Re: Getting those encrypted games in a SIM Coupe-able format

1999-05-29 Thread Thomas Harte
Or you could download a copy of the spectrum 48k version, which is basically the same thing Well, yeah, but with the obvious changes that it : a) wouldn't be able to load saved games from .dsk files meaning that any play on my tempramental SAM would have to be

Re: Getting those encrypted games in a SIM Coupe-able format

1999-05-29 Thread Andrew Collier
Or you could download a copy of the spectrum 48k version, which is basically the same thing Well, yeah, but with the obvious changes that it : a) wouldn't be able to load saved games from .dsk files meaning that any play on my tempramental SAM would have to be

Re: Getting those encrypted games in a SIM Coupe-able format

1999-05-29 Thread Thomas Harte
You could always just save a snapshot file instead Does SAM Elite load those, or would I end up using SPECTRE and just owning a copy of SAM Elite for a bit or a laugh. Also : I just realised this morning that the silly cut-down SAM I was thinking of is the SAM Gamestar . . .

A simple Mode-X question

1999-05-29 Thread Thomas Harte
Hi, I've never been too sure about the memory layout of Mode-X and so on, so I am asking one simple question, would it be faster to : a) blit 144 32x27 tiles to a Mode-X screen arranged so as to form a rectangle of 384x324, or b) blit the same tiles to a

Re: Getting those encrypted games in a SIM Coupe-able format

1999-05-29 Thread Andrew Collier
You could always just save a snapshot file instead Does SAM Elite load those, or would I end up using SPECTRE and just owning a copy of SAM Elite for a bit or a laugh. No, but there are various 48K Spectrum emulators available for the Sam, and they can load snapshot files (they need