Re: Advice requested

2018-01-15 Thread Leszek Chmielewski
You need a special Scart cable. The wiring is in the manual. Alternative is the Composite Video and Audio signal from the Power socket. On Mon, Jan 15, 2018 at 9:19 PM, Jason Thacker wrote: > All the electronics have arrived, but when I connect it all up, there is > no

Re: Prototype of case for planed new computer SAM COUPE 2

2015-04-27 Thread Leszek Chmielewski
sprites too? Greetings LCD Originalmitteilung Von:VELESOFT veles...@seznam.cz Gesendet:Fri, 24 Apr 2015 18:09:58 +0200 An:sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no Betreff:Re: Prototype of case for planed new computer SAM COUPE 2 - Original Message - From: Chmielewski retr

Re: Prototype of case for planed new computer SAM COUPE 2

2015-04-23 Thread Chmielewski
to get one. I'll have to look closer on Velesoft's website. On Apr 22, 2015, at 10:50 AM, Leszek Chmielewski retr...@gmail.com wrote: How much will it cost? On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 5:29 PM, VELESOFT veles...@seznam.cz wrote: It's first version of case for planed new computer SAM COUPE 2: http

Re: Raising the price benchmark??

2014-03-11 Thread Leszek Chmielewski
I will take mine to Foreve demo party in Trencin. Shoul I fear street robbers? ;) Am 11.03.2014 15:38, schrieb Chris Pile: On 11/03/2014 14:23, Balor Price wrote: Would you sell though? Well if that eBay listing is a indication of future prices then I don't think I'd sell mine! Once it's

Re: Windows Tools for Sam

2013-10-20 Thread Leszek Chmielewski
How about Retro-X? And no, I'm not Roger Jowett... LCD Design: Support for old platforms. Am 20.10.2013 um 11:35 schrieb Andrew Park alp...@ntlworld.com: Hi Does anyone know of any windows based tools to create graphics for the sam? What i mean is you can draw the graphics in a windows

Re: Game Hot Pursuit

2013-05-26 Thread Leszek Chmielewski
Hi, It was on a Review magazine and I displayed it on the last Commodore meeting in Vienna last May. Its here on one of my SAM game compilation discs, but download both Review magazines and you will find it. LCD 2013/5/26, Solaris104 solaris...@post.cz: Hi. I can't find the game Hot Pursuit by

Re: Sam Coupe project..making a real SAM in hardware ??

2013-03-24 Thread Leszek Chmielewski
Sounds good. Yes! I would give two or three of the babies a new home. 2013/3/24, Leslie Anderson lezander...@gmail.com: Hi. I'm new to the SAM COUPE group and wondered would anyone be interested in making a homebrew SAM-COUPE ?? It would have an improved spec. on the original: Z84C0020

Re: Assistance required

2013-02-28 Thread Leszek Chmielewski
Am 28.02.2013 18:09, schrieb da...@properbastard.co.uk: So I guess this is a no then? Quoting da...@properbastard.co.uk: I was wondering if anyone with PAWS (Professional Adventure Writing System) knowledge could help me try and transfer a game from SimCoupe DSK format to one that would

Re: Convert an Atari Neochrome to SAM with KEdisk

2012-12-25 Thread Leszek Chmielewski
Am 25.12.2012 18:27, schrieb Marcos Cruz: En/Je/On 2012-12-25 15:57, Colin Piggot escribió / skribis / wrote : If you are after an easy way to convert images to the SAM, Yes, I'm seeking and trying different alternatives in order to make the conversion as automate as possible.

Re: Accessing Sam formatted disks through a USB floppy drive

2012-07-24 Thread Leszek Chmielewski
with a floppy drive controller, did anyone try the Kyroflux route? On Thursday, 28 July 2011, Leszek Chmielewski wrote: You're welcome, glad to hear you got your data back. Most of my Sam disks are unreadable; whether my original Sam was close to the edge

Re: Cross-development tools

2012-06-14 Thread Leszek Chmielewski
Am 14.06.2012 10:23, schrieb Chris Cowley: What I really could do with is a utility (preferably with a palette editor) for drawing graphics (tiles, sprites) that runs on Windows and spits out either DEFBs or binary files that I can INCBIN. Does such a thing exist? Failing that, something that

Re: Good resources for learning about the ASIC?

2012-06-12 Thread Leszek Chmielewski
I have a faulty ASIC, which displays no BRIGHT signal, so only 64 colours available. But I need a working ASIC first, before I can donate mine. LCD Am 10.06.2012 22:52, schrieb Thomas Harte: Maybe we should get some samples sent into the guys at visual6502.org who, despite the name, are

Re: Sam Hardware

2012-06-10 Thread Leszek Chmielewski
Am 09.06.2012 22:11, schrieb nev young: Hi every one, I had a phone call this evening from a friend who has a shed (actually I think it's a shipping container) containing a large amount of Sam spares. This all has to go. Rather than take it down to the tip or re-cycling centre he would

Re: Junk mail

2012-04-14 Thread Leszek Chmielewski
Am 12.04.2012 12:04, schrieb Geoff Winkless: On 12 April 2012 10:55, Wayne Weedonwa...@fdos-design.com wrote: On 12/04/2012 10:23, Geoff Winkless wrote: On 12 April 2012 10:08, Wayne Weedonwa...@fdos-design.comwrote: [snip valid points] Please, can we just drop this? Not while he's

Re: Junk mail

2012-04-14 Thread Leszek Chmielewski
Am 14.04.2012 13:08, schrieb Balor Price: On 14/04/2012 11:43, Leszek Chmielewski wrote: My Jowettish is not good enough to recognise what does Roger mean with this personal mail to me: the day i spam you you'll r a dint the bak u yar id! Can anyone translate it for me to english? I live

Re: Junk mail

2012-04-11 Thread Leszek Chmielewski
Am 11.04.2012 23:18, schrieb Wayne Weedon: On 05/04/2012 06:57, nev young wrote: On 04/04/12 23:39, da...@properbastard.co.uk wrote: Was it just me who was sent a huge number of un-requested files? I've added the sender to my email blacklist. * WOOT * My R* J* spam filter works!

Re: Junk mail

2012-04-07 Thread Leszek Chmielewski
Am 07.04.2012 15:30, schrieb Colin Piggot: It certainly kills most of the fun of what used to be a great hobby and a certainly one of the major contributing factors as to why I've been so quiet in recent times, all it takes is one idiot to take all the enjoyment out of it. Same here. He is

Re: Junk mail

2012-04-05 Thread Leszek Chmielewski
And he wonders if his internet provider caps his speed??? I got 2 e-mails with links and attachments and 35 exactly same mails with recommendation of a f*g godd**n speedup software to my private mail adress with a requst to click a link to let them know that he recommendet it. This is enough!

Re: Dave Infuriators

2012-03-13 Thread Leszek Chmielewski
The saving from Basic is a good idea because it will make possible to use different Media for saving, but then you should also Load from Basic too. Nice looking game btw. LCD 2012/3/14 Andrew Gillen a...@joua.net Pleased you're all looking forward to it :) I'm looking to include the level

Re: New Game - Dave Invaders

2012-01-30 Thread Leszek Chmielewski
I wanted to note that Boriel want to expand his ZX BASIC Cross-Compiler to support SAM Coupé in future too: http://www.boriel.com/wiki/en/index.php/Other_architectures But he will surely need help to finish it. His ZX BASIC is already great for coding games on Spectrum because he expanded the

Re: Drive/SCART fault?

2012-01-24 Thread Leszek Chmielewski
the original SAM supply really for aesthetic value. Cheers Andrew *From:* Leszek Chmielewski mailto:retr...@gmail.com *Sent:* Tuesday, January 24, 2012 12:21 AM *To:* sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no mailto:sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no *Subject:* Re: Drive/SCART fault? Am 24.01.2012 01:01, schrieb Andrew Gillen: Anyone

Re: Power supply circuit diagram

2012-01-24 Thread Leszek Chmielewski
I'm selling now one of them on eBay: http://cgi.ebay.at/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=110814185854 LCD Am 14.01.2012 18:48, schrieb Thomas Harte: You should sell those; some of us are pathologically incapable of soldering but would love a quiet power supply. On 14 January 2012 09:39, Leszek

Re: Drive/SCART fault?

2012-01-23 Thread Leszek Chmielewski
Am 24.01.2012 01:01, schrieb Andrew Gillen: Anyone experienced any issues whereby accessing the floppy drive causes the display to corrupt? It starts off with the left hand side phasing off in jagged lines, then eventually the entire screen goes blank. When the drive has been shut off the

Re: Power supply circuit diagram

2012-01-14 Thread Leszek Chmielewski
No, but my PSU was very loud after few minutes, so I adopted a normal +5V/2A +12V/2A PSU by soldering the SAM PSU connector to it. Works excellent! In the manual they state which pins are GND, +5V and +12V, so it is very easy and modern PSU are smaller and stronger. LCD 2012/1/14 Aley Keprt

Re: Power supply circuit diagram

2012-01-14 Thread Leszek Chmielewski
Okay, I will build and sell some of them. It was easier to make than repairing a 1230/28 Turbo-Card for my Amiga 1200... Am 14.01.2012 18:48, schrieb Thomas Harte: You should sell those; some of us are pathologically incapable of soldering but would love a quiet power supply. On 14 January

Re: full motion video

2012-01-12 Thread Leszek Chmielewski
to get it to work please:- Leszek Chmielewski retr...@gmail.com i just want to see one mode 3 interlaced animation working even if we never have an dma hi density mb-02+ style interface for sam or a ula+ On 30/05/2011, wrote: That is how delta compression (in Retro-X) works. It stores

Re: Resistor R55

2011-10-04 Thread Leszek Chmielewski
2011/10/4 nev young pasiphae1...@yahoo.co.uk On 03/10/11 23:40, Andrew Collier wrote: On 3 Oct 2011, at 16:22, Thomas Harte wrote: It looks like a previous owner of my current SAM has had occasion to replace resistor R55, or at least, to solder an additional copy of R55 on top of the

Re: Resistor R55

2011-10-04 Thread L. Chmielewski
Am 04.10.2011 17:32, schrieb Thomas Harte: I hadn't considered that bright might be variable by channel — I'll have to check that out. If it were MC1377P affecting all channels then presumably I'd see the effect only through the aerial or a single-line video output? If I were to find a suitable

Re: Accessing Sam formatted disks through a USB floppy drive

2011-07-28 Thread Leszek Chmielewski
You're welcome, glad to hear you got your data back. Most of my Sam disks are unreadable; whether my original Sam was close to the edge of spec or whether the disks have just degraded over time I'm unsure. And congrats on the new arrival! Sell the Sam and invest in some heavy-duty

Re: Accessing Sam formatted disks through a USB floppy drive

2011-07-22 Thread Leszek Chmielewski
I had only success using a slim line Parallel port floppy with my olt Travelmate TM 312T Subnotebook. 2011/7/22 toberm...@waitrose.com Hi Dicky I remember this question from a few months back, especially because I've run out of space in my half height PC case too. The USB floppy drives

Re: ST Mice

2011-06-10 Thread Leszek Chmielewski
input port, and SAM expansion bus interface for non-standard reading of additional buttons and wheels. 2011/6/10 Roger Jowett rogerjow...@gmail.com you say it will velesoft says it wont? im getting a bit spammed misself here?! On 06/06/2011, Leszek Chmielewski retr...@gmail.com wrote: 2011

Re: ST Mice

2011-06-10 Thread Leszek Chmielewski
computer must be replaced asap, there is something wrong. It can be the PSU, the caps on Mainboard or faulty memory On 06/06/2011, Leszek Chmielewski retr...@gmail.com wrote: 2011/6/6 war...@wdlee.co.uk Here's something interesting... An Atari ST mouse to usb mouse connector. In theory

Re: who wants some then ?

2011-06-08 Thread Leszek Chmielewski
2011/6/7 Roger Jowett rogerjow...@gmail.com oh shit im sorry i didnt realise i was talking to LCD Orly? your wonderful bmp2scr program has crashed like a thousand times Then do not use my program, write one yourself! Your computer crash very often, reading from your other mails about your

Re: who wants some then ?

2011-06-07 Thread Leszek Chmielewski
2011/6/7 Roger Jowett rogerjow...@gmail.com humble apols spam is asking for something as well as sending invites from social networks is it? Not if this will happen ONCE (one time, without repeats). Spaming is hammering thousands of times to multiple people (I got three invitations for

Re: keyboard membrane replacement

2011-06-07 Thread Leszek Chmielewski
Warren, you are speaking for everyone here, I think. At least for me. Maybe Roger will ask next time about tips how to fix his car? @Roger: You got a hardware cheaper or gratis for your contract, which is running for a defined time period, so if you cancel the (no one cares about it) contract,

Re: ST Mice

2011-06-06 Thread Leszek Chmielewski
2011/6/6 war...@wdlee.co.uk Here's something interesting... An Atari ST mouse to usb mouse connector. In theory, this should also work with the SAM mouse interface, should it not? So we could use a modern usb mouse with the old MGT mouse interface?

Re: sam coupe - spec +3 psu question

2011-06-05 Thread L. Chmielewski
Am 05.06.2011 21:38, schrieb Jonathan: Hi. I have a question about the sam coupe power input. Wasn't sure where to ask it so I thought I would try here A while ago I bought a sam coupe on the net. It didn't have a power supply but the seller said that a spectrum +3 supply works with sam and

Re: sam coupe - spec +3 psu question

2011-06-05 Thread L. Chmielewski
The plug is the same, but connections are different. GND is on different pins too. He will blow up his SAM or the PSU or both. It will definitly not work. Technicaly impossible! If you like the smell of burned electronics, test it yourself. Spectrum+3 PSU has 2x+5V, -5V, 2x+12V, -12V SAM has

Re: full motion video

2011-05-31 Thread Leszek Chmielewski
chunk. 2011/5/31 Roger Jowett rogerjow...@gmail.com so interlaced video could just display the same two frame for any number of frames until it had loaded or decompressed another tow frames... On 30/05/2011, Leszek Chmielewski retr...@gmail.com wrote: That is how delta compression (in Retro

Re: full motion video

2011-05-30 Thread Leszek Chmielewski
That is how delta compression (in Retro-X) works. It stores the difference between two screens in s interleaved sequence of unchanged and changed byte sequences (omniting 1 and 2 unchanged bytes so save more space and gain speed, so copy them to screen even if unchanged). You can store e.g.: 50

Re: Floppy Disks

2011-04-05 Thread Leszek Chmielewski
The USB Floppys have a extremly cut down controller which is missing ability for low level access. So the answer is no. My Acer TM312T has a external parallel port Disc drive, and it can read and write Coupé Discs, only because the BIOS. It would be possible to make a USB Floppy which can use SAM

Re: Random Sam BASIC question.

2008-09-08 Thread Leszek Chmielewski
Sorry, I was very busy improving my Retro-X in the last time. I found more and more messages from Sam-users in my gmail spam directory... Thomas Harte schrieb: Aha. I never stop learning. That was completly new for me... For Acorn emulation I currently use Beeb. Just requested from the authors

Re: Random Sam BASIC question.

2008-08-28 Thread Leszek Chmielewski
of the Technical Manual online and discovered that they are read/write, which I wasn't expecting. On 28 Aug 2008, at 21:06, Leszek Chmielewski wrote: 251 = High Memory Page Register 250= Low Memory Page Register Greetings, LCD Thomas Harte schrieb: Port 252 is read/write? Anybody got any

Re: Random Sam BASIC question.

2008-08-28 Thread Leszek Chmielewski
I'm. Most importantly, I'm really, really keen to get what I have bundled up so that you don't have to understand it to be able to use it. I understand |-D. LCD On 28 Aug 2008, at 21:23, Leszek Chmielewski wrote: Sorry for the missunderstanding. Anyway, I'm sure that all memory paging

SAM Games and Retro-X

2008-07-20 Thread Leszek Chmielewski
Hi there! There are some Perfect condition SAM Coupé games available on austrian eBay: http://cgi.ebay.at/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=250273008908 http://cgi.ebay.at/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=250273010072 http://cgi.ebay.at/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=250273011162 And now: Did

Re: Grabbing floppy images

2008-06-22 Thread Leszek Chmielewski
Simon Owen schrieb: Leszek Chmielewski wrote: You coded the fdrawcmd.sys? It should work with onboard floppy connector under Win2K. Yes, and yes :-) I changed the code from example HANDLE h = CreateFile(.\\fdraw0, GENERIC_READ|GENERIC_WRITE, 0, NULL, OPEN_EXISTING, 0, NULL

Re: New SAM!

2008-06-18 Thread Leszek Chmielewski
That's a bit bad, unfortunally it is not possible to edit (at least one day before auctions end), a eBay fault! There will be no second time for you to try, unless you stop the auction, but I would write something like SAM Coupé (SAM Coupe). I myself have two SAM Coupé so no need for it at

PC - SAM Picture conversion

2008-04-11 Thread Leszek Chmielewski
Hi there! After giving up my old BMP2SCR I'm working currently on Retro-X, which can convert PC images to SAM Coupé Modes 1-4, and save them in MGT container. This is a unfinished work in Progress version: http://rapidshare.com/files/106078373/Retro-X_WIP6.zip.html It is very different from