Sam Hardware

2012-06-09 Thread nev young
over. If any one here has a wish list let us know and I'll put you in touch. Nev Young.

Re: Essential Sam Goodies

2012-04-13 Thread nev young
On 12/04/12 18:31, Stefan Drissen wrote: What?! You consider a few friend requests DOS? ;-) HAhahahha! ;-) I'm hoping it's just co-incidence but I started getting hit with about 1,000 page requests per min a couple of days ago. Constantly cycling through all pages on the site (I have 2Gb

Re: Yet more junk mail

2012-04-12 Thread nev young
Sometimes it feels like it's already gone on forever. I got the WAYN invite and also 4 invites to boxbe to different addresses that he has for me. I am thoroughly sick to death of this guy and as a result I have contacted solicitors to start proceedings for harassment against him. Now I have

Re: Essential Sam Goodies

2012-04-12 Thread nev young
Welcome Graeme, I'm glad you have managed to get the object of your youthful dreams and hope that it provides you with the hours of enjoyment and satisfaction that it has brought to many of us here. Also thanks for changing the current (off)topic of recent posts. Nev On 12/04/12 11:19,

Re: Essential Sam Goodies

2012-04-12 Thread nev young
line for a while because of a DOS attack. I hope to have it back soon. Nev On 12/04/12 13:06, nev young wrote: Welcome Graeme, I'm glad you have managed to get the object of your youthful dreams and hope that it provides you with the hours of enjoyment and satisfaction that it has brought

Re: Yet more junk mail

2012-04-12 Thread nev young
reply sent off list. On 12/04/12 15:46, James R Curry wrote: Would it help if I turned my filters off and started collecting mail myself? Though I'll warn you, I'm not likely to fly from the USA to appear in court. -- James R Curry On Apr 12, 2012, at 4:31 AM, nev

Re: Junk mail

2012-04-06 Thread nev young
On 06/04/12 21:16, Tommo H wrote: I received five emails this morning, at least two of them to the same long list of people as those that started this conversation. For the record, I've never considered him to be a troll because he doesn't seem deliberately to be trying to annoy anyone, and his

Re: Junk mail

2012-04-05 Thread nev young
On 04/04/12 23:39, da...@properbastard.co.uk wrote: Was it just me who was sent a huge number of un-requested files? I've added the sender to my email blacklist. * WOOT * My R* J* spam filter works! I got nothing at all :-) Nev

Re: Junk mail

2012-04-05 Thread nev young
On 05/04/12 11:06, Adrian Brown wrote: Ive got a nice rule that moves all messages to the bin ;) -Original Message- From: owner-sam-us...@nvg.ntnu.no [mailto:owner-sam-us...@nvg.ntnu.no] On Behalf Of Simon Owen Sent: 05 April 2012 00:31 To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no Subject: Re: Junk mail

Re: Coming back to haunt

2012-02-15 Thread nev young
On 15/02/12 16:29, Dave wrote: OK, I put a few names I remembered on as annotations. Yeah, the stalls were usually in the same places. I attended the first, the second and fourth and I think that the camera went each time. I'll try and find the other tapes sometime. Oh, the memories. Really

Re: Floppy drive problem

2012-01-19 Thread nev young
There was a hardware fix that with the addition of a small PCB let you use a standard PC floppy. You may be able to get hold of one of them. see this article in Format http://nevilley.no-ip.org/nfy53/sam/f_issue.php?issue=080509 -- nev On 19/01/12 18:01, Thomas Seifert wrote: the original

Re: Power supply circuit diagram

2012-01-15 Thread nev young
On 15/01/12 10:52, Aley Keprt wrote: Colin, thank you very much!!! Also I always wondered why there is a zener diode (I never saw this kind of computer power supply) instead of IO 7812. It's a cheap and nasty way of getting 12v. And technically, why there is that R1 resistor? Is its purpose

Re: Resistor R55

2011-10-04 Thread nev young
On 03/10/11 23:40, Andrew Collier wrote: On 3 Oct 2011, at 16:22, Thomas Harte wrote: It looks like a previous owner of my current SAM has had occasion to replace resistor R55, or at least, to solder an additional copy of R55 on top of the existing one. See

Re: Accessing Sam formatted disks through a USB floppy drive

2011-07-22 Thread nev young
On 22/07/11 15:38, Dicky Moore wrote: Hey all Has anyone had any luck in copying Sam-formatted floppy disks to .dsk or .mgt images using a USB floppy drive? Very little hope of doing that. All the programs I've seen, or written myself, need to access the floppy disk controller which you

Re: keyboard membrane replacement

2011-06-07 Thread nev young
On 06/06/11 15:21, Rich Mellor wrote: Hi Warren, If we can sort out the problem, then yes, I intend sending out replacements free of charge to those who have bought them and not returned them for a refund. Well said Rich. I remember doing the same free exchange when I cocked up UniDOS for

who wants some then ?

2011-06-04 Thread nev young
I notice from my web logs that somebody was trying to get the Games Master manual pdf from my site on the 31st. 188.65.183.51 - - [31/May/2011:01:53:27 +0100] My site is set up to disallow external links to images and pdfs so the request failed. Hope you enjoyed looking at the stone circles

Re: Sam Coupe Testing

2011-06-02 Thread nev young
On 02/06/11 17:27, Thomas Harte wrote: Sorry, I don't know most of the answers and am probably not about to be entirely helpful but since there don't seem to have been any other answers... Did any one see the reply I posted to this yesterday ? If not I'll try re-sending it. -- nev

Re: Sam Coupe Testing

2011-06-02 Thread nev young
On 31/05/11 16:40, Rich Mellor wrote: I just need to pick your brains if you don't mind (and maybe your spares pile)... I have replaced the TV lead from inside the power unit, and I get a picture on my TV. However, if the TV is tuned in properly - I get a black and white picture, otherwise

Re: OT CP/M + Locoscript

2010-08-09 Thread nev young
On 09/08/10 17:31, Simon Owen wrote: Hi Nev, If it's not too many disks I'll offer my services to dump them for you. I've got a 3 drive with a PC adapter and SAMdisk will dump them to a suitable format. Or you're welcome to borrow my hardware and do it yourself, depending on how sensitive

Re: OT CP/M + Locoscript

2010-08-07 Thread nev young
Hi Steve, Thanks for the follow-up. Unfortunately, he has had some setbacks and hasn't been able to get back to me yet with any disks to try it out yet. As I start a new job, away from home, on the 16th it looks like this may get kicked into limbo until next year. We don't believe in

OT CP/M + Locoscript

2010-07-31 Thread nev young
Somewhat off topic I know. A mate of mine has a number of 3 disks containing documents created by Locoscript on a CP/M machine. He can copy these to CP/M 3.5 (720K) floppies but then needs (wants) to transfer them to a PC. Probably running Linux but widows is not out of the question. As

Re: GamesMaster Manual

2010-07-23 Thread nev young
On 22/07/10 19:50, Frode Tennebø wrote: On Thu, 22 Jul 2010 19:59:01 +0200, nev young pasiphae1...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: Do you know of any other docs that need scanning in? If I have them I can scan them as well. Well, anything not already archived at ftp://ftp.nvg.ntnu.no/pub/sam-coupe/docs

Re: GamesMaster Manual

2010-07-23 Thread nev young
The bad news is I've found a proper games master manual and scanned that in now. (see my reply to Frode for location) nev On 23/07/10 08:18, war...@wdlee.co.uk wrote: Thanks Nev! That's superb! :-D Much appreciated! If/When I find my original manual, I was going to offer to scan it if there

Re: GamesMaster Manual

2010-07-22 Thread nev young
On 20/07/10 11:29, war...@wdlee.co.uk wrote: Hey all! Been a long time since I did anything for SAM, but I've been planning to have a go at creating something new over the next few months... Having moved house a few times in the last few years, I haven't a clue where my GamesMaster manual is

possibly a useful Z80 resource

2010-06-18 Thread nev young
http://www.z80.info OK so some of you may already know about it but it's new to me. -- nev

Re: possibly a useful Z80 resource

2010-06-18 Thread nev young
Hi Nev, though they don't seem to have heard of the SAM :-( Ian Hiya Ian, Long time no see. How ya doin? I was up in the attic yesterday searching for (something irrelevant that I never found) and went through my many crates of Sam Coupe stuff. Was amazed by what I have. For example;

Re: Some SAM hardware for sale

2010-05-22 Thread nev young
Frode Tennebø wrote: ftp://ftp.nvg.ntnu.no/pub/sam-coupe/docs/manuals/software/SAM%20Coup%E9%20Technical%20Manual.zip There are probably typos, but I was not aware of anything major... Is that the one that I typed up as a word doc years ago? If it's got errors and such then I'll be

Re: Micro Men

2009-10-15 Thread nev young
Stuart Brady wrote: Surely the PC must have already experienced a certain level of success for Compaq to have considered it worth cloning. Was the original IBM PC really that popular, or did the availability of MS-DOS on other non-PC compatible hardware contribute? I would guess that the

Re: Micro Men

2009-10-14 Thread nev young
Stuart Brady wrote: On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 06:13:24PM +0100, Thomas Harte wrote: Oh, I don't know. Surely Sinclair's model works only if you can establish yourself as the supplier of a proprietary computer aimed at the price conscious end of the market? I don't see how that could compete once

Re: Micro Men

2009-10-10 Thread nev young
Thomas Harte wrote: Almost the entire first half hour was set before I was born! I enjoyed it though, even with the slightly weird ending — we're meant to believe that Microsoft, Compaq and HP got a major leg up just because Sir Clive and Chris Curry fell out? And was Sir Clive really that mean?

Re: Micro Men

2009-10-09 Thread nev young
Dan Dooré wrote: Stefan Drissen wrote: Excellent, that was most enjoyable – thanks for the heads up! The old days eh… J Just watched it off the DVR - it was great to relive the whole Sinclair-Acorn thing whilst not being an excited 12 year old :-) I watched it last night. it was great to

Re: Hi - just checking

2009-08-03 Thread nev young
Ian Spencer wrote: Not heard anything on the group for quite a while so just thought I would send a 'test' to check it's not me that's got a problem and say hi to everyone. While looking for something else I came across this page and as a result have wasted most of the morning reading old

Re: Hi - just checking

2009-08-01 Thread nev young
Hi Roger, Could I ask that you don't sent your posts direct to me *and* the list. I'm on the list so I'm seeing it all twice. It all appears to be about cp/m, of which I know nothing, so I have to ignore it twice ;-) Thankx Nev

Re: Hi - just checking

2009-07-31 Thread nev young
Ian Spencer wrote: Not heard anything on the group for quite a while so just thought I would send a 'test' to check it's not me that's got a problem and say hi to everyone. I know you've all taken your Sam's to the beach and so no activity on the group. Dunno about the beach. I was

Re: Merry Christmas!

2008-12-05 Thread nev young
On 05/12/08 09:49, Simon Cooke wrote: Merry Christmas J I was digging through my old CDs, and I came across this: You know what's really scary. My mail program says this is a continuation of the Merry Christmas! thread started by Si in 1998 ! Merry Christmas times 10. -- Nev

Re: A little bit of news....

2008-12-02 Thread nev young
Adrian Brown wrote: Today DNS... Tomorrow... THE WORLD :D Oh jolly well done. Congrats on the baby too. Nev

Re: Grabbing floppy images

2008-06-16 Thread nev young
Thomas Harte wrote: Hmmm, so Sam DOS numbers tracks from 0, but sectors from 1? Or am I suffering a deficit of logic? Yes. sectors are 1-10. tracks are 0-79 the fun part (that used to throw many people) is the head selection. sam has: sector #C H S (cyl, head, sect) 1 0

Re: Wish me luck...

2008-02-28 Thread Nev Young
Simon Cooke wrote: I just sent out my first ever horror screenplay into the black inky void that is the Hollywood meat grinder. J I need all the good wishes I can get J Awww what the hell!!! Good luck :-) N

Re: Sam Family -1

2007-12-11 Thread Nev Young
Ian Spencer wrote: Sadly I have to report that the Sam family has just lost a long standing member. Bob Wilkinson who was a personal friend of mine and well known in Sam circles for his excellent Outwrite package. Passed away suddenly on the 1st December. At least his software will live on in

Re: Golden ASIC's

2006-05-04 Thread Nev Young
On Wed, 3 May 2006 21:17:14 +0100, Chris White [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have one sat inside my sam :D , it was designed to be used me too. -- Nev - Now blogging at http://www.livejournal.com/users/nevilley/ Please help to keep this new email address spam free. Do not pass it on to

FTP

2006-05-02 Thread Nev Young
Hi all, can any one remind me how to get into the ftp site at nvg? I had it all set up on a macro, which I lost somewhere, and now I can't get in at all. Get kicked out as shown below. Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600] (C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp. C:\ftp nvg.ntnu.no Connected

Re: FTP

2006-05-02 Thread Nev Young
On Tue, 2 May 2006 19:18:11 +0100, Colin Piggot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: C:\ftp nvg.ntnu.no Connected to nvg.ntnu.no. Connect to ftp.nvg.ntnu.no with the ftp. in front. Just tested without the ftp. as in your email and it doesnt connect as you show. Microsoft Windows XP [Version

Re: FTP

2006-05-02 Thread Nev Young
On Tue, 02 May 2006 20:12:59 +0100, Dan Dooré [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, so is it just me then ? Possibly :-D Yep it was me. I'm running peerguardian on the main server and it's blocking nvg.ntnu.no turning it off makes everything work OK. Thanks for the help. Nev -- Nev - Now

erm hello

2006-01-28 Thread Nev Young
On Mon, 3 Oct 2005 14:59:03 +0100 (GMT Daylight Time), That was the last message I got from this group. I suspect I stuffed up when I changed ISP. Have I missed much? Nev -- Nev - Now blogging at http://www.livejournal.com/users/nevilley/ Please help to keep this new email address spam free.

Re: Biggest Risk to SAM?

2005-08-03 Thread Nev Young
On Wed, 3 Aug 2005 01:49:01 +0100 (BST), Calvin Allett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: but what do you guys reckon` is the biggest risk for SAM's longterm survival/rememberance? It will exist for as long as we remember it. I keep thinking that the Spectrum scene needs something like this and yet

Re: Who`s missing?

2005-08-03 Thread Nev Young
On Wed, 3 Aug 2005 01:56:08 +0100 (BST), Calvin Allett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From memory alone who`s missing from posting here? H I wondered who was on the list but the who command appears to be blocked. -- Nev - please note that mail to address nevilley@ and anything

Re: Who`s missing?

2005-08-03 Thread Nev Young
On Wed, 03 Aug 2005 09:11:21 +0100, Nev Young [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 3 Aug 2005 01:56:08 +0100 (BST), Calvin Allett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From memory alone who`s missing from posting here? H I wondered who was on the list but the who command appears

Re: SAM PCB production

2005-01-23 Thread Nev Young
On Sat, 22 Jan 2005 22:25:28 +0100, Edwin Blink [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Colin Piggot [EMAIL PROTECTED] Just checked a fair few PCB's ... 48/49 seem to be very common production weeks but i've got one with week 47. So week 47 is the earliest sofar. I've also got a Week 48

Re: Format Vol 10 No 10 [1-32].pdf sample pdf issue

2005-01-20 Thread Nev Young
On Sat, 15 Jan 2005 18:41:18 EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have had a few positive comments about it so I will start the rest. Working backwards from Vol 12 No2 as if you have . Working backwards means we get the Sam bits. If you have Vol 12 No 3 on wards and would like to help -

Re: Format Vol 10 No 10 [1-32].pdf sample pdf issue

2005-01-14 Thread Nev Young
On Fri, 14 Jan 2005 16:26:20 +0100 (MET), Frode Tenneboe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just a few questions: - Page 2 - is it supposed to be like that? Yes. It was a mad idea of mine to have a landscape advert. So What do you think? Do you want more? Yes! Excellent stuff! Almost brought

RE: Format returns

2004-12-13 Thread nev . young
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yer - I was asking about this - If needed I could contact bob as I have several old format issues I could turn into pdf. I have the full set in my attic. Probably being eaten by spiders we you read. Nev

Re: SDI a nef diskimage format ?

2004-12-10 Thread nev . young
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Simon: 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? Just Like speccy has TAP

Re: Format returns

2004-12-09 Thread nev . young
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well not quite, but I was reading the latest issue of ZXF there (http://www.woodcock88.freeserve.co.uk/zxf/zxf.html) and there is news of WorldOfSpectrum gaining permission from our old friend Bob Brenchley to scan and distribute Formats! As the article points out,

Re: Format returns

2004-12-09 Thread Nev . young
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The best thing would be, if it is possible to reach Mr. Bob, was to see if it was possible to have the original files he used for his typesetting and convert from them. I have no idea what tool he used, but it should be possible to do a bulk conversion some way or

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

2004-11-20 Thread nev . young
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Howard Price [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And on the subject of the accelerator board, I remember Cookie showing one running Lemmings at the second Gloucester show that someone (can't remember was it Nev? don't think so) had built... what happened to that?

Re: So what's everyone up to?

2004-09-07 Thread nev . young
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, since you asked ;-) snip I'm sorry for all you guys being laid off, I almost feel guilty for doing rather well... Anybody else doing all right? Frans Well I'm not doing too badly. My 3rd marriage seems to be holding up after 3 years. My son is starting

Re: :-)

2004-04-10 Thread Nev Young
On Sat, 10 Apr 2004 09:41:05 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Wolfgang Haller) wrote: Hi Frans!? Not sure if it is really your mail. My virus scanner has detected a virus in the attachment (MsgInfo.zip, Netscape). So I left my hands off I confirm the file contains the W32/Bagle.genlpwdzip

Re: NVG

2004-03-23 Thread Nev Young
On Tue, 23 Mar 2004 17:21:39 -, Geoff Winkless [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 23 March 2004 17:17, Edwin Blink wrote: Can anyone access NVG ? 'Cause I Can't. Edwin Me neither. It pings ok. Probably not got the ftp server turned on. -- Nev - please note that mail to address nevilley@

Re: Norwich Spectrum and SAM Show (ORSAM 2003)

2003-11-06 Thread Nev Young
On Wed, 5 Nov 2003 23:44:55 +, Geoff Winkless [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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

Re: Norwich Spectrum and SAM Show (ORSAM 2003)

2003-11-01 Thread Nev Young
On Fri, 31 Oct 2003 14:44:38 +0100 (MET), Frode Tenneboe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 31 Oct 2003 13:18:19 GMT Tarquin Mills [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The first major Sinclair ZX Spectrum and Sam Coupé Computer Show (ORSAM 2003) in 5 years in the UK, is taking place next Saturday, 1st

Re: Norwich Spectrum and SAM Show (ORSAM 2003)

2003-11-01 Thread Nev Young
On Sat, 01 Nov 2003 17:15:34 +, Gavin Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday, November 01, 2003, at 05:11PM, Nev Young [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just want to wish you good luck with the event and to those who can attend; I wish I was there. :) pictures without words

Re: ORSAM Show...

2003-10-27 Thread Nev Young
On Sun, 26 Oct 2003 23:16:38 -, Colin Macdonald [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings all, Am looking into options for getting down to the show at the weekend, but given it'd be a 900-odd mile round trip for me, wanted to verify that it'll be a decent turn out - who all's going? I'll be

Re: Hardware....

2003-10-13 Thread Nev Young
On Sun, 12 Oct 2003 13:11:08 -0700, Simon Cooke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Nev Young [EMAIL PROTECTED] If it is a read of the ROM then you need to assert ROMCSL ROMCSRL to turn off the ROM. Dunno if you could do that fast enough to be effective within one read cycle though. I'm

Re: Hardware....

2003-10-11 Thread Nev Young
On Thu, 9 Oct 2003 23:27:41 +0100, Adrian Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, Someone might know (Colin?). What happens (is it even possible), if a piece of hardware on the euroconnector attempts to tap into a read on the normal memory address lines and send its own data, do the address lines

Re: East Coast takeover offer

2003-09-13 Thread Nev Young
On Fri, 12 Sep 2003 22:12:25 +0100, David [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 23 Aug 2003 16:15:25 +0100, Tarquin Mills [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can you let me have some idea of who / how many are comming so I can decide which function I attend. Sadly the other is a 3 day event

Re: East Coast takeover offer

2003-09-12 Thread Nev Young
On Sat, 23 Aug 2003 16:15:25 +0100, Tarquin Mills [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Geoff Winkless wrote: 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

Re: East Coast take over offer

2003-08-19 Thread Nev Young
On Mon, 18 Aug 2003 22:43:03 +0100, Adrian Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would certainly try to be there, Norwich is my home town. Which venue did you have in mind? Adrian. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tarquin Mills Sent:

Re: Some technical questions

2003-07-23 Thread Nev Young
On Wed, 23 Jul 2003 14:10:26 +0100, Colin Piggot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anybody know how IORQL, RDL, WRL reacts at the SAM? At the Spectrum it will set to 0 if active. Should it be 1 at the SAM if active, then this signals would be inverted with an Invertor. And as it looks, they

Re: who

2003-04-04 Thread Nev Young
On Wed, 2 Apr 2003 15:11:00 -0500 (Eastern Standard Time), James R Curry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: who Members of list 'sam-users': snippity 94 subscribers To which I feel the need to ask ... who ? How many of these bounce ? -- Nev - please note that mail to address nevilley@ may

Re: Whatever happened to...?

2003-03-28 Thread Nev Young
On Thu, 27 Mar 2003 01:04:48 -, Johnna Teare [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ...very disturbingly, when you type 'Bob Brenchley' into google, the first option it give you is titled 'Animal Abuse'. I often thought many things of the man, but never that...! Ah that'll be because of his activities

Re: Whatever happened to...?

2003-03-28 Thread Nev Young
On Fri, 28 Mar 2003 20:24:26 +, Nev Young [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: BOO ! Oh and while we're on the subject of lost people. I've just had a crimble card forwarded to me that was sent to my old address. It's from John Wase. Any one got an address/phone no/email for him so I can get

Re: Moment of truth

2003-01-20 Thread Nev Young
On Fri, 17 Jan 2003 16:23:07 +, Stuart Brady [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 10:11:53PM +, Nev Young wrote: 8) Would you develop a title for the sam still? A non games title perhaps. Would you mind expanding on this, please? I'm struggling to find tasks

Re: Moment of truth

2003-01-15 Thread Nev Young
On Wed, 15 Jan 2003 00:18:26 -, Adrian Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Lets run a little poll. Can people fill in the following and reply 1) Do you have an actual Sam Coupe: I have 3 or 4 complete ones somewhere and loads of bits. 2) Does it work? Last time I looked they did. 3) Do you

Re: Hi ho

2003-01-05 Thread Nev Young
On Sat, 4 Jan 2003 18:43:35 -0800, Simon Cooke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I were a lad... it were all different. All green fields! And we only programmed using 0's - we couldn't afford 1's. Many true things said in jest. :-) There are (were) some brands of eprom/prom/rom where you did

Re: Messenger Interface

2002-11-15 Thread Nev Young
On Thu, 14 Nov 2002 21:59:26 +0100, FvEgmond [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ah, the GAL is protected from reading is it? Darn... I have succesfully cloned the Multiface 3 for the Spectrum, though! I believe that Bruce always protected them from being read :-( -- nev

Re: Messenger Interface

2002-11-14 Thread Nev Young
On Thu, 14 Nov 2002 00:19:23 +0100, FvEgmond [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sounds nice. Does anyone want to sell one? Or are there schematics anywhere? Frans I have a schematic for it but you will not be able to build one from it as you will not know how to program the GAL16V8 chip. I don't

Re: Who knows a SVAR for me?

2002-11-04 Thread Nev Young
On Thu, 31 Oct 2002 21:58:27 -, Colin Piggot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If the SAM is not used for about 18 minutes, the SAM goes to a blank screen. This must be handled by a system variable. Does anybody know, which SVAR does handle it? To disable it - POKE 5A32,1 To see the

Re: Re ASIC chip

2002-10-05 Thread Nev Young
On Sat, 05 Oct 2002 13:47:23 +0100, Samsboss [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: very big evil grin Samsboss Nice try Nev. Bugger !

Re: unsubscribe

2002-10-05 Thread Nev Young
On Sat, 5 Oct 2002 14:16:37 +0100, Stuart Brady [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Oct 04, 2002 at 07:29:59PM +0200, Aley Keprt wrote: And what problems prevent the mail system to be smart and accept unsub sequests sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED] too? All humans here surely understand what people

Re: Sam Tech Manual

2002-10-04 Thread Nev Young
On Fri, 4 Oct 2002 08:19:12 +0200 (MEST), Frode Tenneboe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 3 Oct 2002 20:55:24 +0100 Andrew Collier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday, October 3, 2002, at 12:08 am, Simon Owen wrote: I borrowed Acrobat for TurboMON PDF, which was also created from

Re: Sam Tech Manual

2002-10-04 Thread Nev Young
On Fri, 4 Oct 2002 08:29:18 +0200 (MEST), Frode Tenneboe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 04 Oct 2002 07:28:15 +0100 Nev Young [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Both a .pdf and .doc version is now on ftp.nvg.ntnu.no:/pub/sam-coupe/docs. Cheers, Both versions transfer back OK. I'll try

Re: Sam Tech Manual

2002-10-03 Thread Nev Young
On Thu, 3 Oct 2002 00:08:31 +0100, Simon Owen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nev Young wrote: But could at least some of you check out http://www.nfy53.demon.co.uk/sam/Sam_Manual.doc Great job, looks excellent! It's very close to the original format, and This was the idea. I started from

Re: Sam Tech Manual

2002-10-03 Thread Nev Young
On Thu, 3 Oct 2002 08:58:23 +0100, Simon Owen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nev Young wrote: btw, the old OCR'd tech manual doesn't include the sound and disk controller documents, if that's the main reason you're after it. Ah yes it only has in what I have produced but without correcting

Sam Tech Manual

2002-10-02 Thread Nev Young
Hello Guys, It's been a long slow process and it's still not finished. But could at least some of you check out http://www.nfy53.demon.co.uk/sam/Sam_Manual.doc It's still in MS word format at the mo and I still have to do the Appendices. But any proof reading would be useful. Nev

Re: özür dileriz

2002-09-15 Thread Nev Young
On Sun, 15 Sep 2002 17:12:42 -0400, Burak Ercetin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: html head meta http-equiv=Content-Type content=text/html; charset=windows-1254 titleSMSTR avjgmoehbnalobdmxj/title/head snip Versiyon 7.3 u indirmek için buraya tiklayiniz/a/font/p /body /html Look guys, some of

Re: Linux Format

2002-08-16 Thread Nev Young
On Fri, 16 Aug 2002 10:56:14 +0100, Adrian Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know the need for a bigger house, im not single so my wife nags me about the number of old computers. You could always get a smaller / more tolerant wife. :-)

Re: Copyright etc

2002-08-15 Thread Nev Young
On Thu, 15 Aug 2002 15:42:07 +0100, Gavin Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I *really* hate to bring this up again, but I need to ask your opinions...I'll paste the below and I'd be very interested in your opinions either on or off list, especially if you've ever developed or published SAM

Re: SimCoupé/Win32 beta 4

2002-07-26 Thread Nev Young
On Fri, 26 Jul 2002 08:46:57 +0100, Luke Trevorrow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why does BDOS work on a floppy by floppy basis? Is it some limitation with the SAM Coupe that stops you from having one big disk like on a PC? Yes, the disk directory structure is fixed to expect 80 tracks of 10

Re: SimCoupé/Win32 beta 4

2002-07-25 Thread Nev Young
On Thu, 25 Jul 2002 16:54:30 +0100, Luke Trevorrow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I too have had good fun using the Atom HD emulation, but agree that the system is limited to emulating the running environment (which admittedly is what SIM Coupe is for). Why does BDOS work on a floppy by floppy

Re: error 404

2002-07-11 Thread Nev Young
On Mon, 8 Jul 2002 09:20:35 +0100 , Winkless, Geoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nev Young wrote: they're about 3000 x 2000 pixels and the jpegs are 440K - 825K. I can try and redo them at lower resolution but I'm scanning from the tech manual and it's a poor photo copy to start

Re: error 404

2002-07-11 Thread Nev Young
On Sun, 07 Jul 2002 11:30:36 +0200, Frans van Egmond [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think a lower resolution would be a bad idea... Keep them the way they are now... Will you be doing the whole tech manual at some point, perhaps as a Pdf ? Thanks. Well If I can find the time I can scan it in

Re: error 404

2002-07-07 Thread Nev Young
On Sat, 06 Jul 2002 19:29:11 +0200, Frans van Egmond [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Absolutely, what size did you scan them in? they're about 3000 x 2000 pixels and the jpegs are 440K - 825K. I can try and redo them at lower resolution but I'm scanning from the tech manual and it's a poor photo

error 404

2002-07-06 Thread Nev Young
Hi guys, I was just doing an out_of_date_link check on my web pages[1] and found that http://www.argonet.co.uk/users/sskardon is no longer valid. Has it gone to somewhere else or just gone. -- Nev [1] yes I know I should do that more often. !

web ring

2002-07-06 Thread Nev Young
who looks after the web ring cos it's broken at www.stoneddesign.co.uk which is link http://V.webring.com/hub?ring=samcoupeid=14go -- Nev

Re: error 404

2002-07-06 Thread Nev Young
On Sat, 6 Jul 2002 11:08:17 +0100, Stewart Skardon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Guess this is a prompt for me to make a rare appearance on the list! That's right, my site is now based at www.sskardon.fsnet.co.uk, but www.sam-coupe.co.uk is the url I always quote as I think it's slightly easier

Re: Circuitry diagram

2002-07-02 Thread Nev Young
On Mon, 1 Jul 2002 22:05:39 +0200, Aley Keprt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please can anybody tell me where is it possible to get circuitry diagram of Sam Coupe? I have cct diagrams for most of the sam and add ons. I could scan them for you. Is there any part in particular you need? Nev

Re:

2002-05-09 Thread Nev Young
On Thu, 9 May 2002 17:45:25 +0200 (MEST), Frode Tenneboe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: who why

Re: Please remove

2002-04-06 Thread Nev Young
On Sat, 06 Apr 2002 21:00:08 GMT, Tarquin Mills [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Fred Bloggs wrote: Who/what is Samsboss? B** B Hush! He may still be listening ! Others can tell you why if the want. I can't think why any one sane would want. But apparently the old sock puppet master

Re: need an idea of selling value (i am selling my setup)

2002-03-04 Thread Nev Young
On Mon, 04 Mar 2002 13:22:27 +, Andy in Norwich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, i have a complete MGT Sam Coupé 512k with 1 megabyte external memory and printer interface, extension motherboard, loads of disks of software, technical manual etc. is anyone interested in buying it, or

Re: A Sam-related post :-)

2002-01-07 Thread Nev Young
On Mon, 7 Jan 2002 10:17:35 +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So the question is, if I pop out and get a PC PSU and use it as a direct replacement for the Sam PSU will it work without any additional modification? Yes it works just fine. I've been running my sams like that for ages. The

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