Re: A little bit of history...repeating

2000-12-31 Thread David L
- Original Message - From: Simon Cooke [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no Sent: Sunday, December 31, 2000 3:17 AM Subject: Re: A little bit of history...repeating From: Frans van Egmond [EMAIL PROTECTED] Still one question left; what happened to (any) leftover stock from

Re: A little bit of history...repeating

2000-12-31 Thread Dave Whitmore
On Sat, 30 Dec 2000 19:17:49 -0800 Sun, 31 Dec 00 03:19:14 GMT, Simon Cooke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Frans van Egmond [EMAIL PROTECTED] Still one question left; what happened to (any) leftover stock from West Coast Computers ? Bob ate it. Si Bob told me once that there is a 'lock-up'

Re: A little bit of history...repeating

2000-12-31 Thread David L
- Original Message - From: Dave Whitmore [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no Sent: Sunday, December 31, 2000 3:22 AM Subject: Re: A little bit of history...repeating On Sat, 30 Dec 2000 19:17:49 -0800 Sun, 31 Dec 00 03:19:14 GMT, Simon Cooke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From:

Re: A little bit of history...repeating

2000-12-31 Thread Gavin Smith
on 30/12/00 10:42 am, Nev Young at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As far as I know when Format passed away, peacefully in it's sleep, uncle Bobby had to go get a job. He now works for a small company building and maintaining PCs and selling web space. What about Format PC? Gavin

Re: A little bit of history...repeating

2000-12-31 Thread David L
- Original Message - From: Gavin Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no Sent: Sunday, December 31, 2000 3:26 AM Subject: Re: A little bit of history...repeating on 30/12/00 10:42 am, Nev Young at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As far as I know when Format passed away,

Re: A little bit of history...repeating

2000-12-31 Thread Dave Whitmore
On Sun, 31 Dec 2000 03:23:49 - Sun, 31 Dec 00 03:26:13 GMT, David L [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Another sad soul up at silly hours :) I'm not sad at all. I'm dying with a cold and I'm sparing the missus the joys of my sniffing, coughing and spluttering. That half litre of Whisky is doing the

Re: A little bit of history...repeating

2000-12-31 Thread David L
- Original Message - From: Dave Whitmore [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no Sent: Sunday, December 31, 2000 3:30 AM Subject: Re: A little bit of history...repeating On Sun, 31 Dec 2000 03:23:49 - Sun, 31 Dec 00 03:26:13 GMT, David L [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Another

Re: A little bit of history...repeating

2000-12-31 Thread Gavin Smith
on 31/12/00 3:30 am, Dave Whitmore at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 31 Dec 2000 03:23:49 - Sun, 31 Dec 00 03:26:13 GMT, David L [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Another sad soul up at silly hours :) I'm not sad at all. I'm dying with a cold and I'm sparing the missus the joys of my

Re: A little bit of history...repeating

2000-12-31 Thread Dave Whitmore
On Sun, 31 Dec 2000 03:33:42 - Sun, 31 Dec 00 03:39:38 GMT, David L [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Good on you! At least you've got some great telly on at the mo :) What am I missing?! Jesus, I've been sat here trying to suss the intricacies of making VCDs all night and missing out on TV. That

Re: A little bit of history...repeating

2000-12-31 Thread David L
- Original Message - From: Dave Whitmore [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no Sent: Sunday, December 31, 2000 3:48 AM Subject: Re: A little bit of history...repeating On Sun, 31 Dec 2000 03:33:42 - Sun, 31 Dec 00 03:39:38 GMT, David L [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Good on

Re: A little bit of history...repeating

2000-12-31 Thread Gavin Smith
on 31/12/00 3:48 am, Dave Whitmore at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why is it that /some/ people insist that 2001 is the beginning of a new century. Please explain the logic behind this argument, and tell me why most of the world celebrated it last year? There was no 0 AD. Therefore it's the new

Re: A little bit of history...repeating

2000-12-31 Thread Dave Whitmore
Easy - no year 0 - and 2000 + 1 = 2001 So the people said 'this is year 1', even though it didn't happen? I mean, I wasn't 1 until I'd lived a year. It still doesn't explain why everyone celebrated it last year. Maybe they're all cretins? Dave

Re: A little bit of history...repeating

2000-12-31 Thread David L
- Original Message - From: Dave Whitmore [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no Sent: Sunday, December 31, 2000 3:58 AM Subject: Re: A little bit of history...repeating Easy - no year 0 - and 2000 + 1 = 2001 So the people said 'this is year 1', even though it didn't

Re: A little bit of history...repeating

2000-12-31 Thread Dave Whitmore
On Sun, 31 Dec 2000 03:59:37 - Sun, 31 Dec 00 04:01:10 GMT, David L [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So the people said 'this is year 1', even though it didn't happen? I mean, I wasn't 1 until I'd lived a year. It still doesn't explain why everyone celebrated it last year. Maybe they're all

Happy New Year!

2000-12-31 Thread PGLOVER43
Happy New Year to all SAM users. I admit I don't understand the arguments about when the millennium starts, or started, but I remember reading a letter in the Independent last January from someone who said he was already starting to worry about the 'Pedantic Millennium Bug' (If there isn't

Re: A little bit of history...repeating

2000-12-31 Thread Ian Dalziel
- Original Message - From: Dave Whitmore [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no Sent: Sunday, December 31, 2000 3:58 AM Subject: Re: A little bit of history...repeating Easy - no year 0 - and 2000 + 1 = 2001 So the people said 'this is year 1', even though it didn't happen? I

RE: A little bit of history...repeating

2000-12-31 Thread Johnna Teare
VCD's?! Sounds interesting. What I'm after is a program that can write text and music to a VCD to use as Karaoke discs (my new job!). The alternative, CD+G seems to be a little PC unfriendly. So if anybody has any idea how I can mak emy own VCD's using perhaps something like PowerPoint to make

Re: A little bit of history...repeating

2000-12-31 Thread David L
- Original Message - From: Johnna Teare [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no Sent: Sunday, December 31, 2000 11:04 AM Subject: RE: A little bit of history...repeating VCD's?! Sounds interesting. What I'm after is a program that can write text and music to a VCD to use as

Re: A little bit of history...repeating

2000-12-31 Thread Aley Keprt
Couldn't tell you about WinCoupe but I do know that SimCoupe on the Mac has had a couple of updates lately. Which was nice. I wonder what are these updates. Nobody contacted me and wanted the latest sources for years. So is it a port of an unfinished Win32 version to Mac? Eh? Or is it another

Re: A little bit of history...repeating

2000-12-31 Thread Aley Keprt
You might find this amusing. It was in today's Guardian, reprinted from a copy of The Times from 1799 We have uniformly rejected all letters and declined all discussion upon the question of when the present century ends, as it is one of the most absurd that can engage the public

ASCD

2000-12-31 Thread Aley Keprt
For those who didn't understand: ASCD has not been publicly released. It is only beta version, available for on request (for testing). Today's progress: kempston joystick emulation, SoundBlaster autodetection. -- Bc.Aley

Not SAM but Spectrum related tech question

2000-12-31 Thread Frans van Egmond
Does anyone know what parts are likely to have to be replaced if my Multiface3 gives flickering squares when attached to the ZX +3 ? Thanks, Frans

Re: A little bit of history...repeating

2000-12-31 Thread David L
- Original Message - From: Aley Keprt [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no Sent: Sunday, December 31, 2000 4:49 AM Subject: Re: A little bit of history...repeating You might find this amusing. It was in today's Guardian, reprinted from a copy of The Times from 1799

New Year

2000-12-31 Thread Mac Buster
Hello! The New Year is here already! And I wish you all the best :)