Re: Did you know this? [continued]

2001-06-02 Thread Aley Keprt
And, of course, to make it a bit harder, GameBlaster has a different clock (28kHz) compared to approx. 31kHz on Sam, so some emulation will be needed. 'Approx'? Is this why the hz settings for standard diatonic scale are so shonky (=badly simulated)? No, it just means 'approximately'.

Did you know this?

2001-05-29 Thread Aley Keprt
I found that SAA1099 chip used in Sam Coupe for audio output is the same as the chips used in Creative Labs GameBlaster, an old soundcard like SoundBlaster. These chips are called CMS by Creative Labs, and reside in pair in each GameBlaster and some models of SoundBlaster 1.0 and 2.0. I will

Did you know this? [continued]

2001-05-29 Thread Aley Keprt
And, of course, to make it a bit harder, GameBlaster has a different clock (28kHz) compared to approx. 31kHz on Sam, so some emulation will be needed. -- Bc.Aley [eili] Keprt - games multimedia programmer ICQ: 82357182

Re: ASCD 0.82/AIR and SamEmu 0.01

2001-05-29 Thread Aley Keprt
No response. Of course. Since you didn't asked a question, I didn't answered. -- Bc.Aley [eili] Keprt - games multimedia programmer ICQ: 82357182 (evenings) *** phone: +420-68-5387035 (weekends) private e-mail: [EMAIL

Re: http://www.cloud.somedaftbird.land/fantasy.htm

2001-05-21 Thread Aley Keprt
You must be really stupid, when you still haven't got the point. It was absolute joke!!! .land 1st level domain ;-))) file named fantasy ;-))) ;-))) ;-))) -- Bc.Aley [eili] Keprt - games multimedia programmer ICQ: 82357182

Re: http://www.cloud.somedaftbird.land/fantasy.htm

2001-05-21 Thread Aley Keprt
On Mon, 21 May 2001, Aley Keprt wrote: You must be really stupid, when you still haven't got the point. It was absolute joke!!! I'm afraid you'll have to excuse Aley; his poor English sometimes can come across as an abrasive attitude (and his abrasive attitude sometimes can come across

Re: Diskimages and SAM emulators

2001-05-13 Thread Aley Keprt
Aley Keprt wrote: Yes, I suppose this feature has gone when you added GZip support where you don't know the size of uncompressed image. Well, for a general size test you could gzseek to a position large enough to cover the files you're likely to be handling, and see what it returns

Re: Diskimages and SAM emulators

2001-05-11 Thread Aley Keprt
Jarek Adamski wrote: 1. Does SAM emulators support the MV - CPC format for *.DSK files? (Used e.g. to store ZX+3 disks.) No, 'fraid not - should be easy enough to knock up a conversion utility for standard format disks though. I do remember looking at using a CPC disk format for

test

2001-05-08 Thread Aley Keprt
test

Re: ASCD 0.82/AIR and SamEmu 0.01

2001-04-30 Thread Aley Keprt
: ASCD 0.82/AIR and SamEmu 0.01 I wrote: As you said yourself, doesn't releasing the .82/AIR break GPL? Aley Keprt wrote: nope Please explain - I must be missing something pretty fundamental... Si

ASCD 0.82/AIR and SamEmu 0.01

2001-04-29 Thread Aley Keprt
New emulators ASCD 0.82/AIR and SamEmu 0.01/WIP are available. http://www.inf.upol.cz/~keprta/sam/soft -- Bc.Aley [eili] Keprt - games multimedia programmer ICQ: 82357182 (evenings) *** phone: +420-68-5387035 (weekends)

Re: ASCD 0.82/AIR and SamEmu 0.01

2001-04-29 Thread Aley Keprt
- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- - Original Message - From: Simon Owen [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no Sent: Sunday, April 29, 2001 7:58 PM Subject: RE: ASCD 0.82/AIR and SamEmu 0.01 Aley Keprt wrote: New emulators ASCD

Re: Fw: I want the following removed now!

2001-04-26 Thread Aley Keprt
Please stop yelling (not Frode, but the others). The stuff loaded into incoming is protected, and nobody can download it. Nobody. I think you can write to Frode and he will remove the affected stuff, as he will have spare time. And again, it can't be downloaded from incoming directory. Alright?

Re:

2001-04-25 Thread Aley Keprt
Chris, I tested your renamer, and I have 107 unknown rom images. I am very frustrated with the bugs like wrong software names, wrong authors, wrong year, etc. I hjave only 9 known ROM images, and those are originally from me, some of them are pirated and all of them have wrong names in your

Re:

2001-04-25 Thread Aley Keprt
, and they usually get put in the Db after some time nothings perfect first time round! -Original Message- From: Aley Keprt [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 25 April 2001 11:40 To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no Subject: Re: Chris, I tested your renamer, and I have 107 unknown rom

Re: GoodSAMC

2001-04-25 Thread Aley Keprt
And, finally, it refuses to accept disks with more than 80 tracks (maybe all except 80, but I have only 80, 82 and 84). Must be a non-80-track thing, as it also complained about undersize SAD images - your 'alternative module player' comes on a small SAD image, and that had to be converted

Re: GoodSAMC

2001-04-25 Thread Aley Keprt
Really? It's called Aley's instead of Alternative. I don't know who the f. wrote the worng name into the database. Heh - they should have known that there are no other 'A' words! ;-) !!! [EMAIL PROTECTED]@% They are other words too. I know at least one: Axoft ;-) I don't know what's wrong

Aley [Was: Re: GoodSAMC]

2001-04-25 Thread Aley Keprt
@nvg.ntnu.no Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2001 4:32 PM Subject: RE: GoodSAMC Aley Keprt wrote: I don't know what's wrong on having my name at the beginning of some programs, jsut to distinguish them from other software. Other people or companies do it as well. e.g. Corel Draw, Microsoft Windows, Adobe

Re: GoodSAMC

2001-04-25 Thread Aley Keprt
I think, that given the enthusiast nature of the sam coupe that people should be given full credit by name in the Db this wouldnt work for the NES, or Megadrive, but seeming as most stuff for sam was PD, this would be best! Yep, agreed (I was only talking about the program names before).

Re: Help me :)

2001-04-25 Thread Aley Keprt
It's funny in how it seems that more people are putting more effort in developing stuff to archive/emulate the SAM, than /for/ the SAM when it was alive'n'kicking... Definitely. -Original Message- From: Paul Walker [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2001 3:02 PM

Re: GoodSAMC

2001-04-25 Thread Aley Keprt
I see I won't release my programs for Sam, otherwise you will put me in the lowest coders quality cathegory. Interesting assertion - that PD programs are the lowest quality. Presumably you also rank people who write software for money as the best coders? Usually people who really can earn

Re: GoodSAMC

2001-04-25 Thread Aley Keprt
Usually people who really can earn money from *it*, don't do *it* for free. ;-) I'd be interested to hear what you think of, say, free software, then. (In the GNU sense.) Or people who both write software for money, and for free... off topic

Re: send them to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

2001-04-24 Thread Aley Keprt
Please, can somebody tell me what you are talking about? What is it all about? ? -- Bc.Aley [eili] Keprt - games multimedia programmer ICQ: 82357182 (evenings) *** phone: +420-68-5387035 (weekends) private e-mail:

Re: Help me :)

2001-04-24 Thread Aley Keprt
Have you ever seen other pages like that? Most of them, again MOST of them have similar 24h licenses. -- Bc.Aley [eili] Keprt - games multimedia programmer ICQ: 82357182 (evenings) *** phone: +420-68-5387035 (weekends)

Re: MESS Sam Coupe emulation

2001-04-21 Thread Aley Keprt
Spectrum Emulator for Windows by Aley Keprt, have a picture of yourself on the splash screen, and even have it playing God Save The Aley on startup - all up to you. ;-) Equally, there's nothing that requires any Spectrum-only changes to be incorporated into SimCoupé. features which rely

Re: MESS Sam Coupe emulation

2001-04-20 Thread Aley Keprt
-users@nvg.ntnu.no Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2001 10:31 PM Subject: Re: MESS Sam Coupe emulation On Thu, 19 Apr 2001, Aley Keprt wrote: And what about WinCoupe sources? Where can I get source code of this GNU GPL software? Possibly in an email from Simon Owen? -- Stuart Brady

Re: MESS Sam Coupe emulation

2001-04-20 Thread Aley Keprt
Aley Keprt wrote: Here is who actually contributed (taken from messnew.txt): 1. Sam Coupe (preliminary) [Lee Hammerton] 2. Updated Sam Coupe to use WD179x code (same as WD1772). [Kev Thacker] Ahh! I knew about Kev (we've chatted about stuff in , but wasn't sure about the main

Re: MESS Sam Coupe emulation

2001-04-20 Thread Aley Keprt
Simon Owen wrote: [...] 2. Updated Sam Coupe to use WD179x code (same as WD1772). WD179x far not the same as WD1772! Si Please tell this to MESS authors. We can't do anything with it. ;-) Aley

Re: MESS Sam Coupe emulation ...How do you convert the td files ....

2001-04-20 Thread Aley Keprt
There is the converter. -- Bc.Aley [eili] Keprt - games multimedia programmer ICQ: 82357182 (evenings) *** phone: +420-68-5387035 (weekends) private e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** http://get.to/aley office: Illusion

Re: MESS Sam Coupe emulation ...How do you convert the td files ....

2001-04-20 Thread Aley Keprt
I called for death of Teledisk years ago, when most of you used it. (Of course, yu probably hadn't anything better.) -- Bc.Aley [eili] Keprt - games multimedia programmer ICQ: 82357182 (evenings) *** phone: +420-68-5387035

Re: SDL SimCoupé

2001-04-20 Thread Aley Keprt
What is SDL? -- Bc.Aley [eili] Keprt - games multimedia programmer ICQ: 82357182 (evenings) *** phone: +420-68-5387035 (weekends) private e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** http://get.to/aley office: Illusion Softworks,

Re: MESS Sam Coupe emulation

2001-04-20 Thread Aley Keprt
it's been essential yet. There are a dozen or so exported functions so it won't be a 2 minute job... three minutes or what? ;-) best regards, Aley Keprt

Re: SDL SimCoupé

2001-04-20 Thread Aley Keprt
, April 20, 2001 3:41 PM Subject: RE: SDL SimCoupé Aley Keprt wrote: What is SDL? From http://www.libsdl.org/: Simple DirectMedia Layer is a cross-platform multimedia library designed to provide fast access to the graphics framebuffer and audio device. ... supports Linux, Win32, BeOS, MacOS

Re: MESS Sam Coupe emulation

2001-04-20 Thread Aley Keprt
] -- !!! Arcade game tournaments since 1992: http://get.to/hcc !!! - Original Message - From: Simon Owen [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no Sent: Friday, April 20, 2001 4:25 PM Subject: RE: MESS Sam Coupe emulation Aley Keprt wrote: Otherwise I

Re: MESS Sam Coupe emulation

2001-04-19 Thread Aley Keprt
Thank you for you review. I see the biggest problem is resolution 512x192. It absolutely flat! He who made it, he probably never saw real Sam ;-) Here is who actually contributed (taken from messnew.txt): 1. Sam Coupe (preliminary) [Lee Hammerton] 2. Updated Sam Coupe to use WD179x code (same as

MESS Sam Coupe emulation

2001-04-18 Thread Aley Keprt
Have you seen MESS, a derivate of MAME? They say it emulates Sam Coupe, with all aspects 100% right. I haven't see it, but it seems at least that we have the third Sam emulator on the scene. -- Bc.Aley [eili] Keprt - games

Sam high scores database

2001-04-18 Thread Aley Keprt
Anybody interested in maintaining it? I have added Input Recording feature to ASCD, so you can easily record your gameplay in both ZXS and Sam modes. Then you can replay it to see how you performed! The files are hugely compressed and encrypted (otherwise they wouldn't be usable for high score

Re: SimCoupe/Win32 problems

2001-03-23 Thread Aley Keprt
problems Aley Keprt wrote: When I use some other screen mode than standard (i.e. with larger border or without one), the window size is wrong, so the picture is corrupted. At least I'm sure the window width is lower than it should be, since some vertical lines of picture are missing. I've

Re: SimCoupe/Win32 problems

2001-03-23 Thread Aley Keprt
] -- - Original Message - From: Simon Owen [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2001 4:23 PM Subject: RE: SimCoupe/Win32 problems Aley Keprt wrote: When I use some other screen mode than standard (i.e. with larger border or without

Re: SimCoupe/Win32 problems

2001-03-23 Thread Aley Keprt
It's a hardware limitation of PC floppy disk controller, so you can't just use linux and think everything will be all right. -- Bc.Aley [eili] Keprt - games multimedia programmer ICQ: 82357182 (evenings) *** phone:

SimCoupe/Win32 problems

2001-03-19 Thread Aley Keprt
When I use some other screen mode than standard (i.e. with larger border or without one), the window size is wrong, so the picture is corrupted. At least I'm sure the window width is lower than it should be, since some vertical lines of picture are missing. It is well visible in the opening

Re: Music database [was: Re: Memory Lane]

2001-03-09 Thread Aley Keprt
Aley Keprt wrote: [...] I don't know AZX. How you can use it? For AY data, or SAA data. If you would like to use it for SAA data, there's no reason of using it. AZX is not for Sam. Really ? Why ? You've just told you do not know what is AZX, didn't you ? Yea, but I'm not completely

Re: Music database [was: Re: Memory Lane]

2001-03-08 Thread Aley Keprt
Lane] Aley Keprt wrote: Could we made also music database? I mean music from games, demos etc. I have ripped tens of music modules from several games and demos (for my player SamPlay distributed together with SAAemu), but I haven't released many of them because of copyright issues

Re: Disk image formats

2001-03-08 Thread Aley Keprt
You can download sad to dsk and dsk to sad converter source code from ftp.nvg, and use it if you want to. Or you can just look there for more information on handling sad files and what is next in the header ;-) 8 in last byte of header means 512 bytes per sector. It's 64*8=512. All values from

Re: Disk image formats

2001-03-08 Thread Aley Keprt
Stuart Brady wrote: So Aley's disk backup, char sides (2), char tracks (80), char sectors (10)... and then what? All of my disks seem to have 8 as the last byte in the header, so is this just multiplied by 64? It is indeed! I've always thought it a bit odd that it seems to save a byte

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 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

2001-02-28 Thread Aley Keprt
As I've seen on Sam parties in my country and around me, the no.1 here is Snake Mania (by E.S.I.). Similarly to no.1 smash-hit Tetris 2 (by Fuxoft) on ZX Spectrum. (What's interesting: Both these games were made outside UK.) Snake Mania was of course sold Legally by

Re: Memory Lane

2001-02-28 Thread Aley Keprt
At 10:29 pm +0100 27/2/01, Aley Keprt wrote: btw, I don't know whether Sam Mines is commercial one, but it is a quite stupid too. As I remember it is a remake of one very old game (1983?) for ZX Spectrum. Maybe made by the same author on Sam? Are you talking about SamMines, the Mine

Re: Memory Lane

2001-02-28 Thread Aley Keprt
As I've seen on Sam parties in my country and around me, the no.1 here is Snake Mania (by E.S.I.). Similarly to no.1 smash-hit Tetris 2 (by Fuxoft) on ZX Spectrum. (What's interesting: Both these games were made outside UK.) Snake Mania was of course

Re: Memory Lane

2001-02-28 Thread Aley Keprt
At 7:35 pm +0100 28/2/01, Aley Keprt wrote: At 10:29 pm +0100 27/2/01, Aley Keprt wrote: btw, I don't know whether Sam Mines is commercial one, but it is a quite stupid too. As I remember it is a remake of one very old game (1983?) for ZX Spectrum. Maybe made by the same author

Re: Memory Lane

2001-02-28 Thread Aley Keprt
At 3:54 pm -0500 28/2/01, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Worst SAM game for me: DEFENDERS OF THE EARTH - Too hard to play unless you cheat. Really? Maybe I was just good at it. Funny because I never completed Sphera, and everybody always said they thought it was a really easy game. Andrew Yes

Re: Memory Lane

2001-02-27 Thread Aley Keprt
Love the new WinCoupe - made me take a trip down memory lane today and play some old SAM games. Sphera is still as terrible as it always was. Bit like a demo with a small game bolted on. ;-) Okay, it's your opinion. In my opinion Sphera, although it's not too funny, is still better than 90%

Re: Memory Lane

2001-02-27 Thread Aley Keprt
Interestingly, most good looking games wich brought us no playability, fun, and nothing to enjoy, got over 90% in most or all computer magazines in the UK. I actually don't know whether this is applicable only to ZX Spectrum/Sam magazines or is a national tradition in the UK. In my country worse

Re: Memory Lane

2001-02-27 Thread Aley Keprt
on 27/2/01 6:37 pm, Aley Keprt at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My shit-favourites include Future Ball, Defenders, Sam Strikes Out, and all those hundreds of really stupid games written in Basic. (Of course there are also reasonable games written in Basic, I'm not insulting Basic

Re: Memory Lane

2001-02-27 Thread Aley Keprt
My shit-favourites include Future Ball, Defenders, Sam Strikes Out, and all those hundreds of really stupid games written in Basic. (Of course there are also reasonable games written in Basic, I'm not insulting Basic.) The question was about commerical games - I don't think there

Re: Memory Lane

2001-02-27 Thread Aley Keprt
As I've seen on Sam parties in my country and around me, the no.1 here is Snake Mania (by E.S.I.). Similarly to no.1 smash-hit Tetris 2 (by Fuxoft) on ZX Spectrum. (What's interesting: Both these games were made outside UK.) Snake Mania was of course sold Legally by myself under the

Re: Memory Lane

2001-02-27 Thread Aley Keprt
Aley Keprt wrote: I bet many or maybe most people like PoP. I don't like the idea. I guess most people like PoP not for its idea, but for very smooth and detailed animation. This is the second game with such type of animation ever made, first one was Karateka if I am not wrong. Possibly

Re: [OT] Pass it on, spread it around - my summary

2001-02-20 Thread Aley Keprt
I often recommend to my mother and brother, who use computers: Don't do anything when you aren't sure what are you doing. Especially when there people sometimes come and say: Hey, Aley, it's broken. I ask: What happened? They answer: It wrote something I didn't undersand. So I clicked OK.

Re: [OT] Pass it on, spread it around - my summary

2001-02-20 Thread Aley Keprt
summary At 1:47 pm +0100 20/2/01, Aley Keprt wrote: In other hand ILOVEYOU is not a real 'virus'. It is a destructive program, which must be run!!! You can't activate it by reading e-mails, unless you are mouse-fanatic and double click on all attachments, even if they are very suspicious

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 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 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 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: [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: Errr

2001-02-15 Thread Aley Keprt
errr? When I'm not quiet, I often receive a negative reactions: Go and discuss this topis out of the mail list. So the list is quiet now. ;-( -- Bc.Aley [eili] Keprt - games multimedia programmer ICQ: 82357182 (evenings)

Re: Am I on here.

2001-02-08 Thread Aley Keprt
On Thu, 8 Feb 2001, Robert Wilkinson wrote: Has this list gone quiet or am I not getting anything since I changed my ISP. Bob. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your main problem is that your e-mail address is dependant on your current ISP. Use a private e-mail address, and don't change it with ISP.

Re: Am I on here.

2001-02-08 Thread Aley Keprt
Has this list gone quiet or am I not getting anything since I changed my ISP. Bob. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your main problem is that your e-mail address is dependant on your current ISP. Use a private e-mail address, and don't change it with ISP. (This is something like

Re: Sam Power supply

2001-01-28 Thread Aley Keprt
For me the most interesting is that Sam is able to run without that 12V. -- Bc.Aley [eili] Keprt - games multimedia programmer ICQ: 82357182 (evenings) *** phone: +420-68-5387035 (weekends) private e-mail: [EMAIL

Re: 1st International Sinclair and SAM day

2001-01-26 Thread Aley Keprt
correct and say: 1st International Sinclair and SAM day 2001 in Holland ~:o) Wolfgang Aley Keprt wrotes: It isn't our first day! At least not mine. ;-) -- Bc.Aley [eili] Keprt - games multimedia programmer ICQ

Re: Where are YOU now?

2001-01-25 Thread Aley Keprt
At 10:13 pm +0100 24/1/01, Aley Keprt wrote: At 9:06 pm +0100 24/1/01, Aley Keprt wrote: If you use two disks without RAID0, you have the same data loss probability. Wrong. With RAID0, you lose the integrity of your *entire* filesystem when _either_ of the disks crash. So you expect

Re: Where are YOU now?

2001-01-25 Thread Aley Keprt
are YOU now? On Wed, 24 Jan 2001 21:00:03 +0100 Aley Keprt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think different way. If you have 10 disks you have 10 disks which may crash. That's okay. But it has nothing to do with RAID. I say it is a nonsense to say that RAID increases possibility of disk crashes

Re: Where are YOU now?

2001-01-25 Thread Aley Keprt
On Thu, 25 Jan 2001 09:08:50 +0100 Aley Keprt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But why you still rely on disk crash = all data are lost ? This is the case with RAID0 (lost = lost from the RAID). -Frode I see the problem is that I don't see disk crash is equal to disk is completely lost. If you

Re: Where are YOU now?

2001-01-25 Thread Aley Keprt
On Thu, 25 Jan 2001 08:45:44 +0100 Aley Keprt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You shouldn't rely on disk error = all data lost. I had a disk error, and I lost only one sector in one logical drive. It depends on what kind of disk error you encounter. Disk error != disk crash. As I wrote

Re: Where are YOU now?

2001-01-25 Thread Aley Keprt
On Thu, 25 Jan 2001 11:37:27 +0100 Aley Keprt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 25 Jan 2001 09:08:50 +0100 Aley Keprt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But why you still rely on disk crash = all data are lost ? This is the case with RAID0 (lost = lost from the RAID). -Frode

Re: 1st International Sinclair and SAM day

2001-01-24 Thread Aley Keprt
It isn't our first day! At least not mine. ;-) -- Bc.Aley [eili] Keprt - games multimedia programmer ICQ: 82357182 (evenings) *** phone: +420-68-5387035 (weekends) private e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***

Re: Where are YOU now?

2001-01-24 Thread Aley Keprt
On Mon, 22 Jan 2001 21:21:20 +0100 Aley Keprt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: However, there is no redundancy in a RAID0 set, hence it's more commonly referred to as striping. Actually, introducing RAID0 increases the probability of a disk crash (and hence data loss without propper backup

Re: Where are YOU now?

2001-01-24 Thread Aley Keprt
However, there is no redundancy in a RAID0 set, hence it's more commonly referred to as striping. Actually, introducing RAID0 increases the probability of a disk crash (and hence data loss without propper backup) by the increase in disks. What a theory is this?! How can it

Re: Where are YOU now?

2001-01-24 Thread Aley Keprt
? On Tue, 23 Jan 2001 09:12:30 +0100 (MET), you wrote: On Mon, 22 Jan 2001 21:21:20 +0100 Aley Keprt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: However, there is no redundancy in a RAID0 set, hence it's more commonly referred to as striping. Actually, introducing RAID0 increases the probability of a disk

Re: Where are YOU now?

2001-01-24 Thread Aley Keprt
At 9:06 pm +0100 24/1/01, Aley Keprt wrote: How can it increate a probility of a disk crash? Is it just because of using two disks? Is so, it is a nonsense. No. Disks come with a MTBF. If you add disks, this MTBF remains (almost) constant. The MTBF of the entire raid

Re: Where are YOU now?

2001-01-24 Thread Aley Keprt
cool going to work in your own bus :) sure. :-) -- Dean Liversidge Aley Keprt

Re: Where are YOU now?

2001-01-22 Thread Aley Keprt
hard drive failure is not a common problem (compared e.g. to strange problems of M$ Anything enter any year here) Or not? -- Dean Liversidge Aley Keprt btw. Is better 133MHz bus with ATA100 drive - or - 100MHz bus with ATA66 drive?

Re: Where are YOU now?

2001-01-18 Thread Aley Keprt
- Original Message - From: Dean Liversidge [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no Sent: Wednesday, January 17, 2001 11:11 PM Subject: Re: Where are YOU now? What's the coolest gizmo you've bought recently? not quite a gizmo, but just upgraded my PC, now i've got a loverly 80Gb

Re: New release of SAASound

2001-01-17 Thread Aley Keprt
Did you see (or hear) SAA1099 emulator of MAME? If your one is better, you could offer it to MAME team. You can download sources from www.mame.net. (I assume you are not the author of MAME's SAA1099 emulator.) -- Bc.Aley [eili]

Re: Where are YOU now?

2001-01-17 Thread Aley Keprt
on)? Illusion Softworks (Take 2 Games) Currently working on "Hidden And Dangerous 2" for PC What's the coolest gizmo you've bought recently? Have I ever bought something cool? Two years ago I've bought a MMDS antenna to receive cable tv with no payments. :-) --- Aley Keprt

Re: Where are YOU now?

2001-01-17 Thread Aley Keprt
And what about you? Just wondering... what's everyone up to these days? I've been out of touch for a while. : So... Where d'ya live? Where d'ya work (and what are you working on)? What's the coolest gizmo you've bought recently? Si

emulation

2001-01-09 Thread Aley Keprt
I've implemented a very fast 640x480 monochromatic display compatible with all VGA and SVGA cards (hopefully). Anybody wants to test it on his video card?

Re: emulation

2001-01-09 Thread Aley Keprt
0x00049282 __ The second version fails also, but very different with this message: __ SamEmu v0.01 by (c) Aley Keprt, 1997-2001 http://get.to/samcoupe e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Error no.7: disk read error

emulation

2001-01-08 Thread Aley Keprt
ASCD 0.801 (SimCoupe for DOS) is ready at http://get.to/samcoupe It is a bug-fix version. Also: Is anybody interested in simpler and FASTER Sam emulator for PC computers DOS. If yes, please let me know. I'd do it. -- Bc.Aley

ASCD 0.80 ready, SamEmu 0.01 coming soon

2001-01-02 Thread Aley Keprt
ASCD 0.80 is ready to be downloaded from my page: http://get.to/samcoupe Sources available upon request by e-mail. Also SamEmu 0.01 is being prepared and sources are (or better said will be) available as well. Recently somebody wanted a fast Sam emulator, which could be used on a PC 486 to work

Re: Hello to everybody !

2001-01-02 Thread Aley Keprt
Please when you (anybody) will reply to this mail, don't send it to the whole mail-list. Else it would be - as usually - full of garbage. Thanks. http://get.to/samcoupe - Original Message - From: Marcelo Ortega [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: sam sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no Sent: Tuesday, January 02,

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

SimCoupe 0.80 for DOS

2000-12-29 Thread Aley Keprt
A new version with improved timing, sound, and ZX Spectrum emulation is ready **for beta testing**. Note: Si Owen's completely reworked SimCoupe and still call it SimCoupe, and this (my) version has nothing to do with that new SimCoupe. So I've changed the name to ASCD aka. Aley's modified

NVG is down

2000-12-15 Thread Aley Keprt
NVG ftp server is down. Does anybody know what's happened there? -- Bc.Aley [eili] Keprt - games multimedia programmer ICQ: 82357182 (evenings) *** phone: +420-68-5387035 (weekends) private e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Válasz: Re: For sale?

2000-12-15 Thread Aley Keprt
Hello, I would offer you my Sam Coupe computer (Z80 CPU based, ZX Spectrum compatible machine with 128 colors, 6 channel stereo audio, large memory, etc.). including: original (c)1990 MGT ROM (new version) bought in 1991, haven't been in use since 1992 1 original diskette drive RAM upgraded to

Re: NVG is down

2000-12-15 Thread Aley Keprt
] -- - Original Message - From: Frode Tenneboe [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no Sent: Friday, December 15, 2000 11:15 AM Subject: Re: NVG is down Aley Keprt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: NVG ftp server is down. Does anybody know what's happened there? No - why

Re: NVG is down

2000-12-15 Thread Aley Keprt
ftp.nvg.unit.no It is still down. Or the address has changed? It hasn't been 'ftp.nvg.unit.no' for ages - the proper address is ftp.nvg.ntnu.no. Dan. Both addresses were working for years. .until now Aley

Re: SAM 2000?

2000-12-06 Thread Aley Keprt
I don't understand why you still talk about SDF. I think everybody knows what is it, and why is it. I'll continue to bring up as long as you continue to suggest that I created it for no good reason: Si ignored, and made his own standard - oooh like Microsoft I really don't understand

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