Put this on the SimCoupe GitHub issues - no wait, Stefan has already logged
it :)
Dan.
On 9 Sep 2021, at 22:05, Edwin blink wrote:
This ones probably for Simon :)
I was playing a bit with prodos v2 and noticed I get a read only error
with current simcoupe buid (1.2.5)
Example:
Awesome, WOSAM page is up :)
https://www.worldofsam.org/products/bubble-ghost
Dan.
On 4 Sep 2021, at 17:49, the wub wrote:
Hi all,
The new game is now available from https://wubsoft.org/
The controls are joystick or QAOP and space.
I really hope people have as much fun playing it as I
A World Of Spectrum style semi-official archive for SAM
software, housed on the
web and built by the members of sam-users.
Bang on.
BTW another vote here for samcoupe.org
Dan.
From http://www.ntk.net/ - or at least it will be.
EVENT QUEUE
GOTOs considered non-harmful
We're as sceptical about online petitions as anyone, but it
took just 47 signatures to ensure the resurrection of a 32-
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=8141419063
Dan.
This just dropped in on me today, thought you might be interested
Dan
---
This data is mailed from your web page
http://www.podboy.demon.co.uk/mailto.htm
The host that sent this request was 62.252.192.14 [62.252.192.14]
(although if a proxy was used, you will get the address of the proxy
I'm personally saddened by the tone of Duncan's email. If he owns the
rights to something, then I'm sure no-one has any objections to him
exercising those rights.
I think that was the thing that upset me the most, I too had many
conversations with Malcolm and his passion for the Sam was
Calvin Perhaps Dan, you should send him a message, as a .dsk
Calvin file with one of your smoth basic scrollers :)
With a nice Andy Monk tune in the background ;-)
You know - to this day I have no idea what that was all about - presumably I
used one of his tunes without crediting it
Currently at 62 quid, just under 3 days to go.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=8132473139
Dan.
I'm jealous - my Sam used to be that nice white colour, many
years ago ;-)
Heh heh heh.
Mine's still that colour - how they laughed when I used to cover it with a
duster when not in use, but who's laughing now!
Bwa ha ha ha looks around ha ha h..
Oh, just me then.
Dan.
Title: Message
SNAP!
I had the same this week,
purchased 512Mb ofPC2100 Corsair swiss cheese.
Dan.
-Original Message-From:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf
Of Simon CookeSent: 27 August 2004 16:30To:
sam-users@nvg.ntnu.noSubject: RE: Sam Lives -
Am I going insane or is ftp.nvg.ntnu.no not allowing connections again:
Resolving host name ftp.nvg.ntnu.no...
Connecting to (ftp.nvg.ntnu.no) - IP: 129.241.210.18 PORT: 21
No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused
it.
Cannot login waiting to retry
It's been on CSS but I'd though I'd post it here too.
http://www2.b3ta.com/heyhey16k/
Dan.
I'm looking for specs (a diagram) to wire a 720 kB drive to it.
'Got lot's of drives. I know I need a controller chip.
Can anyone help?
I think this is one for Mr Colin Piggot Esq.
Have a look at: http://www.quazar.clara.net/sam/hardfdc.htm
Dan.
I have heard the drive spin down for no apparent reason and I have to
power-cycle the SAM to spin it back up again.
I had this problem with mine, although it tended to happen most on startup -
I fixed it by replacing the Sam PSU with a PC one and running a seperate
power feed to the HD so that
I was pasted a link today: http://www.malevole.com/mv/misc/tribute/
Very funny but then I delved a bit deeper and realised the site was
done by Matt Round (Malevolent) of much SAM goodness fame.
I did exactly the same when I was sent it the other day!
I must email him and tell him I still
Cheers for these Dan! Disks 5 and 6 work fine, but disk 7 is missing the
extra QDOS sectors and won't boot fully. It'll still work if you boot DOS
from another disk first, but it'd be nice to preserve it with the extra
sectors.
I've done a quick and dirty hack:
Disks 1, 7 and 8 are on NVG in .td0 format, but only disk 8 appears to
work.
Dave Ledbury mentioned the existence of Demo Disk 4 - any sign of this
monkey?
Also I'm having real problems trying to ftp to ftp.nvg.ntnu.no all I get is
this:
Resolving host name ftp.nvg.ntnu.no...
Connecting to
i've just found number 5 - will see if it still plays and try and upload
it
tonight
I've got 5,6 7 - though I can't seem to upload them to NVG and my webspace
is full (of crap) so I'll have another go later on if NVG decides to play
ball.
Dan.
I've got 5,6 7 - though I can't seem to upload them to NVG and my
webspace
is full (of crap) so I'll have another go later on if NVG decides to play
ball.
Have cleared some space off - they are here:
http://www.podboy.demon.co.uk/coupe/downloads/AJDISC5.zip
Aha! A response. So there is still life in the sam world!
We're still here, lurking in the shadows of t'interweb
Just tried the Disk Converter, and it brings up an error when I try and
read
the disk in. I'm using windows XP, and I think it's probably that.
Is there anything that will
http://www.willmcgugan.com/bobs.htm
It's a pleasure matey :-)
Dan.
OMG! There's a picture of my bobs on the net. :P
Go on, post it to http://www.ratemybobs.com :-)
Dan.
I couldn't resist making it into an animated GIF:
http://www.b3ta.com/board/2620641
Dan.
I forgot yesterday to announce it here: BMP2SCR EXP 2.10a is out.
Wow - I have been playing with this today and it's the dogs cogs.
I heartily recommend the download.
One feature I would like to see if you're taking suggestions is the ability
to double the size of the output window as it's
Arse candles
Go on! Indulge a man! Whassat mean?
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=arse+candle
Term nicked from Chris Morris - from Brass Eye I think.
Dan.
That was quick, thanks Nev. Erm, any idea about numbers through the
door? Doesn't look to be too many from the pics or are they not
representative of the whole day?
Sadly only a dozen or so.
Still it was good to put faces to names like I didn't with the pics :-)
Hopefully better next year.
I got somewhere. I endt up patching the compiler, getting som help from
the compiler maintainer, fixing some code and still haven't compilled
everything yet. :(
I know Simon also was into it, but I don't know how far he got.
Will that require something like this to work: h
(Now I just need to work out how to update the webring)
Sorted.
Dan.
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Dan Dooré
Telecoms Infrastructure Group Data Networks Development
Direct Line Group Services
Direct Line Group Services Limited, registered in England no.3001989,
registered office 3 Edridge Road, Croydon, Surrey,
Spurred on by the mail from Unc and my successful PSU transplant on my Sam
at the weekend I have tidied up the Webring and removed these dead links:
Sam Defender
ZXVGS and CPM22QED operating systems
There are many sites that are not on the ring so I would enplore you, nay,
beg you to add them
MGT did a SAM dust cover didn't they? Or was it SAMCo? Anyone have one?
It was a third party - There was a review in Fred of them although the name
of who made the best one eludes me.
Dan.
Direct Line Group Services Limited, registered in England no.3001989,
registered office 3 Edridge
Well.. If anyone at all is remotely interested in Whatever happened to
Andy Monk, author of dodgy Sam music... then look no further! I'm here
now!!
Dodgy? Never! - It's your fault that I was humming the in-game tune to Wop
Gamma in Morrisons last week
Dan.
Direct Line Group Services
Best regards,
RUMSOFT
I prostrate mysef at the feet of the author of the Imploder, probably the
most useful Sam utility I have ever used.
PS: I there anyone that have/use my SamCoupe EDIPRO text editor???
Is it up on NVG? (ftp://ftp.nvg.ntnu.no/pub/sam-coupe/)
Dan.
Direct Line Group
ZDE16 - kept up with my typing at about 90 WPM
Cool - is this freely available anywhere?
When David mentioned it I knew it rung a bell - it's a CPM based editor
that I used a few times when playing with ProDos.
Check out http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~jacobn/cpm/cpmfiles.html -
there's
Simple question - I need a decent plain text editor on the SAM. Lean and
neat, but nice to use (i.e. not vi ;)
I used to use either Driver Notepad or PCG wordmaster (Speccy port) for my
text needs, although looking back neither were ideal but at least they had
the ability to insert text whilst
Cos I'm sad and I want the originals :)
Heh heh heh.
Especially 22...
Issue 22 - didn't that had a hideous bug in the menu that locked it if you
pressed a key more than once?
(Oh and I made a mistake, I've got 34, my favourite issue...)
Gotta be issue 3 (the first one I ever got) cos it
Fred 50 probably contained the best game on any Fred - Derf! I loved it -
Matt Round = Gamesmaster God.
Mr Round did make some superb stuff didn't he, I remember a demo of
'Retros' on one of the Freds and I was gutted that it never came out as a
full product.
Dan
Direct Line Group Services
I'd love to find a TnT disc image.
TnT - Wasn't that the BombJack clone?
I'm afraid my PC won't make an image of my SAM disc of it because it's
not
a manky old 486 which seems to be the only thing I could get that disc
imaging program to work on... Bah
If you have access to a W9x
I assume that includes WinME?
I believe so.
Dan.
Direct Line Group Services Limited, registered in England no.3001989,
registered office 3 Edridge Road, Croydon, Surrey, CR9 1AG. The following are
also members of the Direct Line group of companies: Direct Line Insurance plc,
a
1) Do you have an actual Sam Coupe:
Two of, one main one and a spare to raid for parts.
2) Does it work?
They both do, although I think one of the PSU's is dead now.
3) Do you still use it?
Not really - a lack of desk space has relegated it to the cupboard along
with the Atari ST I found
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HTH.
Dan.
How do i transfer 'tdo' files downloaded from the net unto sam disks?
You desire the evil Teledisk 2.12 for DOS, search for TELED212.ZIP on your
favoured FTP search engine such as http://ftpsearch.lycos.com/
Be warned, it's been known to mis-behave on many, many machines.
Dan.
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http://www.sasakiuk.u-net.com/vbox.htm
Hmm , mabye thats 2 easy :)
It is, there's no RGB input on it :-)
Which reminds me, must:
Replace the video IC to get composite UHF output back.
or
Buy another Sam...
Dan.
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VVeb:
Any objections to me putting this as part of my Sam pages on the Net?
Yes. If you put the list online, remove my email address beforehand.
Mine as well please.
Alright, alright it will stay here.
Dan.
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Why the compulsion to keep putting a list of addresses up anyway? None of
the other lists I'm on ever outs people like this one does!
The reason I keep doing it is to try and maintain a sense of community on the
list, and so that Sam Celebrities can be picked out :-)
Dan.
Work: [EMAIL
I remember some time ago that there was talk of how to get the output from Sam
onto a VGA monitor but I've lost the mail.
Anyway, it seems I now have need of such a device so I've been trawling the web
for resources and I thought I'd share my findings - 'Taunt the Browser-less' as
one of my
i think it would be nice to get a diagram of the real scrat connector, and
compare it to the sam's one.
i hope many of us are able to make their own cable if we would know what
pins to connect.
The Pin-outs are in the back of the normal manual, and the tech manual but here
are the pins.
I would certainly put quality sound emulation at the top of my wish
Aley - is your SAA emulator in a fit state (so to speak) to be included with
Si's port - or does it need work to get it run native under Win32?
Dan.
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VVeb:
[snip]
Did you really have to write this with no linebreaks?! ;-)
Fecking Outlook, Fecking gateways, ARSE! GERLS! DRINK! DRINK!
Any objections to me putting this as part of my Sam pages on the Net?
Dan.
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Can somebody explain, what is B-Dos?
Certainly:
http://www.podboy.demon.co.uk/coupe/edwin/
Dan.
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Which Matrox card you got? Millennium / Millennium II / Millennium G200 /
... / ... ?
Original Millennium (2064W).
It's working fine over here on a NT4SP3 (it might be SP4 but ... dunno...
don't think it is) Matrox Millennium. Latest drivers, as far as I'm aware.
Millennium 2064W ...
I've put a pre-pre-alpha version of the Win32 SimCoupe on my web site if
any windoze users want to take a look.
No life under NT4 SP4, just executes and exits :-(
What version of Direct X does it require?
Dan.
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VVeb:
I probably meant to add that you gotta make sure you run it from the
standard simcoupe\v???\bin\ directory.
That's where it is.
Unfortunately, the executable has the same filename (simcoupe.exe) so what
I did was unzip this file as sim32.exe and left the original simcoupe.exe
still
Well, in that case, I will speculate that your video drivers for NT are not
very recent / not very good . If you have any other
software that uses windowed directX on NT, and that doesn't work, then
this will be why
Hmmm, I rebuilt my NT box at the start of the new year with Matrox's
.
Dan Doore.
Ps. Which sadistic b*d wrote Samdisk? Noone on this list,
I hope...
It was Mat of ESI who wrote it - in about 5 minutes.
Dan.
P.S. Names list on the way - honest!
What I meant by that last one was - is it time for another episode of
Who's on sam-users?
Dan?
*wakes* wossa?
Hokay - I'll fire up the old database and give it a whirl but please consider
that it is a) Friday and b) I'm back from the pub and c) Marketing were paying.
Dan.
Work: [EMAIL
Why don't we put these instructions on the web - maybe with Andrews Sam Users
page? (http://carou.sel.cam.ac.uk/computers/samusers.html)
Dan.
Welcome to the sam-users mailing list!
Please save this message for future reference. Thank you.
If you ever want to remove yourself from
Take a look, and any suggestions would be gladly received.
Very nice.
(Currently listening to Steps.)
Very bad.
:-)
Speaking of all things magaziney - when is the next Fred due out - Mal?
Dan.
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Huh? Look at the message headers...
Sam-users emails always come From: whoever posted the message.
Depends what comes out the other end of your gateway - when I was at LMU the MS
Snail gateway translated everything as coming from 'sam-users-owner', which was
really helpful...
Dan.
Work:
Get thee to Edwin's homepage and use the instructions on how
to create a DPU to... well... create a DPU.
Verily, get ye to http://www.podboy.demon.co.uk/coupe/edwin/ scurvy
knave...
Dan.
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A bug in Sam C.
Don't believe you :-)
An older version doesn't seem to have that bug, so was
suggesting other
people try the older version (if they have it) if they have problems.
I always had problems with kbhit(), so I stole the keypress routine from
Mr Laundon's ProType...
MR BEN
And
And does this mean that you're ashamed of our mousse or something?
My sister was bitten by a mousse once.
No really, mousse bites can be very painful.
What's the news from the show then?
Dan.
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Anybody wants to connect a PC mouse to the SAM ??
I think so!
All you need is the COMMs interface (with the RS232 part).
And solder a single wire at the connector to make them work (with a
special driver) .
If you have a Microsoft Ballpoint Mouse you even don't have
to solder the wire .
Though you have a point -- next show's in Seattle -- any takers?
We have an office in Seattle.
Let me know when you're planning it and I'll ensure the lines into my
router get a little bit wobbly :-)
Dan.
The glos show is week saturday (17th)
Yes.
D'oh!
Might not be able to make this one chaps, as I might be overseas.
Dan.
H... Perhaps it's time to send it a Birthday card?
BTW How long did your clock take to arrive Dan? ;)
Oooh, about 24 hours :-)
That doesn't mean I've gotten around to actually *soldering* it in yet
;-)
Dan.
These need to be posted to [EMAIL PROTECTED], matey.
Dan.
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These need to be posted to [EMAIL PROTECTED], matey.
No they don't, they need to be sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
BASTARDBASTARDBUGGERANDHELLFIRE!
I *knew* it didn't look right after I'd sent it.
I always send to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and use
Hey Tim/Dan,
How about a list member update? ;)
Cheeky sod!
Maybe sometime this week.
Dan.
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David
I wonder what are the chances of getting a new one - or should I
wait until the PC keyboard interface is available?
At the last Gloucester show a certain Mr Brenchley had a number of new
Sam keyboards on sale...
Dan.
It looks like ATOM is internal inteface. Nobody wants to explain
details to me...
Hokay, the ATOM is an internal IDE interface that connects to the second
floppy connector.
If you have a 2.5 drive then the whole lot can be fitted (and powered)
inside the case, if you have a standard size
Does anyone have SAM in PC cover? I'm going to do such removal.
I know of a couple of people who have started doing that I don't
know how far they have gotten though.
I saw a bloke at the last Gloucester Show who had his Sam in a mini
tower, he had got around the problem of a separate
Hi Yarek,
i think you wouldn't make yourself very popular if you post
binaries to any mailing list or to News. It's better when
you give an email address where the folks can ask for it or
if you give a ftp- or www-address where they can download
it.
Indeed,
You can FTP files to
The Sam printer cable is the same as the BBC one - it might
be easier to find one of those.
panto mode
Oh no it isn't.
/panto mode
I've always used the lead that came with my BBC and it's
printer with my SAM, and I've never had any problems.
I presumed the panto was to do with the
Nah, that's just a touch of pinkeye.
Andrew
Worcester Sauce strikes again.
Hmm, South Park fan by perchance ?
Off topic but what the heck...
Out Intranet server is called Kenny and some smartie unplugged it's
network cables at the weekend rendering it off line.
I had the
Where can I buy a SAM printer cable, and at what price? (Other than
Gloucester).
The Sam printer cable is the same as the BBC one - it might be easier to
find one of those.
Does anyone else hang on to similar old equipment? I hate scrapping
such
machines if they still work.
I still
We've got a Linux box called Cartman. Does that count? :)
How about this then ...
http://www.gbdirect.co.uk/~lee/scrnsht.jpg
Sweet.
Dan.
HDOS is good, but could be better, and because of the lack of
co-operation from people on this list there seems little hope of
any advance in the near future.
Development on HDOS ceased due to Nev's hard disc going for a burton, if
what the big guy told me is true[1] and has absolutely
Another game I remember that had printing on the plastic case
was ESCAPE FROM
THE PLANET OF ROBOT MONSTERS, and a very neat job they did of
it too. The game was also pretty nifty and colourful...
And had no copy protection IIRC.
The most impressive case I had was for Lemmings, twas a
Does anyone has problems using teledisk on a pentium ?
It works on my 486/ 66MHz but on all pentium PCs I tried it
wouldn't work.
Yeah, I have to use a Gateway 486 to do Teledisk stuff on, since my P166
usually locks up with TeleNightmare.
D.
I'm also looking for ideas as to what utility features people would
like.
One thing I would like to see is support for the Atom/BDOS by viewing a
DOS/NTFS directory of DSK's as the file system...
D.
Ideas? Views?
Only that you can bear my children if I can run SimCoupe on NT 4.0
:-)
Dan.
So. Why did they have two controllers then? There must have
been a reason.
I was reading an old issue of Format, where on Nev's Help Page there was
a question about getting the error 'FORMAT DATA LOST' when copying
between two drives on the Disciple/PlusD, and this was due to the
I made a gif picture of my DPU. Is it allowed to send it to list ?
As good ol' Brian would say POST NO BINARIES! :-)
Can you plonk it on the Web/FTP somewhere - or send it to me and I'll pop
it up on my site for people to grab.
Dan.
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