Re: Memory Lane

2001-03-01 Thread Aley Keprt
The original unautorised relase - Mr Pac - was much more fuin, even though it was the exact same game. But just BECAUSE it was Pac Man on SAM it made it all the better. I sometimes wish some of the SAM authors (and sometimes people here on this list) would take more of a risk with their

Re: Memory Lane

2001-03-01 Thread Gavin Smith
on 28/2/01 10:30 pm, Johnna Teare at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Similarly, why not just copy World of Spectrum by publishing EVERYTHING that wa smade for teh SAm on a website for downloads, and taking it down when asked by the authors. You may call me disrespectful to the original authors, but

Re: Memory Lane

2001-03-01 Thread Aley Keprt
It would be nice to make a voting system on the web, so Sam users can rate each program, especially games. And, PLEASE, don't use .TD0 teledisk files at all!!! I would like to see ALL stuff in simple DSK or SAD files. I personally vote for sad.gz, since it is the only packed format which can be

Re: Memory Lane

2001-03-01 Thread Gavin Smith
on 1/3/01 12:13 am, Aley Keprt at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It would be nice to make a voting system on the web, so Sam users can rate each program, especially games. Well I was thinking tonight that the SC site isn't really much of a community which is what it's supposed to be. I've been

RE: Memory Lane

2001-03-01 Thread Dean Woodyatt
hey phill!, hows it going up north :¬) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 28 February 2001 20:55 To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no Subject: Re: Memory Lane In case nobody has yet confirmed: DATON games were indeed written by Dave Tonks of Sam

Re: Memory Lane

2001-03-01 Thread Matthew J Craven
Well I was thinking tonight that the SC site isn't really much of a community which is what it's supposed to be. I've been wondering about various ways to improve it, but I don't want to do message boards or that kind of thing as it might take some traffic off this list. However, would a

RE: Memory Lane

2001-03-01 Thread Justin . Skists
i remember playing Defenders of the Earth on the Speccy for an entire 2 hours before stating it was crap and a waste of money. Hmmthose were they days. -Original Message- From: Andrew Collier [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 28, 2001 9:10 PM To:

RE: Memory Lane

2001-03-01 Thread Adrian Brown
I remember playing Defenders of the Earth and thinking wow! these graphics are amazing, and the sound :-). But then after trying to get passed the same point for about 3 hours i turned it off and put it back. But prince of persia was great :-0 Adrian -Original Message- From: [EMAIL

Re: Memory Lane

2001-03-01 Thread Mac Buster
Aley Keprt wrote: [...] And, PLEASE, don't use .TD0 teledisk files at all!!! Mail me off the list if you want to have sources of td0 to trd disk image converter. --

PC keyboard interface

2001-03-01 Thread Andrew Gale
Was somebody asking about my PC keyboard interface? (Sorry - I've been unsubscribed for the last few months). I've put the schematic at: http://www.ee.surrey.ac.uk/Personal/A.Gale/sam/ I did a quick check on the Farnell site and it seems that they no longer stock the 74HC22106 chip which is