RE: SAM Scart

1999-04-08 Thread Si Owen
Martin Fitzpatrick wrote: anyways... if you want it lemme know... (same goes for anyone else, though justin did bagsy, and i cant ignorr the rules of the playground Better let him have first pick, or he'll only get some of his friends to come and beat it out of me! I may have a go at doing it

Re: SAM Scart

1999-04-08 Thread Ian Collier
On Wed, Apr 07, 1999 at 10:10:53AM +0200, Frode Tenneboe wrote: No - as far as i remember, the SAM's SCART has a different pinout from standard SCART. The outward pins are the same but since the Sam does not accept incoming video it has used the pins for various other purposes - so it's not a

RE: SAM Scart

1999-04-08 Thread Justin Skists
Si Owen wrote: Martin Fitzpatrick wrote: anyways... if you want it lemme know... (same goes for anyone else, though justin did bagsy, and i cant ignorr the rules of the playground Better let him have first pick, or he'll only get some of his friends to come and beat it out of me! *laughs*

RE: SAM Scart

1999-04-08 Thread Aley Keprt
Well, I just made my own. Not exactly difficult? The pinout is in the manual... Mine might not do exactly what you want yours to do though. It just brings out the stereo sound (pins 1 and 3, ground 4) and composite video (pin 19, ground 17) onto phono plugs, which I can then connect to my

RE: SAM Scart

1999-04-08 Thread Justin Skists
Aley asked: Well, I have made my own one several years ago too. I have connected coomposite out to my tv's composite in. That's all. And it works perfectly. Especially when my power supply is broken and i can see nothing when using regular tv-out. (can anybody help?) Well, the SAM makes the

Re: SimCoupe protected disks

1999-04-08 Thread Aley Keprt
Ian Collier wrote: Does the Amstrad DSK format not cover this? (I don't actually know anything about it, except that it is more complicated than a straight dump of all the tracks on the disk.) I've not found any official docs for it but I've flicked through the comments in some ASM

RE: SAM Scart

1999-04-08 Thread Aley Keprt
Well, I have made my own one several years ago too. I have connected coomposite out to my tv's composite in. That's all. And it works perfectly. Especially when my power supply is broken and i can see nothing when using regular tv-out. (can anybody help?) Well, the SAM makes the composite

RE: Real Sam Users List 30th March 1999

1999-04-08 Thread Psycho Billy
Johnna wrote: Took me a while to realise I wasn't Johnna Teare nor Lee Willis.. :) Eh? The poster of the list, mixed with my mailer which decided to word-wrap it all around the place, made it look like my name belonged to one address and my address belong to another name...

Re: SAM Scart

1999-04-08 Thread Andrew Gale
I think I an was saying that most SCART input sockets don't tend to use the r,g,b signals but just use the composite video so if you wire a lead with the r, g, b, sound, and composite video signals connected, then that could be three wires wasted Andy

Re: Win32 SimCoupe (was: Z80 flags for INI(R) and OTI(R)? #2 (oops!))

1999-04-08 Thread Aley Keprt
Z flag but left the other part of the expression alone. It's a great C Z80 emulator, and I can't see there being much else to squeeze out of it without going to ASM Actually I think I just typed in what came into my head - I'm sure some of the flag calculations must be horribly

RE: SAM Scart

1999-04-08 Thread Dan Doore
i think it would be nice to get a diagram of the real scrat connector, and compare it to the sam's one. i hope many of us are able to make their own cable if we would know what pins to connect. The Pin-outs are in the back of the normal manual, and the tech manual but here are the pins.

Re: Z80 flags for INI(R) and OTI(R)? #2 (oops!)

1999-04-08 Thread Aley Keprt
btw. I've tested the current Win32 version of SimCoupe (that one I've get from Si Owen) and the fullscreen mode wasn't fullscreen, but just maximized window. At some point I added a '-fullscreen 1' flag to the command-line options, but I can't remember whether the last version on the site

Re: SAM Scart

1999-04-08 Thread Aley Keprt
I think I an was saying that most SCART input sockets don't tend to use the r,g,b signals but just use the composite video so if you wire a lead with the r, g, b, sound, and composite video signals connected, then that could be three wires wasted there would be more than three wires

RE: SAM Scart

1999-04-08 Thread Justin Skists
From: Dan Doore [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] i think it would be nice to get a diagram of the real scrat connector, and compare it to the sam's one. i hope many of us are able to make their own cable if we would know what pins to connect. The Pin-outs are in the back of the normal manual, and

Connecting Sam to PC (was: Re: The State of things)

1999-04-08 Thread Aley Keprt
Hi, If any SAM user is looking for small hard disks then I have these: 250 mb scsi 15 quid inc p+p 80 mb ide - 10 quid inc p+p 40 mb ide - small notebook drive - same Well, I would like to solve this problem by using my PC's hard drive on Sam. Is it possible to connect Sam to PC and use

Re: The State of things

1999-04-08 Thread Aley Keprt
True... And so nice and easy to pop to when you live in the Netherlands, hey Robert? but 1) could find out if they do mail order 2) had no idea you was in Netherlands 3) It just across the water 4) everyone need a holiday Chris Ps. Im not being helpfull am i That holiday may cost more than

RE: Win32 SimCoupe (was: Z80 flags for INI(R) and OTI(R)? #2 (oops!))

1999-04-08 Thread Si Owen
Aley Keprt wrote: Well, I have used another Z80 CPU emulator in my SAA1099 player. It is not 100%, but it uses very efficient algo's for computing flags. And it is platform independent. This may help. Sounds good - I'd come across the look-up tables in another Z80 emulator and wondered about

Re: SimCoupe protected disks

1999-04-08 Thread Aley Keprt
Aley Keprt wrote: If soomeone made a protection, he probably wanted us not to copy these diskettes. I just want to aim for fairly complete emulation, which would include being able to (ideally) handle everything the real floppy controller can to cope with non-standard disks. I'm certainly not

RE: Z80 flags for INI(R) and OTI(R)? #2 (oops!)

1999-04-08 Thread Si Owen
Aley Keprt wrote: That flag does maximized window, not fullscreen!!! It's actually more or less the same thing - the video mode is changed and I am drawing to the entire DirectX surface. That version doesn't disable the caption so it's still visible - if it doesn't actually maximise you can

RT Clock (was: Re: Sam tech info?)

1999-04-08 Thread Aley Keprt
Simon Cooke wrote: Oh, it's Y2K compliant; but MasterDOS isn't. Try and set a date in the year 2000 - the source code indicates that you're screwed :-) I was thinking that because it only stored 2 digits for the date that it wasn't, but I suppose it's more of a case of any software that doesn't

Re: The State of things

1999-04-08 Thread Chris White
That holiday may cost more than that hard drive :))) And what if I am not in Netherlands, but in Czechland? Same as before no mater what country your in Should I take one of those B-52's flying home to Fairford from Yugoslavia over our country? ;) But then you would be a missile :) Chris

Re: SimCoupe protected disks

1999-04-08 Thread Chris White
I can only recommend not to do this! If soomeone made a protection, he probably wanted us not to copy these diskettes. I'm affraid about copyright laws. From my OLD point of view is this , Win/Sim Coupe should be able to read these disk in REAL time , i.e not create images on harddisk or copy

Re: SimCoupe protected disks

1999-04-08 Thread Chris White
I'm affraid about copyright laws. I'm no legal expert, but isn't it just considered a backup copy as long as you still own the original version? your are not aloud to create a copy of anything , without the copyright owners permission. Having a backup of a disk thats not used for illegal

Changes in SimCoupe

1999-04-08 Thread Aley Keprt
-Original Message- From: Si Owen [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no Date: 7. dubna 1999 17:22 Subject: RE: Z80 flags for INI(R) and OTI(R)? #2 (oops!) Ian Collier wrote: There are a couple of other things I have fixed since the code was incorporated in

RE: Connecting Sam to PC (was: Re: The State of things)

1999-04-08 Thread Justin Skists
Well, I would like to solve this problem by using my PC's hard drive on Sam. Is it possible to connect Sam to PC and use it's hard drive. It would be nice to have a parallel cable (as used in Norton Commander, or MS-DOS) and make a SamDOS which could cooperate with PC using this cable. Then we can

RE: SimCoupe protected disks

1999-04-08 Thread Si Owen
Chris White wrote: your are not aloud to create a copy of anything , without the copyright owners permission. Having a backup of a disk thats not used for illegal purposes , is like have a gun and NEVER thinks of firing it (Pointless) Are you 100% sure about this? The +D interface on the

RE: SimCoupe protected disks

1999-04-08 Thread Si Owen
Aley Keprt wrote: WinNT doesn't have accelerated DirectDraw. You cannot use any hardware capabilities in WinNT! (this applies to 2D,3D,audio,etc.) It DOES still make use of features in the video driver that are done in hardware, even if it's not full hardware acceleration that's available on

RE: Changes in SimCoupe

1999-04-08 Thread Si Owen
Aley Keprt wrote: Si, It is time to publish changed sources, to let we have an updated DOS Unix versions. Please, send me the fixed sources, and I will publish new DOS version. Things are still changing so frequently that it'd be pointless doing a release now, so I'm keeping it under wraps

Re: SimCoupe protected disks

1999-04-08 Thread Chris Pile
Some softyware of mine Simons ECopy , which does copy ALL disks and could be used as a test etc Before Malcolm's untimely death he informed me that E-Copy (version 3 I think) failed to copy the protection I created for Defender... I tried *all* the PC copiers I could find and they failed too.

RE: SimCoupe protected disks

1999-04-08 Thread Dan Doore
I would certainly put quality sound emulation at the top of my wish Aley - is your SAA emulator in a fit state (so to speak) to be included with Si's port - or does it need work to get it run native under Win32? Dan. Work: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Shirk: [EMAIL PROTECTED] VVeb:

Re: Win32 SimCoupe (was: Z80 flags for INI(R) and OTI(R)? #2 (oops!))

1999-04-08 Thread Simon Cooke
From: Si Owen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Aley Keprt wrote: Well, I have used another Z80 CPU emulator in my SAA1099 player. It is not 100%, but it uses very efficient algo's for computing flags. And it is platform independent. This may help. Sounds good - I'd come across the look-up tables in

Re: SimCoupe protected disks

1999-04-08 Thread Simon Cooke
From: Si Owen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please let it read them in REAL time , but not create IMAGES That'll be possible under Win9x, but I haven't found a way to do it under NT without modifying the kernel-mode floppy driver (the source is available so that may be possible). Now I've got the hard

RE: Win32 SimCoupe (was: Z80 flags for INI(R) and OTI(R)? #2 (oops!))

1999-04-08 Thread Si Owen
Simon Cooke wrote: Don't forget -- the cache comes into play here a lot, so tables aren't necessarily as efficient as you might think. PROFILE YOUR RESULTS!!! I completely agree - my Celeron only has 128K of cache but it's running at full clock speed (464MHz for my setup) giving it a nice

RE: SimCoupe protected disks

1999-04-08 Thread Si Owen
Simon Cooke wrote: I don't believe that's the main problem; the VL1772-02 can only handle 4 sector sizes -- 128,256,512 and 1024 bytes. However, it can mix match sector sizes on one track, and also can spoof address blocks; so that is more problematic. I'd agree with it being a problem to

Sam Coupe Scrapbook - whats missing?

1999-04-08 Thread Tim Paveley
All, (before anyone else says it... Quite a lot) I've just got a PC at home, and plan to try and update my Sam web pages to the state they used to be (ie upto date). If anyone has any obvious information that's missing that I can add, would like to do a review, or anything else it'd be muchly

Re: SimCoupe protected disks

1999-04-08 Thread Chris White
your are not aloud to create a copy of anything , without the copyright owners permission. Having a backup of a disk thats not used for illegal purposes , is like have a gun and NEVER thinks of firing it (Pointless) Are you 100% sure about this? The +D interface on the Spectrum was fairly

Re: SimCoupe protected disks

1999-04-08 Thread Chris White
Some softyware of mine Simons ECopy , which does copy ALL disks and could be used as a test etc Before Malcolm's untimely death he informed me that E-Copy (version 3 I think) failed to copy the protection I created for Defender... I tried *all* the PC copiers Interesting ?? Private Email

Re: SimCoupe protected disks

1999-04-08 Thread Dave Whitmore
On Thu, 8 Apr 1999 18:13:08 +0100 Thu, 8 Apr 99 18:59:51 BST, Chris Pile [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Before Malcolm's untimely death he informed me that E-Copy (version 3 I think) failed to copy the protection I created for Defender... I tried *all* the PC copiers I could find and they failed