Re: Capacitor fix for comms interface

2012-08-04 Thread Colin Piggot
David wrote: I seem to remember Colin making a simple two player game which we tested before going for a Pizza before one of the shows :) My networked PacMan used the MIDI/Network ports on the back of the SAM for simple communications between the machines :) Colin = Quazar : Hardware, S

Re: Capacitor fix for comms interface

2012-08-04 Thread david
Quoting Calvin Allett : Sorry to stray from topic but I seem to remember you saying that it would be possible to use networking from basic (well hopefully MasterBasic), would it be feasible to set up a server and have time to send perhaps even 6 - 8 bytes of data for multiplayer games, or

Re: Capacitor fix for comms interface

2012-08-04 Thread Calvin Allett
Sorry to stray from topic but I seem to remember you saying that it would be possible to use networking from basic (well hopefully MasterBasic), would it be feasible to set up a server and have time to send perhaps even 6 - 8 bytes of data for multiplayer games, or would it slow down a real time

Re: Capacitor fix for comms interface

2012-08-04 Thread Colin Piggot
David wrote: Trinity may be a better interface to go to - as it could make life a bit easier to work with. Well, not quite yet, but it's getting there! Still some work to be done on the TCP/IP stack but Adrian's been making advances with the main stack code, Simon finalised his ethernet driv

Re: Capacitor fix for comms interface

2012-08-04 Thread Colin Piggot
Steve wrote: According to the World Of Sam Hardware Bugspage, ... Would any of the ones on this Maplin Pagebe appropriate? I'd probably use the largest - 100uF 10V, although Maplin are a rip off in terms

Re: Second Hand Sam Coupe Wanted

2012-08-04 Thread Colin Piggot
David wrote: To be fair, what are the odds of a random Sam's drive still working anyway? With only a little help from Colin - very good! Unfortunately not these days, I've no spares left for the original Citizen drives. But new internal disk interfaces and drives I can do, with a few built