Re: [Sam-users] Prodos v2 and simcoupe 1.2.5

Great! looking forward to a new Dev build. Van: Stefan Drissen [mailto:stefan.dris...@gmail.com] Verzonden: vrijdag 10 september 2021 08:12 Aan: Edwin blink CC: Dan Doore; sam-users Onderwerp: Re: [Sam-users] Prodos v2 and simcoupe 1.2.5 And fixed by Simon. :-) On Thu, Sep 9

Re: [Sam-users] Prodos v2 and simcoupe 1.2.5

Thanks Dan and Stefan :) Didn't want to submit an issue on Github right away in case I was just missing something obvious ;) Van: Dan Doore [mailto:d...@dandoore.com] Verzonden: donderdag 9 september 2021 23:22 Aan: Edwin blink CC: sam-users Onderwerp: Re: [Sam-users] Prodos v2

[Sam-users] Prodos v2 and simcoupe 1.2.5

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: -Boot Prodos v2 disk in simcoupe -from menu: new DOS CP/M disk -format b: -> OK -copy a: b: -> is read only error -format b: ->

Re: [Sam-users] New Sam game.

] Verzonden: zondag 5 september 2021 21:37 Aan: Edwin blink CC: sam-users Onderwerp: Re: [Sam-users] New Sam game. Hi Edwin, really glad you're enjoying this! :) I decided to lose the power LED as it was a bit distracting, and I didn't think it looked that good. It seems a bit tidier without

Re: [Sam-users] New Sam game.

All it's missing is some links to buy you guys a coffee or a beer ;D -Oorspronkelijk bericht- Van: sam-users [mailto:sam-users-boun...@nvg.ntnu.no] Namens the wub Verzonden: zondag 5 september 2021 16:21 Aan: Dan Doore CC: sam-users Onderwerp: Re: [Sam-users] New Sam game. The WOSAM

Re: [Sam-users] New Sam game.

Yay! another great game for Sam! Thank for bringing Bubble Ghost to Sam! Played it a couple of times and it's as if I'm playing on Gameboy. But without the motion blur :D Also love the catchy sound track. Great Job! I noticed Bubble Ghost can fly into the Gameboys gray bezel. Looks funny like

Re: [Sam-users] So what's up in SAM Wolrd?

n from GitHub:) Thanks for the help Stefan. Van: Stefan Drissen [mailto:stefan.dris...@gmail.com] Verzonden: donderdag 2 september 2021 19:06 Aan: Edwin blink; sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no Onderwerp: Re: [Sam-users] So what's up in SAM Wolrd? Hi Edwin (moving back on list) :-) Regarding A

Re: [Sam-users] So what's up in SAM Wolrd?

Yay! more good news :D And that teaser video looks great! I like that gameboy game. Will be fun playing on SAM! and written in Comet!? Awesome! -Oorspronkelijk bericht- Van: the wub [mailto:the...@gmail.com] Verzonden: maandag 30 augustus 2021 16:36 Aan: Simone Voltolini CC: Edwin

Re: [Sam-users] So what's up in SAM Wolrd?

a lot of people still here fortunately. >David On 29.08.2021 15:29, Edwin blink wrote: > So what's up in SAM Wolrd? > > Other then SAM's getting pricey :P > > Dug out my SAM yesterday and coincidentally discovered the just > released exelent Rick Dangerous conversion. Love th

[Sam-users] So what's up in SAM Wolrd?

So what's up in SAM Wolrd? Other then SAM's getting pricey :P Dug out my SAM yesterday and coincidentally discovered the just released exelent Rick Dangerous conversion. Love the funny death samples. Great work Anton Javorček / DTA ! I'm not on FaceBook so here's a piccie on twitter:

RE: who

I’m still here too. Haven’t done anything SAM wise for decade or so. My coupie is packed in moving boxes for years :P >Here's an actual thing for your Sam: http://innsmouth.dsanders.uk/ETracker-Brexit_Special.dsk This

Re: Attempts at 3d on the Sam?

- Original Message - From: Andrew Collier [EMAIL PROTECTED] Edwin - i would it be okay by you, if I enable the download on WOS as well? Go ahead you have my permission. Edwin

Re: Short, short questions

1) Normally the value is FF and it looks pretty stable too considering PRO-DOS uses IM 2 without a vector table. So your choices are IM 0/IM 1 both do a RST 38H or IM 2 which 'calls' the adress found at the address pointed by I register (MSB) and the value on the databus (LSB). Like the

Re: Short, short questions

From: Thomas Harte Surely set would only work if I had an unsigned offset from the beginning of a table? I'm using a signed offset from the middle of a table. it works the same as ADD HL,HL ADD HL,BC the difference is you store the table entries LSB,MSB so you need the ADD HL,HL First you

Re: Short, short questions

the beginning of a table? I'm using a signed offset from the middle of a table. On 20 May 2008, at 19:48, Edwin Blink wrote: 1) Normally the value is FF and it looks pretty stable too considering PRO-DOS uses IM 2 without a vector table. So your choices are IM 0/ IM 1 both do a RST 38H or IM 2 which

Re: Short, short questions

All 8 bits are used for LSB of the vector. The part where bit 0 always is zero is when one of the Z80's IO chips is connected (PIO,SIO,CTC etc) is connected. Edwin - Original Message - From: David Brant [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no Sent: Wednesday, May 21, 2008 1:02

Re: In pursuit of Dead Wild Cat

Thanks for Sharing Ellvis ! Edwin - Original Message - From: ellvis [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no Sent: Monday, May 19, 2008 9:00 AM Subject: Re: In pursuit of Dead Wild Cat Hi, I am not really a coder, but you can always try to look at

Website problems

Hi everyone It Seems that my webpage is often not accesible. Today I found out my webhost decided to limit the daily traffic to 50MB so I decided to move it. Thanks to Stephen Parry-Thomas for offering the webspace it can now be found at : http://www.samcoupe-pro-dos.co.uk/edwin/index.htm

Re: In pursuit of Dead Wild Cat

From: Thomas Harte ... dead wild cat demo ... I'm don't remember this demo Where can it be found ? BTW If you need some help with optimizing your (multiply/devide) code. I'm always in for some byte/T-state banging :-) Edwin

Re: SAMDOS

As far as I remember SAMDOS uses fixed adresses for IX/UIFA. UIFA must be equal 4B00 (I think). Edwin - Original Message - From: David Brant To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2007 10:30 PM Subject: SAMDOS Hi All Can anyone tell me why the following code works

Re: iChat/AIM users

Mine MSN [EMAIL PROTECTED] Used to use windows messenger that comes with XP Pro Now using Miranda. for it's auto recieving files feature. Edwin

Re: New bit of hardware...

Came up with a new piece of hardware today. Looks like we have similar ideas(hooking displays to SAM I mean). A couple of weeks ago I made a single resistor (or wire) mod to sams parallel port So A LCD compatible display can be added to SAMs parallel port with just using a cable.

Re: Sam Revival issue 19 out now!

From: Colin Piggot [EMAIL PROTECTED] Onto the magazine. The cover gives away what I've been working on recently myself - the Trinity Ethernet Interface, bringing ethernet to your Sam When I read about your surprise project called trinity I had to think about the Matrix Movie and wondered

Atom-Lite+

Just thought I let you know that I've revised the Atom-Lite design a bit. With the arrival of dual CF to IDE adapters I redesigned AL a bit so CF cards can be inserted right side up. While at it I optimized the programmable logic chip a bit so I could add a Dallas clock. heres a piccy of

Re: Which assembler?

Hi Calvin, For SAM I recommend Comet http://home.orange.nl/edwin.blink/samcoupe/software/comet/comet.htm it's got fullscreen editor, syntax checking on entering a line and errors are inserted in the source just above the line containing the error. Just great to get started. For PC I recommend

Atom-Lite on you tube

Here are some movies on the Atom-Lite. http://www.youtube.com/v/xKIsEr660HA http://www.youtube.com/v/QBVsGCV4sPA Sorry for the poor quallity. but it's a you tube thing. I don't have some place to store the original 40Mb and 20Mb versions Edwin

Re: Atom-Lite on you tube

From: Gavin Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Nice vids :) In the second one, you realise we can see you b*llock naked in the relection of the TV screen? You should have seen me in the other takes I made. ;-) Edwin

Atom-Lite CF interface

Hi everybody I'm pleased to see the list so alive lately. I like your game Calvin ! it reminds me of the early 80s handheld games. Simple gameplay but very addictive. I hope we will see finished version in the near feature. I have some good news too. After a long time I finally have made a

Re: Atom-Lite CF interface

in the SAM scene this year, cool! Gavin On 18 May 2007, at 1:13 PM, Edwin Blink wrote: Hi everybody I'm pleased to see the list so alive lately. I like your game Calvin ! it reminds me of the early 80s handheld games. Simple gameplay but very addictive. I hope we will see finished version

Re: Atom-Lite CF interface

. PayPal is fine Edwin - Original Message - From: Frans van Egmond [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no Sent: Friday, May 18, 2007 2:27 PM Subject: Re: Atom-Lite CF interface I'm interested. How much, and do you accept Paypal? Frans Edwin Blink schreef: Hi everybody I'm

Re: Sound Chip

From: David Brant [EMAIL PROTECTED] if you type: snip Comet will NOT come up with an error Like Andrew said Comet is a two pass assembler During 1st pass no errors are generated. Any undefined symbols on pass two will cause a error. Using undefined symbols in ORGs or in EQUs will cause

Re: Another year, another pyz80 revision

From: Simon Owen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Converting existing source files is fairly easy, using the print-to-file feature in SimCoupe. you can also use the COMetCONverter utiliy to convert txt files to comet source and vice versa.

Re: SAM Defender - Updated and Improved!

Hi Chris, Exellent job ! Maybe now I have a better change on getting a real high score ;-) you had me fooled with the crash effect. I though the diskimage was corruped until I saw the initial test message :-) Edwin - Original Message - From: Chris Pile [EMAIL PROTECTED] To:

bouncy email

Hi guys. I'm back on the list. Looks Like I missed some posts. To everyone who has my old email address [EMAIL PROTECTED] in their addressbook. please replace 'home' with 'versatel' to reach me. I'm also reachable via MSN with this same email address. Edwin

RE: ROM Versions

On Behalf Of Dan Dooré If they were ever out in the wild and you have the images can they be added to a 'Edwin's Boot ROM' page for posterity? Ofcourse ! There are also two versions of the HDBOOTROM by me the first one uses a IDE hardware reset To reset the harddisk and displays HDBROM

Re: Sophistry

From: Simon Owen [EMAIL PROTECTED] I don't think I've ever seen an unprotected version... Do you have a sample image you could send me? http://home.wanadoo.nl/edwin.blink/samcoupe/diskimages/Sophistry.zip This is a Atom friendly version that will also run the speccy version when you hold

Re: [OT] Outlet

From: DAVID LEDBURY Does anyone actually have any copies as dsk or whatever? Got issues 33 to 65. if anyone has issues before 33 or after 65 (if there where any) please let me know. Edwin

Re: [OT] Outlet

- Original Message - From: Simon Owen [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no Sent: Friday, August 12, 2005 5:32 PM Subject: RE: [OT] Outlet Edwin Blink wrote: if anyone has issues before 33 or after 65 (if there where any) please let me know. I've got 32 - the intro makes

Re: Who`s missing?

use my email address Edwin - Original Message - From: david [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no Sent: Wednesday, August 03, 2005 11:37 AM Subject: Re: Who`s missing? [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Steve Parry-Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: May be folks now use MSN ?

Re: Experimental compact flash interface on ebay

I would have placed a bid - but I don't use paypal :( Too bad. Looks like you're the only one interested for a bid :-( Edwin

Re: Experimental compact flash interface on ebay

Hi all, The experimental compact flash interface auction will end in about 12 hours. If any of you have interrest in it or other auctions please bid before you forget it. This is a one time change only and any unsold items will not be relisted. Edwin

Experimental compact flash interface on ebay

Hi everyone, As a follow up to my other auctions. I've put my experimental compact flash 'spagetti' interface on ebay. http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemcategory=1247item=521314617 6rd=1 Edwin

ASIC and SAA spares on ebay

Hi if anyone is looking for a replacement SAA soundchip or ASIC or just as spares. i've put one of each on ebay. SAA http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemcategory=1247item=521172349 0rd=1 ASIC http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemcategory=1247item=521333192 8rd=1 Edwin

Re: Instructions-info for SamCo Mouse and SDI interface wanted.

Is any one willing to scan me the instructions that came with these items? Was there any disks, drivers or other software? I think the SDI interface came with a DOS (utility)disk and the mouse interface came with a mouse driver disks. anyone know the default jumper setting from factory?

Atom and other SAM stuff on ebay

To all monitoring my auctions and waiting for the final moments of the auctions. You don't have to wait till Sunday. The Auctions will close two days earlier on Friday. Nice to see so much interrest in the Atom ;-) Edwin

Re: Atom and other SAM stuff on ebay

From: DAVID LEDBURY Will you take payment by cheque? I'll have to look into this. But I think a banktransfer is faster and cheaper. Edwin

Re: Atom and other SAM stuff on ebay

Just Checked the Banks website And it's a defenitive No as the costs are just too high. It takes 12.50 euros to clear the check and another euro 5.75 to send it to the bank by registered mail. Edwin

ATOM Prototype for sale

I've just put my Atom prototype on auction on ebay. Anyone looking for a Atom head over to: http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemcategory=1247item=521066198 3rd=1 I'll be putting some more of my unique designs on ebay later. Edwin

Re: ATOM Prototype for sale

I've put some more of my SAM stuff on ebay. So have a look at my other items too. In case anyone is wondering. I'm not quitting on SAM. I'm working at multiple projects at the moment and I'm cleaning out some of my older ones. Edwin - Original Message - From: Edwin Blink [EMAIL

Re: 10th Anniversary!

Hi Colin, Congrats on your 10th anniversary and up to the next one ! http://www.samcoupe.com/preview.htm Nice to see some more about Chrome and hope it sees the light of day sometime as it would be a unique game to SAM. For the scrolling bit planned for Harlequin. What kind of scrolling do

Re: Fuxoft [Re: Still no tapes received]

IMO, the music for Lord Insanity's Tetris was also very good. Does anyone know the name of the original version? Nemesis the Warlock Edwin

Re: SAA 1099 Cards

Was a little to fast hitting that button. They gameblaster may have short lived but the CMS-301 chips (thats what Creative called the SAA1099) where also used on early soundblasters like you said so you will find them easier. When you see a board look for the sockets whete the CMS-301 chips

Re: Blue Two

david: Except for the CF side of this, this does sound a little like the idea Cookie Martin Rookyard worked on - the MultiROM... I only know the MGT ROM-RAM interface. Dis it get further than an idea and are there any docs/details about it ? Good work - very colourful idea! Thanks.

Blue Two

In all those years I never needed to hook two interfaces to SAM at the same time. But now I do so I needed to make a two way board.So I decided to make a special one http://home.wanadoo.nl/edwin.blink/samcoupe/hardware/Blue%20Two%20without%20 interfaces%202.jpg

Re: Blue Two

Steve: I like it the glue adds to it !. Yes it's the milky/frosty look glue that spreads the light nicely. I would like to have a go at your flashrom, where can I find the info on it? Do you use Bdos to write to it? The flash rom is a prototype and there is no support for it yet. The basic

Re: Hotline up to end of Jan 1990

From: Ian Spencer So I've now added the hotline messages I have for December 1989 and January 1990 to what was already uploaded and that's it until I've searched through another 'X' layers of junk to find the other MGT and SAMCO tapes. Excellent Ian. Keep on Diggin' ;-) Edwin

Re: Re[2]: Hotline up to end of Jan 1990

Andy Chandler: Mine is an A4 brochure, with very little detail inside! It's on thin glossy card if I remember rightly. I remember I got something A4ish too. I don't have it anymore. But I remember vaguely that it was not much different than those 4 page adds that showed up in the well know

Re: Re[4]: Hotline up to end of Jan 1990

Andy Chandler: That advert was not the brochure I have in front of me. Any change for some scans ? Edwin

Re: Re[6]: Hotline up to end of Jan 1990

Andy Chandler: It's done ! You can find it's temporary home at www.jukebox.btinternet.co.uk/sam/sambrochure.rar Thats Great Andy ! Edwin

Re: Brochure scans

Simon: While we're at it, here are thumbnails of another SAM brochure: http://simonowen.com/sam/sambrochure2.jpg (106K) Larger scans of the 4 pages are here: http://simonowen.com/sam/sambrochure2.zip (2.1MB) Very nice and colorful brochure Simon ! While we're at it :-) Anyone else

Re: Hotline up to end of Jan 1990

Dan: No need - it's the one that Si has scanned. Thanks for telling. Does yours also have a address sticker at the rear page 8 ? Edwin

Re: Sam Coupe Hot-Line Update

From: Ian Spencer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Well some good news I've found the first tape which covers the period Aug89 to Feb90. This was the earliest phase of the hot-line and covers the period before the first shipments in December and beyond. That's great news Ian. Edwin

Re: Sam Coupe Hot-Line

Colin included a recording from one weeks news on the latest Sam Revival CD. Are these recording really rare? I think so the one you heard was a mastercopy I recieved from SAMCo in 1991 I'm sure I have almost all of the Hot line recording on tape somewhere ? Is it worth me trying to find them

Re: Re[2]: Ideas for the ultimate emulator :)

From: david [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or get a Sam-in-a-can :) your sam in a can ? Edwin

Re: Fastest memory transfer (on Sam)

Edwin, I have another question: On Spectrum, it was the basic asm knowledge that JR is shorter but slower than JP. But how does it work on Sam? I assume (without any exact computation) that due to the contention, JR is probably faster than JP in general cases. Am I right? (I consider

Re: Text conversion

From: Paolo Borzini [EMAIL PROTECTED] Probably not recognize the CR and LF . This freeware editor can do a lot and can 'convert' CR/LF by selecting the format you want.. To convert to 64Col/Outwrite format use one of the SAM utils mentioned. http://www.crimsoneditor.com/ Edwin

Re: Fastest memory transfer (on Sam)

From: Geoff Winkless [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please understand that I'm not trying to be awkward; I just don't comprehend the logic. No prob. I hadn't looked this close on ROM Display contention before so it is interesting to look into and discuss it, also a reminder to get on with a Z80 T-States

Re: Fastest memory transfer (on Sam)

- Original Message - From: Aley Keprt [EMAIL PROTECTED] I originally though it's number of T-states, but POP must take at least 12T, definitely not 4T. Obviously a typing mistake :-) here are some more timings for PUSH/POP: PUSH qq (5,3,3) Standard =11Ts PUSH qq (5+3,3+1,3+1) RAM

Re: Fastest memory transfer (on Sam)

Incidentally, what are the 5 cycles for an LDIR? It uses the same technique as used by relative jumps to add a value of -2 to PC. so is it really the case that the z80 reads the (erroneous) next instruction before doing PC-=2 (as one source on the web suggested)? I think that suggestion

Re: Fastest memory transfer (on Sam)

From: Geoff Winkless [EMAIL PROTECTED] Without wishing to appear stupid (yeah, I know, too late, haha), I'm still not clear why that's a memory access. It's not. The delay is added there for convenience. But in fact it will delay the next opcode fetch (unless it is in rom but read below).

Re: Fastest memory transfer (on Sam)

I already tried many LDI's and PUSH/POP system on my own, but unfortunately the process of changing SP makes PUSH/POP slower than sequence of LDI's. The fastest scrollleft code I could think of is the folowing code snippet which should be repeated 9*height times and It's best to write a routine

Re: Fastest memory transfer (on Sam)

From: Geoff Winkless [EMAIL PROTECTED] Trying to think this through... Like the Idea. So I looked a bit better at LDIR in ROM too. LDIR is made up of 5 M-cycles: 4,4,3,5,5 for standard LDIR = 21T 4,4,3+1,5,5+2 LDIR in RAM with RAM contemption = 24T 4+4,4+4,3+5,5,5+6 LDIR in RAM with Display

Re: Newbie would like help ... Please!

Welcome to the SAM-users and this list ! The manuals should be no problem. Stephen Parry-Thomas did some excellent PDF-alization of most of the manuals made for SAM. To get started I recomend to get the SAM Users' Manual and SAM Drive Users Manual to get a understanding of SAM Basic and DOS You

Re: Fastest memory transfer (on Sam)

I need to move (video) memory on Sam, what's the fastest routine? I expect it must utilize push pop instructions, since they take just 10T to move a byte, but I am unsure what is exact look of the whole routine. Please can somebody help me? There is not a single fastest routine for everything.

Re: Development tools wanted

cross-assembler for PC could be better for me. (But I need to convert the Comet source to it somehow.) Any advices? Convert Comet sources in both ways: http://home.wanadoo.nl/edwin.blink/samcoupe/software/comet/comcon.zip Cross assembler that supports Z80:

Re: Development tools wanted

tasm301.zip contains documentation in another packed file. It has .zoo extension. How to read or unpack it? uses the BOOZ.EXE in the archive BOOZ.EXE x filename.zoo Edwin

Re: Development tools wanted

Actually, what is the timing issue, I don't think I ever really properly understood it... is it every contended memory access is 4 cycles? Only (Non ASIC I/O) instructions executed in ROM space are uncontended and use the standard Z80 timings In ram instructions are always aligned to a multiple

Re: Where can I get latest SimCoupe?

I have just noticed something similar with some options like the 'auto boot on startup screen' which if you set them, exit and then go back in they stay but if you exit and then launch a .DSK file that fires up the EXE the option is lost. This just sounds like a work directory problem. When

Re: SAM PCB production

From: Nev Young [EMAIL PROTECTED] Well they say a pic is worth 100 words so; http://www.nfy53.demon.co.uk/pics/sampcb1.jpg Another 49er, Nice one Nev Edwin

Re: Christmas Present

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemcategory=1247item=515732224 3rd=1 I think the seller had second thoughts about selling it :-) Edwin

Re: Christmas Present

Nevermind my previous post it I didn't copy and past the complete link Was the messenger sold without a case ? Edwin

Re: SAM PCB production

From: Colin Piggot [EMAIL PROTECTED] Just checked a fair few PCB's ... 48/49 seem to be very common production weeks but i've got one with week 47. So week 47 is the earliest sofar. I've also got a Week 48 board, but it appears to have been made by a different PCB company - the date code

SAM PCB production

I have discoved a production datestamp on the SAMs PCB. Just under the big hole in the center on the PCB it reads something like KCC8949 which is the production date off the PCB. 89 stands for 1989 and 49 for week 49. I've seen 8949,8950,8951 sofar and I'm wondering what other productions dates

Re: SimCoupe formatting query

With MasterDOS loaded under SimCoupe I have been trying to format a drive with more than 80 file allocations e.g. FORMAT d2,6 and the disk formats but only reports 80 files free. Tried it: Started simcoupe,mdos1.3 in fdd1, untitled.dsk in fdd2 FORMAT d2,6, Pressed Y DIR 2 770kB, 118 Free

Re: SimCoupe formatting query

From: Simon Owen [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'd better get a new version and source out quick, before someone sends the lads round... ;-) You'd better hurry then as they're already on their way ! ;-) Edwin

Re: Still no tapes received

From: Aley Keprt [EMAIL PROTECTED] A few days ago, I asked here if somebody could possibly send me his Sam Copue tapes in TZX format to let me test them in emulator. Up to now, nobody sent me anything :- Did Ya ? Then I missed your post. I've got goldmine from SU covertapes 109 and SU 99

Re: Still no tapes received

So, please send me some tape images. At last! I have only some test files I personally save on my real Sam Coupe. They works, but it's not enough for real testing. Thanks. Mailed them of list, Your mail server rejected them So I've resend them seperate I think one came thru 50Kb the

Re: Still no tapes received

From: Simon Owen [EMAIL PROTECTED] I've just e-mailed you the 8 TZX files I have (all untested), which include some demos from Crash/YS cover tapes. I wonder if they get bounced like mine. Could I have a copy of them to please ? Edwin

SAM Newsdisks

I was just browsing through my old disks and found five SAM Newsdisks. I wondered how many there where released. Does anybody know ? Thanks Edwin

Re: SAM Newsdisks

5 - although part of Newsdisk 6 became SAM Prime 1 Thanks and SAM Prime became Blitz ? Edwin

Re: Comet-ASCII

From: Simon Cooke [EMAIL PROTECTED] For PC too ? Nah, runs on the SAM itself. But it converts to and from ASCII and COMET formats, with your own choice of line terminator. Ah! good then I knew you did a SAM version But if you did a PC one then mine's wasn't really needed :-) Heres v1.2

Re: Let's discuss ZX Spectrum games

Shouldn't the archive aim to store software in its original format? Some titles were released on both disk and tape, so it would make sense to preserve both disk and tape images, and not just the most convenient format. I agree Converting existing disk titles to tape files seems wrong to

Re: How ROM knowns wheter a disk is bootable

I have a little technical question: How does Sam ROM know whether the file no.01 is DOS, or not? track 4 sector 1, offset $0100 the word BOOT bits 7 and 5 of each char is ignored If it finds it sector which was loaded at 8000 will be executed 8009 as the first 9 are part of (inherited from

Re: How ROM knowns wheter a disk is bootable

From: Frode Tenneboe [EMAIL PROTECTED] But you could put the rest of the DOS anywhere you like on the disc. Cookie did that to good effect in MaxiDOS/QDOS where he put the DOS on tracks 80-82. Just side one BTW if you wish you could store DOS anywhere into the directory as long as there is one

Re: How ROM knowns wheter a disk is bootable

From: Andrew Collier [EMAIL PROTECTED] I seem to remember that SAMDOS needs to find a whole sector clear, so you'd need two empty entries. (Or perhaps it only checked for the zero marker at the start of the zero marker, and not 256 bytes in.) Just the first two bytes try this funny thing:

Re: Comet-ASCII

From: Simon Cooke [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hey! Mine converts both ways too! For PC too ? Edwin

Re: Let's discuss ZX Spectrum games

I think that in the real world a DOS is on each disk (or at least 98% or so). Most of them probably But I rember a lot of disks by individuals that didn't, to save on those precious 10K Having 32KB ROM full of rarely used stuff instead of DOS is one of the biggest mistakes of Sam designers.

Re: Comet-ASCII

For those who downloaded it already, make sure it is version 1.1 otherwise download it again to get the proper version. http://home.wanadoo.nl/edwin.blink/samcoupe/software/comet/comcon.zip Edwin

Re: Comet-ASCII

From: Andrew Collier [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have a copy of the COMET - ASCII converter program, which says it's version 1.2. Is there a later version anywhere? I've got a couple of comet files which seem to make it fall over. Try my new comet converter which converts both ways:

Re: Let's discuss ZX Spectrum games

From: Frode Tenneboe [EMAIL PROTECTED] Discs was (and still is) the standard way of distributing SAM software. The only reason for any TAP support must be to archive the Flash! tape, the SAMDOS tape and the two games ever released on tape in a reproducible format. Hey I've got Lerm assembler on

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