RE: Phew...

1999-08-06 Thread Justin Skists
I'm planning to exit to Finland. Not quite USA, but it's still part of the exodus... Maybe in a year or two's time... Just learning the lingo, now... (sheesh, 2500 word variations for the word house...) But at least I know how to order beer and vodka! :) Just need to find some nice Finnish girl

RE: Music

1999-08-06 Thread Justin Skists
From: Jonathan Bristow [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] :Persona sell SAM Sequencer 3. It's a very good buy. : :Unfortunately, it's a little slow.. :( Especially when you're trying to :actually edit notes. Then again, what do you expect on a 6MHz machine??? I don't understand the link!, the Commodore

RE: Music

1999-08-06 Thread Justin Skists
Twice the speed and four times the amount of screen memory. (hmmm) Yes, the SAM is a fair bit faster than the Spectrum. Justin. PS. ...sports car.Granny City... Heh. I like it! :) -Original Message- From: Jonathan Bristow [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 05, 1999

RE: Announcement

1999-08-05 Thread Justin Skists
From: James R Curry [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] I remember you as a lad in the James Went building at DMU during my days of collecting people's student union card numbers... I was usually half-asleep, covered with rain, dis-organized and looked like the average Dr Who fan. That's true... :) I

RE: Announcement

1999-08-05 Thread Justin Skists
Let me be the first, and certainly not the last, to say Congratulations!. Congratulations, Allan! And I /don't/ remember you in the James Went building of DMU whilst collecting student union card numbers. Actually, why they wanted them, I still have no idea - but getting paid to sit in a

RE: Announcement

1999-08-04 Thread Justin Skists
Oooh... Wow... Congrats... I remember you as a lad in the James Went building at DMU during my days of collecting people's student union card numbers... Ahhh.. The young grow up so quickly... :) Seriously, I wish you both the best. Justin. -Original Message- From: James R Curry

RE: Music

1999-08-04 Thread Justin Skists
Persona sell SAM Sequencer 3. It's a very good buy. Unfortunately, it's a little slow.. :( Especially when you're trying to actually edit notes. Then again, what do you expect on a 6MHz machine??? I did start thinking about doing a Tracker-style MIDI composer for the SAM, but, judging by the

RE: I would love to play some games...

1999-07-30 Thread Justin Skists
BTW Robert, any chance of you e-mailing me a copy of Martijn's hard drive version of the mod player? Getting hold of the floppy version would be good enough for me... :) Justin

RE: WINGUIDE

1999-07-26 Thread Justin Skists
From: Paul Walker [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] The last version of WINGUIDE can be found on: http://tatooine.fortunecity.com/falcon/183; Umm .. and this is useful to us why, exactly? :-) Probably because it's used to read the documentation to understand his speccy emulator which runs on his CPM

RE: WINGUIDE

1999-07-26 Thread Justin Skists
From: Paul Walker [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Probably because it's used to read the documentation to understand his speccy emulator which runs on his CPM emulator which runs on our SAMs Ah. I see. Why would someone use that instead of a native SAM spectrum emulator? :- ) Coz Jarek has

RE: SimCoupe : wide spread? (was New: SimCoupe 0.783a...)

1999-07-20 Thread Justin Skists
That's not the point... Any new feature added to the virtual machine, makes SimCoupe less realistic. And if SimCoupe doesn't try to realistically emulate the Sam, then why bother? Exactly! If everyone added new features to SimCoupe that never even existed on the real SAM, not only would you

RE: New: SimCoupe 0.783a - Sound emulation

1999-07-16 Thread Justin Skists
The other rule: Think of the most stupid thing that you think is possible, and then bet your last dollar on someone beating it. (Or, at least, that's what my old driving instuctor said to me) Justin -Original Message- From: Nick Humphries [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July

RE: (OT) Stupid people

1999-07-16 Thread Justin Skists
Are you having a best of email responses section on those pages? :) -Original Message- From: Nick Humphries [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 16, 1999 10:14 AM To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no Subject: (OT) Stupid people The YS Rock'n'Roll Years carries a load of original

RE: SimCoupe 0.783a - ZIP

1999-07-16 Thread Justin Skists
In that case, I'll rephrase the question slightly: Would it be likely to cause a problem if future versions of SimCoupe were to require long filename support in the hose operating system? Only if I get to drive the fire-engine! :) Seriously, I've no problems with that... Justin.

RE: SimCoupe 0.783a - ZIP

1999-07-16 Thread Justin Skists
Yes, although I don't know how well this particular system would cope with a filename containing two dots, like wibble.dsk.gz wibble~1.gz (I just tried it) Anyway I thought in DOS mode under Win95 and Win98 you could use long filenames transparently - or maybe that was only in NT? I don't use

RE: SimCoupe 0.783a - ZIP

1999-07-15 Thread Justin Skists
Stuart Brady wrote: I do, however, urge Si Owen to release the code, no matter how buggy or incomplete it is. I was under the impression that he was waiting until he'd got the basics working first, but he seems to be well past that stage, if he's thinking about disk image formats. Have you got

RE: New: SimCoupe 0.783a

1999-07-15 Thread Justin Skists
I was being sarcastic... :) -Original Message- From: Aley Keprt [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 15, 1999 12:59 PM To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no Subject: Re: New: SimCoupe 0.783a - Original Message - From: Justin Skists [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: sam-users

RE: New: SimCoupe 0.783a

1999-07-01 Thread Justin Skists
Wow.. An ARM CPU model on the SAM? :) -Original Message- From: Allan Skillman [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 01, 1999 3:16 PM To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no Subject: Re: New: SimCoupe 0.783a Hi All, The easiest way to provide gnuzip compression without the need

RE: New: SimCoupe 0.783a

1999-07-01 Thread Justin Skists
zip, too. They've always used zip in the past, and they see no reason to change. Gzip *is* better for single files, though - simply because it can *only* contain one file. Hell.. Why not use a tar + gzip combination? :) Relax - After all, WW3 supposed to start any day now and last for 27

RE: new sam OS?

1999-06-15 Thread Justin Skists
Are you talking about Yarek's CPM22QED? What I've seen of it, it's a pretty good version of CP/M. More - umm - standard than Pro-DOS. ie, It's supposed to be CP/M 2.2 rather than CP/M 2.2 compatible and capable of using different disk formats. There is also MIDI-Kernbut, I won't talk about

RE: A dumb and ill considered idea

1999-06-10 Thread Justin Skists
From: James Gasson [snipped idea] Thoughts? Interesting... Jut.

RE: The continuing saga... (enough?)

1999-06-09 Thread Justin Skists
How come all we ever talk about these days is copyright issues? I always thought we were developers - not lawyers. Maybe it's a new trend? Once upon a time, when I were a lad, programmers wanted strut their stuff to big softwares houses by writing demos. Now, it seems that people, these days,

RE: Manual

1999-05-28 Thread Justin Skists
From: Andrew Collier [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] At 8:34 pm +0100 27/5/99, Simon Cooke wrote: We ... we ... us ... we've ... we ... Si (Not speaking for MS) If you're not speaking for Microsoft, then who on earth _are_ you speaking for?? Oh my gawd!! We've uncovered a coup in MS's organisation

RE: Is my mail getting through?

1999-05-28 Thread Justin Skists
I, Justin Skists, hereby starts the flood of yes emails. -Original Message- From: Chris Pile [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, May 28, 1999 12:18 PM To: Sam Users Group Subject: Is my mail getting through? Is my mail reaching other SAM users? Chris.

RE: Manual

1999-05-26 Thread Justin Skists
From: Dave Hooper [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tue, 25 May 1999, Stuart Brady wrote: Make sure it's clean html, then. Plain and simple, too - no background images (certainly not gif) and colours and all of that... I don't really want the cartoons, to be honest. And no rubbish frames or

RE: Manual

1999-05-26 Thread Justin Skists
On Tue, 25 May 1999, Stuart Brady wrote: Make sure it's clean html, then. Plain and simple, too - no background images (certainly not gif) and colours and all of that... I don't really want the cartoons, to be honest. And no rubbish frames or anything. It'd be a good idea to have a

RE: Help with : Writing my first (decent) SAM program . . .

1999-05-17 Thread Justin Skists
Ifyou've got a PC - the easiest solution is to get a PC TV card and use the REAL machine via the PC monitor... assuming you've got a PC that is ;) Have you tested this solution? In my experience (two cards - one Mac, one PC) the picture gets so mangled that text becomes impossible to read, for

RE: E-tracker Disk Image

1999-05-14 Thread Justin Skists
I'm sure I saw somewhere sometime ago that you could download E-Tracker from someone's web page... I dunno.. I can't remember... -Original Message- From: Paul Walker [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, May 14, 1999 2:32 PM To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no Subject: Re: E-tracker

RE: Help with : Writing my first (decent) SAM program . . .

1999-05-14 Thread Justin Skists
and 31 ; don't fiddle with the MIDI bit Yeah.. You leave those MIDI bits alone! They haven't hurt anyone! :) J.

RE: comp.sys.sinclair... jesus...

1999-05-10 Thread Justin Skists
Heh.. I can see how mad you must feel. To tell you the truth, I have only managed to crash NT4 once and that was because the driver I tried doing something with my testing utility shouldn't have and it gave me my first blue screen. I never did find the cause or see the same problem again. I'm

RE: Leaving on a jet plane

1999-05-10 Thread Justin Skists
In response to Psycho Billy's tearful goodbye: Good luck. Jut.

RE: comp.sys.sinclair... jesus...

1999-05-07 Thread Justin Skists
What was said? I don't have access to usenet... Justin. -Original Message- From: Simon Cooke [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, May 07, 1999 1:50 AM To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no Subject: comp.sys.sinclair... jesus... Hmmm... beginning to wonder if I should just do what

RE: CLOSING ARGUEEMENT ON - SimCoupe protected disks Copyrig ht

1999-05-04 Thread Justin Skists
Through judicious use of monkeys and typewriters, Justin Skists [EMAIL PROTECTED] came up with... Heh! :) (Calmed down from being told by PC World that I was denied credit to buy a PC - All I want to do is play with that digital camera and run SimCoupe!!) Why did you go to PC World to buy

RE: Sir Clive to reenter computing market!

1999-04-30 Thread Justin Skists
YAY!!! GO CLIVE, GO!! I WANT ONE NOW1 Jut. -Original Message- From: Andrew Gallagher [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, April 30, 1999 10:12 AM To: SAM mailing list Subject: Sir Clive to reenter computing market!

RE: Source of technical information

1999-04-29 Thread Justin Skists
BTW - will be in touch via work tomorrow other that other matter for u ;) I've seen it al now - David Ledbury the pimp. ;-) *laugh* It's innocent, I tell you!! Jut.

RE: Putting the whole boring argumet simply

1999-04-29 Thread Justin Skists
And to counter that argument, if people could develop on SIM Coupe and then write the4 software back to floppy for distrubiton on standard SAM's then I think we would see more released on the SAM. What would you rather do - roam through your atic blowing the dust off your SAM and setting it up

RE: Source of technical information

1999-04-28 Thread Justin Skists
David L wrote: Blitz 9 - should be being proofread as we speak. BLITZ 9?!?!? Damn.. I thought I was still waiting for Blitz 8. I'll have to go and check my disk-boxes once I get them out of my big cardboard boxes that I still haven't unpacked yet (along with my SAM's power pack)... Don't know

RE: Glos Show

1999-04-27 Thread Justin Skists
From: The President [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On just got it , when was it posted? [snip] Look at the header C - Original Message - From: William McGugan [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 07 October 1998 15:19 Subject: RE: Glos Show

RE: Source of technical information

1999-04-27 Thread Justin Skists
And Blitz has a bit of techy info - with more appearing in each new issue of course ;) David Talking of which, is issue 8 out yet? Or have I, like Soundbyte, forgotten to send off my re-subscription cheque again? Jut.

RE: Glos Show

1999-04-26 Thread Justin Skists
Bloody hell... You took a long time in answeing that! :) Jut. -Original Message- From: The President [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, April 26, 1999 1:13 PM To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no Subject: Re: Glos Show And where is that :) C - Original Message -

RE: Bob is missing

1999-04-21 Thread Justin Skists
Surely, someone on here is his friend, what about Samsboss and Bill Ritman? Won't they tell him? Jut. -Original Message- From: The President [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 21, 1999 10:37 AM To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no Subject: Re: Bob is missing No -

RE: CLOSING ARGUEEMENT ON - SimCoupe protected disks Copyrig ht

1999-04-20 Thread Justin Skists
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] MGT used to advocate backing up tapes to disk (or disc - for Bob) and certain publications would give out information on how to hack awkward programs so that they would work from disk. But there appears to be an unforgivable difference in us

RE: CLOSING ARGUEEMENT ON - SimCoupe protected disks Copyrig ht

1999-04-20 Thread Justin Skists
maybe its like some walkie-talkies(1), i.e., its not illegal to own them, sell them, make them or whatever just use them is it actually illegal to do it? i mean what law are you breaking by simply producing a bit of circuitry? using it would be illegal though, cos then the purpose for

RE: THE LINK TO HOW - Re: Using Sam on a SVGA Monitor

1999-04-19 Thread Justin Skists
Ahh.. but does it work? What does the output from the SAM look like? -Original Message- From: Chris White [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 15, 1999 8:51 PM To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no Subject: THE LINK TO HOW - Re: Using Sam on a SVGA Monitor Okay so no-one knows

RE: Hardwarehelp wanted!! Any ideas?

1999-04-15 Thread Justin Skists
One hell of a rib-tickling dig at Bob/Format!!! :) Jur. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 14, 1999 6:25 PM To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no Subject: Re: Hardwarehelp wanted!! Any ideas? On Tue, 13 Apr 1999 17:55:11 +0200

RE: SCART Solution

1999-04-15 Thread Justin Skists
From: Aley Keprt [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Well, here comes the describtion of scart-to-scart cable, which can be used to connect Sam to TV, VCR or satellite. [description clipped] Cool. Thanks. I'll have a go at making one sometime! :) Jut.

RE: SCART Solution

1999-04-15 Thread Justin Skists
From: Si Owen [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Justin Skists wrote: [description clipped] Cool. Thanks. I'll have a go at making one sometime! :) Bagsy I try first! ;-) *LOL* Jut.

RE: WinNT (was: Re: SimCoupe protected disks)

1999-04-15 Thread Justin Skists
From: Aley Keprt [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Maybe we could make an coloured-boxes-on-hang-up emulator for PC... Heh.. cute! :) And what are good ones? Are those hang-up friendly coputers good? I'm getting to quite like this DEC AlphaServer sitting under my desk... I love the way it reboots

RE: Hardwarehelp wanted!! Any ideas?

1999-04-13 Thread Justin Skists
Hello SAM Coupe users Hi! :) I have been watching this maillist for some weeks now and I must say I´m impressed of how much it is being used I can see by the writers to the list that it is all who has been with SAM Coupe from the very beginning nice :-) Umm... Not quite all... And

RE: SAM Scart

1999-04-08 Thread Justin Skists
Si Owen wrote: Martin Fitzpatrick wrote: anyways... if you want it lemme know... (same goes for anyone else, though justin did bagsy, and i cant ignorr the rules of the playground Better let him have first pick, or he'll only get some of his friends to come and beat it out of me! *laughs*

RE: SAM Scart

1999-04-08 Thread Justin Skists
Aley asked: Well, I have made my own one several years ago too. I have connected coomposite out to my tv's composite in. That's all. And it works perfectly. Especially when my power supply is broken and i can see nothing when using regular tv-out. (can anybody help?) Well, the SAM makes the

RE: SAM Scart

1999-04-08 Thread Justin Skists
From: Dan Doore [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] i think it would be nice to get a diagram of the real scrat connector, and compare it to the sam's one. i hope many of us are able to make their own cable if we would know what pins to connect. The Pin-outs are in the back of the normal manual, and

RE: Connecting Sam to PC (was: Re: The State of things)

1999-04-08 Thread Justin Skists
Well, I would like to solve this problem by using my PC's hard drive on Sam. Is it possible to connect Sam to PC and use it's hard drive. It would be nice to have a parallel cable (as used in Norton Commander, or MS-DOS) and make a SamDOS which could cooperate with PC using this cable. Then we can

RE: something different.....

1999-04-07 Thread Justin Skists
A virus in mail? Really? Well, a virus embedded in an email. Ie, a macro that automatically runs as soon as you open the Word document. Is it possible to infect Windows NT running on LAN? (I read mails in school on Windows NT.) I hope neither Sam Coupe nor Windows NT can be infected by these

RE: SAM Scart

1999-04-07 Thread Justin Skists
So, what's the problem? Simply go to the shop and buy a standard vcr scart cable. No - as far as i remember, the SAM's SCART has a different pinout from standard SCART. That is what I heard, too... Justin.

RE: SAM Scart

1999-04-07 Thread Justin Skists
From: Si Owen [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Anybody know why a nice standard feature like a SCART became non-standard on the SAM? Real shame that... Probably to make a few bob for someone... (Like the use of BBC B printer cables instead of PC ones) Is anyone up to make a few bob from putting some

RE: Real Sam Users List 30th March 1999

1999-04-06 Thread Justin Skists
Johnna wrote: Took me a while to realise I wasn't Johnna Teare nor Lee Willis.. :) Eh? The poster of the list, mixed with my mailer which decided to word-wrap it all around the place, made it look like my name belonged to one address and my address belong to another name... Justin.

RE: Real Sam Users List 30th March 1999

1999-04-06 Thread Justin Skists
From: Lee Willis [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Oooh... Took me a while to realise I wasn't Johnna Teare nor Lee Willis.. :) Well I can assure you that you're not me, well at least I don't think you are, but in case you are can you fix this SAMBA problem I seem to be having right now ... Well..

I've moved...

1999-04-06 Thread Justin Skists
Gang, Who ever has my personal postal (snail) address should take note of this: I've moved out of Watford and into Milton Keynes... Anyone who wants/needs my new address, gimme a shout... Jut.

SAM Scart

1999-04-06 Thread Justin Skists
Guys... I'd like to get hold of a SAM-style SCART cable. Can anyone help? Justin.

RE: SAM Scart

1999-04-06 Thread Justin Skists
From: Si Owen [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Justin Skists wrote: I'd like to get hold of a SAM-style SCART cable. Can anyone help? Ooo, I'd like one too if it means I can hook it up to my TV (Sony)! immature Bagsy: I get the first one!!! /immature Jut.

RE: Red Dwarf

1999-03-17 Thread Justin Skists
I don't understand what has 'Red Dwarf' to do with Sam-users. Can you explain, Simon Cooke? i would guess that some SAM-users are Red Dwarf fans too? Jut.

RE: Red Dwarf

1999-03-17 Thread Justin Skists
From: Lee Willis [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Besides didn't anyone tell you that the special effects in the new Series of Red Dwarf were all rendered on a cluster of 32 SAMs ... Oh wow.. This is better than knowing tha Babylon 5 was originally done on a bunch of really powerful Amigas

RE: Vortex Assembler - Update

1999-03-16 Thread Justin Skists
From: Simon Cooke (Exchange) [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Flag Equates: Wow... I like that idea! - Data defines: DEFB - define series of byte values DEFW - define series of word values DEFF - define series of floating point/fixed point values Can I request DEFL as

RE: Anyone wanna help?

1999-03-01 Thread Justin Skists
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Is that like a Simon-Emulator (aka SimCoupe) ? When did you move over to the Dark Side Si? I guess that's something else I missed last year! Then it's a good job I didn't join SCO otherwise I'd be an enemy with the god-like SpecTec Jnr. Jut.

RE: Lyra 3

1999-02-22 Thread Justin Skists
From: The Mad Goose [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Here's a thought... What was the cheat mode to access the extra section in Lyra 3? And am I the only person in the SAM world who doesn't know it? Nope.. You're not the only person not to know it... In fact, I don't even know what Lyra 3 is...

RE: demobase

1999-02-22 Thread Justin Skists
From: The Mad Goose [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Permission to steal bones of demobase and stick it in the faq? Don't forget the heart and kidneys... Jut.

RE: Malcolm Mackenzie.

1999-02-15 Thread Justin Skists
in this increasingly deceitful world. It was very shocking to wake up to find the announcement of his passing. I wish I had gotten to know him more. My prayers go out to his soul, his wife and his children. May God bless them all. Justin Skists (Please pass this on)

Company insiders

1999-02-15 Thread Justin Skists
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Simon (NSFSMFT) Hey, this is pretty kewl, we've got an insider in Microsoft, we should get loads of juicy info now then, heheheh =o) So, what do we have then? We have Simon in MS... I'm in Aculab (will be) writing device drivers for ISDN cards

RE: sim-coupe

1999-02-12 Thread Justin Skists
From: Ian Collier [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Thu, Feb 11, 1999 at 07:27:00PM -0800, Simon Cooke wrote: At the moment, 99% of current PC's won't let you read sector 10. It's a pain. If the PC won't let you read sector 10 then how is anyone supposed to write a version of samdisk that works?

RE: Scart stuff

1999-02-05 Thread Justin Skists
From: The Mad Goose [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Now we now why the deal on new PSU's involves us returning our old shagged out ones... Ahhh sneaky... :) Could this also be the reason why Greenweild's ran out of PSUs? Bob bought the entire stock after he warned everyone not to use them? :)

RE:

1999-02-05 Thread Justin Skists
Someone /had/ to respond like that It was inevitable. Jut. -Original Message- From: Andrew Collier [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 05, 1999 10:53 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: At 10:37 am + 5/2/99, Malcolm Mackenzie wrote: who why

RE: who?

1999-02-05 Thread Justin Skists
Agreed. (Just to see if the guy who looks after it has realised I've changed email addresses) Jut. -Original Message- From: The Mad Goose [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 05, 1999 12:44 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: who? What I meant by that last one was

RE: 10th Birthday Party

1999-02-03 Thread Justin Skists
From: Simon Cooke 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. Ahhh.. Yes... The Babe of YS.. :) You've met her?

RE: Oh no! + Testing + More Oh no!

1999-02-03 Thread Justin Skists
From: David Laundon [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Testing So I've had to re-subscribe using my work address; has it worked? Yep.. As you may have noticed... More Oh no! Now that you know where I work you'll be able to find our web-site, including photos of everybody here (cringe)! Panic! Run! ;)

RE: Midi Stuff...

1999-01-26 Thread Justin Skists
From: Dave Hooper is midi REALLY 31.765 kHz? i never thought it was anything like that quick. (oh, that's probably in terms of bits, right? 31000 baud or something? not midi bytes) Yep. It really is that fast... 31250 baud It's derived (divided by 256) from the 8Mhz clock source in the

RE: Midi Stuff...

1999-01-26 Thread Justin Skists
From: Ian Collier On Tue, Jan 26, 1999 at 10:26:18AM -, Justin Skists wrote: Yep. It really is that fast... 31250 baud It's derived (divided by 256) from the 8Mhz clock source in the SAM...(fyti - for your trivial info) It's not *that* fast - the Speccy has 112 whole clock cycles

RE: Midi Stuff...

1999-01-25 Thread Justin Skists
David asked: Very impressed to hear about the E-Tracker to Midi program... As I said before, so am I.. I'd like to see it. There's also a small problem of matching the Tracker's samples to a MIDI voice. But, that's not such a problem if you have an expensive keyboard that you can upload voices

RE: Replacement power-supplies

1999-01-25 Thread Justin Skists
People, [snip] Tsk.. I must learn to spell words in the early morning monday blues... Justin

RE: Replacement power-supplies

1999-01-25 Thread Justin Skists
I reckon it should be fine, but I did hear once that switch-mode power supplies (as in PCs) aren't happy if you leave some of the lines unloaded - eg the -15v and -12v lines. So, in other words, it may be more appropriate to grab a 12v PSU from Maplin's (or somewhere), wire up an extremely simple

RE: Midi Stuff...

1999-01-25 Thread Justin Skists
Andrew Collier wrote: I've done a couple of ProTracker musics based on midi-files myself, and to be honest I don't think a converter routine would ever be able to do as good a job as a creative human. I'm inclined to agree here. Besides, I'm still trying to sit down and develop the application

RE: Replacement power-supplies

1999-01-25 Thread Justin Skists
From: Andrew Gale Doesn't sound like a bad plan. All I need now is a SCART TV (or, maybe, my video has a SCART Aux socket), a SAM-compatible SCART cable, a PSU, some bits from Maplins, a little time and some courage. Or you could always crack open the SAM PSU and connect the modulator in

RE: Midi Stuff...

1999-01-25 Thread Justin Skists
From: David Laundon BTW, my program doesn't actually convert an E-Tracker file to a MIDI file, it just translates the E-Tracker file as it plays the music. Basically it works like this... (now, how basic shall I make this? :) [snip] I understand what you mean now. It sounds as though, if

RE: Replacement power-supplies

1999-01-25 Thread Justin Skists
From: Andrew Gale Thinking about it, even RGB connections still need the composite video signal for synchronisation. so ignore my comments about not needing the 12v line! *grins* Okay. :) Justin.

RE: Midi Stuff...

1999-01-25 Thread Justin Skists
From: Ian Collier I don't think that's true, but anyway the MIDI interrupts are not essential, and their usefulness is somewhat reduced if you have to handle other kinds of interrupts going on at the same time. The MIDI-In interrupt is useful. :) But, with the MIDI-Out interrupt, I agree. In

RE: Hurrah!

1999-01-22 Thread Justin Skists
Colin wrote in response to me: Not bad tactics that, although going backwards doesnt help much if you reverse into a structure or something then have to go forward through a crowd of enemy cybercraft especially when you beyond the puny drones...! Yes.. That is a downfall. But, that's what the

RE: I am ten...

1999-01-22 Thread Justin Skists
In response ot Malcolm, Don`t know, but there is going to be another show in HORWICH on the 27th FEBUARY. Incidently my SAM was ten years old last year. Ummm... Where in the universe is Horwich??? Seriously though, there are loads of people who obviously only have a very vague interest in

RE: I am ten...

1999-01-22 Thread Justin Skists
It's near Bolton - on the side near Wanderers Reebok stadium. Reet near t'motorway as we say up 'ere int north (M61 that is, junction number erm, what's the junction David? Ian? Andrew? anyone?) Not quite a short distance from Watford then... :( Justin.

RE: I am ten...

1999-01-22 Thread Justin Skists
David Laundon wrote: You mean I'm not the only one who's interested in MIDI around here? Afraid not, matey! :) What have you been working on MIDI wise then, Justin? Well, there's MIDI-Bar which really only displays the notes from each channel from a MIDI device onto the screen as a series of

RE: It's nice to be back (Was: Sam power units)

1999-01-20 Thread Justin Skists
Question 3: Who's actually on this list now-a-days??? Justin. Oh lots of people (many of whom have taken up the new sport of Cookie-bashing) :( Maria. So it seems. :( Although I thought it was amazing that the last I heard was that he was thinking about the project (this was before December

RE: Hurrah!

1999-01-20 Thread Justin Skists
From: David [EMAIL PROTECTED] More SAM related topics me thinks? Who's got a least pathetic score than me on Stratosphere? Level 3? That is rather pathetic very pathetic even! You'd have only encountered the lowest form of Drone cybercraft by level and you were beaten by them? How did you

It's nice to be back (Was: Sam power units)

1999-01-19 Thread Justin Skists
Gavin wrote: Shit, I've heard about Greenweld so many times over the years, even enquired about the PSU's once, but never bothered to order any, and then as soon as I decide to order a few (I mailed them yesterday), they have none left. Okay, I'm looking for an extremely quiet SAM power

RE: Gavin Smith questions

1999-01-18 Thread Justin Skists
Who the hell is Frank Broughton, is he something like Kevin Smythe? :) Must be some kind of Howard Hughes - that's if he does exist? I'm led to believe he's Bob's brother-in-law or something like that. Oh God... You mean all that beer I had over christmas DIDN'T stop the

RE: BIG MESSAGE

1999-01-18 Thread Justin Skists
Forgive the title - that was just to make people take some notice. Can somebody tell me how to unsub from this list? MJC. Why would you want to unsub? Surely I haven't upset someone already? I've only been resubbed 5 minutes (ok, since Friday) Here's the quote from the SamUsers welcome

RE: Hello there

1999-01-15 Thread Justin Skists
Graham Goring wrote: I didn't notice that he was on the sofa, and unfortunatley I sat down and snapped his spine. The funeral's on Wednesday. ;) Bloody typical... I turn my back for one second.. justin.

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