Re: EDDAC

2000-06-30 Thread Edwin Blink
> How wide are the samples? 8 bits? If so, how do you select which > channel to write to with just one strobe line are alternate > writes to alternate latches? each 'DAC' are 8 bits wide. The latches are of the positive edge triggered type a inverter is added to the stoble to get a strobe and

Games (Colony and F16)

2000-06-30 Thread Gavin Smith
Whilst we're talking about games, I've two questions: 1) Did anyone ever manage to last more than one or two bloody minutes in Colony? If so how?! Any chance of a little playing guide? (Trying to get stuff for the next issue of SC ;) 2) We were talking a while back about the F16 Combat Pilot

RE: Expansion Memory

2000-06-30 Thread Si Owen
Andrew Collier wrote: > HMPR (251dec) bit 7 MCNTRL > If this bit is set when the CPU addresses high memory, then the external > signal XMEM goes low and the Coupe looks on its expansion connector for > memory sections C and D (addresses 32768 to 65536) > > This isn't enough information. I'm pretty

converting files

2000-06-30 Thread David L
i've got some Sam files on floppy i need to convert to the PC - but the disks are protected Any way i can just read partial files, as Edwins proggy wont work in this case? thanks

Re: Renegade game ?

2000-06-30 Thread Edwin Blink
> OOO! Centipede!!! Yay!!! And Missile Command, please 'SAMtepede points increased by one.' > What's Monster Racers? Monster racers is a isometric 3D off road racing game (like Iron Man is on speccy). At first I'd wanted to just make a full color version of ironman. But after reverse en

Re: Expansion Memory

2000-06-30 Thread Edwin Blink
> Yes you can, set the High Page register to take Ex memory (bit 7) > > then ex low page register port 128 and ex high page register is 129 the > upper 2 bits is which 1Meg pack to use, when just 1 Meg is in use they are 0 > normally Does the ROM overrule external memory, when ROM bank 1 is paged

Re: Renegade game ?

2000-06-30 Thread Gavin Smith
At 12:51 am +0200 30/6/00, Edwin Blink wrote: What's Monster Racers? Monster racers is a isometric 3D off road racing game (like Iron Man is on speccy). At first I'd wanted to just make a full color version of ironman. But after reverse engeneering ironman and discovered lots of odds and end

DSKing

2000-06-30 Thread Andrew Gale
I've just got round to using Wincoupe and Endwin's DSK manager for the first time, and I'm very impressed - well done to evryone who has contributed! I'm having a few problems reading some discs in, though - about 50% won't read, mostly ones that I've created on my SAM (approx 2/3rds of the Encelad

free: the complete spectrum rom disassembly

2000-06-30 Thread Andrew Gale
Does anyone want my copy of Ian Logan & Frank O'Hara's "The Complete Spectrum ROM Disassembly" ? The first persom to email me can have it for nothing. Andy

Re: free: the complete spectrum rom disassembly

2000-06-30 Thread Ian Collier
On Fri, Jun 30, 2000 at 10:58:40AM +0100, Andrew Gale wrote: > Does anyone want my copy of Ian Logan & Frank O'Hara's > "The Complete Spectrum ROM Disassembly" ? The first persom > to email me can have it for nothing. Good heavens, that's a bit generous. :-) If you posted this on CSS you'd p

RE: free: the complete spectrum rom disassembly

2000-06-30 Thread Si Owen
Ian Collier wrote: > imc (who already has one, but all the pages are falling out) Heh, mine too :-) I still vividly remember how hard it was to get hold of that book in the first place too! Si

Re: free: the complete spectrum rom disassembly

2000-06-30 Thread Ian Collier
On Fri, Jun 30, 2000 at 11:15:56AM +0100, Si Owen wrote: > Heh, mine too :-) I still vividly remember how hard it was to get hold of > that book in the first place too! Mine wasn't. But then, I got it while it was still in print. :-) imc

sorry, gone - the spec. rom disassembly

2000-06-30 Thread Andrew Gale
I'm sorry to say that the spec. rom disassembly has already gone - apologies to all those that were disappointed. Funnily enough, no-one at all was interested when I tried to flog it on CSS last year! Andy

Re: sorry, gone - the spec. rom disassembly

2000-06-30 Thread Ian Collier
On Fri, Jun 30, 2000 at 12:09:28PM +0100, Andrew Gale wrote: > I'm sorry to say that the spec. rom disassembly has > already gone - apologies to all those that were > disappointed. Funnily enough, no-one at all was > interested when I tried to flog it on CSS last year! I can't believe that... mayb

RE: scads

2000-06-30 Thread Neil Holmes
Glen cook (the guy that wrote scads) sits right next to me at work :) He's not in today, but ill ask him if he has any spare manuals lying around on monday... Ninge Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Work: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 74376318 -Original Message-From: peter [mailto:[EMAIL PRO

Re: free: the complete spectrum rom disassembly

2000-06-30 Thread Frans van Egmond
Mine is like new, I think I'll keep it that way... Frans Ian Collier wrote: > On Fri, Jun 30, 2000 at 11:15:56AM +0100, Si Owen wrote: > > Heh, mine too :-) I still vividly remember how hard it was to get hold of > > that book in the first place too! > > Mine wasn't. But then, I got it while i

Re: DSKing

2000-06-30 Thread Edwin Blink
> I've just got round to using Wincoupe and Endwin's DSK manager > for the first time, and I'm very impressed - well done to > evryone who has contributed! I'm having a few problems > reading some discs in, though - about 50% won't read, mostly > ones that I've created on my SAM (approx 2/3rds of