Re: Sam's worst ever game

1999-11-30 Thread Martin Fitzpatrick
Dan Dooré wrote: OK! Correction. I have pretty much (99.99%) decided that I'm wrong. The lady from Tetris is none other than Nastassia Kinski. Original image is here: ftp://ftp.nvg.ntnu.no/pub/sam-coupe/graphics/pics/nastassia_from_tetris.jpg That's the baby! Really?... Hmm.. I

Re: Sam's worst ever game

1999-09-26 Thread surfin_usm
From : Maria Rookyard [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ah well, I've been off-list for about 6 weeks but I see I've not missed anything - still the same old sh!te :) :) I'm inclined to agree. -- like Hotmail but faster and a lot better

Re: Sam's worst ever game

1999-09-25 Thread Johnna Teare
On 22 Sep 99, at 17:03, Simon Cooke wrote: This is where my girlfriend has problems with me. The pure wiggling bit I'm fine at. But the timing and skill... Just have a one-player game to increase your stamina beforehand, and then when you get into the game proper, listen for the

Re: Sam's worst ever game

1999-09-25 Thread Simon Cooke
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Re: Sam's worst ever game

1999-09-24 Thread David L
- Original Message - From: Gavin Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no Sent: Thursday, September 23, 1999 1:31 AM Subject: Re: Sam's worst ever game I often find a one-player game is just as enjoyable anyway, so if she complains about your lack of timing and skill, just

Re: Sam's worst ever game

1999-09-24 Thread Maria Rookyard
This is where my girlfriend has problems with me. The pure wiggling bit I'm fine at. But the timing and skill... Just have a one-player game to increase your stamina beforehand, and then when you get into the game proper, listen for the audio cues... Si Simon, For some reason I'm

Re: Sam's worst ever game

1999-09-23 Thread Maria Rookyard
Don't be stupid - if someone had removed part of my head I'd have noticed. Maria. -Original Message- From: Dave Whitmore [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no Date: 22 September 1999 20:43 Subject: Re: Sam's worst ever game On Wed, 22 Sep 1999 18:48:02

Re: Sam's worst ever game

1999-09-23 Thread Johnna Teare
On 22 Sep 99, at 18:48, Maria Rookyard wrote: Oops, did I say same old sh*te? Of course what I really meant was the usual high standard of interesting discussion ;-) It's nice to be back; anything exciting happened since the beginning of last month? Three members havehad sex changes,

Re: Sam's worst ever game

1999-09-23 Thread Johnna Teare
And leave me alone for the goat thing. I'm from the Isle of Man... Peace, Love and Kisses, JohnnaPig Teare http://www.theunstoppablesexmachine.freeserve.co.uk ICQ: 48928093 It won't get better but it might never get worse...

Re: Sam's worst ever game

1999-09-23 Thread Johnna Teare
On 21 Sep 99, at 23:07, Martin Fitzpatrick wrote: The canoeing was always the hardest bit.. after that it moved from being about pure wiggling and into timing skill, which was beyond me... This is where my girlfriend has problems with me. The pure wiggling bit I'm fine at. But the

Re: Sam's worst ever game

1999-09-23 Thread Gavin Smith
Simon Cooke wrote: On 21 Sep 99, at 23:07, Martin Fitzpatrick wrote: The canoeing was always the hardest bit.. after that it moved from being about pure wiggling and into timing skill, which was beyond me... This is where my girlfriend has problems with me. The pure

Re: Sam's worst ever game

1999-09-23 Thread Maria Rookyard
-Original Message- From: Johnna Teare [EMAIL PROTECTED] It's nice to be back; anything exciting happened since the beginning of last month? Three members havehad sex changes, we've all bought new computers and got rid of that heap of off-whit junk and we're now a list devoted to

Re: Sam's worst ever game

1999-09-22 Thread Johnna Teare
On 21 Sep 99, at 19:41, Thomas Harte wrote: STAX was fantastic - the best freebie game ever, save for Tetris. Anywhere I can get a copy? FREd - forget the issue number ... (checks disk box) ...bugger - can't find it! Remember Santa Goes Psycho? I loved that aswell! -Thomas

Re: Sam's worst ever game

1999-09-22 Thread Johnna Teare
On 21 Sep 99, at 15:05, Martin Fitzpatrick wrote: David L wrote: Ahh thats right :)... Ahh.. the remeniscing :) Them were the days... (etc. etc.)... Who'd have thought it'd still be affecting my vocabulary today.. No wonder people give me weird looks sometimes when i

Re: Sam's worst ever game

1999-09-22 Thread Tim
From: Aley Keprt [EMAIL PROTECTED] What is the really worst ever game? Some weeks ago somebody said Parallax, Vegetable Vacation, or FutureBall. What is the worst one? EGGBuM ;-) Or possibly just picked to the post by Colony. I bought it coz I thought it might be a reasonable Sim* type

Re: Sam's worst ever game

1999-09-22 Thread Simon Cooke
From: Martin Fitzpatrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] David L wrote: Ahh thats right :)... Ahh.. the remeniscing :) Them were the days... (etc. etc.)... Who'd have thought it'd still be affecting my vocabulary today.. No wonder people give me weird looks sometimes when i say it.

Re: Sam's worst ever game

1999-09-22 Thread David L
- Original Message - From: Thomas Harte [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 1999 7:41 PM Subject: Re: Sam's worst ever game STAX was fantastic - the best freebie game ever, save for Tetris. Anywhere I can get a copy? We had a copy on Blitz

Re: Sam's worst ever game

1999-09-22 Thread Martin Fitzpatrick
Dan Dooré wrote: Its a shame nobody did a conversion of Daley Thompsons Super Test (or whatever) for the Sam.. I missed being able to knacker my joysticks (3 in total).. it was kinda comical when the handle dislodged itself and you carried on wiggling for a while before realising...

Re: Sam's worst ever game

1999-09-22 Thread Martin Fitzpatrick
Johnna Teare wrote: On 21 Sep 99, at 15:05, Martin Fitzpatrick wrote: David L wrote: Ahh thats right :)... Ahh.. the remeniscing :) Them were the days... (etc. etc.)... Who'd have thought it'd still be affecting my vocabulary today.. No wonder people give me

Re: Sam's worst ever game

1999-09-22 Thread Martin Fitzpatrick
Simon Cooke wrote: From: Martin Fitzpatrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] David L wrote: Ahh thats right :)... Ahh.. the remeniscing :) Them were the days... (etc. etc.)... Who'd have thought it'd still be affecting my vocabulary today.. No wonder people give me weird looks

Re: Sam's worst ever game

1999-09-22 Thread Gavin Smith
Johnna Teare wrote: On 21 Sep 99, at 19:41, Thomas Harte wrote: STAX was fantastic - the best freebie game ever, save for Tetris. Anywhere I can get a copy? FREd - forget the issue number ... (checks disk box) ...bugger - can't find it! Remember Santa Goes Psycho? I loved that

Re: Sam's worst ever game

1999-09-22 Thread Stewart Skardon
On Mon 20 Sep 1999 (23:42:36 +0100), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Johnna Teare wrote: On 20 Sep 99, at 13:25, Gavin Smith wrote: [Snip] What is vegetable vacation?/ :) I long to see it... (well, perhaps not that much) If you are desperate, there is a DSK image of the playable demo on my

Re: Sam's worst ever game

1999-09-22 Thread Stewart Skardon
On Tue 21 Sep 1999 (22:06:28 +0100), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - Original Message - From: Thomas Harte [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 1999 7:41 PM Subject: Re: Sam's worst ever game STAX was fantastic - the best freebie game ever, save

RE: Sam's worst ever game

1999-09-22 Thread Dan Dooré
I had a superb cheat device for Decathlon consisting of an alternate left-right wired rotary switch - It's in front of me now ;-) Hehe...Excellent - did it work? I always imagined that it would be quicker than the joystick to try using yer fingers on the keyboard, but it just wasn't

Re: Sam's worst ever game

1999-09-22 Thread Ian Collier
On Wed, Sep 22, 1999 at 09:23:44AM +0100, Dan Dooré wrote: I had a superb cheat device for Decathlon consisting of an alternate left-right wired rotary switch - It's in front of me now ;-) It worked fine, with a bit of broom-handle as a handle and a foot pedal stolen from a Stenorette

Re: Sam's worst ever game

1999-09-22 Thread Stewart Skardon
On Wed 22 Sep 1999 (14:00:04 +0100), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Stewart Skardon wrote: If you are desperate, there is a DSK image of the playable demo on my siteURL below. Urmm.. the zip aint there. But the screenshot looks... urm.. weird. Why's the tomato purple? Ooops.Fixed

Re: Sam's worst ever game

1999-09-22 Thread Maria Rookyard
Oops, did I say same old sh*te? Of course what I really meant was the usual high standard of interesting discussion ;-) It's nice to be back; anything exciting happened since the beginning of last month? Maria (glad to be back really!)

Re: Sam's worst ever game

1999-09-22 Thread Maria Rookyard
Ah well, I've been off-list for about 6 weeks but I see I've not missed anything - still the same old sh!te Maria.

Re: Sam's worst ever game

1999-09-22 Thread Dave Whitmore
On Wed, 22 Sep 1999 18:48:02 +0100 Wed, 22 Sep 99 19:34:18 BST, Maria Rookyard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's nice to be back; anything exciting happened since the beginning of last month? Yeah, another woman came in and stole your crown. :-) Dave

Re: Sam's worst ever game

1999-09-21 Thread Johnna Teare
On 20 Sep 99, at 13:25, Gavin Smith wrote: Most-hyped-game-that-turned-out-to-be-not-very-good goes to Legend of Eshan. Hurrah! Somebody who agrees with me. I remember reviewing this for SAM2Sam and giving it something like 9% and I got loads of stick for it. Not the worst game ever, but

Re: Sam's worst ever game

1999-09-21 Thread Johnna Teare
On 20 Sep 99, at 14:19, Nick Humphries wrote: The best Columns game on the SAM was the one on one of the Arcadia disks - used to play that for hours, I think my longest game was about 1h 30... Wasn't that Coloris? iirc Nick Peace, Love and Kisses, JohnnaPig Teare

Re: Sam's worst ever game

1999-09-21 Thread Johnna Teare
On 20 Sep 99, at 13:38, Andrew Collier wrote: Another Columns clone STAX by Wayne Coles, which was much better... STAX was fantastic - the best freebie game ever, save for Tetris. Andrew -- -- Andrew Collier ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) --My other --

Re: Sam's worst ever game

1999-09-21 Thread Martin Fitzpatrick
Johnna Teare wrote: On 20 Sep 99, at 13:25, Gavin Smith wrote: Most-hyped-game-that-turned-out-to-be-not-very-good goes to Legend of Eshan. Hurrah! Somebody who agrees with me. I remember reviewing this for SAM2Sam and giving it something like 9% and I got loads of stick for it.

Re: Sam's worst ever game

1999-09-21 Thread Simon Cooke
Btw. where did the whole fnar fnar thing come from? In my head its a peculiarly 'Sam' thing (probably Fred, i can't imagine it being Format :o)... It's from Your Sinclair ;) Simon

Re: Sam's worst ever game

1999-09-21 Thread Martin Fitzpatrick
Johnna Teare wrote: On 20 Sep 99, at 13:38, Andrew Collier wrote: Another Columns clone STAX by Wayne Coles, which was much better... STAX was fantastic - the best freebie game ever, save for Tetris. Would that be the tetris thing with the picture of that lass behing the blocks

Re: Sam's worst ever game

1999-09-21 Thread Johnna Teare
On 20 Sep 99, at 23:42, Martin Fitzpatrick wrote: Btw. where did the whole fnar fnar thing come from? In my head its a peculiarly 'Sam' thing (probably Fred, i can't imagine it being Format :o)... Your Sinclair methinks. And zucchini to you too. Hmph. Martin Fitz -- Email:

Re: Sam's worst ever game

1999-09-21 Thread Martin Fitzpatrick
Simon Cooke wrote: Btw. where did the whole fnar fnar thing come from? In my head its a peculiarly 'Sam' thing (probably Fred, i can't imagine it being Format :o)... It's from Your Sinclair ;) Ahh thats right :)... Ahh.. the remeniscing :) Them were the days... (etc. etc.)...

Re: Sam's worst ever game

1999-09-21 Thread David L
- Original Message - From: Martin Fitzpatrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 1999 12:06 AM Subject: Re: Sam's worst ever game Ahh thats right :)... Ahh.. the remeniscing :) Them were the days... (etc. etc.)... Who'd have thought it'd

Re: Sam's worst ever game

1999-09-21 Thread Stewart Skardon
On Mon 20 Sep 1999 (23:20:30), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 20 Sep 99, at 14:19, Nick Humphries wrote: The best Columns game on the SAM was the one on one of the Arcadia disks - used to play that for hours, I think my longest game was about 1h 30... Wasn't that Coloris? iirc Nope. Take a

RE: Sam's worst ever game

1999-09-21 Thread Justin Skists
Would that be the tetris thing with the picture of that lass behing the blocks things?... I remember (when aaah was a ladd) getting a seriously distrubing interest in the Sam coupe, purely because it had a fit (or 'fine' for the americans :o) girl on it... They were like wow.. phwooaar this is an

Re: Sam's worst ever game

1999-09-21 Thread Nick Humphries
From: Stewart Skardon [EMAIL PROTECTED] My worst game ever had to be the 'Mindgames' collection. I can't believe that it was even released. Well it WAS released during the Horace Goes Skiing phase of SAM games development... Nick

RE: Sam's worst ever game

1999-09-21 Thread Dan Dooré
Who was she, anyway? I remember the scrolly saying something like the piccy was taken from the Archemedes.. She was in 8 greyscales plus there was something dodgy going on with her lips. It always looked like the cropped top of a porn picture to me :-) Not that I played it a lot or

RE: Sam's worst ever game

1999-09-21 Thread Justin Skists
worst ever game Who was she, anyway? I remember the scrolly saying something like the piccy was taken from the Archemedes.. She was in 8 greyscales plus there was something dodgy going on with her lips. It always looked like the cropped top of a porn picture to me :-) Not that I played

Re: Sam's worst ever game

1999-09-21 Thread Martin Fitzpatrick
Justin Skists wrote: Sounds intruiging... Damn.. I gotta load it up again, now.. I don't remember anything dodgy going on with her lips... This has got me intrigued Sad that this is going to be what finally encourages to dig the Sam out off the shelf.. :).. Which disk was this on

RE: Sam's worst ever game

1999-09-21 Thread Justin Skists
, 1999 1:59 PM To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no Subject: Re: Sam's worst ever game This has got me intrigued Sad that this is going to be what finally encourages to dig the Sam out off the shelf.. :).. Which disk was this on btw? Otherwise I'll be searching for hours... Fitz

RE: Sam's worst ever game

1999-09-21 Thread Justin Skists
Where on Earth did I get it from? I have no Fred disks at all... Was it ever on any YS tape? Justin -Original Message- From: Nick Humphries [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 1999 2:19 PM To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no Subject: Re: Sam's worst ever game From

Re: Sam's worst ever game

1999-09-21 Thread Nick Humphries
From: Martin Fitzpatrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] This has got me intrigued Sad that this is going to be what finally encourages to dig the Sam out off the shelf.. :).. Which disk was this on btw? Otherwise I'll be searching for hours... Fred 3 - the first SAM disk I ever bought :) Nick

RE: Sam's worst ever game

1999-09-21 Thread Andrew Collier
On Tue, 21 Sep 1999, Justin Skists wrote: Where on Earth did I get it from? I have no Fred disks at all... Was it ever on any YS tape? Yes it was, and it's on nvg too. Andrew -- -- Andrew Collier ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) --My other -- http://mnemotech.ucam.org --

RE: Sam's worst ever game

1999-09-21 Thread Justin Skists
PM To: 'sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no' Subject: RE: Sam's worst ever game On Tue, 21 Sep 1999, Justin Skists wrote: Where on Earth did I get it from? I have no Fred disks at all... Was it ever on any YS tape? Yes it was, and it's on nvg too. Andrew -- -- Andrew Collier

RE: Sam's worst ever game

1999-09-21 Thread Dan Dooré
Fred 3 - the first SAM disk I ever bought :) Whoa! Snap! Dan.

Re: Sam's worst ever game

1999-09-21 Thread Nick Humphries
From: Dan Dooré [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fred 3 - the first SAM disk I ever bought :) Whoa! Snap! I wouldn't be surprised - that was the first disk to get a glowing review in a computer mag. Nick

Re: Sam's worst ever game

1999-09-21 Thread Martin Fitzpatrick
David L wrote: Ahh thats right :)... Ahh.. the remeniscing :) Them were the days... (etc. etc.)... Who'd have thought it'd still be affecting my vocabulary today.. No wonder people give me weird looks sometimes when i say it. All I can say to that is Wibble! And another

Re: Sam's worst ever game

1999-09-21 Thread Thomas Harte
STAX was fantastic - the best freebie game ever, save for Tetris. Anywhere I can get a copy? -Thomas

Re: Sam's worst ever game

1999-09-20 Thread Gavin Smith
Aley Keprt wrote: Well, What is the really worst ever game? Some weeks ago somebody said Parallax, Vegetable Vacation, or FutureBall. What is the worst one? When I understand worst as unplyable I must mention FutureBall, Vegetable Vacation, Sam Strikes Out and Coloris. (Also all the

RE: Sam's worst ever game

1999-09-20 Thread Justin Skists
The worst game, in my opinion, was Xenozoids. -Original Message- From: Gavin Smith [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 20, 1999 1:25 PM To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no Subject: Re: Sam's worst ever game Aley Keprt wrote: Well, What is the really worst ever game?

Re: Sam's worst ever game

1999-09-20 Thread Andrew Collier
On Mon, 20 Sep 1999, Gavin Smith wrote: What was Coloris? A very simple Columns clone by, er, Stephan Haller, was that his name? Anyway, I don't remember this ever being distributed except on nvg. It had (unoriginal) music by Ziutek of ESI, and really small graphics only using about a quarter

Re: Sam's worst ever game

1999-09-20 Thread Nick Humphries
From: Andrew Collier [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Mon, 20 Sep 1999, Gavin Smith wrote: What was Coloris? A very simple Columns clone by, er, Stephan Haller, was that his name? The best Columns game on the SAM was the one on one of the Arcadia disks - used to play that for hours, I think my longest

Re: Sam's worst ever game? (was Re: Who Wants To Be A... )

1999-08-31 Thread Graham Goring
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Ian Collier [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes On Sun, Aug 29, 1999 at 05:30:45PM +0100, Graham Goring wrote: NB. I was speaking to Wayne today, and he says he'll finish Kaboom! when there's a 32bit version of SIM Coupé to do it on... ;) But it is 32-bit already... I think

Re: Sam's worst ever game? (was Re: Who Wants To Be A... )

1999-08-31 Thread Graham Goring
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Andrew Collier [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes Talking about GamesMaster shooters, I was always rather impressed by DMZ's FADE (Fred 49). Yeah, that was a nice game. Had nice music on the title screen too, IIRC. DMZ's brother wrote it, didn't he? Infection wasn't bad,

Re: Sam's worst ever game? (was Re: Who Wants To Be A... )

1999-08-31 Thread Ian Collier
On Mon, Aug 30, 1999 at 11:21:32AM +0100, Graham Goring wrote: But it is 32-bit already... I think he means a version he can easily use on the desktop, a la zx32. But you can... on your Linux desktop. imc

Re: Sam's worst ever game? (was Re: Who Wants To Be A... )

1999-08-31 Thread Thomas Harte
But you can... on your Linux desktop. Or indeed any other UNIX, or Macintosh, surely? -Thomas

Re: Sam's worst ever game? (was Re: Who Wants To Be A... )

1999-08-31 Thread Graham Goring
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Ian Collier [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes On Mon, Aug 30, 1999 at 11:21:32AM +0100, Graham Goring wrote: But it is 32-bit already... I think he means a version he can easily use on the desktop, a la zx32. But you can... on your Linux desktop. Don't be silly. Wayne

Re: Sam's worst ever game? (was Re: Who Wants To Be A... )

1999-08-31 Thread Ian Collier
On Tue, Aug 31, 1999 at 12:48:56AM +0100, Graham Goring wrote: Don't be silly. Wayne works for Reflections, he's used to programming games for a viable software environment. :) That's dangerous talk on a Sam list... Anyway, ask Red Hat whether Linux is a viable software environment. imc

Re: Sam's worst ever game? (was Re: Who Wants To Be A... )

1999-08-31 Thread Graham Goring
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Ian Collier [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes On Tue, Aug 31, 1999 at 12:48:56AM +0100, Graham Goring wrote: Don't be silly. Wayne works for Reflections, he's used to programming games for a viable software environment. :) That's dangerous talk on a Sam list... Cor lummy,

Re: Sam's worst ever game? (was Re: Who Wants To Be A... )

1999-08-31 Thread James R Curry
Date sent: Tue, 31 Aug 1999 10:35:31 +0100 From: Ian Collier [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no Subject:Re: Sam's worst ever game? (was Re: Who Wants To Be A... ) Send reply to: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no Don't

Re: Sam's worst ever game? (was Re: Who Wants To Be A... )

1999-08-31 Thread Ian Collier
On Tue, Aug 31, 1999 at 10:59:53AM +, James R Curry wrote: Let us imagine that we are business men, and not geeks. Now, our latest 3D-texture-poly-lumi-sphereoid-grafixo-engine(TM) enhanced shoot-'em-up which breaks all the boundaries in gameplay and technical acheivement... I gather

OT - Games and Linux (was Re: Sam's worst ever game?)

1999-08-31 Thread Andrew Collier
On Tue, 31 Aug 1999, Ian Collier wrote: I gather that a recent release of Quake came out first on Linux, but not having the first idea what that even is :o) I couldn't substantiate that. Wrong - Quake3Arena Test came out first on MacOS, then Linux, then Windows. But the reason for this was

Re: Sam's worst ever game? (was Re: Who Wants To Be A... )

1999-08-30 Thread Martin Fitzpatrick
Johnna Teare wrote: On 29 Aug 99, at 17:32, Thomas Harte wrote: Arcade perfect, is it? Does it have the coloured strips? Eh? Eh?! Surely the coloured strips would be the easiest thing to get arcade perfect because of the ease of switching palette entries halfway down the

Re: Sam's worst ever game? (was Re: Who Wants To Be A... )

1999-08-30 Thread Thomas Harte
Hehe,... SCADS eh? Ahh, them were the days :)... I was always a bit Hey, if you have SCADS, any chance of uploading a DSK file to nvg to replace the td0? I'm one of the many people who can't use teledisk any more, but I'd really like to see SCADS. -Thomas

Re: Sam's worst ever game? (was Re: Who Wants To Be A... )

1999-08-30 Thread Johnna Teare
On 29 Aug 99, at 19:20, Martin Fitzpatrick wrote: Hehe... I'm getting all reminiscent, I might even dig out my Big Box of stuff that I wrote Does it work on SimCoupe? (SCADS that is) Think you might have problems programming in it - but the games seem to run. The actual designer -

Re: Sam's worst ever game? (was Re: Who Wants To Be A... )

1999-08-30 Thread Martin Fitzpatrick
Thomas Harte wrote: Hehe,... SCADS eh? Ahh, them were the days :)... I was always a bit Hey, if you have SCADS, any chance of uploading a DSK file to nvg to replace the td0? I'm one of the many people who can't use teledisk any more, but I'd really like to see SCADS. Yeh, I

Re: Sam's worst ever game? (was Re: Who Wants To Be A... )

1999-08-30 Thread Simon Cooke
From: Andrew Collier [EMAIL PROTECTED] No, I'm pretty sure it really was a terrible game. But I don't think it was Sam's worst ever game for my money, that honor goes to... fx type=drumrollfx type=rips open envelope Parallax. /fx Controversial? Ah... the only piece of SAM software

Re: Sam's worst ever game? (was Re: Who Wants To Be A... )

1999-08-30 Thread Martin Fitzpatrick
Johnna Teare wrote: On 29 Aug 99, at 17:32, Thomas Harte wrote: Arcade perfect, is it? Does it have the coloured strips? Eh? Eh?! Surely the coloured strips would be the easiest thing to get arcade perfect because of the ease of switching palette entries halfway down the

Re: Sam's worst ever game? (was Re: Who Wants To Be A... )

1999-08-30 Thread Martin Wilson
Has anyone mentioned EFTPOTRM yet? It may have looked good but the game had no playability. Also Sam Elite was a rip off. Mind you I'm not totally aware of all Sam games. I never ever saw Lemmings running on the Sam. I think best game in my opinion has to be Prince of Persia although graphically

Re: Sam's worst ever game? (was Re: Who Wants To Be A... )

1999-08-30 Thread Ian Collier
On Mon, Aug 30, 1999 at 12:02:49AM +0100, Martin Fitzpatrick wrote: Hehe,... SCADS eh? Ahh, them were the days :)... I was always a bit peeved with Jupiter Software over that [SNIP] Er, I seem to be experiencing déjà vu... imc

Re: Sam's worst ever game? (was Re: Who Wants To Be A... )

1999-08-30 Thread Martin Fitzpatrick
Ian Collier wrote: On Mon, Aug 30, 1999 at 12:02:49AM +0100, Martin Fitzpatrick wrote: Hehe,... SCADS eh? Ahh, them were the days :)... I was always a bit peeved with Jupiter Software over that [SNIP] Er, I seem to be experiencing déjà vu... imc Yay true. Netscape's gone

Re: Sam's worst ever game? (was Re: Who Wants To Be A... )

1999-08-30 Thread Martin Fitzpatrick
Martin Fitzpatrick wrote: Thomas Harte wrote: Hehe,... SCADS eh? Ahh, them were the days :)... I was always a bit Hey, if you have SCADS, any chance of uploading a DSK file to nvg to replace the td0? I'm one of the many people who can't use teledisk any more, but I'd

Re: Sam's worst ever game? (was Re: Who Wants To Be A... )

1999-08-30 Thread Martin Wilson
Yay true. Netscape's gone mad. It gets exception errors every time I try and Sync newsgroups then forgets how many emails are in folders. Then, to top it off, when I try and send a bunch of emails I acts like its sending but then doesn't remove them from the outbox. So I think umm

Re: Sam's worst ever game? (was Re: Who Wants To Be A... )

1999-08-29 Thread Graham Goring
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Andrew Collier [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes At 12:33 pm +0100 29/8/99, Thomas Harte wrote: Anybody played vegetable vacation recently? ha ha ha Is it really a terrible game, or do you suddenly understand it if you buy with instructions? No, I'm pretty sure it

Re: Sam's worst ever game? (was Re: Who Wants To Be A... )

1999-08-29 Thread Graham Goring
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Dan Dooré [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes I'd have given it to the game's predecessor, whose name escapes me at the moment. Now THAT was a shit game. No Way Back? Nope. I was give to understanding that Parallax was the sequel to that vertically scrolling abomination with

Re: Sam's worst ever game? (was Re: Who Wants To Be A... )

1999-08-29 Thread Chris White
That be Rob Holmans 'Sphere' , under Enigma Variations C - Original Message - From: Graham Goring [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no Sent: Sunday, August 29, 1999 4:02 PM Subject: Re: Sam's worst ever game? (was Re: Who Wants To Be A... ) In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Dan

Re: Sam's worst ever game? (was Re: Who Wants To Be A... )

1999-08-29 Thread Gordon Wallis
Graham Goring wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Dan Dooré [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes I'd have given it to the game's predecessor, whose name escapes me at the moment. Now THAT was a shit game. No Way Back? Nope. I was give to understanding that Parallax was the sequel to that

Re: Sam's worst ever game? (was Re: Who Wants To Be A... )

1999-08-29 Thread Johnna Teare
On 29 Aug 99, at 13:17, Andrew Collier wrote: But I don't think it was Sam's worst ever game for my money, that honor goes to... fx type=drumrollfx type=rips open envelope Parallax. /fx Controversial? FutureBall? Has there ever been a poll done on sam-users? To see who likes

Re: Sam's worst ever game? (was Re: Who Wants To Be A... )

1999-08-29 Thread Johnna Teare
On 29 Aug 99, at 16:14, Gordon Wallis wrote: Was there ever a _better_ shooter, though? Space Invaders. On a later issue of Fred. By me ;-) -- The HEXdidn't... Homepage: -- Featuring The U.K. Policenauts Homepage -- http://www.hexdidnt.clara.net \-- AOL

Re: Sam's worst ever game? (was Re: Who Wants To Be A... )

1999-08-29 Thread Gordon Wallis
Johnna Teare wrote: On 29 Aug 99, at 16:14, Gordon Wallis wrote: Was there ever a _better_ shooter, though? Space Invaders. On a later issue of Fred. By me ;-) Really? Which one? (I might actually have it) Arcade perfect, is it? Does it have the coloured strips? Eh? Eh?! (and before

Re: Sam's worst ever game? (was Re: Who Wants To Be A... )

1999-08-29 Thread Graham Goring
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Johnna Teare [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes On 29 Aug 99, at 16:14, Gordon Wallis wrote: Was there ever a _better_ shooter, though? Space Invaders. On a later issue of Fred. By me ;-) Pah! James Curry's Dark Vortex was far better... And Diggory Gray produced a

Re: Sam's worst ever game? (was Re: Who Wants To Be A... )

1999-08-29 Thread Gordon Wallis
Graham Goring wrote: Was there ever a _better_ shooter, though? Space Invaders. On a later issue of Fred. By me ;-) Pah! James Curry's Dark Vortex was far better... And Diggory Gray produced a fair few fine shooters. Wow. Guess I missed 'em all... Which was Dark Vortex? Gord. (perking

Re: Sam's worst ever game? (was Re: Who Wants To Be A... )

1999-08-29 Thread Graham Goring
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Gordon Wallis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes Graham Goring wrote: Was there ever a _better_ shooter, though? Space Invaders. On a later issue of Fred. By me ;-) Pah! James Curry's Dark Vortex was far better... And Diggory Gray produced a fair few fine shooters.

Re: Sam's worst ever game? (was Re: Who Wants To Be A... )

1999-08-29 Thread Thomas Harte
Arcade perfect, is it? Does it have the coloured strips? Eh? Eh?! Surely the coloured strips would be the easiest thing to get arcade perfect because of the ease of switching palette entries halfway down the screen? -Thomas

Re: Sam's worst ever game? (was Re: Who Wants To Be A... )

1999-08-29 Thread Andrew Collier
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Johnna Teare [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes On 29 Aug 99, at 16:14, Gordon Wallis wrote: Was there ever a _better_ shooter, though? Space Invaders. On a later issue of Fred. By me ;-) Pah! James Curry's Dark Vortex was far better... And Diggory Gray produced a

Re: Sam's worst ever game? (was Re: Who Wants To Be A... )

1999-08-29 Thread Chris White
On 29 Aug 99, at 16:14, Gordon Wallis wrote: Was there ever a _better_ shooter, though? Space Invaders. On a later issue of Fred. By me ;-) And what was wrong with mine :) C ps ( only kidding)

Re: Sam's worst ever game? (was Re: Who Wants To Be A... )

1999-08-29 Thread Johnna Teare
On 29 Aug 99, at 17:32, Thomas Harte wrote: Arcade perfect, is it? Does it have the coloured strips? Eh? Eh?! Surely the coloured strips would be the easiest thing to get arcade perfect because of the ease of switching palette entries halfway down the screen? -Thomas It was

Re: Sam's worst ever game? (was Re: Who Wants To Be A... )

1999-08-29 Thread Ian Collier
On Sun, Aug 29, 1999 at 05:30:45PM +0100, Graham Goring wrote: NB. I was speaking to Wayne today, and he says he'll finish Kaboom! when there's a 32bit version of SIM Coupé to do it on... ;) But it is 32-bit already... imc

Re: Sam's worst ever game? (was Re: Who Wants To Be A... )

1999-08-29 Thread surfin_usm
-Original Message- From : Chris White [EMAIL PROTECTED] To : sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no Date : 29 August 1999 16:51:40 Subject : Re: Sam's worst ever game? (was Re: Who Wants To Be A... ) Was there ever a _better_ shooter, though? Space Invaders. On a later issue of Fred. By me

Re: Sam's worst ever game? (was Re: Who Wants To Be A... )

1999-08-29 Thread Johnna Teare
On 29 Aug 99, at 17:51, Chris White wrote: On 29 Aug 99, at 16:14, Gordon Wallis wrote: Was there ever a _better_ shooter, though? Space Invaders. On a later issue of Fred. By me ;-) And what was wrong with mine :) I could never get it running (never had a compiler...)

Re: Sam's worst ever game? (was Re: Who Wants To Be A... )

1999-08-29 Thread Martin Fitzpatrick
Johnna Teare wrote: On 29 Aug 99, at 17:32, Thomas Harte wrote: Arcade perfect, is it? Does it have the coloured strips? Eh? Eh?! Surely the coloured strips would be the easiest thing to get arcade perfect because of the ease of switching palette entries halfway down the