Re: [Sam-users] The Space Adventure Simulator

Hi to everyone on still on the list! Will check it out! Saw your video on YouTube so with the release I'll cover it in SAM Revival as I scramble to get issue 26 out asap (It's been a while...) But things come together and I've been able to step up the SAM work I've been doing over the last year,

RE: Floppy disk drive error

uch as the flopper interface - http://www.sellmyretro.com/offer/details/10973 Just a different way of accessing software... Rich www.rwapsoftware.co.uk <http://www.rwapsoftware.co.uk> On May 23, 2016 at 7:58 PM Colin Piggot mailto:qua...@clara.net> > wrote: Always worth be

RE: R: Floppy disk drive error

Always worth bearing in mind that the Citizen disk drives used by MGT/SAMCo were made around 1989-1991 or thereabouts, they were discontinued very early in SAM’s life so are getting on for over 25 years old! The belts will be perishing quite a bit and becoming slack, unfortunately I’ve not been

RE: Floppy disk drive error

Always worth bearing in mind that the Citizen disk drives used by MGT/SAMCo were made around 1989-1991 or thereabouts, they were discontinued very early in SAM’s life so are getting on for over 25 years old! The belts will be perishing quite a bit and becoming slack, unfortunately I’ve not been

RE: R: Floppy disk drive error

Thanks for the endorsement. 20 odd years of doing stuff, and still going – with a few announcements soon about some new stuff that I’m tinkering away on. Next up will be SAM Revival issue 26… then after that some hardware… (Who’s not got SAM Revival issue 25 yet? It’s up on eBay with £1 off a

Re: SAM Revival issue 25 now out! (And other recent releases!)

Excellent :) That's what I like to hear Ian! For those of you after the magazine I've got a pile of them sitting here ready to post out. SAM Revival issue 25 costs £4.99 with UK Postage, £7.99 with EU postage, or £8.99 for anywhere outside of the EU. 56 pages, 2 disks, etc... etc... :) You can

Re: SAM Revival issue 25 now out! (And other recent releases!)

27 PM, Ian Spencer wrote: Hi Colin, thanks obviously a lot of work and a really great issue. Enjoyed reading it from beginning to end. Best wishes, Ian (Spencer) Am 11.10.2015 um 12:31 schrieb Colin Piggot: Hi Folks, It's finally out! SAM Revival issue 25! 56 pages packed with SAM go

Re: SAM Revival issue 25 now out! (And other recent releases!)

31 schrieb Colin Piggot: Hi Folks, It's finally out! SAM Revival issue 25! 56 pages packed with SAM goodies for the 25th Anniversary of the computer. What's in the magazine? Well, let's take a look at the cover first. I commissioned a new drawing by Robin Evans - the original

SAM Revival issue 25 now out! (And other recent releases!)

Hi Folks, It's finally out! SAM Revival issue 25! 56 pages packed with SAM goodies for the 25th Anniversary of the computer. What's in the magazine? Well, let's take a look at the cover first. I commissioned a new drawing by Robin Evans - the original artist for the SAM robot, you'll be famil

Re: Bug in game Oh No! More Lemmings

Thomas Harte wrote: I didn’t own either of the Lemmings titles back in the day so this is quite exciting news. But is there a trick to getting Oh No More Lemmings to work? It doesn’t boot on its own and performing a disk swap from the Lemmings title screen doesn’t seem to get me anywhere... F

Re: Bug in game Oh No! More Lemmings

"the wub" wrote: Really glad to hear that I was probably wrong, I'd seen this before and so leapt to a conclusion. :) Chris White had granted permission for Prince of Persia, Lemmings and Oh No More Lemmings and they are up on World of Sam for download. http://www.worldofsam.org/node/403

Re: Forever Demos

Adam wrote: If anyone doesn't know yet, there were two demos supposed to be shown. Due to hardware problems the competition failed. Both demos have been released anyway: http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=62812 http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=62809 Fantastic to see some new demos. Both ar

Re: Bug in game Oh No! More Lemmings

I played this game and I found a bug in the level 3 (rating crazy), password NEYLEKNO. Does it exist any fix and level codes for this game? Solaris104 I don't recall an updated version of Oh No More Lemmings. From what I remember playing it years ago there are other bugs in the game too - in

Re: Bug in game Oh No! More Lemmings

I think you're being ignored by the mailing list because of the suspicion that you may be using an illegal copy of this game. Some people don't have a problem with copying a 20+ year old game for a dead system. Some do. That's not really the issue I think. Perhaps no one has seen the patch or

Re: Windows Tools for Sam

Another thumbs up for an early version of Paint Shop Pro - I've been using version 6 for years. I save images as a 256 x 192 pixel 16 colour .BMP file, then use Edwin's SAM Screen Viewer to convert it to a SAM SCREEN$ when adding it to a disk image. Colin = Quazar : Hardware, Software, Sp

Re: SAM Revival ... Revived!

I've just put up a preview of SAM Revival 25 on my website at www.samcoupe.com and it features one of the full articles from the forthcoming issue. The full issue, will be featuring: - Weighing in at 56 pages, issue 25 features a huge news section to cover all the latest developments and rele

Re: HxC and Sam Coupe

Graeme wrote: So just to follow up, Colin made me the extended adapter board and my HxC is now working nicely on with the Coupe. Excellent! Good to know you've got it set up and working. Colin = Quazar : Hardware, Software, Spares and Repairs for the SAM Coupé 1995-2013 - Celebrating 19 Ye

Re: HxC and Sam Coupe

From: "Graeme Gregory" wrote: So one of my Sams just happens to have a duff drive, I was wondering is it an easy enough job to dismantle the drive to extract the control board and hook up a HxC instead? You'ld have to do a lot of desoldering at the back of the original Citizen disk drive to re

Re: SimCoupe / Trinity

Stefan wrote: I know Collin Piggot was against Quazar emulation in SimCoupe - what's your position in regards to Trinity? Sorry Stefan, I'm still against my hardware being emulated in SimCoupe. Regards, Colin = Quazar : Hardware, Software, Spares and Repairs for the SAM Coupé 1995-2013 -

Re: SAM Revival ... Revived!

da...@properbastard.co.uk" Sent: ‎4/‎25/‎2013 13:08 To: "sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no" ; "Colin Piggot" Subject: Re: SAM Revival ... Revived! Thanks for the great read Colin! Really enjoying the issue as always Quoting Colin Piggot : It's about time... Yes, it's bac

SAM Revival ... Revived!

It's about time... Yes, it's back! Yes, it's been a long time! SAM Revival 24 is now finally out. It's been a rocky road to get this issue done, and unfortunately work on new SAM Coupé bits and bobs hasn't always been able to feature high on my list of priorities recently. Please remember it's a

Re: Magic Caves 2002

And the link to the main Supplement website too http://www.simon.mooli.org.uk/snarf/SUPPLEMENT/ Colin = Quazar : Hardware, Software, Spares and Repairs for the SAM Coupé 1995-2013 - Celebrating 19 Years of developing for the SAM Coupé Website: http://www.samcoupe.com/ Twitter: @QuazarSam

Re: Magic Caves 2002

Solaris 104 wrote: Hi. I can't find the game Magic Caves 2002 anywhere. This game is on youtube. Is it freeware or commercial title? Magic Caves was written by Dave Tonks, and features on the SAM Supplement compilation CD which were available from Simon Goodwin around 2003. (The version of

Re: Hotline tapes

Don't remember where exactly they were uploaded to, but I did download them at the time - will pass them on to you. Colin = Quazar : Hardware, Software, Spares and Repairs for the SAM Coupé 1995-2013 - Celebrating 19 Years of developing for the SAM Coupé Website: http://www.samcoupe.com/ Twi

Re: Convert an Atari Neochrome to SAM with KEdisk

Thank you Colin. I already knew LCD's website, but didn't remember BMP2SCR. It seems it converts only to ZX Spectrum screen, SAM mode 1. It could be useful in some cases, but I need to convert also to mode 4. That must be an early version then. The latest version I have used myself is BMP2SCR

Re: Convert an Atari Neochrome to SAM with KEdisk

It's great for it's ability to work out the best palette with various dithering images. Mean to type 'dithering options' Doh! Colin = Quazar : Hardware, Software, Spares and Repairs for the SAM Coupé 1995-2012 - Celebrating 18 Years of developing for the SAM Coupé Website: http://www.samcou

Re: Convert an Atari Neochrome to SAM with KEdisk

If you are after an easy way to convert images to the SAM, then I recommend BMP2SCR by LCD. It's great for it's ability to work out the best palette with various dithering images. Not sure if it is still up on his website for download (http://members.inode.at/838331/index.html) but he is on this

Re: Capacitor fix for comms interface

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

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

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

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

Re: Essential Sam Goodies

James wrote: Thanks, Colin. If you happen to know what the postage will be on ordering a back issue in the USA then I'll place an order (and accept your offer of a disk image). As long as I can pay you without creating a PayPal account, anyway. I don't mind a one off transaction, but I refuse

Re: Essential Sam Goodies

James wrote: Hey Colin and all, I've been meaning to ask about T'n'T for a while. I legally purchased this game, back in the day, and have a desire to play it again. Is there any way to acquire a disk image? Does SAM Revival come with a disk image and do I need to purchase it to re-acquire th

Re: Musics

David wrote: If anyone fancies a listen to the most fiendishly complicated piece of Sam music I've written, Great music as always! Colin = Quazar : Hardware, Software, Spares and Repairs for the SAM Coupé 1995-2012 - Celebrating 18 Years of developing for the SAM Coupé Website: http://www.

Re: Essential Sam Goodies

Graeme wrote: Ok, to change the topic from current discussion lately ;-) I am a newbie to the Sam world, I bought a machine on ebay as a whim and to reach one of my childhood dreams of owning one. As a kid I could not afford one and by the time I had $$$ Sam had dissapeared and it was time for U

Re: Junk mail

Nev wrote: Do you want to hear my 4 year tale of woe of being harassed and stalked across the internet by this crazy person? I can assure you, if he's not trying to annoy or be provocative he does a damn good imitation of it. My tale of woe spans over 6 years now and not just online. It cer

Re: Floppy drive problem

Thomas wrote: the original MGT SAM Coupe diskdrives are from Citizen, they are indeed a bit different than PC drives. One possible way is to get a replacement drivebelt, or buy a replacement diskdrive, both can be ordered from Quazar: http://www.samcoupe.com/ I don't have any original Citizen

Re: Power supply circuit diagram

Aley wrote: You can clearly see that D4 is missing (right-bottom), and there is a very large old zener diode put there instead. It is Tesla 6NZ70 - 12V 1.5W Zener diode which proudes a LOT of heat. (If I count correctly, a 2.5W diode should be used instead.) That's not the standard part... ne

Re: Power supply circuit diagram

Aley Keprt wrote: So I just need to know what was the original piece in the PSU and I am going to replace it back. For the 12V Zener Diode - I use 1N5349B when repairing old supplies. I would also recommend replacing the wirewound resistor by it with a higher wattage part - often see them bu

Re: SR 24 - any news Colin?

The easiest thing I can say at the moment is SAM Revival will be out when it's out. The magazine isn't dead, work continues (slowly), but currently I have other priorities that leave me very little time for SAM stuff. Colin. = Quazar : Hardware, Software, Spares and Repairs for the SAM Co

Re: Resistor R55

"Thomas Harte" wrote: It looks like a previous owner of my current SAM has had occasion to replace resistor R55, or at least, to solder an additional copy of R55 on top of the existing one. See http://postimage.org/image/1g4kbz490/ That's something I've seen on a lot of SAM motherboards by

Re: screen modes

Andrew Park wrote: I can't remember for the life of me how mode 1 is mapped out where is the start address of the screen and where is the attribute data stored Start address of the screen will depend which page you have set as the video page (VMPR). Mode 1 will only use the first 6912 bytes of

Re: Cables for a composite PAL monitor?

Thomas wrote: it's a normal yellow phono for composite. Obviously the SAM can output RGB and composite from its not-quite-SCART socket, but what can I do to connect it to my TV? Quazar doesn't seem to have anything relevant in stock and I'm a soldering dunce. But I do make up customised cable

Re: keyboard membrane replacement

Spent a bit more time on this today, and a few emails to Rwap... Warren wrote: No worries! ;-) I'd have probably seen them on ebay anyway, and tried one, given the problems I've had in the past with my membrane. Pity the guy making them, didn't produce a test one first and at least contact so

Re: keyboard membrane replacement

Warren wrote: Ouch! That's a real shame! Thanks for the heads-up Colin! I was finally going to test mine this weekend, but was in two minds due to the extra stress it would put on the old one again... makes you wonder if the guy making 'em even tested one on a SAM, or just saw an extra mark

Re: keyboard membrane replacement

Yes, my membrane from RWAP also work incorrect. But theoretically exist very easy way for fix this "bug". ( Replace pull-up resistors on SAM COUPE... it's not tested, but can help ) The main problem would appear with the one I have, after more testing, is the pressure required to make the cont

Re: keyboard membrane replacement

ellvis wrote: I just wanted to ask if anyone have bought new membrane for Sam from Rwap. If yes, what is your experience? I bought two of them. But none is working properly. I have to press keys hard and few times to get them work. Keys "F" and "J" doesn't work at all. I took care there are not

Re: keyboard membrane replacement

Warren wrote: I echo that. Thanks for the info. I bought one probably a good month or more ago, but I just haven't had the chance to test it yet. I think Colin had tried one and found it worked okay after a quick test, so I'm hoping mine will work too. ellvis wrote: I will try ore or two

Re: SAM Revival 24?

Oh god. I'm willing to bet I get ripped a new one on the Sandman's Shadow stuff. Yet another ball dropped :( sorry Gordon. Nope, the article isn't ripping into anyone whatsoever! It's more a look back at all Gordon's ideas for the game and he's passed over so much artwork ranging from mock sc

Re: SAM Revival 24?

Any news on SAM Revival 24. ... out soon... 7th October 2010 ? I think Colin's probably been bogged down with that dreaded virus many of us suffer with... WORK!! lol! ;-) I'm sure we'll see it soon enough. Well, that's a big part of it, work! SAM stuff doesn't pay the bills ... unless som

Re: Porting spectrum games...

Just downloaded the demo now that Frode has moved it to a folder that we can download from. the_wub! - very nice work indeed * goes back to catching up with all the list emails from the last week or two... didn't have broadband for over a week :( * Colin = Quazar : Hardware, Software

SAM Revival magazine (was Re: The 3d demo I supplied for Sam Revival 22)

Ian Spencer wrote: > Is Sam Revival 23 out yet as I've not received it ? That's typical, just sent the E-Mail and Issue 23 is on the mat waiting for me. Great issue thanks Colin Hi folks, Sorry for being so quiet recently, if only there were more hours in the day to get on with things! T

Re: (i) counting frames; (ii) emulators in general

Thomas wrote: (1) I'm vaguely aware that there's a "current scanline" hardware counter somewhere - does that count actual PAL lines or only lines with pixels on them? HPEN port (&01f8) will give the current scanline - for scanlines in the display area only (0-191 iirc) And how long does th

Re: wubtris

There is the FTP site still going at ftp://ftp.nvg.ntnu.no/pub/sam-coupe which Frode maintains. Colin = Quazar : Hardware, Software, Spares and Repairs for the SAM Coupe 1995-2009 - Celebrating 15 Years of developing for the SAM Coupe Website: http://www.samcoupe.com/ Adrian wrote: What a

Re: SAMOnline... TCP/IP Stack Update

Adrian wrote: Well some good news today. With help from Colin and also Turbomon (nice one Simon :D) SAM not only sends an HTTP GET Request to a web server, but it also displays the text it receives back from it. SAM is now officially online :D. It's a fantastic mile stone, and it's been gr

Re: Hello to the Sam community!

Rob wrote: I'd be delighted and honoured to do all of that! Is the weekend too late for screenshots and the first demo? Fantastic! The weekend isn't too late at all - issue 23 of SAM Revival won't be printed for about another fortnight or thereabouts so plenty of time yet for screenshots.

Re: Hello to the Sam community!

Rob wrote: I did buy a copy of Sam Revival from Colin through ebay (issue 21 I think) not long after I bought the Sam. Hope you enjoyed it! Colin has a few nice upgrades that I think I need and the trinity looks amazing so I hope you find this bug too! I'm really itching for Adrian's port o

Re: SAM's 20th Birthday

Andrew wrote: I don't remember precisely when I got mine - probably towards the end of 1990 since it was definitely after Sam Computers Ltd started up when you could get the Sam with a disk drive included for under £200, which I did. I was a late starter... March 1993 for me, SAM 512K + 1 driv

Re: Hello to the Sam community!

Rob wrote: I'd be happy to email disk images to anyone who is interested in following the development on a day to day basis. Hi Rob, welcome to the list! I'd certainly be very interested in following the progress - great to hear of new stuff in development! I'd also be happy to pop news about

Re: Hi - just checking

Ian wrote: Not heard anything on the group for quite a while so just thought I would send a 'test' to check it's not me that's got a problem and say hi to everyone. I know you've all taken your Sam's to the beach and so no activity on the group. I've been a bit quiet, but still been getting o

Re: SAM's 20th Birthday

Chris wrote: There was a thread a while ago mentioning the SAM's 20th birthday. When exactly is the 20th anniversary of the machine? Sometime in December, from when the first lot of SAMs were sent out. Exact date who knows :) Colin = Quazar : Hardware, Software, Spares and Repairs

Re: SAM's 20th Birthday

we should push ‘Retro Gamer’ I had approached Retro Gamer before about writing about the SAM and have signed a freelance contract for writing for them, time hasn't been on my side lately but it's on my to-do list to get an article completed as it is approaching the 20th Birthday... I'll persu

Re: Loss of colours

I would probably be more inclined to initially suspect something faulty to do with the video DAC circuitry or that rather than initially assuming it's the ASIC. Of all the SAMs I've had sent my way for repair I've yet to see a faulty ASIC - although of course there is always the first time! But in

Re: Power supply making a buzzing noise

Thomas wrote: > It's not too important, since I have a spare (albeit with the VHF > video thingy missing), but my Sam's power supply has started making an > increasingly loud buzzing noise when it is plugged in. Should I be > alert that it is not long for this world and/or worried for my own > safe

Re: B-DOS hard disk layout?

Actually, that won't be the case... it will only be using half the linear addressing space of the flash card... so B-DOS would be trying to write to both the first 512bytes and last 512bytes of the larger sector depending which sector it 'thinks' it is writing to with it just allowing for 512 byte

Re: B-DOS hard disk layout?

Thomas Harte wrote: > I noticed that 2 gb cards aren't officially > supported, but that was the smallest size that I was > able to obtain and seems to work fine, albeit without using all > the space. Well, they will work to some extent, although I make no warranties about it! The card size and mu

Re: B-DOS hard disk layout?

Thomas Harte wrote: > I'm just trying to put together a quick OS X tool for managing > the 2gb SD card that I'm using with my new and spiffy Trinity > interface - I've been informed by Colin that the cards use the > standard B-DOS layout, identical to the Atom, but I can't > seem to find any docume

Re: ANNOUNCE: SAMflate - gzip file decoder

Andrew Collier wrote: > Hello all, > > I would like to announce immediate availability of a new program: > > SAMflate Great work Andrew, will have to have a play with it! Colin = Quazar : Hardware, Software, Spares and Repairs for the SAM Coupe 1995-2009 - Celebrating 15 Years of developing

Re: SAM Revival issue 22 out now!

I wrote... > Looks like I'll have to get my hands dirty with some Z80 at the > weekend... And I have! The patched ROM3 is ready. By removing the rainbow stripes and the copyright message I freed up 130 bytes and just managed to squeeze my new code in the ROM to first check that the Trinity Ethern

Re: SAM Revival issue 22 out now!

Thomas wrote: > I'm a bit confused about all this — how will this all work from > a technical point of view? I don't know what hardware ethernet > controllers tend to have... presumably the ethernet controller can > self assemble packets, then the z80 will run a TCP/IP stack and > the various HTTP

Re: SAM Revival issue 22 out now!

Adrian wrote: > Sign me up for one.. Pretty Please :D Looks like I'll have to get my hands dirty with some Z80 at the weekend... Colin = Quazar : Hardware, Software, Spares and Repairs for the SAM Coupe 1995-2009 - Celebrating 15 Years of developing for the SAM Coupe Website: http://www.samco

Re: SAM Revival issue 22 out now!

Thomas wrote: > To my mind, this would add significantly to the value of the Trinity, > and if you were to develop such a thing (presumably it'd just be > however long it takes to modify the OS ROM, then existing Trinitys > could be reflashed?) then I would definitely go on the pre-order list. No

Re: SAM Revival issue 22 out now!

Steve wrote: > My be others ?? Colin? Si? Yup, got a programmer and an eraser sitting here. Colin = Quazar : Hardware, Software, Spares and Repairs for the SAM Coupe 1995-2009 - Celebrating 15 Years of developing for the SAM Coupe Website: http://www.samcoupe.com/

Re: SAM Revival issue 22 out now!

Thomas wrote: > Also, any thoughts on how hard it would be to put together a similar > ROM for the Trinity? Simon wrote: > Spare space in the ROM is fairly limited and Edwin spent a while shaving > extra bytes of his AL detection and booting code. Still, with the > Trinity being a single device o

SAM Revival issue 22 out now!

Hi folks, Just a quick note to say that SAM Revival issue 22 is now out, and subscribers copies have been posted this morning. All the info on the issue and PayPal buy now options are up on my website at www.samcoupe.com All the best, Colin = Quazar : Hardware, Software, Spares and Repairs

I've been a bit quiet...

Hi folks, Apologies for being so quiet recently. Having started a new job a couple of months ago I saw a rather drastic decrease in the time I had for the SAM, but as things get straightened out I'm back busy with SAM stuff and playing catchup! I spent yesterday slaving over a hot soldering iron s

Re: Attempts at 3d on the Sam?

Thomas Harte wrote: > Oh, but it did also occur to me that I could create a convex-sector > and vertical portal Wolfenstein-type thing for just an extra couple of > multiplies per vertex. > > Then maybe use coherence stuff to produce a filled display, > so you're mostly just extending or shrin

Re: Attempts at 3d on the Sam?

Thomas Harte wrote: > I think I'm running out of optimisation ideas now, which is not to say > that there aren't any, just that I haven't had them yet and may never > have them. So it's time to start implementing an actual game. Anything in mind at this stage for a game, and how feesible would it

Re: Grabbing floppy images

Adrian wrote: > Is that a little hint hint at hte bottom of your email ;) Nah, not trying to hint, I'd just send a message saying "chop chop" if I wanted to be blatent about it! ;) Besides you know I've been excited about seeing the stack going from when you first said you would be looking at por

Re: Grabbing floppy images

Thomas wrote: > I take it from the talk of different versions of B-DOS that the > neither the Atom nor Trinity interfaces make any attempt to look > like a WD177x in hardware? Correct. Having hardware that would mimic the WD1772 for mass-storage would be overkill I think, and drastically more com

Re: Grabbing floppy images

Thomas wrote: > Hmmm, so Sam DOS numbers tracks from 0, but sectors from 1? Or am I > suffering a deficit of logic? Yes, tracks 0-79, 128-207 and sectors 1 to 10. > The Atom won't read disk images from a FAT32 volume on the compact > flash and just make them looks like dfisks to the Sam? Atom,

SAM Revival milestone + Offers

I hit a milestone with SAM Revival this week - SAM Revival has now been sent to 20 countries! Ranging from most European countries to as far afield as South Korea and the USA where old SAM users are keen to see what's going on. So for a little celebration if you've not got the latest issue of SAM R

Re: Attempts at 3d on the Sam?

Thomas wrote: > I've submitted to Colin a tiny little demo of the 'engine' up to the > point of the most recent youtube video and it is my current > understanding that it'll be on the disk with Sam Revival 22. Yeap, that'll feature on the coverdisk with 22, along an article from Thomas. The coverd

Re: Interlaced video

Dave wrote: > Here's Simon's vision finally realised 18 years on :-) > http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/dlaundon/mode3+3a.jpg Oooh, nice! > On a previous > TV (years ago) it seemed like the composite signal and RGB signals > were interfering with each other (and one seemed to be offset from the > othe

Re: Interlaced video

Thomas wrote: > There's a timing difference between even frames and odd fields in the > syncs generated at the field end. Non-interlaced video essentially > sends only even fields. Was about to say the same thing. The standard 625 line frame (consisting of one odd and one even field) has several s

Re: Interlaced video

James wrote: > Wasn't it Sinclair User? Oops! Yes, you're quite right. It was Sinclair User - issue 99. Colin = Quazar : Hardware, Software, Spares and Repairs for the SAM Coupe 1995-2008 - Celebrating 14 Years of developing for the SAM Coupe Website: http://www.samcoupe.com/

Re: Interlaced video

Dave wrote: > I seem to remember there was a cover tape on one of the magazines that > had a "new display mode" that swapped between two screens at 50Hz or > something. Can't remember if it was "interlacing" or some method of > increasing colours. My memory is vague... Yes, it was Simon Goodwin'

Re: Interlaced video

Dave wrote: > Anyway, it seems my TV doesn't realise the signal is not interlaced! Hmmm... sounds an interesting telly! The "comb effect" definitely shows it's interlacing. I've not come across a telly that will automatically interlace non-interlaced video before - although I have seen one that re

Re: Short, short questions

Thomas Harte wrote: > Literally anything? On many of the machines I have written emulators > for, most things are usually completely changeable but some things are > loaded internally — especially on any machine that has a variable > screen start address. Not literally anything, you can change the

Re: Short, short questions

Andrew Collier wrote: > If I used IM1 this would require that either, a) the screen goes in sections A > and B, and the interrupt routine is actuially visible in pixels - or b) the > moveable window goes in sections A and B, and I have to duplicate the > interrupt routine in nearly every page of me

Re: Short, short questions

Adrian Brown wrote: > Ok, i haven't read all the posts on this, but why not stick the code in > LMPR and use IM1 - saves having the table of vectors. That's my favoured approach too. > ** UIP Sam Port 4100+ lines of z80 and climbing Woo! It's so tantilisingly close! David Brant wrote: > But t

Re: In pursuit of Dead Wild Cat

Thomas wrote: > I'm not doing too terribly (see > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hcMiB1ZkukM > for my attempt at a Cobra Mk 3 versus the Spectrum original), Great work! > Dead Wild Cat Never looked at the disassembly of that, but can remember the distorted perspective when it was running.

Re: Tiny little aspect ratio question

Thomas wrote: > Is it correct to say that a 204x192 (204 is approximately 256 *4/5) > image on the SAM will occupy approximately the same amount of space on > a TV screen as a 256x192 image on the Spectrum? I've never felt that 5:4 is bang on the correct aspect ratio. From measuring on a few telli

SAM Revival issue 21 out now...

Issue 21 of Sam Revival is now out! Inside the issue you'll find all the regulars covering all the latest news in the SAM Coupe world. Feature articles include an interview from Frode Tennebo where he interviews David Gommeren and Rob Mies of The Lords. Gavin Smith continues his look back at some

Re: Kaleidoscope questions

James wrote: > > > I spent good money on mine. > > > > And what did you think of it when you got it? :) > > "Is it doing anything?". Hehehe! Good answer! Colin = Quazar : Hardware, Software, Spares and Repairs for the Sam Coupe 1995-2008 - Celebrating 14 Years of developing for the Sam Co

Re: Kaleidoscope questions

David wrote: > About the only software I ever saw to support it was Nigel > Kettlewell's KPALETTE routine in SAM PRIME disk mag Yeap, likewise when I went hunting around. SAM PRIME issue 3 I think it was, one of the first disk mags I ever bought all those years ago when I first got a SAM! Colin

Re: Files on nvg without read/write privileges

> As the owner is frodet and every other file I've checked has had read > privileges set for 'group' and 'others', is it right to conclude that > this was a deliberate move, maybe to ensure the files were backed up > but not to distribute them for now, for legal reasons? Yeah, a safe assumption to

Re: Kaleidoscope questions

James Curry wrote: > > > Is that really all that it is meant to do? > > > > Yes useless isn't it? :) > > I spent good money on mine. And what did you think of it when you got it? :) Colin = Quazar : Hardware, Software, Spares and Repairs for the Sam Coupe 1995-2008 - Celebrating 14 Y

Re: Re[4]: Kaleidoscope questions

Andy wrote: > That makes my SAM (and me!) feel very old! > The 20th Anniversary of the little blue (in my case) legged friend next year then. Let's not forget the rare black footed ones, and the extremely rare grey footed ones either ;) Colin = Quazar : Hardware, Software, Spares and Repairs

Re: Re[2]: Kaleidoscope questions

Andy wrote: > Is that Similar in design to the SAMDAC at all when used to play back > MODs? (That was one of my favourite add-ons combined with the SAM MOD > player when they first appeared. Real sound out my SAM for the first > time!) The Voicebox was a SP0256 based Speech Synthesisor. The Blue

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