- Original Message -
From: Edwin Blink [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no
Sent: Thursday, June 29, 2000 12:44 PM
Subject: Re: Renegade game ?
It _was_ going to end up on my website as 'what might have been', but
if
anyone is interested, I might get active on it again.
I'm
- Original Message -
From: David L [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no
Sent: Wednesday, June 28, 2000 8:03 PM
Subject: Re: Renegade game ?
What ever happend with the almost finished renegade style game ?
If anyone can contact David Serafim - author of Bowen Count Dracula
- Original Message -
From: Andrew Collier [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no
Sent: Saturday, June 24, 2000 2:33 PM
Subject: Re: Web Sites
At 2:27 pm +0100 24/6/00, Gordon Wallis wrote:
the evil Simpletext on Macintosh.
YAATAICMFP.
HAND.
Oh, shit. Not acronyms, please
- Original Message -
From: Ian Collier [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no
Sent: Thursday, June 22, 2000 10:41 PM
Subject: Re: Web Sites
On Thu, Jun 22, 2000 at 01:21:46PM +0100, Martin Fitzpatrick wrote:
Gordon Wallis wrote:
Notepad. Ya can't beat it.
Except for NoteTab
- Original Message -
From: Stoned Design [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no
Sent: Wednesday, June 14, 2000 7:43 AM
Subject: Web Sites
While we are talking about web sites etc.
I'm thinking of buying a program to do web sites.
What do people use on this list?
Notepad. Ya
- Original Message -
From: Gavin Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no
Sent: Sunday, April 23, 2000 1:45 AM
Subject: Any news?
Finally, for the lazy sods on this list who say they are interested in
the SAM, yet can't be arsed to stick a fiver in an envelope, would
secure
Andrew Collier wrote:
And who owns the most unusal piece of hardware...
Anyone else got their Sam hooked up to a greenscreen monitor?
Not anymore, thank God. Mind you, my RGB monitor (with it's groovy,
psychadelic throwback lines) can switch into Greenscreen at the touch of
a button, so I
Justin Skists wrote:
WHERE IS EVERYONE?
Trying and
lying
defying
denying
crying and
dying
Gord. (who has an odd habit of quoting song lyrics every now and then)
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Martin Fitzpatrick wrote:
David L wrote:
Dont be pedantic
A Z380 or Z280 machine would, I would imagine, be remotely of interest to
some people on the list.
[snip]
well, it interested me... perhaps people here should eat more winegums?
;)
Well, I second _that_!
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
www.davidledbury.co.uk will be up and running in about 1 week (very
exact time scale!) together with a copy of the revamped Persona site
that was created by the brilliantly talented Gordon Wallis... Well...
it may be pointless, but I would like people to see how well
Mr Samsboss wrote:
Maturity? That's for suits, man!
And for good cheese :)
Bwah-HA! _Now_ you show your true colours, evil one!!!
;-)
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OK, so here's my stupid idea for the day:
Step 1: Everyone still on this mailing list should set up a new web-mail
account, using the service of their choice.
Step 2: Email addresses should be set as some variation on the 'Format'
Sam(s)Boss@(webmail provider).com
Step 3: Set up a new mailing
Mr Samsboss wrote:
..
And my name is not Dolly :)
I'd hazard a guess that many here think you might be on 'personal' terms
with her, though ;-)
Not Welsh, not at uni anymore, so not into sheep.
Oooh. Harsh generalisations in a pointless riposte. At least we know you
are _a_
Mr Samsboss wrote:
At 12:15 pm +0100 10/10/99, Mr Samsboss wrote:
My inbox gives me 48 messages from the SAM mailing list since Tuesday.
That looks about normal. What did everyone else get?
138 - now sod off again, clone.
Got out the wrong side of the bed again?
It's nothing
Maria Rookyard wrote:
So it's not just me that disagrees with all the 7 year olds at school who
insist it's a kids programme just because it's a cartoon?
You're 7 years old?!?
Seriously: Not by a long chalk. For my money, loads of cartoons are
wasted on kids. Considering how effed up the
Justin Skists wrote:
Sounds like you've seen the southpark movie...
Whatever gave you that idea? Been talking to that uncle-fucker Saddam
Hussein? ;-)
Nope.. The Mothers Against Canada! :)
Oh, yes... _they_ know who to blame!
I
quite like Bullfrog's stuff, compared to Westwood's...
Maria Rookyard asked:
What's the absolute youngest age that you guys reckon Southpark (the
series)
is aimed at?
Gordon Wallis opined:
Mid-twenties?
Personally, I loathe the series - it just seems so pointless. Granted, I
seem to have missed all the 'classic' episodes
Maria Rookyard wrote:
Gordon Wallis expressed the hope that:
... they be consigned to the most pestilent pits of Hell, there to
be forever Satan's sexual plaything.
Which, to Justin, ...
Sounds like you've seen the southpark movie...
Which in turn got Maria thinking off
Justin Skists wrote:
From: Gordon Wallis [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sorry for the harsh tone of that! I took exception to the phrase It was
always going to. I have trouble believing it's predestined, even with
Sony's best advertising execs on the case.
Heh.. No worries...
You got something
Justin Skists wrote:
From: Gordon Wallis [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
_If_ PS2 crushes the opposition, it'll be because people didn't learn
from the original that the games are flash, unplayable crap (apart from
a few gems).
_If_ PS2 crushes Dreamcast it'll be because Sega didn't learn
Justin Skists wrote:
-Original Message-
From: Nick Humphries [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
ISTR various reports for the
ECTS this year saying that the PS2 will crush the opposition just on the
basis
of a few technical demos they saw, which is stupid.
I think the PS2 will crush
Did someone on this list mention at some point in the distant past that
there were Sam versions of Pang and Rock Star Ate My Hamster?
I'm not sure where I got the idea if not from this mailing list... I
only ask 'cos I'ev been playing both on a PC Spectrum emulator, and kept
thinking This could
Thomas Harte wrote:
thus enabling me to experience the sheer joy (irony) of Flash once
It isn't that bad if you use the mouse version, I always thought - it
certainly speeds things up!
Yuck. I always found the movement to be jerky, imprecise and
inconsistent. Sure, it speeds things
Dave Hooper wrote:
It's been a while since I wrote that so, to be honest, I really can't answer
any questions about error messages, bugs, or features!
I only wrote it because (a) loads of people couldn't get Mat's Samdisk
program to work on their PC and (b) nor could I.
I suppose it doesn't
Andrew Gale wrote:
How much interest is there to build the Atom dard disk interface.
I'm planning to make a nice and clear gif shematic and put it online.
If there is enough interest.
Lots, I should think! I definitely would like to, so yes please!
Seconded!
(not that I'm likely to
Is the author of SAMDSK.EXE on the mailing list? I only ask 'cos the
little program saved my life (well, not quite) the other day.
I had a 2-drive Sam for ages - one 1Mb, one 2Mb - and the two drives
were never completely compatible. When I got my ATOM and hard disk (are
these still available?
I'd have to go for:
5. Interlacer - 0/3
7. 28MHz CPU- 0/0
But, then, I don't really understand techy stuff like DMA and ISA. SIMM
compatibility would be nice, as would HDFDDs. Although a more direct
128K emulator sounds good, I'd prefer some _new_ games ;-)
Gord.
--
The
David L wrote:
You Gordon where discussing MSX hardware not so long ago there is an
MSX graphics board (Gordon will know the name!) which adds a lot of nice
extra facilities could it be adapted to work?
Damn. I _should_ know the name, as I remember looking it up. Can't
remember where
Jarek Adamski wrote:
The only problem is that so few people want to make the effort
to use the existing hardware,
Sorry, I do my best.
Wasn't a dig at you... you're actually doing stuff! All your ideas
sound very good, but the market's so small now.
so working on upgrading it would end
David wrote:
[snipped list of hardware things]
All as external. Software support guarateed. Anyone interested?
Very interested in all - how much? when? and would anyone other
than me even be interested?
I would. I'd probably even buy some of it. The only problem is that so
few people want
Damnfuckingstupidpiece'o'crapbloodyshittyexcuseforafuckingartpackage!
Sorry for that. Just lost an hour's work in Sam Paint after I tried to
'1/2 turn' a grabbed block. Yes, I know I should have saved, but I only
expect that sort of eff-up on my poxy-effing-pee-see.
Anyone else out there using
Graham Goring wrote:
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Dan
Dooré [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes
I'd have given it to the game's predecessor, whose name escapes me
at the moment. Now THAT was a shit game.
No Way Back?
Nope. I was give to understanding that Parallax was the sequel to that
Johnna Teare wrote:
On 29 Aug 99, at 16:14, Gordon Wallis wrote:
Was there ever a _better_ shooter, though?
Space Invaders. On a later issue of Fred. By me ;-)
Really? Which one? (I might actually have it)
Arcade perfect, is it? Does it have the coloured strips? Eh? Eh?!
(and before
Graham Goring wrote:
Was there ever a _better_ shooter, though?
Space Invaders. On a later issue of Fred. By me ;-)
Pah! James Curry's Dark Vortex was far better... And Diggory Gray
produced a fair few fine shooters.
Wow. Guess I missed 'em all... Which was Dark Vortex?
Gord. (perking
Andrew Collier wrote:
At 10:58 pm +0100 27/8/99, Thomas Harte wrote:
First : are there any speed differences between the graphics modes? I
Mode 1 is a special slow case, but modes 2 to 4 should all have the same
effect on memory accesses.
understand that Mode 1 is slowed down
Simon Cooke wrote:
From: Thomas Harte [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I noticed David L selling a SAM on comp.sys.sinclair, but was under the
impression he was currently in charge of Persona. So I went to
http://www.persona.clara.net/ to see if it was being closed or anything
only
to get everybodys
Martin Wilson wrote:
I must admit I do like my games but hate spending money. I can pick up
game for my Saturn and 3DO for just a few pounds (£3.99 for example)
Two questions: Where?! and Got 'Policenauts' yet?
Gord. (the Policenauts fanatic)
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Martin Wilson wrote:
[snip]
Well special reserve still have 3do software at £3.99
Hm. Just think, if I'd actually got a 3DO, I'd be able to buy _that_
version of Policenauts, too! Quite a good version, too, being the
'original' (apart from the PC9821 version which came out the year
before)
Justin Skists wrote:
Isn't JPEG with 0 compression also known as TIFF?
No! Joint Photographic Experts Group = Tagged Image File Format?
TIFF is pretty much the standard bitmap graphic format for most types of
repro work - scanned images for magazines, etc. TIFFs can be compressed
using LZW
I had a call from David Ledbury earlier today asking me to remove his
section from the Persona site, then a little while later to remove the
whole lot. I gather - but don't quote me on this - that it had
something to do with something happening at his office today.
Basically, the Persona site is
Stuart Brady wrote:
Paul Walker writes
a palette (also storing line interrupt info). A BMP is a horizontally
mirrored 1, 2, or 4-bit bitmap, with a palette. It shouldn't be too much
Vertically, last time I looked.
That is, it's stored upside down. Never did work out why.
I always
Dave Hooper wrote:
On Fri, 7 May 1999, Martin Fitzpatrick wrote:
Dave Hooper wrote:
so ... it's a little thing, but they might have a right, and they might be
right. i guess if you put that obvious banner on ALL pages, then they
wouldn't mind.
dave
Best way I can think
First of all, many thanks to everyone who looked into my site and made
suggestions. One of my friends from ALD just contacted me regarding
this, and actaully explained the whole lot to me - prompting me to
wonder why the stupid MD didn't do just that in the first place, rather
than just tell me
Dave Whitmore wrote:
There's 30,000 people at Microsoft in Seattle alone - not seven.
30,000.. Jesus... how often does the lightbulb need changing then?
... and the Mindcraft people came here to use the test lab - nothing more.
If they visit again, you will make a point of walking up and
I recently got an email from the MD of my ex-employers asking me to take
down a section of my website - specifically, the section that's made up
of the work I did on their website before I resigned.
Apparently, it's now causing some problems with it coming up on some
search engines.
I've said
Maria Rookyard wrote:
Simon Cooke
(The views of this poster are his and his alone
Should have insisted on an office with a window - that way you could have
had real views instead of pictures!
Surely his office *must* have windows. It's Microsoft.
(boom boom)
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Chris Pile wrote:
...I developed Defender on the PC using the following tools:
Editor: Borlands' BRIEF. Which is great as it uses the hard-disk as virtual
RAM, so your source can be almost any length.
Oh, god... How I *love* BRIEF. The most fantastic text-editor for
fiddling with
Justin Skists wrote:
The Q is: the DOS for the SD interface is not working (never has), I read
in FORMAT magazine that the source code has been lost and will need to be
rewritten Sh..!! Will BDOS work with the SD IDE interface?? Or should I
take a download and just try it out??
No.
Anyone on this list (still?) doing E-tracker music at all..?
Not sure yet whether there's a reason behind this enquiry [suddenly
looks shifty]. At the very least, it'd be nice to know... er... Just in
case, y'know.
(ahem)
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Ian Collier wrote:
The only advantage I can think of but its a major one is you can select
which
topics your interested in to save you downloading messages you don't want.
Not
all Sam users are interested in all sam subjects surely.
As far as I know, most news clients do not do
Peter Harkess wrote:
Also i tried to
save
my Manic Miner,Prince of Persia and a few others as .dsk files but the come
up as errors (reading the disk)I use samdisk to do this.
My setup is..
Daewoo 333mhz cyrix,32 meg,win98if that helps any.
Don't get me started on SamDisk. I've
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In a message dated 26/01/99 23:22:31, you write:
My Sam produces no composite video output signal if the 12V is not present.
Without it my Sam is not functional to any useful extent. And if I bought a
new PSU then Format wouldn't guarantee the 12V line? Boy, am I
Andrew Collier wrote:
I think it would be really great if we could contact just about every major
Sam name, past and present, and invite them to come along. We could hire a
pro photographer and get a *real* group photo, for once. We could have
Retro-computing TV researchers. And computer
Simon Cooke wrote:
Linda Barker? (grin) Certainly one of YS's more interesting editors,
maybe not very Sam-related, but we don't *really* need to be that
strict, do we?
Ahem.
She had a voice like sunshine, and was cute as hell to boot.
:-)
Si
Damn you! Why did you have to say
Andrew Collier wrote:
Is anyone here still doing any sam mode 4 graphics, screens or artwork-type
stuff?
Yes, I do have a vested interest in the answer to that question...
Andrew
I AM!!! I also still play about with my Amiga (when I can be bothered to
bring it out of the cupboard), and
Message text written by INTERNET:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Besides buying the pre-release copy of Dyzonium, I also bought Astroball.
Both
are cracking good games (as Wallace might say) and Balor Knight deserves
credit for writing such good games for SAM.
Balor received due credit (but sadly hardly any
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in High School, the girls managed to put their ties to some
rather...*imaginitive* uses.
(glazed look spread across face) Hmm
:-)
Did they use them on the boys, on each other, or on themselves?
Simple answer? YES.
But only if you asked
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Didn't Balor also work on the Playstation
'Fantastic Four' game, though..? Somewhat...less-than-Fantastic... but I
won't begrudge him that.
Yes, he was the lead programmer on that one... I'm sure he won't mind you
saying it was less than
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As it's soon to be SAM's tenth birthday, would anyone be interested in a
special SAM lapel badge/tie or something similar?
Sexist or what? What would I want with a tie?
(cough) Dunno if this still applies these days, but back when I was a lad
in
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...i really dont fancy
buying the disk version if i can help it as i`ve already got the tape.
Cheers
Peter Harkess
How on earth could you stand waiting 2 1/2 years for *that* game to load
from tape. I'll admit I was always
Message text written by INTERNET:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
One thing about the new Digital Reality game `DEFENDER` it will not work
on
Sim-Coupe, thus eliminating one avenue of piracy.
Does it come with an installer for ATOM users?
;-)
...For two whole reasons:
1. It's not Sam-related
2. It's the most insidious type of advertising there is: Hey you guys,
look what I found!
I visited Live '98 today, and aside from getting leafleted left, right and
centre by Sony Babes (and others, but I didn't really notice who they were
working
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So don't miss out: Be there on th 28th November 1998.
Hang on! Just wait there a minute... Last time you posted, you said:
So don't miss out! Be there on the 12th September 1998.
So which is it?
Last I heard - a VERY similar flyer with Blitz
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I've said it
before, and no doubt I'll say it again, if just 10% of the talent in
the
SAM world was capable of being properly managed on
professionally formulated projects, then the SAM world would have
software and hardware coming out of its
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