RE: Virtual party

2001-02-19 Thread Adam Dawidziuk
There are organised a virtual party on the Speccy scene. Why we can't do something like that ? Lets make a party with four competitions: 4k intro, single disk demo, music, graphics. After a deadline all entries will be uploaded to the net and every visitor may watch/listen to them using

RE: Sam Stuff

2001-02-19 Thread Dean Woodyatt
heh, cool. I have a SAM IDE interface, Comes in the standard small white sam expansion box thingie, is this any good, or should i make an ATOM? -Original Message- From: David Ledbury [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 16 February 2001 22:21 To: sam-users Subject: Re: Sam Stuff

RE: Virtual party

2001-02-19 Thread Luke Trevorrow
Wicked idea mate - shame I'm crap at coding demos, but will love the results. Saying that, though, I found all of my old Z80 notes so might give me some reason to start coding again. Luke -Original Message- From: Mac Buster [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, February 18, 2001 01:37

RE: Errr (Or who would like a game of bobbings!!)

2001-02-19 Thread Luke Trevorrow
What did he accuse you of stealing? Luke -Original Message- From: David Ledbury [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 16, 2001 10:28 To: sam-users Subject: Re: Errr (Or who would like a game of bobbings!!) - Original Message - From: Luke Trevorrow [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[OT] Pass it on, spread it around

2001-02-19 Thread Simon Cooke
If you know people who have been getting hit by the ILOVEYOU (and other variant) virus, then this might be useful for you. 20kb download - http://home.earthlink.net/~simoncooke/SVDefuser.zip Full instructions come up when you run the exe. Basically, it alters the default action for script files

RE: Errr (Or who would like a game of bobbings!!)

2001-02-19 Thread Luke Trevorrow
The last I ever heard of it was someone wrote bobbings - the wondrous SAM game - and gave out free copies at one of the Format shows. Good game for getting out your aggression. Luke -Original Message- From: David Ledbury [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 16, 2001 10:26 To:

RE: Errr (Or who would like a game of bobbings!!)

2001-02-19 Thread Luke Trevorrow
It's a good job you need money to produce software, because as we all know the Open Source movement revolves around selling stuff - not! Luke -Original Message- From: Robert van der Veeke [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, February 17, 2001 01:31 To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no Subject:

Re: Errr (Or who would like a game of bobbings!!)

2001-02-19 Thread Colin Piggot
The last I ever heard of it was someone wrote bobbings - the wondrous SAM game - and gave out free copies at one of the Format shows. Good game for getting out your aggression. Luke To correct you there the author gave out two copies - and one person this was given to by the author

RE: Errr (Or who would like a game of bobbings!!)

2001-02-19 Thread Justin . Skists
that was complicated to understand on a monday morning -Original Message- From: Colin Piggot [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 19, 2001 10:54 AM To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no Subject: Re: Errr (Or who would like a game of bobbings!!) The last I ever heard

RE: Errr (Or who would like a game of bobbings!!)

2001-02-19 Thread Luke Trevorrow
Never mind mate - it should be PD just because it's quality. I think everyone on this list would enjoy it. Still, copyright is copyright. Luke -Original Message- From: Colin Piggot [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 19, 2001 10:54 To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no Subject: Re: Errr

Re: [OT] Pass it on, spread it around

2001-02-19 Thread Aley Keprt
Pretty unusable for people who use scripts daily for common tasks (as is usual on Linux). btw. How can be ILOVEYOU activated? You must run (click) it manually, or not? I'm really sorry, but I think people who are so stupid to run unknown files they get by e-mail, should lose all data on all

Re: [OT] Pass it on, spread it around

2001-02-19 Thread Mac Buster
Aley Keprt wrote: btw. How can be ILOVEYOU activated? You must run (click) it manually, or not? Some browsers and mail readers 'click' it without your permission when you open the message. Some mail readers do not allow you disable this 'incledible useful' feature.

RE: [OT] Pass it on, spread it around

2001-02-19 Thread Simon Owen
Aley Keprt wrote: Pretty unusable for people who use scripts daily for common tasks (as is usual on Linux). Well it's MS Windows only, so no problem there - in fact I think it's Outlook-only in terms of being able to mail itself on to the top X people in your address book. btw. How can be

RE: [OT] Pass it on, spread it around

2001-02-19 Thread Frode Tenneboe
On Mon, 19 Feb 2001 12:53:38 - Simon Owen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is way OF, but it has been eating mu chest for long so this seemed like a good a forum as anything... :) Whoa!!! Nobody _deserves_ it, especially when most people affected will just not understand the risks - not

Re: [OT] Pass it on, spread it around

2001-02-19 Thread Aley Keprt
Aley Keprt wrote: btw. How can be ILOVEYOU activated? You must run (click) it manually, or not? Some browsers and mail readers 'click' it without your permission when you open the message. Some mail readers do not allow you disable this 'incledible useful' feature. Really? What 'some

Re: [OT] Pass it on, spread it around

2001-02-19 Thread Mac Buster
Frode Tenneboe wrote: [...] If you can't do that, you should not drive a car! Look at computer traders. The most often thing they say to someone who wants to buy a computer is everything is very easy, you don't have to know something special. Look at OS box'es there are the same note. Now

Re: [OT] Pass it on, spread it around

2001-02-19 Thread Aley Keprt
Frode Tenneboe wrote: [...] If you can't do that, you should not drive a car! Look at computer traders. The most often thing they say to someone who wants to buy a computer is everything is very easy, you don't have to know something special. Look at OS box'es there are the same note.

RE: [OT] Pass it on, spread it around

2001-02-19 Thread Simon Owen
Frode Tenneboe wrote: I don't expect everybody to know how to fix their car, but I do expect that they don't bump into me, wreck other peoples cars and properties and kill other people. It has to do with general awareness and ability to cope with the tool you have been equiped with. In the

RE: [OT] Pass it on, spread it around

2001-02-19 Thread Frode Tenneboe
On Mon, 19 Feb 2001 14:56:48 - Simon Owen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you can't do that, you should not drive a car! We're not talking about hard disk partitioning tools - we're just talking about an e-mail reading program! Aren't the too most basic Internet tasks browsing the web and

RE: [OT] Pass it on, spread it around

2001-02-19 Thread Simon Owen
Frode Tenneboe wrote: No, a half decent software company should not have considered this a good thing and introduced them in the first place. Agreed! M$ strikes again... Si

Another thingy , cataloging sam discs!

2001-02-19 Thread Dean Woodyatt
well, my little, and somewhat pointless contribution... WASUP! on a more sensible note, you out there with real sams, or indeed, the software to go on them, may I ask if you can dig your discs out, as, in the next few weeks or so, i would like to get a good sized catalogue of sam

Re: Another thingy , cataloging sam discs!

2001-02-19 Thread Colin Piggot
From: Dean Woodyatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] once i've dumped all mine, and sorted through some stuff off the net (I'd estimate about 500 so far), i'll be asking niceley if you can 'mail' me any dumps that i dont have, so that i can add them to the catalogue I'll then put 'em all on cd's and send

RE: Another thingy , cataloging sam discs!

2001-02-19 Thread Dean Woodyatt
well, i'm fine with that, thats why i asked!, i'm sure an awful lot out there isn't being activley sold, or any profit being gained from, those mainly are the discs i want to catalogue. I have every issue of FRED and SamSupplement here (99% original discs, too i'd say), only about 75% of them are

RE: Another thingy , cataloging sam discs!

2001-02-19 Thread Dean Woodyatt
Incase I wasnt clear, I WILL NOT 'dump and release' any CURRENT software, if anyone knows any websites of software that is activley being sold for the sam, please mail them to me, i dont want to deprive anyone of any money, and will do my damned best to stop anyone else dumping that software

Re: Another thingy , cataloging sam discs!

2001-02-19 Thread ANDREWPARK1969
Software only has a short life in the eyes of copyright so i cant see there being a problem dumping them on the web. Im writing a footy game which has slowed down due to memoiry on the sam. Can everyone let me know how much ram they have so i can continue writing. I estimate that the game

RE: Another thingy , cataloging sam discs!

2001-02-19 Thread Justin . Skists
is this a footie playing? or footie management? i've got 512K in my sam (which i haven't used for almost a year). -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 19, 2001 6:12 PM To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no Subject: Re: Another thingy ,

Re: [OT] Pass it on, spread it around

2001-02-19 Thread Aley Keprt
You can simply do a script (aka. batch file) for Windows or Linux, which simply deletes all files, incl. subdirs. On Linux this program consists of one pure command rm. Does it mean something is wrong? No, if people run everything runable they get by e-mail, they can sometime lose some data. This

Re: Another thingy , cataloging sam discs!

2001-02-19 Thread Gavin Smith
on 19/2/01 3:52 pm, Dean Woodyatt at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: if theres anyone who will be 'disgruntled' at my doing this for certain pieces of software, let me know Dean, not meaning to put you off but I'm already compiling a library of Coupé software and have been doing so for a few months

Re: Another thingy , cataloging sam discs!

2001-02-19 Thread Andrew Collier
At 1:12 pm -0500 19/2/01, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Software only has a short life in the eyes of copyright so i cant see there being a problem dumping them on the web. I don't know where you get that idea from. Anything ever released for the Sam will still be under fully enforcible copyright ...

Re: Virtual party

2001-02-19 Thread Andrew Collier
At 7:51 pm +0100 18/2/01, Robert van der Veeke wrote: Maybe an other idea, in the weekend of 19-20 may this year the Sinclair Gebruikers Groep, Team WoMo and such are holding int. users days in Limburg, the Netherlands. I was planning to spend the night in that hotel and maybe holding

RE: [OT] Pass it on, spread it around

2001-02-19 Thread Johnna Teare
BUt in your world Frode, technology and its potential benefits would only be available to the knowledgable. It is wrong to say that only people who understand how cars work should drive them - technolody is for everyone, and it is up tot he more knowlegable people to try and educate others, or to

Re: Errr (Or who would like a game of bobbings!!)

2001-02-19 Thread David Ledbury
- Original Message - From: Luke Trevorrow [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no Sent: Monday, February 19, 2001 10:07 AM Subject: RE: Errr (Or who would like a game of bobbings!!) What did he accuse you of stealing? Luke Riffling through SAMCo's contacts filing cabinet to get

Re: Another thingy , cataloging sam discs!

2001-02-19 Thread David Ledbury
A few titles belong to me - so I would like contacting before anything of this nature is attempted! BTW - SAM Community has permission to release a number of Persona titles on a special license basiss. any update on this Gavin??? - Original Message - From: Dean Woodyatt [EMAIL

Re: Another thingy , cataloging sam discs!

2001-02-19 Thread David Ledbury
- Original Message - From: Gavin Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no Sent: Monday, February 19, 2001 7:29 PM Subject: Re: Another thingy , cataloging sam discs! on 19/2/01 3:52 pm, Dean Woodyatt at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: if theres anyone who will be 'disgruntled' at my

RE: Errr (Or who would like a game of bobbings!!)

2001-02-19 Thread Luke Trevorrow
Well, given his view on demo coders, he probably never looked at any of their software! Luke -Original Message- From: David Ledbury [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 19, 2001 09:16 To: sam-users Subject: Re: Errr (Or who would like a game of bobbings!!) The fact that

Re: Errr (Or who would like a game of bobbings!!)

2001-02-19 Thread David Ledbury
Anyone still got their original Cookie I'm a stupid. t-shirt? I never had one myself :( never mind :) - Original Message - From: Luke Trevorrow [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no Sent: Monday, February 19, 2001 9:37 PM Subject: RE: Errr (Or who would like a game of

RE: Another thingy , cataloging sam discs!

2001-02-19 Thread Simon Owen
Gavin Smith wrote: a number of the Persona back catalogue will soon be available again for £2.50 and £1.50, with proceeds going to charity Most excellent! I was hoping something like this would be sorted out to unlock a range of software - I'm still more than happy to pay for titles that I

RE: Another thingy , cataloging sam discs!

2001-02-19 Thread Simon Owen
David Ledbury wrote: Now if anyone could work with me on reverse engineering Manic Miner - I feel like doing some more nasty levels ;) On the subject of MM... do you know why Eugene's Lair was renamed? Also, is the NMI Test Mode fake or are there secret keypresses that can be used in it? Si

Re: Another thingy , cataloging sam discs!

2001-02-19 Thread David Ledbury
- Original Message - From: Simon Owen [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no Sent: Monday, February 19, 2001 10:23 PM Subject: RE: Another thingy , cataloging sam discs! David Ledbury wrote: Now if anyone could work with me on reverse engineering Manic Miner - I feel like

RE: Another thingy , cataloging sam discs!

2001-02-19 Thread Simon Owen
David Ledbury wrote: Ha ha ha :) The Test Mode legend moves on to the next millenium :) Bah! I've got a feeling I asked about it a few years back, probably with a similar response. My gut feeling is that it's fake - putting it on the NMI makes it a bit obvious, and my reaction is probably

Re: Virtual party

2001-02-19 Thread Robert van der Veeke
-Oorspronkelijk bericht- Van: Andrew Collier [EMAIL PROTECTED] Aan: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no Datum: maandag 19 februari 2001 21:48 Onderwerp: Re: Virtual party My knowledge of geography is shaky at best, but is Limburg the same place as Stein/Urmond? If not, it seems

Re: [OT] Pass it on, spread it around

2001-02-19 Thread Aley Keprt
Think again! I don't know where are you from, but in our country you can't get driving licence when you don't know how to drive a car and not damage anything. Technology is not for everyone, you certainly must to know how to change bulb, how to refuel etc. If you blow up a fuel station when

Re: Another thingy , cataloging sam discs!

2001-02-19 Thread David Ledbury
- Original Message - From: David Ledbury [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: sam-users sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no Sent: Monday, February 19, 2001 10:25 PM Subject: Re: Another thingy , cataloging sam discs! - Original Message - From: Simon Owen [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no

RE: Another thingy , cataloging sam discs!

2001-02-19 Thread Andrew Collier
At 10:23 pm + 19/2/01, Simon Owen wrote: On the subject of MM... do you know why Eugene's Lair was renamed? Because the joke was already ten years out of date? Andrew -- ---Andrew Collier http://mnemotech.ucam.org/ --- --

Re: Another thingy , cataloging sam discs!

2001-02-19 Thread David Ledbury
- Original Message - From: Andrew Collier [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no Sent: Monday, February 19, 2001 10:41 PM Subject: RE: Another thingy , cataloging sam discs! At 10:23 pm + 19/2/01, Simon Owen wrote: On the subject of MM... do you know why Eugene's Lair was

RE: Another thingy , cataloging sam discs!

2001-02-19 Thread Simon Owen
Andrew Collier wrote: At 10:23 pm + 19/2/01, Simon Owen wrote: On the subject of MM... do you know why Eugene's Lair was renamed? Because the joke was already ten years out of date? I wondered whether it was for legal reasons - maybe some friend of Matthew's was unhappy with the