As I told, yesterday was Bunnik meeting, and as I also commented, a new SAM interface was shown. To be honest: two. The first can be connected only between SAM and PC. The aim is to transfer programs from and to a PC harddisk. Thats the point, Nomad (Stephan) comes in. Stephan presented yesterday a 5 MB 16 colour reduced PC Mpg file running at the SAM from a harddisk (hey presto, a Record has 800K in size... ;-)
The reason for Quazar access is now to get the most of the sound which was running with the video file. Stephan will also write the necessary transfer files and he hopes to have them ready to the SPC/Joyce meeting on October 4th, near Cologne.
British readers will notice, that there are a lot of meetings on the "continental" side....
The other interface makes use of a one to one connection to the Spectrum bus. With it you can do the same as above, but you have to add the Spectrum<>PC interface described in a lot of the SPC Magazines (WoMo mag, yes its mine! Since 1990!). A fine side effect is, that you can use a Kempston Joystick interface at the bus which works fine, we have tested it yesterday while playing "Raid over Moscow". Also Currah Microspeech is in my imagination and has to be tested. It´s amazing....
Maybe good news too. Martijn Groen works (again) on a Windows orientatded desktop for the SAM and Robert van der Veeke will do the grafic. In one of Gavins first SAM Community mags I first have written about, but know it seems to keep on.
To David: Yes, I come to Norwich meeting!!!! However, I will bring my main harddisk and the interfaces with me, but not my SAM or a Laptop (to be honest, I have not a Laptop...). So if I can use anybodies SAM and/or Laptop there I will show whats going on. A report of the Bunnik meeting with pictures of the IFs will be in the SPC magazin (off course) and if Colin wants also in SR. The "WoMo" mag is bi-lingual (german with english short description or vice versa), the SAM sides are always in english. If interest mail me for a free mag and all informations about SPC and price of the magazines: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
So, that s my plot (I am in hurry, so please excuse errors in english).
Have a nice day
Wolfgang
(Leader Spectrum & SAM Profi Club Cologne and Editor)
David wrote:
Has somebody a good comet snippet how to access a Quazar for playingdigitized sound. I would like to support the Quazar in my soon-completed application which will be capable of playing digitized music (aka samples ;) .Great! An new piece of software is always welcomed! BTW - any one know how to subscribe to the WoMo mag? And is much of it in English?I do not own a Quazar and Simcoupe does currently not support the Quazaradd-on (Simon?). But I should easily add Quazar support if somebody (perhaps Colin?) would send me a small Comet file. Colins a helpful chap - I'm sure he'll help you!
