On 22 Aug 98, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
'bout time we had a new disk contoller anyway.
My goodness! I actually agree with you!
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| Can I just ask - if the DOS and existing software doesn't work
| with the two drives from one controller set up, how do users
| of the two-drive SAM Elite manage?
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| Andy
ISTR that when West Coast put forward the idea that an Elite with only one
controller was going to be produced, it
Van: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Aan: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Onderwerp: Re: Letter
Datum: Sunday, August 16, 1998 1:01
ISTR that when West Coast put forward the idea that an Elite with only
one
controller was going to be produced, it was pointed out that certain
software
would not work (I assume because
From: Andrew Gale [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Can I just ask - if the DOS and existing software doesn't work
with the two drives from one controller set up, how do users
of the two-drive SAM Elite manage?
Andy
I beleive that the new models can run from one, i think the Dos has
So. Why did they have two controllers then? There must have
been a reason.
I was reading an old issue of Format, where on Nev's Help Page there was
a question about getting the error 'FORMAT DATA LOST' when copying
between two drives on the Disciple/PlusD, and this was due to the
On Sat, 15 Aug 1998 11:38:47 +, you or Dan Doore
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
So. Why did they have two controllers then? There must have
been a reason.
I was reading an old issue of Format, where on Nev's Help Page there was
a question about getting the error 'FORMAT DATA LOST' when
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In a message dated 09/08/98 18:53:39, you write:
Changing new Sams (at this stage) to use a single controller would be bad
because existing software might break, if it expected the second controller
to be present.
But if the Sam had
So. Why did they have two controllers then? There must have been a reason.
Bill.
Well, I guess the idea was that some SAMs would be used with a
tape player and hence there was no point putting the controller
on board, and that it was easier to have a controller in each
drive making them easy
So. Why did they have two controllers then? There must have been a
reason.
Bill.
Erm, nope, nothing sensible i believe, not that i know of, but it did
fill the internal drive cases !, enter BB.
Uhh... they were very cheap controllers so adding one to each drive
meant you could detect
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| 'nothing like a real SAM' - yeah, nothing like all the shit you face
| if your drive goes down... a PC drive = about a tenner.. How much for
| a SAM drive, eh? eh? Phew.. I seem to be blowing a gasket or
| something.. better calm down,
Van: Paul Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Onderwerp: Letter
Datum: Friday, August 07, 1998 12:37
I agree that a PC Basic, based on SAM Basic, which is of
coursed based on Spectrum Basic, would be a nice idea - the big
question is /who could write it?/ Personally
In a message dated 09/08/98 09:36:28, you write:
Sam drive prices are the same as the PC Dave, cos they are PC drives now.
Yeah, but you still need the 30 quid or whatever interface to connect
it.
If they'd have put one controller on board and write the dos properly
to run both
At 7:17 pm +0100 9/8/98, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In a message dated 09/08/98 09:36:28, you write:
Sam drive prices are the same as the PC Dave, cos they are PC drives now.
Yeah, but you still need the 30 quid or whatever interface to connect
it.
If they'd have put one controller on
In a message dated 09/08/98 18:53:39, you write:
Changing new Sams (at this stage) to use a single controller would be bad
because existing software might break, if it expected the second controller
to be present.
But if the Sam had been designed that way from the beginning, it
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I've said it
before, and no doubt I'll say it again, if just 10% of the talent in
the
SAM world was capable of being properly managed on
professionally formulated projects, then the SAM world would have
software and hardware coming out of its
Gordon Wallis wrote:
I would also humbly suggest that those who have time to become involved in
these *cough* properly managed, professionally formulated projects of
which Bob speaks do not like to go unrewarded for their efforts. Does
anyone know of anyone who *has* been payed for any
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|
| 'nothing like a real SAM' - yeah, nothing like all the shit you face
| if your drive goes down... a PC drive = about a tenner.. How much for
| a SAM drive, eh? eh? Phew.. I seem to be blowing a gasket or
| something.. better calm down, eh? :-)
Sam drive prices are the same as the PC
computer (on
which I am writing this letter). Besides having its own Spectrum
emulator (of which more another time, Bob), it has a programming
language, called OPL, which is rather like a structured Basic. As a
SAM user I was surprised how familiar it looked. Just no line
numbers any more. Far
On Thu, 6 Aug 1998 23:37:00 +0100, Paul Walker wrote:
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So, there you have it. Personally, I think Bob's living on cloud cuckoo
land, but that's just IMO of course.
And mine too. It's pretty amazing to think that format readers are
still waiting for a review of SIM Coupe. There
processing, so we're talking 1 and 2 letter commands. It
works quite well, and is multithreaded - as is all of the comms stuff.
So now I'm quite happy that I should be able to get somewhere with the
assembler editor at the very least. The actual assembler itself is
annoying me, as I keep trying
'nothing like a real SAM' - yeah, nothing like all the shit you face
if your drive goes down... a PC drive = about a tenner.. How much for
a SAM drive, eh? eh? Phew.. I seem to be blowing a gasket or
something.. better calm down, eh? :-)
Bye,
Dave
Just out of interest, the most common form of
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