Re: Bug in game Oh No! More Lemmings
It wouldn't surprise me. My understanding is that the bug affects more than one level, which is why I stopped playing ONML on the Sam. I wish there was a patch. It's to do with the explosion size. On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 2:49 PM, Solaris104 solaris...@post.cz wrote: I can not finish level 15, rating Crazy, password RHAOENPI. Maybe another bug? *From:* James R Curry 8...@itdoesntsuck.com *Sent:* Sunday, August 17, 2014 5:47 PM *To:* sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no *Subject:* Re: Bug in game Oh No! More Lemmings Level 3 of Crazy on the Sam version of Oh No More Lemmings! is impossible to complete. I'm not sure if there was ever a fix. I think the level codes are on an issue of Fred so you can skip to Level 4. On Sun, Aug 17, 2014 at 9:36 AM, Simon Owen simon.o...@simcoupe.org wrote: On 11/08/2014 12:19, Solaris104 wrote: 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 What is the bug you think you found? I've just tried it here and that level does start correctly for me, though I've not tried completing it.. If you have a .SDF disk image for either Lemmings or Oh No More Lemmings, the disk image is incomplete. They are truncated at 80 tracks, but the complete disk uses 82 tracks, and will stop working at one of the later levels that access the missing tracks. I do remember hitting the limit in the original Lemmings game, but I don't know where the problem would be seen with the Oh No More Lemmings. I did try truncating my disk image to 80 tracks to see if I could reproduce it, but level 3 (crazy) still started correctly. If you can describe the symptoms in more detail I'll see if I can reproduce it here. Si -- James R Curry 8...@itdoesntsuck.com -- James R Curry 8...@itdoesntsuck.com
Re: Raising the price benchmark??
My own parents did the exact same thing with my three C64s and Amstrad CPC 464. On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 10:05 AM, Adrian Brown adr...@apbcomputerservices.co.uk wrote: Ive got a bbc micro with z80 second cpu module if anyone wants it ;) --- Please sponsor me for the Plymouth half marathon: http://www.justgiving.com/adrianpbrown Or text APBH76 + dontation to 70070 -Original Message- From: owner-sam-us...@nvg.ntnu.no [mailto:owner-sam-us...@nvg.ntnu.no] On Behalf Of Chris Pile Sent: 13 March 2014 12:49 To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no Subject: Re: Raising the price benchmark?? On 13/03/2014 10:26, Stephen Longhurst wrote: Serious eBay money, tell me about it! A couple of years ago, my parents cleared out their loft and took my *3* expanded Acorn Atoms and peripherals to the local tip!!! Atom's go for a couple of hundred or more each these days... Ouch! Sort of makes you wonder just how many more working vintage computers followed a similar fate... :( -- James R Curry 8...@itdoesntsuck.com
Re: Sim Coupe
Can someone report this to Avast? On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 6:02 PM, Balor Price toberm...@cookingcircle.co.uk wrote: Yeah same here - got an error through Avast - it thinks Dave Hooper's SAASound.dll is a virus. I supressed it but the anti-virus wasn't having any of the sourceforge download. So I did a naughty and got it from here: http://www.rom-world.com/file_emu.php?id=21 Howard On 24/06/2013 23:15, David Sanders wrote: On 24 June 2013 23:05, Adrian Brown adr...@apbcomputerservices.co.uk wrote: This is most odd, I haven’t got a virus, it’s a false positive that killed the dll. However I get internet explorer cannot display the webpage error - the full link it goes to is http://sourceforge.net/projects/simcoupe/files/simcoupe/SimCoupe%201.0/SimCoupe-1.0.exe/download?use_mirror=dfnr= That link works fine for me in Chrome / Windows 7. -Original Message- From: owner-sam-us...@nvg.ntnu.no [mailto:owner-sam-us...@nvg.ntnu.no] On Behalf Of Andrew Gillen Sent: 24 June 2013 21:24 To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no Subject: Re: Sim Coupe Not a lot of use to you I realise, but I can confirm it is working fine here, too. Cheers Andrew - Original Message - From: Stephan Haller no...@froevel.de To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no Sent: Monday, June 24, 2013 9:15 PM Subject: Re: Sim Coupe Hmmm ... wasn't a problem either. The md5sum of the exe file I downloaded is bbf240d96fb6896d4394c813ae634726 tmp/SimCoupe-1.0.exe Maybe your virus killer is killing this exe? Am Montag, den 24.06.2013, 20:52 +0100 schrieb Adrian Brown: Yer but try and get the windows exe ;) -Original Message- From: owner-sam-us...@nvg.ntnu.no [mailto:owner-sam-us...@nvg.ntnu.no] On Behalf Of Stephan Haller Sent: 24 June 2013 20:22 To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no Subject: Re: Sim Coupe Hi Andrian, that's strange. Sourceforge is listing all files to me. Try http://sourceforge.net/projects/simcoupe/files/simcoupe/SimCoupe%201.0/ Regards, Stephan Am Montag, den 24.06.2013, 20:11 +0100 schrieb Adrian Brown: Anyone know where to get simcoupe from - sourceforge seems to be empty? My virus killer seems to have eaten the sound dll :( Adrian -- Stephan Haller www.froevel.de Systemadministrator EMail: no...@froevel.de Telefon: 02202 / 45 97 95 Mobil: 0176 / 63 86 30 21 Jabber (bevorzugt): no...@jabber.froevel.de ICQ: 33955897 -- James R Curry 8...@itdoesntsuck.com
Re: Great SAA tune (from a Speccy)
I've looked at a bunch of stuff on that page since you posted it. I think OSCOSS is one of my favourite Spectrum demos ever. Fast moving, and artistic within the limitations of the hardware. And good music. Great stuff. I also really like the music track on Scrololo. On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 5:56 AM, Stefan Drissen stefan.dris...@gmail.com wrote: The Speccy AAA demo party 2013 (http://spectrum4ever.org/zxaaa13/?lng=eng) has one SAA tune submission, http://spectrum4ever.org/zxaaa13/aaa/music/8.mp3 - it’s fantastic! My only question - would a speccy feel Borged with an SAA attached? ;-) Cheers, Stefan -- James R Curry 8...@itdoesntsuck.com
Re: Waterworks 2
I believe Waterworks II level 3 was actually impossible. I seem to recall it was an error with the level. On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 7:59 PM, Andrew Collier and...@intensity.org.ukwrote: Hi all, Not sure if this ever got discussed here, but... Did anybody ever manage to find the solution to level 3 of Waterworks II? Andrew -- James R Curry 8...@itdoesntsuck.com
Re: New Game: Dave Infuriators
Don't get me started on Super Hexagon. Terry Cavanagh insisted to me at Fantastic Arcade that My game's not difficult after I repeatedly died at the 7 second mark. I'm a bit better at it now. I do love the game. On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 2:36 PM, Simon Owen simon.o...@simcoupe.org wrote: It's great to see more new content! I just wish I could get more than 2 steps up on the first screen. I'm just recovering from a Super Hexagon addiction, so I do like my games tough ;) Si On 14/11/2012 16:08, Andrew Gillen wrote: Hi, just to let you know I have finally finished writing Dave Infuriators. Simple platform game against the clock. Instructions can be found in the readme.txt in the archive. Played with just two keys : change direction and jump, so following the trend these days of minimal controls. Took longer to write than it should with life's distractions and other projects. Also didn't end up quite how I envisioned but here it is nevertheless! Http://www.blackjet.co.uk/download.php?d=dave-infuriators Requires 512K SAM. Cheers Andrew -- James R Curry 8...@itdoesntsuck.com
Re: Party like it's 1992, or 1984, or whatever.
Hangs on boot in SimCoupe for me -- might be a MIME type problem as it attempts to download it as a text file. On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 7:32 AM, David Sanders dsuzukisand...@gmail.comwrote: The compiler actually didn't make mincemeat of this one :-) http://www.dsanders.co.uk/living.dsk D -- James R Curry 8...@itdoesntsuck.com
Re: Nyan Cat
The strangest decision regarding Mode 2 is keeping the BRIGHT and FLASH attributes. Without those, the Ink and Paper colours could each be any of the sixteen colours. As it is, the select colours have to both be in the range 0-7 or 8-15, not one in each range. Incidentally, has anyone thought about clever use of Mode 2 and attributes to create a game that runs at a super low resolution, like 64 x 96 (using 4x2 pixel blocks)? It could run at a high frame rate... it might be an interesting experiment
Re: Nyan Cat
Given that, at least going from my memory, there was space to spare in the original ZX Spectrum ROM, the flashing cursor in Spectrum BASIC could have quite easily been implemented with interrupts and each character square could have had complete freedom to pick any two of sixteen colours. But what do they say about hindsight? On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 6:41 PM, Ian Collier ian.coll...@cs.ox.ac.ukwrote: On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 04:16:28PM -0700, Thomas Harte wrote: I'm unsure why they decided to go bright + flash in the Spectrum, to be honest. Was flashing a must have feature of the 1982 computer market? No but you forget one thing... the cursor. :-) imc -- James R Curry 8...@itdoesntsuck.com
Re: XOR now completed!
I remember ordering the original from one of those ZX Spectrum mail order places. They were never able to deliver it, for some reason, and offered me the choice of another game, instead. No idea what I wound up buying. Now I can finally play it. Looks good! Is it in Mode 4? On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 8:21 PM, Thomas Harte tomh.retros...@gmail.comwrote: I played it for five minutes and it all looked very impressive. That being said, I don't actually know the original game so I was quite lost. Looking at the incredibly sparse World of Spectrum inlay scan though, I think I'm meant to work things out for myself? On 24 April 2012 18:00, Balor Price toberm...@cookingcircle.co.uk wrote: Hello everybody I'm proud to present my conversion of the 1987 Spectrum game XOR. I finally kept my promise to my teenage self to finish a SAM game! You can download it for free from the revived http://cookingcircle.co.uk I hope you enjoy it (and yell in frustration). It's 25 years old and still as rock-hard as I remember. Any feedback/initial bugs found would be greatly appreciated. :D Cheers Howard -- James R Curry 8...@itdoesntsuck.com
Re: Nyan Cat
On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 3:24 PM, da...@properbastard.co.uk wrote: Quoting Balor Price toberm...@cookingcircle.co.uk**: Hang on, am I really doing this??!! (reality kicks in) Hell no!! Not until I finish some /real/ stuff anyway Howard Do a send-up using the SAM Robot instead! :) I hate this idea - there are SO MANY send-up versions of Nyan Cat on Youtube that it ceases to be clever. Just port the original. -- James R Curry 8...@itdoesntsuck.com
Re: Essential Sam Goodies
Issue 17 - T'n'T (re-release), Money Bags 1 1/2 (updated version) 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 the game, or can some kind soul furnish me with a copy? Cheers!
Re: Essential Sam Goodies
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 to maintain an account with that company. -- James R Curry On Apr 22, 2012, at 11:20 AM, Colin Piggot qua...@clara.net wrote: 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 the game, or can some kind soul furnish me with a copy? Cheers! SAM Revival is a magazine which comes with a real floppy disk, but I can email out on request a disk image of the coverdisks to people who buy the magazine - and that's provided for their own use only to save them having to use Samdisk to image it themselves if using an emulator, e.g. if they don't have a floppy drive in their PC. Regardless of you buying T'n'T back in the day, I can only supply a disk image of the SAM Revival coverdisk if you buy the magazine, besides the coverdisk also has other software on it too - not just T'n'T! 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.samcoupe.com/ Twitter: @QuazarSamCoupe
Re: Nyan Cat
There are few enough frames that it could easily be done with screen swapping with a sampled version of the music playing. -- James R Curry On Apr 22, 2012, at 1:39 PM, Aleš Keprt a...@keprt.cz wrote: Do we have Nyan Cat on Sam Coupe? Somebody should make a conversion. wlEmoticon-smile[1].png original version, Atari 800, ZX Spectrum, Commodore C16, Atari 2600: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQ5v9Qo6XzA Amstrad CPC version: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfD3WxgaiXo BBC Micro version: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBVQdx3dJ1c If you don’t have time to watch it all, here is a “short” 100h summary: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AA5DsLzSVrk Sam Coupe version: ??? - Mgr. Aleš Keprt, Ph.D. private: a...@keprt.cz, www.keprt.cz office: Moravian College / Moravská vysoká škola Olomouc, ales.ke...@mvso.cz
Re: Musics
Correct - Sam Tetris used a version of the Nemesis the Warlock music. I believe this may be mentioned in the scroll text, but I'm not 100% sure. Great tune. -- James R Curry On Apr 21, 2012, at 2:16 PM, Aleš Keprt a...@keprt.cz wrote: I think this is right on ZX Spectrum. I don’t know much about C64, but it has some graphics accelerator at least for sprites, which in turn let us use simpler and faster algorithms for background scrolling, doesn’t it? Also, I found this in related videos: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdzfOXkZrY0feature=related Isn’t it the music from Sam Tetris? wlEmoticon-smile[1].png David Gommeren or who is the autor of Sam remake? This SID has so different sound than our simple triangular waves on SAA1099. But I always liked Frantisek Fuka’s remakes of SID music even without these SID-like sound effects. Frantisek added more channels to play more notes at once instead of just copying the original tune. Aley From: Balor Price Sent: Saturday, April 21, 2012 8:20 PM To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no Subject: Re: Musics I'm currently using the delta-update (only printing the changes) in XOR to get 192*192 pixel scrolling. It doesn't go at 50 frames per second, but looking at the C64 version of Sanxion, that's obviously not running at 50fps either: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDg1GX37bkUfeature=related For example, at about 1m35 the bonus level bullets are obviously skipping out lots of frames to get a good speed. The mountain level before that, looks like the scrolls are going 16 pixels per update, which looks like 25fps at most. But I think most people forget that full screen scrolling never went at 50fps on 8 bit machines. Even the ST struggled, and the Amiga only managed it because it had the blitter. If you want to convert it, just go with whatever you can get away with! Howard On 21/04/2012 18:59, Adrian Brown wrote: Yer, with limited tiles its not soo bad. The current thing im working on uses a change check for updates but that’s not for scrolling. Im just not sure any method would work for a mode 4 screen, its just too much data. Adrian From: owner-sam-us...@nvg.ntnu.no [mailto:owner-sam-us...@nvg.ntnu.no] On Behalf Of Thomas Harte Sent: 21 April 2012 18:31 To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no Subject: Re: Musics The best idea I've come up with is to use a very limited number of tiles and scroll like one of those infinite ball demos. So, you have 8x8 tiles and 8 screen buffers. You scroll only either 1 or zero pixels at a time, only ever in one direction. Assuming it's a right to left scroll, for each movement you switch from one buffer to the next. Then run through each on-screen tile and paint only if that tile is not the same as the tile one position to its left. With a small number of possible tiles and a normal sort of platform game layout (ie, lots of horizontal platforms) you shouldn't have to draw all that much. Level two of Super Mario Brothers would probably be an ideal usage case. I guess that the next thing would be to store your tile map as the computed list of tile changes to draw per tile column, and to consider whether compiling your tiles so that you map from the combination of old tile and new to the code and draw only the changes gives a meaningful boost for the memory cost. I'm not sure whether anybody else has done this sort of thing, but I really mean to give it a go sometime soon. On Saturday, 21 April 2012, Adrian Brown wrote: That’s top, im a child of the electronic sound – don’t think my wife is too impressed with it blasting out of the office though ;) Im working on some other sam bits at the moment (when time allows) For programmery people, scrolling on sam is what let it down imho. Thinking of something like sanxion, who has some ideas on how to move that much data. Im guessing it would have to be mode 2 to really be able to get a decent speed scroller. Ive tried various things for a decent speed scroll mode 4, but it just doesn’t seem possible if you want a lot of graphics on screen, even with compiled block data. Adrian From: javascript:_e(%7b%7d,%20'cvml',%20'owner-sam-us...@nvg.ntnu.no'); [mailto:javascript:_e(%7b%7d,%20'cvml',%20'owner-sam-us...@nvg.ntnu.no');] On Behalf Of David Sanders Sent: 20 April 2012 11:16 To: javascript:_e(%7b%7d,%20'cvml',%20'sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no'); Subject: Musics Hello List, If anyone fancies a listen to the most fiendishly complicated piece of Sam music I've written, here it is: http://dsanders.co.uk/sanxion.dsk It's kind of a conversion of Rub Hubbard's Sanxion loader, but done from memory so probably quite different. I believe the effect at around 2:00 has never been done before on the Coupé! A first time for everything even on the Sam eh? So, why did I spend
Re: Musics
Looking at your other thread, I'm guessing this lacks player code? I don't have a copy of E-Tracker lying about. Can someone give me quick instructions on listening to this in Simcoupe? On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 5:07 AM, David Sanders dsuzukisand...@gmail.comwrote: Hello List, If anyone fancies a listen to the most fiendishly complicated piece of Sam music I've written, here it is: http://dsanders.co.uk/sanxion.dsk It's kind of a conversion of Rub Hubbard's Sanxion loader, but done from memory so probably quite different. I believe the effect at around 2:00 has never been done before on the Coupé! A first time for everything even on the Sam eh? So, why did I spend my morning writing this? Your guess is as good as mine, but I reckon someone now ought to make the effort to convert the actual game. Ahem. Cheers David -- James R Curry 8...@itdoesntsuck.com
Re: Musics
Emulations is about more than running old software. It's about preserving history. It's about preserving as much of that history as possible; obscure disk formats included. In short, I agree with you, Simon. On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 3:40 PM, Simon Owen simon.o...@simcoupe.org wrote: Aley, I'd started to type a longer reply to this, but I just can't be bothered anymore. It's clear we have very different approaches to pretty much everything. I'm just not willing to make the same compromises as you when it comes to preserving media. If it doesn't work without modifying it, you need a better quality copy. Si On 20 Apr 2012, at 20:07, Aleš Keprt wrote: You know my disk extractor and other utilitie are dated 199x. And I don't like this. I think 95% or even more of disks overall don't need any special disk formats, and there are many software utilities which support simple DSK/MGT/SAD because those programs are much older than 2005. It isn't a clever idea to design a whole new file format 15 years after Sam Coupe was born and use it for all disks even when it is not needed for most of them. Also those two SDF files can be downloaded from some websites, but I haven't seen any protected EDSK files anywhere, so I would prefer sticking with the same formats. Don't change what works. Also this is the first time I have seen EDSK file on my own eyes, and I wonder why it has DSK extension when it is not a real old good DSK file. I looked at the file in heax view and I can see Amstrad CPC header in it. Note that I created my SAD format only because it was years before DSK format was known to me, and also I have several 840KB disks which are a bit problematic in DSK especially in some software which automatically expect 800KB DSK only. But otherwise DSK is enough for most of disks. I think it would be OK if we had this file format around 1995 when there was a real big need to backup our disks, but not in 2005 when 99% of disks are converted and possibly cracked to be converted without any special file formats. Aley *From:* Simon Owen simon.o...@simcoupe.org *Sent:* Friday, April 20, 2012 7:36 PM *To:* sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no *Subject:* Re: Musics On 20 Apr 2012, at 17:25, Aleš Keprt wrote: I'd like to know why do you use Amstrad CPC file format, instead of a standard Sam Coupe one (DSK/MGT or SAD). EDSK has been an adopted format in the SAM scene at least as far back as 2005. It's the only way to preserve some disks in their original format, allowing for unformatted tracks, disk errors and other custom-formatting tricks. EDSK seemed like a reasonable solution at the time, without inventing yet another disk image file format. Before that was finalised I did still create SDF as a temporary solution. Only two public disk images ever existed (Lemmings and Prince of Persia), and I don't think the creation tool was every released. All support for SDF was dropped from SimCoupe a few months back, so it's effectively dead
Re: Musics
It's a Wiki about the Sam world but has some disk images hosted which I believe you can access from their product pages. It also has broken polls. At least it did today when I tried to vote on one. -- James R Curry On Apr 20, 2012, at 8:13 PM, Aleš Keprt a...@keprt.cz wrote: Really? I didn't know it. Believe me, I don't lie, I never saw any EDSK or at least I don't remember any. I don't know much about World of Sam. It is something like NVG FTP archive? Aley -Původní zpráva- From: Andrew Collier Sent: Saturday, April 21, 2012 2:59 AM To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no Subject: Re: Musics On 20 Apr 2012, at 20:07, Aleš Keprt wrote: I haven’t seen any protected EDSK files anywhere, Almost all the previously-commercial software on worldofsam.org, for a start. Andrew - Mgr. Aleš Keprt, Ph.D. private: a...@keprt.cz, www.keprt.cz office: Moravian College / Moravská vysoká škola Olomouc, ales.ke...@mvso.cz
Re: Musics
Yep! -- James R Curry On Apr 20, 2012, at 8:26 PM, Thomas Harte tomh.retros...@gmail.com wrote: Attempting to vote takes me through to a blank page -- is that what you saw? On 20 April 2012 18:16, James R Curry 8...@itdoesntsuck.com wrote: It's a Wiki about the Sam world but has some disk images hosted which I believe you can access from their product pages. It also has broken polls. At least it did today when I tried to vote on one. -- James R Curry On Apr 20, 2012, at 8:13 PM, Aleš Keprt a...@keprt.cz wrote: Really? I didn't know it. Believe me, I don't lie, I never saw any EDSK or at least I don't remember any. I don't know much about World of Sam. It is something like NVG FTP archive? Aley -Původní zpráva- From: Andrew Collier Sent: Saturday, April 21, 2012 2:59 AM To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no Subject: Re: Musics On 20 Apr 2012, at 20:07, Aleš Keprt wrote: I haven't seen any protected EDSK files anywhere, Almost all the previously-commercial software on worldofsam.org, for a start. Andrew - Mgr. Aleš Keprt, Ph.D. private: a...@keprt.cz, www.keprt.cz office: Moravian College / Moravská vysoká škola Olomouc, ales.ke...@mvso.cz
Re: New upload to NVG FTP archive
Well, I sometimes download things from there. :) On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 5:51 PM, Aleš Keprt a...@keprt.cz wrote: Hi Frode, I uploaded new stuff to NVG FTP archive. It's ASCD versions 0.98 and 1.00 - both are new versions of the emulator. btw. Do people use that NVG FTP archive? Or am I the last one who uses it? I can see no activity in there. Also I can still see my former uploads (thos files marked conversion Axoft 1993) in that directory. Do you have any problems with sortign them out? They are desktop publishing systems conversions from ZX Spectrum. Best regards, Aley Keprt --**--- Mgr. Aleš Keprt, Ph.D. private: a...@keprt.cz, www.keprt.cz office: Moravian College / Moravská vysoká škola Olomouc, ales.ke...@mvso.cz -- James R Curry 8...@itdoesntsuck.com
Re: ZX Spectrum 'relaunch'
Find me a hardware solution (Spectrum OR SAM) that'll allow me to run on a modern TV (or monitor), use Compact Flash, has perfect (or near perfect) compatibility and which isn't going to be hard work or very costly to obtain and receive here in the USA. I'll buy it tomorrow if you find me that. -- James R Curry On Apr 13, 2012, at 3:37 PM, Thomas Harte tomh.retros...@gmail.com wrote: For the purposes of debate, I think the counterargument would be that a software approach is inherently more portable and so more maintainable and more suited to a wide audience. Furthermore, there's no automatic advantage to doing things in hardware, given that these systems are fully deterministic and well understood, other than that it can be easier to get right, but that's primarily because the emulation mindset doesn't normally consider absolute accuracy to be a paramount concern. That's why you very often see people write emulators where interrupt timing is rounded to the nearest whole instruction, palette changes are accurate only to the nearest whole scan line, etc. Authors often prefer to make a subjective judgment about what's 'accurate enough' so that they can prioritise ease of development and/or performance. Summary then: emulation carries no inherent accuracy penalty. Alternatively, as a person who prefers functionality, surely you can see the benefit in emulation, which is all functionality and no form? The hardware becomes a completely orthogonal issue. On 13 April 2012 11:32, Aleš Keprt a...@keprt.cz wrote: I don't share your thoughts. There already exist a lot of Spectrum clones based on real ULAs and real Z80 and imo these are much better alternatives than what you described. You can already buy anything you can imagine. So many alternatives already exist and were created by huge fan base in the past, that I can hardly imagine that somebody can really come today driven by just marketing or business visions and create something significantly better or more compatible or more useful. For example: I personally prefer functionality, not the look of that crappy original keyboard. So I would prefer a PC keyboard, CF memory card instead of tapes or disks, and real ULA (i.e. 100% accurate ULA clone), standard 128 KB RAM, and real Z80 CPU. For other people who prefer or require the original ZX Spectrum case, they can buy a new internals - this was already possible to buy 10 or more years ago. (I personally has a working original ZX Spectrum+ and working original Sam Coupe. :-)) I think you are too focused on emulators - why would anybody put a today's computer with an emulator inside an old ZXS box? It's just funny, not worthy. I prefer either emulator on a proper PC computer, or original 8bit Zilog Z80 in an original box. :-)) Aley -Původní zpráva- From: war...@wdlee.co.uk Sent: Friday, April 13, 2012 12:18 PM To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no Subject: ZX Spectrum 'relaunch' Off on a bit of a non-SAM tangent (but probably somewhat related for most of us) I came across this the other day: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/video-games/8304237/ZX-Spectrum-relaunch-gaming-goes-back-to-the-future.html Lots of you have probably already heard this, but I don't remember it being mentioned, so thought I would! ;-) Supposedly a company were going to relaunch the zx spectrum this year (by the looks of it, as a 48k speccy keyboard that links up to an iPhone or similar to run an emulator), to coincide with the 30th anniversary, but it doesn't look like it's going to materialise any time soon. I know something similar is/was being planned for the C64? However, it got me thinking... Obviously in this day and age, many of use want to enjoy the retro gaming experience, but we haven't exactly got the space to keep things set up. I intend to have my SAM set up permanently at some point, but I very much doubt I'd ever get the space to dedicate to other systems, so clearly something that pleasantly replicates the original experience quickly and easily with modern advantages would be a pleasing alternative. So I figured, what would make an easy to use 'spectrum' emulator for playing all the old games? You'd want HDMI output for ease with modern televisions, SD card storage, and have it all fit into one of our old rubber keyed friends. How do you do this on a budget at that size? The first thing that popped into my head, is the Raspberry Pi (if it ever gets to selling!!). Small enough to probably fit in a speccy case, with HDMI out and card reader. Surely this could make for a fairly cheap and effective 48k Spectrum emulation experience? I think the Speccy is particularly suited, because let's face it, for most of us it was about the games more than anything. I don't think anything similar would work for the SAM, because what makes that such a unique experience (for me, anyway) is the original and additional hardware
Re: Yet more junk mail
Would it help if I turned my filters off and started collecting mail myself? Though I'll warn you, I'm not likely to fly from the USA to appear in court. -- James R Curry On Apr 12, 2012, at 4:31 AM, nev young pasiphae1...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: Sometimes it feels like it's already gone on forever. I got the WAYN invite and also 4 invites to boxbe to different addresses that he has for me. I am thoroughly sick to death of this guy and as a result I have contacted solicitors to start proceedings for harassment against him. Now I have the tedious task of receiving and storing all of his crap to produce as evidence in court. I really would rather not have to do this. Nev On 11/04/12 23:35, James R Curry wrote: Interesting note: Balor followed me on Twitter. Roger followed me the very next day. Could be a coincidence and he could just be moving down the list, but the email address that I use for that service is not the same one I use on this list.. I got the spam filter spam today like the rest of you. I don't know what else he's sent as everything from his Gmail account is filtered to the trash. The only reason that came through is that it uses the service provider's From address. -- James R Curry On Apr 11, 2012, at 5:14 PM, toberm...@cookingcircle.co.uk Yes messages today and still more coming in right now. Behold... Okay so my real genuine opinion is that he may be autistic. And as such I'm just going to block everything that comes along. I'm not even considering educating him or having an argument. Cheer up chaps it can't go on forever. I hope.
Re: Yet more junk mail
Interesting note: Balor followed me on Twitter. Roger followed me the very next day. Could be a coincidence and he could just be moving down the list, but the email address that I use for that service is not the same one I use on this list.. I got the spam filter spam today like the rest of you. I don't know what else he's sent as everything from his Gmail account is filtered to the trash. The only reason that came through is that it uses the service provider's From address. -- James R Curry On Apr 11, 2012, at 5:14 PM, toberm...@cookingcircle.co.uk toberm...@cookingcircle.co.uk wrote: Yes messages today and still more coming in right now. Behold... Okay so my real genuine opinion is that he may be autistic. And as such I'm just going to block everything that comes along. I'm not even considering educating him or having an argument. Anyway, being a bit positive here, you might like to have a gander at my half-finished conversion of XOR. My guess it'll be a week or two til it's ready for proper. Cheer up chaps it can't go on forever. I hope. Http://cookingcircle.tumblr.com Howard Sent from my BlackBerry® smartphone on O2 From: WAYN invitat...@whereareyounow.net Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2012 22:45:15 +0100 To: Balor Pricetoberm...@cookingcircle.co.uk Subject: Roger Jowett has left a message for you Hi Balor, Roger Jowett has left you a message on WAYN. Read message All the best, The WAYN Team To stop receiving requests from Roger Jowett, click here To stop receiving any notifications from WAYN, click here
Re: Junk mail
On the plus side, it's been a long time since the list has generated this much traffic... -- James R Curry On Apr 5, 2012, at 9:23 AM, nev young pasiphae1...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: On 05/04/12 11:06, Adrian Brown wrote: Ive got a nice rule that moves all messages to the bin ;) -Original Message- From: owner-sam-us...@nvg.ntnu.no [mailto:owner-sam-us...@nvg.ntnu.no] On Behalf Of Simon Owen Sent: 05 April 2012 00:31 To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no Subject: Re: Junk mail On 4 Apr 2012, at 23:54, Andrew Collier wrote: I fear it might be some kind of attempt at reprisal for me blocking his worldofsam account due to his spamming and abusing other users, so apologies to anyone who is getting affected by the crossfire. I've received the same e-mail with 157 attachments at least 7 times over the last year or so. He's got a growing list of victims too, and I counted 90 addresses in the latest assault. I've tried reasoning with him, GMail abuse reports, and simply ignoring him. Nothing works, and the junk keeps coming. I suppose we could club together and pay for a lawyer or a hit man. Getting him six months inside or six feet underground would make me happy. Nev
Re: Junk mail
Or the 14 disk collection of screen captures he'd release... -- James R Curry On Apr 5, 2012, at 1:48 PM, Chris Pile chris.p...@blueyonder.co.uk wrote: The geezer's a prize numpty! I just got hit with 30-odd Onspeed Software Recommendation emails and a whopping 8.29 MB email - the contents of which is anyone's guess! Although I imagine it's dozens of screen captures, as that seems a favourite of his. Suffice to say I didn't bother opening any of them - select-all/delete... Job done! Why doesn't he channel the energy he puts into spamming into doing something constructive on the SAM? Bloody hell, imagine the mega-game or ultra-utility that would arrive if he did! - Original Message - From: Wayne Weedon wa...@fdos-design.com To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2012 7:13 PM Subject: Re: Junk mail Well seems a lot of us have blocked his madness now. Hopefully he'll get pissed off with not getting any attention if hardly anyone see's the crap. It used to be facebook and Linkedin requests only. Got caught with his pants down this time with the harvesting attempt we saw in the list! Wayne...
Re: Junk mail
Yep... Said individual is notorious for sending numerous social media and other web site requests as well as contributions to this list that are marginal or nonsensical at best. I informed him that he's going in my spam filter and all future messages from him are indeed being deleted without my ever knowing of their existence. Always something of an attention-seeking pest; enough is enough. Maybe it's the reincarnation of Bob Brenchley? On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 5:54 PM, Andrew Collier and...@intensity.org.ukwrote: On 4 Apr 2012, at 23:39, da...@properbastard.co.uk wrote: Was it just me who was sent a huge number of un-requested files? I've added the sender to my email blacklist. No, I got that as well (plus some personalised vituperation). I fear it might be some kind of attempt at reprisal for me blocking his worldofsam account due to his spamming and abusing other users, so apologies to anyone who is getting affected by the crossfire. Andrew -- James R Curry 8...@itdoesntsuck.com
Re: Junk mail
However did you decipher our most cryptic of clues? ;) -- James R Curry On Apr 4, 2012, at 6:34 PM, Aleš Keprt a...@keprt.cz wrote: Who is the sender? Is it Roger Jowett? I don't know any other person sending tens of emails per hour. Aley -Původní zpráva- From: Andrew Gillen Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2012 12:43 AM To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no Subject: Re: Junk mail No, second time I've been mail bombed by him in as many weeks. The first was a mail of 21MB, then tonight 40 odd individual mails plus one of 8MB. Every single one forwarded to ab...@gmail.com. I know they'll do nothing, but we can dream, right? -- From: da...@properbastard.co.uk Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2012 11:39 PM To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no Subject: Junk mail Was it just me who was sent a huge number of un-requested files? I've added the sender to my email blacklist. - Mgr. Aleš Keprt, Ph.D. private: a...@keprt.cz, www.keprt.cz office: Moravian College / Moravská vysoká škola Olomouc, ales.ke...@mvso.cz
Re: New Game - Dave Invaders
Very nice -- very Manic Miner, though visually quite different. I like the backgrounds a lot, and in fact, the only graphical complaint I have is that the things you're meant to collect can get a little lost against it. (Perhaps if they blinked or changed colour or something). Otherwise, I can't fault it. Good work! On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 7:49 AM, Andrew Gillen a...@joua.net wrote: ** Hi folks I've finished writing my first game for the SAM. In fact it is pretty much the first game I've ever programmed in assembler (certainly on the SAM anyway) . I've tinkered with various high level languages over the years but have nothing to show for it. You can grab it from this rather minimalist website: http://www.joua.net/ You need a 512KB SAM for it (although when playing it you'd be forgiven for asking why..). Just a run of the mill single screen platfomer, really, but I appreciate any feed back. I've learned a heck of a lot of the year programming it and should be taking the experience gained to improve my skills (what skills?!) when tackling new projects which will be forthcoming! If you find the frame rate somewhat lacking on some levels then you can turn off the music (e-tracker mods) to gain some processing time. Or just turn it off anyway of course if you don't like it! Anyway, enjoy. Cheers Andrew. -- James R Curry 8...@itdoesntsuck.com
Blast Turbo - Cheat Mode
I can't see how this could possibly matter at this point, but there's an unpublished cheat mode in Blast Turbo. This only works on the Turbo version of the game, and not the Fred 56 version (Turbo version is far better, anyway). While playing: Pause the game (F1). Hold down C and F4. You should hear a chirping noise. You are now completely invulnerable. Repeat these steps to disable the cheat mode. There's also an unfinished PC version of the game with lots of new features that I never released. -- James R Curry 8...@itdoesntsuck.com
Re: egg chips and...
Why have the last five or six mails that I've opened on sam-users started off talking about Vodafone? On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 10:36 AM, Roger Jowett rogerjow...@gmail.com wrote: no its not its wonderful vodaphone contracts that promise you a service that can send teh entire months 4gb data limit in less than one hour so your bill just keeps on growing adn tehn a £200 cacellation fee so you agtree with vodaphone that 85kbps - slightly slower thant he itu t v42mnp5 external v34bis modem which always conencts at 115200bps - you think this is broadband in the uk do you and you wouldnt complain about it? is that cause your frightened of having your computer hacked to bits - after the first hundred times it gets a lot less scary! spam -- James R Curry 8...@itdoesntsuck.com
Re: egg chips and...
Exclusive: Man gets screwed by telecom giant. Story at 11. On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 11:20 AM, Roger Jowett rogerjow...@gmail.com wrote: great service you really get what you pay for highly recommended! -- James R Curry 8...@itdoesntsuck.com
Random Sam BASIC question.
Okay, utterly random question... How does one determine the start address of the screen in Sam BASIC? I forget. It has been years. -- James R Curry [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Interlaced video
Yes, it was Simon Goodwin's routine on a Crash cover tape in 1990 or so. On the frame interrupt it toggled between two screens with different palettes, which looked absolutely horrid though on the TV's I'd tried it on. Other routines in the issue did MODE 3 interlacing - flicking between MODE3 screens saying it would give a screen resolution of 512x384, but it's not as the SAM only outputs non-interlaced video so again, it just appears as a bit of a flickery mess! Wasn't it Sinclair User?
Re: Kaleidoscope questions
I spent good money on mine. And what did you think of it when you got it? :) Is it doing anything?.
Re: Kaleidoscope questions
Is that really all that it is meant to do? Yes useless isn't it? :) I spent good money on mine. It was a lot, back then, as a broke student!
RE: USA move SAM stuff up for grabs
Is there anyone out there who has a spare Kaleidoscope for grabs (I know its useless but I want 1)... I have one back in Blighty, but god knows where it is.. wish I'd known before Christmas when I took a trip back. If you're still looking for one when I next go back, I'll see what I can do.
RE: USA move SAM stuff up for grabs
4 or 5 last count? There's me, you, Steve Taylor... not sure who else. :D I'm way up for the idea of a reunion :) Of course, now I'm much older, so more drinking and drugs will need to be involved. :D You're still in the Seattle area, right? I took a trip up there about a year ago, and from there across to Victoria. If time hadn't been so limited, I'd have gotten in contact. I must make it back, sometime.
Re: USA move SAM stuff up for grabs
Tried this yesterday, but it didn't go through... probably because I mailed from the wrong address: Reason .. i am off to California for work So, how many SAM users is that who've moved stateside, now? We could almost have a local reunion.
Re: Majordomo results
96 subscribers Is it just me, or has the mailing list had around 90-100 members for pretty much ever? :) Gavin ...and 87 of them are Bob Brenchley. ;)
Re: Golden ASIC's
I have one too - up until last Thursday hanging on my wall, however as we've just moved to a new apartment, it's still in a box. -- James R Curry [EMAIL PROTECTED] Good to know the world is in no short supply of freaks. Too bad no one's figured out a way to use them as fuel. - Lisa Galgano.
Sophistry
About a week ago, I suddenly had the desire to play the SAM version of Sophistry, again. I have no idea why. Of course, living in the United States, I no longer have access to either my SAM, or my copy of Sophistry (which I purchased when it was first released). So, I'm wondering if anyone would have any objection to helping me out with a disk image...? If yes, thank you. Muchly. :) -- James R Curry [EMAIL PROTECTED] Good to know the world is in no short supply of freaks. Too bad no one's figured out a way to use them as fuel. - Lisa Galgano.
Re: Sophistry
Through judicious use of monkeys and typewriters, Andrew Collier produced: On 10 Dec 2005, at 14:38, James R Curry wrote: About a week ago, I suddenly had the desire to play the SAM version of Sophistry, again. I have no idea why. Of course, living in the United States, I no longer have access to either my SAM, or my copy of Sophistry (which I purchased when it was first released). So, I'm wondering if anyone would have any objection to helping me out with a disk image...? You have mail. Yep, thanks to both you and Dan Doore. :) It's a bit odd though - the music is messed up and you start the game with only one life. I think it's detected that it's not an original disk, and put itself into some sort of pirate-happy demo mode. That definitely appears to be the case... Thanks again, anyway. :)-- James R Curry [EMAIL PROTECTED] Good to know the world is in no short supply of freaks. Too bad no one's figured out a way to use them as fuel. - Lisa Galgano.
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Re: CALL ME
Through judicious use of monkeys and typewriters, Simon Cooke came up with: Whatcha doin' in Ohio? :-) Si I'm not.. I'm in Louisville, KY - 144 miles from Germantown, OH; And I've been here for several years. ;) -- James R Curry [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: CALL ME
CALL ME ...I WOULD LIKE TO SEND YOU EMAIL OFFERS OR IF YOU WANT TO BE REMOVED FROM MY LIST ALSO CALL ME AT 937-855-6288 Thanks! Dana Sharpe Wow. Reverse phone lookup shows this to be a real name: 114 N Walnut St Germantown, OH 45327 This is even daytripable for me. 144 miles. Anyone want me to try calling the number, or showing up on the clowns doorstep? :P (Genuine Ohio number, not premium rate). -- James R Curry [EMAIL PROTECTED] Now I *did* set a signature file on this client. Aren't I bright?
Re: Games (Colony and F16)
By judicious use of monkeys and typewriters, Gavin Smith came up with: Whilst we're talking about games, I've two questions: 1) Did anyone ever manage to last more than one or two bloody minutes in Colony? If so how?! Any chance of a little playing guide? (Trying to get stuff for the next issue of SC ;) 2) We were talking a while back about the F16 Combat Pilot demo that was on Crash - didn't someone say they had a copy of it or am I misremembering? I'd love to see it - I know it turned out to be slow in the end, but still! Cheers, Gavin I have the tape, but it's back in England so not much good. I'd ask Graham to pay a visit to my parents and locate it, but he is regrettably now living in Manchester, so there's not very much I can do... :( -- James R Curry - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Well, that was a boring signature file.
Re: Following on from Sam forsale
I have a frames gold ASIC. I've not dared try to fit it to my machine though. The text below my ASIC claims it's from a limited edition of 40, and has Bruces signature as well. Is a gold ASIC really worth that much? If so I got it for a bargain price and will be contacting my insurers shortly! Tim I got one of those too. I want to have it shipped to the USA so it can go on my wall here. -- James R Curry - [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Balloon Doggies DEMANDED it!
RE: SAM Community iss 3!
Woohoo! I have finally been recognised as a well-known name!! (ahem.. Ok.. I'll get back to sleep, now...) OH MY GOD! IT'S JUSTIN SKISTS. Didn't he kill a load of people or something? ;) -- James R Curry - [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Balloon Doggies DEMANDED it!
RE: Re[3]: Christmas Greetings, etc.
Seconded, thirded, forthded... Etc!! ;-) Sign me up for some of those Season's Greetings, too. -- James R Curry - [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Balloon Doggies DEMANDED it! The OFFICIAL James R Curry Webpage is at http://www.lhutz.demon.co.uk
Re: SAAEmu 0.61
2. Get a later Word version. Hmm, in which case why is it a .RTF file? After all, Rich Text Format is meant to be a platform and program independant format, so if your response is to limit the reading of the file to later versions of Microsoft Word, would it not therefore make more sense to simply save it in native Word .DOC format? -- James R Curry - [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Balloon Doggies DEMANDED it! The OFFICIAL James R Curry Webpage is at http://www.lhutz.demon.co.uk
OT: Help..
Okay, an off topic one here.. Does anyone on this list have, or know of a ping and traceroute program that runs under Windows 3.1. Long story, but needed, and I'm having absolutely no luck finding them. (There's definitely a Ping and Traceroute as part of Demon's Turnpike package, but I'm a few thousand miles from my copy of that, and I guess I'd then be dependant on their dialler anyway). -- James R Curry - [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Balloon Doggies DEMANDED it! The OFFICIAL James R Curry Webpage is at http://www.lhutz.demon.co.uk
Re: Wincoupe bug
I assumed the driver coment, meant that Driver was trying to install itself in a stealth like fashion. I haven't put driver onto Wincoupe. Yeah, it was along those lines. I've felt crappy all week and been in bed with what I presume must be the flu for the last 36 hours, and health care costs MONEY over here... What this has to do with lame jokes about Driver and Wincoupe, I'm not sure, but I need SOME excuse, right? -- James R Curry - [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Balloon Doggies DEMANDED it! The OFFICIAL James R Curry Webpage is at http://www.lhutz.demon.co.uk
Re: Wincoupe bug
Wincoupe has a wierd effect on my Win 95 desktop. It keeps re-arranging my icons. Bob Wilkinson. Actually, it's slowly replacing Windows 95 with a PC port of Driver. -- James R Curry - [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Balloon Doggies DEMANDED it! The OFFICIAL James R Curry Webpage is at http://www.lhutz.demon.co.uk
Re:
On Fri, Nov 26, 1999 at 12:32:48AM +, Andrew Collier wrote: Indeed. You seem to have forgotten to put a quotation of the entire previous message including sig at the end of your mail. imc Oh my... I've had a headache this last week and that made me laugh hard enough to cheer me up no end. Thank you, Ian. -- James R Curry - [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Balloon Doggies DEMANDED it! The OFFICIAL James R Curry Webpage is at http://www.lhutz.demon.co.uk
Re: Woohoo!
And... Yes! I remember Imposters too. Quite cool for a SCADS game, I thought. And it was excellent for a Games Master game too! :-) Cheers! To have written that in SCADS would have been ridiculous (nasty nasty language, ack spit), in GM it was just pushing what was possible (lots of obscure SPEEKs SPOKEs that shouldn't really have worked, and as James Curry pointed out sometimes didn't!). Loads of people thought it was written in assembly, which I took as a compliment :-) I've got a 3/4 finished demo of the sequel lying around somewhere which somehow manages to tie together BASIC, GMCL AND m/c routines cuz it's just too complex to have done it with less. If I get bored enough for a month or so I might reveal it to the world although I'd need to get hold of Nick Bay (gfx artist) and Adrian Francis (custom-made GamesMaster E-Tunes player bloke) b4 I could do that. Anyone know where they might be? I dunno if anyone remembers the demo of Wasy 2, which I was doing in GamesMaster... Anyway, there's lots of stuff in there that was a total pain in the arse to implement in GM, but hours of SPEEKING and SPOKEING got it going. But in doing that, I found some REALLY obscure bugs. There are damn bugs that ONLY appear on certain screens and things. It's really strange. -- James R Curry - [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Balloon Doggies DEMANDED it! The OFFICIAL James R Curry Webpage is at http://www.lhutz.demon.co.uk
Re:
No, no sign. Our most recent sighting of him was Samsboss mailing this list and a few people off this list directly (offering them items that only Bob has for sale or something). I'm collecting a catalogue of all the reasons people have heard for Bob's disappearance - Leaves on the line? ;-) it's getting quite long now (oo-er etc). I'm sure he'll turn up again in the next few weeks... -- James R Curry - [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Balloon Doggies DEMANDED it! The OFFICIAL James R Curry Webpage is at http://www.lhutz.demon.co.uk
Re: Woohoo!
Do I take it from the fact that Graham is the only person who's replied to this topic that nobody else on sam-users knows who I am? Not famous enough. Bummer :-( I know who you are. You wrote Imposters and I kept finding bugs in it at Sam shows. Hmm, didn't you once have a letter on Digitizer, too? -- James R Curry - [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Balloon Doggies DEMANDED it! The OFFICIAL James R Curry Webpage is at http://www.lhutz.demon.co.uk
Re: SAM Community Newsletter Issue 2
Hmm, if you were to raise FRED from the dead, then the moment I get a decent PC capable of running an emulator at a decent speed, I may well finish some stuff off. cough cough hack splutter regurgitates lung Shut up. You have evidence that I've been coding lately. If only I had a real SAM over here... I believe that the Russian can supply them with the launchers for a very reasonable fee. Only last week I got a nuclear submarine for using along the canal. Shouldn't cost too much. After all, the entire Russian economy is worth what? UKP2.50 these days? -- James R Curry - [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Balloon Doggies DEMANDED it! The OFFICIAL James R Curry Webpage is at http://www.lhutz.demon.co.uk
Re: SAM Community Newsletter Issue 2
At present I'm toying with the idea of kickstarting FRED again, but last time I mentioned it on the list there was no response - you think people would be interested in helping out these days? What kind of input/feedback/sales are you getting? Hmm, if you were to raise FRED from the dead, then the moment I get a decent PC capable of running an emulator at a decent speed, I may well finish some stuff off. If only I had a real SAM over here... -- James R Curry - [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Balloon Doggies DEMANDED it! The OFFICIAL James R Curry Webpage is at http://www.lhutz.demon.co.uk
Re: SAM Community Newsletter Issue 2
Issue 2 of the Newsletter is now available. If you want a copy of the 4 page A4 newsletter for SAM Coupé owners, send me an email with your address and I'll send you a free copy. Alternatively, send me 2 quid and you'll get the next 6 issues (a good time to do it, as this price won't last much longer). This issue includes a show report from the latest SAM and Speccy show. Gavin How much for international shipping...? -- James R Curry - [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Balloon Doggies DEMANDED it! The OFFICIAL James R Curry Webpage is at http://www.lhutz.demon.co.uk
Re: SAM Community Newsletter Issue 2
Don't worry about the postage for the free issue, but it's a fiver for international peeps, just to keep things simple. Er, but aren't you in the UK? Gavin Nope, Eastern Kentucky. -- James R Curry - [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Balloon Doggies DEMANDED it!
DON'T COMPLAIN...!
I'm aware my timezone was screwed. It's fixed now. I'm terribly sorry to all, my mistake. -- James R Curry - [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Balloon Doggies DEMANDED it!
Re: DON'T COMPLAIN...!
From: James R Curry [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no Date sent: Sat, 16 Oct 1999 23:47:37 -0400 Subject:DON'T COMPLAIN...! Send reply to: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no I'm aware my timezone was screwed. It's fixed now. I'm terribly sorry to all, my mistake. -- James R Curry - [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Balloon Doggies DEMANDED it! My clock is now fixed, too. -- James R Curry - [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Balloon Doggies DEMANDED it! The OFFICIAL James R Curry Webpage is at http://www.lhutz.demon.co.uk
Aww, crap.
Ok, NOW it's fixed. I suck. -- James R Curry - [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Balloon Doggies DEMANDED it!
Re: Lost Games
I've asked if anyone had the demo of this before, but no-one seems to have it - surely someone got that issue of YS? Gavin IIRC it was Crash. And I have it back in England. -- James R Curry - [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Balloon Doggies DEMANDED it! The OFFICIAL James R Curry Webpage is at http://www.lhutz.demon.co.uk
Re: Lost Games
From: Dave Hooper [EMAIL PROTECTED] It was on YS, I'm almost positive. I have the tape. That much I know for definite. If I could just find it. (and I think I know roughly where to look) Sorry guys :) It was on Crash :) Simon Yep, and I'm 95% positive it's actually on one of the shelfs of tapes at home that I bothered to ARRANGE. (All my Crash and YS tapes in chronological order..) Trouble is, that stack of tapes is now behind a load of other crap, and I'm several thousand miles away from it. -- James R Curry - [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Balloon Doggies DEMANDED it! The OFFICIAL James R Curry Webpage is at http://www.lhutz.demon.co.uk
Erk!
Well, that was.. erm.. fun. Is everyone still with us? -- James R Curry - [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Balloon Doggies DEMANDED it! The OFFICIAL James R Curry Webpage is at http://www.lhutz.demon.co.uk
Re what!
From: Robert Wilkinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Sam Usergroup sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no Subject:Re what! Date sent: Sat, 9 Oct 1999 10:31:28 -0700 Send reply to: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no I hate repeats. Bob Wilkinson Each of those messages was Another chance to see... -- James R Curry - [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Balloon Doggies DEMANDED it! The OFFICIAL James R Curry Webpage is at http://www.lhutz.demon.co.uk
Re: What The Hell Is Going On?
From: Chris Pile [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Sam Users Group sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no Subject:What The Hell Is Going On? Date sent: Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:48:09 +0100 Send reply to: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no Can someone please tell me what's going on? I've just had to wait while 115, yes *115* messages downloded and they're nearly all the bloody same... Is some server set in an infinite loop re-sending the same messages to SAM Users? I don't fancy loggin on in a few hours only to have to download *thousands* of versions of the same message... Chris. I think that someone set a bigfoot address to point to sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no and then subscribed the thing to sam-users. -- James R Curry - [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Balloon Doggies DEMANDED it! The OFFICIAL James R Curry Webpage is at http://www.lhutz.demon.co.uk
Re: South park
What I don't understand is why the press and the government doesn't hype the problem out of all reasonable proportion. Contrast it with most newspapers' attitude to the internet - how can we protect our innocent children from this tidal wave of obscenity being delivered direct into their bedrooms? The way I see it, what you'll find on the web and usenet represents a fairly accurate cross-section of the world at large - warts 'n all - and that parents should take at least as much responsibility over what their children access as they would over letting them watch 18-rated films, or letting them browse the top shelf at a local newsagent or whatever. But a lot of parents seem not to. Which is bizarre, because apart from anything else, I'm amazed they're unconcerned about paying the phone bill... Thank you Andrew, for mirroring my sentiments exactly. :) -- James R Curry - [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Balloon Doggies DEMANDED it! The OFFICIAL James R Curry Webpage is at http://www.lhutz.demon.co.uk
Re: South park
Although Southpark is funny, I think it should be prohibited. There are too many bad threads, especially for children (children like every cartoons, especially when they consist of many words like sh*t, f*ck, b**ch etc.) Someone lets their kids watch a show that's on TV at 11 o'clock at night and then complains about the suitability. It's not the TV networks responsibility to soften everything for children's eyes when it's designed for adults, shown at such an hour and run with a disclaimer. The burden here should be upon the parents and the second people realise this and stop blaming the worlds problems on faceless executives at TV networks, the better. Hell, if it were on at 6pm, I'd agree with you, but as it stands there is no responsible parent on Earth who would let their children watch such a show. If it's on after the watershed, they should carefully screen it before letting their kids. Sorry Aley, but it's not TVs job to make up for a parent's incompetence. And there is to much rasism, anti-semitism, nationalism, and all other isms's (even more than I know) they're against Jews, B.Streisand, and I don't know whatever.? ...but many people consider it funny... Aley [eili] Keprt - student, programmer (multimedia soft. etc.) phone: +420-68-538 70 35 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** http://get.to/aley -- James R Curry - [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Balloon Doggies DEMANDED it! The OFFICIAL James R Curry Webpage is at http://www.lhutz.demon.co.uk
Re: South park
So it's not just me that disagrees with all the 7 year olds at school who insist it's a kids programme just because it's a cartoon? Maria. Far more disturbing are adults who make that conclusion. -- James R Curry - [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Balloon Doggies DEMANDED it! The OFFICIAL James R Curry Webpage is at http://www.lhutz.demon.co.uk
Re: Teledisk shmeleshmisk
On Thu, 23 Sep 1999, Aley Keprt wrote: Yes, that's a big problem. I wanted to it too. But I couldn't get Teledisk work. I tried several PC's with no success. btw. GZipped SAD images are now preffered, SimCoupe can read them. Unless the disk is a standard Sam unprotected format, in which case a gzipped .DSK would be better because then Linux and MacOS users can read it too. Andrew How big is Teledisk again, and what's a convinient download site? I've yet to encounter a problem with it, you know? Except under Windows 95, but restarting in DOS fixed that one. Anyway, this is a pretty old PC, so it may actually be just right for this task. Pity about the 14.4 modem, huh?... -- James R Curry - [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Balloon Doggies DEMANDED it! The OFFICIAL James R Curry Webpage is at http://www.lhutz.demon.co.uk
Re: NEW: SimCoupe 0.79
From: Aley Keprt [EMAIL PROTECTED] New SimCoupe 0.79 - 1. new 32bit SAAemu 0.60, you don't need separate audio libraries anymore! (supports currently only OPL2, OPL3) Excellent, excellent, excellent, excellent. All in one. IMHO, this was *needed*. 2. new floppy interface, can read/write GZipped SAD images!!! Nice... I'm on the fence about that file extension business, I can see both sides of the coin. But then I'll use version 0.79 and I won't even have to let it concern me. *grins* included utilities for Win32 and DOS: SBK - converts between real disks and SAD images 2sad - converts between DSK, SAD, GZipped SAD images SMD - works as Sam's MasterDOS for PC AT (!) Ahhh! Everyone loves utilities. :) note: SAAemu 0.60 is now available in Win32 version too. (I hope it will be included in the first Win32 release of SimCoupe. .Who knows.) note 2: Use SAD extension for packed images. All new and old SAD-using programs can simply detect, what format is it. So you don't need to use SAD.GZ. In addition, SAD can be autostarted in Windows etc., but SAD.GZ cannot, since GZ is ambiguous extension. Clear? ZLIB was used. Great work, Aley. I need to get access to a decent PC right now... I'm relegated to an old 486 at the moment (erk! (actually, it's fine for old games, but not so fine for a lot of other things)). Once I have the oppotunity to get something a little better, SimCoupe 0.79 will be first on my list of downloads. -- James R Curry - [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Balloon Doggies DEMANDED it! The OFFICIAL James R Curry Webpage is at http://www.lhutz.demon.co.uk
Now you can all play a lame game under emulation!
Blast Turbo, the updated version of Blast which was originally on Fred 56 (Blast Turbo itself was on a late Fred issue, but who knows which?) is now available for downloading. If you want some game to play on your Sam or under emulation and you didn't have a Fred sub at the time, you can be subjected to this one by pointing your browser at: http://www.lhutz.demon.co.uk/sam.htm Hope you enjoy it. :) -- James R Curry - [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Balloon Doggies DEMANDED it!
Re: Might be interested
Now what confuses me is *how* they pay me. They didn't ask for a credit card number, and only have my address (no way am I giving them my phone number... Ive was phoned by some weird American company once, and had a massive conversation where they tried to convince me that I'd really rung them and asked them to ring me... very strange). Back when I was in the UK, I had cause to call Hyundai in the USA. Well, the person on the end of the phone couldn't help me at all, but I left my number thinking That's the end of that. 2 minutes later, the phone rings, and it's them, and most helpful they were too. I really was impressed by the level of customer service. (The fact that it was 3am in Britain, aside... I did call THEM first so they knew I'd be up. ;) ) So... how *do* they pay me? With magic beans. To make this marginally topical What are the pubs/clubs like in Gloucester/Quedgely this seems the nicest idea, since thats where all the shows were Though, then again, I've never been to Swansea :)... But I somehow doubt much of Samdom will remain after 10 years :) I like Swansea. Swansea is a nice place. And it's one of the only places in Wales that doesn't have a name made out of hyroglyphics. ;-) -- James R Curry - [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Balloon Doggies DEMANDED it!
Re:
From: Edwin Blink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Organization: Hanzehogeschool, Groningen To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no Date sent: Thu, 2 Sep 1999 12:45:07 MET Send reply to: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no subsribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your subscription to Spam Digest has been accepted. Thank you. You will now receive at least four or five message from us each ten minutes. Most of them with 3mb binaries attached. Thank you for choosing Spam Digest for your spam needs. To unsubscribe from this list, cancel your account with your ISP. -- James R Curry - [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Balloon Doggies DEMANDED it!
Re: Sam's worst ever game? (was Re: Who Wants To Be A... )
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 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 Don't get me wrong, I like Linux. I like Red Hat Linux. But let us imagine a hypothetical situation for a moment: 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... ...are we going to find Linux or Windows the more viable platform when it comes to making A SEVERE AMOUNT OF MONEY? If you say that you'll make as MUCH money, or even CLOSE from the Linux platform, you are obviously insane. ;) With business software, you might make more, but PARTICULARLY with games software, you'll be targetting the I dunno anything other than Windows crowd. -- James R Curry - [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Balloon Doggies DEMANDED it!
Re: 10th Birthday
By the way -- everyone? -- if you ever want to come over to Seattle and spend some time out here, my spare room is always open! Simon You shouldn't say things like that when I'm in the same country, you know? ;) -- James R Curry - [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Balloon Doggies DEMANDED it!
Re: SAM DEVELOPER FORUM
ed postings. This also seems to the feeling of other list subscribers from what they've said to me so I have taken it apon myself to create another mailing list: The Sam Developer Forum Colin, I have nothing but respect for the work you've done on the SAM, I think that the Quazar is a great piece of hardware, (And yes, I know I never bought one, but so many other things in my life conspired to cost money, now that I'm in the USA, there's not much point... :( ). I think that you've developed a lot of good software, I like Stratosphere. I think that the dedication you show by releasing Soundbyte regularly is second to none. I also think that this other mailing list is a REALLY ill-conceived idea. I know there's a lot of off-topic conversation here, but really, as Ian points out - 8 posts a day is a problem? YOU can start an on-topic discussion on THIS list. People won't ignore it. And no emulation? At the moment, I can't afford to get my SAM shipped across the Atlantic and get the requesit hardware to actually use the thing. I mean, do you really expect me to do that? So here I am, someone who received his SAM *before* Christams 1989, and has kept up the faith ever since, and I'm being excluded from your list, as the only SAM I can access here is a virtual one? We *don't* have the posts to support two lists, and I won't be joining the new one. I just hope it doesn't kill this one. We've developed a community over the last ten years, and thanks to this we all have a lot of friends whom we would not have otherwise. And shocking as it may seem, the community we've formed sometimes goes beyond the SAM and we talk off-topic. Big problem, eh? Such a high volume. Not. I think the best thing to do here is to start and contribute to the relevant threads, and for the rest of it - enjoy the ride! -- James R Curry - [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Balloon Doggies DEMANDED it!
Re: Screenshots wanted
But GIF, PCX and PNG are compressed. You of course meant lossily compressed, but then JPEG is just about the only format which does that. Anyone transporting image files around in BMP format should also be shot, for waste of space/bandwidth/time/everything. I think that you should shoot those who use xpm first. It's worse. -- Stuart Brady Firstly I'd like to shoot all those people who thought that I was being serious about using a zero compressed JPEG. :P -- James R Curry - [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Balloon Doggies DEMANDED it!
Re: Fred n' speccy
Mm. Sounds like The Tick was a damn sight funnier. Orders of magnitude, in fact. Ahh, what do you know? ;) -- James R Curry - [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Balloon Doggies DEMANDED it!
Re: Funny Thing
On a similar subject I was thinking - in the future when they finally get around to producing 'eye headset' things - so you can watch tv while walking around. It'll be great ..no need to go to cornwall (or wherever). Just switch on BBC and stare at the sky It'll be like the real thing. They already exist. And I *WANT* some...! Although there's no BBC in these parts. Still, I can stare at the sky and see typical FOX style sleaze. Interrupted every 3 minutes for commercials... ;p -- James R Curry - [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Balloon Doggies DEMANDED it!
Re: Screenshots wanted
On Thu, Aug 12, 1999 at 10:54:09AM +0100, Nick Humphries wrote: Any picture format is welcome, so long as it isn't compressed (so GIF, PCX, BMP and PNG is OK, but JPEG isn't). But GIF, PCX and PNG are compressed. You of course meant lossily compressed, but then JPEG is just about the only format which does that. Bleah... you knew what I meant :) Nick What about JPEG with the compression level set at zero? Is *THAT* alright? -- James R Curry - [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Balloon Doggies DEMANDED it!
Re: Funny Thing
'sfunny... I used to stare at the sun for minutes at a time when I was younger... didn't affect me at all. ... now car headlights at night on the other hand... Simon, is it me, or does your email address change so frequently that we need a slow motion instant replay to keep up with it? -- James R Curry - [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Balloon Doggies DEMANDED it!
Re: Fred n' speccy
Hello? Webster? How much to make dukelicious a word? Graham Goring From memory: ...Playing scrabble. Duke: There. Quizibuk. Jay: That's not a word! Duke: Get Webster on the phone. Hey, how you doing? How much to make Quizibuk a word? What's it mean? Oh, I dunno. A big problem. What about that other word I invented, Dukelicious? No- one's using it?! What a Duketastrophy! -- James R Curry - [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Balloon Doggies DEMANDED it!
Re: Fred n' speccy
Funnier than The Simpsons? I dont believe it. Is is around in the UK then?... Besides, I hate TMNT (or more accurately TMHT) I can't believe there was talk of putting Cowabunga in the dictionary. The Critic is, IMHO, one of the finest shows ever to grace television. -- James R Curry - [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Balloon Doggies DEMANDED it!
Re: Fred n' speccy
..Still have no idea what a quizibuk is though (James) Oh, I dunno. A big problem... :) -- James R Curry - [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Balloon Doggies DEMANDED it!
Re: Fred n' speccy
Graham Goring wrote: snip www.duketastrophy.demon.co.uk Should that be read duke catastrophe or duck catasrophe? Hmm, that's a real quizibuk. -- James R Curry - [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Balloon Doggies DEMANDED it!
Re: Announcement
Congrats on the wedding James. P.S Coule you at sometime if you are popping past Wetherby again pick up your Jupiter sign from the first/second NSSS. Jupiter sign? Excuse me? Is my last name Ekins? -- James R Curry - [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Balloon Doggies DEMANDED it!
Re: Announcement
Date sent: Thu, 05 Aug 1999 08:58:54 +0100 From: Diggory Gray [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no Subject:Re: Announcement Send reply to: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no Hello James, Long time no contact Congratulations! Hope all is well Thanks, and it is. :) The Balloon Doggies DEMANDED it! I expect they did One of my reasons for not writing about new projects is that my SAM has been off-line for sometime, ever since I accidentally wired the SCART to +400V :( Thankfully it only blew the Motorola sync chip phew Well, it's a little difficult to get to my OWN SAM, from here. I wonder how much it would cost to get a real SAM running in the USA.. Hey, Simon, we could sell them. ;) -- James R Curry - [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Balloon Doggies DEMANDED it!
RE: Announcement
I was usually half-asleep, covered with rain, dis-organized and looked like the average Dr Who fan. That's true... :) I probably still do. Heh. Dunno. Haven't seen you since! :( I think I'll organize a big SAM get-together over here and drive my wife nuts. ;) -- James R Curry - [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Balloon Doggies DEMANDED it!
Re: Announcement
Congratulations and best wishes to James and Terri. I wish you well for the future. Nice to have some good news once in a while! If you ever consider starting a family, Sam is a wonderful name... Phil Glover. Hmm... ...nah, she'd never go for it. ;) *thinks* - Miles Gordon Curry? ;-) -- James R Curry - [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Balloon Doggies DEMANDED it!
Re: Announcement
Date sent: Thu, 5 Aug 1999 12:18:27 +0100 (GMT) From: Allan Skillman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no Subject:Re: Announcement Send reply to: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no Hi All, Obviously its something in the Sam Community 'Water', I have just got back from my Honeymoon. Hence the lack of replies about SimCoupe latetly - sorry. Allan Let me be the first, and certainly not the last, to say Congratulations!. Congratulations, Allan! -- James R Curry - [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Balloon Doggies DEMANDED it!
Announcement
Friends, old and new - I forgive the mass mailed aspect of this message, but to write to each of you individually would be a highly time consuming affair, and there are bound to be people who I've forgotten to mail, and my time is going to be in part taken with making sure I remember these. So, here is the announcement. Myself, James Curry and Terri Huddleston have just married in Morehead, Kentucky. This announcement is slightly delayed, as we have been on the road driving over 1,000 miles to Manhattan, Kansas and I've had to arrange email access once we arrived. We're here together and happy. :) :) As for where we're going in the future? I can't say, because I don't know! In the meantime, you can reach me at any of my usual email address. The best to use is [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Note: this is attempt 2 to send to these two addresses due to my ineptness at typing. ;) ) -- James R Curry - [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Balloon Doggies DEMANDED it!
RE: Announcement
From: Justin Skists [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: 'sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no' sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no Subject:RE: Announcement Date sent: Wed, 4 Aug 1999 09:23:15 +0100 Send reply to: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no Oooh... Wow... Congrats... I remember you as a lad in the James Went building at DMU during my days of collecting people's student union card numbers... Ahhh.. The young grow up so quickly... :) Seriously, I wish you both the best. Justin. I was usually half-asleep, covered with rain, dis-organized and looked like the average Dr Who fan. I probably still do. -- James R Curry - [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Balloon Doggies DEMANDED it!
Re: Announcement
Oh way cool! Congratulations! I didn't know you were in the US as well :) The SAM Coupe project was actually a secret plot to remove all the countries elite, one by one, and bring them to a better life across the ocean. Seriously though, congratulations on your new job, too. Where did you say that you are based, now? -- James R Curry - [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Balloon Doggies DEMANDED it!
Re: Announcement
Oh dear, Si's beginning to pick up Americanisms... does anyone know of a way to uncorrupt him, or is it too late? We'll soon have you all in our power! -- James R Curry - [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Balloon Doggies DEMANDED it!
Re: Announcement
From: Paul Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] Organization: very little To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no Date sent: Wed, 4 Aug 1999 15:22:08 +0100 Subject:Re: Announcement Send reply to: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no Myself, James Curry and Terri Huddleston have just married in Morehead, Kentucky. This announcement is slightly delayed, as we So all three of you got married? :-) Seriously, congratulations. Have a nice life and all that. ;) I dread thinking that I might do something as unimaginitive as replying to several messages verbatim and to simply tag the word 'thanks' to the end, but I appear to be running out of imagination. Thanks, Paul. :) -- James R Curry - [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Balloon Doggies DEMANDED it!
Re:
From: Robert Wilkinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Sam Usergroup sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no Subject:Date sent: Sun, 1 Aug 1999 20:24:57 -0700 Send reply to: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no who sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no me. some other people. bob. bob under some other names. -- James R Curry - [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Balloon Doggies DEMANDED it!
