Colin Piggot Namechecked...

2004-01-15 Thread Graham Goring
Title: Colin Piggot Namechecked... He gets a mention on like page 6 of the new retro gamer magazine along with a nice picture of a Sam Coupé, but who is it sat at it? Graham

RE: Colin Piggot Namechecked...

2004-01-15 Thread Graham Goring
Title: RE: Colin Piggot Namechecked... Well, the SAM appears to have something chunky plugged into the back of it and proper speakers attached so I'm guessing it's your stand at least. -Original Message- From: Colin Piggot [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 15 January 2004 10:01

RE: Colin Piggot Namechecked...

2004-01-15 Thread Graham Goring
Title: RE: Colin Piggot Namechecked... Nope! Ha! -Original Message- From: Edwin Blink [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 15 January 2004 17:12 To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no Subject: Re: Colin Piggot Namechecked... Importance: Low He gets a mention on like page 6 of the new

RE: ZXF

2003-12-20 Thread Graham Goring
Title: RE: ZXF And more importantly, Head Over Heels gets a glowing review. ;) -Original Message- From: Gavin Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 19 December 2003 22:46 To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no Subject: ZXF Importance: Low http://www.zxf.cjb.net/ The latest issue

Sam Disk TOCs

2003-10-18 Thread Graham Goring
Um, how hard is it to read a file listing from a SAM DISK image (either SAMDOS or MasterDOS) and how does the TOC work so I can figure out how to load it on the PC? Only I'm thinking of writing summat to load and convert screens and graphics and the like and was wondering if it's more

RE: Sam Disk TOCs

2003-10-18 Thread Graham Goring
Title: RE: Sam Disk TOCs Ooh, ta' muchly I'll give it a read. I wanna' basically make a MODE 4 graphic viewer (assuming the graphics aren't stored in some horrid manner) which I suppose means writing summat to look for palettes, too. Could be interesting. :) Graham -Original

RE: Blobby

2003-06-23 Thread Graham Goring
Title: RE: Blobby Every few months I like to check up on our old fat bearded con-artist friend, Mr Brenchley, to see if he is still posting nonsense on the net. Well of course he is! I thought this FAQ for alt.cats was very funny - there's even a picture of Bob at a SAM show (I can see

RE: FAQ (Was: Sam Coupe Scrapbook - new location)

2003-04-21 Thread Graham Goring
Title: RE: FAQ (Was: Sam Coupe Scrapbook - new location) -Original Message- From: Tim P [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 21 April 2003 20:19 To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no Subject: FAQ (Was: Sam Coupe Scrapbook - new location) Well Graham G used to do it, and then stopped (can't remember

RE: Hi all!

2003-03-14 Thread Graham Goring
Title: RE: Hi all! RUMSOFT Rumsoft?! Name is very familiar but my memory is a blank this morning and I can't think why... RUMSOFT/SAPOSOFT file packer. That's where you probably remember it from. T'was ace. Graham

Waterworks

2003-02-10 Thread Graham Goring
Title: Waterworks Well, it turns out that I managed to track down Martin Bell and he is the chap who worked at EA/Bullfrog/BigBlueBox so at last I shall know how he did the water in Waterworks! Hurrah! Graham

RE: Waterworks

2003-02-10 Thread Graham Goring
Title: RE: Waterworks He did indeed tell me, so nerr! ;) Graham -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 10 February 2003 14:27 To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no Subject: Re: Waterworks Well, it turns out that I managed to track down Martin Bell and he

RE: Waterworks

2003-02-10 Thread Graham Goring
Message- From: Tobermory [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 10 February 2003 14:49 To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no Subject: RE: Waterworks Don't keep us waiting, spill beans! spill beans! Graham Goring said: He did indeed tell me, so nerr! ;) Graham -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED

RE: Waterworks

2003-02-10 Thread Graham Goring
missing something about this water, I don't see it being complex, but ive only played the demo -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Graham Goring Sent: 10 February 2003 14:52 To: 'sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no' Subject: RE: Waterworks He used

RE: Waterworks

2003-02-10 Thread Graham Goring
Title: RE: Waterworks Sure, no problem. -Original Message- From: Colin Piggot [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 10 February 2003 15:04 To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no Subject: Re: Waterworks Graham Goring said: I don't think there's an entire article in it, though. And I only wanted

RE: Waterworks

2003-02-10 Thread Graham Goring
PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Graham Goring Sent: 10 February 2003 14:59 To: 'sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no' Subject: RE: Waterworks It wasn't really that complex, but I'm damned if I could figure out how to program it myself. Bah! I don't think there's an entire article in it, though. And I only wanted

RE: Freds wanted

2003-02-05 Thread Graham Goring
Title: RE: Freds wanted Yeah, Retros looked fab. All his games were so neat, well presented and often quite original. He made Gamesmaster look good! :) Remember One Man And His Frog? I'd love to find a TnT disc image. I'm afraid my PC won't make an image of my SAM disc of it because it's

RE: Freds wanted

2003-02-05 Thread Graham Goring
Title: RE: Freds wanted I'd love to find a TnT disc image. TnT - Wasn't that the BombJack clone? Yup, and very lovely it was, too. Mind you, I remember Santa Goes Psycho 2 as being great but I replayed it recently and it wasn't. At all. Of all the GM games, I reckon Blast! was one of the

RE: Freds wanted

2003-02-05 Thread Graham Goring
You can grab those FRED's then. They're upstairs in the box-room. ;) -Original Message- From: Gavin Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 05 February 2003 13:02 To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no Subject: Re: Freds wanted I assume that includes WinME? Only my discs are at my

RE: Freds wanted

2003-02-05 Thread Graham Goring
Title: RE: Freds wanted -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 05 February 2003 13:06 To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no Subject: RE: Freds wanted I assume that includes WinME? I believe so. Hurrah! Anyone know the copyright status on things like

RE: Freds wanted

2003-02-05 Thread Graham Goring
Title: RE: Freds wanted Ah. Well, I could easily contact Matt Round but Martin Bell is another proposition altogether as I've no idea what he did after the SAM. There's a Martin Bell who worked for Bullfrog and Lionhead for a while (now at Big Blue Box) but I dunno' if it's the same one at

RE: Freds wanted

2003-02-05 Thread Graham Goring
For which one? -Original Message- From: Gavin Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 05 February 2003 13:19 To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no Subject: Re: Freds wanted On Wednesday, February 5, 2003, at 01:16 pm, Graham Goring wrote: Ah. Well, I could easily contact Matt Round

RE: Freds wanted

2003-02-05 Thread Graham Goring
wanted For Matt...(honestly, I will leave your ma alone tonight...) On Wednesday, February 5, 2003, at 01:21 pm, Graham Goring wrote: For which one? -Original Message- From: Gavin Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 05 February 2003 13:19 To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no

RE: Freds wanted

2003-02-05 Thread Graham Goring
Was she as loose as your mum was with me? Thanks! I've never been to his site before! PS. I've already had her

RE: Freds wanted

2003-02-05 Thread Graham Goring
me a copy of Days of Sorcery? :) On Wednesday, February 5, 2003, at 01:31 pm, Graham Goring wrote: Was she as loose as your mum was with me? Thanks! I've never been to his site before! PS. I've already had her

RE: Freds wanted

2003-02-05 Thread Graham Goring
Title: RE: Freds wanted What was Days Of Sorcery? It rings a bell for some reason... A text / graphics Adventure game released in 1993 by Nigel Kettlewell - a viewable info demo is on Fred34 iirc and SCPDU 5. I seem to recall it now, yeah. I think I probably typed about 3 words into the

RE: Freds wanted

2003-02-05 Thread Graham Goring
Title: RE: Freds wanted There was later adventure stuff on the Fred mag from what I remember - around issue 40 I seem to remember a BASIC adventure writing program, or the infamous 'Spam Soufflé' adventure from the Sam Newsdisk. Colin I love the term Spam Soufflé. :) The best ever

RE: Freds wanted

2003-02-05 Thread Graham Goring
Title: RE: Freds wanted On Wednesday, February 5, 2003, at 01:52 pm, Colin Piggot wrote: I seem to recall it now, yeah. I think I probably typed about 3 words into the demo and never bothered again (text adventures weren't my bag). Don't think that was the D.O.S. demo ... as that was

RE: E-Tunes

2003-01-23 Thread Graham Goring
:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 22 January 2003 20:27 To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no Subject: Re: E-Tunes On Tuesday 21 Jan 2003 5:31 pm, Graham Goring wrote: Do the compressed e-tunes still contain all the data necessary to reconstruct the original big 80K files? Stefan Drissen wrote a decompressor which did

RE: E-Tunes

2003-01-23 Thread Graham Goring
issue 34. Hope, this is what you ment. - Wolfgang Andrew Collier schrieb: On Tuesday 21 Jan 2003 5:31 pm, Graham Goring wrote: Do the compressed e-tunes still contain all the data necessary to reconstruct the original big 80K files? Stefan Drissen wrote a decompressor which did

RE: E-Tunes

2003-01-23 Thread Graham Goring
Title: RE: E-Tunes Ah, my memory is addled. That's not the program I meant (I've just had a look, and it's actually on issue 52) but that is indeed where his article about the ETracker file format is. That's the issue with the best drawn menu ever. ;) Well, maybe 51... Graham

RE: E-Tunes

2003-01-23 Thread Graham Goring
Title: RE: E-Tunes It's a pity there ain't summat like SID Play for E-Tunes... Though I wonder how hard it'd be to write one... Hmm... There is... Aley Keprt has written 'SamPlay' for playing compiled Etracker tunes on the PC http://www.keprt.cz/progs/saaemu/ Hey-hey! That's great,

RE: E-Tunes

2003-01-23 Thread Graham Goring
Title: RE: E-Tunes SAA32 is the executable to use, and use it through a command prompt. Gah! The very idea! Waah! Still, it's better than nowt. :) Grahamof Sam Revival Magazine Out Now !

RE: E-Tunes

2003-01-23 Thread Graham Goring
Title: RE: E-Tunes No I didn't. That's my full name. -Original Message- From: Colin Piggot [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 23 January 2003 15:37 To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no Subject: Re: E-Tunes Grahamof Sam Revival Magazine Out Now ! You forgot to delete all of my email/sig when

E-Tunes

2003-01-21 Thread Graham Goring
Title: E-Tunes How easy d'you think it'd be to convert an E-Tune to a mod format like XM/S3M/IT? Do the compressed e-tunes still contain all the data necessary to reconstruct the original big 80K files? And is the file format of those big files known at all? Graham

Free SAM Coupé (he's innocent)

2003-01-17 Thread Graham Goring
Righty, it seems to me that there are a lot more deserving owners of a SAM on this list than myself (ie, people who'll actually use one even if it's just cannibalised and used for surgery). So, I'm giving mine up for adoption (even if the adopters do rip it apart and bury the rest in the

RE: Free SAM Coupé (he's innocent)

2003-01-17 Thread Graham Goring
also pick it up. Luke -Original Message- From: Graham Goring [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 17 January 2003 10:12 To: 'sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no' Subject: Free SAM Coupé (he's innocent) Righty, it seems to me that there are a lot more deserving owners of a SAM on this list than myself

RE: Free SAM Coupé (he's innocent)

2003-01-17 Thread Graham Goring
/various spectrums when I have my loft conversion done, in a few months. Regards Matt Shaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Graham Goring [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2003/01/17 Fri AM 10:11:40 GMT To: 'sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no' sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no Subject: Free SAM Coupé (he's innocent) Righty, it seems

RE: Moment of truth

2003-01-15 Thread Graham Goring
Title: RE: Moment of truth 1) Do you have an actual Sam Coupe: Yes. 2) Does it work? Yes. (though the DD whines) 3) Do you still use it? No! 4) How many bits of sam software have you got? Every single FRED, WATERWORKS 12, TNT, SAMPaint, LEMMINGS and some others. 5) Do you still actively seek

RE: (no subject)

2003-01-07 Thread Graham Goring
Title: RE: (no subject) I did a fair few crappy little ones for FRED in my time, mostly with GamesMaster but a few pure, unadulterated BASIC ones. :) Graham

RE: SAM games written (Was: (no subject))

2003-01-07 Thread Graham Goring
- From: Graham Goring [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: dinsdag 7 januari 2003 11:24 To: 'sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no' Subject: RE: (no subject) I did a fair few crappy little ones for FRED in my time, mostly with GamesMaster but a few pure, unadulterated BASIC ones. :) Graham

RE: Hi ho

2003-01-06 Thread Graham Goring
Title: RE: Hi ho So how does Chris White explain the disaster that was PS1 Speedball? Zing! Hahaha! Graham

Hi ho

2003-01-03 Thread Graham Goring
Title: Hi ho Blimey, I was looking around for old Sam Coupé sites and I suddenly remembered the mailing list. So I just thought I'd drop in and see how/what everyone was doing? Obviously me and James Curry are still in contact but I've not heard hide nor hair from most ex Spam Soufflé owners

RE: Hi ho

2003-01-03 Thread Graham Goring
Title: RE: Hi ho I've not, but I did hear that Colin was still producing hardware for the SAM. Are there many active users still? The only time I look at SAM stuff is via emulation. I'm thinking of compiling a disc of all the best e-tunes in one lump... What's his website addy then? Graham

RE: Hi ho

2003-01-03 Thread Graham Goring
Title: RE: Hi ho Ta'. I think my actual SAM is in Stratford Upon Avon at the moment (I'm in Manchester) and I'm not even sure if it works any more. Certainly the disc drive made odd whining sounds last time I tried using it... I'm surprised that Colin's working on a FPS game for the SAM,

RE: Hi ho

2003-01-03 Thread Graham Goring
Title: RE: Hi ho Well disk drives can be easily replaced I'll stick with my PC for now I think... Far more fun writing games on the PC than the SAM (I don't have to worry about optimising ;) ). Oh don't sound so pessemistic :) There is still life in the Sam world! In fact, over the

RE: Hi ho

2003-01-03 Thread Graham Goring
Title: RE: Hi ho And remember, not every one is doing stuff for Sam for a financial gain. Well, I never did anything for FRED for money, it was all for the love of the machine on the SAM. Same thing with PC games, I only write 'em for fun and to remake Speccy classics. Graham

RE: Hi ho

2003-01-03 Thread Graham Goring
Title: RE: Hi ho Optimisation is the fun part! Getting down to the nitty gritty in assembler is a great way to spend the night ;) I'd rather concentrate on the game design part of it myself, for me that's the interesting bit about making games. :) Graham

RE: Hi ho

2003-01-03 Thread Graham Goring
om: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]On Behalf Of Graham Goring Sent: 03 January 2003 17:02 To: 'sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no' Subject: RE: Hi ho Optimisation is the fun part! Getting down to the nitty gritty in assembler is a great way to spend the night ;) I'd rather concentrate o

RE: Hi ho

2003-01-03 Thread Graham Goring
Title: RE: Hi ho Well, that's the thing innit? Pentium processors are bastard-fast so it's the last thing you think of. Obviously coding on the SAM is far more of an artform than anything I do on the PC because every T-state (or multiple of 4, anyway :) ) counts. The only assembler I did on

Re:

1999-11-26 Thread Graham Goring
about it? Well Dave seems to like messages of the one-word variety, Andrew. ;) Graham Goring -- /\ | Ber-Limey! There's not even enough | |room to swing a cat in this sodding-| \=== ICQ: 5333545 ===/

Re: Woohoo!

1999-11-17 Thread Graham Goring
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Andrew Collier [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes And... Yes! I remember Imposters too. Quite cool for a SCADS game, I thought. Yes, it would have been if it wasn't a GamesMaster game. ;) Graham Goring -- /\ | Ber-Limey! There's not even

Re: Woohoo!

1999-11-16 Thread Graham Goring
spare. Graham Goring -- /\ | Ber-Limey! There's not even enough | |room to swing a cat in this sodding-| \=== ICQ: 5333545 ===/

Re: Woohoo!

1999-11-12 Thread Graham Goring
is the only person who's replied to this topic that nobody else on sam-users knows who I am? Not famous enough. Bummer :-( Yup. You're a nobody with an inflated sense of self-worth, Stephen. You should be right at home on sam-users. ;) Graham Goring -- /\ | Ber-Limey

Re: Woohoo!

1999-11-12 Thread Graham Goring
bugs in it at Sam shows. Hmm, didn't you once have a letter on Digitizer, too? Yeah, a review of summat, IIRC. Graham Goring -- /\ | Ber-Limey! There's not even enough | |room to swing a cat in this sodding-| \=== ICQ: 5333545 ===/

Re: Woohoo!

1999-11-10 Thread Graham Goring
in at the moment, pop over to www.retrospec.co.uk and have a shufty. Kaboom? Ha! Wayne keeps promising, but I reckon hell will freeze over first. Graham Goring -- /\ | Ber-Limey! There's not even enough | |room to swing a cat in this sodding-| \=== ICQ: 5333545 ===/

Re: Woohoo!

1999-11-09 Thread Graham Goring
on the site ASAP (and legal this time) :-) Which sour-puss complained, then? Graham Goring -- /\ | Ber-Limey! There's not even enough | |room to swing a cat in this sodding-| \=== ICQ: 5333545 ===/

Re: Woohoo!

1999-11-07 Thread Graham Goring
stupidly cheap looking stalls at the Gloucester shows and the computer game featuring Colin Anderton in a pair of red rubber time travelling trousers that appeared in FRED once? NO??? Sod ya then :-) ) Ha! I remember that Gremlins game. Graham Goring

Re: SAM Community Newsletter Issue 2

1999-10-20 Thread Graham Goring
less. Graham Goring -- /\ | Ber-Limey! There's not even enough | |room to swing a cat in this sodding-| \=== ICQ: 5333545 ===/

Re: SAM Community Newsletter Issue 2

1999-10-19 Thread Graham Goring
a real SAM over here... I believe that the Russian can supply them with the launchers for a very reasonable fee. Only last week I got a nuclear submarine for using along the canal. Graham Goring -- /\ | Ber-Limey! There's not even enough | |room to swing a cat

Re: Goodbye

1999-10-02 Thread Graham Goring
leaving the Retrospec list as well, then? Graham Goring -- /\ | Ber-Limey! There's not even enough | |room to swing a cat in this sodding-| \=== ICQ: 5333545 ===/

Re: Might be interested

1999-09-04 Thread Graham Goring
seems to have been invented by a man being choked with a bicycle chain while smashing his head onto a keyboard. Aaah, where did those childhood years go? ;) I keep mine in a small box by my chair. Graham Goring -- /\ | Ber-Limey! There's not even enough

Re: Sam's worst ever game? (was Re: Who Wants To Be A... )

1999-08-31 Thread Graham Goring
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Ian Collier [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes On Sun, Aug 29, 1999 at 05:30:45PM +0100, Graham Goring wrote: NB. I was speaking to Wayne today, and he says he'll finish Kaboom! when there's a 32bit version of SIM Coupé to do it on... ;) But it is 32-bit already... I think

Re: Sam's worst ever game? (was Re: Who Wants To Be A... )

1999-08-31 Thread Graham Goring
, either (Fred 42). Yeah. I wonder what Matt Round is doing these days? Graham Goring -- /\ | Ber-Limey! There's not even enough | |room to swing a cat in this sodding-| \=== ICQ: 5333545 ===/

Re: Anybody know who Anonymity Smith was?

1999-08-31 Thread Graham Goring
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Johnna Teare [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes Who was Anonymity Smith? The bloke (i am assuming it was a bloke) who wrote those spoof sci-fi stories on Fred from years back? guilt Me. /guilt Graham Goring -- /\ | Ber-Limey

Re: Anybody know who Anonymity Smith was?

1999-08-31 Thread Graham Goring
all only about 20 people ever read it. ;) Graham Goring -- /\ | Ber-Limey! There's not even enough | |room to swing a cat in this sodding-| \=== ICQ: 5333545 ===/

Re: Sam's worst ever game? (was Re: Who Wants To Be A... )

1999-08-31 Thread Graham Goring
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Ian Collier [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes On Mon, Aug 30, 1999 at 11:21:32AM +0100, Graham Goring wrote: But it is 32-bit already... I think he means a version he can easily use on the desktop, a la zx32. But you can... on your Linux desktop. Don't be silly. Wayne

Re: Anybody know who Anonymity Smith was?

1999-08-31 Thread Graham Goring
on The Next Generation, not the original one. Graham Goring -- /\ | Ber-Limey! There's not even enough | |room to swing a cat in this sodding-| \=== ICQ: 5333545 ===/

Re: Sam's worst ever game? (was Re: Who Wants To Be A... )

1999-08-31 Thread Graham Goring
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Ian Collier [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes On Tue, Aug 31, 1999 at 12:48:56AM +0100, Graham Goring wrote: Don't be silly. Wayne works for Reflections, he's used to programming games for a viable software environment. :) That's dangerous talk on a Sam list... Cor lummy

Re: Who Wants To Be An unnapreciated contributor?

1999-08-29 Thread Graham Goring
if you're intersted. Bagsy the Prisoner :) D'you have something for blokes in stripy clothes then, Simon? ;) Bagsy Doctor Who, btw! Oh, and the BBC adaption of The Tripods. Graham Goring -- /\ | Ber-Limey! There's not even enough | |room to swing a cat

Re: Sam's worst ever game? (was Re: Who Wants To Be A... )

1999-08-29 Thread Graham Goring
it really was a terrible game. But I don't think it was Sam's worst ever game for my money, that honor goes to... fx type=drumrollfx type=rips open envelope Parallax. I'd have given it to the game's predecessor, whose name escapes me at the moment. Now THAT was a shit game. Graham Goring

Re: Sam's worst ever game? (was Re: Who Wants To Be A... )

1999-08-29 Thread Graham Goring
with mode 2 levels and mode 4 bosses, wunnit? Graham Goring -- /\ | Ber-Limey! There's not even enough | |room to swing a cat in this sodding-| \=== ICQ: 5333545 ===/

Re: Sam's worst ever game? (was Re: Who Wants To Be A... )

1999-08-29 Thread Graham Goring
a fair few fine shooters. Graham Goring -- /\ | Ber-Limey! There's not even enough | |room to swing a cat in this sodding-| \=== ICQ: 5333545 ===/

Re: Sam's worst ever game? (was Re: Who Wants To Be A... )

1999-08-29 Thread Graham Goring
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Gordon Wallis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes 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

Re: SAM DEFENDER

1999-08-26 Thread Graham Goring
In message Pine.SOL.3.95q.990826085542.26407A- [EMAIL PROTECTED], Andrew Collier [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes I'd hate to think that Sam's tenth birthday may go by without a proper party... Don't you mean wake? Graham Goring -- /\ | Ber-Limey! There's not even

Re: Fred n' speccy

1999-08-12 Thread Graham Goring
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Paul Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes problem. What about that other word I invented, Dukelicious? No- one's using it?! What a Duketastrophy! Mm. Sounds like The Tick was a damn sight funnier. Orders of magnitude, in fact. No taste at all... Graham Goring

Re: Fred n' speccy

1999-08-11 Thread Graham Goring
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], James R Curry [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes Graham Goring wrote: snip www.duketastrophy.demon.co.uk Should that be read duke catastrophe or duck catasrophe? Hmm, that's a real quizibuk. Hello? Webster? How much to make dukelicious a word? Graham Goring

Re: Fred n' speccy

1999-08-11 Thread Graham Goring
on The Paramount Comedy channel and Bravo, I'm afraid. Graham Goring -- /\ | Ber-Limey! There's not even enough | |room to swing a cat in this sodding-| \=== ICQ: 5333545 ===/

Re: Fred n' speccy

1999-08-11 Thread Graham Goring
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Martin Fitzpatrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes HTH : Hand To Heart (I'm being honest) Surely that'd be HOH, Hand *ON* Heart? (Or Head Over Heels... Eek!) Graham Goring -- /\ | Ber-Limey! There's not even enough | |room to swing

Re: Fred n' speccy

1999-08-10 Thread Graham Goring
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Martin Fitzpatrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes Graham Goring wrote: snip www.duketastrophy.demon.co.uk Should that be read duke catastrophe or duck catasrophe? :) Neither. Duke-tast-roff-ee It's a word taken from the excellent cartoon The Critic. Graham Goring

Re: Fred n' speccy

1999-08-10 Thread Graham Goring
Legend Of Eshan, btw). But I've pretty much finished Strontium Dog in the past, but again Slaine I'm useless at. Have you tried paging the Spectrum Oracle, yet? Graham Goring -- /\ | Ber-Limey! There's not even enough | |room to swing a cat in this sodding

Re: Fred n' speccy

1999-08-10 Thread Graham Goring
is the Spectrum Oracle? SPOT-ON, the Spectrum Oracle On Trumpton. And sorta' massive database of Speccy information that has huge amounts of information. I forget the URL, but if you go to WOS (www.void.demon.nl/spectrum, IIRC) you'll be able to find a link to it, no doubt. Graham Goring

Re: Fred n' speccy

1999-08-10 Thread Graham Goring
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Martin Fitzpatrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes Graham Goring wrote: Should that be read duke catastrophe or duck catasrophe? :) Neither. Duke-tast-roff-ee It's a word taken from the excellent cartoon The Critic. Well, you learn something everyday

Re: Fred n' speccy

1999-08-09 Thread Graham Goring
searched and searched for them and all I can find are tips for modern platforms... so much for the dawning of the retro gaming (and er.. cheating) era. I've got a few cheats and maps on my site... But only a few. What are you stuck on? www.duketastrophy.demon.co.uk Graham Goring

Re: A dumb and ill considered idea

1999-06-18 Thread Graham Goring
the odd creative input (like reminding him to make the ball a spinning beach-ball) as it happens, by chance I happened to recently download an extremely EGGBuM-like game called Crillion. Written using Allegro, as it happens... Graham Goring -- /\ | Ber-Limey

Re: A dumb and ill considered idea

1999-06-13 Thread Graham Goring
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Tim [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes From: Graham Goring [EMAIL PROTECTED] Okay, I imagined it, then I thought about the tons of PC software that's either cheaper or free, and that's far better than Matt Round's game. I don't think there's anything that's available

Re: A dumb and ill considered idea

1999-06-11 Thread Graham Goring
exception being the sublime Waterworks) Graham Goring -- /\ | Ber-Limey! There's not even enough | |room to swing a cat in this sodding-| \=== ICQ: 5333545 ===/

Re: Manual

1999-06-01 Thread Graham Goring
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], James R Curry [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes Testify! Testify! Bit late for that, OJ was found innocent, y'know... Graham Goring -- /\ | Ber-Limey! There's not even enough | |room to swing a cat in this sodding-| \=== ICQ

Re: Manual

1999-05-26 Thread Graham Goring
of the SAM Coupé which lists what you can plug into it. Lovely 2-colour GIFs, yes. Graham Goring -- /\ | Ber-Limey! There's not even enough | |room to swing a cat in this sodding-| \=== ICQ: 5333545 ===/

Re: Manual

1999-05-25 Thread Graham Goring
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Stuart Brady [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes On Mon, 24 May 1999, Graham Goring wrote: I'll be happy to HTML-ise it and host it on my page, once it's done. Hell, if Ian gets bored of doing it, I'll gladly take over the task... Make sure it's clean html, then. Plain

Re: Manual

1999-05-24 Thread Graham Goring
it on my page, once it's done. Hell, if Ian gets bored of doing it, I'll gladly take over the task... Graham Goring -- /\ | Ber-Limey! There's not even enough | |room to swing a cat in this sodding-| \=== ICQ: 5333545 ===/

Re: comp.sys.sinclair... jesus...

1999-05-08 Thread Graham Goring
of mine from uk.games.video.playstation! Graham Goring -- /\ | Ber-Limey! There's not even enough | |room to swing a cat in this sodding-| \=== ICQ: 5333545 ===/

Re: comp.sys.sinclair... jesus...

1999-05-08 Thread Graham Goring
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Simon Cooke [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes Well... you don't think that with all his money, he's going to settle for tomayto juice in his Bloody Mary do you? You say tomayto... ;) Graham Goring -- /\ | Ber-Limey! There's not even

Re: comp.sys.sinclair... jesus...

1999-05-07 Thread Graham Goring
that it's frightening. Is it true that Bill Gates drinks goat's blood? Graham Goring -- /\ | Ber-Limey! There's not even enough | |room to swing a cat in this sodding-| \=== ICQ: 5333545 ===/

Re: something different.....

1999-04-02 Thread Graham Goring
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes Have a nice MELISSA-FREE Easter! Y'know, I hear the Melissa brought down COMPAQ's HQ a few days back... Graham Goring -- /\ | Ber-Limey! There's not even enough | |room to swing a cat in this sodding

Re: Real Sam Users List 30th March 1999

1999-03-31 Thread Graham Goring
disorder and they went away... ;) (just kiddin', Bob) Graham Goring -- /\ | Ber-Limey! There's not even enough | |room to swing a cat in this sodding-| \=== ICQ: 5333545 ===/

Re: Red Dwarf

1999-03-18 Thread Graham Goring
a lot of stuff on this list. :-) Yup - sometimes we should call it former-sam-users ;-) Or maybe The Mailing List Formerly Known As Sam-Users. :) Graham Goring -- /\ | Ber-Limey! There's not even enough | |room to swing a cat in this sodding-| \=== ICQ

Re: Severe Lameness... NOT a Birmingham 8-bit show

1999-03-16 Thread Graham Goring
then... ;) Graham Goring -- /\ | Ber-Limey! There's not even enough | |room to swing a cat in this sodding-| \=== ICQ: 5333545 ===/

Re: RGB Demo... (Where Time Stood Still)

1999-03-03 Thread Graham Goring
to exploit the capabilities of the old Spectrum 128. (Not to mention Starglider, and a handful of other games). Never saw it myself, and I had about 20 disks full of 128K conversions (thanks to Simon Cooke, Colin MacD and of course the majority coming from Martijn Groen). Graham Goring

Re: RGB Demo...

1999-03-02 Thread Graham Goring
and it crashed eventually. Plus the Where Time Stood Still music wobbles all over the place unless it's coming from a good sound set-up. How odd. I got a copy off of the excellent Martijn at one of the shows... :) Oh, and it has a slideshow of tons of pictures, as well. Graham Goring

Re: Anyone wanna help?

1999-03-01 Thread Graham Goring
Hmm, I've got *all* the FREDs around the place. Um, what are you missing in terms of copies of FRED? Graham Goring -- /\ | Ber-Limey! There's not even enough | |room to swing a cat in this sodding-| \=== ICQ: 5333545 ===/

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