Quazar News Update
Sam Revival --- Sam Revival 16 will be sent out just before the new year, and features 'Colony' on the coverdisk. Written by Derek Koselo, Colony is a 'Sim' styled game where you setup and run a planetary mining colony. The magazine itself features an interview with Derek, a look back at the development work I undertook on Chrome, as well as the regular columns, news, letters etc. Sam Revial costs £3.99 in the UK, or £4.79 including EU postage. 3 issue subscriptions give a bit of a discount, costing £10.99 for UK, and £13.49 for EU. Back issues are still available - see the www.samcoupe.com website for pricing. You are also welcome to pickup the current issue (15) at a special offer price of £2.99 (UK) and £3.79 (EU) saving one pound. Issue 15 featured 'Legend of Eshan' by John Eyre on the coverdisk, and the magazine featured a look at the Kaleidoscope interface from SamCo, and the completion of the Mayhem prototype. Mayhem Accelerator -- The designing of the final PCBs was completed at the start of the month, and I ordered a couple for testing. They arrived back with me a couple of days ago and i'm in the process now of building them up to go through all the final testing before I go ahead and ordering a full batch. More news soon...! Price Drops --- Price reductions on a few pieces of software: Stratosphere - now £4.99 (Previously £9.99) Money Bags 2 - now £4.99 (Previously £9.99) Super Byke Championship - now £4.99 (Previously £7.99) Soundbyte (issues 1 to 76) - now 75p each. and hardware: Quazar Surround Sampler Module - £19.99 For more information, photos, screenshots of what's mentioned here check out the full details at my website at: www.samcoupe.com All the best, Colin = Quazar : Hardware, Software, Spares and Repairs for the Sam Coupe April 1995-2006 - Celebrating 11 Years of developing for the Sam Coupe Website: http://www.samcoupe.com/
Re: Quazar News Update
I remember being thrilled when I first heard about Colony and I was really pleased when I (finally) got it - it seemed to me to be just the kind of game that SAM needed. But when I played it, I couldn't for the life of me stop my colony from dying within minutes. I never did get a long game out of it - anyone else? I'm sure there's a strategy I was missing - I'd love to give it another shot when I get my SR. Gavin On 16 Dec 2006, at 12:46 PM, Colin Piggot wrote: Sam Revival --- Sam Revival 16 will be sent out just before the new year, and features 'Colony' on the coverdisk. Written by Derek Koselo, Colony is a 'Sim' styled game where you setup and run a planetary mining colony. The magazine itself features an interview with Derek, a look back at the development work I undertook on Chrome, as well as the regular columns, news, letters etc. Sam Revial costs £3.99 in the UK, or £4.79 including EU postage. 3 issue subscriptions give a bit of a discount, costing £10.99 for UK, and £13.49 for EU. Back issues are still available - see the www.samcoupe.com website for pricing. You are also welcome to pickup the current issue (15) at a special offer price of £2.99 (UK) and £3.79 (EU) saving one pound. Issue 15 featured 'Legend of Eshan' by John Eyre on the coverdisk, and the magazine featured a look at the Kaleidoscope interface from SamCo, and the completion of the Mayhem prototype. Mayhem Accelerator -- The designing of the final PCBs was completed at the start of the month, and I ordered a couple for testing. They arrived back with me a couple of days ago and i'm in the process now of building them up to go through all the final testing before I go ahead and ordering a full batch. More news soon...! Price Drops --- Price reductions on a few pieces of software: Stratosphere - now £4.99 (Previously £9.99) Money Bags 2 - now £4.99 (Previously £9.99) Super Byke Championship - now £4.99 (Previously £7.99) Soundbyte (issues 1 to 76) - now 75p each. and hardware: Quazar Surround Sampler Module - £19.99 For more information, photos, screenshots of what's mentioned here check out the full details at my website at: www.samcoupe.com All the best, Colin = Quazar : Hardware, Software, Spares and Repairs for the Sam Coupe April 1995-2006 - Celebrating 11 Years of developing for the Sam Coupe Website: http://www.samcoupe.com/
Re: Quazar News Update
I remember being thrilled when I first heard about Colony and I was really pleased when I (finally) got it - it seemed to me to be just the kind of game that SAM needed. But when I played it, I couldn't for the life of me stop my colony from dying within minutes. I never did get a long game out of it - anyone else? I'm sure there's a strategy I was missing - I'd love to give it another shot when I get my SR. Yeah, it takes a while to figure out the tricks and tasks needed to get a successful colony going. You're dead within minutes if you don't do things right, and it took me a while to figure out how to really get it going. When I was adding the extra sound all those years ago I was able to keep a colony running for hours after playing it for a couple of weeks! But alas I didn't keep any notes, although something seems to linger in my memory as a few days ago when testing the SR cover disks I did get a Colony up and running, and mining away successfully. It's a very nice 'Sim' game though, just a bit of a learning curve. I asked Derek about it for the interview, so the reasons for the style of the game are in his answers... Colin = Quazar : Hardware, Software, Spares and Repairs for the Sam Coupe April 1995-2006 - Celebrating 11 Years of developing for the Sam Coupe Website: http://www.samcoupe.com/
