 128K Soft N Never Ending Story ? New Zealand Story ? Nightbreed ? North South ? Netherworld Record 5140: 128K Soft O Operation Thunderbold ? Operation Wolf ? Outrun ? Overlander Record 5150: 128K Soft P Pacmania ? Pang ? Platoon ? Plotting ? Psycho Pigs ? Powerdrift ? Puznic Record 5170: 128K Soft R Rainbow Islands ? Rambo 3 ? Rastan ? Rex 1 ? Rex 2 ? Rick Dangerous 2 ? Ruff´n´Reddy Record 5171: 128K Soft R2 Robocop ? Robocop 2 ? Run the Gauntlet ? R-Type ? Return of the Witch Lord Record 5180: 128K Soft S Shinobi ? Short Circuit ? Skull Crossbone ? Spy 007 ? Saint Dragon Record 5181: 128K Soft S2 Steg ? Strider ? Stunt Car Race ? Super Cars ? Super Hang On ? San Monaco Grand Prix ? Switchblade ? Savage Record 5182: 128K Soft S3 Stromlord 2 ? Spellbound ? Sim City ? Stormbringer ? Saboteur 2 ? Shadow of the Beast ? Silent Shadow ? Silkworm Record 5183: 128K Soft S4 Space Harrier 2 ? Super Scramble Record 5190: 128K Soft T Target! Renegade ? Technocop ? Tetris 2 ? The Tube ? Thundercat ? Time Scanner ? Toobin ? Turtles ? Typhoon Record 5191: 128K Soft T2 Twinz! ? Tiger Road ? Tetris ? Thunderbird 1 ? Thunderbird 2 ? Thunderbird 3 ? Thunderbird 4 ? Turbo Boat Simulator ? Turtles 2 ? Terminator 2 ? Towdie Record 5192: 128K Soft T3 Turrican Record 5200: 128K Soft U UN Squadron Record 5210: 128K Soft V Viz - The Game Record 5220: 128K Soft W Wec Le Mans ? Wonderboy 2 Record 5230: 128K Soft X X-Out ? Xenon Record 5240: 128K Soft Z Zub __ So what do you think: Are games converted from ZX Spectrum worthy? I mean should they be counted as Sam Coupe games, or not? I think this list answers your question positive. I assume we can skip regular ZX Spectrum 48k games which can be loaded (if we have got some luck :-) into a regular emulator. As I remember, I made a TAP file based emulator back in 1994, and I am sure many other good emulators do exist, which can load files from ftp.worldofspectrum.org without any conversions. Use Martijn Groens emulator for 48K ones, it works with TAP, Z80, and PLUS D format. I set a manual to the community list, but I can send this as PDF to anyone who is interested. But what about - large games with multi-loading levels converted from tape to Sam disk see above - AY music converted to Sam Coupe Philips SAA chip I got a lot of too. - 128k-only games converted to Sam - nonworking games fixed to work on Sam I think these games can be counted, since you simply can't load a tape/snapshot file into an emulator and play it without any changes. I personally made several conversions back in 1992-93, and I am sure other people did as well. So we could possibly build up a nice Spectrum on Sam game database. :-) Here´s a start I found 12 diskettes full of ZX Spectrum 128k and/or multi-load games converted to Sam. I
Re: for sale
D.L. is back [EMAIL PROTECTED] = David[EMAIL PROTECTED] Good offer - I saw it at Norwich... hookares wrote: Compact SAM In a Can for sale for details - see recent issues of sam revival - includes: - Quazar surround soundcard - Quazar Sampler - Quazar Sid Interface - Quazar Keyboard interface - Floppy - Compact Flash Interface (128Mb included) Recently ammended to include full expansion port also includes various issues of the excellent SR magazine and assorted sam software will post full list in the next few days when i get chance to sort all this out I'm interested in any reasonable offer. Postage outside of the UK needs to include carriage. thanks in advance
Re: Happy New Year !!!
Happy New Year to all SAM users here too and specially to you Edwin. That was a fine New Year surprise! Thanx.. Wolfgang Edwin Blink wrote: Happy New Year to all. http://home.wanadoo.nl/edwin.blink/samcoupe/diskimages/ironman.zip Enjoy Edwin
Re: samcoupe.org update
Hi all outside. I used FTP explorer vs 1.00 (by FTPx Corp.) for upload. Profil name: SAMCoupe users (or what you want) Host adress: ftp.samcoupe.org Port: 21 Login: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Passwort: (none, not necessary) Initial path: / Attempts: 1 (or as much you like) Download path: ftp.samcoupe.org And that´s all... Happy uploading. Wo
Re: Format returns
WorldOfSpectrum gaining permission from our old friend Bob Brenchley to scan and distribute Formats! Personally I like scans more than pdf. Other magazines on wos are scans also. But It's nice to have them available to the public in any form. Personally I prefer PDF as what it is, a "portable document format" for PC, Apple computers and as far as I know Amiga and Atari too. It includes pictures and fonts and can be used independent to the sort of computer and compresses the file size. The best thing is, you can make printable booklets with it (as ZXF), so when the new website stands I would like to add "manuals" (as PDF files) of B-DOS 1.7n, Comet assembler 1.3 and the instruction for Spectrum emulator 3.3. Maybe more to come... Wolfgang
Re: SAM Software Archive
Gavin Smith wrote: I know of a few people with a CD drive connected - Wolfgang, you have this setup don't you? I haven't tried it, but from what I understand, it's possible to bung a CD containing .dsks into a drive connected to a SAM - it's then possible to write the .dsk to an Atom connected HD or CF card. I thought that was rather nice and I'd like to keep that going if possible. If possible, though, I'd like us to use one format and one method of compression. Would it therefore be easier to make everything .sdf in the first place and work on tools to work with these files? Gavin Hi! Yes, I have my SAM connected with harddisk(s) and a CD-ROM. What you need is: The Atom interface A CD containing DSK-files!!! B-DOS, best from version 1.5a on The commad line: COPY*.dsk TO (DEVICE 2) RECORD LABEL The asterix is important for CD access (like DIR*). Device can be 2 oder 3 (if available). Don´t forget the command LABEL at the end! Otherwise it could lock your Record. This all works without problems. The DSK files are the most used ones. Using an emulator it is also possible to read this filetype if it is in a ZIPped one. To the name voting: First I prefered samcommunity.org, but a community is a connection of persons, who have ALL the same interest. I can´t see this community. So I prefer worldofsam.org as it comes nearest to the things that are planned. Wolfgang PS: To write the word Unsubscribe to this adress does not mean, that you have really unsubscribed ;-)
Re: SAM software archive
Gavin Smith wrote: Definitely, although I'd like to sort of integrate the stuff into the archive in terms of listing it with details such as author name, publisher, year and also screenshots - where there would normally be a download link, it will just say something like Distribution Currently Denied. Gavin That would be the best. Good idea. I will wait and see what happens and then sort out programs I can send you. Wolfgang
Re: Dare to share (was re: Days of Sorcery)
Hi Gavin. I full agree with you and all those, who are thinking in the same way. And I offer you my help, as I can send you a list of my collected SAM stuff of more than thousands programs of all sort I collected in many years (worldwide) to show what was programmed for the SAM. If you want, please tell me and I make you a PDF file of the list. And the programs aren´t rotten as I have put them to a PC harddisk as dsk-files in the way I told before. Why aren´t we able to follow the INDEPENDENT Spectrum szene Where also new games and programs are created and published for free!!! To keep the Spectrum (szene) alive! So come on - do it! It gives a lot of SAM users on the continental side the possibility to see programs, they never knew they exist and they never knew where to get them from. And long live SAM! Wolfgang Gavin Smith wrote: However, I do take your point that floppy disks have a limited lifespan, so we should try to make sure that everything is imaged and catalogued. Perhaps we could maintain a list of what images exist - not necessarily to release the images right now, but to make sure that everything will still be available, as and when we can agree on what is the right thing to do with it. It's 2004, how many more years are we going to talk about it? :) My suggestion was that we have a consultation period (bit of a fancy term when referring to SAM software!) of about 4 weeks for each and every bit of software before we post the image online. If we can get the author's written permission in that time, great. If we can think of a reason not to post the image (or indeed if the author refuses permission), then obviously we don't. Isn't that the lesser of two evils? One evil is to let the stuff rot away (we're the last few remaining who give a stuff about the SAM remember so let's not lose perspective), lost forever - the other evil is to go to reasonable lengths to gain permission, and failing that we post images that we think aren't too controversial. I really think it's the most sensible of the two. I'll have something on the net before the weekend is out and we can debate it - it will give us something to talk about at least ;) Gavin
Re: ORSAM show report
Is it true that the SAM colours red - blue - white reperesents the colours of the english flag? PS: I have also a black footed SAM. Whats the reason for the black feets? Wolfgang (back to SAM related things) ;-) Colin Piggot wrote: BLUE RUBBER FEET!!! are you awake now? And don't forget the rarer black feet! ;) Colin = Quazar : Hardware, Software, Spares and Repairs for the Sam Coupe Website: http://www.samcoupe.com/ and http://www.quazar.clara.net/sam/ Issue Ten of "Sam Revival" Magazine Out Now
Re: SAM to PC
Possibily you read about this in the SPC magazine 177/178 page 26. But also we have talked about in Norwich. There are two ways to transfer SAM harddisk records (floppy disk = Record 0!) to a PC as DSK-files. What you need: 1) Edwin Blinks B-Link cable (very rare) or a SAM Comms-IF (much more around) 2) A PC with Hyperterminal program (standard) 3) A program for the SAM to start transfers. This was also done by Edwin Blink, so if you are interested, ask him. Copies can be made as single records as well as "pakets". The advantage: You can create a whole copy from your SAM harddisk to a PC, getting directly SAM dsk-files. So you have a proper backup in case of a SAM harddisk crash. Maybe Edwin will work on the other way round PC - SAM back. But I dont know. However: You can burn a CD with the whole stuff and use the B-DOS commands to bring them back to SAM in the usual way. If you can use a harddisk with your SAM you also can have a CD ROM with it. The command is: COPY* "x.dsk" to DEVICE (number) RECORD (number) LABEL Cheers, Wolfgang david wrote: Acftually while I think about it - I read something somewhere about a SAM to PC interface... does anyone know anything about this? regards david
Re: ORSAM show report
"Theatrical drama" seems to be the right word for this all. Be sure: I never did anything wrong and I know Mr. Bennett for years as a honest and friendly person. I suppose the "idiot" goes to Mr. Winkless, not to me This here reminds me at Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hide. I wonder what will come next? Wolfgang Frans van Egmond wrote: Leonard Bennett wrote: Somehow I was expecting some idiot wouldcome up with this... Why then did you post your statement here the way you did? You make it sound like it wasn't your free choice to put Wolfgang up and pay for his expenses... Ofcourse I may have missed something in previous posts so feel free to elaborate... Frans [EMAIL PROTECTED]: For the hard of reading among us... erm... huh? Sorry, I'm watching this whole theatrical drama unfold, and I just don't get it. Can I get some crib-notes? - Original Message - From: Geoff Winkless To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no Sent: Tuesday, November 16, 2004 11:33 AM Subject: RE: ORSAM show report What do you want, a medal? G From: Leonard Bennett [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 15 November 2004 11:08 To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no Subject: Re: ORSAM show report I would just like to point out here that Wolfgang was staying with me as my house guest here at Welwyn Garden City from Thursday 4th to Tuesday 9th. All his expenses were paid by me, even the taxi fares from and to Stansted, and the train/bus fares to Norwich. Doesn't seem so astounding now, does it David S-S! Len Bennett __ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email __
Re: ORSAM show report
These is one of the days I dont like. You are in a good mood and then
such a mail comes in, I was fully unprepared.
I dont want make a big thing of it, I wrote him personally. But a bit
for my reputation may be allowed: Mr. Bennett sent me a taxi, because
he couldnt come himself as usually by hurting knees. He also forgot to
mention, that I would always give him money, but he had not accept.
Mr. Bennett was also often our guest here in Cologne (for meetings in
Holland). I think that is nuff said.
And by the way: I have put my pictures from Orsam to my website. GO TO:
www.womoteam.de/SAM/
and choose "Norwich Pics 2004".
I hope you enjoy. And please, please: If you find anything wrong in my
small texts or you identify persons which name I dont know, please
correct me (also via usersgroup off course).
Best wishes
Wolfgang
Leonard Bennett wrote:
I would just like to point out here
that Wolfgang was staying with me as my house guest here at Welwyn
Garden City from Thursday 4th to Tuesday 9th. All his expenses were
paid by me, even the taxi fares from and to Stansted, and the train/bus
fares to Norwich.
Doesn't seem so astounding now, does
it David S-S!
Len Bennett
-
Original Message -
From:
Wolfgang
Haller
To:
sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no
Sent:
Wednesday, November 10, 2004 10:41 AM
Subject:
Re: ORSAM show report
Hi to all...
Beeing back in Cologne since last night, coming from the warm
temperatures in england into the snow here :-(
Found a lot of mails, also this and I ask, whats the problem? I was
coming by car (my girl brought me to the plane), by plane, by taxi, by
train (with three times changing), by bus (in Norwich) and at last by
feet.. :-)
But alright, flying is wonderful and it needed me not longer from
Cologne to Ldn-Stansted as about one hour ;-) Think, I will do it again
next ORSAM show, as I enjoyed it very much (except that my camera has
broken).
Wolfgang
david wrote:
--- David Suzuki-Sanders [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Crikey - where were you travelling from?
The arse end of Bolton - 5 hrs in the train
Definately worth flying next time - 55mins in the plane
Re: ORSAM show report
Hi to all... Beeing back in Cologne since last night, coming from the warm temperatures in england into the snow here :-( Found a lot of mails, also this and I ask, whats the problem? I was coming by car (my girl brought me to the plane), by plane, by taxi, by train (with three times changing), by bus (in Norwich) and at last by feet.. :-) But alright, flying is wonderful and it needed me not longer from Cologne to Ldn-Stansted as about one hour ;-) Think, I will do it again next ORSAM show, as I enjoyed it very much (except that my camera has broken). Wolfgang david wrote: --- David Suzuki-Sanders [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Crikey - where were you travelling from? The arse end of Bolton - 5 hrs in the train Definately worth flying next time - 55mins in the plane
Re: So what's everyone up to?
It´s okay, I got it too, but dated from 08. September 2004. Wo Slitscan wrote: Hey all, Anyone else getting this mailing list with the dates listed as 31/12/1969 or is it just my mail account going beserk? David -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Versteeg, Benjamin Sent: 08 September 2004 07:52 To: 'sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no' Subject: RE: So what's everyone up to? Ok,ok, I can't keep my mouth shut... I just bought a house, have paid off all my depts, live cheaper now. And because everyone seem to have told something about his relation: my wife and me have been married almost 2 years :) Only during the last move (the last 4 weeks) we have been very moody to eachother... But I'm sure that will pass on... I think erm it will, will it ? :-) We're going to Austria next week, taking our skiing stuff with us, to try out the gletsjers.. Also we're thinking of kids somewhere in the next two years.. Ben -Oorspronkelijk bericht- Van: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Frans van Egmond Verzonden: dinsdag 7 september 2004 5:28 Aan: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no Onderwerp: Re: So what's everyone up to? Well, since you asked ;-) My girlfriend and I have been together for a year today and last friday I bought the company I worked for for the past 3 years and now I have to pay off debts for the next 3 to 5 years. I'm now Director and cameraman and I have 2 more cameracrews mostly for Dutch TV-news... All in all for me a very exciting time... My Sam's gathering dust but I do have my Spectrum with MB02 hooked up! I'm sorry for all you guys being laid off, I almost feel guilty for doing rather well... Anybody else doing all right? Frans This message is confidential and may be privileged. Any review, retransmission, dissemination or other use of, or taking any action with reference to this information by persons other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you received this message in error, please notify the sender by reply e-mail and delete this message from all computers. Please note that e-mails are susceptible to change. The sender will not accept liability for the improper or incomplete transmission of the information contained in this message.
Re: Terminal Question,CF update, Bunnik
Hi David. All dates for "continental meetings" you can see at: http://www.womoteam.de/Clubtreffen/Termine/termine.html or in english: http://www.womoteam.de/english/Meetings/Termine/termine.html Ok. we hardly work on a proper english version, but the dates and locations are actual. PS: In our actual magazine ORSAM is mentioned and we will give this date also a mention on our website. PS: Would like to see you (again) Wo DAVID LEDBURY wrote: --- Wolfgang Haller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Edwin. Ill be there and as far as I know Roelof Koning and Johan Koelman too. I think, it will be the usual people. Sounds interesting. :-) Till 11. Wolfgang Damn! Short notice - I was hoping to go to the next one :( Is there anything coming up later in the year, at least 6 weeks notice needed for me :(
Re: Terminal Question,CF update, Bunnik
Hi Edwin. I´ll be there and as far as I know Roelof Koning and Johan Koelman too. I think, it will be the usual people. Sounds interesting. :-) Till 11. Wolfgang Edwin Blink wrote: I was wondering if anyone has written a working terminal program with X/Y/Z modemsupport for SAM Cause I was thinking of writing a small utility that uses YMODEM to transfere all the records on my HD to PC using commsinterface and/or midi-(lightpen)link. CF Project: Will use plain IO rather than MEM IO after I found out that XMEM overrules ROM1 and the rom interrupt routine crashes when XMEM is switched in. I like the interrupts enabled when doing CFy things. So instead of using /MREQ,/XMEM for decoding it will use /DISC2,A2 so it can sit along with the atom :) SAM meeting in Bunnik on September 11th: I'll go .Who else ? Edwin
Re: Sam Lives - Maybe
Sooner or later were all be back, me too... ;-) Wolfgang Ian Spencer wrote: Just a test as I haven't had anything from the list since the 16th July.. Sams in hibernation, everyones on the beach Ian
Known meetings
DAVID LEDBURY wrote: I dont think we had any notification of this show on the mailing list this time - and I actually was possibly going to be able to make it. Is there any other shows being held in Germany or the Netherlands in the near future? Yes! Here are the dates of the known meetings (not all for Spectrum and SAM only) here: 19. Juni 2004, 10-16 Uhr Retro Game and Computer party in Trefpunt, Kerkweg 21 te Maarssen, Nederlande. Info: http://commodore-gg.hobby.nl/agenda.htm This meeting is a Commodore Retro meeting with Spectrum guests (maybe). 10./11. Juli 2004 Z-Fest 2004. CP/M and 8-Bitter-Meeting in Fuldabrück-Knickhagen (D). Infos: http://www.Z-Fest.de With Dirk Berghoefer and me two SAM in a can are expected 11. September 2004, 10-16 Uhr Spectrum Sam Treffen Bunnik/NL. Map: http://www.hobby.nl/~sinclair-gg/duits/bunnik-map-dui.htm A must (!!) for all Spectrum and SAM users. 18./19. September 2004 Spectrum (and SAM) meeting in Wittenberg near Berlin. Normally I am there with my SAM. 2. Oktober 2004 2. common meeting of SPC and Joyce User-AG in Ittenbach near Koenigswinter (about 25 km from Cologne City). The SPC is part of this meeting, so Spectrum, SAM and emulators will be here and everyboday can have a look at the Joyce, another Z80 based computer. That´s what is known yet. But I have a question: Is there a rumour about another meeting in Norwich or anywhere in England this year again? Bye Wolfgang
Re: Known meetings
Thanky Colin. Is Tarquin on the list and can probably tell us more? Hey Tarquin, where are you However, if this date comes true, I think, the next trip to England has to be planned Wolfgang :-) Colin Piggot wrote: From: "Wolfgang Haller" Thats what is known yet. But I have a question: Is there a rumour about another meeting in Norwich or anywhere in England this year again? I believe the next ORSAM show in Norwich is provisionally booked for Saturday, 6th November. Colin Quazar : Hardware, Software, Spares and Repairs for the Sam Coupe Website: http://www.quazar.clara.net/sam/ Issue Nine of "Sam Revival" Magazine Out Soon
Re: Known meetings
Hi Benjamin. Youre welcome to any show in Germany :-) - and as a reguar Holland visitor I know, that Eindhoven is not so far away from Cologne ;-) "Wat denk je nu???" I agree with your wish for more "outland" visitors". But we all know the prices for petrol at the moment (will maybe more expensive in the future), which will make also flights much more expensive and not only car driving. I think, this is one of our biggest problems (as I heard from some people). And for your website: The bristish visitor was Len Bennett, nicknamed as Ben or "Big Ben". So we have two Ben or one Ben and one Benjamin ;-) And yes: SAM (and Speccy) rulez!! Wolfgang Versteeg, Benjamin wrote: It would be great to have more visitors from the outlands! I even asked my wife what she would think of me taking the trip with me to the far German meetings... Her anwser: 'wat denk je zelf...' :) Oh sorry, shy told me in a friendly way that I have to make the trip myself :) But, I think I like to visit another show myself. And by the way, my opinion still stays: 'retro computing will relive', so there are gonna be more visitors in the near future! Regars, Ben -Oorspronkelijk bericht- Van: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Verzonden: dinsdag 1 juni 2004 8:12 Aan: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no Onderwerp: Known meetings DAVID LEDBURY wrote: I dont think we had any notification of this show on the mailing list this time - and I actually was possibly going to be able to make it. Is there any other shows being held in Germany or the Netherlands in the near future? Yes! Here are the dates of the known meetings (not all for Spectrum and SAM only) here: This message is confidential and may be privileged. Any review, retransmission, dissemination or other use of, or taking any action with reference to this information by persons other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you received this message in error, please notify the sender by reply e-mail and delete this message from all computers. Please note that e-mails are susceptible to change. The sender will not accept liability for the improper or incomplete transmission of the information contained in this message.
;-)
Edwin Blink wrote: Erm who do yout think has brought this fine short circuit to the Quazar by soldering? It must have been the soldering iron. I'm pretty sure of it. ;-)) Your Lifetime(short lifespan?) warranty is certainly void. Smile but no "mis"-reaction or any other reaction by Colin about this. Give me enough tin and I solder everything :-) If that doesn't work you can always get the Russian Kuazar right. ? I'm looking forward to that article in your magazine :-) I will not force this, and as a fine side effect David Ledbury wants to become a regular reader of the SPC mag (too). I answered him about the conditions :-) Lets wait and see. Edwin PS: Dont wonder about my reply to samusersgroup (still not here). I can joke with myself without problems I can joke too ! Love to see collins Face ! I think he waits as he is also a SPC mag reader.. Also I believe he is thinking about what is ment :-)) Edwin Stephan was here yesterday and aw the CF reader. Now he wants himself one. He told me, he will write to you for a device, so be prepared ;-) Best wishes Wolfgang
Re: Sam Coupe diagrams
!!! I saw this: Worldwide news! Did you know Wolfgang can't solder ??? He's learning at the moment of this picture :) Erm who do yout think has brought this fine short circuit to the Quazar by soldering? Maybe it was me ;- Give me enough tin and I solder everything :-) And yes - I learned a lot these two days at Urmond which means, that such meetings are very important to me (and other ones) Wolfgang Edwin Blink wrote: From: "Simon Owen" [EMAIL PROTECTED] I've just spotted the Urmond pics - some nice SAM shots in there :-) Yes and some very interesting ones too :-). Edwin
Re: Sam Coupe diagrams
Hi Benjamin. Maybe a look at my SAMpage will help you? Direktlink (german version): http://www.womoteam.de/Hardware/SAM_Coupe/SAM-Schaltplane/sam-schaltplane.html (As I see, the english page is not correct linked, shame on me) Wolfgang Versteeg, Benjamin wrote: Hi, I'm looking for the Coupe schematics at the moment. I have them at home, but forgot to take them with me today. Anyone got them and can mail me? Regards, Benjamin Versteeg This message is confidential and may be privileged. Any review, retransmission, dissemination or other use of, or taking any action with reference to this information by persons other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you received this message in error, please notify the sender by reply e-mail and delete this message from all computers. Please note that e-mails are susceptible to change. The sender will not accept liability for the improper or incomplete transmission of the information contained in this message.
Re: A slice of Nostalgia
For all of you Videokids of the 80´s... have a look here. It´s not really from our beloved Speccy, but a brill: http://www.powerstrike.net/Tehkan/mamejump.html Wolfgang PS: I liked this here, but there is many more other good stuff Dan Doore wrote: It's been on CSS but I'd though I'd post it here too. http://www2.b3ta.com/heyhey16k/ Dan.
Re: Announcement - Sam Revival 8 out now!
Fine Colin, I am glad to read this. So I have to think about another themes for the future ;-) Also wait for Adrians continue :-) Wolfgang Colin Piggot wrote: Issue 8 of Sam Revival is out now, and subscribers issues were posted earlier so they should turn up in the next day or two. This issue kicks off with the usual Quazar News, and the Sam Scene Roundup listing news and events from around the Sam world. The first feature article in this issue is 'The Forgotten Artifacts of Sam, which looks back at some of the hardware and software that has been released for the Sam over the years but was never well known about - in this issue we take a look at the Voicebox from Blue Alpha Electronics which was briefly on sale from 1990 to 1991. Other articles include the last part of David Ledbury's walkthrough of Manic Miner, taking a look at the last four levels in each section, as well his closing words with some more anecdotes from the time the game was developed. And lastly Wolfgang Haller finishes off his History of B-DOS series, looking at the more modern versions of the hard drive DOS. This issue of Sam Revival costs £2 (or 3.75 euros for international readers, including airmail postage). And my usual offer still applies, if you haven't tried Sam Revival yet then you can get the latest issue at the discounted price of £1.50 (3 euros for international readers). I still have copied left of the sample issue of Sam Revival I put together, which has a handful of pages from issues 1-6. This is available totally free of charge - for a copy just email me directly with your postal address. On the website you will also find a segment from this issue's editorial, outlining the expansion of Sam Revival which starts with issue 9 - which is due to be released at the end of May All the best, Colin Quazar : Hardware, Software, Spares and Repairs for the Sam Coupe Website: http://www.quazar.clara.net/sam/ Issue Eight of Sam Revival Magazine Out Now !
Happy Easter.
Happy Easter days to all on the list. Wolfgang
Re: :-)
Hi Frans!? Not sure if it is really your mail. My virus scanner has detected a virus in the attachment (MsgInfo.zip, Netscape). So I left my hands off Wolfgang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Looking forward for a response :P ..btw, 31556 is a password for archive
Re: Atom Poll
Edwin Blink wrote: How many of you : -Do have a Atom ? Yes, internal (in use) and external. If you have a atom -What do you hook up to it ? As master device: 8 GB (Gigabyte) Seagate Medalist 8641 As slave device: Quantum Fireball 1,8 GB or switchable a LG CD-ROM. And yes: Emulating one with SimCoupé 0.90beta10. Please let me know off-list. Why - everybody may know. And for your statistic Edwin: I know for sure of 3 german Atom-IF users (except me), maybe one more and one who uses Nev Youngs IF. Thanks Edwin
Re: Atom Poll
Edwin Blink wrote: Please let me know off-list. Why - everybody may know. Well I didn't want to flood the list with poll result. But it turns out interresting though. You better had ask: Who USES an Atom-IF? To own and to use makes a difference. If almost every one has a atom and uses CF with it already. There will be not much use for another 'atom-less' dual CF interface or CF/PCMCIA to IDE adapter would there (other then me having fun with it) ? You should declare it to all of those who don´t know, what you are thinking about Edwin Hope you got a lot of answers off-list. Wo
Re: SAM Web Browser
To see what can be done show here on MSX pages: http://uzix.sourceforge.net/uzix1.0/index.php?page=scrshtlang=us If someone is interested in Spectrum TCP/IP networking routines, I can send what I have for version 1.00 by (c) 1998 Juraj Rehak, Glip, (c) 1998 Lubos Janica, Lubko and (c) 1998 Milan Pikula. (640 KB unzipped). Wolfgang Jorge Meireles wrote: Hello, I found this site http://www.dunkels.com/adam/contiki/ and I'm wonder when a web browser and tcp/ip stack I the old SAM ;) It seems that Commodore 64 already have one :( Regards, Meireles
18 Rated Poker.dsk
Hi there. While you are talking about bad running diskimages: Who set 18 Rated Poker.dsk to the net. Also something which is not working. Wo
{Spam?} Re: SAM Disk images, ROMS and help please!!
Johnna wrote: Just been tidying up the garage. Hi Johnna. I know those days Oh no! Found a big box stuffed full of original SAM disks, and being the soft sod I am, I don't want to bin them. So I'm thinking of spending this weekend turnign them into Roms, and throwing them onto a DVDr. Nice idea ;-) However, I'm not going to do them all, if there are already versions of them done. For example, I know that somewhere there are the FRED's. I've got a load of SAM Supplement here, have they been done? Yes. All 59 of them. But not all are in the list of the link named below. And what is the software reccomended for doing these now? How do I turn a SAM diskette into a ROM file? There are two ways. Under DOS you need SAMdisk, under Windows 98 and depending on the speed of your PC you can use Edwin Blinks Diskimage Manager, option Load under SAM disk. After loading you can save the loaded .dsk file anywhere to your harddisk. Basically, I'm after links, and lots of them please! And then the rest of what I've got that's not already been done, I can spend time getting onto my machine. You can check the ROMs that are availalble via: ftp://ftp.nvg.unit.no/pub/sam-coupe/GoodSAMC Any help would be appreciated. Thanks. Hope this helps - and nice to hear from you after long time ago. Wolfgang __ Johnna Teare e: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Mork Bobs on B3ta
Great. Only 5 frames with 5 superb choosen colors each are used. So I couldn´t resist to make a real SAM working version. Wolfgang Will McGugan wrote: http://www.willmcgugan.com/bobs.htm -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Dan Doore Sent: 13 January 2004 18:18 To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no Subject: Mork Bobs on B3ta I couldn't resist making it into an animated GIF: http://www.b3ta.com/board/2620641 Dan.
Re: Gah!
Hi Gavin (and some others) What a pity. If you had been at Norwich meeting you could have a new SAM for 50 GBP. Now you have to wait for another chance ;-) Wolfgang Gavin Smith wrote: Maybe I won't sell it. Only problem is, my top floor, 1 bedroom flat is already far too small to accommodate the 3 computers, 4 games consoles and extensive AV equipment inventory (including ginormous LD player). It certainly can't fit in another one with a TV hanging off the back. Emulation just isn't the same, though. Hi Andrew, I made the mistake, late last year, of selling my beloved SAM. The thought of an easy 100 quid was tempting and I thought I didn't have room for it. It wasn't long before I realised I messed up - my SAM now sits somewhere in Spain, and I miss it *sniff* Don't do it, you'll regret it deeply! Gavin
Re: junk
Hi Aley. No problem. And a Merry Christmas for you too (soon). Wolfgang Aley Keprt wrote: Sorry for this junk e-mail, I just needed to send it to let me configure the server-side spam filter correctly. --/ Aley btw. Merry Christmas to everyone! :-)
Re: email addr
Hi Edwin. Your wish was my order ;-) I hope I hadn´t rumbled your income folder but nice to hear from you again. Bye Wolfgang Edwin Blink wrote: Deinstalling PowerDVD can be dangerous. It killed my personal folder which contained all my stuff including my email and addressbook. For those who mailed me in the last couple of weeks can you send me your email address (or a copy of the email message) again ? Edwin
Re: Norwich Spectrum and SAM Show (ORSAM 2003)
Beeing back home since Tuesday night I now had the time to put also some pics from Norwich party to the net. Commented with some lines in my unique english you will find them here: http://www.womoteam.de/SAM/Norwich_Pics_2003/norwich_pics_2003.html To sort out where all thie pretty pics are, here in short (hope I am right): Geoff Winkless: http://geoff.dj/sam/ Nev Young: http://www.nfy53.demon.co.uk/sam2003/ and Tarquin Mills: http://homepage.ntlworld.com/speccyverse/pics/showpics.htm If there will be more please let me know. For me it was an interesting meeting. Sadly I noticed to have miss some personal connections as with Mr. Richardson and Geoff Winkless. If I have them on any pic then please tell me. Let´s look forward to the next meeting in 2004 (if any). Wo
Re: Sam Coupe presense at MicroMart Computer Fair - 30th November
MY GOD! Well I´m a world round traveller !? See you there, Robert! ;-) But first is Norwich :-) Bye, Wo Robert van der Veeke wrote: - Original Message - From: Colin Piggot [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2003 10:17 AM Subject: Sam Coupe presense at MicroMart Computer Fair - 30th November This looks a bit like our HCC-dagen overhere in the Netherlands, the HCC-Sinclair users will be again showing their stuff at these HCC-dagen. We don't have be trading in computers and such to participate at this show :) Enjoy the show i should say, these big shows are fun Info (Dutch) can be found at http://www.hccdagen.nl/ http://www5.hccnet.nl/hccdagen2003/index.html http://www5.hccnet.nl/hccdagen2003/standhouders.cfm?id=333 Our own stand, mind you contact information has been screwed up. (Wich reminds me to call HCC-organisation next monday for the internet-facilities at the stand.) Robert van der Veeke Currently listening to: Noriko Sakai - Twin Best Yukari: Crap! He's German! --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.530 / Virus Database: 325 - Release Date: 22/10/2003
Re: Norwich Show
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all, Thanks to those who replied to my last posting. How many members of this group will be going to the Norwich show in November? Hi. Can only speak for myself. I will be there (hopefully - I fly...) I've been converting 3 weeks in paradise to the sam which i'd like to have a working demo for the show as this was one of my favourite games on the speccy, how many other people writing games out there ? Whow! I am very curious. Like that game... (128K Speccy version was brill) I reckon everyone should send in what games they would like to see being written on the old faithfull then as a collective individuals could go ahead and write them, i would be happy to write more if i knew what people wanted. There are some: Rodland for example, one of my favourite games on Speccy or Where times stood still. I also like pure self running 128K Speccy conversions on SAM. Andy (Taff) Greetz Wolfgang
Re: ROM Disassembly
Hi there. I am in contact with Simon Goodwin and have news. This is an extract from one of his last mails, where I asked him to to ask Andy Wright to make Masterdos free available: You asked me to check the legal status of MasterDOS with Andy, so I did: *** Forwarded message, originally from Andrew J A Wright at 17/09/03 *** Hi Si, ... MasterDOS binaries can be freely distributed. Not sure where the MasterBasic source is - I gave you a disc of something, but what was it? ... Why not get the same with ROM 3.0? However, I am in hold of the SAM COUPE ROM 3.0 SOURCE CODE, Copyright Andrew J.A. Wright 1989-90. But I know Wolfgang FvE wrote: How about making it downloadable until permission is denied? Unless ofcourse someone could talk to Andy Wright and ask him... Frans
Re: ROM Disassembly
Re: ROM Disassembly
Sorry Geoff Geoff Winkles Your message had made me curious, so I looked through the issues. I found out, isnt wasnt you, because you are the "wrong" Geoff ;-) In issue 4, page 11 of SAM community mag it was another Geoff... Geoff Bridges. Sorry for this. Wolfgang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 03 October 2003 12:27, Wolfgang Haller wrote: I guess, it could have been Geoff Winkles. He once gave a tip in one of the early SAM community mags. However - I never managed to get it work :-( Naah, wasn't me, sorry. At least, I don't -think- it was... I don't ever remember using Masterbasic :( Geoff This email has been scanned for all viruses by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information on a proactive email security service working around the clock, around the globe, visit http://www.messagelabs.com
Re: What's Up
Always believed in your come back :-) Does it mean to see you also in Bunnik next meeting again? Would be great! And greetings to R.K. ;-) Wolfgang Edwin Blink wrote: Hi everybody I just signed up again on the mailing list cause I'll be going to fool around with my SAM again and I don't want to miss all the fun. I actually forgot the existence of this list completely (sorry-guys!). But Robert reminded me of it (Thanks Robert). As a first step to get back to get SAMming again I finally got around making a new power supply for my SAM yesterday and now is its ready to Rock n' Roll again. I heard quite some exciting things people are working on and was wondering if there is some kind of recent archive of this list to get up to date if there is any. Edwin Blink
Re: Bunnik reaults
Hi again. If you have SAM Interface one (which can be connected with the ZXPC interface) you have to add 13 cm wide and 11,5 cm deep from front to back and 4,5 cm high (I held in it my hand few moments ago). It´s right: The ZX interface is made in a cassette box and the SAM ones in a cigar box. This was because to make it as cheap as possible. For those who wants to convert measures: 1 inch = 2,54 cm. SAM interface two (the direct one): I have no measures and the only one who had it (prototype!) is Stephan. I think the measures are in the same size as above, it looks af if it was the same cigar box ;-) However, both can get changed as Stephan told when will be fitted outside the box. In case of interface one where you need both (SAM and Spectrum) I suppose it is possible to get both in one box when put one to each other (someone who did a SAM in a case should have no problem with it). Robert, you need not to scan them. I have pics of all versions done with my digital camera at my home and on several meetings, and I will send it to those who are interested and to whom I have promised to do. And there are some. Seems as if this message did a rumble in the SAM scene ;-) - But if you scan it, I am interested in a picture It´s right, the development came from Johan Koelman who will become a daddy next month (my best wishes, I remember myself at sleepless nights and changing diapers...). I think about to set the theme next week to my webside and tell when it is ready. Robert again: Will see you at the HCC days on Saturday 29th November. As I told you yesterday I am not very satisfy with the manual of SAMpaint... and my plan is to supplement it with pictures (which sometimes says more than words). A bit much of things in mind yet, but to keep it with Yukari: Crap! He´s a german :-) All SAMmers a good start into the next week Wolfgang Robert van der Veeke wrote: - Original Message - From: David To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no Sent: Sunday, September 21, 2003 9:20 PM Subject: Re: Bunnik reaults That is pretty small - (about 2 inches) - It sounds pretty exciting indeed - and is something i may want myself... space willing --- The PC-ZX interface fits inside a cassette box with only the connectors and a switch stickin out (about 11 cm wide, and 10 cm from front to back and from feet to switch it is 3.5 cm high. The Sam-Spectrum Bus is slightly larger (the models i saw on saturday where fitted inside cigarboxes :) I hope to scan it tomorrow at my work (don't laugh, this usually works well with objects that aren't to deep in size, and i have done it before with other pcb's). I have a PC-ZX interface at home, wich i am going to show at the HCC-dagen and i will have leaflets ready to hand out on the HCC-dagen on how to order or to obtain information , normally Johan Koelman would do that himself, but around that time, at the end of november he will have become a daddy, so he then has his mind on other things (like crying babies at night, changing diapers and such :) -- Robert van der Veeke Currently listening to: Perfect Rouge - Samply Red Yukari: Crap! He's German! --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.518 / Virus Database: 316 - Release Date: 11-9-2003
Re: Bunnik reaults
Hello Colin. Off course I like to do, but first I have to write it... Is SAM Revival issue 6 out now? I miss it... Best wishes Wolfgang (later more) Colin Piggot wrote: A report of the Bunnik meeting with pictures of the IFs will be in the SPC magazin (off course) and if Colin wants also in SR. Please do pass it on to me Wolfgang :) Colin Quazar : Hardware, Software, Spares and Repairs for the Sam Coupe Website: http://www.quazar.clara.net/sam/ Issue Six of "Sam Revival" Magazine Out in 7 Days!
Bunnik reaults
Hello SAMmers. As I told, yesterday was Bunnik meeting, and as I also commented, a new SAM interface was shown. To be honest: two. The first can be connected only between SAM and PC. The aim is to transfer programs from and to a PC harddisk. Thats the point, Nomad (Stephan) comes in. Stephan presented yesterday a 5 MB 16 colour reduced PC Mpg file running at the SAM from a harddisk (hey presto, a Record has 800K in size... ;-) The reason for Quazar access is now to get the most of the sound which was running with the video file. Stephan will also write the necessary transfer files and he hopes to have them ready to the SPC/Joyce meeting on October 4th, near Cologne. British readers will notice, that there are a lot of meetings on the "continental" side The other interface makes use of a one to one connection to the Spectrum bus. With it you can do the same as above, but you have to add the SpectrumPC interface described in a lot of the SPC Magazines (WoMo mag, yes its mine! Since 1990!). A fine side effect is, that you can use a Kempston Joystick interface at the bus which works fine, we have tested it yesterday while playing "Raid over Moscow". Also Currah Microspeech is in my imagination and has to be tested. It´s amazing Maybe good news too. Martijn Groen works (again) on a Windows orientatded desktop for the SAM and Robert van der Veeke will do the grafic. In one of Gavins first SAM Community mags I first have written about, but know it seems to keep on. To David: Yes, I come to Norwich meeting However, I will bring my main harddisk and the interfaces with me, but not my SAM or a Laptop (to be honest, I have not a Laptop...). So if I can use anybodies SAM and/or Laptop there I will show whats going on. A report of the Bunnik meeting with pictures of the IFs will be in the SPC magazin (off course) and if Colin wants also in SR. The "WoMo" mag is bi-lingual (german with english short description or vice versa), the SAM sides are always in english. If interest mail me for a free mag and all informations about SPC and price of the magazines: [EMAIL PROTECTED] So, that s my plot (I am in hurry, so please excuse errors in english). Have a nice day Wolfgang (Leader Spectrum SAM Profi Club Cologne and Editor) David wrote: Has somebody a good comet snippet how to access a Quazar for playing digitized sound. I would like to support the Quazar in my soon-completed application which will be capable of playing digitized music (aka samples ;) . Great! An new piece of software is always welcomed! BTW - any one know how to subscribe to the WoMo mag? And is much of it in English? I do not own a Quazar and Simcoupe does currently not support the Quazar add-on (Simon?). But I should easily add Quazar support if somebody (perhaps Colin?) would send me a small Comet file. Colins a helpful chap - I'm sure he'll help you!
Re: FA: SAM Coupe, lots of software and extras
Gavin Smith wrote: Never did I think I would do this but finally I had to - financial concerns and lack of space are the reasons. I sold a lot of my SAM collection a couple of months back - here's the rest of it, including the computer itself. I'm sure most of you own SAMs and would have no interest, but thought I'd post it anyway. Very sad to see it go, but I'm sure I'll own a SAM of some type again some day... http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=3048239020 I'll still be on the mailing list... Gavin Should this mean goodbye Gavin from the SAM scene? Hardly to believe As you supposed, I have no interest in your offer, as I own - like FvE - three SAMs which should be enough and my main one is very special. I am not sure about Frans interest in SAM computers (he is mostly the first when it goes for bed), as he isn´t known in the dutch/german SAM scene. An invitation by myself in the past to him to a Bunnik Spectrum SAM meeting (as tomorrow we have) was never replied.I will have an eye to your auction Sad to read this Wolfgang (the german SAM maniac)
Re: SAM Coupe, lots of software and extras
Sorry, no time to answer exactly to this as Im off now to Bunnik meeting (230 km from Cologne)... However, the way to transfer files from PCSAM is still in work, the interface is ready and can be seen today in Bunnik/NL ;-) The rest is up to the software. More later to this Thanks FvE for your answer, but how can I get you to Bunnik one day? SAM users should stand together :-) Wo David wrote: - Original Message - From: "FvE" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no Sent: Saturday, September 20, 2003 12:41 AM Subject: Re: FA: SAM Coupe, lots of software and extras Sams are among those. I also have Atoms and a Flashcard interface, so fooling around with them is part of my interest. And they're very useful too! I'm still hoping some clever person will work on a way of transfering files from PC to SAM via CF :)
Some technical questions
Hello to all Technican Teds... Does anybody know how IORQL, RDL, WRL reacts at the SAM? At the Spectrum it will set to 0 if active. Should it be 1 at the SAM if active, then this signals would be inverted with an Invertor. And as it looks, they are set to 1 instead 0 at the Spectrum. Excuse for my bad technical english, but I hope, specialists will know what I mean. Any idea? Or a source for looking at the Internet? |-+--| | IORQL (1C) | Input/output Request becomes active when the address bus| | | contains a current port address from the processor. | |-+--| | MREQL (2C) | Memory Request becomes active when the address bus| | | contains a current memory address front the processor. | |-+--| |-+--| | RDL (2A}| Read signal from the processor. | |-+--| | WRL (3A}| Write signal from the processor. | |-+--| Thank for help in advance. Wolfgang
SAM supplement issue 59
Hi guyz... Is there anybody who has an issue 59 of the SAM supplements? It came to me that this issue was edited, but I have only issues 1-58. And I would like to have them all complete. If there should be a .dsk of it I would be pleased if you can send it directly to me: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks so far. Wolfgang
Re: SAM supplement issue 59
Aditional information: Ian Spencer told me, that there was an issue 59, but labelled as issue 58 by an mistake. So there should have been two issues SAM Suppplement 58 with direffent content. Hope this will help. Greetz Wo Wolfgang Haller wrote: Hi guyz... Is there anybody who has an issue 59 of the SAM supplements? It came to me that this issue was edited, but I have only issues 1-58. And I would like to have them all complete. If there should be a .dsk of it I would be pleased if you can send it directly to me: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks so far. Wolfgang
Re: Announcement - Sam Revival 5 out now!
Hi to all here! I am still waiting for the new mag - alas, I live in ´Germany where post last longer However, I am now using now a CD-ROM which is an LG one (not better mentioned) and reads 52-times speed. A perfect one, as it makes no problem when booting the SAM again. To Adrian: Do it! And wait for my next article which declares, how to use SAM and CD-ROM to emulate Spectrum programs or run MOD files. Also you can run normal music CDs with your SAM. Have a good night. Wolfgang Adrian Brown wrote: And it arrived ;) After reading Wolfgang Haller's article I feel the urge to get a cdrom drive for my Sam :D -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Colin Piggot Sent: 30 June 2003 21:04 To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no Subject: Announcement - Sam Revival 5 out now! After a long wait I can now say issue 5 of Sam Revival is now out! Inside this issue Adrian Brown carries on his large machine code column, returning to his disk handling routines and giving them a big overhaul before patching them into the game level editor from the previous issue. David Ledbury continues his trip down memory lane with the next installment of the Manic Miner walkthrough, and Wolfgang Haller returns with an article about using B-DOS and a CD-ROM drive. Add in the usual news, hints and tips and the 'Sam Snippets' of trivia and it shapes up into another fine issue. Subscribers issues were posted this morning, so should start arriving with you tommorrow. Sam Revival is released bi-monthly, and costs £2 per issue (or 3.75 euro for international readers). Subscriptions are available for £5 for three issues. (10 euros internationally). To order any, or to subscribe, or indeed to answer any questions then please email me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] I am now aiming to get issue six out by the end of July. This is shaping up to be quite a bumper issue, as in the mad rush to get issue 5 out I had to leave out one article from this issue that I just didn't have time to finish. I am also hoping for several articles from some new contributors too who've been in touch with a few ideas they've had for articles. All the best, Colin Piggot Quazar : Hardware, Software, Spares and Repairs for the Sam Website: http://www.quazar.clara.net/sam/ Issue Five of Sam Revival Magazine Out Now !
Re: Preferred plain text editor
Hideho Gavin. Don´t fall in tears! Have a look at Fred issue 8, there is a Notepad by Dan Brice. A better Notepad by Calvin Allett can be found on Fred 36. A so called painful rudymentary wordprocessor is on Fred 5, called Processor and comes from McDonald/McConell. So have a try. Wolfgang Gavin Smith schrieb: Simple question - I need a decent plain text editor on the SAM. Lean and neat, but nice to use (i.e. not vi ;) Is there one out there? Will it keep up with my typing? (120wpm...) Gavin
Re: Preferred plain text editor
Hmmm... I never used them, I prefer PCW DTP Program (Spectrum via SAM). I am not sure, but is poking the Keyboard repeat vars a solution to become faster? Wo Tobermory schrieb: I remember these being painfully slow, both of them. I 'only' type at 45-50 wpm and they both missed loads of letter out. Wolfgang Haller said: Hideho Gavin. Don´t fall in tears! Have a look at Fred issue 8, there is a Notepad by Dan Brice. A better Notepad by Calvin Allett can be found on Fred 36. A so called painful rudymentary wordprocessor is on Fred 5, called Processor and comes from McDonald/McConell. So have a try. Wolfgang Gavin Smith schrieb: Simple question - I need a decent plain text editor on the SAM. Lean and neat, but nice to use (i.e. not vi ;) Is there one out there? Will it keep up with my typing? (120wpm...) Gavin --- http://www.cookingcircle.co.uk - Staying in http://www.evilheartedme.co.uk - Going out ---
Re: PS2 Keyboard Interface
Hi Colin. Thats not your fault or problem. This for all in the list Sorry, I have answered to Robert via samusersgroup, and this was definitive my fault! (I made pics from the soldering and promised him to send them, so this should be my excuse for not doing it fast :-) I will state the post problem to you tomorow in detail. Sorry Wolfgang Colin Piggot schrieb: Wolfgang wrote: Sniff - my keyboard IF hasn´t still reached me. [EMAIL PROTECTED] post. That's a bit of a pain - 2 weeks ago that was posted to you, at least it was insured! I'll e-mail you directly just now off the list. Colin Quazar : Hardware, Software, Spares and Repairs for the Sam Website: http://www.quazar.clara.net/sam/ Issue Three of Sam Revival Magazine Out Now !
Re: PS2 Keyboard Interface
Hi Robert. Sorry - the photos I did yesterday at Bunnik will soon be sent to you. However, we was today at a birthday, so I had not the time as we were just a few minutes at home. Also I will send you the other pics as promised. I will zip them and send you in several parts. Sniff - my keyboard IF hasn´t still reached me. [EMAIL PROTECTED] post. Solong Wolfgang Robert van der Veeke schrieb: Finally installed, it works perfectly. Now you can use a keyboard on your lap, sit back and relax while playing with a real Sam. I must say 54 pounds is a lot of money but i now can say that it is money well spend. To Collin Piggot, i don't have the photo's yet of the thing fitted and we did not install exactly as you described in the manual. The nine-pens connector has been soldered directly to the underside of the PCB instead as described on the top, leaving room for the keyboard membrame if you still want to use that. The PS2-connector is still outside the Sam, but since i don't use the seccond drive i am going to fit that on the frontside where normally drive 2 would be located. Robert van der Veeke Currently listening to: Haibane Renmei - OST Clear the area! An idiot's gonna take a chance! -Seiya Uribatake --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.449 / Virus Database: 251 - Release Date: 27-1-2003
Re: E-Tunes
Try this: http://www.podboy.demon.co.uk/coupe/fred/ and download Fred issue 34. Hope, this is what you ment. - Wolfgang Andrew Collier schrieb: On Tuesday 21 Jan 2003 5:31 pm, Graham Goring wrote: Do the compressed e-tunes still contain all the data necessary to reconstruct the original big 80K files? Stefan Drissen wrote a decompressor which did exactly that. It was on some issue of Fred. And is the file format of those big files known at all? As I recall, he wrote a short article about the file format, which appeared in the same issue. Andrew -- --- Andrew Collier http://www.intensity.org.uk/ --- -- r2+ T4* cSEL dMS hEn/CBBL A4 S+*++ C$++L/mP W- a-- Vh+seT+ (Cantab) 1.1.4
Re: Evil black-footed Sams
Yeah - one of my SAMs is also black footed, and I thought, it was an unique one ;-) Wolfgang Stuart Brady schrieb: On Sun, Jan 19, 2003 at 01:19:41PM -, Colin Piggot wrote: I dont even care if its an evil black footed - or a blue footed - one! Now now ... my main Sam is black footed (and grey keyboard'ed) and it's certainly not evil or is it ;) Huh? When were these made?! Why? Was anything else different? Don't tell me that I'm being really stupid and that this is just a SAM Elite or something. :) (I thought that was just a Coupe with a few bits sawn off.) -- Stuart Brady
Re: Moment of truth
Hi Adrian. A very good idea this poll Adrian Brown schrieb: Lets run a little poll. Can people fill in the following and reply 1) Do you have an actual Sam Coupe: 2 SAM Coupe (one for replacement parts), one Elite 2) Does it work? With harddisk(s) and CD-ROM better than any PC :-) 3) Do you still use it? At the moment daily. And if I work on PC, I hear CDs or MOD files via SAM. 4) How many bits of sam software have you got? Masses. PD and Originals. I am a collector. 5) Do you still actively seek new sam bits and pieces? Off course... 6) Would you buy a new game for the sam coupe if the price was right? I will and I do, if there are any. As games on Soundbytes, for example. 7) What price would be right if you would? Depends on the software. 8) Would you develop a title for the sam still? Yes, but ONLY as PD. The SAM is my hobby, I am an enthusiast. And however - I am not a good programmer and less a grafic artist. 9) Would you help develop a title for the sam? Why not? I still dream about to create a game after the boardgame Risk (if this is known in Britain). 10) Do you think that all the work put in to keep the sam alive is a waste of time? Never! It´s waste of time, NOT to support the SAM. And we could reach more, if there were more software stuff for the SAM (in any price class and quality). A computer stands and falls with the ability to get software! 11) if yes to 10 then why? Maybe because of the endless thinking about how to make money with the wasted time Just curious :D As mentioned, a good idea to ask! Wolfgang Spectrum and SAM Profi Club Cologne
Re: (no subject)
Hi Andrew. I guess you will not receive too much answers here. A lot of people are inhome programers, always thinking, their programs weren´t good enough. I did a lot of (unreleased) Spectrum conversions (PD programs in Basic), but also own works such board- and cardgames (mostly for myself). But maybe I will set siome german stuff next time at my website ;-) Solong Wolfgang www.womoteam.de/SAM (I know, I know, it´s a bit ago since last update...) [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: Thanks to those who helped me out with FLASH How many of you have written games for the SAM ? Taff
Re: SAAemu 0.70 released
Hi Aley. Great Deal! I have tried it out and it works perfect in DOS mode under Windows 98. I have spent your new program some lines in my actual mag. Thanks Wolfgang Aley Keprt schrieb: I've released SamPlay SAAemu 0.70. It is a new version of Sam music player for Windows. It can play music files from Sam games and demos, similarly to the previous versions. The new version comes because of several problems in the previous one, especially concerned to Windows NT/2000/XP. What's new: Nothing special, the bugs are fixed, so the the sound quality is now 200% better. You can go here: http://www.keprt.cz/progs/ or here: http://www.keprt.cz/sam/saa/ --- Mgr.(MSc.) Ale¹ Keprt (also known as Aley) [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** http://www.keprt.cz *** ICQ: 82357182 ---
Who knows a SVAR for me?
Hi out there. If the SAM is not used for about 18 minutes, the SAM goes to a blank screen. This must be handled by a system variable. Does anybody know, which SVAR does handle it? Greetz Wo
Thank you :-)))))))
Hello guys ;-) Thank you for your very fast replies! I am working on a simple menu-driven mouse-steered program (Hi Colin. This is because of your mouse interface which makes me very happy!) for my two harddisks or harddisk/CD-ROM. I thought it would be a nice idea to have something like a simple screensaver in it. Your informations are surely very useful for me. Have a good night. Wo
Re: 3 KASIM
Yes - HE`s alive! Greets Stefan? And: Better dutch mails then turkish ones ;-) Wo Robert van der Veeke schrieb: - Original Message - From: Stefan Drissen [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no Sent: Monday, October 21, 2002 10:45 AM Subject: RE: 3 KASIM Its alive, its alive Hi Stefan, long time no see Robert van der Veeke Currently listening to: Medal of Honor - Frontline
Re: Petek Dinçöz
Hmmm Surprise, surprise, maybe a turkish SAMantha? But be careful, clicking on the pic will possibiliy install a dialer! Wo coderip schrieb:
Re: Anyone using CP/M
Hello Andy. It´s a bit ago... However. Make contact to Jarek Adamski, he is a very active CP/M user but he uses his own ZXVGS system. This for Spectrum and SAM. I think, you will not find any better adress ;-) Mailto: Jarek Adamski [EMAIL PROTECTED] Greetz Wolfgang Andy Davis schrieb: Hi all, I'm writing an article on CP/M for the next issue of my Sinclair mag. AlchNews and wondered if there was anyone out there who'd used or is still using CP/M on the SAM? Thanks Andy
Re: ASCD 0.96
Hi Aley. Am I blind? If I use your adress above, I reach your website. Then I choose english version, then home of SIM Coupe. Last update 24.3.2001. Also in Czech version. What do I wrong?? Greetings Wolfgang Aley Keprt schrieb: ASCD 0.96 source binary distribution http://www.keprt.cz What's new (quite incomplete list): --- 0.96 - september 2002 * Public release of version 0.95 (see notes below). * WWW and e-mail addresses changed to www.keprt.cz and [EMAIL PROTECTED] 0.95 - november 2001 * This version has never been publicly released (neither binaries nor sources). * Fixed F6-F7 chaos (who did write this? - a hobgoblin in the source files?) * version jumped to 0.95, because 0.91 thinks 0.92-0.94 are AIR 1B compliant * Fixed a problem with ugly color pattern in 640x480 mode. It was caused by gcc's -O3 optimisations (gcc thought this is a good optimisation technique). I don't actually know what did I wrong, but I added a simple push-pop pair to the assembler code to let gcc do its optimisations. I would never tracked this bug down without knowing the assembler, because I had to compare the compiled code with how I wanted it to find what was wrong - the C compiler optimized my code by throwing away one command! Note: There are now altogether 8 lines of assembler in ASCD! ;-) * AY and SAA sources compared to the newest Mame 0.56. There are no changes in the parts which are utilised by ASCD, so we stay at Mame 0.37 beta 16. Note: Si Owen fixed floppy drive emulation, but this information is unfortunately missing in whatsnew file. Thank you Simon! --- Mgr.(MSc.) Ale¹ Keprt (also known as Aley) - student, programmer e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** http://www.keprt.cz *** ICQ: 82357182 ---
Re: ASCD 0.96
Thanx Simon ...but I am still surprised Wolfgang Simon Owen schrieb: Wolfgang Haller wrote: Am I blind? If I use your adress above, I reach your website. Then I choose english version, then home of SIM Coupe. Try: http://www.keprt.cz/progs/#sam (On the download page with the SAM boot screen, I went for Download Page 2 - wasn't obvious to me either!) Si
Re: Sam Revival Subs (was Re: Sam floppy)
Hi Colin. Can we people outside UK send you money in Euro??? This would make things much easier. Best wishes Wo Colin Piggot schrieb: I'm also interested in your magazine, do you have an idea about shipping costs to italy? I've just worked out how much postage would be for EU countries - more than I expected, so I've had to add on about 50p or so for EU subbers for Sam Revival to cover the extra postage. UK: Issue 1 - £1.50 special offer Issue 2 onwards - £2.00 or 3 Issue subscription - £5.00 EU: Issue 1 - 3 euro special offer (£1.90) Issue 2 onwards - 3.75 euro (£2.38) or 3 Issue subscription - 10 euro (£6.36) On a similar note, I had put on my website a fair few months ago, that for hardware to overseas there would be an extra charge of about £3 if you want quicker insured airmail delivery instead of normal airmail. One bad experience of the German postal service ended up costing me £12 to get a mouse interface to a customer there. Colin Quazar : Hardware, Software, Spares and Repairs for the Sam Website: http://www.quazar.clara.net/sam/
Re: Announcement 2 (of 2) - PC Keyboard Interface launched
Hi Colin. I guess it wasn´t ment bad with the price, my first thought was in the same direction. Of course I see the lot of work in it and I think about to buy one for myself. But you should know, that 53,99 Pound are about 86 Euro which is a lot here on the continent. It can be compared, as when english people went to Sweden to buy alcohol (which is for German and Dutchs also very expensiv in England and Sweden too). The money has different values. Hope you understand what I mean. I am impressed about SAM Revival magazin. In the beginning of Gavins paperzine I wrote him, he can take any articles about the SAM released in my Spectrum/SAM paperzine. The same I say to you (and if you do, then correct my english please). Also I am sure, you are the right man to do it :-) Congrats - you have a new subscriber :-))) Greetz Wolfgang PS: Greetz to Robert. Are you in Bunnik at September? Colin Piggot schrieb: - Original Message - From: Robert van der Veeke [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no Sent: Wednesday, August 07, 2002 11:29 AM Subject: Re: Announcement 2 (of 2) - PC Keyboard Interface launched The PC Keyboard Interface is available now priced £53.99. Mmm a bit pricy, but yesss.. Ah the first quibble at the price was waiting for one ! Not wanting to sound rude, but they are not cheap to make (and it wasn't cheap to develop either in both cost and time) and as I have said before on this list I do not put on a great deal of mark-up on the cost of hardware. Colin Quazar : Hardware, Software, Spares and Repairs for the Sam Website: http://www.quazar.clara.net/sam/
Re: SimCoupé/Win32 beta 4
I think it would be possible to have a big disk like on a PC and then create and use some Records as folders to keep the compability to floppy based programs. This problem is partly solved on a CD created by Martijn Greon i.e. creating Basic files as code. Wo Simon Owen schrieb: Luke Trevorrow wrote: Why does BDOS work on a floppy by floppy basis? It'll be for compatability with existing software. Most BASIC programs will work fine - even those that use READ/WRITE AT, since the disks look the same at a sector level. Machine code apps using the standard hook codes would probably be ok (which rules out most games and lower-level disk utilities). Is it some limitation with the SAM Coupe that stops you from having one big disk like on a PC? Perhaps just that you have to write your own DOS from scratch, and lose a certain amount of compatability with existing apps? Si
Re: SimCoupé on Linux
Hello Simon. I saw this new version by Stephan Haller running under Linux. It looks great. So my question: The version for download under the adresses given below couldn´t get unzipped under Windows (98). Is there a similar version for Windows. I would like to be a willing volunteer to try out for Windows ;-) Greetz Wolfgang (Haller) Simon Owen schrieb: Hi all, Are there (m)any Linux users on this list using SimCoupé? I'm looking for willing volunteers to try out the latest version before the next official release. New to the Linux version are the GUI, sound, direct floppy access (regular format, for now), improved frame sync, and the other timing enhancements Dave and I finished off late last year. Probably lots of other bits and pieces I can't remember at the moment too, as I've not done the ChangeLog yet. MIDI OUT using /dev/midi has been added, but is completely untested as I don't own any devices - feedback on whether that works at all would be appreciated! The sources also build for BeOS - binaries are available on request, and will also be supplied as part of the next release. Linux PPC is also known to work, which should mean it's ok for MacOS too, if it's not too slow (Andrew?). The experimental OpenGL support (through SDL) runs fine for me under Win32 and Linux (using nVidia drivers), though I've heard the Linux PPC version didn't display correctly. This might be down to an endian issue so OpenGL under MacOS might not display correctly either at this time. The source archives you'll need are: http://www.simcoupe.org/SimCoupe-0.90-beta4.tar.bz2 http://www.simcoupe.org/SAASound-3.1.2.tar.bz2 (thanks to Dave Hooper for permission to release the port of SAASound) Please e-mail any comments, questions, problems, etc. to me off the list - thanks! Si
Re: SCADS
Hmm... my live with the Spectrum and its programs is much easier... but thank you for the hint, it could be a way of course. Its a strange world: The Spectrum is a "small" machine with big supply, the SAM is a big machine with Wolfgang BTW: Did anybody know about a SAM Basic Compiler? Or plans that it would be done? Peter Harkess schrieb: Another way around it is to get all the games made using SCADS and see if you can trace the authors.One game that i know of is Escape and the author is Luke Falla,the game is on Fred disc 73 but i couldn`t find anything on the guy but it`s another way to trace a manual.Regards Newflesh
Re: Sam Coupe Emulator
Hello everybody. Follow Chris tip and ask about the authors, their living place or mailadress of the programs SCADS (INCLUDING MANUAL!!!) and AMALTHEA. Thank to everybody who will answer. Wolfgang Haller Chris White schrieb: Try the Author as 90% of copyrighted sam stuff has by know returned to the author -- Sig On -- Ppps. I know i can't spell and all my grammer is wrong , so there's no need to point it out :) -- Sig Off -- -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Wolfgang Haller Sent: 11 May 2002 21:40 To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no Subject: Re: Sam Coupe Emulator YAWN!!! Always the same Instead of writing boring mails I wish to hear from you, where to get Software for the SAM in its original (except Colin Piggots one). I think about SCADS (which I am looking now for two years about) and "AMALTHEA". Come on guys, tell me where to get AND I WILL BUY IT!!! Wolfgang Haller (Spectrum and SAM Profi Club Cologne) BT Internet schrieb: Ebay auction site has the following lot on offer Sam Coupe Emulator CD 558 Games Utils Item # 1351912307 The link is: http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=1351912307 Description CD comprising over 500 games and utils, A windows based sam coupe emulator, Disk transfer utils, demos. Also incuuded Game cover scans and instructions. The list goes on. Postage to UK only 1.00 Payment by Paypal and Nochex. Could anyone let me know if it is o.k. for me to bid on. i.e. Is there any copyrighted software/games on the above cd. Thanks Raymond
Re: Sam Coupe Emulator
YAWN!!! Always the same Instead of writing boring mails I wish to hear from you, where to get Software for the SAM in its original (except Colin Piggots one). I think about SCADS (which I am looking now for two years about) and "AMALTHEA". Come on guys, tell me where to get AND I WILL BUY IT!!! Wolfgang Haller (Spectrum and SAM Profi Club Cologne) BT Internet schrieb: Ebay auction site has the following lot on offer Sam Coupe Emulator CD 558 Games Utils Item # 1351912307 The link is: http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=1351912307 Description CD comprising over 500 games and utils, A windows based sam coupe emulator, Disk transfer utils, demos. Also incuuded Game cover scans and instructions. The list goes on. Postage to UK only 1.00 Payment by Paypal and Nochex. Could anyone let me know if it is o.k. for me to bid on. i.e. Is there any copyrighted software/games on the above cd. Thanks Raymond
Re: Copyrights and ownership
Still headache from the past??? Fred Bloggs schrieb: Well I'm saying nothing. From: Thomas Harte [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no Subject: Copyrights and ownership Date: Thu, 2 May 2002 16:17:16 +0200 I was on this list ages ago, and have returned because I am informed it is the best place to find out about the current status of copyright on many SAM products. I stopped using my SAM in 92 or 93, so excuse me if my knowledge of available software isn't quite up to date. Anyway, I notice that many commercial titles are now available on the SAM FTP site, but that several are not. Is this representative of which titles are now free for distribution? Talking about specifics, what is the status of the SAMCo newdisks? I have all five, but my issues 2 and 3 have been beset by bad sectors (just a couple of articles affected on the March disc, but Frebrurary loses the menu program), so I'd like to find new copies, and could upload the other three if its just that no-one else has. I also have at least one game I have managed to transfer which is not on the ftp site - Vegetable Vacation (its awful), and one which refuses to transfer due to more sector errors - Futureball/SAM Strikes Out. What is the status of these? Also, how on earth do I use etx files? I forget what I downloaded that was in this form - probably 'The Wild Bunch' - but I'm at a loss. -Thomas __ Free Email - http://www.lycos.co.uk/service/lycosmail/ The funniest email attachments on the web - http://viral.lycos.co.uk _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp.
Re: SAM Disks from PC
Hello Frans. I guess you like a copy of "Moslo". You find it as attachment. It was very helpful when I started to make copies of my SAM harddisk records via disk to dsk. Then I made a copy of all on CD for the case, my harddisk makes a break. Fortunately my SAM works almost better than any PC I had. ;-) Hope you enjoy it. Grettings Wolfgang Frans van Egmond schrieb: I'd like a copy of that too, please! Frans Wolfgang Haller wrote: Hi George. As I have had the same problem as you, my problem was, that my PC was too fast (500 Mhz) for using SAMdisk. I solved that problem with a little DOS program called "Moslo", which reduces the speed of the PC CPU. You have also to start the moslo program and samdisk under "DOS". Moslo and SAMdisk must be in one folder. If your computer is also very fast and you will try "Moslo", then write to me personally and I send you this useful program as attachment in my answer under your adress. This is, because writing under the newsgroup adress often let us send an attachment as answer also to this. BTW: Which programs are you looking for? For all: The working syntax by me is: moslo/n50 samdisk.exe Greetz to Greece Wolfgang/SPC Gernmany George Kourvaras schrieb: Hi all I need to format 3.5'' disks to use with my SAM. Formating them on my SAM, they fail on my PC using Samdsk utility (only 1 out of 10 passes through). Is there a tool to format them on my PC and transfer the image, using the same disk drive? Thanks in advance Voyager Moslo.com Description: application/unknown-content-type-comfile
Re: SAM Disks from PC
Wharg - shit! I used the answer method and sent it to here. Sorry guys - however, the program can be very useful. Shame and blame to me Wolfgang Wolfgang Haller schrieb: Hello Frans. I guess you like a copy of "Moslo". You find it as attachment. It was very helpful when I started to make copies of my SAM harddisk records via disk to dsk. Then I made a copy of all on CD for the case, my harddisk makes a break. Fortunately my SAM works almost better than any PC I had. ;-) Hope you enjoy it. Grettings Wolfgang Frans van Egmond schrieb: I'd like a copy of that too, please! Frans Wolfgang Haller wrote: Hi George. As I have had the same problem as you, my problem was, that my PC was too fast (500 Mhz) for using SAMdisk. I solved that problem with a little DOS program called "Moslo", which reduces the speed of the PC CPU. You have also to start the moslo program and samdisk under "DOS". Moslo and SAMdisk must be in one folder. If your computer is also very fast and you will try "Moslo", then write to me personally and I send you this useful program as attachment in my answer under your adress. This is, because writing under the newsgroup adress often let us send an attachment as answer also to this. BTW: Which programs are you looking for? For all: The working syntax by me is: moslo/n50 samdisk.exe Greetz to Greece Wolfgang/SPC Gernmany George Kourvaras schrieb: Hi all I need to format 3.5'' disks to use with my SAM. Formating them on my SAM, they fail on my PC using Samdsk utility (only 1 out of 10 passes through). Is there a tool to format them on my PC and transfer the image, using the same disk drive? Thanks in advance Voyager
Re: SAM Disks from PC
Hi George. As I have had the same problem as you, my problem was, that my PC was too fast (500 Mhz) for using SAMdisk. I solved that problem with a little DOS program called Moslo, which reduces the speed of the PC CPU. You have also to start the moslo program and samdisk under DOS. Moslo and SAMdisk must be in one folder. If your computer is also very fast and you will try Moslo, then write to me personally and I send you this useful program as attachment in my answer under your adress. This is, because writing under the newsgroup adress often let us send an attachment as answer also to this. BTW: Which programs are you looking for? For all: The working syntax by me is: moslo/n50 samdisk.exe Greetz to Greece Wolfgang/SPC Gernmany George Kourvaras schrieb: Hi all I need to format 3.5'' disks to use with my SAM. Formating them on my SAM, they fail on my PC using Samdsk utility (only 1 out of 10 passes through). Is there a tool to format them on my PC and transfer the image, using the same disk drive? Thanks in advance Voyager
SAM-Website updated
Hi again. Just a short note to those who are interested (and this was a lot as I see in my statistics): I have updated my new site and did also some cosmetics ;-) Visit: www.womoteam.de/SAM Any help is still welcome (as any comment). Thanks for telling me, that it has to spelled website instead of webside and for the hint, that the plural of information in english is not informations. I have corrected it to a lot of information (what it really will be!). Solong Wolfgang Haller / SPC Cologne, Germany
New SAM-Webside
Hello SAM friends! Here comes my easter-egg to you in form of a new side concerned to our beloved SAM. After all the senseless discussing here I have decided to do some useful. So visit: www.womoteam.de/SAM Everything underlined in the contend page is ready, the rest (printed in black there) will follow soon. I would like to see your help to make this page to a fine library for SAM users (equal if on the original SAM or on an Emulator). Textfiles and/or pictures are welcome. I think also about a doenload section in the future. I was very unhappy by missing our samcomunity page, maybe I can do better. You can count on me as I am a great SAM lunatic. Comments and criticsm are welcome! Hope you like what you see so far, I think it is time for a new SAM side. Happy Eastern :-))) Wo (Ex Womoteam)
Re: hi
Wayne Weedon schrieb: 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? Hi Wayne (and all other readers here). Best for 2002 after a year full of trouble for me: To answer Waynes question: I am here and I love my SAM who acts with harddrive and CD-ROM. I've recently tried SimCoupe and it's certainly a wonderful emulator. I also see that MESS is also now supporting the Sam Rom. You got right. But SAM as its original is the best! Anyway best wishes for the new year to all.. Wayne Hope to hear from more SAMmers Wo(lfgang) from SPC/Cologne in Germany www.womoteam.de
Re: HCC-dagen (HCC-days)
Robert van der Veeke schrieb: This weekend the HCC-days will be held in the Jaarbeurs in Utrecht, the Netherlands. It´s the biggest computermarkt/show in the Benelux countries. And as always just like the last 20 years the HCC-Sinclair users will have their own stand to show off what they still do with their machines. But what i want to ask, Edwin, Stefan (and maybe other Dutch list readers) are you comming to Utrecht this weekend. Hi Robert. Shit, this weekend is moving weekend for me and I start my new single-life. But I would be pleased to get informations about next Bunnik or Houten meetings If you met Stefan and Edwin then best wishes to them! Especialy Edwin, i have some questions about the Atom, i won´t accept a HD and CD-rom. 2 HD´s or CD-rom (stand-alone with boot from diskette) is fine. I tried it with several HD´s like Western Digital, Maxtor, Quantum and Seagate disks, they work fine, but not with a CD-rom. If you got info, then please write it here to all. I have the same problem: I can have two harddisks or one harddisk and one CD-ROM, but nit two HDs and one CD-ROM. But I guess it is a problem of jumpering the devices. Robert van der Veeke aka RJVgraphics [EMAIL PROTECTED] Currently listening to:Blood the last vampire - OST Sounds cruelty... PS: Would be wondered not to find my mail three times in the mail folder. Greets Wo (still alive!!! And back soon!) For Spectrum users: We have updated new sides: Take a look at www.womoteam.de (also if there is still no more WoMo-Team...) Many people in the world (maybe even 100 or more) don't even know who I am - David Lees sharing his place alongside Bob Brenchley Rocketshite -
