Re: Junk mail

2012-04-12 Thread Geoff Winkless
On 12 April 2012 10:08, Wayne Weedon wa...@fdos-design.com wrote: [snip valid points] Please, can we just drop this? I've had perhaps three emails (either directly or indirectly) from Roger in the last three weeks. And about 50 from other people going on about it. I know, this is another one.

Re: Junk mail

2012-04-12 Thread Geoff Winkless
On 12 April 2012 10:55, Wayne Weedon wa...@fdos-design.com wrote: On 12/04/2012 10:23, Geoff Winkless wrote: On 12 April 2012 10:08, Wayne Weedonwa...@fdos-design.com  wrote: [snip valid points] Please, can we just drop this? Not while he's deliberately and probably maliciously targeting

Re: Single pixel hardware scroll?

2012-02-02 Thread Geoff Winkless
On 1 February 2012 20:42, Simon Owen simon.o...@simcoupe.org wrote: On 01/02/2012 20:07, Thomas Harte wrote: I notice that whatever effect it thinks it is relying on doesn't work in Sim Coupe. It's certainly nothing that's implemented at the moment, but if it's shown to be a real effect

Re: Accessing Sam formatted disks through a USB floppy drive

2011-07-27 Thread Geoff Winkless
On 27 July 2011 11:52, Dicky Moore dickymo...@gmail.com wrote: Geoff, Howard, Leszek, Simon, Nev, Thomas, thanks so much for your help. 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

Re: Accessing Sam formatted disks through a USB floppy drive

2011-07-22 Thread Geoff Winkless
Yes and no. Mostly no. http://webstore.kryoflux.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=28 is your best hope, I expect. Most standard USB floppy drives will only read standard disk formats, which means you won't be able to access the 10th sector on a Sam disk. No idea if the software works

Re: egg chips and...

2011-06-08 Thread Geoff Winkless
Shouldn't it be egg, beans and ... ?

Re: who wants some then ?

2011-06-07 Thread Geoff Winkless
On 7 June 2011 10:15, David Sanders dsuzukisand...@gmail.com wrote: If, like me, you get annoyed by endless rambling emails then please just filter them. Replies to these messages are the only time I hear about them at all, and it's always people complaining about them. Or you could

Re: Contention and JR instruction timing.

2011-04-27 Thread Geoff Winkless
On 26 April 2011 16:58, Chris Pile chris.p...@blueyonder.co.uk wrote: I'm not sure having only a basic ability to shift the screen around would have been much use without additional hardware support. Such as sprites for example. Having to render lots of software sprites over nothing more

Re: Contention and JR instruction timing.

2011-04-26 Thread Geoff Winkless
On 26 April 2011 10:08, Chris Pile chris.p...@blueyonder.co.uk wrote: Hi Si, Yep - clear as mud! :-) Seriously, many thanks for the explanation - even my hardware-limited brain managed to understand all that! I take my hat off to hardware designers, it's certainly a black art! Mmm. I

Re: Contention and JR instruction timing.

2011-04-26 Thread Geoff Winkless
On 26 April 2011 10:55, Chris Pile chris.p...@blueyonder.co.uk wrote: Mmmm, not sure I would have like hardware scrolling to be honest. It would probably have meant a glut of scrolling marioesque platform games. Which - for me - is a whole lot less desirable than infinite ball demos!

Re: Contention and JR instruction timing.

2011-04-26 Thread Geoff Winkless
On 26 April 2011 13:15, Thomas Harte tomh.retros...@gmail.com wrote: Apart from a desire for part uncontended memory (ala the Spectrum) and a hardware scroll, a simplified blitter would have been advantageous (eg, give it start address, end address, length, tell it to go and then it replaces

Re: Contention and JR instruction timing.

2011-04-26 Thread Geoff Winkless
On 26 April 2011 14:23, Tommo H tomh.retros...@gmail.com wrote: The 25fps is based on a hypothetical chip having the same access as the CPU does currently. But would still take up the majority of the bus time, meaning you couldn't do anything _else_. I also disagree about the significant

Re: Contention and JR instruction timing.

2011-04-26 Thread Geoff Winkless
On 26 April 2011 15:11, Tommo H tomh.retros...@gmail.com wrote: On 26 Apr 2011, at 14:38, Geoff Winkless sam-us...@geoff.dj wrote: On 26 April 2011 14:23, Tommo H tomh.retros...@gmail.com tomh.retros...@gmail.com wrote: The 25fps is based on a hypothetical chip having the same access

Re: Contention and JR instruction timing.

2011-04-26 Thread Geoff Winkless
On 26 April 2011 15:55, Thomas Harte tomh.retros...@gmail.com wrote: And we're told that a selectable screen start address was considered but not possible in the current design I'll be honest: until someone actually gives a proper reason why it couldn't be done I won't really believe that

Re: SAM Revival 24?

2011-03-09 Thread Geoff Winkless
On 9 March 2011 13:43, Wayne Weedon wa...@fdos-design.com wrote: On 09/03/2011 00:21, Steve wrote: Any news on SAM Revival 24. .. out soon... 7th October 2010 ? Gawd there is some life in the mailing list still!  I was about to delete it because it was so dead. It does feel a little like

Re: Dizzy (was:Porting spectrum games...)

2010-08-13 Thread Geoff Winkless
On 13 August 2010 13:56, Tennebø Frode frode.tenn...@saabgroup.com wrote: In the version im reworking, itll end up needing about 32-64k for dictionaries as well as about 8k for probabilities if i use the full lzma system. Im altering it to be more Sam memory size suited hopefully without

Re: possibly a useful Z80 resource

2010-06-19 Thread Geoff Winkless
On 19/06/2010 08:31, Ian Spencer wrote: Know what you mean about the nostalgia, I'm sure my loft doesn't have as many Sam bits in it as yours but still a fair amount of bits and pieces including a couple of Sams, it was still the most fun computer I have ever owned and so don't think I want to

Re: New SAM emulator for Windows

2010-03-02 Thread Geoff Winkless
My view is that back in '95 or so, when the emulators first kicked off, not emulating currently-available hardware made sense; however I think that these days anyone who wants to use the real machine will continue to do so whether on not their favourite bit of hardware is emulated. I will not be

Re: Micro Men

2009-10-14 Thread Geoff Winkless
nev young wrote: Stuart Brady wrote: It seems to me that Sir Clive would never have been hugely worried about maintaining a strong position within the market in the long term... of course, that's not to say that he wouldn't have appreciated having a 'cash cow' to fund his other project... Then

Re: Micro Men

2009-10-14 Thread Geoff Winkless
On Wed, 14 Oct 2009 09:45:36 +0200, David Sanders dsuzukisand...@gmail.com wrote: That's a bit strong. I think foreign investors were already put off by our far higher rates of pay in relation to newer manufacturing opportunities in the far east. To call the workers of the 70s and 80s workshy

Re: ATT : Roger Jowett

2009-08-02 Thread Geoff Winkless
Roger Jowett wrote: tasword+2 with tascon+d from format was much more my cup of tea im amazed no one has bothered to convert it for sam is it incredibly difficult to convert a 128k porgram I'm confused. I'm 99.9% sure I have Tasword for the Sam, no? Geoff

Re: SAM's 20th Birthday

2009-05-31 Thread Geoff Winkless
Colin Piggot wrote: Quite a few things lined up for SAM Revival and I'm toying with the idea of a complete colour issue for a special 20th birthday issue - if I can find somewhere to do affordable magazine printing I'd really like to do a one-off glossy mag for the birthday - as Sam has never

RE: SAM Revival issue 22 out now!

2009-01-08 Thread Geoff Winkless
On Thu, 08 Jan 2009 16:18:06 +, I wrote: I don't have an UV eraser lamp otherwise probably http://uk.farnell.com/stmicroelectronics/m27c256b-15f1/eprom-cmos-256k-27c256-dip28/dp/1125431 For low-cost, would this work?

RE: SAM Revival issue 22 out now!

2009-01-08 Thread Geoff Winkless
On Thu, 8 Jan 2009 15:54:47 -, Steve Parry-Thomas morriga...@aol.com wrote: I don't have all my software install on this machine yet, if I did I could burn it for you, Edwin could as well. May be others ?? Colin? Si? I also have a Willem programmer in a drawer in the unlikely event that

RE: New projects Byte-Back 2009

2008-10-08 Thread Geoff Winkless
On Wed, 8 Oct 2008 12:23:47 +0100, Steve Parry-Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Its not in the best part of Stoke, £5.00 would have been ok, a £10 or more? You will not be getting very much for your £10. CeBit - taking place on the same dates, is that some sort of insane joke? - is only €33.

Re: Speed issue's with POINT (x,y)

2008-09-18 Thread Geoff Winkless
On Thu, 18 Sep 2008 15:37:51 +0100, Geoff Winkless [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: test-up would therefore be [snip] D'oh; of course this is wrong (one line in mode 4 is 128 bytes, not 256) so you'd have to add 128 to IX (or HL) rather than increasing I (or H) but you get the idea. G

Re: Grabbing floppy images

2008-06-16 Thread Geoff Winkless
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Re: Grabbing floppy images

2008-06-16 Thread Geoff Winkless
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Re: Grabbing floppy images

2008-06-16 Thread Geoff Winkless
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RE: Attempts at 3d on the Sam?

2008-06-03 Thread Geoff Winkless
Talking about division through multiplication and a table lookup, On Tue, 3 Jun 2008 08:28:21 -0700, Simon Cooke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Never implemented it, but the principle is sound. It's not tremendously different to a reciprocal table. I never implemented it on z80 but I did do the same

RE: Short, short questions

2008-05-21 Thread Geoff Winkless
I have to admit I was wondering the same. IM2 was necessary on the speccy because 0x38 was in ROM and couldn't be paged out but I see no reason not to use IM1 on the Sam. I'm quite happy to be told otherwise, of course :) Geoff On Wed, 21 May 2008 13:50:14 +0100, Adrian Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Short, short questions

2008-05-21 Thread Geoff Winkless
On Wed, 21 May 2008 15:29:28 +0100, Colin Piggot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andrew Collier wrote: If I used IM1 this would require that either, a) the screen goes in sections A and B, and the interrupt routine is actuially visible in pixels - or b) the moveable window goes in sections A and B,

Re: Short, short questions

2008-05-21 Thread Geoff Winkless
On Wed, 21 May 2008 17:09:32 +0100, Andrew Collier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Correct. Always non-interlaced (despite various examples on Fred of flickery pictures which purported otherwise). While (on a TV with 576 visible lines) you won't be able to get a 192 line output device to output

RE: New Stuff

2007-05-24 Thread Geoff Winkless
Dan Dooré wrote: But maybe World of SAM could keep a page of current projects? Something like this do? http://www.worldofsam.org/node/575 You missed off Status of Ice G __ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs

RE: New Stuff

2007-05-24 Thread Geoff Winkless
I wrote: You missed off Status of Ice Heh. Freudian Typo; of course I meant Statues. Geoff __ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information please visit

RE: MC Interrupts

2007-05-16 Thread Geoff Winkless
Geoff Winkless wrote: Anyway, something like: [snip] Sorry, it's been a while and I was tired (!!), those local JP's should all (of course) be JR's! Geoff __ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security

RE: MC Interrupts

2007-05-15 Thread Geoff Winkless
Calvin Allett wrote: so would it seem feasable to be able to alter the routine with a flag, so that it jumps straight back every other frame and only draws the other frames? Assuming you don't need to worry about redrawing them if they haven't moved you could simply add your own interrupt

RE: Sound Chip

2007-05-09 Thread Geoff Winkless
David Brant wrote: I've been looking at the Coupe Technical Manual and noticed that the Sound chip ports are write only. So how did the demos show the sound volumes? Because the demo is writing the volumes out in the first place. Geoff

RE: Majordomo results

2007-04-19 Thread Geoff Winkless
James R Curry wrote: 96 subscribers Is it just me, or has the mailing list had around 90-100 members for pretty much ever? :) Gavin ...and 87 of them are Bob Brenchley. ;) _I_'m Spartacus! G __ This email

RE: Another year, another pyz80 revision

2007-04-12 Thread Geoff Winkless
Simon Owen wrote: Andrew Collier wrote: So if you're doing any assembly language development on the Sam, why not check it out? Output from other assemblers may need a some tweaking, particularly if the labels lack a trailing colon. The assembler directives might be slightly different

RE: Another year, another pyz80 revision

2007-04-12 Thread Geoff Winkless
Simon Owen wrote: Geoff Winkless wrote: and real-time code reassembly? :) To inject new code into a running SimCoupe, or something more? It Well ideally what I would want is proper integration with the debugger and the source editor, so I can - Visual Basic stylee - step through the source

pipemania (was RE: Golden ASIC's)

2006-05-04 Thread Geoff Winkless
Chris White wrote: Ps I fired up my sam tonight and till got a smile watching my mates pipe mania booting n working , and then spent 3 hours playing sphere one of the top classic shootems Ugh, Pipemania. I loved that game on the ST - my mate and I used to play it all the time, then the Sam

Re: Documentation (and E-Tracker)

2005-08-16 Thread Geoff Winkless
Stuart Brady wrote: That's reminded me... I would very much like to know how to produce phasing sounds with E-Tracker. Could someone upload a module demonstrating this, or explain how to achieve the sound, please? Thanks, Never used etracker, but usually the way I'd produce a phasing sound

RE: Who`s missing?

2005-08-03 Thread Geoff Winkless
david wrote: MSN's probably the safest bet I think... chat rooms seem to be a waste of time - people are never in/awake/whatever... But the whole point of a list like this is that people don't have to be online in order for a conversation to take place. If people want to arrange between

RE: Anyway to get WAV output from SAA32?

2005-06-22 Thread Geoff Winkless
rob wrote: there is a little proggy called Sound Capture by MagicSoft out there on T'internet, you can MP3 it using that then convert to WAV. Its a nice program, should have been called Ronseal.. If you'd rather have proper bit-accurate (I'm told) WAV then totalrecorder is supposed to

RE: 10th Anniversary!

2005-05-05 Thread Geoff Winkless
Colin Piggot wrote: Andy Chandler wrote: Congrats Colin, nice one ! Here's to another 10 ;-) Cheers! Do you have any plans to do H.A.T.E.? That was always one of my favourite Gremlin titles. I don't have any plans to do H.A.T.E for the time being i'm afraid! It's going to be hard

OT: Bring back the Wispa!

2005-03-10 Thread Geoff Winkless
I know this is offtopic but in the best traditions of comp.sys.sinclair, where crisp/sweet discussions were almost on-topic... http://www.PetitionOnline.com/wispa91/ Come on, let's get the Wispa back! So much nicer than the nasty Nestlé Aero and Cadbury's replacement (Bubbly) isn't as nice :(

RE: How to erase sectors?

2005-02-16 Thread Geoff Winkless
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So I assume the best idea is to have a program which scans directory structure for unused sectors and fills them with zeros (including direc= tory entries of erased files). Does anybody know what program can do this? Look up SDU or IBU

RE: Fastest memory transfer (on Sam)

2005-02-08 Thread Geoff Winkless
Please disregard last message: I'm being stupid. I wrote: See I disagree about this... Won't it be [4] [4] Loop around: {3},{1 WAIT} 4 cycles {5},[3 of 5] 8 cycles [2 of 5],[2 of 4] 4 cycles [2 of 4], {2 WAIT} 4 cycles Ignore me. I've missed a [4] out. Geoff

Re: Fastest memory transfer (on Sam)

2005-02-08 Thread Geoff Winkless
Yes, I'm still harping on. Sorry :-) Edwin wrote: 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 contemption = 40Ts

RE: Fastest memory transfer (on Sam)

2005-02-03 Thread Geoff Winkless
Edwin Blink wrote: 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

RE: Fastest memory transfer (on Sam)

2005-02-02 Thread Geoff Winkless
Edwin Blink wrote: 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. Without wishing to appear stupid (yeah, I know, too late, haha), I'm still not clear why that's a memory access. I've found a more helpful

Re: Fastest memory transfer (on Sam)

2005-02-01 Thread Geoff Winkless
Edwin Blink wrote: 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 to generate it runtime and fill in the proper SP values. [snip] It's 20% faster and takes 29% less space then LDI's. BTW

RE: Development tools wanted

2005-01-28 Thread Geoff Winkless
Bleagh. At least use something with instruction timings in it. http://www.ticalc.org/pub/text/z80/z80time.txt is an example, although bear in mind that the Sam's timing is somewhat, erm, fuzzy, generally :-) - IIRC everything's rounded up to multiples of four in contention time.

RE: Christmas Present

2005-01-25 Thread Geoff Winkless
Stuart Brady wrote: On Tue, Jan 25, 2005 at 01:36:17PM +0100, Aley Keprt wrote: ...but I unintentionally did the similar thing without buying the Messanger. As soon as I saw that there is no ZX ROM at Sam, I took my ZX Spectrum+, and typed SAVEromcode 0,16384, then loaded this file to Sam

RE: NVG/samcoupe.org Accessability Project

2005-01-20 Thread Geoff Winkless
Dan Dooré wrote: I have now completed trolling through GoodSAMC, my collection and various others from those who have helped me in this endeavour. A big well-done is deserved, I think! I'll take a look when I get home and see if I have anything you didn't (unlikely, but you never know). Geoff

RE: Geoff Winkless Scrolly Bars and Bouncy Balls Bemo

2005-01-20 Thread Geoff Winkless
Simon Owen wrote: Geoff Winkless wrote: It's on one of the Outlet disks (57?), if anyone has that. SBBB is on Outlet 62 (October 1992), as option C on the menu. Blimey... that was fast! The only version I've managed to extract from my disks is (I think) an old one: it doesn't have a reset

RE: Spectrum on Sam games at NVG

2005-01-20 Thread Geoff Winkless
Gavin Smith wrote: This is probably a good time to ask people's opinions on including Speccy games that have been made to run on a SAM, on samcoupe.org - my opinion is that they are still Speccy games and they should initially be left out. What do others think? IMO something that's been

RE: How ROM knowns wheter a disk is bootable

2005-01-13 Thread Geoff Winkless
Frode Tenneboe wrote: On Thu, 13 Jan 2005 11:31:42 +0100 Aley Keprt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please read again what I suggested. If you say that Sam ROM reads just track 4 sector 1, it means that I AM correct. Yet again, if you say that Sam ROM doesn't know about directory, that means I AM

RE: FpCal Rom Adr.

2005-01-04 Thread Geoff Winkless
Z80 wrote: Hi all, I'm having ( for two months now ) a problem regarding SamC rom routines. I have some programs which work perfectly on Spectrum and I'd like to port them to SamC. The problem is ( ta d ) while for Spectrum I have some ROM routines to convert a string to a FpCalc

RE: FpCal Rom Adr.

2005-01-04 Thread Geoff Winkless
Z80 wrote: Hi all, I'm having ( for two months now ) a problem regarding SamC rom routines. I have some programs which work perfectly on Spectrum and I'd like to port them to SamC. The problem is ( ta d ) while for Spectrum I have some ROM routines to convert a string to a FpCalc

RE: MasterBasic PDF Version 1 [ now ready ]

2004-12-13 Thread Geoff Winkless
I can only see the English version... ;) G From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: 12 December 2004 14:51To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.noSubject: MasterBasic PDF Version 1 [ now ready ] Hi Folks, Just had time to finnish this, and its ready for

RE: Dial 0898 299 380 through time

2004-12-13 Thread Geoff Winkless
Edwin Blink wrote: BTW I've also found a SAM Newsletter with the stuff. Anyone remeber those ? Yeah, think I've got them all in a folder somewhere, along with the newsletters from Enigma's Sam Software Club. G __ This email

RE: SDI a nef diskimage format ?

2004-12-10 Thread Geoff Winkless
Simon Owen wrote: Does the archive need to be a single format for all disks? Or could the 95% of normal format disks be kept in a simple dumped image format, with only protected disks using a different format needed to describe them correctly? Why not a tagged format and tools which can

RE: MasterBasic Manual Errors Do you know any?

2004-12-10 Thread Geoff Winkless
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Q 2. Any errors in the manual to be included as a page at the end of the pdf? Yes/no I'd say keep as-is for the sake of history, and add an erratum page. Well done for all the hard work, BTW! Geoff

RE: SDI a nef diskimage format ?

2004-12-10 Thread Geoff Winkless
Simon Owen wrote: It's actually Chris Pile's original Defender disk, which does some gap-level checking as part of the copy protection. The gap information isn't stored as part of the disk image, as it's almost never needed, and would more than double the image size. SimCoupe actually fakes

RE: Sam's 15th Birthday!

2004-12-01 Thread Geoff Winkless
Colin Piggot wrote: Well, December 2004 see's the 15th Birthday of the Sam Coupe! Did anyone here receive their Sam in December 1989 when they were released, and did it live up to your initial expectations? Yes and yes. I'd spent pretty much all my pennies from my paper-round and was well

RE: Yaaaayyyy - Sam's 15th Birthday!

2004-12-01 Thread Geoff Winkless
Calvin Allett wrote: 15, before you know it he`ll be dating, haha Hmm. Jokes about Amigas and STd's on the way... G __ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information please visit

RE: [FJV-59346]: Hosting question - urgent please!

2004-11-29 Thread Geoff Winkless
Gavin Smith wrote: The email below is from Catalyst2, the web host I'm going to use for the archive. Sounds spot on. [snip hosting stuff] I'm impressed: kudos to Catalyst2. G __ This email has been scanned by the

RE: SAM Software Archive

2004-11-25 Thread Geoff Winkless
Gavin Smith wrote: By the way, I still plan to get the domain sorted tomorrow evening so if anyone has an opinion on what domain they'd like us to use, shout out today or tomorrow - it looks like samcoupe.org is in the lead at the moment. ? I vehemently believe this to be the wrong

RE: SAM Software Archive

2004-11-24 Thread Geoff Winkless
Dan Doore wrote: 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 While I agree in principle that samcoupe.org would be the best for the site I think that as Colin has

RE: SAM Software Archive

2004-11-24 Thread Geoff Winkless
Gavin Smith wrote: Quoting Geoff Winkless [EMAIL PROTECTED]: What sort of bandwidth do people think it would use? I already have a shared (with a few old uni mates) linux host (on which I have root access) and would be happy to host it if we're expecting a gig or so downloads a month

RE: overclocked Sam programs [was RE: ORSAM show report]

2004-11-24 Thread Geoff Winkless
Simon Owen wrote: SimCoupe does have some convenience features that aren't true to the real machine, such as turbo mode, fast disk access, fast startup, and auto-booting. Adding support for fixed variable speeds (25%, 50%, 200%, ...) probably falls under the same category, and is something

RE: SAM software archive

2004-11-22 Thread Geoff Winkless
Gavin Smith wrote: Definitely, although I'd like to sort of integrate the stuff into the archive in terms of listing it with details such as author name, publisher, year and also screenshots - where there would normally be a download link, it will just say something like Distribution Currently

RE: Hi

2004-11-20 Thread Geoff Winkless
Kevin Cooper wrote: Just joined the list at the start of the week, been busy having a look at what you're upto... Hello! Am starting to get all nostalgic now, thinking about those many hours I spent with Sam back in the early nineties. I miss it... that real sort of big community feel

overclocked Sam programs [was RE: ORSAM show report]

2004-11-19 Thread Geoff Winkless
Howard Price [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: BORING! Everyone's sound on this list, and I can get bickering off any old net chatroom. That'll do now. Apologies to all, hadn't intended my light-hearted comment to offend, and Howard's absolutely right of course. On to Sam stuff... It

RE: overclocked Sam programs [was RE: ORSAM show report]

2004-11-19 Thread Geoff Winkless
Colin Piggot wrote: It occurred to me that with SimCoupe we could overclock the machine and code up stuff that wouldn't have been possible on the 6MHz Sam (except possibly with the accelerator board, of course!). Do people think this destroys the heritage of the machine or is it something

RE: Days of Sorcery

2004-11-19 Thread Geoff Winkless
Johnna wrote: So I say - Publish and be damned! Let's get a website up and running and dump EVERYTHING we've got on there that is SAM related and then maintain it as a homage to what was, once, a great machine. Nobody else is going to do this. We are almost the last bastions of the SAM World,

RE: ORSAM show report

2004-11-18 Thread Geoff Winkless
ehow I was expecting some idiot wouldcome up with this... - Original Message ----- From: Geoff Winkless To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no Sent: Tuesday, November 16, 2004 11:33 AM Subject: RE: ORSAM show report What do you want, a medal? G From: Leonard Be

RE: ORSAM show report

2004-11-16 Thread Geoff Winkless
What do you want, a medal? G From: Leonard Bennett [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 15 November 2004 11:08To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.noSubject: Re: ORSAM show report I would just like to point out here that Wolfgang was staying with me as my house guest here at Welwyn Garden City from

RE: hello (again)

2004-10-08 Thread Geoff Winkless
Geoff Winkless wrote: I -thought- it had all gone a bit quiet... my NTL account is no more, and they've finally stopped forwarding the email :( Anyway, hello, have I missed anything? Apparently not :) Geoff __ This email

hello (again)

2004-10-07 Thread Geoff Winkless
I -thought- it had all gone a bit quiet... my NTL account is no more, and they've finally stopped forwarding the email :( Anyway, hello, have I missed anything? Geoff __ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email

RE: SimCoupe 0.90 beta 10

2004-03-25 Thread Geoff Winkless
25 March 2004 00:54, Simon Owen wrote: You're _way_ over-complicating things! It was simply looking for the DX version number in a registry key that didn't exist in older versions of DirectX. Failing to find the version key it assumed DirectX was not installed. Here's the NSIS function I

RE: SimCoupe 0.90 beta 10

2004-03-23 Thread Geoff Winkless
06 March 2004 03:46, Simon Owen wrote: If anyone's interested, I've put together updated SimCoupé builds for Win32 and DOS (plus source for other platforms). They're available for download from: http://homepage.ntlworld.com/simon.owen/sam/simcoupe/ It's still a beta release, but is very

RE: NVG

2004-03-23 Thread Geoff Winkless
23 March 2004 17:17, Edwin Blink wrote: Can anyone access NVG ? 'Cause I Can't. Edwin Me neither. Geoff __ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information please visit

Re: English

2004-03-15 Thread Geoff Winkless
On Saturday 13 Mar 2004 16:08, Simon Cooke wrote: We're all friends here... Realization: U.S. English. Realisation: U.K. English. Oxford tends to stick to the -ize spellings (or so Inspector Morse taught me). However in general the above is true. G

RE: SAM populair on ebay

2004-03-05 Thread Geoff Winkless
05 March 2004 15:00, Chris White wrote: Well the first looks good and going well, the seconds is still at nothing , I cant translate it, but if looks like the box, wont be much good (unless they only selling box) It is only the box - I checked with the seller. G

RE: Colin Piggot Namechecked...

2004-01-16 Thread Geoff Winkless
15 January 2004 05:09, david wrote: The Amiga? Wasn't that some second rate American machine with crap midi software? Uhh, no. It was the first-rate games machine which also had a decent multitasking OS and some rather nice music apps (Bars Pipes springs to mind). Compared to the Amiga the

show tomorrow

2003-11-29 Thread Geoff Winkless
Hi Guys So who's going to be at the NEC tomorrow? I was thinking about heading down there around lunchtime, should we all meet at Colin's stall? Geoff

RE: Norwich Spectrum and SAM Show (ORSAM 2003)

2003-11-07 Thread Geoff Winkless
07 November 2003 14:09, Wolfgang Haller wrote: http://www.womoteam.de/SAM/Norwich_Pics_2003/norwich_pics_2003.html one mistake, you've misnamed Si Owen as Si Cooke! For me it was an interesting meeting. Sadly I noticed to have miss some personal connections as with Mr. Richardson and Geoff

Re: Norwich Spectrum and SAM Show (ORSAM 2003)

2003-11-06 Thread Geoff Winkless
On Wednesday 05 Nov 2003 10:43 pm, Tarquin Mills wrote: Does anyone know where there is diagram of the motherboard to help me get Nev's boards working? The tech manual is on NVG, if I remember correctly that has the circuit diagrams in it. Geoff

RE: ORSAM Show...

2003-10-27 Thread Geoff Winkless
27 October 2003 17:21, Tarquin Mills wrote: People seem to backing out at the last minute, I'm still coming. I created this show because I believe in retro computers, and have just collected a commercially made sign for the show. Hope to see you there, hope my straight talking has not

RE: Minutes to go...

2003-09-30 Thread Geoff Winkless
29 September 2003 22:10, Jorge Canelhas wrote: either way, the Retro Computing business is very low now, cant figure out why The IT sector is pretty much screwed in the UK (and elsewhere, I guess), the whole retro industry was fuelled by overpaid dot-com workers (I was one of them :). Now

RE: SAMPC detailed information

2003-09-23 Thread Geoff Winkless
23 September 2003 09:09, Wolfgang Haller wrote: Theoraticcaly I already told that other devices could be connected. The Kempston interface proved it. For those interested I have the scheme for the ZX-PC Interface at: http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/viewtopic.php?topic=1899forum=4

RE: East Coast take over offer

2003-08-19 Thread Geoff Winkless
19 August 2003 11:05, Simon Owen wrote: It's a bit further for me (~120 miles from Nottingham), but I think that's about how far it was to the show in Quedgley. Fancy sharing petrol costs for the trip (also date permitting!)? I'm just down the M1 in Leicester. Geoff

RE: Interesting link from CSS?

2003-03-12 Thread Geoff Winkless
at 12 March 2003 11:56, Frode Tenneboe wrote: evening (in between curling, Curling as in indoor bowls on ice? G This email has been scanned for all viruses by the MessageLabs SkyScan service. For more information on a

RE: Interesting link from CSS?

2003-03-12 Thread Geoff Winkless
at 12 March 2003 12:05, Frode Tenneboe wrote: On Wed, 12 Mar 2003 12:00:33 - Geoff Winkless [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Curling as in indoor bowls on ice? Wellnot bowls (as it curls instead of bowls - hence the name), but close enough. On ice and indoor. Score: 67%. *chuckles* I

RE: Preferred plain text editor

2003-03-11 Thread Geoff Winkless
Gavin Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Oh! :( Sheesh, I can't believe we haven't a decent little SAM text editor! There must be something... Cookie, did you ever finish yours off? Geoff This email has been

RE: I am a Sam user

2003-01-17 Thread Geoff Winkless
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not being a programmer, I really do need to leave the list, and just keep in touch via the mag. This is a worry for me: this is meant to be the sam users list and if our discussion topics have gone so off-base that people are thinking of leaving then we should

RE: a thought (was RE: Moment of truth)

2003-01-17 Thread Geoff Winkless
Frode wrote: http://sourceforge.net/projects/z88dk/ C cross-compiler to Z80. SAM Support included. No IDE and no debugger, but I guess SimCoupe could be used as a debugger? The problem is that without an IDE, then a debugger is pretty useless. You need something which will allow you to track

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