-Original Message-
From: Gavin Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no
Date: 01 December 1999 10:44
Subject: Re: Hello
We haven't had much of an on-topic argument for a while now, it's
getting rather dull :)
How about Whatever happened to Colin
Not speaking for Simon (and not necessarily about Seattle, either... [so why am
I responding?!]) American cities are rather well designed. The roads are
configured in a grid formation, and one block would be one square on that
grid.
Britain should adopt that method, but of course that would
From: Ian Collier [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Oh... didn't see this
On Wed, Dec 01, 1999 at 11:57:08AM -, Nick Humphries wrote:
(who works in the City and saw the j18 stuff first-hand.
J18? I don't remember you at the committee meetings.
Oh. You probably didn't mean the ITIC J18 standard, did you
From: Simon Cooke [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Panic over. Use of WFC was a panic measure - the solution was just to
program
Java properly.
snip
WFC is not for Applets... it's for Windows programs.
I just wish VJ++'s help files documented the stuff which MS replaced in WFC.
Things like mouseOver and
-Original Message-
From: Simon Cooke [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no
Date: 25 November 1999 15:27
Subject: Re: OT: Java WFC Help!!
From: Nick Humphries [EMAIL PROTECTED]
WFC is not for Applets... it's for Windows programs.
I just wish VJ++'s help
graphics class, but I need to
know:
1) How to initialize the WFC Graphics class so it will draw to the java applet
window within the web page, and
2) How to get paint() to read from the WFC graphics class when redrawing.
Nick Humphries.
(Stressed)
Actually, what I could use is a Java applet program source code that uses WFC so
I can make sure I'm initializing and using it correctly.
If anyone can help, I'd be their friend for life!
Nick
Panic over. Use of WFC was a panic measure - the solution was just to program
Java properly.
Nick
Wasn't it just MIDI Sequencer?
-Original Message-
From: James Gasson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no
Date: 19 November 1999 09:38
Subject: Question: MIDI sequencing
Ok everyone, I've just got a MIDI keyboard. Now I know there was a
program for Sam that
From: Andrew Collier [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ISTR a post on here during the flood from Simon Cooke which said he'd faked a
post using his Sparticus account to unsub David L. From that moment on, things
went tits up, during which Simon unsubbed to avoid. Time to email him to tell
him everything's
*** FORWARD FAR AND WIDE - COULD BE IMPORTANT ***
Hi y'all,
Just discovered that someone's tried to sabotage my guestbook by using a bit of
rogue Javascript. As far as I can see, the person tried to create a link that,
when clicked, would spawn an infinite number of unresizable browser windows
ISTR a post on here during the flood from Simon Cooke which said he'd faked a
post using his Sparticus account to unsub David L. From that moment on, things
went tits up, during which Simon unsubbed to avoid. Time to email him to tell
him everything's fixed.
Nick
-Original Message-
From: David L [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no
Date: 05 October 1999 23:30
Subject: Re: SAM Community
- Original Message -
From: Johnna Teare [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no
Sent: Tuesday, October 05, 1999 3:31 PM
From: Chris White [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On a lighter note , Does anyone want to increase my Image Collection ( only
if you own the copyright to said image )
It might be an idea for those who do own copyright and don't own images to make
their feelings known as well, since one of us might have an
From: Chris White [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Oh Nick can I you consent to have the following put on me Grave Stone
I've always been an advocate of the Chris White Method
(do things first, ask questions later).
No probs - I sometimes refer to it at work, thus confusing everyone instantly :)
Nick
From: Justin Skists [EMAIL PROTECTED]
A need fuelled by Sony's advertising strategy. All quick bursts, no
substance. And I find that 'Mental Wealth' ad slightly disturbing...
I haven't seen this advert, yet...
The one with the alien-like girl? VERY good make-up job that - doesn't look
fake,
From: Andrew Gale [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The one with the alien-like girl? VERY good make-up job that - doesn't look
fake, really strikes home.
No it doesn't. It is just disturbing. And meaningless.
And, I'm told, it's not dissimilar to a particular deformity some
kids are born with
From: Chris White [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[Prince Of Persia]
But it did sell 1500+ Copies for Sam Co
Hmmm... that's got me thinking... When SAMCo went down, Alan Miles put poor
sofware sales down to putting demos on the NewsDisk - he complained that out of
a user base of 1500, only five people
From: Justin Skists [EMAIL PROTECTED]
You're right - I don't think I ever bought a game due to it's demo.
In the days before multimegabyte game demos, I'd read the game review first,
play the demo if one was available, THEN buy it. ISTR various reports for the
ECTS this year saying that the
From: Justin Skists [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I think the PS2 will crush thee opposition anyway. It was always going to.
Because:
a) It will let you watch DVD stuff.
b) It's backward compatible with the original PlayStation.
c) I like the look of the casing.
The casing is very Sinclair-ish, isn't it?
From: Stewart Skardon [EMAIL PROTECTED]
My worst game ever had to be the 'Mindgames' collection. I can't believe that
it was even released.
Well it WAS released during the Horace Goes Skiing phase of SAM games
development...
Nick
From: Martin Fitzpatrick [EMAIL PROTECTED]
This has got me intrigued Sad that this is going to be what finally
encourages to dig the Sam out off the shelf.. :).. Which disk was this
on btw? Otherwise I'll be searching for hours...
Fred 3 - the first SAM disk I ever bought :)
Nick
From: Dan Dooré [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Fred 3 - the first SAM disk I ever bought :)
Whoa! Snap!
I wouldn't be surprised - that was the first disk to get a glowing review in a
computer mag.
Nick
From: Andrew Collier [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Mon, 20 Sep 1999, Gavin Smith wrote:
What was Coloris?
A very simple Columns clone by, er, Stephan Haller, was that his name?
The best Columns game on the SAM was the one on one of the Arcadia disks - used
to play that for hours, I think my longest
From: Simon Cooke [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I'm putting a whole chunk of source code online...
Wot no Statues Of Ice?
I'll get me coat...
Nick
(purveyor of old jokes)
From: Simon Cooke [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I have no idea what came over me there.. I do apologize :)
No probs - I've been called worse :) For instance, I've just been told that the
Java scrolly on the front page of the YSRnRY sometimes crashes NT4 if you read
it right to the end... that'll teach me
-Original Message-
From: Robert Brady [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no
Date: 16 September 1999 13:34
Subject: Re: *ahem*
On Thu, 16 Sep 1999, Nick Humphries wrote:
From: Simon Cooke [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I have no idea what came over me there.. I do
from his YS experiences.
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Nick Humphries - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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-- The Your Sinclair Rock'n'Roll Years --
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On Sun, 29 Aug 1999 17:50:43 +0100 Sun, 29 Aug 99 18:29:21 BST, you wrote:
Just in case you peeps miss this
http://burnallgifs.org/
Well, to use a vile Americanism - they can kiss my ass!
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Nick Humphries - [EMAIL
From: Johnna Teare [EMAIL PROTECTED]
There's nothing stopping people from putting the files up there now
- stick them on an ftp in another country, Russia for example, and
you'd have a nightmare trying to bring a copyright suit against
them. However, the whole thing is much better done in
The SAM isn't dead. Not in the technical sense anyway - people are still
developing for it, albeit on a VERY small scale. But there are some basic facts
we should all be told:
* How many new SAMs are being sold a month?
If we're talking about single figures here (or even zero) then it's time to
From: Robert Wilkinson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I am willing to allow Outwrite to be downloaded by anyone that wants it just
as long as I retain copyright.
Im new to this sort of thing (only had a modem for about 4 weeks) so how do
I go about
it.
I also have a Morse code tutor written for the Sam.
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so I can distinguish between which emu took which shot and process them
accordingly.
Extra screenshots should appear on the site within the two weeks after
you've sent them to me.
Many thanks for any help you can give me.
--
- Nick Humphries, via DejaNews-
-(Home email
From: Ian Collier [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thu, Aug 12, 1999 at 10:54:09AM +0100, Nick Humphries wrote:
Any picture format is welcome, so long as it isn't compressed (so GIF,
PCX, BMP and PNG is OK, but JPEG isn't).
But GIF, PCX and PNG are compressed. You of course meant lossily
compressed
-Original Message-
From: Simon Cooke [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hmmm... what about screenshots that weren't taken by an emulator... like my
SAM Lemmings, Prince of Persia and Exodus ones? You wouldn't happen to have
a [EMAIL PROTECTED] thingy set up would you? :) :) :)
grin
As it happens, I
From: James R Curry [EMAIL PROTECTED]
What about JPEG with the compression level set at zero? Is *THAT*
alright?
Yeah, that's fine.
Nick
-Original Message-
From: Andrew Collier [EMAIL PROTECTED]
What about [EMAIL PROTECTED] then? I can take screenshots of
programs which SimCoupe can't run, but (as has been discussed to death
already) the quality isn't exactly perfect.
That's fine - anything is better than nothing at the
-Original Message-
From: Rob Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Er and what or who is the Spectrum Oracle?
SPOT - Spectrum Oracle on Trumpton.
It's somewhere off the Your Spectrum Unofficial Archive at
http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~jimg/
Nick
From: Ian Collier [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Fri, Jul 30, 1999 at 07:34:44PM -0700, Simon Cooke wrote:
BTW: I've recently left Microsoft and am starting a new job at Sierra
software soon...
So... remind us why you defected to the US again? :-)
I mean, now you have left Microsoft you didn't have the
-Original Message-
From: Ian Collier [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no
Date: 30 July 1999 15:50
Subject: Re: Hello again...
On Thu, Jul 29, 1999 at 04:13:43PM +0100, Nick Humphries wrote:
Maybe it's a compromise. Consider this: how much business would
From: Ian Collier [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thu, Jul 29, 1999 at 09:32:16AM +0100, Andrew Collier wrote:
Actually we're using BT Clickfree at home - there's a monthly charge of
around 10 UKP, but for that you get really-free access at weekends. And
considering we generally max out our 56k modem
From: Ian Collier [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thu, Jul 29, 1999 at 11:43:10AM +0100, Nick Humphries wrote:
See http://www.clara.net
as
I expect they'll have a big announcement about it.
Well they do, but it doesn't tell you how they achieve
From: Ian Collier [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Depends how it's funded. I am genuinely curious to know how a company can
stay afloat offering 192 hours of free 0800-number access and any number of
hours of normal access for 11 pounds. How much does an 0800 call actually
cost the company?
The trick
From: Andrew Collier [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thu, 29 Jul 1999, Nick Humphries wrote:
From: Ian Collier [EMAIL PROTECTED]
How much does an 0800 call actually
cost the company?
The trick appears to be to not use an 0800 number.
But this service *does* use an 0800 number
ClaraNET's
From: Ian Collier [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thu, Jul 29, 1999 at 12:56:06PM +0100, Nick Humphries wrote:
From: Ian Collier [EMAIL PROTECTED]
How much does an 0800 call actually
cost the company?
The trick appears to be to not use an 0800 number.
As has
From: Dan Dooré [EMAIL PROTECTED]
BTW, Actually got a new submission to the Sam Webring
(http://www.podboy.demon.co.uk/coupe/webring) the other day - It's a pity
the page it points to doesn't actually exist ;-)
I _knew_ there was something else to do in the YSRnRY revamp... I'll add my SAM
From: Chris White [EMAIL PROTECTED]
These YS Articule's , are they online anywhere ??
Yay! Plug time!
I'm the webmaster of the Your Sinclair Rock'n'Roll Years, which can be found at:
http://www.the-den.clara.net/ys/cover.htm
It's has all sorts of things on it, including around 600
The first rule you'll learn when in any support job (or involved with anything
that's directly available to the public):
People are stupid.
Nick
The YS Rock'n'Roll Years carries a load of original YS articles and reviews.
Here's an email that was sent to me in response to seeing a review of Monty On
The Run:
---start---
I cant beleive you still expect people to pay for a game thats ten years
old come on, it was designed for the
From: Justin Skists [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Are you having a best of email responses section on those pages? :)
I would do, but haven't really got enough material to start a dedicated section.
There's also a load of emails along the lines of YS's World Of The Speccy
letters section...
An idea for
From: Nick Humphries [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Correction:
I thought DOS systems viewed long file names as wibble~1.zip or whatever? If
so,
then so long as the files required in the emulator program itself are in 8.3
format, the sight of ~1 would be ugly, but the file would still be useable.
I meant
From: Andrew Collier [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Fri, 16 Jul 1999, Justin Skists wrote:
I don't think the long filename should be a problem - how many people
still use DOS outside of Windows95/98/NT any more?
I do!
(Then again, I'm a multi-platform software engineer..)
In that case, I'll
From: Justin Skists [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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 very
Windows much, you can probably tell...
DOS prompt, you can.. but DOS programs treat them with the twiddles..
Good,
From: Stuart Brady [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Simon Cooke wrote:
He might be attempting to make the win32 version better than the others?
SO WHAT?
Oh no... that's a Microsoft tactic, isn't it, so there /can't/ be
anything wrong with it...
Innovation is a good thing. Speaking as a programmer, I know
, but this is not the case.
Stuart Brady wants the sources for ?something?, but other people just
want to do a beta testing, and they possibly can find some bugs in the
source.
But it's obviously not ready yet, otherwise it would have been released.
btw. Nick Humphries, Don't you make something for Sam
From: Aley Keprt [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Oh yea, Prince and Klax are from Domark. What is Domark? Or Tengen?
Is it another Enigma-like company which did a few great games in 1990?
Domark have been in the Speccy business since about 1984/5, probably most famous
for geting the James Bond licence and
From: Andrew Collier [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Generally, the big companies (like Domark) paid very little attention to
the Sam, and it was only when little companies (or individuals) programmed
their Sam games for them that anything actually got released.
Indeed, and usually only following the Chris
From: Stuart Brady [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Then again, Windows programmers are all alike -- they've got no respect
for other platforms. DOS programmers are about as bad, too: Go and get
DOS because it's the right STANDARD -- if we listened to that sort
of advice, we'd all be living in trees.
From: Andrew Collier [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thu, 1 Jul 1999, Stuart Brady wrote:
Good compression is something that you really need on the SAM, so that's
why I *really* don't think you should use Z80's method. You'd get better
compression from something like zlib.
Personally I don't see
From: Andrew Collier [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thu, 1 Jul 1999, Nick Humphries wrote:
From: Andrew Collier [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Personally I don't see anything wrong with the currect tactic of saving
.dsk images and gzipping them.
PCs don't have gzip by default. What's wrong with writing a custom
From: Lee Willis [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Nick Humphries [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
PCs don't have gzip by default. What's wrong with writing a custom
compression
routine which is portable between the various platforms?
PCs don't have sim-coupe by default. Your point?
Well, you could make
enough. Reminds me of when I was using a zip library a few years ago
(Greenleaf?). It's a lot neater to have compression/uncompression withing the
code itself rather than doing a system() or whatever to an external program.
Nick Humphries
-Original Message-
From: Stuart Brady [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no
Date: Thursday, July 01, 1999 3:45 PM
Subject: Re: New: SimCoupe 0.783a
Nick Humphries wrote:
PCs don't have gzip by default.
PCs? You mean *WINDOWS*, don't you?
Yes, which
out, I wasn't being unreasonable at all about
asking for fewer exteral programs for SimCoupe to be reliant on.
Nick Humphries.
PS. It might be an idea if you read all the messages in a thread before you
respond, and that you take time to understand where I'm coming from.
PPS. Don't you ever get
This SAM Users List has recently become unfilterable for some reason (I used
to filer on To: for sam-users). Can there be some sort of change so that,
say, the Subject: field starts with SU: or something?
--
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Nick Humphries
Nyah nyah n-nya nyaah
I've just seen all 8 episodes of season 8 of Red Dwarf.
Ah Smug Mode On, Sir.
What a smee...
What a smee...
What a smeeh!
Nick
.
I only had brief contact with him, but I only wish there were more people in
the industry like him.
My condolences.
--
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Nick Humphries - [EMAIL PROTECTED
, but it's just
too good to miss. (Sorry.)
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Nick Humphries - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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that...
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Nick Humphries - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Nick Humphries - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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-- The Your Sinclair Rock'n'Roll Years --
--- http://www.the-den.clara.net/ys/cover.htm ---
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. YS printed their
stuff first) but after that, copyright is owned by the witers themselves,
hence my attempt to get hold of as many as possible.
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Nick Humphries - [EMAIL PROTECTED
On Tue, 02 Feb 1999 13:19:40 PST Tue, 2 Feb 99 21:24:29 GMT, you wrote:
Linda Barker? (grin) Certainly one of YS's more interesting editors,
maybe not very Sam-related, but we don't *really* need to be that
strict, do we?
Ahem.
She had a voice like sunshine, and was cute as hell to boot.
And
On Tue, 02 Feb 1999 21:24:10 GMT Tue, 2 Feb 99 21:30:22 GMT, you wrote:
On Tue, 02 Feb 1999 13:19:40 PST Tue, 2 Feb 99 21:24:29 GMT, you wrote:
Linda Barker? (grin) Certainly one of YS's more interesting editors,
maybe not very Sam-related, but we don't *really* need to be that
strict, do we?
right, did Bill order anything from
you?
God knows... I sold 20 of 'em, and it was nearly ten years ago...
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Nick Humphries - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
-ICQ #22773485-
The Your Sinclair Rock'n'Roll Years
http
Persona, Fred, Sam Supplement, SC software, Lerm, Nick Humpries (Midi
Ummm... where do I come into this?
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Nick Humphries - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
-ICQ #22773485-
The Your Sinclair Rock'n'Roll Years
http
.
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Nick Humphries - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
-ICQ #22773485-
The Your Sinclair Rock'n'Roll Years
http://www.the-den.clara.net/ys/cover.htm
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On Thu, 19 Nov 1998 15:22:07 EST, you wrote:
Dave has manage to blow his computer!
Isn't that illegal in some countries?
Moving on...
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Nick Humphries - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
-ICQ #22773485-
The Your Sinclair
) You'll find 32 of his reviews on there.
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Nick Humphries, [EMAIL PROTECTED], at your service
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The Your Sinclair Rock'n'Roll Years
http://www.the-den.clara.net/ys/cover.htm
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- it covers
the MGT and SAMCo times, plus a bit more.
Enjoy!
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Nick Humphries, [EMAIL PROTECTED], at your service
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The Your Sinclair Rock'n'Roll Years
http://www.the
Machine? Something like that. I _was_
a bit happy with a few of the functions used in the programs themselves, but
you'd have to look at he source to appreciate them really.
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Nick Humphries, [EMAIL PROTECTED], at your service
On Sat, 17 Oct 1998 22:49:17 -0700 Sat, 17 Oct 98 23:12:08 BST, you wrote:
Sound Machine IIR...
Free for Blitz subscribers with issue 4
;)
Please tell me you're joking - that's like putting GAC on a magazine cover
tape...
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Nick
of progs for
FRED and made and sold the overwelmingly underwelming CursorDisk (the venture
made precisely 58p profit). Currently running the YS Rock'n'Roll Years (which
is now slowly covering the SAM scene as it happened).
Hello.
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Nick Humphries
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