My vote was for samcoupe.org...
You forgot me (sniff sniff) !!
Andy
Thursday, November 25, 2004, 9:59:26 PM, you wrote:
Gavin> Just a reminder that I'd like to get the domain name for our archive
sorted out
Gavin> tomorrow night so if anyone hasn't voiced their opinion, can you d
Just a reminder that I'd like to get the domain name for our archive sorted out
tomorrow night so if anyone hasn't voiced their opinion, can you do so ASAP? In
an attempt to avert a stand-off similar to Ukraine's, I've listed the votes so
far below - if I've got any wrong, can you let me know by to
I think the site is a great idea and my vote also goes to worldofsam.org
Ian
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From: "Simon Owen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To:
Sent: Thursday, November 25, 2004 1:46 PM
Subject: RE: SAM Software Archive
Geoff Winkless wrote:
worldofsam.org would still be my preferre
On Thu, 2004-11-25 at 14:29, Ray wrote:
> If you check the link above..
Next time, please add a "NOT WORK SAFE!" warning before posting a link
to a site with porn banner ads!
> There's a site with lots of roms
> downloadable..
>
> Is it legal?
Probably a GOODSAMC dump, of images trawled from
On Thu, 25 Nov 2004 14:29:02 - "Ray" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> If you check the link above.. There's a site with lots of roms
> downloadable..
They are not ROMs, but rather disk images.
> Is it legal?
Most are. Some are not. The legal ones are also at ftp.nvg.ntnu.no
in the GoodSAMC fold
http://www.romnation.net/srv/roms/samcoupe.html
If you check the link above.. There's a site with lots of roms
downloadable..
Is it legal?
ray
Andrew Collier wrote:
> For protected disks, I think the main advantage of using a
> standard disk image format over sdf would be the existance of
> other tools to do the disk transfers.
SDF was a convenient solution at the time, but was never really designed to
be a permanent format (the lack o
On Thu, 2004-11-25 at 12:19, Gavin Smith wrote:
> If possible, though, I'd like us to use one format and one method of
> compression. Would it therefore be easier to make everything .sdf in the first
> place and work on tools to work with these files?
I think this depends on:
a) any long term pl
Ahh those were the days of Etracker... wonderful!!
Spent many hours trying to build a Sprite designer application - never finished (t'was always buggy!). When I got fed up with that, I'd simply bash out another E-tune!!
Of course, I've since grown up :)
Gavin Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Are you the same Matt Craven that wrote Damp by any chance?
Andy
Thursday, November 25, 2004, 1:23:27 PM, you wrote:
Gavin> There you go Matthew...just occurred to me, if we do call it
worldofsam.org,
Gavin> we'll be WOS as well as the Speccy one...:)
Gavin> Quoting "Matthew J. Craven" <[EMA
There you go Matthew...just occurred to me, if we do call it worldofsam.org,
we'll be WOS as well as the Speccy one...:)
Quoting "Matthew J. Craven" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Hi Gavin,
>
> I vote for worldofsam.org. Haven't been able to post for ages, as
> Frode keeps sending me emails saying I am
Quoting Andy Monk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Just my thoughts on the Sam Archive site project:
>
>
> 1) It'd be nice to have a section dedicated to all you guys, names,
> photos, a brief paragraph or two regarding your involvement in the Sam
> scene etc...
> 2) An 'online' music player
Quoting Wolfgang Haller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> To the name voting: First I prefered "samcommunity.org", but a community
> is a connection of persons, who have ALL the same interest. I can´t see
> this community.
> So I prefer "worldofsam.org" as it comes nearest to the things that are
> planned
Gavin Smith wrote:
I know of a few people with a CD drive connected - Wolfgang, you have
this setup don't you? I haven't tried it, but from what I understand,
it's possible to bung a CD containing .dsks into a drive connected to
a SAM - it's then possible to write the .dsk to an Atom connected
>> Of course Colin could put a link to the other site from his, but that just
>> tends to make people think he's trying to get free advertising by using the
>> .com, even though it's actually the other way around, and will reflect badly
>> on him.
I'm sure people wouldn't think that badly of him
Just my thoughts on the Sam Archive site project:
1) It'd be nice to have a section dedicated to all you guys, names, photos, a brief paragraph or two regarding your involvement in the Sam scene etc...
2) An 'online' music player (maybe something in Flash) that can play Sam audio
Quoting Geoff Winkless <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Gavin Smith wrote:
> > By the way, I still plan to get the domain sorted tomorrow evening so
> > if anyone has an opinion on what domain they'd like us to use, shout
> > out today or tomorrow - it looks like samcoupe.org is in the lead at
> > the momen
Geoff Winkless wrote:
> worldofsam.org would still be my preferred option
That's my favourite too - it does seem like we're doing a SAM version of
worldofspectrum.org after all.
> I'd also be happy with samarchive.org or similar - in fact, anything
> _except_ samcoupe.org :)
Agreed. samcoupe.o
Gavin Smith wrote:
> By the way, I still plan to get the domain sorted tomorrow evening so
> if anyone has an opinion on what domain they'd like us to use, shout
> out today or tomorrow - it looks like samcoupe.org is in the lead at
> the moment.
?
I vehemently believe this to be the wrong appro
> > > - current versions of SimCoupe are able to read a format .sdf, this was
> > > designed by Simon Owen for use in SimCoupe and can describe all Sam
> > > disks. However there is no support for it outside of SimCoupe
> >
> > An important consideration for the archive is to make sure it's easy
On Thu, 2004-11-25 at 09:20, Gavin Smith wrote:
> Quoting Andrew Collier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > - current versions of SimCoupe are able to read a format .sdf, this was
> > designed by Simon Owen for use in SimCoupe and can describe all Sam
> > disks. However there is no support for it outside
Quoting Andrew Collier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> - .dsk is a very simple format, it will describe only unprotected disks
> but is well understood and there are many programs which can read/save
> into this format.
>
> - .dsk can be compressed as dsk.gz, which then can be used in almost as
> many
On Nov 24, 2004, at 9:30 am, Gavin Smith wrote:
Use gzip rather than zip, then SimCoupe can load them directly.
What does anyone else think about this?
I would say dsk.gz is never less convenient that dsk.zip, and in may
situations is completely transparent.
Well, SimCoupe's already got o
I may be able to offer another mirror site for file storage - again depends
on bandwidth etc, but ive got a little free to play with. Also why bother
worrying about which of the addresses to get - Personally I vote for a sam
community url, but I currently have samcoupe.co.uk which I will forward o
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