RE: MasterBasic PDF Version 1 [ now ready ]

2004-12-13 Thread Geoff Winkless
I can only see the English version...   ;)   G From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: 12 December 2004 14:51To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.noSubject: MasterBasic PDF Version 1 [ now ready ] Hi Folks,     Just had time to finnish this, and its ready

Re: MasterBasic PDF Version 1 [ now ready ]

2004-12-13 Thread Edwin Blink
From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Just had time to finnish this, and its ready for download from the Pro-Dos > site. Excellent Job ! That also counts for the Masterdos update. However I wonder. Does the masterbasic manual realy start out with contentEs on the first page ? Edwin

Re: MasterBasic PDF Version 1 [ now ready ]

2004-12-13 Thread Gavin Smith
Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > [ now looking off a Sam pfd project , what would you like? ] Do you have the wee manual that came with Nev's IDE interface? Colin, do you still have the software? (Nev has given us permission for both) Cheers, Gavin

Re: MasterBasic PDF Version 1 [ now ready ]

2004-12-13 Thread Colin Piggot
Gavin Smith wrote: > Do you have the wee manual that came with Nev's IDE interface? > Colin, do you still have the software? (Nev has given us > permission for both) Yeap... i've still got both the manual and disk from the interface. Colin. = *** Dec 2004 sees Sam's 15th Birthday - Special

A Comprehensive List

2004-12-13 Thread Johnna
Just a thought - does anyone have a comprehensive list of software that was release on the SAM? A complete list of commercially released games and a utilities, a list of magazines that were available etc. On the new site it would be nice if each bit of software could be accompanied by screenshots

Re: A Comprehensive List

2004-12-13 Thread Gavin Smith
Quoting Johnna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Just a thought - does anyone have a comprehensive list of software that was > release on the SAM? > > A complete list of commercially released games and a utilities, a list of > magazines that were available etc. > > On the new site it would be nice if each

MasterBasic Manual Errors Do you know any?

2004-12-13 Thread MorriganCP
Hello folks,       MasterBasic pdf version 1 is 50% complete – all text has now been OCRd . Before I format the word doc , I want to ask you the following;-   Q 1 . Would you like any errors in the manual fixed where they appear?    yes/no   Q 2. Any errors in t

RE: Format returns

2004-12-13 Thread nev . young
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Yer - I was asking about this - If needed I could contact bob as I have > several old format issues I could turn into pdf. > I have the full set in my attic. Probably being eaten by spiders we you read. Nev

RE: Porting SimCoupe to RISC OS

2004-12-13 Thread Simon Owen
Tarquin Mills wrote: > When I tried compiling SimCoupe on RISC OS (the SDL version) > I got the following output:- I'll reply to this off the list, for the sanity of other list users... :-) Si

RE: SDI a nef diskimage format ?

2004-12-13 Thread Simon Owen
Andy Chandler wrote: > > will cope with all but one SAM disk I've seen so far :-) > > I'm betting that was another Mr Owen creation ;-) It's actually Chris Pile's original Defender disk, which does some gap-level checking as part of the copy protection. The gap information isn't stored as part o

RE: SDI a nef diskimage format ?

2004-12-13 Thread Simon Owen
Geoff Winkless wrote: > Why not a tagged format and tools which can handle both types? If a new image format is going to be created out of all of this, it would certainly make sense to be flexible enough for both uses. A tagged format would be easy to process and nicely extensible too. Beyond a

RE: SDI a nef diskimage format ?

2004-12-13 Thread Z80
Hi, is there a format for SimCoupe similar to Sinclair Spectrum Z80/Sna format ? Regards, Dumitru Florin Gabriel ( Zecut0r ).

RE: SDI a nef diskimage format ?

2004-12-13 Thread Simon Owen
Nev Young wrote: > why not create an image that is a full track image from index > hole to index hole including all the inter sector guff. That > should cover just about everything. It would indeed, if there was a reliable way to dump them! You'd really need all the sync marks as well as the raw

Porting SimCoupe to RISC OS

2004-12-13 Thread Tarquin Mills
When I tried compiling SimCoupe on RISC OS (the SDL version) I got the following output:- *make g++ -O2 -D__STRICT_ANSI__ -ISDL: -Izlib: -I. -I../Base -I../Extern -DUSE_ZLI B -Wall -c -o ../Base/ATA.o ../Base/ATA.cc In file included from ../Base/ATA.cc:23: ../Base/ATA.h:55: warning: ignoring #p

RE: Dial 0898 299 380 through time

2004-12-13 Thread Geoff Winkless
Edwin Blink wrote: > BTW I've also found a SAM Newsletter with the stuff. Anyone remeber > those ? Yeah, think I've got them all in a folder somewhere, along with the newsletters from Enigma's Sam Software Club. G __ This emai

Re[2]: SDI a nef diskimage format ?

2004-12-13 Thread Andy Chandler
>> On a side track (hah), has anyone else found that all their old Sam disks >> are completely unreadable? Is it likely that I had a drive that, while being >> in-spec of the other Sam drives, is out of spec enough so that the average >> PC drive can't read floppies created by it? Or is it more lik

MasterDos Manual pdf Version 1

2004-12-13 Thread MorriganCP
Hi folks   I had 10 mins spare today so here is MasterDos manual pfd version 1.   Now , my Masterdos disk was version 2.1, then updated on 6/6/92 to version 2.3.   if there is any thing different in the manuals from version to version then let me know, and I will compile a new pdf.   Its on t

Re: SDI a nef diskimage format ?

2004-12-13 Thread Dan Dooré
Geoff Winkless wrote: On a side track (hah), has anyone else found that all their old Sam disks are completely unreadable? None comepletly unreadable, many with errors which ment I couldn't make a DSK of them at the time. Unless SamDisk2 can skip errors (I haven't got the URL to hand) they

Re: SDI a nef diskimage format ?

2004-12-13 Thread Dan Dooré
Simon Owen wrote: Does the archive need to be a single format for all disks? Or could the 95% of normal format disks be kept in a simple dumped image format, with only protected disks using a different format needed to describe them correctly? I think yes, the idea of tagging extra data into

MasterBasic PDF Version 1 [ now ready ]

2004-12-13 Thread MorriganCP
Hi Folks,     Just had time to finnish this, and its ready for download from the Pro-Dos site.   http://www.samcoupe-pro-dos.co.uk/sammanual.html   [ now looking off a Sam pfd project , what would you like? ]     Regards Steve(spt)    

Re: SDI a nef diskimage format ?

2004-12-13 Thread Dan Dooré
My two penneth of the disk format discussion: I like the idea of a new, all-encompassing disk format for the samcoupe.org archive (SCOA anyone?) as it will bring together many disparate formats DSK/SDF/SAD etc. into one, but it has to be able to hold the full geometry of the disk. After all

Re: Dial 0898 299 380 through time

2004-12-13 Thread Edwin Blink
Was wondering why a mail didn't got to the list Then I saw I mailed it to some one off-list. While I was looking for the masterdos manual, I found my correspondence with samco again including the letter that accompanied the hotline recording and was dated 10th January 1991. So I've updated the ID3

Re: MasterBasic PDF Version 1 [ now ready ]

2004-12-13 Thread MorriganCP
  opps --- sorry! and it was going so well !    "CONTENTS"   Fixed !   Steve(spt)

Re: MasterDos Manual pdf Version 1

2004-12-13 Thread Gavin Smith
On 9 Dec 2004, at 5:21 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi folks   I had 10 mins spare today so here is MasterDos manual pfd version 1.   Now , my Masterdos disk was version 2.1, then updated on 6/6/92 to version 2.3. Downloading it now - my had a blue cover, was that just a Format re-release thing?

Re: SDI a nef diskimage format ?

2004-12-13 Thread Edwin Blink
Simon: > Good, bad or ugly? Sounds OK. Some things I thought up for 'PC' minded format: Have a format that consists only of track fragments (sectors). Each fragment had a 6 byte header folowed by at least 4 bytes data. So the smallest fragment was 10 bytes and largers 1024 (length/4-4 in one b

Re: MasterDos Manual pdf Version 1

2004-12-13 Thread Edwin Blink
> I had 10 mins spare today so here is MasterDos manual pfd version 1. > > Now , my Masterdos disk was version 2.1, then updated on 6/6/92 to > version 2.3. Gavin: >my had a blue cover, I've got a 1990 First edition. It has a blue cover with a small window cut out where it read 'MasterDOS for th

Re: SDI a nef diskimage format ?

2004-12-13 Thread Frans van Egmond
If one of you programming people need a Catweasel, I have a spare Catweasel MK3 lying around that I'd be happy to loan to you for the duration of this project if it does the community any good :-) Frans Simon Owen wrote: Nev Young wrote: why not create an image that is a full t