Re: Retro shows and Sam's 25th birthday
Yup, Forever is 8bit demoparty including Sam Coupe. It is happening every year (this is 15th year in a row), we have a technicaly great demo for Sam Coupe this year in the competiton. If anyone doesn't know yet, there were two demos supposed to be shown. Due to hardware problems the competition failed. Both demos have been released anyway: http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=62812 http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=62809 Adam.
Re: Retro shows and Sam's 25th birthday
On 19/03/2014 20:35, Adam wrote: Yup, Forever is 8bit demoparty including Sam Coupe. It is happening every year (this is 15th year in a row), we have a technicaly great demo for Sam Coupe this year in the competiton. If anyone doesn't know yet, there were two demos supposed to be shown. Due to hardware problems the competition failed. Both demos have been released anyway: http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=62812 http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=62809 Adam. Wow - pretty amazing to see productivity like that. I especially like the Platonic solids animation - think I saw it on a C64 demo a while back. Happy 25th got off to a really good start! Howard --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active. http://www.avast.com
Re: Retro shows and Sam's 25th birthday
Yup, Forever is 8bit demoparty including Sam Coupe. It is happening every year (this is 15th year in a row), we have a technicaly great demo for Sam Coupe this year in the competiton. Short video from year 2012 is here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ffg8KJ5yFuE Greetings, ellvis Dňa Sun, 09 Mar 2014 02:58:08 + Balor Price toberm...@cookingcircle.co.uk napísal: Argh in addition to Retro Mania 2 there's Forever 14 happening next weekend. Must be retro party/fair season. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1x5xZXaGB0 I'm interested in a meetup too! Revival 14 gets my vote at the moment (enough time to mebbe polish off something in time for it? :) ) Howard On 27/02/2014 17:59, Thomas Harte wrote: I found this thread on the Retro Gamer site, 'Upcoming Retro Gaming/Classic Computing events': http://www.retrogamer.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6t=17231sid=c1d3438d991661ad1afa22f622737505start=345 Nobody seems to have updated the sticky post at the top with anything recent but if you skip to the last few pages you’ll see a few scheduled for the future. Of those the two that seem least focussed on pinball and arcade machines seem to be: Retro Mania 2 Wickford Community Centre Market Rd, Wickford, ESSEX, SS12 0AG 22nd - 23rd MARCH 2014 https://www.facebook.com/events/135819333286758/ Revival 2014 […] will now be held on the 9th and 10th August 2014 (in Wolverhampton) http://www.revivalretroevents.com/index.php/component/vikevents/?task=vieweventitid=3 I currently don’t believe I can make either so that’s almost all I have to say about that. Otherwise I would suggest Revival as it’s (i) more than a month away; and (ii) much closer to the birthday. Also they’re promising “a huge selection of competitive traders” which strongly implies a Sam stall could be rented at worst. On 27 Feb 2014, at 10:11, the wub the...@gmail.com mailto:the...@gmail.com wrote: definitely interested, would be great to meet you guys! On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 9:47 PM, da...@properbastard.co.uk mailto:da...@properbastard.co.uk wrote: Quoting Ian Spencer i...@spencerweb.net mailto:i...@spencerweb.net: No quite Stefan I also live in Germany (near Köln) and have had a sam since the very beginning. I now have two, though these days I usually use the emulator. Ian Cologne is a nice place indeed - been there a couple of times with the German FGTH Fans. Perhaps it's possible to arrange a UK based one and a German one? :) Wonder what Tarquin's doing these days? --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active. http://www.avast.com -- ellvis/ZeroTeam ell...@zeroteam.sk http://zeroteam.sk ZX Spectrum support since 1996
Re: Retro shows and Sam's 25th birthday
Argh in addition to Retro Mania 2 there's Forever 14 happening next weekend. Must be retro party/fair season. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1x5xZXaGB0 I'm interested in a meetup too! Revival 14 gets my vote at the moment (enough time to mebbe polish off something in time for it? :) ) Howard On 27/02/2014 17:59, Thomas Harte wrote: I found this thread on the Retro Gamer site, 'Upcoming Retro Gaming/Classic Computing events': http://www.retrogamer.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6t=17231sid=c1d3438d991661ad1afa22f622737505start=345 Nobody seems to have updated the sticky post at the top with anything recent but if you skip to the last few pages you’ll see a few scheduled for the future. Of those the two that seem least focussed on pinball and arcade machines seem to be: Retro Mania 2 Wickford Community Centre Market Rd, Wickford, ESSEX, SS12 0AG 22nd - 23rd MARCH 2014 https://www.facebook.com/events/135819333286758/ Revival 2014 […] will now be held on the 9th and 10th August 2014 (in Wolverhampton) http://www.revivalretroevents.com/index.php/component/vikevents/?task=vieweventitid=3 I currently don’t believe I can make either so that’s almost all I have to say about that. Otherwise I would suggest Revival as it’s (i) more than a month away; and (ii) much closer to the birthday. Also they’re promising “a huge selection of competitive traders” which strongly implies a Sam stall could be rented at worst. On 27 Feb 2014, at 10:11, the wub the...@gmail.com mailto:the...@gmail.com wrote: definitely interested, would be great to meet you guys! On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 9:47 PM, da...@properbastard.co.uk mailto:da...@properbastard.co.uk wrote: Quoting Ian Spencer i...@spencerweb.net mailto:i...@spencerweb.net: No quite Stefan I also live in Germany (near Köln) and have had a sam since the very beginning. I now have two, though these days I usually use the emulator. Ian Cologne is a nice place indeed - been there a couple of times with the German FGTH Fans. Perhaps it's possible to arrange a UK based one and a German one? :) Wonder what Tarquin's doing these days? --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active. http://www.avast.com
Re: Retro shows and Sam's 25th birthday
definitely interested, would be great to meet you guys! On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 9:47 PM, da...@properbastard.co.uk wrote: Quoting Ian Spencer i...@spencerweb.net: No quite Stefan I also live in Germany (near Köln) and have had a sam since the very beginning. I now have two, though these days I usually use the emulator. Ian Cologne is a nice place indeed - been there a couple of times with the German FGTH Fans. Perhaps it's possible to arrange a UK based one and a German one? :) Wonder what Tarquin's doing these days?
Re: Retro shows and Sam's 25th birthday
I found this thread on the Retro Gamer site, 'Upcoming Retro Gaming/Classic Computing events': http://www.retrogamer.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6t=17231sid=c1d3438d991661ad1afa22f622737505start=345 Nobody seems to have updated the sticky post at the top with anything recent but if you skip to the last few pages you’ll see a few scheduled for the future. Of those the two that seem least focussed on pinball and arcade machines seem to be: Retro Mania 2 Wickford Community Centre Market Rd, Wickford, ESSEX, SS12 0AG 22nd - 23rd MARCH 2014 https://www.facebook.com/events/135819333286758/ Revival 2014 […] will now be held on the 9th and 10th August 2014 (in Wolverhampton) http://www.revivalretroevents.com/index.php/component/vikevents/?task=vieweventitid=3 I currently don’t believe I can make either so that’s almost all I have to say about that. Otherwise I would suggest Revival as it’s (i) more than a month away; and (ii) much closer to the birthday. Also they’re promising “a huge selection of competitive traders” which strongly implies a Sam stall could be rented at worst. On 27 Feb 2014, at 10:11, the wub the...@gmail.com wrote: definitely interested, would be great to meet you guys! On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 9:47 PM, da...@properbastard.co.uk wrote: Quoting Ian Spencer i...@spencerweb.net: No quite Stefan I also live in Germany (near Köln) and have had a sam since the very beginning. I now have two, though these days I usually use the emulator. Ian Cologne is a nice place indeed - been there a couple of times with the German FGTH Fans. Perhaps it's possible to arrange a UK based one and a German one? :) Wonder what Tarquin's doing these days?
Re: Retro shows and Sam's 25th birthday
Hi Thomas, there are lots of foreigners in Germany as for many Eastern Europeans, German is their second language and so they choose to come here. The Germans generally don't have the over the top reaction to immigration that you sometimes see in the UK. Obviously everyone's experience is different but in the 40 years I have lived here I have never felt that I was treated any differently from a German, whether personally or when dealing with official departments. So we love living in Germany and it's given us a good life. As I only visit the UK about once a year I will unfortunately probably not be able to visit a Sam meet, however I did visit the Museum of Computing once and noticed they had little about home computing before the invention of the micro computer. I sent them a lot of information including info on the start of the British Amateur Computer Club but they never even replied. Oh well, that's life. Ian Am 25.02.2014 20:43, schrieb Thomas Harte: How is Germany for foreigners? Maybe what we should do is contact someone like the Museum of Computing, which obviously isn’t a conference space but often hosts lectures, suggest that the Sam is an interesting topic and ask if we can use whatever they have as lecture space for an evening? Maybe I’m aiming too high but it’s surely an interesting story even for an outsider: what employees of Sinclair did next, how the British computer industry ran out of steam? Then if we happen to combine that with a detailed discussion of the software and so on, so be it? On 25 Feb 2014, at 10:02, Ian Spencer i...@spencerweb.net mailto:i...@spencerweb.net wrote: No quite Stefan I also live in Germany (near Köln) and have had a sam since the very beginning. I now have two, though these days I usually use the emulator. Ian Am 25.02.2014 04:46, schriebstefan_schomb...@agilent.com: I would join as well, if it does no collide with any work appointments. You can imagine how desperate I am for a such a meeting – the SAM is too exotic for most Germans, so I am a lone warrior over here…J *From:*owner-sam-us...@nvg.ntnu.no[mailto:owner-sam-us...@nvg.ntnu.no]*On Behalf Of*Thomas Harte *Sent:*Monday, February 24, 2014 11:54 PM *To:*sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no *Subject:*Re: Retro shows and Sam's 25th birthday How much does it cost to book a venue anyway? We could just organise one ourselves. On 24 Feb 2014, at 22:25, Mike Nicholas m...@euroasic.com mailto:m...@euroasic.com wrote: I too would be interested. SAM was a huge part of my childhood and kept me out of mischief :-) On 24 February 2014, Thomas Harte tomh.retros...@gmail.com mailto:tomh.retros...@gmail.com wrote: I’ve never been to one but would definitely try to make some effort if something like this were arranged. There’s a 90% chance it’d be while I’m out of the country but it’d be a good excuse to write something. On 24 Feb 2014, at 13:42, Andrew Collier and...@intensity.org.uk mailto:and...@intensity.org.uk wrote: Hi, I guess the Sam's 25th birthday is coming up this year. I was wondering anybody regularly goes to any of the retro computer shows which happen from time to time, and whether there would be any interest from sam-users generally to meet up at one of them? If there's a good one towards the end of the year we could perhaps arrange a few Sam related stands, and 'adopt' it as a Sam's 25th anniversary event? Andrew
Re: Retro shows and Sam's 25th birthday
Quoting Andrew Collier and...@intensity.org.uk: Hi, I guess the Sam's 25th birthday is coming up this year. I was wondering anybody regularly goes to any of the retro computer shows which happen from time to time, and whether there would be any interest from sam-users generally to meet up at one of them? If there's a good one towards the end of the year we could perhaps arrange a few Sam related stands, and 'adopt' it as a Sam's 25th anniversary event? Andrew I'd be interested.
Re: Retro shows and Sam's 25th birthday
Quoting Thomas Harte tomh.retros...@gmail.com: How much does it cost to book a venue anyway? We could just organise one ourselves. Depends on how big and where - the NSSS show I did with Malcolm and George Boyle in Bolton probably only cost around 100 quid tops - and covered that with stand fee - so we didnt end up out of pocket. These days, would depend on who wanted to come along - and its probably better to team up with an existing thing to make it worthwhile.
Re: Retro shows and Sam's 25th birthday
Quoting Ian Spencer i...@spencerweb.net: No quite Stefan I also live in Germany (near Köln) and have had a sam since the very beginning. I now have two, though these days I usually use the emulator. Ian Cologne is a nice place indeed - been there a couple of times with the German FGTH Fans. Perhaps it's possible to arrange a UK based one and a German one? :) Wonder what Tarquin's doing these days?
Re: Retro shows and Sam's 25th birthday
No quite Stefan I also live in Germany (near Köln) and have had a sam since the very beginning. I now have two, though these days I usually use the emulator. Ian Am 25.02.2014 04:46, schrieb stefan_schomb...@agilent.com: I would join as well, if it does no collide with any work appointments. You can imagine how desperate I am for a such a meeting -- the SAM is too exotic for most Germans, so I am a lone warrior over here... J *From:*owner-sam-us...@nvg.ntnu.no [mailto:owner-sam-us...@nvg.ntnu.no] *On Behalf Of *Thomas Harte *Sent:* Monday, February 24, 2014 11:54 PM *To:* sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no *Subject:* Re: Retro shows and Sam's 25th birthday How much does it cost to book a venue anyway? We could just organise one ourselves. On 24 Feb 2014, at 22:25, Mike Nicholas m...@euroasic.com mailto:m...@euroasic.com wrote: I too would be interested. SAM was a huge part of my childhood and kept me out of mischief :-) On 24 February 2014, Thomas Harte tomh.retros...@gmail.com mailto:tomh.retros...@gmail.com wrote: I've never been to one but would definitely try to make some effort if something like this were arranged. There's a 90% chance it'd be while I'm out of the country but it'd be a good excuse to write something. On 24 Feb 2014, at 13:42, Andrew Collier and...@intensity.org.uk mailto:and...@intensity.org.uk wrote: Hi, I guess the Sam's 25th birthday is coming up this year. I was wondering anybody regularly goes to any of the retro computer shows which happen from time to time, and whether there would be any interest from sam-users generally to meet up at one of them? If there's a good one towards the end of the year we could perhaps arrange a few Sam related stands, and 'adopt' it as a Sam's 25th anniversary event? Andrew
Re: Retro shows and Sam's 25th birthday
How is Germany for foreigners? Maybe what we should do is contact someone like the Museum of Computing, which obviously isn’t a conference space but often hosts lectures, suggest that the Sam is an interesting topic and ask if we can use whatever they have as lecture space for an evening? Maybe I’m aiming too high but it’s surely an interesting story even for an outsider: what employees of Sinclair did next, how the British computer industry ran out of steam? Then if we happen to combine that with a detailed discussion of the software and so on, so be it? On 25 Feb 2014, at 10:02, Ian Spencer i...@spencerweb.net wrote: No quite Stefan I also live in Germany (near Köln) and have had a sam since the very beginning. I now have two, though these days I usually use the emulator. Ian Am 25.02.2014 04:46, schrieb stefan_schomb...@agilent.com: I would join as well, if it does no collide with any work appointments. You can imagine how desperate I am for a such a meeting – the SAM is too exotic for most Germans, so I am a lone warrior over here… J From: owner-sam-us...@nvg.ntnu.no [mailto:owner-sam-us...@nvg.ntnu.no] On Behalf Of Thomas Harte Sent: Monday, February 24, 2014 11:54 PM To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no Subject: Re: Retro shows and Sam's 25th birthday How much does it cost to book a venue anyway? We could just organise one ourselves. On 24 Feb 2014, at 22:25, Mike Nicholas m...@euroasic.com wrote: I too would be interested. SAM was a huge part of my childhood and kept me out of mischief :-) On 24 February 2014, Thomas Harte tomh.retros...@gmail.com wrote: I’ve never been to one but would definitely try to make some effort if something like this were arranged. There’s a 90% chance it’d be while I’m out of the country but it’d be a good excuse to write something. On 24 Feb 2014, at 13:42, Andrew Collier and...@intensity.org.uk wrote: Hi, I guess the Sam's 25th birthday is coming up this year. I was wondering anybody regularly goes to any of the retro computer shows which happen from time to time, and whether there would be any interest from sam-users generally to meet up at one of them? If there's a good one towards the end of the year we could perhaps arrange a few Sam related stands, and 'adopt' it as a Sam's 25th anniversary event? Andrew
Re: Retro shows and Sam's 25th birthday
I’ve never been to one but would definitely try to make some effort if something like this were arranged. There’s a 90% chance it’d be while I’m out of the country but it’d be a good excuse to write something. On 24 Feb 2014, at 13:42, Andrew Collier and...@intensity.org.uk wrote: Hi, I guess the Sam's 25th birthday is coming up this year. I was wondering anybody regularly goes to any of the retro computer shows which happen from time to time, and whether there would be any interest from sam-users generally to meet up at one of them? If there's a good one towards the end of the year we could perhaps arrange a few Sam related stands, and 'adopt' it as a Sam's 25th anniversary event? Andrew
RE: Retro shows and Sam's 25th birthday
I don't usually but id be up for it for a sam meet up -Original Message- From: owner-sam-us...@nvg.ntnu.no [mailto:owner-sam-us...@nvg.ntnu.no] On Behalf Of Thomas Harte Sent: 24 February 2014 22:13 To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no Subject: Re: Retro shows and Sam's 25th birthday I've never been to one but would definitely try to make some effort if something like this were arranged. There's a 90% chance it'd be while I'm out of the country but it'd be a good excuse to write something. On 24 Feb 2014, at 13:42, Andrew Collier and...@intensity.org.uk wrote: Hi, I guess the Sam's 25th birthday is coming up this year. I was wondering anybody regularly goes to any of the retro computer shows which happen from time to time, and whether there would be any interest from sam-users generally to meet up at one of them? If there's a good one towards the end of the year we could perhaps arrange a few Sam related stands, and 'adopt' it as a Sam's 25th anniversary event? Andrew
RE: Retro shows and Sam's 25th birthday
I would join as well, if it does no collide with any work appointments. You can imagine how desperate I am for a such a meeting - the SAM is too exotic for most Germans, so I am a lone warrior over here... :) From: owner-sam-us...@nvg.ntnu.no [mailto:owner-sam-us...@nvg.ntnu.no] On Behalf Of Thomas Harte Sent: Monday, February 24, 2014 11:54 PM To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no Subject: Re: Retro shows and Sam's 25th birthday How much does it cost to book a venue anyway? We could just organise one ourselves. On 24 Feb 2014, at 22:25, Mike Nicholas m...@euroasic.commailto:m...@euroasic.com wrote: I too would be interested. SAM was a huge part of my childhood and kept me out of mischief :-) On 24 February 2014, Thomas Harte tomh.retros...@gmail.commailto:tomh.retros...@gmail.com wrote: I've never been to one but would definitely try to make some effort if something like this were arranged. There's a 90% chance it'd be while I'm out of the country but it'd be a good excuse to write something. On 24 Feb 2014, at 13:42, Andrew Collier and...@intensity.org.ukmailto:and...@intensity.org.uk wrote: Hi, I guess the Sam's 25th birthday is coming up this year. I was wondering anybody regularly goes to any of the retro computer shows which happen from time to time, and whether there would be any interest from sam-users generally to meet up at one of them? If there's a good one towards the end of the year we could perhaps arrange a few Sam related stands, and 'adopt' it as a Sam's 25th anniversary event? Andrew
