Re: SAM's 20th Birthday
Quoting LCD retr...@gmail.com: da...@properbastard.co.uk schrieb: Quoting Roger Jowett rogerjow...@gmail.com: velesoft reckon they have a spectrum edge connector adapter but ive been to prague twice and they sure as hell aint very friendly - pity the dma and accelerator with 128 kompatiblity might have been useful if they worked - joystick port on a mouse interface - mind you ps2 rollerball mouse support Shame the SAMVOX2 never appeared .. :( 8056 co-processort, DMA audio, and a few other odds and sods if I remember right :( Shame about MIDGET too. Nowdays it woud be shipped with a 3D Processor. :( If only Martin Rookyard and Cookie had more time back then... people didn't know the half of what that system could have been capable of ...
RE: SAM's 20th Birthday
Yeah, but you know, looking back... I think it was a bit of a pipedream. Would have been better to focus on coming up with a new system - or a new ASIC. *sigh* I hate getting older. It makes you much more cynical. -Original Message- From: owner-sam-us...@nvg.ntnu.no [mailto:owner-sam-us...@nvg.ntnu.no] On Behalf Of da...@properbastard.co.uk Sent: Friday, August 07, 2009 1:32 PM To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no; LCD Subject: Re: SAM's 20th Birthday Quoting LCD retr...@gmail.com: da...@properbastard.co.uk schrieb: Quoting Roger Jowett rogerjow...@gmail.com: velesoft reckon they have a spectrum edge connector adapter but ive been to prague twice and they sure as hell aint very friendly - pity the dma and accelerator with 128 kompatiblity might have been useful if they worked - joystick port on a mouse interface - mind you ps2 rollerball mouse support Shame the SAMVOX2 never appeared .. :( 8056 co-processort, DMA audio, and a few other odds and sods if I remember right :( Shame about MIDGET too. Nowdays it woud be shipped with a 3D Processor. :( If only Martin Rookyard and Cookie had more time back then... people didn't know the half of what that system could have been capable of ...
Re: SAM's 20th Birthday
velesoft reckon they have a spectrum edge connector adapter but ive been to prague twice and they sure as hell aint very friendly - pity the dma and accelerator with 128 kompatiblity might have been useful if they worked - joystick port on a mouse interface - mind you ps2 rollerball mouse support 2009/8/5 Wayne Weedon wa...@fdos-design.com Chris Pile wrote: Yep - seems like it was early if it was around December time... Memory isn't too good these days! ;-)) I have a couple of projects I started 10+ years ago, but never finished. It would be nice to complete one of these in time for the SAM's birthday. I've just been made redundant - so I've probably got the time. Now I just need to get the enthusiasm to actually make a start... Oh, and to try and remember how to write Z80 too!!! It's been a while! ;-)) Chris Sorry to hear that! Times are indeed tough for many (inc me) at the moment. I've bitten the bullet and been ebaying my past away! You'll know first hand what a terrible hoarder I am, so it's going to take a while to get rid of it all! Might actually retain the Sam though. Suppose it still works. It's actually stilled packed in it's original box somewhere in the attic. A lot of my prototype interfaces were dumped though and the QL ones too, just didn't see the point in keeping them and probably worthless objects with no remaining documentation. Only one I think I still have is the VTX5000Sam i/f which you altered a version of the Sam Terminal s/w for. Still brings back a few memories! Wayne
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that last email seems to have disapeeared it had a lot of links on it but the threads in gmail are so baffling 2009/8/6 Roger Jowett rogerjow...@gmail.com velesoft reckon they have a spectrum edge connector adapter but ive been to prague twice and they sure as hell aint very friendly - pity the dma and accelerator with 128 kompatiblity might have been useful if they worked - joystick port on a mouse interface - mind you ps2 rollerball mouse support 2009/8/5 Wayne Weedon wa...@fdos-design.com Chris Pile wrote: Yep - seems like it was early if it was around December time... Memory isn't too good these days! ;-)) I have a couple of projects I started 10+ years ago, but never finished. It would be nice to complete one of these in time for the SAM's birthday. I've just been made redundant - so I've probably got the time. Now I just need to get the enthusiasm to actually make a start... Oh, and to try and remember how to write Z80 too!!! It's been a while! ;-)) Chris Sorry to hear that! Times are indeed tough for many (inc me) at the moment. I've bitten the bullet and been ebaying my past away! You'll know first hand what a terrible hoarder I am, so it's going to take a while to get rid of it all! Might actually retain the Sam though. Suppose it still works. It's actually stilled packed in it's original box somewhere in the attic. A lot of my prototype interfaces were dumped though and the QL ones too, just didn't see the point in keeping them and probably worthless objects with no remaining documentation. Only one I think I still have is the VTX5000Sam i/f which you altered a version of the Sam Terminal s/w for. Still brings back a few memories! Wayne
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Quoting Wayne Weedon wa...@fdos-design.com: Chris Pile wrote: Yep - seems like it was early if it was around December time... Memory isn't too good these days! ;-)) I have a couple of projects I started 10+ years ago, but never finished. It would be nice to complete one of these in time for the SAM's birthday. I've just been made redundant - so I've probably got the time. Now I just need to get the enthusiasm to actually make a start... Oh, and to try and remember how to write Z80 too!!! It's been a while! ;-)) Chris I've a copy of the Rodney Zak's book going for a reasonable price soon :)
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Quoting Roger Jowett rogerjow...@gmail.com: velesoft reckon they have a spectrum edge connector adapter but ive been to prague twice and they sure as hell aint very friendly - pity the dma and accelerator with 128 kompatiblity might have been useful if they worked - joystick port on a mouse interface - mind you ps2 rollerball mouse support Shame the SAMVOX2 never appeared .. :( 8056 co-processort, DMA audio, and a few other odds and sods if I remember right :(
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- Original Message - From: da...@p.ard.co.uk I've a copy of the Rodney Zak's book going for a reasonable price soon :) Lol - I've still got a copy of that book lying about somewhere! But I don't think the old memory has gone that far... Yet!! ;-) I think I can still remember how to write Z80... Just!!! Providing I stick to the simple things! :-)) Chris...
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Hmm thikning of it - i think ive got 2 copies of that book here :D -Original Message- From: owner-sam-us...@nvg.ntnu.no [mailto:owner-sam-us...@nvg.ntnu.no] On Behalf Of da...@properbastard.co.uk Sent: 06 August 2009 20:31 To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no; Wayne Weedon Subject: Re: SAM's 20th Birthday Quoting Wayne Weedon wa...@fdos-design.com: Chris Pile wrote: Yep - seems like it was early if it was around December time... Memory isn't too good these days! ;-)) I have a couple of projects I started 10+ years ago, but never finished. It would be nice to complete one of these in time for the SAM's birthday. I've just been made redundant - so I've probably got the time. Now I just need to get the enthusiasm to actually make a start... Oh, and to try and remember how to write Z80 too!!! It's been a while! ;-)) Chris I've a copy of the Rodney Zak's book going for a reasonable price soon :)
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Chris Pile wrote: Yep - seems like it was early if it was around December time... Memory isn't too good these days! ;-)) I have a couple of projects I started 10+ years ago, but never finished. It would be nice to complete one of these in time for the SAM's birthday. I've just been made redundant - so I've probably got the time. Now I just need to get the enthusiasm to actually make a start... Oh, and to try and remember how to write Z80 too!!! It's been a while! ;-)) Chris Sorry to hear that! Times are indeed tough for many (inc me) at the moment. I've bitten the bullet and been ebaying my past away! You'll know first hand what a terrible hoarder I am, so it's going to take a while to get rid of it all! Might actually retain the Sam though. Suppose it still works. It's actually stilled packed in it's original box somewhere in the attic. A lot of my prototype interfaces were dumped though and the QL ones too, just didn't see the point in keeping them and probably worthless objects with no remaining documentation. Only one I think I still have is the VTX5000Sam i/f which you altered a version of the Sam Terminal s/w for.Still brings back a few memories! Wayne
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I was only 9 years old, but I believe that I received an MGT Sam with a disk drive for £200 somewhere around October 1990. Is that possible? On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 9:03 PM, Andrew Collierand...@intensity.org.uk wrote: On 3 Aug 2009, at 20:23, Adrian Brown wrote: I remember selling my spectrum to part fund my sam and living without a computer for 5 months running up to the release of the sam before i could afford one :) Those were horrible days, but all worth it when i got the sam - even though it didnt have a disk drive, i could only aford the tape version. Defenders of the earth on tape- that was a painful load :) I don't remember precisely when I got mine - probably towards the end of 1990 since it was definitely after Sam Computers Ltd started up when you could get the Sam with a disk drive included for under £200, which I did. Eee, luxury, I can hear you cry - and maybe that's true, but I'll tell you the disk drive was not the world-changing first impression which tape owners might have you believe. You see, the instructions for the disk drive said that the first things you must do is to backup the boot disk - and, being the sort of nice boy who would read instructions and follow them, that's exactly what I started by doing. In fact there was even an option on the boot menu to do it; you would think this would run some semi-efficient disk copying routine? I later discovered that all it did was to run COPY * TO * and in the days before MasterDOS this involves swapping the floppy disks back and forth for every individual file on the disk. So there I am, dutifully swapping between one floppy disk and another floppy disk for what seemed like hours, wondering whether I was going to wear out the floppy disks eject button on the first day, and this was before I had even run Flash! or listened to the MGT anthem... Oddly enough, one of the first BASIC programs I wrote was a simple disk copier which used READ AT and WRITE AT to read half a disk at a time into memory and duplicate a disk in only two swaps. It wasn't fast, but it was way easier than SamCo's approved method at the time... Andrew -- http://www.intensity.org.uk/
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lucky you didnt experience the external dirve interface the one supposedly compatible with the +d external drive different from the internal one which wiped the data you just saved off the disc if you left it in thte drive and pressed reset! anyone done any networking? 2009/8/2 Chris Pile chris.p...@blueyonder.co.uk: Hi folks... There was a thread a while ago mentioning the SAM's 20th birthday. When exactly is the 20th anniversary of the machine? Chris...
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I had an internal and an external drive (because I had a speccy DISCiPLE disk interface) - both worked fine - as long as you did indeed not reset with a disk / disc in the drive. Edwin Blink's DPU (disk protector unit - http://www.samcoupe-pro-dos.co.uk/edwin/hardware/dpu/dpu.htm) worked a charm. But as with all things you are used to, it took a while before actually having the courage to leave the disk in the drive... :) Roger - is your keyboard missing the full stop and comma keys? -Original Message- From: owner-sam-us...@nvg.ntnu.no [mailto:owner-sam-us...@nvg.ntnu.no] On Behalf Of Roger Jowett Sent: Tuesday, August 04, 2009 16:31 To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no Subject: Re: SAM's 20th Birthday lucky you didnt experience the external dirve interface the one supposedly compatible with the +d external drive different from the internal one which wiped the data you just saved off the disc if you left it in thte drive and pressed reset! anyone done any networking? 2009/8/2 Chris Pile chris.p...@blueyonder.co.uk: Hi folks... There was a thread a while ago mentioning the SAM's 20th birthday. When exactly is the 20th anniversary of the machine? Chris...
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Hi Roger, Yes, that's me I think. I never did any networking stuff with the DISCiPLE - just the multi-level tape loader to disk loader 'conversions'. I was interested in the networking stuff at one point to get two SAMs to each play half of an eight channel mod in time with one SAM acting as master and the other as slave. This could then be futher coolened by adding more SAMs allowing even more channel mods. Note that this never left the thinking stage. Another idea I had, when Nev's hard disc interface was rebuilt to the atom was to let the SAM MOD player preprocess the 8 channel (or more) mod output to hard disc and then play this back at 15.6KHz. Note that this never left the thinking stage. Another idea I had was to compress the samples of very large mods (larger than could fit in memory) since the 10.4KHz output never needed this resolution anyway and so be able to play them back. Regards, Stefan From: Roger Jowett [mailto:rogerjow...@gmail.com] Sent: Tue 2009-08-04 21:02 To: Stefan Drissen Subject: Re: SAM's 20th Birthday stefan drissen? not the stefan drissen? no way the stuff of legend u didnt figure out the network on the disciple? delta wing creative sparks was one of teh four only networked tt racer digital integration 8 player thru network how could we connect it to sam ? audio joystick? serial ?parallel couldnt have been that fast could it? mind you kouldnt have been as slow as pc yahoo/msn live messenger streamed video really cant say i would reccommend wasting £1k on a dual core 64 bit and a vga ati x1950 power colour pci e pro xtweeem - but thecomponent cable has an arrow pointing the wrong way! well worth £150! cant even sli it despite fake nvidia sli connectors driver crashes pc! dunnon anything about 128 conversions? On 04/08/2009, Stefan Drissen stefan.dris...@exactsoftware.com wrote: I had an internal and an external drive (because I had a speccy DISCiPLE disk interface) - both worked fine - as long as you did indeed not reset with a disk / disc in the drive. Edwin Blink's DPU (disk protector unit - http://www.samcoupe-pro-dos.co.uk/edwin/hardware/dpu/dpu.htm) worked a charm. But as with all things you are used to, it took a while before actually having the courage to leave the disk in the drive... :) Roger - is your keyboard missing the full stop and comma keys? -Original Message- From: owner-sam-us...@nvg.ntnu.no [mailto:owner-sam-us...@nvg.ntnu.no] On Behalf Of Roger Jowett Sent: Tuesday, August 04, 2009 16:31 To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no Subject: Re: SAM's 20th Birthday lucky you didnt experience the external dirve interface the one supposedly compatible with the +d external drive different from the internal one which wiped the data you just saved off the disc if you left it in thte drive and pressed reset! anyone done any networking? 2009/8/2 Chris Pile chris.p...@blueyonder.co.uk: Hi folks... There was a thread a while ago mentioning the SAM's 20th birthday. When exactly is the 20th anniversary of the machine? Chris...
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I remember getting my SAM form a show in Blackpool, Miles bought it to the show. was it at The Norbreck Castle Hotel in Blackpool seems to ring a bell. Just before Christmas I think it was. Steve(spt) -Original Message- From: owner-sam-us...@nvg.ntnu.no [mailto:owner-sam-us...@nvg.ntnu.no] On Behalf Of Chris Pile Sent: 02 August 2009 16:08 To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no Subject: Re: SAM's 20th Birthday Hi Wayne! Yep - seems like it was early if it was around December time... Memory isn't too good these days! ;-)) I have a couple of projects I started 10+ years ago, but never finished. It would be nice to complete one of these in time for the SAM's birthday. I've just been made redundant - so I've probably got the time. Now I just need to get the enthusiasm to actually make a start... Oh, and to try and remember how to write Z80 too!!! It's been a while! ;-)) Chris... - Original Message - From: Wayne Weedon wa...@fdos-design.com To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no Sent: Sunday, August 02, 2009 12:10 PM Subject: Re: SAM's 20th Birthday Hiya Chris If it was December then we certainly got ours fairly early? I do recall having to collect mine from the couriers Southampton depot on a very rainy Christmas Eve as I was still at work when they'd tried to deliver. There was no way I was going to leave it there over the holiday was there! Hope you're well anyway! Wayne
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I remember selling my spectrum to part fund my sam and living without a computer for 5 months running up to the release of the sam before i could afford one :) Those were horrible days, but all worth it when i got the sam - even though it didnt have a disk drive, i could only aford the tape version. Defenders of the earth on tape- that was a painful load :) Adrian
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On 3 Aug 2009, at 20:23, Adrian Brown wrote: I remember selling my spectrum to part fund my sam and living without a computer for 5 months running up to the release of the sam before i could afford one :) Those were horrible days, but all worth it when i got the sam - even though it didnt have a disk drive, i could only aford the tape version. Defenders of the earth on tape- that was a painful load :) I don't remember precisely when I got mine - probably towards the end of 1990 since it was definitely after Sam Computers Ltd started up when you could get the Sam with a disk drive included for under £200, which I did. Eee, luxury, I can hear you cry - and maybe that's true, but I'll tell you the disk drive was not the world-changing first impression which tape owners might have you believe. You see, the instructions for the disk drive said that the first things you must do is to backup the boot disk - and, being the sort of nice boy who would read instructions and follow them, that's exactly what I started by doing. In fact there was even an option on the boot menu to do it; you would think this would run some semi-efficient disk copying routine? I later discovered that all it did was to run COPY * TO * and in the days before MasterDOS this involves swapping the floppy disks back and forth for every individual file on the disk. So there I am, dutifully swapping between one floppy disk and another floppy disk for what seemed like hours, wondering whether I was going to wear out the floppy disks eject button on the first day, and this was before I had even run Flash! or listened to the MGT anthem... Oddly enough, one of the first BASIC programs I wrote was a simple disk copier which used READ AT and WRITE AT to read half a disk at a time into memory and duplicate a disk in only two swaps. It wasn't fast, but it was way easier than SamCo's approved method at the time... Andrew -- http://www.intensity.org.uk/
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Andrew wrote: I don't remember precisely when I got mine - probably towards the end of 1990 since it was definitely after Sam Computers Ltd started up when you could get the Sam with a disk drive included for under £200, which I did. I was a late starter... March 1993 for me, SAM 512K + 1 drive, and a mouse interface. Bought from Blue Alpha Electronics. £249 from my student grant well spent! Although it did take them a month to despatch it... I was getting impatient by that time ... and to make matters worse - the power supply didn't have a mains plug fitted when it arrived so I had to nip out and buy one before I could turn it on! Colin = Quazar : Hardware, Software, Spares and Repairs for the SAM Coupe 1995-2009 - Celebrating 15 Years of developing for the SAM Coupe Website: http://www.samcoupe.com/
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Quoting Steve Parry-Thomas morriga...@aol.com: I remember getting my SAM form a show in Blackpool, Miles bought it to the show. was it at The Norbreck Castle Hotel in Blackpool seems to ring a bell. Just before Christmas I think it was. Steve(spt) Alan Bruce demo'd the early SAM prototype at one of the Norbrek shows... together with the wooden keyboard and the feet that kept dropping off. I ended up buying a plus d from dear uncle bob on the next-door stand if I remember right.
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Quoting Andrew Collier and...@intensity.org.uk: Oddly enough, one of the first BASIC programs I wrote was a simple disk copier which used READ AT and WRITE AT to read half a disk at a time into memory and duplicate a disk in only two swaps. It wasn't fast, but it was way easier than SamCo's approved method at the time... I wrote a similar thing for duplicating newsdisks at SAMCo HQ when we duplicated some of them in house.
SAM's 20th Birthday
Hi folks... There was a thread a while ago mentioning the SAM's 20th birthday. When exactly is the 20th anniversary of the machine? Chris...
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Chris wrote: There was a thread a while ago mentioning the SAM's 20th birthday. When exactly is the 20th anniversary of the machine? Sometime in December, from when the first lot of SAMs were sent out. Exact date who knows :) Colin = Quazar : Hardware, Software, Spares and Repairs for the SAM Coupe 1995-2009 - Celebrating 15 Years of developing for the SAM Coupe Website: http://www.samcoupe.com/
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Chris Pile wrote: Hi folks... There was a thread a while ago mentioning the SAM's 20th birthday. When exactly is the 20th anniversary of the machine? Hiya Chris If it was December then we certainly got ours fairly early? I do recall having to collect mine from the couriers Southampton depot on a very rainy Christmas Eve as I was still at work when they'd tried to deliver. There was no way I was going to leave it there over the holiday was there! Hope you're well anyway! Wayne
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Yes it was December, I remember having to go to the customs office here in Germany to pay the customs duty and collect mine and was pleased to have it in time for Christmasbut no disks and after hours and hours of loading and reloading the demo tape I was tearing my hair out. But it was still the greatest machine I had ever owned (once I got that tape loaded). Ian - Original Message - From: Wayne Weedon wa...@fdos-design.com To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no Sent: Sunday, August 02, 2009 1:10 PM Subject: Re: SAM's 20th Birthday Chris Pile wrote: Hi folks... There was a thread a while ago mentioning the SAM's 20th birthday. When exactly is the 20th anniversary of the machine? Hiya Chris If it was December then we certainly got ours fairly early? I do recall having to collect mine from the couriers Southampton depot on a very rainy Christmas Eve as I was still at work when they'd tried to deliver. There was no way I was going to leave it there over the holiday was there! Hope you're well anyway! Wayne
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Hi Wayne! Yep - seems like it was early if it was around December time... Memory isn't too good these days! ;-)) I have a couple of projects I started 10+ years ago, but never finished. It would be nice to complete one of these in time for the SAM's birthday. I've just been made redundant - so I've probably got the time. Now I just need to get the enthusiasm to actually make a start... Oh, and to try and remember how to write Z80 too!!! It's been a while! ;-)) Chris... - Original Message - From: Wayne Weedon wa...@fdos-design.com To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no Sent: Sunday, August 02, 2009 12:10 PM Subject: Re: SAM's 20th Birthday Hiya Chris If it was December then we certainly got ours fairly early? I do recall having to collect mine from the couriers Southampton depot on a very rainy Christmas Eve as I was still at work when they'd tried to deliver. There was no way I was going to leave it there over the holiday was there! Hope you're well anyway! Wayne
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Colin, let me know size / numbers etc, i can get a quote from my trade supplier. Adrian -Original Message- From: owner-sam-us...@nvg.ntnu.no [mailto:owner-sam-us...@nvg.ntnu.no] On Behalf Of Colin Piggot Sent: 03 June 2009 20:50 To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no Subject: Re: SAM's 20th Birthday we should push ‘Retro Gamer’ I had approached Retro Gamer before about writing about the SAM and have signed a freelance contract for writing for them, time hasn't been on my side lately but it's on my to-do list to get an article completed as it is approaching the 20th Birthday... I'll persue this one again! I still believe that people have missed the greatness of the SAM due to 16 bit machines becoming dominate at the time of it’s release. Seconded! So to all of us who have got unfinished projects “Let’s get on with it” I fall into that catagory too time to get Comet out, and to get SAM Revival 23 finished off and printed asap. Quite a few things lined up for SAM Revival and I'm toying with the idea of a complete colour issue for a special 20th birthday issue - if I can find somewhere to do affordable magazine printing I'd really like to do a one-off glossy mag for the birthday - as Sam has never had a 'proper' glossy mag during it's life...! Colin = Quazar : Hardware, Software, Spares and Repairs for the SAM Coupe 1995-2009 - Celebrating 15 Years of developing for the SAM Coupe Website: http://www.samcoupe.com/
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I know this is long overdue but couldnt we find someone to just transfer the 128K version of digital integrations f-16 combat pilot to the sam - there are already a lot of 128k conversions around already - didnt f-16 work on the 48K? if ti did then we only need to alter the load and save routine s as happened for elite - before we use various medieval techniques to render a full mode 4 re write! 2009/5/31 Calvin Allett calvin_all...@yahoo.co.uk Hey guys :) sorry I've not been around lately with my useless thoughts but just been thinking again about how SAM's gonna be 20 this year and wondering if anyone has plans for what we should do to celebrate and also worrying that for projects we only really got 6 months or so... Personally I've wondered for a few years now if a coding/game competition might lure some of the Spectrum crew over and increase the SAM's library, even going so far in my mind ramblings of offering a first prize of a couple hundred quid or my Golden ASIC as incentives (I'm aware that monetary incentives can come across as vulgar, but there's a lot of people without jobs that perhaps this could intice that otherwise might not?, so thoughts on this would be welcome :) ) and would like to know if anyone thinks this might be a good idea, and also for your blessing or objections (if even one person doesn't think this would be a sensible idea then I wouldn't do it out of respect or someone with a working brain could perhaps run a competition?) . anyway, hope you are all well, and I realise that I've always been somewhat on the periphery of the SAM scene, so just take this as me drunk and wondering about stuff ;) Cal
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I like the idea of increasing the SAM library and I think as the SAM is 20 years old this year we should push ‘Retro Gamer’ into making a long awaited few page spread on our beloved SAM at least this would raise the profile of the SAM and get people wondering what it’s about and maybe get more people attempting to program it. A competition would be a great idea and I would try and finish some of my projects off (Been busy with being a dad again) I still believe that people have missed the greatness of the SAM due to 16 bit machines becoming dominate at the time of it’s release. So to all of us who have got unfinished projects “Let’s get on with it” Andy (Taff) From: owner-sam-us...@nvg.ntnu.no [mailto:owner-sam-us...@nvg.ntnu.no] On Behalf Of Calvin Allett Sent: 31 May 2009 03:56 To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no Subject: SAM's 20th Birthday Hey guys :) sorry I've not been around lately with my useless thoughts but just been thinking again about how SAM's gonna be 20 this year and wondering if anyone has plans for what we should do to celebrate and also worrying that for projects we only really got 6 months or so... Personally I've wondered for a few years now if a coding/game competition might lure some of the Spectrum crew over and increase the SAM's library, even going so far in my mind ramblings of offering a first prize of a couple hundred quid or my Golden ASIC as incentives (I'm aware that monetary incentives can come across as vulgar, but there's a lot of people without jobs that perhaps this could intice that otherwise might not?, so thoughts on this would be welcome :) ) and would like to know if anyone thinks this might be a good idea, and also for your blessing or objections (if even one person doesn't think this would be a sensible idea then I wouldn't do it out of respect or someone with a working brain could perhaps run a competition?) . anyway, hope you are all well, and I realise that I've always been somewhat on the periphery of the SAM scene, so just take this as me drunk and wondering about stuff ;) Cal
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we should push ‘Retro Gamer’ I had approached Retro Gamer before about writing about the SAM and have signed a freelance contract for writing for them, time hasn't been on my side lately but it's on my to-do list to get an article completed as it is approaching the 20th Birthday... I'll persue this one again! I still believe that people have missed the greatness of the SAM due to 16 bit machines becoming dominate at the time of it’s release. Seconded! So to all of us who have got unfinished projects “Let’s get on with it” I fall into that catagory too time to get Comet out, and to get SAM Revival 23 finished off and printed asap. Quite a few things lined up for SAM Revival and I'm toying with the idea of a complete colour issue for a special 20th birthday issue - if I can find somewhere to do affordable magazine printing I'd really like to do a one-off glossy mag for the birthday - as Sam has never had a 'proper' glossy mag during it's life...! Colin = Quazar : Hardware, Software, Spares and Repairs for the SAM Coupe 1995-2009 - Celebrating 15 Years of developing for the SAM Coupe Website: http://www.samcoupe.com/
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Colin Piggot wrote: Quite a few things lined up for SAM Revival and I'm toying with the idea of a complete colour issue for a special 20th birthday issue - if I can find somewhere to do affordable magazine printing I'd really like to do a one-off glossy mag for the birthday - as Sam has never had a 'proper' glossy mag during it's life...! I've used these guys for printing before and been happy enough. I'm not sure if they would fit the bill but they've always been very competitively priced - I think they get the printing done in Eastern Europe and ship it over here. http://www.printmeit.com/view_product_Y.php?product=11 Geoff
SAM's 20th Birthday
Hey guys :) sorry I've not been around lately with my useless thoughts but just been thinking again about how SAM's gonna be 20 this year and wondering if anyone has plans for what we should do to celebrate and also worrying that for projects we only really got 6 months or so... Personally I've wondered for a few years now if a coding/game competition might lure some of the Spectrum crew over and increase the SAM's library, even going so far in my mind ramblings of offering a first prize of a couple hundred quid or my Golden ASIC as incentives (I'm aware that monetary incentives can come across as vulgar, but there's a lot of people without jobs that perhaps this could intice that otherwise might not?, so thoughts on this would be welcome :) ) and would like to know if anyone thinks this might be a good idea, and also for your blessing or objections (if even one person doesn't think this would be a sensible idea then I wouldn't do it out of respect or someone with a working brain could perhaps run a competition?) . anyway, hope you are all well, and I realise that I've always been somewhat on the periphery of the SAM scene, so just take this as me drunk and wondering about stuff ;) Cal
