James Curry wrote:
Is that really all that it is meant to do?
Yes useless isn't it? :)
I spent good money on mine.
And what did you think of it when you got it? :)
Colin
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I spent good money on mine.
And what did you think of it when you got it? :)
Is it doing anything?.
Quoting James R Curry [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
I spent good money on mine.
And what did you think of it when you got it? :)
Is it doing anything?.
About the only software I ever saw to support it was Nigel
Kettlewell's KPALETTE routine in SAM PRIME disk mag
David wrote:
About the only software I ever saw to support it was Nigel
Kettlewell's KPALETTE routine in SAM PRIME disk mag
Yeap, likewise when I went hunting around.
SAM PRIME issue 3 I think it was, one of the first disk mags I ever bought
all those years ago when I first got a SAM!
Colin
James wrote:
I spent good money on mine.
And what did you think of it when you got it? :)
Is it doing anything?.
Hehehe! Good answer!
Colin
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Is that really all that it is meant to do?
Yes useless isn't it? :)
I spent good money on mine.
It was a lot, back then, as a broke student!
Yes useless isn't it? :)
and not an ideal if it drags the actual RGB video
signals down as it's intended application. (Don't think I'll be
building one for my Amiga or PC any day soon!)
Andy
Thursday, April 10, 2008, 7:15:31 PM, you wrote:
Is that really all that it is meant to
I've recently acquired a Sam from eBay (correction to my earlier
comments: not from Colin — that was a misunderstanding on my part of
the actual seller's advert) and it was advertised as coming with a
Kaleidoscope. My problem is that having identified which box must be
the Kaleidoscope
Thomas Harte wrote:
1) should the Kaleidoscope be a box that contains four ICs (t74ls20b1,
gd74ls374, gd74ls14, t74ls133b1), some resistors and capacitors and
about half a board of empty space with gaps for other chips and stuff?
Yes, that's the Kaleidoscope. It's a half built 'hardware
Thomas Harte wrote:
I've recently acquired a Sam from eBay (correction to my earlier
comments: not from Colin — that was a misunderstanding on my part of the
actual seller's advert) and it was advertised as coming with a
Kaleidoscope. My problem is that having identified which box must
. The standalone Kaleidoscope doesn't
have those parts fitted. Photo of my standalone one is on the cover of SR15:
http://www.samcoupe.com/revival/15.gif
Well, you lean something new every day - I thought the Hardware
Development Kit was the whole caboodle and the Kaleidoscope was the
sample
Dan Doore wrote:
Well, you lean something new every day - I thought the Hardware
Development Kit was the whole caboodle and the Kaleidoscope was the
sample application (so to speak).
Fancy updating the WoS node with you knowledge?
Yeah, no problem. I've just added a bit to both
Colin Piggot wrote:
Thomas Harte wrote:
1) should the Kaleidoscope be a box that contains four ICs (t74ls20b1,
gd74ls374, gd74ls14, t74ls133b1), some resistors and capacitors and
about half a board of empty space with gaps for other chips and stuff?
Yes, that's the Kaleidoscope. It's a half
Kaleidoscope doesn't
have those parts fitted. Photo of my standalone one is on the cover of SR15:
http://www.samcoupe.com/revival/15.gif
I think it needs the RGB, see http://www.worldofsam.org/node/302
It does alter the RGB video signals directly, but they are fed to the
composite video encoder chip, so
the Kaleidoscope be a box that contains four ICs
(t74ls20b1,
gd74ls374, gd74ls14, t74ls133b1), some resistors and capacitors and
about half a board of empty space with gaps for other chips and
stuff?
Yes, that's the Kaleidoscope. It's a half built 'hardware
development kit
the picture less clear especially with the subtle changes by the
Kaleidoscope. If you are feeling adventurous with a soldering iron - replace
the inductor marked as L5 on the SAM motherboard with a wire link (or just
solder a wire link across it)
Is that really all that it is meant to do?
Yes
here!)
http://www.samcoupe.com/kalblue.bmp shows a screen capture when I
last used
mine.
You've got an awful lot of ghosting on your video output, which will
make
the picture less clear especially with the subtle changes by the
Kaleidoscope. If you are feeling adventurous with a soldering iron
Thomas wrote:
After a bit more experimentation, the green seems to come and go. To
be honest, I'm finding the Blue Alpha VoiceBox much more entertaining,
and I expect to be bored of that within half a day.
Be sure to try out the SAM MOD player 2.0 with the Blue Alpha
VoiceBox... 6 bits of
Is that Similar in design to the SAMDAC at all when used to play back
MODs? (That was one of my favourite add-ons combined with the SAM MOD
player when they first appeared. Real sound out my SAM for the first
time!)
Now of course, we have Quazar ;-)
Andy
Wednesday, April 9, 2008, 9:40:13
Stefan wrote:
Be sure to try out the SAM MOD player 2.0 with the Blue Alpha
VoiceBox... 6 bits of mono goodness per channel a big improvement over
the 3 bits of stereo goodness coming out of the internal soundchip
SAA-1099 :-)
The BA VoiceBox is the SP0256 based Speech Synthesisor. You're
Oops - you are of course totally correct... Half a day now sounds very
overrated... ;-)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Behalf Of Colin Piggot
Sent: Wednesday, April 09, 2008 23:05
To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no
Subject: Re: Kaleidoscope questions
Andy wrote:
Is that Similar in design to the SAMDAC at all when used to play back
MODs? (That was one of my favourite add-ons combined with the SAM MOD
player when they first appeared. Real sound out my SAM for the first
time!)
The Voicebox was a SP0256 based Speech Synthesisor.
The Blue
Thanks Stefan / Colin for the detailed recap. I have the EDDAC model I
built from Edwin's design. Wasted far too much time listening to MODs
after that was built!
Colin Now? :) It was 13 years ago this month I first demoed the Quazar
Surround
Well, now as in current - unless someone's built a
Andy wrote:
That makes my SAM (and me!) feel very old!
The 20th Anniversary of the little blue (in my case) legged friend next
year then.
Let's not forget the rare black footed ones, and the extremely rare grey
footed ones either ;)
Colin
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Thanks Stefan / Colin for the detailed recap. I have the EDDAC model I
built from Edwin's design. Wasted far too much time listening to MODs
after that was built!
Ah... listening to MODs was also the demise of any productivity I had
left... :-) Productivity had already dropped with each
Yes that would be nice - let me know when you might be going back - and let us
know a price, sorry for inconvinience.
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Does anyone out there have any FRED disks or games they can sell me? I'm after Oh No More Lemmings, Amalthea, TnT BoingAlso, can anyone give me a price on a Kaleidoscope if they have one for sale?
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Someone one ebay's selling a Sam with Kaleidoscope interface as well as a near complete catalogue of games, software other hardware. (I'm thinking of bidding for it myself but I dont think I'll win it) I'd say this lot would fetch upto £350, in your last email you said the Kaleidoscope
£45 shipping !!!
Business Post / Initial CityLink prices are a lot less than that!
Tuesday, March 21, 2006, 10:22:42 AM, you wrote:
Paul Someone one ebay's selling a Sam with Kaleidoscope
Paul interface as well as a near complete catalogue of games,
Paul software other hardware. (I'm
Hi,Kaleidoscope or The Hardware Development Kit as it was sold as
can be seen in zip file, pcb scans, instructions, schematic, disk image
form the Pro-dos site.download it from here: http://www.samcoupe-pro-dos.co.uk/download/HardwareDevKit.zip
I've not had time to do a pdf doc
in your last email you said the Kaleidoscope was a bodge - is
this coz there was no software for it? Does the Kaleidoscope
realy give the Sam 32,768 true colours? I'm interested in
what it is and what it does - (you never seem to hear anything
about it...)
It was a complete bodge.
What
On Tue, 21 Mar 2006, Paul Brooks wrote:
Does the Kaleidoscope realy give the Sam 32,768 true colours? I'm
interested in what it is and what it does - (you never seem to hear
anything about it...)
It increases the size of tha palette from 128 to 32768, but you can still
only display 16
On Tue, 21 Mar 2006, Colin Piggot wrote:
So whatever value of shading the kaleidoscope was set to would affect all
the colours on screen.
Wow, that's even more stupid that I realised. I had assumed, at the very
least, they had made it work on one palette entry at a time.
How did a device like
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Kaleidoscope or The Hardware Development Kit as it was sold
as can be seen in zip file, pcb scans, instructions,
schematic, disk image form the Pro-dos site.
Does your board work? If so, got any pics of it in action? :-)
Si
How did a device like that make it into production? Did the designer - or
the people at SamCo, who marketed it and put a write-up in the NewsDisk at
the time - ever actually believe that anyone would be able to make use of
it?
I would assume it was just an after thought and tagged onto the
I wrote:
Does your board work? If so, got any pics of it in action?
Scrap that - the demos on the supplied disk are just trivial screen-wide
tests written in BASIC. I was hoping for at least one line-interrupt demo
that did something a bit fancier! :-/
Si
In a message dated 03/21/2006 11:17:02 GMT Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kaleidoscope or The Hardware
Development Kit as it was sold as can be seen in zip file, pcb scans,
instructions, schematic, disk image form the Pro-dos
site.Does your board
In a message dated 03/21/2006 11:47:27 GMT Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Yes! - I will sort some out on Sunday,asthe
monitor is hooked you the Jupiter Ace, and Sam is 'sleeping' at the
moment!
LOL -- at the pub on a laptop you can tell!
opps sorry!
Yes! - I will sort
This is really interesting, as I ever wondered what exactly is it. (Whatever
is it, they never tell you what really is it when they try to sell...)
Thank you for this nice description.
/---
Aley
in your last email you said the Kaleidoscope was a bodge - is
this coz there was no software
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