Received SAM Revival issue 1 this morning and very nice it is too. Really well presented and I think it'll settle down to be a really readable mag over the next few issues. It's got the feeling of being published during the SAM's peak (if you can call it that), rather than in 2002...which either means Colin's a bit mad or he's just a bit into the SAM. I suspect both.
My first SAM is currently sitting with Colin, about to undergo an operation to fix a multitude of problems including the video chip and/or crystal, dodgy keyboard, shadow fix, broken reset and NMI buttons, a new ROM (to get rid of the WCC copyright bollocks and disc spelling!) and a few other little things. All this came from my first SAM being a botched job sold to me by Bob - it's obviously one that's been returned for repair and someone who really didn't know how to solder, attempted to learn to do so, by playing with my SAM. Then it was sold to me as new. Which was nice. Still, Colin tells me the description in white of the ports and buttons on the back of the baseplate is rare and indicates a very early baseplate. Which *is* nice. I'm left with a SAM Colin McD sold to me, which is in a much better state but I decided to get my original baby fixed... Gavin
