Re: ORSAM show report

2004-11-19 Thread Colin Piggot
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: ORSAM show report

2004-11-19 Thread Slitscan
Hey everyone - I'll have a real Sam again next Friday :D Hurrah!!! Sorry Si - Simcoupe rocks, but I'll have a coupe again! Can't wait :) David -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Colin Piggot Sent: Thursday, November 18, 2004 10:39 PM To:

Re: ORSAM show report

2004-11-19 Thread david
--- Colin Piggot [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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

Re: ORSAM show report

2004-11-19 Thread Wolfgang Haller
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?

Re: ORSAM show report

2004-11-19 Thread david
--- Wolfgang Haller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it true that the SAM colours red - blue - white reperesents the colours of the english flag? They are the same - but I think that was incidental. The white could represent icecream - which gave SAM the Coupe name(it was named after a Coupe

Re: ORSAM show report

2004-11-19 Thread Edwin Blink
From: Slitscan [EMAIL PROTECTED] BLUE RUBBER FEET!!! AMBER DRIVE LED ! unfortunately mine went to hardware heaven many ions ago. are you awake now? barely ZZ

SAM to PC

2004-11-19 Thread david
Acftually while I think about it - I read something somewhere about a SAM to PC interface... does anyone know anything about this? regards david

Someone may find this useful...

2004-11-19 Thread Andrew Collier
Hi all, I wrote this mainly for my own use, but in case anyone else would find it useful I've put it up for download: http://www.intensity.org.uk/samcoupe/pyz80.html COMET's a great program, but recently I've been spoiled by exposure to luxuries like scrollbars, and drag'n'drop. So this is

RE: Someone may find this useful...

2004-11-19 Thread Simon Cooke
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi all, I wrote this mainly for my own use, but in case anyone else would find it useful I've put it up for download: http://www.intensity.org.uk/samcoupe/pyz80.html COMET's a great program, but recently I've been spoiled by exposure to luxuries like

Re: SAM to PC

2004-11-19 Thread Wolfgang Haller
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

Re: Someone may find this useful...

2004-11-19 Thread Edwin Blink
From: Andrew Collier [EMAIL PROTECTED] I wrote this mainly for my own use, but in case anyone else would find it useful I've put it up for download: Very nice. I like the idea of assembling to a diskimage. I'm not into phyton yet. But it sounds like a good reason to do so. Edwin

Re: ORSAM show report

2004-11-19 Thread Edwin Blink
From: david [EMAIL PROTECTED] a) They're evil SAMs b) They ran out of blue feet. c) They are disguised black footed sheep ??

Re: SAM to PC

2004-11-19 Thread Edwin Blink
Acftually while I think about it - I read something somewhere about a SAM to PC interface... does anyone know anything about this? It must have been Wolfgangs excellent review :-) In addition to wolfgang response. The B-Link is a cable that you connect to PC serial commport and SAM MIDI

Re: SAM to PC

2004-11-19 Thread Edwin Blink
112500bps should be 115200bps ofcourse !!!

overclocked Sam programs [was RE: ORSAM show report]

2004-11-19 Thread Geoff Winkless
Howard Price [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: BORING! Everyone's sound on this list, and I can get bickering off any old net chatroom. That'll do now. Apologies to all, hadn't intended my light-hearted comment to offend, and Howard's absolutely right of course. On to Sam stuff... It

Re: overclocked Sam programs [was RE: ORSAM show report]

2004-11-19 Thread Colin Piggot
It occurred to me that with SimCoupe we could overclock the machine and code up stuff that wouldn't have been possible on the 6MHz Sam (except possibly with the accelerator board, of course!). Do people think this destroys the heritage of the machine or is it something they'd be happy to see

RE: SAM to PC

2004-11-19 Thread Simon Owen
Wolfgang Haller wrote: There are two ways to transfer SAM harddisk records (floppy disk = Record 0!) to a PC as DSK-files. What you need: There's soon to be an extra method for 2000/XP users, as the new SamDisk is almost done. It's not quite as convenient for real hard disks, but still works

RE: overclocked Sam programs [was RE: ORSAM show report]

2004-11-19 Thread Geoff Winkless
Colin Piggot wrote: It occurred to me that with SimCoupe we could overclock the machine and code up stuff that wouldn't have been possible on the 6MHz Sam (except possibly with the accelerator board, of course!). Do people think this destroys the heritage of the machine or is it something

RE: overclocked Sam programs [was RE: ORSAM show report]

2004-11-19 Thread Simon Owen
Colin Piggot wrote: Hmmm... the temptation would be there to run SimCoupe at higher speeds, and yes great things could be done... but it would lose the feel of the real machine along the way. I do agree with that aspect of it, in that it only makes sense to emulate features that can/do exist

Days of Sorcery

2004-11-19 Thread Gavin Smith
Anyone ever buy this? I kept intending to, because I thought the demo on Fred looked fab. Anyone have a .dsk of it and a scan of instructions (if there any) or is the author likely to mind? Cheers! Gavin

Re: Days of Sorcery

2004-11-19 Thread Colin Piggot
Anyone ever buy this? I kept intending to, because I thought the demo on Fred looked fab. Anyone have a .dsk of it and a scan of instructions (if there any) or is the author likely to mind? Nigel Kettlewell's not been seen around for a bit, and it would of course always be best to get the

Re: Days of Sorcery

2004-11-19 Thread Gavin Smith
Quoting Colin Piggot [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Anyone ever buy this? I kept intending to, because I thought the demo on Fred looked fab. Anyone have a .dsk of it and a scan of instructions (if there any) or is the author likely to mind? Nigel Kettlewell's not been seen around for a bit, and

RE: Days of Sorcery

2004-11-19 Thread Johnna
Well I've bid my time on here long enough playing by the polite 'rules' of not publishing other people's files. But I think that after all this time, it's getting a bit stupid. I haven't got Days Of Sorcery, but if I had it, I would share it. Technically it's software piracy, but in reality it

RE: Days of Sorcery

2004-11-19 Thread Geoff Winkless
Johnna wrote: So I say - Publish and be damned! Let's get a website up and running and dump EVERYTHING we've got on there that is SAM related and then maintain it as a homage to what was, once, a great machine. Nobody else is going to do this. We are almost the last bastions of the SAM World,

RE: Days of Sorcery

2004-11-19 Thread Gavin Smith
I used to be dead against sharing SAM files but as time goes by, it really is getting a bit pointless, EXCEPT for the obvious exceptions of anyone who we know would be against it or for anyone still producing stuff that isn't free such as Colin. I agree with most of what you said - basically we're

RE: SAM to PC

2004-11-19 Thread Adrian Brown
Lets try that again - Watch this space for other options - well best subscribe to Sam Revival as more news will be in there shortly. Adrian -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Simon Owen Sent: 19 November 2004 11:07 To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no

Hi

2004-11-19 Thread Kevin Cooper
Hi all, Just joined the list at the start of the week, been busy having a look at what you're upto... It's been some time since I used my Sam, probably eight years or so. It's sat in the attic with a load of Sam stuff in my parents' attic. The closest thing I got to it was running the Sam