Re: ORSAM show report

2004-11-18 Thread Frans van Egmond
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

Poll: What do you get if you...

2004-11-18 Thread Andrew Collier
... type PRINT PEEK 15 on your Sam? This is the ROM version number, multiplied by 10. For example, my Sam, and Ian's Sam, have versions 3.0 and 3.5 (though I can't remember which way round, and I'm not in a position to check at the moment). The reason I ask is that MNEMOcompress, which was

RE: ORSAM show report

2004-11-18 Thread Simon Cooke
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? From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Leonard BennettSent: Wednesday, November 17, 2004 10:03

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2004-11-18 Thread Frode Tenneboe
On Thu, 18 Nov 2004 02:05:50 + Andrew Collier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... type PRINT PEEK 15 Funny you should mail about this. I recently had a somewhat interesting discussion with Colin and Simon about the various ROMs aout there. AFAIK the recent ROM versions are 3.0, 3.1 and 3.5.

RE: Poll: What do you get if you...

2004-11-18 Thread Simon Owen
Andrew Collier wrote: I made it print a big notice on the screen when you run it under a ROM version I hadn't had the opportunity to test. This, as it now turns out, includes the ROM in SimCoupe because Allan's Sam has version 3.1 in it. Ahh, so that's where version 3.1 came from! I

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2004-11-18 Thread Colin Piggot
Frode Tenneboe wrote: According the the official 3.0 sources: MILES GORDON TECHNOLOGY plc 3.1 (as provided in SimCOupe): MILES GORDON TECHNOLOGY PLC The 'Sam Computers Ltd' one's I've checked report 3.0 Simon Owen wrote: Does anyone have a 3.5 image they can send me? The 'West Coast

Re: ORSAM show report

2004-11-18 Thread Gavin Smith
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. Nice pics - did any of the videos ever surface? I'd like to see Colin's chat about his new hardware in particular. Gavin (currently SAMless and missing it)

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2004-11-18 Thread Simon Owen
Colin Piggot wrote: The 'West Coast Computers Limited' are 3.5, I thought I had already sent you an image of that? I couldn't find it, but thanks for sending me a replacement. I've done a quick comparison with a 3.0 ROM, and here are the differences: ROM 0: 000F: 1E 23 ; version number 3.0

Re: ORSAM show report

2004-11-18 Thread Andrew Collier
On Nov 18, 2004, at 10:00 am, Gavin Smith wrote: did any of the videos ever surface? I'd like to see Colin's chat about his new hardware in particular. I haven't got the tape back yet. I'll let you know when I do. Unfortunately there was so much continuing background noise, I'd be surprised

Re: Poll: What do you get if you...

2004-11-18 Thread Colin Piggot
3818: EB E3 ; k - c (+80) so Missing disk becomes Missing disc!! Ouch! I forgot about the whole cuffufle about the spelling of disk way, way back then...! Disk, short for Diskette I will always use disk myself! At least DIR wasn't changed to CAT, I can remember Bob's argument being You

Re: Poll: What do you get if you...

2004-11-18 Thread Andrew Collier
On Nov 18, 2004, at 10:10 am, Simon Owen wrote: I've done a quick comparison with a 3.0 ROM, and here are the differences: 3602: 7F 4D ;(c)- M 3604: 31 42 ; 1 - B 3605: 39 41 ; 9 - A 3606: 39 53 ; 9 - S 3607: 30 49 ; 9 - I 1999? Andrew -- --- Andrew Collier

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2004-11-18 Thread Simon Owen
Andrew Collier wrote: 3607: 30 49 ; 9 - I 1999? Urk, typo - that should indeed be: 0 - I :-) Si

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2004-11-18 Thread Gavin Smith
Quoting Colin Piggot [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 3818: EB E3 ; k - c (+80) so Missing disk becomes Missing disc!! Ouch! I forgot about the whole cuffufle about the spelling of disk way, way back then...! Disk, short for Diskette I will always use disk myself! Yeah, I think pretty much

Re: Poll: What do you get if you...

2004-11-18 Thread Frode Tenneboe
On Thu, 18 Nov 2004 09:30:10 - Colin Piggot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Frode Tenneboe wrote: According the the official 3.0 sources: MILES GORDON TECHNOLOGY plc 3.1 (as provided in SimCOupe): MILES GORDON TECHNOLOGY PLC The 'Sam Computers Ltd' one's I've checked report 3.0 Ltd? Do we

Re: Poll: What do you get if you...

2004-11-18 Thread Colin Piggot
The 'Sam Computers Ltd' one's I've checked report 3.0 Ltd? Do we have a third variant? I'll check the exact spelling for you, as I couldnt remember what it said on screen except that they were SamCo ROM3's... Colin = Quazar : Hardware, Software, Spares and Repairs for the Sam Coupe

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2004-11-18 Thread Johnna
3818: EB E3 ; k - c (+80) so Missing disk becomes Missing disc!! This alone should have alerted us to the fact that Brenchley was behing the whole West Coast fiasco. He was quite passionate about that 'c'!

Re: Poll: What do you get if you...

2004-11-18 Thread Colin Piggot
I'll check the exact spelling for you, as I couldnt remember what it said on screen except that they were SamCo ROM3's... SAM Computers Limited Colin = Quazar : Hardware, Software, Spares and Repairs for the Sam Coupe Website: http://www.samcoupe.com/ and http://www.quazar.clara.net/sam/

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2004-11-18 Thread Frode Tenneboe
On Thu, 18 Nov 2004 10:52:21 - Colin Piggot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'll check the exact spelling for you, as I couldnt remember what it said on screen except that they were SamCo ROM3's... SAM Computers Limited This is bizarre. Now we have three 3.0 wariants? MILES GORDON

RE: ORSAM show report

2004-11-18 Thread Geoff Winkless
Then why exactly did you send it, if not to reflect some glory on yourself? Would you rather we thought you did it to belittle Wolfgang and his efforts? Bob Brenchley once described me as a "stupid demo coder" and it merely made him look small (no mean feat...). You can call me "some idiot"

Re: ORSAM show report

2004-11-18 Thread Wolfgang Haller
"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

Posting access

2004-11-18 Thread Ian Collier
Dear moderator... I haven't posted to sam-users for a while. I did so earlier today, but it hasn't come through. Majordomo doesn't seem to have bounced the message either. The Powers That Be have changed my envelope-from address, but the From: remains the same. That shouldn't matter, should

Re: Poll: What do you get if you...

2004-11-18 Thread Edwin Blink
Mine 30 its a version 3.o rom with (harddisk) auto boot code :-) From: Frode Tenneboe [EMAIL PROTECTED] This is bizarre. Now we have three 3.0 wariants? Add my three (i think) autoboot roms and two harddisk boot roms to that list. I think we're not that for away from requirering a crc32 or

Re: Poll: What do you get if you...

2004-11-18 Thread Ian Collier
On Thu, Nov 18, 2004 at 10:36:00AM -, Colin Piggot wrote: At least DIR wasn't changed to CAT, I can remember Bob's argument being You don't DIR a directory, you CAT a directory Hadn't heard about that one - was there a discussion about it or something? I think it was either a

Re: ORSAM show report

2004-11-18 Thread Howard Price
BORING! Everyone's sound on this list, and I can get bickering off any old net chatroom. That'll do now. Proud to say, I have a glorious MILES GORDON TECHNOLOGY PLC Sam. And up til I swapped the ROM in '98 ish, it was a 1989 vintage. Tobermory=Howard At 09:09 18/11/2004, you wrote: Theatrical

Re: ORSAM show report

2004-11-18 Thread david
--- Howard Price [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: BORING! Everyone's sound on this list, and I can get bickering off any old net chatroom. That'll do now. Indeedy. I'll go back to sleep until someone says something SAM related

RE: ORSAM show report

2004-11-18 Thread Slitscan
BLUE RUBBER FEET!!! are you awake now? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of david Sent: Thursday, November 18, 2004 10:24 PM To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no Subject: Re: ORSAM show report --- Howard Price [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: BORING!