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?
Not me either I'm afraid. If I could do there and back in a day by train
then I'd have gone, and even
You're not kidding when you say the FAQ is old in those pages...
Well Graham G used to do it, and then stopped (can't remember why) - since
all the information was already elsewhere, didn't seem worth adding to it.
Are there any frequently asked questions these days though?
Tim
Given mono.org's personal home pages have been gone so long that google
denies all knowledge of my pages, I thought time had come to get a domain
name I could use until the end of time.
Hence the Sam Coupé Scrapbook can now be found at
http://www.samcoupescrapbook.co.uk/ which should redirect to
Well, it's not coming through the list... otherwise we'd all have received
it.
I was thinking more of emails pulled from list archives / lists of members
on the web. But looks like I'll have to scratch my head a bit longer
It's quite amazing how easily email spam gets to people - I
Has anyone else been getting this a load of passworts spam recently?
The headers say it's coming direct to me, rather than via the list, but I'm
pretty careful about giving out my email address, and can't think where else
it might have come from.
Cheers,
Tim
RETRO DON'T POST BINARIES /RETRO
retro sigs shouldn't be more than 4 lines long/retro ;-)
I'm proud to say I have every fred, and the first 20 (the ones before I
subbed) where, urm, individually mastered for my personal collection (i.e.
At some point I gave Colin 20 blank disks, and got fresh
There seem to be two groups, those who want the same and keep using it,
and
those who have one sitting in a loft somewhere. For those in the latter
group, are you willing to sell on some bits and pieces to those who are
still using theirs? Sell them to a good home so to speak? Or are you
1) Do you have an actual Sam Coupe:
Yes
2) Does it work?
Last time I tried - Yes.
3) Do you still use it?
No
4) How many bits of sam software have you got?
Half a dozen games, a couple of bits of utility, lots of Fred
5) Do you still actively seek new sam bits and pieces?
No
6)
For those who don't read it,
this months Linux Format includes SimCoupe in the feature on Emulators,
giving it almost a full page and some good press.
Huzzah!
Tim
- Original Message -
From: Simon Owen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Thomas Harte wrote:
I don't suppose if someone with the magazine could check
quickly whether my small emulator, ElectrEm (it does the
Acorn Electron) is in there?
The emulator articles (by Simon N Goodwin) have been running
found that http://www.argonet.co.uk/users/sskardon is no longer valid.
Guessing that means Stewart Skardon, I've currently linked to:
http://www.sskardon.fsnet.co.uk/
(which is probably the real location of www.sam-coupe.co.uk, not to be
confused with www.samcoupe.co.uk or www.samcoupe.com).
-Original Message-
do you think the people who rename the dumps are telepathic,
if you've got bloody problems
or want to bitch about thats not what you would have called it, then EMAIL
the address IN THE README,
Urm, I was going to. My whole point was to see if anyone knew who to
stuff about GoodSam including in an attachment
Fashoom! (1997) (Sad Snail Productions)
/stuff
News to me :-)
Actually it is mine, but not what I'd have called it. Anyone know who
compiles the list without me having to work to find it out?
Tim
From: Dean Woodyatt [EMAIL PROTECTED]
so why not embrace that not bitch about it, chances are EVERYONE on the
group has sam related software that they shouldnt have, so stop being so
bloody hypocritical.
I don't.
Hmm although I may have bought some software off a certain company who
it has
From: Simon Owen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Was a bit of a bugger to convert too - took almost an hour!
Yah!
Hurrah for Simon!
Tim
web : http://www.sam-coupe.co.uk
Nothing happens for me when I stick my pointer over navigate - any chance of
less fancy navigation?
Win98/Mozilla0.94 Java/Javascript enabled.
Tim
Amongst the joyous possibilities of SpeccyBob, I just thought I'd share my
sad news with you all.
6 months after moving house, I've finally admitted defeat and put my
post-move-still-boxedSam in the Loft. I do hope I'll find the room to let
him come out again.
:-(
Tim
Today, Howard Price did write about Re: Memory Lane:
Nobody seems to have voted for COLONY (Persona release), written by
I bought Colony from Fred, just before it become FredSoft, or something...
D.Koselo, which could just as easily mean that I simply didn't understand
it. Whatever this
Today, Gavin Smith did write about Re: IRC:
We do wander into #samcommunity now and then. Perhaps we should have a
meeting once a week - say Monday night? :) Most IRC servers are very hard to
connect to at the moment. Search theregister.co.uk or similar sites for the
reason (those damn
IIRC someone always suggests being on an IRC channel at a certain time,
on a certain day.
I can't find the details and wondered if someone would remind me incase I
get the urge to come join in one night.
Cheers,
Tim
Today, Aley Keprt did write about Re: [OT] Pass it on, spread it around:
What would you do if you would find a suspicious bottle and there is
hand-written dear Johnna, drink this liquid, it's great.?
You would drink it at once??? I bet you don't.
Keeping with cars. If you drove into a petrol
Today, Aley Keprt did write about Re: [OT] Pass it on, spread it around...:
As far as I know, ILOVEYOU can't be activated by previewing received e-mail.
If you read this somewhere, please let me know and I'll look too.
I heard that there exist a 'virus' which is activated without clicking an
On Mon, 4 Dec 2000, Aley Keprt wrote:
(imho. Messenger is a stupid piece of hardware which does only what could be
done by a very simple software.)
I think the idea was that the problem most people had with the sam was
actually getting the games to load in the first place, running them after
On Tue, 24 Oct 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The Fred Web Pages are now completed with contents, screenshots and
download links for issues 1-82.
Not sure what else to do with them at the moment, any suggestions welcome.
http://www.podboy.demon.co.uk/coupe/fred
Can I mutter again about
On Tue, 24 Oct 2000, David L wrote:
82? Is that including the one I compiled (yes, it was me!) for George Boyle?
If anyones got a copy...???
I got a copy. However given my sub ran out on issue 80, and I'd just
resubscribed only to see the whole thing disappear, I was needless to say
hesitant
On Tue, 24 Oct 2000, Aley Keprt wrote:
Okay, it's 1:1. Who's next.?
2 Against.
Also, C is not so compatible too, since Watcom C - one of the best
compilers - doesn't follow the standard of (all) other compilers.
Then it's not the best compiler. Any decent C compiler should be ANSI
On Tue, 26 Sep 2000, Dave Whitmore wrote:
What are the chances of making a DSK or SAD image (or altering an
existing one) so that when clicked on in Windows, it'll launch the
emulator and autoboot?
Good I'd hope. It was certainly possible to associate a .DSK image with
the DOS SimCoupe and
So, after the spectacular 10th Birthday celebrations, anyone got any plans
to do something this year?
(I was driven past the wickerman a few weeks ago, was almost tempted to go
there for lunch...)
Tim
On Mon, 11 Sep 2000, Edwin Blink wrote:
I occasionally get this for no reason with my Sam. I find pop the disk
out the drive, and press reset a few times. Normally I get a nice
crunch sound come from the drive with one of the resets, plop the disk
back in and works no problem.
Of
Hi,
Doing some belated spring cleaning, I and my son felt eager to set up the
Sam Coupe and have a play around. It hasn't been used for a few years and
when a software disk is put in and F9 is pressed I got error code 53 NO
DOS. Tried several disks and got the same, does that mean that
Incase anyone misses it
mono.org is physically moving home this weekend, so the web service is
likely to disappear. It'll have reduced bandwidth/service for a while
afterwards, so that may mean the web server is lower down the list of
things to be restored.
Tim
On Mon, 3 Jul 2000, Andrew Gale wrote:
Wow... looking back, it's hard to believe how much optimism people had
in the Sam market, isn't it?! I remember that Graham Burtenshaw used to sell
something like 200 of each issue of Enceladus and made a tidy packet
(well, enough to make an A' level
On Fri, 30 Jun 2000, James R Curry wrote:
By judicious use of monkeys and typewriters, Gavin Smith came up with:
2) We were talking a while back about the F16 Combat Pilot demo that
was on Crash - didn't someone say they had a copy of it or am I
misremembering? I'd love to see it - I know
On Sat, 24 Jun 2000, D.A. Fulton wrote:
I Got another question, a friend of mine has a sam without diskdrive , where
can he get one or adapt a pcfloppy to the sam ?
An original sam drive will be hard to find I would imagine. It used to be
possible to get a kit that let you adapt a pc
On Sun, 18 Jun 2000, David L wrote:
How many people on this list would actually be bothered to go to another SAM
Show, if there was such a thing...?
Depended how accessable a location it was for someone who'd have to rely
on public transport ;-)
Did anything happen for the 10th birthday?
On Wed, 14 Jun 2000, Stoned Design wrote:
I'm thinking of buying a program to do web sites.
What do people use on this list?
I just use my favourite text editor.
I find with a little effort to learn the tags, (the basics easy to pick
up, it's worth looking at page source to see how they do
On Wed, 29 Mar 2000, Stephen Longhurst wrote:
Anyone got a gold chip jobbie?
I have a frames gold ASIC. I've not dared try to fit it to my machine
though.
The text below my ASIC claims it's from a limited edition of 40, and has
Bruces signature as well.
Is a gold ASIC really worth that much?
On Mon, 27 Mar 2000, Dave Whitmore wrote:
Fully working SAMs are becoming more rare, and I'm beginning to see
them in a similar way to how people might look at vintage cars. I'd
say people who sell them cheap aren't really doing themselves any
favours.
Or us.
The more people sell there Sams
On Tue, 14 Mar 2000, Steve Longhurst wrote:
stands at the Royal Horticultural Halls back then? My one claim to fame in
the Sam community is that I went to Southampton University a couple of years
before Tim Paveley and once sold my Sound Sampler to him.
Wow!
I do believe it was you who
Martin Fitzpatrick wrote:
What on earth for? The robot that is, not the computer or your old
school friend.
It's in a collage(sp?) as part of some sort of millennium article.
oooh-oooh I wonder who owns the copyright, and if they gave permission?
Is it out now? (Why do mags come out a month
has a picture of Sam in it. The robot that is, not the computer or my
old school friend.
Tim
James R Curry wrote:
Seconded, thirded, forthded... Etc!! ;-)
Sign me up for some of those Season's Greetings, too.
While we're at it, me too.
Infact, I'll wish Sam a happy 10th birthday as well. It must be around
now.
Martijn Groen wrote:
I'll try to make a B-DOS 1.6d doc file as soon as possible and send it
to Andrew Collier, ready for downloading.
Any chance of putting it on ftp.nvg as well if it isn't already?
Cheers,
Tim
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